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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1977
Page
3
The State Controlling Board authorized engineering work at an estimated cost of 120000 to study a safer corridor to Strouds Run State Park. The plan aims to ease access for Athens residents who now use Columbia Avenue to reach Route 20 and Strouds Run Road.
Dr. Elsie Helsel of Ohio University attended the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals in Washington May 23 27 as part of 16 Ohio delegates. She noted emphasis on self-advocacy, anti discrimination rules, and accessibility upgrades in public buildings including ramps elevators and accessible restrooms.
The City Planning Commission asks the City-County Health Department to outline sewage system requirements for subdivision development within three miles of Athens. The commission plans to send a letter this week and wants guidelines before approving future subdivisions. Mayor Barrett cites a lack of building standards and a need for a reasonable zoning mechanism in the three mile zone to improve development quality.
Athens League of Women Voters stages a Wednesday picnic at 6 15 p m at the Athens Mental Health and Retardation Center grounds with delegates Susan Frampton Susan Isaac Lois Whealey and Connie Perdreau from the Ohio International Women s Year Conference speaking on issues. Members of the AAUW and BPW clubs invited as their reps attended the conference. Attendees should bring a covered dish and table service.
Five Athens Jaycees officers joined a Granville workshop hosted by the Ohio Jaycees last week. Speakers included Ohio President Gene Weaks and past presidents Gene Childress and E Larry Moses. Athens attendees were President Jim Crouse Vice President Bill Omen State Director Tim Lairson Secretary Bill Reeves and Treasurer Tom Vaughan.
The Farmers Home Administration awards Le-Ax Water Distribution Corp a 70000 grant to expand its Lake Snowden treatment plant. The project follows a 414000 grant from last year and aims to double plant size to serve 600 homes and establishments, with FHA loans and grants totalling 29 million since 1968.
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum's mobile office, run by two staffers, will be in Nelsonville at the Kroger parking lot on Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and in Athens on Washington Street near City Hall from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The van serves areas not reached by the senator's Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati offices.
Prices at Saturday's Ohio Valley Livestock Co. auction in Gallipolis included stocker steers 28 to 40 dollars, stocker heifers 22.50 to 33, canner and cutter cows 17 to 22.75, Holsteins 22 to 25.50, commercial bulls 28 to 33.50, veals 25 to 37, culls 24 and down, sows 32 to 35.75, stock cows by the head 110 to 230, stock cows and calves 190 to 270, stock bulls 180 to 270, baby calves 5 to 42, and pigs 96 to 35.
Ohio University's Department of Health Education hosts a three day session on innovative techniques for health education teachers from today through Thursday at Grover Center. Topics include venereal disease dental health and nutrition with instructors from the Ohio Department of Health Dr T J Halpin Alan Ford and Lillian Bernhagen president of the American School Health Association Lynne Esselstein of the National Dairy Council of Mid Ohio and Mary Beyer of the Ohio Dental Health Project.
City police seized 35 marijuana plants found growing along Dairy Lane after a resident reported the plants. Plants were four to 18 inches high and staked.
Paperwork completes release of $184 200 in construction aid to build a 10 bed Athens home for emotionally disturbed children serving Athens Hocking and Vin ton counties. The project shifts control to the county with 648 Board administration and plans for a July opening.
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