The Dublin Irish Festival almost snuck by me this year… August 1 to 3, 2008. Next year starts on July 31, 2009.
Church (go Sunday for church and you get in for free)… Irish breakfast, lots of music including Gaelic Storm, Jen’s Ice Cream and lots of sunshine were the highlights of the day.
The Franklin County Board of Health website has “Let’s Say No to the Mosquito.”
They’ve only found Mosquito’s with the West Nile virus in Prairie Township (far west Franklin County) and Dublin? So far? It says stay tuned to their website for fogging in other parts of the county. They sprayed Dublin previously? Sprayed the township in southwestern Franklin County on July 24th.
The Franklin County Board of Health website has a link to info about what you need to do to keep mosquitoes from breeding in your backyard.. no standing water…
I don’t get mosquito bites personally so I don’t worry about mosquitoes… except when I worry that maybe I do get bit by mosquitoes and just don’t get itchy bumps when mosquitoes bite me.
Beggars Night is on Halloween for the first time in many years in most Central Ohio communities. According to the Columbus Dispatch Beggars night being before Halloween was because Columbus historically had a Halloween Party on October 31!
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the Columbus Halloween party was discontinued in the 1950’s because it got out of hand!
An Irish Blessing for Halloween
At all Hallow’s Tide, God keep you safe
From goblin and pooka and black-hearted stranger,
From harm of the water and hurt of the fire,
From thorns of the bramble, from all other danger,
From Will O’ The Wisp haunting the mire;
From stumbles and tumbles
and tricksters to vex you,
May God in His mercy, this week protect you.
Celebrating Halloween comes from the Celts who lived in Ireland long ago.
This was first posted on the original Columbus Best Blog on Realtown blogs
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The Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce website has a bullseye diagram showing commute times from downtown to some Columbus suburbs (they call the suburbs neighborhoods.)
10 minute commute suburbs include: Bexley Gahanna Upper Arlington
15 minute commute suburbs include: Hilliard Worthington Reynoldsburg Grove City
20 minute commute suburbs include: Dublin Westerville New Albany
30 minute commute suburbs include: Powell Marysville Granville
Personally I think of Gahanna as further from downtown than 10 minutes and Powell closer to downtown than 30 minutes. I must have a distorted view from where I sit in Worthington. Each location on the bullseye (and others) have a PDF with more community information for example: Gahanna .
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