Some 70 residents of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound are being recognized for their contributions to the community with a Queen's Platinum Jubilee coin. Conserv.
World War II veteran celebrates his 100th birthday with family, others at Newport Harbor
Barbara Winkler of SoCal Quilts of Valor, left, surprises Joseph King with a quilt in the USC colors during his 100th birthday party at the American Legion post in Newport Harbor on Saturday. Behind King is his son Doyle who joins in the moment.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)
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Joseph King likes to joke that he’s probably been exposed to more chemicals than any other person would be in his lifetime.
King, a chemical engineer who finally retired from his day job about four years ago at 95, thinks people should not necessarily trust everything that environmentalists say.
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Pedestrians share their stories about coming to grief on slippery tiles in the Picton and Blenheim town centres.
Pedestrians have shared their stories of slipping on tiles in Marlborough after a Picton man spoke out last week. Ralph Martin, 65, told
Stuff he was on his way to the Super Rugby Aotearoa final when he slipped and banged his knee on new tiles near the new library on Picton’s High St, about 7pm on May 8. Marlborough Roads manager Steve Murrin said he was checking the glaze on the new tiles. Most of Picton and Blenheim’s tiles, along with other town centre tiles around the country, were laid in the 1990s before there was a slip standard, and had to be acid-washed, Murrin said.