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Copper Country Home Educators
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Gardening Through the Winter
The Portage Lake District Library will offer the fourth program of its gardening through the winter series. Master Gardener Lynn Watson will present "Sun, Soil, and Seeds" on Thursday, April 9, at 7:00 p.m. in the community room.
Watson will teach participants how to get the most from their gardening efforts. She will show how good garden beginnings start with site selection and explain how to plan flowers and vegetables in relation to minimum and maximum sun and shade orientation. For those who have a garden challenged site, she will explain the technique of vertical gardening and show how to grow vegetables up rather than out. Watson will also discuss the advantages of container gardening if a poor site location exists.
She will also demonstrate how to do your own preliminary soil analysis using soil, water, and a jar, and discuss the characteristics of good soil foundations: content, texture, drainage, additions, fertilizers, and mulch.
Watson will also explain what the information on seed packages describes. Participants will learn how to save seeds and will know what heirloom seeds are. Watson will also teach the benefits and beauty of inter-planting flowers and vegetables together in your garden.
There will be hand-outs and all garden enthusiasts are invited.
Built in 1848, this lighthouse was the first government built aid to
navigation on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Can you name this lighthouse? If you
said the Copper Harbor lighthouse, give yourself a pat on the back – you're
right!
Seventeen teams from eight Copper Country-area high schools will be asked
questions much like this at the 2009 Local History Smackdown to be held the
evening of April 23rd. The team that answers the most questions correctly –
the last team standing at the end of the competition – is the Smackdown
champion.
The Smackdown offers students a fun and exciting opportunity to showcase
their knowledge of the history and geography of Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw
and Ontonagon counties. Its format is similar to a spelling bee: teams of
four players are asked timed, short-answer questions about local history
topics, which increase in difficulty as the rounds go higher. The contest
features a double-elimination format: each team is given the right to pass
on one question, but two wrong answers and teams are out of play. Come and
cheer on the competitors!
This free event will take place at the historic Calumet Theatre in Calumet
at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, and will kick off the 2009 Fourth
Thursday in History series sponsored by Keweenaw National Historical Park.
For more information, contact (withheld for archive) Rules, sample questions, references, and
other details about the event will also be available at
http://www.nps.gov/kewe/forkids/2009-smackdown.htm.
The Midwest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, April 16-18, 2009 at the Duke Energy Center, (http://www.CincinnatiHomeschoolConvention.com) is experiencing explosive growth. Now in its third year, and even in the face of trying economic circumstances, the convention has already attracted a record number of advance-registrations from thousands of homeschoolers, and from seventeen (17) states.
This year's convention features an incredible roster of Seminar & Workshop Presenters that includes Dr. Susan Wise Bauer - author of "The Well-Trained Mind" and professor at the College of William and Mary, Dr. Jay Wile - Apologia Educational Ministries, Attorney David Gibbs (Homeschool Dad & attorney that represented Terri Schaivo's parents in their efforts to keep her alive), Dr. Larry Schweikart - University of Dayton, Dr. Stephen Guffanti, Dr. Wanda Phillips, Dr. Mary Hood, Dr. Rebecca Keller and dozens more outstanding homeschooling experts!
The 200+ Seminar & Workshop Sessions available throughout the convention cover a broad range of topics, and serve to provide support, information, instruction and encouragement to beginning and veteran homeschoolers alike.
The MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati also features a HUGE Exhibit Hall with nearly 200 exhibitors.
This provides homeschoolers with an outstanding opportunity to review, discuss and purchase the very best in available Homeschool curriculum.
Homeschooling families from seventeen (17) states, including Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, will gather in Cincinnati in April, 2009 for The Homeschooling Event of the Year - the MidWest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati.
TeenPacters come free to the Youth Leadership School
Here are the remaining opportunities:
April 3-4 Seattle, WA
April 4-5 New Haven, CT
April 18-19 Milwaukee, WI
April 25-26 Missoula, MT
May 2-3 Tempe, AZ
May 16-17 Ft. Myers, FL
June 27-28 Topeka, KS
July 25-26 Arlington, VA
TEENPACT students receive:
*Course materials
*Meals for the duration of training
*Hotel costs covered for students traveling from out of town
*Optional student-organized morning prayer service
If you are serious about being an effective leader, the Leadership Institute's Youth Leadership School will help you with the following:
*Learn how to lead fellow youth activists
*Build an effective student organization
*Get Out The Vote for your conservative candidate or cause
*Use the media to get your message out
To RSVP, contact (withheld for archive)
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