The Citizen, 2019-07-18, Page 14PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019.
July has rare second
new moon on July 31
From the Farmer’s Almanac of
1793 comes this little poem about
the month of July: “The farmers
grind and whet their scythes. While
haystacks in the meadow rise: Green
fields, shady groves appear, And
rip’ning harvest crown the year.”
The new moon this month of July
happened on the 16th and was called
Full Buck Moon. The full moons
were named by the Indigenous
people and the buck moon signifies
that in July antler racks would be at
the full stage of growth. It is also
called “thunder moon” because of
the frequency of thunderstorms this
month. Cherokee tribes called it ripe
corn moon; the Ponca tribe named it
the middle of summer moon while
the Zuni tribe denoted it the moon
when the limbs of the trees are
broken by fruit.
This July has two new moons – on
the second and July 31. The second
new moon is called black moon.
In this space last week I offered a
comment regarding keeping
telephone books up to date when one
changes phones/numbers. My
comment noted that local books
have no way of accessing any
number except those listed with
Bell, unless you call in to change
and update your number. And it can
be frustrating to be unable to access
the numbers of area folk .
I had a call on the weekend from
someone suggesting there is a need
for ‘the other side of the coin’, so to
speak. Removing a phone number
from local books is likely the last
thing one might think about in the
event of a move or when a family
member dies. The person who called
me claims the local books are still
carrying numbers for deceased
persons.
Our suggestion is to perhaps look
in the books and see where persons
in your family stand in this regard.
Where to call? To have the correct
information in the small, easy-to-use
books, one needs to call the local
newspaper offices who print them
each fall.
NEWS
FROM LONDESBORO
By BRENDA
RADFORD
Call
523-4296
PEOPLE AROUND
LONDESBORO
Helping out
The Clinton Raceway, as it does every week, welcomed in a club to help raise money on
Sunday during the weekly races. On Sunday it was the BCH (Bayfield, Clinton and Hensall)
Hockey Association. Parents Mike and Joanne Dixon were on hand to help barbecue tasty
lunches for people. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Are you looking for a summer
program that exhilarates, engages
and educates your children over the
summer months? The Huron County
Library has the perfect program for
you: The TD Summer Reading
Club!
The TD Summer Reading Club is
a program for youth between the
ages of four and 12 that encourages
readers to have fun while learning
through exciting crafts, activities,
games and of course, reading!
Through the TD Summer Reading
Club, children improve their
listening skills, share with others in a
team environment and stimulate
their creative capacity through arts
and crafts, active play and reading.
Programs such as this introduce
children to the library as a source of
pleasure and information which
encourages them to use the library as
a lifelong resource for learning.
The reading club will meet once a
week at each of the 12 Huron
County Library branches until
Friday, August 23.
All participants will receive a
reading club notebook, a pack of 12
stickers, a top summer reads list, as
well as a bookmark with a web-
access code that can be used on the
http://tdsummerreadingclub.ca
website to track reading progress
and receive additional club
benefits.
This year’s theme is “Natural
World” so get ready to unplug and
take a moment to explore the stories
and science of nature through
adventure and play, as we trek
through the wilderness, real or
imagined, and let our playful
curiosity give rise to questions about
the world around us.
Registration is now open, so head
to your local library to sign up and
reserve your place in the program as
space is limited!
This local program is sponsored
by the Toronto Dominion Financial
Group and partially funded by
Young Canada Works in Heritage
Organizations, Department of
Canadian Heritage.
TD Summer Reading Club offered locally