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How’s School Going?

By Kathleen A. Olson November 12, 2009

Your children are learning the most from you – by watching you, talking to you and interacting with you. In many ways, parents are the most important teachers children will have and it’s important to support your children’s education both at school and at home. School success depends on some factors fostered in the home

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Consumers Don’t Understand What Labels Are Telling Them

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 5, 2009

Canadians are reading food labels but do not always understand what they are telling them, a recent report by the Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition (CCFN) says. A key finding of the council’s report 2009 Tracking Nutrition Trends (TNT): ‘A 20-year History’ is that food product labels continue to be Canadians’ most credible and

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Neogen Sees Food Contamination Fears Driving Growth

By Jennifer Robin Raj November 5, 2009

“It’s not just at the processing plant. It goes all the way back inside the farm gate.” – LON BOHANNON The growing risk of food contamination resulting from large production facilities and rapid distribution is putting Neogen Corp. on track to reach its objective of annual sales of more than $200 million by 2013, a

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Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Nov. 5, 2009

November 5, 2009

RECIPE SWAP We’ve been talking lately about pasta as a popular durum wheat-based food, but what about couscous? Well, what about couscous, you may say. Most have heard of it, but few of us are familiar with it. It surprises me that neither couscous, nor its cousin bulgur, has not become more popular. It is,

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Artists Honouring Fallen Soldiers

By Darrell Nesbitt November 5, 2009

Touched by the bravery of the soldiers who have died serving our country in Afghanistan, three Canadian artists – including Shairl Honey, formerly of Birtle, Man. – have started to create a massive, historic, military oil portrait collection. The “Canada Honours Afghanistan Fallen Heroes” project will see every fallen Canadian soldier commemorated in a work

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Create Healthy And Appealing School Lunches

By Trina Barno November 5, 2009

Are the kids sick of sandwiches and baby carrots in their school lunches? These healthy and resourceful ideas can spice up the lunch box and require minimal preparation time. NOODLES Cook up a batch of noodles the night before, store them in the refrigerator and you have the beginnings of a tasty cold salad for

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Reader’s Photos – for Nov. 5, 2009

November 5, 2009

MOOSE FAMILY: This bull moose and cow and calves were spotted in Riding Mountain National Park in October.

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Refreshing Uses For Toothpaste

November 5, 2009

RENA NERBAS Long ago, people did not use toothpaste to clean their teeth. Instead they used: ground-up chalk or char-c o a l , lemon juice, ashes and tobacco and honey mixed together. Now, we not only use toothpaste for teeth, it is also a versatile cleaning product. Toothpaste can be used to clean the

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Remembrance Day

November 5, 2009

We’re wearing the poppy and, filled with regret, pay homage to all the young victims of wars that are past and of fights laid to rest. But the guns yet still blaze the world over. Tears fall from our eyes as the mourning of taps and the piper’s lament stirs our senses. The right words

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Rural Folks Remember

By Alma Barkman November 5, 2009

The countryside beckoned as we headed out with camping trailer in tow to destinations undecided, and the winding road led between rolling pastures and Prairie fields highlighted by the evening sun. A friendly farmer mowing the grass waved to us and we pulled to a stop. “Looks just like a wayside park!” my husband called.

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How’s School Going?

Consumers Don’t Understand What Labels Are Telling Them

Neogen Sees Food Contamination Fears Driving Growth

Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Nov. 5, 2009

Artists Honouring Fallen Soldiers

Create Healthy And Appealing School Lunches

Reader’s Photos – for Nov. 5, 2009

Refreshing Uses For Toothpaste

Remembrance Day

Rural Folks Remember

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