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Ken and Marge Hinton spent their working life orcharding, so it was perhaps fitting that they met in an orchard.

Sometimes life throws you an unexpected curve ball.

More than 10,000 people are expected to attend two-day gala events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Brighton district, near Dunedin, later this month.

Lindsay and Joyce McCall, who met as teenagers at a Saturday night dance, yesterday celebrated 60 years of marriage.

It is not every day that cards from Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister John Key and Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand turn up in your letterbox.

A bout of tonsilitis brought North Otago couple Ron and Ruth McNally together - and they are still together after 60 years.

The bubbles will be ready at the opening of the lifts for the 25th season at the Remarkables Skifield near Queenstown on Saturday.

St John Waitaki will celebrate St John's 125th anniversary with a function in Kurow next month.

"One war's finished and another has started."

It may not have been love at first sight, but when 18-year-old Cecil Turner spotted 15-year-old Dawn Fullerton he thought she was "a bit of all right".