Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 25 October 2012 — Page 4
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• Advance News • Thursday, October 25,2012
Connecting in the community, Andlla College expands public events
Andlla College, celebrating the 75th anniversary of its founding this year, is expanding the number and type of public events at the campus. The college offers 17 assodate degree programs to students across northern Indiana but also offers a full menu of events open to the public. Andlla's long-running Lampen Lecture series has offered perspectives from experts on the environment, sdence
and faith, childbirth and recently featured Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades speaking about immigration. The college is now offering a new series of free public workshops on planning, funding, and building successful businesses. The Creative Commerce Series brings together local and regional business experts in finance, marketing and new business development delivering presentations and discussions for people wanting to start or expand their own businesses. The Creative Commerce Series are informal workshops Thursday nights from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. EDT. The events are set up so attendees can come at 6 p.m. and share ideas over coffee before and after the presentations. After each event attendees will have access to presentations, online materials, and links to important online sites and tools. Thursday, Oct. 25, Andrew Laurent will discuss business logistics with the workshop, "You Can't Drive Through the Lake: Northern Indiana & Our Logistics Future." Laurent will draw on his experience with Anacostia Rail Holdings and the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroads to talk about transportation and logistics in the economic landscape of northern Indiana. Businesses in north central Indiana are only a 12-hour drive from the majority of population centers in North America. Every business relies on logistics to provide goods to customers but logistics systems and tools have changed dramatically over the last decade. This presentation will explore the benefits and challenges for businesses operating in the Crossroads of America. The Creative Commerce Series also offers personal insights into starting and growing a business. Thursday, Nov. 1, Randy and Eleanor Danielson, owners of Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home and The Remembrance Centre, will present "How I Built My Business and What I Learned Along The Way." Attendees will leam from the Danielsons' story of building a business, with its mix of fitallenges and the successes. This first-hand presentation dnß discussion will offer insights and guidance for business owners and entrepreneurs alike. Nov. 8 the workshop series turns to money and finance with 'The ABC's of Financing a New Business." This essential workshop for new business founders will cover a wide variety of topics like financing opt&ftßTor start-ups, loans, grants and funding for business expansion plans. Venture capital, small business loans, self-financing and more will be covered by a panel of experts who will advice, experience and ideas. The workshop panel will include Tim Braun of Elevate Ventures, Dale Cramer from Lake City Bank, and Tedd Schaffer of the Business Development Corporation. Following the national elections the week before, the series will explore 'Today's Healthcare Environment" Nov. 15. A 1 Guttierez, chief executive officer of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, will provide an overview of health care options in northern Indiana. The timely presentation will also cover the issues of healthcare costs for small businesses, the likely impact of the election and the changing insurance landscape. The workshop series, parking, and refreshments are free but registration is requested at wnvw.ancilla.edu / creative-commerce-series /.
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Proper caring for alfalfa
Dallas Peterson, a weed management specialist in Kansas, recently wrote an interesting article about the tuning of the first application of glyphosate to newly planted Roundup Ready alfalfa. Strictly speaking, any time will work because Roundup Ready alfalfa is tolerant to glyphosate at au stages of growth. That means producers can make the first application as early as they would like. The label on glyphosate products recommends that me first application be made early at or before the four trifoliate stage. The reason is that up to 10 percent of the seed in Roundup Ready alfalfa actually may not Ire Roundup Ready. Alfalfa is primarily a cross-pollinated crop, pollinated by insects, so it is nearly impossible to get 100 percent genetic purity in a seed lot. It is important that producers kill off the non-Roundup Ready alfalfa plants early before they become established
One moment In time net mused 1
Though our days fly by (as in: "it's really almost Halloween already?") and time sometimes drags on for eons (like when you're in line at the BMV or the one of the only four open of the 28 grocery store lanes), there are significant moments in time that will and should be, always remembered. Suspended in your memory will be times you have accomplished something or you were witness to something amazing: the day you made it to the end of that marathon and didn't stroke out; the first time your baby smiled at you; the first time you kissed the lips of the one that holds your heart; the time you shook the hand of the man that presented you with that degree; or the time you helped someone in need and they gave you that look of gratitude that words couldn't even express. Maybe your special moments might include more ornery scenes: like the time you accidentally threw that egg (well it was thrown on purpose but was meant to land elsewhere) and it hit your uncle in the head; or the time you scared your little sister so bad she cried, barfed and then wet herself, or maybe the time your brother pretended to drop your baby and you attacked him like a rabid animal .. . or maybe your family isn't as bizarre as mine. But you get the idea. There are moments, scenes, things, sounds, expressions, events, that you will never forget some of them ones that you wish you'd rather not recall and others you wouldn't want to miss. A "moment" happened for me that was unimportant, seemingly insignificant but that will undoubtedly stick with me forever. My son, rather, my baby just turned 16. He is my only son (1 have two older daughters, 19 and 25) and is unapologetically my pride and joy. He won't speak to me for a week after finding out I've written this so let's keep this hush-hush, or as they say nowadays "on the down low." My son has been growing into a man for awhile now. His voice last year surprised me on the phone one day I almost apologized for calling the wrong number (you can't just hang up like you used to years ago and sheepishly and more carefully redial there's caller ID everywhere). I just
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so the non-resistant plants are not competing with the Roundup Ready plants as stands are being established. Peterson points out that in fall-seed-ed alfalfa, the main weeds present after emergence will be winter annuals such as henbit, duckweed and mustards assuming the alfalfa was planted into a weed-free seedbed. If the appropriate rate of glyphosate and proper adjuvants are used at this time, glyphosate should be able to control all of tnese problems. In spring-seeded alfalfa, he points out that the main weeds present after
My Two Cents By Angel Parkins Editor
didn't recognize the man-voice that answered and 1 assumed I'd called incorrectly. I later made him record my personal phone message and several family members said they wanted to have one of "those" voices (assumedly a recorded masculine voice speaking like an announcer) say that they were unavailable to take the phone. When I told them it was my 800, they at first didn't believe, and then couldn't believe it, until he spoke to them over the phone in that voice. My boy has a straggly, "man" collection of hairs on his chin that reminds me of Shaggy on the Scooby-Doo series. He likes to call that his beard. He has a cowlick that he hates me for which is so darned adorable, and bright smiling eyes which some rotten girl ... er... darling young woman will fall in love with and while he is all and every day changing into an adult, is still every bit my little boy. For his birthday we sang to him, took him to a movie, fed him cake and gave him a new phone. It was the reaction from that final gift that hit me. I'm pretty sure he knew the phone was coming, and he did ask for it after all, but after he acted all cool about receiving it, his eyes gave him away and he let out a little giggle and shook/wiggled around (picture a happy toddler or excited dog). In that one moment, that one-second-uninhib-ited action, I saw my son as both the little boy he was and the young man that he's become, almost like an image over an image It made me w'arm inside ... and a little sick. My oldest daughter was from a previous marriage and was a child I had to often share with people I wasn't fond of, so in a sense, when she was at the age of butting heads with her mother (as most young girls do at some point in the pre-teen-to-young-woman years) the weaning away of her was something that hurt... but not so much.
emergence will most likely be summer annuals such as pigweeds, velvetleaf, foxtail and crabgrass. If these weeds are treated when they are seedlings or very young, glyphosate at the appropriate rates Mid with the proper adjuvants should be able to control than. There may also be winter annuals present, but these should be controlled before the alfalfa is seeded. Remember, glyphosate is a nonresidual herbicide, so repeat applications may be needed. Once Roundup Ready alfalfa is established, there may be an advantage to making a dormantseason application with a different herbicide, or combination of herbicides, with different modes of action to help prevent the development of glyphosate-resistant weeds. One final note of caution: Not all glyphosate products are currently labeled for use on Roundup Ready alfalfa. Be sure to check the labels.
My youngest daughter is a special child, one that makes instances in life seem fresh and unique, as she sees it through the eyes of a younger person, and always will. She will likely live with me until I am aged and can no longer watch over and help her ... ana then that responsibility will either go on to one of my other children, or sadly, the state. Bonus for me? I don't have to watch her move away and rip my heart out... I mean .... start life on her own. My son on the other hand.... Well, he has a wide world to attack and will and should. But seeing that dual-face upon the acceptance of his beloved technological toy, shook me. It reminded me of another moment I had missed but caught on tape years ago: One where he received another device that would enthrall him to my disgust, when he was introduced to the handheld video game. At the time it had been Christmas and there wen other people within the room doin; their own opening and whatnot, s< only when playing back the tape di< I notice my son holding the revere< video game in the holiday chaos, watched his eyes widen as nis finger rapidly tapped away. His jaw then se and his eyes fiercely focused and tha was it. They tben glazed ovfcui a mat scientist sort of way. He may a#'well have been literall; plugged into something because that nis FIRST video game, is something hi was quickly hypnotized and foreve changed by. Of course we set limits and so on now, but if it hadn't been for the cameraman, my sister, that moment in time wouldn't have ever been realized the moment my little boo got sucked into cyber action and he turned into an obsessed gamer. Realizing his aging reminds me that I'm aging too a fact I don't like one little bit. A fact that makes me additionally realize that there will be even fewer special moments to live and that I should pay better attention. So, I'm looking at things a different way. I'm working on that "bucket list" (and for those of you that haven't seen the movie, one of the best feel-good tearjerkers I'd seen in a long time allow yourself the time to see it) and See Moments, Page
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