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Seafood lasagna for sinners and saints
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A modern-day “Tale of Two Cities”
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Winnipeg's permits department fails homeowners again
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Joe Pye weed
Kevin Klein
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Winnipeg homeowner’s video is going viral this week for all the wrong reasons. She had booked a pool inspection and stayed home all day waiting for the city to show up. No one rang the doorbell, and she had no missed calls or voicemail. Yet the inspector’s report claimed he had called and that the backyard could not be accessed because the gate was locked. Her response gets at the real issue: the inspection existed to confirm the gate was properly self-closing and selflatching, the very feature it was meant to verify. Now she has to pay $200 for a second visit. The comments under that video are full of other Winnipeggers describing something similar. This is not one bad afternoon or one bad employee. It is what happens when a city government stops answering to the people paying for it, and it is why residents need to use the ballot box this October. u 10 ‘Winnipeg's permit department'
Joe Pye weed in full blossom.
Dorothy Dobbie
NEWS FLASH: As we go to press, we have just learned that Kevin Klein has tossed his name into the ring for Mayor!
Nostalgia concert to mark radio station CJNU 20th anniversary Garry Moir
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Joey Gregorash.
innipeg’s nostalgia radio station is celebrating a birthday. Community radio CJNU turns 20 this year. To kick off celebrations, the station is staging a Night of Nostalgia...a variety concert featuring music, dance, comedy and memories. “We promise a night where ev-
erything old is new again,” says Garry Moir, who is helping organize and promote the event. “Winnipeg has some fabulous talent, and we intend to showcase it, because that's what community radio does.” The all-star lineup features a women’s quintet known as the Nostalgics, Broadway classics, the St. Charles Big Band and special guest artist...Juno Award winner Joey Gregorish. Also on hand will u 13 ‘CJNU 20th anniversary'
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had heard of and seen Joe Pye weed throughout my gardening life, but I did not learn to respect it until I saw it taking pride of place in a lovely English garden. It was tall and imposing, showing off its purple and dark green leaves and in full rosy bloom, buzzing with bees. I fell in love. Joe Pye Weed is the common name for Eupatorium. This versatile plant has many qualities and therefore has a long list of common names: boneset, kidney root, gravel root, snake root, and thoroughwort, to name a few. In the early days, various types were used medicinally to treat infectious diseases carried by ticks, lice, mites and rat fleas. It was used to treat fever, headache, rashes, rheumatism, gout, breathing problems, and diarrhea. The name Joe Pye weed is attributed to a Mohican named Joseph Shauquethqueat, known to settlers in New England as Joe Pye. He saved a community from death by typhus using E. purpureum, whose leaves, flowers and roots are all useful. The plant contains flavonoids and euparin, a mild antioxidant. Today, we grow Joe Pye weed for its ornamental value and because it is pollinatorfriendly. Goldfinches love to feast on the u 11 ‘Joe Pye weed'