May 2, 2017

May 2 is usually an exciting day for me as it is my son's birthday. However, last Tuesday, May 2, was a disheartening day at Lack Tuscarora Elementary. We had 119 beautiful fish as you can see from the pictures below in other posts but a 2 hour power outage on Tuesday was more than they could endure...we lost the entire tank of Brook Trout.


We had a burial for them on Wednesday in our school garden and then I began frantically trying to find a way to make sunshine from our rainy day...Thankfully Lost Creek Trout Club has come to our rescue providing adult trout for our students to put in the stream on our release day which is scheduled to be this Saturday, May 13. What a whirlwind of emotions the last week has been. I am thankful for the willingness of Lost Creek Trout Club to come to our rescue. I am always amazed at how our community rallies together to make this event a success...

   We have moved our event this year to the Lost Creek Golf Course to highlight real-life conservation efforts in our community brought about by our newly formed watershed group Juniata Watershed Alliance of which I am the President. I believe our students this year had a first hand lesson on how fragile the balance of life can be.

    On a positive note...we will have our book on display! Hoping that we get all the rain out of our system this week and praying for a sunny day next Saturday! Check back to see some pictures from the day!