The Weekly Bean - November 11, 2021 by yourwestcentral

Kindersley RCMP Offer Winter Driving Tips

With winter driving conditions potentially upon us the Kindersley RCMP would like to remind drivers of the following tips:

• Scrape all the ice off your windows before driving – if you can’t see, you can’t drive safely!

• Remove all snow from your vehicle, including from your headlights, taillights and roof.

• Slow down on slippery or snowy roads.

• Be gentle and smooth when you accelerate, brake or steer.

• Leave plenty of distance between your vehicle and the one in front of you.

• Using cruise control on icy or snowy roads can be dangerous! If you skid, your vehicle will accelerate and rapidly spin its wheels as it tries to maintain a constant speed.

• Before traveling, check the weather forecast for both your current location and destination. If travel can be delayed during storm warnings, do so.

• Be prepared for anything: consider stocking your vehicle with extra warm clothes, candles, matches, non-perishable snacks, a snow shovel, traction mats, booster cables and a tow rope or chain.

• If you become stranded on the highway, do not leave your vehicle! Turn on your vehicle periodically to warm up, but try to conserve fuel. Make sure your tailpipe remains clear of ice and snow, or carbon monoxide could potentially seep into your vehicle

Between November 1st to November 7th, Kindersley RCMP responded to 21 calls for service*. These calls included, but were not limited to, 3 suspicious persons calls, 1 theft of motor vehicle and 1 uttering threats call.

If you need to report any suspicious activity in your community, please contact the Kindersley RCMP detachment by calling 306-463-4642 or their local police service. Information can also be provided anonymously through Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers by calling 1800-222-TIPS (8477) or submitting a tip online at www.saskcrimestoppers.com. Online Crime Reporting can be accessed at: https://ocre-sielc.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/saskatchewan.

*For more information on the calls to service please contact the Kindersley RCMP detachment.

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Program

We are excited to tell you about a new program in Kindersley called FoodMesh, a collaboration between Kindersley Christian Fellowship and Buy-Low Foods. This program makes free groceries available to individuals in need by collecting surplus food and groceries from local stores.

Please see the details below on how you can access this program and get free groceries. Everyone is welcome and this program is operating every week.

When: Every week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Christian Fellowship Church (East Door) 800 - 12th Ave. E., Kindersley, SK

Please bring a grocery bag or box with you.

For more information, please contact Kindersley Christian Fellowship at 306-463-6146 or Barb at 306-460-9304.

* On Nov. 25, 1783, nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the remaining British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British military position in its former colonies.

* On Nov. 26, 1862, Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson sends a handwritten manuscript, “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” to 10-year-old Alice Liddell. Dodgson made up the story on a picnic, and Alice insisted he write it down. He published it under his nom de plume Lewis Carroll in 1865.

* On Nov. 22, 1900, the first car produced under the Mercedes name is taken for its inaugural drive in Cannstatt, Germany. The car was specially built for Emil Jellinek, a fan of fast, flashy cars, who bought 36 of them. In exchange, the car was named after his 11-year-old daughter, Mercedes.

Woodbridge, New Jersey, is featured on the cover of the Engineering News-Record. A piece on the under-construction Hoover Dam was relegated to the journal’s back pages.

* On Nov. 23, 1959, Robert Stroud, the famous “Birdman of Alcatraz,” is released from solitary confinement for the first time since 1916. For 15 years, Stroud lived with canaries that were brought to him by visitors.

• On Oct. 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world’s size, calculating that East Asia must lie about where North America sits on the globe.

• On Oct. 17, 1906, Wilhelm Voigt, a German shoemaker wearing a stolen captain’s uniform, impersonates an army officer and leads an entire squad of soldiers to help him steal 4,000 marks from the mayor’s office cash box, exploiting their blind obedience to authority. The Kaiser thought the story was funny; the German army did not.

* On Nov. 26, 1931, the first cloverleaf interchange to be built in the U.S., at the junction of U.S. Rt. 1 and NJ Rt. 35 in

* On Nov. 24, 1960, Philadelphia Warrior’s center Wilt Chamberlain snags 55 rebounds in a game against the Boston Celtics and sets an NBA record for the most rebounds in a single game. Chamberlin broke more than 70 NBA records in his 14-year career.

* On Nov. 28, 1979, a New Zealander sightseeing plane traveling over Antarctica crashes, killing all 257 people on board. The pilot had descended to 1,500 feet just as the plane reached Mount Erebus, a 12,444-foot volcano.

• On Oct. 16, 1946, at Nuremberg, Germany, 10 high-ranking Nazi officials are executed by hanging for their crimes during World War II after they were found guilty by the International War Crimes Tribunal.

• On Oct. 13, 1957, the science-fiction thriller “The Amazing Colossal Man” premieres in theaters. The film revolved around an Army officer who began to grow uncontrollably after he strayed too close to an atomic blast in the Nevada desert.

• On Oct. 14, 1968, the U.S. Defense Department announces that the Army

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Fly Homemade Pennant to Celebrate Birthday

When there's a birthday in your house, fly a pennant! This personal pennant celebrates the occasion and how unique the birthday child is. Make them together with your children now, and enjoy using them on their special day.

Here's the stuff you'll need:

— Sports pennant (for a pattern)

— Craft foam sheet the size of the pennant and smaller sheets in different colors

— Paper

— Pen and marker

— Glue

— Paintbrush

Odds and ends for decorations, such as buttons, yarn, shells and ribbons 1/2-inch dowel, 24 to 36 inches long

Here's the fun:

1. Lay the sports pennant down on a foam sheet and trace the shape with a pen, then cut it out. Outline the letters of your child's name on a piece of paper and draw around them with a pencil on foam sheets, using contrasting colors if you wish.

2. Pour a little household glue into a shallow plate, and with a brush, coat one side of the letters. Glue them on the pennant.

3. Now ask the birthday child, "What's really special to you? Let's picture it on your pennant." The answer might be horses or in-line skating, chess or basketball. If the interest is quite difficult to create, figure out the best symbol for whatever your child

holds dear. For example, a saddle for a horse or a king piece for a chess set.

4. Draw the outline for the shape you want to create on another piece of craft foam and cut it out. Then think fun details. If it's in-line skates, use buttons for the wheels. Draw lines on the basketball, or glue yarn on the saddle for reins.

5. Once everything is drawn in and glued on, let it dry. Cut some horizontal slits along the straight vertical side of the pennant about an inch and a half apart. Weave the dowel through the slits until the pennant is flying straight up and down and out.

6. Finally, grab a few medium-length pieces of ribbon and secure them in a small knot onto the dowel so that the ribbons cascade downward.

And there you have it — a birthday pennant! Wave it around and display it on your front porch so neighbors know there is a birthday child in your house. Or, fly it indoors propped between mounds of fruit in a large bowl or in a planter next to the dieffenbachia.

TIP: You need not limit the pennant's use to birthdays. Wave it if your child has had a special day in school, won a big game or comes home with a good report card. You may even want to wave it when things aren't going well, just to show that the family cares.

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What can I say? Connor McDavid is something

By Greg Buchanan For The Weekly Bean

Connor McDavid is a rarity, a player so gifted that he can be compared to the best in the game past and present, and I can say it with a straight face.

He is a prospect so talented, in fact, that even Gretzky tacitly acknowledged the comparison.

Gretzky is remembered by hockey as the Great One, and his exploits in a different era of the game are going to be hard for any individual to match. That hasn’t stopped the hockey world from looking though. McDavid is the latest in a shortlist of players hailed as the Next One, who, along with Mario Lemieux (the Magnificent One and a contemporary of Gretzky’s), received massive attention for years leading up to their draft dates.

How does McDavid really stack up with those players? We can’t know how his career will turn out, but we can compare his performance at the junior level to the performances of Gretzky and Lemieux. Crosby and Eric Lindros, all of whom were hailed as the Next One prior to their respective draft days, are also on that list.

There are those who will be disappointed if McDavid becomes anything less than a candidate for the title of best player in NHL history. Junior numbers are hardly absolutely definitive, but McDavid’s production in these years suggests he’s a step back from the greatest players of all time. He isn’t Gretzky, or Lemieux,

or Crosby. Instead, he slides somewhere in between those players and occasional MVP candidates like Lindros and Tavares.

One can make the argument after watching the weekly highlight reel that there are more extremely gifted players than ever before. The young guns putting on a show every night in rinks everywhere will become more of the norm as time goes by. Diet, technology, training methods and the special attention this new

breed of athlete get, are bound to have an effect on these individually gifted people.

There’s nothing wrong with comparing Connor McDavid to the greats in the game. It’s what we do as fans. It’s fun to debate and compare and imagine. It’s exciting to watch the evolution of these stars, and however McDavid’s career turns out, it’s a good bet that his star will shine very brightly.

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1. LITERATURE: What is the name of Ron Weasley’s house in the “Harry Potter” novel series?

2. TELEVISION: The sitcom “Petticoat Junction” spawned which other popular spinoff series?

3. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase, “littera scripta manet”?

4. MOVIES: What is the name of cartoon character Porky Pig’s girlfriend?

5. U.S. STATES: What is the capital of Wyoming?

6. GEOGRAPHY: Which U.S. interstate highway is the longest in the nation?

7. AD SLOGANS: What product’s TV ad sparked the catchphrase “Mikey likes it!”?

8. GEOMETRY: How many straight lines can be drawn through two given points?

9. FOOD & DRINK: What is the hottest chili pepper in the world?

10. MUSIC: Which iconic rock band was once named The Detours?

Answers

1. The Burrow

2. “Green Acres”

3. “The written letter remains,” motto of The National Archives

4. Petunia Pig

5. Cheyenne

6. I-90

7. Life cereal

8. One

9. Carolina Reaper (Guinness Book of World Records, 2013)

10. The Who

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Justin Trudeau won’t say “carbon dioxide” if he can help it

I noticed something while covering the COP26 the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021 in Glasgow, and our prime minister’s participation in it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his office, don’t say “carbon dioxide,” anymore, if at all possible. Instead, they say, “pollution.” In some instances, they use the term “carbon pollution,” but not “carbon dioxide.”

This was notable in Trudeau’s speech on Nov.1, the opening day of the conference. You can read the verbatim transcript here.

In the speech, Trudeau never referred to “carbon dioxide” or “CO2” at all. He made one reference to “carbon pricing,” but four references to “pollution,” reinforcing his common refrain that carbon dioxide is, indeed, pollution.

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This speech happened to be the one where he said, “In Paris, I committed that Canada would put a price on pollution. We did that. And despite stiff political opposition, the Supreme Court upheld it, and Canadians supported it in our last two elections.

“We know pollution pricing is key to getting emissions down while getting innovation up and running. Our carbon price trajectory is one of the most globally ambitious ones. And it’s rising to $170 a

tonne in 2030. This is a meaningful price on pollution, designed not just to make life cleaner, but also lead make life more affordable, and less expensive for Canadians.”

A little later he said, “We’ll cap oil and gas sector emissions today, and ensure they decrease tomorrow, at a pace and scale needed to reach net zero by 2050. That’s no small task for a major oil and gas producing country. It’s a big step, that’s absolutely necessary.:

Notably, the press release put out by the Prime Minister’s office to support the speech continues Trudeau’s efforts to brand carbon dioxide as “pollution,” without actually saying “carbon dioxide.” The press release mentions “pollution” eight times, “carbon pollution” twice, but not once does it say “carbon dioxide” or “CO2.” It also does not mention “methane,” another, much more potent greenhouse gas of prime concern.

Trudeau has been doing this for a while now; trying to rebrand carbon dioxide as “pollution.” Most people with two brain cells know that carbon dioxide is plant food, and we eat plants.

When I think of pollution, I think of things that absolutely are not natural to the environment, and do not belong there. Particulates, like coal ash, come to mind. Hydrogen sulphide. Various nitrous ox-

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking at COP26 in Glasgow. Screen capture courtesy COP26

ides and sulphur oxides (also known as NOX and SOX). Smoke. Mercury in fish. Microplastics in oceans. Garbage floating in rivers. Oil spills. These are all pollution – true pollution.

All of those items I listed – I doubt you could find anyone who would say any of those items are pollution. It’s simple; they are. And if you were to put a price on those things, hey, all the power to you.

But carbon dioxide? Is that really pollution? Isn’t it necessary for life? If it is real pollution, shouldn’t greenhouses be banned from using it to dramatically improve yields? Heck since we all exhale it, shouldn’t we all take one for the team, and the planet, and just stop?

(Don’t take me too seriously there. I get the impression many supposed environmental activists would be just fine with reducing the global population several billion, or more, if they could. Think of Greenpeace with Thanos’ glove. Snap! Poof! Half of humanity, gone!)

Trudeau’s reticence to say “carbon dioxide” at all reminds me of the old saying, “He wouldn’t say ‘shit’ if his mouth was full of it.” In this case, you could take that quite literally. Assuming he still exhales on

occasion, Trudeau won’t say “carbon dioxide,” even if his mouth is actually full of it.

There’s another little bugbear to all this. Since when did “carbon dioxide,” become simply “carbon?” We hear about “carbon pollution” and “carbon tax.” Did all the politicians and the media covering them become too lazy to use the proper term? Because one is most certainly not the other. Carbon is that black stuff, most easily identifiable after a fire. Carbon dioxide is usually found in gaseous form, floating around, making trees and wheat and grass grow. When Trudeau says “carbon pollution,” he is, in fact, talking about soot, not his intended meaning of carbon dioxide being bad.

But back to pollution: we should expect our leaders to be clear in all their dealings. If you are going to tell the world Canada is doing something, be clear about what it is. We are going to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, not carbon emissions. When you can’t even say the term, what are you really trying to say?

Brian Zinchuk is editor and owner of Pipeline Online. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca.

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LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Cupid’s call beckons both single Librans looking for a new love, as well as couples hoping to strengthen their relationships. A workplace problem is quickly resolved.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Some changes might seem confusing at first, especially to an Aries whose impatience levels are pretty shaky this week. Take it one step at a time, Lamb, and soon all will be made clear.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) That difficult situation you’ve been dealing with continues to call for careful handling. Avoid quickly made choices that might not stand up when they’re finally put to the test.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You still have lots of evaluating to do before you can consider making a commitment. It’s better to move cautiously than to risk stumbling into a major misunderstanding.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A previously peevish partner offers to be more helpful with your problems. But remember: The final choice is yours. Be guided by what you feel is the right thing to do.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) As the Big Cat, you sometimes can be pretty rough on those you suspect of betrayal. The best advice is to pull in those claws and listen to the explanation. It might surprise you.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your inner voice usually guides you well. But a note of caution: This is a period of mixed signals for you, so be careful that you don’t misunderstand the messages you’re getting.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) It’s been a hectic time for you, and you might want to take a break to restore both body and soul. You’ll then be set to face new challenges later this month.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) It’s a good idea to take a more conservative approach to your financial situation right now. Some plans made earlier this year might need readjusting.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) This is a fine time to move boldly into those new opportunities I promised would open up for you. Check them over, and then choose the best one for you.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Congratulations. Your self-assurance is growing stronger, and you should now feel more confident about making that long-deferred decision about a possible commitment.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You’re very close to reaching your goal. But be wary of distractions that can lure you off-course and leave you stranded far away from where you really want to be.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have an inner sight that helps you see into people’s hearts. You would be an excellent psychologist or social worker.

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Council News

Town Council held a Regular Meeting of Council on Monday, November 8, 2021. The following agenda items were resolved.

7.1: Council resolved that Travis Rosborough shall be appointed as Municipal Enforcement Officer/Community Safety Officer within the Town of Kindersley pursuant to Section 373 of The Municipalities Act for the purposes of bylaw enforcement and shall be considered a Peace Officer for the purposes of bylaw enforcement under The Summary Offenses Procedure Act 1990; and that this appointment shall become effective immediately upon the passing of this resolution and shall supersede resolution 195-21.

8.1: The Council of the Town of Kindersley resolved to accept as submitted the list of accounts as paid by the Town of Kindersley and in the amount of $216,781.97.

9.1: Mayor Perkins proclaimed November 20 to 28, 2021 as Saskatchewan Multicultural Week in the Town of Kindersley; and the Council of the Town of Kindersley urges residents to visit www.mcos.ca to find more information about multiculturalism in Saskatchewan.

10.1: Town Council resolved to approve the Consent Agenda which includes the following items for acceptance and filing:

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CENTRE

By Lucie Winborne

• The Chocolate River in the “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was real! The production used 150,000 gallons of water, cream and chocolate. But the ingredients spoiled and smelled really bad when the movie ended.

* McDonald’s is the world’s largest toy distributor.

* The ice cream bean is a fruit with a taste very similar to its namesake vanilla ice cream. The tree that the bean grows on is native to the Americas and can reach nearly 100 feet tall, with bean pods up to 6 feet long.

* Anyone who moves to the Villas Las Estrellas, a settlement in Antarctica, must first have their appendix preemptively removed, because the nearest hospital is over 625 miles away.

* The limbo world record is under 6 inches.

• Studies have shown that playing Tetris can curb sex, drug and food cravings.

* In 1994, West Virginia prison inmate Robert Shepard braided dental floss into a rope as thick as a telephone cord, used it to scale an 18-foot wall, and escaped.

• C.S. Lewis coined the term “verbicide” to denote the killing of a word or distortion of its original meaning.

* King Richard II once had to pawn his crown because he was such a spendthrift.

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* The first Olympic race took place in 776 B.C. and was won by a chef named Corubus. Moments after receiving his first paycheck, he hired a cook and an agent.

• A Vietnamese man was hospitalized after drinking too much methanol. Doctors transfused 15 cans of beer into his body to revive him. The liver breaks down ethanol before methanol, which gave doctors more time to do dialysis to remove the methanol from his system.

* Swedish athlete Ari Petrof is a National Sauna Champion. He once stayed in a 212 F sauna for five hours and 10 minutes.

• The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire.

* The band called Postal Service took its moniker from the fact that members originally used USPS to send each other music tracks, due to their conflicting schedules.

• Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s license from the U.S. government in 1927, along with airway maps and a promise to keep the runway lights on.

* Golf balls were made of wood until the 16th century.

• The fighting on D-Day was so fierce that as much as 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is magnetic due to shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized bits.

* Spam mail got its nickname from the canned meat after a Monty Python skit that made fun of Spam as tasting “horrible and being ubiquitous and inescapable.”

• Only official members of federally accepted Native American tribes may legally possess or collect eagle feathers.

Thought for the Day

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” - John Lubbock

• During a game, Babe Ruth would place a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool under the sun, replacing it every inning or two.