In This Issue:

Hail and Farewell; an introduction to the next editor of AWOnews; an update on this year’s Eastern Ontario Amateur Wine Competition, final information on the upcoming Festival MMVI (our annual Festival and General meeting) in Ottawa in June, with your last chance to get your registration in, and comments from our President on current issues.

Please note as well that there are some changes, primarily those of scheduling, to the seminar program. This was necessitated by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission which made a series of last-minute demands on the times at which wine could be served.

Editorially speaking, this is a bit reminiscent of the early days of the hobby when it was illegal to even offer a glass of home-made wine to a guest in your own house, and absolutely verboten to take any out of the home. In addition a permit - although it was free, it was still administrivia - was required for every home winemaker, with a limit to the quantity one could make.

A number of us organized a province-wide petition to Queen’s Park to have these silly restrictions removed, and were successful. The time may have come to “go political” again: after all, Premier Dalton McGuinty is the MPP for Ottawa
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