News in Brief for April 12

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By LINDSAY REDDING
The Intelligencer
Doylestown Twp.

Family event set

From noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, the Central Bucks Family YMCA will celebrate its Annual Healthy Kids and Families Day. Included will be field hockey skills and drills, baseball, soccer, scuba and cheerleading clinics, a skate park, karate, tai chi and aikido demonstrations, face painting, caricatures, a magician, balloon animals, an open swim from 12:30 to 2 p.m., fun run, fingerprinting, moon bounce, obstacle course, vendor and service organization expo, healthy cookie/bar bakeoff and more. Information: 215-348-8131, ext. 130 or 147 or Central Bucks Family YMCA.

Pennsylvania

Black fly control program scheduled

The state's Department of Environmental Protection will launch its annual black fly spraying program in late April. In Bucks, the Delaware River and Neshaminy and Tohickon creeks will be sprayed to control populations of the insects.

The department uses Bti, described as a naturally occurring bacterium, to target four black fly species. It degrades quickly in the environment and does not harm the aquatic ecosystem, birds or other insects, the state says. Spraying is done by helicopter during daylight hours.

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