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Steele: Welcome rainfall encourages both plants and weeds

It’s a perfect time to top up mulch to conserve the rainfall moisture and delay having to irrigate water-thirsty plants.

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Motoring: Agile Jaguar XF gets AWD for 2013

Get your ‘Jaguar Voice’ activated with automakers Convenience Pack.

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Motoring: MINI’s cheeky droptop gets John Cooper Works

Driving a John cooper Works MINI lots of fun while still in speed limit.

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Travel: Visit Gettysburg during its 150th anniversary

Gettysburg's tourist attraction is re-enactments of Civil War battles on the fields where they were fought.

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Burnett: Home garden tours offer wealth of ideas

Take in the two garden tours organized this year to see 19 beautiful gardens of various styles and sizes.

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Hopper: Separating genuine cures from the placebo effect

But doesn’t it make sense that we should be researching how the placebo effect works?

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Schell: Great local food and wine at WAM!

This year’s WAM! event at the Rotary Centre for the Arts adds the culinary arts and art of farming to their roster of Okanagan arts.

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from Jude's Kitchen: early garden greens

Make the best use of the early herbs and vegetables from your garden or a local farmer's, while they're still delicate and full of flavour.

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Steele: Pruning tasks reduced in a water-wise garden

Planning, design, appropriate plant selection, proper planting and efficient irrigation can reduce pruning needs.

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from Jude's Kitchen: barbecue season

With the Victoria Day long weekend looming, it's time to turn to more-casual entertaining; time to dust off the barbecue.

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Schell: How finest local foods get to our tables

The Cookbook Speaker Series is a chance to meet the passionate local, sustainable food producers, farmers and chefs.

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Volunteer: Get healthy through volunteering

Volunteering can improve physical functioning that affects your heart as a muscle.

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Forsstrom: Buying into recycling habits

The regional district’s waste management program is cracking down and imposing fines on those who don't recycle

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Oz: Addressing harmful insect bites on your pet

Insect bite allergic reactions are a familiar presentation for vets.

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Burnett: Lend your gardening expertise

Hands in Service has started a program that provides clients with planters that fit on their balcony or patio.

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Steele: Water-wise garden can reduce maintenance tasks

Too much water causes rampant growth of most plants, which leads to more pruning, staking, weeding and mowing tasks.

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from Jude's Kitchen: feeding mom

On Mother's Day, your favourite mom would appreciate whatever you cooked for her, as long as the ingredients are fresh and flavourful.

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Kittle: Pace yourself when exercising while ill

In times of prolonged rest, the body starts to get out of condition, joints becoming stiffer and muscles becoming weaker.

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Morgan: CMHC reaching limit for insurance mortgage coverage

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is nearing its limit for insured mortgages.

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Motoring: Chevrolet Impala gets stylin’ again

Impala is rolling off the assembly lines in Oshawa and Detroit-Hamtramck ready to go head-to-head with Ford Taurus and Dodge Charger.

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