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Michelle Wood: SWCD

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January is seed catalog month: Get inspired

Gardeners know January is the month when gardening really begins. Before the soil can be worked, before the seeds can be planted, the dream of spring’s garden must begin. Plus, it’s when seed catalogs begin to arrive. They seem to show up...

  • January 9, 2015
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January is seed catalog month: Get inspired

Gardeners know January is the month when gardening really begins. Before the soil can be worked, before the seeds can be planted, the dream of spring’s garden must be realized. Plus, it’s when seed catalogs begin to arrive. They seem to show up...

  • January 9, 2015
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New Year’s traditions: Fat makes you lucky and greens make you rich

By now, you are stuffed full of pork and sauerkraut. Around these parts, it is the traditional food for New Year’s Eve and the first of January, thought to bring good luck in the coming year. I doubt any of us who eat this dish year after year and...

  • January 5, 2015
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Using our authority as believers to speak to our mountain: Part II

“Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore...

  • January 5, 2015
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Ice skating: It’s not always as easy as remembering how to ride a bike

Ice skating is really hard. I never used to think that, but on a recent skating trip, I realized I was no longer 11 years old. As we were driving to the rink, I kept thinking about all the times I used to skate on our pond when I was a kid. The...

  • January 3, 2015
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New Year’s traditions: Fat makes you lucky and greens make you rich

By now, you are stuffed full of pork and sauerkraut. Around these parts, it is the traditional food for New Year’s Eve and the first of January, thought to bring good luck in the coming year. I doubt any of us who eat this dish year after year and...

  • January 3, 2015
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Another year means another round of funny human folly

Each year I record some of the more arcane, inane and maybe even insane happenings that tend to escape headlines. Here are a few examples. January 9 – An off-duty Houston firefighter extinguished a fire in an 18-wheeler by using the truck’s...

  • December 29, 2014
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The resolution against all resolutions

Well, 2015 is upon us, and in case you were wondering, I have finally decided what my New Year’s resolution will be. World peace. I mean every Miss America contestant says that if she wins she will work towards world peace, right? So it should be...

  • December 29, 2014
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How, and when, to appeal when Medicare won’t pay

Dear Savvy Senior, How does one go about appealing Medicare when they won’t pay for something that has been covered in the past? Denied Senior Dear Denied, If you disagree with a coverage or payment decision made by Medicare, you can appeal and...

  • December 29, 2014
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I have to admit, this year has been one of the rough ones

Writers like me are unduly fond of counting down things: best records, favorite movies, books that matter, all that kind of stuff in a quantifiable, identifiable pursuit of the paradigmatic ideal. Well, why change now, right? What we’re pursuing...

  • December 29, 2014
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Michelle Wood: SWCD

Michelle Wood: SWCD

Michelle Wood oversees the day to day operations of the Holmes County Soil and Water Conservation District and the diverse activities offered to promote clean water and healthy soil. With a lifelong passion for the outdoors and a background in communications, she appreciates the conservation district grassroots model which enables the local board and staff to create programs that meet the conservation needs of Holmes County. Michelle is a member of several state and national committees. Contact Michelle at 330-674-2811 or at mwood@co.holmes.oh.us.

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