There will be a garage sales from 8.30 to 12 noon at New York Street on Saturday 1st June
Remember our MONSTER BOOK FAIR – 14-16 JUNE
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. … Continue Reading
At 5:45am on April 1, the Brigade was alerted to a forest fire at Kaikuri at Hinakura. It was the first major forest fire for South Wairarapa since 2008. Martinborough, Featherston, Tora, Lake Ferry and Ngawi all responded on the initial call out with much more help from much further afield to follow over the next few days. The deployment of these significant resources was under the direction of the National Incident Command Team. … Continue Reading
On Monday the Enviro Squad Leaders from Steam Team went out to the Cape Palliser to harvest the kumara. We met two scientists named Mike and Tony.
They talked about the kumara not being fertilised or watered and about how they kept track of the rainfall and temperature. … Continue Reading
PAMELA AND GEORGE MARSHALL celebrate their 55th Wedding anniversary on Saturday 3rd May
THE YEAR 7/8 SKI TRIP Easter Raffle was won by: Susan Colton, 2nd Prize: Vanessa Tipoki and 3rd Prize: Rebecca Everson. A huge thank–you to the whole community for its support, it is very much appreciated.
THE FINE PEN AND INK drawing in Bev Dobson’s advertisement is of the barn which once stood on the now Mitre 10 site.
THE WORD BLACKMAIL comes from the Scottish Gaelic maol dubh which means ‘excessive English taxes. Likewise avoiding such taxes gave rise to the term ‘getting off Scot free’. … Continue Reading
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