UPPER SANDUSKY — Recruitment is now underway to enroll participants in the fall Micro Business Development Program offered by the HHWP Community Action Commission. The program consists of eleven sessions held from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursdays evenings beginning Aug. 23 at the Wyandot County HHWP Community Action Commission office, 559 South Warpole Street in Upper Sandusky.

As Dennis Jesse was finishing his high school years at Riverdale in the 1980s, he expected to have a future in technology. The idea that he would become an opera singer and perform internationally would have been a joke to Jesse at that age, but it is his reality today and the Forest native wouldn't change it for the world.

Students and staff at the Kenton Head Start check out the playground at the preschool's building. The program opened for classes in April, but this fall will mark its first year in the new facility just north of Kenton on U.S. 68.

The August board meeting of the Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District will be on Thursday, Aug. 16 at 1 p.m., at the shelter house on the Hardin County Fairgrounds. Future meetings will resume on the regular schedule of the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 a.m. at the district office.

During this time of political turmoil we frequently hear the words “citizen” and “taxpayer”. As an American, do you think of yourself primarily as a taxpayer or as a citizen?

The Latter Rain Southern Gospel Quartet will be performing at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 at Kenton Full Gospel Church, 129 N. Wayne St., Kenton.

Kenton Full Gospel Church is holding an auction and picnic open to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 at the Hardin County Fairgrounds shelterhouse. Choose from lots of household items, furniture, night stands, chairs, glassware, exercise equipment and more.

Gospel singing will be featured at Well of Grace Fellowship Church, 525 N. Ida St., Kenton at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. Featured guest singer is Linda Lester from Martinsville, Ind. She has won multiple awards in gospel music over the last three decades as a songwriter and female vocalist.

During the month of July, Extension rainfall reporters recorded an average of 3.76 inches of rain in Hardin County. Last year, the average rainfall for July was 8.23 inches.

Wiesje Kruiter, a dairy farmer from Forest, recently visited Washington, D.C., to meet with congressional leaders and discuss issues impacting the dairy industry. Wiesje traveled to Capitol Hill to build strategic relationships with local legislators and represent Dairy Farmers of America (DFA).