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Published: Friday, April 4, 2014, 7:32p.m. Updated 2 hours ago

Tips to keep a healthy lawn with dogs

If you want a dog and a lush lawn, you're not out of luck.

Dog urine can damage grass, but highly rated experts in lawn care, landscaping and dog training tell Angie's List that there are several ways your pet and your property can coexist pee-cefully.

The cheapest and easiest way to reduce doggie damage is to hose down and dilute urine right after the dog relieves itself. Then, commit to re-seeding damaged areas of grass as needed.

A top dog trainer says his grass is better able to withstand the effects of multiple dogs when he maintains a 4-inch height and applies organic fertilizer.

Another option, if your dog uses a specific area of the yard, is to cover the grass with pea gravel or artificial turf.

Many dogs can be trained to urinate and defecate in a designated spot. It may take four to six weeks of effort. Flag off a sizeable portion of lawn to create a large target zone to start. Leash your pet and take it to that area every time it has to go. Always clean up after the dog. Over time, as the pet responds, gradually shrink the flagged-off area to your preferred size.

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Nearly 100 exhibitors will take part in the Butler County Home Show from April 11 to 13 at the Family Sports Center on Route 68 in Connoquenessing.

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Watchet Summer Market Launch Day on April 16

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GAZEBOS are being unfurled and tables polished in readiness for the Watchet Summer Market Launch Day taking place on the Esplanade on April 16.

Attracting new stallholders from all over the county, the launch day the first of its kind in Watchet is a taste of things to come in the freshly-revamped and more locally-focused Watchet Summer Market.

There will be fresh fruit and vegetables grown in Somerset soil, multi award-winning local dairy produce and freshly-baked bread, cakes and pastries plus home-made chutneys, Somerset cheeses, flowers, plants, books, jewellery and much more.

Cllr Sally de-Renzy-Martin, chair of the market committee, said: The Watchet Wednesday Market is approaching its fifth season and it was time for a relaunch.

We agreed to re-focus on the great artists and artisans, produce and baking goods we have locally here in Somerset and have been delighted by the response so far.

The launch day takes place from 10am to 4pm and samba band Skin Tight will be playing on the day.

Mayor of Watchet, Cllr Loretta Whetlor, added: We are confident that the increased diversity and range of local goods to be sold will attract many more residents and visitors to Watchet.

Were hoping to make our market the go to place for local people to buy their fresh produce.

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If you want to protect endangered species in the wild, dont fence them in. An article in the journal Science says fencing can actually harm both animals and ecosystems. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London and the Wildlife Conservation Society say the use of fences to protect threatened species should be a last resort. Researcher Sarah Durant said, Fences by their nature will segregate habitats and that can actually be a real problem, particularly in drylands systems where wildlife often has to move quite large distances to access resources and water. So that in itself can be a problem. And then you have wide-ranging species, such as cheetah and wild dog, but also elephants as well, which need access to very large connected habitat for their survival. Fences are not very widespread right now in Africa. Durant said the biggest concentration is in South Africa. Theyre often used basically for territory protection. So people will own private land and they build fences around their private land to protect wildlife as a resource within those areas. However, she said theres concern more fences may be built, as human populations spread further into wildlife habitats. Governments, for example, very often see fencing as a potential solution to addressing human-wildlife conflict. Its seen as a solution that appears more straightforward than it is in practice. Once you put a fence up, then you have to maintain it. And if you dont maintain it, you can end up with a situation where wildlife conflict could actually be higher than it was before. Often, Durant said, local communities will actually breach such fences. Very marginalized communities that have problems meeting their own household needs in terms of food and nutrition very often they will want to breach the fences to gain access to the wildlife. And also fence wire can be used to build snares and that can actually exacerbate a snaring problem. She said many communities have developed strategies over the years to deal with marauding animals, such as elephants. Coping skills they might lose if fences are built around their communities, and then the fences are breached by one or more elephants. Whats more, fences can build resentment in communities against conservation efforts. Besides that, the wildlife researcher said fences can affect predator-prey dynamics. When you look at some of the densities of lions in fenced reserves what you find is that theyre actually kept at levels much higher than what the areas would be expected to support. So that suggests that its actually altering the predator-prey dynamics. And lions arent the only predators in ecosystems. Youve also got other predators such as spotted hyenas, wild dogs, she said. Predators, such as cheetahs and wild dogs, need a lot of space. They need areas in excess of 10,000 square kilometers, if youre going to support what we call viable and sustainable populations of these species. They need very wide areas of connected habitat. Elephants and wildebeests can need areas in excess of tens of thousands square kilometers, particularly where youve got migratory systems, such as you have in the Serengeti, where the wildebeests will range across areas in excess of 20,000 square kilometers, she said. Durant said one well-known fencing disaster occurred in the Kalahari. The fence was a veterinary cordon barrier. It was designed to separate wildebeests from cattle and prevent disease from being transmitted to cattle herds. What happened, she said, was the collapse of the wildebeest migrations in that region. Instead of spending a lot of money to build and maintain fences, she said, invest that money in alternative approaches. These include improved animal husbandry, community-based crop protection, insurance programs and sensitive use of land to help prevent human-wildlife conflict. The authors of the article do say fences can be valuable resources in some cases. They cited the protection of birds in New Zealand against foreign species -- and safeguarding wolves and lynx in Scotland.

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MERRILLVILLE | Achievement took center stage at the Radisson Hotel at Star Plaza on Friday when five local business legends were enshrined inthe Northwest Indiana Business and Industry Hall of Fame.

The Times Media Co. and its BusINess Magazine sponsored the annual awards ceremony, which recognizes accomplished business people for theirleadership, community involvement and determination.

The 2014 Hall of Fame class included Thomas Katsahnias, former general manager and chief operating officer of Inland Steel in East Chicago; Jim McGill, former owner of McGill Manufacturing Co. in Valparaiso; Fred Halpern, a co-owner of Albert's Diamond Jewelers in Schererville and Hobart; Adela Ortega, owner of Professional Locomotive Services in East Chicago; and O'Merrial Butchee, entrepreneur, author and director of Ivy Tech's Gerald I. Lamkin Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. Butchee received the inaugural public service award.

"Everybody wants to know how you started out,"Halpern said. "I inherited a store with two employees. I had to tell them to wait to cash your check a little later. I had to tell the water guy, 'Please don't turn off my water,' and the electrical guy, 'Please don't turn off my electricity.' I told them I will pay you eventually, and obviously those bills got paid because I'm here now. I lived at home with my family for five years and never took a penny out of the store.

"It wasn't easy is the point I'm trying to make. Everybody has to get paid before you do because you have to have credibility," he said. "After you take care of your help and bills and you have any money left, buy some more inventory."

Hundreds of people applauded the inductees Friday at the Radisson Hotel Celebrity Ballroom, where Gov. Mike Pence gave the keynote address.

"The Times Business and Industry Hall of Fame is filled with brilliant and distinguished people,"Katsahnias said, after thanking his late wife for making him the person he is. "It's an honor to be put in such company. I probably don't deserve it, but I'm not going to give it back."

Katsahnias credited his Greek immigrant parents for teaching him the value of hard work, faith, personal responsibility, perseverance and education. He said such values guided him well through a long and varied career that included running Ancilla Health Systems and being chairman of the board of Calumet College of St. Joseph.

Ortega credited her colleagues and family for helping her build up her locomotive manufacturing company, which employs 28 workers in East Chicago. She only had two employees a mechanic and an electrician when she founded the business 18 years ago.

"The next time I come back here, I want to have 1,002 jobs, then 3,000 jobs the time after that," she said. "I would like to hire people who enjoy what they're doing, and continue down the path of growth."

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