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REFLECTIONS – for Aug. 30, 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes My neighbour asks, “Where are you and Jacqueline headed this time?” I respond that we are off to Nashville, Tennessee where we will attend The Festival of Homiletics. “What is homiletics?” he asks. “Homiletics is the art of preaching.” Silence follows, then incredulity. “Do ‘Festival’ and ‘Homiletics’ go together? I can think of more festive […] Read more
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Sharing The Road – for Aug. 30, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutes Civilization reached the Petunia Valley Sideroad last month. At dawn on a Friday morning, a big paving machine started up from the highway, fed by a series of tandem trucks and by 4:00 p. m. the sideroad was coated in asphalt. After 32 years of bone-jarring trips into town that reduced the life of every […] Read more
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Struggle is an inevitable part of farming, but it doesn’t have to tear you or your family apart

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Every farm family faces stress on a daily basis. Sometimes though the stress can reach staggering proportions: a barn fire, a farm accident, plummeting markets, disease in the herd, drought, serious illness, a death in the family. Such calamities are democratic. None of us escape. Sooner or later, we’re all knocked off our feet. Even […] Read more
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You and your bone mass

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Reading Time: 3 minutes You probably have experienced either stress or anxiety from time to time. They are common conditions and a wide variety of drugs are available to alleviate the symptoms. Medication certainly helps, but can lead to problems such as dependency. Next issue, we’ll look at the chemistry of these drugs as well as some non-drug approaches […] Read more
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The Real Work Of Grieving

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Coping with grief The people in your life may not like to see you cry because it makes them feel helpless. Find someone you trust to let you cry as much and for as long as you need. Find a cause to fuel your energies. Helping others will help you take your mind off yourself. […] Read more
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Alcohol – Good, Bad, Or Somewhere In Between?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Alcohol has been around since the dawn of history. Early Egyptians made both wine and beer and the Incas and Aztecs in the Americas manufactured alcoholic beverages too, as did people in China, India, Babylon. Alcohol is produced by the fermentation of sugars and starches from fruits, flowers, herbs, plants and grains. Source materials are […] Read more
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REFLECTIONS – for May. 10, 2010

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Reading Time: 2 minutes “Would you take $2?” Haggling over price is part of the fun at garage sales. The owner wanted $3 for an autobiography by Nellie McClung, one of five women who pushed for the 1929 legal definition acknowledging that women are persons. I argued that the cover was faded and got a treasure for a toonie. […] Read more
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PETUNIA VALLEYWindy’s Fall From Grace

Reading Time: 3 minutes By now, you will have read that our long-standing federal member of Parliament, Windy Hallett, recently stepped down from his position as chairman of the Commission on Ethics in Banking. After 25 years of “bringing home the bacon” for Petunia Valley, as he described his role in Ottawa, Windy was brought down by a simple […] Read more
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Own The Clock

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Reading Time: 6 minutes There’s never enough time. Between business commitments — both on the farm and off — plus all the demands of family, friends and community, it’s all too easy to get run ragged and then not have any time or energy left over to take care of yourself. To help, we searched out four time-management experts. […] Read more
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Antiperspirants And Deodorants — What’s The Difference?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve heard the reports about alcohol being good for your health and you’ve also heard the ones about alcohol being best avoided for good health. Next month, we’ll take a look at some of these news items and sort through the effects of alcohol. Today nearly every adult Canadian uses an antiperspirant or deodorant. However, […] Read more

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