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" want to hear from you! Send your stories and photos for our next issue of The Home Si Country ROSE Garden to the following address: "‘ The Home & Country ROSE Garden 7382 Wellington Road 30, RR it 5 I. Guelph, ON N‘ll-l 6J2 or email them to roseprogram®fwioonca Lennox 8: Addington Lennox & Addington District Secretary Valerie Smith presents gifts to guest speaker Peter Foley (L) and panellists Gary Nightengale and Kevin McLean at a ROSE Session on buying local. Working with Foodland Ontario, the goal of this program was to educate and then encourage WI Members and the public to ask for local products when they are shopping. Foley, Director of Produce for Metro, spoke about the benefits of buying fresh, locally grown Ontario products as well as a new Foodland Ontario program called “Savor Ontario” â€" which is a program that works with the local foodservice industry to encourage restaurants to use local too. The event allowed the audience to ask questions and the District has decided to make this one of their initiatives for the upcoming year. or fax them to 519836â€"9456 Please note, your article may not appear exactly as submitted. We will do ou as possible. Be sure to make an additional copy of you photos before submitting them as we will no longer be ableto return photos. Thank you for your understanding Deadline Dates Winter â€" November 15, 2009 Spring/Summer â€" March 1, 2010 Norfolk WI Norfolle gals set toworkto supportthe AlligatorTug Steam Oxforthe Friendship Festival in Simcoe, This famous land and water machine was manufactured in Simcoe and is used worldwide to replace horses in the logging industry. Not to be out done by the men, Marion Austin and Madaline Wilson signed up and competed in the log sawing contest. Although not first, neither were they last! The ladies had a good laugh, raised their heart rate many notches, and put the WI name out there.