Hancock Public Health is letting people know about their new Communicable Disease Dashboard.
The health department says the dashboard was created to better serve and provide information to the residents of Hancock County.
The new, interactive database will allow the community to access the data they collect.
The goal is that residents will use the dashboard to learn more about what illnesses are impacting the county, along with current trends.
You can access the dashboard by clicking here.
The City of Findlay says its strategic planning consultant is accepting planning documents from community organizations as part of the city’s strategic planning process.
The city says if a community organization in Findlay or Hancock County has an official/adopted planning document, it can be submitted for review by the City’s Strategic Planning Consultant Team as part of the Findlay Forward Strategic Planning process.
The city says the consultant team will be reviewing plans as reference documents in order to better understand Findlay as a whole and any recent planning that has been undertaken within the community.
Submitted documents will be used by the consultant team for background understanding only.
There should be no expectation that any policies, recommendations or other elements of the submitted plans will be integrated into the new Findlay Forward Strategic Plan.
The consultant team will be creating new recommendations based upon current data and their own research as well as community input that will be gathered throughout the process.
Community organizations wanting to submit a plan for review should email it to cyrille@planning-next.com by Wednesday, May 25th at noon.
A move made by Ohio’s biggest university isn’t sitting well with the governor.
Governor DeWine is calling out Ohio State University for raising tuition for incoming freshmen, saying ‘this is not a wise decision.’
The Ohio State Board of Trustees voted to approve a 4.6 percent increase in tuition for new in-state students.
That amounts to a $549 increase from last year.
The university says the new rate will be locked in and rates won’t go up for these students while they are in school.
Additionally, tuition and fees for incoming non-resident students will increase by $1,703.
Ohio State says, since they converted from the quarter system to semesters in fiscal year 2013, tuition increases have been below inflation.
The West Ohio Food Bank will be holding food distributions this weekend as inflation continues to affect families.
“Prices at the pump and at the grocery stores remain at all-time highs, and these are chances for those who are really suffering to get food,” said Jason Aldrich with the food bank.
He says they usually ask that people be at or below 200 percent of the poverty level to get food, but no one will be turned away (while supplies last) if you feel you and your family are truly in need.
The Hancock County event will be held at First Presbyterian Church at 2330 South Main Street in Findlay from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 21st.
There will also be a food distribution event in Putnam County at St. John’s Mennonite Church in Pandora from 9 to 11 Saturday morning.
Get more details on other upcoming food distributions by clicking here.
One of the biggest military shows in the country is happening in Findlay this weekend.
The Findlay Show – 35th Annual Armed Forces Day Celebration runs through Sunday morning at the Hancock County Fairgrounds.
John Cheney II is Commander of the Findlay Military Association.
The event will include food vendors, reenactors, a military vehicle swap meet and much, much more. Click here for the full schedule.
Last year we had the pleasure of chatting with Phil Marshall, who was a rescue pilot in the Vietnam War until he was shot and couldn’t return to action.
He’s part of a group raising money for a ‘National American Huey History Museum’ and was offering rides in his Huey.
The Findlay Show – 35th Annual Armed Forces Day Celebration runs through Sunday morning at the Hancock County Fairgrounds.
Get more details by clicking here.
The Humane Society and SPCA of Hancock County is holding two adoption events on Saturday, May 21st.
The first event will be at Great Lakes Toyota Subaru from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The second event will be at Findlay YMCA – East Branch from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Wish list items are encouraged to be donated at each event.
The Humane Society’s wish list can be seen by clicking here.
People can also stop in to the Humane Society between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday to see all of their adoptable pets.
You can also click here to see the pets that are up for adoption.
Two Findlay High School students have achieved a perfect score on the ACT.
The school says Ethan Zheng, a senior, and Dominic Gonzalez, a junior, both earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36.
High School Principal Ryan Imke congratulates the two students and says Findlay High School has a long history of student success on the ACT.
Fewer than half of 1-percent of students who take the ACT achieve the top score.
“Earning a top score on the ACT is a remarkable achievement,” siad ACT CEO Janet Godwin.
“A student’s exceptional score of 36 will provide any college or university with ample evidence of their readiness for the academic rigors that lie ahead.”
Some Findlay firefighters saved some ducklings who had fallen into a storm drain.
Dave Morrow says he called Fire Station 4 at around sunset Wednesday night when he noticed that a mama duck had lost her ducklings and he realized they had fallen into the storm drain.
He says three firefighters quickly arrived and got to work on rescuing the wayward ducklings.
Dave wanted to give a big shout-out to firefighters Brandon Craft, Geoffrey Shilling and Nick Fazzio.
Below are additional pictures and video of the rescue courtesy of Dave.
Blanchard Valley Center is in the process of updating its strategic plan and is inviting the community to help out.
People are being asked to share their ideas and suggestions to make Blanchard Valley Center the best it can be for individuals in Hancock County with developmental disabilities.
As Blanchard Valley Center’s Nadine Weininger mentioned in the audio above, the community is invited to participate in a stakeholder session on May 24th from 10 to noon or on May 25th from 4 to 5 in the training center at their offices at 1700 East Sandusky Street in Findlay.
People who can’t attend one of the sessions but still wants to share their thoughts can contact Nadine Weininger at nweininger@blanchardvalley.org or by calling 419-422-6387.
The number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Ohio is doubling.
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy has approved 70 new licenses with three more still pending review.
The licenses awarded in a lottery will increase the number of dispensaries in Ohio from around 60 to more than 130.
More than 261,000 patients in Ohio are currently registered in the state’s medical marijuana program.