FISH IN TOLEDO METROPARK Ahhh, home. Every person, every creature, and every
critter needs a place to live. For
certain wildlife, it is a den, a nest, a cavity in a tree, or a burrow in the
ground. For fish, the domicile
perspective is quite different. They
spend much of their life on the move, roaming and traveling from one locale to
another. But many species that live in
rivers, lakes, ponds, and reservoirs have a fairly distinct range, a broad area
that offers both food sources and a relative degree of safety. This is where they spend most of their time. nd often, they make this place their home
because of the presence of structure. Not
structure as in something they constructed, but structure as in anything that
creates a change in the depth or the contour of the bottom. Structure gives microorganisms a surface to
cling to, it gives small fish places to hide and feed on those tiny creatures,
and it gives larger fish a place to ambush and feed on smaller fish. Shipwrecks provide one of the best places to
fish in the open ocean, simply because they provide structure in an otherwise
contour-less expanse, and the food pyramid starts to build at the site almost
as soon as the ship hits the bottom. That essential structure—rocks, stumps, logs, and
sections of trees in this case—is being put in place in the seven-acre lake
that is under construction at the new Cannonball Prairie Metropark site on
Monclova Road, where former farmland is being converted back into a native
prairie landscape. He said the
rock piles and submerged wood that compose the bulk of the structure should
quickly become populated with colonies of macroinvertebrates, and these will in
turn serve as a food source that attracts small fish. There will be close to 45 of these fish
structures in place once the new lake begins to fill. A fairly ideal fishing hole, a nearby
drainage ditch should provide populations of frogs and other aquatic creatures
that will move into the lake. While the
lake will likely need a stabilization period of several years once it fills
with water and is stocked with fish, the new park is expected to open, in part,
by late fall 2018. The park is located
at the former site of Springer Farms, between Weckerly and Eber Roads, along
the North Fork of the Wabash Cannonball Trail.
The park district purchased 89 acres at the site in 2013, with the
expressed intention of creating a new park that would serve as a stopping point
on the Wabash Cannonball Trail in western Lucas County. A 12-acre mature oak forest is part of that
larger parcel. Cannonball Prairie
Metropark will form another connection along the Oak Openings Corridor, and
when completed this link and its series of trails will connect five Metroparks
and three state nature preserves. Matt
Markey Read more and see graphics at http://www.toledoblade.com/MattMarkey/2018/08/23/Structure-should-make-new-lake-a-good-home-for-fish/stories/
Kroger said it will ban all plastic checkout bags by
2025. America's largest supermarket chain said it will transition from
single-use to reusable bags and ultimately eliminate 123 million pounds of
garbage annually sent to landfills. That
would quadruple the amount of plastic the retailer currently recycles. Kroger currently sells reusable bags starting
at $1 each. Kroger will ramp up the
availability of those bags. Shoppers for the foreseeable future will still have
the option of asking for paper bags. Kroger
said it is also looking to cut back or phase out plastic bags for produce
and meat, but it's focusing on eliminating checkout bags for now. The ban will directly affect a wide swath of
consumers: Kroger serves 9 million customers every day at its nearly
2,800 stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Kroger's Seattle-based QFC subsidiary, with
63 stores in the Pacific Northwest, will be the first division to
eliminate the bags by 2019. Besides hundreds of its namesake stores in the
Midwest and the South, Kroger operates hundreds more under the Harris Teeter,
Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Fry's and other nameplates.
Kroger uses 6 billion such bags annually, while the industry discards an
estimated 100 billion bags each year.
Alexander Coolidge https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2018/08/23/kroger-ban-plastic-checkout-bags-2025/1062241002/
HOW THE LOCALS SAY IT
Mentor, Ohio The T isn't sounded by most residents.
Cairo, Illinois CARE-oh
Yosemite, Kentucky YOSE-mite
Athens, Kentucky The A is long (as in ate).
From the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library: "Join us
for a new monthly group where we talk books, socialize and relax with a cold
one. Meetings take place at Earnest Brew Works
- a brewer-owned and operated brewery and tap room that pays homage to
traditional beer styles while also bringing a fresh take on ingredients. Books can be checked out from any library
location, but a selection will be held at the Maumee Branch Library one month
prior to the event." 21 and over
only. (W) Sept. 19 | 7 p.m.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (W) Oct. 17 | 7 p.m.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, illustrated by
Robert Hack (W) Nov. 14 | 7 p.m.
The Sellout by Paul Beatty (W) Dec. 19 | 7 p.m.
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Link to library groups for all ages at http://www.toledolibrary.org/librarygroups
THE NAME GIVING OF ATHENS Cecrops, a strange creature, half-man half-snake, was the
founder of a city which would develop to be very beautiful. Cecrops had named his city after him,
Cecropia. However, the gods of Olympus
saw this lovely piece of land and wanted to name it after them and become its
patron. The most persistent rivals were
Poseidon, the sea god, and Athena, the goddess of wisdom. To solve their
dispute, Zeus decided that each of them would make a gift to the city and king
Cecrops would decide which gift was the best and therefore which god would be
the patron of the city. Poseidon was the
first to present his gift. He struck a
rock with his trident and caused a spring of water to gush forth from the
ground. This signified that he was
assuring the citizens with water and therefore they wouldn’t face any time of
drought. Athena planted a seed in the
ground, which grew up to become a lovely olive tree. The citizens liked this gift better because
it would give them food, oil and firewood. With one voice they loudly acclaimed
Athena as their benefactress. When money
was invented, they depicted goddess Athens and her sacred bird, the owl, symbol
of wisdom, on both sides of their coins.
https://www.greeka.com/attica/athens/athens-myths/athens-name-giving.htm
On Fantasy, Greek Mythology & Writing: An author interview
with Jordanna Max BrodskyApril 20, 2017 Fantasy is a genre which has
tremendous potential for world-building, where, from start to finish, the
story takes place in a world outside of reality (such as Lord of the
Rings). Another subgenre would be
when there is another world inside of a realistic realm; an example of this
is Harry Potter where the wizarding world operates in
secret. One of my favorite ones is when
a protagonist starts off in a realistic world and then, as the story
progresses, discovers a secret world; Fablehaven is a series
in which this is exemplified. As a
librarian, I keep my eyes out for emerging authors and new titles. During late autumn of 2015, I received a
few advance reader copies, or ARCs of some fantasy novels to
review. One of these books was Jordanna
Max Brodsky’s The Immortals. The book made its
round with a few other librarians that I shared it with. It was my staff pick for two months after it
was released to the public! 67th Street Library was lucky enough to have
the author visit for a book talk for the release of her second book, Winter of the Gods. Having been bitten by the Greek god mythology
bug since she was a child, Jordanna was excited to discuss her ideas and
expectations for her series with an engaging group of library patrons
who asked plenty of interesting questions which sparked discussions both
amusing and intriguing. I wanted to
capture the energy in that room and provide it to the people who could not
attend. A few days after the author
visit, I reached out to Jordanna and asked if she would be interested in an
interview. We settled on interviewing
over lunch in a Greek restaurant—very fitting for the interview topic! What brought about the idea for The
Immortals and why did you want to write it? “I don’t remember the exactly how old
I was when my parents gave me D'Aulaires'
Book of Greek Myths. …I just [recently] found my copy that my parents
had given me, and to my surprise, it turns out it was inscribed to my brother
and not to me--which was shocking since he never read it, and it became the
inspiration for my life. "The last
page says something along the lines of, “All things must come to an end, and so
do the Greek Gods. All that remains of
their stories are the tales written in the constellations and broken columns
and temples.” As a kid, I wanted to make
my own version where they’d never gone away. What do you do before writing, research-wise? "I do a lot of research . .
. and I spend a lot of time in libraries. For The Immortals I
actually spent a lot of time down at the main branch on 42nd street in the
main reading room, getting out old reports and typewritten pamphlets about
woman cops in the 1920s. "Obviously the
internet is amazing. There is a website
called Perseus from Tufts
University for classicists. It
has a massive trove of all of the public domain Greek and Latin classic works
in English and in the original Greek and Latin.
They’re linked to dictionaries so you can translate as you read. Read the rest of the interview at https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/04/20/author-jordanna-max-brodsky
Read about the impact of
book clubs of Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon and Emma
Roberts at https://pagesix.com/2018/08/15/the-rise-of-celebrity-book-clubs/
Died August 17, 2018 at
age of 78 architect Costas Kyndilis https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/obituaries/costas-kondylis-dead.html
Died August 24, 2018 at
age of 76 TV personality, reporter, writer Robin
Leach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Leach
Died August 25, 2018 at age
of 81 war hero, 2008 presidential
contender and GOP senator John McCain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain
Died August 26, 2018 at age
of 91 Pulitzer- and Tony-winning author of plays Neil Simon https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/the-latest-playwright-neil-simon-dies-at-91/2018/08/26/4190ffb0-a949-11e8-9a7d-cd30504ff902_story.html?utm_term=.49d89d349995
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1941
August 27, 2018 Word of the Day change
the game verb transitive, idiomatic) To revolutionize a field of endeavor.
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