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Houston Astros Win Their First World Series

Joyce Grant — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 03:15:14 +0000

The Houston Astros won the World Series, the biggest achievement in baseball each year, for the first time in their team's history.
They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to three.
The Astros won the seventh game of the World Series 5 to 1 over the Dodgers on Nov. 1.
It was a hard-fought battle. The two teams were evenly matched. The fact that the World Series even went to seven games means that neither team ran away with the championship.
The Astros won game seven early. They got five points in the first two innings, putting them ahead of the Dodgers right from the start.

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The Blue Jays’ Crazy, Wonderful, Fantastic Inning

Joyce Grant — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:22:59 +0000

One of the craziest, most thrilling games in major league baseball history occurred at the Rogers Centre in Toronto last Wednesday.

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Sun Screen Not Allowed In San Antonio Schools

Joyce Grant — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:50:38 +0000

Some students in San Antonio, Texas have been told they can’t bring sunscreen to school.

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Want To Be An Astronaut? A New Post Has Just Opened Up

Joyce Grant — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:52:04 +0000

Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield will soon be simply, “Mr. Hadfield.”

That’s because he has announced that he is resigning.

In this case, “resigning” means stopping his job as an astronaut.

Hadfield has been an astronaut for 35 years.

Recently, he gained wide popularity after sending photos and videos to Earth from the International Space Station.

Many people around the world enjoyed his tweets and Facebook posts from space.

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Millions Of Butterflies In Ontario And Eastern Canada

Joyce Grant — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:18:54 +0000

If you were sitting outside on April 16 in Eastern North America, you may have seen a wondrous site. That day, millions of Red Admiral butterflies flew in – or perhaps “blew in” – from the southern United States.

Drew Monkman is a local natualist (“nature watcher”) and writer, living in Peterborough, Ont. He tracks the habits of animals including butterflies.

He told TKN that the April 16 migration was “completely unprecedented. (The Red Admiral has) never been seen in these kinds of numbers.”

He said on that day there were probably several million butterflies, most of them Red Admiral, but there were other species as well.

Drew Monkman is a naturalist and butterfly expert living in Peterborough, Ont.
Why did this happen? This year in the southern United States like Texas, where the butterflies began their journey, the winter was “amazingly mild,” said Monkman. This allowed more butterflies to survive the winter and reproduce.

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