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Volume 140, Number 37

Prairie Maze at McCloud

It happens only once every 17 years, so McCloud Nature Park in honors the cicada this year with the McCloud Prairie Maze! These periodical insects spend most of their lives a foot or two underground eating sap from tree roots. Then, in the spring of their 17th year, mature nymphs emerge from the ground by the billions over select parts of the eastern United States, shed their exoskeleton, and inflate their wings for their brief stage as an adult. The adult male cicadas fill the air with calls for a mate, using tymbals on each side of their abdomens to create the high-pitched sound. Their songs are answered by the adult females with a clicking of their wings. The result is a loud symphony that lasts about three to four weeks. Four to six weeks after emerging from the ground, the insects die. Cicadas look like some sort of alien, but they don’t bite or sting or carry disease. They are actually good for the environment! Cicadas aerate the ground when they emerge, they are a plentiful food source for a wide variety of birds and animals, and their carcasses enrich the soil with nutrients as they decompose. Celebrate the 2021 cicadas with a trip through the cicada-themed prairie maze. Be sure to dress for the weather, wear comfortable closed-toe shoes, and bring some water. Bring the nymphs, too, as this maze is appropriate for all ages! Admission to McCloud Nature Park and the prairie maze is absolutely FREE, and both are open from dawn to dusk daily. To access the prairie maze, park in the Nature Center parking lot. Maps to the maze are available in the kiosk outside of the Nature Center, as well as in the kiosk at the entrance to the maze. McCloud Nature Park is located at 8518 Hughes Road, North Salem. Make sure to explore the McCloud Prairie Maze by October 31 because after that, we won’t see a Brood X cicada again until 2038! ______________________________________________

Homemakers Offer Teacher Grants

Hendricks County Homemakers offer a $100 grant to qualified teacher applicants in Hendricks County. All applicants must be submitted by the 15th of each month and will be awarded at the discretion of the grant committee. To download an application, go to https://extension. purdue.edu/hendricks/article/2332 Applications can be mailed to: HCEH Grant Commitee, PO Box 7, Danville, IN 46122. Applications can also be submitted electronically to pitts15@purdue.edu.

Thursday, September 16, 2021

3 Local Arts Programs Receive Grants

Three local arts organizations were among 378 nonprofits to receive American Rescue Plan Act funds through the Indiana Arts Commission. Receiving grants of $3,000 each were Hendricks Symphonic Society; Hendricks Civic Theater; and The Children’s Ballet. The Arts Recovery Program panelists assessed each applicant’s ability to advance the arts, provide relevant activities and access to the arts and to operate through June 2022. The grants support items such as salary, facilities, health and safety supplies for staff and/or audiences, and Marketing an promotion costs. The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) is an agency of State Government funded by the Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. __________

Cooking With Instant Pot

Hendricks Co. Extension Homemaker, Lynn Lillard, will demonstrate cooking with an Instant Pot at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 21, at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds and on Facebook live. She will share the benefits of using an Instant Pot, safe practices to follow, and provide recipes to get you started and keep you going. Lynn Lillard also won the Grand Prize at the County Fair’s 2021 Home & Family Arts Chocolate Contest sponsored by Homemakers and the Hendricks Power Cooperative. Homemakers are offering the Chocolate Contest Recipe Book for $2. It is available in the Extension Office at the Fairgrounds and at the Instant Pot demonstration on September 21. The Fairgrounds is located at 1900 E Main Street, Danville, Indiana.

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Scarecrows!

On Saturday, October 2, the court house yard in Danville will turn into a world of clever, funny and sometimes scary creations as the Downtown Danville Partnership hosts Scarecrows on the Square during the month of October. Individuals, families, businesses or organizations are invited to participate for only $10 per entry. Displays may include more than one scarecrow, with straw bales, corn stalks, and other items that add to your scarecrow theme. Creativity is encouraged! Scarecrows/displays must be delivered and installed on the courthouse square on Saturday, October 2, between 9 a.m. and noon. Check-in will be near the fountain. Scarecrow location will be assigned. Judges will select 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place on Saturday, October 2. Winners will be announced at Scares on the Square Friday, October 29. Displays must be able Two trendy witches posed on a bench as they watched to withstand inclement the visitors to last year’s Scarecrow Festival on Danville’s weather conditions. You Court House Square. The display returns in 2021 for the may be contacted to repair your display. month of October. ______________________________________________ No political/controversial displays. Displays may be dismantled any time on Saturth day, October 30. Now is the best time to The Hendricks County Details about Scares on plant new and replacement Historical Museum is host- the Square on October 29 trees. For peak post-plant- ing its 4th annual Road Ral- will be announced soon. ing performance, contain- ly on Saturday, October 12. For more information or er-grown trees are the best Participants will nav- to download an entry form option. igate through beautiful visit https://discoverdown Well-developed root countryside, answer ques- towndanville.org/product/ structures and minimal tions, see magnificent old scarecrow-festival/ planting shock, combined homes and go places they __________ with locally grown native have never been before! species, are key factors. Plan to meet in the Mu Those best-choice trees seum’s parking lot, 170 S. are available from the an- Washington Street, south of nual Soil & Water Conser- the Danville Courthouse, at vation District fall tree sale. 8:30 a.m.; at 9 a.m., the first The following local students were named as Orders are accepted car heads out! through Sept. 23; all trees Bring the $10 registra- Semifinalists in the 2022 and understory shrubs are tion fee, clipboard and pen, National Merit Scholarship $25 each. Choose from 24 compass and a sense of ad- Program. These academispecies grown in three-gal- venture! Everyone should cally talented high school lon containers, ranging arrive back at the Museum seniors have an opportunity from American Plum to around 12:30. Plan to visit to continue in the competition for some 7,500 NationScarlet Oak, to Elderberry. the Museum and meet for A completed order form lunch afterwards. Prizes al Merit Scholarships worth and full payment are to will be award for 1st, 2nd nearly $30 million that will be offered next spring. be sent to the Hendricks and 3rd place finishers. County SWCD, 195 Mead- For more information, Avon: Nicholas J. Deow Dr., Ste. 2, Danville, IN visit www.hendrickscoun- twiler, (Homeschool) Brownsburg: Gaitonde 46122. Make checks pay- tymuseum.org. Anagh; Adam T. Jessee; able to Hendricks County __________ Cy Logan; Brayde Walters, SWCD. Joshua Litz (Homeschool). Proceeds help fund local district programs including Every great person is Danville: Abraham L. clean water and soil conser- always being helped by Means. everybody; for their gift is Plainfield: Madeline S. vation efforts. Call the district office to get good out of all things Beebe; William W. Rulon; and all persons. Cooper W. Springs; Harriwith questions, (317) 745John Ruskin son D. Woodruff. 2555, ext. 3. A downloadable order form and species list is found at the district website, hendricksswcd.org/ annual-tree-sale. Hendricks County Inva____________ sives Management Cooperative welcomes all interested persons to a Saturday Birthday parties, new afternoon meeting, Septembabies, anniversaries, visits ber 18, from 2-3:30 p.m., at from long-lost cousins the Williams Park outdoor -- these are the items that classroom in Brownsburg. make up the kind of news The meeting is designed to inform and enlist new volyou only find in the pages unteer members in the countywide effort to combat wideof The Republican. spread invasive plant species. If you have a local Retired Indiana Department of Natural Resources botanews item you’d like to nist/plant ecologist Michael Homoya will describe the imcontribute, you can call pact of invasive exotic plants on native plant communities us at 317-745-2777, send and emphasize the importance of managing them. by fax to 317-647-4341, Widely published, Homoya is an adjunct faculty meme-mail to therepublican@ ber in the biology departments at IUPUI and Marian Unisbcglobal.net or drop by versity. the office at 6 East Main The event includes an invasive plant identification walk in Danville. Our deadline and demonstrations of invasive control techniques. for submitting news items The outdoor classroom is at 710 Alpha Ave. in Brownsis noon on Monday for burg. Thursday’s edition. ______________________________________________

Witch Way Did They Go?

SWCD Hosts Fall Tree Sale

Museum Hosts 4 Road Rally

National Merit Semifinalists

Invasives Management Group Workshop at Brownsburg

It’s News To Us

Indiana Lyons owner and CEO brought some back up to Fair on the Square last weekend to help promote Hendricks County’s own American Basketball League team. The girls are just part of the behind-the-scenes talent that helped the Lyons advance to the Final 8 in last year’s ABA Tournament. More about the upcoming season for the Lyons in this issue.


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