Hillsboro Garden Club member Rose Marie Cowdrey recently won the 2010 Faye Collins Designer of the Year Award from the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs. Mrs. Cowdrey, a 44-year Garden Club member and past president, received notice of the award from Juanita Wilkins, design study chair, and was honored at the July 12 OAGC banquet.

Where did the summer go? The staff at the Leesburg Library is making preparations for our fall programming as we enter the month of September.

The McClain High School Homecoming is just around the corner.

The annual Strokes for Strokes golf tournament welcomed 80 participants who enjoyed 18 holes of golf to raise $2,100 for the Adena Greenfield Medical Center's Stroke rehabilitation program. Proceeds from this tournament will be used to purchase educational materials for the center's stroke library that features helpful post-recovery information for stroke survivors and their families.

Kelsey Sheeley of Hillsboro exhibited her Polled Dorset ewe, Whitney, at the 2010 Ohio State Fair. Whitney is a Sept. 2009 ewe lamb and placed first in the fall ewe lamb class.

Kelsey Sheeley of Hillsboro exhibited her Polled Dorset ewe, Whitney, at the 2010 Ohio State Fair. Whitney is a Sept. 2009 ewe lamb and placed first in the fall ewe lamb class.

I always view late August as a time of transition. An obvious transition was the return of students to area schools this past week. Another more subtle transition is the change from growing season to harvest season for many field crops.

The Triple-L 4-H Club met Sunday, Aug. 22 at the home of adviser Jaime Simmons.

The Hillsboro FFA Chapter held their first meeting for the school year on July 22.

The annual Gillespie-Hart reunion was held Aug. 7 at 9131 West Deadfall Road.

Facing a growing population of senior substance abusers

The descendants of Jimmy Joe and Lula (Beekman) Miller held their annual family reunion on Sunday, Aug. 1 at the Brush Creek Community Center in Sinking Spring.

Descendants of Lewis Gilmore and Stella Vance Mercer met on Sunday, June 27 at the Fairfield Local School for their annual family reunion, with 120 in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer were the parents of eight daughters: Bess Duncan, Opal Murray, Maxine Patton, Frances Wiggins, Jeannette Miller, Jane Cannon, Hilda Lucas, and Kathryn Karnes. Each year, one family serves as host, and this year, the hosts were Roger Cannon and Ann Davis from Eufala, Okla.

Hamlet will play for one more weekend, (Aug. 27, 28 and 29) ending the 28th summer season at Magic Waters Theatre. Friday and Saturday shows start at 8 p.m. and Sunday shows start at 7 p.m., with nearly an hour of magical entertainment pre-show by Boonie the Magician. Pre-show dinners may be ordered in advance and are served one hour before show time.

Brad Barber, Highland County Board of Realtors Association Executive, was the guest speaker at the Aug. 26 Realtors board meeting at the Ponderosa Banquet Center in Hillsboro. After Realtors and their affiliates enjoyed a lunch sponsored by NB&T, Barber discussed the Realtors Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics is a "living document" Barber said, "because it must change to reflect current conditions."