Area Activities and Meetings

Health Dept Closed

The Galion Health Depart­ment will be closed Tues­day, April 17. Call 419–468-1075 with questions.

GHS Class of ‘52 to meet

The Galion High School Class of 1952 will meet for a lun­cheon at the Galion Pizza Hut, Wednes­day, April 18 at 11:30 a.m.

CC Coun­cil on Aging meets

Monthly meet­ing of the Craw­ford County Coun­cil on Aging, Inc. Board of Trustees will be held on Wednes­day, April 18, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the Coun­cil on Aging Office, 200 S. Spring St., Bucyrus, OH. Meet­ing time and place are sub­ject to change. To con­firm meet­ing or need addi­tional infor­ma­tion con­tact Peg Wells, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor at 419–562-3050.

Get ready for Kindergarten

Galion City Schools is con­duct­ing its Kinder­garten Screen­ing and Reg­is­tra­tion, April 18 and 19 at the Pri­mary School. Call 419–468-4010 to make an appointment.

Child must be 5 years old before Aug. 1, 2012.

Friends of the Park to meet April 19

The Friends of the Craw­ford Park Dis­trict will hold their annual meet­ing on Thurs­day, April 19 at 7:30 a.m. The meet­ing will be held at the Lowe-Volk Park Nature Cen­ter located at 2401 State Route 598. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact the office at 419–683-9000. The monthly meet­ing of the Craw­ford Park Dis­trict will be held imme­di­ately fol­low­ing the Friends of the Craw­ford Park Dis­trict annual meeting.

From Cit­i­zen to Patriot to meet

From Cit­i­zen to Patriot, Craw­ford County’s Tea Party, will hold their monthly meet­ing Thurs­day, April 19, at 6:30 p.m. at First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, 240 S. Mar­ket St., Galion.

All are welcome.

The meet­ing focus will be on the Con­sti­tu­tion Project that is slated to kick off on May 19 at the Craw­ford County Cour­t­house in Bucyus.

Please bring an item for the food pantry drive.

CC Geneal­ogy Soci­ety to meet

The next meet­ing of the Craw­ford County Geneal­ogy Soci­ety will meet April 19 at New Wash­ing­ton St. John’s Church. Time is 7 p.m. Joe Blum will be the main speaker. Joe has been our speaker sev­eral times before and gives us a very inter­est­ing pro­gram usual about his ances­ters and his vis­its to the old coun­try to visit rel­a­tives there. Vis­i­tors are wel­come to join us.

Town Hall Meet­ing April 19

There will be a Town Hall Meet­ing on opi­ates and heroin April 19 from 6:30 — 8 p.m. at the Galion High School cafe­to­rium. This meet­ing is spon­sored by the ADAMH Board, the Craw­ford County Opi­ate Task Force and The Craw­ford County 2020 Pub­lic Safety and Drug Abuse Action Team.

Catholic Char­i­ties Hosts Free Adop­tion Infor­ma­tion Ses­sion in Mansfield

MANSFIELD—Catholic Char­i­ties of the Dio­cese of Toledo is host­ing a free Adop­tion Infor­ma­tion Ses­sion 6 to 9 p.m. April 19 in Mans­field. The ses­sion is for area cou­ples who are inter­ested in learn­ing more about Catholic Char­i­ties’ domes­tic and inter­na­tional adop­tion services.

Catholic Char­i­ties is a licensed agency for domes­tic adop­tions for infants ages six months and younger. The orga­ni­za­tion works with cou­ples of all reli­gious back­grounds and encour­ages open domes­tic adop­tions in which a rela­tion­ship can be estab­lished between birth par­ents and adop­tive par­ents. The orga­ni­za­tion also facil­i­tates inter­na­tional adop­tions through con­duct­ing home stud­ies and serv­ing as a liai­son to for­eign adop­tion agencies.

The ses­sion will be at Catholic Char­i­ties’ offices at 2 Smith Ave., Mans­field. Reg­is­tra­tions are due by April 16 to Kathy Motsinger at kmotsinger@toledodiocese.org or 419–244-6711, ext 440.

Catholic Char­i­ties serves more than 31,000 peo­ple of all back­grounds in the Dio­cese of Toledo annu­ally by pro­vid­ing food, shel­ter, pre­scrip­tion and emer­gency rent assis­tance as well as adop­tion ser­vices, jail and prison min­istries and guardian­ship ser­vices to the elderly.

Sin­gles and Cou­ples Dance April 21

There will be a Sin­gles and Cou­ples Dance every Sat­ur­day night at the Hard­ing Hotel, 267 W Cen­ter, Mar­ion, from 7–11 p.m. on the 2nd Floor Ball­room. For more infor­ma­tion call 419–683-3424.

Cash Mob April 21

The next Galion Cash Mob will be Sat­ur­day, April 21. Meet at the Gazebo on the Square at noon and find out what busi­ness will be mobbed.

‘Mor­row County Sher­iff K-9 Unit’ April 21

Deputy Brian New­some and his dog, Dixie, with the Mor­row County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit will be vis­it­ing the Galion Pub­lic Library on Sat­ur­day, April 21 at 2 p.m. to per­form a demon­stra­tion. All chil­dren in grades K-6 are wel­come. Stay after the pre­sen­ta­tion to cre­ate a ‘police dog’ craft and enjoy refresh­ments. Reg­is­tra­tion is required. To sign up, please call the Galion Pub­lic Library at 419–468-3203 and ask for the children’s room.

Spring Sing at Wind­fall April 22

The Wind­fall Emanuel UCC, 1781 Bid­dle Rd., Galion, will host a Spring Sing fea­tur­ing local singers on Sun­day, April 22 at 6 p.m.

A freewill offer­ing will be received for North­ern Ohio Leukemia and Lym­phoma Soci­ety Team in Training.

Linda Wen­zel, mem­ber of Wind­fall Church, is train­ing to run a 1/2 marathon with the team in June and is fundrais­ing to help find a cure for cancer.

Every­one is invited.

30th Year Cel­e­bra­tion April 22

St. Paul Preschool is cel­e­brat­ing 30 years on Sun­day, April 22, from 2:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. All for­mer stu­dents are invited. St. Paul Preschool is located at 746 Cherry St.

Ceme­tery Walk in Fairview

The Galion His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety will spon­sor a Ceme­tery Walk Sun­day, April 22, at the his­toric Fairview Ceme­tery begin­ning at 2 p.m. No reser­va­tions are needed.

Com­mu­nity Out­reach Din­ner April 25

The St. Paul United Methodist Church, 746 Cherry St., will host a com­mu­nity out­reach din­ner April 25 from 4:30–5:30 p.m. Dona­tions accepted. Carry-outs avail­able. No home delivery.

Peri Dis­trict 5 annual meet­ing April 26

The Dis­trict 5 Annual Meet­ing for Pub­lic Employee Retirees will be on Thurs­day, April 26 at 10:00 a.m. at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 130 S. Wal­nut St., Bucyrus. $8.00 includes lunch and door prizes. Speak­ers for the day will be Deb McCarthy, OPERS Gov­ern­ment Rela­tions, Shane Olson, Humana Account Advi­sor, Jamie Fal­con, rep­re­sent­ing Med­ical Mutual and Tamara Chap­man, rep­re­sent­ing Express Scripts. All retirees are encour­aged to attend. Reser­va­tions may be made by call­ing 419–562-1129 or 419–468-5005 by Sat­ur­day, April 21st.

Celebrity Waiter Din­ner and Auc­tion April 26

Home­Care Mat­ters Home Health & Hos­pice will hold its 14th Annual Celebrity Waiter Din­ner & Auc­tion on Thurs­day, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the William Craw­ford Inter­me­di­ate School in North Robin­son to raise funds for hos­pice care in our com­mu­nity. Home­Care Mat­ters con­tin­ues to work to help make a dif­fer­ence for peo­ple affected by pro­found phys­i­cal, emo­tional and often­times finan­cial dis­tress. No patient is ever turned away because they can­not afford their care. Tick­ets are $13 and include a meal pre­pared by Spe­cial Occa­sions Cater­ing of Upper San­dusky. You can help by pur­chas­ing a ticket, being a Celebrity Waiter, donat­ing an item to be auc­tioned or becom­ing an event donor. For more infor­ma­tion, please call 419–468-7985.

Colonel Craw­ford Com­pany Re-enactment

Sat­ur­day, April 28 — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

This local rev­o­lu­tion­ary war group will re-enact what life was like in 18th cen­tury Amer­ica. Come learn about 18th cen­tury weapons, cloth­ing and cam­plife. A high­light will be the por­trayal of Dr. Knight as he informs us of the cap­ture, tor­ture and exe­cu­tion of Col. Craw­ford. Reg­is­tra­tion is required. Call 419–468-3203 to reg­is­ter for this program.

Way­side Chris­t­ian School Spring Play April 27

Way­side Chris­t­ian School will be pre­sent­ing “I Never Saw Another But­ter­fly.” The play was writ­ten by Celeste Ras­panti and pro­duced by spe­cial arrange­ment with Dra­matic Pub­lish­ing Com­pany. There will be two per­for­mances Fri­day, April 27 and Sat­ur­day, april 28, at 7 p.m. in the school gym­na­sium. This heart touch­ing play, based on a true story, por­trays the life of a young girl who was enslaved in a con­cen­tra­tion ghetto dur­ing the time of the Holo­caust. This play is Raja’s story. It is his­tory as much as any play can be his­tory, show­ing the best and the worst of which the human heart is capa­ble. To reserve gen­eral admis­sion tick­ets for $7, call the school office at 419–562-5930. Tick­ets amy also be pur­chased at the door the evening of the per­for­mance, depen­dent on seat­ing avail­abil­ity. Way­side Chris­t­ian School is located at 2341 Ker­stet­ter Rd., Bucyrus.

Young at Heart Yard Sale April 28

The Young at Heart group of Gospel Bap­tist will hold a yard sale at the church, 5670 Bucyrus Road (State Route 19), Sat­ur­day, April 28 from 8 a.m. — noon. Pro­ceeds will go to the Young at Heart ministries.

Craw­ford County Coun­cil on Aging, Inc. Senior Cit­i­zen Prom

The Craw­ford County Coun­cil on Aging, Inc. will be host­ing the Senior Cit­i­zen Prom at Wyn­ford High School on Sun­day, April 29, from 1–4 p.m. Lunch will be pro­vided by Carlisle House. Music will be pro­vided by the John Kennedy Orches­tra, fol­low­ing the meal.

Admis­sion is free of charge, but reser­va­tions are required. Reser­va­tions can be made Mon­day, April 2nd through Wednes­day, April 25, by call­ing Rhonda Hieber at the Carlisle House, (419) 562‑4927.

Forty Buz­zards Wine Club Open House

Forty Buz­zards Wine Club invites the com­mu­nity to the Spring Open House & Wine Sam­pling Sun­day, April 29 from 2 – 4 p.m. at the St. Theodore House Monastery, 449 Port­land Way South, Galion.

The Open House will include Club Vari­etals Wine Tast­ing, Wine Mak­ing Demon­stra­tions, Greek Appe­tiz­ers & Snacks, Vine­yard & Grounds Tours and Monastery Tours.

Dona­tions Wel­comed. For more infor­ma­tion con­tact the St. Theodore House at 419–468-8880. Reser­va­tions are Requested but Not Required.

An Illus­trated His­tory of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity April 29

MANSFIELD — The OSU Rich­land County Alumni Club and OSU Mans­field will present An Illus­trated His­tory of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity on April 29 (Sun.) at 2 p.m. in the Conard Per­for­mance Hall in Riedl Hall.

Dr. David Hother­sall, OSU pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus of psy­chol­ogy, will facil­i­tate the fas­ci­nat­ing, illus­trated presentation.

The pre­sen­ta­tion is free and open to everyone.

Con­ceal Carry three-day class

Three 4-hour ses­sions to be held in Rich­land County

•CLASSROOM TRAINING: TUESDAY, MAY 1, 6–10 PM

•THURSDAY, MAY 3, 6–10 PM (597 Park Avenue East, Mans­field, 44905, Cafe­te­ria For­mer loca­tion of Peo­ples Hospital)

•RANGE TRAINING: SATURDAY, MAY 5, 8–12 AM (Snake Road Rich­land County Coon Hunters Club 1050 Snake Road, Shiloh, 44878) COST $100 includes les­son, book, appli­ca­tion, test, range fee, bev­er­ages and snacks. Class lim­ited to 15 stu­dents. First-come, first-served.

Bring your weapon (doesn’t have to be a canon), a hol­ster, and one hun­dred rounds of ammo.

Taught by two Rich­land County Deputy Sher­iffs. You will get the train­ing you need to obtain a Con­cealed Hand­gun License in Ohio! This is a fundraiser for the Mans­field North Cen­tral Ohio Tea Party Association.

Call 419–687-6761 for more infor­ma­tion, or visit our site at HYPERLINK “http://www.bloodofpatriots.org” www.bloodofpatriots.org.

North­mor Kinder­garten Screen­ing May 2–3

The days of the Kinder­garten screen­ing will be Wednes­day, May 2 and Thurs­day, May 3. Screen­ings nor­mally take 45–60 minutes.

If you have a child that will be 5 years of age on or before Aug. 1, 2012, please con­tact the North­mor Ele­men­tary School at 419–947-1900.

1st Annual Nick Vogt Wounded War­rior 5K Run-Walk May 5

The 1st Annual Nicke Vogt Wounded War­rior 5K Run/Walk will be May 5 begin­ning at 8:30 a.m. with reg­is­tra­tion and the race start­ing at 10:30 a.m. at 100 N. Seltzer St., Crestline.

Forms are avail­able from Crest­line United Bank, The Advo­cate, and at the Nick Vogt Wounded War­rior 5K Face­book page. Chicken and rib din­ner will fol­low at the Crest­line VFW. For more infor­ma­tion call 419–405-1988 or email sheilacffmn@yahoo.com

God’s Lit­tle Acre Farm­ers Mar­ket opens May 5

God’s Lit­tle Acre Farm­ers Mar­ket will meet every Sat­ur­day begin­ning May 5 and run­ning through Octo­ber from 9 a.m. — 12 p.m. in the Galion First Pres­by­ter­ian Church Park­ing lot, 240 South Mar­ket Street, Galion. The mar­ket is now reg­is­tered with the Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture. For more infor­ma­tion call 419–468-1366.

Cans for Canines May 5

The Cans for Canines and Felines will be col­lect­ing for the Craw­ford County Humane Soci­ety May 5 from 10 a.m. — 1 p.m. at the East Side Car Wash on East Street (across from Darlene’s). Item of the month is kit­ten food. Dona­tions and pet items are always wel­come. Cans for Canines will meet the first Sat­ur­day of every month. Cans for Canines thanks all for their support.

Meet & Greet May 5

Jef­frey Lehart is run­ning for State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Dis­trict 87 and is hold­ing a meet and greet May 5 at the Galion Pub­lic Library from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the meet­ing room down­stairs. This is not a fund raiser, but an oppor­tu­nity to meet the can­di­date and ask ques­tions. Cof­fee and cook­ies will be pro­vided. For more infor­ma­tion go to www.JeffreyLehart.com

Governor’s Awards for Arts in Ohio May 9

Reg­is­tra­tion is now open for the 2012 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio & Arts Day Lun­cheon. This year marks the 41st anniver­sary of the lun­cheon, which will be held at noon on May 9 at the Colum­bus Athenaeum in down­town Columbus.

The lun­cheon is hosted by the Ohio Arts Coun­cil and Ohio Cit­i­zens for the Arts Foun­da­tion. Sin­gle tick­ets, which must be pur­chased online at the Ohio Arts Coun­cil web­site, are $50 and include lunch and a dessert recep­tion. Table spon­sor­ships are also avail­able through the Ohio Cit­i­zens for the Arts Foun­da­tion. Reg­is­tra­tion closes on April 9, 2012.

Galion Alumni to host wine tast­ing May 12

The Galion Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion is host­ing a Wine Tast­ing on Sat­ur­day, May 12 from 6–9 p.m. at the Galion Coun­try Club.

We are invit­ing peo­ple to come try some Ohio wines while view­ing art­work by local artists and bid­ding in the silent auction.

Tick­ets are avail­able at Uptown Out­fit­ters and the Candi Bar. Tick­ets are $25 per per­son and prof­its will go to the Galion City Schools band instru­ment repair fund and cam­pus wear fund.

For more infor­ma­tion call 419–468-7606 or e-mail cawallar@yahoo.com.

North­mor per­forms at an Indi­ans game

The North­mor High School Mard­ing Band will be per­form­ing “God Bless Amer­ica” dur­ing the 7th inning of the Cleve­land Indi­ans vs. Miami Mar­lins base­ball game at Pro­gres­sive Field on Sat­ur­day, May 19. Game time if 4:05 p.m.

The band has 300 lower box tick­ets (sec­tions 172-174_ avail­able at the cost of $16 (nor­mal price is $24). If you would like to pur­chase tick­ets, please con­tact North­mor March­ing Band Direc­tor, Chris Kaschube by phone at 419–946-3946, x. 49260 or e-mail kaschube.chris@northmor.k12.oh.us.

Cul­tural Food Fest May 22

There will be a Cul­tural Food Fest on the OSU Mansfield/NC State cam­pus May 22 from 6:30 — 8:30 p.m. in the Eisen­hower Cafe­te­ria. The Office of Mul­ti­cul­tural Affairs and the Mul­ti­cul­tural Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion will host the event.

The pur­pose of the Cul­tural Food Fest is to bring together peo­ple from var­i­ous cul­tural and eth­nic back­grounds to expe­ri­ence the diver­sity within our cam­pus and local com­mu­nity. We invite all stu­dents, fac­ulty, staff and com­mu­nity mem­bers to par­tic­i­pate in this event.

There are sev­eral ways to par­tic­i­pate. Con­sider enter­ing our food con­test, where you will have the oppor­tu­nity to show­case your own cul­tural dish. There are three cat­e­gories to enter, appe­tizer, entree’ and desert. Prizes will be given to the win­ner in each cat­e­gory. In addi­tion, we wel­come your par­tic­i­pa­tion, by way of cul­tural expres­sion or per­for­mance, of any kind.

Women On Tar­get June 16

The annual NRA Women On Tar­get Instruc­tional Shoot­ing Clinic will be Sat­ur­day, June 16 from 7:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Ash­land Lake Gun Club, West Salem, Ohio. The $60 cost includes four classes, lunch, eye and ear pro­tec­tion, use of equip­ment, ammu­ni­tion, and hands on instruc­tion by out­stand­ing vol­un­teers. Pre-registration is required. Call Jen­nifer at 440–670-5530 or email elkygrrl@yahoo.com

Spe­cial Galion BOE July 19

At the April reg­u­lar meet­ing, GBoE set a pub­lic meet­ing for re-employment of retired cer­ti­fied employ­ees for JULY 19, at 6:30– p.m. in the mid­dle school com­puter lab.

Reunion of the Class of 1972

The Class of 1972 will have their 40th Class Reunion cel­e­bra­tion the week­end of August 10 and 11. Fri­day evening will be held at The Var­sity Grille at 8 p.m. On Sat­ur­day morn­ing there will be golf­ing at Val­ley View Golf Course start­ing at 8:30 a.m. Sat­ur­day evening the din­ner and dance will be held at the Elk’s Club at 6 p.m.

Any­one who has any addresses of class­mates are asked to e-mail them to jim.turner1972@gmail.com or call Rena Cham­pion Lovely at 419–468-7719.

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