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Trumpet daffodils are excellent when naturalized meaning they multiply and return each year. What could be better? I like plants that you plant once, then enjoy forever.
Let's talk quantities. Just when I think I have enough spring color, I want more—in both my front and back yard. The large bright blossoms are an intoxicating sight after a long winter. Also, plant enough to pick for bright bouquets. I suggest ordering bulbs by the hundreds if you want enough color for both indoors and out.
Planting Tips for Daffodils
Loosen the soil to plant daffodil bulbs about four to six inches apart and at least six inches deep in well-drained soil. Make sure to plant them with the pointy side up. The ideal time to plant bulbs in our area is in September and October, however, if the ground is not frozen, you can still plant into November or later.
Cover the bulbs with mulch such as shredded bark, pine needles, or leaves. Daffodils look best in a natural-looking planting scheme, so don't crowd them into straight rows. Give them plenty of room to grow and naturalize over the years.
After they bloom next spring, leave the foliage until it starts turning brown. The foliage helps produce enough food for next year's blooms. If untidy foliage bothers you, just cut off a few leaves from each plant so you don't weaken the bulbs.
Purchase Daffodil Bulbs Locally
In our own community, Bucks Beautiful, a non-profit organization is selling daffodil bulbs this fall. To support their efforts and enjoy beautiful daffodils in your own garden, contact Debbie Hays, program administrator. If you order now, you will get your bulbs in time to plant this fall.
For a donation of $24, you'll receive 50 bulbs. For larger bulb quantities, the prices are as follows: 100 for $51, 250 for $122, and 500 for $240. Contact Hays for quantities larger than 500.
To learn more, visit the Bucks Beautiful website or call Hays at 215-348-3913, ext. 114. You can pick up the bulbs at the Bucks Beautiful office in Doylestown, or have them delivered to your home.
Bucks Beautiful's goal is to plant one million daffodil bulbs. Through the two-year-old "Bulbs for Bucks" program, volunteers have planted 330,000 bulbs in our area. Take a walk along the canal towpath next spring and you will see the lovely displays of 300,000 bulbs from Bristol to Reigelsville. In addition, 30,000 were planted along the Rt. 611 bypass. This year's funds will be used to plant 170,000 bulbs along the new Rt. 202 parkway.The Forensic & Investigative Science major at West Virginia University is a practitioner-based program. The forensic faculty are committed to the training of professional forensic personnel. This commitment requires that students have the opportunity to translate classroom experiences into direct services in an appropriate law enforcement agency or institution.
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ROME TOWNSHIP — All events for the 2020 Lawrence County Fair are canceled.
The fair board met on Tuesday and voted unanimously to call off this year’s fair, Chris Collier, vice president of the board, said.
The board had initially looked at hosting only the Junior Fair, which consists of 4-H events, without the Senior Fair, which covers entertainment, rides and concessions. They had made an announcement two weeks ago that this was likely, and had hoped to avoid a cancellation.
But, at Tuesday’s meeting, they voted to cancel all events, citing the restrictions in place due to the coronavirus pandemic..
Collier said the meeting took about one hour and 20 minutes at the fairgrounds.
He said the limits on mass gatherings put in place by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine made a Senior Fair an impossibility. And, without those attractions, it became financially unfeasible to operate the fair this year.
Lambert said they had been waiting for guidelines from the state, but finally decided a decision had to be made.
Collier said attempting to put on a bare minimum event could have brought more financial hardship on the families involved.
He said hundreds of 4-Hers and their families usually take part in the fair and that social distancing for shows and the animal sales would have been difficult.
“And I’ve talked to some who were not comfortable about coming,” he said.
Collier said the board had considered waiting to see if things opened up more by July, but did not want to leave 4-H families, who invest time and money into the event, without an answer.
“They needed to know now,” he said.
Lambert said plans are being made to contact buyers to make contributions to the Fair Sales Committee to provide some benefit to 4-H members who had completed projects for auction.
Collier said the decision was not an easy one.
When asked about 4-Hers who were in their last year of eligibility this year, Collier said there is a nationwide push to allow them to compete next year in place of the lost year and local 4-H will be watching to see how that develops and is open to the idea.
The Lawrence County Fair’s decision comes a week after the cancellation of the Ohio State Fair and two weeks after the Scioto County Fair announced they would only be hosting a Junior Fair this year.
There was an effort and a Facebook page organized by some fair families on Tuesday to put together an independent livestock show for the week of when the fair would typically take place.
Lambert told The Ironton Tribune on Wednesday that the fair board could not be associated with the event, due to insurance purposes, but they would not be opposed to the possibility of leasing the fairgrounds to the organizers.
“We are open to it,” he said.
In response to the recent announcement by Damon Krane that he’s running for mayor, our current mayor, Steve Patterson, made a few claims to The Athens NEWS that don’t hold up under scrutiny. We expect our local news outlets to operate under a mandate similar to that of their national counterparts, who at least make an effort to fact-check the claims of politicians on the national stage.
A major portion of Krane’s platform is centered around Athens’ status as a haven for slumlords. Krane proposes to actually empower city Code Enforcement to do its job by fully funding and staffing the office. He’d rather see the renters in town – a not-insignificant voting bloc – living in decent, affordable housing than allow the city’s wealthiest landowners to milk their tenants as their houses deteriorate into unlivable hovels.
In a March 6 Athens NEWS article, Patterson claimed that six inspectors employed by Code Enforcement inspected Athens’ rental properties 5,625 times last year. But these numbers don’t add up. The number of inspections Code Enforcement is claimed by Patterson to have performed, oddly enough, is the exact number of registered rental housing units in Athens, according to the City of Athens website. And according to Code Enforcement’s 2017 annual report, the number of inspections performed that year was 10,000. That’s nearly 50 percent more inspections than registered rental housing units for that year – which makes sense, as Code Enforcement is not just expected to perform annual inspections of each registered rental unit.
Code Enforcement also is expected to perform follow-up inspections to determine whether previously identified violations have been corrected, and Code Enforcement is expected to perform yet more inspections in response to tenant complaints. In fact, according to data just released on the City of Athens website, Code Enforcement performed 7,611 inspections in 2018 – and that number does NOT include those performed in response to tenant complaints.
Furthermore, according to the City of Athens website, there are actually four code officers employed by Code Enforcement. And according to the 2017 report, only three of those four inspectors are charged with performing rental housing inspections. In other words, according to the City website, Athens has just half the number of rental housing inspectors that Patterson claimed, and those three employees are expected to perform a substantially higher number of inspections than Patterson claimed.
If we assume close to the same number of tenant complaint follow-up inspections were performed last year as were performed in 2017, then the three people entrusted with inspecting rental housing would have had to inspect about nine units each, on every day of the year – weekends and holidays included.
For his part, Patterson’s challenger Damon Krane immediately caught Patterson’s false statements to The Athens NEWS, and the next morning published a blog post linked from his Facebook page explaining the situation and linking to all the evidence cited above. Krane also claims to have submitted all of this information to The Athens NEWS the same day he published his blog post. But almost three weeks later, the newspaper still hasn’t