‘Eight Below’ at Palace this weekendAfter another successful run by the Green Earth Players, the Palace Theatre will be going back to its regular series of movies.Starting this weekend, the new Disney family movie, "Eight Below," will be showing at the Palace.According to a review in the Calgary Sun, the story follows two men and their scientific expedition in Antarctica, where they end up having to abandon their sled dogs.The dogs are left to fend for themselves when the men are injured and need to be rescued by a helicopter.Bad weather prevents the rescue of the dogs, leaving them to make the trek back to safety on their own.According to a posting on the IMDB Web site, (I’m not swearing it’s true,) the movie is based on a true story that happened to a group of Japanese explorers. The dogs who survived are considered heroes in Japan and have statues to commemorate them.The movie is scheduled to run at 7 p.m. this Friday and Saturday and again at 2 p.m. Sunday.Which banker will have to kiss the pig?The Relay for Life committee has added one more fund-raising attraction to this year’s event.A "Who Will Kiss the Pig" contest will be held between two Luverne ag lenders.Jim Boeve, representing Minnwest Bank and Cliff Boom from First Farmers and Merchants, will hold an on-going fund-raiser until the opening ceremonies of the Relay for Life on June 16th.Both bankers will have piggy banks set up in their respective banks to help collect donations for the 2006 event.As part of the opening ceremonies, the banker with the least amount collected will have to pucker up and give "porky" a big wet one.So if you want to save Cliff or Jim from having to kiss a pig, stop at his bank and give a donation. Or if you would like to see Cliff or Jim have to kiss the pig, stop at the other guy’s bank and give him a donation.Either way, the money goes to the Relay for Life, so you can’t go wrong.New DST dates go into effect next yearAs you can tell by the clock on the front page of the Star Herald, this Sunday is when you set your clock ahead for daylight-saving time, but that will change. On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, changing the dates for daylight-saving time in the U.S. In 2007 DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the daylight-saving time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.Our standard time was created by the railroads on November 18, 1883, but wasn’t formally adopted by the United States Government until March 19, 1918.The Act to Preserve Daylight and Provide Standard Time for the United States was enacted on March 19, 1918. It both established standard time zones and set summer DST to begin on March 31, 1918. Daylight-saving time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919.After the War ended, the law proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose earlier and went to bed earlier than people do today) that it was repealed in 1919 with a Congressional override of President Wilson's veto. Daylight-saving time became a local option and was continued in a few states, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and in some cities, such as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.Since then, Franklin Roosevelt had a year-round DST during WW II and Richard Nixon signed into law the Emergency Daylight-saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973, which lasted for 15 months.Daylight-saving time is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Arizona. The Navajo Nation participates in the daylight-saving time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.Publisher Roger Tollefson can be reached by e-mail at tolly@star-herald.com