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Armstrong Lavington Lumby Vernon Want to run your own business? Publish a paper in your area, and become a part of the family. 1.866.859.0609 www.tidbitscanada.com Make a difference in your community today. TidbitsVernon.com ~ (250) 832-3361 Over 4 million readers in 250 cities, every week! 250-542-5661 | www.coldstreammeadows.com Tired of cooking and cleaning? Let us do it for you! Rent at the Lodge starts from $1395/month, includes meals, housekeeping and more! 9104 Mackie Drive, Coldstream BC 4408 27th Street, Vernon, BC 250-542-6998 www.parnells.ca 4410 27th Street Vernon, BC 778.475.3004 Friendly, Reliable Service! 1-888-888-7072 Call for a FREE Estimate As Low as $ .26 sq/ft + delivery Quality Turf At Wholesale Prices www.westernturffarms.com August 1& 2 2014 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT TICKETSELLER www.ticketseller.ca 250.549.SHOW (7469) Featuring: Calgary Stampede Band of Outriders Firefighter Challenge RCMP Ceremonial Troop Royal Canadian Artillery Band RCMP Pipe Band Kal Tire Place 3445 - 43rd Avenue Vernon BC www.okanagantattoo.ca A Celebration of Traditions i f T Okanagan Military Tattoo @OkanaganTattoo July 11 - 17, 2014 Issue #00181 TIDBITS® MAKES MUSIC ON SOME UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTS by Kathy Wolfe ere are lots of ways to make beautiful music on instruments other than the familiar ones. is week, Tidbits looks at some of the world’s more unusual instruments along with a few well-known ones. • Atlantic City, New Jersey, is home to the world’s largest pipe organ, with seven manuals, or keyboards, and 33,112 pipes. Credited as the largest musical instrument ever constructed, it was built between 1929 and 1932 by Long Island, New York’s Midmer-Losh Organ Company at a cost of $350,000, and weighs about 150 tons. It’s in the midst of a 10-year, $16 million restoration project. If you want to take a tour of the organ at that city’s Boardwalk Hall, you will need to notch out 4 ½ hours. • Another interesting organ is located deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Its inventor Leland Sprinkle was a scientist and mathematician at the Pentagon who discovered that the cave’s stalactites produced deep resonating notes when struck. Over the course of three years in the early 1950s, Sprinkle tuned stalactites across 3 ½ acres to specific pitches using sandpaper. Rubber-tipped mallets were then wired to keys on the Great Stalacpipe Organ’s keyboard, so that they would strike the stalactites whenever the corresponding key was played. turn the page for more!

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July 11 - 17, 2014 Issue #00181

TIDBITS® MAKES MUSIC ON SOME

UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTS by Kathy Wolfe

There are lots of ways to make beautiful music on instruments other than the familiar ones. This week, Tidbits looks at some of the world’s more unusual instruments along with a few well-known ones.• Atlantic City, New Jersey, is home to the

world’s largest pipe organ, with seven manuals, or keyboards, and 33,112 pipes. Credited as the largest musical instrument ever constructed, it was built between 1929 and 1932 by Long Island, New York’s Midmer-Losh Organ Company at a cost of $350,000, and weighs about 150 tons. It’s in the midst of a 10-year, $16 million restoration project. If you want to take a tour of the organ at that city’s Boardwalk Hall, you will need to notch out 4 ½ hours.

• Another interesting organ is located deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Its inventor Leland Sprinkle was a scientist and mathematician at the Pentagon who discovered that the cave’s stalactites produced deep resonating notes when struck. Over the course of three years in the early 1950s, Sprinkle tuned stalactites across 3 ½ acres to specific pitches using sandpaper. Rubber-tipped mallets were then wired to keys on the Great Stalacpipe Organ’s keyboard, so that they would strike the stalactites whenever the corresponding key was played.

turn the page for more!

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INSTRUMENTS (continued):• The Fluegelhorn has its origins in the early

18th century, when it was a large semicircular hunting horn, essentially a bugle without valves, played by the “Fluegelmeister.” The modern instrument looks much like a trumpet, but with a much wider bell. It has a richer, mellower, darker sound than the trumpet, about halfway between the tones of a trumpet and a French horn.

• Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the hydrocrystalophone, which in simpler terms is known as the glass armonica. His armonica consisted of a series of glass bowls of graduated size floating in a tray of water. The varying sizes produced different musical tones based on the size of the bowl.

• A thin flat wooden frame with up to 50 strings stretched across its body is known as a zither. Five of the strings are used to play the melody with the remainder used for the harmony. The performer can pluck the strings with either his fingers or a special tool called a plectrum. The zither is common in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and southern Germany. An early form of the zither was found in the tomb of Chinese royalty dating back to 433 B.C.

• The indigenous Australians of northern Australia developed the didgeridoo about 1,500 years ago, and it’s still in use today. The wooden cylinder measures anywhere from 3 to 10 ft. (1 to 3 m) in length. The longer the didgeridoo, the lower the pitch. Aboriginal craftsmen look for hollow live eucalyptus trees, usually ones that have been invaded by termites that have attacked only the heart of the tree. The tree is cleaned out and the bark removed, then shaped into an instrument, with a rim of beeswax added to the mouthpiece end. A British medical study indicates that playing the didgeridoo helps reduce snoring and sleep apnea by strengthening muscles in the upper airway.

• Oompah! Where would marching bands be without the sousaphone? Although many folks call it a tuba, this large 40-lb. (18.1 kg) brass instrument that wraps around the player (who supports most of the weight with his or her shoulder) is more accurately called a sousaphone after its designer. John Philip Sousa, conductor of the United States

Marine Band in the 1890s, and composer of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” was looking for an improvement to the era’s helicon, a narrower version of the sousaphone. Sousa came up with a design that was submitted to Philadelphia’s J.W. Pepper Company, a design with the bell pointed upward. By the 1920s, the design had been changed to the bell pointing outward for better sound projection. In more recent years, the instruments have been manufactured from fiberglass to lighten the load.

• The hurdy-gurdy has been around since about the 12th century when it was known as the organistrum or symphonia. It’s a three-stringed instrument with a wheel or circular bow that is turned by a crank. The strings are attached to keys and when the wheel rubs against the strings, it produces a sound similar to that of a violin. The large organistrum has a guitar-shaped body and long neck where the keys are set. The name hurdy-gurdy is often confused with the barrel organ or street piano played by street musicians. That instrument consists

of barrels onto which perforated paper rolls are attached. Only a turning of the crank is required to play the barrel organ, with no musical skills required. It’s the instrument seen in illustrations of an organ grinder and his performing monkey.

• One of the world’s oldest musical instruments, the harp, was developed from a hunting bow. Pictographs of harps have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to 3000 B.C. The modern harp has a long hollow side called the column or pillar, in which are situated the rods that control the instrument’s seven pedals. The pedals allow for changing notes and switching keys. Because there are no “black keys” to help the harpist locate notes on the nearly 50 strings, the “C” strings are colored red and “F” strings are black. The harp’s strings are made of nylon, gut, wire, or silk.

• The Jew’s harp isn’t a harp and it isn’t Jewish! Its proper name is “plucked idiophone,” and its small lyre-shaped metal frame is played by positioning it on the performer’s teeth. A bent metal tongue inside the frame is

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FAMOUS CANADIANS:

LORNE GREENE For years we knew him as Pa Cartwright, the patriarch of the Ponderosa Ranch on television’s Bonanza. But there was more to this famous Canadian than running a fictional ranch. Take a look at the life of this noted actor. • Born Lyon Himan Green (without the “e”) to

Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Ottawa, Ontario, he became interested in acting while a chemical engineering student at Queen’s University in Kingston. After graduation, he walked away from a career in engineering, finding a job as a radio broadcaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. With his rich, deep voice, before long he became known as “The Voice of Canada.”

• After a stint as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, Greene returned to Canada to pursue an acting career. His authoritative bass voice lent itself well to the narration of documentary films.

• His role in 1957’s Peyton Place led to a guest spot on television’s Wagon Train, which led to his most well-known role, that of Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza in 1959. Green modeled his character after his own father, a shoemaker. For the next 14 years,

Greene played Cartwright on a series that became the second-longest running western series (after Gunsmoke). Within two years, Bonanza was the Number One show on TV, and in the mid-1960s, Greene was making $11,000 a week.

• In a TV Guide survey of the “50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time,” Ben Cartwright was ranked as #2 behind Bill Cosby.

• During his Bonanza years, Greene also served as the co-host of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC from 1963 to 1972, beside Betty White. He also released several albums of country western and folk songs, achieving a #1 single on the music charts with his recording of “Ringo,” a spoken-word ballad about the Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo.

• In 1973, after a 430-episode run, Bonanza was cancelled. Greene’s next role was that of a private detective in the crime drama Griff, but it was cancelled due to poor ratings after only 13 episodes. However, there was no lack of work for Greene. He immediately began hosting a nature series entitled Last of the

Wild, as well as beginning a years-long job as spokesman for Alpo dog food. He also had a major role in the classic miniseries Roots as the master of slave Kunta Kinte.

• In 1978, Lorne Green took on the role of Captain Adama in the popular sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica and its follow-up Galactica 1980. Following its cancellation, Greene turned back to nature, hosting a Canadian television documentary series Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness.

• In 1987, a made-for-TV movie with a Bonanza reunion was planned, and Greene signed on to reprise his role of Ben Cartwright. Unfortunately, he passed away before the filming began from pneumonia that developed following ulcer surgery. The movie was still produced, with Greene’s daughter playing the role of the love interest of Little Joe Cartwright’s son.

• Green left behind a tribute to his Canadian roots by his founding of Toronto’s Academy of Radio Arts, originally called the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting.

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INSTRUMENTS (continued):plucked by the player’s finger. Ancient frames

dating back to the year 1400 have been found in Germany. One of Beethoven’s music teachers, Austrian composer and organist Johann Alberchtsberger, composed several concerti for the Jew’s Harp around 1765.

• Since 1998, folks across Europe and Asia have been listening to the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, a group of 11 musicians who play instruments carved from fresh vegetables. They make their instruments one hour before each performance from the freshest vegetables possible, and play music on cuke-o-phones, radish marimbas, carrot flutes, bell pepper trumpets, pumpkin basses, violins carved from leeks, and percussion instruments fashioned from eggplant. It takes about 90 lbs. (40.8 kg) of fresh veggies to create the orchestra, and following the performance, the group’s cook throws all of the instruments into a kettle of soup.

CHOCOLATE-Y FACTS In honor of Chocolate Day on July 7, Tidbits checks out the facts on this favorite confection. • A small evergreen tree ranging in

height from 15 to 26 feet (4 to 8 m) is the source of cacao beans. The Theobroma cacao, native to Central and South America, produces seeds directly on its trunk rather than on branches. Each seed pod is about the size of a pineapple and holds between 30 and 50 seeds that have a very bitter taste until they undergo a seven-day fermentation process, which develops the flavor. In the ancient Mayan civilization, cacao beans were so valuable, they were used as currency. They were commonly counterfeited, with fakes fashioned out of painted clay.

• Christopher Columbus brought

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CHOCOLATE (continued):cacao beans back from what is now

Honduras, presenting them to the Spanish king and queen who had financed his journeys. The beans’ value was overlooked for years until fellow explorer Hernando Cortez also brought back a stash of the precious cargo.

• Milton Hershey was already a candy manufacturer specializing in caramels when, in 1894, he decided to start producing sweet chocolate as a coating for the caramels. Soon Hershey was producing milk chocolate in 114 different bars and other shapes. He chose a location in south-central Pennsylvania for his operation, which has grown into the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America.

• Hershey’s kisses came along in 1907, and today the company produces over 80 million kisses every single day. About one billion pounds of chocolate products are produced annually by Hershey’s.

• The U.S. chocolate industry uses about 3.5 million pounds of whole milk every day to produce milk chocolate.

They also use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts. About 400 cacao beans are

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CHOCOLATE (continued):needed to make one pound (450 g) of

chocolate. • Research indicates that dark

chocolate has many health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease by one-third. Its antioxidants seem to reduce blood pressure, widen arteries, and promote healthy blood flow. Some experts claim that it boosts memory, attention span, and problem-solving skills. Dark chocolate’s flavonoids, a type of plant chemical, have anti-inflammatory properties and cell-protecting effects. It doesn’t take much to reap the benefits – a 1.4 oz. (40 g) serving contains 536 mg of flavonoids, with research indicating that just 80 mg can produce a drop in blood pressure. But it’s only dark chocolate that has been shown to be beneficial, while milk chocolate, white chocolate, and other varieties are not.

• Per capita, folks in Switzerland eat the most chocolate, about 22 lbs. (10 kg) per person per year. Australians consume 20 lbs. (9 kg) each annually, and the Irish eat 19 lbs. (8.6 kg) per person. Even though the United States produces the most chocolate worldwide, the average American consumes just 12 lbs. (5.4 kg) a year. Some eat more than others – those who feel depressed seem to eat about 55% more than those who aren’t depressed.

▶ Lake Erie supports more commercial fishing than any of the other Great Lakes.

▶ A tornado blew through southern Ontario in 1996, destroying a drive-in theater in the town of Thorold. Ironically enough, the film playing at the time was Twister. Fortunately, the tornado hit during the day and no one was hurt.

▶ Charles Coghlan was born on Prince Edward Island in 1841. He became a successful stage actor and toured the world, but Prince Edward Isle was always his home. In 1899, during an appearance on Galveston Island, Texas, he became ill and died. Coghlan was buried in a Galveston cemetery. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane struck Galveston, flooding the town, killing 6,000, and swamping the cemeteries. Many coffins floated into the Gulf of Mexico. The coffin of Charles Coghlan was caught by the current. Seven years later, a fishermen from Prince Edward Island noticed a box in the water. He towed it to shore, chipped off the barnacles, and discovered the body of Charles Coghlan. He had floated to shore only a few miles from his birthplace. He was re-buried on his native soil with honor.

▶ Prince Edward Island grows one third of the country’s potatoes, producing approximately 1.3 billion kilograms annually. Comparatively, the state of Idaho produces approximately 6.2 billion kilograms annually. Potatoes are the most valuable vegetable crop in Canada.

Why Does Cat Keep Hiding in Closet?

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I cannot keep my cat “Jess” out of the closet! Even though I keep the sliding doors closed, as soon as I open them to get something, she jumps right in and hides in the very back corner. How can I stop this? -- Frustrated in Fresno

DEAR FRUSTRATED: There must be something awesome about that closet. Wait, I know: It’s a dark, cozy hiding spot ... something most cats love. There may be something attractive on the floor of the closet, like strings dangling from a bag of knitting or small lint balls.Or, your cat could be hiding from a perceived threat. Do you have a dog or another cat? Jess could be looking for a place where she isn’t bullied or barked at. Is Jess spayed? If not, has she spent time outside or been in contact with other cats? Pregnant cats begin hunting for a dark, safe spot as the time to have their kittens approaches. If you’re not sure, take Jess to the vet to get her checked out.Is she showing signs of possible illness -- like personality changes, lethargy, excessive meowing, not cleaning her coat or other strange behavior? Cats that are sick will instinctively try to hide to avoid predators. Take her to the vet if anything seems amiss, even a little bit.If none of these apply and Jess’ health checks out, employ some redirection. Sprinkle a little peppermint oil on the floor of the closet, or put down some duct tape -- the tape feels weird to cats, and they’ll avoid it. Meantime, provide an acceptable alternative hiding spot, like an elevated cat climber with a shelter cubby. And keep Jess out of the room if possible before opening the closet door.

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Okanagan 4H Stock and Show Sale (34th Annual)Monday, July 7, 2014 to Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 9am at IPE Fairgrounds, 3010 Wood Ave. Armstrong. Approximately 40 4-H Beef Club members and over 90 4-H Horse club members from throughout Central B.C will be participating in an action filled week. Don’t forget to stop by the Horticulture building to view the Educational Display competition. You’ll be impressed by these interesting and educational displays and all the hard work the 4-H members have put into them. The Okanagan 4-H stock Show concludes Saturday, July 12th with the 4-H parade of Champions, and the sale of the Prime Grain fed 4-H Beef commencing at 10:00am. This is a great opportunity to purchase high quality beef for your freezer. We welcome everyone to stop by the IPE Fairgrounds to watch the show, talk to the kids, and learn what 4-H is all about. We hope to see you there!! For more information please contact Show Chairperson Fiawna Ladd (250) 547-8843

Crow’s Nest Cafe Friday, July 11, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014 from 10am to 1pm at Junction Literacy Youth Centre, 3104 - 37th Ave. Vernon. Open to Aboriginal Youth 13 years and older this is a perfect place to come and express yourself! Share stories, read it, write and say it! Plus there’s tons of support and it’s a safe place! Cost: N/A For more info: (250) 275-3117 www.junctionliteracycentre.ca

Silver Star Freeride Festival Friday, July 11, 2014 from 11am to 5pm, Saturday July 12, 2014 from 9am to 8pm, and Sunday, July 13, 2014 from 10am to 5:30pm at Silver Star Mountain at 123 Shortt Street, Vernon. The Freeride Festival now features a FMBA Bronze sanctioned event in the Silver Style Jump Jam which showcased ridiculous talent last year! The main event of the weekend is the Freeride Mountain Bike Assocation sanctioned slopestyle Silver Style! Part of the FMB World Tour, the Silver Style Jump Jam is going to be bigger and better than ever before! Now competitors will be competing for valuable points towards to overall FMB World Tour Championships! Silver Style jump jam is the premier slopestyle event in the Okanagan. This year the event is sanctioned by the FMB World Tour at the bronze level. For 2014 you can expect bigger features, more prizes, more cash and good times! For more info: [email protected]

Free Outdoor MovieFriday, July 11, 2014 at 9:30pm at Polson Park, 2704 Hwy 6 Vernon. Super excited to launch our first movie of the Sutton Group - Lakefront Realty Vernon BC Cinema Under The Stars 2014!! Our first movie will be Dumb & Dumber in anticipation for the sequel being released this year!! Feel free to come early, bring a blanket or chair! Cost: Free There will be a concession ran by Vernon Minor Football with all proceeds to the kids!!

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