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Memorial occupational health hosts open house

11/27/2019

 
Memorial Occupational Health in Urbana will be hosting Open House
Tuesday, December 10th from 4 - 6 PM. 
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RSVPs are appreciated, but not required.
To RSVP or schedule an individual meeting with the team, contact Derek Gibson at (937) 578-2256 or derek.gibson@memorialohio.com.
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Local Holiday Shopping Guides

11/26/2019

 
The Champaign County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau has partnered with local retailers to encourage our community to shop local this holiday season!

Check out the Holiday Shopping Guides & make sure you stop by the Chamber from now through Small Business Saturday, November 30th to have your locally purchased items wrapped for free! 
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Monday - Friday 9 AM - 4 PM & Saturday from 12 PM - 6 PM. 
** 3 items per person

WL-S PHYICS STUDENTS THROUGH EDISON STATE PHYSICS COMPLETE ROCKET LAUNCH EXPERIMENT

11/26/2019

 
West Liberty-Salem students, who enrolled in Physics through Edison State University at WL-S, building a water rocket.
West Liberty-Salem students, who enrolled in Physics through Edison State University at WL-S, building a water rocket.
By: ALLISON WYGAL of WL-S
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West Liberty-Salem students, who enrolled in Physics through Edison State University at WL-S, built an awesome water rocket as a part of their unit on Newton’s Law and Friction!  Mrs. Brandie Roberts, who also teaches high school physical science, assisted her class of only six students in a successful launch on Friday morning!  Students in the class include Selena Weaver, Trenton Douthwaite, Cooper Havens, Lance Baldwin, Dawson Jenkins, and Jaden Marchal.  They spent several days building the rocket followed by a test launch that proved their project needed a little more work.  Students reevaluated, did some problem solving and spent more time studying what could have caused the launch to fail.  
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After making some adjustments, the rocket took off!  Students were required to use an astroblade and calculus to determine the height of the rocket in several different launches.  This interdisciplinary approach allowed students to understand how a scientist uses more than one area of study in a single experiment.  ​​
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Below is footage of their experiment!

columbia gas to upgrade lines in urbana

11/26/2019

 
This map shows the area where gas lines will be upgraded in Urbana.
This map shows the area where gas lines will be upgraded in Urbana.
Submitted story to Urbana Daily Citizen

Columbia Gas of Ohio is starting a gas line replacement project in Urbana. Work will begin in December, affecting about 80 customers.
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The work area is roughly bounded by Boyce Street on the north, East Lawn Avenue on the west, Washington Avenue on the south and Fountain Circle on the east.
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Columbia Gas contractors will work street by street to install new main lines and service lines to each customer’s home or building.

Gas service will not be impacted until it is time for Columbia Gas to connect the customer to the new gas system at the meter. For most customers, gas service will be interrupted approximately two to four hours. Customers will get advance notice of this service interruption.

If the gas meter is currently inside, it will be moved outside.

Any surface that has to be disturbed will be repaired by Columbia Gas. This includes sidewalks, driveways, lawns and landscaping.

Once this work is complete, customers will have a gas system with state of the art safety features.

The work and clean-up are expected to be completed during spring of 2020.

Columbia Gas of Ohio has invested more than $1.5 billion in communities around the state to replace aging gas lines over the last decade. This is paying off in safety, with leaks reduced by almost 40 percent.

Residents can contact Luka Papalko, external affairs specialist for Columbia Gas of Ohio, with questions or concerns at 614-420-1376 or lpapalko@nisource.com.

Visit www.columbiagasohio.com/replacement for more information on the construction process.

Submitted by Columbia Gas of Ohio.

deca month celebrated at triad

11/25/2019

 
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Mr. Martin and his Triad/Ohio Hi-Point students wearing blue for DECA month!

triad inducts 23 students into njhs

11/22/2019

 
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Triad Middle School recently inducted twenty-three seventh and eighth graders into the National Junior Honor Society. Congratulations!

Breakfast with Santa Dec. 7th

11/20/2019

 
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Join Monument Square District (and Santa!) for breakfast at Frisch's Big Boy on Saturday, December 7th from 9-11 am. Kids 12 & under eat free and there will be treats and surprises, including a free ornament for the first 50 children.

community thanksgiving dinner

11/20/2019

 
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Big Willie's Smokehouse is giving back to the community! They are hosting a FREE Thanskgiving Dinner on November 23 from 11AM - 5PM. Located at 23 Monument Sq.
Donations are accepted but there is no requirement to attend.

triad's 2nd quarter report

11/20/2019

 
Triad Local Schools releases their Winter 2019 Quarterly Learning Report. Check it out below!

major creating a lincoln

11/19/2019

 
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Mike Major is working on a sculpture of President Abraham Lincoln in his Miami Street studio. The resulting bronze figure will be part of a new park on the Dayton VA campus to honor Lincoln. Steve Stout | Urbana Daily Citizen
By Kathy Fox :  Urbana Daily Citizen
kfox@aimmediamidwest.com

In March of 1865, a month before the Civil War ended and a month before he was assassinated, President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation creating “national soldiers and sailors asylums” to care for disabled and wounded veterans. Today’s U.S.
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Veterans Administration comes from this legislation. Among the first three “asylums” was The Central Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, built on what is now the campus of the Dayton VA Medical Center, located in the 4100 block of West Third Street in Dayton.


​Lincoln’s promise in the legislation was “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan …” The nonprofit American Veterans Heritage Center, in partnership with the Lincoln Society of Dayton, seeks to raise $379,000 to establish a 100-foot by 100-foot park next to the library on the Dayton VA campus to honor Lincoln.
The park will feature a bronze sculpture of Lincoln now being created by Urbana artist Mike Major in his downtown Urbana studio. Fifteen feet high, the statue will be of a seated Lincoln, pen in one hand and the 1865 legislation in the other, gazing toward the VA Medical Center structures.

“(The park) will not only welcome people to the Campus while honoring Lincoln, but it will provide a place for solitude, reflection and healing,” according to the American Veterans Heritage Center website. “It will also stimulate teaching and learning opportunities, while creating a significant tourist destination point.”

Major’s 2nd Lincoln statue for Dayton
In 2016, a Lincoln sculpture created by Major was unveiled at Dayton’s Courthouse Square at the corner of Third and Main streets.

Located by the old courthouse where Lincoln campaigned with an antislavery speech in 1859, the 11-foot bronze figure of a standing Lincoln was commissioned by the Lincoln Society of Dayton.

“He didn’t have a beard when he was campaigning, so the last sculpture was a beardless Lincoln,” Major said of the Courthouse Square figure. Of the new sculpture, he said, “This is an older Lincoln. He’s been through the Civil War, the stress of that. The difference is experience and wear and tear.”

Major said he’s created more likenesses of Lincoln than of anyone else and has read extensively about him.

“Lincoln has had impact worldwide because of his vision and his ability to stay on point in the face of extreme pressure,” Major said, noting that Lincoln sculptures and statues can be found around the world, including in China and Cuba.

He describes Lincoln as a man who told entertaining stories and quoted Shakespeare and as a man of courage and grit.

“The Emancipation Proclamation took a lot of courage and proper timing,” he said, adding, “and he could be extremely powerful with his ‘team of rivals’ that he put together to run the nation.”

Of Lincoln’s legislation to care for ailing veterans, Major said, “It was his promise to the Civil War soldiers that he would take care of them … A lot were seriously injured and unable to work. He wanted to follow through with his promise.”

Major said planning for the project started two years ago and work on the sculpture started early this year with a model about 38 inches tall.

“I always do a model first, make any mistakes small,” he said. “Once everyone’s satisfied, I can enlarge it with the confidence that we won’t have expensive changes.” As of last week, the sculpture was in two parts, one part being the chair on which Lincoln will sit.
“He’ll be sitting on a likeness of a chair he took from his (Springfield, Illinois) home to Washington, D.C., because it fit him,” Major said, adding that some wanted the likeness to be of a fancier chair. Major said that wouldn’t have suited Lincoln, “his humble beginnings, more down to Earth.” He added, “He did a lot of work in that chair.”

The sculpture is scheduled to go to a Zanesville foundry in December, be completed March 2020 and ready for a park dedication next spring.

Architect Sarah Mackert (SJM Studio, Columbus), Major’s daughter, donated her time to design the Lincoln park, which will include a rippled ground.

“It’s symbolic of a large event, creating a ripple effect,” Major said.

A tribute to Lincoln, a thankyou to Dayton “The project was exciting for me because this was the last document he signed before he was assassinated, the document that created the Soldiers Home Administration,” Major said. “When we place the monument, Lincoln will hold the document and will be looking at the result of that document.

“I admire so much about his character,” he added. “Especially in these days of turmoil, it’s refreshing to see that kind of character and leadership.”

Major said he also is pleased to be a part of the project as a thank-you to the city of Dayton.

He attended a Pleasant Hill school without art classes, but for six years, starting in the 6th grade, he was driven every Saturday to art lessons at the Dayton Art Institute by his father, a farmer and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base employee.

“To be able to do something for that city where I gained so much in the arts was an honor and it continues to be an honor to do these projects for them,” he said.

Some of the information in this article was found on the American Veterans Heritage Center website (www.AmericanVeteransHeritage.org) and the Lincoln Society of Dayton website (LincolnSocietyDayton.com). Visit these websites for more information about the Lincoln park project and how to make donations.
Kathy Fox can be reached at 937-652-1331, ext. 1773.

Click here to read full article on Urbana Daily Citizen.
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