Bridge Home Health & Hospice, Findlay, will offer training courses for prospective volunteers beginning on Monday, Feb. 13.
The training will be held in the Wenner Conference Room at Birchaven Village, located at 15100 Birchaven Lane in Findlay, and will take place for seven consecutive Mondays from 1 to 4 p.m.
Courses will cover the basic principles of hospice, understanding the needs of patients and their families, effective communication, patient care, pain and symptom management, spiritual care giving and understanding grief and loss.
Bluffton safety services, with the Allen County Sheriff's Office and Bluffton and Allen East High Schools talked safety on Friday night to a captive audience.
The presentation was during the Bluffton - Allen East boys' varsity basketball game halftime.
Emphasizing the importance of traffic safety and reducing injuries through the use of safety belts and avoiding impaired driving was the safety theme.
The Pandora United Methodist Church will host an America Red Cross blood drive from 1 to 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 2. The church is located at 108 E. Washington St., Pandora.
To schedule an appointment, call the Red Cross at 419-523-4810 or visit redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: PANDORAUMC.
Work on the Augsburger Road sanitary sewer project will limit travel on Augsburger Road on Tuesday, Jan. 24, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
Augsburger Road will be closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. while the sewer work extends across the road from the north side to the south side of the road, according to Don Snyder Excavating, who is handling the project.
Persons in the Riverbend area will be able to access their residences from the village (east side) of Augsburger. No traffic will be permitted from the west side into the village during the day.
Taxes. It's one of the certainties in life. The 2012 federal income tax return filing season is now fully underway, with the Internal Revenue Service opening the servers to begin accepting and processing electronically filed - e-filed - returns on Jan. 17.
Icon viewers needing specific forms may check out the assortment on display at the Bluffton Public Library.
The IRS wants to be certain that Ohio residents know about their tax preparation and filing options, especially when it comes to e-file and IRS Free File.
