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By Al Lowe
Contributor

For years the Northern Health Travel Grant has provided vital assistance to northerners who have to travel out of town for medical services.

For the first time in over three years, the Cumming family will all be together for Christmas dinner this year. The family has expanded in the past few years and with the expansion new traditions will likely be established.
We will in our separate families maintain most of our common traditions. Instead of the Christmas dinner taking place at my mother’s home, my brother Don, and his wife, Mags, will host the family gathering. We will all contribute to the meal.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

Under Regulation 63/09 of the Pesticides Act, Ontario farmers must be certified to buy and use Class 2 or 3 pesticides on their farms or woodlots.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

We have some brilliant birds here in Northwestern Ontario, but here is one which we don't really have very much - anyway not yet.

It’s early in the season, but already we have had our fair share of winter weather pass through our region. With it comes a slippery mess that makes traveling difficult, if not unsafe.

By Walter Wagner
President

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.