LMT Nov 30 - Vol 114 - issue 03

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OBITUARY
Henry Verner Wulff
September 26, 1930 – November
14, 2020
It is with great sadness,
yet gratitude, for a long,
rewarding life, that the family
announces the death of Henry
Verner Wulff in the early
hours of November 14, 2020
at the Wynyard Hospital.
Henry was the second
youngest child of Barbara and
Paul Wulff. He was born of
September 26, 1930, attended
Raymore School, and later
became a full-time farmer.
Uncle Henry loved our family
gatherings and often enjoyed a rousing game of cards.
He was keenly interested in politics and was truly in his
element in the middle of a political debate. Henry was
also a faithful coffee row attendee where the problems of
the world were often resolved. Watching curling on TV
and playing crib were some of his favourite pastimes. His
little dog was his constant companion and the two were
rarely seen apart. However, Henry’s great passion in life
was farming and all the things pertaining to it. He had
a strong connection to the land that he worked and the
history that helped shape his community.
Henry is survived by his Nieces: Shirley (Skip) Duford,
Glenda (Leon) Jacobs, Jennifer (Dennis) Stanley; Nephews:
Verne (Rita) Thorner, Lyle Thorner, Garth (Denise)
Thoner, Darryl (Joy) Bowman; as well as numerous great
nieces and nephews.
Henry was predeceased by his parents Barbara and Paul
Wulff; Siblings: Hilda Bowman, Erna Wulff, Chris Wulff,
and Ernest Wulff; sister-in-law Joyce Wulff; and niece-inlaw
Debbie Thoner.
Uncle Henry was a quiet, thoughtful individual who
maintained an intense interest in current events and
was always up for a spirited discussion concerning these
events. He treasured his visits with friends and relatives
and will be remembered for his quiet wit and humour.
Many thanks to the Home Care workers who cared and
looked after Uncle Henry so well in his final months.
A celebration for his life will be held at a later date. Memorial
donations may be made in his name to th Quinton
Lutheran Cemetery.
Arrangements entrusted to Conley Funeral Home,
Raymore SK.
OBITUARY
Hey, Caroline
Sept. 1st, 1922 - Nov. 19th, 2020
It is with tear-filled eyes
and sadness in our hearts
we announce the passing of
Caroline Hey on November
19th, 2020, at the age of 98,
at the Last Mountain Pioneer
Home Strasbourg, Sk.
Carrie was born to Jacob
and Amelia Kelln of Duval,
Sk.
Carrie was predeceased by her husband Bob Hey February
5th, 2005, her parents Jacob and Amelia Kelln, sisters
Alma Krentz, Evelyn Criton, Lydia Kelln and Elsie Jauck,
brothers John Kelln, Eddie Kelln, George Kelln, Lawrence
Kelln, Joe Kelln, Bill Kelln, and Rudy Kelln. She is survived
by her brothers Wally Kelln and Teddy Kelln and
many nieces and nephews.
The family will hold a graveside service in honour of
Carrie’s life later at the Strasbourg Cemetery at a later
date. Donations in her memory can be made to the Strasbourg
Lutheran Church.
December Skies
NIGHT SKY
JAMES EDGAR
The Moon starts
off just past full
phase and just
past a shallow
lunar eclipse. So,
we should expect
another eclipse
just 14 days later–
more on that below.
On the 2nd,
the Moon is only
0.2 degrees north
of the cluster M35.
By the 7th, the minor planet Vesta is
occulted in the Eastern Hemisphere,
only 0.8 degrees away for us in the
west. With the new Moon on the 14th
comes the second eclipse of the season,
this time a total solar eclipse beginning
in the southern Pacific Ocean,
crossing southern South America, and
on out into the Atlantic. Many intrepid
eclipse chasers will be in Santiago or Valparaiso to bask briefly under the Moon’s shadow. A few days
later, on the 17th, Jupiter and Saturn are both 3 degrees north of our satellite. Neptune shares the sky
with the Moon on the 20th, but a telescope is required to see the disk of the blue-green planet. On the
23rd, Mars is 3 degrees north of the Moon and Uranus is slightly further east. Once again, M35 is 0.2
degrees south of the Moon on the 29th, and the Moon is full that same evening.
Mercury is not visible this month.
Venus gradually drops lower and lower to the horizon as the month progresses, rounding in its orbit
to soon pass behind the Sun. The Moon passes by on the 12th.
Mars, while still a prominent evening object, loses much of its glory as the month goes by. It shrinks
in apparent size and fades from magnitude –1.1 to mag. –0.2, so only half as bright by month end.
The waxing gibbous Moon passes by on the 23rd.
Jupiter and Saturn reach conjunction on December 21. They have been gradually closing together
for months now, culminating in this very close approach of 0.1 degree, a relatively rare event. Look for
the two gas giants near the western horizon just after sunset. The Moon will have passed by on the
16th.
Uranus is high in the sky at sunset, falling below the western horizon near midnight.
Neptune likewise sets near midnight, offering only a brief window of opportunity for viewing.
The Geminid meteor shower peaks on the 14th, and a total solar eclipse occurs in the Southern
Hemisphere.
The winter solstice is on the 21st at 10:02 UT, as the Sun reaches its furthest point south and begins
its long journey north.
December 22 marks the peak of the Ursid meteor shower at 9 UT.
James Edgar has had an interest in the night sky all his life. He joined The Royal Astronomical
Society of Canada in 2000, was National President for two terms, is now the Editor of the renowned
Observer’s Handbook, and Production Manager of the bi-monthly RASC Journal. The IAU named
asteroid 1995 XC5 “(22421) Jamesedgar” in his honour.
Natures laboratory
Nature is the greatest laboratory
that exists in and because of
Creation.
-James Edgar
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EDITORIALS, LETTERS & OPINIONS
It needs no executive branch, no CEO, marketing
wing, lobbyists or employees at all. It is not
subject to daily market fluctuations. It requires
no buildings or instruments. It bows to no human
ambition, desire or power and it is forever.
We puny human beings and life in general
would not exist without natures scientific, ever
changing, dynamic balance. Creation allows
nature ample time to find balance which is really
only a shifting concept that has to change and
flow with the challenges never ending Creation
presents.
The interactions of nature on life is extremely
intricate. Creation’s plants, forests in particular,
give us oxygen to breath. Not so much oxygen
that the air around us bursts into flame and not
so little our lungs are starved for it. Water, fresh
and salt, hosts our huge, diverse, array of organisms
that can co-exist together in an ingenious
circle of life, death and regeneration to life again.
The sun rises every morning like clock work, he
warms us, he gives us the energy of his light and
he sends down his impregnating rays to Earth so
she can recreate this amazing diversity of life.
This is a balance that no human brain or
physical laboratory could ever imagine or duplicate.
Just trying to conceive natures intricacies
boggles the mind into amazed humility at our
own, collective, intellectual limitations. Natures
superior intelligence daily displays its beauty for
those who wish to honour its loving tolerance for
human ambitions.
Numerous human societies, over the ages, have
recognized that superiority, worshiped it and
sought to live, passively, within that balance.
Those societies are usually wiped out by more
aggressive human conditions like greed, power
and control. But those aggressive conditions have
no passive balance. They are subjected to endless
turmoil because of their own selfish activities.
Attached to this mental instability they have destructive
capacities they wield recklessly, limited
only by the technological capacities they have so
far developed plus the dread in recognition of
responsibility of the ultimate destruction they
author.
Nature really doesn’t need human existence.
It will find new balances with or without human
interference. Those new Creative balances may
even continue to provide the sustenance needed
to extend, for the time being, human life on the
planet.
We only got one planet and predictably only
one brief opportunity left for humans to continue
to co-exist with the rest of life on it.
-Greg Chatterson, Fort San