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T.REXDISCOVERY

CENTRE

Family

MoviesMay Movies on

Saturdays @ 7 pm-

Saturday, 21 -The Way Back

Saturday, 28 -Unknown

Suggestions for moviesare welcome.

Please contact theT.rex Discovery Centre

One Admission Price$3.50 each

T.rex Discovery Centre,Eastend, SK.

For more information visitwww.trexcentre.ca

or contact us at(306) 295 4009

www.trexcentre.ca

Movie synopsis on pg. 4

The Eastend Edge is a proud supporter of ourcommunity and is distributed acrossNorth America. Publisher: Jeanne Kaufman

Plant, Book Sale & Pie/Coffee

Eastend Historical MuseumThursday, May 19th

1:30 4:00 pm

Homemade Pie & Coffee/Tea Served - Admission - $5.00Sale of Annual, Perennial Plants and Collection of Books

(donated by Betty Hamrin)

Donations of plants gratefully accepted.Plants can be dropped off at the Museum on Wednesday, May 18th

Between 1:30 6:30 pm

Register for our Pumpkin Growing Contest Each person will receive 2 large pumpkin seeds along with growing tips

Registration Fee - Adults $5.00- Children (12 & under) - free

In October we will host a Pumpkin Buffet and Weigh-off.Prize for largest pumpkin in each category

For further particulars phone 295-3670

Guest Commentary: Tim Tokaryk

Editorial: A Time to Push, a Time to Pause

Do we really need to push life any harder? Really? Cant we just go on, blissfullyaware of our own space, and greet those days as they approach in calm and seren-ity? For most of us, especially in our own rural setting, this is the way of our pub-lic space. Rarely are we bunched up, in movement along a sidewalk, or stationeryat any commercial enterprise. Our lines are short here, our space is grand and isoften met with a kindly hello. However, for the most part, what little our spaceis invaded the encroachment of getting into ones face or having to circumnavi-

gate through crowds is essentially an urban feature. Its a feature of layeredpopulations, the horizontal stacking, the contact of elbows along a cemented path,the bumping and slow-stepping as the line-up slowly diminishes ahead. It is moreof a feature of urban life than rural. For I know. I know the urban feel as I ap-proach any city. I know that once I enter the crowded streets filled with cars andpedestrians, each thinking that their errand or activity is a mission from god; eachare thinking that they are entitled.

I know this feeling of angst in a city setting. Its very un-nerving andthough I am aware of my turning into Mr. Hyde from my more passive Dr. Jekyll,I am helpless to control it at times. Walking along a sidewalk with people in frontand behind, I match foot speeds with them, but only if they are on my speed. If

they are slower, I have to maneuver around them which I find as an inconvenience.Pathetic really. To get ones dander up just because they are slower or have pro-duced a temporary road block because they found something shinny in their viewand must pause, dont they know they are impeding my own kings errand? But Iknow I am not alone. Nor, by far, am I the worst offender. For I come nowherenear sidewalk rage or its comparable road rage. At its most extreme, side-walk rage says one article in the Wall Street Journal can signal a psychoticcondition known as intermittent explosive disorder, when the rage not pg. 4

Liz Spetz297-8804

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Let our experience work for youLet our experience work for youLet our experience work for youLet our experience work for you

Thismarvellous2 bedroom

home isready for

you

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Enjoy Pine Cree Regional Park

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CCCCOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITY HHHHAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGSECT&EDA- Next meeting May 3Eastend Arts CouncilMay ?Historical Museum May 10K-40May 4CWLMay 4Friends of the Museum &

T.rex Discovery CentreMay 12RM of White Valley May 12TOWN COUNCIL May 11Clay Centre Comm ClubMay 17School Comm CouncilMay 17Chamber of CommerceMay 18Fire Dept. May 10 and 24Prairie Pearls May 25RW InstituteMay 11

TOPS MEET- Health Centre Quiet Room,Thursdays @ 5:15 p.m.

AAMondays @ 8:00p.m. at Henrys PlaceBINGOMondays at 7:00 in the Rink!Alanon Health Centre Quiet Room

Tuesdays .

MAY DATESFORPHYSICIAN CLINICSIN EASTEND

SHERRY HORNUNGRN(NP) - MAY 16, 18, 19,25, 26 AND 30

PHYSICIAN MAY 19, 20, 24 AND 25

To book an appointment Phone 295-4184

Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM.

EWWHC Lab Hours:Mon - Thurs 9:00-12:00, 1:00 - 4:00The Lab will be closed on Fridays

Advertising Rates

$15 per week per ad.Space and sizing at Editors discretion.

Oversize ads:

Double to 1/2 page $30

Full page $40

We appreciate your business.

Early May Wildflowers

The photo montage on page 5 of the

blogspot is provided by slg.

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EASTEND AGENCIES LTD.Locally Owned and Operated

Dont be caught off guardthis Spring!

Call us for your home,

farm, boat and cabin

insurance needs!

Get Bonnie working for you

295-3655

104 Maple Avenue North,Eastend, Sask.

Shop Local

For Sale

15 Hand Weaving Loomavailable with

yarn, instruction booksand accessories

$15everything included

Call: 295-4179

The Eastend Arts Councilinvites you to meetMarion Stegner,

1st daughter-in-law and friendof Wallace Stegner.

Marion will be visiting Eastendfrom her home in Vermont.

Reception Wednesday,

May 25th

at 7 p.m.

Weather permitting in

the Stegner House garden.

Weather not permitting,in the United Church.

Eastend Antiqueis OPEN

Check for Garage

Sale Sign Up

Everything 1/2 off

PROPANE IS

BACK!!!

We apologize for

the inconvenience

while it was gone

but are happy to

inform you that we

now have our propane tank back and

running just in time for the BBQ &

Branding season.

Skips Auto Service123 Railway St.

EastendOur hours of operation are:

Monday - Friday

8 a.m. - 12 noon

and 1 - 5 p.m.

Should you need propane after hours,

please call 295-7677 (Skip)

or 295-7200 (Sharon)

Time for Spring Greens and Golf Greens

All I do is play music and golf -which one do you want me to giveup?

Willie Nelson

Do your best, one shot at a time andthen move on. Remember that golf isjust a game.

Nancy Lopez

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Scott Woods Show

Monday, May 30th

7:00 p.m.

Shaunavon Public School

Canadian Fiddle Champion Scott Woods and his band. are making a stop in

Shaunavon as part of their cross country tour to deliver a live performanceof an all new 2011 show called All Aboard. Fancy fiddling, traditionalcountry, gospel and swing music plus step dancing and a generous dose ofhumour. Don't miss this family entertainment. The band usually plays tosold out audiences, so get your tickets early.

Advance Tickets available in Shaunavon: Grand Coteau & Cultural Centre,or phone Centre St. United Church (306) 297-2332

or Herb Conrad (306) 297-3344

in Eastend at Madhatter's Flowers & Gift or phone Ethel 295-3670or order by mail from Ethel Wills, Box 34, Eastend, SK S0N 0T0

and enclose cheque for tickets payable to "Pine Cree Pastoral Charge"

The Great Flood That Wasnt

I would like to congratulate the Mayor and Town Council on the fantastic job theydid in protecting our town.

Sure, it never happened, the river did not crest above its banks as the watershedauthority had predicted but, it was very comforting to know that had it happened,we were prepared.

I see so many reports about flooding in our province where residents had to workso hard to sand bag countless sites to protect their assets and here, in our town, itwas all taken care of for us.

The communication, preparation, consultations, construction, the organizing of allcritical steps were implemented like clockwork. The co-ordination with the EMOwas seamless and people and businesses alike, were kept up to date through mediaand even face-to-face visits by our local authorities. The levee seemed to go upovernight. Suddenly, we had an impressive fortification against the threat of theimpending spring melt. The melt that ended up mercifully, being meted out indaily portions between nightly freezings and spared us all the grief that many othercommunities have unfortunately experienced.

Our Town Council and Administrators have proven that they are responsible, re-sponsive and proactive. They have left us now with a wonderful legacy of the

flood that never happened and a levee system that will be seeded into grass andincorporated into our scenic walking paths.

For my part, I thank our Mayor, Council, Administration, Town staff and workers,surveyors, EMO and anybody else who assisted us in protecting our community.

Patrick Watkins

Gopher Baroque

Mysterious appearance after spring thaw.

Full Moon

May 17th

This full moonwas know byNative American

tribes as the Full Flower Moon be-cause this was the time of year thatspring flowers appeared in abun-dance. This moon has also beenknown as Full Corn Planting Moonand the Milk Moon.

Worth Checking Out

( http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/watch-200-years-of-history-in-5-minutes )

A very clever visual demonstration ofhistory over the last 200 years and

how we got this way.

and

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw )

A very funny dog tease that everyowner will understand.

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only becomes apparent, its a verbal, physical assault. To see that this is a real phe-nomena, one of the social media sites, Face Book, has a group called I SecretlyWant to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the Head. As of April 19th, ithas nearly 20,000 members. I am not one of them.

Ragers, we are told, tend to think people should do things their way, andget angry because slow walkers are breaking the rules of civility. But how is

walking slow uncivil when minimally, silent ragers think insulting thoughts aboutother pedestrians? Sure, the silent ones vent mentally making them feel better.But I wonder sometimes of all this psycho-social dissection is too much. Not eve-ryone lives in a urban center.

Nevertheless I could be wrong. We live in a different age when even if youare in a rural setting, the speed-culture is here, in Eastend, all around us, just likeevery other western community. Our thoughts and behaviors are being more dic-tated by mass media technology that is still new to us but is proving to have anunregulated, unclear dark side. In Carl Honores book In Praise of Slowness,Challenging the Cult of Speed, we find a perceptive voice. Anyone or anythingthat steps in our way, that slows us down, that stops us from getting exactly whatwe want when we want it becomes the enemy he tells the reader. So the smallest

set back, the slightest delay, the merest whiff of slowness, can provoke vein-popping furry in otherwise ordinary peoples lives. Welcome to the 21st Century.

Can we experience sidewalk rage in Eastend? Yes we can. I know, be-cause admittedly, Ive encountered this syndrome when about town. Well, at leastalmost. Ive caught myself from being really stupid (being stupid, Ive little con-trol over but really stupid Ive learned to suppress). Ive caught myself and havementally kicked myself in the shin. I am aware that I am not alone in this world butmerely a temporary occupier of this space I enjoy and love. Besides, people whospeed are more likely to be found on an embarrassing segment on YouTube orsome other visual media. Another one of those captured really stupid moments inones life. TTT

Movie Synopsis:

The Way Back

Directed by six-time Academy Award (R) nominee Peter Weir,THE WAY BACK is an epic story of survival, solidarity and in-domitable human will. Shot in Bulgaria, Morocco and India, thefilm stars Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn...Directed by six-time Academy Award (R) nominee Peter Weir,THE WAY BACK is an epic story of survival, solidarity and in-domitable human will. Shot in Bulgaria, Morocco and India, the

film stars Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, The Other BoleynGirl), Ed Harris (Appaloosa) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges) as pris-oners of a Soviet Union labor camp, who, along with four others, flee their Siberian Gulagand begin a treacherous journey across thousands of miles of hostile terrain. AcademyAward (R) nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones) and Mark Strong (Bodyof Lies, RocknRolla) co-star. Written by Weir and Keith Clarke, the film is Peter's firstsince 2003's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. It is inspired by the ac-claimed book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as first-personaccounts and anecdotes as told to, and researched by Weir and executive producer Clarke.Produced by Joni Levin, Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The FarSide of the World) and Nigel Sinclair (Terminator 3: Salvation), THE WAY BACK is anExclusive Media Group, National Geographic Entertainment and ImageNation Abu Dhabipresentation and an Exclusive Films production. Keith Clarke, John Ptak, Guy East, Simon

Oakes, Tobin Armbrust, Jake Eberts, Edward Borgerding, Mohamed Khalaf, Adam Leipzig,Scott Rudin and Jonathan Schwartz are Executive Producers. The film's Co-Producer isRoee Sharon Peled and Co-Executive Producer is Alex Brunner. Weir has assembled anaccomplished group of filmmakers with whom he has previously collaborated, includingAcademy Award (R) winning Director of Photography Russell Boyd (Master and Com-mander, The Year of Living Dangerously, Gallipoli), Film Editor Lee Smith (Master andCommander, as well as The Dark Knight, for which he received an Academy Award (R)nomination), Production Designer John Stoddart (Fearless, The Mosquito Coast) and Cos-tume Designer Wendy Stites, Oscar (R) nominated for Master and Commander and withcredits on nine Weir films.

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The book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawciz isavailable through your local Eastend Library and Chinook Library System.JK

A Cosy Kind of Murder

Are you a little tired of those pulp fictiondisplays of gore, sex and weaponry thatmake up the bulk of murder mysteriesthese days? Thrillers have their place andforensic investigations are fascinating buttheres a lot to be said for a nice hot bathand a cosy mystery thats just simply fun

and relaxing. Youll sleep better, too.

Most of the cosy mysteries take place ina small, picturesque town or village withcharacters who I can imagine having asfriends or neighbours. Theyre usuallynot zany people, although an eccentricmight lurk here and there. Theyre mostlikely to be normal everyday charactersyou might have known at one time inyour life.

Cosy mysteries often run in series andits best to start at the beginning as they

frequently refer back to previous experi-ences. There are many choices availableto enjoy but I have particularly liked thefollowing:

Monica Ferris writesunder a couple ofnames but her seriesof needlework myster-ies is great fun.Crewel World is aneedlework store inExcelsior, Minnesotaowned by Betsy Dev-

onshire who somehowgets involved in mys-

terious local murders. Always fun andinteresting. There are 14 books in theseries to date with Buttons and Bones asthe latest novel with Threadbare comingin 2011.

Lorna Barrett writesa series of mysteriesset in a small NewHampshire town thathas revived its pros-pects by encouraging

booksellers to estab-lish businesses. TriciaMiles has opened amystery bookstorenamed Havent Got a

Clue. Although devoted to her growingbusiness, she cant avoid getting caughtup in murders that require her active at-tention. There are 4 books in the series sofar, Chapter and Hearse being the latestand a 5th novel, Sentenced to Deathslated for 2011.

Alexander McCallSmith is a professor ofMedical Law and alsothe author of manybooks. His series ofthe No.1 Ladies Detec-tive Agency owned byPrecious Ramotswe setin Botswana is everyone a gem of enjoy-

ment. There are 12 in the series to date,The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

being just released.

All these cosy mysteries and many othersare worth you exploration. They areavailable through the Eastend Library.JK

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