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The film has many clips featuring activities and locations in Cypress Hills Park, including a look out point, people on bicycles, a cell tower, horse trail rides, tennis, mini golf, and the park entrance gates.
Clips of Cypress Hills park in the summer, including the Nature Centre building, a helicopter, the pool and lake. Some clips are aerial shots from the helicopter.
Footage of the outdoor pool, probably the grand opening, at Cypress Hills Park. There is a clippings list available with the tape. Clips include interviews, general pool and crowd shots, and a "water polo" / flippaball demonstration.
Host Gordon Bacon [Gordon Foth?] interviews Dr. Fernando Selles of the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre (SPARC) in Swift Current, Saskatchewan about new pear grow seeding systems research for Farming Today.
Video features several advertisements followed by sports news clips, including topics such as professional baseball, running, Worst Avid Golfer contest, synchronized skating, minor hockey awards, synchronized swimming, professional hockey, Ardens women's basketball team, and ringette provincials.
Various clips of sports news, including men's hockey, a feature on Herb Pinder, Jr., the Regina Pat's owner possibly selling them to Swift Current, women's volleyball, Arden's basketball, and curling.
Host Gordon Bacon interviews 1) Dr. Fernando Selles about fertilizer use and micronutrient requirements for crops; and 2) Dr. Grant McLeod about winter cereals, including weed control and fertilizer use. Both interviews take place at the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre (SPARC) and are for Farming Today.
Clips of nature and weather, including a tree in a field, a child with a kite, irrigation sprinklers, moon at night, kids in a playground, a house by a creek, trees, birds, and a grain elevator. The write-up enclosed with the tape is occasionally inaccurate.
Four segments for Farming Today: Gordon Foth interviews 1) Dr. Bob Zettner about crop rotation; 2) Dr. Grant MacLeod about winterkill of fall rye; host Gordon Bacon interviews 3) Dr. Doug Cambell about a verticl axis wind turbine and 4) Dr. Bix Bidereck about nitrogen fixation in legumes.
Gordon Foth interviews Dr. Wendal Rice, a microbiologist from the Beaver Lodge Research Station in Alberta about legume inoculations and nitrogen fixation for Farming Today.