Volunteers of Bow Wow Beach creating cookbook as fundraiser for proposed project.
To further improve water quality in the lake at the heart of Bow Wow Beach, a group of volunteers is raising funds to install fountains at the facility in Silver Springs Park. The naturally existing lake, fed by Silver Spring, had been open to local swimmers prior to the construction of the dog park. Its use is now restricted to only canines. Officials from the Stow Parks and Recreation department and the Volunteers of Bow Wow Beach independently came to the same conclusion that adding fountains to the 3-acre lake would increase circulation and cut down on impurities that can develop, including the green-algae blooms that grow in warm weather. “Basically, a stagnation or non-movement of the water allows the algae blooms to flourish, which …
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The school is also accepting donations.
Students, parents, grandparents, aunts, teachers, custodians, the cafeteria manager, librarian, nurse and the principal at Fishcreek Elementary shared their recipes in a cookbook the PTA is selling to get blacktop at the school. The cookbook has 275 recipes and is divided into these categories: appetizers; soups and salads; side dishes; main dishes; desserts; eggs and breakfast and beverages. So far, the PTA has sold 200 books and has about 300 more to sell, said Kristin Livingston from the Fishcreek PTA. The cookbook costs $12. The blacktop is estimated to cost about $9,000 and is necessary because "In the wet months, students tend to drag a lot of mud into the school because of the lack of pavement out back, which creates constantly …
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Fishcreek Elementary School
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