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HungerU coming to UNL Oct. 16-17 to educate students on world hunger

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Tony Webster

NCOLN, Neb. — University of Nebraska-Lincoln students soon will have an opportunity to learn about one of the most pressing global challenges their generation will be charged with solving – world hunger – as the HungerU® Tour comes to campus.

 

Hunger and malnutrition are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause. Even in the U.S., one in six Americans goes to bed hungry at night. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to top 9 billion.

 

The HungerU® Tour is coming to UNL Oct. 16-17 to encourage conversation about how tomorrow’s leaders can join the fight to end world hunger. The interactive, mobile exhibit will be at the East Campus, first turnaround in the East Campus Mall Loop on Oct. 16, and at the City Campus at the Nebraska City Union Plaza Oct. 17.

 

The exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days to encourage students to learn about the global hunger challenge and solutions for feeding the world. By building awareness of the hunger issue and the critical role modern agriculture plays by putting food on our tables, HungerU will engage students in the ongoing hunger crisis and encourage them to take action in their communities to meet the growing demand for safe, nutritious and affordable food.

 

“In the next 50 years, we will need to produce more food than over the past 10,000 years combined, with fewer resources than before,” said Margie Alsbrook, director of operations for the nonprofit Farm Journal Foundation and HungerU. “HungerU is about creating a greater understanding for agriculture and the food system, and more open conversations about how to alleviate the growing hunger crisis.”

 

The HungerU Fall 2014 Tour kicked off at the University of Utah and will continue to five states over the next two months. To date, the exhibit has been to 62 universities throughout the United States.

 

To learn more about the growing hunger issue and the platform to make a difference, visit www.HungerU.com and take the HungerU Challenge. Or become part of the discussion today at #HungerCantWait.

 

HungerU® is a special project of the Farm Journal Foundation’s Farmers Feeding the World effort made possible by support from the foundation’s sponsors including DuPont. HungerU enlists students to join in the conversation about global hunger issues and the critical role of modern agriculture. The HungerU Tour travels to university campuses, engaging students in the ongoing hunger crisis and empowering them to take action in their communities. For more information, please visit www.HungerU.com.

Barton women’s soccer surrenders four unanswered in loss at No. 15 Butler

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Despite an early lead Sunday in El Dorado, the Barton Community College women’s soccer couldn’t contain No. 15 ranked Butler Community College in falling 4-1 at the BG Products Sports Complex.  The fifth straight loss to the Grizzlies drops Barton below the .500 mark in conference play at 3-4-1 and 6-6-2 overall while Butler keeps chase in the conference race at 6-0-1 and 9-3-3 overall.

Taking advantage of a Grizzly defense miscue, Aliya Marshall was able to steal and convert a one-on-one situation against the keeper to give Barton the 1-0 lead just 2:36 into the contest.

Butler got the equalizer with 21:41 remaining when Kileigh Vann put a header to the back of the net converting the Kelly Sutton corner kick.  As Barton began to lose execution, the Grizzlies step up the offensive pressure and six minutes later, Dalia Fernandez took a Rosa Urista-Chico pass just inside the 18′ to blast to the far post past the diving Barton goalkeeper Maria-Elena Garcia.

The Grizzlies wasted little time increasing the lead out to two as Jaclyn Means stuck back a Brittney Lawrence shot on goal just 3:16 into the second half.  Any dashes of hope of a Barton comeback were sorely diminished as the Cougars were whistled for a handball just inside the penalty box area with 29:50 remaining.  Butler’s Paige Thompson stepped up to drill the penalty kick and give the Grizzlies its final 4-1 margin victory.

Having only three remaining games in the regular season, Barton will play it final home game this Thursday in a 3:00 p.m. Jayhawk matchup against Garden City Community College.  As the Cougars are tied for sixth in the standings, the Broncbusters (2-6-0 conference, 6-7-1 overall) are fighting for a playoff position.   Barton will then conclude the regular season at Neosho County Community College (October 19) and at Pratt Community College (October 28).

Chronicles of The Farm Woman: School Photographer

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The high school lad came to school decked out in his Sunday best.  In a town high school this would be no uncommon sight.  But in a small rural high school where clean overalls and print dresses are accepted wear.  It was unusual to see a boy all dressed up.  Upon seeing him someone recalled that this was the day the itinerant photographer was expected.  Johnny was dressed up to have his picture taken.  It was an event in his young life.  He was going to send the picture to his big brother in the far Pacific, that big brother who had teased and tormented him but who had always been his pattern.

Few of the students had remembered the day.

Immediately the girls began to primp and add more lipstick and the boys to comb their hair.

The picture man did not come on the appointed day or the next.  He did call and say he would be there late in the week.  The lad continued to wear his white shirt and tie and suit.  He wanted to be ready when the man came. Then  came the great day.  The photo-grapher arrived with all his paraphernalia and his line of chatter.  Was there ever an itinerant photographer who did not have an incessant flow of patter? It is part of the stock in trade no doubt.  He lined up all the eager customers along the schoolhouse wall and snapped them in quick succession.  Girls did not have nearly enough time to primp.

Soon the man was on his way again with the promise that the pictures would be delivered in a few days.  When the pictures came Johnny’s was the best of the lot.  Today that picture is winging its way via air mail to an outpost somewhere in the Pacific.  Big brother will be amazed o see how the stripling has grown and changed in the two years since he last saw him.  This picture that little brother waited so many days to have taken probably will go up alongside the favorite pinup girl or in his billfold with pictures of his best girl and his mother.

Now little brother is wondering how long it will take to get an answer, that the picture really arrived.

Plants that take patience pay off

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Aruncus, also known as goatsbeard, is a long-lived perennial that is worth the wait

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” Liberty Hyde Bailey

 

Gardeners tend to be impatient with their landscapes. They want growth as quickly as possible – with all the additional perks of color, focus, privacy – and preferably this year, this season, this month, this week, now. But if you’ve gardened long enough, you’ve probably learned that the plants that take the most patience tend to be, in the long run, the most long-lived.

 

There are advantages to slow, or at least unseen, growth. Often it means that plants are putting their energy underground in the form of root growth. Once their roots are established, they will get about the business of growing upwards, but first they concentrate on a solid base.

 

Most perennials – plants that live for two or more years – are slow starters. A few perennials, like chrysanthemums, do their best when they’re transplanted every couple of years, but many are happy to remain in place for 10 years or more. Long-lived perennials include peony, bleeding heart, sedum, Siberian iris, gas plant, Lenten rose, Epimedium, goat’s beard, Corydalis and ornamental grasses.

 

For the initial planting, it’s important to know the plant’s mature size and space it accordingly. Placing small, fragile plants a foot or more apart can look silly the first few years but eventually they’ll need the space, and deep-rooted plants don’t adapt to moving and transplanting as well as their shallow-rooted companions. Planting annuals among them the first few years can help ease the transition and keep out weeds while they get established.

 

Prairie plants are by nature deep-rooted to withstand drought and competition, and many of them take a few years to reach mature size. Keeping weeds out the first few years is important since most weeds are extremely fast-growing annuals designed to complete their life cycle in the first season. Annual weeds can often grow to 4 feet or more in one year, shading prairie seedlings and competing for water and nutrients.

 

We’re all influenced by appearance and that’s certainly true in the nursery, where many prairie plants are overlooked because of how fragile they appear. They simply aren’t happy in small nursery pots where their roots can’t spread down and out. The stems of plants like milkweed look like wispy hairs early on – they seem far too fragile-looking to place with grasses or other perennials. But give them some time, care and watering and they’ll outlive many of their neighbors. Even woody-stemmed plants like Baptisia and leadplant look like they couldn’t survive in tough soils. But that’s precisely what they are accustomed to, and what their roots are waiting for.

 

So when you’re planning your next garden bed, give some thought to future years and do a little research on how long the plants you’re wanting to grow are likely to live. If you’re thinking about the long run, you may have to be a little patient in the beginning… but it’ll pay off

Golf in the Badlands

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A few weeks ago we went on a trip to South Dakota into the Black Hills and the surrounding area. We stayed in Keystone, S. D. as our home base and branched out from there to see the sites. Keystone is a cute little tourist town that is in the shadow of Mt. Rushmore and near Crazy Horse Mountain.

Our first night out from Hutchinson we stayed in Wall S. D. and it was a long drive to get there. There were not any really good looking motels but we were so tired we just picked one and got a room.

The main reason we stayed there was so we could see Wall drug. It is quite a place to visit. The guy that started Wall drug store put himself on the map as the soda fountain that gave you free ice water.

As businesses would sell to him he added them to Wall drug and it is about 2 blocks square and it felt like it when we were in there. The old drug store is still in operation and is about in the middle of it all and the other stores all open up onto two main halls with one that connects the two main ones.

I was afraid I was going to get lost in there so I found the restaurant which is near the middle and waited there for everyone. We tried one of their famous home made donuts and of course the free ice water.

After seeing everything we could in Wall, S. D. we loaded up in the van and headed for Keystone. We found a new motel at the edge of town and decided to stop there and it was a wonderful place to stay. It became our home base while we were in the area around Keystone.

Out side the north door that we used all the time was a large hill and along the bottom of the hill was a rock wall. Every time we went out the door there were chipmunks on the wall scampering around.

So every morning when we had breakfast I would take a couple of the little mini muffins and wrap them in a napkin and go out and see the chipmunks. They were not tame enough to come to you and take the food but you knew you were being watched when you went out there.

I would break the little muffins into small pieces and spread them out amongst the rock ledges and then step back by the door to watch. I would barely be back at the door when the first one would scamper over to the rocks.

In a few seconds all 5 of them were there for their breakfast. One would always grab a piece and head for his burrow a few feet away from the rock wall and would disappear under ground with it. Then he would come back and eat some sitting on the rocks. It was a nice way to start the day to feed the cute little guys.

The area around Mt. Rushmore has changed because you can see it for miles now, in fact when you leave Keystone and round a bend you can see it above the trees for just a few seconds.

Also the area at the base where you view the mountain has changed.  It is really regal around there now and makes viewing it a lot easier than it did back in the 60’s.

Then we went to Crazy Horse Mountain and spent the afternoon. I saw it in the early 60’s and they didn’t have much done but now the head and face of Crazy Horse and the flat part on top of the pointing arm is finished.

They have now decided to work on the horses head before finishing the arm and Crazy Horse. They have the outline of the horses head painted on the mountain so the tourists can see what they are going to do.  It is really going to be awesome some day.

The drive through the Badlands took almost three hours or more and it was something that will make you believe in a higher being that made this earth and created the Badlands. I have never seen anything quite like them.

The Badlands are mostly rock formations that are hard to explain to some one that has not seen them. They are so immense and beautiful. We stopped at every over look and got out to see the sights from that new vantage point.

At one of the sites where the view opened up into a huge canyon one of our husbands said that it would be a great spot to hit a golf ball from and would be a really tough hole to play. So one of them grabbed a club out of the back of the car and a tee and a golf ball and teed it up by the sidewalk.

I grabbed the camera and told him to swing the club. While I was taking pictures of him getting ready to swing a woman walked up to me and said; “can I take a picture of that?” I told her to go ahead because no one would believe her when she told them about a guy playing golf in the Badlands without a photo.

He didn’t actually hit the ball because you would never find it and we would have probably been arrested if he had. But we joked all the way home about them playing golf in the Badlands and that the pictures would be great Christmas cards.

The Badlands was definitely one of the highlights on the trip for all of us and we hated to drive out of them and back to normal scenery. That is a must for anyone’s Bucket List; see the Badlands.

On the way home we stopped in North Platte, NE. and saw the Bailey Train Yard and went up in the Golden Spike Tower. This is another must on a trip to Nebraska. I could have stayed in the Tower all day watching them work with the train cars.

The Rail yard is 8 miles long and 145 tracks wide (at least). They put together the trains for Union Pacific that go both east and west from there. They bring the cars that will be added to trains into the yard and back those up to humps where they are sorted one at a time as they slowly go over the hump and are directed by computer onto one of 65 tracks for the east bound trains. For those going west there is another hump they go over and are sorted onto at least 45 tracks to be pulled and added to another train.

They also do repair work on locomotives and rail cars in the rail yard also. One can not imagine how big the place is unless you get up 8 stories to see it all below you. There is a volunteer retired railroad man in the tower all the times that will tell you all about what you see going on. We really enjoyed the time we spent there.

It was a fun trip and one that had more exciting things to see and do than we expected when we took off. It is a trip that I highly recommend to anyone that wants to see some awesome sights to inspire and remember for a lifetime, but don’t try to play golf in the Badlands. To contact Sandy: [email protected]

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