The Old Blue Suitcase That Carried So Much
A reflective piece on graduation gifts and the sentimental power of a well-used blue suitcase. The author recalls 31 years of family use, travels, and memories etched into stickers, scuffs, and tape while lamenting modern luggage’s lack of space and character.
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Lorain County Farm Bureau Hosts Free Square Dance
The Lorain County Farm Bureau sponsors a free square dance for council members and friends on Saturday from 9 p.m. to midnight at Floral Hall, Lorain County Fair Grounds Well ington. Ray Sullinger's Old Fashioned Band provides music with the Farm Bureau youth group selling refreshments. Ken and Linda Diedrick are dance chairmen. A separate fund drive by the Huron County Agricultural Heritage Committee aims to develop a historic farm and home site at Norwalk’s Heron County Fairgrounds, including an 1836 house donated for relocation this summer and other period buildings such as a barn, chchb workshop, and outbuildings. Ralph Albright chairs the Heritage Committee. contributions may be sent to Albright.
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Floral Hall
Lorain County Fair Grounds
Wellington
Ray Sullinger
Fighting Farmers
Farm Bureau
Ken
Linda Diedrick
Carlisle Township
Heron County Fairgrounds
Norwalk
Huron County Agricultural Heritage Committee
Huron County Fair Board
Ralph Albright
Albright
Eee
Hog-diggity Lassie pig performs tricks in Animals in Action show
A pig named Lassie in Broo-Weld, Illinois, demonstrates varied tricks including a canine imitate. Linda Strauss, a trainer, tosses a dumbbell as Lassie retrieves it over an obstacle. Lassie part of the Animals in Action show at the zoo AP report.
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Lassie
Linda Strauss
Grasshoppers Threaten 32.3 Million Acres in U S
A UPI report from Lubbock Texas notes grasshoppers may affect 32.3 million acres across 17 states this year. Experts warn swarms threaten crops, rangeland, and soil, with recent counts reaching 80 per square yard in parts of the Texas Panhandle. Roy Moritz of APHIS leads annual surveys to guide control programs begun in 1936.
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Texas Panhandle
Northwest
Texas
Roy Moritz
U.S. Agriculture Department
Animal Plant and Health Inspection
APHIS
Lubbock
Moritz
Ohio 4-H Congress to Expand Horizons in Columbus
Lorain and Huron County 4-H members join about 800 statewide youths at the 63rd Ohio 4-H Congress in Columbus. The event features leadership topics, government deliberations on House Bill 472, and subject conferences on beef, sheep, swine, clothing, and horse riding. Notables include OSU figures and a Sunshine Express performance.
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Lorain County
Ohio
Ohio State University
Columbus
Bernice Cutcher
Ambert
Mary Lou Diedrick
LaGrange
John Diehl
Vermilion
Kelly McAleese
Wellington
4-H
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Amherst
Connie Mohrman
Dave Fehlan
Robert Walther
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Remote sensing to boost agriculture linked by official
Washington based Agriculture Department official Anson R. Bertrand spoke at Purdue University on remote sensing as a growing tool for farming. He described vaccination of crops with data from satellite imagery to guide planting and harvesting and predicted broader use for forecasting forage, biomass, and yields while stressing global responsibility and the need for agriculture to rival other high tech fields in knowledge and efficiency.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Anson R. Bertrand
Purdue University
Bertrand
Carter
Frank Press
Weather woes hit local soybean and corn crops
Weather and excessive rain damage leaves on soybean plants and corn in Lorain County. Cool temperatures and winds may burn corn leaves. herbicide splash from rain may kill entire soybean leaves. Producers monitor impact on yields as some replant fields. Also, the 11th Medina County Horse Show is planned for Saturday at Medina County Fairgrounds, a 4-H and open show, to raise funds for 4-H benefits with the Medina County Extension office available for info.
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Jerry Long
Lorain County
Long
Medina County
Medina County Fairgrounds
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