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MARYANNE FIRTH InPort News Staff PORT COLBORNE - At times, Alicia Pinelli can hardly contain herself. She has ideas. Good ideas. And she's eager to share them. So when the Grade 12 Lakeshore Catholic High School student had the opportunity to sit down with Education Minister Laurel Broten and share her thoughts on improving Ontario's school system, she didn't falter. see eDUcation | page 2

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Celebrity chef Jason Parsons teams up with grower Nina DiLorenzo Secord to film with ferns

Fiddling with fiddleheads

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BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED 1136 SQ.FT. 3 BDRMS FULL BSMT, BIG YARD WON'T LAST AT $164,900! OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 3 - 4:30PM DAVE JOHNSON InPort News Staff WAINFLEET - At the end of Barrick Rd. sits a large home surrounded by ponds, forest and bog. The sounds of geese, sitting in the ponds, and birds singing fill the air as they fly about the property. The surroundings are peaceful and give little clue DAVE JOHNSON Staff Photo Jason Parsons, executive chef at Peller Estates, and Nina DiLorenzo Secord of NorCliff Farms in Wainfleet show some of the fiddleheads they picked recently. NorCliff Farms is the largest fiddlehead farm in North America.

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195 Maple Ave. at Prince Charles Drive, Welland that they are home to the headquarters of the largest fiddlehead farm in North America, NorCliff Farms. There's also little clue that the semi-cleared forest, just west of the house, holds more than 300,000 Matteuccia Struthiopteris plants, commonly known as the ostrich fern, that produce the nutrient rich plant that's shipped across the continent and worldwide. But if you look close to the ground during the short growing season, you'll find fiddleheads - lots of them. "We bought this property six years ago and have been farming for about four years," says Nina DiLorenzo Secord, who owns the farm and company with her husband Nick Secord. see fooD | page 2

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