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The Eastend Edge is a proud supporter of ourcommunity and is distributed across North

America. Publisher: Jeanne Kaufman

Great SeptemberFilms!!!

Friday, 17thThe Iron Giant

Friday, 24thPercy Jackson & the

Olympians:The Lightning Thief

Doors open at 6:30 PM

Admission Price$3.50 each

Suggestions for movies arewelcome. Please contact:

T.rex Discovery CentreEastend, SK.

www.trexcentre.ca(306)295-4009

See Movie Synopsison pg. 2

Trailers now available onT.rex Discovery Centre

web site

www.REALTOR.ca

Liz Spetz297-8804

Ideal Living Major exterior update completed Large deck located through the

garden doors from the kitchen Orchard of apple and plum trees

Lascaux is Still the Story

Near Montignac, France, in September 1940, a collection of prehistoric cave paintings wasdiscovered by four teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork after following theirdog down a narrow entrance into a cavern. The 15,000- to 17,000-year-old paintings, con-sisting mostly of animal representations, are among the finest examples of art from the Up-per Paleolithic period.

First studied by the French archaeologist Henri-douard-Prosper Breuil, the Lascaux grottoconsists of a main cavern 66 feet wide and 16 feet high. The walls of the cavern are deco-rated with some 600 painted and drawn animals and symbols and nearly 1,500 engravings.

The pictures depict in excellent detail numerous types of animals, including horses, red deer,stags, bovines, felines, and what appear to be mythical creatures. There is only one humanfigure depicted in the cave: a bird-headed man. Archaeologists believe that the cave wasused over a long period of time as a centre for hunting and religious rites. The cave was notordinarily lived in but kept exclusively for art and ritual.

One of the paintings is reproduced at the bottom of this page. The drawing is rippling andfluid with strength and life. You dont get closer to the original source of art than this ele-mental contact with a cave wall and simple mineral-based colours. There is awe in the sensethat these drawings were created by people who knew they were among the least capableand powerful of creatures; people who openly admired the strength of bison and the elegantspeed of running horses; people who felt small and vulnerable in comparison and were notat all certain of their continued existence. The world was full of wonder and terror for them.If they ever caught up with one of these creatures it was a major event and a chance to ab-

sorb some of the impressive qualities of their awesome game. In a world lit only by fire peo-ple were the ones living on the edge of extinction and desperation. We were humble beingsthen. That feeling was the soul of art.

By some trick of fate or intervention over time we became the biggest and fiercest beasts inthe land. Who would have thought it likely so long ago? Were neither humble nor smallanymore. Weve conquered and subjugated everything around us. Its our domain and werun the show. The bulls are bred to specification and the horses run for our amusement. Wehave no need of mythical creatures anymore. Were completely in awe of ourselves.

However, our art has not exceeded our origins. Picasso famously said that after cave paint-ings all is decadence. Or in a sense, everything that followed has just been conversa-tion. As we lost our awe and fear, we compromised our expression. Maybe thats why somuch art today is so bad. But, Lascaux and the rare caves like it still attract tens of thou-sands of visitors annually. Each one of them is surprised to be so elementally affected bywhat they see. Our souls have not moved a long way from the cave. So heres one moreBravo to the Lascaux painters who still send that Wow factor echoing down the millen-nia.

The Lascaux grotto was opened to the public in 1948 but was closed in 1963 because artifi-cial lights had faded the vivid colors of the paintings and caused algae to grow over some ofthem. A replica of the Lascaux cave was opened nearby in 1983. The drawings should beon everyones bucket list of things to see before they die. You can easily find reproductionsof the art in books at the library and on the internet. Be sure to see them. JK

15 to 17,000 year old cave paintingfrom

Lascaux, France

Antiques, Collectables,

Furniture & Toys8th Annual Show & Sale

will be held atStockade (Kinetic Park)

Swift Current, Sk.

Sept. 18 & 19, 2010

Sat.: 10 am6 pmSun.: 10 am4 pm

Lots of Free ParkingFood BoothAdmission $4

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CCCCOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITYOMMUNITY HHHHAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGSAPPENINGSEastend Arts CouncilSept. 13 ???ECT&EDASept. 7Eastend Rink Complex???Kinsmen Sept. 14Historical Museum Sept. 14K-40Sept. 1CWLSept. 1Friends of the Museum &

T.rex Discovery CentreSept. 9Kinettes ??RM of White Valley Sept. 9TOWN COUNCIL Sept. 8Clay Centre Comm ClubSept. 21School Comm CouncilSept. 21Chamber of CommerceSept 15Fire Dept. Sept. 14 & 28Eastend Swimming Pool Sept. 15Prairie Pearls Sept. 29RW InstituteOct. 5thTOPS 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 RoomTuesdays .

SEPT DATESFORPHYSICIAN CLINICSIN EASTEND

SHERRY HORNUNGRN(NP) - SEP. 13, 15, 20,23, 24, 27 & 29

PHYSICIAN 15 & 22

To book an appointment Phone 295-4184Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM.

Renovating?Adding bins or machinery?

Please notify us.It isnt covered unless it is

listed on your policy!

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EASTEND AGENCIES104 Maple Avenue North. Eastend, Sask.

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Advertising Rates$15 per week per ad.

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JACKS CAF

Waitress requiredShifts: 3 pm9 pm

WednesdaySunday

Dishwasher required

5:30 pm9 pmSaturday & Sunday

Evening Cleaner required

Apply withinfor these positions

Great work experience for studentsor

people seeking part-time income.

FOR SALE2000 Silverado 4X4 Ext. Cab

Excellent ConditionLoaded with Extras

Raider CapDust Tight Box

TRAILER READY

See it at 538 Railway St.

295-3222

1st Annual CowgirlRound-Up

Oct. 2nd, Consul Hall

Cocktails @ 5 pmSupper @ 7 pm

Cowgirl MercantileSilent Auction

Visiting with Old and New Friends

Proceeds to Maple Creek Hospital& Consul Ambulance Service

We invite all cowgirls to join us foran evening of fun, shopping, sharing,contributing to our communities and

we deserve a lovely evening.

Annual membership dues $50which includes the dinner.

RSVP by Sept. 15th

For more info. call:Jill 306-299-4411 orAnn 306-299-2028

Eastend HistoryStreet by Street

Do you know the history of the homes inEastend? Before these homes are goneand the personal history of the older resi-dences is lost lets collect the stories forpublication.

If you are interested in a project of thisnature please contact the Edge/JeanneKaufman at 295-4097 or by email at

eastendedge@hotmail.com

FOR SALE

1988 Ford TW-35 Tractor

170hp1000PTO8 ft. grapple fork & bucket

Call: 295:3855

Special Thank YouTo

Eastend DinosMotorcycle Riders Inc.

for your generous$1,000 Donation

to theEastend Historical Museum

Distribution of the Edge

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Come try our new weeklyspecials and soups

Cheddar MushroomBurger

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Salisbury Steakwith Mushroom Sauce

APPLE FESTIVALIN EASTEND

Eastend Hall,Tea Room,

Pottery Street

Saturday Sept. 18thfeaturing

Clarence Petersretired provincial Fruit Specialist

Have you an old apple tree whose

variety you would like identified?

Are you interested in

growing apples?

3 pm. Examination andidentification

Bring a sample from your tree.

5 pm. Supper and Apple PotluckPlease bring your own sandwiches

And an Apple Dish for the Potluck.

6pm. Clarence Peters presentation:Growing Apples on the Prairies.

ALL ARE WELCOME

For inf., call Mary Thomson

306-295-3673

The Eastend Edge is a proud supporter of our

community and is distributed acrossNorth America.

Publisher: Jeanne Kaufman

Haying

Let it not rain. Let the wind blowenough to suck the dampbut not hasten the cloudsthat bring the rain.

Let swallows wing the fieldlooping after bugs, let the balernot breaklet field mice scuttle fast from the hawksbut let the hawksbe fed. And thesnakes, may they slide from the balers maw

let the dragonflies zig hover zag

neon blue on a cusp of sky.Now the buzzard hunkers in the stubble. Let him gorgefast and clean as an executioners blade.

And let it not

rain. And if it must, let it bea sprinkle.

Let the hayers mop their brows with salty bandanaslet them drink deep lemon soda, Mexican beerlet the barn fill with hay and the stashed eggsof renegade hens.

Then, rain

Dorothy Field

Saskatchewan After the Dinosaurs

On September 10 the official unveiling took place of the new T.rex Discovery Centre ex-hibit, Saskatchewan After the Dinosaurs. This creative display represents the first part ofthe Tertiary Period; the Paleocene Epoch. It is a time frame when the flora and fauna, earlyon, re-scrambled itself after the extinction event 65 million years ago. Though many highergroups of animals and plants survived, and many species too, a significant number did not.It was the 5th Major Extinction Event in the history of our planet (long before the appear-ance of early humanoids).

Surviving the extinction event was no easy task. And though we may know one of the

causes of the end of the Cretaceous extinction, who survived and the time and the pattern ofrecovery is complex and needing more study. For if we can understand the examples of pastextinctions, survivors and recoveries, we may understand the next major extinction event inour own time.

Major groups like crocodiles, champsosaurs, salamanders, lizards, birds, mammals, fish andturtles all survived the extinction event. However, since there were more than one species ofeach group, some species did go extinct.

Champsosaurs and crocodiles, though both reptiles, each had their own unique evolutionaryhistory. Champsosaurs in appearance resembled crocodiles, were relatively large semi-aquatic reptiles that would live more in the centre part of lakes and rivers. Like all species,Champsosaurus, had thin, tall conical teeth that would easily have pierced the soft flesh offish. Garfish may have been a favourite, but these too were active predators. Crocodiles

preferred a food supply from both in water and near shore. One of them would have beenturtles.

Replicas of these creatures and more are part of the new After the Dinosaurs exhibit. Thedisplay makes this period of natural history come alive and is a significant addition to theexcellent collections available at the T.rex Discover Centre. JK

(Extracted in part from Paleocene Exhibit After the Dinosaurs by Tim Tokaryk, Acting Head ofPalaeontology Unit, Royal Saskatchewan Museum.)

Movie Synopsis:Iron Giant

" Iron Giant" is an animationbased upon the 1968 story, 'IronMan,' by the British poet laure-ate Ted Hughes. The film isabout a giant metal machine thatdrops from the sky and frightensa small town in Maine in 1958,only to find a friend named,Hogarth, that ultimately finds itshumanity and saving the townspeople of their fears and preju-dices.

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The Edge in 5Striking Pages

The Eastend Edge has 5 pagesthis week with exceptional col-our photos available atwww.eastendedge.blogspot.com

The photo montage on page 5 isgenerously provided by StephenLangton Goulet. This week itfeatures colour photos ofSeptember Ducks.

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Apple Varieties Old and New

ambrosia

antonovka

blenheim

bismark

burgundy

corail

creston

delblush

delicious

earliblaze

empire

enterprise

firmgold

galarina

gravenstein

harolson

hauxapfel

hazen

itzstedster

indared

jonagold

jubilee

katja

keepsake

limbertwig

lindamac

macoun

magiemer

mahogany

nehou

novaspy

opalescent

ottawa

pewaukee

priscilla

quinte

regent

rouville

splendour

sponselli

tumanga

ultrared

vanda

victory

wellington

winesap

xavier

yarlington

zestar

Book Review:New at the Eastend Library

Infamous by Suzanne Brockman

Back in the days of cowboys and out-laws, a now-infamous shootout went

down in the tiny mining town of Jubila-tion, Arizona. National hero U.S. Mar-shall Silas Quinn saved the city from thenotorious Kelly gang, only to have hiswife kidnapped and murdered by theultimate lowlife, Jamie 'the Kid' Galla-gher. Or so the story goes. One-hundredyears later, historian Alison Carter hasmade her way to the scene of the crime toassist in a movie production of the up-coming film Quinn. Little does she knowthat waiting there for her is 'the Kid's'supposed great-grandson, A.J. Gallagher,looking to put a stop to production andthe defaming of his relative.

www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

Interview with Dorothy FieldPoet/Author/Artist in

Residence at the Stegner House

Born in New York, Dorothy alwayslonged to live in the country. Aftercompleting graduate studies at UCBerkley she moved to VancouverIsland where she lived on a farm for

many years. However, that didntcurtail her artistic pursuits. She was aweaver and became interested inmaking paper. That led her to travelto Asia where she studied and photo-graphed paper in all its intricate uses.

In Southeast Asia, paper is oftenattached to doorways to indicate sa-cred or pure spaces and to ward offevil. In Japan, shimenawa, or braidedstraw rope is hand made. Sometimesthe rope is woven meters thick indiameter. Paper is also used for ritual

purification in the Shinto religion;old paper is burned every year andreplaced by new in a cycle of re-newal. This type of use of paper iscommon in many societies andDorothy sees it as a metaphor for lifewhere rice is the physical form ofsustenance and paper is the spiritualreflection of this.

Dorothy has been a guest of theStegner House since August 15th.Her poem Haying is published onpage 3 of this edition of the Edge.

Dorothys books of poetry include:Leaving the Narrow Place, Wearing My People Like a Shawl and In theStreet of the Temple Cloth Printers.

JK

Teen Readingat Eastend Library www.teenreads.com

Specials by Scott Westerfield

On your sixteenth birthday, how would you feel about being forced to have the surgery tobecome pretty?

The Uglies series is set at least a century in the future, after current civilization has beendestroyed by a bacterium which has de-established all petroleum products, causing wide-spread chaos. The survivors of this disaster established cities much smaller than thosecurrently existing, each of which is independently governed with limited traveling. At theage of sixteen, each person undergoes an operation which boosts their immune systemand reflexes while giving them well-proportioned, symmetrical faces based on an interna-tional standard, so that all pretties look nearly identical. They are also given brain lesionswhich make them peaceful and compliant. Before they receive the operation, children arereferred to as "uglies", and are kept separate from their older friends. Later operationsfollow to show signs of increasing age while maintaining this beauty, and the lesions maybe removed for pretties entering careers which require quick thinking. Pretties who workfor Special Circumstances, a group which ensures the city's security, are given an opera-tion to make them look terrifying, become very strong and fast, and have incredibly fastreflexes. Specials also receive brain surgery to make them obedient.

In Specials, the third book in the series, Tally is now a Cutter, a new branch of SpecialCircumstances. The Cutters, led by Tally's long-time friend Shay, arrive at an uglies partylooking for outsiders crashing the festivities to stir up trouble. Tally and the other Cuttersare disguised as uglies, which causes Tally to feel nostalgic as she watches the poor ugliesawkwardly interacting.

Tally has been completely remade. Her bones are now aircraft ceramic, light but inde-structible. Her muscles repair themselves. She can hear the faintest, most distant soundthrough her skintenna. All her senses are supernaturally sharp --- and trouble is ahead.

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