Sense of community makes sales special (Iowa Farmer) DUNLAP -- Bailey Schaben walks a lamb around the show ring as her father, mother, grandfather and uncle look on from the auction block. The lamb, the final entrant in the livestock sale for the 4-County Fair, is being sold over and over to help raise money for fairgrounds improvements. [News Source]

ACCENT: Debate over wind farms blows onto Manitoulin -Farmers hope for windfall (The Sudbury Star) Bud Wilkin's family has farmed the land on Manitoulin Island for five generations. The beef and dairy farmer is hoping the wind that blows over his pastures will bring with it a financial opportunity that will encourage his grandchildren to continue the tradition.[...] [News Source]

Firm Brings Farming to the Masses (New York Times) The British company Omlet has seen sales of the Eglu, its chicken hutch, roughly double each year since it came to the market in 2004. [News Source]

School Notes (The Lakeland Ledger) Polk State College Paul Carbonell is Polk State College's new professor of speech and theater arts. He received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 2006 and a bachelor of arts from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington in 2003. He is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. [News Source]

Entertainment Calendar (The Lakeland Ledger) SUNDAY LAKELAND FLYING TIGERS | Lakeland Versus Tampa Yankees. Florida State League Games. WHEN: 6 p.m. TICKETS: $6, $5. Free admission for kids today. Age 55 and older get $1 discount. Free parking. LOCATION: Joker Marchant Stadium. PHONE: 686-8075. "THE GAY DIVORCEE" | Lakeland [News Source]