While covering the 8th Annual Green Lane Park Scottish Irish Festival it was nice to hear that other people are thinking about the environment. Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism Inc. were demonstrating the catapult seige machine, called a terbuchet, on Sunday. They were tossing melons and small pumpkins into the lake as ammunition because they would disintegrate and possibly become fish food.
A craft vendor proudly announced that the journals she was selling had been made in India and had treeless paper - made of linen, flower petals and in some cases banana leaves. She said the journals were big sellers.
On the way back into the office to write the story I passed by Henning's supermnarket's bright sign. I wondered how much energy is wasted on electricity on a daily basis. With so many people concerned about global warming and the bad effects of coal being burned to produce electricity, it struck me that the supermarket and other businesses would do better to stick with traditional signs.