Harvey s Market, where the honors system still works and helping neighbors is a mission
Jim Brewer
Correspondent
Harvey Mast, the founder and owner of Harvey’s Market, a growing produce stand on state Route 39 between Nashville and Millersburg, shared the story of the remarkable growth of his business with members of the Rotary Club of Loudonville on March 25.
Mast had a unique experience in his teen years. After growing up in Killbuck as part of a 12-member conservative Mennonite family, when he was 13 his dad pulled up stakes and moved the family first to West Virginia, and then, when he was 15, to Paraguay in South America. In Killbuck, the family ran a small farm market.
Jim Brewer
Correspondent
LOUDONVILLE A rehabilitation facility in Loudonville will start treating victims of human sex trafficking on Jan. 11, Marlene Carson, representative of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, announced.
A victim of trafficking, Carson created the state organization Rahab Tidal Wave, in Columbus a few years ago, with the goal of protecting and rehabilitating trafficking victims. She came to the Dec. 21 Village Council meeting at the invitation of Mayor Steve Stricklen, who has been in discussion with her for several months on the possibility of her organization acquiring the former Jac-Lin Manor on South Mount Vernon Avenue.