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The Ohio Department of Health, in partnership with Ohio Breastfeeding Alliance, has launched the Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Award Program to recognize Ohio businesses that offer lactation support to their employees.

Dreams. What are they? According to my Webster’s New World Dictionary, they are “A sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc. passing through a sleeping person’s mind.”

September 18 marks the beginning of National Fall Prevention Awareness Week. Not the season fall, but the common, costly, and preventable epidemic of falls among older adults. Each year, there are about 37 million documented older adult falls, and 3 million emergency department visits due to falls.

The high temperatures this past month has called for daily watering, fortunately with our own well water, in the big greenhouse, the smaller greenhouse, and the ADA-compliant accessible planter boxes and pots of red bud trees on the patio at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road. The healthy red buds were donated during Earth Week and potted up to allow further development before planting on the edge of our woods this fall. The big greenhouse, and the beds in the Children’s Garden, and the Giving Garden, have produced a variety of vegetables for People in Need in Delaware all summer. The last week of August we sent 186 pounds, and that is a lot of tomatoes and squash!

“Justice isn’t subject to a mathematical formula.”

Recall from last time that the ancient Greeks organized the cosmos into a set of nested spheres centered on Earth.

Did you know that today, Sept. 13, is the annual celebration known as Roald Dahl Day? If he were alive today, the beloved (and controversial) children’s author would be celebrating his 107th birthday.

“My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt. If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year’s time.”

It’s a great day for me to write something of interest from my past. I would like to do it by picking out past articles and adding something to them.

The Greek philosophers eventually ceased to believe their ancient myths about the Milky Way. Instead, they began to speculate about its origins in a more systematic, “scientific” way. They used their limited observations to come to three distinct categories of conclusions.