Megalos wrote:
I picked up a portable belt sander at a tag sale yesterday for a steal. I like the thrill of the bargain hunt.
I still haven't found a solution to my trailer situation though...it's killing me.
Good deal on the belt sander
Heres an interesting article for you since you've been on the island
maybe you saw it
By Charlie Boss
The Columbus Dispatch Saturday November 3, 2012 5:45 AM
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PHOTO COURTESY OF PRINCESS ELIZABETH SCHOOL
Sixth-graders from Hilliard Station launched this boat into Lake Erie in 1995 as part of a summer project. It floated ashore last week near Windsor, Ontario.
When the students at Hilliard Station Sixth-Grade School tossed the small hand-carved boats into Lake Erie in 1995, they hoped people who found them would heed the messages written across their decks:
“Please put me back in the water. Please tell me where I was found.”
Last week, one of them found its way to a school in Windsor, Ontario, in Canada — 17 years after its launch.
“It opened up a teachable moment,” said Vinka Gervais, a third-grade teacher at Princess Elizabeth School whose husband found the boat at Point Pelee National Park. “I was teaching mapping skills, and I talk about Windsor being so close to Lake Erie and across from the U.S., and then this boat comes along.”
Point Pelee is more than 20 miles northeast of Gibraltar Island just off Put-in-Bay, where Hilliard students had launched about eight boats as part of a summer program. Gervais’ husband found boat No. 7.
Hilliard sixth-graders still travel to the island to study Lake Erie each year, but 1995 was the only summer that students launched boats.
None of the teachers who were involved in the program then remains at the school, and no one, including Hilliard Station Principal Kevin Buchman, remembered the boats.Then, last week, Buchman received an email from a Toronto man who said he had found boat No. 7 among his late brother-in-law’s things. He said his niece would re-launch the boat at Point Pelee.The same day, Buchman received the email from Gervais about finding that boat.
“When I opened the email (from Gervais), I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ ” he said. “I was so excited.”
Buchman found the teacher who created the program, Lynda Floehr, who is retired and now lives in Tennessee.
“This is all so incredible,” she said in an e-mail. “Wish I knew all of the adventures that this little boat had on his journey.”
Floehr started the program for Hilliard students at Ohio State University’s Stone Lab on Lake Erie in 1995. The idea of launching the boats came from the book Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling, in which a toy canoe floats from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Before Gervais wrote her email this year, the school had received just one letter, shortly after the 1995 trip, from someone who encountered one of the boats.
Gervais said markings on boat No. 7 show it had also been discovered near a ferry boat and off of Colchester, Ontario.
Her students wrote their names on the boat. And yesterday, they held a ceremony to send the boat off into the Detroit River.
Gervais said her third-graders are writing to students at Hilliard Station. Buchman said he’s planning to reintroduce students to Paddle to the Sea and to start the tradition of launching boats into Lake Erie again.
“This isn’t over yet,” Buchman said.
cboss@dispatch.com
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There's also beer in the garag fridge, etc. Plenty of parking, I live on a Culdesac, but if we run out of room, there's always my yard lol.
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