Apollo Career Center will kick off Career Tech Education Month with the annual All Area Boards Meeting held Thursday, Feb. 5, at 6 p.m. in the Apollo Commons.
The program highlights include a presentation by Superintendent Judy Wells and Nate Neuenschwander, President of Touchstone CPM, on the progress of the seven-phase construction/renovation of Apollo Career Center.
Following will be the induction of three alumni into the Apollo Hall of Fame:
• Chris Buell, Welding Supervisor, Crown Equipment, Perry
• Nicole (Saunders) Scott, Marketing Director, Allen County Lima Area Chamber of Commerce, Secretarial, Elida
Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, Bluffton, is accepting applications for the Barbara Fleming Memorial Nursing Scholarship.
The scholarship is meant to promote the career of nursing. Therefore the scholarship money may be used toward a degree as a Licensed Practical Nurse, a degree as a Registered Nurse, or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. The scholarship is to be used to pay school related expenses toward any of these degrees.
The scholarship offers a minimum award of $500, and will be paid directly to the vocational school or college where the student is enrolled.
This looks like fun and maybe I can win some cash.
The Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliiance is rolling out its new Buy Local logo.
During the logo launch Icon viewers can support Hardin County's small businesses, shops and eateries. There's a chance to win a $50 Chamber Gold Gift Certificate.
Here's what you do:
Step 1 - "Like" the chamber's Facebook page
Step 2 - Post a “selfie” of you "buying local" with a Hardin County business within the comment section of this posting.
Friday evening is another opportunity for Icon viewers to do some nighttime sky gazing.
The Ohio Northern University Physics and Astronomy faculty welcomes viewers to the ONU Observatory from 8 to 10 p.m., Friday, Feb. 6, to view "The Opposition of Jupiter."
Dr. Jason Pinkney, said, "The gas giant Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, will be in opposition on Feb. 6, meaning that it will be at its closest approach to the Earth.
Raise your hand if you thought January 2015 was colder than most Januarys.
There's lot of hands raised out there and you are correct. According to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, the average January 2015 daily temperature was 21.6 degrees.
The normal January daily temperature is 25.4 degrees.
Even though it was a colder-than-normal January the highs and lows included a 59 degree fluxuation. The high temperature of January was 51 on Jan. 3. The low was seven days later at minus 8. That mark was one of six January days that reached minus zero degrees.
A Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) class has been planned for Hardin County. GAPs classes are training sessions for fruit and vegetable producers taught by personnel from Ohio State University’s Fruit and Vegetable Safety Program. The February 10 program will be from 9:00 am-12:00 noon at the Scioto Valley Produce Auction, 18715 County Road 200, Mt. Victory. The GAPs class is open to all fruit and vegetable producers and will be presented without technology. Attending an OSU GAPs class does not equate to being ‘GAPs Certified.’
