Daily Connector | Summertime | Jerry Nussbaum
I’m grateful for summertime. I look forward to an annual visit to the shores of Lake Superior for time to sit and watch the setting sun across the water. Attached I am sharing a picture of the lovely pebbled shore as the sun sets on the horizon. These shores have been a great experience for more than 20 years.
Daily Conector | What am I grateful for today? Learning | Dan Halterman
We have more family history records on my Mom’s side than my Dad’s. The internet has helped minimize the difference. Dad was born in southeast Ohio, the last of four children of an older couple from West Virginia. Most of his extended family (and his dad was one of the younger children in a larger family) lived in the Mountain State. So when the internet presented records of a Confederate Army soldier in our line, I was startled and a bit offended momentarily. Until I re-realized that “West Virginia” didn’t exist before the Civil War. Prior to the split, it was all Virginia, all the way to East Liverpool, Ohio. That’s farther north than Marion! My heritage was Virginian, and that passive actor in so much of history, the “accident of geography,” placed some of my people in the new state and left others in the “Old Dominion.” Who knows
Daily Connector | Staying Busy | Jacob Reiser
Hi Everyone! I have been off work from my job in the cafeteria at The Wellington School in Upper Arlington since mid-March, but I have been keeping busy. I have been biking or walking outside every day and also exercising 5 days each week using either the stationary bike or treadmill. I bake a lot with mom and I help dad with yard work. He even showed me how to use the leaf shredder in the spring. I like to visit the creek in our backyard every day to see if there is anything new in there. One day, I found a black snake on the rock in the creek. In late spring and early summer, the day program that I usually attend when I am not working, was offering the programming virtually, so I was able to log on a couple days a week for 11 weeks. They only
Just-Peace Camp, Season 1 Recap
Here’s what you missed on JPC… Not being together in the building means that if you don’t have children participating in Just-Peace Camp, you might not even realize it is happening. Rather than doing multiple days in a row, we decided to spread the program out over three weeks, releasing materials to parents on Thursdays for them to use whenever was convenient for their family. One of the things that got released every week was a video that introduced that week’s theme and included a short interview with someone connected to CMC who has an interesting perspective on that week’s topic. Making the switch to a virtual program involved a lot of learning as we went, and one thing I learned is that even though we tried to make these interviews kid-friendly, they still tended to skew a little older than many of the participants. Because of this, I
Daily Connector | Quilting for MCC | Judy Hartzler
On Wednesday, July 29, Marlene Suter and I took the rest of the 224 comforters Piecemakers made during the 2019-2020 year to MCC Connections in Kidron. (We had not been able to fit all of them into two vehicles when we drove up seven weeks ago.) We also took the quilt that Marlene Suter, Joanna Suter, Joyce Wyse, and I pieced last fall at Lakeside. It was hand quilted this winter and spring by Sarah Basinger, a cousin of Marlene’s from Bluffton. It will be entered into the Ohio Mennonite Relief Sale quilt auction this year. Mennonite Central Committee depends on over 35 annual relief sales throughout the United States and Canada to support many of its peace and development programs and material aid distribution. The relief sales raise millions of dollars each year ($4,457,000 in 2019) through food and other sales booths, the
