Darke County Fair… Director
of
Agriculture Daniels tours fair By
Bob Robinson
Amid
the sour news on the economy around the country, there are a few states
that have managed to shine, or at least begin to show
recovery. One of them is Ohio. Despite the successes, there are still
challenges. Ohio has suffered considerable agricultural damage due to
the
summer drought. Darke County is among others that has qualified for
federal disaster relief due to the damage on its crops by lack of rain.
In his
first visit... read
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Big Brothers Big Sisters… BBBS
pays tribute to life of Don Meyer
A group of Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteers and Littles recently
enjoyed a beautiful day at the Sidney Municipal Pool, where they
attended a
swim party/pizza party hosted by Big Brothers Big Sisters. Nearly 60
people were in attendance for this August 16th event. The swimming
party was
actually made possible through memorial gifts on behalf of Don Meyer
made to the organization by the staff and Board of Trustees for .. read
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Annie Oakley Golf Tournament… Nick
Cox Family inducted into the
Tournament Hall Of Fame
The Annie Oakley Golf Tournament Committee established a Hall of Fame
in 2006, the year of the tournament’s 25th anniversary.
Criteria
for this honor was decided by the committee and consists of long term
participation, enthusiasm, and financial support of the committee’s
goals in helping Darke County cancer patients. The Nick Cox Family,
which includes Ryan and Chrissy Cox... read
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Darke County Fair… Kaptain
Kosmo treats Wulber family to a win, By Elaine
Bailey
Standing at turn four at the 2012 Darke County Fair racetrack, Aubrey
Wulber and her family cheer for Kaptain Kosmo. Although
Kaptain
Kosmo is owned by her grandfather Ronald Wulber, Aubrey considers the
four-year-old standard-bred trotter hers, as they are both the same age
and have grown up together. This race finished with a first place win
for “her” horse. Following pictures in the winner’s circle...
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Darke County Fair… Goats…
Beautiful Creatures, By Lyn Bliss
Goats. GOATS! GOATS!!! Goats in every size, shape and color. Some with
ears, some without ears. Some with neck wattles, some without. While
taking pictures of some of the inhabitants of the goat barn, I made the
mistake of also having a plastic shopping bag of fair purchases hanging
on my arm. Felt a tug, then a bigger tug… looked down to see
a
goat happily munching... read
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“Back
the Wave”
A Success Thanks to the Community
Greenville City Schools student athletes in conjunction with
the
Greenville Athletic Boosters, held their annual fundraising event,
traditionally known as “Back the Wave” on August 15th. Student Athletes
went door to door collecting community donations and provided a Green
Wave decal and a sports schedule. According to Stephanie Baumgardner,
Athletic Boosters... read
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Darke County Fair… Photography
Show Winners
Attached are the photos from the fair of the Photography
winners.
There were 481 photos shown at the fair this year. Best of
Show:
Sue Ann Hartzell. Professional Winner (left to right):
Jeannie
Grosch, Leigha Brown, Sue Ann Hartzell, Tiffanie Mora & Ciara
Lantz. Amateur Winners (left to right): Kim Miller, Hallie
Foureman, Jane Ann May & Brittasha Oswalt... read
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Darke County Center for the Arts… Second
National Banks supports Tommy Emmanuel event
Darke County Center for the Arts (DCCA) is pleased to announce Second
National Bank as an Impressario sponsor of the Tommy Emmanuel concert
on September 8. “Second National Bank generously shows their
support for the community by making it possible for DCCA to bring
outstanding programs to Darke County that folks would otherwise have to
travel to larger metropolitan... read
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Darke County Cancer Association… Ring
Toss for Patty & Mark Cotter, By Al
Bliss
The annual Ring Toss for the Darke County Cancer Association dedicated
to Patty and Mark Cotter, cancer survivors, took place at the
Dearwester ring toss oval at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. The ring toss oval
is essentially the same configuration as the original game started one
hundred four (104) years ago. The first two contestants were Patty and
Mark Cotter. The competition was accompanied... read
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Darke County Fair… Veterans
Day
at the Fair, Photos by Al Bliss & Dick
Coffield
Each year the Darke County Fair sets aside one day to honor all
veterans. This year Veterans Day was Wednesday, August 22. Veterans and
immediate family members living in the same household were admitted
free. There were many uniforms in evidence that day. Veterans were
honored in the Grandstand at 5:30 p.m. with a Parade and a Memorial
Service.... read
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Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles 2177… Eagles 2177 awards fourth
scholarship to
local student
Stephanie Mayo receives CNO Business Scholarship from Greenville Eagles
- The fourth 2012 Business Scholarship recipient from the Greenville
Eagles through County News Online and the Senior Scribes Scholarship
Fund was awarded recently to Stephanie Mayo, a senior from Ansonia High
School. She will be attending Ball State University in its Exercise
Science and Applied Science Track... read
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Darke County Fair… State
Senator
Keith Faber visits the fair
Representative Keith Faber, along with his wife Andrea visited the
Great Darke County Fair. During the visit, they stopped by the
Republican tent and talked with other Republicans there. L to R:
Greenville City Treasurer Barb Fee, Rep. Faber, Pastor Hershel Fee... read
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Darke County Fair… 4H-Results,
By Lyn Bliss
Senior Scribe Lyn Bliss has already spent well over 30 hours compiling
the judging results from hundreds of 4H members in more than 100
categories. The list isn’t yet complete but will be as soon as time
permits. Updates will be posted as they become available. The list is
also available by clicking on the link on the photo to the right... read
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Darke County Fair… Sport
Tae
Kwon Do a family activity, By Elaine Bailey
This pint-sized youngster was clearly not a novice as he awed the
audience with his spunk and marital arts skills. He along with members
of Wittler’s Black Belt Academy demonstrated punches, blocks, rolls,
and self-defense techniques before an attentive audience at the great
2012 Darke County Fair. Senei Daniel Wittler explained the intent
behind the instruction of Sport Tae Kwon Do. “The... read
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Fort GreeneVille DAR… Local
chapter sponsors Harness Racing blanket
The Fort GreeneVille Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution sponsored a harness racing win blanket at the Great Darke
County Fair. Among the win picture crowd are DAR members Debbie
Nisonger, Shirley Hughes, Taylor Nehring, Linda Riley, and Cindy
Austen. Driving the winning horse, Blueridge Casino, is Jeff Nisonger,
son of DAR member Debbie Nisonger... read
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Fort GreeneVille DAR... Local
chapter attends OSDAR Fall Fun Fair Conference
Fort GreeneVille Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution members
recently attended the OSDAR Fall Fun Fair Conference in Columbus, OH.
The DAR, founded in 1890, is a volunteer women's service organization
dedicated to keeping America strong by promoting patriotism, preserving
history and supporting education programs. Pictured above are Joanne
Fisher... read
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Darke County Fair... Little Mister & Miss… King Miller and Queen Addis,
By Elaine Bailey
Fifty-six contestants met in the Great Darke County Fair Youth Building
to compete in the 2012 Little Miss & Mister Darke County Fair
King
and Queen Contest sponsored by The Flower Patch. The theme for this
year’s event was Rock at the Hop! Alex Mikos, WTGR radio
personality and host of Market Time and Community Ties, emceed the
event. Kim Bowers, Eric Fee, and Stacie Ward judged
the... read
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Edison Community College… Edison
Career Services Offers Support to Campus, Community
Trying to find a job or select a career path that’s a good fit with
room for advancement can be a daunting task, and Edison Community
College has developed a valuable resource to help meet this growing
need in the region. Edison’s Career and Job Services Center is a free
advisory program located at the Piqua Campus that provides a wide
variety of resources for job seekers and employers... read
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Darke County Fair... Decorating
a Freak Vegetable, By Lyn Bliss
Booker
takes first with “Egg Plant Farmer” - Glancing through the fair
schedule does not make for terribly exciting reading – it is the events
themselves that are exciting. However, when an event called “Decorating
a Freak Vegetable” caught my eye on the Saturday schedule; it did seem
a bit out of the ordinary. According to Judge Nola Coning, this event
has been going on for about ten years. An assortment... read
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Darke County Animal Shelter… Pets
of the week
We have Ace at the Darke County Animal Shelter. He is a 1-½ year old
Boxer/Shepherd mix. He is mostly brown with a black face and has short
hair. He is a friendly guy and loves to play ball. He will make a great
companion and is looking for a good home. We have Daytona at the Darke
County Animal Shelter. He is a 1-year-old Shepherd mix. He is mostly
black with a brown chest and has short hair... read
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Darke County Fair… Cheerleading
event was four hours of pure energy, By Bob
Robinson
Such energy. These kids were allowed four minutes for their performance
and they used just about every second of it. It was constant movement,
augmented often by gymnastics… somersaults, slides, jumps… you name it.
Such energy. The morning was spent getting ready, practicing, prepping
themselves and each other for the performance ahead. Shelby Schipps,
Tri-Village Senior, said... read
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Extended
Drought Affects our Corn and Soybean Insect Expectations,
By Sam Custer
Aspergillus Ear Rot and Aflatoxins - Most of our corn this year has
experienced extremely hot, dry conditions and as a result grain
development has been severely hampered. In addition, such drought-like
conditions have had several producers concerned about Aspergillus ear
rot and aflatoxin contamination of grain. Although we have not yet
received reports of Aspergillus ear rot and aflatoxin in Ohio, these...
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Darke County Fair… Ribbon
Cutting Ceremony: The 2012 Fair is Officially Open
By Bob Robinson - As it has for so many years in the past, the Official
Opening of the Great Darke County Fair was replete with public
servants, fair officials, media and a host of visitors and family
members. I saw old friends and made new acquaintances and had some
interesting discussions with many of them. I got to dig Darke County
Commissioner Mike Stegall a little when I discovered he... read
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“156 Years of Greatness”... The
Great Darke County Fair Opens Today, By Bob
Robinson
Opening
ceremonies will be held at 8 a.m. today for the 2012 Great Darke County
Fair. Touted as being one of the largest and most diverse county fairs
in the state, the Darke County Fair is celebrating “156 Years of
Greatness.” On Monday, many vendors were already set up. Others were
working on theirs, while some hadn’t yet started. Fitzwater was in the
process of putting its space... read
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Garst
Museum ...
Museum Receives Donation of Annie Oakley Items
In
honor of Annie Oakley’s birthday week, The Annie Oakley Center
Foundation, in Greenville, Ohio presented three Annie Oakley related
documents to The Annie Oakley Center at Garst Museum. Eileen
Litchfield, president of The Annie Oakley Center Foundation said,
“These new artifacts complement the existing exhibit at The National
Annie Oakley Center at the Garst Museum.” Included
in the presentation are a handwritten letter from Annie Oakley’s
husband Frank Butler... read
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Greenville
Eagles 2177 awards scholarships to three local students
CNO Business Sponsor funds four scholarships plus additional SSSF
scholarships - Three Darke County students were awarded Eagles 2177
scholarships for academic excellence recently through the Senior
Scribes Scholarship Fund. Additional requirements for the scholarship
are that the student must be a child or grandchild of a Greenville
Eagles member and write an essay on what he or she intends... read
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State Line Heritage Days… Grand
Parade entertains hundreds of enthusiastic spectators
By Elaine Bailey - Hometown spirit was near 100 percent on Saturday as
little trucks, big trucks, young queens and mature queens, villains and
heroes, new tractors and antique tractors, Democrats and Republicans
wove their way through the streets of Union City during the 2012 State
Line Heritage Days Grand Parade. Chris and Sandy Hernandez, owners of
Sound Sensations, emceed the “Union City Has... read
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Big Brothers Big Sisters… BBBS
Launches a Summer Buddies Program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Shelby and Darke County launched a Summer
Mentoring Program for summer 2012 to serve some of the children
currently waiting for a volunteer mentor. Funding for this
program was secured through the Community Foundation of Shelby County
on behalf of the Roscoe Beanblossom Fund and the Founders Fund.
Executive Director stated, “We were so pleased to have this... read
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Versailles
COC... Community
Gift
Certificate Program
The Versailles Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors wants to
remind everyone of the Community Gift Certificate Program.
This program was established as an easy and convenient program to keep
shopping dollars in the Versailles area, as well as to create
a unique gift giving idea. Certificates may be purchased at the
following local banks; Second National Bank, Versailles Savings
&
Loan,
and US Bank. The certificates are available in $5, $10, and $20
denominations. The certificates can... read
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2012 Republican Convention Sometimes
dreams do come true..., By Lyn Bliss
“It was one of those ‘pick yourself up off the floor’ moments!” Those
of you who know me know that I tend to be adamant about my
choice in politics. Well, could we say that is a bit of an
understatement and go on with the story?? Every four years the campaign
for the Republican Party’s candidate for President heats-up and tends
to consume the better part of a year. Beginning with the First
Bush’s run for his second term; I have had a heightened interest in... read
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State Line Heritage Days... Spike
& the Bulldogs performance cut short due to weather
By Elaine Bailey - A disappointed audience of Spike & the
Bulldogs 50’s and 60’s group saw the performance cut short after only
30 minutes because
of inclement weather. Despite earlier warnings of high winds and hail,
not a person left until Spike and soundman Phil reluctantly
announced the show would have to come to a close. The popular group
wrapped up the 2012 Union City State Line Heritage Days with devoted
fans dancing to music from.... read
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WHIO-TV Video... FISH
pantry moving new Greenville location, By
Steve Baker
GREENVILLE, Ohio — The FISH Food Pantry serving Greenville and Darke
County is in the process of moving to a new location. That location is
13th Street and Markwith in Greenville. The pantry was closed Monday
and Tuesday July 30 and 31, and reopened on August 1 at its new... read
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2012 State Line Heritage Days: Wedded
to a Villain or… Locked in
a Living Tomb
By Elaine Bailey - Under the Big Tent Melodrama - Oh, what a
dilemma! To be married off to a villain! That’s
what the
not-so-nice ole stepmother does with sweet Bonnie Hartwell.
Although Bonnie adamantly refused to marry anyone other than her
sweetheart, her stepmother plies her with guilt, forcing Bonnie to
succumb to marrying the dastardly villain Murgatroyd
Flashington.
(Of course, only the audience can... read
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First Fridays at Greenville Library... Lunch on the Lawn a great time,
By Elaine Bailey
A joint effort by the library, Main Street Greenville and the Coffee
Pot - JR Price, director for the Greenville High School Orchestra, was
delighted to see a large number of alumni in the audience at the Lunch
on the Lawn. “I can’t remember the last time we did this,” he said. “In
fact, I don’t think we have ever performed an outdoor summer
concert. This is a tremendous turnout.” As the young
musicians... read
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Local
family
walks in Relay for Life, By George Starks
SIDNEY- Ray Hammaker, Ron Thompson, Ruth Maloney and Barbra Sutherland.
Names that many of us don’t know but all four had two things in common.
They were all related in one form or another and they all lost their
individual battles with cancer. In 2003, Ray “The Can Man” Hammaker
lost his battle with cancer while Thompson succumbed in 2007. Four
years ago, Hammaker’s son, Roger, who works... read
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State Line Heritage Days… Redd
takes first place in Chalk Art, By Elaine
Bailey
Indiana Wesleyan University student Danielle Redd took first place in
the second annual 2012 Union City Psi Chapter Sidewalk Chalk Art
Contest during the city’s State Line Heritage Days on
Saturday.
Danielle has participated in other sidewalk chalk events and ‘had a
great time’ sharing her original composition for Sweet-Tooth Fairy, one
of many depictions she has created of Sweet-Tooth Fairy... read
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Darke County Friends of the Shelter… Tri-Village Key Club Donates to
Shelter
The Tri-Village Key Club class of 2011-2012 has donated funds to assist
the Friend of the Shelter for the building of the dog park in Darke
County. On Sunday, May 20, 2012 a car wash was held at K-mart in
Greenville with the proceeds designated for the dog park. The
Tri-Village Key Club is a chapter of Key Club International. It is the
oldest and largest service program for high school students... read
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Garst Gathering 2012… It
takes a
community to support its “mint” By Elaine
Bailey
It was a fairly quiet year in 1852. The first public baths
opened
in New York City, the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus was published,
and Congress authorized the building of the second US mint in San
Francisco. However, unbeknownst to the community, Darke
County’s
own mint was being constructed a few blocks north of the county seat’s
court house, which at that time rested on the circle where the... read
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2012
Annie
Oakely Parade, Greenville, Ohio, by Bev Hughes
Parades are for children... and the child in each of us. Editor: And so
begins the narrative from Bev Hughes, a Senior Scribe who joined the
Scribes early in its formation because of a love for writing. She has
steadfastly supported all of the Senior Scribes endeavors, including
our latest fundraising project: County News Online. Bev was one of the
volunteers who answered the call for photos of the Annie Oakley Parade.
She... read
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Annie Oakley Festival… It
was a
Happy Day, By Dylan Hoover
Seeing everyone so happy that day was great... Editor: Dylan covered
many summer events for County News Online last year and
was one of the students who contributed to Greenville High School’s
Digital Waves web site that CNO posted. Once again, he has
stepped up to help out. I asked for his thoughts after shooting the
photos, and he agreed. Here are his thoughts on a full day...
The 5K Run and the Annie Oakley Parade: “Just watching all... read
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Fort GreeneVille DAR… DAR
holds
storytime at Garst Gathering
Fort GreeneVille Chapter recently held a storytime at the Gathering at
the Garst encampment tent of DAR member Karen Burkett and husband
John. The storytime was based on “The Lewis and Clark for Kids” book
written by Janice Herbert. The Burketts were in period dress in order
to give a visual of the Lewis and Clark time period. Also included in
the storytime was a craft time, making of an Indian buffalo mask.
Afterwards there was a drawing for... read
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Darke County Animal Shelter... Pets
of the week
We have Bob and Kurt at the Darke County Animal Shelter. They are
3-month-old Australian Cattle dog mixes. They are both mostly white
with
a little brown and have short hair. They are sweet little guys and very
playful. We also have their sisters Jenny and Tammy. One is gray
and black and the other is red and white. They both have short hair.
They are happy little girls and very playful. They are all current on
their shots and would love to have a... read
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