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The Dahlia has to be, in my opinion, one of the most breath taking flowers to grace our Manitoba markets. With their blooms piled full of petals that seem to have been hand painted, there is no question that these flowers win the beauty pageant.

I think my first blog post of 2020 will be more of an update. This will give you reference for upcoming blogs.

In the last 30 years there have been numerous Canadian Mennonite tour groups visiting Poland. Many think of only visiting the places Mennonites lived in the Ukraine, but it is highly recommended to see Poland along the way.

Developing a provincial budget isn’t exactly the same as developing a household budget, but many of the principles are the same.

I think it started with the squash – I had lots, but no cabbage. I had been learning about making sauerkraut – I wanted to make sauerkraut – but difficult to do without cabbage, wouldn’t you say? And what to do with all that squash?

Genesis has always generated a lot of questions for me. It began back when I was a youngster.

I’m no history buff but I have heard of the Ming Dynasty. Emperors, ancient China, and success from a political point of view. There is now and ornamental cherry from China named after that Dynasty, Ming Amur Cherry.

Visiting Mennonite sites around the world is on my bucket list and with this series of articles I hope we can take a kind of tour of these places together.

When the news was breaking last week that a Ukrainian airliner had crashed near Tehran it was heartbreaking – but few could have predicted just how this tragedy across the world would touch so close to home.

Here in Manitoba, the opposition NDP have setup a web page to ask Manitobans if they want to continue with our present Daylight Savings practice or change to something else.