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Green Tips From The Community - November 2024

  Let’s build soil! This time of year gives us a great opportunity to build our soil. If you haven’t picked up your leaves yet, please consider using them. Also, how about woodchips in your yard? Nature is amazing at building healthy soil if we get out of the way and let it. Healthy soil is rich in nutrients and does a get job managing water.    It helps grow happy plants and creates an ecosystem system within its self. Here are a few ways you can help nature build your soil…. Leaves - if you still have leaves on the ground, leave them. You can put them under your trees and shrubs, in your home composter, turn them in your garden bed or spread a layer of them on your garden paths and top them with arborist woodchips. These lovely leaves are great at making soil! Arborist woodchips - woodchips are excellent at building healthy soil. I say arborist woodchips because woodchips you buy at the store generally aren’t great soil builders. Reason… arborist chips come untreated, straight from t

Tried and True Recipes - November 2024

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JBE October Art Exhibit

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Baldwin School Report

  I interviewed Guillermo Covajal, social worker at Baldwin.  Twenty elementary schools are considered for closure in SSD for 2025-26.  In any case, the new and large Baldwin will take on twice their number of students.  Not a done deal yet, but Broadview looks to close sending their staff and students to JB.  District officials will speak at Baldwin on October7, at 6:30 under the topic “Well Resourced Schools.”  With the huge school deficit, the meeting will cover cost saving measures. We’re off to a good start with 3rd grade science.  Our overarching theme is saving orangutans from lost habitat due to palm oil production.  Students look at three islands as refuge.  They study the landscape, collect climate data and do weather experiments. Randy Baldwin Liaison

Green Tips From The Community

Baking   soda Baking  soda  is useful to have around for the obvious reason of  baking  but here are a few other great uses if you don’t already know about them…  Smell neutralizer - add an open box of baking soda to your fridge or closet to keep it smelling fresh.  Toothpaste - just a pinch of baking soda on your tooth brush works well for tooth brushing. It also helps whiten your teeth.  Natural drain cleaner - 1/2 cup baking soda and then 1/2 cup vinegar added to the drain and let sit for 30min. Then follow with 4-8 cups boiling water. This can help keep your drain clean and clear. Moss killer - A couple days before rain, dissolve 1 1/2cup of baking soda in 1 gallon water. Pour into garden sprayer (pump sprayer) and spray roof, paths, driveway, and patio where there is moss. Allow this to dry and the moss will slowly turn brown. If it rains and it still hasn’t turned brown don’t worry, it’s still working. The sunnier it is the faster it will turn. Once it has died, scrap /brush off

From The Archives - September 2024

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  Yes, we do have dancing around the Club.  As a matter of fact, a lot.  We have our monthly Community Dance, all ages second Saturday of month.  And then we have Creative Dance Center running throughout the day and some nights. Looking through the early Club scrapbooks from the 1920’s, you can’t help but notice the focus on Saturday night dances routinely once a month, no families, adults only.  It’s clear to me when they built the Clubhouse dancing was front and center.  To prove it the founders planned a stage with a large ballroom, and ladies powder room.  By 1969 the organ arrived and a false ceiling was placed over the two chandeliers. Can you imagine New Years Eve, an orchestra on stage,  attendees wearing their Sunday or slinky best, and no doubt, booze.  It was prohibition.  Price: couples 75 cents, ladies 25.  Advertisements went into the many local small newspapers and 1 cent stamp mailers were sent to members.  Teen and family dances followed, too.  My sibs and I danced roc

Tried and True Recipes - September 2024

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  This month's Tried & True recipe is from the kitchen of Doris Harkness. Please enjoy her famous Fresh Apple Cake!