Superior Credit Union Manager Matt Manns (left) and Helping Hands Outreach Board Member Ronnie Wages stand with one of the busses being placed in financial institutions throughout the county to collect school supplies for children in need.

It was the boys vs. the girls at the annual tug of war contest at the Abundant Life Assembly of God’s Summer Camp. More than 200 young people have made the church in Kenton their home from Thursday to Sunday, where they are they are taught life lessons and participate in Bible studies.

Marilyn Reed’s work is well known and visible throughout Hardin and Logan counties. Michael Angelo’s Pizzeria in Kenton is covered with her murals inside and out.

Kenton High School’s Top Twenty is going “back to the basics” for the upcoming season. The show choir’s 28 students, under the direction of Todd Daquino with assistant director Rick Hudgel and choreographers Zack Triscari and Tara Tober, got to work this week preparing for this year’s show.

ADA — Throughout this week, Sandy Neely and a host of volunteers are helping area youth learn swimming skills at the Ada Swimming Pool. Neely started her 49th year of teaching Red Cross swim lessons on Monday, with 75 children enrolled in the program this year.

Beginning this season, the Kenton ragtag football program will have cheerleaders cheering them on. The newly-formed Kenton kindergarten cheerleading program will cheer at its first game on Sunday, Aug. 20, and will continue throughout the ragtag football season.

In the information technology field, no two days are ever the same for Nathan Rodenberger. But that’s exactly what he enjoys most about it. On May 30, Rodenberger took over as IT coordinator at the Hardin County Courthouse.

The Riverdale class of 2018 will be taking its senior trip to Disney World next March. At its regular meeting Monday night, the Riverdale Board of Education approved the class of 2018 senior trip to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. from March 20-26, 2018.

Many kids came out and enjoyed the fun activities and games held at Kenton Kids Day on Saturday at Wharton Park.

On Saturday in Kenton a service honoring the memory of John H. Smick at Grove Cemetery was held. Smick was the last Civil War Veteran from Hardin County and was a community leader after returning from the war.