TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010
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Phone 528-2020 Mary Wiens is home from British Columbia. Ilona Pfrieger is the new employee at the Drake village office. Since the flags and flagpole came down during the very high winds a week ago or so, Stu Jantz and Ron Kiefer diligently spent many hours positioning a huge rock on the northeast corner of the village office lawn. A brick pad surrounds it which now sports two flags and flagpoles. Friday, May 21, many folks remarked they were glad the flags were up as it tells which way the wind blows. Was it fate that intervened that our village of Drake was to erect a rock for a plaque display in celebration of the RM of Usborne 310 in 2010? Anne Braun is visiting Trevor and Janet Wenzel and grandchildren Bailey and Tamera in Langham. Anne is feeling better and goes for short walks. Come late June she is moving into Wheatland Manor, a low rental unit. Did you know birds walk, hop and can fly? Robins just walk and fly. Blackbirds bob their heads forward when they walk and they also twitch their tail when they chirp and fly. On May 21, there were folks from Jansen, Drake, Guernsey and of course Lanigan for the noon soup, bun and dressings, dessert, water, juice, coffee and tea in the Knox United Church in Lanigan. I trust Ben and Susan Neufeld are feeling better. Also thinking of Anna Dyck at home and Frank Dyck who is in the
Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. Glad to see Ruby Braun back in Drake again as she is recuperating from a stay in the hospital. Sympathy is extended to Don and Esther Laskowski and family on the passing of Esther’s sister-in-law Agnes Paetkau of Three Hills, AB. The Mennonite congregation sang happy birthday to Pastor Henry Funk on the occasion of his 87th birthday Sunday, May 23. Pastor Emily Toews arrived back in Drake Monday, May 24. She visited family in Leamington, ON. May 24, 1986, was the Montreal Canadiens’ 23rd Stanley Cup. Last time for Montreal to win the Stanley Cup was 1993. May 24, 1988, the Stanley Cup playoffs experienced a power failure. There was more rain May 25. Jan. 20, 2010, my diary says we had fog and Jan. 24 there was a mountain of snow on the south side of my pad and up against the door. It would not open. Kerri, Krishia and Kenadi McLaren were in Calgary over the long weekend where the girls competed at the American Dance Awards. Kenadi received four gold medals, Krishia got two golds and three ultimate gold medals. Krishia was awarded the second runner-up amongst the female dancers aged 16 to 19. Dawn McLaren was there to watch her nieces dance. A good time was had by all. - Dorothy Wolter
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2010 June Skies On June 1, the waning Moon rises around 1:00 a.m., and sets in the west shortly after sunrise. On June 14 after sunset, the thin sliver of the very new Moon hangs in the west next to Venus and M44, the Beehive Cluster. Watch for Mars next to the Moon in the southwest on the 16th. Saturn and the first-quarter Moon brush by each other on the evening of the 18th – look straight south at 9:00 p.m. By the 24th, Antares, the giant red carbon star, and the Moon are within a degree of each other. The Moon is full on the 26th; a partial eclipse in the eastern hemisphere. Mercury is an early morning object during the first half of the month. As its name implies, you have to be very quick to see the fleet Mercury for a few minutes before sunrise. By the 20th, the innermost planet is circling behind the Sun and is lost in its glare. The prolific R.H. McNaught discovered another comet (one of 45 to his name!) last year, and it is now visible in the sky. You’ll probably need binoculars to view it right now, but it promises to be a naked-eye brightness later on. Look in the east-northeast after midnight for the comet officially named C/2009 R1; by the 21st it closes in on the bright star, Capella, in the constellation Auriga. This particular comet is a ‘one off,’ briefly visiting the Solar System on a hyper-
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bolic orbit, and then blasting off into space, never to be seen again. Venus brightens up the western sky – you can’t miss it, so enjoy the ‘Evening Star’ all summer. As mentioned above in the Moon section, Venus and Luna are close on the 14th, and on the next night, Venus is less than a degree from M44, the Beehive Cluster. Mars is in Leo, The Lion, as the month opens. As the Red Planet makes its eastern progress across the south-western sky after sundown, it brushes by the star Regulus, Latin for Little King. This is one of the few bright stars that can be occulted by Venus. The last such instance was on 1959 July 7; the next occurrence is 2044 October 1. Jupiter rises in the early morning – about 3:00, brightening the eastern sky for a couple of hours before sunrise. The last-quarter Moon
is within 10 degrees on the morning of the 5th. Saturn is straight south at sunset, crossing the sky through the night. Watch for the Moon and the Ringed Planet together on June 18. The two outer gas giants are in the watery part of the ecliptic – Uranus is in Pisces, The Fish, and Neptune is in Aquarius, the Water Bearer. Both are early morning objects, difficult to spot without binoculars or a small telescope. James Edgar James Edgar has had an interest in the night sky all his life. He joined the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 2000 and quickly became involved in the Society. He is Editor’s Assistant and a contributor to the renowned Observer’s Handbook, Production Manager of the bimonthly RASC Journal, and is the Society’s National Secretary.
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