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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | APRIL 2022 25 DID YOU KNOW? DID YOU KNOW? DID YOU KNOW why we paint eggs for Easter? While there are many competing theories as to the true origin of this beloved tradition, historians generally agree that eggs were formerly a forbidden food during the Lenten season. So people would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of penance and fasting, then eat them on Easter as a celebration. Painting Easter eggs is an especially beloved tradition in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches where the eggs are dyed red to represent the blood Christ shed on the cross. DID YOU KNOW the are many kinds of pollinators? Although birds, bats, and other creatures are also pollinators, insects are the animals that do the bulk of the pollination that affects our daily lives. Worldwide, there are an estimated 20,000 species of bees, and approximately 3,600 bee species are native to the United States and Canada alone. Butterflies and moths are valuable pollinators. Wasps are wrongly maligned due to a reputation for being aggressive. In reality, they are adept hunters keeping insect populations in balance and managing pests. With over 85 thousand species worldwide, flies form one of the most diverse orders of insects and many are beneficial. Beetles are pollinators of many flowers such as magnolias and water lilies. Hoverflies are known to visit at least 72 percent of global food crops and over 70 percent of animal-pollinated wildflowers. Insect pollinator species are in decline as biodiversity loss around the planet accelerates. Human activities causing their decline include climate change, and habitat destruction and degradation due to urbanization and agriculture. Light pollution is an additional threat to night-time pollinators. It is important that we make the world a friendlier place for pollinators so they can do their vital work. DID YOU KNOW there's an easy way to contact the entire Board of Directors? Your Board of Directors is eager to hear from it's community members on the issues that impact Four Seasons. However, contacting them can seem like an intimidating feat when you're not sure where to start. There are multiple options for residents hoping to reach out. Our community website, fourseasonsbeaumont. org, hosts a "Contact Us" section that allows visitors to fill in a contact form that is then sent in the form of an email to General Manager Eric Zarr, who can forward that contact to Board members. Alternatively, residents can send an email to theboard@fourseasonsbeaumont.org which is automatically pushed to the email inboxes of management and multiple Board members. Not interested in using email? Visit the front desk at The Lodge and ask the attendant for your Board President and Vice-President's business cards. The contact information listed there goes directly to that individual board member and is not shared with management. Lastly, residents are welcome to rely on printed or handwritten letters to be turned in at The Lodge front desk and hand delivered to the physical inbox of a selected Board member. Envelopes to enhance privacy can also be requested at the time of submittal.

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