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Manitobans Honoured For Community Leadership

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Herm Martens, a well-known figure on Manitoba’s agricultural and municipal fronts was presented with an Outstanding Community Leadership Award at the recent Capturing Opportunities conference. Martens, who served as reeve of the RM of Morris from 1995 until last year, was honoured for his community service as chair of the Pembina Valley Water Co-op, the
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Recipe Swap – for May. 12, 2011

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That winter storm had many of us hunkered down for a few hours wondering if the calendar was somehow fast-forwarded to late October or thereabouts. But by the time you’re reading this, the weekend winter we woke up to May 1 should be long gone and spring back among us. Here’s a mix of lighter
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Friends Of The Bluebirds

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Have you noticed birdhouses as you drive along rural roads in southern Manitoba? These may have been put out by the Friends of the Bluebirds. This group, centred in Brandon but with members in many surrounding communities, is the legacy of John and Nora Lane. Over the years the society has been an important factor
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Many Varieties And Colours To Accent The Garden

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I am not a great fan of all the bedding plants, potted individually, which are now sold to gardeners during the spring. The time seems to have passed when we simply bought bedding plants by the dozen-pack or even grew many of them from seed ourselves. I have seen people buying individually potted marigolds, zinnias
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Valuable Life Lessons Learned

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Leading Team Manitoba to the 62nd Annual National High School Finals Rodeo, as Miss Manitoba, last summer was an awesome experience for Brittany Marshall of Minnedosa. And while the “queen” experience was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, Marshall has goals to make a return engagement to Gillette, Wyoming this summer as a competitor from a different
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Let’s Play Ball

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Those of us who grew up playing schoolyard baseball have fond memories of the game. With visiting grandchildren now interested in playing, I needed a backstop that was easy to erect and dismantle. I used an 8×10-foot canvas as background with one eight-foot end attached to a bar approximately six feet from the ground, the
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Sharing Life’s Pie In Equal Measure

Forget Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, life is more like a pie. To maintain balance, it should be divided into six equal pieces, each representing time spent looking after one’s health, relationships, spirituality, recreation, daily responsibilities – and, yes, work. The problem is, many people, especially farmers, have been programmed since birth to believe that
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Maintaining A Stable “House Of Cards”

Pursuing what people see as most important in life makes sense, but there’s more to life than just work. In psychology textbooks, this is illustrated via Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs,” said Greg Gibson, a clinical psychologist. Shaped like a pyramid, the bottom is occupied by basic animal needs such as water, food, sleep and warmth,
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Time For Tea

ea” was a time of day in my grandmother’s house. English born, she always sat down to tea mid-afternoon, served with bread, cheese and pickles, and always with a few cookies. Gram was serving a “low tea” or light afternoon tea. “High tea” is a full meal. Small towns regularly host teas as fundraisers in

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