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Down the Fairway: Barlette looks to defend NEWGA championship | The Daily Gazette
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July 24, 2021
Rachel Barlette of Shaker Ridge Country Club hoists the trophy after winning her first NEWGA Championship last year at Pinehaven Country Club. (Bob Weiner photo)
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Defending Northeastern Women’s Golf Association champion Rachel Barlette is hoping she finally has some much-needed momentum as she tries to defend her title against a loaded field Tuesday and Wednesday at Colonie Golf & Country Club.
The 34-year-old longtime member of Shaker Ridge Country Club, who recorded her first major victory in last year’s NEWGA Championship with a playoff win over Pat Mayne, wasn’t playing up to her standards so far this season. But she feels rejuvenated after enjoying a breakthrough earlier this week.
Latest research results highlighted at NWROC Crops and Soils Day
Morning sessions showcase small grains, sugar beets are afternoon focus
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The latest findings in research trials and other studies of crops and soils in the area were spotlighted at the Northwest Research and Outreach Center’s annual Crops and Soils Day, which took place in field plots on and near the UMN Crookston campus.
The event was conducted in virtual fashion in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Small grain tours took place in the morning, with the afternoon program dedicated to sugar beets.
Morning sessions/tours included:
• Angie Peltier – Over or within the canopy: Sprayer configuration and white mold management
Socialist Equality Group holds online meeting on New Zealand bus drivers’ dispute
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand held an important online meeting last Saturday to discuss the way forward for NZ Bus drivers in Wellington, who voted on June 23 to reject a sellout agreement backed by the Tramways Union.
The meeting made the case for building rank-and-file committees, independent and opposed to the unions, to break the isolation of the 280-odd drivers, and to expand the struggle for decent jobs, wages and conditions by linking up with other workers in New Zealand and internationally. It featured speakers from New Zealand, Australia and Britain.
About 30,000 nurses, healthcare
assistants and midwives in public hospitals around New
Zealand voted earlier this month to hold another three
nationwide strikes. The members of the New Zealand Nurses
Organisation (NZNO) held an eight-hour strike on June 9
after rejecting a derisory pay rise offer of just 1.38
percent. The District Health Boards’ offer was effectively
a pay cut relative to inflation and contained nothing to
address the staffing crisis in hospitals.
The Labour
Party-led government announced a wage freeze in May for the
next three years for the vast majority of public sector
employees, including healthcare workers and teachers. The
government is imposing severe austerity measures to make