The hot, humid, wet weather we are having now is ideal for all types of funguses, blights and bacterial infections on vegetable, flowers and shrubs. Some fruit trees are suffering from various diseases. Gardeners should be checking trees and plants at least once a week to determine if there is a problem. If one detects disease, it is much easier to control and or prevent the spread of diseases in its infancy. Once a disease has engulfed a plant. the only alternative is to destroy the plant to prevent the spread of disease.
marks both the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 1 50th anniversary of his epochal Origin of Species. The famed Englishman's scientific works caused volcanic eruptions of doubt throughout the religious world. In his personal life, writes Jewish Star Editor Douglas Wertheimer, Darwin's break with religious belief was dramatic, but not traumatic. WHEN Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species in 1859 - described by the late R. B. Freeman as "certainly the most important biological book ever written" - he believed that the theory of evolution by natural selection dealt solely with changes which had occurred in time to organisms on this planet ("secondary causes"). Whatever one's conclusion, it is clear, as Alvar Ellegârd acutely observes, that to the genera...
..." in his theory consisted of "the extension of purely scientific methods of reasoning to subje...
Submissions to the Kanawha Valley Neighbors Community Calendar can be mailed to 1001 Virginia St. East, Charleston, W.Va. 25301; faxed to 304-348-5133 or e-mailed to cthomas@cnpapers.com. Submission deadline is noon Thursday. Wednesday, Aug. 17 DPMS Volleyball Tryouts: Tryouts for the DuPont Middle School volleyball team will be held from 4 to 5:15 p.m. each day this week in the school gymnasium. All girls trying out must have a sports physical dated after June 1, 2011. For further information, contact Coach Bailey at mlbailey27@suddenlink.net. Food Preservation Workshop: The West Virginia University Extension Service in Kanawha County will offer a workshop on safe food preservation methods for water baths, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the extension office, 4700 MacCorkle Ave., S.E., Kanawha Ci...
Attention quilters: here's a chance to practice your craft while helping newborns in need. Join the Addicted Quilter in the Linus Project, which provides handmade baby quilts for little ones recovering at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters. Addicted Quilter owner Harriet Suggs and her shop have participated for nearly five years. There are three ways to help. Stop by the shop at 3232 Academy Ave. and pick up a Linus Project kit, add the batting, sandwich the layers, quilt in whichever manner you choose, then bring the finished project to the shop. The quilts will be delivered to the hospital's coordinator. Experienced quilters can also make a quilt to donate. Visit www.projectlinus.org for patterns and other information. You can also drop by the shop twice a year when Linus...
WINFIELD - The Master Gardeners of Putnam, Kanawha and Cabell counties have invited the public to attend a class on vegetable production. At 6 p.m. on Oct. 31 at the Winfield Courthouse, Lewis Jett, a horticultural specialist with the West Virginia University Extension Service, will discuss methods of growing vegetables in the area's hardiness zone and emphasize season extension, according to a media release from the extension office.
Considering canning, but intimidated by the process? Have time tomorrow afternoon? There's a canning and jam making class at the Broadway Market, 999 Broadway St., on Thursday, Sept. 2. It'll be taught by an expert from the Cornell Cooperative Extension. Participants will learn two methods of canning, and how to make peach jam. It's not only free, but class members can walk away with some peach jam.
, 95, died peacefully in his sleep, February 12, 2011, at Landis Homes Retirement Community. Born in Landisville, PA, the youngest child of the late Harry Landis and Lizzie Stehman Mumma. He was married to the late Helen Brubaker Snyder, who died in 1995, for 56 years. He was also preceded in death by his second wife Janet Smith. He was a member of the Landisville Church of God, and in later years, the Lititz Church of the Brethren. Harry grew up on the family farm and began his farming career as a Guernsey breeder and was active in the Lancaster County Guernsey Breeder's Association. He was pleased to be selected by the extension office to host a number of international visitors to view farming methods practiced in Lancaster County. Harry and Helen started an antique...
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