The Hardin County Family YMCA was the scene every Wednesday for Wacky Wednesday Day Camp from June 21 through Aug. 9. The themes revolved around All Ball games, Emergency Services, Moovin’ and Groovin’ Dance Day, Fun and Fitness Tumbling Day, Artful Antics all creative art, Hawaiian Hullabaloo, Music Makers with special guests who came and demonstrated their instruments, and fairy tales which were dramatized by the campers.

A large group of former players came out on Saturday night for the annual Kenton High School soccer alumni game.

The perfect summer day drew a nice crowd to the event which featured activities for all ages.

DOLA — Among the corn and bean fields of Washington Township in northern Hardin County, a small city has sprung up this summer. Complete with a series of new gravel roads to transport the beehive of activity in the crowded parking lot of the trailer community, construction workers, electricians and engineers are hard at work preparing for the arrival of parts which will become the 30 turbines of the Hog Creek Wind Farm.

United Way of Hardin County board members Beth McKinley (left) and Deb Rall sell tickets for the annual United Way Football Drop to Steve Burggraf (center, left) and Skinny Russell outside the S&S Drive Thru in Kenton.

Kenton’s Hayden Hicks and a Bowling Green player jostle for possession of the ball during the soccer scrimmage between the two schools on Friday night.

Members of the Country Timers 4-H Club competed at the Ohio State Fair this past weekend and brought home several awards. Mara France placed fifth and 9-year-old Eckstein triplets Connor, Brenden and Ruth placed fifth, sixth and eighth in the rabbit skillathon contest in their age divisions.

The Sew What 4-H Club and the Hardin County Homemakers invite people to the Hardin County 4-H Fashion Revue, set for Saturday, Aug. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ada First United Methodist Church, 301 North Main Street, Ada.

Young people went to the splash park at Murray Park in Kenton to cool off during one of the last days of summer vacation. Area schools are scheduled to reopen for classes in the coming weeks with Ada opening first on Tuesday and Kenton, Hardin Northern, Riverdale and USV all opening on Wednesday. Ridgemont’s first day of classes is slated …

Late this spring, Kenton Elks Lodge 157 received a Gratitude Grant in the amount of $2,000 from the Elks National Foundation. The grant was used to provide financial support to Hardin County youth attending 4-H camp this summer at Camp Ohio.