Milo Canopener (August 1, 2008)

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An archive of the Milo Canopener. The University of Lethbridge Library received permission from the Archives at Milo Library to digitize and display this content. Milo Can Opener Box 12, Milo, AB T0L1L0 Canada Post Agmt. # 40607518 MILO CANOPENER August 2008 Edition no. 218 MILO LIBRARY N/C Milo Lions Campout July 4-6 Milo Lions Campout at Enchant Park was very well attended this year. There were 39 camping units, with about 60 adults and 40 kids joining in the fun. A number of others stopped in to visit as well. Pictured above is the crowd gathered to watch the Kid’s Races on Sunday.Ad Rates Subscription Rates Business Directory Quarter Page Half Page Full Pages Classifieds $ 5.00 6.00 8.00 15.00 2.00 Milo $ 16.00 {- pickup,delivery or mailed) Mailed (outside Milo) 24.00 Single Copies 2.00 The following items are free of charge Letters to the Editor srs welcome. Notices Please siqn them, no letters will be Announcements printed if not siqned. ( Wedding, Anniversary, Births, Showers, etc.) Requests to remain anonymous Cards of Thanks will not be honoured. News items Articles iviai ly ways to forward your articlGS, noticGS and advsrtising. Milo Can Opener Box 12, Milo, Alberta, T0L 1L0 Email: heloOlmilolibrarv.ca Fax# [phone] ^v-—=(You can also fax to Milo Municipal Library at 599-3850) e-mail is the preferred method if possible. Faxed documents tend to be unclear. Items may be left at Milo Green Foods in the Canopener box at back of store or at Milo Library or in the library book drop. Canopener volunteer staff Layout Editors - Barb Godkin - 599 - 2213, 485-8389 Colleen Bartsch 599-2204 Deanna Edwards 599-3887 Darlene Phillips 599-3791 Production - Betty Armstrong Subscriptions - Darlene Phillips -. 599 - 3791 Notices - Any Canopener volunteers Cartoons & “Kids Say” - Marina Vannatta -. 381 - 6389 Please Note: The deadline for articles is the Monday before the last Friday of each month. 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Deitz 599-2354 or 599-2464Regional Deadlines Display Ad Wednesday @ 4pm Classified Display Ad Wednesday @ 4pm Classified Word Ad Wednesday @ 4pm Call Gwen for more information 485-2036 SERVING VULCAN COUNTY SINCE 1913 Display Ad Friday @ Noon Classified Display Ad Friday @ Noon Classified Word Ad Friday @ 3pm Call Gwen for more information 485-2036 : vO,r„ i r^-o High yield farming - pork's hidden 'good news story ' Confinement feeding of livestock is one of the world's best conservation ideas, says prominent analyst The Alberta pork industry should underscore the environmental benefits of high-yield farming - including confinement feeding - and do so immediately, says a prominent food analyst. "Without the higher food yields produced by plant breeding, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and confinement feeding, the world would already have destroyed virtually all of its forests to get today's food supply," says Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food in Churchville, Virginia. Avery urges the farming community to reach out to its consumers. "You live in a world of environmentally concerned citizens. You have a good news story here but it's not being told. And if you continue not to tell it, you'll leave consumers little choice but to err on the side of the eco-activists." Saving space for wildlife "Growing more food per acre leaves more land for nature and it leaves the most important land for nature," says Avery. "The world's best-quality farmland never had much biodiversity. It had large numbers of a few species, such as the bison in America and the kangaroo in Australia. Michael Huston, author of Biological Diversity, says that all over the world the medium-poor lands harbour the greatest variety of wildlife species. Without high yield farming, humanity's food needs would be pitted against the needs of wildlife. High yield farming allows us to feed both." So why, asks Avery, is there a growing consumer demand for "natural" or "organic" food products from animals raised as free range livestock? He pins this on nostalgia, pushed by such high profile organizations as Greenpeace. "Greenpeace would have us waste the productive power of our best soils in patterns that would sacrifice forests and wildlife," he says. Dennis Avery "Today's farmers can produce far more livestock feed per acre as corn or wheat than they could as pasture grass. We make the best use of the land by growing the crops and taking the harvest to the animals instead of the other way around." Confinement feeding, at the same time, permits farmers to minimize the spread of epidemic diseases, says Avery. He says most of us have forgotten how our communicable diseases evolved through the close interaction of humans with their domestic livestock. "High yield agriculture has saved 16 million square miles of forest that old-style farming would already have condemned to be plowed for low yield crops." - Dennis Avery "We got smallpox from cattle, cholera from hogs, and avian influenza from poultry. Even today, our flu epidemics start in Asia. That’s where the birds mingle in the villages with the people," he says. "Confinement feeding minimizes that risk, and that's why the World Health Organization is trying to get Asian poultry indoors into confinement facilities." The global warming argument Modern farming, with its chemical fertilizers and diesel fuel needs, has often been blamed as part of the global warming problem. However, Avery says the United Nations climate change panel has never presented any evidence that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide (C02) in the atmosphere. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it can’t explain the earth’s warming from 1976-1998 any other way, so it must be caused by human-emitted C02. There's a better explanation, and we have the evidence," says Avery. "In the 1980s, researchers brought up long ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic which showed 400,000 years of the Earth's past temperatures. "To our surprise, the ice cores showed a long, natural 1,500-Call to action year climate cycle tied to the sun. For 750 years or so at a time, a warmer sun creates a warmer earth, then the cycle turns and creates coldertemperatures. The 1,500-year cycles have since been confirmed in seabed sediments, cave stalagmites and ancient tree rings all over the world. The North American Pollen Data Base shows we've had nine complete reorganizations of our trees and plants over the past 14,000 years, or one every 1,650 years." It’s true that the earth has warmed about 0.8 degrees since 1850, says Avery, but 70 percent of that warming occurred before 1940, and 80 percent of our human-emitted C02 occurred after 1940. "That's not cause and effect, that's coincidence," he says. The Antarctic ice cores show that temperatures and C02 have moved closely togetherthrough four massive ice ages but the planet’s warming has occurred 600-800 years before the C02 changes. "In other words, higher temperatures have released more C02 from the oceans. Additional C02 has not created higher temperatures." Ultimately, it's up to producers to inform consumers and government on the environmental value ot hign-yisld -brrriiny, - ,- Avery. "No one else will do the job. The first step is for producers to inform themselves. You have the best story anyone's ever had on environmental protection. We can't be afraid of people who dishonestly criticize our production practices." "You have the best story anyone's ever had on environmental protection. We can't be afraid ©f people who dishonestly criticize our production practices/' - Dennis Avery Six myths about modem farming The Web site of the Center for Global Food Issues (www.cgfi.org) offers a series of myths on high-yield farming. Myth #1: Modern farming causes more soil erosion High yield farming doubles the food production per acre on the best and safest land, using high-powered seeds, chemical fertilizer and pesticides to protect the yields from voracious insects, fungi and diseases, says Dennis Avery. "That means the poor land doesn't have to be plowed at all. In addition, modern farmers use low-till farming to cut soil erosion on the land that is plowed by 65-95 percent" In the 1970s and again in the 1990s, Dr. Stanley Trimble of UCLA redid the 1938 soil conservation survey on a highly-erodable watershed in the Loess Hills of the Upper Mississippi, says Avery. He found Coon Creek today is suffering only six percent of the soil erosion that it suffered during the Dust Bowl. - "Dr. Trimble says those who claim high erosion from modern farming owb us the physical evidence-the deep gullies, the siit- choked streams and the wind-scoured fields. They can't find such evidence, because it isn’t there. Modern farming reduces soil erosion to the lowest levels in farming history." used by produc Myth #2: Farmers ca overpopulation too much food ;:m-= less land per person. That produced the first decline in human birth rates the world has ever seen. High crop yields meant less hunger risk, more food to support off-farm workers, and affluent couples averaging 1.7 births per woman or less. Today, we expect the world’s human numbers to peak around 2035 and then to start a long, slow decline." Myth #3: Modem farming is destroying the world's plant biodiversity "In a world that's desperately short of good farmland, where crop yields need to double again in the next 50 years to preserve the wildlands the world stiff has, the eco-movement has a great idea. They want to turn half the world's farmland into a gene museum to grow more of the poor-yielding, disease-prone varieties that couldn't feed the world before the Green Revolution. First World farmers will have to subsidize the continued failure of their Third World brethren, putting an even greater burden on the good farming systems." Myth #4: Organic farming is kinder to the environment - • < * ijgp* ou shaft not ^■jjtiversjanother five to seven billion cattle to make up for the 80 million tons of natural nitrogen we would no longer take from the air to create ammonia fertilizer. Each of those cattle would need at least five acres of forage per year. We'd have to starve half the people or clear all the forest for low yield crops. If that's an example of green progress, I'd hate to see one of their failures." i¥Syth #5: "Thinking locally" is better for the environment than international trade "The Economist recently carried a major article on organic and locally-produced foods, and denounced both as frauds. The magazine noted that the Green Revolution had essentially tripled the crop yields on most of the world's good land. Reverting to organic, they said, would 'require several times as much land as is currently cultivated. There wouldn't be much room left for the rainforest.' "On locally-produced food, it said, 'Once the energy used in production as well as transport is taken into account, local food may turn out to be even less green. Producing lamb in New Zealand and shipping it to Britain uses less energy than producing British iamb.' "Nor does that passion for locally-produced food take into account 47 mothers driving individually out to the countryside to bring home two pounds of tomatoes apiece," says Avery. "The supermarket looks pretty efficient by comparison." Myth #6: DDT - the most vicious myth "The eco-movement has always been very careless of human life, but their approach to DDT has been downright vicious. Malaria used to be endemic throughout North America and Europe. After World War II, however, we used DDT and window screens to eradicate this most-dreaded disease. "Then we told the tropical countries that DDT was too dangerous for them to use, because it might thin the eggshells of their raptor birds. No evidence of such harm has been documented, but we have allowed more than 30 million people m the tropics to die - most of them African children - since the publication of Rachel Carson's misleading book Silent Spring. Millions more people have suffered ruined lives due to repeated malarial attacks." It turns out that DDT is not only the most cost-effective mosquito killer, it is also the most effective mosquito repellent, says Avery. "Used indoors, where there is no danger to birds, it can reduce malaria infestations by up to 75 percent. Fortunately, the U.S. Agency for International Development has recently set aside funds to modestly support the indoor use of DDT." Are biofuels sustainable? The western world wants energy independence, but the new drive for biofuels threatens to pit human food needs against fuel requirements, with the environment set to lose, says analyst Dennis Avery. Turning feed grains into biofuels, he says, is likely to drive food prices to all-time highs, force the destruction of millions of acres of trees and produce little gain in energy security. Avery says that corn ethanol produces a net of only about 50 gallons worth of gasoline per acre per year against an annual U.S. demand for more than 134 billion gallons of gasoline. If all U.S. corn were committed to ethanol, ha notes, it would provide only about 12*13 percent of America's gasoline, 2 : T “Meanwhile, the world's demand for food and feed continues to rise so that people can eat The early expansion of com ethanol has already driven up corn prices. The ongoing expansion of • ' - • ! T -A faff "The new drive for biofuels thr to pit human food needs again requirements, witH the eiy subsidized biofuels in the U.S., Canada and Europe is likely to create an explosive collision in global grain markets. Any crop production problem-floods, droughts, crop diseases-could create a massive food/fuel crisis in the years just ahead. "Feed grain-based ethanol has become, in the minds of urban consumers, an environmentally sustainable 'magic bullet'that will solve our energy requirements. They don't realize that good cropland is one of the scarcest items on earth and our grain crops are already committed to feeding people. We'd have to clear another 50 million acres of forest to supply even 10 percent of North Americas liquid fuel demand with ethanol. Environmental sustainability is a good thing, but this is not environmental sustainability. It is just theAn inconvenient truth of faulty science t Climatologist offers alternative perspective on global warming Another climate change analyst who has shared an alternative perspective on global warming with Alberta's pork producers is Victoria-based environmental consultant Tim Ball. Bail, who uses science-based arguments to counter conventional thought on global warming, says the popular argument that climate change is driven by man-made carbon dioxide emissions is actually based on faulty science and media hype. "The scientific methods used to validate the global warming argument are faulty because they omit key factors," he says. ‘This tends to lead to speculative results that usually favour the pro-global warming argument." As an example, Bali points out that the computer models used to verify the existence of global warming are often programmed to associate an increase in temperature with an increase in carbon dioxide, "Again, this biases the resuits towards the pro-giobai warming argument right from the beginning," he says. Like Dennis Avery, Ball does not deny the existence of global warming, but attributes the phenomenon to variability in the sun's temperature, a factor most computer models ignore. "Solar physicists and many other experts show that the sun, not carbon dioxide, is the major agent of temperature change,” he says. Finally, Ball is critical of the role of media in advancing the global warming argument. "Media articles usually include conditional words iike 'could/ 'may,' or 'possibly,' but those aren't what remains with the reader. What they remember are the headlines that transform the hypothesis into a prediction. But ultimately, fervent belief in a theory doesn't make it right." * ARROWWOOD CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED P.o. BOX 120, # 11 - Center Strsst, ARROWWOOD, Alberta TQL DBG Main Store Phene (403) 534- 3803 Fax [phone] Toll Free i-888-534-3803 Tire Shop Phone [phone] . Toll Ohnno SIU9 - H /co-opJ "Organized for Savings . Not for Profit" BULK FUEL & CARDLOCKS at Arrowwood & Milo sites Petroleum Products: Fuel / Lubricants HARDWARE STORE TIRE SHOP Hardware / Lumber We sell and service ALL tires Plumbing / Electrical Calcium filling Hydraulic Hoses / Belts / Bearings Feed and Animal Health Supplies Custom Exhaust & Muffler Service Paint: Interior / Exterior / Stain Shocks Housewares / Sporting Goods Oil Change HOURS: Mon to Fri 8:a.m. to 12moon & lip.rn, to 5:p,m. — Sat 8:a.m, to I2;noonSix Reasons NOT to Mess With Children A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. I he teach£ physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah”. The teacher asked, “What if Jonah went to hell?” The little girl replied, “Then you ask him”. A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The little girl replied, “I’m drawing God.” The teacher paused and said, “But we don’t know what God looks like.” Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the little girl replied, “They will in a minute.” A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her 5 and 6 year olds. After explaining the commandment to “honour” thy Father and they Mother, she asked, “Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?” One little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, “Thou shall not kill.” One day a little girl was watching her mother do dishes at the kitchen sink. She noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She inquisitively asked, “Mom, why are some of your hairs white?” Her mother replied, “Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turn white.” The little girl thought about this revelation for a moment and then said, “Momma, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?” The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. “Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or there’s Michael, he’s a doctor.” A small voice at the back of the room rang out, “And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.” A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, “Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.” “Yes,” the class said. “Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?” A little fellow shouted, “Cause your feet ain’t empty.”THE COUNTRY FARMHOUSE Gifts, Antiques and Collectibles With A Taste of Rural Alberta HOURS: Monday to Saturday -10:00am to 4:00pm Reservations for evening meals are welcome! Book for parties, anniversaries or special events. Box 10 from Cluny Hilltop Dianne Brown Ciuny, AB 3 miles west Ph. 403-734-2593 T0J 0S0 % mile north Fax [phone] NORM STOKES WELDING General and Oilfield Repair Custom Mowing New & Used Steel Sales Custom Built Trailers B-Pressure Welding rMi Norm: Wade Craig Cell: Inn ffal M Phone [phone] Ceil. 485-0365 Phone [phone] Phone [phone] STYLIST X 539-2491 X MILO Wednesday - Men’s Walkin 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. HOURS: Tuesday - Friday Thursday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. N appointment only) r 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. <><> Perms, colors, streaks, foils, lash & brow tinting, waxing, tanning bed, & Perafin dips. ]3ack To TheBasics Personal Pampering for the Whole Family J| SCALP TREATMENTS jj FACIALS MANICURES PEDICURES "d NATURAL BRONZE SPRAY TANNINS Each procedure takes about 60 min Milo at Trends.1st Wednesday & Thursday of month Vulcan at Hair Hut. 3rd & 4th Wednesdays of month 2nd, 3rd & 4th Thursday of month Peter Dawson Lodge. 2nd Wednesday of month Gift Certificates available For appointment eall: Sheila Winch w M 599-2223 or 485-8070Best Comeback Line Ever !!! Major General Peter Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently. You will love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless if how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of an ABC interview between a female broadcaster and General c osgrove abc sp onsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters Interviewer: So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base? General Cosgrove: We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing, and shnoting Interviewer: Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it? General Cosgrove: I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised on the rifle range. Interviewer: Don’t you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children? General Cosgrove: I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch firearm. Interviewer: But you’re equipping them to become violent killers. General Cosgrove: Well, Ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you? The radio went silent and the interview ended. Some boys were on a camping trip. The mosquitoes were so bad that the boys hid under their sleeping bags to keep from being bitten. One little boy peeked out of his sleeping bag just as some lightning bugs flew by. He shouted to his friends, “Oh no, we might as well give up. Now they’re coming after us with flashlights.”A Tour of Hope, A Marathon of Memories Release: Immediate There are few more iconic images in Canadian history than that of a one-iegged athlete, emerging from the morning fog, running a marathon every day, every day, during the summer of 1980. Those who saw Terry run were amazed by the simplicity and humility of his Marathon of Hope. It was comprised of Terry, friend Doug, brother Darrell and a Ford Econoline Van. The van not only protected Terry from the physical elements - snow, lligunaruiy from the TERRYi sieet, ram ana neai - uui aisu mure excitemeni and frenzy that surrounded him as awareness of his efforts grew. The Marathon of Hope van was a place of refuge for Terry. It was somewhere he could gather his thoughts, build his strength and nurture his spirit. The van provided Terry with a few brief moments, every day, to quietly contemplate what had gone before and what remained ahead, it was his home for 143 days. Until recently, the whereabouts of that van were unknown. But on May 22nd, 2008 the newly restored van was unveiled and the keys handed over to Terry’s brother Darrell to start a new journey on behalf of cancer research. The Terry Fox Foundation announced that the van would be going on a Canadian tour, starting in St. John’s, Newfoundland, produced and organized with the support of the employees of Scotia McLeod. “1,000 Scotia McLeod employees in 50 locations are enthusiastically waiting the arrival of the Fox Family and Terry’s van at locations coast-to-coast” said Craig Jarvis, Manager and Advisor at Scotia McLeod. “In the spirit of Terry Fox, all events will be inclusive with no admission fees being charged. Our goal is to collect donations for cancer research.” “Scotia McLeod has shown a sincere commitment to furthering Terry’s wish of eradicating cancer,” says Darrell Fox. “The employees have given us a chance to share Terry’s Marathon of Hope home with the country, allowing the public to experience first hand Terry s unselfish act to help us all.” Come see the Van, meet a Fox family member and make a meaningful donation to cancer research. Pledge sheets are available at Scotia McLeod offices or by emailing [e-mail] for those who want to collect donations on behalf of their friends, family and colleagues. For More Information: Rhonda Risebrough - Provincial Director The Terry Fox Foundation 403.212.1336 Cell: 403.607.7596 abntnu @ terryfoxrun.org More.Schedule of Events for Alberta: Te- - Monday, August 25 —Medicine Hat and Taber Tuesday, August 26 -Lethbridge Wednesday, August 27 - Calgary Thursday, August 28 —Red Deer Friday, August 29 -Edmonton Saturday, August 30 -Sylvan Lake Sunday, August 31 -Canmore Monday, September 1 -Okotoks & Banff Scotia McLeod - Medicine Hat; Medicine Hat Mall - 1pm Taber Ford - Taber BBQ. Dunk tank-4pm Various family fun Scotia McLeod- Lethbridge Galt Gardens - 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Scotia McLeod - Calgary 8th Ave Parade noon, Eau Claire 1 -3pm Scotia McLeod- Red Deer Noon -BBQ - Port of Call (Safeway) lot Scotia McLeod - Edmonton Noon - Churchill Square Town of Sylvan Lake Railway Promenade - West end 1 pm - 4pm Canmore Highland Games Centennial Park 9am - 6pm Sheep River Road Race, Okotoks Foothills Comp High School-9am Town of Banff Central Park - 3pm Milo's 2008 Terry Fox Run Please note: This year will be the first year our Run will be held on Friday, September 26th. This is the Terry Fox National School Run date (2 weeks later than the Terry Fox Run) This change is due to school scheduling. The Run will otherwise be the same as it always is. We will start at 9:00 am at the school. Pledge forms will be available in the summer. Contact Joanne Monner for further information.Laws of Life Law of Mechanical Repair after your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you’ll have to pee. Law of the Workshop, any tool, when dropped, will roll or slide to the least accessible location. Law of Probability - being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act. Law of the Telephone - dial a wrong number you never get a busy signal. Law of the Alibi - if you tell your boss you were late because of a flat tire, you will have one the next morning. Law of the Bath - when you are fully immersed in water, the telephone rings. Law of Close Encounters - the probability of meeting someone you know -- -- ~ ~ ~ « ~ J ~ nnl L > yx rlx X r>4*C\ XT M O Cl X fAJ 1 /A M ^ f XX 70 Uldilld-llLaiiy WIICII yuu aic Willi JV7U vivo 11 t nt f f/W Vy c=* oppn with. Law of the Result - when you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will. Law of Logical Argument - anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about. Doctor’s Law - if you don’t feel well, make an appointment to see a doctor, and by the time you get there you’ll feel better. Don’t make an appointment and you’ll remain sick. Sunflower Studio Pedicures, manicures & nail art by Tracy Mozill Located at 238 River Street, Hidden Valley Golf Resort Phone: [phone]INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Visible passes in Milo area August, Early September 2008 Observer’s Location: Milo ( 50,5670°n, ii2.8830°w) Column headings are explained at end of these charts. No visible passes August 7 — August 28 Date Mag Starts Max. altitude Ends Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. 1 Aug -1.4 22:26:36 10 W 22:29:19 35 SSW 22:31:10 17 SSE 2 Aug -0.1 22:53:02 10 W 22:54:59 16 SW 22:55:52 14 SSW 3 Aug “1.1 21:43:11 ■i n XU \M V V 21:45:52 ~J z. ssw 21:48:32 10 SE 4 Aug 0.1 22:09:42 10 WSW 22:11:29 15 sw 22:13:15 10 S 6 Aug 0.3 21:26:19 10 wsw 21:27:56 14 sw 21:29:31 10 S 29Aug -0.1 05:53:49 10 ssw 05:55:58 19 SE 05:58:07 10 E 30 Aug -1.4 06:18:32 10 sw 06:21:18 40 SSE 06:24:04 10 E 31 Aug -0.3 05:10:43 16 s 05:11:49 20 SE 05:14:03 10 E 1 Sep -1.6 05:35:20 19 sw 05:37:08 43 SSE 05:39:56 10 E 2 Sep -0.1 04:28:22 19 ESE 04:28:22 19 ESE 04:29:55 10 E 2 Sep -2.3 05:59:54 12 WSW 06:02:36 82 SSE 06:05:31 10 ENE 3 Sep -1.8 04:52:54 45 SSE 04:52:55 45 SSE 04:55:45 10 E 3 Sep -2.2 06:25:14 10 W 06:28:09 71 N 06:31:03 10 E 4 Sep -2.4 05:17:23 38 WSW 05:18:22 85 SSE 05:21:17 10 ENE 5 Sep 0.1 04:10:20 21 E 04:10:20 21 E 04:11:30 10 E 5 Sep -2.2 05:41:52 18 W 05:43:54 70 N 05:46:48 10 E 6 Sep -1.4 04:34:49 47 ENE 04:34:49 47 ENE 04:37:01 10 ENE 6 Sep -2.1 06:06:31 10 W 06:09:27 71 N 06:12:21 10 E Chart Terms Mag: (Magnitude) This is a measure of the brightness of a celestial object. The lower the value, the brighter the object, so magnitude -4 is brighter than magnitude 0, which is in turn brighter than magnitude +4. The scale is logarithmic, and a difference of 5 magnitudes means a brightness difference of exactly 100 times. Examples of magnitude values for well-known objects include Sun (-26.7), Full Moon (-12.7), Venus at brightest (-4.4), Sirius - brightest star (-1.44), Limit of human eye (+6), Limit of 10x50 binoculars (+9), Limit of Hubble telescope (+30). Alt: (Altitude) The angle of a celestial object measured upwards from the observer's horizon. Thus, an object on the horizon has an altitude of 0° and one directly overhead has an altitude of 90°. Az: (Azimuth) This is the direction of a celestial object expressed in these charts as the nearest compass direction. This information is from the www.heavens-above.com website, hosted by the German Aerospace Center. Also available on the site are sky charts, satellite predictions, etc. If you register, your location will always be the starting point when you log on. Otherwise, simply start at "Select your location".50 Best Ever Sum­mer Holiday Books (http:// www.teleqraph.co.uk/ arts/main.ihtml?xml=/ arts/2008/06/21/ nosplit/bohols.xml) This article on Tele­graph.co.uk aims to provide the reader with the 50 best reads for any sum­mer. Avoiding the ‘flash-in-the-pan’ hits, this article defines the best books as those “with the strongest narratives, most mag­netic characters and most involving worlds. Books that will not let you down.” This list of best books encom­passes both fiction and non-fiction as well as modern and an­cient works. The arti­cle also includes links to 'This Year’s Best New Books’ and Staycations: Alterna­tive to pricey, stressful travel (http:// www.cnn.com/2008/ LIVING/worklife/06/12/ balance, stavcation/ index. html#cnnSTCText) With the price of gas sky­rocketing, this CNN.com article extols the virtues of staying home for your vacation. The article out­lines the many advan­tages of not ‘vacating’ for your vacation, apart from the economics. Provided are staycation tips, photos and a video, as well as advice on how to avoid the lure of the workplace when staying so close to home for your holidays. August 2008 Milo Library §r A KA 1TI o Celebrates 25 YEARS in 2008 DID YOU KNOW? You can edit your pic­tures in a number of standard Microsoft Of­fice Suite programs in­cluding Word. Just copy and paste your photo or clip art into a new Microsoft Word document. If you are using Word 2007, just double click on the im­age and the appropriate tool bar ribbons will ap­pear across the top of your screen. If you are using an older version of Word you may need to open the appropriate toolbars by going to the View menu and clicking on Toolbars. Make sure that both the Drawing and Picture toolbars are checked. You can do all sorts of editing in Word, such as cropping photos, adding borders and outlines, adjusting brightness and contrast, and adding special effects. Summer Reading Program Every Tuesday 1:30-3:30 T uesday Aug 5th Back­wards Day! Tuesday Aug 12th Mad Matters Tea Party! Tuesday Aug 19th Kooky Canadian Car Trip! "Tuesday Aug 26th Little Comedian’s Corner! Summer Youth Program 2 more Tuesdays- Aug 5th & 19th 7:00-9:00 pm New Purchases ULS BEST SELLERS LIST “Bones to Ashes” by Kathy Reichs "Drop Dead Beautiful” by Jackie Collins “The Heir” by Barbara Taylor Bradford “High Noon” by Nora Roberts “The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova “The Judas Strain” by James Rollins “Lean Mean Thirteen” by Janet Evanovich “Return to Summerhouse” by Jude Deveraux “Spare Change” by Robert Parker “What Matters Most” by Luanne Rice ADULT FICTION “Finnegan's Week” by Joseph Wambaugh "The Race” by Richard North Patterson “Amazing Grace” by Danielle Steel “The Woods” by Harlan Coben “Critical” by Robin Cook “Pilgrim” by Timothy Findley “Deadly Texas Rose” by Lenora Worth WESTERNS “Buffalo Girls” by Larry McMurtry LARGE PRINT “One Huundred Years of Soli­tude” by Gabriel Gareia Marquez ADULT NON FICTION “Self Matters” by Phillip C McGraw “Europe by Eurail 2008: travel­ling Europe by train” by LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski “8 Weeks to Optimum Health” by Andre Weil “The Deluge and the Ark: A Journey into the Primate Worlds” by Dale Peterson “A Doctor in the West” by Mor­ris Gibson DVD's “21” “Drillbit Taylor” “License to Wed” “Definitely, Maybe” “Vantage Point” “Bank Job”WWVV.MI1.(»ilBRARY.CA NEW SUMMER HOURS IN 2 0 0 8 Tuesday: 10:00 am — 5:00 pm Tuesday evening: 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm Wednesday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Thursday: 10:00 am — 5:00 pm Thursday evening: 7:00 pm—9:00 pm Friday: 10:00 am — 5:00 pm Phone or Fax [phone] Emaii messages to [e-mail] or check out our website @ www.milolibrarv.ca Joanne Monner, librarian Barb Godkin, assistant librarian The 2008 Teen Online Reading Program will host 2 more nights of pizza and a movie. Heated debates whether ‘the book or the movie is better’ will continue. The . ,, kids have enjoyed l ;■ watching the mov- j4i ioe r\n nnr Iarno IUO Ul I OUI M-XIVJW screen TV. Thanks to Dene Peterson for donating it and a DVD player. They are getting good use of it. Our Summer Reading Program will have 4 more programs throughout August. Gina has a great imagination and her wardrobes definitely add to the fun! Come & join us Tuesdays from 1:30-3:30 NEW PURCHAS CONTINUED DVD’s Mary Poppins" “Free Willy 2 the Adventure Home” “Snow Buddies'" “The Spiderwick Chronicles” “College Road Trip” JUNIOR FICTION “Best Friends No Matter What” by Scott Higgs “Amy the Amethyst Fairy” by Daisy Meadows “Dylan's Choice; The Forbidden Stal­lion; Arabian Challenge” by Joanna Campbell “Twitches: Double Jeopardy” by FIB Gilmour & Randi Reisfeld “Jack Sparrow: Poseidon's Peak" by Rob Kidd PICTURE BOOKS “Shrek: Triple the Trouble” by Cath­erine Hapka YOUNG ADULT FICTION An In or Out Novel “Friends Close, Enemies Closer; Loves Me, Loves Me Not; Sweet and Vicious” by Claudia Gabel E S DONATIONS “We want to thank the fol­lowing people for their dona­tions to our library this month: Yvonne Umscheid, Debbie Wollersheim, Monica Monner, Kerry Leslie, Linda Booth and Betty Godkin. We apologize to anyone who we may have missed. We appreciate them all. Thanks also to the "Reptiles @ Risk" for putting on their pres­entation. it was enjoyed by about 22 participants - most with snakes around their neck! we are very fortunate to have this presentation that origi­nated in Ontario. One of only 10 presentations in Alberta and they will be making their way to BC and then home again in September.Pet Containment Pet Doors Bark Control Remote Trainers Complete Installation & Training 100 % Satisfaction or Money Back Sonic Bark Control, No Collar needed even works on your neighbors dog ! NEW Chip activated Pet Doors Only desired pets can enter ! Greg Deitz Cats Too ! ■* £f & r 1 : I ;-r ■ V www.invisiblefence.ca Come see us at the : Red Deer Home Show March 7-9 Lethbridge Home Show March 12-15He He! sills HeV Kids' Ha! ► ► ► ^DOING ANY THING FUN THIS SUMMER? i COME ON DOWN TO THE SUMMER REAPING ' PROCRAM THIS SUMMER TO HAVE He! ► ieee' JOIN US THIS YEAR ON THE FALLOWING DAYS ANDRE READY TO LAU6H OUT LOUD! ► ^ Ha f Ha! ► ► ^ He Tuesday August 5ih Backwards Day! Ha Tuesday August 12th Mad Hatters Tea Party! ! Tuesday August 19th Kooky Canadian Car Trip! Tuesday August 26lh Little Comedian’s Corner! Fun!! ► ► ► Ho Ho! COME ON 11 FROM 1 ;SOPM - 8:30PM FOR GAMES, CRAFTS AND MORE!£altiag all youth! TRUE OR FALSE The Book was Better than the movie! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON T LIKE THE BOOK TWILICHT!? . AfiRBE? DISAGREE? DOESH’T MATTX& COME TO YOUTH CLUB At the Milo library READ THE BOOK Watch the movie ARGUE ABOUT WHICH IS BETT; OVER DELICIOUS PIZZA! Drop in at 7:00pm Tuesday August 5th --- Tuesday August 19thNotes on Friendship One morning, Mrs. Routledge, of Stoney Rigg, was in the park with 5 friends when a young mother appeared with her two small girls, one barely a year old, the other not yet three. The elderly ladies smiled at the family, and the young woman smiled back. Then she bent and whispered something to the oldest child. Eyes shining, the little girl began to pick some clover, and when she had gathered a bunch, her mother said, “Now, dear give each of the old ladies a flower.” Obediently, the child went up to Mrs. Routledge and her friends, and shyly presented each with a piece of clover, saying she was sorry, but she couldn’t find any daisies. Needless to say, they were all deeply touched. Indeed, Mrs. Routledge told the young woman that teaching her children to give love and flowers to old ladies showed how good a mother she was. For it is never too early for a child to learn the joy of Krirtfrirtfr V*rjv\^inaoo +/~v m nnpvnpptprl wrct\/c Ul Illg.illg llClUplllV^OO LU V/UIVIO, JLJL1 UlUV UlIV/VJ^ Wivv* or A teacher told the class of boys to write an essay on “Mother” for their homework. The following day, on going through their work, she found two essays written by two brothers to be exactly alike. She called one of them to her. “John,” she said, “how is it that you’ve written the same as your brother wrote?” “Well,” came the prompt reply, “we have the same mother!” “Mamma, I’ve got a tummy-ache,” complained six year old Helen. “That’s because your stomach is empty,” said her mother. “You’d feel better if you had something in it. You didn’t eat your lunch.” Next afternoon the minister called, and during conversation he mentioned that he had a rather bad headache. “That’s because it’s empty,” piped up Helen. “You’d feel better if you had something in it!” The other day I went to visit an old lady who is blind. We sat and chatted in her bright little room, and then it dawned on me that her light had been burning when I arrived. A waste of money, surely? So I casually asked her about it. “Why do you put the light on when you’re sitting here by yourself?” “Well,” she said with a little smile, “it’s not for me, it’s for the neighbours. When I used to leave the lights off they worried about me and kept coming in to see if everything was all right; so now I leave it on and they know that everything’s fine. When I left I looked back at the bright window shining reassuringly; a thoughtful gesture from one who spends her life in the dark.Participants (adults & kids) enjoyed the informational presentation about snakes and other reptiles. For example: We call them “cold-blooded” but ectotherm (ecto — outside, therm - temperature) is a better term. At the end of the presentation, everyone got to carefully hold some of the snakes. Pictured above are James and Heather with a number of the snakes they brought with them. Below: Dallin Bertschy looks at the rubber boa held by his Mom, Leanne. Rubber boas (this one is full grown) are the only boa found in Canada and are found in southern B.C. REPTILES PROGRAM AT MILO LIBRARY Jeff, James, Heather and Lenora from the Reptiles at Risk - On The Road program visited Milo Library July 30.Left: Kevin Lin with a bull snake. Left: Adam Prentice with the bull snake (this fellow was popular as he was the largest!). More information on the Reptiles at Risk - On the Road program can be found on their website www.reptilesatrisk.org . Their program is funded in some provinces by a federal program, but presentations in Alberta were funded by the Alberta Conservation Association, volunteer time from the presenters and donations from the public.VILLAGE OF MILO Tuesdays 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. and 1:00-4:00 p.m. Wednesdays 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Thursdays 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. (mail slot located in office door for after hour drop offs) Next regular Council Meeting will be 7:00 p.m. Monday, August 18, 2008 in the Village Office. (Deadline to book a time on the Agenda is August 13, 2008) Contact the Village at PHONE: [phone] FAX: [phone] [e-mail] MAYOR --- STEVE EDWARDS COUNCILLORS --- ROBERT PHILLIPS ______________________ WENDY HINGLEY MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATOR --- GINGER DEITZ A WHOLE LOTTA THANKS!! Thank You! To Louis Myers, Chairperson of Milo Communities In Bloom 2008 and all his hard workers for the great job they did showcasing our community for the judges on July 26! They did a fantastic job with their projects, despite the weather curveballs that Mother Nature kept throwing at them! Thanks also to the many sponsors whose generous donations allowed the CIB group to plan this and future year's projects! And finally Thanks! to all our residents and businesses who mowed and raked and cleaned and pruned and flowered and decorated — "WE LOOKED MARVELOUS!" and the judges were very impressed!! Traffic Notes Spring is here and so are young cyclists and playing children. Please take extra care around Lions Park and the School in your travels and remember to slow down to 30 lcm/hr. Have you noticed!?! We are painting the curbs yellow in the “NO PARKING ZONES at the Centre Street and 1 Avenue intersection. Thank you to everyone for keeping clear and making the intersection safe for vehicles and pedestrians alike! WE'RE GROWING! Work on the new 1st Street Subdivision is nearing the end! Of the 22 new lots, 7 have already been pre sold, which is a great start! For anyone interested, pricing and sales information is available at the Village Office and will be on the Village website in July Yard Cleaning Further to last month’s notice, all grass clippings and leaves left for back alley collection MUST BE BAGGED! Please do not make grass clipping piles in the back alley as it can impede alley traffic and blow into your neighbor’s yard! Bags do not have to be tied as the clippings are taken to our compost pile and not the waste transfer station.CONDOLENCES Our sympathy to Tammy Henry and family on the sudden passing of Tammy’s father, Tom Wozney. Deepest sympathies are extended to Tara Cosgrave and family on the death of Tara’s Mom, Iris Glass. GET WELL WISHES Best get well wishes to Shirley Wilson who is suffering with a sprained ankle. CONGRATULATIONS Our congratulations to Rod and Leslie Lahd and to Kevin and Maureen Reynolds on their recent marriages. Continued get well wishes to Anne Lahd who is currently undergoing treatment. NOTICES Once upon a time Milo United Church was a “basement” church (1920’s). If anyone has any photographs of this “building”, would you please contact the Milo Library at 599-3850 or Barb Godkin at 599-2213. THANK YOU We would like to say a big thank you to the Milo Lions for their generous farewell gift given to us at the Lion’s Steakfry in June. We will always consider Milo our home and will treasure the friends we have made over the years. Whenever you are in High River, please call us, we would love to see you. Lynne and Bill I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the good people that helped me through my bout of sickness. Hans Friedrichsen Thank you to everyone who sent cards, made phone calls, and showed us support during the passing of Don’s Dad. Don and Dianne Brown 90 years ago a baby boy was bom. His name is Harold Northcott. He, (I) would like to thank all those who made his 90th birthday so much fun and enjoyable, to all of his family, relatives and friends from New York to Vancouver for coming and helping make it such a memorable day. 1 cannot name all of those that helped out and gave us extra campers, made so much food, prepared breakfast for everyone, for the beautiful cake (which was forgotten to be brought out for the party), and for so many more things, I cannot remember them all. But thanks to everyone for your help and best wishes. I am now starting on my next 90 years. Thank you, Harold Northcott A HUGE thank you goes to Louis Myers and to all that helped him beautify our village. It looks amazing. I may not live right in Milo but it makes me proud to say that Milo is my town. Way to go. © Colleen Bartsch We wish to express our sincere thanks to all who attended our surprise 25 th Anniversary at the Community Campout. What amazing chefs you all are! You obviously stock your trailers much better than we do. A big thank you to Gina and Lisa, and also to Penny and everyone else who guided them on this project. We live in a great and caring community which has made the “first” 25 years fly by. Thank you all. Keith and Donna A special thanks to Louis and Denise Myers for the extraordinary amount of work done for the Communities in Bloom project. The village really looks wonderful. Joanne MonnerAugust 2008 su: N MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT 1 2 3 Buffalo Hills United Church - Arrowwood 9:30 am 4 CIVIC HOLIDAY 5 MILO LIBRARY SUMMER READING Backwards Day! 1:30-3:30 Dm MILO LIBRARY YOUTH CLUB 7:00 om 6 Lions Meeting - 8:00 pm 7 T.O.P.S. 8:30 am 8 9 10 Buffalo Hills United Church - Arrowwood 9:30 am Milo Lions Annual BBQ 1:30 Dm 11 12 MILO LIBRARY SUMMER READING Mad Hatter's Tea Party 1:30-3:30 Dm Milo Fire Practice 6:00 Dm 13 Health Nurse at Drop In - 1:00-3:00 pm Lions Executive Meeting 8:00pm 14 T.O.P.S. 8:30 am 15 16 17 Buffalo Hills United Church - Arrowwood 9:30 am 18 Village of Milo Council Meeting 7:00 om 19 MILO LIBRARY SUMMER READING Kooky Canadian Car Trip! 1:30-3:30 Dm MILO LIBRARY YOUTH CLUB 7:00 om 20 Lions Executive Meeting 8:00pm Drop in Slow Pitch 21 T.O.P.S. 8:30 am 22 23 24 Buffalo Hills United Church - Arrowwood 9:30 am 25 DEADLINE CANOPENER Milo Library Meeting 7:30 Dm 26 MILO LIBRARY SUMMER READING Little Comedian's Corner 1:30-3:30 Dm 27 28 T.O.P.S. 8:30 am 29 30 31 September 1 LABOUR DAY September 2 School Starts for Students September 3 September 4 T.O.P.S. 8:30 am September 5 September 6