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The Garden Bug: Summer Gardening
Remove dead flowers from your plants to encourage more blooming. Add both dead and green trimmings to your compost pile.
Funny Business: NO DOGS ALLOWED
Two men are walking their dogs (a doberman and a chihuahua) when they see a restaurant. They’re pretty hungry, so they decide to head in for a bite to eat.
Canadian Cutie, indeed!
Canada Day was enjoyed by many folks - young and old at the Kindersley & District Plains Museum.
Strange But True: Squirrels plant trees
Squirrels play a role in reforestation by forgetting some of the buried nuts and seeds they store, which then sprout into new trees.
Co-op Kid's Korner, July 3
Hey kids, enjoy some puzzles and games! The young at heart can enjoy these too!
Lots of PUN: Bee Keeper
Fellas, if you ever meet a woman who takes the time to take care of bees, marry her. She’s a keeper.
Salome's Stars: July 3
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Reward yourself for all that you've accomplished despite some annoying situations that got in your way.
Weird News: DoorDash Oops
At Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on May 17, a lost DoorDash driver made it past a security gate and onto the tarmac, driving a significant distance before being stopped by airport personnel…
LNG Canada ships first cargo, making Canada a global player
A very long time in coming, LNG Canada announced late on June 30 it has shipped its first cargo of liquified natural gas (LNG).
Fun Fact: Pineapple
A pineapple is neither a pine nor an apple, but a fruit consisting of many berries that have grown together.
Celebrity Extra: Elisabeth Moss
Will Elisabeth Moss be in the upcoming spin-off series of "The Handmaid's Tale"? I know her character is in the Margaret Atwood novel on which the series will be based.
Snowflakes Puzzle: July 3
There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 - 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.
Moments in Time: Pancho Villa
On July 20, 1923, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa died in a storm of 40 bullets while driving through Parral, Mexico.
Top Ten Movies: How to Train Your Dragon, again
How to Train Your Dragon remains in the top spot while 28 Years Later comes in at number two.
Go Figure! July 3
The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram.
Stickelers: July 3
Using the figure below, if you were to throw a dart at four different numbers that would total 100, one of the numbers it could not be is.
Magic Maze: Flag Terms
Find the listed words in the diagram. They run in all directions forward, backward, up, down and diagonally.