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B&G Club offers new summer fishing program

Jason Cheek (left) supervises Zachary Murray and Mason O’Connor as O’Connor reels in a fish at Lake Sno-Tip at Huntington University. Murray and O’Connor are participating in the Boys & Girls Club of Huntington County’s summer fishing program.
Photo by Sarah Johnson.

The Boys & Girls Club of Huntington County is offering a debut summer fishing program, sponsored by 1776 Sporting Club.

The program, starting Tuesday, June 7, has already proven popular with BGC members. Over sixty participants signed up for the program before the first week, coordinator Desiree Frederick says.

The programs will be offered in alternating classes, each class running for two weeks. The program will run for a total of five class sessions in ten weeks.

"Each kid will be able to have six days of fishing," Frederick says.

Erie Band, Children’s Choir set Flag Day concert

The Children’s Choir of Huntington County, shown performing June 9 at the Evangelical United Methodist Church at the conclusion of their summer choir camp, will be featured during a June 14 performance of the Erie band.
Photo by Sarah Johnson.

The Erie Band will celebrate Flag Day on Tuesday, June 14, with a concert at Hier's Park.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on the stage at the park and will feature the Children's Choir of Huntington County as guest performers.

Erie Band Director Thaine Campbell will lead the musicians in a variety of marches and other patriotic pieces.

The guest appearance of the Children's Choir is a revival of a tradition started by Elmer Rahn, director of the Erie Band from 1922 to 1976, whose concerts frequently featured performances by local individuals and groups.

Pizza Hut diners will help Viking runners

The Huntington North High School boys' cross country team will sponsor a Pizza Hut buffet fund-raiser tonight, Monday, June 13.

The team will receive a donation for each pizza buffet purchased between 5 and 8 p.m.

Viking runners will be the servers for the evening, and any tips they receive will also go to the cross country program.

Pizza Hut is located at 101 Frontage Road in Huntington.

 

Boys & Girls Club holds anti-tobacco carnival

Ariana Holzinger takes a whack at a piñata during the Tri-County Carnival held Friday, May 27, at the Boys & Girls Club in Huntington.
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The Boys & Girls Club in Huntington hosted clubs from Adams County and Fort Wayne at an end-of-school carnival on May 27.

The carnival was sponsored by VOICE, an organization sponsored by Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, and featured a variety of activities designed to create an awareness of the dangers of using tobacco.

Children participated in demonstrations of the decreased lung capacity, loss of taste buds and a loss of circulation that can be caused by smoking cigarettes. Children also earned rewards for reciting facts about tobacco.

 

Crestview students raise funds for YMCA's Partner with Youth Campaign


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Crestview Middle School's Student Council recently held a 5K run/walk event to benefit the YMCA's Partners With Youth Campaign. The students raised more than $1,200 for the cause. Presenting the check are (front, from left) Crestview students Noah Gass, Elizabeth Finney, Megan Underwood, Ross Wilcoxson and Ashlin Overholt; and (back, from left) Crestview sixth grade teacher Rachael Harshman, Crestview students Alexandra Rigdon, Matt Guhl, Patrick Miller, Gracie Noel and Mackenzie Cannici and YMCA Fitness Director Todd Latta.

Scouts seek volunteers to help with ‘green’ program

The Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana will sponsor a summer series on "Going Green" and is seeking volunteers to assist with the program.

The sessions, for girls in grades one through six, will be held July 18-22 from 9 a.m. to noon at St. Mary Catholic Church in Huntington. Girls will learn how to make paper and get to pet a wild animal.

Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Jennifer Kopecky at jennifer.kopecky@gsnim.org.

 

Huntington County Slice of Roanoke history hidden in quiet building on First Street

Kate Hoffman, a caretaker at the Roanoke Area Heritage Center, discusses a painting by the late Horace Rockwell, a Roanoke resident, on Tuesday, May 24. The RAHC preserves a chunk of the history of this northeast Huntington County community.
Photo by Matt Murphy.

Originally published June 2, 2011.

A slice of Roanoke history is preserved at a hidden gem on First Street near the town's main corridor.

The Roanoke Area Heritage Center features an array of memorabilia unique to the town, from uniforms and class pictures from the former Roanoke-Jackson Township High School, to Native American artifacts to a desk carved decades ago from the wooden gates of the Dickie Lock, or Lock No. 4, on the Wabash and Erie Canal.

Junior Achievement of Northeast Indiana honors Johnson, Hamilton

Junior Achievement of Northeast Indiana.
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Two Huntington businessmen have been honored by Junior Achievement of Northeast Indiana.

Ralph Johnson, founder of Johnson Petroleum, was inducted into the Greater Fort Wayne Business Hall of Fame.

Kyle Hamilton, offering envelope division president of Our Sunday Visitor, received a Golden Achievement Award for Excellence in Economic Education.

Johnson took over a business founded by his father, Edward Johnson, in 1929.

Under Ralph Johnson's leadership, the business weathered the 1973 oil embargo and grew to include convenience stores.

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