September 1, 2015 at 5:44 p.m.
Pack the Park to be held September 12
Activities from 10 a.m. to midnight
The Midwest Pet Refuge will host its second annual Pack the Park event on Saturday, Sept. 12 at Hudson Family Park in Portland. Activities will be held from 10 a.m. to midnight and will include food, drinks, games, vendors and entertainment.
Dog nail trims will be offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for $5 and kid’s activities will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. and will include games, face painting, temporary tattoos, karaoke and more.
Lott Holmes will sing from 4 to 5 p.m.; the Dave Liles Band will perform from 5 to 6 p.m.; Seibold the Terrible will be from 6 to 7 p.m.; Blooze Faktor from 7 to 8 p.m. and the Cline Zimmerman band will perform from 8 p.m. until midnight.
For more information or to set up as a vendor with used, craft or rummage type items call Tara Drumm at (260) 251-9581 or Carol Pfeifer at (260) 729-1697.
Homecoming
Jay County High School Homecoming festivities will be held on Sept. 18 with the video game theme “Play On, Patriots!”
Anyone interested in participating in the homecoming parade may submit an entry online at http://www.jayschools.k12.in.us/jchs/ or call Katie Clark at (260) 726-9306.
Line-up begins at 4 p.m. at Jay County Fairgrounds and the parade will begin at 5 p.m.
The football game will begin at 7:30 p.m. and “Dirty Deeds,” an ACDC tribute band concert will follow the homecoming game at 10 p.m.
Tickets are on sale at the high school from 3 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or are available on the Jay County Music Foundation Facebook page.
Books chosen
Funds were given to Jay County Public Library, by an anonymous donor, in honor of Jack Ronald.
Ronald was able to choose several books for the library’s collection, including “The Bridegroom Stories” and “Waiting” by Ha Jin; “Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy; “William Trevor The Collected Stories” by William Trevor; “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman; “Ali and Nino” by Kurban Said; “The Light and the Dark” by Mikhail Shishkin; “Lincoln and the Power of the Press” by Harold Holzer (print and audio); “The Quartet” by Joseph J. Ellis (audio version); “Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire” by Peter Hopkirk.
Also “The Art of the Sonnet” by Stephen Burt; “The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life” by Tom Reiss; “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe” by Anne Applebaum; “Russia: The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin” by Philip Longworth; “The Richmond Group Artists” by Shaun Thomas Dingwerth; “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” by Salman Rushdie; and “Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism” by John Norris.
Library programs
A children’s program will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Community Room at Jay County Public Library:
MAKING: Electric Avenue, for Elementary-aged children, will give a hands-on opportunity to explore static electricity
A teen program, for those in sixth through 12th grade, will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9. There will be snacks and drinks and fun activities.
Dog nail trims will be offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for $5 and kid’s activities will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. and will include games, face painting, temporary tattoos, karaoke and more.
Lott Holmes will sing from 4 to 5 p.m.; the Dave Liles Band will perform from 5 to 6 p.m.; Seibold the Terrible will be from 6 to 7 p.m.; Blooze Faktor from 7 to 8 p.m. and the Cline Zimmerman band will perform from 8 p.m. until midnight.
For more information or to set up as a vendor with used, craft or rummage type items call Tara Drumm at (260) 251-9581 or Carol Pfeifer at (260) 729-1697.
Homecoming
Jay County High School Homecoming festivities will be held on Sept. 18 with the video game theme “Play On, Patriots!”
Anyone interested in participating in the homecoming parade may submit an entry online at http://www.jayschools.k12.in.us/jchs/ or call Katie Clark at (260) 726-9306.
Line-up begins at 4 p.m. at Jay County Fairgrounds and the parade will begin at 5 p.m.
The football game will begin at 7:30 p.m. and “Dirty Deeds,” an ACDC tribute band concert will follow the homecoming game at 10 p.m.
Tickets are on sale at the high school from 3 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or are available on the Jay County Music Foundation Facebook page.
Books chosen
Funds were given to Jay County Public Library, by an anonymous donor, in honor of Jack Ronald.
Ronald was able to choose several books for the library’s collection, including “The Bridegroom Stories” and “Waiting” by Ha Jin; “Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy; “William Trevor The Collected Stories” by William Trevor; “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman; “Ali and Nino” by Kurban Said; “The Light and the Dark” by Mikhail Shishkin; “Lincoln and the Power of the Press” by Harold Holzer (print and audio); “The Quartet” by Joseph J. Ellis (audio version); “Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire” by Peter Hopkirk.
Also “The Art of the Sonnet” by Stephen Burt; “The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life” by Tom Reiss; “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe” by Anne Applebaum; “Russia: The Once and Future Empire from Pre-History to Putin” by Philip Longworth; “The Richmond Group Artists” by Shaun Thomas Dingwerth; “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” by Salman Rushdie; and “Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism” by John Norris.
Library programs
A children’s program will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Community Room at Jay County Public Library:
MAKING: Electric Avenue, for Elementary-aged children, will give a hands-on opportunity to explore static electricity
A teen program, for those in sixth through 12th grade, will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9. There will be snacks and drinks and fun activities.
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