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Bringing Skills Home Teacher Donald Nikkel and His Students Have Built a Ready-To-Move House at Lundar School, Which Will Be Auctioned Off on June 16 JoAnne Buth F rom comes home » Pg 3 DRINK YOUR Senate CEREALS to CigI Barley beverages becoming vogue » Pg 9 june 12, 2014 SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | Vol. 72, No. 24 | $1.75 manitobacooperator.ca ALUS returning to Manitoba’s Little Saskatchewan River Conservation Bringing skills home District The Manitoba-born Students at Lundar School are building on a solid foundation conservation program of industrial arts education has new funding By Allan Dawson co-operator staff LUS is coming home. Thanks to new gov- A ernment and private funding the Manitoba-born Alternate Land Use Services (ALUS) program is return- ing as a demonstration con- servation program to the Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District north of Brandon, which includes the RM of Blanchard where ALUS was first piloted from 2006 to 2008. ALUS, a community-devel- oped, farmer-delivered initia- tive, is getting $100,000 over three years as part of $1 million in federal government grants designed to reduce the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Winnipeg. The announcement was made at the Fort Whyte Centre in Winnipeg May 23. Federal funds will be matched by money from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Jim Fisher, Teacher Donald Nikkel and his students have built a ready-to-move house at Lundar School, which will be auctioned off on June 16. Photo: shannon Vanraes director of the Delta Waterfowl Foundation said in an interview. Delta, which promotes By Shannon VanRaes some larger boxes as well,” he said. The ing for someone to do it,” he said. “It’s conservation to protect and co-operator staff Lundar, Man. decision to build an entire house fol- been a great experience, you learn a lot enhance duck habitat for lowed the success of previous indus- of new things. I always thought that in hunters, is administering the he crew constructing this trial arts projects at Lundar School, industrial arts you’d be sitting inside funds and partnering with 1,026-sq.-ft. ready-to-move projects like sheds and a timber-frame a classroom, building a tool box or the Little Saskatchewan River T bungalow is just like any other, outdoor classroom. something like that, but we actually get judging from the hardhat-covered “For the students — out here espe- to build a house. So it’s very good.” s ee ALUS on page 6 » heads ducking in and out, the care- cially, where we have a lot of students Princess Swan, 16, doesn’t know ful measurements and high-quality who come from farms, or have parents exactly how the skills she’s learning will workmanship. who work in the trades. For them to fit into the rest of her life, but she is That is, until the buzzer rings signal- get involved in a project like this, they having a lot of fun learning them. ling the end of class. see that it is going to be relevant to “I just thought I’d try something new, “For an industrial arts program its their lives. They say, ‘You know what, so I took the class,” said the Grade 10 pretty unique,” said Donald Nikkel, what I’m learning today, I’m going to student. “But I like it, it’s really neat to during a brief pause in the work. be using tomorrow.’” work on the house and it’s my first time Nikkel — who teaches Grades 9 to It’s also exposing students like doing this kind of thing.” 12 at Lundar School — has moved far Cole Wickenden to possible career And it’s not just any house. beyond the usual shop class projects of opportunities. “We thought, we don’t really want bird feeders and bookshelves. Instead “I’m keeping my options open, but to just build a house to basic, mini- of building a bunch of little boxes, he plumbing looks pretty interesting,” mum industry standards, we want to put his students to work as a team said the 18-year-old Grade 12 student. do something more than that,” said building one big one. And even if he doesn’t enter the Nikkel, who built his own timber-frame “The idea came from what carpen- trades, Wickenden believes the skills home after returning to the commu- ters do. Basically we build boxes... he’s learned will serve him well. nity a few years ago. “So we’ve really we build some small boxes like bird- “It will help me a lot. If I buy a house houses, tool boxes, and we can build I can do things by myself without pay- s ee LUNDAR on page 6 » CANOLA: JUMPSTARTING LATE-SEEDED CROPS » PAGE 20 Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 2 The Manitoba Co-operator | June 12, 2014 INSIDE DID YOU KNOW? LIVESTOCK Early exposure to common A maestro allergens builds immunity at work Scientists offer new insights to an old idiom Making cattle move where you want them to go is about pressure 12 Staff say may help inform preven- tive strategies for allergies and he old adage “you have wheezing, both precursors to to eat a peck of dirt asthma. T before you die” is often “Our study shows that the CROPS used to comfort horrified timing of initial exposure may mothers who catch their first- be critical,” says study author born playing in situations that Robert Wood, MD, chief of are — ahem — less than clean. the Division of Allergy and To spray or But researchers now say Immunology at the Johns children who are exposed to Hopkins Children’s Center. not to spray? dirt, dander and germs — spe- “What this tells us is that not The flea beetle cifically in their first year of life only are many of our immune question plaguing — tend to have fewer allergies responses shaped in the first year of life, but also that cer- farmers this spring 17 and asthma later. Cockroaches, pet dander as In fact, infants exposed immunity boosters? PHOTO: THINKSTOCK tain bacteria and allergens to rodent and pet dander, play an important role in roach allergens and a wide stimulating and training the variety of household bac- in such homes do have higher immune system to behave a teria in the first year of life overall allergy and asthma certain way.” FEATURE appeared less likely to suffer rates, but adds a surprising Asthma is one of the most from allergies, wheezing and twist: Those who encounter common pediatric illnesses. asthma, according to results such substances before their By the time they turn three, up Canola going of a study conducted by sci- first birthdays seem to benefit to half of all children develop entists at the Johns Hopkins rather than suffer from them. wheezing, which in many south Children’s Center and other Importantly, the protective cases evolves into full-blown institutions. effects of both allergen and asthma. But scientists now say U.S. farmers are trying Previous research has bacterial exposure were not strict avoidance of allergens to Canada’s favourite 34 shown that children who grow seen if a child’s first encoun- avoid asthma risk has proven oilseed, and liking it up on farms have lower allergy ter with these substances unsuccessful. and asthma rates, a phenome- occurred after age one, the “If confirmed by other stud- non attributed to their regular research found. ies, these findings might even exposure to micro-organisms A report on the study, have us think of returning to present in farm soil. published on June 6 in the the patterns of exposure of CROSSROADS Other studies, however, Journal of Allergy and Clinical the 1940s, when families were have found increased asthma Immunology, reveals that larger, food was less processed risk among inner-city dwellers early exposure to bacteria and and sterilized, and children exposed to high levels of roach certain allergens may have a spent a lot of their time out- What to do about and mouse allergens and pol- protective effect by shaping doors,” said co-researcher ‘those’ in-laws lutants. 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