What do you get when you combine an elephant with a fish?
Swimming trunks!
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Strange But True: Snakes and Earthquakes
Snakes can sense an approaching earthquake from as far as 75 miles away and five days before it occurs.
Strathcona Resources acquires Pipestone Energy in all-stock deal
Strathcona Resources Ltd., which has major operations in northwest Saskatchewan, announced that it would be acquiring Pipestone Energy Corp. in an all-share transaction.
Top Ten Highest-Paid Youtubers
Your kids will know who most of these people are, while older people might think the internet is a series of tubes.
Top Ten Movies: Barbenheimer!
Barbie blows up the box office to take the top spot while Oppenheimer takes number two.
Play Better Golf with Jack Nicklaus, Aug 3
If stepping off how far you hit the ball with each club is too much trouble for you, at least use par-3 hole distances and 150-yard markers…
Co-op Kid's Korner, Aug 3
Hey kids, enjoy some puzzles and our junior whirl! The young at heart can enjoy these too!
Salome's Stars: Aug 3
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) That upbeat mood in the first part of the week makes you eager to take on new ventures.
The Garden Bug: Dragonflies
In their larval stage dragonflies are aquatic. They eat tadpoles, mosquitoes, tiny fish, other insect larvae and even each other.
Go Figure! Aug 3
The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram.
CryptoQuote: Aug 3
Have fun breaking the CryptoQuote! Each week the code letters are different.
Growing Through Grief: Power of Letting Go
Grief comes anytime we have to let go of something which will bring on a form of grief. If you think about it, life is always changing and therefore we are always letting some form of our lives go.
Check It Out: Affordable housing gives people hope
I read someone’s account of offering help to a stranger. While at a gas station, a man overheard a young woman tell two men to leave her alone.
Penton: World Cup win would cement Sinclair’s legacy
If an unseeded player like Marketa Vondrousova can shock the tennis world and win the women’s singles at Wimbledon, if eighth-seeded Florida Panthers can make it all the way to the Stanley Cup final…
Pop 89: That Came Out of Me?
Every year around this time, I teach writing to teens. Initially, we met in person, in a room at the Swift Current library, but now we meet online.
Letter: The power of the wind with the help of O&G!
It takes more than just wind to make giant land pixies work. Granted, it will create jobs that have a revolving door as climbing 2-3 of these a day on a shift is hard on the body…
Kindersley post office gets a facelift
It was out with the old concrete steps, to make room for new steps at the Kindersley Post Office. The hot sun shone down on the crew as they began work on the project…
Golf Humor: My wife is watching
A guy stood over his tee shot for what seemed an eternity, looking up, looking down, and measuring the distance, figuring the wind direction and speed.