Village Life Section :: Page 228

• Women’s Threshold Choir sings for healing and for pleasure

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 21, 2008

  

  Their voices floated in with soothing softness and a power to calm the rumbles of anxiety. Sylvia sang as close as a mother to her baby, while Mary cooed her part and Theresa led the choral rounds from an arm’s length away.

• Teens wield tools for library mural

  By Susan GartnerAugust 14, 2008

  “Help create a teen space mural for the Yellow Springs Public Library. Make new friends! Wear fashionable safety glasses! Learn how to master a jigsaw, cutting intricate shapes out of wood with the blade only inches from your fingers! Amaze your friends! Worry your parents!

• Lawn art calls to Village Walkers

  By Susan GartnerAugust 7, 2008

  There’s a secret club in Yellow Springs that’s been meeting for 10 years. Walking and chatting all over town, club members are almost indistinguishable from the rest of the villagers.

• Blazing her own trail, with cancer

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 31, 2008

  

  In her 28-year journey as a person with cancer, Esther Damaser has learned many things. Like many cancer survivors, she learned to not sweat the small stuff, and to spend time doing what she loves, rather than what she feels obligated to do.

• Faculty launches Nonstop

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 24, 2008

  Some small towns, if they’re lucky, are home to a liberal arts college. But Yellow Springs may be the first village that is a liberal arts college, or at least that will become one on September 4, when the many doors of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute…

• Grinding rails, tunes at park benefit

  By Susan Gartner

  

  Once viewed as a subculture of miscreants and thugs, skateboarding has come a long way. The proliferation of elaborately designed and well-used public skate parks, indoor and outdoor, nationally and internationally, has redeemed the skateboarder’s reputation and the sport overall.

• Glen reaches out for support

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 17, 2008

  

  Fear of snakes is common, but visitors who have held gentle Pepper, the black rat snake who resides at Glen Helen’s Trailside Museum, know that most local snakes are harmless.

• Bakari had charisma, talent

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 10, 2008

  Iddi Bakari was a sportsman with unparalleled fashion savvy. He was a charismatic jokester who could talk his way out of a tight spot. He prayed a lot and loved his family.

• Park flowers into its first decade

  By Susan Gartner

  

  What if you were given the task to create a lasting monument to commemorate the contributions of a significant number of people? Instead of a bronze statue or marble marker, however, you decide to construct something different…

• Village gardens bloom with summer sights this Sunday

  By Susan GartnerJune 26, 2008

  

  The flower names from the various gardens read like a class roster from Antioch School. In one “classroom” there is Veronica, Spiraea, Yarrow and Daylily along with the Hosta triplets — Janet, June and Francee.