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Local COVID-19 numbers hit record highs on Friday with the health unit reporting 49 active cases and declaring another outbreak at a Perth facility.
The explosion in virus cases – 13 more than the previous day – can almost entirely be attributed to an outbreak in Lanark County that started with a private gathering at the end of February where a single infected person transmitted the virus among the household, according to the health unit. From there, it rapidly spread via workplaces, sports activities and child-care centres in the Pakenham, Almonte and Carleton Place area.
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Cowgirl Compost 2 The last couple of days we have learned that Jennifer Cummins and her husband Trent have started a business called Cowgirl Compost where they process dairy manure in such a way as to produce a very rich compost that can be bagged up and sold. At least that s the theory. The next question… where do you sell it or who do you sell it to? Here s Jennifer:
“We were originally thinking about approaching Albertsons because that s an Idaho company. They use a specific platform called rangeme.com. So I signed us up on range me and it was through this platform that I heard about Wal-Mart s open call. We had no idea whether they were even considering soil amendments but I thought well we ll give it a shot and we ll see what happens. And maybe a week later, two weeks later we got the invitation to go back to their open call event in Bentonville. So we went and it was an amazing experience. They treated us very well. They gave us a lot of really valuable informa