Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 18, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local win Pix 2000 tempting seeds take up acres Sunflower crops really shining in Manitoba with less than a month before Harvest Sunflower farm ers like Jim Pedersen Are get Ting ready to sow the seeds of a Manitoba on his farm outside of Elm who has grown the seed for More than 30 confesses to sampling his own produce when the time is we All grab a handful when were Pedersen said its right there and it tastes so Why not last there was a increase in stackable Sunflower putting the total to acres across the province and making Manitoba the biggest Sunflower pro Ducer in nearly 80 per cent of sunflowers grown in the country can be found right emmy droog anther husband Tom started up the Spitz Brand of seeds in realizing the popularity of the seed As they decided to get in on the manufacturing there currently the biggest pro Ducer of Sunflower seeds in Canada and Are already heading South of the where More than half of Mani Tobas seeds end droog thinks the seeds popularity has a lot to do the culture of Western when youre outdoors All the its easy to get into the habit of spitting droog i really dont think it would take off in the seeds May soon give potato chips a run for their Money Spitz will soon be adding Dill Pickle and Ketchup flavours to its line of hot and and salted Light with that Good news for Manitoban last year munched on More than one million pounds of the Salty As far As snack foods the seeds Are fairly said Kerri a registered dietitian at Boniface the seeds Are becoming better Inte grated into diets because of the High Fibre trend and popularity of multigrain Mccurdy a on ounce serving has 160 Calo 14 Grams of and provides six Grams of at tasty seeds in general manager Brad Edwards reported a healthy season for the with a 21 per cent increase in seed sales this once you you really cant quit Plant worker Michael Sykora 1 Hossack free press who has grown sunflowers for More than 30 holds a head off a Sunflower plantain his As he Tours the Edwards cant resist the urge to Sample a few from a familiar Silver the Smoky scent of the roasting seeds along with the rhythmic Whir and Clunk of the packaging built in the machine is the Only one in the world that can put a real useable Seal on a Silver mylar Edwards the Silver bag is really what Sepa rates us from the Edwards oxygen and Light Are the roasted seeds worst enemy and our bag provides the Best amid the rows of Brown boxes ready for store shells crunch suggesting Edwards int the Only one who munches during office once you you really cant said Michael who works in the sometimes i hand out free bags to get somebody else hooked it Doest take much most do it without using Teeth and Tongue to wrestle the Tea shaped seed i from its Salty Little some like a others a filling their Cheeks and spitting the shells out faster than a hulling Manitoban wont have to drop the habit anytime Mel executive director of the National Sun Flower reported the upcoming which usually starts in looks better than it has in this Harvest will definitely be one of the Best of the if not the Reimer probe spurs Hospital improvements by Alexandra Paul relatives of an elderly Man who died Over the August Long weekend after needlessly suffer ing Are satisfied that one of the provinces largest hospitals is committed to hire More the investigation into my George and his care at the Boniface Hospital seems to have been very Thor Cecile Vereyken said in a recent As a result of its the Winnipeg regional health authority has promised a variety of changes in equipment and staffing to pre vent another such was taken to Boniface with a broken hip when nurses discovered his bladder was the Hospital had no urologist for after hour emergencies and health sciences Cen tre urologists reportedly refused to go there because of a pay Dis Lemay waited 19 hours for help before finally seeing a urologist at Concordia he died the next the Warha has hired one full time urologist to Start at Boni face before the end of september and is recruiting a second from our Point of we got what with the addition Al urologists and help from it happen said Cecile robber recognized a Man who was beaten and robbed yesterday morning on main near the Mclaren Points out one of his attack Winnipeg police arrested two suspects in two separate robberies that occurred in the area around 11 Joe free press the news about How organizations and individuals can Rise to the Challenge of new a presentation by bar visit the free press Booth in Well be there september its your Chance to 5tvital c m t r l simply Complete the order form below and drop it off for entry into a random draw for a shopping name address v postal code phone v Are you currently a Winnipeg free press subscriber fryes no the free press Hirmam Challenge an Hirmam sky View ballroom v ramada Marlborough hotel 331 Smith Street Manitoba october 15 Winnipeg free press for conference 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