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NEWS ONLINE - SATURDAY, APRIL 12 & SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014
Chamber recognized by Ohio Chamber Action Alliance Chamber partnered with community groups to combat drugs in the workplace
Columbus, OH – The Ohio Chamber’s Chamber Action Alliance (CAA) awarded
the Darke County Chamber of Commerce the 2014 Best Advocacy Campaign
Award for its extraordinary efforts and commitment to an advocacy
campaign centered around a single issue, drugs in the workplace. The
CAA is the state-wide grassroots advocacy coalition of Ohio chambers of
commerce coordinated by the Ohio Chamber. The CAA determines state-wide
policy issues... Read
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YOUR HELP NEEDED
SSSF scholarship
selection complete
By Bob Robinson
The Senior Scribes Scholarship Fund is pleased to announce it will be
awarding scholarships to seven deserving students the end of April.
These are sharp students! They come from different high schools and for
the first time one helps a student in his continuing education goals.
My eyes glazed over at the number of A’s I saw on... Read
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NATIONAL WASTE AND RECYCLING ASSOCIATION
Local Rumpke Driver Wins National Safety Award
GREENVILLE, Ohio—April 7, 2014—When it comes to safety, the Rumpke guys
top the heap. For the second consecutive year, a driver from Rumpke’s
Greenville location will receive a prestigious national safety award.
Jim Hawes, who has worked at Rumpke nearly 14 years, is the National
Waste and Recycling Association Driver of the... Read More. More Community.
MUSINGS OF A SENIOR SCRIBE
"She"
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! I normally do not write columns "ver-batim" - word-for-word
when people talk to me. But, this one just made so much sense - I wrote
it the way it was said. "Mona, you need to write this. Whether anyone
listens or not." She told me she'd "been there." There are so many
nuances to this that I can not possibly look at them all. She told me
she could not be sorry enough for her bad... Read
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
Red Cross offers Wilderness and Remote First Aid training
Darke County, OH — If you’re at work or home and a first aid
crisis arises, with the assistance of 911 operators and emergency
medical services, you are literally only minutes away from help.
But what do you do if you are twenty minutes or twenty hours away from
help, off of the beaten path or in an area were cell phone... Read
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DAILY CALLER
Survey: US sees sharpest health insurance premium increases in years
Sarah Hurtubise
Americans have recently been hit with some of the largest premium
increases in years, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of insurance
brokers. The investment bank’s April survey of 148 brokers found that
this quarter, the average premium... Read
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MIKE DEWINE
Sexual Assault Services Increase for More than 460,000 Ohioans Over Past Year
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today
that more than 460,000 Ohioans now have increased access to sexual
assault services following the first year of the Attorney General's
Sexual Assault Services Expansion Program. Attorney General DeWine
announced the formation of the program in March 2013 after a... Read
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FROM
THE EDITOR... ON THE INSIDE - SATURDAY, APRIL 12 & SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014
Editor's
Photo: The Greenville Public Library’s Stephanie St.Myers is teaching a
free computer class called “Getting Started with Pinterest” on Tuesday
April 22nd. For more infomation on the course, read the story next
week.
This
week's
Paul
Ackley
cartoon has been posted here.
Favorite Sports Photos: New pics posted Feb. 9, 2014. Find them here.Classifieds:
New listings posted on a regular basis. Blogs: Illegal Immigration, Misplaced Compassion, and Healthcare Reform.News: Americans on Medicaid Exceed Population of UK; GCSD
Career Tech Center's Auto Technology instructor Jim Anderson and two
students have been invited to make a presentation on academic
integration to the State Board of Education in Columbus Monday. Obituaries: Collette S. Weaver; Vicki S. Mills; Terence Joseph Schwanitz; Thelma L. (Foureman) Pilcher. Yesterday's
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