- Author: Maira Enriquez
- Editor: Emily Harris
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For some kids, the only healthy meal they consume is a meal offered at school during the academic year. During the summer, the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (Fresno EOC) Food Service Program is providing no-cost meals to youth in the community through its Summer Food Services Program (SFSP).
Text food or comida to 877877
to find out where some of the listings for summer meals for kids will be held.
Besides eating healthy meals, students and parents are encouraged to work out and stay cool during the triple digit weather here in the Central Valley. Kids need one hour of physical activity everyday, whereas adults need only 2.5 hours a week. Swimming can be a great way to work out and cool down.
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The Fresno Unified School District has partnered with the City of Fresno to extend pool hours to the weekend for their Community Open Space Program. All seven high schools are open for the summer. The pools' entrance fees are $1 for children and $2 for adults during the week, and no-cost on the weekend. Check out the schedule below to find the pool nearest you.
/span>- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's not just two-legged humans that take a dip in the pool.
So do six-legged honey bees searching for water.
When temperatures soar, honey bees scramble to collect water for their colony. They release droplets of water in the hive as their hardworking sisters fan their wings to "cool it." This airconditioning system works much like a swamp or evaporative cooler.
Usually honey bees seek water from bird baths, fish ponds, streams, fountains, dripping faucets, freshly watered potted plants or sprinkling systems--and sometimes even Uncle John's wet laundry dripping from the clothesline.
Unfortunately, however, bees inadvertently seek another source: swimming pools. They seem to have no depth perception.
Last weekend, scores of bees plopped into our pool. We netted the struggling bees one by one.
One small step...one giant leap...
Almost all of the Apis mellifera we fished out of the pool were Italian--the common amber-colored honey bee that we’re all accustomed to seeing. But one was a Carnolian, a dark honey bee.
The Carnolian looked quite ragged, observed UC Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, manager of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, who rears New World Carniolans.
This bee certainly didn't look like a well-groomed bee fresh out of the bee-ty parlor.
To avoid wayward bees, it's a good idea to cover your pool when you're not using it. You can also provide a nearby bee friendly watering device so they'll go there instead of your pool. .
When bees deliver water to the hive, the other bees recognize the source by its scent, said Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty.
"They can tell its origin, where that water came from," he said.
All the more reason to provide a better watering hole.