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The Hardin County Pork Producers are offering six-$500 scholarships to qualified students. Scholarships will be awarded to one student from each of the six county schools.

For an application, please contact the FFA Advisor or high school guidance counselor at any of the county schools. You can also download an application from hardin.osu.edu or pick one up at the OSU Extension Office located at 1021 West Lima Street, Suite 103 in Kenton.

The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) and International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) have recognized Bluffton Hospital and Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH) for excellence in lactation care.

Bluffton and BVH have received the IBCLC Care Award in recognition for staffing professionals who hold the prestigious International Board Certified Lactation Consultant certification (IBCLC) and providing a lactation program that is available five to seven days a week for breastfeeding families.

 

Apollo Career Center will hold its second ApolloPalooza on February 11, 2014, 5:30-7 p.m., to kick-off National Career and Technical Education Month. ApolloPalooza will showcase both the high school and adult education programs. The event is free and open to the public.

“Because Apollo is not a traditional high school or college, and because adults and high school students are being trained during the day and evening, Apollo is opening up the building, for the public to see and experience what Apollo students learn everyday,” said Dana Dukes-Norton, district communications manager.

Not much new to report in the weather. Four of the recent five days experienced lows below zero and the temperature hasn't been above 32 for 10 days.

Here's weather summary for the past 10 days, according to Guy Verhoff, local weather observer. The summary is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.

What can you recycle?
What can't you recycle?
When is recycling collection?
When is refuse collection?

Those questions are answered in the new Waste Management Information Kit now available for Ada refuse and recycle customers. Copies are in the Village of Ada office. The kit lists the calendar for recycling days in 2014. It also lists items that may be recycled.

A printer-friendly copy is also in two attachments at the bottom of this story.

Waste Manager of Ohio has the contract in the village to cover recycling and refuse collection. The company's Ohio customer service center phone number is 1-866-797-9018.

 

The Hardin County Sheep Improvement Association is looking for 2014 Lamb & Wool Queen contestants and scholarship applicants.

APPLICATION IN ATTACHMENT AT BOTTOM OF THIS STORY

Eligible candidates for the title, Lamb & Wool Queen, must be age 15 through 20 as of
Jan. 1, 2014, and either live on a farm where sheep are produced, or have a sheep
project in the Hardin County Junior Fair to be eligible. Contestants must complete an
entry form.

For further information about the Lamb & Wool Queen contest, please contact the Sheep
Improvement Queen Committee Chair, Kristie Fay at 419-673-8264.

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