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Dog club offering fall classes
GREENVILLE — The Greenville Area Dog Club is gearing up for fall with a variety of classes starting on Sept. 3. Registration opens on July 22 and ends on Aug. 19. Whether you have a puppy, senior puppy, or a seasoned pooch, there’s a class for everyone. They offer puppy, senior puppy, beginner obedience, rally, trick, and agility. They also offer canine good citizen testing for dogs and owners who have completed obedience classes in the past.
Hold Annie Oakley’s Gun!
Holding Annie Oakley’s gun was such a popular event in 2023 that the Annie Oakley Center Foundation and Garst Museum will create an encore experience. This year during the Gathering, visitors can again hold Annie’s 1910 J. Stevens .22 caliber deluxe target rifle with a Scheutzen butt in the Lowell Thomas Meeting Room of the museum. This extraordinary event will be from 12 p.m.–6 p.m. on Saturday, July 27 and 12 p.m.–3 p.m. on Sunday, July 28. As a fundraising event for the Annie Oakley Center Foundation, the cost is $10 for adults and $5 for youth under 18. Additionally, if you bundle holding the gun with touring the museum, there is a $2 discount on museum admission. This is just one of Annie Oakley’s guns on display as well as other artifacts from her life, including medals, trophies, garments, and personal items. Photos, along with video clips, tell the story of this legend and her husband Frank Butler.
Happy 100th birthday Norma Baker
Norma Baker was born July 6, 1924, to Jesse and Ruth Lutz. She and her two sisters, Inez and Kathryn, were raised in Monroe Township, east of Pitsburg. At an early age she, along with her family, were baptized and joined the Pitsburg Church of the Brethren during a revival. She married her husband, Jack, in the early 1940’s while he was on furlough. Jack served in the Air Force during World War II. He and Norma wrote letters to each other “constantly.” Norma describes herself as a life-long farm girl. She was raised on a farm and then farmed with her husband. They had three children: Zane, Barbara and Jane. When asked what she is most proud of, she quickly said, “My family.” She is the grandma of seven grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren and several great-great grandchildren.
Adams Voice coming to TCC
GREENVILLE — Triumphant Christian Center, 1129 South Towne Court, Greenville, will welcome Adams Voice on Sunday, July 28, 6 p.m. The concert is free. Ministering as a team since 1997, Adams Voice knows that leading people to a personal encounter with a loving Savior is the soul purpose of their call. The focus of their ministry is to attest to the power of God through worship, inviting Him in to change lives. Woven into their repertoire of the familiar are original songs resonating with scripture, written from personal testimony inspired by real-life circumstances. Their music spans a wide range of styles as they endeavor to reach all age groups. Nashville Christian recording artists Adams Voice consists of husband and wife David and Charlene Adams and their four children Emma, Johnny, Anna and Luke. Each concert includes duets, trios, as well as the entire family sharing their vocal harmonies. Audiences appreciate their genuine spirit and how they readily connect with the audience through a variety of tunes and testimonies of God’s goodness and grace.
Ohio elementary teacher grows tree from seed that orbited the moon
A Coldwater Elementary School teacher was selected from 1,300 applicants to receive one of the 50 sweetgum seeds that rode in Artemis II when it orbited the moon in 2022. Rachel Tebbe planted the seed back in May. And now it's a five-foot-tall tree that she visits nearly daily. A...
City of Greenville holds tree-lottery
The City of Greenville Tree Commission is currently conducting a “Tree Lottery” that will offer (15) fifteen trees via a random drawing. At 1:00PM, on Tuesday, August 8, 2024, the commission will randomly select up to (15) fifteen recipients from the entries received at the Municipal Building to be awarded a tree, including the planting (which will be performed by the Street Dept.).
Daisy and David are waiting at the Animal Shelter to be adopted
The Darke County Animal Shelter has Daisy and David available for adoption. They got the Bordatella and Parvo/Lepto/Distemper vaccines and are heartworm negative, dewormed and microchipped. The Shelter’s visiting hours are Monday-Friday 8am-11:45 am and 1 pm-4pm. Saturday only by appointment. The Shelter is located at 5066 County Home Rd....
Interview: Tyce Green of NEXT TO NORMAL at HOUSTON BROADWAY THEATRE
Tyce Green started his acting career in Houston with several companies, including Theatre Under the Stars. He ran off to New York City, and when there, he became a model, an actor, and a singer. He has tons of hits with his rock and roll-style cabaret performances. He even made an album with legendary producer and writer Jim Steinman, who has written for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, and Barbara Streisand. Tyce has appeared on Project Runway as one of the male models for several seasons, and one of his biggest and latest gigs was the national tour for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. Tyce Green is returning to Houston as a producer and founder of a nonprofit theater company called Houston Broadway Theater. They are debuting their first production on the weekend of July 26th at the Hobby Center in their Zilkha Hall, and it is the rock musical NEXT TO NORMAL. Broadway World writer Brett Cullum got a chance to talk about making rock and roll dreams come true with Tyce Green.
You could win a trip to the top of the Roebling Suspension Bridge with this photo contest
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - You could win a trip to the top of the Roebling Suspension Bridge. The Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Committee is hosting a photo contest. Amateur or professional photographers can submit one to three pictures or videos of the bridge throughout July for a $25 entry fee. Youth entries are free.
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