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Expansion of the Observer Black Press, Canada's largest privately owned newspaper company and publisher of The Hope Standard, now provides residents of Hope with a second voice in the community. The Agassiz, Harrison, Hope Observer makes its debut today in Hope. The Observer has been publishing in the Agassiz Harrison communities for more than two decades and as of today will enjoy expanded distribution. This edition will compliment The Hope Standard, which is circulated every Wednesday. As always, we are looking for feedback on issues that matter the most to you. We continue to offer multiple media platforms for both readers and advertisers alike. Print, however, continues to play an integral role in any marketing budget due to its immediate reach in the local community. Advertisers have the opportunity to advertise in their own target market or take advantage of the reach provided by The Observer. For further information, please don't hesitate to call either the publisher, Andrew Franklin, at publisher@ ahobserver.com or the editor, Jessica Peters at news@ ahobserver.com.

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Opportunities SOAR for Guides Dairy Diva program just one option for girls in camp Jessica Peters THE OBSERVER

Calf number 1073 snores dreamily in the corner of her stall at the UBC Dairy Research Centre. Her hair is unkempt, curly and wet. Her front legs are tucked under her body, which is rising and falling with each breath. She curls up more and falls into an even deeper sleep, ignoring the gaggle of girls watching her from outside the stall. Weighing in at a healthy 37 kilograms, this little black and white creature is the newest calf on the working dairy farm. She's only 12 hours old. And for that, she gets the biggest oohs and ahhs from a small group of Girl Guides and their leaders. They toured through the centre Tuesday morning as part of Dairy Divas, a program designed specifically to draw in Guides while they were in Agassiz for the SOAR camp this week. Tours were held throughout the week, drawing in about 100 of the 1,400 Guides and Pathfinders staying in town this week. Dairy Divas was just one of the many programs girls could sign up for. "Awww... She's not even a day old," one girl sighs. They all wonder why the baby isn't mooing, calling for milk like the calves in the other pens. Their tour guide, a student working at the dairy centre, explains that she already fed the calf four litres of milk in the middle of the night. That's a lot of milk for a brand new calf, and she's sleeping off the splurge. "She's pretty full," she tells the girls, who pull out their CONTINUED ON 3

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Summer student Rebecca Wright shows Alexis Roscoe and other Guides how to feed a calf, during a tour of the UBC Dairy Research Centre Tuesday morning.

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