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Create A Candy Tree

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This makes a nice teacher gift or for anyone else who you would like to give a little something to. Be careful with kids though, as the candies are attached with pins. Materials: – 6-inch Styrofoam cone (I used green coloured) – T-pins or straight pins – Different types of individually wrapped candy – Ribbon,
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Tips For Holiday Spending

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Just as eating too much holiday food ruins a waistline, too much holiday spending can ruin a budget. Save yourself from this stress by mapping out your spending in advance. Prepare an overall holiday budget using realistic expenditures and stick to it. Set realistic spending limits. Take a hard look at what you can spend
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Avoid Purchasing Lottery Tickets For Minors

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This holiday season, some well-meaning family members may consider buying lottery tickets and scratch cards as affordable, colourful and potentially promising gift options for the children and teens on their list. McGill University researchers, the National Council on Problem Gambling and some Canadian and U.S. lotteries are working together to ask families to reconsider purchasing
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Break Up Your Wall Space

Creat ing an inter-e sting décor entails more than just the items that you put into the room. The backdrop is just as important. If you’re on a budget, creating a dramatic setting by treating the walls in the room can make all the difference in the world. I will be referring to the two
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’Tis The Season For Holiday Plants

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Flowering plants are one of the easiest and prettiest ways of dressing up your home for the holiday season. These should be available at florists, stores and greenhouses and will add a cheerful and festive air to any room. As its name implies, this easy-to-care-for succulent bursts into bloom just as Christmas nears. Growing to
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AMM Takes Stand On West Route For Bipole III

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Most municipal leader s attending last week’s Association of Manitoba Municipalities convention said they want the province to reroute its proposed Bipole III high-voltage transmission line down the eastern side of Lake Winnipeg. But the province is not about to make “reckless changes of direction,” said Premier Greg Selinger, who made a brief appearance AMM
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More Money For Rural Bridges

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The province is promising to help municipalities fix aging bridges, some of which are now well over a half-century old and in dire need of upgrades or repairs. The pledge came from Premier Greg Selinger during a brief appearance at last week’s Association of Manitoba Municipalities convention. But the premier offered few details on the
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In Praise Of The Potluck

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Friends and neighbours in the Carman area sat down to a potluck meal and end-of-the-garden- year talk on a snowy night last week. The last meeting of the year for Carman Garden Club always includes a feast and seed exchange in the Home Economics Room of the local high school. As per usual, this meal-with-no-particular-
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Cookbooks… And Books About Cooks

If you’re looking for new cookbooks to inspire you to think outside your proverbial recipe box, check out these titles from the 2010 Canadian Culinary Book Award winners. Each year for the past 13, Cuisine Canada, a food writers’ association, has presented awards to food writers and cookbook authors in six categories – English Special
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Make A Low-Budget Christmas Wreath

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I think it is partly because of my upbringing on a not-so-prosperous Saskatchewan farm and partly due to my abhorrence of waste and rampant consumerism, but I take great pleasure in making things “from scratch” or using someone else’s castoffs to create something useful and beautiful. There is lots of opportunity to do just that

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