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• All but big top on Dayton Street

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 15, 2010

  

  If just for one evening, Dayton Street is taking back its historic main street status when it opens the first Yellow Springs Cirque Carnival on Friday, July 16, from 6 to 10:30 p.m. The street party featuring musicians and performers on a three-ring circuit…

• Glen Helen fundraiser dinner—Finally, a use for honeysuckle

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  When the barred owl sings its inquisitive call “whoo cooks for you?” this weekend, the folks at Glen Helen will have an answer. At a long dinner table at the Raptor Center on Sunday, July 18, area diners in support of the Glen will sit down to enjoy a meal whose origins are both known and local with the area chefs and farmers who grew and prepared the food.

• Sea Dogs fry Fighting Fish

  By YS News Staff

  The Yellow Springs Sea Dogs swam strongly against the Forest Ridge Fighting Fish. It was easy to see the Sea Dog teamwork in the meet’s relay events; the Sea Dogs won 11 of the 16 that they swam.

• Football begins soon

  By YS News Staff

  YSHS football practice will begin Wednesday, August 4, 5–7 p.m. Those interested in playing should call coach Craig McCann at 532-5111. Physicals will need to be completed by that time, and will be offered on Thursday, July 29, 6–8 p.m. at Greene Memorial Hospital.

• YSHS golf begins

  By YS News Staff

  Practices for the upcoming Yellow Springs High School golf season begin on Monday, Aug. 2, with matches beginning 10 days later. Those interested in being on the team are asked to contact Varsity Golf Coach Mike Reichert to be part of the season’s roster.

• Twins on top in Major League

  By YS News Staff

  

  In the Minor League last week, the Indians pushed their record to 8–0 with a pair of wins to keep their spot at the top going into the final week of play. The Indians pounded out 24 hits in their first win of the week, an 18–8 defeat of the Dragons on Wednesday, July 7.

• Volleyball clinic to start

  By YS News Staff

  The Yellow Springs schools will host a morning girls volleyball clinic July 19–23 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Yellow Springs High School gym. The clinic is for area girls entering the sixth, seventh or eighth grade next fall and living in Yellow Springs or attending Yellow Springs schools.

• Running champs start camp

  By Lauren Heaton

  Running may be one of the most natural, intuitive sports there is, but doing it well isn’t as easy as it seems. Two recent Yellow Springs High School graduates, Sam Borchers and Evan Firestone, learned a lot about distance running before going on to win state and national championships in their track and cross country events.

• Reba Gordon

  By YS News Staff

  

  Reba Gordon died on Friday, July 9, at the Friends Care Community. She was 96. Reba was born February 4, 1914, in Proskurov, Ukraine, the daughter of Morris Sanders and Mollie Eisenstein Sanders. Fleeing anti-Semitism in Proskurov, her family left for America.

• Puppets, Persian poetry, and change

  By Megan BachmanJuly 8, 2010

  

  In its 16th year, YS Kids Playhouse continues to produce innovative youth theater for adults and children alike. Its latest musical, The Conference of Birds, explores themes of transformation and self-realization through a 12th-century desert fable.