June 14, 2016 at 5:46 p.m.
Born 2 Learn camps to be held for kids
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The Youth Service Bureau will host free Born 2 Learn Day Camps for children 3 months to age five.
The camps are designed to enhance child development and increase kindergarten readiness and school success.
They will be held from June 27 to July 1 at the Women’s Building at Jay County Fairgrounds in Portland; from July 25 to 29 at the Pennville Community Center; and from Aug. 1 to 5 at West Jay Community Center in Dunkirk.
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and snacks and lunch will be provided.
All camps will be held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with registration and playtime from 9 to 10 a.m. For more information, call or text Terri at (260) 251-2021.
Camps are sponsored by Portland Rotary Club, United Way of Jay County and The Portland Foundation.
Scholarship sign-up
It’s not too late to sign up for the Indiana 21st Century Scholars Program.
The program is to help students of low-income families by providing up to four years of undergraduate tuition at a public college or university in Indiana or an equal amount to a private college. It has helped more than 70,000 low-income Hoosier students pay for college.
The deadline for eighth grade students to sign-up is June 30.
For more information, call (888) 528-4719, email [email protected] or visit www.scholars.in.gov.
Birthday party
Swiss Village Retirement Community in Berne will celebrate 15 years of intergenerational programming at Kinder Haus Day Care Center with a birthday party/carnival from 6 to 8 p.m. on June 24.
Residents of Swiss Village are able to interact with children at the day care each day during educational and recreational activities.
Kinder Haus is located on the Swiss Village campus, 1350 W. Main St. in Berne.
For more information, call Michelle McIntosh at (260) 589-3173 or visit www.swissvillage.org.
Limberlost exhibit
As part of the Indiana Bicentennial celebration, Friends of the Limberlost are sponsoring a unique art exhibit to be on display July 1 through December at the Limberlost State Historic Site Visitor Center in Geneva
Photographs, paintings, poetry or small sculptures of fauna, flora or a natural setting located within the Limberlost territories will be at the exhibit.
The exhibit will focus on the Limberlost wetland restoration projects that started in 1997 and will feature a poem by author Gene Stratton-Porter and some of her photographs.
Book selected
A book written by Fort Recovery native Harold Schoen was selected as a finalist for a Next Generation Indie Book Award.
He was honored during Book Expo America in Chicago in May.
Schoen wrote the book “Growing Up” about growing up with a family of 13 children on a small farm on the Mercer-Darke County Line Road during the 1940s and 50s and includes memories of his years as a University of Dayton Flyer basketball player.
The book is available as a paperback or a Kindle e-book on Amazon.com.
The Youth Service Bureau will host free Born 2 Learn Day Camps for children 3 months to age five.
The camps are designed to enhance child development and increase kindergarten readiness and school success.
They will be held from June 27 to July 1 at the Women’s Building at Jay County Fairgrounds in Portland; from July 25 to 29 at the Pennville Community Center; and from Aug. 1 to 5 at West Jay Community Center in Dunkirk.
Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and snacks and lunch will be provided.
All camps will be held from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with registration and playtime from 9 to 10 a.m. For more information, call or text Terri at (260) 251-2021.
Camps are sponsored by Portland Rotary Club, United Way of Jay County and The Portland Foundation.
Scholarship sign-up
It’s not too late to sign up for the Indiana 21st Century Scholars Program.
The program is to help students of low-income families by providing up to four years of undergraduate tuition at a public college or university in Indiana or an equal amount to a private college. It has helped more than 70,000 low-income Hoosier students pay for college.
The deadline for eighth grade students to sign-up is June 30.
For more information, call (888) 528-4719, email [email protected] or visit www.scholars.in.gov.
Birthday party
Swiss Village Retirement Community in Berne will celebrate 15 years of intergenerational programming at Kinder Haus Day Care Center with a birthday party/carnival from 6 to 8 p.m. on June 24.
Residents of Swiss Village are able to interact with children at the day care each day during educational and recreational activities.
Kinder Haus is located on the Swiss Village campus, 1350 W. Main St. in Berne.
For more information, call Michelle McIntosh at (260) 589-3173 or visit www.swissvillage.org.
Limberlost exhibit
As part of the Indiana Bicentennial celebration, Friends of the Limberlost are sponsoring a unique art exhibit to be on display July 1 through December at the Limberlost State Historic Site Visitor Center in Geneva
Photographs, paintings, poetry or small sculptures of fauna, flora or a natural setting located within the Limberlost territories will be at the exhibit.
The exhibit will focus on the Limberlost wetland restoration projects that started in 1997 and will feature a poem by author Gene Stratton-Porter and some of her photographs.
Book selected
A book written by Fort Recovery native Harold Schoen was selected as a finalist for a Next Generation Indie Book Award.
He was honored during Book Expo America in Chicago in May.
Schoen wrote the book “Growing Up” about growing up with a family of 13 children on a small farm on the Mercer-Darke County Line Road during the 1940s and 50s and includes memories of his years as a University of Dayton Flyer basketball player.
The book is available as a paperback or a Kindle e-book on Amazon.com.
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