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Cooking Corner

May 12, 2015 May 2015 Comments Off on Cooking Corner

Almond, Lemon and honey cake

Ingredients
Cake
• 1 cup trim milk
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 cups almond flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 Tbsp lemon zest, chopped
• 2 apples
• Sauce
• 3 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp honey … Continue Reading

Did You know

May 12, 2015 May 2015 Comments Off on Did You know

COME and hear the Martinborough Community Choir in the open rehearsal for their next performance. Tuesday 12th May 7.15 at St Andrew’s Hall. Gold Coin koha appreciated.

VANILLA is the flavour of preference for a third of all of the ice cream produced in the world. However Coca
Cola is said to be the world’s biggest buyer of vanilla. It is also an ingredient of the perfumes Chanel No 5,Opium and Angel.

NOTHING is so permanent as a temporary government program.
– Milton Friedman.

IN THE THREE years 2010 -2013 China pored 6.4 gigatonnes of concrete. More than the U.S. poured in the whole of the 20th Century.

IN ANCIANT times, cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

AN AVERAGE of the equivalent of 122 days a year are spent in sleep – that’s about a third of a lifetime. Best have a comfy bed.

A GOVERNMENT which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

JAMES Watson and Francis Crick received the Nobel prize for the discovery that DNA was a Double Helix. However the data had been stolen from Scientist Rosalind Franklin and published without her permission. She died from cancer and they never acknowledged her work.

SMOKING addiction starts early. Over two thirds of smokers commence the habit in their teens while less than five percent start after the age of twenty five.

KIWIFRUIT originally came from Northern China. The first vines were planted in New Zealand in 1905.
• GOVERNMENT’S view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases; If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if is stops moving, subsidise it.”
• – Ronald Reagan
• THE FIRST patents were granted in Italy in the fifteenth century. In America alone there are now 1790 patents.
• TEA was first dunk in China 3,000 years ago. It was not introduced to Europe until the 1600s.
• THE PRESERVING of food in cans was developed by Peter Durand to enable the convenient transport of food for troops in the Napoleonic wars. The canning of liquids was developed by the Coca Cola company to supply Coke to the troops in the Korean war.
• THE BRAIN uses 20% of the body’s oxygen and 60% of the glucose supply.
• The deadline for the June issue is 4pm Wednesday May 27th

Dirty Dusting 

May 12, 2015 May 2015 Comments Off on Dirty Dusting 

In June Greytown Little Theatre will present their next production “Dirty Dusting” a comedy by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood.

Three elderly cleaning ladies have just been invited to reapply for their jobs. Poverty, loneliness and boredom beckons.?Then a heavy-breathing wrong number strikes an entrepreneurial spark. Why not set up a one-weekend-only sex chat business using the office phones?

Well you’ll have to come to the show to find out how it all unravels.
Directed by Margaret Jesson. Cast includes Liz Birch, Lynn Bushell, Jo Crimp and Heath Huxford.?Performing dates 10th to 14th and 17th to 20th June with our usual cabaret seating (BYO) Tickets will be on sale later in May.

The Fire Brigade is ready

May 12, 2015 May 2015, Regular Features Comments Off on The Fire Brigade is ready

Fire-Brigade Are we ready? It’s a question answered every time the siren sounds. But to be sure we have the tools and training sufficient for the job, strategic and tactical plans are made for all types of emergencies that may occur. The Brigade is currently reviewing our own emergency response plan for a significant, hopefully unlikely community scale disaster.
The earthquake in Nepal and recent strong 6.3 quake in St Arnaud on the South Island reminds us of the importance of being prepared. The Brigade station on Texas Street has a pre-wired emergency generator that quickly powers the stations essential services including communications, so vital in such disasters. … Continue Reading

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Sports

New golf clubhouse build, fund-raising up and running

Martinborough golf’s new clubhouse build is well under way _ as are fundraising efforts. It doesn’t seem long since we watched the demolition of the old clubhouse and now the frames for half the new building are in place with scaffolding up ready for the roof timbers. Everything is going …

Golf pro-am success _ without clubhouse

By Karen Stephens A record field of 172 players, including 43 professionals from New Zealand and Australia, battled light winds, warm temperatures and even light early-morning fog at Martinborough golf’s 2024 CER Electrical and Holmes Construction pro-am on February 1. At least that was the range of excuses for some …

Featherston wrestlers go offshore

Two members of Featherston Amateur Wrestling Club’s senior class have again been asked to join a New Zealand team overseas.  Wairangi Sargent and Angus Read will take part in the Journeymen Tournament and Training Camp over Easter in New York state.  Over the week they are there they will be …

Regular Features

News from First Church

 Many folk imagine that going to church is a bit of an ordeal, a waste …

FROM THE MAYOR

By Martin Connelly In February the local Lions Club invited me for dinner and asked …

Driving Growth and Collaboration: Martinborough Business Assn Committee

The Martinborough Business Association Committee plays an important role in fostering economic growth and collaboration …

How Well Do We Know People in our Community?

Michael Bing talks to Lyle Griffiths Michael was raised in Auckland, attending St Peters College …

BOOK REVIEWS FOR HOT SUMMER DAYS

By Brenda Channer – Martinborough Bookshop “Whether Violent or Natural” by Natasha Calder This debut …

Community Garden News

By Debbie Yates This is definitely the month of thank you. Nga Mihi Nui! We …

EVENTS

Saturday 10 February: 10th annual Citizen Science Kākahi Count at Western Lake Shore Reserve, 18km …

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