HOT TOPICS

after the vege garden is ready!!!!

● Ann Webster: Compost before planting anything.

● Heather Forrestmitt: Little liquid fish manure goes a long way to helping those vegetable plants stand up strong and handle a few slug munchies

● Julie Thomas: Get the kids out with you, they love harvesting the veges

● Leon Davidson: Give it heaps of animal manure

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4 ‘Gentle giant' lay dead in his home

for weeks

5 Your weather: Cloudy start today

before sun breaks through

Quiz

1 Marcia and Jan were two of the three daughters in The Brady Bunch — name the third.

2 After the Soviet Union and the United States, what was the next country to send a man into space? 3 Who was the leading actress in the

film Indecent Proposal?

4 Who was the Wimbledon men’s

singles champion in 1979?

5 Leo, Aries and what other zodiacal

sign are the fire signs?

Joke of the day

Q: What do you call it when Batman skips church?

A: Christian Bale.

Bible quote

But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.” Judges 10:15

History

1944: The US Navy began accepting black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).

1950: During the Korean Conflict, United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. 1953: The Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where books are banned and burned by the government, was first published by Ballantine Books. 1967: The U.S. space probe Mariner 5 flew past Venus.

1977: The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.

1987: The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as “Black Monday.”

2005: A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture as his trial opened under heavy security in the former headquarters of his Baath Party in Baghdad.

Birthdays

● Author John le Carre is 87.

● Actor Michael Gambon is 78.

● Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 73.

● Retired boxer Evander Holyfield is

56.

● South Park co-creator Trey Parker is 49.

Quiz Answers

1) Cindy 2) Czechoslovakia 3) Demi Moore 4) Bjorn Borg 5) Sagittarius.

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