July 31, 2019
The Four-Town Journal will not be published in August as we get to work cleaning out our Langenburg office which has been home to us ever since we started. We will then be tackling the even bigger job of training our new Publisher, Ryan Stanko, all the tricks of the trade when it comes to publishing a newspaper. You will be hearing from us in September. Meanwhile, have a great last half of the summer.
We knew it would becoming but when the hot spell hit last Friday we still weren’t prepared for it. Man it was hot! But that’s what a summer is supposed to be.
A lot of attention was spent on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space mission to the moon. The actual landing happened on July 20, 1969 but we can still clearly remember sitting, in the early morning hours of that day, watching those grainy black and white TV pictures of Neil Armstrong becoming the first human-being to set foot on an-other entity in space. It was incredible to think that man had not only accomplished that major feat, but he had managed to televise it live on earth 384,400 kms. away! Twelve men have so far set foot on the moon, all of them U.S. astronauts.
And what was the first thing mankind did on the moon? We dropped a bag of disposable materials on it, leaving it there, presumably, forever. It was necessary to get rid of anything that was no longer needed in order to help the lunar capsule take off.
An impressive feat much closer to home was the Riders’ man-handling of the BC Lions on Saturday in Vancouver. Saskatchewan won the game 45-18 thanks to a strong team effort. Their next game is this Thursday night when Hamilton comes to Mosaic Stadium for a 7:30 game. It will be interesting to see how the Ti-Cats play, having lost their starting QB Jeremiah Masoli for the season due to a serious left knee injury.
A huge pat on the back to everyone who helped make the provincial baseball championships in Saltcoats over the weekend such a great success. Even the weather co-operated although it definitely was windy on Sunday for the final games. And it got even better when the hometown Lakers won the gold medals. We were impressed with how their coaches continually reminded the players they were there to have some fun, which they did, although it was hard on the nerves of all of their parents and fans.
