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Blanchard Pleasant Buckeyes 4H meeting held

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Blanchard Pleasant Buckeyes met on May 21 in the Hardin Northern Ag Building.

Recreation for the night was Chicken Pix led by Makenna Eibling. Leading the meeting was president Rylee Bame. Pledge of Allegiance was led by Lainey Thomas and the 4-H Pledge by Cooper Thomas.

Roll call was your favorite thing to do in summer. There were 50 total present, 35 members, 8 advisors, and 7 guests. Shirt forms and money were due at this meeting.

The livestock checklist was discussed by Bob McBride. This checklist was sent in the mail to any member taking a livestock project. Quality Insurance was held at this meeting also for members taking livestock led by Jack McBride. 

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Icon dog of the week - Sadie

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Meet Sadie. She is a three year old shepherd mix. Sadie weighs 98 pounds. Can you give Sadie her forever home?

To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.

Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.

Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.

The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.

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YMCA to use Kenton city pool for class and swim lessons

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, May 21, 2018

The Hardin County Family YMCA will utilize the Kenton city pool to offer an Aquacize class along with swim basics and swim strokes beginning in June. The Y pool is temporarily closed for repair.

 

The Y will offer swim lessons on Tuesday and Thursday mornings beginning June 5. Swim basics class will run from 8:45-9:15 a.m. each day, while the swim strokes class will run from 9:15-9:4S a.m. Aquacize classes will be run on Monday-Wednesday-Friday mornings from 8:4S-9:4S a.m. beginning on June 11.

 

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Here's the 2018 Ada HS senior awards

Presented during the senior honors awards banquet
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, May 17, 2018

Awards were presented at the Ada High School senior honor awards banquet on Wednesday evening at the school cafeteria. Departmental awards, scholarships, and  scholastic awards were among those announced.

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Scholarship totaling over $100,000 awarded

Many businesses, agencies and organizations present awards to AHS seniors
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, May 17, 2018

Many businesses, agencies, and organizations provided and presented scholarships totaling over $100,000 to Ada High School graduating seniors last night at an awards banquet. Receiving scholarships were:

Ada High School will honor its graduates of the Class of 2018 on Sunday, May 27, at 2:00 pm in the high school gymnasium.  At the Senior Honor Awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 16, it was announced that Olivia Alexander, Kiser Colley, Alexander Hurtig, Lyric Jones, Erryk Katayama, Noah Pinkney and Melina Woods have earned the honor of Valedictorians, while Terry Sheridan was named Salutatorian.

Olivia Alexander, daughter of Rob and Shelleigh Alexander

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Beauty in the eye of the beholder

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, May 17, 2018

Are dandelions beautiful? Could be.

(Photo by Ken Collins)

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