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And gains Greystone Kids Inside in: X-Rays of Nature’s Hidden World by Jan Paul Schutten, illus. by Arie Van ‘t Riet, trans. by Laura Watkinson (Oct. 12, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-679-6), provides a look at creatures and their natural habitats using x-ray techniques and photographs. Ages 2–7. How Beautiful by Antonella Capetti, illus. by Melissa Castrillon (Nov. 2, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-853-0). A curious caterpillar searches for the true meaning of the word beautiful. Ages 4–8. Little Narwhal, Not Alone by Tiffany Stone, illus. by Ashlyn Anstee (Oct. 12, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-77164-...

Thank you for the powerfully inspirational front-page article " A Soft Place to Settle" in the Monday Dispatch. The Mocharski family is a true role model for empathy, compassion and generosity. With their own family of four children, they opened their door and their hearts to foster two children, unaccompanied minors, crossing the border for safety after their father was murdered, and now separated from their mother. The beautifully written article recounts all who helped make this a "soft place to settle." In the midst of daily alarming and frightening reports of ever-increasing viole...

Selci Is a Canadian Cannabis Hero "It is shocking to me that it was illegal to begin with" Published Apr 23, 2021 Hailing from Calgary, Selci makes dreamy alt-pop with an undercurrent of club-ready electronic music. EPs like 2020's A Soft Place and 2018's Effervescence place her R&B-tinged croons atop washes of etherial synths, rat-a-tatting hip-hop hi-hats and thumping bass. Although cannabis used to play a key role in her music-making process, she now find that high-THC weed heightens her anxiety. That's why she's switched to CBD strains, sometimes mixed with tobacco. Ahead of her debut ...

Date Time Stromatolites – fossils of earliest life on Earth – may owe existence to viruses As the Mars Rover sets out to look for evidence of life on another planet, scientists back on Earth suggest viruses played a key role in creating stromatolites, our planet’s earliest lifeforms. Stromatolites at Shark Bay, Western Australia. Photo: UNSW Sydney/Brendan Burns It may pain us to hear this during a deadly viral pandemic, but life as we know it on this planet may never have occurred if it weren’t for viruses, scientists studying billion-year-old ‘living rocks’ say. In a paper publi...

Sedona Red Rock News Laurie Moore, left, Robert “Wing” Ryan, Nancy Lee and Hope Geller of the Sedona Area Homeless Alliance pose for a photo with one of their snowman Christmas packages on Wednesday, Dec. 23. David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers The Sedona Area Homeless Alliance is sharing some Christmas cheer with some of those who need it most. For the fourth-straight year SAHA is serving as one of Santa’s helpers for its A Soft Place to Fall Christmas project. “Most people experi­encing homelessness do not have room for extra things so we don’t usually push a lot of ite...