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Mechanicsburg's Anderson Family Receives Outstanding Young Farmer Award

9/25/2018

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Mechanicsburg Women That Farm
Brandi and Nick Anderson of Mechanicsburg have been named winners of Ohio Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Young Farmer Award.
Brandi and Nick Anderson of Mechanicsburg have been named winners of Ohio Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Young Farmer Award.

The contest helps young farmers strengthen their business skills, develop marketing opportunities and receive recognition for their accomplishments. Contestants are judged on the growth of their farm businesses and involvement in Farm Bureau and their community.

The Andersons will receive 250 hours use of an M-Series Kubota tractor, courtesy of Kubota, a $1,000 Grainger gift certificate and an expense-paid trip to New Orleans to attend the American Farm Bureau’s annual convention in January 2019.
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The Champaign County Farm Bureau members raise cattle and sell the meat at farmers markets under the Women That Farm name. Brandi is a grain branch manager for Heritage Cooperative and Nick is farm manager of Van Raay Dairy. They are on the Champaign County Farm Bureau board of trustees and are the parents of three young children.
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Mercy Health Opening Clinic in St. Paris

9/19/2018

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Mercy Health - St. Paris Family Medicine
Mercy Health - St. Paris Family Medicine
Mercy Health – Springfield announced that it will open a primary care practice in St. Paris on Sept. 26. Mercy Health – St. Paris Family Medicine is located adjacent to Wier Dentistry at 114B S. Springfield St.

Jamie Kennedy, a St. Paris resident, is the nurse practitioner at the practice, which has two exam rooms. The practice will offer a full range of primary care services, prescriptions, immunizations, acute illness care and more.

“There are communities where people struggle to access the health care they need. Mercy Health – St. Paris Family Medicine bridges the gap, connecting area residents directly to fundamental health services at a location convenient for them,” said Lee Syphus, Chief Operating Officer of Mercy Health Physicians – Springfield. “As a mission-based organization, we are proud to share our resources to help keep communities well.”

St. Paris Family Medicine will host a ribbon-cutting and open house noon-2 p.m. on Oct. 2. Visitors can meet Kennedy, tour the practice and learn about the services available there.

St. Paris Family Medicine will be open initially 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wednesdays and 8 a.m.-noon on Fridays. The clinic hours will grow based on community need. For more information or to make an appointment, call 937-523-9816.
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Mechanicsburg Grads Earn Doctorates

9/12/2018

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Rachel Massengill
Rachel Massengill
Cortney Dingledine
Cortney Dingledine
Rachel Massengill, valedictorian of Mechanicsburg High School in 2011, and Cortney Dingledine, salutatorian of Mechanicsburg the same year, both graduated in May with Doctorate degrees in physical therapy.

Massengill graduated from Toledo University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. She received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from Toledo University in May. She is the daughter of Robert and Cynthia Ebbinghaus and Gary and Melissa Massengill.
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Dingledine graduated from Wright State University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and from Ohio University in May with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree. She is the daughter of Randy and Amy Dingledine.
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Urbana Opens New Elementary, Junior High School

9/12/2018

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Urbana City Schools Charles Thiel
Urbana City Schools Superintendent Charles Thiel shows off one of the new learning pods in the new Urbana Elementary and Junior High School. JEFF GUERINI/STAFF
By Parker Perry - Springfield News-Sun Staff Writer
Urbana City Schools welcomed students into their new school Tuesday.

The $37 million project was approved by taxpayers in November 2014. The building that will serve the district’s preschool through eighth-grade students is on U.S. 68 between Campground Road and Pearce Place across the street from the Champaign County Community Building. It’s the second building the district has opened in a year. It opened the new high school building in April.
“It’s been a great start to the first day in our new school,” Superintendent of Urbana City Schools Charles Thiel said. “As I stood out front helping to direct traffic I realized the number of kids and families and adults are all a part of the programs of our schools. We were spread out throughout the city, but when you combined them into one building there is a lot of people that are using our resources and being part of the school program.”

Overall, the opening went well, he said.

The district pushed back the start date so the building could be finished before the start of school. The new building has a number of advancements that the old schools didn’t. For one, air conditioning.

“It has been wonderful for us and will continue to be wonderful to have the air movement and circulating so we have fresh air in the building,” Thiel said.

The school also has updated security features that force people wanting to enter the building to be cleared by staff before doing so.

“We have a whole series of video cameras in the building and outside the building to monitor what’s happening,” Thiel said. “There is a lot more security than we ever had at our old buildings. They just didn’t consider those things back in (the early 1900s.)”

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Everyone being in one building is a good change, he said.
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“It’s great to be able to say to a 3-year-old that’s going to preschool that you are going to stay in this building until you get to the eighth-grade,” he said. “You will become comfortable in this building.”
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New Liaison to Strengthen Ties Between Manufacturers, Schools and Students

9/12/2018

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Ashley Cook Business Liaison
Ashley Cook
Champaign County manufacturers, local educational institutions and the Champaign Economic Partnership are working together to prepare more students for skilled manufacturing jobs.
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Their most recent initiative is creating a new part-time position – business liaison – says Marcia Bailey, director of the Champaign Economic Partnership (CEP). The CEP and Ohio Hi-Point Career Center have introduced the new position, with the help of financial supporters – the Champaign County Human Resources Manufacturers Council, DP&L, Clark State Community College and FASTLANE.
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Ashley Cook, Ohio Hi-Point’s new supply chain management instructor at Urbana High School, will serve as the business liaison 10 hours a week. She will coordinate activities that bring educators, students and manufacturers together.

Cook, who will report to Bailey in her role as business liaison, is an Urbana High School graduate and in 2016 received a bachelor’s in organizational leadership from Wright State University. Before becoming supply chain management instructor, she recruited students from 14 partner schools for Ohio Hi-Point’s main campus in Bellefontaine, launched the school’s first online application and led Hi-Point’s Student Ambassador program.

“Ashley will visit manufacturers to see what their workforce needs are, and she’ll be going to the schools to help make sure their curriculum is where it needs to be to prepare students for career opportunities,” Deb Wortman, Ohio Hi-Point satellite director, said.

Cook adds that she will help manufacturers spread the word to schools about internships and job shadowing opportunities, advertise open positions, and help coordinate job fairs, open houses and other activities where students can learn about career opportunities in local manufacturing.
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In her roles as instructor and business liaison, Cook said, “I look forward to being in the business world and working with students to prepare them for successful careers.”
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