Events and Activities CP Friends Celebrate Spring: Seussian Caring with Butterfly Program March 3

Spring will be coming again; it will be Dr. Seuss ¢â‚¬â„¢s birthday on March 2. There will be little live things again, and Friends of the Center Point Library will be celebrating it all with a presentation on ¢â‚¬Å“Attracting Butterflies ¢â‚¬ � by Dennis Schlicht.

The free program will be Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at the Center Point Public Library.

Dennis is a retired Central City and Cedar Rapids Washington high school biology teacher and a longtime Center Point Library Board member. He knows a lot about tallgrass prairie and midwest butterflies and in 2007 he co-authored ¢â‚¬Å“The Butterflies of Iowa. ¢â‚¬ �

In 1971 Dr. Seuss authored ¢â‚¬Å“The Lorax ¢â‚¬ � which has become a classic children ¢â‚¬â„¢s book and environmental book for all ages. Many people think it ¢â‚¬â„¢s even more timely in today ¢â‚¬â„¢s global warming era than when Dr. Seuss wrote it.

The book ¢â‚¬â„¢s famous takeaway quote is: ¢â‚¬Å“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s not. ¢â‚¬ �

Dennis cares a whole awful lot and his presentation helps people learn how to put care into action with butterfly habitat restoration--whether it ¢â‚¬â„¢s a potted butterfly milkweed on the patio, a patch of dill in the garden or an acre of pollinator or prairie planting.

Dennis and his wife Linda, who is retired from Grant Wood AEA ¢â‚¬â„¢s Van Allen Science Teaching Center (VAST,) also put their care into action every year by donating the tiny caterpillars for the Library ¢â‚¬â„¢s Painted Lady butterfly raising project.

And, just in case you have the mistaken impression that Dennis ¢â‚¬â„¢s presentation might be a wee bit professorial, here ¢â‚¬â„¢s an example of some of the knowledge he shares with his audience: ¢â‚¬Å“Do you know where caterpillars come from?.....from KITTENpillars! ¢â‚¬ �

Kind of Seussian, don ¢â‚¬â„¢t you think?