First encounter, 4/14/06.

You may know me as Jezaib for now. I am just a freshman at Evanston Township High School who wants to keep bees. I will get them sometime next week if all goes well. My next door neighbors, however, are dead-set against them. (Ignorant of bees other than that they can sting, of course.) Since good ol' Evanston has no laws whatsoever concerning bees or beekeeping, they have done their best to sic the city on us. They wish. A meeting has been scheduled for Monday, May 1st at 7 PM in case you want to attend. It's at the Evanston Civic Center, which is on Ridge north of Simpson, in case you want to know where to attend. The meeting is to discuss whether or not Evanston will make any laws concerning beekeeping. So you know why to attend. Ba-dum-bum. (I am affiliated with an online petition called gr8tbees at onlinepetition.com--please visit it!) Bees are, by the way, necessary for the fruition of our many backyard gardens.

Bees are estimated to directly or indirectly produce over a third of the food we eat.

Please support us all in this bee issue. Signing off, more news to follow as events warrant.