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It’s been a very strange spring hawk-watching season in Ohio

  • May 1, 2010
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Readers of this column most likely know of this writer’s enjoyment of raptor migration. After more than 20 years of trying to figure out how this works, this spring threw us a number of new curves. We divide the spring season into two parts, the first being the March block of time when we look mainly for Red-shouldered and Red-tailed Hawks, plus Turkey Vultures. Then there is a two-plus week...

Your definition of home is very likely to be different from mine ... or his

  • May 1, 2010
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“Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.” -- Talking Heads from “Once in a Lifetime” (1981) When we were kids, my brother and I fought almost all the time and, being three years older, I won most of those disputes. He’d make fun of me for being so skinny. I’d fire back something about his being chubby. He’d mock the Rolling Stones. I’d crucify Elton John. He’d go to my...

More green in the rainbow

  • May 1, 2010
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The color of the spring season is green; the grass, the trees, the forest floor, the weeds. Across the acres of Ohio farmland, green has spread from one old stone marker to the fence post over yonder. Covering the hills that roll and into the valleys that dip, the grandeur of emerald that covers them is fresh; it is definitely spring. I anxiously await the remaining colors of the rainbow to...

Organizing a great party

  • May 1, 2010
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At a basketball tournament last week one of the other moms calmly said, “I need to start planning my daughter’s graduation party.” Another friend casually said that now that prom is over she can make plans for her daughter’s graduation. Yet another friend has planned an anniversary and a wedding just weeks apart and days after returning from the eighth-grade Washington D.C. trip. I feel like...

Nutrition Facts not an exact science

  • May 1, 2010
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How can I figure out the nutrition information for fat-free cottage cheese that has been rinsed off? I log my food intake in a journal, but this stumps me. When you rinse cottage cheese, you’re rinsing away whey and you leave yourself with the curds. Whey is mostly water, so what you’re doing likely doesn’t have a huge effect on the nutrition information that you see on the container. But,...

Coasting along

  • May 1, 2010
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Seldom do you find a wood wagon in such condition - great graphics and nice old paint. Eager bidders quickly raised the price to $500 and I believe it stayed in the family. Other items at this auction: hickory stool, $25; Schrock cane, $150; box of carpet balls, $7; Ohio Art globe, $12.50; nice old rocking horse, $200; wooden sled, $150; auto light, $35; Lincoln drape Aladdin lamp, $45; two cane...

Road trip

  • May 1, 2010
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How can you connect with siblings and family as adults? If your family lives far apart like mine, it is hard to keep up with the siblings with whom we spent roughly the first 18 years of our life. Even with all of the technology available to us today—Facebook, cell phone, e-mail and even old fashioned letters—too often the pressing needs of job, our own immediate families, church, school and...

Area students create visually stunning masterpieces for Celebration of the Arts

  • May 1, 2010
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Creativity was everywhere patrons looked during the Holmes County Celebration of the Arts on Tuesday, April 27, at the Perry Reese Center at Hiland High School. The visual arts portion of the event featured artwork from students from schools throughout the county, from kindergarten to the 12th grade. Whether it was chalk, ink, paint, clay or wood, the incredible talent on display showed not only...

Wayne County Schools Career Center prom royalty announced

  • May 1, 2010
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Students stay in tune to Celebrate the Arts

  • May 1, 2010
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From the very first note of the band during the Holmes County Celebration of the Arts, anyone in attendance could tell that it was going to be an enjoyable evening of music. Both the West Holmes and Hiland bands and choirs came together to create music at the event, which took place April 27 at the Perry Reese Community Center at Hiland High School. In addition, hundreds of visual arts projects...