Zeeland Cub Scout Pack 3048 is hosting a Cub Scout Round up, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:00 pm at Creekside Middle School Cafeteria.

If you want your son to get in on all the fun and adventure of Cub Scouting, please bring your son to our signup meeting.  A registration fee will be collected that evening.

If you have questions concerning fees or meetings please contact Mark and Karin Lewis (Cubmaster/Committee Chairman) at 748-0218 or 3048rocks@charter.net

It is time to start putting your garden to sleep for the winter. Somehow, it just doesn't seem possible that September was one of the best summer???months in years. July was very cool, overcast, and felt more like fall than summer. Global Warming???

The Michigan Works Summer Youth Employment Program is a 2009 summer effort through the American Recov-ery Reinvestment Act to employ qualified youths ages 14 – 24. The federal grant received by all Michigan Works agencies in Michigan provides the wages for the working youths.

I just read this article and thought it very appropriate for this time of year. To some you it is a joke, to others it may give you some food for thought. This article was sent to me from none other than Shane, the same guy who has given me a lot of food for thought during the past few years. He is full of wisdom and greatly adds to the Ottawa County Extension of the Master Gardener program. Could this have any part of;  why the pheasants and quail have almost disappeared from our area?

The following is a email I received and can be shared with you. Please try to take advantage of this wonderful sale:

I received this message from Shane Van Oosterhout, director of  the Ottawa County Extention, of the Master Gardener Program. I wanted to pass it on as quickly as possible. So here it is:

Esmeralda Hernandez, 18 of Holland would have been home today sleeping or cleaning the house. In-stead she is working at the Greater Ottawa County United Way as an Administrative Assistant for the summer.

Ms. Hernandez is a participant in the Ottawa County Michigan Works Summer Youth Program, and is placed at the Greater Ottawa County United Way office on Clover Street in Holland.

Do you know that certain bugs are good for your garden. I know that toads are not bugs but if any one has some extra, I will take them. Toads eat slugs. That is all I need to know. Right now I am sure that the slugs are having a feast on my hosta. Very faithfully, every morning I take a walk around my yard and the first thing I do is pick up rolled newspaper, that I put out the night before, and dump it in a plastic bag. When daylight comes, slugs hide and there is nothing they like better than to crawl into a dark, damp place and sleep the day away.

We had almost two inches of rain last night. If you can stand the bugs NOW is a good time to pull weeds. The ground is moist  and they come out easy. If you need to do some transplanting now is a good time.