Pancakes and birds. How do they possibly go together?
They go together in no way I know of, except if you’re talking about the “Pancake Breakfast With the Birds,” which is coming Feb. 25 to the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Blvd. in Shaker Heights.
The Nature Center and the Rotary Club of Shaker Heights are once again partnering to present the annual event. Breakfast will be available from 8 a.m. to noon and features pancakes and gluten-free pancakes served plain, with blueberries or chocolate chips, and northeast Ohio maple syrup.
Breakfast will also include sausage, apple sauce, juice, coffee and tea.
Mmmm-mmm good.
I like this part of the event. A good breakfast is something worth getting up for.
Then it all goes to the birds. While you’re there, you can discover the habits and habitats of birds with a guided adult bird walk at 8 a.m., and guided family bird walks at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
The morning also offers a craft session beginning at 8:30 a.m., and a “Feathered Friends” presentation, featuring therapy birds from Frisky Ferrets, Fuzzies & Feathered Friends Rescue Sanctuary, at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Birds? Walking? Ferrets? I’ll stick with the pancakes and sausage.
As stated, I’ like the breakfast part, but the bird walk portion, I’m so-so about. I have no idea how to walk like a bird.
If, however, you’re into all that ornithological stuff, too, by all means stop in and enjoy what hopefully will be a beautiful morning.
The cost for the event is $9 for adults and $5 for children ages 4-10. Children 3 and younger get in free.
You can make a reservation by calling 216-321-5935, or by visiting shakerlakes.org.
Always remember, cover your pancakes when birds are flying above. Oh yeah, the breakfast part of the morning is held indoors.
Renowned thespians: Nine Cleveland Heights Beaumont School students have been selected to perform at this year’s Ohio Thespian Conference, to be held March 24-26 in Dublin, Ohio.
This is the eighth year since 2008 that the Beaumont girls have been invited to take part in the conference. The Beaumont actors will perform the one-act play “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned From Being a Zombie.”
“I am incredibly proud of our students, who put this show together in a really short rehearsal period and performed exceptionally well,” said Drama Director Kate Williams Bernardo.
Who makes up the troupe? Why, it’s made up of Emily Adams, Thandiwe Augustin-Glave, Courtney Foerg, Destiny Hunter, Lizzie Jerse, Jessi Kulbago, Elizabeth McDermott, Rachel Nowak and Rose Scalish.
Career in finance: The Chartered Financial Analyst University Recognition Program has announced that the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance at John Carroll University has been acknowledged as incorporating at least 70 percent of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge, placing an emphasis on the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice within the program.
If you can decipher what the preceding sentence was all about, then you might want to read on. That’s because you may be someone seeking to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, which has become the most respected and recognized investment credential in the world.
“John Carroll students who graduate with a finance degree from our Boler School are gaining a greater competitive edge in the job market thanks to our emphasis on mastery on the CFA candidate body of knowledge,” said Dr. Alan Miciak, dean of the Boler School of Business at JCU. “The academic training and analytical skills JCU students develop will position them for success in pursuing the CFA Charter, which is the gold standard for professional excellence in the financial services industry.”
Summing it all up: JCU is saying study finance there and you’ll earn some nice green.
The Gesu School tetrahedron.Gesu School
Tetrahedronmania: You might wonder what is a tetrahedron? In geometry, a tetrahedron has four triangular faces, six straights edges, and four vertex corners.
Yes, I had to look that up.
Over at Gesu School in University Heights, students banded together to make one huge tetrahedron from many small tetrahedra (that’s plural for tetrahedron, and, again, I had to look it up).
The project was begun when the school’s sixth graders read a story about urban Cleveland school children at the east side’s Alexander Hamilton School who, as part of their seventh grade math class in 2002, set out to break the Guinness Book of World Records standard for constructing the largest, multi-stage tetrahedron.
The Gesu sixth graders, under teacher Josie Jones, asked if they could try their hands at building a multi-stage tetrahedron. Mrs. Jones and Marjorie Gessner, director of the school’s STREAM Program, joined forces to help the students build their tetrahedron.
After a great deal of calculation and deliberation, it was determined that it would take several thousand tetrahedra to build the largest possible multi-stage design that would fit inside the school. Gessner said that experimenting with cost and materials led to the decision to make the tetrahedrons (also a plural form that is allowable), the decision was made to use white card stock.
As things turned out, the entire school joined in to decorate each of the small, two-inch, white tetrahedrons. In addition to the 710 students from Gesu’s preschool to eighth grade pitching in, so, too, did teachers, families and alumni.
The thousands of tetrahedrons were cut out and assembled, and then small tetrahedrons were assembled into increasingly larger ones. The result was a 14-foot wide, by 15-feet high tetrahedron that can be found in the school’s gifted/enrichment classroom. It was too large to fit in the cafeteria.
The Gesu students’ stage six tetrahedron was made up of 4,096 tetrahedrons. The one made at Alexander Hamilton School, a stage 7, had 16,384. As you can see, with each stage up, the number increases four times.
There’s nothing like a large, fun project to bring a community together.
And, in writing this, I’ve learned two things — the meaning of tetrahedron, and that I don’t want to type the lengthy word “tetrahedron” again.
At the library: The Lee Road branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library, 2345 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, will hold an “African-American Read-In” from 2-3 p.m. Feb. 19.
All are invited to celebrate the voices of African-American authors. Just bring a short selection from an African-American writer to share, or simply stop by and be a part of the audience. The event, recommended for teens and adults, is being co-sponsored by the Friends of Library.
Registration is recommended for those who plan to read. To do so, call 216-932-3600, or visit events.heightslibrary.org.
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