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WhiIby Fro. Prea, W.cfno.dy. Msy 25,.1094. Pne 7 Stab, twist, pull Once upon a tirne were this family. Let us rewind te yesterSaturday and listen as they plan their exciting weekend. In. The. Garden. He: 'Boy, this lawn sure is green this year. I can't remember when it ever was so green. I hope it stays green." She: "What you -are calling green 18 the stuf that 18 holding up those yellow things ail over the lawn.» He: "Those yellow thingu are pretty. I think they look just, uni, dandy. I bet they taste good in salad anid make terrific wine.» She: «They must go.» He: «Remember that gardening magazine? This couple cultivated a Scotch Thistie and had their picture taken and ail? Maybe we could ... She: «Not on a tankful of Agent Orange." Skip ahead a few hours. That's right, the fast forward butten, there we go, now play the tape where they corne back from the garden centre. He: «I thiIhk we made the right decision, trying te keep our garden off, noxious killing chemicals. Don~t you?» She: "Ifow could we ever live it down, had we called up those skull and crossbones people and had them park their truck right in front of out house, for goodness sake, and spraying ail those, ugh, chemicals ail over.» He: «We would have kept awake ail night listening te dandelions in agony as they curled up, clutching their throats,, screalning, dying. ..» 1She: «Okay, okay. So in place of pet-and-children-killing chemicals we have this wonderful mechanical tool.» He: «Yes You stab it inte the lawn, here, like this, right over the daridelion, and then you twist, sloooowly, like this, right around, and then you gently pull the weed, root, well haîf root and ail, right out of the ground.» She: "It sounds like fun. Can I try?» He: "Le me try just one more. There. Stab. Twist. Pull. Then push this plunger and ponk! the little cork of weed anid dirt are dispatched.» She. "To where?» He: «ll rake them later. You wanta try?» Fast forward again, oh maybe a hour. He: "My turn, my turn.» She: «Just one more. There. Thiere's another daridelion. Let me skewer it, just so, yes, twist, pull, ponk. Oops. There's another one." Fast forward two more hours. She: «I want another turn.» He: "As soon as I finish this patch. There! I didn't realize we had so many. Could we make wine with this like this? I guess we'd have te dlean the dirt off them before we could make salad, huh?» She: "My turn, my turn." Fast forward te the next day. She is punching the claw irito the ground, rapid, like it were a bayonet, plunge, twist, pull, ponk. He is raking up the mounds of dandelion plugs. Neighbour: "Hey! Watcha doing? Got a new toy, have we? Cari1I t ry?» tr u utoc. She: «Well, if's really His tr u utoc. Neighbour: «Okay, what, we stab at the weed, right, then twist, slowly, then pull. Hey, that's not haîf bad. Got almost ail of the root, too.» He: «There's a patch in the backyard you could practise on." Neighbour: uOkay, just a couple more. For the road." Fast forward two whole days. The whole neighborhood has corne and gone. Friends they haven't seen for years have suddenly dropped by. Each visitor has tried his/her hand. She: "I neyer thought we could rid our whole lawn of daridelions without resorting to those horrid chemicais. But we did.» He "es w dd.Thres-us-oe hig:w4.desou if YEI D . .... ....i CALISTIEIS AT MILITARY IRVIEW, WIflBYMAY 26p 1916 Soldiers from ail over Ontario County participated in a vast military review on the Josephk Mitchell farm, now the site of the West Lynde subdivison. Each marn in the picture has tlhe number 116 on hs shirt, designating hm as a member of the ll6th Batta]ion. from the Wedriesday, May 23, 1984 edition of the WlIrM FREEPRES " AWhibyindustry may be flned for dumping 300 gallons of acid into the regional sewer " Whehistbyi Dow farmhouse, dating fromn 1833, on the north sfide of Rossland Road, was demolished to make way for a subdivision. "Whitby Fire Chief E ruhrcie ogsrîemdlfo nai dàepatents.vrotJh Black Aird for 30 years in the Scarborough and Whitby fire r 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, May 21, 1959 edition of ther WHITY WEEIKLY NEWS " A, special committee of Town council, urider deputy reeve Everett Quantrili, will P investigate the establishment of a general hospital in Whitby.r " Tom Edwards has been namned as the CCF candidate in the June il provincial election. " Whitby Mrena should be enlarged says a special council committee. " A Boy Scout open house is being held at the Whitby Arena on May 23. 125 YEAIRS AGOI from the Thursday, May 20, 1869 edition of the WIHITBY CIIRONICLE " Dei liamncnie oteCu ty alfrbigo 1oudmnwsfudd in hisbexd. r " Athletie gaumes and sports will be held at the fairgrounds, on Queen Victoria's birthday, "MAy24. pshearing match will be held at the fairgrounds ()Yi A1une 5 by the South (>)nt.ario Agriculttural Society. hÀ * William l3Blair's barn burned down for a loss of $300 rIié i, - :jnk nowr.