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Page 8A THE BEACON August 2019 Principal Mr. Tom Black, Student TJ Carr, Student Jayna Pennington, Japanese teacher Shunichiro Kurumado. EC Students Travel to Japan for Studies Two East Central High School students are taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Osaka, Japan. T.J. Carr, son of Russ and Elisa Carr of Guilford, and Jayna Leigh Pennington, daughter of Jim and Jennifer Pennington of Cedar Grove, both completed their third year of Japanese studies taught by Shunichiro Kurumado at East Central High School. These high school seniors have been accepted into the Honors Program in Foreign Language through Indiana University, Bloomington. Since the program’s inception in 1962, thirty-eight ECHS students have participated in the IU Honors Programtwenty-one in Spanish, fifteen in French, and two in German. Mr. Carr and Ms. Pennington will be the first to participate in the Japanese program. The Honors Program in Foreign Language at IU coordinates students studying Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish languages and their travels to one of the eight sponsored countries for advanced studies and cultural experiences. Mr. Carr and Ms. Pennington are two of almost three hundred Indiana high school students to participate this summer. They will be staying in Osaka approximately three hundred fifty miles southwest of Tokyo. They will attend classes in grammar, culture, literature, phonetics, and conversation with other Japanese students. In the afternoon, they will participate in planned activities such as theater, singing/music, dance, and sports. Shun Kurumado, or Sensei, as he is known to students, has taught both art and Japanese at ECHS for over ten years. While somewhat unique in the local school curriculum, many Japanese companies and their employees are located in the Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky areas. To learn more about their upcoming summer experience abroad, please visit the IUHPFL website at IUHonorsProgram.org. Are you a Wish-Cycler? Be the Best Recycler, Follow the Instructions By Molly Resendes “I Recycle Everything.” You might think we relish those words at the Dearborn County Recycling Center, but in reality, not everything is recyclable. We provide costeffective recycling services while striving to reach our state-mandated waste reduction goals. The most important thing residents can do is follow the guidelines when deciding what to recycle. Putting items in your recycling because they seem recyclable or because you hate to see them go to waste is called wish-cycling. The term is new in the waste industry that describes the well-intentioned but ineffective recycling style that many people adopt when in doubt about what to recycle. Sometimes a lack of clearly communicated guidelines is to blame for wish-cycling. When you don’t know what is recyclable, putting in all sorts of seemingly like items makes sense. The Dearborn County Recycling Center posts acceptable items on its website and shows them clearly on all drop-off containers. Sometimes wish-cycling happens because you feel bad that an item will go to waste and you are hopeful that somehow, someway, an item will be made into something new. Although wish-cycling happens with metal items as well as glass, the problem is more significant with plastic waste. All plastics are not recyclable…we just wish they were. In Dearborn County, we recycle plastic bottles and jugs. That is all that anyone really needs to know to determine whether a plastic item should be recycled. Ask yourself, “What shape is this?” If the answer is, “bottle,” or “jug,” recycle it. If you might call something a tub, container, crate, or bag, then it is not recyclable. Daily we receive plastic items of all shapes and sizes that aren’t bottles and jugs. When items that aren’t bottles or jugs are tossed into the recycling, they must be removed and landfilled. At best, nonrecyclable plastic items are a nuisance and take up valuable sorting time. At worst, they jam or break equipment. Although plastics are made from the same base material, petroleum, they have very different structures which makes some more readily recyclable. The type of plastic used to make a water bottle is very different from the plastic used to make a bag or a yogurt tub. The numbers often found on plastic items are called resin codes that identify specific polymers. That coding system is paired with what we all know as the recycling symbol, and that causes lots of confusion. Resin codes aren’t useful in determining if an item can be recycled. Forgetting all about those numbers and base your recycling know-how on the guidelines provided by your recycling center is especially important. Plastic waste has been getting a lot of media attention lately, and it’s about time. We have a massive problem with plastic waste. Plastic is manmade, cheap, and lightweight. Plastic is made from petroleum, a fact which many adults have never stopped to consider. Going more than a few minutes without coming into contact with plastic is virtually impossible. It has been found in the furthest reaches of our planet and is quite literally suffocating our oceans. All species in existence are currently affected by plastic waste. The adverse effects of plastics in our environment, coupled with the problems caused by wish-cycling, make a compelling case for the importance of remembering and practicing the first of the three Rs, reduce. Reducing our use of plastics (especially singleuse items) is more important than ever. Recycling is the only way to ensure that your waste isn’t negatively affecting the environment. While plastics are impossible to avoid, keep in mind which kind can be recycled. If you choose to use plastics that can be recycled (bottles and jugs), at least your plastics will be used again. Dearborn County residents can help their recycling center reach its goal of providing cost-effective recycling options by refusing to be wish-cyclers. You can follow the guidelines for acceptable materials and remember the catchy reminder, “When in doubt, throw it out.” CIVISTA BANK WHISKEY CITY CHALLENGE Thrill As Cyclists Race in Downtown Lawrenceburg! JULY 20 FREE ADMISSION Saturday, July 20 (all times are P.M.) 1:00 Men 60+, Women 40+ 2:00 Men 15-16 & 17-18, Men 9-14 3:00 Women 15-16 & 17-18, Women 9-14, Women 4/5 4:00 Men 40-49, Men 50-59 5:00 Men 4/5 6:00 Women Pro 1/2/3 7:30 Men 3/4 9:00 Men Pro 1/2/3 “under the lights!” • Food & beverages available • Vendors • Music and activities Convenient parking at the Riverfront Parking Garage All events and times are subject to change NO COOLERS - NO PETS Sponsored by Call 1-800-322-8198 for more info or visit: www.WhiskeyCity.org THE BEACON - Bringing our Community and Businesses Together.
August 2019 THE BEACON Page 9A Hillforest Comes Alive to Share the Past with the Present Hillforest sits grandly at the top of Main Street in Aurora. Stephanie Siemer shared period stories on the front porch of the mansion. Susan Ruble demonstrates how to cane a chair. (Photo by Margaret Drury) Carly Utter and Alexis Mezger from South Dearborn High School shared how to stitch samplers . By Katie Ulrich Aurora is celebrating its two hundredth birthday this year! And there was no better place to celebrate than at Hillforest Victorian House Museum. The house and surrounding area is very picturesque and was the perfect location for a special Pioneer Days event held at the Museum and the historic Harris cabin. The early 1800s were represented by a South Dearborn High School class, a Boy Scout troop, and other volunteers, including people who have perfected the various trades of early Indiana. Some of these presenters returned from a similar event done for the two hundredth birthday of Indiana which was celebrated back in 2016. Eric Jaboe played period music for the event. Michele Stegman spinning wool into yarn. (Photo by Margaret Drury) Down by the Harris cabin, the sounds of a dulcimer and a fiddle provided a backdrop for the different booths, similar in sound to what would have been heard in the early 1800s. These types of instruments provided entertainment for pioneers. Jane Hiltz teaches the Advanced Fashion and Textiles course at South Dearborn and was at the Pioneer Days with some of her students, who dressed in handmade pioneer clothes. These students were responsible for running several different craft tables at which kids could experiment with Malina & Greg Coursmeier learn pottery with Brad Ellis. Mia Stevens tried her hand at the pottery wheel. Photos by Katie Ulrich things such as sewing, weaving, and using a quill and ink. A popular booth at this event was all about letting kids interact in making pottery. Brad Ellis helped them with understanding the basics of creating something on the wheel and kept things from going south on their creations. Former teacher Beverly Stevens stopped by this booth with her granddaughter, Mia. History is important to Beverly, and she brought Mia to the event so she could have a greater understanding and appreciation for the lives that Indiana pioneers faced, compared to how we live today. Several different crafts and displays were featured in the Harris cabin, including chair caning, which consists of weaving chair seats. Susan Ruble shared that she began caning almost forty years ago when she spent the day with two older ladies, who let her watch, then let her try, and eventually sent her home with a book about chair caning. As Susan said, “It’s a craft, and like any craft, you have to do it to learn it.” Another presenter was spinner Michele Stegman. Michele has been spinning for about forty years. All of this practice was evident in her beautiful work. She makes alpaca and wool yarns and displayed fibers made from corn and soy. However, even though spinning may seem outdated now, it revolutionized the way people lived because of the speed and ease with which textiles could be made. The spinning wheel is estimated to have been invented around 200 AD in China or India, yet it did not reach Europe until around the 1300s. By the 1800s, spinning wheels would have been a common household item for pioneers. The Purdue Master Gardener group sponsored a booth, run by Master Gardener Emily Beckman. Through the Master Gardener program, which is offered as a class in Aurora beginning in the fall, Emily learned about how to raise plants and understand the land she lives on. At her booth, she shared her knowledge about dyes, herbs, and how pioneer kitchens ran. Displayed were several different dyed fabrics, such as coppery orange made from onions and a pink made from beets. These natural coloring processes allowed the pioneers to harvest their We Need Listings! materials and add color to their fabrics. Herbs can still be grown in Indiana and used in place of salt for seasoning food. Pioneers used herbs in their kitchens to help with this as well, though how our kitchens run today is far different from how the pioneers handled the storing of food. Without the benefit of refrigerators, pioneers were left to use salt, vinegar, and sugar to preserve foods. Fruits were cooked down into jams and jellies that could last through the winter. Beans, peas, corn, and even apples were dried to keep pioneers fed until the next growing season. The Education Committee of Hillforest was responsible for the running and success of Pioneer Days, along with the help of all of its volunteers. CORNERSTONE REALTY INC. CORNERSTONE We’re IN YOUr COrNer. C REALTY INC. 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