Community Events Calendar

CC Lions

Col. Craw­ford Lions Club will pick-up all unused eye glasses to be pro­vided for those less for­tu­nate. Call 419–468-4388 for more information.

Coun­cil on Aging Jan. 16

The Craw­ford County Coun­cil on Aging Board of Trustees will meet on Jan. 16 at 10 a.m., at the COA office, 200 S. Spring St., Bucyrus.

Com­mu­nity out­reach meal Jan. 16

St. Joseph Parish will pro­vide an out­reach meal on Jan. 16 from 4:30–6 p.m.

NCSC Meet­ing of Board of Trustees Jan. 16

Mans­field, Ohio –The reg­u­lar meet­ing of the Board of Trustees of North Cen­tral State Col­lege will be held on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 16, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fal­l­erius Tech­ni­cal Edu­ca­tion Cen­ter on the Mans­field Cam­pus in the “Gor­man Room” (165-F).

Park Dis­trict Board Jan. 17

The Craw­ford Park Dis­trict Board of Park Com­mis­sion­ers will be hold­ing their monthly meet­ing for Jan­u­ary on Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary, 17 at 7:30 AM.

The meet­ing will be held at the Lowe-Volk Park Nature Cen­ter, 2401 State Route 598, Crest­line. For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the Park Dis­trict Office at 419–683-9000.

Galion Safety Coun­cil Jan. 17

Galion Safety Coun­cil will meet Jan. 17 from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. at BJ’s Fam­ily Restau­rant, 741 Port­land Way South, Galion. The pro­gram is “New Changes for OSHA Haz­com and GHS” pre­sented by Heather Tib­bitts, Safex. Call 419–492-2477 to reserve a spot.

Writ­ing Group

Jan. 17

If you miss your quiet writ­ing time you had while work­ing on your NaNoW­riMo novel, you can expe­ri­ence it again at the Galion Pub­lic Library Board Room Thurs­day, Jan. 17 from 6 — 8 p.m.

From Cit­i­zen to Patriot Jan. 17

From Cit­i­zen to Patriot’s monthly meet­ing event is sched­uled for Thurs­day Jan. 17. It will be held at BJ’s Restau­rant (Back­room) at 6:30 p.m. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. so that those who wish to do so may order off the menu. We will start off the year’s activ­i­ties with a “Min­ute­men Mod­ules” ses­sion to plan our activ­i­ties, pro­grams, events. All patri­ots are welcome.

For more infor­ma­tion call 419–468-2944

Win­ter Nature Walk for Seniors Jan. 18

Gor­man Nature Cen­ter will hold a Win­ter Nature Walk for Seniors, Fri­day, Jan. 18 at 1:30 p.m. The pace will be slow and easy as we talk and explore the Center’s trails. The Gor­man Nature Cen­ter is located at 2295 Lex­ing­ton Ave., south of Mans­field. All pro­grams are free and open to the pub­lic. For addi­tional infor­ma­tion call 419–884-3764.

Chili Sup­per

Jan. 18

St. Paul Lutheran Church, State Route 602 North Robin­son, will have their annual Chili Sup­per on Fri­day Jan. 18 from 4 — 7 p.m. The event will take place before the Colonel Craw­ford vs. Buck­eye Cen­tral boys bas­ket­ball game.

The menu will include chili, corn­bread, chicken sand­wiches, hot dogs, pie and drinks. Carry out is avail­able. Free will donation.

Galion Boys Bas­ket­ball Jan. 18

Galion boys bas­ket­ball will face Bucyrus at Galion High School on Jan. 18. The junior var­sity game begins at 6 p.m., var­sity at 7:30 p.m.

Rock’n Fos­sil Day Jan. 19

Lowe-Volk Park Nature Cen­ter will host Rock’n Fos­sil Day on Jan. 19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Lowe-Volk Park Nature Cen­ter is a rock hound des­ti­na­tion. National Lime and Stone spon­sored our geol­ogy exhibit and also donated fos­sils for the porch of the Nature Cen­ter. We have a supe­rior col­lec­tion of Ohio Gem Stones that was donated by Tom and Pam Kottyan. At 1pm, Tom Kottyan will give a pre­sen­ta­tion titled “Flo­res­cent Min­er­als: Dis­cover the Beauty Within”. The Rich­land Lithic and Lap­idary Soci­ety will pro­vide a spe­cial exhibit of flo­res­cent rock. The Pal­l­a­site Mete­orite dis­played this past sum­mer at the Nature Cen­ter will be on dis­play again. Add to those the many inter­est­ing dis­plays of exhibitors and the stage will be set for an awe­some Rock’n Fos­sil Day. Hope you can attend!

Bring your friends and fam­ily. Lowe-Volk Park is located 3 miles north of US Route 30. For more infor­ma­tion con­tact the Craw­ford Park Dis­trict office at 419–683-9000. Look for infor­ma­tion on other pro­grams offered by the Craw­ford Park Dis­trict by vis­it­ing their web site at www.crawfordparkdistrict.org

‘Tail­gate Party’

Jan. 19

Kids in grades 3–6 are invited to the Galion Pub­lic Library, 123 N Mar­ket St, on Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 19th from 2–4 p.m. for a tail­gate party at the library. Come out and sup­port your favorite team! We’ll have crafts, snacks, Wii Foot­ball and other fun foot­ball activ­i­ties. There is no charge for this event but reg­is­tra­tion is required. For more infor­ma­tion or to sign up, please call the Galion Pub­lic Library at 419–468-3203 and request the Children’s Room.

Food Pantry

Jan. 19

St. Paul United Methodist Church Food Pantry, 746 Cherry St., Galion, The pantry is open 3rd Sat. of each month.

Next day open Jan. 19th 9:00 am — 11:00 am For Galion res­i­dents please bring a photo ID.

Chuck Crain in Con­cert Jan. 20

Wood­lawn United Methodist Church will host Chuck Crain in con­cert from Pres­leys Jubilee, Bran­son, MO, Sun­day, Jan. 20 at 3 p.m. Every­one Wel­come. A free will offer­ing will be taken. The church is located at 1675 Hop­ley Ave., Bucyrus. For more infor­ma­tion call 419–562-1123.

MKL Day Jan. 21

No school. Some busi­nesses and banks are closed.

GPL Board Jan. 21

The Galion Pub­lic Library Board meet­ing will be on Mon­day Jan. 21 at 4 PM in the Library’s Board Room.

Immu­niza­tion clinic Jan. 21

The Galion Health Depart­ment will host an Immu­niza­tion Clinic on Jan. 21 from 3–6 p.m.

State of the Vision Jan. 21

Craw­ford County Vision 20/20 will be hav­ing its 2nd Annual “State of the Vision” meet­ing on Mon­day Jan. 21 at Vic­tory in Truth Ministries.

Galion City Coun­cil Jan. 22

The Galion City Coun­cil will meet in reg­u­lar ses­sion Tues­day, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in coun­cil chambers.

Free blood pres­sure screen­ing Jan. 23

Galion Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal will offer a free blood pres­sure screen­ing on Jan. 23 in the Med­i­cine Man­age­ment Office from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Finan­cial Plan­ning and Super­vi­sion Com­mis­sion Jan. 23

Please be advised the Finan­cial Plan­ning and Super­vi­sion Com­mis­sion for the City of Galion will meet on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 23, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. in the Court­room at the Munic­i­pal Build­ing, 301 Hard­ing Way East, Galion.

Regional Plan­ning Com­mis­sion Jan. 23

The Craw­ford County Regional Plan­ning Com­mis­sion will hold its monthly meet­ing Jan. 23 at 7 p.m., at the County Engineer’s Office in Bucyrus.

CCBEAC Jan. 24

The Craw­ford County Busi­ness and Edu­ca­tion Advi­sory Com­mis­sion will meet Thurs­day, Jan. 24 at 7:30 a.m. in the Galion Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal Lobby Con­fer­ence Room. CCBEAC encour­ages you to bring a guest to this meet­ing to increase busi­ness and edu­ca­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties and collaborations.

Buf­fet Fundraiser Jan. 24

COME ONE COME ALL for an ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET at our local GALION PIZZA HUT. This fundraiser is to ben­e­fit the Junior and Senior Class after prom trip to KALAHARI!

This will be held on Thurs­day Jan­u­ary 24th, Thurs­day Feb­ru­ary 21st and Thurs­day March 14th and each event will be from 5 p.m to 8 p.m.

The cost is $8 per per­son with $3 of each buf­fet sold going to the kids!!

SO MARK YOUR CALENDARS or PUT INTO YOUR PHONE and THANK YOU! to every­one that sup­ports our kids!

Pub­lic Safety and Drug Abuse Jan. 24

The Craw­ford: 20/20 Vision Pub­lic Safety and Drug Abuse Team will meet Jan. 24 at 3 p.m., at the Galion Pub­lic Library. The pub­lic is wel­come to attend.

Galion Board of Edu­ca­tion spe­cial meet­ing Jan. 24

The Galion Board of Edu­ca­tion will hold a spe­cial meet­ing on Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m. It will be held in the Galion Mid­dle School com­puter lab.

Writ­ing Group

Jan. 24

If you miss your quiet writ­ing time you had while work­ing on your NaNoW­riMo novel, you can expe­ri­ence it again at the Galion Pub­lic Library Board Room Thurs­day, Jan. 24 from 6 — 8 p.m.

Galion Boys Bas­ket­ball Jan. 24

Galion boys bas­ket­ball will face Mar­ion Hard­ing at Mar­ion Hard­ing High School on Jan. 24. The junior var­sity game begins at 6 p.m., var­sity at 7:30 p.m.

Recy­cling at Life­touch Jan. 26

Life­touch Church Direc­to­ries is host­ing a recy­cling drive on Jan. 26, 8 a.m. until noon.

Com­mu­nity out­reach meal Jan. 26

Sev­enth Day Adven­tist Church will pro­vide an out­reach meal on Jan. 26 from 4–5 p.m.

Immu­niza­tion clinic Jan. 28

The Galion Health Depart­ment will host an Immu­niza­tion Clinic on Jan. 28 in two ses­sions, 9–11 a.m. and 1–3 p.m.

Galion Boys Bas­ket­ball Jan. 29

Galion boys bas­ket­ball will face River Val­ley at Galion High School on Jan. 29. The junior var­sity game begins at 6 p.m., var­sity at 7:30 p.m.

Kiwa­nis Chili Day Jan. 29

Details TBA

Com­mu­nity out­reach meal Jan. 30

St. Paul United Methodist Church will pro­vide an out­reach meal on Jan. 30 from 4:30–5:30 p.m.

Meals are always the LAST Wednes­day of the month. Dona­tions are accepted. Carry outs avail­able. No Home Delivery.

Golden Age music show Jan. 31

The Golden Age Cen­ter will host its monthly music show on Jan. 31, 1–3 p.m.

Writ­ing Group

Jan. 31

If you miss your quiet writ­ing time you had while work­ing on your NaNoW­riMo novel, you can expe­ri­ence it again at the Galion Pub­lic Library Board Room Thurs­day, Jan. 31 from 6 — 8 p.m.

Hill­billy Break­fast Feb. 2

Amvets Post 1979 will hold a Hill­billy Break­fast on Feb. 2, 7 a.m. until food is gone.

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