A free developmental screening for infants and children ages 0 to 5 years old will be held on April 22 & 25 in Port Clinton. This screening is for any child in the Port Clinton School
As a community service to help food banks in Ottawa County, Liberty Tax Service in Port Clinton is holding a food drive. Non-perishable food items and cash donations can be dropped at Liberty Tax Service, 313 Harrison Street, Port Clinton, during normal business hours this week or on Saturday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The American Red Cross in Ottawa County assisted two Oak Harbor residents following a fire in their home Wednesday morning at 3950 N. Apling Road. Two adults were
Autism is a disorder that holds much mystery and few definitive answers. It is a spectrum disorder that deeply impacts families and their children on many different levels.
An emotional reunion was held in the home of the Pratt family to talk about what autism means for them. Cheryl and Scott are typical parents of four growing sons, ages 17, 15, 13, and 9. Their second son Lance was given an early diagnosis of autism 13 years ago at the age of 2. Cheryl recalls those early years tenderly, with his Early Intervention Specialist Susie Maloney. Cheryl states" I don't know what I would have done without you!" When asked to recall what the biggest help in those early days of diagnosis and therapies was, Cheryl teared up and said,” I will never forget the day you showed me that Lance was capable of giving me eye contact. You gave me hope! I needed to see that he could be like other children.”
PC Seniors/Port Clinton Senior Center together with Gerner-Wolf-Walker Funeral Home will hold their second annual “Cupcakes for the Cure” Competition & Auction and Celebrity
A Scavenger Hunt is planned for Saturday, April 6, from noon until 4:00pm in downtown historic Port Clinton. Families and friends are encouraged to create a team and participate in
St. Boniface Catholic School, 215 W. Oak St, Oak Harbor, is expanding. St. Boniface currently houses grades K-5. Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year,
The Oak Harbor FFA Chapter was presented an opportunity by the Ohio Country Journal and Ohio Ag. Net to enter a contest to create a music video/parody to promote agriculture and the FFA organization. The Communications and Leadership class decided to take on this task. After a lot of brainstorming, they ended up picking the song “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore. Then they started brainstorming lyrics for this song about agriculture and the FFA. Over a few weeks members spent countless hours filming video footage for the song. Once the filming was over, students uploaded the video and began editing and putting the video to the music. Once the video was finished it was uploaded to youtube. The video finished 3rd in the Ohio Country Journal Contest.
The Easter Vigil at began on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. with the blessing of the fire outside St. Joseph Church in Marblehead. It was followed by all
Marcus Hunt, who graduated from Port Clinton High School in 2010 and now attends the University of Findlay, won the Malone College Spring Invitational this past weekend, placing first out of the field of 62 competitors. Hunt finished in a three-way tie for first place after 36 holes and then claimed the individual title in a playoff.
