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By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Spring officially began at 6:21 P.M. on Sunday March 20. We have approximately equal parts of daylight and nighttime, and daylight will continue to grow for the next three months.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Almost all birds in the world have four toes - three forward and one back. But we have two woodpeckers which have only three toes - for what reason, we'll never know.

The pictures and the videos that stream across our televisions and computers can only hint at the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami that has devastated Japan. Every new citizen video recorded by cell phone cameras or amateur videographer seems to add new horror to the plight of that nation.
My aunt in the US Virgin Islands called me Friday night to learn if I had heard from my son in Korea. I had. She was worried that he might have been affected by the tsunami that spread across the whole rim of the Pacific Ocean. He was safe.

With March now upon us, Spring is surely just around the corner along with everything the season brings. Unfortunately, Spring is also bringing our families pain throughout Northwestern Ontario as we are getting hit hard by rising energy costs, at home and at the pumps, and the rising cost of the HST on those energy products.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru