Liz Spetz 297-8804

300 Years and a Pot of Basil Eastend just enjoyed a weekend celebrating the town with parades, pancakes and fireworks as well as music and golf and beer. Its a little place that many people have known all their lives. Families come back here for summer holidays and reunions. Their roots are here. Small town life in Canada is alive and rich with memories. Originally everyone came from somewhere else. Most of the time roots are a bit of a family myth; people moved around a lot over the years and information was lost. Although some of us are interested in genealogy its a painstaking process thats mostly centered on old documents and occasional internet contacts. If your first language wasnt English, then it can be even more challenging to try to trace your background. However, a few weeks ago a friend offered me a pot of basil and when I picked it up we got talking about how many different people seem to find their way to Eastend. She originally came from another town in Saskatchewan while I came the long way around from the USA. Our backgrounds are as different as can be although it turned out that we both had French heritage. My grandfather wrote a memoir which included same scant genealogy so I mentioned that part of my family came from a small town in Quebec. How funny, my friends family also came at one time from that same little place. My grandfather said that as a family we arrived in about the mid-1600s. How surprising, her family were early arrivals as well. What would be the chances that two families living long ago in barely settled country might have inter-married? Luckily, her brother is the family historian and genealogist. He came back with information that, yes, members of the two families had married in the 1700s. My friend and I are actually long, long distanced cousins. You wonder how often that kind of discovery happens over a cup of tea? Well, not that often in Eastend but its quite a pleasure to experience. Somewhere over the last 100 years or so her family moved west and wound up in Saskatchewan and part of my family, looking for work, moved south to New England. Then people spread out everywhere eventually making their way to the midwest and beyond. All those family connections were lost. However, I bet that its possible that 200 years ago in Quebec someone grew a few basil plants and gave one to a friend. Now it has all come together again with a chance conversation in a small town in the Cypress Hills. This is the beauty of small town life. There are so many surprises. JK

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T.REX DISCOVERY CENTRE

July Movies on Saturdays @ 7 pm

Saturday, 30th Sucker Punch
Suggestions for movies are welcome. Please contact the T.rex Discovery Centre

One Admission Price $3.50 each

T.rex Discovery Centre, Eastend, SK. For more information visit www.trexcentre.ca

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Friends of Pine Cree Inc. need a logo. Draw to be made July 31, 2011 Submit your simple creative ideas to win a weekend camping package. Email: [email protected]

"Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?" Bev Adams, Mountain Gardening
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The family of Ann Saville will hold her funeral service at 2 pm on Wednesday, July 20th in the Eastend Memorial Hall. The service will be followed by a lunch.

Please Note The next edition of the Edge will be published on August 2nd. There will be no paper available the week of July 25th.

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Congratulations to all the organizers, helpers and riders for a great weekend with the Rally in the Valley. Congratulations to all the people involved with Dino Days weekend! Great job with the annual Golf & Curl, Dino Day pancake breakfast, parade, fireworks and community bb-q and the events at the T.rex Discovery Centre. WELL DONE EASTEND Shannons Closet your gift store and more store hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30 312 Red Coat Drive Eastend
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ECT&EDA- July 5 Eastend Arts CouncilJuly 4 Historical Museum July 12 K-40 Fall CWL Fall Friends of the Museum & T.rex Discovery CentreJuly 14 RM of White Valley July 14 TOWN COUNCIL July 13 Clay Centre Comm ClubFall School Comm CouncilFall Chamber of CommerceFall Fire Dept. July 5 and 19 Prairie Pearls July 27? RW InstituteFall TOPS MEET - Health Centre Quiet Room, Thursdays @ 5:15 p.m. AAMondays @ 8:00p.m. at Henrys Place BINGOMondays at 7:00 in the Rink! Alanon Health Centre Quiet Room Tuesdays .

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THANKS Full Time, Part Time/ Casual The Eastend Community Swimming Pool Board would like to send a huge THANK YOU! to everyone who very generously donated homemade pies! They helped to make our pool fundraiser on July 1st a huge success!! Thanks a bunch. Days/Evenings/Weekends Flexible Hours Excellent Working Conditions Great Pay Entry Level Positions with Chance for Advancement Apply in Person or Phone The Riverside Motel (306) 295-3630
JULY/AUG DATES FOR PHYSICIAN CLINICS IN EASTEND
SHERRY HORNUNG RN(NP) - JULY 18, 20, 21, 22 AND AUG 3, 4, 5, 8 AND 11 PHYSICIAN - JULY 20 AND AUG 3, 4, 10 AND 11 To book an appointment Phone 295-4184 Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM.

EWWHC Lab Hours: Mon - Thurs 8:30 to Noon and 1:00 to 3:30 The Lab will be closed on Fridays

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Month-Long ~ Garage Sale Starts July 18th

Wedding Announcement
The families of Carmen Duke & Devin Taylor wish to announce their upcoming marriage On Saturday, July 30/2011 Ceremony 2:00 p.m at the Catholic Church Dance 9:00 p.m. at Memorial Hall Friends & Family please consider this your invitation to attend

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Household items, Antique Furniture, 78 ~ 33 records, New Avon Giftware, Jewellery, Books, Fabrics - Fortrel, Yarn - Crafting Supplies Bargain Prices @ Horizon View Bed & Breakfast Follow direction signs starting on 614 south of Co-op. More info: call (306) 297-3201 Lucille Wills

Many Thanks The Memorial Hall Board says a special thanks to the Busse and Lundsten families for their generous gift to the Hall in memory of the late Donna Busse. Over $1,900 was donated in her memory.

The T.rex Discovery Centre and Friends of the Museum will hold their Annual General Meeting on July 28th at the T.rex Discovery Center at 7:00 pm Everyone Welcome

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Both in excellent condition Call: 297-3109 or, cell: 297-9035

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Museum Musings
Early Beginnings
by Alice Hanlin

Big Storm Coming

The photo montage on page 5 of the blogspot is provided by Tania Thronberg. www.scribd.com/eastendedge

About 1930, Corky Jones changed careers from rancher and garage operator to Eastends town policeman. Quite a number of our residents remember when he used to ring the 9 p.m. curfew! It was during his years as policeman when he was active at the town office that folks would bring fossils and bones to him. They would show them to Corky, discuss them or trade them with each other. The suggestion to start a collection began with this group of people. Thats when Corky began an active and deliberate collection. Space was made available to house a fossil and bone collection in the south west corner of the old brick school. Corky liked this location because the temperature and humidity were fairly constant. The old school served very well until the great flood of 1952 when many of the fossils were destroyed or damaged. Corky spent many long hours after that repairing, re-gluing and re-varnishing the artefacts. He was even able to acquire assistance from Mr. Linblad of the National Museum to repair the shield which can be seen in a large showcase in the museum today. When the new school was built, showcases were installed to display the specimens. What a wonderful teaching tool right beside classrooms! Corky was even available and willing to talk to students. I wonder if the students really understood how lucky they were. The high school served as the museum space until the current Pastime Theatre became available. At this time, the showcases were moved to the new location and can be currently seen housing many of Corkys treasures. You can check them out on your next visit.

Book Review:

A Secret Affair
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh has written her most beguiling novel yet, in which the black sheep of the scandalous Huxtable family finally meets his match - in a woman of even more wicked reputation. 'The Devil was about to be tamed.' Her name is Hannah Reid. Born a commoner, she has been Duchess of Dunbarton ever since she was nineteen years old, the wife of an elderly duke to whom she has been rumoured to be consistently and flagrantly unfaithful. Now the old duke is dead and, more womanly and beautiful than ever at thirty, Hannah has her freedom at last. And she knows just what she wants to do with it. To the shock of a conventional friend, she announces her intention to take a lover - and not just any lover, but the most dangerous and delicious man in all of upper-class England: Constantine Huxtable. Constantine's illegitimacy has denied him the title of Earl, so now he denies himself nothing . . . or so the town would have it. Rumoured to be living the free and easy life of a sensualist in his country estate, he always chooses recent widows for his short-lived affairs. Hannah will fit the bill nicely. But once these two passionate and scandalous figures find each other, they discover that it isn't so easy to extricate oneself from the fires of desire - without getting singed. For the duchess and the dark lord each have startling secrets to reveal, and when all is said and done, neither will be able to say which one fell in love first, who tamed whom, and who has emerged from this game of hearts with the stronger hand. This is the fifth book in the Huxtable Quintet series. www.fantasticfiction.com

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics Bill Vaughan
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"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips." Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
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Movie Synopsis:

Sucker Punch Sucker Punch follows the story of a young girl who has been locked away against her will, but she has not lost her will to survive. Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls to band together and try to escape a terrible fate at the hands of their captors. (This film has been rated PG-13 for thematic material, violence and combat sequences, and language)

Southern Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower July 28 -29 The Delta Aquarids can produce about 20 meteors per hour at their peak. The shower usually peaks on July 28 & 29 but some meteors can be seen from July 18 Aug 18. The radiant point for this shower will be in the constellation Aquarius. This year, the thin crescent moon will be hanging around for the show, but it shouldnt cause too many problems. The best viewing is usually to the east after midnight.

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