What do you get when you combine an elephant with a fish?
Swimming trunks!
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Salome's Stars: Jan 18
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You're torn between your sensible self and the part of you that enjoys acquiring lovely things.
CryptoQuote: Jan 18
Have fun breaking the CryptoQuote! Each week the code letters are different.
Alice's Art Show!
Approximately forty people attended an art show in Kindersley Sunday afternoon, January 7th, but you may be surprised at the identity of the artist.
Celebrity Extra: Jeremy Renner
How is Jeremy Renner doing since his terrible leg injury? Is he going to continue acting soon?
The Garden Bug: Winter Composing
Maintaining an outdoor compost pile through winter months will produce fertilizer for planting in the spring, and can act as a secondary heat source for a greenhouse.
Moments in Time: Tokyo Rose
On Jan. 19, 1977, President Gerald Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose, a Japanese-American woman whose real name was Iva Toguri, shortly before leaving office.
Fun Snowflake Facts
Humans depend on snowflakes: Nearly 80% of the fresh water on earth comes from melted snow and ice.
Shell signs offtake agreement to buy LNG from second BC project
One of the world’s supermajor petroleum production companies is already heavily involved with Canada’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) project…
Co-op Kid's Korner, Jan 11
Hey kids, enjoy some puzzles and games! The young at heart can enjoy these too!
Salome's Stars: Jan 11
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) This year, the typically gentle Water Bearer can reveal a hidden streak of steel that few people suspected you had…
Top Ten World's Heaviest Animals
These animals are very very large and very very heavy! The massive Blue Whale tops the list.
Strange But True: Mountain Dew
The soft drink Mountain Dew was created in Tennessee in the 1940s as a mixer for whiskey, hence its name (a slang term for moonshine).
Divas on a Dime: Roasting Broccoli
In the realm of family meals, convincing everyone to enjoy their veggies can be a challenge. We all know that incorporating a variety of colorful vegetables into your diet is crucial…
Trivia Test: Mammoth Cave
U.S. STATES: Which state is home to the Mammoth cave system, believed to be the longest in the world?
Top Ten Movies: Wonka
Wonka, wonka, doompety doo, wonka is number one at the box office, pushing Aquaman to number two.
Go Figure! Jan 11
The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram.
CryptoQuote: Jan 11
Have fun breaking the CryptoQuote! Each week the code letters are different.