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January 29th - Inglourious Basterds

Suggestions for movies are welcome. Please contact

the T.rex Discovery Centre

Admission Price $3.50 each

T.rex Discovery Centre Eastend, SK.

www.trexcentre.ca (306)295-4009

(See synopsis of this week’s movie

on pg. 4)

Commentary - The Planned, the Intended and the Real

(continued from last week)

After a successful career in medicine, Peter Roget’s retirement brought further anxiety. Idle hands were not his habit. With some nudging by his family, he dusted off his list of words, thousands in total, and began further organizing them, not just for personal distraction and play, but for actual publication. Published in 1852, Thesaurus of Words and Phrases by the author, Peter Roget first entered the populace. As one biographer noted, “Roget looked to words as an essential tool in the fight to advance human knowledge”.

The 21st century has come to know Peter not for his dedication to medicine or sci-ence, or even the instigator of the movies. But for his thesaurus. Though still in in print, with numerous editions, history has not been so kind to Roget. Some critics today find the thesaurus, and all its versions and types as cheats to the English language. “It brings words to the mouths … where words were not earned by a breadth of reading.” Further, the substi-tuted words provide “no context, [a] standard requirement of intellect.” As an earlier critic wrote, the thesaurus “accelerates the tongue without accelerating the faculties.”

Still, the thesaurus persevered, but only for one reason. It's usage was ‘accelerated’ thanks in part to New York World newspaper in 1913 with a game called “Fun”. Fun was the precursor to the crossword puzzle. And here, the thesaurus became almost essential as the game spread across North America, and elsewhere.

Critics of the Peter Roget’s thesaurus in the 1850s were already ringing the alarm bells, however. An American essayist, Edwin Whipple believed that this book of synonyms “was certain to spread contagion of literary mediocrity” by shortening the act of naturally acquiring language and words. Securing the “results without imposing the task of labor.” Whipple saw the cheat right away.

And here comes the end. In an austere, progressive, humane world today, with all the possibilities of learning and acquiring knowledge through digital means, or at least the allusions we have about how great we are with our digital media, what would Whipple think of the internet? Despite infecting all of the current generation and most of us in the earlier segment of life, with EVERY need, want, and desire, the internet as an educational tool has a failing grade. At least according to the numerous surveys and studies. It provides access to almost everything….and almost no one is using it in this fashion. It provides texts and studies, yet most users go for the crib notes.

Continued on pg.4 »

Temporary Bus Driver - Eastend Area

Competition #764

Chinook School Division is seeking a tem-porary Bus Driver for the Eastend bus route. The bus driver is responsible for transport-ing students safely to and from school daily when students are in attendance.

Dates: ASAP until June 28, 2010

Desired Qualifications: Bus Driver’s endorsement (School Bus “S”) class 5 or willingness to obtain Clean driver’s abstract Ability to deal tactfully and coopera-tively with public, students, staff Good physical condition Duties (may include but are not limited to): transporting students safely to and from school Daily driving when students are in atten-dance Daily cleaning of bus

Benefits: Employee benefit package Positive work environment Salary base rate and per kilometer rate

Successful applicants must agree to a criminal records check. For further infor-mation, please phone Marlene Amon, Supervisor of Transportation at 306-297-2628. Applications (indicating competition #764) with THREE references should be submitted by January 29, 2010 to:

Department of Human Resources Chinook School Division Box 1809 Swift Current, SK S9H 4J8 Fax: 306-773-801 Email: [email protected]

While all applications are appreciated, only those selected for an interview

will be contacted.

CCCCOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITY HHHHAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGS Eastend Arts Council—Feb. 1st Eastend Rink Complex—Feb. 3rd (7:30)?

Kinsmen– Feb. 4th & 18th Historical Museum— Feb. 9th ? K-40—Feb. 3rd CWL—Feb. 3rd Friends of the Museum & T-Rex Discovery Centre—Feb. 8th Kinettes—Feb. 11th RM of White Valley—Feb. 11th TOWN COUNCIL— Feb. 10th Clay Centre Comm Club—Feb. 16th School Comm Council—Feb. 16th Chamber of Commerce—Feb. 17th Fire Dept. — Feb. 2nd & 16th Red Hat’s R’Belles—see below TOPS MEET - Health Centre Quiet Room, Thursdays @ 5:00 p.m. AA—Monday’s @ 8:00p.m. at Henry’s Place BINGO—Mondays at 7:00 in the Rink! Alanon– Health Centre Quiet Room, Tuesdays . The Red Hat’s R’Belles chapter will resume in January as the Prairie Pearls and will meet on Jan. 27th.

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PHYSICIAN CLINICS IN EASTEND

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SHERRY HORNUNG RN(NP) FEB 1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 17, 18, 22, 24 & 25

DR. NAIDOO—FEB. 11 & 25

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Ladies Night Out

Sponsored by the Eastend

Kinsmen Club

January 30th at the Eastend Memorial Hall

$25

Cocktails 5:30 pm Waiter Auction 6:30 pm Supper 7:00 pm Entertainment 8:00 pm

Tickets available from:

Cameron Vansandt 295-7100 or, Ron MacRae 295-7711

Eastend Agencies Ltd.

Call for a new quote on:

Agro, Home, Auto and Tenant Insurance

Your locally owned and operated insurance brokerage

104 Maple Ave. N. 295-3655

[email protected]

The Eastend Swimming Pool Board

Annual Year-end Meeting

January 26th @ 7 pm in the Card Room

next to Charlie’s Lunch

The Board would like to invite any individuals interested in being

part of this Board.

The Pool Board is also looking for a volunteer Bookkeeper.

For more information contact Penny Arendt @ 295-3326

Advertising Rates

$15 per week per ad. Space and sizing at Editor’s discretion

Ads can include colour and/or photo cov-erage on the blog spot as space available.

WAREHOUSE SALE

At your CO-OP Grocery

Ending Friday January 29th at closing time

Enter to Win

1st prize- Chuck Wagon 650 all terrain vehicle

2nd prize— $750 gift certificate

Also, 1 of 3 prizes of $75 gift certificates

Free Grocery Saturday Winner Jan. 16th—Jeff Poel—$90.50

The Edge was running on one candle power this weekend. I apologize for any delays. Be sure to

see the photos on pg. 5 of the blog.

Jack’s Café

Weekly Specials

Our Soups of the Week:

Tuesday: Fresh Garden Soup Wednesday: Green Split Pea Thursday: Vegetable and

Chicken Noodle Friday : Spinach & Rice

Saturday: Beef & Tomato Sunday: Cream of Broccoli

The Weeks’s Specials:

Spicy Greek Gyro Warm and delicious, served on a 10” bun

Salisbury Steak Stuffed with cheeses

& mushrooms, topped with a mushroom sauce

Art Markings Studio with Trea Schuster

Student Art Workshops

8 weeks—variety of mediums and projects

Wednesdays, January 13— March 10

(no class February 17) 3:45 pm—5:45 pm

$160, materials included for in-class use

2 Adult Art Workshops

8 spaces available No art experience needed,

just a childlike curiosity and a willingness to play

11 am—4 pm $50 each, materials included

for in-class use Please bring a bag lunch if you wish.

Coffee/tea and cookies provided

Saturday January 30th Watercolour techniques

Perfect Poppies!

Saturday February 13th Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Goddess Mandala mixed medium (watercolour,

acrylic, pen, etc.) Celebrate your inner goddess with

laughter, creativity and some chocolate!

Call or email to register 295-4099

or, [email protected]

Try Gremolata for Some Zest

If you're watching your sodium intake or are just looking for something unusual to spice up your meals, try gremolata. Gremolata is an Italian con-diment that's traditionally used with meat and seafood dishes, most commonly with veal shanks.

However, if you love the taste of garlic and citrus, gremolata can also serve as a substitute for salt and pepper.

To make gremolata, all you need to do is mix equal parts lemon zest, parsley and garlic, and you'll have a versatile topping that can be sprin-kled on just about anything. You can also tone down the garlic flavor by adding a few drops of olive oil into the mix.

Eastend Ladies Curling Big Thank You to:

Eastend Grain Company Eastend Agencies ltd Hidden Valley Foods Jacks Café Madhatters Charlies Lunch Rexall Lucien Bidaux Double G Marketing Riverside Motel Cypress Hotel Cut & Dried Hair Oasis Eastend Coop Bonnie & Neil McCuaig Valley Plumbing and Heating Eastend Credit Union Scott Morvik ( Investors Group) Laurel Schuett ( Investors Group) Hame Tree Land & Cattle Ltd B & B Welding Ron MaCrae Legends Hair & Nail Salon Penn West Stenerson’s Auto Shannon’s Closet Jerrys Auto Srevice Walters Home Furnishings Browzer’s Legacy Computers Joz Cloz Nova Optical Stark & Marsh Bumper to Bumper Liz Spetz ( Formula One) A & B Auto Rick & Bernadette Schneider Leroys Custom Slaughtering Topham Red Angus Ropers Welding Shaunavon Standard Whitemude Line Locating

Thank you to all the Volunteers who helped make this event a huge Success. Trina Humphrey and Margaret Topham for setting up the draw. Rick Silzer and Wyn Reynolds for all the time spent making sure the ice was ready. And, Ralph Oberle for being the auctioneer.

The out of town rinds who came out for the weekend of fun.

SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!

Eastend Men’s Curling Club

Would like to thank the following for their donation to the 2010 Men’s Bonspiel:

Eastend Grain Company Eastend Agen-cies Double G Marketing Vern Binkley Construction Stenerson Auto Hidden Valley Foods Rick and Bernadette Schneider Cypress Hotel Reynolds Construction B&B Welding Riverside Motel Davis Medical Clinic Muffler-man – Alan McCuaig Roper`s Welding B&A Petroleum Eastend Credit Union Eastend Co-op Madhatter`s Flowers & Gifts Superior Auto – Maple Creek Julie`s Office Service Charlie`s Lunch Scott Morvik Eastend Health & Gift A&B Auto Shaunavon Industries Robertson Implements Valley Plumbing and Heat-ing Sask Energy

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make this event a success.

Portuguese Chicken Soup With Lemon and Mint

Ingredients:

6 cups chicken stock 1 lb. chicken thighs 1 large onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves 3 sprigs fresh parsley 1/2 tsp. salt 3 (2x1 in.) strips of lemon zest 1 1/2 cups cooked long-grain rice 2 tsp. lemon juice 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint or cilantro 1/2 tsp. pepper Preparation:

In a large saucepan, combine chicken stock, chicken, onion, garlic, parsley and salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to me-dium-low, and cook until chicken is no longer pink in centre, 30—35 minutes. Strain soup through a fine sieve and dis-card all the solids except the chicken. Remove skin and bones from chicken; cut into bite-size pieces.

Return soup to saucepan and bring to a boil. Return chicken to saucepan. Reduce heat to low. Add rice, lemon juice, mint (or cilantro), and pepper. Simmer until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes, and serve

Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 32—38 min-utes Serves: 6

From 365 Great Soups & Stews Georgia Chan Downard and Jean Galton

The Eastend Edge is a proud supporter of our com-munity and is distributed across North America. Publisher: Jeanne Kaufman

Synopsis: Inglourious Basterds

The summary of the plot of this film is pretty straightforward. Let’s agree, we all hate Na-zis, now let’s go out and get ‘em. Brad Pitt assembles a unit of Jewish soldier-assassins and goes forth with the purpose of becoming every Nazis’ worst nightmare. The Nazis are cunning and evil. The Americans are brutal and, since they’re on our side, glorious. Add two blonde babes, both working against the Germans for their own personal reasons. The entire German High Command is coming to Paris for the premier of a Nazi propaganda film. What an opportunity to end the war in one stroke. No further plot line necessary.

This is not similar to the 1978 Italian film version. This is Quentin Tarantino’s produc-tion and he doesn’t remotely know the mean-ing of gratuitous violence. Fans of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction will not be disappointed. With few exceptions everyone and everything gets whacked before the film ends and not in minor terms, either. There is no moral or phi-losophical subtext here. This is about graphic action and blood up the walls. There’s so much of it that you quickly transcend any sense of reality and willingly become a par-ticipant in a rampage of fictional slaughter that is Jungian in proportions. At the end you’re exhausted but your dark side has had the opportunity to get out and race around having a gay old time. It makes you wonder to what degree you’re actually a civilized human being but since it’s the Nazis as the villains it all justifiable entertainment I guess.

\ The best part of the film focuses on Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christof Waltz). As soon as you are introduced to him you have a visceral reaction. He makes your skin crawl. What a louse! Waltz is so outstanding in this part that he received numerous international awards for his performance, and justifiably so. I doubt that Inglourious Basterds could have been made without him.

Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, a psy-chopath who has found his personal fulfill-ment in WWII. His southern accent is thor-ough and the scene of Raine then faking a further Italian accent is priceless. As a charac-ter Raine is a combination of Pitt and Lee Majors or possibly Charles Bronson, only not within the bounds of the Geneva Convention.

Worth seeing? Yes, if this is your kind of film. Be sure before you go as there’s no point in spending 2 hours and 33 minutes in the foyer by yourself while everyone else watches the action. Eat a light dinner and take 2 Tylenol beforehand. Have another Tylenol ready after-wards, too. Zowie! It packs quite a punch. JK

The Planned, the intended and the Real (continued from last week)

«« Continued from pg. 1

It provides an avenue for short cuts, without the act of reading the sources themselves [the cut and paste generation as I call it]. And as many studies have shown, hasn’t helped our children learn [comparative assessment of grades and reading skills of today compared to 20, 30 years ago have remained the same, if not fallen].

If this sounds like an old curmudgeon blowing his horn about days gone by, listen to the more youthful J. J. Abrams, film producer of TV shows like LOST, and the latest STAR TREK movie. “Earning the end game”, the short cuts, whether computer games, or in life, “seems so yesterday, especially when we can know whatever we need to know whenever we need to know it” [emphasis mine]. Peter Roget’s thesaurus was meant to provide structure to the English language. Its usage was then twisted for the easy way out, of amplifying ones knowledge and intellect when there was less so. In parallel the digital age of options, “apps”, and solitary social media is to me, somewhat striking.

TTT

« After about a half hour the three of them re-turned to the truck and started back to town hoping to find a way around the muskeg to get a closer look at the strange machine parked in the middle of the marsh. But when they finally did come across a cut-off trail that might take them closer they realized that they didn't have enough gasoline to take them in and out. So they had to return home that night.

It was not until a couple of nights later that they were able to make a return trip out. It was a clear night with almost a full moon, and they hoped to get an even better view. But this night the object was gone. No trace of the glowing craft could be seen from the vantage point of two nights previous, and they re-turned to the truck to await dawn. They then walked back in across the muskeg to see if any evidence of what they had seen was left. And there was. Six large square imprints that must have been the bases of the legs that sup-ported the craft proved that there indeed had been something there that night. Each imprint was the same size - 2 to 2 1/2 feet square, and approximately 8 to 10 feet apart. The imprints were 2 to 3 inches deep, and reminded the three of them of a kind of mark that would be made by boiler plate stomped into the ground. They could also see markings where the base of the stairway met ground. As if this wasn't remarkable enough, a great burn mark in the center of the area covered a circle approxi-mately 12 feet in diameter. They looked for footprints but found none though there was some scuffling of the vegetation surrounding the spot where the craft had been.

They came better prepared this time. One of the witnesses had brought along a small brownie box camera and took photographs of the burn marks and of the imprints. Later two of them wrote up an article about the whole affair and submitted it, along with copies of the photos, to a number of magazines and newspapers in Canada. But no publication was interested, and those publishers that replied wondered what kind of party they had been to those nights. In the course of the 40 plus years since the incident, the original photo-graphs have been lost by the witness who took them, and who had learned the hard way that they were apparently of no interest to anyone else. Perhaps copies of them are still in exis-tence stored in an attic or sandwiched between vacation shots in some photo album. If they are ever uncovered they may prove to be the earliest photographs of a physical trace case where there were witnesses, and which even had occupants to boot.

Edited and reprinted below is an article about a UFO sighting from 1933 in Saskatchewan. Certainly not the last of many. For more detail go to www.rense.com SASKATCHEWAN, 1933: UFO STOPS FOR

"REPAIRS"

By John Brent Musgrave (FSR Vol 22 # 6 1976)

Even as late as the mid 1930's, much of the prairie provinces of Canada were still on the frontier of im-migrant settlement. Particularly in the northern areas homesteaders were just beginning to open up the land to commerce and agriculture, and such luxuries as telephones, paved roads and electricity were things of the future. The town of Nipawin, Saskatchewan, is situated in the northwest corner of the province and in the 30's was on the edge of this settlement. During the summer of 1933 stories drifted into Nipawin that some homesteaders, as well as a forest tower ranger, bad been observing strange lights in the sky and near the ground. Whatever it was, they had been seeing it for the better part of a week. The land to the northwest of Nipawin, near the Tobin Lake area, is made up of rolling hills and low lying marsh. Parts of it had be-gun to be farmed just a few years earlier. Because of the local marsh, most of the townsfolk who heard about the strange lights explained them away as swamp gas - a convenient scapegoat that still gets used today.

Fortunately, not everyone in Nipawin was convinced that the stories were based on nothing more than "hot air” and shortly after midnight that summer night two men and a woman (names known to the author) jumped into a small pick-up truck and drove to the area where the lights were reported to have been seen. They were not disappointed as the glow on the hori-zon gradually grew brighter as they drove on. After driving as close as the rough trail would allow them, they got out and hiked through the woods in the direc-tion of the glow. They were blocked a quarter of a mile or less from reaching the source of the glow by a strip of muskeg that was too boggy to risk going onto in the middle of the night. But it was close enough. From their vantage point they were able to make out that the light came from a large oval shaped object that was domed at the top and slightly rounded on the bottom. It was supported by legs and from a central doorway, or hatch, about a dozen figures could be seen going up and down a ladder-like stairway. The occupants appeared to be slightly shorter than the average man, and were all dressed in what appeared to be silver coloured suits or uniforms. All appeared to be wearing helmets or ski caps, and all were busy running around "repairing” the craft.

All about was a strange sort of quiet, even though the occupants were busy scurrying about. Not a sound could be heard. The three witnesses stared in silent amazement at what was going on, no one even thought to speak out. The bright orange glow that emanated from the craft lit up the surroundings area, and the three of them had no difficulty spying on the activities. The light from the craft was not only bright, but had an "unearthly” quality never seen by any of them before and added to the mystery of the scene. »

Butterfly GPS

Migratory monarch butterflies travel great distances by orienting themselves to the sun at any time of day. Now University of Massa-chusetts scientists say the insect`s antennae are the key to navigation; when the scientists removed or painted them to block the sunlight, monarchs lost their way. Antennae aren`t just for detecting scents after all.

Ancient threads

When did people learn to make thread? Judg-ing from wild flax fibres found in a cave in the Caucasus region of Georgia, at least 30,000 years ago. The fibres had been knotted together and dyed. Researchers identified violet, black, red and turquoise threads in clay sediments, providing one of the earliest know examples of humans using plant fibres. Other remains—including the spores of cloth-eating fungus—suggest that such fibres were made into textiles.

Butterfly GPS and Ancient Threads from Smithsonian magazine Nov/Dec 09.

Frosty Pix and an old standby

Eastend, Jan, 2010

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