New Blog Launched for Lakewood High School Marching Band's Cotton Bowl Trip

Go to http://rangersridetotexas.blogspot.com

Diversity in Lakewood

Paige and her friends at LHS are featured in a piece on diversity training in Lakewood. Pretty cool.

The Demon of the Hotel, by Paige and Cooper

Rest in Peace Mary Travers

Mary Travers passed away yesterday.

This video is from an anti war rally in 1971.

I saw Peter, Paul and Mary at Pine Knob in 1982 and they were still cool then.

Always all about Peace...

Diet Squirt, the new snapping turtle

Friday night of Labor Day Weekend, little Diet Squirt the snapping turtled started to labor his way out of an egg. By Monday morning he had made it out all the way. Now, he's a little moody and I don't know if he's eating much. He has already grown, however. Keep your fingers crossed.

He's named Diet Squirt in honor of our last snapping turtle, Squirt, who was released into the wild at Susie and Paul's house in Michigan on Father's Day Weekend 2009.

Camp Luther is once again IN THE BOOKS

Faith, fun, sunsets, water spouts and total exhaustion...nice.

New Garden and Community Meal video for Trinity Lakewood!

Here's the full video on YouTube - created by Paige.

You can vote for it at http://www.godsworkourhands.org/v/301,trinity-lakewood-garden-of-peace-and-plenty.html

Getting Jazzy in June

Paige and the Lakewood High Jazz Workshop played at the opening of a new art gallery in Lakewood on Friday night. They played a lot of songs. Great job kids!

This is Van Morrison's 'Moondance'.

Huntington Bank is in the House!

We received word at Vocon today that we've been awarded the assignment to design Huntington's new regional headquarters at 200 Public Square in downtown Cleveland. Yea!

Scientists piece together human ancestry

(CNN) -- Scientists hailed Tuesday a 47-million-year-old fossil of an ancient "small cat"-sized primate as a possible common ancestor of monkeys, humans and other primates.

The fossil is believed to be an ancestor of monkeys, humans and other primates.

Scientists say the fossil, dubbed "Ida," is a transitional species, living around the time the primate lineage split into two groups: A line that would eventually produce humans and monkeys, and another that would give rise to primates such as lemurs.

The fossil was formally named Darwinius masillae, in honor of the anniversary of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.

"This is the most complete primate fossil before human burial," said Dr. Jorn Hurum, of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, who led the study of the fossil, a young female primate.

"And it's not a few million years old; it's 47 million years old," Hurum said, speaking at a news conference at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Read the rest here.

I just love this stuff...

Come on Cavs!

Trinity launches new Community Garden!

Sunday was the dedication of a new community garden, designed by yours truly, for our church's front yard at Detroit Avenue and Hall. Here are some pics of the celebration and work efforts as well as the site plan.

Trinity Church is on the web!

I am now the webmaster for our new church website. Worked with Les Proctor and Chris Ceja to design this puppy and coordinate it with all the various chuch ministries. I'm very happy with the outcome; I think we got some great work done on a shoestring budget.

www.trinitylakewood.org

Now, to keep it updated...!!!

New Paige drawings!

Paige has discovered markers! Not bad, huh?

Images from Miami 2009

Sightseeing in Miami - can you spot the $30.00 maragarita?

Game 2 - The Dance ends in Miami

Arizona played a great game in defeating the Vikings, who fell back on unreliable 3-point attempts late in the game and learned a lesson about game recognition along the way. Congrats to the seniors on a great run! Joe played at the end and got in the books too.

It was a great experience to be part of the scene and I know the guys all recognized what they had been a part of. Thanks to Dan for GOING FOR IT and not hesitating to take the time to make the trip and talk me into it as well!

We're all looking forward to next year - go Vikes!

Cleveland State goes to the Big Dance!!!

OK, so it's been a few weeks. Dan, Drew and I flew to Miami to be with the Viking faithful. I got to fly through Philly with Doug Collins, form NBA player, coach of Michael Jordan before da Bulls won titles and now an NBA color guy for TNT. He had just done the Cavs gane the night before. Very good guy. He totally broke down the upcoming CSU / Wake Forest game for me, but he ended up being completely wrong (he said that CSU shold play zone all night, but they didn't).

Game 1 at the American Airlines Arena (home of D Wade and the Heat) was against the former no. 1 Demon Decons from Wake Forest, who had beaten both Duke and North Carolina during the regular season, but lost to Maryland in the ACC tournament. You can look up the details of this game somewhere else. Just know that the Vikings made them look like middle schoolers. Wake was totaly unprepared for the Vikes and this ended up being arguably the biggest upset of the tournament. And Pat Riley sat a fews rows behind us. We had watched Arizona / Utah prior to the WF game and we knew Arizona would pose some match-up problems...