Reporter’s diary

Press, 19 August 1983, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Lebanese first CHRISTCHURCH’S first Lebanese restaurant will open this evening, complete with belly dancer. The “Cedars of Lebanon,” in the Tuam Street premises formerly occupied by the Galleon Restaurant, is the creation of Mr Mory Saba, a Lebanese who has lived in Christchurch for the last 10 years. The menu includes shish kebab (grilled lamb marinaded in garlic, wine and lemon juice), tabbouleh (a natural salad of crushed wheat, parsley, mint, spring onion, tomato, spices, olive oil and lemon juice), kibbi (minced lamb mixed with crushed wheat and a variety of nuts, spiced and baked in olive oil), and baklawa (pastry filled with pine nuts, hazel nuts, cashews, almonds and walnuts, soaked in pure syrup and baked with butter). Birthday protest THE BIRTHDAY next week of Leonard. Bernstein will be used in a novel way to campaign for nuclear

mament. The New Yorkbased Leonard Bernstein 65th Birthday Committee has sent sky blue armbands to musical groups throughout the world, to be worn on the famous conductor’s birthday, August 25. The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra has received a padded envelope containing more than 50 of the armbands, and has been asked to distribute them to musicians and admirers of Bernstein. The committee would especially like to see the armbands worn by musicians playing in symphonic, rock, chamber, recital or cocktail concerts on August 25. Bernstein will wear one of the armbands at a concert in his home town in Massachusetts, where he will conduct the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and other musicians opposed to nuclear arms. People interested in wearing the armbands are asked to telephone the C.S.O.’s office, at 793-886. Lucky find BANKNOTES worth nearly

$250,000 have been found by a Aberdeen man in furniture he bought with a house in the city’s West End. The man, who wants to remain anonymous, found the money after he broke open a concealed, locked drawer. He handed it to the police, who are trying to establish ownership. No crime is suspected. It is believed that the house had been occupied by an elderly person who lived alone. The occupier died some months ago, and the house had been on the market for several months. A member of the Law Society of Scotland said it would be difficult to determine who owned the money. If there was a dispute, it would probably have to be settled in court. Shop sales “NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC,” the journal of the American National Geographic Society, is becoming available in bookshops for the first time in its 82-year history. Until now the magazine, noted for the

quality of its illustrations, has been sold only by subscription to members of the society. The July, 1983, issue of the magazine, with 144 pages, is going on sale in New Zealand at a price of $4.95.

New lens AMERICAN optometrists say they are on the verge of perfecting a new hard contact lens which people will be able to wear comfortably for weeks at a time, and which will give better vision than soft lenses. The new lenses are gas permeable, and known as silicone acralate lenses. Wearers should not have to take them out at night, and the lenses will be able to cope with eye problems which cannot be easily rectified by soft lenses. The new lenses are available now in the United States, but the optometrists say that when they are perfected they will be superior to extended wear soft lenses because they will be more easily cleaned by the eye during sleep.