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Page 12A THE BEACON September 2021 By Doris Butt Community Correspondent goodolddays@goBEACONnews.com Travels Now and Then This is a summer with no projects and no major vacations. Those days are gone as health concerns keep us close to home. I will have to say I am enjoying a major project where I made collages of pictures from our travels. I put together three frames with a total of ninety-six pictures. Ray hung them on our kitchen wall directly in front of where I sit at the table. We put stars on the travel spots we especially liked. Blue for Ray. Red for me. His include visits to Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, views of trains along the way, and Bingham Mine in Utah. Mine include nature scenes in Utah, flowers on Temple Square grounds in Salt Lake City, and sunflower fields in Kansas. We both chose one scene of our van going through the Chandelier Tree in Oregon, probably because of the story there. I remember how impressed I was with the Redwoods when Ray and I traveled through them. They became my number one travel experience. Some readers will remember they inspired me to convince Ray we needed an RV, so we could camp there. That never happened. We did take it through the area, but we didn’t find that campsite. I don’t remember if I have ever shared this part of the story. When I went through Mom’s things she left behind, I found photos and postcards from a western trip my friend, Shirley, and I took in my new ($3,100) Dodge convertible. And there I was driving through the Chandelier Tree found deep in the Redwoods. I had completely forgotten I had been there. In fact, I remembered very little of the trip we girls, at the young age of twenty-one, confidently made in the 1957 Dodge. I recently found the little keepsake collection I made of that trip. It made me smile. I bought $302.20 worth of traveler’s checks. I found my traced map where we drove to San Francisco up to Seattle and back home. I am sure we took in all the sights along the way. Here is the best part I found recorded in our Triptik- lodging average $5.50 a night. Meals average $2. And now the big one. Gas 40 cents a gallon. I guess I should add that I made $4,040 that year- my first of teaching that fall. Besides the photos of me driving out of Chandelier Tree, I found photos of me at Yellowstone, the Pacific Coast, and several unknown stops. The only one I remember was a scary ride to Bingham Mine. That’s all. I’ve said it before and will say it again. I think we must have had a good time. So when I am seated at the kitchen table eating my meal, I often study my travel collage. My eyes frequently wander to two photos of different times Ray and I visited the Chandelier Tree and I took the picture while Ray drove through it. The last time, the mirrors scraped the sides. And I think back to that picture of me in my convertible driving through it years ago. My convertible was traded for a pickup truck after we were married and could not afford the $121 monthly payment. A dream of some ten years ended with that trade. And yes, tears were shed. Still, that beauty has a place in my heart that seems to just hang on. That’s a whole different story. I will say those ninety-six travel pictures directly in my sight every time I am seated at my kitchen table should ensure that I will remember all the grand travels Ray and I have had in our retirement years. Learn Before You Burn By Stefanie Hoffmeier It’s a beautiful summer night and you are sitting outside on the patio with your family when suddenly the smell of burning trash creeps up and ruins your night. While fire pits and s’mores are summer staples, burning anything other than leaves, brush, and clean wood waste in your fire pit or barrel is a nuisance, and against the law in Indiana. Most people who burn trash do not realize how harmful it is to their health and to the environment. When you burn trash, pollutants are released at ground level and can be easily inhaled which can increase the risk of heart disease, aggravate asthma and emphysema, and cause rashes, nausea, or headaches. Smoke and ash from the fire that settles on plants and the ground can be mixed into the soil and be absorbed by crops. The same pollutants can enter milk, eggs, or meat if farm animals eat contaminated feed or soil. Take plastic for example. When burned, it releases dangerous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, dioxins, furans, and heavy metals. Anyone who eats the fruits and vegetables grown near the fire or in garden soil tilled with the ashes is exposed to those chemicals. Young children may be at greater risk than adults because of their playing behaviors, their small size, and their developing bodies. Another cause for concern is dioxins, a group of chemically related compounds. Dioxins can cause reproductive, developmental, and immunological problems in humans and animals. Research from the EPA shows that burn barrels are the number one source of dioxins in the U.S. As little as forty years ago, burning was a necessary disposal method. Today trash haulers service all of Southeast Indiana. Items can be taken to the BestWay Transfer station in Greendale and pay per load. Reducing the amount of trash you make can be as simple as reusing and recycling items. Taking your waste to a recycling center or landfill helps to keep the environment around us safe and clean. Come and Hear! Lessons From “The Bible” About Your Spiritual Needs. Presented from the Bible by Ross Oldenkamp September 19 th – 24 th 2021 The Church of Christ at St. Leon 7140 Hyland Rd., Guilford Indiana One mile South of I-74 (exit 164) on SR-1 at the corner of Hyland Rd. 513-913-5597 812-637-1252 Sunday 9:30, 10:30 am & 6:00 pm Monday – Friday 7:30 pm By John Hawley Purdue Extension hawley4@purdue.edu Renovating and Restoring a Damaged Lawn Has your turf seen better days? Are you struggling to establish a new lawn? Do bare spots and weeds dominate your landscape? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! In this month’s article, I will discuss strategies for improving your lawn. If your lawn is in generally acceptable condition, significant improvements can be made through an enhanced fertilizer program. Many folks in our area have well-established grass but struggle with weed suppression. Fall is the most critical time to fertilize. According to our turf specialists on campus at Purdue, applications of nitrogen fertilizers at a rate of 1 lb/1000 sq ft in September and 1.25 lb/1000 sq ft in November can substantially improve conditions in your lawn. In tandem with the fertilizer, apply a broadleaf herbicide in October to eradicate difficult lawn weeds. Consider a soil test for a more exact recommendation. If you are considering over-seeding or repairing an entire lawn, Mid-August through Mid-September is an ideal time frame. Begin by mowing at 1 to 1.5 inches. This step reduces competition from existing grasses. Consider thoroughly aerifying and or power raking to increase seed to soil contact. Apply a starter fertilizer with adequate phosphorus (1 to 1.25 lb/1000 sq ft) and apply seed with either a standard drop seeder or slit-seeder. Rates will vary by species, so be sure to prepare accordingly. Moisture will be absolutely critical at this time, so be prepared to lightly water three to four times daily. Frequent mowing will be required to reduce overcrowding from existing turf. After at least two cuts, the mowing height can be gradually increased from 1.5 inches to a normal and healthy height of 3 to 3.5 inches. These recommendations may be less successful if your lawn is suffering from serious compaction. If you are considering a complete lawn renovation, similar steps can be followed once the existing turf is removed. This is best accomplished through an application of a nonselective herbicide, such as those containing glyphosate. Allow the herbicide to work for at least 72 hours before continuing. Be sure to follow all label instructions closely. Additional tillage or other soil improvements may be needed if you suffer from compacted soils or have problems with thatch. In all of the scenarios listed above, working with a lawn care professional may be the best course of action. While any county Extension office can provide a detailed road map for successfully renovating or restoring an entire lawn, it is a timeconsuming process that can easily overwhelm a busy homeowner. Additionally, professionals have access to expensive and unique equipment and tools that may be unfamiliar to you. When searching for the right company or individual to work with, check reviews online and ask for recommendations from friends and neighbors. To find gardening resources from Purdue University experts, search “Indiana Yard and Garden – Purdue Consumer Horticulture” on your home computer or smartphone or feel free to email me at hawley4@purdue.edu. You can also reach our office at 812-926-1189. We are located at 229 Main Street, Aurora, IN 47001. Look for my next article in the October issue of The Beacon! BRATER - WINTER FUNERAL HOMES Twenty-seven Years of Bringing our Community and Businesses Together.
debbystutz.thebeacon@yahoo.com September 2021 THE BEACON Page 1B S BEACON PORTS SCENE By Chris Jack Nobbe Zoller beaconsports @live.com sports@goBEACONnews.com The Value of Sports Sports continue to be embraced by so many in our communities and will likely do so far into the future. Hopefully, all are finding ways to get out and enjoy the summer by competing or watching some competition or simply by exercising and By enjoying Maxine an activity. Think of Klump how many youth baseball and softball tournaments are Community a standard mark of Independence Correspondent Day. Drive by a sports complex on a summer weekend and see the maxineklump.thebeacon@yahoo.com many vehicles in the parking lot while so many children engage in sports on the fields and parents and other loved ones watch on. Sports are an integral thread in the fabric of our nation. Over the past one hundredplus years, sports have often taken the role of allowing our country to forge through difficult times with the certainty and promise of our nation and freedoms, to provide comfort in times of despair, and to bring hope that life remains beautiful in the essence of the human experience. On a national or regional stage, sports provide a great sense of pride and achievement for an area or a people. As the Olympics take place, many are enthralled to view the efforts of the American athletes while appreciating the efforts or struggles of an athlete from any nation. The image of the Miracle on Ice as the collegiate Americans took down the mighty Soviet team in the semi-finals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is a powerful moment that many Tickets are $10, all proceeds donated to Chicks & Chucks, a local breast cancer organization For tickets & more info visit DowntownLawrenceburg.com of my age and older can readily recall. However, just as impactful was watching the father of British sprinter Derek Redmond come from the stands, ignoring security, to go to his son and assist his finish after Redmond had torn his hamstring in the 400 at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. Redmond did not get official credit for finishing that race since he was aided by his father, but we all know that he truly did and that the essence of sport and the dedication of family was captured in that spontaneous reaction of his father. The efforts of Milan High School’s 1954 state championship basketball team (as well as its state final four appearance in 1953) are still celebrated in our area. While several more state titles have come to this area of the state in various sports, the nature of this team from such a small school defeating all comers in the state stands as a testament to effort and hard work despite numbers. Certainly, this story is even more widely known beyond Indiana due to the film Hoosiers masterfully written by Angelo Pizzo, but even that film stands as an example of inspiration and joy drawn from the essence of sports. Sports, however, must take a backseat to life at times. Likely, World War II would hold the most famous examples of this as Hall of Fame baseball players such as Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, and others willingly paused their sports careers to join in the war effort, with The Splendid Splinter also doing so during the Korean War. Also during that time, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League came into existence for a decade or more and was later immortalized through the Penny Marshall film A League of Their Own. Aurora native Anna “Shorty” (Meyer) Petrovic played in both that league as well as the National Girls Baseball League for several years, beginning as a fifteenyear old, just as Joe Nuxhall had done for the Reds during the war. Who has ever heard of the Steagles? This was a combination of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 1943 NFL season. To have enough players for a team due to the Every First Sunday May - October Indiana’s Largest “Antiques & Vintage-Only” Market number of members serving in the war, the owners brought their teams together and managed to offer a season for all to enjoy as a diversion from the war. Following 9/11, many may recall the emotions of the first baseball game played back in New York City with Mike Piazza hitting a late home run to lead the Mets over the Braves. Sports have a way of healing us and bringing comfort to our lives in times of struggle both for the athletes and the spectators. Many can also recall the patriotism of Pat Tillman, who left a promising NFL career with the Arizona Cardinals to serve as a Ranger in the US Army. Again, sports are intertwined in the fabric of what makes our nation a special place to live. Despite the conflicts of the world, sports carried on in each of these instances not as a primary ideal nor activity of our nation but more as an opportunity to maintain what had become a comfort for our society and helped provide that in time of greatest need. Many reasons exist as to why one would find pleasure in sports, but the principles and leadership gained and displayed through sports often mold great character traits in its participants. People build bonds and connections as well in long-lasting ways. However, it is not just organized sports that do this. Pickup games of basketball or baseball around the neighborhood, playing HORSE in the barn lot with siblings, pitching horseshoes, or tossing cornhole at a family function or church festival carry the same beauty of time and memory as a championship season. They give us moments to interact and open up conversations across generations. As a teacher, I often marvel at the various games that are created and played at recess by the children. Give children a ball and some time, and a game will morph from it with rules that are sometimes created on the fly. It reminds me of an underlying storyline of A Separate Peace by John Knowles where Phineas creates the game of Blitzball seemingly to be a challenge to himself while also enjoying and sharing it with his friends. Sports offered the truest essence of being, and when that was taken from Sunday, September 5, 2021 Upcoming Show: Sunday, October 3, 2021 Lawrenceburg, Indiana Fairgrounds - US 50 1 mile west of Exit 16,I-275 (Cincinnati Beltway) Admission: $4.00 • 7am - 3pm EDST Rain or Shine (Earlybirds at 6am) LawrenceburgAntiqueShow.com • 513-702-2680 him in the story, it seemingly took the spirit and life from him as well. Children play so many varieties of tag that one of an older generation may wonder how they can even keep the game and rules straight from day to day. However, their engagement is what matters. Their interaction with others in sport and recreation presents them with many challenges to resolve as the games occur. The contention of being hit by the ball or not in dodgeball and having one child in disagreement with the other yet having others engage in the resolution of the conflict may leave one child upset and disappointed with the decision rendered, but also with a greater appreciation of acceptance of a difficult result. On the playground or in the gym, I will witness these situations occur and will allow the moment to play out organically rather than intrude as the adult, as it allows the children to develop skills that are crucial to life. I had a fellow teacher engage students in shooting marbles. This is a game not played with much frequency at all in modern times but one that can still be exciting and competitive. The championship rounds held on the playground drew a large crowd of classmates with much excitement coming from each shot. It was a joy to see the children having such fun. I hope that sports continue to be that ground where all come to better themselves as both athletes and individuals. We are inspired by the efforts of those who have given all to achieve. Moments that come about naturally through competition can both teach us and expose us to opportunities for growth. Let us always share in the joy of sports and marvel at the wonders and accomplishments of the human body and spirit. Let us always admire the determination put forth in competition and embrace that as a healthful cog in the human experience. Let us appreciate the opportunity to engage in sports, allowing us to bring about relationships and bonds with so many. Let us cheer and encourage one another toward greater achievement and action. May the human spirit endeavor to be better with each passing day. I hope all have enjoyed this introspection of sports in our society, and I apologize that this is not covering some of these specific summer activities currently taking place. While some may wish for more of the latter, sometimes the former makes for a nice reminder of the beauty and value of sports to the lives of so many and as a thread in the fabric of our nation. IMMUNITY SUPPORT Registration begins September 1, 2021 Early Registration ends October 10, 2021 Registration deadline - October 23, 2021 League play at Dearborn Hills UMC Bright, Indiana To register visit http://registration.upward.org/upw80377 or dhumc.com Back To School And Back To Work Essentials SHOP LOCAL and tell our advertisers you saw them in The BEACON!
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