Is It Time To Prune Trees And Shrubs?

After the long winter, spring chores slowly take shape and gardeners begin sharpening and oiling their pruning tools. Is late winter and early spring the best time to prune trees and shrubs? Well, it depends. If the urge to prune is the reason for pruning, suppress that urge! Unnecessary pruning stresses trees and shrubs during

Rodeo Returns To Onanole

The thrills and spills of the sport of rodeo will be making a return engagement to the community of Onanole, as part of the spring run of the Manitoba High School Rodeo Association (MHSRA). The last time student athletes unleashed their competitive nature west of the townsite was in 2005, as the local committee was



Create With Crayons And Cloth

This is a guaranteed hit with children or grandchildren. My three-year-old granddaughter did the ice-cream cone and just added a scribble touch here and there (to personalize it, I think). It still looks cute. My seven-year-old granddaughter has decided that we should make a quilt so we are choosing her pictures with a theme and


What They Say And What They Do

“The way you conduct yourselves makes the whole thing work.” – BETH JOHNSON Is your local council a model of good governance or dysfunctional mess? Beth Johnson has seen both, and pretty much everything in between. The former mayor of Delta, B. C. now runs a consulting company to help elected and appointed officials work

U. S. Nutritionists Urge New, Not-As-Sweet Drinks

Soft drink makers should invent and market a new category of semisweet beverages that will help wean Americans off their reliance on sugary drinks, nutrition experts say. They proposed a new class of reduced-calorie beverages with no more than one gram of sugar per ounce, which with about 50 calories is about 70 per cent


A Mother’s Poem

When you reach the right age I will teach you how to pop pea pods and pick cherry tomatoes, how to make pumpkin pie from scratch, milk a cow by hand. And you’ll teach me of butterfly wings, pebble shapes and designs, animal clouds in the sky. And I can’t wait. As you grow, I’ll

Listen to your mother

was at a meeting where a number of women, many of them mothers, were spontaneously asked, “What is the message you would like to leave to the next generation?” Here are some of their answers: Listen to your heart. Try to do an act of love every day. Make the most efficient use of your


The Gift Of Our Mother

This is a picture of our mother, I would guess taken around 1920. She came into Winnipeg at a very young age to work as a maid. Her life was incredibly difficult, her courage astounding. God’s gifts to this world – they are many All treasured, some more than another. What love and protection He

The Joys Of Motherhood

One afternoon, I came across some of my children’s baby memorabilia. There were photos, cards, hospital bracelets and tiny outfits that I couldn’t imagine they ever wore. Of course, I had one of those “ahhhh” moments. I reflected back to the feeling of holding my newborns, with the dreams I had and the promises of