Hancock County Job and Family Services is hosting a job fair to celebrate November as National Hire a Vet Month.
Though the focus is on veterans everyone is welcome to take part.
The job fair will be on Monday from 9 am to 1 pm.
There will be 8 employers from the region at the event.
The “benching” project to lessen flooding of the Blanchard River in Findlay will cost more than anticipated.
Steve Wilson, project manager for the Maumee Watershed Conservancy District, says the project will cost an additional $807,000.
He says the amount of potentially contaminated material removed and hauled away from the old Brandman tire dump on North Cory Street was about four times higher than their original estimate.
“Our calculation was off because the material was much more dense than we anticipated, primarily due to the moisture content.”
Wilson says the total cost of the benching project will now be just shy of $6.9 million.
He says the overall project is about 90 percent complete, and when finished will reduce a 100-year flood event by 8 to 9 inches at Main Street.
Get more on the remaining project here.
The American Electric Power Foundation has presented the University of Findlay with a big financial gift that will be used for student scholarships.
Details are in the following media release from the University of Findlay.
The University of Findlay is pleased to announce that a financial gift in the amount of $500,000 has been provided by American Electric Power Foundation for three scholarships that will provide much-needed aid to students pursuing rewarding, service-oriented careers.
The scholarships include:
-The American Electric Power Foundation Endowed Scholarship in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math/medicine) Education Fund, which will go to a student who is enrolled in accounting or finance, or any programs within the Colleges of Health Professions, Pharmacy or Sciences.
-The American Electric Power Foundation Findlay Forward Scholarship for Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability, which will impact eight to 15 students annually over five years.
-The Business Affiliates Scholarship Program, which provides critical financial support to UF students with financial need who either graduated from a Hancock County high school or who are currently employed by a Hancock County business.
AEP is pleased to provide such funding, which supports one of the Columbus, Ohio-based company’s central tenants of community involvement, said Dale Heydlauff, AEP Foundation president.
“Education is the essential precursor to change, to growth, and to innovation,” Heydlauff pointed out during today’s private gift announcement ceremony on campus. He concluded that scholarships such as those being funded at UF by AEP are therefore critical due to higher education costs that are requiring students to manage greater debt loads after graduation.
UF Senior Gabbi McCracken, an Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability student, thanked the AEP Foundation for its philanthropic efforts. Because of similar assistance provided by the company and others with a similar altruistic ethos, she said she “will be graduating with debt that’s very manageable.” Offsetting McCracken’s expenses have been Business Affiliates scholarships and academic scholarships she has earned.
Nathan Tice, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, added that AEP Foundation’s donation will help the University improve upon an already stellar academic offering of programs and courses that focus on STEM learning. Thanks to UF’s emphasis on collaboration and community impact, successes such as cancer research, work that combats intergenerational poverty, and astronomy events at Newhard Planetarium for participants of all ages are already having positive effects, he maintained. “This generous gift is going to help us do this even better,” he said.
Three people were injured, including two young children, when a driver ran a stop sign and caused a crash west of Jenera.
The crash happened at about 3:25 p.m. Tuesday at State Route 103 and Township Road 59.
The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office says James Miles, 18, of Jenera, was driving north on Township Road 59 in a 2004 Saturn when he failed to stop at the stop sign and struck a 2002 Pontiac that was traveling west on State Route 103.
The Pontiac was being driven by 26-year-old Savanna Stutz, and also inside were a one-year-old and seven-year-old passenger.
The sheriff’s office says Stutz and the two children were taken to Blanchard Valley Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
Miles was cited for running the stop sign.
(ONN) – GOP lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a bill that amounts to a near-total ban on abortion.
The new bill would only allow an abortion if the mother’s life is in danger.
Margie Christie, Executive Director of Dayton Right to Life, supports the bill and says it is time for a tougher crack-down on abortion.
“We’re going to continue to end abortion and not regulate it anymore, we’re done regulating with abortion, we just want it ended.”
Pro-choice advocates, like Jaime Miracle with Naral Pro-Choice Ohio say the bill’s a danger to women’s health.
“Not only does this criminalize the practice of medicine but it puts the health and well-being of pregnant people in our state at risk.”
Under the new bill, a doctor who performs an abortion for a woman whose life is not in danger from the pregnancy could be charged with aggravated murder.
House Bill 413 is sponsored by State Representatives Candice Keller and Ron Hood.
The bill has now been referred to the Criminal Justice Committee but hasn’t been up for a vote yet.
A Leipsic man was taken to the hospital following a two-car crash in Putnam County on Tuesday morning.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office reports that the accident happened at the intersection of Putnam County Road 10 and Road X around 6:35 a.m.
Deputies say Ronald Niese of Leipsic southbound on Road 10 and failed to stop for the stop sign and struck a semi-truck driven by Jeremy Sheets of New Bavaria.
Putnam County EMS took Niese to St. Rita’s Medical Center in lima for his injuries.
Blanchard River Broadcasting had two Findlay police officers come to talk about ALICE Training on Tuesday.
ALICE is an acronym for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate and is designed to increase survivability in an active violent intruder event.
The officers walked employees through barricading doorways and creating distractions for the assailant.
Sgt. Jason Morey said while schools are the main users of ALICE training, it’s important everyone to know.
Officer Dan Griffith said that they have an ALICE task force that will come and teach businesses how to handle critical incidents.
You can learn more about ALICE here.
Students at the University of Findlay got a presentation on media literacy from Columbus Dispatch writer and intern coordinator Holly Zachariah.
Zachariah says she thinks the lack of trust in the media partly comes from people not knowing the people in the media.
It used to be believed that reporters had to keep their personal traits secret.
According to Zachariah, it is important to recognize that journalists are people, too, and carry biases and values that they must keep out of the articles they write, which she explains can be challenging.
Sometimes mistakes can happen, especially with how fast information flows and changes, which she said in her presentation makes the job even more difficult.
It is on reporters to make sure the information and sources they share are accurate.
The important thing is to find reporters and outlets you trust to get the story right and subscribe to them.
Zachariah also shared some tips for checking for bias and the accuracy of articles you read.
She said you should always check the URL of the article and the sources mentioned by it.
If you don’t recognize the URL or it seems like it has a political bias, you will want to do some additional research, even if it’s just a simple google search.
Don’t be afraid to question what you’ve read.
You can listen to the interview with Holly Zachariah below.
Some lawmakers at the Ohio Statehouse are pushing to declare pornography a public health hazard in the state.
There’s a resolution being heard in a committee in the Ohio House that would follow the footsteps of other states that have passed similar resolutions.
There is a growing concern nationwide over children being taught sex ed through pornography, which has become much more accessible because of the internet.
Ohio House Bill 180 states exposure to porn at earlier ages can lead to bigger societal issues such as human trafficking and sexual violence.
The resolution does not seek to ban pornography, but to raise awareness and highlight concerns surrounding it.
The sponsor of the resolution is State Representative Jena Powell of Darke County.
Two people were injured in a hit-skip crash in Findlay.
It happened at around 9:45 Monday night at Interstate 75 and West Trenton Avenue.
The Findlay Police Department says a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer driving east on West Trenton ran a red light and slammed into a car.
The car spun out and came to a stop, but the Trailblazer kept going eastbound.
Police say it was found parked behind Subway and the driver fled on foot eastbound on West Foulke Avenue.
Two people in the car, Garrett Schrum, 22, of Findlay, and Cassidy Carey, 22, of Granville were taken to Blanchard Valley Hospital for minor injuries.
The driver of the Trailblazer was not located.
Anyone with information should contact police at 419-424-7150.