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A hike to mark the end of Earth Week will be held along the Mahoning Valley Trail in the Alliance area on April 24.

The event, at 9 a.m. that Saturday, will begin at the parking area at the Mahoning Valley Trailhead at 182 E. Gaskill St. in Alliance.

Retired University of Mount Union professor Chuck McClaugherty will lead the hike. McClaugherty serves on the board directors for the Canton Audubon Society, which is sponsoring this walk, and another that day in Jackson Township.

The trail along the Mahoning River offers views of a bottom land hardwood forest. Hikers are likely to see jack-in-the-pulpit, false Solomons seal and swamp buttercup along the trail, as well as a variety of migrating songbirds.

Audubon members recommend those taking part bring binoculars and come dressed for the weather, including wearing waterproof shoes, hats and gloves if the weather is chilly or damp.

At the same time, a hike at Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve,7984 Fulton Drive NW in Jackson Township will be held in memory of Alan Dolan, who served as president of the Canton Audubon Society for 30 years. Dolan also served on the board of Friends of Stark Parks,The Wilderness Center and Stark County Bicycle Club. Dolan conducted a hikes at the Bog every Earth Day. This years will be led by Scott Watkins, vice president of the club.

Other activities during Earth Week will include a meeting at 7 p.m. April 21via Zoom, when adocumentary about a pair of endangered Piping Ploversattempting to nest on a busy beach in Chicago will be shown. Monty and Rose chronicles the birds and an unpredictable series of events that propelled them to national headlines. Those interested in watching the film with Audubon members may contact the club atcantonaudubonsociety@gmail.com.

The 51st anniversary of Earth Day will be marked April 22. In many locations throughout the world, programs to protect the environment take place all week. The first Earth Day was a collaboration between citizens and government, proposed by Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson. President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency, and Congress had approved the Clean Air Act in 1970.

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John Cena is not seen in the WWE, nowadays and theres no update on when she would be seen, next. He has turned his career into something greater with mainstream appeal added to it. He is a bonafide movie star with lined-up projects waiting to convert 2021 an amazing year for him. Thirsty For News has listed up the upcoming movies and other shows involving him that would not allow him to slow down for a bit.

Fast 9 has been delayed for over a year which is now set for a June 25th release date. After it has been pushed back a few times, we are hopeful that the 9th installment of the Fast & Furious franchise will finally come out, per schedule, meeting the expectations of the fans. People just cant wait to see John Cena, playing the role of a bad guy opposite his on-screen brother Vin Diesel.

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Suicide Squad II will witness John Cena don a different character and play the role of the Peacemaker. The sequel from the DC Universe franchise is currently slated for an August 6th release date. As Peacemaker, he has been garnering a lot of attention who was also majorly featured in the released trailer.

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The Peacemaker character itself is getting a spin-off series on HBO Max with John Cena playing the titular character. He is currently residing in Vancouver, Canada for filming the show which is also the reason why he has to miss WrestleMania this year as its not possible for him to fly back and forth to the States from Canada.

Vacation Friends is an upcoming R-rated comedy featuring the sixteen-time world champion. Hell try to prove expansion in this genre after roles in Blockers and Trainwreck. A 2021 release date is planned for this film, although its not confirmed.

Project X-Traction is another upcoming film for John Cena that he filmed a while ago in China with Jackie Chan. The action thriller has remained in the post-production phase for a very long time as it was shot in 2018 and theres still no update in the release. Rumors have that it will come out, this year.

The Janson Directive is the final project in the released list which is a film featuring John Cena, but the real status of it is not available. Its stated to be in a development phase which could have had The Rock in the titular role of an ex-Navy Seal and government agent who is sent on a big rescue mission as things arent right.

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This is a twist on the Cuba libre (AKA rum and coke). The addition of honey falernum and tea makes for a zingy tipple to help ease the transition into spring proper.

Serves 1

For the spiced rum175ml rum we use Ron Coln Salvadoreo high-proof aged rum1 cinnamon stick1 star anise4 cloves

For the honey falernum syrup30ml stem ginger syrup a Chinese one, for preference35g runny honey35ml lime cordial we use Roses4 drops almond essence80ml boiling water

For the drink30ml spiced rum (see method)25ml honey falernum syrup (see method)15ml fresh lime juice20ml brewed English breakfast tea30ml Coca-Cola1 dash soda, to finish1 lime wheel, to garnish (optional)

First infuse the rum: put everything in a sterilised jar, seal and leave to steep for up to 24 hours. Fine strain to remove any loose bits of spice, then return to the jar and seal.

For the syrup, mix the stem ginger syrup, honey and boiling water in a bowl. Once everything has dissolved, stir in the lime cordial and almond essence, then bottle and refrigerate; itll keep for up to four weeks.

To build the drink, fill a tall glass with ice, then pour over the measures of spiced rum, syrup, lime juice and tea. Add the Coke, top with a dash of soda and stir. Finish with more ice, garnish with an optional lime wheel and serve.

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(CBS Local)Jack Carr has been a Navy SEAL and a New York Times best seller. There arent too many people who have held both titles before. Carr spent decades in the military and has become one of the most popular thriller novelists in America. In fact, one of his books is currently being turned into an Amazon series starring Chris Pratt.

CBS Locals DJ Sixsmith caught up with Carr to discuss his new book The Devils Hand, time in the military and what we can learn from history in regards to the coronavirus pandemic.

I was very lucky with this book that I didnt have to travel. For the first one I had been to Iraq and Afghanistan and I had been to some of the other places I had described, said Carr. For the second one I had been to Africa, South Africa and Mozambique. For the third one, I traveled to Russia. For The Devils Hand, I was lucky that a lot of it was academic research. It was mostly US based and I had been to many of the places I was writing about. I was researching infectious diseases and the weaponization of infectious diseases well before COVID hit. I did the outline for this novel in August 2019. The real theme of this book is what the enemy has learned from us by watching us.

Carrs book focuses on what our enemies have learned about us during two different periods from 1971-2000 and 2001 until today. The author and former Navy SEAL dives into what other countries around the world took away from our response to COVID, our presence in the Middle East and the racial reckoning that occurred last summer after the death of George Floyd.

As Im writing, I was thinking what is the enemy learning about our response to COVID, watching the civil unrest in our cities over the summer, watching a very contentious political season because they are not just looking at that as passive observers. Theyre looking at all that, taking notes and applying that to their future battle plans. All that got woven into the novel.

While Carr no longer identifies as a Navy SEAL, but his time overseas made him the man he is today.

I think of myself as an author now and being a SEAL was something that I did, said Carr. Its not something I am now. It will always be a big part of who I am and I incorporate that into the novels. I took the emotions and feelings behind certain events downrange and I applied them to a totally fictional narrative. The books end up being therapeutic in a very authentic way.

The Devils Hand is available April 13 from Simon & Schuster wherever books are sold.

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Spring is when the days get longer and people start to dream about kicking the job and going off on long vacation: Paris, the Greek islands, New York in June. Big-time travel is not in the cards this year. Europe is locked down. The Canadian border is shut. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say travelers should avoid going to Mexico. Even flying around the U.S. is a bit chancy.

So that leaves small-time travel. Just the other day, the Sailor Girl, my companion in small adventures, took a trip with me up to the Sonoma County coast and poked around a bit at Fort Ross.

Every schoolkid who took a course in California history knows a little about Fort Ross: how Russians in the days of the czars came from Siberia to Alaska and then down the coast of Alta California and built a wooden fort north of San Francisco in the hopes of starting a Russian colony. It didnt work out and they sailed away and never returned. Its kind of a footnote to the California story.

But Fort Ross is more than that. Its a beautiful place, built on a flat piece of land facing the Pacific Ocean. To the east is forested hill country, thinly populated even now. The fort itself is a collection of wooden buildings surrounded by a redwood wall with blockhouses at the corners. The centerpiece is a chapel built of redwood with two domes in the Russian Orthodox style. To the Russians, this was the Wild East, the very edge of their world.

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The United States, just 33 years old when Fort Ross was founded in 1809, was thousands of miles away.

Fort Ross comes with a backstory an Old World scandal involving a princess and a poet, and a whiff of modern international intrigue. There is also a Native American story that goes back thousands of years. And you dont even have to tip a foreign tour guide. Fort Ross is a California state park.

Getting there is half the fun as the travel agents used to say. Fort Ross is 90 miles from San Francisco, about a 2-hour drive.

The easiest way is to go north on Highway 101 to Petaluma, then west to Bodega Bay, a town the Russians called Port Rumyantsev, named for the czars foreign minister. Highway 1 leads north along the wildly beautiful Sonoma coast, and crosses the Russian River, the Slavyanka, the Russians called it. The last dozen miles to Fort Ross are pretty amazing: hairpin curves and sheer cliffs, a tribute to highway engineers.

Its pretty country, especially in springtime when the meadows are green and the wildflowers are out. No wonder the Russians liked it. They had hoped a colony at Fort Ross would serve as a base for fur seal and otter hunting and supply produce for their settlements in Alaska. To that end they set up satellite farms in the area, some miles away. They even built a windmill, the first in California.

Markers and plaques throughout the park describe the basics of the operation: how the fort was run by the government-sponsored Russian American Co., how the Russians used Aleut and other native Alaskan people to hunt sea otters, even in San Francisco Bay. The farming operation was much less successful, and eventually the Russian American Co. gave up on Fort Ross. It was sold in 1842 to John Sutter, who had a mini empire of his own in Sacramento.

Fort Ross was a frontier post, never very big. In 1836, there were 260 residents. A diverse lot: 120 Russians, 51 mixed- race people, 50 Aleuts from Kodiak and 39 Christian Indians.

But it had style, too. Sarah Sweedler, executive director of the Fort Ross Conservancy, likes to tell the story of Alexander Rotchev, a poet and man of letters and his wife, Princess Elena Pavlovna Gagarina. Rotchev was the last manager of Fort Ross, but maintained a household in European style on the frontier. Once when a visiting French count had made his way to Fort Ross and was a guest for dinner, the princess, who spoke fluent French, charmed him with her elegant manners, and played Mozart on the piano. Rotchev served French wine and made interesting conversation. But Rotchev was a bit of a rake: He had an affair with a servant who bore his child. One can imagine the scandal. The couple divorced when they returned to Russia. She married the wrong man, Sweedler says.

The international intrigue developed just over 10 years ago, when the great recession left California so financially strapped it considered closing state parks. Fort Ross was high on the hit list. The situation drew the attention of what was described as the highest levels of the Russian government.

That prompted Viktor Vekselberg, a billionaire, a friend of Vladimir Putin and president of the Renova Corp., to promise substantial financial help to the remnant of Russias California outpost. Vekselberg signed an agreement with then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in San Francisco, in 2010, and raised a toast to it with a glass of California-style Champagne. The Renova Fort Ross Foundation spent well more than $1 million on deferred maintenance on the park. But the diplomatic situation changed: Vekselberg and Renova were linked to a whole series of Russian intrigues, and Renova was placed under U.S. sanction in 2018. So the Russian help for Fort Ross is gone with the wind.

But the story of the place is not just about Russians. There is a very long Native American presence. The Russians got on reasonably well with the native Kashia Pomo people, signed a treaty with them and employed them in their operations. Though the Russians are gone, the Kashia are still there. Their small reservation is not far away. And now the state park is telling their story with new exhibits and a new trail being built north of the fort.

Sweedler has worked at Fort Ross for 20 years. Shes fascinated with it.

Ive stayed, she said, For love of the land and the native people.

Carl Noltes columns run on Sunday. Email: cnolte@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Carlnoltesf

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ATLANTA, April 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Just ahead of his light heavyweight match, MMA fighter Ryan Bader signs on to join the Clean Energy Team. Led by Kill Cliff, Americas undisputed clean energy drink champion, and Get Biofuel, an initiative from the supporters of renewable, plant-based biofuels, the Clean Energy Team is leading a movement of positive change. Choose clean energy for your body, cleaner fuel for your vehicle and be rewarded with better performance and a healthier world.

I put a ton of thought into what I put into my body and how my choices impact not only myself but my family and our communities, said MMA superstar Ryan Bader. I am pumped to join the Clean Energy Team and be part of a cleaner lifestyle. Kill Cliff is the first energy drink Ive ever supported, but I love the taste and clean ingredients and their mission to support military charities, a mission Ive been passionate about for years. And as a longtime partner of Get Biofuel, Im excited to continue showing how simple choiceslike selecting cleaner fuel at the pumpcan have a big impact on creating a better world to leave behind for my kids.

Bader has a long history of supporting veterans and military families, donating more than $150,000 from fight purses and sponsorship money over the years. Kill Cliff was founded by a former Navy SEAL and has donated more than $1 million to the Navy SEAL Foundation. The synergy and alignment between Kill Cliff and Bader is electrifying and will fuel Bader heading into his light heavyweight match on April 10, 2021.

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The Clean Energy Team is made up of fighting legends including Israel Adesanya, Ryan Bader, Joseph Benavidez, Gilbert Burns, Aung La Nsang and Robbie Lawler.

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About KILL CLIFFFounded and created by a Navy SEAL with the spirit of giving back to the community, Kill Cliff makes the worlds best and first clean energy drink. Headquartered in Atlanta, the Kill Cliff team includes civilians and accomplished military veterans and is absolutely committed to serving and supporting the Navy SEAL community. Kill Cliff honors the dedication and sacrifice made by these warriors and their families by donating a portion of the proceeds through their Official Partnership with the Navy SEAL Foundation. Visit KillCliff.com and follow KILL CLIFF on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram @killcliff.

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The revival of the classic carton is for Pearlfisher a commitment to doing things elegantly and choicefully. The geometric egg pattern that is introduced on the top of the pack and carried through on the side panels celebrates the naturally large and imperfect shape of the egg. The pattern also creates a wallpaper-like appearance when the cartons are stacked on-shelf or in ones kitchen.

The brands monogram is inspired by the Greek alphabets Phi symbol and the golden ratio, which suggests that the brilliance and infinite detail that naturally occurs in nature is the ideal standard for beauty. The monogram, hand-gathered seal and embossed messaging parallel the hand-crafted approach to raising and sourcing eggs through the packaging design

The warm colour palette of golds, blues and whites and other discoverable details found within the packaging enable the design to go deeper than the surface.

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