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Be Kind To Turtles
Don’t paint them, don’t take them and don’t hurt them AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples World Turtle Day is May 23, and this is a perfect time to learn about our
Compost Is Your Friend
Much household refuse can instead be reused AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples Plenty of people are gardening these days, and many are new gardeners participating in the coronavirus “victory garden” movement.
A Bird In The Bush
Quails need our help to keep habitat AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples While walking down our grassy driveway one evening, I was surprised to see a medium-sized butterball of a bird
Volunteers Still Essential
Find ways to help, online or on your own block AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples One of the best ways to distract yourself from a problem is to help someone else
Head Count
Monitors can help bird populations AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples As of this writing, the season’s first clutch of bluebird eggs has hatched, transforming a tan nest cup filled with sky
Mask Maker! Mask Maker!
Concerned citizens find ways to help out AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples There are many heroic deeds done every day, but during an epidemic, we see them in a brighter light,
Go Outdoors Safely: When, where you go keeps you socially distant
It’s the Easter season, and what better way to celebrate spring and all things cute than by going outdoors to look for baby bunnies and nests filled with gorgeous colored
Time in kitchen keeps woes away
Stuck at home with too much time or too many kids? Bake chocolate chip cookies, a cake, biscuits, bread or anything to take your mind off the pandemic for a
Stay Positive In Difficult Times
Garden, walk, play games, cook, look for the good in everything AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples While our society remains disrupted in unprecedented ways that build uncertainty daily through our inescapable
Spring Has Sprung
Birds are flying, frogs croaking and flowers blooming AMANDA BANCROFT Making Ripples The spring equinox is Thursday, March 19, but as the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted last month, spring is
