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Get In The Habit Of Choosing Healthy Snacks – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Julie Garden-Robinson September 9, 2010

Snacking sometimes has bad connotations. However, researchers have reported positive nutrition outcomes associated with snacking, especially among older adults and children. In a study of about 2,000 adults aged 65 or older, 84 per cent reported snacking. When the researchers analyzed their intake of several nutrients and calories, they reported that the snackers consumed more

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Solutions For Your Household Problems – for Sep. 9, 2010

September 9, 2010

HiReena! Yesterday Icutfour piecesoflinoleum frommy grandmother’s abandoned farmhouse.The twobetterones arefromthe bedroomthat mybrotherand Isleptinmany weekendsduringourchildhood, sotheyarerathersentimentalto bothofus.Theshabbiertwoare fromherbedroomandareat least50yearsold.Doyouhave asuggestiontoproperlyclean them(mould,deteriorationand birddroppings)withouthaving themfallapart?Aswell,howcan theybeproperlypreservedand framed? –Angie Hi Angie, Oftentimes, people use the word linoleum when they really mean vinyl. Both products are composed very differently; linoleum is a natural product made with linseed oil while vinyl

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Canada Geese Move From Near Extinction To Pest – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Ron Friesen September 9, 2010

When Ken Cudmore was a kid growing up in Winnipeg, Canada geese were such a novelty that people would rush to gaze in awe as flocks of geese carved their V-shaped formations through the sky on their spring and fall migrations. So, when Cudmore joined the Fort Whyte Nature Centre (now Fort Whyte Alive) in

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An Apple A Day – for Sep. 9, 2010

September 9, 2010

Suddenly apples are everywhere. If you’re fortunate to have a few Prairie-hardy apple varieties grown to gnarly maturity around your homes, you’ll be enjoying the many different flavours and textures of homegrown apples right now. Eating Manitoba-grown apples is a pleasure we owe to the apple-breeding efforts of the Morden Research Station, where most of

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Women Of The “Old Boys Club” – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Lorraine Stevenson September 2, 2010

When municipal leaders were surveyed last winter and asked, “What’s keeping women from running for office?” relatively few filled out the questionnaire – just 160 out of nearly 1,000 responded. Ninety-one replied saying they saw no barriers for women to serve on local councils and that they were “free to run just like men.” It

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Editor’s Note – for Sep. 2, 2010

September 2, 2010

WELCOME TO COUNTRY CROSSROADS If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1, phone 1-800-782-0794, fax 204-944-5562, email [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you. Please remember we can no longer return material,

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Big-City Services In Killarney – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Kim Langen September 2, 2010

When Coral Peters shakes your hand, you know that something is up. The firm grip of this warm-hearted and smiling woman gives you a sense of how strong and determined she is. And she must be, to have reinvented herself into becoming the multi-talented massage and spa specialist she is today. After 30 years in

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Versatile And Nutritious Tomatoes – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Julie Garden-Robinson September 2, 2010

Whether you enjoy plum, grape, cherry, slicing or any of the other tomato types, these members of the nightshade family are highly versatile and nutritious. As we were enjoying some fresh salsa in my home the other day, one of my kids posed the typical question: “Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?” If

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Try Some Perennials From The Allium Family – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Albert Parsons September 2, 2010

In September many home gardeners begin the task of cleaning up their perennial borders and hand in hand with this job comes the rearranging, relocating, removal and addition of perennials as we attempt to redesign borders to achieve a more pleasing effect. I don’t think gardeners are ever entirely satisfied with their borders since we

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Oriental Lilies Put On Late-Summer Display – for Aug. 26, 2010

By Albert Parsons August 26, 2010

We’ve all enjoyed the wonderful display of lilies in our gardens – orange ones that bloom around the end of June, the Martagons a little after that, then the tiger lilies, and finally the Asiatic lilies which begin to bloom in early July with some varieties of Asiatics blooming until mid- August. During the latter

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Get In The Habit Of Choosing Healthy Snacks – for Sep. 9, 2010

Solutions For Your Household Problems – for Sep. 9, 2010

Canada Geese Move From Near Extinction To Pest – for Sep. 9, 2010

An Apple A Day – for Sep. 9, 2010

Women Of The “Old Boys Club” – for Sep. 2, 2010

Editor’s Note – for Sep. 2, 2010

Big-City Services In Killarney – for Sep. 2, 2010

Versatile And Nutritious Tomatoes – for Sep. 2, 2010

Try Some Perennials From The Allium Family – for Sep. 2, 2010

Oriental Lilies Put On Late-Summer Display – for Aug. 26, 2010

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