What a great summer it has been with lots of local library shows, travel to the Traverse City area for Cherry Fest activities and library shows at Interlochen and Traverse City Library. Toledo Botanical Gardens hosted the 2nd annual event of Arts Gone Wild which is sponsored by Toledo Library, Toledo Zoo, Toledo Museum, Arts Council, just to mention a few. I represented the library again this year. Last year it was held at the zoo. Next year it will be at the Museum and then the downtown library! I am hopeful that I can still be a part of that great happening in the city each August!
I enjoyed teaching about orangutans at the Toledo Zoo in August. I am now aware that the use of palm oil products is the leading cause of the elimination of forested areas for the orangutans. They were once all over Asia and are now located only in Indonesia in Bornio and Samalia.
I am delighted to be on the steering committee for the organization of Northwest Ohio's chapter of Leave No Child INSIDE! We met at Ottawa Wildlife Preserve for an inital meeting and some structuring ideas in August. Our first huge meeting will be September 11th at Olander Park in Sylvania. Sandy Gratop, naturalist, is sprearheading the group's endeavor. I am just thrilled to be a part of that. ( I did a workshop/presentation at the annual conference in Columbus last fall and discovered that we had no representation or plan here in this section of the state).
I am looking forward to Canton's AEYC Conference where I will be the keynote speaker (on using puppets) and doing a workshop, too.
Coming events for me:
- 4 hour workshop at Cincinnati Nature Center training volunteers to use puppets!
- conference/workshops at B.G.S.U. and Howell, MI
- conference/workshop in Washington, D.C. at NAEYC
- library and Toledo Museum puppet shows
- training at KinderCare in NorthRidgeville, OH
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