McHenry County Blog

Leaves dropped off one of the poinsettia’s Crystal Lake Kiwanis sold earlier this month, so one of the members asked Hebron’s Tom Leider’s Greenhouse folks what the problem was.

Here’s the answer from Kathy:

“That’s an easy one.. TOOO TOO TOO much water.

“The first sign of over watering is poinsettia leaves will turn yellow, and then drop, only leaving the colored bracts on the stems.

“To also verify this, the roots at this point in the picture will be brown instead of a fat healthy white.

“Poinsettias are originally from mountainous areas in Mexico…so the roots on a poinsettia are use to drinking…then staying dry (because mountains do not hold water…it runs off).

“With the hybrids (poinsettias other than red…such as the Ruby Frost), they are even more sensitive to over watering.

“A poinsettia should be allowed to dry down, then have a nice drink and then have any access water taken away after five minutes…do no leave water in the dish or foil.

“If a poinsettia becomes so dry it wilts, one should still not over indulge with the watering…water the poinsettia…and remove any access water after five minutes…the poinsettia should rebound in just a few hours.

“While poinsettia enjoy direct southern lighting…they will last many weeks in partial lighting, so lighting is not as sensitive an issue as the watering…except with lower light levels the poinsettia will drink even less so in a church setting, watering may be necessary only once every week to 10 days.

“Temperature is also not as sensitive an issue, while poinsettias prefer to be between 60-70 degrees, lower temperature are acceptable (as low as 50) but again…the poinsettia will not drink as much.

“Any temperature lower than 50 for even an hour can make all leaves drop off within a few days.

“The difference is the roots would still be white (so if they believe it is a temperature issue…look at the roots…brown is over watering…white roots but droppage of leaves would be a sign of extreme cold).

“Okay…That is about all there is to poinsettias…they are very friendly plants (not poisonous …that is the berries of a Holly branch). Hope this helps.”

Look at this marvelous Santa Run graphic designed by McHenry County College student Christian Andrick.

Crystal Lake Kiwanis is sponsoring in conjunction with local charities which help kids.

As of last Wednesday’s Kiwanis luncheon, 482 people had signed up to run in Santa costumes on what will be a really good running Sunday.

Crystal Lake Santa Run organizer Mike Splitt shows off costume that each Santa participate will be provided. Reindeer Dash participants will get antlers.  Kiwanis meets twice a month for lunch.

2012 Santa Run sponsors

This is a huge turnout for a first-time event.

No trudging through the snow on December 2nd (but no guarantees for 2013).

No sireee!

Low of 53% on Sunday this year.  And cloudy.

The race is a 5k and the walk  (called the Reindeer Dash- Saunter), designed especially for kids and parents, is 1 mile.

The cost is $35 for those in the Santa Run and $15 for those participating in the Reindeer Dash.  (Race day registration is $5 more.)

People can sign up on the website Kiwanis Santa Run for Kids or in person at the Raue Center in Downtown Crystal Lake– where the race will start and end–from 10-3. The Raue Center’s phone is 815-356-9212

The organizations besides Crystal Lake Kiwanis that work with children throughout McHenry County that will benefit from the money earned at the run are

• Big Brothers  Big Sisters
• Girls on the Run NWIL
• CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
  
• The Light Center /Main Stay
• Turning Point

The projects Crystal Lake Kiwanis participate in can been seen below:

Crystal Lake Kiwanis programs for kids.

The annual Peanut Days for Kiwanis is coming up in McHenry County.  Some details appear below.

Kiwanis Club Of Crystal Lake – Peanut Days, September 23-­‐24th

Two years ago Lilttle Miss Peanut and her father were at Sam's Club in Crystal Lake.

Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis International club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Kiwanis members generate nearly 150,000 service projects, devote more than 6 million hours of service, and raise nearly  $107 million every year for communities, families, and projects.

The primary purpose of the Crystal Lake Kiwanis Club is to serve the needs of children in our McHenry County Community. Over the past year, the C.L. Kiwanis club made financial contributions to local organizations benefiting children, e.g., a Shave-A-Thon raised over $33,000 for cancer research last spring.

Since 1951, the first Kiwanis Peanut Day in Chicago, volunteers have worn the official orange vest imprinted with: “Kiwanis Peanut Day” and “Please Give Freely” and will hand out small (¾ ounce) sealed bags of roasted peanuts.

Our very own, Little Miss Peanut will make appearances during the Event.

Kiwanis volunteer collectors will be at the following locations on Friday and Saturday and, perhaps, others:

• Sam’s Club
• Jewel-Osco
• Country Donuts
•  Starbuck’s
• Both Metra Train stations in Crystal LakeFriday morning commute, only.

This year Crystal Lake Kiwanis is offering an opportunity to 501(c)3 not- for-profit organizations who serve children to use Peanut Days to raise money for their groups.  The details are below:

• We will supply the individual bags of peanuts.
• You will secure volunteers to distribute the peanuts and collect donations on Peanut Days (September 23 and 24, 2011). If you have a favorite location(s), we can work with you to secure the location.
• After reimbursement for the cost of the peanuts, the funds you collect will be split 75% to you and 25% to us assuming your organization can document that you are a IRS Code Sec 501(c)(3) tax exempt entity and, that your organization provides services within McHenry County that focus on children.

So if you are interested in a fun, easy way to raise funds for your cause, please join us on Friday, September 23, 2011 and/or Saturday, September 24, 2011. If you would like more information please feel free to contact Joe Johnson at 815-459-0707 or joe@kmtaxman.com.

Divina Arellano, the Crystal Lake Kiwanis' Little Miss Peanut, waves to the 4th of July Parade viewers in Kathy Gossett's convertible.

Each year Crystal Lake Kiwanis sponsors a Little Miss Peanut pageant.

It’s not a beauty contest, just a way to allow your girls to get some experience in front of 30-40 people.

The winner this year was Divina Arellano.

Colonial Cafe today.

The Crystal Lake restaurant that the recession does not seem to be hurting as much as others is planning to switch sides of Route 14.

The old Baker's Square restaurant, in front of which the last TEA Party was held.

Colonial Cafe, which serves my very favorite salad, the citrus tango one with corn bread on the side, is planning to move across the road to where Baker’s Square used to be.

You’d have the owner of the chain why, but my guess is that he is betting that the new Three Oaks Recreational Area, whose main entrance is just down the road a thousand or so feet, will drawn visitors who want a reasonably priced meal.

If that’s not the reason, maybe it’s the development that the owner expects to occur next to TORA. If a hotel is ever built, you can bet that every meal will not be eaten there.

Colonial runs monthly specials. My favorite is the cut rate hamburger, which truly is a good one. The fifty cent ice cream cone, small, but with my propensity to gain weight when I ear carbohydrates, a taste is find, sucked me in. This month, there are $1 sundaes, which blows my diet any day I succumb to the best ice cream in Crystal Lake.

Our Kiwanis Club meets at Colonial the second and fourth Wednesdays at noon. I hope the new place has a suitable meeting room.

The Rev. Heather Ann Martinez

Never can tell what one will encounter at the Crystal Lake Kiwanis Club.

Wednesday at Colonial Cafe, the speaker was the Rev. Heather Ann Martinez.

Encouraged by a Crystal Lake couple who had been attending the West Chicago Anglican Church in North America, Martinez, an Anglican Priest, is in church planing mode.

The West Dundee resident is starting the Resurrection Anglican Church in Crystal Lake. Bible studies are being held at Panera Bread for the present with the goal of reaching the unchurched, those displaced from other churches and immigrant populations. The Martinez family is from Puerto Rico.

Considering the state of the economy, Martinez is concentrating on what the Bible says about financial issues.

Heather Ann Martinez speaking about her passion--starting an Anglican Church in Crystal Lake.

The meetings will be held at non-traditional times, rather than Sunday mornings.  She envisions them being on Sunday nights and during the week.

Martinez can be reached at 630-334-1877.

The Anglican Church of North America was started in 2008 and has grown to 100,000 members. It has thirty bishops and 700 parishes throughout North America.

What location will it find in Crystal Lake?

“Several locations have been offered,” she said.

Thirty different locations are under consideration.

Bible studies will start  at Sunrise Assisted Living at one PM on June 5th.

When asked whether she was like Paul, who financed his ministry by making tents, Martinez replied in the negative.

“You really are parachuting,” one member observed.

I asked for more details and Martinez provided the following:

The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has these elements.  This is from our statement of faith:

The Church confesses Jesus Christ to be “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”; and that no one comes to the Father but by him. Consistent with this, it identifies the following seven elements as characteristic of the “Anglican Way” and essential for membership:

• The Bible is the inspired word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and is the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.

• Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are sacraments ordained by Christ and are to be ministered with unfailing use of his words of institution and of the elements ordained by him.

• The historic episcopate is an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.

• The Church affirms the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic creeds: the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian.

• Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided church, it affirms the teaching of the first four Ecumenical Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Bible.

• The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, is a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, is the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.

• The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1562, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, express the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and express fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.^[23]

The Church has both Anglo-Catholic and evangelical orientations which are theologically more conservative than the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.

The ACNA is mission-driven.  Our archbishop has the goal of planting 1000 churches in the next five years.  Resurrection Anglican is orthodox (adhering to an established or traditional faith), gently charismatic (believing in the gifts of the Holy Spirit), evangelical (mission-focused), and Anglo-Catholic (liturgical).  I would not say every church or missional church plant in the denomination would say it is strongly evangelical or charismatic.

The Resurrection Anglican Church Plant is most concerned with reaching people who do not have any faith at all.  We want to help those that have been negatively affected by economic struggles, job loss, loss of loved ones, poverty, and other needs in our society.

You can see Eleanor Eising getting a donation at Joseph’s Market in Crystal Lake yesterday.

Friday and Saturday are Kiwanis Peanut Days.

Today you will find people at Joseph’s and Jewel.

All donations got to help kids after subtracting the cost of the peanuts.

You can see Eleanor Eising getting a donation at Joseph’s Market in Crystal Lake yesterday.

Friday and Saturday are Kiwanis Peanut Days.

Today you will find people at Joseph’s and Jewel.

All donations got to help kids after subtracting the cost of the peanuts.

This cake was at Colonial Cafe when I walked in for last Wednesday’s Crystal Lake Kiwanis Club meeting.

It was the meeting at which new officers were being sworn in.

Today and Saturday Kiwanis members will be handing out peanuts at their annual fund raiser various places in Crystal Lake.

The money collected goes to programs for kids.

Baker and decorator of the cake was the Salvation Army’s Linda Hunter.

This cake was at Colonial Cafe when I walked in for last Wednesday’s Crystal Lake Kiwanis Club meeting.

It was the meeting at which new officers were being sworn in.

Today and Saturday Kiwanis members will be handing out peanuts at their annual fund raiser various places in Crystal Lake.

The money collected goes to programs for kids.

Baker and decorator of the cake was the Salvation Army’s Linda Hunter.