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Danbury Community Garden

If you live in an apartment or have no space for a garden, the Danbury Community Garden offers the opportunity to have your own plot. Plots are available for individuals, or as a summer projects for a Scout groups, church group, or youth group to grow produce for the Danbury Food Pantry.

The Danbury Community Garden is located behind (and sponsored by) St. Paul Lutheran Church, 541 Church Road, Lakeside-Marblehead. You can pick the size of your plot, large or small. Planting of seeds such as beans, squash, pumpkins and melons should be done by the end of April if possible. The ground is plowed and ready to plant. A water source is nearby. Bring your own seeds. Some garden tools are available.

For more information or to reserve a plot, call 419-734-1662.

Cub Scouts receive awards

Members of Cub Scouts Pack 361 received their advancements and awards at the 2013 Blue & Gold Banquet held March 4 at St. John Lutheran Church in Port Clinton.

The awards result from the hard work and projects the Scouts undertake over the course of the year according to the Boy Scouts of America requirements.

Water levels in Lake Erie predicted to stay low

Lake freighter at the LaFarge Marblehead dock last Thursday.

The April 3 report from the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) states that the water level of Lake Superior is 3 inches below its level of one year ago, while Lake Michigan-Huron is 15 inches lower. Lake Erie has levels 17 inches lower than a year ago. Over the next month the water level of Lake Erie is expected to increase 4 inches.

Keith Kompoltowicz, Chief of Watershed Hydrology for the Corps of Engineers district office in Detroit, said that the seasonal rise of Lake Erie is predicted as “9-11 inches below the long term average, and two inches lower than in 2012.”

Salvation Army accepting applications for Camp NEOSA

The Salvation Army’s Camp NEOSA this year is June 19-24. The camp program is provided to the first 40 children ages 6-12 who register. A $25 registration fee will be charged this year. Transportation is provided.

Camp NEOSA is made possible by funding through local contributions from residents and businesses. Due to the generous funding, they are able to offer a weeklong camp experience to forty applicants this year.

Spring on the north coast

Confused daffodils set to bloom had second thoughts after Wednesday’s hail and rain storm. According to Ernie Isaac at the Port Clinton Sewage Treatment Plant, we had .52 inches of rain before midnight on Wednesday, and between midnight and 8 a.m. Thursday another .6 inches, for a total of 1.1 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, and counting. Stay warm and dry.