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Allen County Children Services has been awarded funding for two adoption
recruitment specialists from Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Program. WWK is a
signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

The foundation awards grants to public and private adoption agencies to hire adoption
professionals who implement proactive, child focused recruitment programs
targeted exclusively on moving the longest waiting children from foster care
into adoptive families.

Here's the seven-day report for September from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

If you are a registered Ohio voter you may have already received a letter from the Ohio Secretary of State labeled "Official Election Mail."

Here's what it's all about:
All registered voters, who have kept their address current within Ohio's voter database, will receive a letter along with an absentee ballot application
The first round of applications will be mailed out Aug. 31, 2012, arriving in mailboxes after Labor Day.

The Blanchard Valley Hospital Environmental Services department, Findlay, also known as housekeeping, has received the 2012 Environmental Services Department of the Year Runner Up award from Health Forum’s Health Facilities Management magazine and the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE).

 

The Bluffton Schools will hold a district-wide open house on Monday, Sept. 24.  The elementary school will be open from 6 – 7 p.m., the middle school from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., and the high school from 7 – 8 p.m.

Several community organizations will have booths set-up in the elementary gymnasium and information will be available on ways to provide support to the school and community.

Here's the friendliest plate we've spotted in a long time. We saw this in the Ada school parking lot. Wonder how many AMIGO with numbers behind them now exist? This was the first one.

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