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Leisure World News OF MARYLAND April 20, 2018 • Published Twice a Month • residents.lwmc.com Rooting for Spring Directory of Contact Information Now Available on Resident Website by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News residents, even if the user has given prior consent. directory of residents’ Residents who opt-in to A contact information share their information in the organized alphabetically by directory may also opt out last name, much like a digital some or all of their informa- phone book, is now available tion at any time. on the resident website, Residents must be signed (residents.lwmc.com). up as users on (residents. In an effort to protect lwmc.com) to access the residents’ privacy, the online directory. The infor- website’s users must visit the mation included in the directory and opt-in to have directory is not shared with their contact information, any parties outside of Leisure including home address, World Management Corpora- email address and phone tion (LWMC). numbers, visible to other ➤ to page 5 Dr. Zutzang Hsu spreads fertilizer on his winter melon plants on a chilly morning April 17. For the latest happenings at the garden plots, see page 2. Photo by Maureen Freeman, Leisure World News Colony Thrives in Montgomery Mutual’s Bee Box by Kimberly Y. Choi figuring it had the funds and land to install a bee box. he buzzing swarm was the The proposal was met with T idea of grounds assistant excitement. No one disputed Aaron Tenley. In spring 2017, the worth of a small project to he realized Leisure World’s benefit the local environment. pollinator garden would make Tenley had never kept a good host for a crowd of bees before. He took a class The opt-in resident directory, now available on (residents.lwmc.com), allows live-in pollinators. through the Montgomery users to manage the contact information they share with other residents and He brought the idea to a County Beekeepers Associa- homeowners. Screenshot by Leisure World News Montgomery Mutual meeting, ➤ to page 3 Governance & Information .... 8 Sports, Games & Thoughts & Opinions ........... 12 Scoreboards ........................ 50 Events & Entertainment ...... 14 Classes & Seminars ............ 54 Commemorate this year’s Movie Schedule ................... 16 Calendar of Events .............. 57 Arbor Day, Friday, April 27, Health & Fitness ................. 22 Governance Meeting Schedules ............................ 57 with a tree planting. For INSIDE Clubs, Groups & details, see page 26. Organizations ...................... 26 Classifieds ........................... 60 Club Trips Listing................. 48 Getting Their Hands Dirty Local Students Dig In at the Garden Plots by Stacy Smith, Leisure World News garden, and another watched as “When are we going to do garden plots at Leisure resident John Biedenkapp used something for you?,” she asked World will brim with flowers, uring two hot a rototiller, a machine she’d Lalley. herbs and vegetables ripe for D afternoons in April, never seen before, to break up And with that, Lalley and harvesting. But for the time with temperatures soaring the hardened soil in his garden the student walked off together being, the gardeners and their unseasonably into the 80s, plot. to empty some heavy bags. helpers have reaped something gardeners cultivated soil, Biedenkapp, who lives with “The kids who came were perhaps even more substantial carted wheelbarrows and several health issues, “doesn’t wonderful, hardworking and – the feeling of satisfaction poured bags of mulch, really have the energy or generous,” Lalley said. that comes from a job well stopping every so often to stamina to do the plowing and By mid-summer, the 260 done. swig some water or wipe away digging and all the hard work,” a bead of sweat from their said his wife, Shelby. faces. “He was just thrilled to Every year around this time, have the help,” she added. “He the garden plots are roused couldn’t have had a garden this from their long, winter naps in year if it hadn’t been for the preparation for spring planting. kids.” It’s a tedious job that can Biedenkapp and his wife were require a lot of backbreaking so impressed with the students’ work. But this year, a few more work that they sent a letter to able bodies were on hand to the school thanking them. help out. Some gardeners and students Eight students from Our got to know one another a little Lady of Good Counsel High better as they took breaks to School in Olney, Maryland, ride out the heat, including provided their time and labor event organizer Mary Lalley, to help 25 gardeners at the who sipped water from under garden plots April 13 and 14. As her straw hat. “payment,” the students earned Earlier that day she’d planted community service hours that hardy, winter crops such as go toward the total 100 they onions, carrots and radishes, are required to attain before that can withstand the few frosty graduation. nights that likely still lie ahead. The students worked along- As Lalley chatted with folks side the gardeners, did some in the cool shadow of a shed, heavy lifting and even learned a a student noticed the long-time thing or two about what it takes Garden Plot Group member to have a green thumb. hadn’t received much help yet One gardener taught her herself because she’d been so A student from Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland, helps helper how to make tea from busy tending to everyone else’s a resident prepare her garden plot for spring planting on April 13. Photo by the dandelions in her organic needs. Stacy Smith, Leisure World News Leisure World News ASPEN HILL OF MARYLAND An official publication of the Leisure World Community Corporation, EXXON Leisure World News is published twice monthly by Leisure World Staff in Auto Care collaboration with the Communications Advisory Committee. 301-871-6777 Leisure World News is published for the benefit of Leisure World residents. 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We will not knowingly permit a dishonest advertisement to appear nor do we Maryland State Inspection Station guarantee the reliability of advertisers. 2 | Leisure World News April 20, 2018 enough to the rest of the colony to ensure they would not attack Bees➤ her. from page 1 Tenley continues to monitor tion, which encourages county the queen and her “subjects.” residents to raise bees on their As of his last visit, she is alive property. and well. By the time he completed If all goes as expected, the the course last spring, it was bees will build a hive in the box, too late in the year to start and eggs and larvae will appear. the project. He waited until Tenley replenishes their the following year and imple- sugar water supply as often as mented the bee habitat this needed. As flowers come with March. the advancing year, nectar will replace the sugar water as their In the Bee Zone source of food. Some bees can The bees reside by the already be seen returning home drainage creek at Montgomery covered in the pollen of nearby Grounds assistant Aaron Tenley checks up on a colony of bees in Montgomery Mutual. A wire fence encloses a blossoms. Mutual. Photo by Kimberly Y. Choi, Leisure World News several-foot radius of their box, The bees are generally not a veil covering his head – the project, Tenley said. They complete with an illustrated aggressive during Tenley’s only time he was stung was the often ask him how the bees sign: “Warning: Bee Hive. Do tasks, unless the sugar water is day he neglected to fasten the are doing. Not Approach.” depleted and they are hungry. veil properly, and a bee crawled The bee box and pollinator Establishing a new colony Still, precautions must be underneath and stung his face. garden are Leisure World’s began by bringing some bees taken. part in a larger effort to together with a different colo- When the bees need to be Project Outcomes restore populations of insects ny’s queen bee. The foreign placated, he uses a device that Tenley is often asked what and other animal pollinators royal had a small, private emits smoke, which temporarily will be done with the honey. that have been declining chamber until she grew familiar lulls them.