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Cannabis cake served Andrew Board
A Nelson restaurant is alleged to have mistakenly served a cake laced with synthetic cannabis to a group of diners, leaving six of them in hospital. But police won’t be pressing
charges because of “insufficient evidence”. A dinner reservation was made for nine people at The Waka Restaurant and Bar in early July to celebrate the birthday of one of the diners. The woman who reserved the
table was told, when making the booking, that they were entitled to a complementary birthday cake. When she inquired about the cake offer after their meal, the waitress said she wasn’t sure but went to the kitchen and came
back to confirm there was a cake for them. It was promptly delivered, with candles, before being cut and served to the guests. Diner Nicola Nish says the cake “tasted weird”. “It was like a carrot cake with chocolate icing, but everyone said
it tasted weird and most didn’t finish their piece.” After the dinner, and about two hours after eating the cake, the group’s sober driver began to feel numbness down the side of
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Race to Rio inspires pupils Simon Bloomberg Brightwater School pupils got a glimpse of how much hard work and dedication it takes athletes to get to the Olympics after completing their Race to Rio Challenge. The school’s 305 children, along with teachers and even some enthusiastic parents, took part in the challenge aimed at walking, running or biking the distance from Nelson to Rio as part of their study of the Olympic Games. They completed the challenge last Thursday when students clocked up the 23,884th lap of the school’s 0.5km long cycle trail for an impressive total of 11,942km in 18 days. Principal Gerald Baldwin says whole school competed in the challenge with all 305 pupils completing at least three laps of the cycle trail in a mass walk every lunchtime. However, Gerald says many of the children were so inspired after watching the Olympics that they walked, ran an cycled hundreds of extra laps.
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Brightwater School principal Gerald Baldwin with pupils who won medals during the school’s Race to Rio event last Thursday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
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