January meeting, salamanders and other bits...

Our meeting speaker for January 14th was Chuck Jakubchak who presented his talk: Natural Behaviors, Common Birds, and Uncommon Thoughts.

This was an excellent review of some of our course material about some of the basic ideas such as Commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism. Chuck gave us many great examples for these concepts,and I'm sure if you didn't get it all the first time, these examples put things into perspective for you. He also gave us a quick talk on the symbolism of Ohio. Many of us found this program extremely enjoyable and interesting. The meeting was well attended by 19, and we seem to be growing in numbers and maybe pounds as Bob Hopp and Connie provided snacks for us. We want you all to know that we welcome other OCVNers from other areas too! Don't think that just because we are the Holmes Co. chapter we wouldn't love to have people from other areas come to our meetings! We can all stand to share ideas and opportunities to volunteer in all places all over Ohio.

During our meeting this month, we received a special note from Sharon asking Holmes Co. chapter OCVners to share in the co-hosting the conference. Some of our chapter members have shown an interest in helping with conference needs from 3-5 pm on Friday, March 5th. Please, if you are able to help Sharon and Chris, please send her an email
at strouse.1@osu.edu . Or please call Chris Sieverdes. I hear we will be getting more information about the conference via e-mail during the coming weeks. I'm planning on going to the Saturday sessions, and would be there for the set up on Friday if not for work. I do hope some of you *can* help out with the conference set up. This sounds like an excellent way to get more volunteer hours in and help your fellow OCVNers have a great time!

February 11, 2010 is our next meeting and we have a program by:

Carol Connelly, On Ohio Shell Bearing Land Snails
The title of her talk is: Lifestyles of the Relatives of the Fancy and Famous.
Hmmm. Even the title is enough to make me want to hear what she has to say. I do look forward to this talk, and I think it will be different from most of what we've heard so far.

Spring is coming and the salamanders should be moving!
That blog from Carrie about searching for the salamanders sounds like great fun to me!
We hope to see you at the next meeting, on February 11th!