OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) – A Johnson County restaurant manager sent a harsh message to employees about taking time off and was subsequently fired.
An Olive Garden media relations representative confirmed to KCTV5 a manager at the restaurant on 95th Street sent the below message to staffers:
Do you garden in English or another language?
Associated Press writer Jessica Damiano spent 2022 writing about gardening. She wrote about how to prepare your plants and soil for the winter. She also gave advice on gardening in shady places, or areas without much direct sunlight. She gave guidance on issues as different as insect control and saving and storing seeds.
Most recently Damiano wrote about the language of gardening, providing meanings to some unusual words used in the field.
For example, do you know what scarification is? Sounds like what happens when you see a ghost. But there are no ghosts in our gardens! Gardeners scarify the seeds by making little cuts, or roughening, their hard outer covers. The act helps the seeds to germinate.
When a seed germinates it begins to grow.
Another technical gardening term that sounds mysterious, even to many native English speakers, is xeriscaping.
The Native American Youth and Family Center community garden in Portland’s Cully neighborhood was bustling Thursdays with volunteers who’d put traditional Thanksgiving plans aside to honor the Indigenous community.
The Un-Thanksgiving event was established last year to offer an alternative to the colonist-centric holiday.
“There’s a lot of colonial holidays that twist and invent stories of an American myth,” said organizer Mick Rose. “They create a sense of ownership and a lie about land being given rather than land being stolen. This event is really about de-investing from that narrative, because we know it’s not true.”
Volunteers were tasked with cleaning and rebuilding the garden, which houses several spaces for different native plants. The event continues Friday, from 11 am to 2 pm, and anyone is welcome to contribute.
Rose – a member of the Diné, Omaha and Pawnee tribes – was grateful to see so many volunteers in the
So… my good friend (a very reputable Santa Barbara resident with the initials of JD) texted me that the REAL urban myth is that the property’s deed includes a clause that any owner must adorn Rover (the Garden Street dog statue) throughout the year with appropriate costumes. I dug a bit more and found that the deed clause is probably not a myth. See below please.
The Dog Statue House
October 8, 2018 National Purebred Dog Day®
Do you live in an area that has a statue that gets dressed up in appropriate holiday attire?
You do if you live near the corner of Mission and Garden in Santa Barbara, California. “Rover,” a 4-foot tall, 340-pound bronze Labrador Retriever, has been standing guard over Santa Barbara’s Upper Eastside neighborhood for nearly 115 years, a house that heads a line of five historic houses known as Crocker Row.
The dog statue
Gardening was a favorite pastime of the late Rick Noordam, who served as chair of the Post Falls Parks and Recreation board.
“If you knew Rick, he and his wife (Nancy) were avid gardeners,” Parks and Recreation Director Dave Fair said to Post Falls City Council members during their Nov. 15 meeting.
“Rick was not just instrumental in it, but he was the driving force behind us getting a community garden,” Fair said. “He worked on the fundraising, he got volunteers involved, he and his wife volunteered for two years supervising it actually working in the garden, he got the Rotary behind building the building. It was a labor of love, that endeavor.”
To honor Noordam’s contributions to the River City, the city council unanimously voted to give the Post Falls Community Garden a new name — the Rick Noordam Community Garden.
Major Ron Jacobson said he knew Nordam through