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Blanchard Valley Hospital earns environmental excellence award

Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH), Findlay, has been awarded the 2011 Environmental Excellence Award from Sterilmed Inc. This means that BVH has been recognized as one of the country’s best practice facilities in reducing environmental impact and improving overall health care sustainability through medical device recycling.

“In the past 12 months, Blanchard Valley Hospital has diverted nearly 5,000 pounds of single use medical devices from landfills through reprocessing and recycling efforts,” said Marlene Brunswick, director of perioperative services at Blanchard Valley Hospital.

Christine North and Karla, the 8th grader she sponsors

ONU Professor and Ada Rotarian Christine North with Karla, the 8th grade girl she sponsors in the Dominican Republic.  North says she feels “so honored to be able to sponsor Karla and serve as a role model for her.”  North hopes to encourage Karla to continue her education, to go to college, to live a fulfilling life.  “She is such a sweet young woman.”

Christine North and Karla, the 8th grader she sponsors

ONU Professor and Ada Rotarian Christine North with Karla, the 8th grade girl she sponsors in the Dominican Republic.  North says she feels “so honored to be able to sponsor Karla and serve as a role model for her.”  North hopes to encourage Karla to continue her education, to go to college, to live a fulfilling life.  “She is such a sweet young woman.”

We will thank God for all the good that exists . . .

By Christine L. North

Our barrio clinic today was in a community named Cerro de Chiva (which translates “Goat Hill”), near Elias Piña, an impoverished city on the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

The people in this community have very few resources and many of the people we saw today were severely malnourished and sick.  A number of Haitian immigrants live in this community. The poverty is the most severe we have seen.

Car wash to send Ada dancers to Outback Bowl

Students from Ada's Rhythm In Motion Dance Centre will hold a car wash on Saturday, June 9, to help raise money for their upcoming New Year's Day trip to perform in the pre-game and half-time festivities for the Outback Bowl. The car wash will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot of Burger King, on the east side of Lima, at the intersection of State Routes 309 and 117, near I-75.

Win prizes just for reading? Come on!

Now here's a deal that's difficult to refuse -

The Ada Public Library's Dream Big Read! summer program. It started June 4, but there's plenty of time to join.

Here's how it works:

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