September 1 2024-Tips For This Wasp Season & The "Grandma Babysitting Club"

01/09/2024 16 min
September 1 2024-Tips For This Wasp Season & The "Grandma Babysitting Club"

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September 1 2024-Tips For This Wasp Season & The "Grandma Babysitting Club"

They seem to be everywhere this summer…unwanted guests at our backyard bbq’s, outdoor family gatherings forcing many of us indoors. Why so many wasps now, is there anything you can do to keep them away, and what should you do if you get stung? We posed these questions and more to Royal Ontario Museum’s entomology expert Antonia Guidotti.

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An Ontario grandmother has come up with a novel approach to help families find temporary childcare. Since launching the ‘Grandma Babysitting Club’ earlier this year, founder Maria Martin has recruited six other Grandmas to the club offering in-home child care, with the goal of expanding the program. It has the added bonus of keeping the retirees young. We reached Maria Martin at her home in Kitchener.

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