Old-fashioned baked beans still savored
FRANKLIN A bag of beans is something of a marvel. What else costs so little but can raise so much money at community suppers?
That is, of course, if Franklin’s Dick Gardner, aka the Bean Man, has transformed the small legumes into his rich, slightly sweet, baked beans.
As his contribution to the local fire department and other groups, Dick Gardner (left) regularly cooks up great quantities of his delectable baked beans for fund-raisers. In his secret recipe, he uses both Marafax and Megquier’s yellow-eye beans. Dried not wet mustard is a must. ELLSWORTH AMERICAN PHOTO BY JENNIFER OSBORN
Monday, 11 January 2021, 11:39 am
Well, apart from the who, why and how of
it, the recent hack of the Reserve Bank’s computer
security defences seems crystal clear. It happened. It
happened about five months or so after the computer systems
at the New Zealand Stock Exchange and several major
corporates and state agencies were also penetrated. Also by
persons unknown, and for reasons unclear. It would seem that
this country’s cyber systems are coming under periodic
attack by individuals or by foreign governments- or by both
- but we don’t seem to know (or aren’t being told) for