Empowering Darke County Youth in-person summer tutoring returns
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Empowering Darke County Youth will hold in-person tutoring this summer. Shown, an Edison State student works with a Greenville Elementary student in the Greenville Empowering After School Program.
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GREENVILLE Empowering Darke County Youth will hold in-person tutoring this summer. It will be offered at the Greenville Public Library, in addition to Empowering Distance, which was instituted last summer when in-person tutoring was not available.
Health guidelines will be observed, including masks and social distancing. The program is designed to help students struggling in language arts or math, to better prepare them for the requirements of their grade level in the fall.
SMITHFIELD – Outdoor events at the Greenville Library will get an upgrade thanks to an FM signal transmitter that will send audio to patrons’ car radios.
Rebecca Reddy, technology coordinator and head of circulation, said the transmitter and other equipment, including a shed, LED lighting, folding chairs, a heating lamp and a heavy-duty tent, were supplied to the library through the state’s Take It Outside grant.
Reddy said the library received all of its requests, including the FM transmitter, thanks to the hard work of town officials.
With the transmitter, Reddy said the library plans to hold outdoor events as soon as the weather warms up. Last October, the library hosted a small event in “Sequoia Square,” as Director Dorothy Swain calls the center of the parking lot with the Sequoia tree, where librarians read from a book to spectators in cars using a public address system.
12/22/2020
Youth Council brings snowflakes to town
Smithfield Youth Council’s Mia Holroyd shows off a snowflake before hanging it on her window. The Council designed the Smithfield Snowstorm project encouraging residents to make snowflakes and hang them in their windows as a community unifying project.
SMITHFIELD – While Rhode Island experienced its first major snowstorm last week, the Smithfield Youth Council proposed its latest community unifying event, the Smithfield Snowstorm, which encourages people to put cut-out snowflakes in the windows of businesses and homes.
The Youth Council is asking the Smithfield community to hang snowflakes in windows around town to show each other there is still fun to be had while being socially distant.
This year has been a rough one for everyone. Sadly, those of us that thought it would all be a memory by this season were sorely mistaken. I have lost dear friends and family this year. Many of us have.
Last Friday for some reason, I started thinking about another longtime friend, Reece Sexton. I had not heard from him in few months and was wondering how he was doing. I know he was posting on Facebook at Thanksgiving. That evening, a friend in Morristown messaged me that Reece had just passed away from COVID-19.
We donât know how the people we meet today may influence our lives down the long road of life. Sometimes a person changes the course of our lives. Reece Sexton is one of those people for me.