NEW BEDFORD As the world returns to normal, we can t go back to business-as-usual, proclaims the national Earth Day organization on its website.
This year marks the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, and while national events will be held virtually again because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some local things happening to celebrate and move on the group s theme this year: Restore Our Earth.
Captain Jack Peterson Dog Park, 111 Greenwood Street in New Bedford will host a clean up of the park on Saturday, April 24 beginning at 10 a.m. Rain date is Sunday. Volunteers with collect rubbish in and around the park as well doing some weeding. Feel free to bring garden tools.
Editor s note: Seth Chitwood is The Standard-Times new special projects reporter, and he s trying to learn his way around the SouthCoast.
I’m a dog uncle! And last weekend, I got to spend time with my doggy-niece, Bayes. Bayes is a mutt but her DNA test said she’s a mix of Australian cattle dog, shih tzu and poodle. Before she was adopted by my sister and her husband, she was a stray dog in rural Texas. She was adopted in May from the SNARR Northwest Adoption Center in Brewster, NY. We believe Bayes is over a year old.
My sister, Melanie, named Bayes after the statistician and philosopher, Thomas Bayes and his theorem. She uses the Bayes’ theorem in her disease modeling work as she gets her PhD in epidemiology.