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The Week of July 13 to 19, 2008

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The Greenwater report
Wednesday
July 16, 2008
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Lake Provincial Park: A week spent out at Greenwater having coffee and visiting with old friends and family. The highlight of the week was meeting Logan, now a full month old, great grandson.
House eighteen gets a main floor
Wednesday
July 16, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: House construction continue to boom ahead with twenty housing starts so far. This proejct on Forester is one of nine on the block being built or nearing completion.
Air raids on wheat midge
Thursday
July 17, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Each morning as dawn arrives the sound of agricultural aircraft punctuates the calm as two warriors head out over the fields to do battle with the wheat midge the craws up the stem during the dark hours of the day to feast on the growing plant. There was a major campaign last year and right around Tisdale there is sufficient investation to launch this year's war on the pesky varmint.
One tree missing
Friday
July 18, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: It had an outstanding life and did its duty long past the time it should have passed on. With both of its stems showing external signs of degradation it was brought down today discovering that almost half of each trunk was rotted and a strong wind would bring it crashing down if it were not brought down safely today.