Calling All Local Gardeners/Earthquake News
The annual Gathering for Gardeners is scheduled for tomorrow in Hutchinson. Sponsored by the local Horticulture Club, the day will be filled with lectures by excellent and knowledgeable speakers on a variety of topics. It starts at 9:00 (with registration prior to that), and the final lecture begins at 3:30.
Topics:
Starting Plants from Seed
What's New in Roses
Moles, Gophers and Deer, Oh My!
Edible Landscaping
Starting a Garden from Scratch
New & Exciting Annuals for 2011
Growing Sunflowers
Location:
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
407 E. 12th
Hutchinson, KS
(West of the Cosmosphere on 12th St.)
Alan Stevens speaks twice--the state extension specialist on ornamentals, and James Taylor, local retired HCC horticulture professor also speaks twice. Other speakers are from nurseries and the extension service.
I recommend this event to anyone who is interested in gardening and can make it work.
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We just heard about the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, and have had several inquiries about Hiromi's family. We haven't known this long enough to try to get in contact with anyone in Japan. The quake epicenter was on Honshu island, which is the third island from the south, and by far the largest island in the chain of four islands that make up Japan. They run roughly in a north-south direction. Hiromi's family lives on Kyushu, the southernmost island. They live inland, so we believe they would not have been affected by a tsunami.
Sendai is a coastal city about 80 miles from where the underwater epicenter was. It's the city named in news releases as the hardest hit land area. Sendai is several hundred miles north and slightly east of Tokyo. Both cities are located on the eastern coast of the island. Tokyo experienced significant damage, and 4 million buildings there are without power. I can only imagine how the paralysis of the communication and transit systems has brought normal life to a screeching halt. Narita, the major international airport near Tokyo, is closed. Thirteen hundred miles of coastline were affected by the quake.
We have friends and relatives in Tokyo, and are concerned about their welfare. We're praying for them, as well as for all the people we don't know, who experienced terror and loss.
Other Pacific island areas are warned about coming tsunamis, and apparently Hawaii has already been affected.
This is the most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan since records have been kept. It's also one of the most powerful earthquakes to have been recorded anywhere, ever.
Topics:
Starting Plants from Seed
What's New in Roses
Moles, Gophers and Deer, Oh My!
Edible Landscaping
Starting a Garden from Scratch
New & Exciting Annuals for 2011
Growing Sunflowers
Location:
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
407 E. 12th
Hutchinson, KS
(West of the Cosmosphere on 12th St.)
Alan Stevens speaks twice--the state extension specialist on ornamentals, and James Taylor, local retired HCC horticulture professor also speaks twice. Other speakers are from nurseries and the extension service.
I recommend this event to anyone who is interested in gardening and can make it work.
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We just heard about the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, and have had several inquiries about Hiromi's family. We haven't known this long enough to try to get in contact with anyone in Japan. The quake epicenter was on Honshu island, which is the third island from the south, and by far the largest island in the chain of four islands that make up Japan. They run roughly in a north-south direction. Hiromi's family lives on Kyushu, the southernmost island. They live inland, so we believe they would not have been affected by a tsunami.
Sendai is a coastal city about 80 miles from where the underwater epicenter was. It's the city named in news releases as the hardest hit land area. Sendai is several hundred miles north and slightly east of Tokyo. Both cities are located on the eastern coast of the island. Tokyo experienced significant damage, and 4 million buildings there are without power. I can only imagine how the paralysis of the communication and transit systems has brought normal life to a screeching halt. Narita, the major international airport near Tokyo, is closed. Thirteen hundred miles of coastline were affected by the quake.
We have friends and relatives in Tokyo, and are concerned about their welfare. We're praying for them, as well as for all the people we don't know, who experienced terror and loss.
Other Pacific island areas are warned about coming tsunamis, and apparently Hawaii has already been affected.
This is the most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan since records have been kept. It's also one of the most powerful earthquakes to have been recorded anywhere, ever.
posted by Mrs. I at
6:16 AM
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