Now THAT’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!
Everyone I have talked to this year talks about how early their vegetable gardens have been this year, what with the heat wave in early July and another in late August. To most of us that means picking tomatoes faster than we had anticipated or planting more garlic to keep the slugs and other critters ...
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September Almanac
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days, beginning on the 1st of September and ending on the 30th of September. In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until ...
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The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup 2010!
Just received this from Myron McKee – The Teeswater River Cleanup is a Go again as part of a National effort that is now in its 17th year! per the National promotion… "The Vancouver Aquarium and WWF-Canada join forces on The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Vancouver Aquarium and WWF-Canada are pleased to announce a formal ...
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Is Loud Music Making Us Comfortably Numb?
"You are only coming through in waves, Your lips move, But I can't hear what you are saying" – Pink Floyd 'Comfortably Numb' A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests hearing loss among U.S. adolescents aged 12 to 19 has increased significantly in recent decades. Researchers in the Department ...
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Best Management Practices Farm Tour
The tour will take place on selected farms in the Walkerton area, in Bruce County on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Over the past 10 years, this area, more than any other, has heightened the awareness across Ontario of the importance of managing our water resources with the utmost of ...
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Are You Superstitious?
This being Friday the 13th, all manner of folks will be watching out for black cats, avoiding ladders and cracks in the sidewalk and generally comtemplating spending the day in bed or hiding under it. But if your house is like mine chances are there are so many moth-eaten socks and dust bunnies under the ...
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