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A 66-year-old Port St. Lucie man is in the hospital being treated for serious injuries he got while mowing his lawn.

Philip Ritchie Menard wasnt hurt by the mowers blade, but by an oncoming car that struck him as he finished mowing a line to the street and then stepped into the road to mow back the other way, Port St. Lucie Police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sabol said.

He had ear buds in, so he might not have heard her coming, Sabol said.

Menard was hit about 11:15 a.m. in front of his home in the 1900 block of SE Berkshire Blvd. He was struck by a 2011 Honda CRV driven by Lauretta Findlay, 71, of Fort Pierce, Sabol reported in a written statement.

Menard suffered head injuries and broken bones and was flown to a local trauma center for treatment, Sabol said. Findlay was shaken, but uninjured, Sabol said. No one has been charged as authorities continue to investigate the crash.

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Sign tells customers 'Sold out of Seasoned Firewood' at Diehl's Landscaping and Lawn Care in York Township Tuesday. Demand for firewood has been up this winter and puts a drain on local supplies. (Paul Kuehnel Daily Record/Sunday News)

Recent ice and snowstorms have broken plenty of tree limbs across York County.

But the resulting wood supply, for now anyway, won't help those who'd prefer to burn firewood as an economical means for home heat, local experts say.

Ryan Shank, 24, of Manchester Township, and his stepfather, Wayne Diehl of Seven Valleys, operate Diehl's Landscaping and Lawn Care. In addition to selling firewood, the York Township-based business provides lawn mowing, snow plowing and storm cleanup services across York County.

Diehl primarily handles the mowing and plowing side of the business while Shank a Millersville University student who studies meteorology and works part-time at Jim and Nena's Pizzeria in Springettsbury Township splits firewood to sell.

In the fall, the company had roughly 150 cords of burnable firewood, Shank said. But that supply sold quickly as brutally cold temperatures and rising natural gas and electric prices made wood a popular alternative for home heating.

"The whole pile is gone," Shank said and added the business now only has firewood that needs to "season" for many months until it is suitable to burn.

Shank said he uses his passion for studying the weather to help predict what kind of work the business will encounter.

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TERRE HAUTE Sharing his story is exciting for a Dugger man who made history by becoming the first blind solo kayaker to travel the entire length of the Grand Canyon.

Lonnie Bedwell told the Terre Haute Rotary Club on Tuesday about his experience learning to kayak, and why he chose to make the journey down the Colorado River, accompanied by a support crew from Team River Runner.

To me, you can live in fear and pity, and do nothing, or, you can just live. I have chosen to live life, said Bedwell, who lost his eyesight in May 1997 in a hunting accident when a friend shot him in the face.

At the time, Bedwell had served nine years in the U.S. Navy. His prior military service made him a candidate for Team River Runner, which gives active duty service members and veterans an opportunity to find health, healing and new challenges through whitewater boating and other paddling sports.

Bedwell has worked with the Terre Haute chapter of TRR, located at Indiana State Universitys Sycamore Outdoor Center, where he learned how to handle a kayak despite his disability.

He made the 16-day journey through the Grand Canyon in August 2013. But it was 16 years ago that he lost his sight, and he had gained confidence in his own abilities during that time to feel that he could make the hazardous and physically demanding trip.

At all times while he was in the water, he was surrounded by a team of paddlers and followed by four support rafts. Through their verbal commands, Bedwell was able to navigate the entire trip, and he ended up swimming outside of his kayak only on two occasions near the end of the trip.

After losing his sight, Bedwell said, he was frustrated that he couldnt maintain his property as he had in the past. It was his 5-year-old daughter who took him to his lawnmower, guided him to his barn and watched as he drove around the barn with one hand touching the wall of the structure while he mowed down the weeds.

Later that day, he said, his father got mad at him for taking on the lawn mowing, but Bedwell pointed out the faith of his youngest daughter, who knew he could still do anything he wanted to do. Bedwell said his other two daughters quickly caught on to challenge their father and help him do regular activities.

Those three little girls refused to let me quit, he said. Just to know somebody believes in you makes all the difference in the world. And thats what Team River Runners does for me.

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SAN ANTONIO More than 40 green industry and other professionals attended the recent Texas Water Star Program presentation of an Earth-Kind landscaping school at the San Antonio Garden Center in San Antonio.

Earth-Kind and the Texas Water Star program were both developed by Texas A&M AgriLife.

Earth-Kind landscaping school attendees tour the San Antonio Botanical Garden. (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo)

Attendees included representatives of commercial nurseries, professional landscaping businesses, landscape designers and irrigators, the San Antonio Water System, Master Gardeners and homeowners.

Program coordinators were Jared Beaver, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program coordinator for water and natural resources for Bexar County, and David Rodriguez, AgriLife Extension horticulturist for Bexar County.

The workshop was designed for recreational, public, and residential landscape irrigators and contractors, grounds maintenance personnel, retail nurseries and other users of urban water resources, Rodriguez said. We focused on Earth-Kind landscaping, which incorporates the best practices of both traditional and organic gardening in an environmentally responsible manner.

Class instruction included presentations on plant selection and landscaping using Texas Superstar plants; tree selection and placement for energy and water conservation; reducing yard waste and reusing landscaping materials; irrigation efficiency and drip irrigation; and an irrigation audit and evaluation demonstration.

I came to the program to learn more about landscaping in general, said Peter Davis, owner of Davis Company Landscaping of San Antonio. And specifically, I learned a lot about proper tree trimming and more about low-water-use plants for the landscape, like esperanzas and mountain laurels.

Water conservation and proper irrigation were major topics discussed at the school.

We are providing landscape professionals with instruction and management practices that can help them conserve water in recreational, public and residential landscapes in urban areas, Beaver said. One of the biggest uses of municipal water, and the one with the most potential for increased savings, is water use for commercial landscapes and lawns.

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The following is a press release from Mall at Chestnut Hill.

Mall at Chestnut Hill is seeking interested landscape artists, horticulturists, master gardeners and floral designers to participate in the 6th Annual Step Into Spring Flower & Garden Show beginning Saturday, April 5Sunday, May 11. Participants will be given a designated area in the mall to display what they offer and their talents for five weeks.

The public will have the opportunity to view displays native to New England along with some of the most rare and unusual varieties. Your business can be featured in creative ways, from logo presence, to sampling efforts, brochure distribution and much more.

This is a wonderful partnership between many talented florists and landscapers and we look forward to working with the participants each year to showcase some of the areas most artistic forces, said Debora Konig, Director of Marketing for Mall at Chestnut Hill. Each spring people come to Mall at Chestnut Hill to view the displays, participate in the special events and be inspired or simply for a reminder that spring is about to bloom!

Interested businesses should contact Assistant Director of Marketing Ashley Wheeler at Mall at Chestnut Hill now until Monday, March 10. Email: AWheeler@simon.com Phone: (617) 933-3577

Visit http://www.Facebook.com/MallAtChestnutHill and follow us on Twitter @ShopChestnut.

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