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Tree dedication honors long tenure of Fighting Scot band directors

  • November 27, 2010
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Nancy Ditmer, longtime College of Wooster band director, along with assistants Ned Brooks and Thomas Roblee, were honored for their impact on the music program with the dedication of a tree just outside of Scheide Music Center near Beall Avenue Nov. 18. Campus horticulturalist Mark Niemczyk carefully placed the 12-foot high sugar maple in the ground during the brief ceremony, which drew an...

Online learning environment thriving in school district

  • November 27, 2010
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An online learning environment offered to students in the Wooster City School District may hold the key to academic success for a broad range of students. That’s what Mark Stefanik, Wooster City School District director of educational services and interventions, told the board of education during its Oct. 26 meeting. “PLATO is a self-paced learning alternative to traditional classroom...

Stimpert places at State cosmetology competition

  • November 27, 2010
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Taylor Stimpert, a Hillsdale High School senior in the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center’s Cosmetology program, won third place in the Nails for Ladies category at the State Cosmetology Competition in Wadsworth, Nov. 22. She is the daughter of Kelly Thomas and resides outside of Ashland. Stimpert will be recognized at the career center’s regular board of education meeting Dec. 16.

Open house scheduled for Dec. 2 for WCSCC

  • November 27, 2010
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The Wayne County Schools Career Center will host an open house on Thursday, Dec. 2, from 5-7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend, with a special invitation extended to all Wayne County eighth, ninth and 10th-graders and their families. A few college, university and career-technical school partners and the career center placement coordinator will be in the commons to answer questions about...

Use citrus when decorating your home for the holidays

  • November 27, 2010
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My grandmother’s youth was spent in Scotland, far away from available citrus fruit in her day. When citrus was available, it was very costly and certainly out of reach to the common folk, such was my grandmother. Each year at Christmas my grandmother received an orange in her stocking. It was a delicious treat. It’s easy to take the availability of our food for granted. It wasn’t so long ago...

120610 American Red Cross Festival of Trees kicks off holiday season

  • November 27, 2010
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For the past 19 years and counting the American Red Cross Festival of Trees has signaled the official start of the Christmas season in Wooster. To kick off this cherished Wooster holiday tradition the buildings on the campus of the Wayne County Historical Society were decked out for the holidays with Christmas decorations containing thousands of lights, hundreds of ornaments and miles of garland...

ATH:Christmas Crackers

  • November 27, 2010
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Christmas Crackers, not the kind you eat but the kind you pull allowing goodies to fall out, were invented in London in 1847 by an entrepreneurial chap named Tom Smith. A cracker is basically a cardboard tube, covered in bright paper, filled with a colorful paper hat, a toy and usually a slip of paper with a joke or motto, and then festooned with ribbons and bows. The idea is for two people to...

120610 Wayne County Historical Society Brings “Voices From the Past” Alive

  • November 27, 2010
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For the past seventeen years, the Wayne County Historical Society has been bringing history alive through its Voices From the Past series. First presented in 1994, the annual four concert series mixes dramatic presentations and musical performances by some of the top performers in the country to illustrate a period in our nation’s history. For the 2011 season, Voices From the Past chairman...

120610 Christmas caroling with a twist

  • November 27, 2010
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Singing Christmas carols is as much a part of a traditional Christmas celebration as snow and presents under the Christmas tree. But when you get the opportunity to sing carols with nearly 1000 people accompanied by 80 tubas, baritones and euphoniums, that’s singing Christmas carols Wooster style! On December 11 at noon tuba, sousaphone, euphonium and baritone players from across Ohio will...

Dorean Ivino honored as Home Health Aide of the Year

  • November 27, 2010
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Dorean Ivino was honored as Home Health Aide of the Year for the Wooster branch of Cambridge Home Health Care. Criteria for the award was based on outstanding patient care and commitment to excellence. The award was presented at a luncheon held in Akron, Oct. 27, by Nancy Diller-Shively, chairman and founder; Todd Morgan, chief operating officer; Barbie Riggleman, regional director of...