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Conference Panelists Swap Leadership Stories

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Those were also years when Wowchuk, a teacher by trade, was organizing Ukrainian dance clubs, working with 4-H programs, cooking at fall suppers, and volunteering with multiple community groups, while raising three kids. Wowchuk offered the candid glimpse of her personal life at the Manitoba Farm Women’s conference last week, describing her pre-government days as
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Future Of Women’s Conference Contemplated

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The Manitoba Farm Women’s Conference marked its 24th year this fall and remains a much welcomed post-harvest event for farm women, says its 2010 chair Beth Connery, a Portage la Prairie-area farmer. But next year’s convention, scheduled for Brandon, might be its finale. No decision has been made yet and discussions continue on the event’s
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The Butternut Squash Rediscovered

“Don’t forget to plant the butternut squash…” I kept urging my husband this spring, who does the bulk of the spring garden work every year. He didn’t forget. A good thing too. We lost most of our garden’s potatoes to blight this year. But in our basement cold room where potatoes in gunny sacks would
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Fast-Food Restaurants Target U.S. Kids, Study Shows

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Fast-food restaurants are stepping up efforts to market unhealthy food products to children and toddlers, according to a study by Yale University. It said efforts by the industry to regulate itself have failed and urged government to declare children a protected group and stop marketing efforts that are fuelling child obesity. “What we found in
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Tips For Designing Interior Landscape

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Many of the same principles that govern how we landscape our outdoor gardens apply to the indoor landscape. Design elements are universal, whether they apply to an outdoor garden or an interior space. Indeed, many design elements used by interior designers are employed by garden designers One principle (not really a design element) is that
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Food Shortages Are Lessons From History

Your apron is your uniform, your wooden spoon your weapon.” If you remember slogans such as this oft-cited in editorials and articles in newspapers and women’s magazines, then you have a living memory of the years of food rationing in Canada during the Second World War. Food rationing was a way of controlling commodity consumption
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Recipe Swap – for Nov. 11, 2010

On the Veteran’s Affairs Canada website is a site devoted to helping young people learn about the families’ experiences of life during the war. Included on the website is a series of recipes that reflected the minimal use of ingredients. Here is one of the recipes found on that site at www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub. cfm? source=activities/kidszone/recipes. WARTIME
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Province Begins Program To Honour 125-Year-Old Farms

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The Manitoba government has launched a new Heritage Farms designation in celebration of farm families who have maintained continuous production for 125 or more years. The first family to receive a sign from Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers was Betty and Walter Heaman who farm northwest of Virden. “Families like the Heamans
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Perogies Raise Funds For Sandy Lake

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Community volunteers work together Perogies are the fuel that keeps Sandy Lake going!” said Stella Kowalchuk. Looking around the community hall 30-plus people could be seen, all busy making perogies as a fundraiser for the Sandy Lake Museum. A half-dozen apron-clad men were in the kitchen, rolling and cutting the dough and boiling and buttering

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