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.’
Like to watch the sky at night? Here are five opportunities this winter and spring to participate in special nighttime programs at the Ohio Northern University Astronomy Observatory sponsored by the ONU Astronomy Club, according to Dr. Jason Pinkney, ONU Department of Physics and Astronomy, and observatory manager.
All programs are from 8 to 10 p.m., are open to the public, and are dependant upon weather conditions.
