| Wild Ones holds 10th annual plant sale
The Wild Ones is holding its 10th annual plant sale, offering 62 species of perennial wildflowers, grasses and sedges that are native to our Rock River Valley area. Deadline for ordering is April 29; the pickup date is May 12 in Rockford. The plants are sold in flats of 32 half-pint pots. Flats are $64, whether of one species or mixed. Minimum order is one flat. For more information and to request order forms, contact Dianne Stenerson at 815-636-9930 or dstenerson@rockriver.net. The purpose of the sale is to encourage homeowners, businesses, schools and churches to use native plants for environmentally sound landscaping practices. Native plants evolved here over thousands of years to survive in our weather extremes and local soils, in harmony with other local plants and animals.
Going green to combat global warming
Buildings, renovation and landscaping could play a major role in attacking climate change, Archicentre, the building advisory service of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects said , calling for Federal and State Governments to focus on basics. Combating global warning is not rocket science and most of the weapons are within the collective hands of the community and government at all levels. Archicentre said simple measures such as switching to energy efficient light bulbs, better insulation and ventilation, utilising overhanging eaves, installing shade pergolas, water efficient taps, showerheads and toilets and the use of blinds in hot climates can all contribute to combating global warming. Angus Kell, State Manager NSW and ACT of Archicentre said, ''The size of homes in the future would be a major challenge for the government and the community as many large homes had just one person living in them making them highly environmentally inefficient and contributors to global warming.
Boy Scouts dig in to help earn Eagle
Chilly temperatures greeted eager Boy Scouts from Troop 113 Monday morning as they helped fellow scout 15-year-old Henderson Stegall work on his Eagle Scout project. We found buried treasure, joked 14-year-old Andrew York, as he and Henderson, the project leader, began digging in front of the Northwest Georgia Sexual Assault Center. About 12 boys from Troop 113, as well as a few friends who just wanted to help out, met at the center to do some much-needed landscaping. This center had such a need, and I felt like I could help, said Henderson, a Darlington eighth-grader. All the centers money goes to helping their clients, so I knew they wouldnt be able to do something like this unless we helpeBoy Scouts from Troop 113 work on landscaping Monday at the Northwest Georgia Sexual Assault Center.
Lecture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: "Through a Monster's Eyes: The ...
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, a Professor of English at George Washington University, researches the complexities of identity, monstrosity, and postcoloniality in the Middle Ages. He has authored several books, including Hybridity, Identity, And Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles; Medieval Identity Machines; and Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages. In addition, he has edited several influential collections of essays, including The Postcolonial Middle Ages; Becoming Male in the Middle Ages; Thinking the Limits of the Body; and Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Professor Cohen will discuss his recent work on the green children of Woolpit: two children, remarkable both for their strange language and for their green skin, who were discovered in the late twelfth century near the English town of Woolpit.
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