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End To “Banana Wars” Seen Within Reach

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Adeal to end the world’s longest-running trade dispute over import tariffs on bananas is virtually complete, but a final agreement may not be reached until next week, diplomats involved in the talks said Friday. The European Union and Latin America had hoped to wrap up a deal Friday to end the 16-year-old “banana wars.” An
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Create A Christmas Centrepiece

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I designed this centrepiece for a cowboy-theme Christmas banquet. To keep costs down, I went to our pasture for some small birch trees, and to my garden for wild bittersweet vines and grapevines. Armed with my trusty glue gun, some Christmas corsages from the dollar store and my sister for help, we made 20 table
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Health And Safety Gift Ideas

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Here are a few possibilities for health-and safety-promoting gifts that won’t break your budget. Most of these ideas are from $10 to $20. Food thermometer: These internal temperature-measuring devices are easy to use and don’t take up a lot of drawer space. Only five per cent of cooks regularly use a thermometer, although many people
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Make An Outdoor Swag

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Many fellow gardeners enjoy a “natural” Chr istmas and endeavour to use plant material as opposed to decorations made from man-made materials. We are also always looking for ideas to create Christmas décor using plant material, and one idea that I have tried successfully is making a Christmas swag out of evergreen boughs to hang
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AMM Backs New Brandon Medical School Proposal

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Aresolution calling on the provincial government to establish a rural medical school at Brandon University to churn out doctors prepared to work in rural areas got the nod from Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) delegates last week. Sponsored by the R. M. s of Pipestone, Roblin and Shoal Lake, the resolution was aimed at finding
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AMM Calls For Case-By-Case Rules

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Delegates at the AMM annual convention want the provincial government to back off on regulations that will phase out and ban new installations of sewage ejectors. The Onsite Wastewater Management Systems regulation, which would cover installations from private dwellings and businesses which generate a waste water flow of less than 10,000 litres per day, drew
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A Gift That Continues To Give

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Last Christmas a Boissevain School classroom took on a project. Mrs. Connie Krowchuk’s class chose to buy an entire stable for a needy family through World Vision. “I had been considering this idea for a couple of years,” Krowchuk said. “When I received a letter from World Vision explaining the project I decided it was
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Why Not Designer Poinsettias?

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Designer clothes. Designer gardens. Designer jewelry. The word “designer” has been added to many product lines during the last decade or so, and that is certainly true in the gardening/plant world as well. New and exotic varieties are constantly being developed by plant breeders to satisfy the insatiable appetite that consumers have for unique plants
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A Christmas Tree With Meaning

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It doesn’t mean anything,” I thought as I looked at our artificial Christmas tree. Sure, my children had crafted beautiful decorations and loved to rearrange the ornaments. However, the tree itself seemed so distant from Christmas. Its lights sparkled and the tinsel hung over the boughs, but it didn’t hold any significant meaning. There wasn’t

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