HOT TOPICS
building of these new houses, can only hope they’re not on very small sections where if your neighbour farts you can hear it.
● Jillian Rose Milne: Not as things are now. A lot will need updating and extending.
● Marie Joyce: This is great news. Havelock North’s upper class need to get over their village culture. This is called progress. We’ve had the moaners going on about the mushroom farm, soon it’ll be the surrounding orchardist who will be the next target.
● Meg Affleck: Infrastructure.
● Karla Rhylee: They just have to suck it up, buttercup, homes are THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: What Hawke’s Bay needs is . . .
● Riini Mcgeorge: ● Christine Blair:
● Gina-Marie Brockie: Decent clean water to drink and shower in.
● Michael McCamish: A large winter sports stadium and rink called ‘ice town’.
● Jay Scott:
● Bonnie Conole:
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Olympian tweets airport staff shortage delays flight out of Napier
2 Texan couple reveal how Napier
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3 Electricity bills cause health and
money woes
4 As cold-snap dumps snow in
South Island, it’s spring-time in Bay 5 Rainstorm clean-up continues on
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Quiz
1 What is the largest feline?
2 In what would you find Rum Tum Tugger, Bustopher Jones, Old Deuteronomy and Macavity?
3 What is a clowder?
4 What is the final word from this saying: Dogs have masters cats have —?
5 A Felis silvestris is a what?
Joke of the day
QWhy did the can crusher quit his job?
Because it was soda pressing.
ABible quote
And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 23:22 AKJV)
History
1796: President George Washington's farewell address was published. In it, America's first chief executive advised, "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
1970: The "Mary Tyler Moore" show debuted on CBS-TV.
1982: The smiley emoticon was invented by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman, who suggested punctuating humorously intended computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal "smiley face." :-)
1997: In his first public comments since the death of Princess Diana, Prince Charles told the British people he would always feel the loss of his former wife, and thanked them for their support.
Birthdays
● Actor Jeremy Irons is 70.
● Actress Twiggy Lawson is 69.
● Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon is 44.
Quiz Answers
1 Siberian Tiger 2 Cats the musical 3 A group of cats 4 Servants 5 Wild cat
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