A young couple from Auckland have had a weekend to remember after their lucky Lotto ticket saw them win $17 million with Powerball First Division and become New Zealand’s newest Powerball multi-millionaires. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, were having a quiet start to their Sunday morning – completely unaware that their lives were…
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Grateful couple pay it forward
A couple who received a helping hand from the Mayor’s Welfare Fund almost 25 years ago are now paying it forward. In 1997 the couple, who we are not naming to protect their privacy, had recently migrated from Serbia with their two young children and had settled in Christchurch. They had been dentists in Serbia…
Fifty years of asteroid hunting for Kiwi couple
Fifty years of asteroid hunting for Kiwi couple From moonbows and asteroids to everything between and beyond – the astronomical half-century adventures of University of Canterbury Adjunct Fellows Alan Gilmore and Pam Kilmartin have been profiled in an excellent new Stuff.co.nz article from Education reporter, Lee Kenny. Written in the stars: Couple Pam Kilmartin and…