July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Home, garden tours will be held in June
Taking Note
Jay County Historical Society and Plant, Hoe and Hope Garden Club will host a Home & Garden Tour & Garden Party in June featuring several local homes and gardens.
The tours will be Sunday, June 12, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will include the homes and gardens of Hugh and Sabrina Kelly, Don and Jane Spencer and Randy and Ramonda Fisher; the home, garden and barn of Barry and Elizabeth Hudson and the home and barn of Darlene Schell.
Featured gardens will be at the homes of Fred and Virginia DeHoff, Larry and Alice Paxson and Dale and Ruth Ann Widman and the orchid greenhouse of John Elwood.
A garden party with light refreshments and a drawing for a door prize will be held at the Hudson home. The door prize is an overnight stay at Holiday Inn Express of Portland.
Tickets will be available after May 25 at Cook’s Nursery & Trim, Country Creek Primitives, Holiday Inn Express, Jay County Chamber of Commerce, Jay County Historical Museum, Locker’s Touch of Country Gifts, Remember When, Strohl Appliance & Electronics, The Flower Nook and Beyond The Gilded Willow Floral Shoppe.
Wins scholarships
Two Adams County students each won a $55,000 scholarship and $800 each in tools by having the fastest time in a state auto skills repair contest sponsored by the Ford Corporation and American Automobile Association.
Billy Gilson, a senior at South Adams in Berne, and Jacob Bergdall, a junior at Adams Central in Monroe, were the winning team, out of nine, that performed repairs on a 2012 Mustang in 73 minutes.
Gilson and Bergdall are students in an auto mechanics class at South Adams High School. They will represent Indiana at the National Ford/AAA Auto Skills Contest to be held in June at Ford’s World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich.
To visit 500
Bloomfield and Pennville elementary fourth grade students are participating in 500 Festival and Indianapolis 500 Education Program Study Trips.
Pennville students visited Indianapolis on Wednesday and Bloomfield students will visit on May 23.
Students will rotate through different stations that will teach driver safety, timing and scoring, careers in IndyCar, Indianapolis Motor Speedway history and more.[[In-content Ad]]
The tours will be Sunday, June 12, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will include the homes and gardens of Hugh and Sabrina Kelly, Don and Jane Spencer and Randy and Ramonda Fisher; the home, garden and barn of Barry and Elizabeth Hudson and the home and barn of Darlene Schell.
Featured gardens will be at the homes of Fred and Virginia DeHoff, Larry and Alice Paxson and Dale and Ruth Ann Widman and the orchid greenhouse of John Elwood.
A garden party with light refreshments and a drawing for a door prize will be held at the Hudson home. The door prize is an overnight stay at Holiday Inn Express of Portland.
Tickets will be available after May 25 at Cook’s Nursery & Trim, Country Creek Primitives, Holiday Inn Express, Jay County Chamber of Commerce, Jay County Historical Museum, Locker’s Touch of Country Gifts, Remember When, Strohl Appliance & Electronics, The Flower Nook and Beyond The Gilded Willow Floral Shoppe.
Wins scholarships
Two Adams County students each won a $55,000 scholarship and $800 each in tools by having the fastest time in a state auto skills repair contest sponsored by the Ford Corporation and American Automobile Association.
Billy Gilson, a senior at South Adams in Berne, and Jacob Bergdall, a junior at Adams Central in Monroe, were the winning team, out of nine, that performed repairs on a 2012 Mustang in 73 minutes.
Gilson and Bergdall are students in an auto mechanics class at South Adams High School. They will represent Indiana at the National Ford/AAA Auto Skills Contest to be held in June at Ford’s World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich.
To visit 500
Bloomfield and Pennville elementary fourth grade students are participating in 500 Festival and Indianapolis 500 Education Program Study Trips.
Pennville students visited Indianapolis on Wednesday and Bloomfield students will visit on May 23.
Students will rotate through different stations that will teach driver safety, timing and scoring, careers in IndyCar, Indianapolis Motor Speedway history and more.[[In-content Ad]]
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