PEI Periodical and Article Database

: Winter Tales: Brian Bartlett; "One of Atlantic Canada's finest poets and creative writing teachers, Brian Bartlett, will be UPEI's writer in residence during March 11-14.", ***unscanned

: Winter foods from the larder; Features a recipe for maple baked apples from Angie MacDonald of Charlottetown, PEI., ***unscanned

: Winter's Tales; Winter's Tales [feature column] : Literary readings series sponsored by the UPEI English Department; author Miranda Hill (Hamilton, Ontario) reading from her stories at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown on November 14; poet Anne Compton (former Islander from Bangor, PEI) launching and reading from her new book "Alongside" at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, on November 25

: Winterjazz; Kim Wempe, a Canadian musician, will be the guest for March's Winterjazz concert series, taking place at the Pourhouse in Charlottetown., ***unscanned

: Wireworm; Foodchain [byline column] Petrie outlines the complexity of trying to control the damage to crops from wireworms/click beetles. Various pesticides that have historically and recently been used in their management are discussed, along with new methods of crop rotation being used to disrupt the wireworm life cycle.

: Wireworm Information Day draws huge attendance of Island growers; Brian Beaton, Potato Specialist, PEI Department of Agriculture & Forestry welcomed over 200 farmers and industry partners to the Wireworm Information Day that was organized by the Wireworm Research Working Group and funded by the PEI ADAPT Council. Beaton outlined the economic costs resulting from the spread of this agricultural pest; Shauna Mellish, Agri-Environmental Specialist, PEI Department of Agriculture & Forestry, gave a presentation on the spread of wireworm on PEI between 2009 and 2012; she also delivered the results of a late 2013-early 2014 survey of PEI farmers that was used to determine the amount of damage experienced on farms across the province. Dr. Bob Vernon, wireworm researcher, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (BC) gave a presentation on the life cycle of wireworms/click beetles and some of the existing chemic control options. Dr. Christine Norohna, AAFC (Chralottetown) followed with a presentation on the use of brown mustard and buckwheat as possible rotation crops that may be useful in controlling the spread of wireworms/click beetles. Dr. Zenaida Ganga, lead researcher, Cavendish Farms Research Division, presented the results of projects in this field. The final speaker was Joanne Discoll, PEI Horticultural Association, spoke about her research with mustard and buckwheat as potential crops for use in controlling the growth of wireworm populations

: Wireworm causes significant jump in direct program payments in 2013; A study by Statistics Canada showed a year-over-year increase of 49.7% in direct program payments from government to PEI producers in 2013—the highest in the country. John Jamieson, executive director of PEI Federation of Agriculture believes higher crop insurance payments due to wireworm damage is responsible for the increase.

: Wireworm continues to be persistent problem for growers; Dr. Christine Noronha (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Charlottetown), one of Canada's foremost authorities on the wireworm, is conducting research on how to bring this agricultural pest under control; wireworm damage cost Island potato growers $6 million dollars last year

: Wish walk for Renee; The tenth Children's Wish Walk with Renée Gallant MacIntyre at 2pm on Saturday, October 19 at the North Rustico Lions Club., ***unscanned

: Without prejudice; The Cove Journal [feature column]; Topic : Details author's experience of a typical Women's Institute meeting

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