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Classes are filling up: NEXT COURSE STARTS: Victoria Colwood JUl YOU aethoverti a stesso ene seerereeeorvasse ere 6:30 pm SUNY OF oe acscrerecter cos reeesscrete romeo esces 9:30 am TU ee ee ee 6:30 pm JUN: Seccee tee tree ein ree ee ee 6:30 pm DULY) 24S coe svecovesssdecctes aseesescecstaxsevesssectecsicosscesee 9:30 am 474-1422 THE WELLESLEY WU Se ae oC CO To Make Your Move Easier, We'll Give You $200 Off Your First Month’s Rent! The Wellesley of Victoria is an independent living retirement community, offering secure, spacious, unfurnished apartment accommodation to today’s active Seniors. We know that choosing a new home for your special years is a big decision. Once you've found just the right place, there are so many arrangements that need to be made. The Wellesley of Victoria would like to help make your move a little easier. During the months of JUNE, JULY and AUGUST if you decide to make the Wellesley your new home, we'll give you $200 off your first month’s rent to help ease the cost of your move! Offer available to new sign-ups only. Tenants must move in by November 30, 1990. Just one more of the many thoughtful touches The Wellesley is famous for. THIS IS LIVING WELL AT THE WELLESLEY Call today for more details 383-9099 or drop by 2800 Blanshard Street WW THE WELLESLEY FUTURE WATCH _- Willfarmland be necessary in the future? or years we have been hearing dire tales of farmland being lost as it is converted into housing and commercial develop- ments. Yet in several countries, organic in- novations are currently underway that suggest that the farmland we are Spending so much energy to protect may be the very last place to grow food in : the future! In light of this potential global change are we being realistic? Not that long ago the soil meant livelihood to 98 per cent of North Americans. Today only two per cent of the population earn a living as farmers and even that low percentage is dropping. Yet farmers are producing more food today than ever before. What is causing this revolutionary change? Simple cause and effect i is in- creasingly rare. Changes result from the combination of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of individual decisions -- spending decisions, living decisions, family decisions, political and governmental decisions. All these influences accelerate change and thus change some- times occurs with devastating speed. Witness the recent political changes in Eastern Burope. The Escagen Corporation in San Carlos, California is grow- ing genetically altered true potato seeds (TPS) in a vat. Five ounces of this seed replaces a ton of tubers, the traditional way to plant potatoes. TPS delivers a much better product with less labor, no pre-planting storage, low transportation costs and no warehousing problems. Hs- cagen is now working on grow- ing oranges and cherries in vats -- without trees! No con- nection with soil. In Japan the Ajinomoto Corp. has produced genetically constructed bacteria that ex- crete cellulose, the basic com- ponent of our forests. Ajinomoto is producing an elastic paper so fine that Sony is already incorporating it into diaphragms for top-of-the-line acoustic headphones. Another potential use for the same product is for the artifi- cial skin used on burn patients. This is not taking place on farmland but in a “fac- tory.” No farmland involved. Since they can produce fine paper to such demanding tolerances, perhaps they can _ eventually produce newsprint from the waste. Akito Corporation in J apan _has produced a mushroom that looks like a hamburger, tastes like a hamburger andg cooks like one. No rangeland involved. The Japanese Fisheries Agency wants to produce all- DEIomorrew By FRANK OGDEN female schools of salmon -- by manipulating chromosomes in fertilized fish eggs. Their Agriculture and Forestry Min- istry is spending $54 (U.S) mil- lion this year developing fruit, vegetables, seeds and grains. This won't allow them to take over a large segment of the food industry right now, but 20 years down the road they will be more than ready. At EPCOT (Experimental f Prototype Community of ge Tomorrow) right next to Dis- ~ & ney World in Orlando, Florida, §& has been successful with verti- cal farming. Here 20 acres in- side can grow more than 200 Canadian prairie acres out- side. The East Malling Re- search Center in Britain is growing apple trees that look ~ like flagpoles. They require about as much land space as a fence. What will we do with the land? A recent fax announced a major investment of $5.5 million (U.S.) in fish produc- tion by AAO Aquaculture In- ternational Corporation of Vancouver and Guadalupe, California — for raising aba- lone. On land! All this may not result in lower prices on your super- market shelf, but it will result in more nutritious products, grown with less or no pes- ticides and available on a year- round basis with no shortages or seasonal astronomical price increases. Agricultural changes will all happen faster, rather than slower, over a wider global area, involving more prod- ucts: Think of the political implications when future J time passes those locked inta ~ a fixed agricultural policy. =< -