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Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

The last column provided you with some information on whether you may want to install mulch products in your yard or garden. The terminology around gardening can be a bit confusing at times, never mind a topic like that of mulch.

Fr. Dan Debano
Rainy River Ministerial

In the Book of Daniel (9:3,4-10), we hear the Israelites confess that they have not kept the Lord’s Commandments. Obviously, the Ten Commandments are foundational to all Christian Faiths, and we are called to keep them. But living our faith doesn’t stop with the stone tablets Moses presented to the Israelites.

Gary Sliworksky
Ag. Rep.

With all the emphasis on vaccinating cattle it’s easy to get the impression you just need to vaccinate and your herd will be protected. Unfortunately that isn’t true. While vaccination is the foundation of every infectious disease control program, it can’t do it all alone.

Al Lowe
Contributor

This is a fairly large family of plants which we usually refer to as the Gourd Family. These are all trailing vines with broad leaves. Some of them climb, but most of them just trail along the ground. In proper conditions they are very rapid growers.

Ken Johnston

Over the weekend Korean War Veteran Harry Arnould attended a very emotional ceremony honouring one of the war’s most decorated soldiers.
Arnould attended a special ceremony honouring Sgt. Tommy Prince, Canada’s most decorated Korean War Veteran of Aboriginal descent.

Ken Johnston

Bucking a trend, Pinewood residents have seen their post office reopened after it closed last fall.
Joanne McCormick, the new postmaster, reopened the post office March 22nd after successfully being awarded a tender. “It came up for tender and I thought I would apply and got the job!” said McCormick last Thursday.

Ken Johnston

Five students from Rainy River High School participated in a very unique student exchange over March break.
Ethan Swentik, Mark Singleton, Katelyn Nielson, Morgan McNally and Nicole Seguin travelled to England for ten days as part of different kind of student exchange. Instead of going to another country for the entire school year or a semester, the students went there for ten days. They were paired with students from England and next year those students will come to Rainy River and spend ten days here.

Pat Stoyka
Contributor

Inspired by the success of a neighbouring community and their weight loss and program for healthy living, as well as by the reality weight-loss show “The Biggest Loser”, a program for our own Biggest Loser contest will begin on Monday, April 3rd and continue for 12 weeks ending June 19th. The registration fee is $15.

Ken Johnston

Are you looking for a fun night at the improv?
This Friday Rainy River High School’s drama club has just the ticket for you and the best part is it is absolutely free of charge!

Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

I’m a big advocate of adding mulch to your garden. If we didn’t use mulch, we could never keep up with the weeds, especially with the large sized gardens I have in my yard. We mulch around the fruit trees with bark (or you could use wood chips) to keep the sucker and weed growth to a minimum and make mowing around the tree much easier. We mulch the perennial beds with pine bark to conserve soil moisture and minimize weeds. As far as adding mulch to the vegetable garden I have had quite a few experiments over the years but haven’t come up with a totally foolproof solution to date but will recommend some things for you to try in a future column.