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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 2009
Page
1
A dense listing of community events in Franklin County including fairs markets craft fairs family activities and theatre. Highlights mention the Franklin County Farmer's Market Friends of the Library Book Sale Pomona Fair Festival Waverly Craft Fair Ottawa Community Arts Council kid programs Darwin the Dinosaur at Lied Center and various church and club gatherings across Ottawa Paola Lawrence and Scipio with times and venues.
Monday schedule in Ottawa shows diverse activities from Kids Day Out at Carnegie Cultural Center to Lions Club lunch at Poncho's and city commission and arts council meetings. Also includes church programs, bingo, and scouts at local venues. Several items run through the afternoon and into the evening with multiple venues downtown.
Local government notes list October meetings for Rantoul and Williamsburg councils. The Ottawa Herald shifts to Friday publication from October 9 with Monday gaps. Sale ads include Hamill's Country Garden clearance at Baldwin Junction. Orchard pickings, art show, street fair, gun contest, Burlington Opry, ham and bean meals, bingo, and book sale are slated around early October with contact details and times.
Louise Leblanc-Mazur, an Ontario elementary teacher living off grid, shares how a pair of barred owls and their four fledglings nested near her rural Ottawa Valley home. Humans observed owl calls, whisking calls, and nightly feeding on the back rail fence, with the family returning through the fall. Thanks, Louise, more owl news next week.
The first authorized sequel to A A Milne’s Pooh stories, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by David Benedictus, resumes adventures after eight decades. It picks up after The House at Pooh Corner and goes on sale October 5, reuniting Christopher Robin and friends with new but familiar quests.
A Tuesday schedule lists morning and daytime activities across Ottawa area schools and libraries. Events include Third Grade Day on the Farm at Eugene Field Elementary and picture retakes at Ottawa Middle, with storytimes at Ottawa and Williamsburg libraries, line dancing at Wellsville center, and a Franklin County Crimestoppers meeting at Ottawa High School. Evening offerings feature Family Night at Eugene Field, Bingo at Ottawa VFW, square dancing lessons at Ottawa First United Methodist, and a final Ottawa storytime session not fully readable.
Morning and evening gatherings listed in Ottawa and Pomona include the OFCED Area Chamber of Commerce at 109 E Second St Ottawa and the Personal Action to Health Exercise Group at Don Woodward Center 517 E Third St Ottawa. Also Alcoholics Anonymous Ottawa Group noon at First Baptist Ottawa and 8 p.m. at United Methodist Ottawa with additional meetings for Rotary at Ottawa University and Pomona City Council in Pomona.
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