The following Horace Mann students had All A’s on their report card for the second quarter of the 2020-21 school year.
Second grade students included Mya Bailey, Tatum Bickel, Benjamin Cokl, Kendal Cornett, Rayden Davis, Khloe Denney, Margaret Dennison, Olivia Gardner, Wyatt Garrison, Bryan Gillihan, Lucas Grodrian, Charles Hippensteel, Caleb Kendall, Arianna Martin, Aiden Roughley and Sophia Trainer.
The 97th annual dinner of the Huntington County Chamber of Commerce was canceled this year.
Due to the cancellation, the transitioning of officers of the chamber’s board of directors took place at the regular board meeting at the Historic Forks of the Wabash on Monday, Jan. 11.
2020 Chair of the Board Sonya Foraker, of Parkview Huntington Hospital, was honored and received her chair plaque at the meeting.
The plaque was presented to Foraker by incoming chair, Darlene Stanley, of Johnson’s Junction.
Lifelong Huntington resident and outgoing treasurer of the Huntington County Historical Society board of directors, Barbara Rupley, is the new director of the Huntington County Historical Museum. She replaces Mark Stouder, who retired at the end of 2020. Rupley took over as director on Jan. 1.
Rupley will oversee the day-to-day responsibilities at the museum.
By KATELYNN FARLEY - Monday, January 18, 2021 8:43 AM
Photo by Katelynn Farley.
The Huntington County Disc Golf group hosted a disc golf tournament on Sunday, Jan. 10, at the Wildcat Disc Golf Course in Markle, raising $1,972 for the Bread of Life Food Pantry in Warren.
Eighty-eight golfers took to Markle Park that day to golf, bringing in money and non-perishable food items for the pantry.
On Tuesday, Jan. 12, tournament organizers Bill Moyer and Buffy Householder met with pantry coordinator Rose Broyles to present the funds and food that had been collected through the tournament.
A new truck stop, Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores, had an official soft opening on Thursday, Jan. 14, in Huntington.
Located at the corner of U.S.-24 and Flaxmill Road, the truck stop features a slew of amentities and items, including restrooms, showers, laundry service, propane refills and exchanges, car care items and snack items.
The truck stop will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There are spaces for both day-to-day drivers to fuel up with gasoline or diesel, as well as spaces for commercial truck drivers to stop and fuel up.
Huntington University announces Barb Michel, associate professor of art and chair of the Department of Art + Design, wil l judge the 2021 92 County Art Show for the Clark Gallery at the Honeywell Center.
The art show accepts artwork from artists all over the state and is juried. The show accepts all media except photography, which makes it a visual masterpiece.
The Huntington County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting at Diverse Kutz, located at 1217 S. Jefferson St., Suite B, Huntington, on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Featured (from left) are Terry Miller, Century 21 Bradley and Chamber Ambassador; Kimberly Washington; Terry Washington, owner; Jerry Washington, co-owner and Charles Chapman, City of Huntington Common Council Member for District 1.
The Creative Arts Council of Wells County will host a virtual Laban Movement workshop for students ages 12 to adult to learn the basic concepts of Laban Movement. The workshop will be hosted by instructor Mary Beth Frank via Zoom on Jan. 30, 2021, from 10 to 11 a.m.
In this workshop, basic Stanislavsky principles will be discussed along with how students can combine Laban movement and breath work to create believability in all aspects of character work. There is a small fee associated with this workshop.
The Parkview Huntington Family YMCA certified six students as lifeguards in its class held Jan. 4 through 8.
In this class Sarah Kowalski, YMCA aquatics director, and Huntington University student and YMCA lifeguard instructor Brent Wiseley educated and certified students Madeline Fairchild, Cooper Kowalski, Kayla Reich, Trevor Rust, Madalyn Sink and Emma Wilson.
As a result of their certification and interest, each of these students is also pending employment with the YMCA facility.
Interpretive Naturalist Eva Webb leads preschoolers and their caregivers in some yoga stretches at the Upper Wabash Interpretive Services preschool session “I is for Ice” on Wednesday, Jan. 13.
Jackson (left) and Vincent Winterfeld create an icy art project during Upper Wabash Interpretive Services preschool session “I is for Ice” on Wednesday, Jan. 13.