| Get soil as soft as pasta
Liz Segler doesn't believe a gardener has to be a slave to the shovel, tiller and hoe. The 67-year-old garden enthusiast teaches others how to save a lot of wear and tear on the body with lasagna gardening. No, lasagna gardening isn't growing basil, oregano, parsley and other herbs often used in the popular Italian pasta dish. It's a method of gardening that maximizes nature and minimizes effort in creating a dig-free garden. Dig-free? "Yes," said Segler. "I don't make lasagna. I don't eat lasagna. But I grow a lasagna garden." Segler first became interested in gardening as a stressed-out teacher and coach. "It helped me unwind. I'd come out here and dig and talk to the plants and then I'd be ready to go in and meet my family and fix dinner," the now retired Segler said.
KC Power Equipment Sponsors Racing This Saturday Night At I-70 ...
With beautiful weather in the forecast, Saturday night racing will resume at the Asphalt Track, at I-70 Speedway. Five classes will be in action at "Americas Fastest Weekly Race Track". ASA Late Models, Super Trucks, Dash Cars, Super Stocks and the Enduros will all be on the bill for this Saturday nights event. On Saturday, Pit Gates will open at 4:00 pm, General Admission Gates will open at 5:00 pm, and Hot Laps begin at 6:00 pm with racing at 7:30 pm. Adult admission is $12.00 – Child admission is $5.00 - Children 5 and under are admitted for free. Sponsor for this Saturday's event is K C Power Equipment, located in Blue Springs. K C Power Equipment provides Blue Springs and the surrounding areas with sales and service of lawn and garden and other engine equipment.
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Winfield S. Smathers IV, a 1990 graduate of Dickinson College and a member of the 1989 and 1990 men's golf teams, was honored recently by the Dickinson College Sports Hall of Fame committee. He lives in Pine. Tracey Cima, a teacher at Ingomar Middle School in North Allegheny School District, will be featured in "2006/2007 National Honor Roll's Outstanding American Teachers." Donald Green has joined the board of directors at Glade Run Foundation. Dr. Green is the executive director of Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania. Trooper Frank Cichra, of Troop D in Butler, has been certified by the International Association of Chiefs of Police as a drug recognition expert. Glade Run Lutheran Services' therapeutic horticulture program was selected from more than 650 kids' gardening programs nationwide to receive a Youth Garden Grant from the National Gardening Association.
Former Fernwood landscaper takes gardening trade to Bermuda
Former Fernwood landscaper and East Stroudsburg resident Michael Beattie solved the problem by moving to Bermuda. Here's a look at his garden.
NAME: Michael Beattie
AGE: 50
JOB: Estate I take care of is Mount Pleasant, in Paget right in the middle of the island. It is featured in a Google search of "historic homes in Bermuda."
ABOUT THE ESTATE: At the estate we have the owner Mrs. Chappell — a wonderful, 93-year-old woman who still swims and hikes every day — the butler, the maid, myself and my girlfriend from Devon, England. She manages a landscape firm here on the island. I first hired her as a summer exchange college student when I was at Fernwood.
CHALLENGES: We have no critters to eat our plants! No deer, rabbits, not even any squirrels or snakes here.
The lawn outside Clark Hall on Thursday was the scene of the first ...
Contestants built protective casings for their eggs, which were then dropped from 50 feet. Winners were determined on how little the egg was damaged, the creativity of the team and their 'egg-quipment.'
Designs for the 'egg-quipment' ranged from a papier-mache baby to a volcano filled with baking soda.
The winners of Thursday's event were freshman economics major Matthew Brown, junior biology major Josh Noble and freshman pre-major Jake Slaton of Phi Kappa Sigma.
The team won a trip to the Flugtag '07 contest in Nashville, Tenn., and a wakeboard from KISSFM, said Matthew Appleby, field marketing manager for the Red Bull event.
Second-place winners won the teams combined weight in Red Bull- roughly 500 pounds. The third-place winners won half of the teams weight in Red Bull - roughly 230 pounds, Appleby said.
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