Danbury Township brush drop-off begins April 1 at 310 Bridge Road (State Route 269 South). Branches and limbs are accepted, but not stumps or grass clippings. The service is
The Oak Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce will again be holding Downtown Oak Harbor Farmers’ Markets on the fourth Saturday of each month June-October from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The competition has been fierce this week at Immaculate Conception School. The game plans have been discussed. The strategies have been put into place.
Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, Port Clinton High School will add Chinese as a foreign language. A grant has been secured through a unique program that provides cost-savings to provide the Chinese class. The Ohio Board of Regents offers a grant program, in conjunction with the Chinese government, through an organization known as Hanban. The Chinese Guest Teacher Program allows a school district to hire a teacher from China to come to the United States and teach the Chinese language as well as the culture to the students and the community. The Hanban program also subsidizes the teacher’s salary.
A total of thirty-six Oak Harbor DECA members qualified to compete at the Ohio DECA Career Development Conference held on March 15-16 , 2013 at the Columbus Convention Center. Over two-thousand DECA members from 107 schools across the state competed at this event. The Oak Harbor chapter is a satellite program of Penta Career Center.
The majority of the members competed in written projects which included market research business plans and community service projects. In addition to being evaluated on their written documents, the student teams were also graded on oral presentations. All of the written projects teams placed in the top ten in the state. Several students also competed in team decision making and individual events.
The chapter worked with several business and service organizations to complete their projects. Twenty-four students won awards and the results are as follows:
Entrepreneurship Promotion Project1stMakaylaCarpenter
1stHunterGresh
1stSamanthaWilkins
Financial Literacy Promotion Project2ndSamanthaDurivage
2ndNathanSegaard
2ndAustinWiegand
Learn & Earn Project2ndDouglasPennington
2ndLindseyReau
2ndNicoleWilhelm
Community Service Project3rdAishaHamdallah
3rdWhitneyRutledge
3rdTaylorBlatt
Creative Marketing Research Project5thAustinApple
5thCassandraBrenneman
Public Relations Project6thKatelynApple
6thMichaelHites
6thDaltonReau
Buying & Merchandising Reseach Project7thConnorEli
7thTrinityGephart
7thElyseHablitzel
Finance Operations Project8thKalebMaguire
8thChristopherTabbert
8thZacharyMills
Marketing Management Series8thAnthonyCecil
Students who placed in the top four at the state conference qualify to compete at the International Career Development Conference which will be held in Anaheim, California on April 23-28, 2013. Twelve students will represent Oak Harbor at this conference which is attended by over 15,000 DECA members from around the world. The students are currently working to improve their presentation skills and their written projects to prepare for this event.
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
