Lone Prairie garden notes and summer travel updates
Fay Cox reports gardening troubles with carrots beets and Swiss chard while noting profitability of lettuce and other crops, mentions Rain delays haying and grain boosts. Local residents travel to Revelstoke Takysie Lake Alaska Highway trip marks, with multiple families visiting relatives in Alberta and British Columbia during summer.
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Fay Cox
Green House
Family Circle
Lone Prairie
C.J.D.C
Dawson Creek
Twidwell Bend
Hart Highway
Japan
Don Phillips
TerriLynn Warncke
Joan Warncke
Revelstoke
Joan
Christine Mann
Grand Prairie
Athabasca
Alta
Gordon
Faye Nikirk
Les
Karen Nikirk
Steven
David
Danial
Parksville
Vancouver Island
Vera Mooney
Duncan
Shelley Nikirk
C.E.S.S
Shelley
Faye
Moberly Lake
George
Merle Grant
Gary
Margaret
Frank
Bernice Still
Abbottsford
B.C
Alaska
Burwash Landing
Whitehorse
George Grant
Plant Talk Cool Colors for Summer Gardens
Garden guidance emphasizes cooling visuals with grey foliage and pastel flowers, plus low care ground covers. It advises clipping fading blooms on hybrid tea and floribunda roses, growing ornamental small fruit trees like jujube quince pomegranate and white fig screening, and stressing harvest, feeding, pest control and watering for long day season. Perennial seeds arrive late month with young plants ready for fall planting.
Planting for Late Summer Abundance
Seed sowing tips cover summer planting, with guidance on tomatoes wax beans and peas. Advice includes frost considerations, hardy varieties, root vegetables, onions chives and leeks, parsley, and rosemary. Also suggests covering crops with netting to deter pests and mentions starting citrus and avocado trees for future growth.
Canada Post embargo on mail to Lebanon
Canada Post Corporation announced a temporary embargo on all mail destined for Lebanon due to Beirut airport closure. Post offices were told not to accept Lebanon addresses and mail already in hand will be returned to senders with notice of the suspension.
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Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation
Lebanon
Beirut
Budget approves most 1982 83 capital for BC schools
Education Minister Brian Smith announced that British Columbia school capital budgets totaling 144.4 million dollars for 1982 83 were approved. Four districts remain to be finalized. He noted the figure is below 228 million the prior year and that funding targets safety, renovations, and essential new buildings with priority to instructional space.
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Brian Smith
British Columbia
Mr. Smith
Smith
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