The Oak Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the third annual village-wide Garage Sale Days on June 1-2. Anyone in the Oak Harbor area may sign up, and some of the downtown businesses will be having sidewalk sales as well.
New this year, the chamber will have spaces available at Flat Iron Park for rent for those who live out of town but would like to participate. A 10-foot by 20-foot space will be $20 for Friday and Saturday.
A few spots remain for the annual Terra State Community College golf outing June 1 at Sycamore Hills Golf Course.
The “Fore Student Scholarships Golf Tournament,” sponsored by the Terra College Foundation, raises funds to provide scholarships for Terra students.
Fee is $100 per person and includes 18 holes of golf, lunch and dinner. The outing is limited to the first 32 paid teams. There are also a variety of sponsorship opportunities, ranging from $100 to $1,000.
The Terra Ladies Golf Outing will be July 9, also at Sycamore Hills. Proceeds go to the St. Francis Guild Scholarship Fund to assist women students at Terra.
Fee is $55 per person and includes 18 holes of golf, continental breakfast and lunch. Hole sponsorships are $100.
New this year, as an added opportunity on the day of the ladies outing, is the Ohio LPGA Golf Professionals “Swing Like a Girl” Clinic. LPGA golf professionals will share tips on grip, posture, alignment and swing fundamentals. The clinic begins at 8 a.m., prior to the 9:45 a.m. shotgun start of the tournament. Fee is $15 per golfer.
For information, contact Ed Mayer, Executive Director of the Terra College Foundation, at 419-559-2263.
The 2012 Summer Cooling Program operated by WSOS will begin June 1 and last until Aug. 31 or until funds are exhausted, whichever comes first. Appointments are being accepted now.
The program, which operated for two months the last several years, has expanded this year to include June. The benefit amount per household has also increased this year to $250, up $75 from previous years.
With the cold weather well behind us, the lighthouse and museum have been cleaned and special tours are now taking place.
The regular hours have been changed as there were more people waiting for the lighthouse to open, and not as many near closing time. The weekday hours are: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday after Memorial Day through Friday before Labor Day; 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday evenings June through August; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the second Saturday of each month May through October. The last tour to climb the lighthouse is 15 minutes before closing.
At the regular meeting of the Danbury Township Trustees held May 9, the following business was conducted:
• Road Superintendent Brett Waldron reported he met with Marblehead Village and LaFarge officials regarding the Lakepoint Park culvert replacement project, an undermine on Erie Beach Road was reported to the Sanitary Engineer and County Engineer, the new Ford F-450 was delivered and is being outfitted, road department employees attended a deferred compensation meeting, the trees donated by the Lions Club were planted in a temporary location until the drainage project at the dog park is complete, weed spray is being applied as weather permits, approximately 40 tons of millings were spread on the road to the brush collection site for dust control and potential spraying for mosquito control will be researched.
