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It’s Still Worth The Trip

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Aggravations occur as soon as you start making plans. Ihad plans for this summer. A trip to Europe to visit my family was one of them. I have brothers and sisters and scores of nieces, nephews and cousins in Switzerland and I haven’t seen most of them in years. Now that I’m retired I figured
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Play Celebrates 10Th Year

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Now in its 10th season, Manitoba’s Passion Play has over 120 volunteer cast and crew from across the province. Since its inception, the play, the stage, the volunteers and the site have grown and adapted into a truly unique presentation for southern Manitoba. Though receiving much support from the immediate surrounding communities, a wonderful aspect
Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

Test Your Grilling Knowledge

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Safe food handling is always important, but grilling can bring special challenges. Take this quiz to see if you are doing all you can to prevent foodborne illnesses while grilling up those summer meals. Q. Is it safe or unsafe to marinate meat and poultry on the kitchen counter? A. Bacteria grows rapidly at room
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Taking Care Of Business And Social Needs Too

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“A lot of times social enterprise comes out of a community looking at how to meet its business needs that can’t be met with a private-market business model.” – DAVID LEPAGE, PROGRAM MANAGER OF ENTERPRISING NON-PROFITS (ENP) IN B. C. When women in Altona proposed selling second-hand clothing back in the early 1970s, they only
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The Prairie Fruit Growers Association Berry Hotline

RECIPE SWAP We love getting your recipes! If you are looking for a specific recipe and think our readers might have it, send us your request too. We will publish your requests too! should now be taking calls as another long-awaited berry-picking season begins. But, as always, phone the farm before you go. Manitoba’sfruit growers
Cereals, Country Crossroads

Eat More Fibre This Summer

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This dietary change could result in a nine-pound weight loss in a year. Eating more high-volume, fibre-rich foods will fill you up without filling you out, but most of us shortchange ourselves on the fibre recommendation, which averages about 25 grams per day for adults. Fibre is indigestible plant material found in foods such as
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Recession, Health Concerns Get Americans Gardening

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Alison Baum of San Antonio, Texas hopes to save money and eat better by getting her hands dirty. She is joining the swelling ranks of Americans who have started backyard fruit and vegetable gardening, a trend rooted in a desire to cut costs as the recession bites, fears about the safety of commercial food supplies
Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

W – for Jun. 25, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Here’s a few recipe selected from the Manitoba Milk Producers website that look tempting for what we certainly hope to be the hot summer days ahead. If you’re looking for more recipes along these lines log on to: www.milk.mb.ca/recipes RHUBARB TARTS Lisa Lillies of Woodlands shares her favourite tart recipe with us this
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Canadian Pioneers

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Leaving your homeland You journeyed Bravely crossing the ocean Looking for a better life You came To a land of bush and harsh climate To back-breaking work of clearing the land and settling On ten-dollar homesteads. Every task to be done by hand With saw and axe you carved a place in the wilderness Hewing

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