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Darke County Parks… Volunteers Needed to Build Raised Beds
WHEN: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 9:30am... WHERE: Bish
Discovery Center, 404 N. Ohio Street... WHY: To build raised
garden beds out of cinder blocks for the new community garden. We need
to build several more raised beds for the new community garden at the
Bish Discovery Center and WE NEED YOU! Please consider spending an hour
or two helping with this project so we can get the garden up and running...
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Edison State Community College...
Poem In Your Pocket Day to Feature “Poetry That Startles”
Edison State Community College is pleased to invite community members
to Poem In Your Pocket Day at 12 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, 2018, in
East Hall, Room 456 at the Piqua Campus. Area poets are invited to
bring a poem to read to the audience at this annual event, and the
featured poet will be Myrna Stone. Stone is the author...
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Along Life’s Way… We’re All Guinea Pigs
By Lois E. Wilson
Every day I become more aware how individuals are thought of by
commerce and government. Each of us is a source for preferences,
information, and actions they wish to discover by data-mining and
research. There is no doubt that we are studied creatures, and our data
is a product to sell and exploit. I don’t know if I’m a guinea pig...
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The Mega Wild 5K – Invest in the next generation
Summer Camp, that special time in a young person’s life when they can
swim, hike, make crafts, eat s’mores, canoe, and forge lasting
friendships. It’s a time of fun and growth that challenges our young
people to become outstanding leaders in our community. We want every
kid to experience summer camp! Unfortunately, the cost of sending kids
to camp has risen over the years and families struggle to afford
sending their children...
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NPR Ed… Why More Than A Million Teachers Can't Use Social Security
By Cory Turner
Teachers have staged protests in recent weeks in West Virginia,
Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado and Arizona. Some are fighting lawmakers
who want to scale back their pensions. It's no secret that many states
have badly underfunded their teacher pension plans for decades and now
find themselves drowning in debt. But this pensions...
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STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
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Greenville Public Library
Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament
for Teens
The Greenville Public Library Teen Department will be hosting a
Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament on Saturday May 5th beginning at 1:00 p.m. The
format for the tournament will be as follows: Each participant will
compete against every other entrant at least once, depending on the
number of entries. The participant winning the highest number...
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Broke Wife, Big City… I forgot my phone
By Aprill Brandon
So here I am. Sitting at my usual place in the coffeeshop down the
street. Ready to write my regular newspaper column. Laptop open, blank
page staring back at me, cursor mocking me with its empty blinking.
Tall mocha on my left. And my phone in its usual spot on the righ…
Except it’s not there. Not today. I check then double-check my...
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