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Thursday, August 28th, 2014 Issue 35, Volume 18.
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
-- Francis Bacon
Imagine sitting in a 100-year-old patio courtyard surrounded by vibrant red bougainvillea twining and twirling around static iron balconies. You look up and see a Della Robbia-style Madonna and Child plaque on a high Moorish-type wall with a thousand intricate curves. Red Spanish tile walkways show slight dips from a hundred years of footfall. Twittering birds flit to a fountain trickling small streams of water to separate basins. Does this sound like a peaceful, somewhat exotic destination? Does it make you want to reach for your passport and be whisked off to Spain or Morocco?
Even though this courtyard with its terra-cotta tones resembles a captivating destination like Spain, it is right here in Southern California Riverside to be exact. For me it is reminiscent of a trip to Spain. Others might be taken back to a time in Morocco or Italy but most will probably just revel in the immediate beauty of this historic hotel called the Mission Inn.
One of the joys of traveling is to be transported to a world that is inspiring and beautiful... and will serve to awaken the senses. A visit to the Mission Inn will do just that.
This National Historic Landmark has inspired many a dignitary. Ten U.S. presidents have visited, including President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat, who were married at the Mission Inn. President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy spent their wedding night at the hotel. In 1926, Crown Prince Gustavus and Princess Louise of Sweden were guests.
The Mission Inn is close enough for lunch, and distant enough for an overnight stay. Built in "Mission Revival" style, the hotel has had various construction phases, but the first wing was completed by Frank Miller in 1903, over a 100 years ago.
This architectural showpiece is furnished with priceless treasures and unique objects that Miller collected during his world Advertisement [ Fallbrook Mattress ] travels. He amassed a staggering amount of bells, 400 of which can be found on the grounds of the inn. Tiffany stained glass windows, Chinese vases and various architectural accoutrements unite in a delightful array of the eclectic like a small-scale Hearst Castle.
Guests are free to wander most of the property and discover a myriad of architectural wonders a Spanish-style chapel, fountains, reflecting pools, intricately fashioned doors and colorful tiled roofs. Like the Hearst Castle, there is something fascinating around every corner.
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Dear Neil: I have a handsome oak growing in my yard. Every year about this time, its leaves develop tiny holes. Many of the leaves start to fall, although new leaves are also being produced. My tree is the only oak in the area that is doing this. What would cause it, and what can I do?
A. It may be a bacterial leaf spot. They result in what is called "shot-hole" effect on tree leaves, most notably on purple-leafed plums. You'll often see a newer brown spot that is hanging partially attached, as if cut by a dull paper punch. As to why your tree is affected and the others not, that could be something as simple as genetic variation between the trees. I would suggest that you send a sample to the Texas Plant Clinic at Texas A&M for analysis. You can find instructions at their website (http://plantclinic.tamu.edu) or by calling your local county Extension office. There will be a small fee for their services, but that way you would know for sure. I don't believe it is a serious threat. I see it on my own oaks (now that you mention it), and it hasn't been a problem in 37 years.
Dear Neil: I hired a lawn care company this year. The lawn is lush and green after all of their applications. However, it has developed nutsedge, and the control they applied doesn't show signs of doing much in the several weeks since it was put down. Did I make a mistake in hiring them?
A. If your lawn looks the way you want it to, and if you're satisfied with the price, no mistake made. These companies turn out lovely turfgrass. If you had done the same things yourself, you would have had the same (or nearly so) results, but you would have had the work to do yourself - also the timing to figure out. They also have a lot of experience, and they have access to products that we consumers do not. As for the nutsedge, the products that are legally labeled for use in nutsedge control are slow-acting by their nature. Unlike most herbicides that go in through leaves, the good nutsedge controls are taken in through the soil via the roots, then conducted up to the leaves. It's not unusual for it to take four or five weeks to make significant impact on the lawn. You may even need a second application one month after the first treatment. But they do work!
Dear Neil: I have a large avocado tree. It's in a patio pot, but the tree has gotten big enough that I won't have room for it indoors this winter. Can I plant it into the ground?
A. Avocados are extremely sensitive to freezing weather -- even to frost. The only place where they have even a fighting chance would be in the lower Rio Grande Valley near Brownsville. Certainly not here. You can try trimming it significantly to get it inside, but at some point you'll want to discard it and start a new one.
Dear Neil: You can see from the attached photos that my red oak tree is losing the end 12 or 18 inches of several of its branches. I take very good care of my trees, including regular watering. I cannot figure out what is happening to this healthy red oak. Another red oak on the other side of the yard looks just fine. What is going on?
A. I'm going to guess that it's one of two things. Clip down one of the browned twigs (using a pole pruner if you have to). Trim it several inches farther back than necessary, because I want you to look at the interface between the dead and healthy tissues. If you see a swollen area in the twig there, that's the work of a gall-forming insect. She stings a twig when it's smaller and lays her eggs in the young tissues. The plant creates a gall of its own tissue around the eggs. The damage eventually girdles and kills the twig. There is no major damage, and there is no way to prevent or control the dieback. And the second option would be, if the twigs appear to have been chewed, either squirrels or birds have been picking at the twigs. Squirrels are quite active in pecans, live oaks, and this year, in cedar elms. Again, no major harm and no call to action.
Dear Neil: I have a lawn that I would like to be totally St. Augustine, but bermuda keeps moving in. I do not have a sprinkler system, and I can't afford one right now. Could this be lack of nutrition? If so, what should I use and when?
A. Keep telling yourself that "St. Augustine trumps bermuda." Better yet, maybe you need to tell that to the St. Augustine. Given ample moisture and all-nitrogen fertilizer in early April, early June and early September, St. Augustine should be the dominant grass for you. That assumes that you'll protect the St. Augustine from Take All Root Rot in the spring (if it shows up), chinch bugs in the summer (they will show up - always in the hottest, sunniest part of the yard), and brown patch in the fall. It also assumes that you'll never let the St. Augustine get really dry, to the point of its turning tan and crisp. Ramp up the care you give it next year and see if that doesn't help it crowd out the bermuda.
Residents who attended a public hearing Thursday to discuss the construction of a proposed $16.2 million residential treatment facility by Baker Victory Services were united in their concern over lax security conditions at the current facility on Martin Road.
A janitor who works at the treatment facility at 125 Martin Road described fights among residents on the front lawn. A neighbor said residents and workers from the facility smoke on his front lawn.
Even the mayor of Lackawanna chimed in describing how the young residents break out on summer evenings to go swimming in the neighbors backyard pools.
These arent little angels, Mayor Geoffrey M. Szymanski said. They are criminals, and we dont want them in our neighborhood.
With that, Szymanski offered a 3-inch stack of police and fire calls at the treatment center over the last eight years.
Thats 1,622 calls for service, the mayor said. Nonprofits become a drain on city budgets. If Father Baker wanted to help these kinds of individuals, he would have founded it.
The hearing held by the Lackawanna Planning and Development Board drew about 50 residents and 15 representatives of Baker Victory to the Lackawanna Senior Center. The hearing was the latest development for the beleaguered project that was proposed in 2009.
The current treatment facility, resembling a 1950s Army style barracks, is outdated, said Terese M. Scofidio, CEO of Baker Victory Services. It serves as a temporary home for 40 youth ages 13 to 21 with psychiatric and behavioral issues. Many are referred by the New York State Office of Mental Health, she said.
The average age of residents is just under 16, and the average stay is just over a year, said Scofidio, who took the top job six months ago. Eighty-two percent of residents come from the eight counties of Western New York, she said, and 40 percent of the population is female.
Baker Victory is the largest employer in Lackawanna, Scofidio said. We have 123 residents on the payroll.
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21 staff to go as SWEK announce swathe of cuts
Twenty one Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley staff positions will be cut and a swathe of services will be cut or closed, including the Wyndham Childcare Centre if its Budget is passed at Tuesday's special meeting.
Twelve staff members will be told to leave their positions while a further nine vacant positions will not be filled.
Other services on the chopping block include pre-cyclone clean-ups while there will be a scaling back of cumbungi management, and maintenance in areas such as lawn-mowing and ranger functions.
The Shire will also "no longer have a specific focus on providing assistance to sporting clubs or the provision of recreation services to Wyndham".
Shire president John Moulden announced the potential changes in a media statement released this morning, and said the putting together the "tight budget" had required a lot of consideration and deliberation by all councillors and executive management.
In the statement, he said the reductions had become necessary as a result of reductions in Federal Government Financial Assistance Grants and major Economic Development Stimulus Grants.
"The tight budget has meant councillors have had to make tough decisions about what services the Shire can and cannot provide and where savings can be made, to ensure the future sustainability of the Shire," Mr Moulden said.
Last month, Shire chief executive Gary Gaffney told The Kimberley Echo tough financial decisions would have to be made to balance the books on the back of fewer Commonwealth grants and costly flood damage.
A meeting for Shire employees was scheduled for this morning to discuss possible impacts on staff but Mr Gaffney is understood to be on holiday, with director of infrastructure Kevin Hannagan filling in as interim chief executive.
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21 staff to go as SWEK announce swathe of cuts
Twenty one Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley staff positions will be cut and a swathe of services will be cut or closed, including the Wyndham Childcare Centre if its Budget is passed at Tuesday's special meeting.
Twelve staff members will be told to leave their positions while a further nine vacant positions will not be filled.
Other services on the chopping block include pre-cyclone clean-ups while there will be a scaling back of cumbungi management, and maintenance in areas such as lawn-mowing and ranger functions.
The Shire will also "no longer have a specific focus on providing assistance to sporting clubs or the provision of recreation services to Wyndham".
Shire president John Moulden announced the potential changes in a media statement released this morning, and said the putting together the "tight budget" had required a lot of consideration and deliberation by all councillors and executive management.
In the statement, he said the reductions had become necessary as a result of reductions in Federal Government Financial Assistance Grants and major Economic Development Stimulus Grants.
"The tight budget has meant councillors have had to make tough decisions about what services the Shire can and cannot provide and where savings can be made, to ensure the future sustainability of the Shire," Mr Moulden said.
Last month, Shire chief executive Gary Gaffney told The Kimberley Echo tough financial decisions would have to be made to balance the books on the back of fewer Commonwealth grants and costly flood damage.
A meeting for Shire employees was scheduled for this morning to discuss possible impacts on staff but Mr Gaffney is understood to be on holiday, with director of infrastructure Kevin Hannagan filling in as interim chief executive.
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21 staff to go as SWEK announce swathe of cuts
21 staff to go as SWEK announce swathe of cuts
Twenty one Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley staff positions will be cut and a swathe of services will be cut or closed, including the Wyndham Childcare Centre if its Budget is passed at Tuesday's special meeting.
Twelve staff members will be told to leave their positions while a further nine vacant positions will not be filled.
Other services on the chopping block include pre-cyclone clean-ups while there will be a scaling back of cumbungi management, and maintenance in areas such as lawn-mowing and ranger functions.
The Shire will also "no longer have a specific focus on providing assistance to sporting clubs or the provision of recreation services to Wyndham".
Shire president John Moulden announced the potential changes in a media statement released this morning, and said the putting together the "tight budget" had required a lot of consideration and deliberation by all councillors and executive management.
In the statement, he said the reductions had become necessary as a result of reductions in Federal Government Financial Assistance Grants and major Economic Development Stimulus Grants.
"The tight budget has meant councillors have had to make tough decisions about what services the Shire can and cannot provide and where savings can be made, to ensure the future sustainability of the Shire," Mr Moulden said.
Last month, Shire chief executive Gary Gaffney told The Kimberley Echo tough financial decisions would have to be made to balance the books on the back of fewer Commonwealth grants and costly flood damage.
A meeting for Shire employees was scheduled for this morning to discuss possible impacts on staff but Mr Gaffney is understood to be on holiday, with director of infrastructure Kevin Hannagan filling in as interim chief executive.
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BAY CITY, MI Mowing his lawn in the nude has cost a 62-year-old Bay City man several hundred dollars in fines and some probation time.
Bay County District Judge Dawn A. Klida on Wednesday, Aug. 27, gaveBobby O. Blodgetta one-year delayed sentence, during which time he'll be supervised by the Bay County Probation Department. He is also to pay $785 in fines and costs and must be assessed by staff at Saginaw Psychological Services and follow their recommendations.
Blodgett is also not to work in any capacity with children or vulnerable adults, unless such work is approved by the court.
Blodgett in July pleadedno contestto indecent exposure, the only charge he faced. The count is punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
A no contest plea is not an admission guilt but is treated as such for the purposes of sentencing. Klida reliedon police reports to enter a conviction on the record.
According to thosereports, officers on the evening ofWednesday, May 21, responded to Blodgett's home in the 300 block of McDonald Street after Bay County Central Dispatch received a call of himmowing his lawn naked. The caller, 40-year-old Jason S. Linton, told dispatchers he yelled at Blodgett to put some clothes on, and that Blodgett had done so, police reports show.
Linton told an officer that he and his teenage son were visiting his mother-in-law in the neighborhood and that they were in her back yard when they heard a lawnmower start up.
"Then the guy came walking out and started cutting his lawn in the nude," Linton said. "I yelled at him and told him that he needed to put some clothing on."
Linton said that though there is a privacy fence separating the yards, there are gaps in it that one can see through.
Linton's mother-in-law, Nancy M. Mercier, told the officer that a similar incident happened the week beforehand when Blodgett mowed his lawn wearing only lady's stockings.
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