Fort Frances Time Online Edition - October 18, 2016

Students in Cheri Whatley’s Early Learning class at St. Michael’s School learned about bus safety yesterday from Holly Bruyere of Iron Range Bus Lines to mark National School Bus Safety Week.

Jordie Baird, left, spoke with Pastor Brian Keffer yesterday evening during the third-annual “Human Library” at the Fort Frances Public Library. Other “books” that could be “borrowed” for conversation included Cst. Kyla Savage of the Treaty #3 Police Service, fashion designer Lori Yerxa, and farmer Kim Jo Bliss. The event was held in celebration of Ontario Public Library Week.

PARIS — UNESCO’s executive board is voting Tuesday on a resolution that Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem ‚Äî and that has angered Israel’s government and many Jews around the world.

The board is expected to approve the measure in its morning session at Paris-based UNESCO. A majority of those voting is required for adoption.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The U.S. Air Force is spending nearly $1 billion to build a radar installation that will help keep astronauts and satellites safe by tracking pieces of space junk as small as a baseball. That is, if global warming doesn’t get in the way.

MADRID — A small Spanish town is considering fining a medieval church 16,000 euros ($17,500) because its bells are “too noisy.”

WASHINGTON — Federal meteorologists say Earth’s 16-month streak of record high temperatures is finally over.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says last month’s 60.6 degrees (15.9 Celsius) was merely the second hottest September on record for the globe. That’s slightly cooler than the September record set last year. But it was warmer than the 20th century average.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — One of NASA’s main delivery companies made a triumphant comeback seen up and down the East Coast on Monday night, launching its first space station shipment from Virginia since a rocket explosion two years ago.

NEW YORK — Why can tomatoes lose flavour in the fridge? A new study says it’s because some of their genes are chilling out. And that discovery might help scientists solve the problem.

Spoonbread is a wonderfully old-fashioned dish that should not be relegated to the tables of old-fashioned cooks.