Welcome everyone to the May 1st meeting of the town of Arlington redevelopment board. We'll call this meeting to order. This is, we'll go ahead and just to quick introductions. I'm Rachel Zunbury chair of the board. Hello. Eugene Benson. Steve Rovellac. Join us. We have Claire Ricker. I'm the director of the department of planning development and assistant director. Welcome and thank you for joining us. So let's move right ahead into our agenda, which will be an abbreviated meeting as we will adjourn the town meeting. The first item in our agenda is a review of the MOU for ARB properties that's related to the three articles that were recently approved by time meeting related to the transfer of ARB properties back to the town. Claire, who has been reviewing the draft with Doug Hyde. That's right. Thank you. So what you have before you and was included in the agenda is the draft I received back from attorney Hyde. After initial an initial draft that I had forwarded to him and the town manager. I gave a few weeks ago that we looked at as a group. So this is the return of that draft with Doug's comments and changes. It doesn't appear that he is included as a red line. He's, in fact, rewritten much of it. I think there are. There's not too much to point out here. I believe this says, you know, we will item for the town manager shall afford the redevelopment board or it's designee the opportunity to participate in any future solicitation of leases for tenancy of any kind and each or any of the properties, that were ultimately voted to transfer. I'm hoping or I think that that's what the board was looking for. I think in retention of the rights to approve or at least discuss leases prior to execution. There were another piece in there. Can I know you had said, let's not. Let's not lease to excuse me. That's not least to any more town departments. I, the manager pushed back on that a bit. But, you know, I think that you can see an item five here at least at some mention of the intensity of the properties of offices for town department. One bit I threw in was that I did not want to see any parking rights assigned to 23 maple to then be reassigned to another entity say the central the central school building. I know the senior center has had concerns with parking over there, as well as, you know, for other events and things like that. However, I think we should not entertain or I think that it would, it would, would not be good to entertain this, this idea that well, you know, we could do a leasing of the parking at 23 maple for the benefit of the property. That is something that I put it. I think generally, those were a few items that I had put in there also I wanted to make it very, very clear that any, you know, any service of leases, any kind of administrative work related to the kind of work that goes along with leases collection collection of rent, you know, renewals things like that would become would not be the responsibility of the PCD office. And that that would be taken on by the facilities department so those are some of the highlights I don't know how much of an opportunity you, you all have had to review this latest draft but I thought we could take some time to sort of discuss. Thank you so much for your work with this point. So we'll see if there are any comments and I'll start with you. I do have comments. So, I, I have to start by reminding everybody, I thought it was a better idea to have a more useful approach. Two of the three properties and not turn over maple street. Also, you're welcome to ignore all my comments. But I'm thinking through based upon what the vote was what would make sense. The first thing I'm concerned about is the second whereas he says a redevelopment board success when you're sort of redevelopment such properties. So I don't like signing something where there's something that's actually right. So I would say, I would say, you know, successfully stored and redeveloped 20 Academy Street and 611 mess up, but 23 maple streets don't need to be restored. So I would make that suggestion for changing that whereas. As far as I don't really like very much either. I would just change it to, whereas the town now seeks to transfer the custody maintenance of these properties from the redevelopment board to the office of town manager because the facilities department reports the town manager. And leave out all that they're more efficient stuff. Yes. I would just strike everything from the in order for and just change it because the facilities department manager. The fourth whereas one that says the party seek. The problem that I have with that one is says future disposition of properties to other town agencies or departments what happens if the disposition is to a third part. I don't like it to say, or other third party was what happens if I don't sell it to a nonprofit to a developer. So I would put in where other artists on that on the next page. Two things. Here. I don't know exactly how to say this 23 maple is going to have to have a lot of work done on it. I think when town departments move out, unless they just throw some other town departments in there. So if they're going to put together a committee to work on that. That would be have a seat on that committee or base on that committee, as we would have had if we still own the building so I think there should be an add to six, you know, after that one sentence they shall be given the opportunity to participate in any committee for redevelopment. Then the term of the memorandum of understanding. So that one is weird because that one does talk about this is also for a private party, right, even though the previous one didn't. So I think it should say, unless the town meeting transfers any of the properties back to the development. That one. And at the very end, I think it should say, they are devoted to approve this MOU on and put the data. So those are my suggested changes. I would have run that. And then I can any of those are my comments. Yeah, I saw this. This is breaking into two things. One is continue leasing the buildings and yellow ones to sell a bill. So if we sell a building that if you want some part of say, who goes who's going to buy it. And then if they rent the building, which they are, I just want to say that we don't need to talk to about everybody. I just want to, I still feel strongly should put cap on what the percentage that they're allowed to run to themselves.  That was also that was given to the town. And it was given time to use the best of what they can now town offices is not, you know, these are also. I don't want to senior center, I call senior center, it's not really that, but we also become time offices. And that's and not be part of the arts there. The media, they have a media player that costs. They have also other things from on there. I think it reaches the town and it has to build it, but it has a home because we allowed to have a home. I'll tell you all this little story or just take a second but related to about 25 years ago or more. I was, I was chair of the board of the mystical watershed association. And we got a grant to hire our first executive director but we had no place in the office. We just become chair, I won't go through the nation. So I spoke to the then planning director and said, is there any space in the town that you're not using you haven't been able to rent out where we could like put this new or not a new organization. There's this place. We haven't been able to rent out and for about the first decade, the watershed association was there and didn't have to pay rent eventually. But that was one of the advantages of having you be exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, I don't want to go away. Well, yeah, that's a problem. We were the shepherd of that. Right. So one of the things that Claire and I talked about and I think what was in Claire's first draft, Doug was a cap at 30%. In terms of the percentage of any of these three buildings that we occupied by town departments, unless otherwise engaged in a discussion with the ARB. So one of the things we could talk about is how hard we would like, obviously that is not in this now. So we could push harder for that and discuss whether or not Claire and I decided on that percentage of a first, you know, opening for any discussions with the town manager and and attorney time. But we can certainly have a discussion around whether or not that is the right number and it's so that if having a specific question is something we'd like to push for. I would like to have a threshold I would like to push for a special. You're asking for 30% is fine. I think I'm willing to sell. See what the rest of the board is. Just so it doesn't become a burden on the town. Yes, we don't want to do this, but I'm just trying to be fair. And then I also like what you said about the park. The property on 23 maple. It should be with 23 maple, because otherwise, if you do anything else hamstrings that potential potential. We don't have property there man. You already just wrote the fate of that property already. What it is. I have been just going to take that building and make it the town offices. You know, and they won't do nothing to it. You know, they already got the handcuffs sent it already.  You know, and I don't, I don't think we should do that. The first floor could be that but let's have it something else above you know, we don't have it. I don't know we don't have any emergency shelters right now. In this town. If there was a fire. And a house burnt down with the family for a month. You know, or, or any natural disasters or anything that happened, gas explosion or we don't have any of those facilities. And I think that could be a potential does not be open all the time, but we have that facility there. You know, the, the bottom shelf, you know, the wall is the water and stuff below there and you know the desk, you have to hide under so you can say, you know, but you know what I'm saying. There's some of the things that we do about it we had the space and we thought about it. And so I've just taken it up as that. Your point is well taken and I think it's probably not the worst idea for us to push back on that I don't know if you've had a chance to look at the budget document tonight but they have they are seeking to appropriate funds to repair the HBC and installing the elevator. So it does seem like they could attract new leases, hopefully for from nonprofits or private, you know, tenants. Yeah, not 23. Not 23. I don't think sorry. They're not scheduled to move out until next year. The growth street. Yeah. I, I've seen some plans I've seen some conceptual plans for housing. I don't know how the board feels about that necessarily but I do think that you know certainly have a word in this position and what how would you think about that or just thinking how would you feel about there's the set. What if we were to say 23 maple and its disposition. We should not be town offices but maybe not include that sort of cap where the same is right now is that an interesting opportunity or should it be across the three properties to put a cap on town basis, leasing to town departments. I think that was that it was across all three right properties, because that was, they're also different. Right. And one of the things that has been to this board, for example, is that the town spent all of that money on that commercial kitchen. I'm not realizing where revenue from from the event space and opportunity to to utilize that space. So, to not put a cap on that seems like a miss because I think that we want to make sure that that is still space that has the potential to be broadly utilized by the community. So, let's say, let's limit town leases that the senior center building the central school would that would, would that then extend or even one of the 23 maple what, and in a disposition situation where we dispose of it to let's say a private entity at some point, the board be interested in lease back to town offices. See, for example, we dispose of it to just thinking the island and housing corporation, right, the housing corporation, excuse me, and the deal with how with them was hey let's build senior housing with some office space to be rented by, I don't know, the future housing department or something like that something. That would be an interesting discussion. I think the point is, you know, again to have the board way in in that no discussion. Okay, across all paper. I just don't see how housing housing authority want to do that. Yes. What would they gain from that. I think they. I think the cost of unit housing is too high. Their money that they have set aside for their housing is spent, that's spent on other projects. I don't know there. I just throughout the name. I know, I'll just, I'll just, I'll just say I'm just running when numbers saying, you know, if I was. I wouldn't do that, at least back stuff because I just wouldn't make sense. It's not the best bang for the dollar, the little dollars I have to make more housing. I don't know. What do you guys think about that. I'll just see it that way. I mean that was so hypothetical, but yeah, but I just really went on that particular item but I think the concept is, is interesting. I think we should be part of it. So, I'm going to ask Steve or because you haven't had a chance yet to share your thoughts. One suggested that if the very last sentence on page one, a capital planning committee as appropriate consistent. Yes, there's a word missing there. Yeah. Thank you for explaining the, the motivation for parking rights. I was, I was wondering, I was, I had that had a note there to ask of what. As far as I mean 23 tables and it's art. It's zoned our seven. But not large enough to actually build an apartment building. It's, it's sort of an eyeball like that. I guess regarding leasing to town bodies. I like the sort of civic aspect of having a place that we can lease out at lower cost to it to a nonprofit or whatever. But I, you know, I feel like I need to know what the town's like space situation is, and I don't, because I wouldn't want to, you know, my concern is that we were in a place where we find ourselves in a place where we need more office space and then have to go and rent it out from a private, you know, either aren't able to get it or we have to rent it out at, you know, market rates. I was also curious about the mix if there's if we know the percentage of the community center that's released out to Tom bodies. I don't have a cup in my head. I don't know, but I, it's likely 60% more in terms of square footed. Yeah. Yeah. So there's yet and I mean, this is I think the challenge with 30% is okay, you do have the council on aging is there health and human services is there. I don't know what other, you know, what other but if you were to say impose 30% cap and you had to move half of the town offices out. We're, you know, there's all that preexisting. Okay, yeah, but you see where you see what I'm getting at. It's the language that had originally been inserted was not that it was an insurmountable, but that that percentage that precipitates a conversation is really the threshold and the language that was there was, you know, currently says an understanding of moving forward. Yeah, you know, let's, because we DPW will eventually be out there, but then we'll have to have a conversation. And if once that building is vacant, if we only wanted, let's just say it's three floors, one floor is okay for town offices but we'll do something different with the other two. Yeah, yeah.  Yeah, so are you, are you bringing up 30% or No more than the current percentage. The problem is. No more than the percentage in the other two buildings. And 23 maple has to be a conversation. With the board. Instead of setting a specific threshold. You know the goals. Find another way to work flexible numbers I'm not trying to say, you know, you're stuck. And I know, I think the Jefferson cutter house is sort of the flip of that where I think that's all pretty much all not. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We keep like one small room or something. I'm not even sure more conference room amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so a set of percentage no greater than today for the two properties that have already been rehabbed. And a conversation to point to her. All right. All right, any other comments or sort of bring back to sign by us. This is something that's under it says honor before June 30. Okay, so we do have time right now. We still have some time. And I can bring it back to ask you some questions. Great. Go. All right, any other questions or comments on agenda item number one. All right, then let's move to agenda item number two, which is an update on MBTA. Fantastic. Okay. As this board has requested when we established the MBTA communities working group and launched the MBTA communities process. We were asked to bring back updates and, you know, share where we are. And so with that I'll turn it over to Kelly and to Steve Revillac who is a representative on that working group. Okay, sure. Thank you for the overall schedule and then you can. Okay. So we have closed the community wide survey was a visioning survey that was pretty open-ended and really had a lot of mappable elements to it so that we could hand the results from that survey over to the consultant so that they could start to understand based on the community preference, community vision, what is the potential best location or locations for a district or districts. That community survey closed just over a week ago. And we've also released to kind of cover the gap between then and when we come back with alternatives. So we're inviting the community to host their individual meetings. We have a meeting on Thursday night with the working group and we're going to really that meeting is exclusively focused on engagement. So we're going to be talking about how to encourage people to schedule these meetings to get them set up so that they can get the kids back to us, get the content back to us before May 19. On May 16, we have a separate working group meeting where our consultant UTL will be coming back with like a draft of what we will eventually bring to the community so that way we can run this through. We can run this by the committee and get preliminary feedback. And then UTL can take the feedback from the working group, but then they can also take any final comments from the meeting in a box or visioning kits, and then do some final revisions to those before we come back to the public. We're looking at. Oh, sorry, yeah. Okay. Okay, all right. We can also see about I think that boards next meeting is May 15 so we can see about bringing that to the board on the 15. Yeah, yeah, we can do that. Okay, so, because we don't have anything else on the agenda for that meeting either so on the 15th they would come to the air be on the 16th there would be a working group meeting to review the draft. So basically between the 15th and the 19th is like incorporation of like final things. UTL then will take that and prepare a final revision for looking at June 8 for a public meeting where the recommendation based on what we've heard from the community, the outreach that's been gathered today will come back to the community. We're not going to be the final version at all. This is just like, we need to bring we haven't talked about locations. We've gathered visions about locations but we haven't like said. All right, here's some points in the sand as far as where this thing is going to go. And so this will be like the first time we're going to the community and saying alright, here's the side here's the district locations or districts locations. Now this is when I think we're going to get a lot more feedback. So we've gotten a pretty good amount of feedback so far but this is when we're really going to start to hear from people, I believe that we're looking to have a survey that goes out with that public meeting. And so this will be an in person public meeting. I don't think hybrid is necessarily going to work so if we need to do a separate virtual meeting, kind of to run those two side by side will figure out how that will work but I think what will be great is if we have like here's the scenario or scenarios and we also have like just a general map, because people are always going to be that people are going to have ideas that maybe haven't been considered, and they can start to mark mark those up as well. And then at that date that's when we really started to do engagement around the draft and looking at iterating on that and coming back with a final scenario probably by the end of June, which is when utils contract needs to end. Any more technical zoning, like tweaks to the zoning adjustments to the zoning, those can likely be done without util at that point. Because I think people here like on the board they're like zoning experts who are working in the working group and they can start to like finalize the zoning before it goes back to town meeting. But really the point is to use the month of June to really get to location to get to massings and get to like the visuals that we need to then go forward and do more education around around what's ultimately going to come to this board in the fall. I have a couple of questions. One is, you said at one point scenario and another point scenarios. Yeah, we don't know yet. Yeah, no, and that's where we've given the survey results to util. Who was actually a little bit surprised at some of the vitriol in the open to the comments probably worse than what they've seen from other communities. Yeah, exactly. No, they were like, whoa, um, people. In a way like comforting that other people had that response because I've gotten into a dark place by looking at survey results. But yeah, we, we don't know yet. So util is going to take a look at it if things obviously cohere around a very clear option, then that's what'll come back if they're sort of like, there's two different versions that the town could go with, then we'll work through that with you will work through that with the working group. Before we figure out how we're going to present it to the community. But I think either one of this and if there's more than one scenario, util has said to us that they are going to make sure that it is encompassing a lot enough that it will, even with some refinement, meet DHCD requirements. So we're not looking for something that only nominally complies we're looking for something that definitely complies. It's just a matter of how you see what happens to West. Yep. Yeah, yeah, we're not doing that. Although that was just with their action plans on them. Yeah. Yeah, one is, I think some time ago we talked about creating an overlay district that would be eligible for 40 hour. Is that still on the table or is that off the table. It's on the table. It's a separate process. I'm concerned that a smart growth district may require a two third vote. I'm not sure I want to bring that to town meeting at the same time. It doesn't mean that we couldn't use the NNBHTA communities overlay to drive establishment of 40 hour. Yeah. And we could look at that next spring, or, you know, something like that, but I think initially we'd like to get it in place and then we could look toward, you know, two thirds votes changes updates whatever, like 40 or 40 s smart growth district. So, so if I understood correctly, they're going to come with one or two scenarios, which is this is where the districts could be. Yeah. Are they also going to say three family four family six family townhouse, or are they going to do a Lexington. They don't limit the number of units. They just do it by height and density and stuff like that. So that's sort of one question what comes along with on June 8 with where, yeah, what comes along with that. So we discussed this at like an earlier awarding meeting and one of our consensus was, you know, the first product from the retail should not look finished. We want to give some we want to have, we want to show the community something that, or we don't want to create the impression that okay here's, here's, you know, here's a plan. You'll see this and there'll be room for another iteration and, you know, it was primary the request with the ask is primarily to focus on location, and not so much like number of units heights. But if, if I were coming to this meeting as a member of the public, I would want to know. Yeah, yeah. What, what are you proposing. Yeah, where is. Yeah, and I think we will have some of that it's just like we don't. Part of it is that like they're reviewing the survey results right now to try to understand like we had questions about like affordable housing people, the community was like overwhelmingly in favor of affordable housing but it's going to be like you know, if you really want to see inclusionary zoning triggered, you're going to have to allow six units. I don't think we're talking about anything much larger than that we're talking about missing middle housing, and we're talking about like, we're not talking about larger towers we're not talking about significant development, like, in town which is significant and is usually 20 to 30 units. Those are separate processes and I think what we've been trying to be clear about is that this and we take communities as one piece in a housing puzzle. So it's like this, this isn't, we've been careful to try to not load too many hopes desires dreams wishes into this 150 to 130 acre districts, which is really about missing middle housing. This is another thing that we talked a lot about as a working group and know things that we wanted, you know things that we could do but in the end I think there was a pretty strong, you know settling down of this let's just focus on housing near you know it's the other stuff is nice but just housing near transit is going to be difficult it just by itself so let's do that. And I think that's what the survey results bear out so you know Steve had shared with you just the kind of highlights from the survey and I think the housing near transit is really high priority sustainability is a high priority. Yeah, so the, it's interesting the housing near transit was got to both sustainability got got the most most favorable response, housing near transit, the first question was also fairly favorable and I mean if you added up, you know important you know, secondary. It was the percentages were quite high, but once you broke it down into, you know, in commercial districts near commercial centers. Yeah, you know, when you when you started actually get put location behind it, the report, you know, it got less support but you know still still fairly well. Um, I did mean to ask you, I had started, you know, coding and tagging comments, would that be a useful exercise to continue. Yes. Okay, yeah, if you have the bandwidth to do that that would be really helpful. It'll be a launch time effort. But you know, the other thing that's, you know, I've, I've gotten through one question's work. And one of the, the thing that's a little interesting is if you is comparing you know, you have for each question, we have a set of categorical responses. If you do the same thing but only the ones that submitted comments, they're far more negative. So you get you get the sense that, you know, some of it. So one expectation is I go through the other 12 is that, you know, people are going to use the comments to, you know, to express this content. But some of them were also rather good. Yeah.  Oh yeah. There were some people, there were a number of comments that had mentioned density in a negative way, but there were also quite a few that had positive things to say about it. So I'm, I'm trying a word cloud with, you know, pro with with sentiment on top of it. I will say so I have had a meeting with Beth lock from the chamber also talked about this briefly with the Chamber of Commerce, the board of the Chamber of Commerce. They are very eager to be a part of this conversation. They definitely have said the Chamber board has said, we want to see more density around our businesses. We don't want to see a loss of commercial space. So they're trying to balance that need. And I think we've, we've been aware that that's been a part of it, but they want to, they want to help support us. So they are very like, and they feel that MBT communities is part of the economic development bill. This, this law and our compliance with this law will help our business districts. So they're very excited about it. They just had a lot of questions. I mean, I think zoning is hard. Yeah, please see because we're going to, yeah, we're getting one is I agree, but I think Steve is correct. Maybe to say quite the way you want to hear, but we are not providing a finished product. I think, I think that's so it's more close because that's one of the things that we didn't like the past week that we caught the patients. I have one question is, you said you to detail is done with their commitment in June, the end of June, unless we can find more funding, right. I have concerns about that because part of making the successful is having proper graphics and representation. And ideas. And ideas are not ending June, we still got months of development of this stuff here, and we need to present it in such a way that we can understand it. So I feel like, if your funds run out of June, we get to get more funds, or find some some other way of producing our ideas. At the end of September, this September is when we're going to that show. And if we don't have the proper graphics and all we have is graphics in June it's not we're not going to win. So, can we find funding somewhere else. And how much funding. What does you tell getting right now. $20,000. It's not much. No, no, and so we've, I mean one option is applying again through MHP for more technical assistance. Another option is applying for district local technical assistance through MAPC. It's, it's just a challenge because we just don't from the town don't have funding to do the project. So if we ask the town where I think we need to know at least 20,000 20,000 just to get the proper graphics together. So we get this and it's important enough where if we don't get our right we're going to lose this thing. And so we have money set aside for the commercial design. We do we really cannot. It's a special appropriation. Yeah, we cannot repurpose the special. I was hoping to do the business district so right so we could do just round that truly it should go for commercial design. Yeah. I am not sure where we are in terms of the budget for CBBG there is allocation in there for planning studies and things this does not quite fit because it's not an affordable housing, you know, policy. So, you know, that's, that's probably not the best fit you will. But I can certainly ask where there may be some additional funds. I was going to, I need to apply to MAPC for direct local technical assistance related to the business. So, you know, I'm happy to put in another application to look at, you know, continue for funding the communities. I'm also happy to talk to the director and the manager about additional funds. So MAPC did the last thing first. No, no, no. So, so if they did, if we had funding for DLTA from MAPC, which is a lot of acronyms, we can talk about they tend to use consultants to to implement that work so it wouldn't be MAPC staff doing it would just be funding. The other thing, it's not time to figure out what it is. When we know what's going to happen, it would be helpful to think about the theme for this. You know, like I've said a lot of times, we could think about this as 15 minute, things like that. So, you know, thinking about some sort of theme. Yeah, that could go on with it when it's presented, you know, and then Yeah, all right. So we are going to wrap up so that we can adjourn to town meeting are there any other comments on what has been shared so far. Okay. So let's close agenda item number two, you know that we're going to be meeting again just speak about that on the sheet with the draft report. I'm going to move to agenda item number three new business you see. I have nothing under me. Great. So let's see just looking ahead at our I do want to just look quickly ahead of our schedule. So we have May 15 coming up right now. I believe that the MBTA communities is the only thing on that agenda. And then our, that's our only other meeting in May. 20 seconds. We do have the 22nd. Actually, yes. Right. Thank you because. So right, let's hold that and as we get closer, we'll see whether or not we need that meeting. And we've just had an application from Kalex peak. The third host community agreement. So that will be coming to the board in June. Okay. If I ask. I know you guys are really busy. It's like asking that you say you're too busy. I don't mind where you from next open slide. Just an update on what's happening to all all projects we approve today. I would like to go and see like the hotel. Alexis is that you can talk about that on the 15th. No, I'm just saying, but yes, that's just an example. You know, what happened to the tango, I know what happened to send, you know, updates all the projects we approve where they stand. Just, you have to look back in order to go forward. I also like to add that at what house to that to understand the. The historic commission and the stalemate between the historic mission of developer developer. Well, but that's the last that came to the board. And so let's, let's find out specifically where that is and. If you're busy, don't do that. I don't add will burn. Would you have it now? I appreciate it. That can wait till June. Yeah, just. So, So is it 750. Is there a motion to adjourn to tell me. So I'm watching. Move. Second. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I mean as well. Thank you. Thank you.


Forbidden mix-up go operation forbidden mix-up. What's the mix? How's it going everybody? Datodoy here back with another round of Dragon Ball Fighters ranked matches this time We're going to be going for something a little special with our team of Krillin Super Saiyan Goku and Gotenks and that is because we need to switch over so I can explain This team gives Krillin access to what I will call the forbidden mix-up Basically his level 3 just gets a huge explosion. Oh my goodness Bardock, please No, not the 6M overhead. We can't lose the most important cog in the machine 6M are- I'm sparking Some might say that was a little excessive Others will say that if you landed 2H with Krillin Does it really matter at the end? It's time. Go Thanks Begin operation forbidden level 3 One two three uh uh Go Krillin go for a bit. What what are you doing? So I dropped it. I don't know how that move came out dude How did this get I I for one cannot believe destructive this came out I for one cannot believe we're gonna lose Krillin not not when we had it all said. Oh level one All right, that's good because I'm switch out I'm sorry, but Goku GT has been exuding too much top tier energy lately I don't know if I can be a part of this the reason I didn't there's Krillin has too much blue health 6M I understand. Oh, I wish the beam assist wasn't up. Maybe I should have taken out the beam assist Why goku GT stay swinging on him? I gotta switch out to Krillin I'm just gonna go with a normal level three forget the forbidden mix. Just give me the normal mix But what is the mix though? I haven't okay It looks like looks like we're all getting a little bit of dragon ball fighters cheese today and Krillin's dead I can't believe we dropped the the chance at the forbidden level three, dude I I thought that was gonna work for a solid second. I was like that was a little early Oh, we're dead We stayed dead with it. Unfortunately, but at least the sparking's gone. We haven't technically lost the match yet This guy loves him some Why did that? Why did I change there? Let me let me reflect on my actions. Why did I change there? Why I do a lot of things that I'm just not comfortable with right now Uh, I want the beam assist. Uh, he how could this happen to me, dude? I've done nothing wrong. I've done everything wrong Super say a goku in the clutch and the best anchor in the game. Some might even say Not me. Uh, I'm still working on that blog post He's sweet All right, this dude has matched an energy of swing that I don't wait a minute. Oh, he has 20 000 points I've I misread that wrong. I was like, I thought he was on the edge of the motion I was like, no wonder he's swinging for the fences. He's got something to prove to me and fighters, but nah Read the numbers wrong It is time for my scheduled daily comeback though. So I gotta I gotta really try to work this out Level three should kill Hard ox gone four bars on the table for him though. So let's not pretend I'm out of the woods Any level three on pressure could get me killed.  We might even get there to save a little bit of blue health off goku black Barely, but it is there. You can see that's what we're getting in return Now as long as we get the hit on him before he gets one on us Well, unfortunately Unfortunately, we can all say I've made some mistakes. You got him He dragged honestly. I gotta give it up. That was a very ballsy dragon rush. That was very Audible mix-up gang. Haha a little bit of defeat in my voice a little bit of respect That's all it takes to get somebody to drop a combo. Now if you'll excuse me Uh Yikes, that was a bad game All right, we should be good now. I read I took a look at my controller made sure that my my fingers were still there Sliding beam assist to cover anything. Don't use after image on bar dock place It's just oh Where did he go?  That's the best move It's the best move right now get go tanks out have him build three bars on his own forbidden mix Remember that's those are the steps. Those are the steps Now begin step There's a 6m. You probably won't do it with no assist Oh, I got hit by super dash. Don't level three me. Please. Thank you There it is dude. He loves that 6m plus assist option All right, you know what Krillin will build it Krillin has to build up the credit. It's down every day I almost did it dude. All right Goku get out here. I'm more okay with losing you For the sake of the video Goku, you gotta get out here and save Krillin What are you doing back there Goku? He dropped it. I still why does it give you a hard knock? I That was honestly a I it's been so long since I've seen somebody miss that. I forgot it gives you a hard knocked out That is actually wild that I forgot that spirit bob does that It's what an incredible level three dude. I actually got baited by the fact that it's such an incredible level three What an incredible he did it again. He did it again.  All right, Goku black. Please don't put up too much of a fuss dude He is swinging that thing around Why did he land on that side though? I don't know why he clicked that slow button, but I've mashed now. I've set the precedent Oh get him with that that blue combo doesn't matter and get down there Come on. Come on. God. I'm go tanks.    Thank you go tanks I don't that should not have worked, but it did so I must give you my thanks Back dash heavy. I hate to see it. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Get Krillin out. Get Krillin out He's literally here for the level three now.  I can't time myself. I can't control myself is what I should say I that was me. I mashed Little old mash in the morning. We are taking a lot of damage though. Like maybe even dead One and then two. Oh That's not gonna kill. That ain't it. That ain't it. We still do have to block and mix Mix up block into not Uh, that might be five five six m's I've gotten hit by so far and and yes I have felt each and every one of them on a deep and personal level Operation forbidden mix up forbidden mix up go Operation forbidden mix up. What's the mix? Oh How did I not do it back?  I The cruelty of this world is not one to be forgotten Uh, that's how my tribe that time I was pushing my luck I wanted to see if I could get the uh the level three if I bought enough time But that one was pushing it and now he's so low that the mix wouldn't even be ah A new challenger has entered the arena Oh, yeah, baby Come on man. I can't do it. Give me a lunch krillin. I need to pick me up. I'm not me when I'm hungry.   I keep forgetting it. I'm not a go takes player dude. I'm not a guy. Why did he do? I don't know why he did it, but it worked and that is crazy to me He did 6m and I blocked it. So he did another 6m just because I got a respect It's a super dash no super dash Goodbye go tanks. I'm I'm not stopping. I don't even if I win this I'm going another one. I need the forbidden mix I don't know why it didn't connect that last I thought it felt pretty good Uh, how do we win this? I guess we I guess we just keep level three Let's go dude Uh, yes for those wondering I did just drop a combo that I do literally every day of my life It sucks. Wait, are we living this? What? Why did he no no, why did he accept her of it? That was genius though.  Please let it work Please I'll give it. I'll give everything for it to work. I don't know why he did that. He's gonna down take again I'm not gonna miss He didn't he didn't down take he back tech If it was quite genius Good that won't be the that won't be what we want to see but That's fine on my book Oh, this is so good Literally the best case situation I love that. I am so happy with that This could this could be this could be it. This could be the round. This could be the round that we forbidden mix That was pretty good Lock him up, dude. Look that's fine. Catch the beam assist. I don't I really don't mind Too late too too slow They didn't get the down heavy. I gotta he does backdash overhead every time Like I shouldn't I shouldn't not be blocking it to break in spear bombs and probably dead Oh, haha, I didn't want Krillin out I down heavy, but that's fine. I understand that I played this character.  You know, I don't want this character out I can't believe it. He must have heard through the walls what I was going for dude. Don't beam assist. Don't spear bomb I set up a little rule. It was one rule GT Goku players can't read. I should have posted the come here. Come here. I'm still blocking to this very day, dude I'm I stay blocking. I literally I you know what I might even go back and get my inputs I stayed super dashing Coming in that was a good block, but I'm not a fan of why you did it to me Don't please why Why why why why why why you just want this to be a long video, huh? Somebody help me. Where was the go? No, I hate this man. I hate this man right here What am I gonna title this video of the I never hit the the level three video? No, dude, it's gotta it's gotta be something else Get in this volleyball Get in this volleyball right now, mister This is indescribable I'm gonna I'm gonna lose. Oh, I didn't know I was gonna I thought What where's the tech? Come here. Come here.  Just getting this volleyball Just getting this little volleyball right here. You're gonna be fine I A lot give me that All volleyball baby clean hits All right, I'm gonna go one more time and if I don't get the super I guess we just I guess we just accept that I failed and try again I did a different video, but I refuse to accept it. Oh, he's gonna leave. He's gonna leave. He's gonna leave Don't do it, man. One more time. Yes my man I mean, I still am not a fan because of what you did to me, but That was nice. Nice jump. He recognized I was coming in his beam assist lost the battle, but he won the war Or did he though down tech? Ah, he did win the war. I'm gonna spark. I'm gonna early spark. I don't want to lose Krilla to get This don't do this stop stop stop stop don't level three at least can we agree on that? All right, good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. I mean didn't get snap That's fine. Oh my goodness all panic no skill, but we are still in here. That's crazy. I didn't expect that one Oh my sparking's all good Oh, he got behind me Goku might be getting ready to go visit somebody else in overworld Because he's not going to be here with us for much longer I'm holding tag boys. Don't Don't you forget that I'm holding tag always you see that red axe above go. Thanks. What do you think that means? I'm out. Oh, he's gonna die This is so hard to do when you it's so hard to also the frame it went up by the way But it's so hard to do without making it natural Having to like orchestrate a level three to go off and like this particular way you think it'd be easy I thought it'd be easy Oh my god, well at least we got a good hit at least we're styling dude Why why did that particular combo is a mystery to us all? But it did look cool for like two seconds. So we stay when it I didn't take it Uh, why is Krillin second? Oh, no the I'm okay with this. Don't get me wrong. Goku dying is is the character. I care about lease right now, but I wish I had learned the way to do it with Krillin. I I short-cut him myself I short-cut him myself. I short-cut him myself get down.  Oh, he didn't snap thank Goodness, dude, dude. I can't There we go. It's not gonna work. Oh my what? I stay with the beams though. How? Uh, go takes you want to get out of here, buddy? Go takes get out here.    I I brought it at the wreck. I thought it would be the day I don't have to lose though. I don't have to I don't have to accept the loss just because I I can't hit a strat dude Whoever told you that is lying to you I'm not accepting this loss Spiritually, yeah, I lost the purpose of the video here But here I accept too small Why did I try to to him the don't kill if I live this? Oh, I mean it didn't really it was a pretty good right except Sleep I am sleep right now Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Don't worry. I'm going to try the strat again Hopefully you guys did enjoy it though. Make sure you're down below Let me know your favorite moment and while you're down there if you like the video and the channel Make sure to the like button and subscribe for more videos if you want more videos right away though There should be some up on your screen. So make sure to check those out whenever you got the time Once again, I have been dr. Doe. Thank you for watching this video to the end and I will see you in the next one


Our next caller is Elijah from Texas. Hey, what's up Elijah? How can we help you?  I peaked at about 314 pounds We basically changed our entire lifestyle. I now maintain about 235 But I've been dealing with some symptoms of low T for a long while now even after the fat loss so Thanks to some of the conversations that you guys have had on the show especially Adam. I pursued that and I'm now two weeks on The initial dose that they're putting me on for TRT Already within a few days. I'm starving all the time So right now I maintain about 3,000 calories and I don't know whether I should kind of stay at maintenance for a little while Obviously, I got to get used to everything. They're gonna dial in the dose but after that do I stay at maintenance and try and recomp or push calories up slowly and See how I respond and if so, how long before I should probably jump into some type of You know cut face because I do still have some some body fat to lose. Yeah, no good question a couple things Do you mind if I ask what your testosterone was at before you went on to TRT? So the initial diagnosis test was like 320 I had another test at like 290 something and then they did another one That was like 357 Okay, and in starting dose.  Just 100 milligrams a week.  You're not what you're not with dr. Ran Then are you no? Yeah, you must know it's a local clinic that my insurance covers Oh, I see okay. Dr. Rand is the best in the business So I would go there and he usually starts people off higher. Nonetheless what you're noticing is quite normal So testosterone is a metabolism boosting hormone if they give it to men who don't even work out with low testosterone They'll lose body fat and build muscle without even working out So it just shifts the way that your body uses Nutrients and where it shuttles them and you will typically if you look at the research It takes about four months or so before people start to kind of settle down So initially sometimes people feel way more energy libido goes through the roof That'll settle down a little bit and their appetite goes up quite a bit as well. These are actually good signs Okay, they're good signs. It's telling us that the testosterone is doing its job But also realize it's gonna settle after about four or five months typically again If when you look at the literature now if you were my client what I'd recommend is to go with it I would say look here's the deal Stick to whole natural foods Prioritize protein eat until you're satisfied.  They're gonna probably increase your testosterone dose 100 milligrams a week is Typically barely a replacement dose from from what I understand but again, you can get a consultation from Someone like Dr. Rand and what they'll do is they'll go over what your clinic's doing and then give you some advice and you can go Back to your clinic and say hey, this is you know kind of what I want to try But this is not a bad sign this is a sign that your testosterone It's working you're in a great place right now You're in a great place right now in the fact that you're already consuming 3,000 calories And I know your question is asking us who you know what you should do whether you should cut bulk Recomp what you should do right now. Well the answer is you can kind of do anything. You're in a healthy place calorie wise You obviously your your your metabolism is speeding up and you're in you're hungry You're now I personally if I if you let me tell you what to do what I want you to do I mean your body is basically primed for building muscle and it wasn't so much not that long ago With your testosterone levels as low as they were Now that you're supplementing with testosterone, you're gonna build muscle better than you ever have before and so I would Want to go with that I'd want to instead of going into a cut right now Which you could because you're at a healthy amount of calories I'd rather put calories on and really focus on getting strong and building muscle and I would want so if you're a client I our goal would be okay I'm gonna I want to keep inching your calories up until you get at a place where you tell me like Adam That's this is I don't want to eat all this food and then I go back the other way with you So I'd keep inching you up trying to build strength until we reach a calorie intake where you're looking back at me Saying like I feel like I'm eating all day I don't like this much food Can we go the other way and then I'd bring you the other way and and try and land you somewhere kind of probably where you're at Right now calorie-wise, but work you up to probably 3600 plus.   So not a bad place at all I like in feed your body just stay away from those foods that you know Are engineered to make us really overeat because then it'll just be too much of a compounding effect Okay, I'm I appreciate it. That's awesome. Elijah. What workout are you following right now? I do my own programming. I do I've been doing a push-pull legs six days a week Okay modulate intensity and you know volume. Yeah, I'm gonna put that I'm gonna send you maps aesthetic if you don't have that great program for building muscle I think you're in a good place for it right now, especially if you've been doing what you've been doing for a little while So if you don't have access We'll send that over to you and then if you want that consultation you want to inquire about it You go to mp hormones calm and they'll look over your current protocol and then tell you what they think, you know Would be would be good for you Okay, that's awesome. I appreciate it. No problem. Thanks for calling in Thank you Yeah, this is a different situation right then the average person Yeah, no, I mean, but what a great place to be eating 3000 calories still hungry taking your testosterone levels 293 hundred and probably now shooting them up to 900 plus I mean your body is just you know, so I guess you know He could go and cut right now if he really if because he's got extra body fat, but I would much rather you keep building Yeah, I feed the metabolism. It's already trying to you know bump up and you and who knows how long he's been training with this low of Testosterone, which you know, we've all experienced low levels of testosterone and know what it's like to try and build much Very hard to build muscle when your testosterone levels are on the floor and one of the best parts about getting on hormone therapy is having Optimal testosterone all the time makes it a lot more fun.  I tell you what though just kind of a side. No, it is quite It was very surprising to me to real and of course this makes sense. This is true for any business, right? the difference in Expertise and recommendations. Oh, yeah from one clinic to another. Well, he sounds like he's at a clinic I was the first time. Yeah, that's what I'm saying when you went to that first one And they were you started you off on a hundred and you're looking at your numbers and like I still I feel better But I still and then you go talk to dr. Ran and he goes, you know That's important But we also got to go based off of how you feel and it can fluctuate depending on the man and androgen receptor density and All that kind of stuff a hundred is in you know, typically typically Low if you're gonna go on replacement. Well, my take away from it in my experience is that you you'll get these clinics like this and Ageless men was like that and I think that they're they kind of like how NASM would tell you not to shoulder press deeper than 90. Yeah, you know, it's like a safe like well We don't want to risk going to guards and yeah So let's let's be conservative and put you on the lower end when in reality It's like you could handle double that no problem. They inched me up like 10 milligrams at a time By the time I got to dr. Ran, you know I'd already inched up like four or five times and he still was like, oh my god I would start you at almost double that that's nowhere near. Yeah, and it's you know what it's old school It's it's a it's a old understanding of testosterone because the the research now and I'm not even now for the last 20 years Shows it's only because it was a controlled substance because for a while there. Oh athletes are you sure? But no, no, no, it's not it's of all the hormones you need to be careful for testosterone is a pretty damn safe Hormone so this like fear around moving it up is totally unwarranted And I you know, I like I said when you talk to people really know what they're doing it becomes quite clear so


Today's event was for city employees. It's about sharing the American experience. Basically, we're all immigrants. We asked them to come in and basically put on the board where they're from, where they're family immigrated from, so we had employees do that so you can see from the board they're from all over the world. It's kind of amazing because I have the opportunity to show where I am from. I'm from Mexico, from Colima, and I can see from all other world places where the people is from that maybe I work with, so I didn't know. The purpose of the event is to bring us together as employees and make us aware of our differences that we have. So we have some events we're doing to try and raise some funds for the Terran area food bank, dunk police officers, dollar bowl, pie in the face. Hey, raise the price, raise the price. The basketball court up there is laid-able. The fire department's got a fire safety training module up here. The diversity is one of the core values of the city and through these events we try and emphasize that into the other employees that we have.


and from a Yankee perspective, you're now looking at a Houston team that just became even more difficult in that AL wild card division hunt, depending on if it's them or the Rangers winning that division. So the Esters just became a better team with a guy who's been on a roll recently. I mean, just won his 250th game. We saw his 249th win against the Yankees. I think the last six or seven starts, the ERA is under two. Yeah, you could talk about the metrics with Verlander, right? Maybe the velocity not there, not getting as many swings and misses, but to your point, he has been a hot picture of late. I was really interested to see where he was going to land because there was some talk when I was in Baltimore over the weekend that Verlander maybe would look really good at the top of their rotation, a young team that's ready to take that next step. Obviously with the no trade, he's got to approve a deal, great relationship with the owner in Houston, knows their organization obviously very well and he's going to go back there and try to give it another run. But that's a good move for the Houston Astros. I thought Baltimore, that might have been the final piece of the puzzle for them, they weren't able to get it done.


The Bemidji Police Department has been actively recruiting a few good men and women to help grow the size and strength of the Bemidji Police Reserves. Duties for the reserve officers include everything from park patrols to parking enforcement. With the Bemidji Citizens Patrol now disbanded, the reserves will take on the duties that were once covered by the Citizens Patrol. Many more reserve officers will be needed to fill the void. The reserves program will feel the impact in regards to high school dances and community events like parades and 5Ks that the Citizens Patrol was always there to assist on and so the reserves will have to step up and take on those extra tasks. The police reserve program started back in 2013 and provides training and experience to a diverse group of adults who are interested in law enforcement. The program allows citizens to assist the police department with day-to-day operations in a volunteer capacity. We're really looking for a just diverse group of people, everything from we have members who are school teachers to BSU students. So we're really looking for a very diverse sample from what the community has. The Bemidji Police Reserves currently has nine officers on staff. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Welcome back to Maywood everybody and now I want to tell you about Maywood's most popular program of all maple sugar. In the late winters March, February, the sap begins to run in the maple trees and behind me is the Maywood Maple Forest. There are over 95 trees that are mature enough to be tapped for maple sap, which is boiled down into maple syrup. Particularly the species of choice is acer saccharum to use a Latin word or as you might recall it the sugar maple. The sugar maple trees here have a very sweet sap which begins to flow as thawing occurs outside. Once the air temperature really rises above 32 degrees on a more permanent basis, sap will begin to rise from the roots under the ground and flow into the tree. And we're going to take a little bit closer look at that process and also give you an opportunity to participate in it yourself. As we take a closer look at one of our maple trees here on the property, there are a couple of ways to identify a maple tree even if you don't have the leaves on it. The sugar maple bark is probably its most distinctive feature. Notice how this bark is almost peeling away like it has a skin problem if you will. I always say to the kids that visit us, the fourth graders, that this skin is very flaky, flaky bark if you will. Kind of like if you have a flaky brother or sister. That's a good way to remember the flakiness of a maple tree. And also as you take a look gradually up to the top of the tree, the maple has branches that come out on all sides. Particularly the near side of the tree because it is the south side, it's getting the most sun. But it's a very gnarled huge look. It isn't quite like the oak tree which just has the branches coming out at the very top. Also a difference between this and the oak is that there are still leaves on some of the oak trees this time of year. As you take a closer look, another identification mark of our trees here on the property would certainly be holes left by tapping it. The larger hole which I'll finger or thumb size hole, we call that a spile hole. That's what we drill into the tree a couple of inches and we add a spile into the tree so that the sap can be drawn out. You may also notice smaller holes on maple trees like this and these will you'll find in any kind of a maple forest even if it's not tapped for sugar. Well these holes come from a bird, the yellow-bellied sap sucker. It's a type of woodpecker that given its name you might think it sucks sap but actually that's an error. What the animal is really doing is it's drilling into the tree hoping that insects will get stuck caught in the sap and then the bird will come back at a later date and it will devour the insects in the sap for its food. Kind of a unique adaptation that bird's gotten for survival. Well here we are in front of probably the most important part of any maple syruping farm the sugar house or as we call it the sugar shack. This is a very important part of this farm and indeed it is a farm when you think about it Wisconsin is the number three maple syruping producing state in the entire nation New York and Vermont are one and two. The maple syruping farm operation would not be complete without taking the raw sweet sap boiling off the water to produce the syrup and next to me is also a very large pile of wood huge pile of wood that will be consumed in the process of boiling away the water to take a gallon of maple syrup the finished product you need 40 gallons of sap a process of burning at least eight to ten hours is required to take those 40 gallons of sap boiling away the water to produce the syrup you can continue to boil it longer and you'll get molasses even longer than that and you'll get a crystalline maple sugar and of course many of us have seen maple sugar or maybe maple candy all of those are important products and Wisconsin is a viable member in that industry now there is a way to participate in maybewood's maple sugaring program all fourth graders in the entire county are invited to come visit us in the month of March you just make it an appointment with me and our phone number is 459-3906 and we have special maple sugaring tours that have been very popular for the years in fact may what has been established statewide as it with a good reputation for its maple sugaring program the last 10 years we call a bit and a brace here's the drill bit and this is the brace everyone will get a chance to try this out for themselves after you watch me now here's one of the important things that you need to understand when you use the bit in the brace first of all this point on here is a little bit dangerous it's also fragile you don't want to break it off and you don't want to pass it to a friend like this and say oh here you got to be careful also when i'm drilling i'm about waist height see it's really large rounded part of me that sticks straight out that's my stomach so my waist is in there and as i push this in just a little bit i'm gonna use my right hand on the end of this and my left hand will do the turning notice how my feet are spread apart that gives me some nice leverage and balance and i'm going to turn it clockwise into the wood you guys know clockwise right yeah i'm drilling into the wood does anybody remember how far i'm supposed to drill in remember at the very beginning i showed you a spile in the tree and yeah how far is that's how many inches are you remember Erica an inch and a half not a half an inch but an inch and a half you can also rest your stomach against here like i'm doing especially if you got a real big gut like me okay i bought about an inch and a half and i can go out the other way and as i pull out boom there we go nice tree is this tree gonna give me sap no afraid not this is a dead tree but i want everyone to get a chance to try this you're gonna line up behind one of these poles here we're gonna make three lines and then i'll give you a bit in a brace and you can get started okay there's some more people can go over here okay you guys can start here why don't you get a line right behind her there's plenty of room yep you can do that one i'm gonna do about waist high there you go can you guys just go here in adults we can just sort of help supervise here to make sure that nobody gets killed hello clockwise there we go dude that's not a tree man there's one in every group yeah it's fantastic look at her go okay what's your name again pretty right clockwise there you go i want you all to see how a bed looks on the and the modern system of us collecting sap from the maple tree this is indeed a maple tree you guys remember how to tell a difference from a maple tree and other trees leaves that helps you find their leaf around here yeah they're kind of crunched down and some of them aren't even maple leaves isn't that a good time of the year to finally you found a oak well maybe this is the oak tree anybody else know how to tell a maple tree in the winter yeah yeah i love that answer except that's what the third graders say not worth it look for holes in the tree but what if you get to a forest where people haven't been and the drilled holes in the tree how do you tell cassie yes the bark that's a great answer the bark on a maple tree is kind of gray in color and it's flaky it almost looks like it's peeling off like it has a bad case of a sunburn and it's coming off there's another way to tell that's because of the branches it's got lots of branches all over the maple tree and sometimes there aren't any little holes on a tree like this that aren't made by people they're about the same size in the pencil and they're made by a special kind of wood pecker a special kind of wood pecker it's called a yellow belly sap sucker by the name what do you think the yellow belly sap sucker sucks you'd be wrong though actually they're drilling into the tree and sap will collect in there then little tiny critters crawl up in there they get stuck in the sap and they come back and they eat them like an ant or something so they should call them yellow belly uh bug suckers i thought that would be a good answer for them but they're not he does this guy doesn't like my jokes so you guys yeah that's better that's better okay now let's take a good look at the sap nice and clear as you guys tasted a little earlier looks just like water most of it is water this type of bag works perfect for collecting sap and as you can see today i think there's a little bit of sap coming out it's all over the tree see how we had to we had to drill two holes in this tree this first hole wasn't drilled correctly it wasn't really put in there at the right angle so we re-drilled a hole but sometimes some comes out of the top hole and goes into this bag as well as what's in the regular hole yes katie the sap is definitely sticky yeah just a little bit not like glue but it's a little bit sticky i want you to come on over here i need a volunteer to take this we're going to empty it out you can go ahead and try that one ashley let's go and dump this into the bag with a bucket you have one corner with your hand okay and the other corner with the other hand carefully dump that in there we're gonna pick two people that carry this there you go yeah the sap is dripping very nicely today if you want to get more sap from the tree you gotta hug it so squeeze that tree real hard i love your tree you're my best friend oh look at the drip now it's going like crazy look at the drip you see i was i was kidding look at that okay let it go it's probably suffocating see it works it works a lot of sap you want to carry this one here as a carry one most of the trees at me would have plastic bags um collecting the sap on we hang a bucket we hang a plastic bucket underneath the plastic bag because sometimes squirrels nip holes in the bag and instead of that way if a squirrel would bite a hole in the bag we would still be able to collect it in the bucket i want you to be careful right behind the railing because his drop off is very steep right here what we wanted you to see in this part of the area is how we can tap trees that are very hard to get to remember the number one state that produces maple sugar what was that Vermont exactly there's a lot of hills it's a beautiful beautiful state but there's a lot of hills and even mountains and it's hard to get to all of their trees so they came up with the system of tapping trees so they don't have to climb all of them and this is a gravity pipeline or a spaghetti line from tree here right in front of us you can see the purple line going down the hillside to a larger blue line afternoon i emptied that drum it was full to the top it had out in it it was actually overflowing had a big chuck of ice in it too so this is an important thing and you can see it looks like somebody has fallen down here a couple of times there's still volunteers from 94 we haven't found yet that are down there hard to find a teepee like this they use these out in the plains for the most part but this gives us a little bit of an idea of the native americans the indians and how they would do the process of maple sugaring and maple syruping how could they take the sap and boil away the water does anyone know how they did that air cuff okay that would be the make that would make sense wouldn't it they fill up their log with the sap and they just take it and they put it right in the fire what's the problem with that kassie what's the matter with that maybe okay if they had laid they probably wouldn't have bricks like this but maybe they had big rocks like that yeah okay or like give you a hint the answer is in the rocks the answer is in the rocks oh no the fire's already started what do you think what the rocks underneath there sit the rocks underneath there it's okay not going to get hot enough no heat up the rocks with the rocks in here put the rocks in the sap there you go okay they would take the rocks on the fire and oh man that's hot oh oh oh Jesus hot no it's not hot they could use the tool like this and try and pick up a hot rock put it in there everybody go okay good and then it boils away the water just like a sauna you guys ever been in a sauna yeah you know what one is okay you have yeah wow you guys must be from a really good part of town huh you have saunas well it takes a long time to boil away the water that way not like we do it with the evaporator so usually the indians would boil away all the water they didn't make maple syrup for the most part because it's hard to store unless you wanted to carry on like a deer spleen with syrup in it so what they did was they boiled it all the way down to maple sugar maple candy that way it could be dried and they could keep it throughout the whole year pretty zoomy huh i think that's cool everybody go wow wow cool now we gotta do some walking i need some people to carry that okay come on in everybody i want you to get in nice and close here to the evaporator you remember from our program that the evaporating house we call it the sugar house or the sugar shack and ed waymeyer over here is our longtime caretaker and he takes care of the sap now this white stuff you see in the air what do you think this is okay it's one of those two i'll give you you got it on kitty yeah exactly it's water it's steam evaporating now remember back to the slide program if we evaporate or take away all the water what's left behind what's gonna be left behind yeah sugar sugar she's got it fantastic sap is made of two things sugar and water and we want the sugar left behind does anybody remember what percent of sap is sugar kitty hundred not quite a hundred what percent of sap is sugar even a little bit less 99 okay it's about 98 or 99 percent water and then for therefore at least one to two percent sugar it's about two percent maybe three percent and a really good year if you guys have a cold see this is good to breathe that steam in there the ice and it doesn't hurt your lungs it fills you up your your body with all these good healing spirits of steam now i want you guys to get a chance once you look at that step back and we'll let you taste some of this sap that we have uh saved over here sure i'll try to take one of those and pass it back to somebody whoa hey guys once you get a cup you guys get one keep them going keep them going we have more but once i give you a little bit step back okay so everybody gets a taste well what's in sap sugar and sugar water we want to give you the stuff inside the evaporator it's just a little bit more if you were at home trying to make some sugar water you could take a big glass of water add just a pinch of sugar and you'd have about the same taste as what you have now and if you wanted to get rid of or evaporate the water with your adult supervision from your mom or dad you could boil away that water on the stove and the only thing left would be again that pinch of sugar and that's exactly what ed's doing over here this takes all day and even into the night to boil down about a hundred gallons this tank behind me right here that milk holding tank is where we drain the sap remember when you're up above we saw the washing machine the washing machine will drain the sap as it's filtered into this holding tank which holds a couple of hundred gallons into where the tank is ed can move it from the big tank to the evaporator by hand he just puts in about five gallons at a time like he's doing right now this is a very complex and highly scientific system remember with other filtering system that i showed you was a ringer washing machine this one is an old screen from like a window and you can see how that filters out even a couple of chunks in there see that i think there's uh mostly wings and legs anybody find any of that in your in your cup i don't tell you that until after we drink it protein yeah it's good for you there is one thing i wanted to show you right before we finish oh hey all right thanks a couple of different things first of all last year in 1995 1995 we tapped about 90 trees that's about the same number of trees that we've tapped this year in that year we used 125 spiles so in other words the reason that number's bigger some trees had more than one it's fine some have three or four even good sap huh oh yeah all right gallons of syrup that we produced last year 35 gallons of syrup that's a lot of maple syrup but to get that syrup we had to collect 1,400 gallons of sap that's a whole lot of sap now who can do this in your mind think real hard now if we had made 35 gallons of sap syrup from this 1,400 gallons of sap how many gallons of sap does it take to make just one gallon of syrup got to do some division in your mind here how many gallons of sap will it take to make a gallon of syrup any guesses i see these wheels turning and that's good that's what we like to see any guesses they're working hard your math geniuses out there keep the app on top of the evaporating pan we use an instrument what does this look like yes it looks like a thermometer and what does a thermometer do it tells the temperature this doesn't take the temperature of the sap this actually takes the density reading of the sap density or thickness now you've all seen maple syrup on your table is it thick or thin it's thick especially when you compare it to water so if this is very watery like sap i'll drop this in and it's going to sink to the bottom of the pan but as the water evaporates and sugar is left behind it'll thicken the density increases and so when i drop this in it won't float or it won't sink it will float and there are numbers on here that indicate when we can take it off that evaporator if we leave it on there too long it's going to burn it's going to get scorched and it won't taste very good so we have to throw it out so this instrument is very important and we call it a hydrometer that's the special instrument and this is the most important thing in the whole process this hydrometer knowing when to take off the sap from the evaporating pan and then we can bottle it and we'll filter it one more time as well so this process we filter it a lot yes this i have to especially order it all the way from maveruma that comes from a long distance costs like thirty bucks there is one official thing that we need to do i forgot to tell you this we have to pass a test before we get to try our uh our well i didn't tell you what the reward was did i you think so see all these things on the left side of the board these are these names or or descriptions that are in pink have a matching picture on the right hand side so in order for us to get our reward we need to complete this group of twelve matching items now i'd like to just simply go along the the group here and we can have everybody try it if they want no pressure you don't have to do this the biggest thing is to give it a try you don't have to if you're not right that's okay uh we'll start over with uh cassie the sugar shack the building where it all takes place absolutely good job well we want you guys to do as we know you just came from uh school and you had lunch recently the key is to not give you a big pancake breakfast or lunch the key isn't pancakes at all we want you to taste the real maple syrup that we make here and see how you like it compared to the stuff you might find at home maybe some of you guys make this at home a lot of people do in