Earth Hour 2009
What Will You Be Doing?
CUDDLING up with your loved ones and admiring the stars in the night sky or organising a treasure hunt in the dark?
At 8:30pm on Saturday, March 28, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour - and cast their vote for action on climate change.
Anybody can participate and join together with millions of people across the globe celebrating Earth Hour. Earth Hour is about taking simple steps everyday that collectively reduce carbon emissions from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.
Here are nine different ways to spend Earth Hour and reduce your carbon footprint
1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
2. Gather family and friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
3. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
4. Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
5. Take the dog for a night walk
6. Have a candle-lit bath
7. Sit in the dark and share stories
8. Organise a family night playing board games
9. Share a romantic night in with your loved one. Make Earth Hour work for you.
Families with young children should feel free to turn their lights off earlier than 8:30pm and for those having too much fun in the dark during the hour, don't feel you have to limit yourself to one hour and switch back on at 9:30pm. To find out more about Earth Hour, visit the official website www.earthhour.org, sign up and join millions of people in more than 1,400 cities and towns in 80 countries throughout the world by turning off your lights.
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Looking back&
Stratford Press, January 26, 1983
Phantom Gardener Strikes
Mr and Mrs EA and EW Hollis of 341 Broadway South have a house frontage of carefully cultivated gardens.
On Saturday night some anonymous greenfingers thinned out the front of their section.
However, it wasn't weeds they pulled out but a row of stocks. Strangely the plants were not thrown away but laid out neatly in a row.
The Hollis's don't know what time it was done or who did it.
They could only reflect on the strange habits of some people as they replaced the plants.
The Hollis residence in Broadway is one of a series of colourful frontages along the main road.
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Did you know?
" The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
" Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
" The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
" An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
" Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
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10 commandments
The Ten Commandments display was recently removed from the Alabama SupremeCourt building. There was a good reason for the move. You can't post&
Thou Shalt Not Steal,Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,and Thou Shall Not Lie
∈ a building full of lawyers and politicians without creating a hostile work environment.
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