Features

After commemorating the occasion of moving to a new location, Steve Kimmel  announced to Bob Burnsworth, of Coldwell Banker, that the business would be receiving the Business of the Month honor. Featured below, Burnsworth poses outside of the business with family, employees and Chamber members.

There is some question as to how Dave Brooks became a member of The Huntington County TAB’s advertising staff. What isn’t in question is that he loyally served clients in a five-county area for 35 years.

“In 1987, Dave came walking into the doors of The Huntington County TAB, trying to sell radio advertising to us,” former TAB co-owner Russ Grindle said. “Who knew it would turn into a career of 35 years for him? He was working at an area radio station, and we have never determined if he was trying to sell advertising to The TAB or looking for a job.”

To learn the guitar, dedication is required to avoid being part of the 90 to 95 percent of people who end up quitting. To master the instrument, becoming one of the five or 10 percent to rise to the level of expert takes an even higher level of grit. No one knows this better than Huntington’s Al McCurdy, who defied all those odds not once, but twice.

Huntington County communities have public libraries to serve local residents. Huntington County TAB will be featuring these libraries in advance of National Library Week April 3 through 9.

Two of the libraries and their offerings include:

Roanoke Public Library, 314 N. Main St. Ste. 120, in Roanoke.  Current hours are Monday through Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Two more donations to Huntington North High School’s ongoing athletic complex construction and renovations were approved by the Board of School Trustees during Monday night’s board meeting.

Huntington Sheet Metal has donated a total of 12 signs that will be used on the baseball and softball stadiums, including nine distance markers, a retired jersey number for baseball, a 1993 state runner-up sign for baseball and a 2012 state runner-up sign for softball. The signage to be donated combines to a value of $4,585.80.

In an emergency situation, mere seconds can be the difference between life and death. Now, thanks to the efforts of Huntington County resident John Michaels, there is a new option for interested parties to learn about first aid practices that could very well save a life – Indiana First Aid.

Vine Street in Huntington is once again home to the Coffee d’Vine Coffee Shop, as well as HG Market on Vine, thanks to the efforts of a local couple working to fulfill their dream to revive the local coffee spot.

The Huntington County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) awarded Mark Krumanaker with its Conservationist Award at its annual meeting and banquet on Tuesday, March 1, at the Huntington County Fairgrounds.

To wrap up the National Future Farmers of America (FFA) Week celebration, local Huntington North High School FFA Chapter members, and FFA Alumni, gathered together at First Merchants’ Heritage Hall at the Huntington County Fairgrounds for the Blue & Gold Rush Banquet.

After the sudden loss of a young family member, one Huntington family is hosting a March Heart Screening for those ages 10 to 25 on Saturday, March 5.

Leading up to Valentine’s Day, Monday, Feb. 14, Salamonie School students were able to participate in a special fundraiser, sponsored by the Salamonie Student Council.

The fundraiser project, which was a stuffed puppy sale, began in January. The sale ended on Tuesday, Feb. 8, and the Student Council was able to sell more than 200 stuffed puppies to their fellow students.

Kappa Kappa Kappa members will celebrate the philanthropic sorority’s 121st anniversary later this month, and Mayor Richard Strick issued a proclamation recently to mark the occasion and declare Feb. 20 through 26 as Tri Kappa Week in Huntington.

The sorority, commonly known as Tri Kappa, was founded in Indianapolis on Feb. 22, 1901, to promote charity, culture and education throughout Indiana. Just more than five years later, Huntington’s Chi chapter was founded on Sept. 9, 1906.

The Huntington North High School students in Terry Stoffel’s Criminal Justice class were given a unique opportunity to help raise funds for the upcoming Post Prom – by hosting a “Jail and Bail” event with some well-known names and faces acting as inmates for the day, tasked with the goal of raising funds for Post Prom 2022.  

Riverview Middle School student Lynnsey Degitz won the Huntington County spelling bee on Tuesday, Feb. 8, by correctly spelling the word “allergenic.”

Degitz has been her school’s spelling bee winner each of the last four school years, and last night marked her second time winning the countywide competition.

Roanoke Elementary School student Lane Canvin finished as the runner-up in the competition.

A local charity organization is asking for help from the community with two major needs. Huntington County Blessings in a Backpack provides food for hundreds of Huntington County school children each weekend throughout the school year, and the organization is currently in need of extra volunteers, as well as a new space for their food storage and bag packing.