September 2012

Tasting menu of locally sourced ingredients & live music by Janet Burgan, noon-3pm at Gerard’s River Grill, $20 advance, $25 at door. Benefits Big Eddy Farmstand/Tusten Rural Youth Workforce Development program. www.bigeddyfarmstand.com or areynosa@skydogprojects.com

Lunch provided by Lumberland Senior Club, info provided by fire dept. at the senior center, noon. All welcome.

A bat, the only mammal capable of sustained flight, invokes many things to many people. Many fictional books and movies have maligned bats as evil creatures to be feared, and many of us have an underlying fear of bats when we encounter them. The truth is that the only thing that needs to fear a bat in our region is a mosquito: a bat can eat up to 50% of its body weight in mosquitoes and other flying insects per evening. It turns out that a bat is a highly beneficial critter that has picked up a bum rap.  Read more

My online dictionary defines “family” in a number of ways: “A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household,” “A group of people related to one another” and “People related to each other and so to be treated with a special loyalty or intimacy: I could not turn him away, for he is family.” Lest we forget, American journalist and author Edna Buchanan once declared that “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”  Read more