The Lanark Landowners Association is that association of concern citizens that stand up for each other and their communities. This is your opportunity to participate in the Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Committee. The Lanark Landowners Association has learned that Janet Stavinga has been appointed chair of the Mississippi-Rideau Source Water Protection Committee [SPC]. The Lanark Landowners Association was instrumental in successfully electing Merle Bowes and Terry Hale to the SPC to represent agricultural. It is time to fill the other seats on the local SPC. Applications will be received until October 8th.

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Countries evolve the same as its people, as we grow older our attitude change; we see things from a different perspective. As the first of the baby boomers is set to retire the demographics of this country will change. With this change has come an increasing awareness of two things, the realization of just how fast time passes and one’s health.

More and more people are concerned about their health and what they are eating; people are looking for the foods that are nutritious, flavorful and chemical free. The consumer should be concerned, just recently, ready to serve salad product of, contaminated with e-coli. Las Angeles baby carrots, product of Mexico, contaminated with an unspecified bacterium and remember these are recalls, so someone or hundreds of someone’s have already fallen ill because of these imported food products. In the recent Ottawa citizen article entitled “Canada’s Risky Business”, an estimated 13 million Canadians will suffer from a food borne illness this year, that’s one in 2.5 people, not only costing Canada’s health care system billions, but further aggravating an already stressed health care system.

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