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  Castleton Community Seniors celebrates 25 years The Castleton Community Seniors held a 25th anniversary celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 1.  Over 50 members and guests attended the dinner and watched a PowerPoint presentation with photos from the past 25 years showing the men and women whose vision helped make Castleton Community Seniors into the success that it is  today.  This year, 2023, marks 25 years that many of the programs and services for the Castleton Community Seniors began, including:  The first meeting of the CCS board of directors was held January 20, 1998. The first newsletter (Old Homestead News) was published. The first senior meal was served February 4, 1998.  The elderly and disabled transportation program began October 4, 1998. There were 69 members in 1998, and today the Castleton Community Seniors have over 500 members .

Year-round observations confirm that hunter-gatherers often have dismal success as hunters The Hadza and Kung bushmen of Africa, for example, fail to get meat more than half the time when they venture forth with bows and arrows. This suggests it was even harder for our ancestors who didn’t have these weapons. “Everybody thinks you wander out into the savanna and there are antelopes everywhere, just waiting for you to bonk them on the head,” says paleoanthropologist Alison Brooks of  George Washington University, an expert on the Dobe Kung of Botswana. No one eats meat all that often, except in the Arctic, where Inuit and other groups traditionally got as much as 99 percent of their calories from seals, narwhals, and fish. So how do hunter-gatherers get energy when there’s no meat? It turns out that “man the hunter” is backed up by “woman the forager,” who, with some help from children, provides more calories during difficult times. When meat, fruit, or honey is scarce, foragers dep...