6 December 2004

Shady event set to be a whale of a time for New Brighton

The Christchurch City Council, its Burwood/Pegasus Community Board and the Cancer Society have jointly funded the installation of five shade sails at the whale pool in New Brighton.

To celebrate there will a be a free barbecue, clowns, spot prizes and guest speakers at the pool on Sunday, 12 December at 12pm.

Burwood/Pegasus Community Board member Glenda Burt will host the event and there will be speeches from local grandmother Karen Morgan, who first approached the Community Board with the idea for shade cover and Martin Whitt from the Cancer Society will also say a few words.

Water bottles and flying discs will be given away as spot prizes to children and the free barbecue is courtesy of Helliers.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>