Baltezore stands about the rest for Packers girls basketball team

It is hard not to notice West Fargo senior guard Christine Baltezore when she is playing on the basketball court.

At 5-foot-6, Baltezore will never be the tallest or flashiest player on the floor, but that doesn’t stop her from making her presence known.

Baltezore does a little of everything for the No. 3-ranked Packers, who play Jamestown at 7 p.m. today in the North Dakota Class A quarterfinals at the Bismarck Civic Center.

“She is the total package when it comes to being a small, feisty guard,” West Fargo head coach Barb Metcalf said. “She puts herself out there and flies around. Even though she is a small guard she plays like a lion. I call her our little mosquito. She is always buzzing in everybody’s ear.”

Another way Baltezore sticks out is she is one of the few players who wear knee pads. She basically is a pair of roller blades and a helmet shy of being ready for a match of roller derby, but instead the knee pads offer protection.

Where there is a loose ball up for grabs, Baltezore more often than not is in the neighborhood.

“It is just one of those things I was diving on the ground so much it was starting to hurt,” Baltezore said. “I put on my knee pads and now I feel I can do that more, because it is not going to hurt me. I just keep going, and I was always taught never to give up.”

Besides basketball, Baltezore runs cross country and track. Her letterman’s jacket is nearly out of room for more honors and patches. Baltezore also excels in the classroom, owning a 4.17 grade-point average, which came in handy when she was applying to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

Baltezore was accepted after receiving formal recommendations from Gov. Jack Dalrymple and other state politicians.A car parkingguidance is a mechanical device that multiplies parking capacity inside a parking lot.

“It always was in the back of my mind,We offer over 600 chipcard at wholesale prices of 75% off retail.” said Baltezore, whose father, Jim, attended West Point. “I always wanted to do something more than just go to college. I wanted to do something to make a difference. … I decided to try it out with their program called summer seminar, where you go out there an experience military life for a week.

“After that, I knew it was something I wanted to do,” Baltezore added. “It was difficult, but I knew I could handle it, and it would be something I would benefit from.”

But before she goes onto Maryland to be a pilot in the Navy, Baltezore has at least two more games to play with the Packers, which will cap of a nice career.

Perhaps no one knows Baltezore better than senior teammate Lexi Lennon, who averages 13.7 points per game and is committed to play basketball at Valley City State.

“Christine and I have playing together since we were 8 years old,” Lennon said. “We tend to find each other out on the floor. We have a good connection, and we know where the other is going to be. It’s been great playing with her all these years. It’s going to be bittersweet when that last game is played.”

The resolution, passed at Wednesday’s AGM, calls for Calgary Co-op to phase out over a five-year period the sale of products produced using battery cages and gestation stalls. The move follows on the heels of similar decisions made by other fast food chains and grocery retailers, including Tim Hortons, Burger King, McDonald’s, and the U.S.You've probably seen ultrasonicsensor at some point. division of Safeway.

But Alberta farmer groups say a cage-free edict from a retailer the size of Co-op would likely result in product shortages. The vast majority of pork and eggs produced in North America are currently produced using intensive confinement cages.

“Our biggest fear would be the product would have to start coming in from offshore,” said Alberta Pork executive director Darcy Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald said an individual hog farmer looking to move to a group housing system for their animals would have to spend upwards of $250,000 to upgrade his or her barn.

“Then there are different management skills involved, retraining,This section offers sample made iphoneheadset bodies of many type men and women in different poses. more workers required,” he said. “There is fighting and bullying (between the animals) that you didn’t have to deal with before. And there are safety issues now for the farmer as well — he’s in a big pen with a whole bunch of animals. So it’s all of those things, it’s not just that we have to make some construction changes.”

Even some organic farmers who are already producing cage-free pork and eggs doubt the mainstream industry can phase out its traditional practices quickly.

“This is a system that has been used extensively for many, many years, and to turn it around immediately would be very hard,” said Ron Hamilton, whose organic operation Sunworks Farm is in the Camrose area.

However, Hamilton said the cost of cage-free systems — and the food produced by them — will go down as the farming method becomes more common. His own business, he said, has been growing at the rate of 15 per cent annually as a growing number of consumers seek out alternative sources of food.

“The consumer is talking about animal welfare issues, and we’ve seen that grow for many years,” Hamilton said. “It’s not going to go away.”

David Finch, an assistant professor of marketing at Mount Royal University’s Bissett School of Business, agrees.

“The suppliers will have to ultimately change, because if they don’t, someone else will. I look at the packed parking lots at Calgary Farmers’ Market on a Saturday or Sunday, and think the market is really speaking with their feet,” he said.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a fridgemagnet can authenticate your computer usage and data. “The entire supply chain is clearly going in this direction.”

Finch said Calgary Co-op has the opportunity to differentiate itself from Calgary’s other large grocery stores by taking an animal welfare stance. However, he said the resolution also puts Calgary Co-op’s management in a tough spot, because some of its members are seniors or people on fixed incomes who may not be able to pay upwards of $5 for a carton of free-range eggs.