August Garden Club Meeting

Join us this Thursday, August 18th, at 7 PM in the RenPark Clubhouse for our monthly Garden Club meeting!  We’ll be discussing Tall Fescue Turf Management.  Hope to see you there!

Garden Club – Watering

The RenPark Garden Club met a few weeks ago to discuss tips, techniques, and the do’s and don’ts of watering.  Summer heat is tough to manage, especially when it comes to lawns and gardens.  But, with a few pointers from some group members and a vibrant discussion on everything from soaker hoses and rain barrels, to irrigation installation and watering schedules, everyone left with new knowledge.

For those who couldn’t make the meeting, here are a few links to some of the items discussed:

Soaker Hose Reference

http://www.savingwater.org/docs/successwithsoakerhoses.pdf

Drip Irrigation Reference

http://www.savingwater.org/docs/dripfactsheet.pdf

Using Rain Barrels

http://www.rainbarrelguide.com/

Tall Fescue Maintenance Calendar

http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/PDFFiles/000017/Tall_Fescue.pdf

This week from South West Raleigh

This week’s articles include: CityFabric Brings Young, Entrepreneurial Spirit to Raleigh’s Creative District, August First Friday @ DesignBox: [pro•duce], Southwest Citizens Celebrate, Strategize,
The Saturday Market At Rebus Works Highlights for August 6, Parks in the Creative District: Fred Fletcher Park, Neighborhoods Celebrate Crime Prevention with National Night Out, Best of Southwest – August 1

Don’t forget about the Southwest CAC meeting the second Monday night of each month at 7PM at Carolina Pines Community Center.

Visit the site or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

Steven LeBoeuf – Profiles in RenPark

Dr. Steven LeBoeuf is a co founder, the President and CEO of Valencell, Inc, which is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Valencells Healthset solution integrates a fitness sensor directly into music earbuds and headsets to create a single device that serves multiple functions. While consumers exercise, they will simultaneously enjoy their music and gather real time heart rate, calories burned, distance and aerobic capacity (VO2). This information is displayed on their mobile phones, mp3 players and online communities to provide valuable insight into their fitness progress as performance goals are achieved. At Valencell, we believe that fitness is the gateway to health. As increasingly more people embrace what their bodies are telling them, proper use of mobile monitoring technologies will create awareness for both mobile fitness and mobile health.

Dr. LeBoeuf received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

And he makes a mean boil of crawfish…

Forbes’ Next Big Boom Towns in the U.S.

Despite a national unemployment rate of 9.2% some cities are moving forward showing job growth, family growth, population growth and attractiveness for settlement.  On this list Raleigh, NC is #2. (Charlotte, NC is #8)

Watch the full report here.