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BOOK FAIR time again. June 19th, 20th and 21st. Guest speaker on the Friday evening is Alice Arndell the author of the book Alice in Bakeland. Tickets $15 from Sherryl Howie 3069 978, Mary Smith 3069 594, Pam Colenso 3069 503, Carol Hawkins 3069 112

“A LIE gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”- Winston Churchill.

ONE in five of the world’s murders are committed in Brazil, Columbia or Venezuela despite these three countries having less that 4% of the world’s population.

THOMAS EDISON is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the electric light bulb. However Joseph Swann was wiring up houses for his electric lighting in Newcastle in early 1881 where Edison’s first was in September 1882.

THE AVERAGE adult male brain weighs 1.5kg and contains 86 billion neurons and 85 billion glail cells

THE OLDEST known door is an oak outer vestibule door at Westminster Abbey which has been carbon dated to be 960 years old.

THE PROBLEM with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer

UNESCO reports show that New Zealand child homicide rate is six times higher that countries with comparable levels of wealth and living standards.

CADBURY are doing their bit to reduce sugar based obesity. They have reduced the chocolate block size by one row of squares and the weight of their packet sweets. However no comenserate reduction in prices.

WHY when the door bell rings does the dog always think it’s for him

THE FIRST recorded drinking of tea in England was an entry in Samuel Pepy’s dairy: ‘25th Sept 1660 I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink) which I had never drank before’.

COFFEE drinking predated tea. In 1610 George Sandys grimly described coffee as being : ‘blacke as soot and tasting not much unlike it’.

CATS AND DOGS only have two colour pigments in their eyes (humans have three) so they see the same as red-green colour blind people.

Leading up to ANZAC Day we had discussions on the meaning of ANZAC, made ANZAC biscuits, visited the ANZAC crosses in the Square

WRINKLES are something other people have – similar to my character lines.

The deadline for the July Star is 4pm on Wednesday June 24th