Thursday, Sept. 11
10:30 a.m. Healthy Aging and Exercise! - Kerry MacQueen, health educator/injury prevention coordinator for Holmes County General Health District, will discuss what positive, healthy aging looks like through the use of daily physical activity and exercise.
11:30 a.m. How To Control Weeds In Your Yard and Garden – Paul Snyder, Secrest Arboretum operations manager and Master Gardener coordinator, will help you understand weed biology and simple control strategies to limit the quantity of weeds found in your yard and garden. He will provide samples of common weeds.
2 p.m. Who’s That Tick? Troy Koser, postdoctoral researcher with the Ohio State University Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, will offer information about the different tick species in Wayne County and tick-safe precautions for families and livestock. Not all tick species have the same effect on human animal health, so Koser will talk about the major tick species that may impact us and provide resources to help us identify and test ticks. Additionally, he’ll describe his lab’s research on tick biology, how we protect ourselves from tick bites, and our projects looking into how you can protect yourself and your livestock from ticks and pathogens they carry.
