Nick Nicholas writes: "In contrast to the Concert Programme (and National Radio), commercial programmes rarely give the titles and artists' names of what they are playing. This is enormously frustrating to listeners and presumably to the industry who want to make sales."
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Gavin Busch (Secretary of Ngati Rotary Club
of Devonport) replies to Ross Berry's comment about Rotary blocking access to the Devonport foreshore during the Wine and Food Festival: "While Mr Berry was unable to walk along Devonport beach last Sunday morning, 39 members of 'Ngati Rotary' were working to raise about $75,000 for local community and charity groups. They have done this for the past 15 years and have given away over $1.5 million to various local and national charitable organisations. Supporting the community? Damn right we are! PS: If Mr Berry has a favourite charity which wishes to make a claim from our use of the foreshore for a few hours, that charity can apply for funds to PO Box 32-197, Devonport.
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Continued from yesterday: The 2003 Tarnished Halo Awards included a gong for Alec Baldwin. The Centre for Consumer Freedom says his inclusion is for "lending his star power to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Baldwin, who once played an anti-Nazi crusading attorney in the movie Nuremberg, narrated PETA's misleading anti-meat video at the same time the group was promoting a truly disgusting campaign that compared Holocaust victims to chickens. Memo to Baldwin's agent: The Fuehrer was also an animal rights nut. A second tarnished halo was awarded to ER star Noah Wyle for steering Americans away from medical charities like the Red Cross and American Heart Association, in a commercial produced by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). PCRM is a so-called medical organisation funded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. And like Noah Wyle, 95 per cent of PCRM's members never graduated from medical school".
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We live in a small pool. As the credits rolled on Kim Hill's provocative interview with the PM on TV One on Wednesday night, the name listed for the programme's researcher was none other than Heather Church, longtime Kim Hill sidekick and ... wife of the Prime Minister's chief press secretary, Mike Munro.
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Bob Harvey has been writing a book called Westies - a profile of famous West Aucklanders - and the missing link is the millennium baby, the first baby born in the 21st century at Waitakere Hospital a few minutes after midnight, 2000. Known only as Baby Munro and born to parents Debbie Gibson and Dean Munro. Fame in the West awaits Baby Munro and her parents if they can contact the scribbling mayor at Waitakere City Council.
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Nick Nicholas writes: "In contrast to the Concert Programme (and National Radio), commercial programmes rarely give the titles and artists' names of what they are playing. This is enormously frustrating to listeners and presumably to the industry who want to make sales."
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Gavin Busch (Secretary of Ngati Rotary Club
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