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AWARD-WINNING YARDS Locais open up gardens

ing gardens, plus have the chance to win a consula- tion with a professional horticulturist: and landscape

SIX AWARD-WINNING North Shore gardeners will open up their gardens over this weekend for the en-

joyment of garden lovers and their fellow gardeners. designer. The top gardeners will be available to answer ques- Pets or children wili not be permivted in any of the tions and share expertise with visitors to their gardens, — gardens.

located from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay. Admission for the Aug. 7 open gardens is $10, en- titling ticket-holders to visit all six of the award-winn-

For more details, call Dan Daszkowski at 986-914) or Pat Strike at 926-5342.

Guard against freeze-ups now

THERE ARE several steps you can take Co avoid winter Treeze-ups of your home plumbing system.

These are neither complicated nor expensive, but cam save you considerable money in preventing broken pipes and water damage.

There are three kinds of plumb- ing freeze-ups:

1. Sudden, brief and extreme cold snaps that affect one localized area in the house.

2. Full-seasoned exposure of a few pipes to sub-freezing condi- tions.

3. Total house freeze-up while unoccupied.

Basic protective materials to help guard against freeze-ups in- clude: caulking for small air feaks, insulation for pipes and exposed water tanks, heat cables or tape and antifreeze (for toilets and traps when house is unoccupied for long periods of time).

Feel with your hands for cold air entering anywhere a pipe comes near an outside wall, Wherever you feel cold air you will need to plug with caulking.

If you intend to leave your home unoccupied for long periods of time, you may want to consider completely draining your plumbing system. Be sure to get proper in- formation on how io do this cor- rectly.

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