![]() ![]() I feel super-old saying this, but… they just don’t make subscriptions like this anymore. Yes, it had favorite dinosaurs, the first bird, mammoths and Saber-toothed cats but it also featured the Passenger Pigeon, Dodo Bird, Giant Moa and my personal favorite – the Tasmanian Wolf. Unlike a lot of books or materials about extinct animals, Wildlife Fact Files included several animals that became extinct in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While I appreciated all of the different sections, I practically lived in Mammals and Extinct Animals. And the pictures reminded me of National Geographic, beautiful and varied. Which is great because if you have favorite topics (distribution, physiology, mating habits, weird facts, hunting/eating habits) you knew where to look for any given animal. Each card has a front, a two-page spread inside and a back and every animal card is organized the same way. It’s easy to read but information heavy – a mix that I personally like. Rereading them as an adult, the text isn’t challenging, but I don’t feel like I’m reading something for grade schoolers either. As an adult, I actually tracked down (it took a long time, but thanks to eBay I did eventually) the complete set of Wildlife Fact Files. As an eight-year-old kid, I could easily understand what I was reading. (I suspect, that it was used to keep people from cancelling their subscriptions.)Įach card was informative, easy to read but not dumbed down. I now realize that the company had preselected which cards went into each packet, so if a customer missed a month they would be able to easily obtain the cards they missed though it appeared to be in random order. They came in random order, like you would get Mammal cards, 1, 2, 26, 68 in a packet, etc. The other groups would never have more than one card per packet/month and some groups wouldn’t have any. A typical packet had three to four mammal cards, two bird cards, and then a mix of the other groups. ![]() I’d rip it open, look at all the different cards before starting to read them. I was so excited every time I received a new packet. Wildlife Fact File sent a packet of twelve cards each month. Wildlife Fact File divided its cards into eleven categories: ![]() Wildlife Fact Files (Subscription/Complete Set)Īvailability: Subscription no longer available, complete sets available – can be hard to find. Reading about animals I loved, enjoying the pictures and “Did You Know?” Fact box, which felt like the “You’re never going to believe this” highlights of that animal, I read and reread all sixty cards. I received five packets of twelve cards (but they were a few pages so more like spread/wide pamphlets) each, as a starter set and one binder. In December 1991, my parents got me a subscription for Christmas. So it makes sense that a lot of my nerd’s focus back in the day was focused on animals, wildlife and dinosaurs/other extinct species. (Like I challenge myself to learn at least one new thing every day, from bizarre facts to entire histories – it just gives me a kind of high.) I’m also a major animal lover. I never did growing up I wanted to spend summers in the library instead of at the pool. I cover a lot of geeky territory and I find no shame in that. What I mean is I am a total proud card-carrying nerd. Box 5013, Burlington, Ontario, L7R 3Z6.I am a bit of a nerd. Kevin Arjoon, City Clerk, The Corporation of the City of Burlington, 426 Brant St, P.O. More information of the proposed designation is available for viewing in the Office of the City Clerk, First Floor, City Hall, 426 Brant St., during regular business hours or can be requested electronically by contacting at the City of Burlington this 29 th day of March, 2023.Īny person may, within 30 days after the date of the publication of this notice, serve written notice of objection to the proposed designation, together with a statement for the objection and all relevant facts to Mr. The house supports the character of Locust Street, which features 11 other homes constructed in the 1800s. is a representative example of the gothic revival style and features an L-shaped plan, a cross gable roof and arched window openings set within peaked gables. Statement of Cultural Heritage Value or Interest Legal Description: PLAN 74 PT LOT 50 City of Burlington, Regional Municipality of Halton. It is occupied by a one-and-a-half storey gothic revival cottage constructed in 1885. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Burlington intends to designate the above-noted property under section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.Ĥ88 Locust St is located northwest of the intersection of Ontario Street and Locust Street in downtown Burlington. IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT AND IN THE MATTER OF the lands in the City of Burlington known municipally as 488 Locust St. ![]()
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