The fire alarm is sounding…now what?

Fire alarm testing and procedure drills fall into the category of things that are super inconvenient and irritating – that is until the day comes that it is not a drill. Then we appreciate the fine-tuned, functioning and loud alarm for alerting us to an emergency.

This week the fire alarms went off and it was not a drill – yikes! The issue turned out to be minor and easily resolved; however, this incident prompted the question of what happens if there is a real fire?

Young, Up and Coming Artists featured at Verna Belle’s Café

Submitted by Jayme Minton

Every artist has to start somewhere. We are hoping that some artists may get their start at Meadowlark Hills.

Starting in March, Verna Belle’s Café will feature art from students throughout USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden School District. The art will rotate monthly and we have invited the artists and their families to visit Meadowlark Hills to see their featured pieces.  

Both humans and wild things learn early on that the wind is much more than the innocent sounding dictionary definition of the horizontal movement of atmospheric gases, in natural rhythms, across the surface of our Earth.

The eight species of aquatic turtles that may be found in our region present a more complicated variety of overwintering strategies than do box turtles.

Most of them are active from mid-March (some earlier) through mid-November (some later). And most overwinter by digging into mud below water in a lake, pond, or stream, with the common snapping turtle going as much as 18 inches deep. The yellow mud turtle and slider turtle (“red ears”) may burrow into a muddy bank above water. The false map and Ouachita map turtles may choose a muskrat den.