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It's the last straw at Maumee Bay State Park Lodge in Ohio and other Xanterra properties
Susan R. Pollack They served the last straw this spring at Maumee Bay Lodge and Conference Center near Toledo. It's part of Xanterra Parks & Resorts 'Choose to be Straw Free' national sustainability initiative inspired by Milo Cress, an 11-year-old environmentalist in Colorado, who discovered that many unused and discarded plastic drinking straws wind up in landfills and, even worse, threaten seabirds, dolphins and whales.
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Enter giveaway for copy of 'Stitching for the Kitchen' book
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Jocelynn Brown Join The Material Girls, LLC as it mark its sixth anniversary of its brick and mortar shop by attending a celebration at the store this Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. “We’ll...
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