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Day: June 6, 2017

Lakeside earns sixth Tree City USA honor

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Guest Blogger: Bill Smith, Lakeside Tree Advisory Team

Lakeside Chautauqua was recently recognized as a Tree City USA community at the Northwest Ohio Awards Ceremony hosted by Lakeside Chautauqua and its Tree Advisory Team. This is the sixth time the Chautauqua community has been honored with this nationally-recognized award.

The awards were presented to Tree City USA communities by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry.

Conservationist and environmental educator, Cheryl Harner, was the keynote speaker of the event. Harner’s presentation, Our Living Legacy: American Trees, explored the history of some of the country’s most significant trees.

The title of Tree City USA was bestowed upon Lakeside for its ongoing efforts to maintain and improve the quality of life through a comprehensive tree management program. The program is guided by the Tree Commission and the municipal government.

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“A Peace of My Mind” Part I

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Guest Blogger: John Noltner, will bring his multimedia exhibit “A Peace of My Mind” to Hoover Auditorium from June 17-24, 2017. He will also be speaking as part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series on June 20 (8:15 p.m.), June 21 (10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.) and June 22 (10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.)

Over the past several years, I have driven 40,000 miles across our country asking people to answer the simple question, “What does peace mean to you?” In a world that asks us to focus on divisions, I was looking for the common humanity that connects us.

I spoke recently at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, and I was reminded of Dr. King’s notion of Beloved Community. This notion that we could grow into a world that sees beyond prejudice and discrimination. A work where our circles of compassion could expand to encompass all people and we could begin to understand that our differences are not as big as we perceive them to be.

You don’t have to look very far to recognize that we have fallen short of that mark. Turn on the television or read the papers and you’ll recognize that in all sorts of ways, we have failed to live up to that ideal.

But, when the world seems more challenging than ever before. When the problems seem bigger than the solutions we can imagine, perhaps our attention is in the wrong place. Because there is good all around us, and sometimes we forget to see it.

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