From Wiarton Echo
Wednesday September 26, 2007

The Town of South Bruce Peninsula has formed a Pesticide/Herbicide Committee to recommend to council whether it should consider placing restrictions and regulating the usage of pesticides in the Town of South Bruce Peninsula. The committee consists of councillors Yvonne Harron, Wray Lamont, Dan Kerr and residents Dr. John Carter, Randy Brough and staff liaison Julie Kanmacher. The committee has met to discuss issues such as the cosmetic use of pesticides, pesticide use near water sources, the needs of golf courses, pure ground source water resources, and the concerns of residents using, sand points and shallow wells for their drinking water.

A bike lane along the County Road 13? That's the request put to the County by Justin Julian, a safe passageway stretching from Sauble Beach to Southampton to accommodate and encourage alternative transport:

He says bicycling has economic, environmental and health benefits - and the bike route could boost tourism.
On the down side, county engineer Brian Knox says a one-metre-wide bike lane increases the cost of building and paving a road by one-third - a sum that's not in the existing road construction budget.

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Maybe it is just a melodramatic coincidence, or maybe Mr Bannister really isn't pleased with the re-purposing of his perpetual park to serve the medical industry? Don't know which or even if either, but it does seem oddly apropos that the wall around the frontispiece garden at the park has just sort of burst from its masonry grout and fallen scattered and broken on the ground, kind of like when cast-sculptures sprout rust-stained tears or when the Grandfather Clock suddenly stops ...

Sometimes the biggest thing in the way of change is only the fear of losing what we have, and for the would-be organic farmers, yield-loss has long been a worry. To go organic or not to go -- new research may now settle the question once and for all, because when we stop to look at the results, and not even including other nasty side-effects of convention, we see virtually no danger after all.

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway,
I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage,
I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table,
put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table,
and notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back

Are there any others out there that wonder what the Council you voted in is really up to. At the Council meeting last night I left shaking my head in disbelief.

Council was asked why it's taken so long to get the required building permits for the Health Center. What you heard was the "anti-development" group hiding behind a fickle reason that they couldn't agree to something illegal, that being granting the permit prior to approval of family members listed on the land deed.

What a bunch of crap.

Kids won't eat their veggies? Science comes to our rescue, and it turns out the best solution was no farther than our own backyards ...

"It was a simple, clear finding," said Debra Haire-Joshu, director of the university's Obesity Prevention Center and a study author. "Whether a food is homegrown makes a difference. Garden produce creates what we call a positive food environment."
"When children are involved with growing and cooking food, it improves their diet"

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Feeling a little blah and in need of a pick-me-up to tide you through? According to research published in the journal Neuroscience, Chris Lowry at Bristol U says you can flush your prozac because what you really need is just a good old-fashioned solid dose of gardening to get you back on your form!

I'm sure the Gardening Club knew it all along: Get dirty and get happy. Seems there's a microbial bug in that soil, by the name of Mycobaterium vaccae, found in dirt everywhere, and when we play in it, our neurochemistry starts bathing us in the happy-juice

someone should be held accountable for the use, by the "enemies (tic) of sauble beach", of pressure treated lumber to construct a boardwalk to, umm, "protect" the dunes. we are asking people to use this boardwalk; imagine all the children walking (running) on the boardwalk this summer in their wet bare feet. please take a moment to read the following articles:

ecology center: pressure-treated wood factsheet

environmental defense: pressure treated woods releasing poison