Like swirling leaves in autumn, such has been the last few months with many rumors about the future of a local hospital. Most are not entirely true, but all seem to have some basis in reality. A grim picture was painted, but with hope, at the Community Memorial Hospital meeting that took place with the…
First United Methodist Church, located at 113 W. Central Avenue in Van Wert, in partnership with many Van Wert businesses and churches, has set the date of Thursday, August 19th for their 6th Annual Operation Back to School event for Van Wert County high school students. This FREE event provides backpacks, school supplies, and hygiene…
Working with Samaritan’s Purse International Relief, students at Central Lutheran School participated once again in Operation Christmas Child. Rather than exchanging Christmas gifts in their classrooms, students and their families collect items that will be packaged in shoeboxes and shipped all over the world to those in need. Items include hygiene items, small toys, school…
The broadcast program at Antwerp High School has received a grant from Operation Round Up through the Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative Trust. With money from the grant, broadcast students will visit North Canton’s Hoover High School Video Productions and Broadcast Journalism classes this fall. Hoover’s student-run NCCS TV-11 is a fully-operational television station that provides…
For those not familiar with Operation Round Up, the idea is to give members the option of having their bills rounded up to the nearest dollar every month, with those extra few cents going to benefit people in need within the co-op’s service territory. Paulding Putnam began doing Operation Round Up in July 2010. Currently,…
