Announcements

RISINGSUN — The Lakota Local School District is inviting the Lakota community to use the high school weight room. The new days and times are 6-8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday starting March 25.



The residents at Autumnwood Care Center conducted a food drive, with all the food collected being donated to FISH food pantry. The resident council of Autumnwood, which consists of many residents who chose to make a difference, voted to tackle a monthly community service project and this was their first endeavor.



Tiffin-Seneca Public Library’s adult literacy program is looking for volunteers to help fellow community members learn how to read.

T-SPL is offering tutor training for its adult literacy program, Project READ. Patti Diaz, a trainer with the Adult Center at Vanguard-Sentinel Career Centers in Fremont is conducting the class. A Basic Literacy Workshop is 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays April 16, 23 and 30 in the Frost Kalnow Community Room.

Volunteers who successfully complete the course are asked to make a commitment to tutor a local adult once or twice a week for a year. Tutors must be at least 18 years old and be high school graduates. All materials are provided by the program.

Contact the library (419) 447-3751 to register.



COLUMBUS — With many Ohio school districts getting a jump on the 2010 requirement to provide personal finance education for high school students, the state is more than doubling the number of workshops it is to offer this year for teachers looking for classroom ideas and lesson plans.

Fifteen sessions of the two-day Teachers Academy program are to be offered throughout the state between April and August.

A $50 registration fee is required, although scholarships are available for teachers who qualify. Some Teachers Academy locations also are to offer two semester-hours or three quarter-hours of graduate credit. Charges for the credit are to be determined by each university. Professional development contact hours are available for all Teachers Academy attendees. For more information, visit www.tos.ohio.gov.



BOWLING GREEN — On Saturday, the College of Education and Human Development, the School of Teaching and Learning and the Martha Gesling Weber Reading Center at Bowling Green State University is featuring children’s author Steven Kellogg as part of the third annual Literacy in the Park celebration to be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Ballroom. This celebration, designed to promote family literacy, offers a variety of activities in a park-like setting for readers of all ages.

This is a free family event and all Bowling Green and neighboring community residents are invited to participate. Refreshments are to be provided.

As a bonus, Nanna’s Bookstore is offering Mr. Kellogg’s books for sale at its storefront. Mr. Kellogg is giving two presentations, both including storytelling and illustration. Kellogg is also signing books during the event.

Kellogg is an author and illustrator of more than 90 children’s books and known best for his books, “Pinkerton, Behave!” and “Jimmy’s Boa Constrictor Ate the Wash.” What began as a pasttime with his siblings has grown into a fulltime profession for this author and illustrator of best-selling children’s books.

For more information, go to www.edhd.edu/rc/litpark.



FREMONT — A Terra Community College program has opened a trip to the public. A group is to leave from Terra on June 24 and travel via motorcoach to Springfield. The legacy of Abraham Lincoln can be traced to this central Illinois city.

On June 25, the group is to visit the Lincoln Presidential Museum, the Lincoln Home, the Old State Capital and the Frank Lloyd Wright example of a prairie-style home.

The next day, the group is to begin its journey back with a stop for the afternoon and evening in Brown County, Ind., which is known as the artist center of the Midwest.

The bus is to return to the Terra campus on June 27 after enjoying the EitelJorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.

The trip is $375 per person for ElderCollege members and $395 per person for non-members. The price includes hotel accommodations, two meals a day, admittance to all educational attractions and the motor coach. There are no refunds for cancellation. Travel insurance is optional.

The deadline to register and make a deposit is May 1. For more information or to register, call (419) 559-2255.



ATTICA — Attica High School’s 128th reunion is May 4 at Seneca East High School. All graduates of Attica and Seneca East schools are invited to attend.

Lunch is to be served at 12:30 p.m. by Uncle Dudley’s, followed by entertainment, recognition of the 50-year class of 1958, a business meeting and time to reminisce.

The price for reservations is $10 per person. The charge provides lunch, entertainment, flowers for the 50-year class and printing and postage costs.



SYCAMORE — Plans are under way for the 104th Sycamore alumni banquet to be 6:30 p.m. April 26 at the new Mohawk building on SR 231. The classes of 1958 and 1948 are to be honored.

Any person who attended Sycamore but did not graduate is welcome to attend. Officers for 2008 are Robert Shellhouse, coordinator; Tobe Riedel, president; Marcile Moore, secretary; Terry Doss, recording secretary; and Pauline Fadley, treasurer.