Youths also will be competing in events including agricultural science and agricultural mechanics, and showing cattle, goats, sheep, swine, poultry, rabbits and guinea pigs. This week, the fairgrounds at Carthage Municipal Park will be filled with kids, cattle and other farm animals, plus exhibits in studies ranging from aerospace to welding. This week, the fairgrounds at Carthage Municipal Park will be filled with kids, cattle and other farm animals, plus exhibits in studies ranging from...

The indefinite ban on the importation of livestock, including cattle, sheep, goats, camels and meat, led to an increase in the price of meat on the island. Residents, including two hotel owners in Stone Town, said they were pleased with the lifting of the ban and hoped the price of beef would fall from the current TSh5,000 (US$4) per kilogram. The RVF outbreak was first diagnosed in January in the northern regions of Arusha and Manyara and by the end of May, cases of human and livestock...

Guests from wildlife and countryside organisations from the National Trust to the National Marine Aquarium, and those with rural skills including sheep shearing and wool spinning, offered a range of educational activities. Students Alison Bockh and Demelza Carne, who were responsible for the Woodland Zone, which usually features activities along a woodland trail, said: We are encouraging children to appreciate nature through their different senses and to get them thinking about what they...

The archbishops of "the true North, strong and free," were to kneel before Pope Benedict XVI June 29 and receive a woolen band symbolizing the responsibility they share with him of shepherding the church's flock. Pope John Paul II gave Archbishop Collins a pallium after he was named to Edmonton; Archbishop Prendergast got his first pallium for being archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Archbishop O'Brien received the wool stole after he went to the Archdiocese of St. For three of the...

There were times when the stench was so bad, residents on Furnace Hollow Road left their gardens partially weeded, went inside and closed the windows. Beqiri's nephew, Jeff Como, is business manager, and his 20-year-old son, Memet, performs the ritual Islamic slaughter of mostly goats and sheep. Having said the appropriate prayer before the morning process, he turns, and in one swift sweep, slices the animal's neck. Now, after seven years of repeated complaints, Johnston and his longtime...