Do you really want to know how cold it was in January? If so, open the attachment at the bottom of this story. It's worth one thousand words.
In a nutshell, January's normal average temperature is 25.4 degrees. Not this year: it was 17.6 degrees.
It gets worse. January's normal average precipitation is 2.26 inches. Not this year: 2.07 inches plus 23.6 inches of snow. That's above knees of this writer. The most snow was recorded on Jan. 5 with 7.5 inches.
Blanchard Valley Hospital’s Woman Wise Mammography will be offering free screening mammograms Friday, Feb. 21, at Woman Wise located in the EasternWoods Outpatient Center, 15900 Medical Drive South, Findlay, as part of the Hancock County Mammography Screening Initiative (HCMSI).
Appointments for free mammograms will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to those who qualify. Women and men must be uninsured and meet eligibility criteria related to age, breast cancer risk and household income.
To learn if you qualify and to schedule an appointment, call 419.423.5451.
Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce wants get you out of the house to do some shopping locally - on Wednesday.
Focusing on the hours of 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., perhaps the warmest part of the day, Bluffton holds its first-ever "cash mob." Although it's not a cash mob in the traditional big city sense, it will offers an interesting assortment of specials in several downtown businesses. It is the chamber's plan to offer one cash mob per month in 2014.
Place 60 Bluffton residents in a room, provide them with a free breakfast, divide them into seven tables, designate one person to take notes, then ask four questions, with six minutes to address each question.
Using this format, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce held a brainstorming session on how to improve the community. The discussion included lots of ideas (see responses below).
Allen County Public Health is changing their childhood immunization process so they can bill private insurance for vaccines. Effective on January 1, 2014, if a child has any form of health insurance, they are no longer eligible for state-funded vaccines. In the past, health departments could use vaccine provided by the state for clients with private insurance if their insurance had high deductibles or co-payments or did not cover vaccinations.
Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce played an important role in the community during 2013. Here is a list of projects where the chamber participated.
This list also includes plans for 2014 and discussion points for the future.
A brown bag roundtable discussion on "how can we improve Bluffton" will follow up on several of these points. The discussion is from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 5, in the third floor of the town hall. It is open to the public.
