The Act of Kindess Program launched this school year at Ada, according to Bill Faine, teacher and junior high Aspirations advisor. It's a program created by the junior high Aspirations/advisory team.
"This program is where the junior high teachers and Mr. Lee observe students who, throughtout the month, consistently and naturally display of kindness," he said. "We select a boy and girl from each of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and these are the November winners:
6th grade = Carlie Oldfield and Spencer Wall 7th grade = Timber Blankenship and Chance Taylor 8th grade = Rylie Roser and Jack Weatherly
Deb Curlis of Community Health Professionals, is asking Ada businesses and interested community groups for support of its monthly Bingo and free lunch program at CHP.
"For the past nine years, Richland Manor has provided a free lunch and Bingo the first Wednesday of every month for area seniors," she said. "Since Richland Manor will be moving soon to Delphos they are no longer going to provide this monthly service.
Curlis said that there are usually 40 to 60 seniors attending this event each month.
So that the program doesn’t end, Community Health Professionals will provide the lunch for 2017.
There will be a community meeting in Alger for residents to discuss how best to use a state grant of $500,000 for such things as:
• Parks and playground equipment
• Sidewalks
• Storm sewers
• Water hydrants
• Roads, curbs and gutters
• or other infrastructure projects.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 21, in the village hall, 207 Angle St. with Mark Doll, county regional planning director, and Whitaker Wright of Community Development Associates.
A survey was taken in Alger last fall which determined that Alger qualified for a grant up to $500,000 since most residents report low to moderate incomes.
Winter is on the way. Here's a weather update for Friday night, Dec. 16, from various weather internet sites:
For northwestern Ohio snow is in the forecast tonight and mixed with or changing to sleet and freezing rain. Anticipated 1 to 3 inches of snow with minor ice. Periods of snow tonight will change to a wintry mix overnight.
Low temperature anticipated at 20 degrees, with winds from the south southeast at 10 to 20 miles per hour. Chance of precipitation is 90 percent.
The weather has taken a change in course lately since the last Hardin County agriculture and natural resources update.
Looking back on the growing season from April 15 through Oct. 15, the average rainfall was 21.21 inches. This is 2.43 inches below the 10-year average growing season precipitation, and 3.49 less inches of rain than last year’s growing season.
A wide range of 13.21 inches in rainfall accumulation from high to low across the county is an indication of the variability in rainfall throughout Hardin County in 2016.
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