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C2 The Acton Free Press Wed Dec Need winter color install bird feeder Many home gardens look drab during the winter months A bird feeder in the yard near a convenient window can add a touch of brightness as well as being interesting and educational During the early winter months birds feed on the weed seeds in fields and back gardens But at the snow piles up these sources of food are burled A feeder will attract many different birds such as blue jays cardinals and possibly some that you havent seen before A mixture of helps the birds through the winter Suet raisins of the cereal grains corn or sunflower seeds are bound to attract a wide variety of birds There are also several mixtures of wild bird seeds available If you plan to set the feeder on a steel or wooden pole make sure the feeder is about feet off the ground Squirrels also like the feeds and will take over your feeder Steel poles are excellent to prevent this since they cannot get a grip If you use a wooden pole fasten a cone around the pole about feet up so they cannot climb any further Besides the interesting winter birds your feeder will attract sparrows Dont discourage them because they II be around next spring eating insects and garden pests when things begin to grow Arrival of comet Kohoutek treat for sky watchers the home of Mr and Jim Peel Street Acton A for Peace and Hove With you we pray for hope and peace everywhere To you our heartfelt greetings and Staff CLEANERS A Supermarket Acton Pharmacy Glenlea Drug Mart Simpson Sears The Acton Free Press HERBS DELIVERY HERBDODDS Too drunk jury says A Cambridge man was round not county court at Guelph of attempted bank robbery Harold was charged Feb 28 by provincial police with at tempted robbery and assault after a man attempted to hold Up the Erin branch of the Royal Bank of Canada The jury found Kearns guilty or the lesser charge assaulting the banks ac countant He received a threemonth sentence consecutive to the 15month term he Is already serving for attempted rob bery of a Cambridge bank He was sentenced in August for the offence by Kitchener Judge J Kirkpatrick The Jury found him not guilty of the attempted robbery charge in Erin after several witnesses testified that Kearns was too drunk to establish an Intent to commit the offence Michael Bean lawyer contested that his client was suffering from alcoholic amnesia at the time he committed the offence himself testified that he could not remember anything previous to being picked up by police In Sky watchers In this area are in for the treat of a lifetime during the Christmas season with the arrival of Kohoutekthe comet or the century It will be clearly visible by Christmas Day and will be at Its brightest a few days later as It passes to within 13 million miles of the sun Named after Its discoverer Czech astronomer the comet was dis covered accidentally on photographic plates on March 7 of this year was searching Tor asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and the lost periodic comet when he discovered the stranger At the time of discovery the comet was faint visible only through large telescopes such as he worked on in an observatory at Hamburg Germany It was Just Inside the orbit of Jupiter some million miles from the sun What alerted astronomers to the brightness of the comet was the fact at that distance it should not have been visible at all The best time for viewing An expert In the U S says It will be In the early evening between January 1MB because at that time the full moon wont be visible the comet should be well above the horlum and will probably be almost bright as the Venus which will be he brightest object in the sky slightly to the left and below the comet Observers should look slightly to the right of where the sun has set brightness will make it relatively easy to photograph And because its path through the universe will our solar system years viewers will be presented with up for time exposures with high speed film Is a must Set the camera on a tripod or other firm camera support and don forget to use a shutter cable release to eliminate as much movement and vibration as possible that it is sometimes difficult for astronomers to predict precisely how bright a comet might be or how its might change em ember that because of the earths rotation long exposures will cause back ground stars in your pictures to trail or streak Also longer than two minutes will cause the head of the comet to blur May peaceful tranquility of this Holy season enter heart and borne Oar pleasure is nerving you The Holland Shop