Cooking Corner

Pumpkin and sausage lasagne

Ingredients
16 lasagne sheets
500gr pumpkin sliced and baked
500gr Scotty’s pork sausages fried and sliced.
1 can chopped tomatoes
½ cup herbs ( sage thyme, parsley, mint etc)
grated zest of one lemon
100gr finely grated cheese.
Béchamel sauce
1 litre milk
100gr butter
2 tbsp flour
grated nutmeg to taste
1 bay leaf. … Continue Reading

Councils Proposed Targeted Rate for Martinborough

Councils Meeting on 24th Aug it was resolved that Council would propose a targeted rate on Martinborough including an area of the wider Martinborough District yet to be determined. This targeted rate if approved will allow Council to draw a loan of approximately 1 million to cover the current shortfall of funding so that the Waihinga Centre project can be secured.

A targeted rate is an annual fee paid by each rateable property.The details of the targeted rate will be determined in the next few weeks and a number of affordable options will be offered for consideration.
The proposed rate will be outlined in a letter to all affected rateable properties so that people are fully aware and consulted.Council will call for submissions, have a hearing, deliberate and make a decision. The time frame of 2 months is anticipated. … Continue Reading

Cross Creek Blues Club

In a departure from our usual Club night on the first Wednesday of the month, our September Club night will be the second Wednesday for a very good reason.

Lloyd Spiegel, one of Australia’s leading Blues artists and a veritable “force to be reckoned with” is heading our way! He will perform almost the entire evening with a shorter than usual club member section in a not to be missed concert on 9th September! … Continue Reading

Did you know

Rachael Colton won the Wairarapa-Bush Junior Administrator of the Year Award. Rachael is the driving force behind the whole club not just the JAB – congratulations, a well deserved award.

NEXT WEEK Queen Elizabeth the Second will become the longest serving monarch in British history – that is in 1,145 years of British history.

FUNDED by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people – sometimes people forget that’s what really occurs –Elon Musk.

THE OIL TANKER Jahre Viking was the world’s largest ship. It was 485 metres long and weighed 657, 000 tonnes laden, her rudder weighed in at 230 tonnes. Despite it’s size it had a crew of only forty. It was broken up for scrap in 2010. … Continue Reading