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15 Your News Source City of Dublin reaches its residents through a host of platforms

16 in focus Community Champions Prominent personalities speak out on what they love about Dublin

20 Dublin Shutterbugs Dublin residents submit their favorite shots of their community

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ers would accommodate the calendar change to the year 2000, the price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.22, The Sopranos debuted on HBO – and Dublin Life Magazine published its first issue.

Through the years, the City of Dublin and Dublin Life have celebrated many milestones together. The magazine has been there to chronicle the important happenings in Dublin, such as the City’s Bicentennial in 2010 and The Presidents Cup in 2013; our annual special events such as the Dublin Irish Festival and the Memorial Tournament; and everyday happenings that make our community proud.

On the pages of this magazine, you’ve read about your neighbors, learned about hotspots for dining and shop-ping, received recommendations on which books to read, and gained great tips on health and wellness.

That very first issue shared a glimpse into our past through the eyes of local historian Herb Jones, previewed golf fash-ions for the tournament, discussed housing trends, provided information on local catering options and, of course, up-dated the City’s preparations for Y2K – it really was of great concern!

Since 1999, each issue has been filled with Dublin-centric news of value to those living in our community.

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Recognize the faces on the cover of this issue of Dublin Life Magazine? We’ll give you a hint: he’s the head coach of central Ohio’s favorite college football team.

Oh, and he’s also our neighbor. Urban and Shelley Meyer moved to Muirfield Village a few

years ago, and they’re the most recent faces of the City’s “Where Champions Reside” advertising campaign. The Meyers – and several other familiar faces involved in the ads – share with us what they like most about Dublin.

You’ll find lots more love for our City in the annual Shutterbugs feature, which highlights residents’ best photos of Dublin people, places and pets. We send off summer with stories about the out-doors: a Donegal Cliffs couple show off their backyard makeover and a senior citizen spins yarns about spinning her wheels as a Bicycle Ambassador.

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Dublin bike ambassador rides to keep paths clear and enjoyable

When Eileen Martin hops on her bike and hits the City’s trails, she does so with a helmet, her Dublin Bicycle Ambassadors

shirt and the sense of adventure she adopted while growing up in the World War II era.

Martin’s interest in biking was sparked when she was a child. Her family moved during the Great Depression, and she found that riding was the most optimal mode of transportation.

“I will say, for five years, between ages 7 and 12, we did buy a house in New Jersey, and that’s where I started riding,” Martin says. “Unfortunately, war was declared in December and my parents sold the car because my mother didn’t drive anymore and my father was a traveling accountant, so he wasn’t home all that much. At that time, either you walked or rode a bike – and you didn’t want to walk.”

She learned both the functionality and excitement of riding, along with some valuable lessons in bi-cycle repair that came in handy when applying to become a bicycle ambassador.

“I used to explore then, too,” Martin says. “I learned the school bus route and rode around the area. As a kid, you thought places were a long ways off, but it was maybe a mile and a half. We biked to school and to church, so that’s where I re-ally learned to enjoy it. I could still probably fix a chain and fix a flat nowadays.”

Dublin is home to at least 100 miles of bike paths, but with those trails comes necessary upkeep. Am-bassadors, including Martin, watch for potential hazards and cyclists who may have lost their way.

Volunteers are trained to spot encroaching shrubs and overhanging branches. When a hazard is locat-ed, they report the issue to the City for maintenance.

“A bad blackberry bush can cause a problem,” Martin says.

The mission of the bike ambassador program has found its way into Martin’s everyday life. Since joining in May, she has even started watching for branches in her neighborhood that pose a threat to walkers, riders and drivers.

“People like to grow blue spruce trees along their boundary lines, but they don’t remember they won’t stay two feet big forever,” Martin says. “Those lower branches can take up a good part of the walkways.”

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Eileen Martin, 81, is a member of the Dublin Bike Ambassadors. The ambassadors aim to keep the City’s multi-use paths safe for bicyclists.


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While the ambassadors do the ma-jority of the hazard reporting, other members of the community can submit a bike path maintenance request at www.dublinohiousa.gov/request/bike-path-maintenance.

The 45 volunteers hope their work makes for a more enjoyable ride for the rest of the community.

“If all of us are out there and help to maintain the paths and fix the obstruc-tions, it makes it safer for everyone,” Martin says. “Many times, I’m ducking my head down. Even walkers have to walk around or duck. There are places with right angles and, if shrubbery is en-croaching, you can’t see. I almost ran into a gentleman last year.”

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Martin’s personal goals include pass-ing out bike path maps and encouraging riders and pedestrians to be more aware of their surroundings.

“So many people ride or run with their earbuds in,” Martin says. “They’re not in tune with their environment. At least make one ear free to take in the noises of the birds and everything. They’re missing a lot.”

Martin, 81, is consistently active, even participating in a mini-triathlon last year, thanks to a little push from her family. The race included a two-mile run, a 250-yard swim and a 7-mile bike ride.

“Several years ago, I went out to watch my daughter in the mini-triathlon,” Martin says. “The next year, she made her three girls get involved. It’s an introductory into sports. The year after, they called out the name of a woman and said that she was 73 years old. My grandkids looked at me and said, ‘Grandma, you could join us next year.’”

Biking was the easy part for Martin. The other disciplines took a little training. She found herself going for quick runs and taking more challenging routes on her bike, including the Emerald Parkway hill. Her training paid off and she com-pleted the race.

“There was no one in my age category, so I came in first,” she says with a laugh.

With her “competitive days” behind her, Martin now considers her riding to be a leisure-only activity.

“I do cycle, but just for the pleasure of it,” she says. “I’m not a ‘cyclist,’ per se. I tried my daughter’s cycling bike and thought I was going to go right over the handlebars. No way for me. I’m going to stick to sitting up straight.”

Martin joined the Bike Ambassadors this spring after learning about it three

years ago. She wanted to join earlier, but the interview and training dates never meshed with her schedule.

“Every volunteer is interviewed and they go through a complete criminal re-cord check, driving record check and training,” says Christine Nardecchia, vol-unteer resources administrator for the City of Dublin. “They learn how the paths are funded and our plan. We want to arm them with information because the am-bassadors can teach residents as well.”

Members are CPR certified and keep an eye out for lost riders, hazards and lit-tle ones who practice proper bike safety, but they must keep their helping hands to a minimum.

“They cannot do maintenance on bikes because it’s a huge liability issue,” Nar-decchia says. “However, we are able to help with slipped chains, but we can’t help inflate tires or other maintenance.”

The Ambassadors serve as extra eyes and ears for the City.

“Our team is made of leisure bike riders and serious cyclists,” Nardecchia says. “The leisure bike rider is the people per-son, but the cyclist pays attention to main-tenance and infrastructure. We absolutely need both.”

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Your News SourceCity of Dublin reaches its residents through a host of platforms

With a reputation for being pioneers, trailblazers and customer-service driven, the City of Dublin has been on the fore-front in using technology to communicate to our residents, corporate citizens, visi-tors – and, well, the world.

Just like professional journalists, your public servants at the City of Dublin are committed to delivering timely, accurate and comprehensive information. And, yes, we do that in a variety of ways.

In our Community Attitude Survey, our residents said that Dublin Life Maga-zine and the Dublin Villager are media outlets that serve as a preferred source for local news delivered in a traditional manner: print.

Our survey also gauged the interest and relevancy of social media as a news and information source. You told us you were interested in and use social media. And we validate and monitor your interest by tracking what our followers read, like, share, repost and comment about.

A good example is a recent social media post for the 161/Riverside Drive Roundabout simulation at www.dublin ohiousa.gov/engineering. Here are some amazing results that occurred within the first 24 hours:

Video 1,968 playsFacebook 19,248 people reached, 533 likes, 221 comments, 79 sharese-News 820 opens, 457 clicksWebsite 2,412 page views, 2,200 unique page

views, average time on the page 4 minutesInstagram 36 likes, 13 commentsTwitter 51 clicks

What we in Community Relations also have learned through social media analytics is that our customers expect us to “self-publish” new information all day using a variety of social media tools. And it’s important for us to generate

content that matters. In fact, Community Relations posts more Dublin news and relevant content than most local news sources combined.

Of course, it’s not always about break-ing news, road closures and economic development accomplishments. It’s also park features, Bridge Street District up-dates, events, resident profiles and, most recently, being named the Happiest Sub-urb in America. Your comments, questions and reactions tell us what’s important to know and what’s nice to know.

We also have become a “news source” for not only our residents, but also the me-dia. It’s not uncommon to see news about Dublin shared on the social media chan-nels of the Dispatch, Business First and the local TV networks.

Dublin City Council’s goal of enhanc-ing community engagement opportuni-ties combined with the City administra-tive focus of providing incomparable customer service motivate us to achieve great results through social media. In-formation is knowledge – and we’re proud to deliver that to you when and how you prefer.

And as we know, there’s always some-thing new on the horizon. What’s next?

At the recent Spring Neighborhood Association meeting, Muirfield Village resident Rick Ross introduced us to NextDoor, a neighborhood engage-ment platform that encourages two-way communication. Several other neighbor-hood associations have since joined the neighborhood information network. At the annual Fall Neighborhood Associa-tion meeting, we will share how the City of Dublin plans to use this new tool – and more importantly, we are interested in learning how our neighbors are learn-ing, sharing and talking to each other through NextDoor.

Social Media Learning Opportunities

This summer, the Dublin Convention & Visitors Bureau launched DCVBU – a free summer educational series for the local tourism industry and business community. The goal of the ongoing program is to educate the Dublin community on a variety of topics and current trends to market its establishments and the destination as a whole. The Bureau partnered with the City of Dublin to coordinate a panel of experts with vast knowledge of the subject matter. This year’s series focused on the topic of social media and digital marketing with discussions on different social media platforms, the importance of imagery, e-marketing essentials and more. The inaugural year of the program was a huge success with attendees and panelists from several different business sectors. As DCVBU continues to grow, the Bureau will look for new ways to engage the community with the ever-changing marketing trends and tools. All Dublin residents are welcome to attend sessions. Topics and dates for the 2015 ses-sions will be announced next spring. For more information on DCVBU, visit www.irishisanattitude.com/DCVBU or contact the Dublin CVB at 614-792-7666.

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Community Champions

i n fo cus BY LISA AuRAND

Shelley and urban Meyer live in Muirfield Village.

Prominent personalities speak out on what they love about Dublin

What city isn’t proud of its accomplished citizens – both residents and corporate neighbors?

The City of Dublin being no excep-tion, the community relations de-partment has been reaching out

to its acclaimed and award-winning residents and businesses and asking for their participation in a new brand mar-keting campaign.

“Dublin, Where Champions Reside” was launched just before The Presidents Cup last fall with an ad featuring Jack and Barbara Nicklaus, both prominent Dublin figures.

The ad lists each of their accomplish-ments – 18 professional golf champion-ship wins for Jack, chairman of the Nick-laus Children’s Health Care Foundation for Barbara, among others – and a quote from them answering the question, “Why Dublin, Ohio?”

“The people of Dublin continue to make Muirfield Village Golf Club a truly special place. We couldn’t be prouder or more thankful,” they say.

The second ad – which features Wen-dy Thomas, daughter of The Wendy’s Company Founder Dave Thomas – was released to coincide with the opening of the new flagship restaurant on state Route 161 this spring.

“Our mission is to support City Coun-cil’s goal of third-party validation when it comes to promoting the amenities and services in the City of Dublin,” says Community Relations Director Sandra Puskarcik.

It’s one thing for a City Council mem-ber to enthuse about Dublin’s parks, but hearing from Wendy, well, that’s a little bit different.

“I love the parks here,” says Thomas, who works in Dublin at the headquar-ters of Thomas 5, a Wendy’s franchisee. “They’re so well maintained, and then with the whole new area that’s going to (be developed) down by the river” in the Bridge Street District.

“I think Dublin has done such a fabu-lous job (with the) walking trails,” she says. “It’s nice to get out of the office.”

Thomas’ other favorite part of spend-ing so much time in Dublin is the flag-ship store – including the life-size statue of her father.

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As the namesake of the fast-food chain, and having appeared in a handful of commercials for the Wendy’s Company as an adult, she is occasionally recognized. When it happens locally, it doesn’t seem unusual.

“Elsewhere in the country, it’s kind of interesting,” she says. “It’s always been life. It’s OK.”

Dublin is a good location for Thomas 5 because of the easy ac-cess to Interstate 270, among other rea-sons, Thomas says.

“I would definitely recommend living and working in Dublin,” she says. “There are so many different neighborhoods

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“The statue of my dad, Dave, is the best part, especially when I drive by and he waves at me,” she says with a little laugh.

Thomas grew up in central Ohio and attended college at the University of Florida before returning to be part of the family business.


that I think could fit anybody’s needs. … It’s just a great community, and I think the people in Dublin are just really good people.”

Buckeye football Coach Urban Meyer and his wife, Shelley, are the subjects of the most-recent ad, re-leased in the summer as central Ohio starts thinking about the upcoming football season.

“When I came to Columbus to house-hunt, my Realtors took me all over the city and to all the different suburbs,” Shelley says. “We needed somewhere fairly private, preferably gated, yet I didn’t want to be secluded because I love people. I remembered from my time here in the late ‘80s that Dublin was such a nice community and had access to a lot of things – restaurants, shopping, zoo, etc.”

The Meyers’ home on the golf course in a gated section of Muirfield Village was just what the couple was looking for, says Shelley, calling the location a “deal-maker.” They had never lived on a golf course or in a golf community before.

“My favorite thing about living in Dublin is Muirfield Village and the Me-morial Tournament,” Urban says. “It’s

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Compared to other communities where the Meyers have lived during Urban’s years as a coach, Dublin has many more resources, Shelley says.

“I can literally walk to some places for dinner. I love the trails all around that you can bike, run, walk on. I love how green it is. I love the parks,” she says. “People are really friendly with each other and it sort of feels ‘family-ish’ here even if you don’t know everyone.”

George Barrett – CEO of Fortune 500 company Cardinal Health, which is headquartered in Dublin – echoes their enthusiasm. Barrett and Cardinal Health are the subjects of a forthcoming ad.

“Dublin’s been an extremely supportive community to our company and to our people, many of whom live in the area,” Barrett says. “Being in Dublin brings ac-cess to strong schools, outstanding pub-lic services and access to an increasing-ly vibrant downtown Columbus.”

Cardinal Health, a medical supply company, has been headquartered in Dublin since 1999 and has grown tremendously since then. The company had more than $100 billion in revenue last year.

“We think Dublin is conveniently lo-cated with great amenities and services and provides a great quality of life to our many employees who call Dublin home,” says Stephanie Pavol, a social media and public relations manager for the company. “Dublin has also been a great partner to us over the years and supported our growth.”

In addition to promoting City ameni-ties, the ads also are a way of recogniz-ing and thanking those who call Dublin home, Puskarcik says.

“From our perspective, it’s a nice way to be able to thank community leaders like the ones featured in the ads for not just what they do for Dublin, but general-ly they’re very philanthropic people, and it’s a nice way to be able to showcase that,” she says.

“This type of campaign couldn’t hap-pen in a lot of other communities,” Pus-karcik says. “We have been fortunate with the high-profile and recognizable people who have supported the cam-paign and who are willing to demon-strate their support of Dublin.”

Lisa Aurand is editor of Dublin Life Magazine. Feedback welcome at [email protected].

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Since 2006, the Dublin Irish Festi-val Scholarship has been awarded to graduating high school seniors who have shown exceptional community involvement as Festival volunteers. Scott Elliott was one of the first two stu-dents to be awarded the scholarship, which was worth $1,000 at that time. This year Jaclyn Chu from Dublin Jerome High School and Sam Kieffer from Dublin Coffman High School are each receiving $2,500 scholarships.

Dublin Life: What high school did you go to?

Scott Elliott: I went to Coffman for two years then Jerome for two years. I was in the first graduating class at Jerome.

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SE: Well, I started volunteering with the Irish Festival in middle school. I started

out working in the Wee Folks area, then I moved up to hospitality and then I moved up to the golf cart, driving the entertainers around. I think my (senior) year was the first year they had the scholarship (for vol-unteers); my mom saw it in the newspaper, I think. I applied and I won.

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SE: Part of it was writing an essay about what volun-teering means to you and how volunteering at the Irish Festival has prepared you for your future. And then I think I had to get a couple of letters of recommendation, maybe.

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SE: I went to The Ohio State University, and I ma-

jored in sports management. I graduated in winter 2011.

DL: How did the scholarship help you?SE: It helped defray the cost of college.

I was always going to go to Ohio State. My dad worked at OSU, so my family had this connection. But the scholarship definitely made it an easier decision.

DL: What are you doing now?SE: Right now I actually work at the

Dublin (Community) Recreation Center. I’m the open gym supervisor, and I also do a little softball and basketball league supervision. I also work part-time for the Worthington rec center supervising volley-ball leagues there.

DL: Are you still involved in the Irish Festival?

SE: I have volunteered every year since I graduated. I think last year was the first time I hadn’t. I signed up, but then I got an internship with the Arizona Cardinals for the preseason, so I was (in Arizona) from mid-July all the way through the end of August.

DL: What was the internship like?SE: I was working with the equipment

staff. We did lots of laundry. We also

Scott, left, pictured with his mother, chose to use the scholarship money to fund his education at OSu.

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prepared and packed the equipment, unpacked it all when we got to train-ing camp, set up the field when we got to practice and assisted the coaches during practice, getting them whatever they needed. We would also be in the locker rooms before and after practice if they needed equipment. … It was pretty intense. We would work 70-80 hours a week. We were there 12 hours a day, almost.

It was definitely interesting to see how professional sports leagues are run. I would like to work in more recreational sports, but it was interesting to get that competitive sports experience and see how it compares and contrasts to recre-ational sports.

DL: What do you like about the Dublin community?

SE: I like the community. It feels like there’s a lot of connectivity between peo-ple who live here. You get to know your neighbors, and there are lots of interac-tions. Dublin puts on lots of events that are good for the community.

DL: What do you like about the Irish Festival?

SE: I just think it’s interesting. It’s a large event. Part of sports management is event management, and I’ve always been in-terested in that as well. It interests me to see how they can bring all these people together from the community, and even outside the community, and put on an event that everyone can enjoy.

DL: Will you attend the Irish Festival this year?

SE: I am planning to attend and volun-teer. I would hope to volunteer in hospital-ity golf carts again.

Lisa Aurand is editor of Dublin Life Magazine. Feedback welcome at [email protected].


revamped kitchen includes an oversized window above the sink with an uninhib-ited view of the yard.

The couple had decided to replace the deck, which had been rebuilt once

since they moved in, and they finally decided on a land-scape project. The yard was “just a rect-angle, really boring,” Carolyn says.

As they were re-viewing various landscape propos-als, none of which they especially liked, they learned of an impressive back yard in their neighbor-hood that reached from the house to the

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Tons of limestone boulders, gravel and pavers made for a

dramatic transformation in the Smiths’ Donegal Cliffs back yard.

Carolyn and Rick Smith have lived in the house, which was constructed in the 1980s, for 28 years. The large patio replaced a deteriorating wooden deck and is one of the largest improvements they’ve made, second only to the just-completed overhaul of the kitchen, family and dining rooms.

“It’s more than we hoped it would ever be,” Carolyn says of the backyard renovation, completed last summer. The

Wood to StoneDonegal Cliffs couple enjoys new stone patio

Rick and Carolyn Smith enjoy the shade on their new patio.

Scioto River. That back yard had been designed by Tom Costello, owner of Costello Productions, which finds busi-ness by word-of-mouth and its website, Costello says.

The Smiths’ home is on a lot with some slope to the rear and one side. After a tour and some consultation, Costello outlined a plan for a stone and paver patio with a curved outer edge and no railings.

“We just don’t really have a lot of vision for this,” Caro-lyn says of their decision to have Costello build what he felt was right for their yard that backs to a tree line.

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The stone of the patio provides a housing for a natural gas grill.

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replacing some siding that had rotted behind it.

For easy access, the installation in-cludes semi-circular steps at the fam-ily room sliding door rather than “short, choppy steps,” Costello says.

But that was but a small part of the work. The deck had been 4 feet above ground at the outer edge, and the new patio was to be about 18 inches lower. To do that, Costello hauled in gravel that is held back by large mesh sack-like containers.

The outer wall is shaped with limestone boulders Costello hauled in from a quar-ry. The boulders remained after being dynamited during quarry operations, and he picked the sizes needed for a project.

At one end of the patio, he built steps for better access to the walkway toward the front of the home. On the other end is an outdoor natural gas grill in a housing of manufactured stone; it’s the foundation for a 5-foot-long, 2-inch-thick reinforced concrete countertop that’s extended to allow for seating. The top is permanently anchored to the grill structure.

Costello wanted to use natural gas in the grill but the home had electric heat. That desire led to the Smiths having a gas line installed free, taking advantage of a Columbia Gas incentive, while replacing their furnace and air conditioner.

Patio floor pavers are within a “soldier course” of full-size pavers around the cir-

cular outside edge of the patio. As the floor was laid, smaller, odd-shaped piec-es were cut to fit between full-size pavers so they won’t loosen.

At its widest point, the patio extends about 18 feet from the house. There, Costello built a water feature, a stream that runs over a limestone boulder and rocks. To make it, he used two pieces of culvert to form a 300-gallon, rubber-lined underground reservoir and in-stalled a pump and water line to cre-ate a “bubbler,” a continuous stream of water that runs over the rocks and back to the reservoir.

“No mosquitoes, nothing for kids to fall into, it doesn’t take up space,” he says of the self-contained water system. The res-ervoir may have to be topped off with a garden hose twice a year.

For convenience, exterior electric out-lets and low-level lighting on the stairs and pills were installed.

When Costello outlined the project, the Smiths weren’t sure of the outcome. “We gave him free rein, and he delivered,” Carolyn says. “I love our back yard. I probably have 80 hostas out there. …We’re out there all the time. Morning cof-fee. Evening happy hour wine.”

The couple’s two daughters and their families are frequent visitors to the patio. The grandchildren love the water feature, in particular, Carolyn says.

Duane St. Clair is a contributing editor. Feedback welcome at [email protected].

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So you have your seed-lings and are ready to plant, but you are wor-ried about space. If you don’t have a spare plot of land, all you need are some containers with good drainage. The advantage of smaller planters is that the soil warms up faster. “Tender annuals and perennials flourish in the warm soil and don’t like to get cold, wet feet,” Peggy explains. “But water them more frequently because the con-tainers dry out quicker.”

Consider a hanging basket of lettuce so you can have salad right outside your window. Fill a wire cage with sphag-num moss, weave seedlings through the bars, water and then snip off what you need as the lettuce grows. Or use an old ladder or trellis for climbing peas, pole beans and cherry tomatoes.

Peggy has several raised beds for her vegetables and smaller pots for herbs and spices. She suggests planting flow-ers such as marigolds, lavender and nas-turtium along with the veggies to keep aphids and other insects away. Deer can also be a nuisance in the Dublin area, but Peggy found an organic reci-pe online that has worked well and kept Bambi and friends away from her peas, green beans and cucumbers: Mix 1 egg yolk, 1 tablespoon baking powder and 1 liter of water. Pour into a clean pump with sprayer and apply to plants. Deer

don’t like the smell of the mixture, and it doesn’t harm the environment or alter the taste of veggies.

There is something special about pick-ing your own food that’s been soaking up the sun all day. August is still a great time to plant cold weather vegetables and herbs. All autumn and even into the snow, you can harvest kale, beets, car-rots, cabbage and radishes. “Kale gets even sweeter after a frost,” says Peggy, “and I was cutting parsley and other herbs out of my garden at Thanksgiving.”

One of my favorite ideas is a themed garden. Plant everything you might need for homemade soup, such as onions, car-rots, garlic, cilantro and broccoli. Or try an herbal tea planter with peppermint, lemon verbena, chamomile and thyme. Mix and muddle the leaves before cover-ing with hot water, and you can dry out whatever herbs are left in the fall.

My project is going to be the D’Angelo pizza garden. We are planting toma-toes, onions, basil, oregano and pep-pers so we can create a homemade fresh pizza. If only we could figure out where to find a pepperoni and mozza-rella plant! – CD

The harvest from Peggy’s 2013 garden

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Editor’s note: This is the first selection for the new Dublin Life Book Club. The first 10 people to visit the Dublin Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library can request a free paperback copy of this issue’s selection. We’ll meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 in the library meeting room to share our thoughts on the book. Enjoy!

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

By Susan Cain

At least a third of the world’s population is introverted, and Cain argues that introverts are a misunderstood and underappreciated minority. Listed in numerous top 10s, this book includes proud introvert Cain’s meticulous research, compelling case studies and thoughtful argu-ments for embracing the quiet ones and the wealth they bring to the collective table of human innovation.

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Flight SchoolBy Lita JudgePenguin wants to fly, but that’s impossible – or is it? (Ages 4-8)

President Taft is Stuck in the BathBy Mac BarnettDid you know that President Taft had a bath tub big enough to hold four men? This funny story explains it all. (Ages 4-8)

Absolutely AlmostBy Lisa GraffAlbie has a long list of things he’s not very good at, but a new babysitter inspires him to take pride in himself. (Ages 8-12)

Brown Girl DreamingBy Jacqueline WoodsonIn free verse, Woodson beauti-fully recounts what it was like growing up on the brink of civil rights reform. Available Aug. 28. (Ages 10+)

Children’s Reads By Tamra Headrick, Library Assistant, Youth Services

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Dublin Life Book Club SelectionBy Mary Biscuso, Library Assistant, Adult Services

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