{"id":40396,"date":"2013-07-03T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=40396"},"modified":"2013-07-03T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:55:29","slug":"oc-blue-ribbon-workers-learn-about-beekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/03\/oc-blue-ribbon-workers-learn-about-beekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Blue Ribbon Workers learn about beekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Hannah Kraner, Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 23 The Ohio City Blue Ribbon Workers welcomed Brent Hamrick to their group to share his\u00a0hobby of Beekeeping with them.\u00a0Brent told the group he started out with just a few hives and has built that up to enough bees to make 80 gallons of honey .\u00a0Brent showed the group\u00a0photos of drone bees, the worker bees and the queen bees. He explained that the worker bees are the bees that sting- the\u00a0drones do not.\u00a0 Most of the members were relieved to hear this!<\/p>\n<p>Once finished with the discussion the group was invited to come up and see\u00a0the beeking equipment and supplies that Brent brought to show with them . he also gave them many fliers and recipes using honey and the advantages of honey in everyday life. The members of the group all agreed that Mr . Hamricks presentation was very interesting and informative .\u00a0\u00a0It is much appreciated that he was able to come to the meeting and volunteered his time to share his\u00a0hobby with them. Mr. Hamricks honey business is called: Pleasant Ridge Apiary, 8470 Dull Robinson Rd., 419.771.9523.<\/p>\n<p>David May also presented the group with his scheduled demonstration on Perthes disease.\u00a0David was recently diagnosed with this disease and is being treated with braces on his legs to help correct it.\u00a0 The group wishes much success for David in this treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Also\u00a0giving a presentation was Jamison Clouse who demonstrated on how to make a duct tape wallet .<\/p>\n<p>The next meeting will be July 7 at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannah Kraner, Reporter On June 23 The Ohio City Blue Ribbon Workers welcomed Brent Hamrick to their group to share his\u00a0hobby of Beekeeping with them.\u00a0Brent told the group he started out with just a few hives and has built that up to enough bees to make 80 gallons of honey .\u00a0Brent showed the group\u00a0photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 05:33:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}