RE: News from Maryland

["Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net>]

Which goes to prove "grandma's remedies" still work!

Janet

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From: iris.loberg@comcast.net
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org, AISYouth@irises.org
Subject: [AISdiscuss] News from Maryland
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:16:54 -0800

>I thought I'd share some darling news this morning.
>The grandmother of our Youth photo contest winner, Tabitha Bednar, is
>Pat
>Mc'Neal.   She shared with me a new article appearing in her local
>newspaper,
>the Times Record, about another one of Tabitha's achievements.  You
>can view
>it here
>http://www.carolinetimesrecord.com/articles/2009/02/01/news/64094.txt
>
>Pat tells me in her email to me, "Tabitha has also been chosen as the
>Maryland
>state winner of the Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program.  Although her name
>was
>drawn at random from all of the state entries, she was very
>deserving.  We had
>a tornado come through when her cabbage plant was half-grown and just
>starting
>to form a head.  It blew large tree branches into her plant, tearing
>it and
>ripping it out of the ground.  I made some suggestions as to how she
>might
>save the plant (cutting off most of the leaves and feeding it manure
>tea,
>etc.), which she decided to try.  She was able to save the plant and
>the
>result was a seven-pound cabbage, small in comparison to some of the
>others,
>but a tremendous victory under the circumstances.  Most people would
>have
>considered it a lost cause after the tornado ripped the plant out of
>the
>ground."
>
>Cheers!
>Kitty Loberg
>
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