Managing trash and litter
Do you like seeing trash and litter on our sidewalks, streets, yards and waterways? We didn’t think so. Not only do our open spaces look better when they are clean and tidy, it contributes to a healthier environment.
Let’s book it: Back to school
Caramba! According to CNBC, parents will be spending an average of $510 per child this back-to-school shopping season. The new wardrobe—to start the year in style—plus pens, pencils, crayons, backpack and notebooks will be purchased both in-store and on-line, all designed to launch a successful school year.
Winter pruning is for suckers
It’s winter. The occasional frost tips the blades of grass creeping slowly but surely through the brown, dry turf we don’t water all summer long, conserving water for the warm season crops of vegetables and orchard trees.
Common knowledge
In 1966 the movie “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” was filmed along the local Mendocino-Sonoma coast. In the plot, a lone enemy submarine crashes offshore, igniting a runaway rumor chain that almost leads to a machine gun battle, hostage taking and a U.S. Air Force strike. We can only imagine that if the players in the film all had Facebook and Twitter accounts how much faster the rumors of attack would have flown and how World War III might not have been avoidable.
