Want a weekend get-away that will flex your artistic muscles while learning about the Bruce Peninsula Ecology and helping to ensure the survival of migratory birds? The Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory has just released their Summer Workshops schedule, with a roster from watercolors to quilting to geology and yes, even birdwatching ...

• Spring Migration - Hitting The Peak with Ted Cheskey (May 9 - 11)
• Sketching Wildflowers & Painting Orchids In Watercolour with Lin Souliere (May 30 - June 1)
• The Art Of Landscape Quilting with Bev White (September 19 - 21)
• Geology And Landforms Of The Bruce with Daryl Cowell (September 26 - 28)
• Photographing Nature - Developing A Photographic Style with Rob Cotton (October 3 - 5)

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Hold on to your hats. Reading this essay on re-evolutionary industrial organizational theory and practice on Future Positive, the thought, mind-blowing crazy as it is, occurred to me that our present stalemate council is perhaps the perfect incubator for setting the Dr Wilkins plan into action at the municipal level. We're nearly doing it anyway, only in a destructive spirit; formally adopting the Ortegrity method simply saves us the stigma of not doing it the old, broken way:

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A big thank you to the mayor and all involved (including the posters here on sbp and the original source) for finally bringing what we have talked about for ages here.And may I state what I have said before..check the US and Canadian Gov't websites Chlorine Dioxide is a registered pesticide..how do YOU feel about being a guinea pig?
"South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Gwen Gilbert and Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound MP Larry Miller are promising to raise questions about an eight-year-old, University of Toronto drinking water experiment in Wiarton.

The mayor was reacting to a federal court ruling that National Sciences and Engineering Research Council officials did not have to order an investigation into questions about research involving chlorine dioxide in drinking water in Wiarton. Both she and Miller expect to work “to get some accountability,” Gilbert said.

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We come a long way, baby
Wow, has it really been five years already? Apparently ... and man oh man it's a trip to take a random shot at that list of 54 backpages down at the bottom of the front page and just jump in on the goings on at that point. Hot stuff, neat things, flash points, spills chills and thrills!

It's nearly planting season, and for this year, why not plant a little science in your garden and help out our pollinating friends:

Help our Bees! Plant a Sunflower in your Garden!
By watching and recording the bees at sunflowers in your garden, you can help us understand the challenges that bees are facing.
It takes less than 30 minutes.
It's easy. Free Sunflower seeds for planting.
No knowledge of bees required!

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April 11th to May 3rd, 2008
6th ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION OF ART WORK
I know that Southampton isn't officially "Bruce Peninsula", but I have two pieces on display, so I thought I'd post it. The show will be on display at the Southampton Art School & Gallery and is being held in conjunction with a collection of food for the local food bank to assist community families in need. Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony held on Friday, April 11, 2008 from 7-9 pm. Everyone is welcome – please bring a non-perishable food item.

Right on schedule, the sun is out, the glaciers are receding and there's lots and lots of stuff to do!

April and May in Southern Georgian Bay will be a time of re-awakening
for the communities around the Bay. Combinations of Music Festivals, Heritage
Dinners, National Wildlife Week activities, Earth Day clean-ups, Astronomy Day,
and the re-opening of the areas historical attractions are part of the rituals of
spring.
[ see Spring Awakenings ]

Folks I have a question.
You see I have this friend see, not me, a friend, no acutally it is my cousin, yeah thats it my cousin, who wants to know the following...
If a fellow has XP and, say two years ago he opened his work BBS (first class) at home on his own computer, saw a message and its history thereof. Printed it off. And now for the life of him and all things holy can't find the *$%@#%&&* peice of paper he printed.
Anyway to dig this up in some hidden file folder that I hear all computers have....
And yes I have.... No my cousin... has defragged, deleted cookies and all those other maintenace things I am prompted to do over the last two years......
Your thoughts

Kelsey Carriere wants to talk to you about local goods and sustainable markets, and about the plan this summer to hook the two together in Wiarton

You ARE INVITED TO APPLY TO BECOME A FOUNDING VENDOR OF THE BRAND NEW WIARTON FARMERS' MARKET.
The Wiarton Farmers'Market will be held Friday afternoons from 3:00 to 8:00, May 30th to October 10th (20 weeks) in the parking lot just South of Town Hall on Berford Street. The initial season of this venture is sponsored by the Town of South Bruce Peninsula and will be run by an association of vendors and stake-holders in subsequent years.

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