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Announcements:
-The District 6630 Potluck Dinner & Evening for the 25 exchange
students in the District will be held on December 27 @ 6:00 p.m. at “Once Upon
a Sundae”. The students will
spend the day in Columbus and then end in Medina.
There is a sign up sheet at meetings.
Please indicate if you plan to attend, if you will bring food and if you
can host any students for the night. -Sign
up now for the County Home Christmas gifts and party.
This is a great event and the residents look forward to it every year.
In our thoughts and
prayers: Darrell Jenkins’ wife, Joan,
has been diagnosed with cancer. Please
keep her and Darrell in your thoughts and prayers. Prospective Member:
Damon Bryan been proposed for membership by Mark Farnham.
Hall Cary has been proposed for membership
by John Jeandrevin. Upcoming
programs:
December 5—Fullbright Exchange Teacher from Mexico December
12 – County Home Christmas Party December
19 – Club Christmas Party December 26 – NO MEETING Special Birthday Wishes: Steve
Sevougian’s 88th birthday is on 11/26.
Happy Birthday Steve!! Program:
Tonight’s meeting was held at Wolf Creek Environmental Center. Daniel Bertsch, the Chief Naturalist for Wolf Creek, was
our host. He started at Wolf Creek in April 2001.
We learned about the center’s history.
Mrs. Ruth Oenslager gave her 103 acre farm as a gift to Medina County
with the stipulation that the land be used for outdoor education and to
encourage educational classes in its use of said land as a public park.
The Medina County Park District, along with a group of teachers from Medina
County and an advisory committee created the plans for the center. The
building includes a classroom for formal instruction, a library, a lab room for
detailed studies, a central gathering area for groups visiting the site and
offices. The park is now 250 acres and is considered a Wildlife Sanctuary.
As part of the building they used some of the sandstone from Mrs. Oenslager's
home for the fireplace and also benches located behind the building along the
paths. There are also actual white oak trees as part of the building and
poplar was used for the paneling. Wolf Creek has approx. 4.5 miles of
hiking trails. Mr.
Bertsch mentioned the "Friends of the Park" Program.
This is an organization of concerned citizens formed to support, promote
and assist Medina County Park District. Volunteers
and donations from Friends have been a vital ingredient to the growth of the
county parks. They
also have a newsletter that will be coming out every other Thurs. starting 11/28
in the Medina Gazette. For
information on the park district and there programs, you can visit their website
at www.medinacountyparks.com.
Wolf Creek is looking for a mounted black bear to be displayed at the
center. It can be either donated or given on loan to the center for
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