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Les Trois Ours come for your kids

Les Trois Ours, or the Three Bears (and Boucle D’or — Goldilocks — of course) are part of a multilingual program, “Once Upon A Time…,” to be recited and performed Wednesday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m. at the Glen Helen Building, 405 Corry St.

The program will feature popular stories, song and poetry for children in French, Spanish and Japanese adapted by Antioch College first year foreign language students, as part of their involvement with the community.

Knowledge of a foreign language won’t be necessary, as the adaptations are simple, repetitive and funny, and and feature lots of animals. Costumes and backdrops will aid in the telling of the tale as well. The whole program should last about 45 minutes to an hour.

For more information, contact Jennifer Branlat at jbranlat {at} antiochcollege(.)org.

BLOG-Bright Day, Bountiful Picnic

I’ll admit this past week was hard. Between daylight savings and a gray turn of weather, the morning walk to the bus stop was suddenly thrown back into darkness. Luckily, my daughter was born to optimism accepting the change with grace and rediscovering the excitement of the piercing flash of the school bus as it came into sight.

I especially appreciated her optimism on Sunday, the day the clocks turned back. I had definitely gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. The dark cloud over my head was quite visible, dispelling a bit only as I began preparing a side dish for lunch. Maybe it was the business of chopping an onion and tossing it in to a sizzling skillet, but I think it was hearing my daughter taking charge of the meal.

Her father and I cooked, yes, but she supervised. Her first decree was that we were not eating inside but picnicking outside. She was halfway into organizing with her father when I caught a clue. The two of them were negotiating over what blankets could be put into service. I was like “Really?” then—looking to the back yard and the sunlit spot she had picked out—quickly ok’ed several of her picks. These she splayed in a welcoming array and then set off to find where I had hid the family picnic basket.

Jeremy grilled kabobs of marinated lamb meat while I broke into our supply of onions and mushrooms. I stirfried these vegetables in walnut oil. I added the radishes—greens and all—that I bought from Orion Organics at the Saturday farmers market. We’ve been using walnut oil more and more, and I particularly like the variety that Current Cuisine stocks. We enjoy the aromatics of the oil as we cook, and its nutty taste—a contrast to the floras of olive oil—shines in many foods.

The weather was almost picnic perfect; the wetness made me yearn for a campfire. To satisfy my craving, I picked out a candle to put in our terra-cotta wood stove. It served its purpose for me, but unfortunately left my two year old craving cupcakes.

Once the food was done, our daughter directed us to our spot on the spread blankets and then asked us for our drink preferences. She poured grape juice into our goblets and produced a bowl of sweet potato chips from Country Garden and a loaf of bread from Free Spirit Farms, other mouthwatering market finds from the day before. We soaked up the sun and enough of our daughter’s sunny optimism to make it through a hard week of midterm exams and final papers, the week’s sprint until a much anticipated spring break. Though the early mornings of this week were dark, we could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Enviroflight in the spotlight

As part of his state-wide tour to celebrate Ohio Agriculture Week, Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David Daniels on Thursday visited Enviroflight, the local producer of an animal feed made from bugs. Enviroflight owner Glen Courtright gave a presentation and tour of the facility and offices at MillWorks, which are of interest to the state because of the business’s development of an environmentally sound and financially competitive feed for Ohio’s poultry, pork and fish producers.

Enviroflight has begun producing feed formulas for customers including the Cincinnati and Indianapolis zoos, and is now in discussion with several perch and rainbow trout growers about formulas for the aquaculture industry. The business is looking for a new 1,800 ton facility to expand into, Courtright said yesterday.

Because Enviroflight uses distiller’s grains to feed its bugs, the ag tour group visited Yellow Springs Brewery, also located at MillWorks, for a glass of its latest stout and a toast to an innovative business that promises to be a boon for the state’s growing food growing industry. Brewery owner Lisa Wolters, Chamber of Commerce Director Karen Wintrow and Enviroflight representative Sarah Wildman also joined in the toast.

Bronze Symposium coming to town

A collaborative effort between several local arts and educational groups will in October bring to the village the “Yellow Springs Experience: National Bronze Sculpture Symposium.” The two-week event will feature four sculptors, one local, who will each create three original works on the Antioch campus, so that the public can view the process. After a public bronze pouring of the works, the Village of Yellow Springs will own them, and create a sculpture trail at several as yet decided public places.

“The Bronze Symposium is a perfect complement to Yellow Springs national reputation as a vibrant and livable arts community,” according to Chamber of Commerce Director Karen Wintrow. “There’s an ongoing commitment to the arts, which in turn, creates a community that is constantly growing, evolving and creating.”

The Chamber is one of the event’s sponsors. Others are the Yellow Springs Arts Council, Antioch College, local sculptor Jon Hudson and the Yellow Springs public schools.

The event is loosely modeled on the International Sculpting Symposia, a program in which cities all over the world invite sculptors to create new work in a public process. Hudson has taken part in about 30 of the symposia in Japan, France, Turkey, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and other locations, he said in a recent interview.

While the event will cost about $150,000, the group has raised $25,000 from a private anonymous donor, with a matching grant from the Morgan Family Foundation. Grant proposals have been submitted to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and Kroger Foundation and the DP&L Foundation, according to Joanne Caputo, the project director.

See the March 14 Yellow Springs News for an extended article.

Mary Lee Boles

Mary Boles

Mary Lee Boles of Yellow Springs passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, March 10 at Greene Memorial Hospital. She was 78.

Mary was born on Feb. 1, 1935 in Blaze, Ky., the daughter of the late Leslie and Lenia (Lewis) Peyton. Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Earl “Don” Boles; brothers Roy, Clyde, Onyx and Clay Peyton and sister, Nola Johnson. She is survived by her daughter, Donna (Jerry) Huckleba of Clifton; son, Gary (Ronda) Boles of Fairborn; grandchildren, Caleb (Jessica) Boles and Joshua Boles; sister-in-law, Reva Abner of Fairborn and sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Anna Mae and Charlie Boles of Mechanicsburg. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and close friend and neighbor, Eileen Babineau.

Mary worked as a waitress for most of her life before retirement. She owned and operated, with her late husband, the former Village Coffee Shop in Yellow Springs. Mary loved collecting beautiful antique dishes, but most of all, she loved spending time with her grandchildren.

Viewing will be held on Friday, March 15, 5–7 p.m. at Jackson, Lytle and Lewis Funeral Home in Yellow Springs, where a funeral service will be held on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 10 a.m. Pastor Stuart Snow will officiate, and burial will follow at Clifton Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.jacksonlytle.com.

Paul F. Ihrig

Paul F. Ihrig, aged 99 years and 8 months, died Saturday, March 2, at Friends Care Community.

Paul was born July 18, 1913 in Marion, Ind. He was the child of Fred H. and Callista C. Ihrig. Paul had one brother, Henry, and one sister, Barbara. Paul’s father died when he and his siblings were young, so the family moved to Springfield to be near family.

Paul’s first job was delivering the Springfield Sun News. He moved to Yellow Springs in the 1940s after his sister, Barbara, was hired by Ernest Morgan to assist with the development of the Antioch Bookplate, and where Paul met Horace Champney, who had a great influence on Paul. He became employed at Antioch Bookplate for a short period. He moved to radio engineering and worked at WHIO when Don Wayne first began in his career. Paul was fired by WHIO because he refused to play commercials. He loved the Yellow Springs News and, later in life, had a newspaper route in Yellow Springs, carefully delivering the news to homes. Also, he loved WYSO when it finally came on the air, but was deeply disappointed when classical music was removed from the airwaves.

Paul met and married Lou, and out of that marriage, two children were born. His daughter, Beth, was killed in a motor vehicle accident in the 1970s. His son, Glen, Glen’s wife and his grandson, Arlo, reside in California. An ex-daughter-in-law and mother of Arlo, Selwa Whitesell of Yellow Springs, also survives him, as well as many friends in the Yellow Springs community.

Paul was the oldest living member of the Yellow Springs Friends Meeting. He was quite a character in town, and was often found Dumpster-diving, trying to recycle food to give to everyone. He lived with many people in town throughout the years, but most of his time was spent in the Vale community or on the Antioch College campus. He was one of the original members of the south Glen community. He was also a member of the 100 Chew Club: “Chew every spoonful 100 times and you will live to 100.”

Within the past 18 years, Paul lived on Jackson Road with Neal Crandall and Pam Davis and their children. Two days before Hanna Northway died, she summoned the Crandalls to her home to discuss the care and oversight Paul would need and made Pam promise her that Paul would be cared for. Many others assisted in the care of Paul. Much appreciation and thanks to Vicky Deady for her compassion and daily excellent care for Paul so he could remain in a home, the staff at Friends Care and especially the STNAs who work diligently to care for those in Friends.

Paul is the only person to make a negative impact on a landfill. Troubled by the consumption of our culture and the impact on future generations, he lived his life accordingly.

Paul donated his body to Wright State University. Memorial contributions can be made to Friends Care Center or the Yellow Springs Food Pantry. A memorial service is being planned by the Friends Meeting.