GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT For more information, contact the park district…
GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT For more information, contact the park district at 440-286-9516 or visit www.geauga parkdistrict.org. Lost Ladybug Search Researchers at Cornell University's Lost Ladybug…
GEAUGA PARK DISTRICT
For more information, contact the park district at 440-286-9516 or visit www.geauga
parkdistrict.org.
Lost Ladybug Search
Researchers at Cornell University’s Lost Ladybug Project need help in conducting a nationwide ladybug census. As part of the project, budding entomologists of all ages can join Geauga Park District to catch, photograph and identify ladybugs.
Lost Ladybug Search is Sept. 22 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Observatory Park, 10610 Clay Road in Montville Township.
In addition to the search for and identification of ladybugs, nets in hand, program participants will learn about ladybugs’ life cycles and the benefits and challenges that they face in the environment.
Registration is not required.
Those Railroad Days
Nicknamed “The Snake” for its winding path through the hills of Geauga County, the B&O Lake Branch Railroad may have been short on length, but it is long on lore. Additional locomotives were needed to pull loaded southbound trains up the sharp 600-foot rise in elevation over nine miles, from Painesville to Chardon, as well as the uphill run from Bundysburg to nearby Middlefield for northbound trains.
Recalling Railroad Days is Sept. 28, rain or shine, from 2-5 p.m. at The Maple Highlands Trail’s Mountain Run Station, Chardon Rotary Shelter, 12601 Chardon-Windsor Road in Hambden Township.
Join senior naturalist Dan Best to hear the storied history of the B&O Lake Branch Railroad, which preceded The Maple Highlands Trail, in a presentation under the shelter. Then, at 2:45 p.m., bicyclists are invited on an 11-mile ride to U.S. 322 and back, with pauses to visit former sites of railroad features.
Registration is not required.
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YMCA Basketball Leagues
The Geauga Family YMCA will be running its fall basketball league starting Oct. 28.
Leagues are offered for 4-year-olds up through high school age.
A new travel basketball league is starting. It is a more competitive league where each team will travel to different Cleveland YMCA branches to play games.
For more information, call Mike Dutton, program director, at 440-285-7543.
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