Animals, apples and more at C-L’s Fall Harvest Day

By Eve­lyn Long –

Fall Har­vest Day at the Cardington-Lincoln Ele­men­tary School brought many activ­i­ties and events for the enjoy­ment of stu­dents in grades K-3.

The annual event included a visit by the Colum­bus Zoo, a demon­stra­tion on mak­ing cider by the school’s FFA chap­ter; a pre­sen­ta­tion on dairy pro­duc­tion; and a pro­gram by agility dogs. The FFA Chap­ter also took the stu­dents on a hayride. There were also games and puz­zles played by students.

The zoo brought a chee­tah, an opos­sum, an Eagle Owl, an umbrella Cock­a­too, a baby alli­ga­tor and a snake that lives on the ground. This pro­gram was a great hit with the youngsters.

Lois Ben­nett, who grew up on a 250 acre dairy farm, explained the milk­ing process and other dairy infor­ma­tion as she exhib­ited some of the equip­ment that is used.

The FFA Chap­ter with Neil Swonger, adviser, processed apples into cider using a press that was donated sev­eral years ago by Don Lee and Jim Grooms.

The chap­ter also pro­vided hay rides for the stu­dents. The wag­ons, pro­vided by Jay Smith and Brian Barkley, were dri­ven by Swonger, Carl Hard­wick, Jr. and Mark Lem­mon. Scott Hard­wick, prin­ci­pal, accom­pa­nied the hay rides.

Agility dogs brought cheers from the stu­dents as they showed their skills.

Bring­ing their dogs were Frank Yang, Annie Wanzyk, Niki Ryan, Jan Bran­ham, Sharon Sul­li­van and Katy Ratliff. The dog breeds included an Aus­tralian Shep­herd, a Bor­der Col­lie, a Jack Rus­sell Ter­rier and a Corgi.

The Har­vest Day was orga­nized by a com­mit­tee of teach­ers includ­ing Nicole Ramoneda, Cindi Huvler, Kathi Cochran, Marie Free, Katie Scohy, Erin Weas­ton and admin­is­tra­tors Scott Hard­wick and Mar­sha Levering.

Scohy said, “This would not have been pos­si­ble with­out the help of the staff, pre­sen­ters, par­ents and students.”

She said the stu­dents helped to raise money to bring the zoo to the school by par­tic­i­pat­ing in a coin drive and donat­ing money to wear their paja­mas to school. They are espe­cially grate­ful to the local First Fed­eral Bank for help­ing to count over $800 in coins that were raised in one day.

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