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Empowering After School kids enjoy Santa visit
GREENVILLE – Parents and children enjoyed a surprise visit from the
jolly old man in the red suit as they celebrated completion of the
first 11 weeks of their After School Tutoring Program. More than 40
students, many with their parents, along with some teachers, showed up
in the Greenville Elementary cafeteria recently – not to work, as they
had done since October – but to enjoy cookies, snacks, drinks, coloring
Christmas art… and Santa! Several students caught the old man sneaking
in the back... Read
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THE DAILY SIGNAL
What We Can Learn From Reagan About Celebrating Christmas
Lee Edwards
San Bernardino. Boston Marathon bombing. Charlie Hebdo terrorist
attack. Paris Bataclan Theater massacres. Jihad, Islamic State.
Caliphate. Syria, Iraq, Libya. Freddie Gray. Ferguson and Michael
Brown. Assisted suicide. Whatever... Read
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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
All good things come to an end
BBBS Match Comes To An End After Nine Years
At Big Brothers Big Sisters of Shelby & Darke County, our vision is
for all children to achieve success in life. We are an
organization that positively impacts children’s lives. Through
our mentoring programs, we are able to provide children... Read
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TUBA CAROL FEST
Christmas Fun
By Susan Olling
I’ve been trying to ignore the news. So, let’s take a couple
of leisurely drives to enjoy some Christmas cheer. A
twenty-two-year old tradition in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania occurs on the
second Friday in December: the Tuba Carol Fest in front of the
Gettysburg Hotel. Despite the name, all low bass horns are found
in this choir We first attended... Read
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COMMISSIONERS CORNER
Merry Christmas
2 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from
Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing
was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to
be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea... Read
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DARKE COUNTY PARKS
Shawnee Prairie Preserve Nature Center Holiday Closures
The Darke County Parks Nature Center located at Shawnee Prairie
Preserve just west of Greenville will be closed December 25th and
January 1st for Christmas and New Year’s Day observances. The
building’s exhibits and offices as well as the Friends of Darke... Read
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SENIOR SCRIBES
Puzzle Pete’s Wish for 2018
Lois E. Wilson
Use the numbered clues to find the 4-letter answers to this word chain
puzzle. The last letter of each is the first letter of the next word.
Work up and down. The puzzle is started for you. Solve it correctly,
then reading down, the first letters of the answers spell out Pete’s
wish for 2018. Wilson's completed set of books has a new edition – now
six volumes... Read
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