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Is your book club looking for new things to read? Do you want to read amazing books about amazing books? Did you know that Calgary Reads has two online book clubs and that they are open to anyone? On the Calgary Reads site you will find reviews of inspiring books plus a list of questions about that book that you can wow them with at your next real-life book club meeting.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is just one of the many books reviewed in the adult book club and is described as “a collection of letters written be-tween a London newspaper columnist and the mem-bers of the Literary and Potato Peel Society during the German occupation of Guernsey in 1946.” The reviewer, a Calgary Reads volunteer tutor, promises that you will “leave the last page with sure and certain hope that the goodness of humankind will triumph over mean-spirited tyrants every time”.

Over at the kids’ book club, an especially heart-warming recommendation is Jeremiah Learns To Read, which tells the story of an old man who can do everything you can possibly imagine, except read. One day, he decides that he wants to learn. “So Jeremiah goes to school and he starts by learning the letters and the sounds they make and some of the children help him. At recess they sit under a tree and they read him stories and Jeremiah shows them how to chirp like a chickadee and honk like a goose”.

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Every year, paramedics respond to emergencies where a child has fallen from an open window in their house– of-ten from the second floor. Falls such as these are prevent-able by taking time to assess your home and ensuring windows are safe.

Further prevention tips •Children aged one to four are at highest risk of falling

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New beginnings! Isn’t this what nature is telling us that spring is all about?

Winter can take its toll on even the most optimistic among us, and the extra baggage can be hard to shake.

To change your winter time habits requires a shift in your perspective. To change your body you must first change your mind.

•Get a fresh start and shake things up. I recently went on a short vacation and it rejuvenated my mind, heart and body. Doing something active like a ski trip or yoga retreat jump starts healthy habits. Now, I know that not everyone can take a vacation but as my mother would say ‘would it kill you to take a day off?’ Take a day in the middle of the week (no errands!) and spend the morning in Fish Creek park or any of the other beauti-ful urban parks we have in Calgary. Being in nature is a proven stress reliever and the vitamin D boosts your immunity. Next, treat yourself to a massage and take yourself (and someone you love if you like) out to din-ner. By the end of your ‘stay-cation’ you will be looking at things in a whole new light. •If you have not tried green juices and smoothies,

now is the time. Nature provides us with bitter greens in the spring that will help detoxify the liver and other organs. If you don’t have a juicer, try out one of the juice bars to see if juices are right for you then dig in!•Walking. Outside. If you are walking with proper

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Great Grilled VeGetablesGrilling vegetables on the barbecue is easy and can take an average side of veggies to new heights with a change up in presentation.

As a general rule, vegetables need to be cut into large, uniform chunks, approximately ¾” – 1” thick that will cook quickly and evenly. Thread your favourite vegetables along with a few cherry tomatoes onto pre-soaked wooden kabob skewers or use a grill basket for best results. Most vegetables are less likely to stick if marinated first, or brushed with olive oil. For added flavour, season with salt, pepper, and fresh herbs or chili flakes.

A short list of suggestions to consider grilling:Bell Peppers – Remove stems, seeds and ribs, and cut into large chunks. Brush lightly with a light olive oil and grill 2-3 minutes on each side.

Corn – Grill corn in its own wrapper, by gently pulling back the husks. Remove the silk and cut approximately 1” off the top of the cob. Soak in cold water for a ½ hour, then dry, and brush with but-ter. Fold husks back over the cob, and “twist-tie” the ends to secure. Grill 5-7 minutes, turning constantly to avoid burning.

Mushrooms – Clean thoroughly by peeling or rinsing and then pat dry. Brush with olive oil and grill 5-8 minutes, depending on how large the mushrooms are.

Onions – Remove skin and cut into ½” thick pieces, then brush with olive oil and grill 3-4 minutes.

Potatoes – Cut into wedges, brush with olive oil, and grill until browned, and just tender. For baked potatoes. For baked potatoes, scrub thoroughly, pat dry, pierce, and rub with olive oil. Wrap in alu-minum foil and grill 45 minutes to a hour or more depending on the size of the baker. Turn occasionally.

Tomatoes – Cut in half, brush with a light coating of olive oil and grill the cut side down for approximately 2-3 minutes.

Zucchini – Wash, pat dry, and then cut into ½” thick slices. Brush with olive oil and grill 2-3 minutes per side.

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Summer is just around the corner and a little planning now will help insure you have butterflies in your garden soon. You can design your yard and garden to attract butter-flies. By adding a few plants and thinking about food, water, sun and shelter you can easily welcome these delightful creatures to your backyard.

FoodAdult butterflies feed almost exclu-sively on nectar and other sugary liquids like plant sap, by using a mix-ture of flowers you can ensure you have blossoms throughout the sea-son for your colourful guests.

HabitatThe perfect butterfly garden offers year-round services. Most butterflies survive the cold months as either eggs or pupae, but a few, including Mourning Cloaks and Tortoise Shells over-winter as adults. You can encour-age these butterflies to spend the winter in your yard by leaving fallen leaves and old logs for hibernation sites.

Restocking NatureIf you want to help increase the butterfly population, buy a kit. You and your children can watch the miracle of caterpillars growing into beautiful butterflies and then release them into the garden you have prepared for them.

If you want to learn more about butterflies and but-terfly gardens, check out resources available online as well as books.

It doesn’t take much to change your garden into a butterfly garden. Simply meet their needs for food, water and habitat and you can enjoy your own crop of fluttering jewels.

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Monarch Painted Lady Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Summer is just around the corner and a little planning now will help insure you have butterflies in your garden soon. You can design your yard and garden to attract butterflies. By adding a few plants and thinking about food, water, sun and shelter you can easily welcome these delightful creatures to your backyard. Food Adult butterflies feed almost exclusively on nectar and other sugary liquids like plant sap, by using a mixture of flowers you can ensure you have blossoms throughout the season for your colourful guests. Butterflies love these plants: Lilac, Globe Thistle, Marigolds, Daisies, Ironweed, Red Clover and these trees; Aspens (poplars), Birches and Willows. Flower colour is important to butterflies. Like many insects, they see colours in the ultraviolet that we can’t see so they are attracted to purple flowers. Goldenrod and purple asters are always popular, as are the bell-shaped flowers of the spreading dogbane. Native violets would also be a good choice. Monarch larvae eat only milkweed, be sure to include some in your garden. We recommend Swamp Milkweed or Showy Milkweed. Water Butterflies get most of their water from nectar, but they do need the minerals found in wet earth. Large numbers of butterflies can sometimes be seen sipping salts from the edges of puddles. In a backyard they can be attracted to a damp sand-and-gravel-filled tray or a damp area beside a larger water pond or fountain. Here is a website with simple butterfly feeders you can make www.hometrainingtools.com. Habitat The perfect butterfly garden offers year-round services. Most butterflies survive the cold months as either eggs or pupae, but a few, including Mourning Cloaks and Tortoise Shells over-winter as adults. You can encourage these butterflies to spend the winter in your yard by leaving fallen leaves and old logs for hibernation sites. Restocking Nature If you want to help increase the butterfly population, buy a kit. You and your children can watch the miracle of caterpillars growing into beautiful butterflies and then release them into the garden you have prepared for them.

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Butterflies love these plants: Lilac, Globe Thistle, Mari-golds, Daisies, Ironweed, Red Clover and these trees; Aspens (poplars), Birches and Willows.

Flower colour is important to butterflies. Like many insects, they see colours in the ultraviolet that we can’t see so they are attracted to purple flowers. Goldenrod and purple asters are always popular, as are the bell-shaped flowers of the spreading dog-bane. Native violets would also be a good choice.

Monarch larvae eat only milkweed, be sure to include some in your garden. We recommend Swamp Milk-weed or Showy Milkweed.

WaterButterflies get most of their water from nectar, but they do need the minerals found in wet earth. Large numbers of butterflies can sometimes be seen sip-ping salts from the edges of puddles. In a backyard they can be attracted to a damp sand-and-gravel-filled tray or a damp area beside a larger water pond or fountain. Here is a website with simple butterfly feeders you can make www.hometrainingtools.com.


Spring has come and school will end soon, then kids and dogs will start to enjoy more outdoor time. As a veteri-narian and dog trainer, I taught my children to behave appropriately around dogs… I thought. But even my son after asking and receiving permission to greet a dog from its owner, has inappropriately and impulsively, grabbed the dog and hugged it around the neck. This dog was giving out all kinds of signals that this made him uncomfortable, and fortunately he chose not to bite. We can’t over teach our children to protect them-selves and the dogs they encounter by behaving in a manner so no one ends up bitten or in serious trouble.

I have previously told the story of the worst case of dan-gerous behavior I have ever seen by a person phobic about dogs. A very big sweet dog strolled into a bottle depot carrying a plastic jug hoping someone would throw it for him. The woman two stations over from me started screaming hysterically, swinging her arms, jump-ing up and down, and kicking out at the dog. This silly wonderful dog dropped his jug at her feet, sat down with his head cocked to one side, and looked over at this mad woman, until we shooed him out of the depot. I try to be sympathetic of other’s fears, but this woman’s shrill screaming hurt my ears and made me want to bite her. If this dog had a fearful or aggressive bone in his body this woman was doing everything to potentially set him off. By teaching children how to behave when they encounter a stray dog, I hope they will never have a reason to be as fearful of dogs as this woman was.

If your child feels threatened by a stray dog they must not run. Dogs are predators and therefore have a strong chase reflex whether they are friendly or not. A friendly dog may chase a running child and inadvertently knock them down, but a dog with a strong prey drive may be incited to bite. BE A TREE! Your child should stand mo-tionless wrapping their arms close to themselves. Do not make eye contact. Look away or even close your eyes. A dog may come and sniff them but would likely find this person uninteresting and wander away. Then the child should quietly walk to a responsible adult.

If the child is on the ground, BE A LOG! They can be a rolled up stone for that matter, but the same rules apply, arms wrapped around the body and motionless. No eye contact.

A child’s high-pitched screams are often irritating or ex-citing to dogs. It goes against a child’s need to cry for help, but trees, logs, and rocks are silent.

Never corner a dog, or any animal, to pet it. A trapped frightened animal is an animal that has had the choice to withdraw or run away removed, so its only remaining choice is to bite.

Do not assume you or your child can read a dog’s inten-tions. Dogs about to bite may have their heads up, and wag their tails. Tail wagging has little to do with judg-ing aggression. The dog my son was hugging radiated discomfort by panting, straining to get away, and pin-ning his ears back. Liam was oblivious to the dog’s body language in his excitement to greet the dog. Forgetting the rules is part of why children are children and most children love animals. Review the rules frequently and remind children their own dog is not the same as every other dog.

If your child does wish to pet a leashed dog, they must first ask permission of the owner, and then WAIT for per-mission to be granted. Finally, let the owner get control of the pet in a sit-stay or on a short leash prior to put-ting out your hand palm upward and below the dog’s face. Scratch the dog’s neck, do not place your face in the dog’s face or hug the dog. Better yet ask the owner how their pet likes to be touched.

Teaching your children about dogs may save your child from a nasty bite or worse. Any animal bite should be reported to the authorities. By being smart with dogs and children we also create an atmosphere where our beloved dogs are welcome and accepted in the com-munity.

Jennifer L. Scott, D.V.M.

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•June 12 - 15 - The Continental at Spruce Meadows is a 5-star tournament featuring a Nations’ Cup. Admission and parking are complimentary. 403.974.4200 / www.sprucemeadows.com

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•June 18 – 21 - Ignite! 2014 is Calgary’s festival for emerging artists in dance, visual art and music. For performance details www.sagetheatre.com/ignite-festival.html

•June 18 – 22 - Sled Island Music Festival is an annual four-day independent music and arts festival featuring over 200 artists and bands throughout various venues in the city. www.sledisland.com/schedule/2014

•June 20 – 22 - 15th Annual Calgary Greek Festival celebrates the Hellenic culture of Greece with music, dance, wine and food. www.calgaryhellenic.com/greek-festival-2014-15-years

•June 26 – August 9 - Shakespeare in the Park returns to Prince’s Island Park with The Comedy of Errors, one of Shakespeare’s silliest plays. www.theatrecalgary.com

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the blue Jaybaseball players need not applyArticle By: Katie Fisher Photo Credit: Shirley Otway

When we hear the term Blue Jay, we typically think of the Toronto Blue Jays. However, a bird hobbyist will think of the large crested songbird with his broad, rounded tail.

Found in North America, the Blue Jay occupies forest edges, favouring the oak tree. They can also be spot-ted in urban and suburban areas. Blue Jays are not typically picky about where they build their nests, whether it’s in a deciduous or a coniferous tree. Both the male and female assist in gathering building ma-terials and assembling their home. Building materials will consist of twigs, grass and rootlets gathered from freshly dug ditches and gravesites in cemeteries.

Now that our feathered friends are cozy in their well-constructed homes, it’s time to fill their bellies. A Blue Jay’s diet consists of fruits, grains, insects and nuts. They love to snack on acorns and are recognized for assisting with the spread of oak trees after the last glacial period. In a bind, they will also munch on eggs and nestlings from other nests. Like humans, the Blue Jay will enjoy his meal with his family and fellow flock members.

Known to be the life of the party, he is intelligent and makes a variety of calls that carry long distances. He is adept at mimicking hawk calls to alert other birds to the presence of a hawk in the area as well as mimicking hawk calls to deceive other species.

The jay embraces his free will to migrate, though may choose not to, if the mood strikes. Usually, younger Blue Jays will migrate in flocks along the Great Lakes and Atlantic coasts. The decision is his and because of this, he continues to elude researchers.

Regardless of his social life, the Blue Jay remains com-mitted to his family. He is known to have a strong family bond and typically mates for life. The male Blue Jay is known for “bringing home the bacon”, or in his case, providing food for his mate and soon-to-be nestlings. He carries food in his crop and can carry up to five acorns at a time. His nestlings will become independent much faster than human children. Nest-lings have been witnessed leaving the nest as early as 17 – 21 days old.

When we are asked to describe the Blue Jay, blue is the first word that comes to mind but the Blue Jay is actually brown. The unique inner structure of his feathers distorts the reflection of light, making him appear blue. We might also describe him as aggres-sive because he will scare other bird species from our feeders with his hawk call.

If you would like to attract the Blue Jay to your yard, they prefer tray and hopper feeders over hanging feeders. You could also try planting an oak tree. If you come across an injured Blue Jay, please contact Cal-gary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society wildlife hotline at 403-239-2488.

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