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did you know? surprise for mom It’s hard to believe after all the good weather throughout April, that we get into the first weeks of May and what should return to Scugog but snow. And of all the days for snow to make its ap- pearance, it happened on May 9 - Mother's Day. Most people we talked to couldn’t remember another time that snow greeted moms in Scugog on Mother's Day - but we have proof of it this year. The picture illustrated here was taken about 8 a.m. on Sunday, May 9 when | took the liberty of slipping outside and secretly inscribing a greeting on the windshield of Nancy's car... Happy Mother's Day! (~ scugog’s first nation For more than 100 years 7 prior to major European settlement around Lake Scugog, the Mississaugas camped, traded, trapped, fished and hunted deer, black bear, beaver, muskrat, fox, and cougar, © chadlaiion season... Here we are at the height of dandelion season, so thought we'd give you a little dandelion info. As we all know digging dandelions is labour intensive, but you can control dandelions without using chemicals. You have two choices - snip off all the leaves and flowers as soon as they wolves. Most plentiful was wild rice and maple sap for maple syru In 1834 the Mississaugas received 800 acres of land on the northern inland portion of Scugog Island. While in the past this land was known as an Indian Reservation, it is described today as a ‘First Nation’, which implies that the territory is reserved solely for the use and benefit of the emerge (and keep doing it) or dig up every plant, getting as much of the deep taproot as possible. Dandelions are perennial so they'll be back regard- less of whether they flower, And did you know, the pollen par- ticles from dandelions are too large and sticky to cause hay fever, and Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. You can learn more about the history of the to be inhaled; it’s the milky substance Mississaugas of Scugog Island at... inside the dandelion stem that can i gsi hy cause irritation. Nel J %\ the seed fluffs are obviously too big solving the ‘kaps’ mystery You may recall in last month’s issue of Focus on Scugog we featured a story about an “original drinking game” called KAPS which was launched in Port Perry. Since then we found out that the game was developed by a young man named Chris Rich, who had a brother attending Central Seven Association (now known as Community Living). Mr. Rich contracted Cen- tral Seven to assemble the parts of the games and shrink-wrap the box. It was then marketed and sold to Toronto area stores like Eatons. For those familiar with radio personalities of the 1960s to 1980s, it was interesting to find out that Keith Rich, a radio disc jockey in Toronto on CKEY for 22 years, was the father of KAPS developer Chris Rich. 50 FOCUS - JUNE 2010