WHITE HALL — Pierpont Community and Technical College followed through on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service by holding its first ever Day of Service Monday.
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Have you noticed how the price of just about everything at the grocery store is going up? The arrival of new discount grocery stores in Winnipeg is helping keep prices a bit lower but as expected, weâre paying significantly more to put food on the table. Back in December, Dalhousie Universityâs Sylvain Charlebois predicted this would happen. Groceries will cost up to 5% more this year which works out to about $700 for the average family. The man they call the Food Professor says agricultural commodities have really jumped in price. Corn is up 84% and soy is more than 70% higher. We consumers donât really care about that but food processors do and eventually we pay for it through the things we eat. Dr. Charlebois says Asia is driving these commodity prices through the roof by buying up everything possible. Here are some things I put in my Halâs Kitchen food column just a couple weeks ago that could lower your grocery billâ¦
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