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TEACHER: Billy, can you name the Great Lakes? BILLY: I don’t need to! They’ve already been named!
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THE GREAT LAKES by Kathy Wolfe
Creating part of the U.S.-Canadian border, the Great Lakes make up the largest body of fresh water on Earth. This week, Tidbits is focusing on these five lakes – Superior, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Erie. • The Great Lakes account for 84% of North America’s surface fresh water, and about 21% of the world’s supply. The surface area of 95,160 square miles (246,463 sq. km) is larger than the areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont combined! The shoreline of all of the Lakes combined is equal to nearly 44% of the Earth’s circumference. • About 34 million people in the U.S. and Canada live in the Great Lakes Basin. That’s 8% of the U.S. population and 32% of Canada’s. Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois, lie on the shores of Lake Michigan. Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Buffalo, New York, all sit on Lake Erie. Toronto lies on Lake Ontario. • Lake Superior is the largest lake both in surface area and in water volume. It’s also the deepest. Its name is derived from the French “lac supeneur,” translating “upper lake,” due to its location north of Lake Huron. Continued on Page 4
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Big Enough to Enjoy- Small Enough to Care.”
• It was pioneering Mexican-American musician Carlos Santana who made the following sage observation: “The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” • Those who study such things say that men who tend to be womanizers when they’re single are more likely to be jealous husbands once they’re married.
• The beginning of a new school year seems a good time to note the origin of that lunchtime favorite, peanut butter. A Canadian named Marcellus Gilmore Edson patented the product in 1884, but it didn’t become popular in the United States until 1898. That was when John Harvey Kellogg’s Western Health Reform Institute began selling it at expensive health care institutions. It seems that protein-packed peanut butter was perfect for elderly patients who had trouble chewing. • Rats tend to be right-handed, too. Or, rather, “right-pawed.” • Standing desks, stand ready: There’s a new trend in workspaces. It seems that standing up while working isn’t enough to counteract
the detrimental health effects of sitting in an office chair all day. Enter Fluidstance, a company that wants to help you surf your way through the workday. Their balance boards, designed to be used with standing desks, reportedly increase heart rate and improve range of motion, allowing users to burn calories while burning their way through the mundane tasks of office life. • Driving isn’t the only activity that is dangerous to mix with alcohol. Statistics show that 40 percent of skiers who get injured in the French Alps are legally drunk. *** Thought for the Day: “Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” — Earl Warren © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A change that you’d hoped for is down the line. But you still need to be patient until more explanations are forthcoming. Continue to keep your enthusiasm in check. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your social life expands as new friends come into your life. But while you’re having fun, your practical side also sees some positive business potential within your new circle. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Your workplace situation continues to improve. Look for advantages you might have missed while all the changes were going on around you. That trusted colleague can help. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Resist the urge to hunker down in your bunker until things ease up. Instead, get rid of that woe-is-me attitude by getting up and getting out to meet old friends and make new ones. LEO (July 23 to August 22) Now that you’re back enjoying the spotlight again, you should feel re-
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energized and ready to take on the challenge of bringing those big, bold plans of yours to completion. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A former friend would like to repair a relationship you two once enjoyed. Your positive response could have an equally positive impact on your life. Think about it. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Resist making impulsive decisions. Stay on that steady course as you continue to work out workplace problems. Be patient. All will soon be back in balance. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You might feel confident about taking a promising offer, but continue to be alert for what you’re not being told about it. Don’t fret. Time is on your side. S A G I T TA R I U S (November 22 to December 21) People dear to you might be planning a way to show appreciation for all you’ve done for them. Accept the honor graciously. Remember: You deserve it. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Congratulations. Your self-confidence is on the rise. This could be a good time to tackle those
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bothersome situations you’ve avoided both at home and at work. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You feel obligated to return a favor. (Of course, you do.) But heed advice from those close to you and do nothing until you know for sure what’s being asked of you. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your loving reassurance helped revive a oncemoribund relationship. But be wary of someone who might try to do something negative to reverse this positive turn of events. BORN THIS WEEK: You are a wonderful matchmaker who can bring people together to form long-lasting relationships. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc. King Features Weekly Service August 21, 2017
4. From Genesis 9, who saw a rainbow in the sky? Adam, Moses, Noah, Abraham 5. Who was David’s oldest brother? Jonah, Eliab, Joel, Agrippa 6. From 1 Samuel 2, how many children did Hannah have? 1. Is the book of James in the 5, 10, 15, 20 Old or New Testament or ANSWERS: 1) New; 2) neither? Amorites; 3) 99; 4) Noah; 5) 2. From Joshua 10, the sun Eliab; 6) 5 stood still while Joshua’s Comments? More Trivia? Visit www. army destroyed what people? TriviaGuy.com Amorites, Midianites, Egyptians, Philistines © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc. August 21, 2017 3. How old was Abram when King Features Weekly Service God changed his name to Abraham? 12, 17, 40, 99
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Platte County Happenings
GREAT LAKES — (continued): • Superior is so large that all of the other For Detailed Information contact the four Great Lakes, plus three more the size Platte County Chamber of Commerce of Lake Erie, would fit inside. It contains Wheatland Chamber: 307-322-2322 enough water to submerge all of North and South America in a foot (30.5 cm) of Send an e-mail to: info@plattechamber.com water. Lake Superior alone accounts for 10% of the world’s fresh surface water. An Guernsey Senior Center Chili & Pie Supper Town & Country Garden Hartville Harvest Blessing Service & Dance Club Bazaar estimated 100 million trout live in Lake Glendo Veterans Day Breakfast Guernsey Holiday Bazaar Superior. Guernsey Veterans Day Luncheon Pheasant’s Forever Banquet • A large island 45 miles (72 km) long and Wheatland Veterans Day Dinner Annual 4-H Carnival 9 miles (14 km) wide sits in the middle of Lake Superior. The island, Isle Royale, has several smaller • Lake Erie is reportedly home to lakes, making them, in essence, a 40-foot-long (12.2-m) snakelike lakes on a lake. Isle Royale, sea monster named Bessie. First along with 450 smaller islands, sighted in 1793, more recent make up Isle Royale National sightings have been reported in Park. 1960, 1969, four times in the 1980s, • The Wyandot Indians, or and again in 1990 by two Huron Hurons, who lived on its firefighters. An Ohio marine shores, lent their name to Lake biologist says Bessie might be a Huron. Huron, the secondlarge specimen of a lake sturgeon, largest Great Lake and the fifth which can live to age 150 and reach largest lake in the world, has lengths in excess of 7 feet (2.1 the longest shoreline of any of m) and weights of 300 lbs. (136 the Great Lakes, 3,827 miles kg), with a somewhat prehistoric (6,157 km), which includes appearance. During the 1800s, the its many islands. Huron was Sandusky, Ohio area was known the first of the Great Lakes to as the caviar capital of North be discovered by European America, as the source of caviar is explorers, French explorers sturgeon eggs. More than 5 million Samuel de Champlain and lbs. (2,267,962 kg) of sturgeon Etienne Brule, who travelled up were pulled from Lake Erie in the Ottawa and Mattawa rivers 1885 for commercial harvest. Due in 1615. They called it “La Mer to years of overharvesting, the Douce,” meaning the “sweet/ sturgeon population experienced fresh-water sea.” a dramatic decline, but is now • The Ojibwa Indians originally making a comeback. A 7’4” (2.2 named Lake Michigan m), 250-lb. (113- kg) sturgeon was “mishigami,” meaning ‘large snagged from Lake Erie in 1998. lake.” The third largest Great • Lake Ontario takes its name Lake, Michigan is the only from another Huron Indian word, one located entirely within the meaning “lake of shining water.” United States. The lake was not named after • Marathon swimmer Jim Dreyer the Canadian province Ontario, started his swimming career rather it was the other way around with a 65-mile (105-km) swim with the province named after the across Lake Michigan in 1998. lake. In 2003, he swam the length of • Lake Ontario is the easternmost 422 miles (679 km). and the smallest of the five Great • All of the Great Lakes have had Lakes. Although smaller than a good amount of shipwrecks. Lake Erie, it’s much deeper and On a frigid December holds four times the volume of day in 1854, the steamer water. It’s located east of Lake Erie, Westmoreland, loaded with and is at the base of Niagara Falls. winter provisions for the troops • Baseball great Babe Ruth hit on Mackinac Island, sprung his first professional home run in a leak while in the middle of Toronto Island’s Hanlan’s Point Lake Michigan. Within a short Stadium. Hanlan’s Point was the time, the boiler had flooded, biggest ballpark in the minor the fire went out, and the ship leagues, a 17,000-seat facility lost its power. With the added that was the home of the Toronto weight of a thick coating of ice Maple Leafs. In September of from the lake’s waves, the ship 1914, the Babe slammed the home • More than 1,000 shipwrecks have been sank shortly afterward. Half of its 34 crew run right into Lake Ontario. It’s believed recorded in Lake Huron, with many still and passengers perished, with the other the ball still rests at the at the lake’s bottom. A particularly severe half making their way to safety aboard life bottom. storm in 1913 produced wind gusts of 90 boats on the rolling waves. It was rumored mph (145 kph), and waves exceeding 35 UNUSUAL PLANTS: that the steamer contained $10,000 in gold feet (11 m). This 16-hour storm sank 10 DAFFODILS coins, along with 280 barrels of whiskey. Celebrate World Daffodil Day and killed 235 sailors. In 2010, over 155 years after the accident, • ships, Lake Erie’s name comes from the Iroquois on August 25 by plucking a the ship was discovered upright on the language, derived from “erielhonan,” the few facts about this cheery bottom, 200 feet (61 m) below the surface word for long tail, a description of the blossom. in a bay. To date, no discovery of gold has lake’s shape. It’s the fourth largest in surface • Daffodils are also known as paperwhite, been reported. jonquil, and narcissus, and are members area, but the smallest by water volume. • Another Lake Michigan disaster occurred of the amaryllis family. The word Although Erie is the smallest Great Lake in 1860, when a steamer carrying 600 “narcissus” has its origins in the Greek in volume, it’s surrounded by the most people collided with a boat carrying language for “to benumb,” referring to the industry. Seventeen large metropolitan timber to Chicago. The death toll of this areas border the Lake Erie basin. Continued on Page 10 collision was 450.
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DONNA’S DAY: CREATIVE FAMILY FUN By Donna Erickson
Radish Crostini With Herbed Butter “Firsts” come to mind as fall approaches. First smile, first tooth, first day of school. The list continues for a lifetime really, if we had the inclination to keep track. Even those little milestones missing from developmental charts are highlights of growing, changing and understanding the world around us -- like planting a bean in an empty milk carton in elementary school, and being amazed when it grows right before our eyes. Another first! Remember that? I do, and that’s when my curiosity about growing things in dirt took root. The following spring, I bought radish seeds with allowance money and dug right in to plant the easy-to-grow vegetable in a small quadrant by Mom’s sunny flower garden. When the green seedlings grew 3-4 inches tall, I learned to thin out the neat little rows. (Little did I know then that the supernutritious, mildtasting and tender microgreens I plucked from the soil would become the culinary trend they are today for garnishing soup, pizza and openfaced sandwiches.) Harvesting mature rosy-red radishes less than three weeks after planting was rewarding for an impatient kid like me. Then, as temps began to drop in August, I eagerly planted the remaining seeds in the packet for a successful second harvest come September. Now is a good time to plant radish seeds for fall. Choose a traditional easy-to-grow variety, or try something new, like heirloom watermelon radishes for their green exteriors and rosy flesh. Whether you grow your own, or buy a colorful bunch from your market, enjoy dipping radishes in coarse salt for a classic French-style snack, slice and toss for a crunchy addition to a lettuce salad or try this yummy crostini
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appetizer using herbed butter that kids will fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s love to stir up and slather on toasted baguette Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” halves. (c) 2017 Donna Erickson RADISH CROSTINI WITH HERBED Distributed by King Features Synd. BUTTER 1 stick soft unsalted butter (8 tablespoons) 3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives or fresh dill with extra for garnish Sea salt 1 medium baguette sliced in half lengthwise and grilled on cut side 8 radishes sliced in rounds F r e s h l y ground black pepper In a small mixing bowl, combine soft butter with chopped chives or dill. Spread butter over cooled baguette halves. (If you have extra herb butter, use as a topping on vegetables or meat and fish.) Slice bread, add radish slices and top with ground pepper and chopped herbs. Arrange on a large platter and serve as an appetizer. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www. donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook
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Salt & Pepper Shakers Q: At an estate sale, I purchased a set of salt and pepper shakers. What attracted me to them is the fact they are only 2 inches high. The shakers are in the design of a boot with spurs. I paid $5 for them and hope I got a good deal. -- Cindy, Lakewood, Colorado A: Miniature salt and pepper shakers have become quite popular with collectors. I contacted a collector, who believes the set you bought could be worth about $25. You also might get a copy of the “Antique Trader Salt and Pepper Price Guide,” by Mark Moran and published by Krause Books. *** Q: I have some Santa Clara Indian pots that date from the teens and 1920s. I would like to have them appraised, but the professionals I contacted charge a great deal for this service. Is it possible to find someone who can help me who is more affordable? -- Sue, New Mexico A: As I often have written in this column, a free or cheap appraisal is generally worthless. Your pots are probably valuable, and you need a competent appraiser to determine just how valuable. If you can’t afford to hire a professional, then simply enjoy your pots for their beauty.
*** Q: I have a paperweight made by Michael O’Keefe. Is it worth keeping? -- Ben, Chesterfield, Missouri A: Michael O’Keefe, a glass artist based in Seattle, is best known for his three-dimensional paperweights featuring soft, subtle colors. His work is easy to identify, since each piece is signed and dated on the bottom. O’Keefe’s paperweights are quite collectible, but only you can determine if the one you have is worth keeping. *** Q: I have an old frame that has rounded glass and wonder if it has any value. -- Mary, Minnesota A: I examined the picture you sent me, and I think your frame was made during the 1930s and is probably worth about $50. Since you didn’t send measurements, it could be worth a little more or a little less, depending on size. *** Q: I have a child’s book, “Mickey Mouse in the
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Wild West,” published by Walt Disney. It is in fairly good condition. What can you tell me about it? -- Mark, Missouri A: Your book was published in 1973 and is worth about $6. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Anxious Dog Needs Socializing DEAR PAW’S CORNER: No matter what I do, I can’t get my 1-year-old shorthaired pointer, “Blue,” to act appropriately around other dogs. I tried taking him to the dog park a few times since adopting him, but he becomes hard to control after seeing dogs on the other side of the fence. How can I socialize my dog? -- Frustrated in Cincinnati DEAR FRUSTRATED: At the risk of being blunt, forget about the dog park for a while. Blue needs to be able to respond to basic commands like “sit” and “stay,” and he needs to remain calm in situations with other dogs. Neither of these things is happening when you take him to the dog park. Blue’s behavior suggests he’s worried about the situation that you’re taking him into. Who are those dogs? What is this place?
Is it safe? He doesn’t know, and he doesn’t know what to do, and he’s acting up. You must find what Blue’s anxiety triggers are. Chances are he is getting stressed well before he reaches the park. How do you do this? Teach Blue a basic command, like “sit” or “lie down,” until you are confident Blue will do it immediately. Later, on your walks, give him this command. If he responds well, he’s probably calm and focused, which is good. If his response falters or he doesn’t obey at all, something is up -- he’s getting distracted or stressed.
Blue needs to develop confidence that he will be OK in unfamiliar situations. There are a number of methods to do this, and you can learn how by working with a trainer on ways to ease him into new environments. Send your questions, comments and tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On Sept. 5, 1666, firefighters in London begin blowing up homes in a desperate attempt to halt the spread of a great fire through the city. By the time the fire was finally extinguished the following day, more than 100,000 people had been left homeless. • On Sept. 9, 1893, President Grover Cleveland’s wife, Frances, gives birth in the White House to the couple’s daughter Esther. She remains the only child of a president to be born in the White House. • On Sept. 6, 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from a success. It weighed 14 tons, overheated, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only 2 mph.
• On Sept. 10, 1940, in light of the destruction and terror inflicted on Londoners by German bombing raids, called “the Blitz,” the British War Cabinet instructs British bombers over Germany to drop their bombs “anywhere” if unable to reach their targets. One of them even landed in the garden of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party’s minister of propaganda. • On Sept. 7, 1950, Julie Kavner, perhaps best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on “The Simpsons,” is born in Los Angeles. Before taking on the role of the famously blue-haired housewife, Kavner played Brenda Morgenstern on “Rhoda.” • On Sept. 4, 1972, U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz wins his record seventh gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The record would stand until Michael Phelps took home eight gold medals at the Beijing Games in 2012. • On Sept. 8, 1986, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is broadcast nationally for the first time. Her daytime television talk show turned Winfrey into one of the most powerful, wealthiest people in show business. © 2017 King Feattures Synd., Inc. King Features Weekly Service August 21, 2017
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narcotic properties of this plant. In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool, and pined away, unable to leave the beauty of his reflection. According to the myth, the gods turned him into a flower. Narcissus lent his name to the word “narcissism,” a fixation with one’s own physical appearance and abilities. Although there are close to 60 different species of wild daffodils, at least 13,000 types have been created through selective breeding, with more being created every year. The plant has a leafless stem that will have one to 20 trumpet-shaped blossoms on top. Although the most familiar color is yellow, other varieties can be found in white, orange, green, and pink. The plant varies in height from 6 inches to 20 inches (15 to 51 cm). Daffodils bulbs store all the nutrients necessary to develop the stem and blooms. Bulbs planted in the Autumn will blossom in the Spring, sometimes pushing their way through the snow. Daffodils can also be grown from seeds, which are round and black with a hard protecting coating. The stem and bulb of a daffodil contain a toxic alkaloid designed to keep predators at a distance. Squirrels • D u r i n g • Although some butterflies can fly up to 30 know better than to Victorian times, the mph (48 km/hr), most fly at 5 to 12 mph eat daffodil bulbs flowers were a symbol (8 to 19 km/hr). They can’t fly at all if their because of the of chivalry. If you body temperature is less than 86 degrees F poisonous crystals, receive a bouquet of (30 C). but the bulbs daffodils, it’s a symbol • The lifespan of the butterfly varies from shouldn’t be planted and happiness, good two days up to 11 months. Its life cycle if you have a dog fortune, and hope. consists of four parts, with each physical who likes to dig. However, a gift of a transformation a part of what is known Because of the toxic single daffodil is said as metamorphosis, a word with Latin sap in the stem, to predict misfortune. origins meaning “changing shape.” A daffodils shouldn’t BUTTERFLIES female butterfly lays her eggs on a plant, be arranged in a vase ‘Tis the season for attaching them with a special natural glue. with other flowers butterflies, and Tidbits Those eggs might hatch within a few days, unless the daffodils is fixing its attention although some take months or even years, have been soaked in on these members of depending on the conditions. Once the water for 24 hours. the order Lepidoptera. egg hatches, a tiny caterpillar crawls out Re-cutting the stems • The word and has its first meal – its own eggshell. It will cause a reLepidoptera has its then starts munching on its host plant. release of the toxin. origins in the Greek • This caterpillar state, known as larva, is Florists often have language, with Lepidos when most of the eating and growing an allergic reaction translating “scales” occurs. As it grows, the covering splits and to the flower called and ptera meaning the caterpillar sheds its skin, a process that “daffodil itch.” “wings.” The four occurs five times before it changes into the It’s odd that although wings of a butterfly are pupa, or chrysalis, a stage in which a hard the stem and bulb covered with millions casing forms around the body. Inside the are toxic, another of overlapping, chrysalis, the butterfly’s six legs, proboscis, substance found shingle-like rows of tiny scales, which antennae, and wings are growing. In about in the bulb called narciclasine has been give the wings their color. The wings are 10 to 15 days, the pupa breaks open, and shown to have potential to treat breast actually clear, and it’s the reflection of light out comes the butterfly! Its wings emerge cancer. In addition, an alkaloid known off the scales that produces the colors and wet and crinkly, and it takes about an hour as galantamine found in daffodils is patterns we see. If the scales were removed for them to be straight, dry, and strong proving effective against the symptoms enough for the butterfly to fly away. of Alzheimers Disease. • The butterfly’s long flexible tongue, Even the ancient Romans through which it sips its liquid food, cultivated daffodils for the is known as a proboscis. This tube-like sap they believed had healing tongue uncoils when it’s time to sip nectar, properties. Ancient Egyptians then coils up again into a spiral when used the juice of the wild not in use. The butterfly doesn’t sip only daffodil as a cure for baldness. nectar from flowers – nourishment also It’s not known whether or not comes from pollen, tree sap, rotting fruit, it worked! dissolved minerals in puddles or wet sand, Although daffodils have or even an animal’s open wound. been cultivated since ancient • A butterfly can’t hear, but its eyes have times, the name was not 6,000 lenses that can see ultraviolet light, recorded in print until 1538. as well as the colors red, green, and yellow. In 1623, William Shakespeare They taste with their feet and they smell mentioned daffodils twice in with their antennae. Act 4 of his play “The Winter’s • The largest butterfly is the Queen Tale.” Alexandra’s birdwing, found on the island The daffodil is the national of New Guinea. Its wingspan can reach flower of the country of Wales, 10.5 inches (27 cm). The species was and the Welsh people wear a discovered in 1906 by a collector. blossom on Saint David’s Day, • It should come as no surprise that a March 1. Welsh legend claims group of butterflies is sometimes referred that if you spy the first daffodil from a butterfly’s wings, it would still be to as a flutter! of the season, the coming 12 months will able to fly, it just wouldn’t have any color. be filled with wealth. To these folks, it • There are about 24,000 species of butterflies symbolizes new beginnings. The wedding around the world. Adding moths (which cake of Britain’s Prince William and Kate are also part of Lepidoptera) increases that Middleton featured 17 different kinds of number to nearly 165,000. Every continent flowers, one of which was the daffodil. except Antarctica is home to butterflies.
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10 Obvious Facts Anti-Hunters Just Love to Ignore We’ve all had to deal with an anti-hunter. Here are 10 facts to share with them. 1. Avid hunter Theodore Roosevelt created our national forests and grasslands and forever protected 230 million acres for wildlife and the public to use and enjoy. Roosevelt, an avid hunter, created some of the most well-known parks for everyone to enjoy forever. 2. An 11 percent tax on guns, ammo, bows and arrows generates $371 million a year for conservation. $371 million is a lot of money. It puts many people to work and enables many conservation programs. 3. Hunting supports 680,000 jobs; from game wardens to waitresses, biologists to motel clerks. Speaking of jobs, how about that anti-hunters? Well over a half a million jobs are created from hunting, according to Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. 4. Through state licenses and fees, hunters pay $796 million a year for conservation programs. In other words, hunters are essentially the backbone for conservation programs. Without hunters there would be less conservation programs.
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5. When tallying up the various fees, licensing, and taxes, hunters raise $1.6 billion! 6. The best form of eating organic is hunting. Nosler said it best: “Eat Organic-Shoot Nosler” In a world that loves to go all natural and eat organic, hunting is the purest form of organic eating. Not to mention most of game is high in protein and provides great nutritional value. 7. In the past century, elk, whitetails, turkeys, and ducks have gone from thousands to millions thanks to the help of hunters and programs funded by hunters. That’s right. Without the efforts of hunters, many of the animals that are abundant today would have dwindling populations. The next time an anti-hunter says we are killing too many animals, share some of this information. 8. Hunters keep nuisance species in check and keep herd numbers healthy for various other animals. 9. Sport hunting in Zambia provides 143 tons of meat to rural villages with an estimated value of $600,000. A study done by two individuals found that sport hunting offers great benefits to the inhabitants of the land. Most times the rural natives are happy when a dangerous animal is harvested, because the village becomes safer. 10. At the end of the day, “I”ll never apologize for being a hunter.”
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Elk or Venison Stew
2# elk or venison, cut into 1� cubes 1/4 cup flour 2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper olive oil 2 cups wine 1 8 oz can tomato sauce 2 beef bouillon cubes 2 bay leaves 2 celery stalks, cut into 1� cubes 2 medium onions, quartered 2 cups baby carrots 5 potatoes, cut into cubes 1 cup green beans 1 cup sweet peas 2 Tbs flour 1/4 cup water Coat the meat with flour, salt and pepper. Brown the meat in a dutch oven, when browned, add wine, tomato sauce, bouillon cubes, celery, onions, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat, cover, and simmer for about
1-1/2 hours, or until the meat is tender. Remove the bay leaves and add the carrots, potatoes, green beans and sweet peas. Cook until vegetables are done. Mix flour with water, then add to the stew and cook until stew thickens, stirring frequently. Serves 4 - 6
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