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By Al Lowe
Contributor

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

Under the recently announced Federal Provincial Agreement referred to as Growing Forward, a Food Safety and Traceability program has been launched.

I think a good Member of Parliament should, whenever possible, should consult directly with the people they represent as often as possible. We can do this through mailings and correspondence, phone calls, door to door visits, private meetings, and public meetings like townhalls. The other methods are all good, but I would like to deal with townhalls this week.

My parents built our cabin over 40 years ago on Rainy Lake. It was a bare bones cottage. Four walls, a wood stove for cooking, were all the amenities. If we needed water, we walked down to the dock and filled buckets with water. The dishes were washed in a big wash pan. Meals were cooked in the wood cook stove, which in summer meant the cabin was often warm.

By Irene Hanson
RR Hosp. Aux.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Darlene Smith
RR Ministerial

Death does not seem to be a miracle, but it was that day.

By Jack Elliott
Correspondent

By Al Lowe
Contributor

In Northwestern Ontario, there are six species of bats. By far the most common one is the Little Brown Bat, which is found in almost all of Canada below the tree line.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.