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Share your thoughts with CC History Center: survey part of 5-year strategic plan
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The Clinton County History Center needs your opinion before March 1! Give them your thoughts and you could win $100 to the historic General Denver Hotel & Restaurant.
The Board of Trustees of the Clinton County Historical Society alongside Executive Director Shelby Boatman are pleased to share they are in the process of developing a five-year strategic plan to better serve the community and assess the organization, since its incorporation in 1948.
The Society is inviting the entire community to share their opinion on topics such as membership, activities, programming, future communication, and more by way of an online survey.
LANA MUTHLER lmuthler@lockhaven.com
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Members of the Clinton County Community Foundation board allocated nearly $300,000 to local agencies and organizations on Wednesday. Board members are, from left, front, Stuart Hall, Doug Miller, Rick Riccardo, Dennis Trout and Don Grant. Back row, Darlene Weaver, Michele Terry, Lana Muthler, Allan Lugg. Absent from the meeting was Elizabeth Arnold.
LOCK HAVEN The Clinton County Community Foundation doled out almost $300,000 to community organizations at its annual meeting on Wednesday. The Foundation’s board reviewed each of the 62 grant applications that totaled $440,812 and discussed their intended uses before making final decisions totaling $296,939.
In 1918, ‘the worst thing I ever knew’
By Shelby Boatman - For The News Journal
Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a 2-part series on how the nation, and specifically Clinton County, faced the pandemic of 1918.
Doctors overwhelmed
According to records, there were approximately 40 Clinton County doctors serving the community at the time of the pandemic.
The peak of the epidemic had officially hit the community and research was supporting that the assembling of crowds was causing mass spread. Suggestions of holding private funerals were made, and officials were declaring, “Avoid crowds and you are avoiding danger”.
Influenza was reported in Blanchester by the local paper on Saturday, Oct. 12 stating “influenza has struck the village, but in a light form…”