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Columbus gets some special holidays… Yeah Columbus Day is a bigger deal..when your name is Columbus… We have Columbus Days… but the real extra local holidays have to do with Buckeye football.  The Friday before the Michigan Game is a tailgate party.  The third Saturday in November has a holiday feel to it.

You don’t have to be all that big a fan, it’s still a holiday…

I lived in Green Bay a couple of times.  There’s another town that takes football serious.

After Christmas, after New Years Eve and New Years Day… in Columbus we usually have another holiday after the first of the year when the Buckeye’s go to a bowl game…

Not LSU Tigers.. Real tigers, Siberian Tigers… It’s difficult to search the Columbus Dispatch for tiger news because of the sports stories.

Jack Hanna was on ‘Good Morning America’ this morning from Montana. His connection to the Columbus Zoo is still Hanna’s authority to speak for American Zoos, I believe.

Hanna was interviewed along with Adam Roberts of Born Free, about “Should animals be caged? “

In his first response Roberts angered Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo by lumping zoos in with circuses. Roberts intimated that zoos are not educational.

I think I learned something this fall at the Columbus Zoo about what a small world it is. At an exhibit at the Columbus Zoo… all about conservation …a Zoo employee talked to me… me personally about animal skins that someone was trying to smuggle in through Port Columbus… I can’t remember which animals but I am sure there was a large cat skin… there was a story on the internet Sunday about a Siberian Tiger being beheaded and skinned inside a Chinese Zoo…

Columbus Dispatch from the AP:

“Did fatal tiger escape have human help? Jack Hanna doubts tiger jumped out on its own; San Francisco police open criminal investigation”

I have to admit I did not like zoos as a kid… my favorite part was the train ride… actually until quite recently the zoo was not a place I wanted to spend time. If the Columbus Zoo is an indication zoos are becoming more educational.

Photo courtesy of GeekPhilosopher.com

Central Ohio’s cornstalks are put to use to save money according to this article in Columbus Business First.  Franklin County Farmers are paid to leave the cornstalks in the field. 

I wonder if  surrounding Central Ohio counties use a similar plan.  There have got to be a lot more cornstalks in other Central Ohio counties.

If you notice corn stalks in the fields the farmers are being industrious by not clearing the fields.  The county is being “green” by not using as much salt and chemicals on the roads.  Hopefully the white will stay in the cornfields and not drift onto county roads.

When pigs fly they fly out of Port Columbus on Skybus:

“The inaugural flying pig flight departed today from Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, OH. More than 100 passengers and airline employees — sporting piggy snouts and hats — were hamming it up on the tarmac atop a VIP pink piggy carpet to board the plane.” according to CNNMoney.com in Capital One Makes Pigs Fly!

A Skybus plane is painted as a pig? A piggie bank? It is to promote Capital Ones Money Market Accounts and reward savvy savers.

 Flightstory an Aviation Blog has photos of the Skybus plane.

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