Donald Trump has selected Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance as his 2024 vice-presidential running mate.
Vance is in his first term as a U.S. Senator, winning the seat that came open when Republican Rob Portman retired.
Trump was formally nominated as the GOP Presidential candidate at the RNC on Monday, two days after surviving an assassination attempt.
(From the Findlay Police Department)
With our 2024 Flag City Night Out event quickly approaching on Tuesday, August 6th, we’re looking for a few volunteers to help us with our event.
Whether you’re passionate about safety, want to enjoy some free food and entertainment, or simply need some volunteer hours, we’d love to have a few extra hands.
Check out our sign-up lists below to see if something works for you.
2024 Flag City Night Out – Tuesday, August 6th
https://www.signupgenius.com/…/60B0A4BACAE28A6F94…
2024 Flag City Night Out (RAIN DATE) – Tuesday, August 13th
https://www.signupgenius.com/…/60B0A4BACAE28A6F94…
(From the United Way of Hancock County)
Registration is open for volunteer teams looking to lend a hand and agencies seeking help with projects through United Way of Hancock County’s Fall Days of Caring.
The three-day volunteer event will take place Sept. 16-18.
During Days of Caring, employees of area corporations and small businesses volunteer in force to help local nonprofits complete projects such as landscaping, cleaning and organizing, painting, planning an event or general repairs. Nonprofits in need of help submit projects, volunteer teams register to help, and the United Way matches up the two groups for four-hour shifts.
More information and signup forms for both teams and agencies can be found at www.liveunitedhancockcounty.org/days-caring
Corporate groups are the most common team makeup for Days of Caring, but any group can volunteer — whether it be a classroom of students, a church group or even a group of friends. Schools can sign up a teacher-led group of students to reap the benefits of group volunteering or to fulfill graduation seal requirements.
During the weeklong Spring Days of Caring event held this May, 900 volunteers completed 93 service projects for 45 different agencies. Spring Days of Caring teams provided 3,600 community service hours, a value of about $120,564 (based on Independent Sector’s 2024 value of a volunteer hour of $33.39)
(From Owens Community College)
Owens Community College Findlay-area Campus Dean Brad Wood was among the 35 graduates in the most recent Ohio Leadership Academy for Student Success class.
The academy, sponsored by the Ohio Association of Community Colleges, annually gathers faculty and staff for a year of training, exchanging ideas and immersion in promoting student success.
The OACC created the academy in 2019 to reverse management turnover by strengthening internal advancement pipelines within the state’s 23 community colleges. Michigan, New York and Texas are among the states replicating Ohio’s initiative.
“The past year has provided a meaningful and positive professional development experience with colleagues from around the state,” Wood said. “We shared practical experiences that can be adapted to our daily work. We all want our students to succeed and achieve their high education goals.”
Wood was named to his current position in January 2023 after previously serving as chair of the Owens Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program in the School of Nursing and Health Professions, where he worked for seven years.
A community college graduate, Wood earned his associate degree in PTA from St. Petersburg College. He graduated from Nova Southeastern University with his bachelor’s in Health Science and master’s in Teaching and Learning. He serves on the State of Ohio Physical Therapy Association advisory board. He is a national commissioner for CAPTE Commission of Accreditation for Physical Therapy Education and president of the Northwest Ohio Clinical Coordinator Consortium.
Wood is the seventh Owens employee to complete the academy cohort since 2020-21.
The academy is an outreach of work done by the OACC’s Success Center for Community Colleges. Created in 2012, the center focuses on helping Ohio’s two-year colleges marshal resources to better direct students’ education by aligning their academic choices with the careers they hope to undertake. The academy was funded by several national organizations, ensuring that colleges had minimal expenses to participate.
The OACC represents the presidents and trustees of the state’s 23 public two-year institutions that work to advance community colleges through policy advocacy and professional development.
The Beyond the Call of Duty Rolling Memorial stopped in Wyandot County to honor and remember fallen Wyandot County Deputy Daniel Kin.
“While we are all still healing from this devastating loss, we humbly recognize the countless other brothers and sisters of law enforcement that have also paid the ultimate price,” the sheriff’s office said.
“May we all continue to heal, may we all continue to honor and remember the impact Dan had on each of us. May ALL the fallen never be forgotten.”
The Beyond the Call of Duty “End of Watch Ride to Remember” was also in Bluffton to honor fallen Bluffton Police Officer Dominic Francis who died in the line of duty on March 31, 2022.
Beyond the Call of Duty and their End of Watch Ride to Remember is an organization out of Spokane Valley, WA that travels the country with their rolling memorial every other summer to honor the officers who were killed in the line of duty in the previous two years.
(From the City of Findlay)
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE WEEK OF 7/15/24:
-Allen Avenue will be closed to through traffic from N. Main Street to the railroad for waterline replacement.
-Midland Avenue will be closed to through traffic from N. Main Street to the railroad for waterline replacement.
-South Blanchard Street will be closed to through traffic from Sixth Street to Hobart Avenue for waterline replacement.
-Garfield Avenue will be closed to through traffic from N. Main Street to the railroad for waterline replacement.
-Crystal Avenue will be closed to through traffic from Clinton Street to the Railroad for curb replacement.
-Frazer Street will be closed to through traffic from N. Main Street to Morey Avenue for curb replacement.
-Vincent Street will be closed to through traffic from N. Blanchard Street to Central Avenue for curb replacement.
The status of some of the projects is weather and contractor schedule permitting.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Engineering Department if you have any questions about any of these projects at 419-424-7121.
(ONN) – A building that is still standing has been declared the oldest building in Ohio.
According to the Ohio History Connection, Ohio’s oldest building is the Rufus Putnam House in Marietta in southeast Ohio.
The structure was built between 1760 and 1765 and while still standing, it is enclosed inside Marietta’s Campus Martius Museum.
It served as a stockade to house soldiers during the Ohio Indian wars.
The house is named after General Rufus Putnam who was a soldier in the war for independence and a leader in founding Marietta as the first permanent settlement in what was called the Northwest Territory back in 1788.
(pic courtesy of the Ohio History Connection)
(From the Findlay Rotary Club)
At the Club’s Wednesday, July 10 meeting, The Findlay Rotary Club presented the Service Above Self Award to Gary Steed.
The award is presented annually to a non-Rotarian in the community who exemplifies the Rotary ideals of professional leadership and service.
Findlay Rotarian Harold “Puck” Rowe wrote in nominating “there are many in Findlay who are deserving of such an honor, to me Gary Steed is most deserving. Gary has touched so many lives in such a positive way. We need more humans like Gary.”
It’s a family affair. Gary and wife Brenda along with their three daughters have a deep affinity for giving back.
The Steeds traveled to Haiti for ten years to work with the Haitian people and to share their Christian values.
Gary has coached girls’ softball and been involved with 4H. He is a member of St Andrew’s UMC, where he has served in many capacities. He is proud of his work with Habitat for Humanity, the Backyard Mission and Welcome to a New Life.
A proud graduate of Ohio Northern University where he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering.
Professionally, Steed retired in 2013 after a successful career with Marathon Pipe Line as Quality Assurance Consultant.
Gary has designated a $500 contribution made in his name by the Findlay Rotary Club to Welcome to a New Life.
The Findlay City Planning Commission approved a Sheetz gas station for the northwest corner of the intersection of Tiffin Avenue and Croy Drive, next to the new Raising Cane’s.
Sheetz is planning to build a 12-pump gas station and convenience store at that location.
The site will have two new curb cuts.
One is a full entrance onto Croy Drive while the other is a right-in/right-out onto Tiffin Avenue.
Sheetz is also building a gas station at the northeast corner of North Main Street and County Road 99, just down the road from where they’re building a large distribution center at the corner of County Road 212 and Township Road 230, east of the Lowe’s Distribution Center.
(ONN) – Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose ordered a sweep of Ohio’s voter registration rolls back in May.
The deadline to make changes and updates is looming.
Time is running out for nearly 160,000 Ohioans to update their voter registration before it’s purged.
These names will be removed because they are either inactive or have not lived at their registered address for four or more years.
The Secretary of State’s Office previously published a list of 158,000 names of inactive registered voters that could be purged from the system.
You can update your address online, through the mail, or in person by July 22.
