Leaving them to drown is not humane, as they take a long time to tire out and die. I know because on occasion I rescue them, tired and tailless, from the dog’s water dish. Wall lizards have been on the Island for more than 50 years, longer than the author and probably most of his readership, yet we don’t try to drown, shoot or sticky trap them just because they “aren’t from around here.” Leave the lizards alone! On our small farm we have been growing crops and living in harmony with the lizards at “ground zero” in Central Saanich for four years. They scurry around the greenhouse starting on the first sunny days in February and live in piles of leaves and rocks around our farm.
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Reid Hepworth hasn’t played his saxophone with a band since last March. At home, virtual concert band classes just aren’t the same, he says.
Just in time for the public health ban on band, an order of about 175 bell covers essentially masks for wind instruments to limit the spread of aerosols through playing arrived at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate.
Just in time for the public health ban on band, an order of about 175 bell covers essentially masks for wind instruments to limit the spread of aerosols through playing arrived at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate.
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