Time to get those thinking caps on and come up with some good ideas for the Christmas Parade.
This year it will be held on the 18th Dec and organised under the same format as last year, starting at Martinborough Transport Yard at 5 pm. … Continue Reading
Whitebaiters trying their luck at Lake Ferry against a backdrop of the snow covered Kaikouras. Photo courtesy Gordon Wyeth
It is not widely known that men who completed their three years CMT service are now eligible for a special New Zealand Defence medal. Details on making application are available on the website: medals.nzdf.mil.nz
For younger readers: In 1949,with the uncertainty of the ‘Cold War’ between Russia and the West and not wishing to be caught unprepared as in the Second World War the NZ Government held a referendum on the establishing of a Compulsory Military Training system to ensure a supply of basic trained young men if the situation required. … Continue Reading
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
When she was in Grade 4 Alice and her father, Jim promised each other he would read to her for a hundred consecutive nights . At the end of this over a celebratory supper of pancakes they decided they would continue for a thousand nights so until Alice’s first day at university her father read aloud to her, every night. Way, way over a thousand nights They called it The Streak. … Continue Reading
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