By Walter Wagner
President

Our General Meeting will be this Wednesday, April 25th at 7 p.m. Nine new members have applied to be admitted to our ranks.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

Local business is the backbone of our community, yet sometimes we forget the significant impact our purchasing decisions can have.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Almost every year, in the early fall, I receive questions about huge caterpillars, often found on the tomatoes.

Even though parliament wasn’t sitting it was quite an eventful week in Ottawa with two new appointments for this Member of Parliament and a Shadow Cabinet announcement by New Democrat Leader Tom Mul

Sunday was Earth Day. I hadn’t paid much attention to the day until I watched the news on CBC on Sunday and saw the parades and people working to cleaning up waterways and parks across Canada People planted trees along road ways and replaced fallen trees in parks.
In my lifetime, I have planted lots of trees in my yard and now over 30 years later, I am blessed with shade in the summer and huge drifts of leaves in the fall. The leaves go into bags or onto my compost pile.

As I write this I am only thinking of one thing. When is the right time to put my 14 year old dog to sleep.

By Ken Johnston
Editor

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