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New at BG farmers’ market: Check produce at ‘Veggie Valet’ |
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Written by Sentinel-Tribune Staff
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Saturday, 16 March 2013 07:38 |
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File photo. Linda Joseph arranges zucchini at her booth at last year's Farmer's Market in downtown Bowling Green. (Photo: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune)
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When the Downtown Farmers' Market in Bowling Green returns in May, organizers will be incorporating several suggestions gathered from the community in a year-long study that concluded in late 2012.
"The new features we're implementing at the market this year are intended to make the downtown more of a summertime destination for area residents and to make the market more responsive to our customers' needs and wishes," said Barbara Ruland, executive director of Downtown Bowling Green and the leader of the strategic planning study.
The Downtown Farmers' Market was begun in 2010 and has grown steadily since. The planning study was funded by a grant from the Center for Farmland Policy Innovation at Ohio State University and sought input from community members, downtown business owners, and market vendors through a combination of surveys and focus groups. The study also surveyed other markets for best practices and evaluated available downtown spaces to accommodate the market's growth.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 16 March 2013 07:48 |
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Health board plans to own its building in 7 years |
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Written by MARIE THOMAS BAIRD Sentinel Education Editor
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Friday, 15 March 2013 10:26 |
In seven years, the Wood County Health District will own the building it is using on East Gypsy Lane Road.
At Thursday's board meeting, members unanimously voted on a lease-to-own agreement with the Wood County Commissioners, who currently own the building and lease it to the health department for about $96,000 a year.
When the health district wanted a new building, it could not borrow the necessary money, so the county agreed to build the structure on county-owned land. The county acts like a bank, or the mortgage holder, and the district makes payments every year.
"The agreement clarifies all the issues," said Andrew Kalmar, county administrator, this morning. "When the health department finishes paying the bond payments, they'll own the building."
Bill Ault, director of administration for the health district, explained at the meeting that the district will continue paying the annual debt of the building until 2020.
"Once that's done, the building will be ours," he stated.
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Levy ensures Wood County senior meals will continue |
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Written by KAREN NADLER COTA Sentinel Lifestyles Editor
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Saturday, 16 March 2013 07:35 |
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| File Photo. Wood County Senior Center. |
The Wood County Committee on Aging expects to weather a cut in federal funding - insuring that local home-bound seniors will continue to receive home-delivered meals.
The anticipated 10 percent cut is a result of the government's automatic sequester.
"We will not be creating waiting lists or cutting services" as may happen in other parts of the state or country, WCCOA Executive Director Denise C. Niese promised.
"We're going to be able to make it up some way," largely because "our board has been extremely conservative."
Almost as soon as the news came out that Congress and the president had failed to reach agreement on the budget impasse, leading to the automatic introduction of Sequestration 2013, staff at WCCOA began fielding queries from a concerned public.
"We've been receiving questions from our seniors as to what impact sequestration may have on WCCOA programs and services," Niese confirmed.
At least a dozen people raised the subject, "mostly the home-bound seniors who are worried about the home-delivered meals.
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Local man witnessed church history |
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Written by DEACON JEFF WALKER, Toledo Diocese Seminarian
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Friday, 15 March 2013 10:18 |
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| Deacon Jeff Walker at St. Rose Church in Perrysburg. (Photo: J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune) |
(Editor’s note: Deacon Jeff Walker, a Custar native, is in his final year of preparation to become a diocesan priest. His studies have taken him to the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Walker was in St. Peter’s Square for the announcement of Pope Francis as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.)
I was one of the thousands of people waiting underneath my umbrella in a cold and rainy St. Peter's Square. The first two burnings of ballots came about 20 minutes ahead of when they were scheduled to come, so I think most people were expecting to see smoke around 6:40 p.m. When my watch hit 7 p.m., I started to wonder if maybe it was taking longer this time because they had elected the Pope and were asking for his acceptance and his name. Low and behold, shortly after 7 I saw white smoke emerge from the chimney.
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Last Updated on Friday, 15 March 2013 10:31 |
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