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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6,1994 ■*
Editorial
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Spring
In spite of the cartoon below, it seems that wanner weather has indeed arrived.
It is certainly welcome after what seemed like an endlessly cold and icy winter. j
The coming of spring has brought the usual mixture of , good news and bad news.
Apparently most of the county’s peach crop will be lost because extremely cold winter weather killed the flower buds. i *
On the? other hand the extreme cold may have killed most of the pine tip beetle grubs that winter just beneath the bark of pine trees. These pests have been killing many of the yellow pine and loblolly pine in our area.
Perhaps some other insect pests will suffer a setback , because of the below zero weather the winter brought. But many who battle gypsy moths seemed prepared to encounter an increased population of that pest this spring and summer.
Grape growers are braced, waiting to see how their vines survived the winter. For some the losses may be severe.
The community calendar fills with many more activities 1 than the most devoted activist can find time to attend, and we can be assured that at least those that take place ihdoorS won’t be canceled.
It is too easy to try to do it all, hoping to make up for winter days when it was difficult to do anything. I
But take the time to enjoy watching the fields turn green. Watch the parade of color as bulbs, shrubs and trees break out in bloom. Observe newborn animals find their legs %nd suddenly learn to play. Enjoy the relief of not having to scrape ice from windshields or bundle up before going out.
Come out to the high school. Eat a hot dog and watch a ball game.
April is the month to feel sorry for the vast majority of the earth’s inhabitants who don’t get to live in Virginia’s Piedmont. * «
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