| KAPAI: Dare to dream - a child's God-given right
When ever I see the Ad on television showing Steve Williams living his dream of caddying for the world's number one golfer I always want to add my two bob's worth - "New Zealand where dreams come true and the man who makes the most money out of sport is a white man carrying a black man's bag." Yes I know, not very PC, but sometimes we need to lighten up when it comes to carrying the burden of believing in someone or something in life. Believing in one's dreams starts way back, well before we left school for the big wide world, and for most of us our dream weavers were our teachers who turned us into dream catchers without us realising it until one day we were living the dream. .
Parents quiz school chief
STAMFORD - Parents brought big questions about the Stamford school system to a meeting yesterday with Superintendent Joshua Starr.
The questions covered arts programs in the schools, teaching special education students and the future of student tracking in Stamford, among other topics. Some parents asked how schools are making sure gifted students are being challenged.
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Science behind the Soap Opera
Tim Clutton-Brock has suddenly said, for reasons not at all clear to me, "Hard-boiled egg." Perhaps it's best to ignore this. So, I ask him again in our phone conversation what he would pick as the highlights of his past 13 years of directing a field study of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. Meerkats, a type of mongoose, cluster in family groups and share the job of raising the top female's pups. Clutton-Brock and his colleagues have published reports on meerkat behaviors ranging from altruism to infanticide. But it turns out that the first highlight that he wishes to discuss actually is a hard-cooked egg. .
K-Fed takes the kids to Vegas
The 28-year-old - who has custody of sons 18-month-old Sean Preston and six-month-old Jayden James while estranged wife Britney Spears is in rehab - travelled to Las Vegas for an appearance at the Mirage Hotel and Casino lounge Revolution. A source told People magazine: "Kevin was really low key. You could definitely tell he was on his best behaviour. He was having a good time, but wasn't the wild, crazy Kevin who used to come to Vegas." The aspiring rapper arrived on Saturday with the boys, a nanny, his mother, brother and two bodyguards. He dined with family and friends at the hotel restaurant Japonais. The source added: "He was late for dinner because he wanted to tuck his kids into bed." - BANG! SHOWBIZ .
Volunteer nanny provides loving care
When Charlotte Steigenga agreed to help care for an infant boy of a refugee from Burundi, she thought it would be for two days. But then she met baby Samuel Ingabire, and her plans quickly changed. "I just fell in love with him," Steigenga said. Two days turned into several months. In May, she will have worked as Samuel's full-time nanny for a year, accepting no pay. Steigenga is up every weekday morning by 4:30 and drives to Samuel's apartment so his mother, Yvonne Ingabire, who fled the African country in 2005 because of political conflicts, can get to work by 6 a.m. "He's about the only human being I'll get up at 4:30 for," Steigenga says with a laugh. But she's not complaining about the hours.
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