Journey Through Oberlin Echoes Of Aging In A College Town
In Oberlin, Ohio a writer retreats to a quiet cul de sac near Elm Street to pursue literary work. Senior citizens gather at the Community Center for yoga, travel clubs, craft rooms, and lunches while the college fuels conversations with concerts lectures and performances. Jo Gilbert, a widow now remarried, stays active in churches and her China reading, while moving from oils to watercolors and caring for a West Highland terrier. The piece captures a daily rhythm of aging, friendship, and the pull of campus life.
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College Town
Oberlin
Jo Gilbert
Elm Street
China
Ohio farm events calendar highlights June to December
Ohio farmers are advised of a busy schedule of agricultural events from June to December in Wooster and Columbus including Dairy Day Sheep Day and Garden Club meetings June 18 19 and 19 and several field days through September 21 23. The article contrasts tillage methods noting no till with herbicides saves fuel and discusses barriers to adoption including initial costs and soil drainage. It also covers fuel theft risks from farm tanks and NRCPC tips on deterrents such as tank placement padlocks lighting and fencing.
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Wooster
Springfield
Clark Co
Northwestern
Custor
Branch
Fremont
Don Scott Field
Columbus
OSU
OARDC
Ohio
National Rural Crime Prevention Center
NRCPC
Ohio State University
Missouri farmer cries foul on grain elevator bankruptcy laws
Wayne Cryis, a Paxico Missouri farmer, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that bankrupt elevators left his 31,000 bushels of soybeans tied to elevator debts. He was jailed for refusing to name helpers in recovering the beans and urged fast passage of a grain elevator bankruptcy reform.
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Washington
UPI
Missouri
Congress
Wayne Cryis
Arkansas
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Sandy
Bill Emerson
Cryis
Senate
Subcommittee
Paxico
Ristine
Russellville
Ark
Charles Grassley
Rtowa
Reagan
House
Emerson
M. Caldwell Butler
Rva
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Butler
Dan Glickman
D-Kan
House Judiciary Committee
Dole
Energy coordinators complete farm energy conservation project
Energy saving coordinators in 60 Ohio Farm Bureau Advisory Councils completed a project monitoring energy use in farm transport and home. Reports by George and Mary Willer of Clyde and Philip Klinefelder of West Salem were among 25 selected as most complete. The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation led the Energy Conservation In Agriculture project with the Ohio Department of Energy, detailing 1981 1982 practices such as storm windows insulation weather stripping and more efficient furnaces and vehicles.
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Ohio Farm Bureau
George and Mary Willer
Country
Clyde
Ohio
Philip Klinefelter
Gable Road
West Salem
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Ohio Department of Energy
Elyria 4-H Clubs Plan Cookout and Flower Planting
Elyria Happy Hustlers will meet June 7 for a cookout at Elywoods Park and plant flowers Monday at Elyria Fire Department Station 1 as part of yearly projects. The club earned a certificate from the Easter Seal Society of Lorain and Huron Counties for helping fundraising efforts. Brighton Nannys 4-H Club met May 11 at Brighton Town Hall and learned gun safety. they discussed goat prep for the Lorain County fair and will sell cookbooks for $4 as a club project.
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Elyria
Brighton Nannys
Brighton Town Hall
Lorain County
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Dorothy Daub
Dorothy
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Cleveland
Pat Leimbach
Farm News
Wayne Cruis
R-Mo
Roger W. Jepsen
Iowa
Capitol Hill
Jerry Long
Missouri Farmer
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Jim Schenter
Belden
Anne Ene
Star Builders Inc
Ate
Amerby
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USO
Hfe
United
OCFC
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