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to be used on projects including new rugby stadiums, yet won’t contribute to Kiwis in desperate need of help such as this case

● Lois King: I would like to thank all the awesome caring souls who have given so generously to help bring Jarred home. He’s always been a lovely young man and will be so greatful to know people care. Sandra Ennion-Bond: Why don’t people get travel insurance with med vac included. Going abroad my grandson had it, he had to be brought home from Amsterdam he had meningococcal. The story headed Hawke’s Bay school expulsion rates reveal drug use frequent factor drew these comments:

● Jolene Fontaine: I would put my money on most of these being behavioural issues more than anything.

● ‘Shona Waru’ Fox: Well help the kids, don’t kick them to the side. Get a class room and people who have been there done that and who want to help them kick the habit. Don’t say there are no people. Don’t say there’s no money. Most read stories on hawkesbaytoday.co.nz

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3 Wine auction raises $265,000 for

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5 Cloudy start for most with

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Quiz

1 In which country did John Walker break the sub-3 minute 50 seconds for the mile?

2 Born in the year 2000, Mia Honey is the daughter of which Oscarwinning actress?

3 Janszoon was the middle name of which 17th century Dutch explorer?

4 Name the duo who appeared naked on the front cover of the album Two Virgins?

5 Which of these was righthanded — Lewis Carroll, Kurt Cobain, Robert Muldoon or Horatio Nelson?

Joke of the day

The favourite mode of travel for skeleton pilots is — wait for it — the scareplane or the skelecopter.

Bible quote

God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God. — Psalms 62:11

History

1775: During the American Revolution, the Continental Army captured Montreal.

1789: Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

1942: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

1956: The US Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

1974: Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.

1985 Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.

Birthdays

● Journalist Peter Arnett is 84.

● Actor Jimmy Hawkins is 77.

● Actor Joe Mantegna is 71.

● Actress Sheila Frazier is 70.

● Musician Andrew Ranken (The Pogues) is 65.

● Actor Chris Noth is 64.

● Actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 63.

● Comedian Jimmy Kimmel is 51. ● Actor Steve Zahn is 51.

● Actor Gerard Butler is 49.

Quiz Answers

1. Sweden 2. Kate Winslet 3. Abel Tasman 4. John Lennon and Yoko Ono 5 Robert Muldoon

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