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Cambridge Senior Chatter
Turkey Alert!
Today has been one
really busy day so far,
and it shows no sign
of letting up. I guess I
had better skip the
meanderings of my
mind and stay on point
today ff I'm ever to get
anything accomplished.
Tomorrow we will go to
Ontario for shopping,
and on Tuesday March
20th we are heading to
Nampa for shopping at
Costco and wherever.
Both trips are filled,
which is good if you have
already signed up, but
not so good if you have
been procrastinating in
letting me know of your
desire to join us. All I
can say is if you missed
this bus this time. we
will have another trip in
April.
Peggy Tiedemann from
Midvale has volunteered
to take over the duties
as "Volunteer In charge"
of our food pantry. She
has many ideas and
I'm grateful that she is
willing to take on this
responsibility. We spent
much of the morning
"Training" and taking
stock of the pantry area.
This month our pantry
will be open on Thursday,
March 29th from 3:00 m
4:30 PM. Any residents
of Cambridge. and
Midvale are welcome to
come and get food boxes.
As I mentioned last
month, our pantry ls no
longer open to residents
of Adams County, as
there are two pantries
located in Council to
serve residents residing
in that county. If you
are a resident in Council,
please check with the
Council Senior Center
or the Nazarene church
for more information on
distribution times.
On Friday, April 6th
from 5:00 to 7:00 PM we
will be having an all you
can eat "Idaho Potato
Bar" fundraiser. We,have
never done one of these,
and I'm hoping that you
will come and join us for
some good eating and
listening to some great
music. The cost wilt be
87 for adults and 84 for
children under the age of
12. Mark your calendars
now, as it's only four
weeks away!
I know spring is near
by Janice
Cawyer
257-3358
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Council Senior Chatter
as my "Wild" turkey,
Stretch, is out in the
road again challenging
cars as they dare to
drive past "his" house.
Thank you to all of you
using Salubria Road, for
slowing down and giving
him a chance to get out
of your way. A woman
told me last week that
she got out of her car
to take a picture of him
and while be was all
puffed out and strutting
he started toward her so
she got back into the car.
I told her it was a good
thing she did because
his spurs can hurt (I
should know as I have
had many run-ins with
the big guy). If you are of
a mind to take pictures.
please do it from your
car's window, it's safer
for everyone including
the turkey.
I guess that's it for
me today, I hope you're
enjoying these beautiful
days we've been having.
Oh and remember to
set your clocks ahead
one hour on Saturday,
because Daylight
savings time starts on
March 1 lth this year.
50/50 Raffle A Success "
On Wednesday,
February 29, Council
Mayor, Dr. Bruce
Gardner, was our
honored guest to draw
the winning ticket of
Council Senior Center's
first 50/50 raffle.
Congratulations to lucky
lady, Goldie Privitskyl
Goldie won half the pot
and the center benefited
from the other half.
Thanks to all who
participated, this
fundraiser will help
keep our doors open so
we can provide warm
nutritious meals for our
congregate lunches and
home delivered meals.
We thank Norah York.
our dedicated volunteer
and awesome ticket
saleswoman. She made
this fundraiser a success.
The center's next 50/50
raffle will probably take
place this fall. Please
participate; it's like
being in Jack Pot here in
Council.
Speaking of gambling,
our last bingo session
was attended by a bigger
and better crowd, and we
are hoping for an even
bigger and better crowd
yet. The blackout pot is
growing! Come out and
play. We host bingo every
other Friday, with a
potluck starting at 6:00
and bingo at 7:00 PM.
See you Friday, March 9
and 23 to play and have
some senior redneck fianl
For those of you who
may not have heard, I am
happy to announce that
our March fundraiser is a
fabulous Chinese dinner
to be held Saturday the
24 at 5:00 PM here at
the Senior Center. The
cost of the dinner is
$10 per person, which
includes all you can eat
egg roUs, sweet & sour
chicken, and of course
chow mein. Our guest
chief is Greg, who is New
Meadows Senor Center's
cook. Our own local
cook, Jerry Bowman,
is teaching him how to
bake, and she is learning
how to prepare authentic
Chinese dishes. Please
come and support our
center and enjoy some
delicious food and great
music by the Jammers.
The proceeds go to fund
our nutritional services.
Just a little
information for everyone:
the center's 4 quarter
2011 cost per meal was:
Congregate 88.56, and
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by Tifani Holden
Meals on Wheels 89.41.
For every registered
60+ participant we get
reimbursed less than ¼
the cost per meal from
title III money that the
federal government
provides. Please support
your senior centers; they
are a vital part of the
community.
The center would like
to give our love to Rusty
and Judy Vanderpool.
Their house burned
down last Monday. Judy
is the daughter of the
late Herb Woods and
the beautiful Jewell
Woods who is a board
member here at the
center. If you would like
to donate clothing or
money on their behalf,
feel free to drop them off
at the center. We will be
sure they receive your
thoughtful donations.
I would like to remind
everyone that our bus
goes down below to
Ontario once a month;
everyone is welcome to
ride for a small donation,
The next bus trip is
Thursday, March 8. We
have seats open, so
please come ride and
shop. We leave at 8:30
AM. Be on time!
Garden Comer
Some Spring Plants are Peeking UP
Things are getting willows given to me by garden chores start to
greener out there. Peg Tiedemann are still call. I've been diligently
What's peeking up in alive. I'll be working weight-lifting, hoping to
your garden? In mine on their new home avoid the same fate this
the daffodils on the over the next several spring. I sure hope it
south side are just up, months, with the plan works.
the shrubs are budding of transplanting them in Jennifer Neider asked
nicely, daylilies by the the fall. me what I know about
foundation are poking This is a good time to geraniums, and I had to
up, and I see new ferny take a trash bag with admit to next to nothing.
green leaves coming up you on your walk. Let's She said she had a
through the gray on the get our neighborhoods lovely deep red-blooming
yarrow, tidied up. If after an annual geranium she
The dragon's blood hour or so of bending wanted to save last fall,
sedum is really showing and lifting you feel so she clipped stems
how it got the name some aches, I strongly and shoved them into
-- tight whorls of the suggest you start dirt, kept them in the
deepest claret red immediately training for house all winter. They
you'e ,eer seen, adding, the upcoming gardening are now blooming, Way
spatters of color to the season. Train as you coolI Will you share?
borders. In the vegetable would for any athletic Bring some to the plant
garden I think the kale sport: track, basketball, exchange?
is showing signs of skiing, golf. Well, maybe I notice the killdeer
coming back, but it is not golf. Anyway, are back. I also see lots
so muddy out there, I I can tell you from of little sparrow-like
haven't wanted to walk experience that it is very birds are flitting around
in to check. I sincerely discouraging to hurt the black locust trees,
hope the dappled your back just as the scouting out mates
and improving nesting
sites. They've enlarged
a woodpecker hole and
are darting in and out
with nesting materials.
With the trees still bare
of leaves it's possible to
see all the large twiggy
nests left behind last
season. Some may be
magpie nests, and I
kind of think they may
reoccupy them each
year. There seems to be
a lot of magpie activity
surrounding one nest
within view of my dining
in a U.K. paper about
the blossoms that are
particularly attractive
to bees, and some that
surprisingly are avoided
by bees. "Biologists at
the University of Sussex
have been analyzing
how effectively different
species of flowers attract
foraging insects.
Preliminary results
have revealed there is
a 100-fold difference
in the lure that some
popular garden plants
have for honeybees and
room window. I know bumblebees.
magpl:es cam :be"ea! ,:iThb.estp, taaethe
pests, but I like them Mexican giant hyssop,
anyway. Their feathers
seem to be particularly
iridescent this time of
year.
As you plan your flower
garden, remember the
bees. Stan came across
an article published
which was particularly
good for bumblebees,
while borage was best
for honeybees and lilac
sage was second best,
Wild marjoram
and Greek Origanum
were found to be most
by Myma Weikal
mweikal@mtecorra net
355-5829
attractive to wild solitary
bees. Lavenders such
as the white Lavender
edelweiss and the blue
lavender grossblau
were also good for
attracting the insects. In
contrast some geranium
species...are barely ever
visited by the insects,
and popular types of
Dahlia...were found to
be poor at providing food
for foraging bees. In the
UK honey bee numbers
have halved in the past
25 years while numbers
of bumblebees have
fallen by aroild,,rQ°/q
since 1970 with three
species going extinct
and seven suffering
serious declines." In the
U. S., populations of
four common species of
bumblebee have dropped
by 96% in just the past
few decades.
PNF Coalition Meeting
Continued from front page
The priority for
expenditures will be
to fund the restoration
through private
icontractors, thereby
Stimulating local jobs.
Several examples of
ctions included in the
business plan for FY12
were outlined:
-Focus on goods
or services in order
.to partially finance
irestoration costs.
-The road package
,'portion of the plan
,lotals $500K, and
:includes graveling and
Veconstructing roads in
_he Mill Creek/Council
,Mountain project area.
, -Three aquatic
,restoration projects to
;improve fish passage.
-An 800-acre
:Cottonwood fuel
,reduction stewardship
:contract, with a
$500,000 stumpage
value (NEPA completed).
The contract will include
biomass removal,
building on recent
experience.
-15 miles of road
decommissioning on the
New Meadows District
(NEPA completed).
-Prescribed burns,
'possibly through
contracting, late this
-summer and early fall
(Patrick Butte, Rapid
"River).
-The timber volume
:target is 50,000 ccf/yr
,(25 million board feet).
-To improve efficiency,
/he Payette NF is
pursuing an approach
• called "designation
• by prescription." The
this approach. A demo
will be scheduled this
summer.
The coalition
committed to participate
in four phases of
landscape restoration:
pre-project design, NEPA
review, implementation,
and multi-party
monitoring.
The revised goals for
the Lost Creek/Boulder
Creek Project were for the project. This step and handed out a ten-
presented for discussion, is essential in order for page info packet covering
and were adopted by the PFC members to those subjects. Copies
consensus with three understand the laws of the Forest Plan-
fairly minor changes, and restrictions within both paper copies and
The proposed project which recommendations on CDs----were available
boundary, encompassing can affect decisions at the meeting, and can
just under 80.000 acres, by the Forest Service. be picked up at most
was discussed. New Meadows District district offices or at
The pre-projectprocess Ranger, Kim Pierson, the Forest Supervisor's
includes a step to review gave an overview of the Office in McCall.
the Forest Plan, and structure of the Forest Ranger Pierson
management direction Plan and its terminology, described three
Making your way through the
Acronym Jungle
NEPA
Federal agencies, such as the Forest Service, use a lot
of acronyms---abbreviations using the letters that stand
for a name, like CIA. IRS, etc. They get so used to those
acronyms that they often forget that the average person
who doesn't constantly use them may not know what they
are saying. In the process involved in the Forest projects
that are either underway or just starting, the acronym,
NEPA, is thrown around constantly.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is
a United States environmental law that established a
national policy to protect the environment, and also
established the President's Council on Environmental
Quality (CEQ).
Whenever a federal agency begins planning for an
action / a project, it is required to go through a NEPA
process. Basically they have to determine if, and how, an
action is going to affect the environment, and if it is, to
propose steps to avoid or mitigate negatives effects.
The first step is to determine if the proposed action is
required to be analyzed under NEPA. If it is, there are
three levels of analysis that a federal agency may choose
from to comply with the law. These three levels include:
preparation of a Categorical Exclusion (CE), preparation
of an Environmental Assessment (EA), a Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI), or preparation and drafting
of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Categorical Exclusion (CE)
The CE process is undergone when the agency thinks
the CE list, or there are extraordinary circumstances, the
agency must prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA)
or an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), or develop a
new proposal that may qualify for a CE.
Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI)
If an agency suspects an action might have an adverse
effect on the environment, an EA is kind of a preliminary
environmental study that takes a look at what effect the
action might have on the environment without doing a full
blown Environmental Impact Statement.
Although it requires public involvement and input from
other agencies, an EA is intended to be a short and to-the-
point document that shows whether an EIS is needed. If an
EIS is needed the EA gives the agency a head start on the
process since some of the information is already gathered.
Both EAs and EISs require alternatives to be developed
and analyzed.
If an EA shows that there will be no substantial
environment effects, the agency may produce a Finding of
No Significant Impact (FONSI). When you hear a Forest
Service person talking about a FONSI, they are probably
not talking about the cool guy on the old "Happy Days"
TV show, but they pronounoe it the same way.
Environmental Impact Statement
Compared to an Environmental Assessment, an EIS [s
a much more detailed evaluation of the environmental
impacts• The crafting of EIS has many components
including public, outside party and other federal agency
geographic scales of
planning, and the
respective standards
and guidelines that
cover each: I) The entire
Forest, 2) management
areas within the Forest,
and 3) specific smaller
areas called Management
Prescription Categories
(MPC), It's a little like
laws that govern the
entire nation, which
is divided into states.
which are divided
into counties. The
relevant standards
and guidelines can get
more specific as the
management area gets
smaller and more. As in
government, the three
levels influence each
other. It's important for
the PFC members to
understand the ins and
outs of the relationships
between the three
geographic scales of
planning and how the
rules apply so that they
can make intelligent
and appropriate
recommendations.
In upcoming
meetings, the
Interdisciplinary Team
will review existing
conditions by resource
category (Timber,
Hydrology, Wildlife,
etc.). Handouts for these
reviews will be posted
on the web site (http://
www. spatialinterest.
info/PayetteForward.
html).
The next PFC meeting
will at Ernie's Steak
House Meeting Room
at MeadowCreek.
Agenda Topics: Project
.process transfers
tree selection to the
stewardship contractor.
Doubling the layout
capacity during the
field season is a major
benefit expected from
the action will not have a significant effect on the
environment. Many proposed actions are on a list of
actions that qualify for a CE. If a proposed action is on
that list, the agency must make sure that no extraordinary
circumstances exist that may cause a significant
environmental effect. If the proposed action is not on
input, plus development and analysis of alternatives. Bounds, Vegetation
An agency does not have to do anEA before doing an /Fuels/Wildlife/
EIS if they believe there are going to be significant Appendix. The meeting
environmental impacts. In fact this is the case with most date will we determined
larger projects, such as the two Collaborative Forest by an online poll. The
Landscape Restoration Projects on the Payette Forest, Record will publish the
get It.