Madison Messenger - April 21st, 2019

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Youth organization
changes its name
Go ahead! Ask me anything
Master Gardeners welcome challenging questions
The board of directors for the West
Jefferson Youth Athletic Association
(WJYAA) voted unanimously to
change the name of the organization to
West Jefferson Youth Inc., effective
immediately.
Led by John Koehler, a group made
up of members of our operations crew
and volunteers from the community
came up with the transition over a 45-
day period.
The mission statement is to educate
and develop every child with the desire
to participate and compete, while simultaneously
affording equal opportunity
to compete without regard to
experience or athletic ability. We are
committed to instilling our core values
of attitude, effort and teamwork in the
youth of our community through sport
and other community activities. We
believe these values are important to
their overall long-term athletic development
and their ability to become active
and productive members of our
community and society.
These values are emphasized by the
entire organization, from the board members to the coaches, and
from the coaches to the youth and their parents.
I am excited for the changes. We are revitalizing everything we
are doing to make it easier, and folks will see a change in responsiveness,
information and operations as we move forward. We have
a new website, owned by Dick’s Sporting Goods. It will help with
management of participants and will streamline enrollment.
We still own the “WJYAA” name. We will take some time and rebrand.
We also will come up with better choices of travel or elite teams
for basketball, softball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball.
John Stanley Jr., president/CEO
West Jefferson Youth Inc.
John Stanley Jr., president/CEO
of West Jefferson
Youth Athletic
Association, signs documents
to change the organization’s
name to
West Jefferson Youth Inc.
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Did you know? The Madison County Extension Office
and the Ohio State Extension offer a service called
“Ask a Master Gardener?” You can call the local Extension
office or submit your query by e-mail to the
state’s Ask an Expert address. Questions are distributed
to Master Gardeners around the state who have
volunteered to do the research necessary to find answers.
Master Gardener volunteers have identified hundreds
of trees, shrubs, flowers and weeds from pictures
submitted on-line. We suggest the best time to
plant, ways to increase yields, prolong bloom time and
when to harvest. We identify bugs, butterflies, birds
and animals. We suggest ways to discourage some insects
and birds, encourage others, and attract butterflies
and hummingbirds. We identify deer damage to
trees and gardens, as well as racoon, rabbit and pet
damage to plants and lawns. Every question is handled
with the intent of providing the best possible answer
and to provide practical, proven, science-based
solutions to problems.
It turns out that sometimes, much to our chagrin,
the only answer is, “That’s a really good question. We
just don’t know the answer.”
Once, someone submitted a photo of a shrub with
red berries. I thought that would be an easy one and
researched it diligently. For hours. I took the picture
to a Master Gardener meeting and passed it around.
I took it to two big-name nurseries in Columbus. I
asked every gardener I knew. I ended up with several
distinct possibilities. The final answer: “I’m sorry, I
just don’t know.”
There have been pictures of fungi with requests for
identification. There are literally thousands of kinds
of fungi in our environment. Fungi questions always
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come with this disclaimer, “No matter what I say it is,
don’t ever eat a mushroom picked from the wild.” Only
a few highly educated experts are knowledgeable
enough to do that.
Many people want names for their local spiders,
and it always comes with an explanation: “I’m worried
that it can hurt my child/dog/cat.” Often the spider in
the picture is teeny tiny as the person holding the
camera is reluctant to get too close. The only harmful
spiders in Ohio are the brown recluse and the black
widow. Both are shy, secretive and shun your company.
They do not spin large webs or pose for pictures.
Tree questions are common. Most of the evergreens
we like to grow are not native to Ohio and often struggle
with our summer heat, humidity, and heavy clay
soils. When all else fails, we suggest a certified arborist
for tree examination.
A homeowner often wants suggestions for a good
tree, shrub or flower for a specific site, and it is very
gratifying to do the research and be able to offer several
choices well suited for the spot.
So go ahead, Ask a Master Gardener. We will research
your problem and offer solid, scientific answers,
often accompanied by useful ways to use the
information. Here is how to contact us:
For the Madison County Ask a Master Gardener
Program, call the Madison County OSU Extension Office
at (740) 852-0975 and follow the prompts.
To submit a question by e-mail to the Ohio State
Ask a Master Gardener Program, go to https://extension.osu.edu/ask-an-expert
and follow the directions.
Jane Kutzley
Madison County Master Gardener
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