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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Kaipara</strong> <strong>Konnection</strong><br />
Online Weekly News And Views<br />
Volume 1 No 16 25 June 2011<br />
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Weather Forecast<br />
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<strong>Dargaville</strong><br />
For Updates and Other Regions Go To:<br />
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Mangawhai Heads
In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, “Did he<br />
leave a will?” but “Did he leave a diary?” --Liza Minnelli<br />
OUR MAN OF THE WEEK – Cr JONATHAN LARSEN<br />
One Brave <strong>Kaipara</strong> District Councillor Puts Up A Website<br />
For over 4 years this newsletter has been circulated almost every week to subscribers. It is certainly far more widely<br />
read than just those on the mailing list. We get feedback from people who have never bothered to subscribe but have<br />
simply bookmarked our website and read it from there.<br />
<strong>The</strong> newsletter was started as a forum for people living in the <strong>Kaipara</strong> who expect the <strong>Kaipara</strong> District Council to display<br />
basic attributes such as honesty, democracy, communication, and above all integrity. It has consistently challenged and<br />
questioned - and also rewarded – the elected and non elected individuals who affect our lives here in the <strong>Kaipara</strong>.<br />
We were joined in this quest by Clive Boonham with his website <strong>Kaipara</strong> Concerns which was setup to challenge the<br />
legality of a rating process being applied to some ratepayers in Mangawhai which was questionably kosher. Having<br />
watched the CEO wriggle and jiggle using every ploy in his drawer to avoid dealing with the issue it is pleasing to see<br />
that progress has finally been made. <strong>The</strong>re is still a long way to go and no doubt Clive will keep us up to date with<br />
events. Read more from Clive here.<br />
Now Cr Jonathan Larsen has joined the “brat pack”. His website “<strong>The</strong> Workboot Councillor” is a breath of fresh air.<br />
Although as a Councillor he will always be bound by the rules of procedure, laws and regulations, Jonathan has had the<br />
courage to lay his principles on the line and use 21 st Century technology to communicate with his “people”.<br />
Looking back over the relatively short life of the <strong>Kaipara</strong> District Council; any time a Councillor has stepped outside the<br />
square and shown individual initiative, he or she is immediately ring fenced. <strong>The</strong> Mayor and other Councillors (supported<br />
by the Chief Executive Officer and other<br />
staff) have formed their respective wagons<br />
into a circle and attempted to isolate the<br />
courageous one. It seems that phone<br />
calls cease, e- mails and snail mail<br />
suddenly get lost or misplaced, (as does<br />
correspondence and phone calls from<br />
angry ratepayers) and a campaign of<br />
misinformation and innuendo bubbles forth<br />
from Hokianga Road.<br />
<strong>The</strong> last victim of these tactics was Bill<br />
Guest. Let’s see how long it takes for<br />
the sniping to start again. Don’t give up<br />
Jonathan. We need more like you for the<br />
probably short time left for this Council to<br />
exist.
STOP PRESS<br />
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”<br />
--Harry S Truman<br />
Our Link With Jonathan’s Website<br />
This forum has been created to specifically allow comment on articles in this newsletter plus any other concerns that<br />
you have about events in the <strong>Kaipara</strong> not elsewhere covered in the forums.<br />
While you can remain anonymous, please consider registering and displaying a nickname as that gives your comments<br />
more credibility. It also identifies you when you post responses which make the forums much more enjoyable. A<br />
nickname implies a real person rather than a fantasy.<br />
Click here to read postings to date on our forum link<br />
Thanks for inviting us to be part of your world. Jonathan.<br />
Good One Whanau<br />
From the Northern Advocate Friday 24 June 2011.<br />
“Two arrested for tying and beating elderly “woman.<br />
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10734310<br />
Tops marks to the whanau for convincing these two “scumbags” to hand themselves in to Police.<br />
<strong>The</strong> only question that really requires an answer is what the hell a 14 year old was doing running wild, with access to a<br />
motor vehicle when several of these incidents occurred at times when he should have been at school! This same 14year-old<br />
faces 22 charges relating to about 10 separate incidents.<br />
Is there no-one in this “child’s” home who notices that he has not been to school, suddenly has a lot of money to spend,<br />
and is coming at going at strange hours in association with a 20year old? “Just going to Aunty’s” for some kai and a few<br />
smokes maybe?<br />
But of course even if you do notice these things you can’t kick his butt or clip his ear any more can you? So why bother.<br />
“Time Out” in a bedroom with TV, play station, phone, computer etc must be a really difficult “punishment to tolerate”.<br />
Yeah right!
Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.<br />
--Don Kardong<br />
Community Notices<br />
Volunteers Awareness day<br />
<strong>Dargaville</strong> Museum at Harding Park.<br />
Wednesday 29 th June from 11am to2pm<br />
1 st <strong>Dargaville</strong> Girls’ Brigade<br />
Come To GB<br />
A Fun Packed Program for Girls 5 – 15 years<br />
We meet Thursdays from 3.30 to 5.00pm<br />
at the <strong>Dargaville</strong> Baptist Community Church<br />
1 st Four Weeks Free<br />
For More info contact Pauline (09) 439 7507<br />
Have you ever thought about volunteering at your Museum?<br />
Come meet the Museum team and share a sausage and soup lunch on Wednesday 29 th June 11am to 2pm<br />
A behind the scenes look at how your Museum works and how you can contribute to its continuing success.<br />
Kaihu Valley Music Club<br />
<strong>The</strong> regular club day is the second Sunday of each month at the Kaihu Memorial Hall.<br />
• Starting 1.00pm.<br />
• Gold coin admission. All are welcome.<br />
• Local and visiting musicians will be attending.<br />
Inquiries to Esma at (09) 439 7293<br />
Zumba Classes<br />
Classes are held in <strong>Dargaville</strong> on Mon & Wed<br />
6.15pm – 7.15 at the Country & Western Hall next door to Subway<br />
Casual $10.<br />
Contact Person – Lee. lee@jeanjohnsonrealty.co.nz
I’m not overweight. I’m just nine inches too short.<br />
--Shelley Winters<br />
Letters To <strong>The</strong> Editor.<br />
If you have a complaint about something we publish, a brickbat or bouquet, or some general<br />
comments that you want to share - this is the place to do it. Please ensure that we receive your<br />
letters no later than the Thursday morning before publication. As with other news media, we don’t<br />
publish or respond to letters that have no real name, address, and contact phone number. If you<br />
don’t want your name to appear please tell us. All letters are published in full as received. Please<br />
keep them to no more than 250 words if possible. Thanks!<br />
We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. BUT!!! But communication is not supposed to be a guessing<br />
game. Last Sunday’s edition containing the diagram of the districts delights were disappointing I note with dismay the<br />
dismal display Captioned “A Great Place to Stay”<br />
Whoever designed this useless blurb it doesn’t rate very high in my estimation of a PR professional trying to get his/her<br />
message across. One wonders at what cost ? How about spelling Waipoua Forrest correctly. Sloppy work!!!!<br />
Main failings are, none of the pictures are adequately identified. <strong>The</strong> Pahi camping grounds are completely devoid<br />
of directions on the map which looks more like a medical chart of a patient’s urinary tract complete with a somewhat<br />
unmentionable disease. Alas Poor Pouto!<br />
A few more items of interest could have been included i.e. (Matakohe Museum ) After all isn’t it part of Twin Coast<br />
Discovery ?? Let’s hope the Information Centre can explain things more clearly.<br />
Ralph Williams<br />
Pahi of course<br />
Online Film Festival<br />
Please consider clicking on the link below, and vote on Poisoning Paradise, in this on-line film festival.<br />
Make sure you click on the play button, and allow the film to play for a couple of minutes. <strong>The</strong>n log on to vote. It only<br />
takes a minute.<br />
This increases exposure, and raises awareness in what’s happening in this country of ours. If you are pro 1080, then I<br />
suggest you DO NOT follow this request, and just stick to what the pro-1080 industry does every week in this country of<br />
ours - fills the media with propaganda.<br />
Thanks to all those involved with donating to, and making PP happen. Poisoning Paradise - leading Green Unplugged<br />
Film Festival<br />
Many thanks.<br />
Clyde Graf<br />
Trash Or Treasure Pre-Loved Goods<br />
Open Saturdays and Sundays 10.00am - 2.00pm<br />
Murdoch Street, <strong>Dargaville</strong>.<br />
At Great Prices!
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food<br />
--Erma Bombeck<br />
Watch award winning Poisoning Paradise video clip here<br />
http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/poisoning-paradise-ecocide-new-zealand<br />
Poisoning Paradise on IMDB<br />
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588425/combined<br />
<strong>The</strong> Graf Boys - Clyde & Steve Graf<br />
Email thegrafboys@xtra.co.nz<br />
Blog www.thegrafboys.blogspot.com<br />
Web www.thegrafboys.org/poisoning-paradise.html<br />
Miss Piggy Dietary Assistance Quote(s) for the Week<br />
To assist readers who are on a diet (or are thinking about starting on one) we have decided to help<br />
you along over the next few weeks by sharing with you one or two quotes from that most supreme<br />
arch dietary exponent - Miss Piggy! Note the headers banners also in this newsletter.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> object of exercise is to achieve your beauty aspirations without<br />
perspiration.<br />
• You can eliminate a lot of calories by entirely cutting out things you hate.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> definition of an eligible man: He’s breathing.<br />
New Books In the <strong>Dargaville</strong> Library<br />
NON FICTION<br />
Female Chauvinist Pigs – Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture – Ariel Levy<br />
Elizabeth Taylor: <strong>The</strong> Lady, <strong>The</strong> Lover, <strong>The</strong> Legend – 1932-2011 – David Brett<br />
JUNIOR & YOUNG ADULT MAGAZINES<br />
Crème<br />
TotalGirl<br />
K-Zone<br />
FICTION<br />
<strong>The</strong> Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi<br />
Little People – Jane Sullivan<br />
<strong>The</strong> Collaborator – Margaret Leroy<br />
Against All Enemies – Tom Clancy<br />
<strong>The</strong> Little Coffee Shop of Kabul – Deborah Rodriguez<br />
Fallen – Karin Slaughter<br />
<strong>The</strong>odore Boone <strong>The</strong> Abduction –John Grisham<br />
Voted TUANZ Best Carrier Of <strong>The</strong> Year 2009<br />
For Best Prices On All Your Phone, Dial Up,<br />
Broadband, & Mobile Connections.<br />
http://www.slingshot.co.nz/ 0800 89 2000
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner<br />
--H.S. Leigh<br />
<strong>The</strong> Eternal Prison – Jeff Somers<br />
Keep Up To Date With Events at the Library Phone (09) 439 3150 or visit their web page<br />
http://www.kaipara.govt.nz/library.php<br />
Northland Events Calendars<br />
To see what is happening around Northland, you can visit:<br />
Hokianga: http://www.hokiangatourism.org.nz/news.html<br />
Kauri Coast: http://kauricoast.co.nz/Events.cfm<br />
Mangawhai: http://www.mangawhai.co.nz/Events.cfm<br />
Northland: http://www.northlandnz.com/events.php<br />
FL Computers.<br />
122 Victoria Street. <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone: (09) 439 0496. E-Mail: flcomputers@xtra.co.nz
My wife is a light eater.<br />
As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat. --Henny Youngman<br />
Daily Trivia Quiz Online.<br />
Done your daily trivia quiz today?<br />
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2890210/Daily-trivia-quiz-September-25<br />
This Week In New Zealand History<br />
1954 Parker-Hulme murder in Christchurch<br />
Armed with a brick in a stocking, 16-year-old Pauline Parker and her best friend Juliet<br />
Hulme, 15, became two of New Zealand’s most notorious murderesses when they killed<br />
Pauline’s mother, Honora, in Victoria Park, Christchurch.<br />
Entangled in a classic folie à deux, the teenagers shared a fantasy world of princes,<br />
damsels, heroes and villains. Dreams of Hollywood stardom were threatened when their<br />
parents decided that the girls’ friendship had become obsessive and co-dependent. Plans<br />
were afoot for Juliet’s family to leave New Zealand.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir week-long trial was fraught with sensation. Testimony arguing the pair’s insanity was<br />
rejected. <strong>The</strong> pair were found guilty, sentenced to indefinite imprisonment, and ordered<br />
never to contact each other again.<br />
In a decade when − if the Mazengarb Report is to be believed − teenagers terrorised the<br />
nation, this case drew extraordinary attention both here and overseas. It remains one of<br />
New Zealand’s most infamous murders and lives on in popular culture, having inspired both<br />
a play, Michaelanne Forster’s Daughters of heaven, and Peter Jackson’s Academy Awardnominated<br />
film Heavenly creatures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> two young women were released after serving about five years in prison. Juliet Hulme later changed her name to<br />
Anne Perry and became a successful writer. Both she and Parker now live in the United Kingdom.<br />
1964 <strong>The</strong> Beatles land in NZ<br />
were called in when rapturous fans besieged the Beatles’ hotel.<br />
FL Computers.<br />
Beatlemania hit New Zealand when 7000 hysterical<br />
fans greeted the Fab Four in Wellington during their<br />
‘Far East’ tour. After stints in the United States,<br />
Europe, Hong Kong and Australia, the lads from<br />
Liverpool finally touched down in New Zealand.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y came at the start of a new era. During the<br />
60s young New Zealanders, with the help of<br />
broadcast television, were beginning to tune in to<br />
an international youth culture. <strong>The</strong> Beatles’ fame<br />
preceded them and our teenagers were ready for<br />
action. At Wellington Airport, police struggled to<br />
restrain crowds behind a wire fence. Police dogs<br />
122 Victoria Street. <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone: (09) 439 0496. E-Mail: flcomputers@xtra.co.nz
Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is<br />
through his stomach flunked geography. --Robert Byrne<br />
On 22 June the Beatles played their first New Zealand concerts, repeating a 30-minute 11-song set, as fans screamed<br />
and punctured the seats of the Wellington Town Hall with their stiletto heels. Audiences in Auckland, Christchurch and<br />
Dunedin followed suit. Possibly the most dangerous moment of the Far East tour came in Auckland, where the Beatles<br />
faced a mob of several thousand people with little police protection. <strong>The</strong>y were trampled and mauled, and John Lennon<br />
lost a clump of hair.<br />
<strong>The</strong> tour had a big impact on New Zealand’s rock ’n’ roll and pop music scene. Local artists such as Ray Columbus,<br />
Howard Morrison, and Max Merritt and the Meteors benefited from a surge of interest in the Beatles’ wake.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Beatles were one of the most famous and commercially successful bands in popular music history. <strong>The</strong>ir quest for<br />
new sounds and the social awareness expressed in their songs were a major influence on pop culture around the world<br />
in the 1960s.<br />
1987 All Blacks win the first World Cup<br />
With Michael Jones, John Kirwan and captain<br />
David Kirk scoring tries, the All Blacks defeated<br />
France 29–9 at Eden Park, Auckland. Kirk<br />
became the first (and so far only New Zealand)<br />
captain to lift the Webb Ellis Cup.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Rugby World Cup was hosted by New<br />
Zealand and Australia. Rugby powerhouse<br />
South Africa did not compete due to the<br />
international sports boycott that was in place<br />
because of its apartheid policies.<br />
In the opening match of the tournament All<br />
Black winger John Kirwan ran almost the length<br />
of the field, beating most of the Italian team to<br />
score a memorable try. <strong>The</strong> All Blacks won 70–6 and went on to win their pool after comfortable victories over Fiji and<br />
Argentina. <strong>The</strong>ir form carried over into the knock-out phase, in which Scotland was defeated 30–3 and Wales 49–6<br />
before the final showdown with France.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Webb Ellis Cup has since proven to be an elusive holy grail for New Zealand players and fans. Despite dominating<br />
the world rankings, 1987 remains the All Blacks’ only World Cup success. <strong>The</strong> closest they have come to repeating their<br />
1987 victory came in the 1995 final, which they lost in extra time to South Africa. <strong>The</strong> All Blacks have also suffered three<br />
semi-final defeats, in 1991, 1999 and 2003. In the 2007 tournament they recorded their worst-ever result in World Cups<br />
when they were defeated by France in the quarter-finals.<br />
Image ref: BBC<br />
Read more: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline<br />
New AsiAN RestAuRANt<br />
RestAuRANt<br />
73 Victoria Street <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone (09) 439 8388<br />
Dine in - Takeaways - Open 7 Days - Licenced
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don’t see how they<br />
can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. --Fred Allen<br />
FOOD! This week it’s “Crock Pot (Slow Cooker) Stuff”<br />
BEEF ROAST<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 can beer<br />
2 kg beef roast<br />
1 packet onion soup mix<br />
Method<br />
Trim the fat from the Roast then put the Roast into the crockpot and sprinkle with soup mix. Pour beer over the top and<br />
cook on low for about 8 hours.<br />
BARBECUED PORK<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 lbs. boneless pork top loin<br />
1 chopped onion<br />
3/4 cup diet soda (Beer might work just as well)<br />
3/4 cup barbecue sauce<br />
Method<br />
Combine all ingredients in a crockpot. Cook covered on high for 5-6 hours or until meat is very tender. Drain and slice or<br />
shred pork.<br />
CHICKEN IN MUSHROOM GRAVY<br />
Ingredients<br />
salt and pepper<br />
1/4 cup dry white wine<br />
1 can mushrooms, sliced<br />
1 can cream of chicken soup<br />
3 whole chicken breasts halved<br />
Method<br />
Place the chicken pieces into the crockpot then season with salt and pepper. Mix wine and soup together then pour over<br />
the chicken. Add the mushrooms then cover and cook the Chicken in Mushroom Gravy on low for 7 to 9 hours or high 3<br />
to 4 hours. Recipe may be doubled and cooked in a 5 quart crockpot.<br />
Read More: http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/<br />
New AsiAN RestAuRANt<br />
RestAuRANt<br />
73 Victoria Street <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone (09) 439 8388<br />
Dine in - Takeaways - Open 7 Days - Licenced
Note:<br />
You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic<br />
you’re apt to be a hermit. --Franklin P. Jones<br />
Gary and Lisa at the New Asia Restaurant in <strong>Dargaville</strong> who sponsor this page are running a Shanghai Special.<br />
Walk in, sit down, don’t ask for a menu. Simply let the chef prepare your meal!<br />
You will be amazed at the fine, affordable, treats and tastes that will be served to you. Give them some advance notice<br />
and they will be happy to meet any special requests!<br />
Musical Notes For This Week<br />
Events in Music<br />
1956 - “Transfusion” by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8<br />
1959 - “Along Came Jones” by Coasters peaks at #9<br />
1961 - Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody’s Child and My<br />
Bonnie, in Hamburg<br />
1961 - Beatles record “If You Love Me Baby”<br />
1963 - Beatles form “Beatles Ltd” to handle their income<br />
1964 - Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night” album<br />
1968 - “Here Come Da Judge” by <strong>The</strong> Buena Vistas peaks at #88<br />
1970 - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession<br />
1972 - “Troglodyte (Cave Man)” by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6<br />
1975 - Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs<br />
1975 - Cher divorces Sonny Bono<br />
1978 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rice’s musical “Evita,” premiers in London<br />
1981 - Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats<br />
1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon<br />
1982 - Paul McCartney releases “Take it Away”<br />
1990 - Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium<br />
1992 - Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43<br />
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest<br />
university<br />
New AsiAN RestAuRANt<br />
RestAuRANt<br />
73 Victoria Street <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone (09) 439 8388<br />
Dine in - Takeaways - Open 7 Days - Licenced
Birthdays in Music<br />
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times<br />
- in water, in butter, and in wine. --Polish Proverb<br />
1924 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me and My Guitar)<br />
1932 - Ocie Lee “OC” Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)<br />
1936 - Bobby Nunn, rocker (Coasters-Young Blood)<br />
1940 - Adam Faith, England, singer (Poor Me, What Do You Want?)<br />
1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Beatles)<br />
1940 - Clint Warwick, [Eccles], Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues)<br />
1940 - Billy Davis Jr, St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)<br />
1942 - Brian Wilson, Inglewood Calif, vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)<br />
1942 - Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)<br />
1942 - Larry Taylor, Brooklyn, rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)<br />
1943 - Georgie Fame, rock vocalist (Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde)<br />
1944 - Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)<br />
1944 - Steve Weber, guitarist, (Rounders-Holy “Boobs” Modal)<br />
1944 - Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter and Gordon-World Without Love)<br />
1944 - Bruce Johnston, singer/bassist (Beachboys-Surfin’ Girl) [or Apr 26]<br />
1945 - Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (Troggs-Wild Thing)<br />
1945 - Howard Kaylan, rocker (Flo and Eddie/Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)<br />
1945 - Colin Blunstone, England, rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought)<br />
1945 - Carly Simon, NYC, singer (Anticipation, You’re So Vain)<br />
1947 - Don Henley, drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer)<br />
1948 - Leo Sayers, rocker (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing)<br />
1949 - Gary Moffet, Montreal, rock guitarist (April Wine)<br />
1949 - Alan Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie and Marie)<br />
1950 - Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)<br />
1950 - Joey Kramer, NYC, hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic)<br />
1952 - Tim Finn, rocker (Split Enz, Crowded House, Puberty Blues)<br />
1953 - Alan Longmuir, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Bay City Rollers)<br />
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer (Girls Just want to have Fun, Time after Time)<br />
1956 - Derek Forbes, rocker (Simple Minds-Water Front)<br />
1957 - Garry Beers, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)<br />
1957 - Astro, [Terrence Wilson], England, rock vocalist (UB40-Red Red Wine)<br />
1961 - Jimmy Somerville, Glasgow Soctland, rocker (Bronski Beat, Communards)<br />
Deaths in Music<br />
1987 - Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let’s Dance), dies at 88<br />
1997 - Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61<br />
Today FM. Timeless Music Always on 87.7 and 106.7 in <strong>Dargaville</strong><br />
New AsiAN RestAuRANt<br />
RestAuRANt<br />
73 Victoria Street <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone (09) 439 8388<br />
Dine in - Takeaways - Open 7 Days - Licenced
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green<br />
vegetables smelled as good as bacon. --Doug Larson<br />
Thoughts For <strong>The</strong> Week<br />
Cactus Kate On John Banks:<br />
Banks is just awful. He makes you want to consider voting Len Brown. Two-time losing mayoral candidate Banks is<br />
political desperation at its finest ... his political philosophy isn’t even close to Act’s.<br />
Click Here to read Cactus Kates Blog (http://katieworld1.com/cactuskate/)<br />
More Movie Trivia<br />
1. During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.<br />
2. <strong>The</strong> first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.<br />
3. Kermit the Frog is left-handed.<br />
4. <strong>The</strong> names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!<br />
5. <strong>The</strong> first video aired on MTV was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles in 1981.<br />
6. <strong>The</strong> name for Oz in “<strong>The</strong> Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing<br />
cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”<br />
7. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.<br />
8. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear trousers.<br />
9. <strong>The</strong> Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.<br />
10. <strong>The</strong> most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.<br />
11. <strong>The</strong> mask used by Michael Myers in the original ‘Halloween’ was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.<br />
12. <strong>The</strong> first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.<br />
13. <strong>The</strong> first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!<br />
14. <strong>The</strong> first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School<br />
15. <strong>The</strong> filming of the movie ‘Titanic’ cost more than the Titanic itself!<br />
16. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!<br />
17. Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York<br />
in 1996.<br />
18. In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass!<br />
19. In the movie ‘<strong>The</strong> Wizard Of Oz’, Toto the dog’s salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.<br />
20. In Mel Brooks’ ‘Silent Movie,’ mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.<br />
21. For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.<br />
22. C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.<br />
23. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, in the movie ‘Hercules’, was dubbed.<br />
24. According to legend, there’s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld<br />
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My favorite animal is steak<br />
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