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NEWS
WINTER CARNIVAL AIMS
TO IMPROVE LITERACY
MICKEY DJURIC
The Star Editor
b
algonie Elementary School
is hosting a winter carnival
February 6 at the school to
help students improve their literacy
while partaking in fun, food, games and
prizes.
The carnival is put on by Balgonie’s
School Community Council (SCC)
in support of Balgonie Elementary’s
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Learning Improvement Plan (LIP).
“The purpose is to engage parents
and provide them with some great
strategies to help their children,” said
Kimberly Kiel, SCC chair. “Last year
we put on a very fun and successful
Math Survivor Night in support of the
Math LIP. We are asking families to
pre-register so their carnival pass can be
made up with their schedule of events.”
There are four different events
families can take part in with registration
beginning at 6:15 p.m.
“Events start at 6:30 p.m. with the
evening winding up by 8:00 p.m. with
a great carnival finale featuring some
of our students,” said Kiel. “There are
prizes and treats and we are hoping
to have a great turnout of Balgonie
Elementary School families.”
Literacy is part one of three
initiatives in the LIP, with the other two
focusing on math and behaviour.
“We are really excited to also
be supporting the behaviour LIP by
bringing in international speaker Ronald
Morrish for a parent presentation on
April 11,” said Kiel. “He is absolutely
fantastic and his refreshing presentation
will provide parent’s with many practical
strategies for teaching children to be
more respectful and cooperative.”
The winter carnival is targeted
toward Kindergarten and Grade 6
students at Balgonie Elementary School,
however, Grade 7 and 8 students are
also welcomed to join their families.
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NEWS
COMMUNITIES
IN BLOOM
COMING TO
WHITE CITY
MICKEY DJURIC
The Star Editor
I
t’s not just flowers that will be
blooming this spring in White
City.
Town council has agreed to
help support the White City Garden
Club in developing a Communities
In Bloom, a national program that
helps communities enhance their
green spaces.
“The Garden Club would be
one of the groups that would be a
leader in this project but we need
council support,” said Susanne
Martin, of the White City Garden
Club.
“This would be a prestigious
thing for this Town.”
Council has agreed to pay the
$200 registration fee that occurs
when a town gets involved in the
provincial program.
Getting
involved
in
Communities In Bloom, will bring
extra promotion toward the town,
said Martin, as well as getting the
community more involved with the
town.
Martin hopes that by having a
Communities In Bloom, residents
will volunteer their time and help
beautify White City. Some projects
Martin hopes to bring to brighten
the town is adding flowerbeds and
more greenery.
The Garden Club also asked
for additional support from the
Town. Every year Communities in
Bloom judges go through towns
that are involved in the program
and evaluate the communities on
specific criteria.
The Garden Club hopes that
during the time of judging the
community and Town council will
gather together to make sure the
community is pristine.
This is the first year White
City will be participating in
Communities In Bloom, due to
a new novice category being
introduced allowing White City to
compete at a basic level against
other towns, non-competitively.
The intention for the novice
category is to introduce White
City to Communities In Bloom and
advance the Town to compete
competitively in the future.
Martin explained that joined
the program will only benefit the
Town, like building community
development, increasing civic
pride, improving cleanliness
and attractiveness of the Town
and increasing the community’s
provincial and national visibility.
The Garden Club also hopes to
combine their efforts with Emerald
Park.
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W
hite City council agreed
to enter into a curb-side
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agreement with Loraas Disposal for
a term of five years.
The current White City contract
with Loraas Disposal provides
recycling in the form of large bins
located at the ball diamonds, and
doesn’t monitor who uses them.
Loraas proposed to provide
curb-side collection of waste and
recycling products. All households
will have a black bin for garbage
and a blue bin for recyclables.
Loraas will pick up the black
bin once every two weeks, and on
alternating weeks they will pick
up the recyclables. Residents won’t
have to sort the recyclables due to
a multi-material separator which is
included in Loraas’ services.
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The cost of curb-side collection
of both waste and recyclables is
$12.45 per household, per month
a fee the Town will be paying for.
The Town is planning on
educating the community of the
new development before it is
implemented, and assures residents
the new change won’t cost them
anything.
“It’s not going to cost the
residents anything. It’s not an added
cost, it’s already in the budget.
We’re just changing the way we’re
delivering the service,” said Cecil
Snyder, White City councillor.
Council members agreed
that this new service will benefit
the community and believes the
community will be excited by it.
“As a non-recycler now, I’m
really excited about having a bin
where I can put my recyclables,
and not worry about sorting it,”
said Shauna Bzdel, Town Manager.
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EDITORIAL
Digital
courtship
MICKEY DJURIC
The Star Editor
T
he art of courtship is dying
- at least according to the
Leader Post, New York
Times and Sunday Times,
who have all recently
published articles stating men no
longer know how to court women.
According to these articles,
courtship has been dying since
the early 2000s when social media
has become a major presence
in our society. Men and women
alike are more interested in instant
gratification that comes with
hookups. The excitement one gets
from texting their friend the next
day about their conquest.
In the article, College hookup
culture leaves students clueless
about courtship, it mentions college
graduates are paying up to $300
an hour on dating coaches to be
trained on the etiquette of dating,
for example, sending flowers, flirting
or accepting compliments.
However, is it that men don’t
know how to court, or has courting
changed?
Flirting has become digital. You
got to have text game now - know
when to reply, how to reply, and
how many words are appropriate
for a reply.
The ellipsis, once known as an
omission from speech of writing
with a set of dots has now because
a moment of stress for college
graduates to receive. Are those three
dots suppose to insinuate something
sexual, and what does five dots
mean?
It’s not just men that are
programmed differently, but women
as well.
What was once romantic can
now be defined as creepy. Imagine
a guy showing up at your doorstep
blasting the song In Your Eyes by
Peter Gabriel from a jukebox. This
isn’t 1989, or a Cameron Crowe
movie, and times have changed.
Women are now willing to learn
about a person through a screen
and accept a date via text.
It’s the digital age of courting
and it’s either adapt or get the bug,
the love bug.
Neighbourly
News
BY PEG HASEIN
PEG HASEIN
The Star Contrubutor
In the summer
of 2012 NASA
launched the Mars
Curiosity Rover. This robot is
outfitted with amazing tools that
will help it gather data from the
surface of Mars over the course of
its two year mission.
NASA has also launched a
great website (http://www.jpl.nasa.
gov/msl/) that provides updates
and progress reports on Curiosity.
This week the video showcased the
brushing tool which enables the
rover to literally brush the dust off
the rocks allowing for a closer look
at the formations.
I have been following Curiosity
around Mars since it was launched
and the data being collected is
fascinating. So far it has taken
pictures, roamed over a crater and
used its tools to collect samples.
But there is another ongoing
NASA mission that is making its
own news.
The Kepler telescope.
Kepler was launched in 2009
and just sits there staring at stars
all day. More than 150,000 stars in
fact. The telescope has “discovered”
about 461 new planets and about
2,740 satellites. Which gives you
some idea of the enormity of the
Milky Way. Of those 461 earthsized planets scientists estimate at
least 10 of them are “habitable”
which means liquid water can
exist there meaning life is possible.
These new planets are called
candidate planets, some of them
will receive names. Some of them
are less than twice the size of
our earth but revolve around a
star similar to our sun. They are
considered habitable. One such
planet is named KOI 172.02.
(Personally this is a boring name
and if it is going to catch on
the name needs to be zippier
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-- something like Gemini for
instance). KOI is only 1.5 times
the size of Earth but is perhaps
the closest find to discovering a
second earth-like planet.
That’s Kepler’s mandate -to survey the Milky Way and
discover earth-like planets. Not a
small feat considering there are
billions of stars in the galaxy that
may have planets meeting this
criteria.
In addition, Kepler has
discovered what is called
astrophysical
configurations
meaning some planets are not
considered true planets because
they do not transit their host
stars. For example, one star orbits
another and then blocks some of
the light from the other.
After some calculations,
scientists found they could only
account for 9.5 per cent of Kepler
planets. These results suggest that
17 per cent of the stars host a
planet up to 1.25 times the size of
Earth with orbits lasting 85 days
or less. This means that our Milky
Way galaxy can, in theory, host at
least 17 billion Earth-sized planets.
Exciting news.
It still doesn’t mean there is
life out there in the big open
universe but it does mean there is
a possibility. Some may question
whether it is necessary to explore
the galaxy but man, by nature,
is an explorer and space is often
considered the last frontier.
Some may question the
necessity of exploring beyond our
atmosphere. It’s about conquering
the unknown, getting answers and
solving some of the mysteries of
life. On a more practical note, it
does mean everything I learned
in school about the solar system
is now being rewritten. After all,
back then Pluto was a planet.
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NEWS
Regina Mayor Michael Fougere attended
the last White Butte committee meeting
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MICKEY DJURIC
The Star Editor
T
he City of Regina is
interested in joining White
Butte, a regional planning
committee that combines
The RM of Edenwold, the Village of
Edenwold and the towns of Balgonie,
Pilot Butte and White City.
The committee was combined by
all five municipalities under the same
vision they share over growth and
building a healthy and sustainable
region.
Regina Mayor Michael Fougere
attended the last White Butte
committee meeting, putting in his
request to join White Butte.
Gerhardt Ernst, a Pilot Butte
councillor put in an immediate
“This is a
clear benefit
to us all”
motion to approve the City of Regina
joining White Butte.
“This is a clear benefit to us all,”
said Bruce Evans, White City Mayor
REGINA JOINS
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WHITE BUTTE
whose council approved the motion
of Regina joined White Butte.
The City joining the committee
will help developments like the
construction of a new bypass happen
quicker said Evans.
All municipalities are treated
equally within White Butte and
Evans assures that Regina would not
be granted any extra power within
the committee.
“We want to be sure all member
of White Butte approach their
membership of an equal basis,” says
Evans. “It’s the same with funding.
We also agree not to ask Regina to
contribute more than anyone else.”
Some areas of focus amongst
THE
STUDENTS
OF OZ
White Butte is ensuring the
continued development of the Trans
Canada highway east of Regina,
ensuring effective fire services
amongst the municipalities, making
sure educational programs meet the
needs of children and youth and
continuing to develop within the
White Butte municipalities that will
ensure long term sustainability.
Currently the population within
White Butte is nearly 10,000 people
with a projected growth of 29,000
by 2030 which exceeds the projected
growth rate for the province.
The committee believes that
working together will help the
municipalities manage the growth.
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SPORTS
Trevor McNab of the Balgonie Bisons.
PHOTO BY: MICKEY DJURIC
Bisons lose
4-3 in OT over
Nationals
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Unfortunately, the Nationals
came out stronger defensively
and offensively completely
shutting out the Bisons for the
he Balgonie Bisons
rest of the game. Unable to score
lost to the Radville
Nationals, January 27, in the second and third period,
4-3 in overtime during their last the game went into overtime
at 3-3. Jason Vermeulen of
road trip of the season.
the Nationals scored the game
The Bisons, who don’t have
winning goal.
any more home games this
The Bisons who recently
season, took to the Radville
Recreation Centre ice as a force were on a seven game winning
streak are now on the losing
to reckon with.
Within the first period Lance end, dropping their second in
Herauf scored the first goal for a row.
MICKEY DJURIC
The Star Editor
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However, the Balgonie
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January 29 at 8 p.m. where
they take on the Odessa/Vibank
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