Hopefest 2013 comes to The Pier May 18
Few communities have the advantage of having a local place for youth to go and enjoy playing sports, hanging out and communing in a safe facility geared explicitly for teens and young adults. The Pier in Mt. Eaton is one such place and this coming weekend the public will have an opportunity to not just support the facility, but to have a whale of a good time in the process. The Pier Lighthouse...
Taste for Summer benefits Clary Gardens
Taste for Summer is the regions premier wine-tasting event that includes delicious barbecue as well as craft beers from two Ohio microbreweries. Originally coordinated to demonstrate summer cooking techniques, the annual event has grown into a fundraiser that attracts locals and visitors to Clary Gardens, an emerging botanical garden at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and adjacent to...
SUPERB Tech class plants a commemorative tree
Students from SUPERB Technical Institute (STI) gathered on Tuesday, April 23 at the intersection of state Route 39 and 3rd Street NW to plant a commemorative tree after successfully completing a course on the BottomUp Organizational Ecosystem. This course offers specific insights on building sustainable organizations based on natural law, which is a radical departure from top down structures that...
A 5K race will join exciting Relay for Life slate of events
For the better part of the past two decades, Holmes County Relay for Life participants have been walking for a cure for cancer. Now they will be Running Toward a Cure. With an already loaded schedule of events that help keep the mood light and exciting during the wee hours of the all-night event held each summer, the Relay committee has decided to add one more enticing option to the slate...Senior A-Fair event scheduled
The seventh annual Senior A-Fair promises to be a fun-filled day of entertainment, education, free food and door prizes. The event, sponsored by the Wayne Holmes Senior Services Coalition in celebration of Older Americans Month, will be held at the Wayne County Fairgrounds on Tuesday, May 21. The day will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration and a breakfast snack provided by Wayne County Care...
Sonnenberg Station to perform at OrrVilla Retirement Community
OrrVilla Retirement Community invites the public to a concert by the Sonnenberg Station mens choral ensemble on Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at 333 E. Sassafras St., Maple Terrace, in Orrville. A fixture in the Kidron community since 2006, Sonnenberg Station has performed in more than 30 different venues from local churches and businesses to neighboring universities and concert halls. The...
Seventh annual Older Adult Extravaganza
The Area Agency on Aging Region 9 will be hosting the seventh annual Older Adult Extravaganza!! on May 15 at Pritchard-Laughlin Civic Center, Cambridge, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event is for adults 60 plus and their caregivers. Admission is free. The theme for this years event is Disco Fever. The first 300 attendees will receive a disco ball necklace. To kick off this event, there will be a...