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Calendar Photo Contest open for ages 50 and older
The Area Agency on Aging, PSA 2, produces a free calendar each year highlighting scenery, people, places, history and more throughout the nine-county region. For the 2025 calendar, the organization hosts a calendar photo contest inviting photographers ages 50 and older who live in the nine-county region (Logan, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, and Shelby counties) to submit photos.
Tom Carter Project: Live band tribute to late music super fan
Tom Carter, who was 61 when he passed away on March 22, 2022, was a fixture on the Dayton rock scene from the late 1970s onward. Appropriately, his adult daughters Coral Stroup and China Carter are hosting the Tom Carter Project, a tribute to the music super fan at Moulton Gun Club in Wapakoneta on Saturday. Legbone, the Most Falcons, Invisible Strings, A La Carte and Bandages will perform. Proceeds benefit WYSO.
Local students’ artwork displayed at Airstream HQ
Entries from the Urban Art Fair, created by fifth- and sixth-grade art students at Logan-Hocking Middle School, are currently on display in the visitor’s center of the Airstream World Headquarters in Jackson Center, Ohio, and will be until June 30. Urban Air’s annual “Wake Up Downtown Logan” event, which took place in Logan May 2–4, included an art competition for local students. Their drawings were displayed in downtown storefront windows from April 25-May 3, with the public voting for their favorite entries. A panel of professional artists also judged the top entries and awarded prizes.
West Middle School students go on a fishing adventure thanks to the City of Lima and ODNR
LIMA, OH (WLIO) - It was all smiles as some lucky students from Lima's West Middle School took a fishing expedition. Several of these students have never had the chance to fish or ride in a boat, but that all changed today. It has become an annual event that the City of Lima's Park and Recreation and Utilities Department, along with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, provide for Allen County students. Rods, reels, wax worms, and instructions are provided for the kids to have a great experience. 7th and 8th graders even got the chance to go aboard a small boat and take a spin around Sertoma Pond in Faurot Park. The goal of the event is to teach the youngsters a new life skill.
David Trinko: Lima library videos poke fun at classics
When you think back to the books you read in school, perhaps you’ve thought of one of them this way. “All I remember really is that a bunch of British school kids go camping,” the Lima Public Library’s Ezra Hyman says succinctly. The library’s Liz Winhover responds,...
K9 Hondo Joins Washington Township Police
Friday, Washington Township Police Department Officer Logan Miller and K9 Hondo completed their Ohio Police Officer Training Academy and National Association of Professional Canine Handler’s certifications at Von Der Haus Gill German Shepherds in Wapakoneta. K9 Hondo is a chocolate lab and was born on February 2, 2022, in...
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