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Josh Bowman and Chris Morgan hosted the 90-minute show, with these guests: -Western Reserve girls basketball coach Stoney Jarrett -Monroeville Athletic Director Ben Paul -Perkins football coach Jalen Santoro -Local sportswriter Josh Morgret -Columbus Blue Jackets hockey announcer Bob McElligott -Mark Lane with The Sports Roundtable

South Central at Western Reserve - 10 11 2024

Western Reserve at Monroeville - 10 04 24

Western Reserve at Monroeville - 10 01 2024

St. Paul at Western Reserve - 09 27 2024

Margaretta at Western Reserve - 08 30 2024

Wellington at Western Reserve - 08 23 2024

Josh Bowman, Mark Lane and Randy Hord talked high school sports with: -Western Reserve head football coach Ty Stevenson -Monroeville head football coach Tylor Nester

E. Douglas Beach, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (WRAAA), has empirical leadership experience and expertise at the federal, state, and local levels. Having spent much of his childhood on family farms, it quite naturally followed Dr. Beach would pursue a doctorate in agricultural economics. Engaged in this pursuit at North Carolina State University, Dr. Beach found it necessary to return to Ohio to care for his ailing father. This circumstance led him to an awareness and interest in a different national resource: the senior population.Dr. Beach began a career advocating for elders while serving as the Ohio Department of Aging's Deputy Director of Programs, and after many years at the Department of Aging, Congressman David L. Hobson (R-OH) asked Dr. Beach to come on board as a staff economist. Utilizing his assured background in education and economics, Dr. Beach drafted major long-term care insurance legislation working for Congressman Hobson; it was then that Dr. Beach's desire to promote and defend the needs of seniors was revitalized.In September 1999, Dr. Beach was named the CEO of the Senior Resource Alliance, Florida's most prominent and industrious area agency on aging. Under his leadership, the Orlando-based organization's budget rose from $16 million to $25 million. Soon after, the Senior Resource Alliance became Florida's first Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) and was honored as one of the nation's top 10 Information & Referral systems.February 2007 brought a knock on the door from Governor Charlie Crist tapping Dr. Beach to be Secretary of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. Although rough economic times ensued, the Department's budget matched in equal measure to meet the needs of Florida's seniors with the preponderance of funding allocated for senior community and healthcare needs.One of the premier aging providers in the State of Florida, the Council on Aging of Volusia County (COA) welcomed Dr. Beach as its new Executive Director in June 2010. The COA provided traditional Older Americans Act (OAA) services but also emphasized private pay services and in-home Medicare services. In October 2014, Dr. Beach became Chief Executive Officer of WRAAA. With his blend of skills, business acumen, and respect for older adults and individuals with disabilities, Dr. Beach continues to provide comprehensive leadership and panoptic guidance to future opportunities and anticipated challenges. Over the past decade, Dr. Beach has transformed an agency on the edge into the largest minority-dominated Area Agency on Aging in the State of Ohio.

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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoBrian Heon, General Manager of Sunday River, MaineRecorded onJanuary 30, 2024About Sunday RiverClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Boyne ResortsLocated in: Newry, MaineYear founded: 1959Pass affiliations:* Ikon Pass: 7 days, no blackouts* Ikon Base Pass: 5 days, holiday blackouts* New England Pass: unlimited access on Gold tierReciprocal partners:* New England Pass holders get equal access to Sunday River, Sugarloaf, and Loon* New England Gold passholders get three days each at Boyne's other seven ski areas: Pleasant Mountain, Maine; Boyne Mountain and The Highlands, Michigan; Big Sky, Montana; Brighton, Utah; Summit at Snoqualmie, Washington; and Cypress, B.C.Closest neighboring ski areas: Mt. Abram (:17); Black Mountain of Maine (:34); Wildcat (:46); Titcomb (1:05); Attitash (1:05); Cranmore (1:11)Base elevation: 800 feetSummit elevation: 3,150 feet (at Oz Peak)Vertical drop: 2,350 feetSkiable Acres: 884 trail acres + 300 acres of gladesAverage annual snowfall: 167 inchesTrail count: 139 (16% expert, 18% advanced, 36% intermediate, 30% beginner)Lift count: 19 (1 eight-pack, 1 six-pack, 1 6/8-passenger chondola, 2 high-speed quads, 5 fixed-grip quads, 4 triples, 1 double, 1 T-bar, 3 carpets – Sunday River also built an additional triple chair on Merrill Hill, which is complete but not yet open; it is scheduled to open for the 2024-25 ski season – view Lift Blog's inventory of Sunday River's lift fleet.)View historic Sunday River trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed himWhat an interesting time this is in the North American ski industry. It's never been easier or cheaper for avid skiers to sample different mountains, across different regions, within the span of a single season. And, in spite of the sorry shape of the stoke-obsessed ski media, there has never been more raw information readily available about those ski areas, whether that's Lift Blog's exhaustive databases or OpenSnow's snowfall comparisons and histories.What that gives all of us is perspective and context. When I learned to ski in the ‘90s, pre-commercial internet, you could scarcely find a trailmap without visiting a resort's ticket window. Skimap.org now houses more than 10,000 historic trailmaps for North America alone. That means you can understand, without visiting, what a ski area was, how it's evolved, and how it compares to its neighbors.That makes Sunday River's story both easier and harder to tell. Easier because anyone can now see how this monster, seated up there beyond the Ski 93 and North Conway corridors, is worth the drive past all of that to get to this. The ski area is more than twice the size of anything in New Hampshire. But the magical internet can also show skiers just how much snowier it is in Vermont, how much emptier it is at Saddleback, and that my gosh actually it doesn't take so much longer to just fly to Utah.Sunday River, self-aware of its place in the ski ecosystem, has responded by building a better mountain. Boyne has, so far, under-promised and over-delivered on the resort's 2030 plan, which, when launched four years ago, didn't mention either of the two D-Line megalifts that now anchor both ends of the resort. The snowmaking is getting better, even as the mountain grows larger and more complex. The teased Western Reserve expansion would, given Sunday River's reliance on snowmaking, be truly audacious, transforming an already huge ski area into a gigantic one.Cynics will see echoes of ASC's largess, of the expansion frenzy of the 1990s that ended in the company's (though fortunately not the individual ski areas') extinction. But Boyne Resorts is not some upstart. The narrative of ski-consolidation-doesn't-work always overlooks this Michigan-based company, founded by a scrappy fellow named Everett Kircher in 1947 – nearly 80 years ago. Boyne officials assure me that their portfolio-wide infrastructure investment is both considered and sustainable. If you've been to Big Sky in the past couple of years, it's clear what the company is trying to achieve, even if they won't explicitly say it (and I've tried to get them to say it): Boyne Resorts is resetting the standard for the North American ski experience by building the most modern ski resorts on the continent. They're doing what I wish Vail, which continues to disappoint me in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, would do: ensuring that, wherever they operate, they are delivering the best possible version of skiing in that region. And while that's a tough draw in the Cottonwoods (with Brighton, stacked, as it is, against the Narnia known as Alta-Snowbird), they're doing it in Michigan, they're doing it in the Rockies (at Big Sky), and they're doing it in New England, where Loon and Sunday River, especially, are transforming at superspeed.What we talked aboutRain, rain, go away; deciding to close down a ski resort; “seven inches of rain and 40-degree temperatures will eat snowpack pretty quick”; how Sunday River patched the resort back in only four days; the story behind the giant igloo at the base of Jordan; is this proof of climate change or proof of ski industry resilience?; one big advantage of resort consolidation; the crazy New England work ethic; going deep on the new Barker 6 lift; why Sunday River changed plans after announcing that the old Jordan high-speed quad would replace Barker; automatic restraint bars; the second Merrill Hill triple and why it won't spin until the 2024-25 ski season; the best part about skiing Merrill Hill; how Jordan 8 has transformed Sunday River; why that lift is so wind-resistant; the mountain's evolving season-opening plan; the potential Western Reserve expansion; potential future lift upgrades; carpet-bombing; 2030 progress beyond the on-snow ski experience; whether the summer bike park could return; the impact of the Ikon Pass on skier visits; Mountain Collective; the New England Pass; and making sure local kids can ski.  Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewJordan 8. Barker 6. Merrill Hill. A December rainstorm fit to raise Noah's Ark. There is always something happening at Sunday River. Or, to frame it in the appropriate active voice: Sunday River is always doing things.New England, in its ASC/Intrawest late 1980s/1990s/early 2000s frenzy, built and built and built. Sugarbush installed five lifts, including the two-mile-long Slide Brook Express, in a single summer (1995). Killington built two gondolas and two high-speed quads in a three-year span from 1994 to '97. Stratton sprouted two six-packs and two fixed-grip quads in the summer of 2001. And Sunday River, the most earnest manifestation of Les Otten's ego and ambitions, multiplied across the wilderness, a new peak each year it seemed, until a backwater with a skiable footprint roughly equal to modern Black Mountain, New Hampshire had sprawled into a videogame ski kingdom at the chest-thumping pinnacle of Northeast skiing.And then not a lot happened for a really long time. ASC fell apart. Intrawest curdled. Most of the ski area infrastructure investment fled west. Stowe, then owned by AIG, kept building lifts, as did the Muellers (Okemo), and Peak Resorts (at least at Mount Snow and Crotched). One-offs would materialize as strange experiments, like the inexplicable six-pack at Ragged (2001) and the Mid-Burke Express at remote and little-known Burke Mountain (2011). But the region's on-mountain ski infrastructure, so advanced in the 1990s, began to tire out.Then, since 2018 or so, rapid change, propelled by numerous catalysts: the arrival of western megapasses, a Covid adrenaline boost, and, most crucially, two big companies willing to build big-time lifts at big-time ski areas. Vail, since kicking New England's doors open in 2017, has built a half-dozen major lifts, including three six-packs, across four ski areas. And Boyne Resorts, flexing a blueprint they first deployed at western crown jewel Big Sky, has built three D-line bubble lifts, installed two refurbished high-speed quads (with another on the way this summer), unveiled two expansions, and teased at least two more across its four New England ski areas. It doesn't hurt that, despite a tighter regulatory culture in general, there is little Forest Service bureaucracy to fuss with in the East, meaning that (Vermont's Act 250 notwithstanding), it's often easier to replace infrastructure.Which takes us back to Sunday River. Big and bustling, secure in its Ikon Pass membership, “SR,” as the Boyne folks call it, didn't really have to do anything to keep being busy and important. The old lifts would have kept on turning, even if rickety old Barker set the message boards on fire once every two to three weeks. Instead, the place is, through platinum-plated lifts and immense snowmaking upgrades, rapidly evolving into one of the country's most sophisticated ski areas. If that sounds like hyperbole, try riding one of Boyne's D-line bubble lifts. Quick and quiet, smooth as a shooting star, appointed like a high-end cigar lounge, these lifts inspire a sort of giddiness, an awe in the up-the-mountain ride that will reprogram the way you think about your ski day (even if you're too cynical to admit it).But it's not just what Sunday River is building that defines the place – it is also how the girth of the operation, backed by a New England hardiness, has fortified it against the almost constant weather events that make Northeast ski area operation such a suicidal juggling act. The December rainstorm that tore the place into pieces ended up shutting down the mountain for all of four days. Then they were like, “What?” And the lifts were spinning again.What I got wrongOn the old Jordan quadHeon mentioned that the future of the old Jordan high-speed quad was “to be determined.” We recorded this in January, before Pleasant Mountain announced that they would use the bones of Jordan as their new summit lift, replacing a fixed-grip triple chair that was starting to get moldy.On relative sizeI said that Merrill Hill was Sunday River's smallest peak by vertical drop. But the new Merrill Hill lift rises 750 vertical feet, while Little Whitecap sports a 602-foot vertical drop.On the New England PassThe prices I gave for New England Gold Passes ($1,350 early-bird, $1,619 final price), were for the 2023-24 ski season. Since then, 2024-25 passes debuted at $1,389 early-bird ($1,329 renewal), and currently sell for $1,439 ($1,389 renewal).I also said that the New England Pass didn't include Pleasant Mountain access. What I meant was that the pass only provides unlimited access to Sunday River, Sugarloaf, and Loon. But the full pass does in fact include three days at Pleasant Mountain, along with each of Boyne's other six ski areas (Boyne Mountain, The Highlands, Big Sky, Brighton, Summit at Snoqualmie, and Cypress). Skiers can also add on a Pleasant Mountain night pass for $99 for the 2024-25 ski season.We also refer to the Platinum New England Pass, which the company discontinued this year in favor of a kind-of build-your-own-pass structure – skiers can add an Ikon Base Pass onto the Gold Pass for $299 and the Pleasant Mountain night pass for $99.Why you should ski Sunday RiverThe most interesting ski areas, to me, present themselves as an adventure. Wild romps up and over, each new lift opening a new set of trails, which tease yet another chairlift poking over the horizon. Little unexpected pockets carved out from the whole, places to disappear into, not like one ski area but like several, parallel but distinct, the journey seamless but slightly confusing.This is the best way I can describe Sunday River. The trailmap doesn't really capture the scale and complexity of it. It's a good map, accurate enough, but it flattens the perspective and erases the drama, makes the mountain look easy. But almost the first thing that will happen at Sunday River is that you will get lost. The seven side-by-side peaks, so distinct on the map, blend into one another on the ground. Endless forests bisect your path. You can start on Locke and end, almost inexplicably, at the tucked-out-of-sight North Ridge quad. Or take off from the Barker summit and land at the junction of Aurora and the Jordan double, two lifts seemingly planted in raw wilderness that will transport you to two very different worlds. Or you can exit Jordan 8 and find yourself, several miles later, past a condo city and over a sequence of bridges, at the White Cap lodge, wondering where you are and how you got there.It's bizarre and brilliant, like a fully immersive game of Mouse Trap, a wild machine to lose yourself in. While it's smaller and shorter than Sugarloaf, its massive sister resort to the north, Sunday River, with its girth and its multiple base areas, can feel bigger, especially when the whole joint's open. That also means that, if you're not careful, you can spend all day traversing from one lift to the next, going across, rather than down, the fall lines. But ski with purpose and focus – and a map in your pocket – and Sunday River can deliver you one hell of a ski day.Podcast NotesOn Sunday River 2030Boyne is intentionally a little cagey on its 2030 plans, versions of which are in place for Loon, Sugarloaf, Summit at Snoqualmie, Boyne Mountain, The Highlands, and Sunday River. The exact content and commitments of the plans changes quite a bit, so I won't try to outline them here. Elsewhere in the portfolio, Big Sky has a nearly-wrapped 2025 plan. Brighton, entirely on Forest Service land, has a masterplan (which I can't find), but no 2030 commitment. Pleasant Mountain is still relatively new to the company. Cypress is in Canada, so who knows what's going on up there. I'll talk about that with the mountain's GM, Matt Davies, in June.On the December stormHeon and I discuss the December rainstorm that brought up to seven inches of rain to Sunday River and nearby Bethel. That's, like, an incredible amount of water:Heon spoke to local reporters shortly after the resort re-opened.On the AlpinigluSomehow, this party igloo that Sunday River flew a team of Euro-sculptors in to create survived the insane flooding.On Hurricane Irene and self-sufficiency in VermontNew England has a way of shrugging off catastrophic storm damage that is perhaps unequaled on planet Earth. From The New York Times, just a few months after Hurricane Irene blasted the state in 2011:Yet what is truly impressive about the work here is not the amount of damage, or even the size of the big boy toys involved in the repair. Instead, it is that 107 is the last stretch of state road that Vermont has not finished repairing. In the three months since Hurricane Irene, the state repaired and reopened some 500 miles of damaged road, replaced a dozen bridges with temporary structures and repaired about 200 altogether.Vermont's success in repairing roads while keeping the state open for tourism is a story of bold action and high-tech innovation. The state closed many damaged highways to speed repairs and it teamed with Google to create frequently updated maps_ showing which routes were open. Vermont also worked in cooperation with other states, legions of contractors and local citizens.While many Americans have come to wonder whether the nation has lost the ability to fix its ailing infrastructure or do big things, “they haven't been to Vermont,” said Megan Smith, the state's commissioner of tourism and marketing.State roads, which are the routes used most by tourists, are ready for the economically crucial winter skiing season. But Vermont had many of those roads open in time for many of the fall foliage visitors, who pump $332 million into the state's economy each year, largely through small businesses like bed and breakfasts, gift shops and syrup stands. Within a month of the storm, 84 of the 118 closed sections of state roads were reopened, and 28 of the 34 state highway bridges that had been closed were reopened. …How did they get so much done so quickly? Within days after the storm hit on Aug. 28, the state had moved to emergency footing, drawing together agencies to coordinate the construction plans and permits instead of letting communications falter. National Guard units from eight states showed up, along with road crews from the Departments of Transportation from Maine and New Hampshire, and armies of private contractors. The attitude, said Sue Minter, Vermont's deputy secretary of transportation, was, “We'll do the work and we'll figure out how we're paying for it, but we're not waiting.”On Barker 6When Sunday River announced that they would build the Jordan 8 chair in 2021, they planned to move the existing Jordan high-speed quad over to replace the POS Barker detach, a Yan relic from the late ‘80s. Eventually, they changed their minds and pivoted to a sixer for Barker. The old Jordan lift will now replace the summit triple at Pleasant Mountain next year.On Kircher and redistributionWhen Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher joined me on the podcast in November 2022, he explained the logic behind replacing the Jordan quad with an eight-pack, even though that wasn't a traditionally super busy part of the resort (14:06):On the expansions at Loon and SugarloafSunday River sister resorts Loon and Sugarloaf both opened expansions this ski season. Loon's was a small beginner-focused pod, a 500-vertical-foot add-on served by a carpet-loaded fixed quad that mainly served to unite the resort with a set of massive parking lots on the mountain's west end:Sugarloaf's West Mountain expansion was enormous – the largest in New England in decades. Pretty impressive for what was already the second-largest ski area in the East:On the Mountain Collective in the NortheastHere's the Mountain Collective's current roster:Sunday River would make a lot of sense in there. While the coalition is mostly centered on the West, Stowe and Sugarbush are past members. Each mountain's parent company (Vail and Alterra, respectively), eventually yanked them off the coalition, leaving Sugarloaf as the sole New England mountain (Bromont and La Massif de Charlevoix have since joined as eastern complements). I ask Heon on the podcast whether Sunday River has considered joining the collective.On the Community Access PassWe discuss Sunday River's Community Access Pass, which is:“a season pass scholarship for students that reside and attend school in the MSAD 17, SAD 44, and RSU 10 School Districts. Students grades Pre-K through 12 are eligible to apply. This pass will offer free daily access to the Sunday River slopes, and also comes with a complimentary membership to the Sunday River Ski and Snowboard Club. Students must meet certain economic qualifiers to apply; further details about the criteria are available on the pass application. Students have until November 15 to apply for the program.”Apply here.On Brian's last appearance on the podcastHeon last appeared on the podcast in January 2021:Current Sunday River President Dana Bullen has also been on the pod, way back on episode 13:On Merrill Hill and the new lift locationHere's an approximate location of the new Merrill Hill lift, which is built but not yet operational, and not yet on Sunday River's trailmap:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 21/100 in 2024, and number 521 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Part of our caregiving series, Shana sits down with Heidi Barham from Hospice of the Western Reserve as they discuss caregiving and what it means. They discuss what hospice care truly means and when to consider hospice care. Join in on conversations on how those who are caregivers need to take care of themselves, how hospice can be affordable, and common misconceptions about hospice care. For more information visit Hospice of the Western Reserve's website: ⁠https://hospicewr.org/⁠  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackgirlirl/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackgirlirl/support

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Are you ready for some Mahoning Valley football action? We're unpacking all the dynamite from Week 9, leading with Ursuline's stunning victory over Chaney, which has set the stage for an electrifying Week 10. We're peeling back the layers on what strategies these ironclad teams are employing to keep their winning streaks alive, and what it means for their upcoming showdowns. We're not stopping there, though. We've got your inside scoop on how teams like Ursuline and Struthers have been holding up. Whether it's Struthers' 21-0 shutdown against Niles or Springfield's applause-worthy win over McDonald, we're dissecting it all. Don't miss our deep dive into West Branch's postseason potential and why Western Reserve might just be the most underrated team in the area. And could Luke Henning be the most improved player around? Stick around to find out.But wait, there's more! We're spotlighting some of the most thrilling high school football games, including the upcoming clash between Warren Harding and Fitch. Listen in to hear about Harding's rising offensive prowess, Fitch's wavering performances and the face-off with Dan Evans that we're all waiting for. Plus, we'll be discussing standout MVAC games, Liberty Leopards' playoff prospects, and the Springfield-Lowellville title game. To top it all off, we're predicting the outcome of the much-anticipated rivalry match-up between Mooney and Ursuline. So, grab your helmets and get ready for an episode that's as exciting as a fourth quarter comeback!

Wondering how the whole Mahoning Valley football scene unfolded last week? We've got all the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between for your football fix. From the edge-of-your-seat clash between Poland and Gerard to the nail-biting faceoff between Mineral Ridge and Springfield, we've got you covered. Expect to hear all about the game-changing strategies and star players that stole the show and the heart-stopping final moments that led to Poland's ultimate triumph.During this episode, we delve into South Range's journey toward becoming the team to beat in the Northeast-8. Hear about Springfield's formidable defense and their potential to make an impact in Division VII. We navigate through these discussions and also look into Liberty's convincing win over LaBrae and the exciting prospects of the upcoming match between Cheney and Ursuline.Closing off, we take a moment to anticipate the highly-awaited game between Mineral Ridge and Western Reserve along with the matchup between Niles and Struthers. We finish off the episode by celebrating Youngstown State's remarkable win over Southern Illinois. Whether you're a gridiron devotee or simply enjoy the thrill of the game, this episode promises an engrossing blend of detailed breakdowns, intriguing analyses, and passionate football chatter. Get ready for some serious football talk!

Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/493 Presented By: Smitty's Fly Box, Togens Fly Shop, Angler's Coffee, Mavrk Fly Fishing Alex Czayka is here with us today to give us a glimpse into Western Reserve Land Conservancy. We find out how Alex's journey into fly fishing and his passion for the outdoors led him to a career in conservation. Tune in to learn about conservation challenges, significant projects, and the vibrant hunting and fishing culture in Ohio. Show Notes with Alex Czayka 02:30 - Alex's venture into fly fishing took root during his late teens in Northeast Ohio, where his background in hunting and fishing farm ponds evolved into a passion for fly fishing, thanks to the influence of his brother. 04:00 - Alex's journey into conservation started with a biology degree at Kent State for his undergraduate studies, followed by obtaining a Master of Science in Wetland Ecology from SUNY Brockport. His love for the outdoors and desire to turn his passion into a career led him to roles at Nature Conservancy and Western Reserve Land Conservancy. 06:23 - We hear the distinctions between Alex's experiences at Nature Conservancy and Western Reserve Land Conservancy. 08:29 - We hear the story of the Cuyahoga River, famously known for catching fire, which tarnished Cleveland's reputation and led to the implementation of significant environmental regulations. 10:27 - Alex discusses the major challenges in natural resource conservation that we are currently facing. Additionally, he also provides insights into the work that they do. 21:00 - Alex tells us about some of the projects they have been involved in. He highlights a recent partnership with Lake Metroparks, focusing on acquiring and protecting property at risk of being heavily forested. 26:37 - Alex discusses their conservation efforts targeting specific species, such as the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake. 32:18 - The Western Reserve Land Conservancy, with over 50 employees, stands as one of the largest land trusts in the United States. 43:30 - According to Alex, Ohio boasts a robust hunting and fishing culture, with Lake Erie notably yielding an impressive stock of walleye. 44:40 - The significance of steelhead was also highlighted in our recent episode with Dan Pribanic of Chagrin River Outfitters, who mentioned their importance for local businesses like his shop. 51:12 - Alex is a big fan of the MeatEater Podcast. Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/493

James Garfield was the last president born in a log cabin, and was raised by a poor widow on Ohio's rugged Western Reserve. By his late twenties, he had become a respected preacher, state senator, and college president, and, after the Civil War broke out, joined the Union Army to help eradicate the “monstrous injustice of human slavery.” Soon Garfield was the youngest general fighting for the Union, and before war's end was its youngest Congressman—as well as one of its most progressive. He helped establish equal citizenship and voting rights for Black Americans, and became one of the most powerful leaders of the postwar Republican Party. By 1880, Garfield was not only Minority Leader of the House, but also a practicing Supreme Court attorney, the founder of the Department of Education, the creator of a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, a Senator-elect, and (unwillingly) the Republican nominee for President. A more compelling “American Dream” story among Presidents does not exist.Garfield's personal achievements are even more notable given the turmoil surrounding his ascent to power. He was the only major American politician who held national office for all of Reconstruction and the start of the Gilded Age. A crucial pragmatist of a divided era, he even brokered the peaceful but controversial settlement of the country's first disputed Presidential election in 1876. “To be an extreme man is doubtless comfortable,” Garfield once remarked before his assassination. “It is painful to see so many sides to a subject.” The parallels between his time and our own are easy to spot. To explore forgotten aspects of Garfield's life is today's guest, C.W. Goodyear, author of “President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier.”This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3101278/advertisement

We took a week 10 state road trip and visited 6 prep schools along the way. (Kiski, Andrews Osborne, Western Reserve, La Lumiere, Link Year, and Sunrise Christian.) We share some quick thoughts about each school. Then we talk about the following topics: -Should families promote their child and/or hire a college placement consultant even if you are already going to a prep school? -Coming soon: What do different offers mean? -Analytics podcast w/ Jamion Christian. I highly recommend this one for learning more about the future of hacking the game of basketball:  -What is your WHY? Really dig in and ask. I share my experience. -1st team vs 2nd team debate continues.Connect with Cory: Website | https://www.prepathletics.com Twitter | https://twitter.com/PREP_Athletics Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/prep.athletics/Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/PrepAthletics Email | coryheitz@gmail.com Phone | 859-317-1166 Subscribe to the PREP Athletics Podcast: iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prep-athletics-podcast/id1546265809?uo=4 Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/6CAKbXFiIOhoHinzsReYbJ Amazon | https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/3c37179d-3371-47f9-9d97-fd569e8802a7/prep-athletics-basketball-podcast #AmazonMusic Google Podcasts | https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80M2YwZTZkMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw About Me Cory Heitz is the Founder and President of PREP Athletics. He has been helpi...

Join Rob as he returns to recording with a Memorial Day episode dedicated to his father, Robert J. Kaiser, Jr - may his memory be eternal.  ~Connect on Social Media!  YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@allaroundgrowth  Telegram Group Chat: https://t.me/allaroundgrowth  Facebook Community:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/allaroundgrowth  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/allaroundgrowth  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/allaroundgrowth  ~#MemorialDay #RememberingHeroes #HonorOurFallen #NeverForget #MemorialDayWeekend #GratefulNation #SaluteToService #MemorialDay2023 #LandOfTheFree #HomeOfTheBrave #SupportOurTroops #ProudAmerican #InRemembrance #UnitedWeStand #FreedomIsNotFree #MemorialDayParade #MilitaryHeroes #Gratitude #LestWeForget #HonoringOurVeterans #RememberingTheFallen #ThankYouForYourService #FlagsAndFreedom #HeroesAmongUs #MemorialDaySale #RedWhiteAndBlue #Patriotic #AmericanHeroes #MemorialDayBBQ #MemorialDayVibes~Cover Photo Credit: Our Loving Farmers' Market Community~Discussion Links:Robert Kaiser Obituary - https://www.waitefuneralhome.com/obituary/robert-kaiserHospice of the Western Reserve - https://www.hospicewr.org/ Donate to Hospice of the Western Reserve - https://p2p.onecause.com/hwr/donateEp. 437 - Happy Anniversary to the Founders! - https://www.buzzsprout.com/650959/episodes/11449280Ep. 460 - Cody Grey on Living and Providing - https://www.buzzsprout.com/650959/episodes/11645725In Loving Memory: Remembering the Kraut Guy from York Meadow Farm - https://www.yorkmeadowfarm.com/blog/2023/5/21/may-his-memory-be-eternalYork Meadow Farm: Lacto-Fermented Foods Rich in probiotics, our fermented foods are also paleo and keto friendly. Eat a proper human diet. YMF: Artisanal Bath & Body Products

In 1946, 153 "Moses Cleaveland Trees" were chosen as landmark trees to represent the City of Cleveland's 150-yr anniversary. Not only did they harken back to the pre-settlement forest - they were in fact part of it. The existence of each one became hazy over time, until a group organized by the City and the Early Settlers Association set out to find them again. Do they still survive? GuestsDr. Roy LarickRetired ArchaeologistOwner of Bluestone ConservationVice Chair of the Euclid Shade Tree CommissionMember of the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve https://www.earlysettlers.org/Margeaux AppleCollections CoordinatorCambridge University Botanic Gardenhttps://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Dr. Michael MelampyProfessor EmeritusBaldwin Wallace Universityhttps://www.bw.edu/Consulting EditorDavid Still IITheme MusicDiccon Lee, www.deeleetree.comArtworkDahn Hiuni, www.dahnhiuni.com/homeWebsitethisoldtree.showTranscripts available.Follow onFacebook or Instagram We want to hear about the favorite tree in your life! To submit a ~3 or 4 minute audio story for consideration for an upcoming episode of "Tree Story Shorts" on This Old Tree, record the story on your phone's voice memo app and email to:doug@thisoldtree.netThis episode was written in part at LitArts RI, a community organization and co-working space that supports Rhode Island's creators. litartsri.org

On today's episode, we have Western Reserve head coach Dylan Sheridan who joins us to discuss the 51st MSLA tournament taking place at WRA this weekend. We covered what the event means to him, how they prepare for two games in 24 hours, and the behind the scenes workers necessary to pull off such a massive undertaking. In our second interview, Taft head coach Nic Bell covers zone offense, navigating slow starts due their away schedule and commitment to deploying many athletes on game day. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.  Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/ This episode is sponsored by Kevin Fertig, a former WWE superstar who is now selling real estate in Fishers Indiana where he has called home since 2003.  To reach Mr. Fertig, you can call 317-869-7646, contact him on Twitter or Instagram @thekevinfertig, or go to his website thechampishome.com.  Mr. Fertig looks forward to raising your hand and proclaiming "THE CHAMP IS HOME". You will feel like a World Champion when he finds your DREAM home.

The Western Reserve Fire Museum and Education Center is a located in the heart of the city at 310 Carnegie Avenue. This small but mighty museum showcases the progression of firefighting history with exhibits, displays, videos, and an interactive alarm station that messages the command center in the upstairs part of the building. This museum even has an interactive fire safety learning center for all ages, and event space. We recommend that you visit this museum and see what great things they have to offer. Check out their website for hours of operation and upcoming events and follow them on social media. Western Reserve Fire Museum (wrfmc.com) Follow and tag Heidi and Toni Explore Cleveland Podcast on your social media when you visit The Western Reserve Fire Museum and Education Center. Heidi and Toni Explore Cleveland is produced by Heidi Johnson and Toni Gambino; all rights reserved.  Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and TikTok. ⁠https://exploringclevelandwithheidiandtoni.com⁠.  Email: ⁠exploringclevelandht@gmail.com⁠ The views and opinions expressed in this podcast belong to the content creators and not the business, organization, affiliates, or their employees. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heidi-johnson39/support

Matt Gerber, chief innovation officer at Western Reserve Academy (OH), describes his practical approach to innovation, the types of courses his school's innovation center offers, and the impact these factors have already had for his students in the real world.

Michael Ward @OneManRide previews Saturday's massive game between Western Reserve and Culver, no one can score on Loyola Academy, and quick preview of several other Midwest inter state games this weekend. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.  Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/

In this episode we welcome one of Western Reserve Academy's coaches: Matt Garvey. Matt went to prep school at New Hampton before attending Providence where he was a manager. After this he was a special assistant to Coach Ed Cooley where he worked in the video department. Now at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson Ohio, Matt talks about the program, their competition, placing players and more. Connect w/ Matt Twitter | https://twitter.com/WRA_Hoops Website | https://www.wra.net/athletics/ourteam... Email | garveym@wra.net Connect with Cory: Website | https://www.prepathletics.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/prep_athlet... Twitter | Connect with Cory: Website | https://www.prepathletics.com Twitter | https://twitter.com/PREP_Athletics Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/prep_athletics/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/PrepAthletics Email | coryheitz@gmail.com Phone | 859-317-1166 Subscribe to the PREP Athletics Podcast: iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prep-athletics-podcast/id1546265809?uo=4 Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/6CAKbXFiIOhoHinzsReYbJ Amazon | https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/3c37179d-3371-47f9-9d97-fd569e8802a7/prep-athletics-basketball-podcast #AmazonMusic Google Podcasts | https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80M2YwZTZkMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw About Me Cory Heitz is the Founder and President of PREP Athletics. He has been helping place players into the right fitting prep schools since 2008. Cory completed a post grad year himself before...

This week we're joined by Scott (@DuluthBoatKing) for the story of the SS Western Reserve, one of the early steel-hulled freighters on the Great Lakes, lost with only a single survivor in August 1892Sources:[sources to come]Check out our Patreon here!Support the show

Mike DeWitt just completed his 24th season as the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Ohio Wesleyan University where he has compiled a record of 386-249. Including his time as a head coach at Hiram and Centre College DeWitt has an overall record of 436 – 325 over 29 seasons.He also served as an assistant men's basketball coach at Kenyon College for 2 seasons and was an assistant coach at Ohio Wesleyan for 3 seasons prior to that.During his playing career, DeWitt was a member of 3 conference championship teams. He was a 2-time All-NCAC selection at Ohio Wesleyan and helped the Bishops win NCAC championships in 1985-86 and 1986-87. He began his playing career at Wittenberg University and was a member of the Tigers' 1982-83 team that reached the NCAA Division III championship game.If you're looking to improve your coaching please consider joining the Hoop Heads Mentorship Program. We believe that having a mentor is the best way to maximize your potential and become a transformational coach. By matching you up with one of our experienced mentors you'll develop a one on one relationship that will help your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset. The Hoop Heads Mentorship Program delivers mentoring services to basketball coaches at all levels through our team of experienced Head Coaches. Find out more at hoopheadspod.com or shoot me an email directly mike@hoopheadspod.comFollow us on social media @hoopheadspod on Twitter and Instagram.Get ready to jot down some notes as you listen to this episode with Mike DeWitt, Head Men's Basketball Coach at Ohio Wesleyan University.Website - https://battlingbishops.com/sports/mens-basketballEmail - mddewitt@owu.eduTwitter - @OWUHoopsVisit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballMention the Hoop Heads Podcast when you place your order and get $300 off a brand new state of the art Dr. Dish Shooting Machine! Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com or follow them on Twitter @FastModel. Use Promo code HHP15 to save 15%The Coaching PortfolioYour first impression is everything when applying for a new coaching job. A professional coaching portfolio is the tool that highlights your coaching achievements and philosophies and, most of all, helps separate you and your abilities from the other applicants. Special Price of just $25 for all Hoop Heads Listeners.Training Camp - Elite Skill Development & Performance CombineThe first Training Camp - Elite Skill Development and Performance Combine will be held on the campus of Western Reserve...

Heidi L. Barham, M.Div, CT, CDP® is the Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Hospice of the Western where she previously served as a Spiritual Care Coordinator for 13 years. In addition to her position with Hospice of the Western Reserve, she is the pastor of Ledgewood Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Novelty, Ohio and adjunct faculty with Indiana Wesleyan University. Prior to joining Hospice of the Western Reserve, Ms. Barham spent 20 years in the financial services industry, working for KeyBank and Fifth Third Bank respectively.  

Michael Ward @OneManRide was on site for Western Reserve vs. St. Xavier (Kentucky), discusses Reserve and Culver being in the top 25 preseason rankings, and previews Carmel (IN) vs. Westfield (IN) which he'll be attending later tonight. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.  Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/ Discount code: PLAYGROUND15 to save 15% on your first order from Rhoback

Michael Ward @OneManRide was on site for the Culver scrimmage against defending Indiana state champs, Hamilton Southeastern. We also discussed the Culver Kiski game the next day as well as previewed Western Reserve's trip to Louisville this weekend to play St. Xavier and Trinity. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.  Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/ Discount code: PLAYGROUND15 to save 15% on your first order from Rhoback

No history or documentary storytelling in this episode, this time it is all focused on The Music of Invisible Ground! To celebrate the pre-order of our compilation of the same name on vinyl, cd, and digital download (which you should make sure to go pre-order and support at igg.me/at/invisiblegroundmusic) we are diving into the sounds you hear throughout the podcast. Music from Todd Jacops, Powers/Rolin Duo, Daniel Bachman, The Peel, Brian Harnetty, Bill MacKay, Brandon Reisig, Unmonumental, Weedghost, Disjointed Mike, Pete Fosco, and Dead Winds of Summer on the show! Some are on the compilation, some are on the podcast, some will be on the podcast, but all of these people have amazing music on the record. This special episode of Invisible Ground also serves as the 43rd episode of Brian's long-time Ohio music podcast, The Western Reserve. Thanks to The Union and Dinkey Coffee for being our sponsors this episode. Enjoy!Todd Jacops - "Rain Spring"Powers/Rolin Duo - "Aster Blooms"Daniel Bachman - "Blue Ridge Turnpike"The Peel - "Lucy's Song"Brian Harnetty - "Major Fountain"Bill MacKay - "Keep Your Spirits High"Brandon Reisig - "The Ballad of the Incomplete"Unmonumental - "Elephant"Weedghost - "Carillon Park"Disjointed Mike - "Untitled"Pete Fosco - excerpt from "Invisible Ground Sessions"Dead Winds of Summer - "Invisible 1"

Michael Ward @OneManRide reviews the MSLA preseason rankings and analyzes Western Reserve and Culver's schedule. We finish with a little MCLA talk after he saw #2 Georgia Tech dispatch Alabama. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.  Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/ Discount code: PLAYGROUND15 to save 15% on your first order from Rhoback

Why did the State of Connecticut feel entitled to part of Ohio?  Where was Connecticut's Western Reserve and how was it settled? The Litchfield Historical Society is opening a new exhibition on Connecticut's Western Reserve on April 22,  2023 entitled “Come to a Land of Milk and Honey”.   Here's what they say about the exhibit: “The story of the Western Reserve can be told through any number of historical lenses, but it is primarily a story of people: the people who felt compelled to leave Connecticut and New England for a new life in the west, and the people who chose to stay behind; the Native peoples who were forced from their lands by the arrival of migrants; the enslaved men, women, and children who were brought to the Reserve against their will, and the Black migrants who chose to make their homes in Ohio despite continued discrimination.”   In this episode, author and historian Mary Donohue interviews Alex Dubois and Linda Hocking from the Litchfield Historical Society about what they've found out about the peoples of the  Western Reserve.   Alex Dubois is the Curator of Collections. At the Society, Alex oversees the development and care of the institution's collection of material culture and art, and serves as project lead for the Society's exhibitions.   Linda Hocking has served as the Curator of Library & Archives since 2002 where she oversees all aspects of acquisitions, description, and access to the Society's library and archives.   Read more from Connecticut Explored here: https://www.ctexplored.org/west-of-eden-ohio-land-speculation-benefits-connecticut-public-schools/   https://www.ctexplored.org/whats-connecticuts-role-in-westward-expansion-2/   Visit the Litchfield Historical Society website for more information on the exhibition and programs: https://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/     Fresh episodes of Grating the Nutmeg are brought to you every two weeks with support from our listeners. We've just launched our Facebook and Instagram pages-look for the Grating the Nutmeg Podcast. Please follow us on social media to get the scoop on new episodes, behind the scenes photos and information on upcoming programs.   Our new Connecticut Explored Spring 2023 issue is almost out! Don't forget to subscribe to get yours at ctexplored.org   This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan of High Wattage Media at www.highwattagemedia.com/ Donohue may be reached at marydonohue@comcast.net

In the 1600s and 1700s, Connecticut owned a wide swath of land all the way across the country, ending at the Pacific Ocean. They gave all of it to the federal government – except for 3 million acres in Ohio (the so-called Western Reserve). Today, many town names in northeast Ohio are based on Connecticut namesakes – including Cleveland. This very early “wild, wild west” story includes land speculators, wagon train settlers, and distasteful tactics to push Native Americans off the land, to make way for European settlers. Hear the story from expert Alex Dubois, Curator of the Litchfield Historical Society.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Jan. 31. It dropped for free subscribers on Feb. 3. To receive future pods as soon as they're live and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoJeremy Clark, Founder of New England Ski History and contributor to New England Ski Industry NewsRecorded onDecember 6, 2022About New England Ski HistoryNew England Ski History has two main components:1) NewEnglandSkiHistory.comThis is HQ. Each New England state gets a landing page, which in turn links out to profiles of all its active ski areas, its major lost ski areas, and many planned-but-never built ski areas:* Connecticut* Maine* Massachusetts* New Hampshire* Rhode Island* VermontThere are also pages devoted to expansions (both realized and cancelled), lifts (sorted by type, brand, or year installed or removed), and trailmaps. One of my favorite features is the inventory of historic lift ticket and season pass prices (select the drop-downs at the top to change the state or season).The site, like its subject matter, is a little retro, but the information is, in general, very current. For New England podcast prep, this site is gold.2) NewEnglandSkiIndustry.comThis is a news site, focused always and only on New England. The subject matter is expansive and often esoteric: updates on chairlift construction or obscure ski area re-openings – topics few other outlets would cover, but of clear interest to the typical Storm reader. I never send out a news update without checking this site for tidbits that I would otherwise miss. Clark recently launched a Substack newsletter that pushes these headlines right to your email inbox - subscribe below:Why I interviewed himThere has been organized skiing in New England for at least 100 years. Rolling terrain, half-year-long winters, and population density made that inevitable. As soon as machines tiptoed their way into Earth's timeline, New Englanders began flinging them up hillsides. Some stuck. Most didn't. Today, New England skiing is a couple dozen monsters, a few dozen locals, and a scattering of surface-lift bumps where a lift ticket costs less than a pack of smokes.As rich as this history is, there are few reliable sources of historical information on New England skiing. New England Lost Ski Areas Project has documented more than 600 lost ski areas across the region – the site's founder, Jeremy Davis, was one of my first guests on The Storm Skiing Podcast back in 2019 (it's still one of my favorite episodes). The New England Ski Museum has put together timelines on the development of lifts, snowmaking, grooming, and more. But current information on still-operating ski areas is hard to find outside of the ski area sites themselves, and even those are often unhelpful for anything more in-depth than pulling up the current trailmap.New England Ski History hosts the best and most comprehensive library of information not just on the region's major lost ski areas, but on the 90-ish active ones. One thing that has frustrated me in the internet age is how difficult it can be to find what should be the most basic information. What year did Jay Peak open? What is the vertical drop of Veterans Memorial ski hill in New Hampshire? Why did Mt. Tom, Massachusetts, close despite its popularity?For the past 15 to 20 years, Jeremy Clark, who as a tech-brained 1990s teenager built Berkshire East's first website, has been organizing all of this information in one place. The site is free for all, but it has been invaluable to me as a reliable information source on all things New England skiing. I never knew who ran it – unlike The Storm, there is no name adjacent to the masthead - until late last year, when I fired off an email to the anonymous address posted on the site. Clark answered right away, and here we are.What we talked aboutNew England snowmaking superpowers; New England Ski History HQ; the rotation theory of skiing; unsung but interesting small ski areas; growing up at atmospheric and primitive Berkshire East; the power plant that changed weather in the entire valley; Roy Schaefer, savior of Berkshire East; building the ski area's first website for $180 in the ‘90s; the annual continent-wide hunt for used equipment; the evolution of Berkshire East from backwater to four-seasons resort that's a top-10 draw on the Indy Pass; the 100-year-old but little-known Eaglebrook ski area; Proctor Academy ski area; “I realized I'd be able to ski a lot more if I didn't work in the ski business”; how and why Jeremy created New England Ski History; building the site's tremendous ski area profiles; the value of showing up; the potential to scale the site up; assembling the jigsaw puzzle of a decades-long ski-area history; “the goal of the site is to get the history right”; sorting out Berkshire East's complicated history; the role of the interstates in building New England skiing; keeping the site updated; New England Ski Industry News and its corresponding Substack newsletter; why Clark shut down the New England Ski History Facebook page, even though it had approximately 10,000 followers; lost ski areas; the devastating loss of Mt. Tom and why it will likely never return; the value of small ski areas; Brodie; “intermediate terrain is great for business”; the rise and fall of Ski Blandford; Woodbury, Connecticut and whether it could ever come back; assessing Saddleback two years in; the attempted comebacks of Granite Gorge and Tenney; what it would take to make The Balsams happen; what it takes to bring a lost ski area back from the dead; the drama at Big Squaw and whether the upper mountain will ever re-open; whether Big Squaw's minimalist model would work to keep other lost ski areas alive; potential lost ski areas that could re-emerge from the dead; Mt. Prospect; the comeback potential of Plymouth Ski Area in Vermont; New England expansion plans; Ragged; the good and bad of multi-mountain passes; what skiing and smoking have in common; reaction to Pacific Group Resorts purchasing Jay Peak; Vail and New Hampshire – “I hope they've learned that New Hampshire is a lot different than Vermont”; and upgrades at Attitash.          Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewOne of The Storm's animating principles is the celebration of excellence. Who is doing things right in the ski world? Sometimes that's Jay Peak and Whitefish middle-fingering astronomical big-mountain walk-up lift ticket prices. Sometimes that's Alterra assembling the greatest ski area lineup in the history of multi-mountain passes. And sometimes it's someone who has quietly built a damn good website that enriches the world of lift-served skiing in a way that no one else has managed to do. That's why I've hosted the owners of Lift Blog, Real Skiers, and Seniors Skiing on the pod. And that's why I invited Clark onto the show.Industrialized skiing is evolving at an insane pace. It was just six years ago that Vail purchased its first New England ski area. At the time – 2017 – there was no Ikon Pass, no Alterra Mountain Company, no Indy Pass, no Covid, no eight-place chairlifts (in America). The more debris there is blowing around in the storm, the harder it can be to remember the world before it floated in. We all need centering mechanisms, places where we can draw context and anchor our understandings. For New England skiing – one of the most vibrant wintertime cultures on the planet – there is really no better or more comprehensive source than New England Ski History. As we all try to make sense of our ever-changing megapass-dominated ski world of 2023 together, I thought that it would be valuable to point out that the region's past, at least, was already capably organized.What I got wrong* I said that I couldn't think of any New England ski areas that remain under their original ownership, and Clark quickly pointed out that Pats Peak has been under the stewardship of the Patenaude family since it opened in 1962, which of course: I had just discussed that very point with Pats Peak GM Kris Blomback on the podcast a few months before.* I said offhand that Killington and Sugarbush's max 2022-23 lift tickets were in the $180 range, and that I would confirm those prices. Both are hitting closer to $200.Podcast NotesWe discussed quite a few active-but-lesser-known ski areas on the podcast – I've linked to their New England Ski History profile pages below:* Eaglebrook, a 440-vertical-footer in Massachusetts served by a double chair. This is the second-oldest ski area in the country, and serves the students at the private Eaglebrook School. I just love their trailmap:* Proctor is another private-academy bump, a 436-footer in Andover, New Hampshire. This one has occasionally opened to the public in the past, but I haven't been able to find any information on open ski days since the pandemic hit in 2020.We talked a lot about Berkshire East, which Clark worked at for more than a decade:* Clark referenced a cancelled but partially built expansion for the ski area in the 1970s – read the full history here.* Clark designed Berkshire East's first website. The earliest screenshot I could find was from April 18, 1998, and it's a beauty:We also discussed several lost ski areas, including:* Chickley Alps, Massachusetts rose 300 vertical feet and operated from 1937 to 1979.* Mt. Tom, Massachusetts, a fairly successful ski area whose sudden closing in 1998 is still a bit mystifying. This 680-vertical-foot ski area ran on four double chairs and a collection of surface lifts.* Brodie, which the owners of neighboring Jiminy Peak bought and shuttered around the beginning of the century.I asked Clark which lost ski areas had the best chance of a comeback:* Monteau in northern New Hampshire, which rose 650 vertical feet and was served by a double chair and some surface lifts, and has been closed since 1990.* Farr's Hill, Vermont. This 160-foot bump has been closed since the 1960s. A couple years back, however, a new owner purchased a used T-bar from Oak Mountain, New York, with the intention of re-opening the ski area. I haven't heard any updates in a while, and the ski area's Facebook page is now inactive.* Plymouth Notch/Roundtop/Bear Creek – this is the most recent lost chairlift-served ski area in Vermont. It operated as a private club as recently as 2018, and has a fairly extensive trail network. The problem? It's sandwiched between Killington and Okemo.Clark and I discussed the upcoming expansion plans at:* Waterville Valley – the resort hopes to finally link the village to the ski area with a gondola up the back side of Green Peak:* Sunday River, where the recently opened Jordan 8 chairlift will act as the gateway to the massive Western Reserve territory, which could double the size of the resort. Unfortunately, there are no renderings of the expansion to share yet.* Sugarloaf – West Mountain, which is scheduled to open in early 2024 (I did a full write-up on this one a few weeks back):We also discussed abandoned or suspended potential expansions at:* Ragged Mountain – Pinnacle Peak, where the ski area cut trails years ago; owner Pacific Group Resorts confirmed to me last year that they do not intend to proceed with the expansion.* Killington – the proposed but cancelled Parker's Gore project would have added 1,500 acres with a sustained 3,000 foot vertical drop, served by up to 10 lifts.* Cranmore – Black Cap, which would boost the ski area's vertical drop from 1,200 to 1,800 feet.* Bolton Valley, which was originally proposed as a far larger resort than the three-peak operation you can ski today. Clark said he found this masterplan, which shows chairlifts running all the way down to Interstate 89 – 1,800 feet below where the current Vista base area sits:We discussed the Hall double chair that once acted as a redundant lift to the Attitash Summit Triple, which Peak Resorts removed without explanation around 2018. This turned out to be the worst possible decision, as the triple then conked out for months at the end of the 2018-19 ski season. Vail Resorts will finally replace the triple with a high-speed quad this summer, making the decision to remove the double moot. It's the Top Notch Double on the map below:The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 7/100 in 2023, and number 393 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing all year round. Join us. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

We have a deep dive into motion offense with Western Reserve head coach Dylan Sheridan. We covered his evolution from being rigid to running a more motion rules based offense, how they approach installing that offense, what happens coming out of a timeout at different parts of the game, and how he talks to the offensive players. after a bad day of practice because their defense is so talented. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.  Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/ Discount code: PLAYGROUND15 to save 15% on your first order from Rhoback

Preaching for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Lisa Frey, offers a reflection on our calling to give witness: "At family tables or meeting tables, at bedsides or on laptops… testimony needs to be lifted up everywhere there is a hunger for it. It is not the time for shrinking, for protests of inadequacy, unprepared, overwhelmed, too young, too old, not the right gender or race or orientation. No, testimony is our call. Testimony from the margins, denied the authority of office or ordination, when all that we have is our witness… you know how powerful that sometimes simple, authentic witness can be." Following a thirty-year career in parish ministry, Lisa Frey currently serves hospice patients and their families as a spiritual care coordinator with Hospice of the Western Reserve in the Cleveland, Ohio area. She earned her Master of Arts in Theology at St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland and Doctor of Ministry in Homiletics at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/01152023 to learn more about Lisa, to read her preaching text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.

On this Community Series episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, Gregory talks with Alex Czayka, Chief Conservation Officer of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. The Western Reserve Land Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that works with landowners, communities, government agencies, park systems and other nonprofit organizations to permanently preserve natural areas and working farms throughout northern and eastern Ohio. Ecocredits for their Sandy Cross Forest Preservation Project are available for purchase and retirement on Regen Marketplace under the City Forest Credits program. Tune in to get some firsthand insight from the Western Reserve Land Conservancy team about work that you can directly support by purchasing City Forest Credits on Regen Marketplace. Western Reserve Land Conservancy Twitter: @WRLConservancy Alex's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alex-czayka-71a019a9/ Purchase credits on app.regen.network

Mansfield Metro housing director touts 2022 progress: https://www.richlandsource.com/news/mansfield-metro-housing-director-touts-2022-progress/article_3eb0ccba-8231-11ed-ba51-d7f19c929308.html Today – Despite recent turmoil among members of the board, Mansfield Metropolitan Housing Authority executive director says the agency is making unprecedented progress.Support the show: https://www.sourcemembers.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Nov. 21. It dropped for free subscribers on Nov. 24. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoStephen Kircher, President and CEO of Boyne ResortsRecorded onNovember 9, 2022About Boyne ResortsBoyne Resorts owns 10 ski resorts, a scenic chairlift, and a bunch of hotels and golf courses that you can read about in my other newsletter, The Storm Golfing Journal. Here's an overview of the stuff we're covering here:Why I interviewed himSkiing, as a business, is ruthless. More failures than triumphs. More ghosts than living souls. Like humanity itself, I suppose. Enough corpses exist to create a knucklehead talking point for anyone doubting the long-term viability of, for example, Vail Resorts. They just point to the graveyard and say, “Well what about American Skiing Company? What about SKI? What about Intrawest?”Well, D*****s, what about Boyne? Founded 74 years ago on a Michigan hillside and now a 10-resort, continent-spanning titan, Boyne Resorts is the Ford Motor Company of skiing. Imagine old Everett Kircher, chomping a cigar and riding eight-foot-long skis down Hemlock, a good-old-boy of the Michigan backwoods, getting a load of Boyne Resorts 2022, with its arsenal of megalifts and Ikon Pass access tags all blippity-blinging on the social medias. It would shock him no less than Henry Ford stepping out of his 1903 workshop and stumbling upon a plugged-in F-150 Lightning with satellite radio and $100,000 pricetag.Both of these companies started a long time ago as something very different and evolved into something very Right Now. This is what good companies do, and what almost no companies actually manage over time. See: Kodak, Blockbuster, K-Mart failing to envision digital film, streaming, ecommerce. Boyne Resorts is the longest-running multi-mountain ski company in North America, and possibly in the world. Why? They adapted. Part of their evolution, as Stephen and I discuss in this podcast, was persistence through the near-bankruptcy of key properties in past decades. Part of it was having the vision to build a scenic chairlift in, of all places, Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the 1950s. Part of it was relentless investment in snowmaking. Part of it was a pivot to showmanship and experience. And part of it was dumb luck and timing. There's no single reason why Boyne Resorts has survived and evolved for 74 years, and there's no guarantee that anyone else could exactly replicate their model. But Boyne Mountain, the company's namesake and original resort, is one of the last ski areas in the country to persist under its original ownership. There's a lot we can learn from that fact, and from what Boyne Resorts did in the years since their original mountain's founding to keep the thing from becoming another wintertime phantom.What we talked aboutBoyne's system-wide commitment to the long season; Boyne Resorts' many and varied 2022 lift projects; Sunday River's massive growth potential and how the Jordan 8 will serve that; “people don't understand the idea of rebalancing”; why the company is dropping an eight-pack at Boyne Mountain; what happened when a helicopter had to dump a Cypress lift tower, and whether that impacted the project's timeline; why Boyne didn't buy Sun Valley, Telluride, or Jackson Hole; Boyne Resorts' decades-long expansion; why Boyne had to back out of half-ownership of Solitude; why Boyne purchased Shawnee Peak and what the potential is there for upgrading lifts and expanding terrain; whether Pleasant could ever join the Ikon Pass ; changing the name to Pleasant Mountain; whether Boyne will buy more ski areas; ski areas that the company passed on buying; EuroBoyne?; how Crystal Mountain exited Boyne's portfolio – “It was a bummer that we lost it from the Boyne family”; preventing overcrowding; “there's a collaborative approach within the Ikon”; whether Boyne bid on White Pass; how close Boyne came to closing Boyne Mountain in the 1990s, how the finances had deteriorated to that point, and how the company saved itself; how a Tennessee chairlift saved the whole company; why there aren't more scenic chairlifts in America; dreaming up and building the Michigan Sky Bridge; the five things driving Boyne's incredible investment spree and whether it's sustainable; the importance of owning the resorts that you run and the land that you operate on; “I think it's a Golden Age for North American skiing”; how European skiing leapt ahead of North America in on-hill infrastructure; how and why Boyne brought the first eight-pack chairlift to the United States; how Boyne's 2030 plans are unfolding with a different strategy from 2020; “growth changes the flow of traffic”; why it's taken longer to get 2030 plans for Cypress and Brighton than for Boyne's other resorts; “we had a lot of old Riblets in our system”; the importance of creating a sense of place without the pitfalls of becoming “Intrawest 2.0”; why Boyne finally went wide with RFID; why liftline fast lanes have flopped at Boyne's resorts in the past; and Boyne's obsessive focus on snowmaking.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewBoyne is just absolutely rolling right now. In September, when The Highlands announced that it would retire three Riblet triples for a D-line six-pack in 2023, I itemized the big projects underway across Boyne' Resorts' portfolio:About five years ago, statement lifts started raining out of the Montana sky. After rolling out four high-speed lifts in five years (the Powder Seeker six in 2016, Ramcharger 8 and the Shedhorn high-speed quad in 2018, and the Swift Current 6 in 2021), Big Sky recently unveiled a gargantuan base-to-summit lift network that will transform the mountain, (probably) eliminating Mountain Village liftlines and delivering skiers to the high alpine without the zigzagging adventure across the now-scattered lift network. Skiers will board a two-stage out-of-base gondola cresting near the base of Powder Seeker before transferring to a higher-capacity tram within the same building.Impressive as the transformation of Big Sky has been, it represents a fraction of the megaprojects going on across Boyne's 10-resort empire. Here's a survey of what's happening around Boyneworld this offseason alone:SugarloafAs the centerpiece of their 450-acre West Mountain expansion, New England's second-largest ski area is currently rebuilding and retrofitting the Swift Current high-speed quad from Big Sky. Installation is scheduled for next summer. I discussed this expansion and the rest of the mountain's 2030 plan with GM Karl Strand two years ago:Sunday RiverBoyne's third eight-pack is rising on Jordan Peak. It's gonna be a bomber, an overbuilt look-ahead lift that will eventually serve an outpost called “Western Reserve,” which may double the 870-acre resort's size. The mountain is also continuing work on the Merrill Hill expansion, a big piece of the mountain's 2030 plan.LoonLast December, Boyne opened eight-pack number two at Loon Mountain, New Hampshire. The event was electric. Meanwhile, the quad that once served that side of the mountain sat in the rebuild barn, so it could replace and retire the Seven Brothers triple, work that has been ongoing all summer.Pleasant Mountain (formerly Shawnee Peak)Boyne bought Maine's oldest ski area less than a year ago, so they've yet to announce any big-time lift projects. For now, the company did the impossible, winning social media for a day with their unanimously lauded decision to change the ski area's name back to Pleasant Mountain, which it had carried from 1938 to 1988. While this doesn't alter the ski experience in any way, it does show that Boyne is here to wow people. Just wait until they start talking lifts and expansion.Boyne MountainEight-pack number four will be here, on Boyne's shortest ski area, a 500-foot Michigan bump. The chair will replace a pair of ancient triples, dropping skiers atop one of the best pods of beginner skiing in the Midwest, a delightful jumble of long, looping greens threading through low-angle forest.Big SkyI mean what isn't happening at Big Sky? This gondola-tram complex will instantly become one of the most iconic lift networks in North American skiing. I recapped the Montana flagship's evolution from backwater to beefcake with mountain COO Taylor Middleton earlier this year:BrightonBoyne's snowiest mountain is also one of the few without a long-term 2030-type plan. This, Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher explained to me, is because the resort sits on Forest Service land, complicating the long-term planning process. No matter. The ski area recently began the permitting process for a D-Line (what else?) sixer to replace Crest Express, the ski area's oldest high-speed quad.Summit at SnoqualmieThe motley agglomeration of what was once four separate ski areas is about to Rip Van Winkle its way into modernity. The ski area's 2030 plan, announced in April, sketches out eight new or upgraded lifts, including a trio of triples at freewheeling Alpental. The first lift is going in as I type this – a fixed-grip carpet-loaded triple to replace the old Hidden Valley Riblet double. GM Guy Lawrence and I went through these updates in a podcast recorded two days prior to the announcement:CypressBoyne's only Canadian ski area is upgrading its Sky summit double with a carpet-loaded quad.One month later, Loon announced a 30-acre South Peak expansion that will finally connect the monster Escape Route parking lots with the ski area via a carpet-loaded quad next year:Here's the full story:It had been more than two years since Kircher's last stop on the podcast, and the big projects just keep dropping. There are plenty more on the way, too, but this seemed like a pretty good time to check in to see what was driving this investment binge.What I got wrong* I referred to Sunday River's upcoming Western Reserve expansion as the “Western Territories.”* In framing Boyne's expansion story, I asked why the company started buying additional resorts “in the ‘90s.” The company began expanding in the ‘60s, of course, with the addition of The Highlands. What I had meant to ask was, why did the company begin expanding in earnest with the 1997 purchase of Crystal Mountain. Over the next decade, Boyne would add five more resorts, doubling its portfolio.* I said that Vail “bought” Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland. They only own a 55 percent stake in the ski area – the other 45 percent is under the control of local investors.* I said in passing that Deer Valley was not on the Ikon Pass. It is, of course, as a seven-day partner on the full pass. What I had meant to say was that the Ikon Pass is not Deer Valley's season pass.* I said that Boyne had been a “laggard” in RFID. Kircher points out that the company had introduced the technology at Brighton and Crystal a number of years ago.* I stated that there was no snowmaking at Summit at Snoqualmie – Kircher points out that the resort uses “a small amount” on their tubing hill and terrain park.Podcast NotesThe Gatlinburg Skylift is a pretty incredible complex. I stopped by in September:As Kircher noted, SNL had its fun with the Sky Bridge (5:20):Boyne Resorts on The Storm Skiing PodcastStorm archives are well-stocked with Boyne Resorts interviews. This is Kircher's third appearance on the podcast. Funny note: The Storm featured Kircher for podcast number 6, and 100 episodes later on number 106.My interviews with the leaders of Big Sky and Summit at Snoqualmie both rank in the top 10 for total number of all-time Storm Skiing Podcast downloads (out of 117 podcasts):Leaders of each of Boyne's New England resorts have appeared on the podcast multiple times. The exception is Pleasant Mountain, which I'll feature on an episode once their long-term plans come together.I also interviewed the leaders of each of Boyne's Michigan resorts:That just leaves Brighton and Cypress. I'll get to Brighton soon enough, and I'll wrap Cypress in after I officially enter Canada in May.Meet my new co-host, Rocky the catMy cat wouldn't shut up and is the third party in this podcast. His name is Rocky. He is 17. Or so. He looks like he's about 700. He could be. I adopted him from a shelter in May 2006. Meaning he's been in my life longer than either of my kids, by several years. A fact that astonishes me, really. All he does is meow meow meow all goddamn day. He wants to eat every five minutes. Meow meow meow. That's the problem during this podcast – he is demanding his five-times-hourly feeding. Otherwise, he is a sweet animal. He comes when you call him, like a dog. He hates the outside and sheds like a yeti. He's best buddies with my 5-year-old son and he looks like a miniature cow:He's moved all over New York City with me, though he would be just as happy living in a box truck in a Tampa strip mall. He can no longer run or jump, though he still manages the stairs quite well. He is not a smart animal, and that may have contributed to his longevity – he is not curious enough to get himself into trouble. He still manages to make quite a mess. A cat is the highest-maintenance animal I can manage, and just barely. But I quite like him, even if he chose an unusual hour, on this one day, to vary from his normal 22-hour-per-day sleep schedule and interject himself into our conversation.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing all year long. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 125/100 in 2022, and number 371 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. This is a public episode. 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In this weeks episode I update every one on what has been going on this fall in the Midwest. Omnia is coming to a close on the fall season with an upcoming event in Columbus at the Midwest fall showcase. I also give my thoughts on the incredible matchups at Western Reserve between some of the top teams in the country. Lastly this episode is a kick off for Season 2. Thank you all for listening, hit the wall and tell your parents you love them.Here is the link to the Polish Lacrosse Website: https://polandlacrosse.org/Here is the link to the 2023 World Games: https://worldlax2023.com/intro/indexhttps://www.omnialacrosse.com

Husch Blackwell's Meg Pekarske is joined today by Mary Kay Tyler, Chief Quality and Compliance Officer of Hospice of the Western Reserve, who shares strategies for achieving the elusive goal of improved clinical documentation. As Mary Kay discusses, you start with what can make the biggest impact. For general inpatient care (GIP), that is often physician and nurse practitioner (NP) documentation. Meg and Mary Kay discuss how she leveraged her electronic medical records (EMR), fostered buy-in, cultivated accountability, and remembered to listen throughout the process. We encourage you to take notes—you won't want to miss any of these helpful tips. 

Western Reserve head coach Dylan Sheridan discusses the recruiting process for juniors leading up to and following the September 1st contact period. We also cover the formation of the Spiders Lacrosse Club which will serve the northeast Ohio community. The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse . Website: https://lacrosseplayground.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaxPlayground Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lacrosseplayground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LacrossePlayground/ Discount code: PLAYGROUND15 to save 15% on your first order from Rhoback

Kathy Romito joins the podcast to talk about all the opportunities Western Reserve Hospital takes to be patient-focused, caring for you not only when you are sick or in need, but caring for your whole healthy lifestyle. 

Welcome back into Off The Wall Studio's!! Tonights a bit different. Dillon is working, Jake's probably sipping whiskey, Uncle Joey bailed. So we have BigSturg, and Austin! Lets talk WHISKEY and NOTHING but --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/americaandwhiskey/message

Bill Wills spoke to Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging CEO Dr. Douglas Beach & June Taylor/Chief of Performance & Strategy about Social Isolation especially on seniors has long lasting mental and physical effects for homebound seniors. For the past two years, COVID-19 has forced active seniors into isolation. What long lasting effects did this horrible pandemic have on our senior population

Holden Nuhn first appeared on the Off-Farm Income Podcast back in 2019 when he was a 9th grader on episode #623.  This was before Covid, and we had no idea what was coming!  Back then I was so impressed with his "could-do" attitude, and how he had found a way to show dairy animals even though he didn't have any of his own. On Today's episode, Holden is back!  We are going to be catching up on what he has been doing in the FFA for the past four years.  I'll give you a hint - he really got involved with supervised agricultural experiences!  And, he is now restoring his third tractor and finding great success with this endeavor. Below are the original show notes from my interview with Holden back in 2019. Show Notes Hosting this show always gives me the opportunity to interview people who find a way to make things happen.  Whether it be my adult or student guests, I am always lucky enough to speak with people who have a "can do" attitude. That is really what stood out to me in today's interview with Holden Nuhn.  Holden actually started buying and raising dairy feeder calves when he was in the 3rd grade.  By the time he was in the 6th grade he decided that he wanted to start showing dairy heifers.  However, he did not have the facilities or herd to do that.  But, he did not allow that stop him. Holden made a connection with a local dairy farmer and worked out an agreement in which he could lease a heifer to show.  They have a great agreement, which he talks about in the show, where they both benefit.  It is truly a great example of a situation in which both parties win. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Dairy Production & Tractor Restoration HIGH SCHOOL: Western Reserve High School; Collins, Ohio MASCOT: Rough Riders FFA ADVISOR: Mark Starkey CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HOLDEN NUHN: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Western Reserve High School Website: Holden's FFA Advisor's Email Address: mstarkey@western-reserve.org Western Reserve High School Telephone Number: (419) 660.8508 FFA LINKS: National FFA Organization Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE's) Support FFA  Donate to FFA - One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000.  In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants.  With your donations, more students can get this head start - pay it forward. REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA: Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world.  FFA is providing the needed education, training and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and insure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food. Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation.  The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth. Farmers, ranchers and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store: “The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America's youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America's youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue More Places You Can Listen to Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald:  

The history of the Connecticut Western Reserve, also known as the Western Reserve, is one of the most interesting histories recorded. It was an area in the Northwest Territory held, sold and distributed by the State of Connecticut in the years after the American Revolution. A part of the Western Reserve, the Firelands or the Sufferers' Lands, was set aside for sufferers who were burned out of their homes by the British during the American Revolutionary War.In this episode, Jim and Dan talk about the history of the Western Reserve, how it was held, sold, and distributed. They will also speak about how they hope to spend their retirement, who wins Dan's challenge from the previous episode, and what prize awaits the winner. Enjoy!In This Episode02:27 - The history of Firelands, also known as the Sufferers' Land13:55 - How the Northwest Territory areas were sold and distributed after the American Revolution23:23 - What led to the dissolution of Connecticut Land Company25:49 - What the Quieting Act is all about30:25 - What it's like to drive in the streets of Birmingham37:29 - Why Jim loves Alabama43:25 - Trailing at Daniel Boone National Forest45:38 - How Jim hopes to spend his retirement51:47 - The winner and the prize for the challenge from the previous episode56:54 - When and how North Ridgeville was foundedFavorite Quotes22:00 - "We know how this happened. Oh, we're gonna go and negotiate with the Iroquois. Iroquois lived here, their whole lives. They loved their town, right. And now there are white guys coming up. He's like, hey listen, we want to talk to you guys about this. They're like, nope. You don't think Moses Cleveland walked up and goes, listen, guys, I got these 12 blankets for you. And I want you just hold them close to your face and feel how soft they are. And then like 14 weeks later, everyone in that Indian nation was sick, smallpox." - Jim Larkin and Dan Wilkinson Jr.23:23 - "One of the problems that befell the Connecticut Land Company was the company mismanagement. Sales efforts by the company were not organized. The company did not even set up a marketing office in the Western Reserve to promote sales of the land." - Dan Wilkinson Jr.45:40 - "I know I'm getting older. But you know what I want? I want enough property where I can head out either on a horse or on an ATV. It's right around my property in the morning, come back, grab my coffee, and walk out with my dog in the woods." - Jim LarkinFollow the Pod Bless America Podcast on GETTREngage with Pod Bless America PodcastEmail: jim@pbapodcast.comEmail: dan@pbapodcast.comFacebookListen to more episodes of the Pod Bless America PodcastApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle Podcasts

Recorded live on-site at Western Reserve Distillery, Bob and Brad are joined by their friend Scott Sauer to select a barrel of Wester Reserve Rye, This 6-year whiskey is from a 95-5 mash bill and the guys are incredibly excited about this pick. Film & Whiskey Podcast. New episodes every Monday. Film & Whiskey Instagram Film & Whiskey Facebook Film & Whiskey Twitter Email us! Join our Discord server! Theme music: "New Shoes" by Blue Wednesday --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/filmwhiskey/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/filmwhiskey/support

The Professor, Irish Barry White, Detective Andy Gordon, and Shimmy talk margaritas, mojitos, michaledas and all things Cinco de Mayo.  The guys try Western Reserve Distillers new organic anejo with the guidance of Assistant Distiller Vick Moberg.  And it a great surprise the hosts of Check Your Vertical, Scott and Mandie Verlinger join the gang, who find out Scott is no scrub when it comes to mixology.  GROW THE PROOFER NATION!  Click here to listen, like, review, subscribe and share!  http://beacons.ai/thepeoplesproof Start your own pod with PodPopuli!  Go to http://podpopuli.com