Volunteers are The Heart of Union Hospital
Volunteer service totaling hundreds of years and thousands of hours was honored Tuesday night at the annual Union Hospital Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. Michael Hovan, chairman of the hospitals board of trustees, thanked the volunteers for the care and compassion you generously give to the patients and their family members who turn to Union Hospital at a time of illness or injury. The...THiiNKFit benefits both body and mind
Does a daily exercise program using a popular video game help kids do better in school? That theory is the basis of a program by Amy Barnabi, a teacher at Claymont Middle School. Union Hospitals Workplace Wellness Department will present Barnabis THiiNKFit lifestyle program July 27, at 6 p.m., in the Union Hospital Rosenberry Conference Room. In an effort to address the issue of childhood...Letter to the Editor
To the Editor: With the recent accidental fires, the American Red Cross wants the community to recognize that 80 percent of Americans do not know that home fires are the most common disaster in the United States. Those are some of the findings of a poll released by the Red Cross, whose local chapters helped families affected by nearly 67,000 home fires last year - 92 percent of all Red Cross...To the Editor
Im writing this letter to express my thanks to the East Central Ohio Educational Service Center and to Buckeye Career Center for hosting the Camp Invention program from June 27-July 1. The folks at the Buckeye Career Center were very welcoming and accommodating. We are very grateful for their support. The Camp Invention program is a weeklong day experience for elementary-aged children focusing...Millersburg man charged in alleged marijuana grow operation
A Millersburg man could face up to five years in prison for allegedly running a marijuana grow operation. John J. Wenker, 53, 389 Perkins St., is charged in a grand jury indictment with illegal cultivation of marijuana, a third-degree felony, and possession of drug paraphernalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. The charges stem from June 10, when Millersburg police were called to Wenkers...Commissioners now accepting bed tax grant applications
Local organizations and companies which are directly related to the tourism industry will have an opportunity to benefit their efforts financially through a county grant. Applications are currently being accepted for a series of Holmes County Bed Tax Grants, which are designed to benefit businesses and organizations which draw tourism into Holmes County. The applications were available beginning...
Benefit fundraiser for John Valentini, July 24
Imagine waking up in terrible pain and hardly being able to move. Former Dover resident, John Valentini experienced this on June 17 and after two trips to two different emergency rooms over the course of four days, was finally diagnosed with three fractures to his neck. Valentini and his doctors could not explain the injury that typically comes from falling a great distance or blunt force trauma...