Payne Chapel will be accepting Walmart gift cards and monetary donations to be sent to the churches in Florida and Texas. People in those areas are still cleaning up from the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Harvey.

Payne Chapel will be celebrating its 146th anniversary as part of the Kenton community on Sunday, Sept. 24. All are invited to attend either or both of the services that day.

During the month of August, Extension volunteer rainfall reporters received an average of 1.39 inches of rain. The most rain for this month, 3.40 inches, fell in Jackson Township as measured by Rick Weber.

From the time Barbara Maxson arrived as the fiscal officer of the Hardin County Job and Family Services in 2011, she found a friend. Just down the hallway was Terri Hites-Suter, supervisor of the department’s income maintenance program.

Cole Wyen (center) shares his discovery in the pumpkin patch at the Althauser Honey Farms with his classmates Javion Smith (left) and Mason Hugley when the Kenton first-graders visited the farm this morning.

ADA — Ada Schools Superintendent Mary Skilliter defended her school district from a state report card article that was published in a Times on Sept. 16.

The residence of Harold Yoakam has received an Outstanding Beautification Award from Keep Hardin County Beautiful (KHCB). A beautiful place outside of McGuffey along the river, Yoakam has kept and planted a multitude of variety consisting of flowers, hosta, perennials and rose of sharon along the river’s edge, writes Deb Phillips, KHCB program manager.

MOUNT VICTORY — There are expected to be another 104 paved parking spaces available at the Ridgemont school by the middle of next week. The school board, at its meeting Thursday afternoon, approved a $63,875 bid from Quality Paving of Belle Center to pave the student parking lot behind the school building.

ADA — The Ada Board of Education took the following action at its meeting Thursday night: – Approved the following supplemental contracts for the 2017-18 school year: Sarah Davis, entry year mentor; Christina Bowden, entry year mentor; Julie Thaxton, entry year mentor; Erica Shadley, LPDC member; Bill Taflinger, varsity girls basketball coach; William Robert (Billy) Taflinger, JV girls basketball coach; Kyle Poling, eighth grade girls basketball coach; Lindsey Walden, seventh grade girls basketball coach; Christy Beaschler, boys tennis coach; and Kent Everhart, assistant baseball coach.

MONDAY, SEPT. 25 Kenton City Council – 7 p.m., chambers Riverdale Board of Education – 6 p.m., board meeting room in Central Office