PSoTD

Talk 2 Action has an interesting post about how little some of the Dover School District board members knew about Intelligent Design before approving it for curriculum. The blog is right. It was negligence by the Board. There's still one member on the Board that voted for ID: Heather Geesey. She wasn't up for election when the rest of them were voted out.

Maybe this explains some of the boats anchored overnight near the islands of the river in the summer.

I did not know that "on any given day, approximately 600 people experience homelessness in the County of Dauphin and the City of Harrisburg." Last week Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed and Dauphin County Commissioner George Hartwick III unveiled a plan to "end homelessness" in the county, called Home Run. You can see the plan here.

I got some interesting suggestions from the Philly area about starting up a West Shore Drinking Liberally.

Our daughter, who is ten, is interested in trying out a couple of weeklong camps this summer. Since summer camps for kids now come in so many flavors, from the old cabin-camping to the specialty pottery day camp, we asked her to make a list of the kinds of camps she might be interested in. While she's doing that, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask:

Anyone have any great experiences, either as a child or as a parent, with a Central Pennsylvania area summer camp that they'd like to share?

Catalano's shut their doors for the last time Sunday night.

And it was a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Harrisburg. Looked like maybe 100-200 of us jumped in the Susquehanna River today at noon at City Island. Somebody said the water was 37 degrees, and I don't know for sure, but it was COLD. Still, the air temperature was near 50, and it was surprisingly comfortable both before and afterwards standing outside in a swimsuit. Worst part was how fast and how cold my feet got - I had to get out as quick as I did just to start warming those babies up.

Our kids had fun, there were several folks dressed up in silly costumes for the Plunge. I saw a couple of little kids - under 12 - going in, up to people that looked like they were in their late 60s at the least. And everyone of them got a laugh out of it.

Next year, if the weather isn't absolutely horrible, we're going to do this and have a party at our house after the dip.