Orchids to Sandy Sarmanian, 2006 recipient of the Thomas and Lansdale Gardiner Silver Bowl from the Garden Club of Wiscasset! The award is not only for her wonderful garden, but for her help with Garden Club activities, and fundraising for their scholarship program to help students in the environmental sciences.
Wiscasset High School's underclassmen awards: Among the Top Ten Sophomores, Edgecomb's Hannah Sieracki, also on the Third Quarter Honor Roll and winner of a Science Award; French Award; VP of her class, Student Council member; Freshman Dotti Cost, who received a Science Award as well as a World Cultures award; Samantha Hersom with a Technology Education Award and Derek Sondergaard received a Math Award. Pretty impressive, bunch!
As always, I am painfully aware I may be omitting deserving students, and hope you and/or your families will let me know of your achievements! In the meantime, all the young people in our areas' schools, Edgecomb or not, have a hoot and a blast as you all start your summer vacations!
"Thanks to all who came to the church supper at the Edgecomb Congregational Church on Saturday, June 24th," says Bob Hardina. "With your help the supper raised $810.00 which will purchase 162 emergency relief blankets. A good time was had by all."
To help prevent bird-borne diseases, such as West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, not to mention Avian Influenza, put this Dead Bird Report Line number by your telephone: 1-888-697-5846. Run by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services' Communicable Disease Control Division, this line is for reporting any bird carcase you may find. Some carcases will be collected for avian flu and other disease testing. Do not handle any carcases with bare hands, keep them well away from children, dogs and foods, and be sure to wash up thoroughly with antiseptics after you've handled them. Get full instructions from the above phone number or from www.MainePublicHealth.gov or www.MaineFlu.gov.
Our garden is finally in. Aside from second plantings of carrots, radishes and assorted lettuces, we are done. And the heavy rainfall last night (June 25-26) relieved us of the responsibility for soaking the new seeds of various beans, kale, chard, kohlrabi. Yes, we are raising kohlrabi again. It took 3 tries last year to get the plants past the porcupine hazard, but we are ever optimistic. And even in the rain, I went down to plant tarragon and some purple basil.
Enjoying the flights of healthy goldfinch and swallows at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.