ROSA WOODS
Tajzhay Pouwhare, 18, and other students at Wanuiomata High School started a petition to rename Lower Hutt street names in te reo Māori. (File photo)
Harry Martin Lane was named just five days ago but already its future is in doubt, with Lower Hutt mana whenua calling the decision to reject a Māori street name “disrespectful and hurtful”. Last Wednesday, Wainuiomata Community Board narrowly voted 3-2 to name its newest street after the Lower Hutt’s suburb’s one and only mayor, Harry Martin, who passed away in 2017. However, the decision has immediately come under fire, with mana whenua calling for cultural training for board members that rejected the Māori street name put forward.
The Friends of the Osterhout, despite being unable to hold their week-long book sale in June, under the tent next to the library on South Franklin Street, creatively cobbled together several smaller fundraising events, such as Mystery Bundle Drive-through Sales, a Sidewalk Book Sale, re-opening their book shop on the third floor of the main library and miscellaneous book sales, to present a check for $12,000 to Richard Miller, executive director of the Osterhout Library. Funds raised by the Friends typically are used to purchase items on a wish list, goods and services not ordinarily covered in the standard operating budget. Due to current circumstances, the $12,000 will be disbursed at the discretion of the executive director. From left, are Diane Krokos, treasurer, Friends of the Osterhout Library; Irene Martin, president, Friends of the Osterhout Library; Richard C. Miller, executive director and system administrator, Osterhout Free Library and Luzerne County Library System.
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Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freemanâs 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks.
âLook,â he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. âLook how skinny she is.â -
Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes sealed with red-and-white FRAGILE tape were 3, 874 black-and-white photographs and 150 reels of 16 mm film. The neurologist who found them, a Dr. Kalina Kalcheva (newly arrived from the Sofia Academy of Medicine) told the local paper; âI could not sleep. Seeing the eyes of those people, I could not sleep for days.â