Jackson Farms Car Show Saturday Relay

The weather is get­ting warmer and we’ll soon be approach­ing sum­mer; and on a warm late spring day there’s noth­ing like a clas­sic car show, and toss in a lit­tle ice cream and you’ve got the Jack­son Farms Car Show & Ice Cream Social.

The best part about the Jack­son Farms Car Show & Ice Cream Social is all pro­ceeds from the day will ben­e­fit the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety Big Wal­nut Area Relay For Life.

The Sat­ur­day event takes place rain or shine at Jack­son Farms, 2341 South Ohio 605, Galena.

Red Bank Cemetery Workshop June 1; registration deadline tomorrow

Misti Spill­man, an Ameri­Corps mem­ber at the Ohio His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety, is offer­ing a Begin­ners Ceme­tery Restora­tion Work­shop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, June 1, at Red Bank Ceme­tery in Genoa Town­ship. Spill­man has a back­ground in research­ing and restor­ing ceme­ter­ies, and has also cre­ated a ceme­tery tool kit as a guide for peo­ple who want to restore cemeteries.

Fifth Annual Run for John 5K registration now open

Reg­is­tra­tion is now open for the 5th Annual Run For John 5K Run/Walk that raises money for Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share. Run For John began fol­low­ing the sud­den death of John Scan­lan, who died in Sep­tem­ber of 2008 of sud­den car­diac arrest.

John was an avid run­ner who trained for, and par­tic­i­pated in, Iron­man events until his sud­den pass­ing. John’s widow Nicci said the race is more than an oppor­tu­nity to run and raise funds for a local cause; it’s also a day to remem­ber John Scanlan’s com­mit­ment to the com­mu­nity he lived in.

The 5th Annual Run For John will be held begin­ning at 9 a.m., Sat­ur­day, August 31.

Galena Historic Foundation started

Mem­bers of the newly-formed Galena His­toric Foun­da­tion, Inc. held their first meet­ing on Wednes­day, April 24, at the Galena Town Hall. The foun­da­tion was started to raise aware­ness of the role Galena has played as a vil­lage in local and regional history.

The Foun­da­tion is a Domes­tic Non-profit Cor­po­ra­tion and is accept­ing dona­tions of his­toric arti­cles and cash contributions.

The Vil­lage of Galena has given the foun­da­tion a room for dis­play­ing and archiv­ing both writ­ten and phys­i­cal arti­facts at the newly remod­eled Galena Vil­lage Hall, the for­mer Galena United Methodist Church Building.

Westerville Area Chamber announces ‘Taste of Westerville’ award winners

The 10th Annual West­er­ville Area Cham­ber “Taste of West­er­ville’ event was held on Fri­day, April 19, at The Lakes Golf and Coun­try Club to a sold out crowd of just over 300.

While at the Taste of West­er­ville, local busi­ness own­ers, com­mu­nity lead­ers and West­er­ville res­i­dents sam­pled deli­cious dishes from local food providers such as steak skew­ers, shrimp and grits, crab cakes and coconut chicken pot stick­ers. Food sam­ples were com­ple­mented with red or white wines from around the world, mixed drinks and beer.

Tiberi’s plan gives schools another option to better protect our children in classroom

U.S. Con­gress­men Pat Tiberi (R-OH) and Ron Kind (D-WI) have intro­duced a bill that pro­vides schools with another tool to use when decid­ing how to best pro­tect stu­dents from harm. The bill encour­ages off-duty law enforce­ment offi­cers to sub­sti­tute teach by allow­ing their sub­sti­tute teach­ing wages to be exempt from fed­eral income taxes. This pro­vides the oppor­tu­nity, within state sub­sti­tute teach­ing require­ments, for highly-trained, armed offi­cials to be in schools at any given time.

National Association of Letter Carriers’ annual National Food Drive on May 11

With the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Let­ter Carrier’s (NALC) 21st annual National Food Drive now just a few short weeks away, the pace of the behind-the-scenes work to make it go as smoothly as pos­si­ble is reach­ing a fever pitch in hun­dreds of branches across the country.

On the sec­ond Sat­ur­day of May each year, thou­sands of let­ter car­ri­ers step for­ward and join our co-workers, fam­ily mem­bers, friends and com­mu­nity part­ners to pick up those all-important and often heavy sacks of donated non-perishable food items left by mailboxes

BW Relay for Life hosting Bark For Life May 18 on Village Square

The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety Relay for Life of Big Wal­nut will host its annual Bark For Life Event fundraiser on Sat­ur­day, May 18, from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sun­bury Town Square.

Bark For Life is a non-competitive walk event for dogs and their own­ers to help raise funds and aware­ness for The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety. It is also an oppor­tu­nity for the com­mu­nity to come join us for a fun afternoon.