The Hardin Northern FFA Chapter hosted a soils contest at the Crooks’ Family Farm on Sept. 18. Sixteen schools attended the contest including Kenton, Ridgemont, Hardin Northern and USV from Hardin County. There were 127 Urban Soils participants and 183 Rural Soils participants making a total of 311 judgers.

Nineteen members and guest Jodi Phillips of Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma International met Betsy Bowen at Upper Sandusky’s Old Mission Church on Sept. 14 at 10 a.m. Bowen presented various interesting facts of the history of the church and native Americans of the Wyandot tribe and their leaders. The church was built in 1824 and rebuilt in 1889. The U.S. government forced the Wyandots to move west in 1843, but the people did have a year to make a choice to move or not as a number of the Wyandots had intermarried with white families. Their greatest decision was whether they would give up their ties to the Wyandot tribe. Some of those who had moved west to Kansas did return to Upper Sandusky as the Kansas land was not of their liking.

Through a $12,000 Martha Holden Jennings Foundation grant titled Deeper Understandings of the Environment, Benjamin Logan High School students are focused on assessing the quality and condition of the Mad River. The Mad River is a 66-mile long unique stream. It is the largest cold water stream in Ohio. It is fed by underground water and is capable of supporting trout.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 24 Co-Dependents Anonymous open discussion – 7 p.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 725 E. Eliza St., Kenton.

The McGuffey Memory Room served veterans lunch on Saturday. Those taking part in the service were (from left, front) Gary Prater, David Humphreys, Mike Risner, (back) Lewis Hicks and Tom Kahley.

ADA – Harvard University faculty member Hopi Hoekstra, Ph.D., will discuss “From Darwin to DNA: Digging for Genes that Affect Behavior” at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern University. The talk, which is part of the Keiser Distinguished Lecture Series in Life Sciences at ONU, is free and open to the public.

FOREST — The Forest-Jackson Public Library is starting a new weekly program called Club Kaboom. It will be held every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. School-aged kids may join Miss Amy and Miss April to make art, do science experiments or explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) projects.

Cindy (Brodman) and Randy Geiger of Dunkirk are celebrating their 35th anniversary. The couple were married Sept. 22, 1984 by Rev. William Kelley at Forest United Methodist Church. Cindy is the daughter of the late Byron and Lucy Brodman, and Randy is the son of Myron and Lou Geiger of Dunkirk.

Kenton-Hardin Coounty Soroptimist International congratulates Club 250 winner Elaine Hoover for week 43. She will receive $100. Club 250 is a fundraiser that helps to award scholarships to local women and girls.

The Hardin County Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation will meet Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Forbing Community Centre, 122 N. Main St. Kenton.