| Principals of landscape design seminar set
A seminar to offer tips on the principles of landscape design will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Dave Means 4-H Center on U.S. 171.
Sponsored by the LSUAg Center's DeSoto Parish Extension Service, the free seminar will cover information such as bed preparation, before and after landscape scenes and plant selection. Severn Doughty, Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Association executive secretary, will lead the session.
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Fire official:residents can do better
Reno fire officials say that now is the time to put into place defensible space measures to help minimize the threat of wildland fires to homes.
Those measures include
o removing dead and dying vegetation for a minimum of 30 feet from structure, including fences
o This could mean a distance of 100 to 200 feet for homes built along canyons or on slopes, depending on the density and type of vegetation and the slope.
o limbing trees 12-14 feet up from the ground to minimize the spread of fire from the ground to tree
o thinning remaining vegetation to break up the continuity of fuels through which fire would otherwise quickly spread.
Information about defensible space steps to reduce the risk of wildland fires can be found on the Reno Fire Department's Web page at www.cityofreno.com
Included is a link to the Living With Fire website that also provides residents with threat reduction tips that focus on four primary zones.
Film Society event sounds like winner
An acoustic smorgasbord of unusual percussion, symphonic music and evocative photography awaits you at the Coastside Film Society screening Friday, April 20.The evening's feature is the 113-minute "Touch the Sound," a documentary by Thomas Riedelsheimer that follows percussionist Evelyn Glennie on a musical journey around the world.Glennie, a top classical solo percussionist, is deaf, and uses her own body as a "resounding chamber" in order to experience sound. The film captures her playing a snare drum in Grand Central Station, a guitar case in Cologne, china in her favorite Japanese restaurant and whatever she can find in an industrial warehouse she roams with avant-garde musical icon Fred Firth."At the heart of every life form there is rhythm," she has said.The evening opens with another sound experience: the eight-minute "Half Moon Bay Concerto," a flowing visual journey of Coastside scenery and people set to music by prolific Half Moon Bay composer George Roumanis against stunning images by recent local arrival, photographer Lou Solitske.The two met on a casual seaside stroll when Roumanis read some of Solitske's original poetry and the two conceived the idea of the film.
Marie Stoops
Mrs. Stoops was a homemaker and assisted her husband in farming. She also worked as a ward secretary for almost 20 years at Riverview Hospital, and in the cafeterias at Jackson Central High School and Hamilton Heights High School for several years. .
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