NEWS
RELEASE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008
The Board of
The Commissioners met in General Session and approved and signed various resolutions, contracts and documents. The Commissioners also reviewed the calendar of events and discussed upcoming meetings.
Warren Schlatter,
Defiance County Engineer, met with the Commissioners for his weekly update. Standley Road east of State Route 18 now open;
there is still some roadside grading work to be completed, but the should not
affect traffic. The Spencerville-Hicksville
Road Reconstruction Project has the profile and curb work completed, there is
still more work to be done with this project, though.
Bruce Clevenger,
Barb Rohrs and Teresa Johnson from the Ohio State University Extension Office
updated the Commissioners on several programs offered through OSU Extension.
Bruce Clevenger
reported on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Community Development. Bruce noted that OSU in cooperation with
Defiance Soil & Water Conservation District provided nearly 50 area farmers
with a field day about Integrated Pest Management and 2008 Pest Issues. The educator discussed scouting for disease
symptoms, using OSU crop performance data to select genetic resistance and
demonstrated how to stage crop development during critical growth periods.
The Defiance
County Farmers Markets wrap up this weekend.
This year it had excellent vendor participation with a total of 62
vendors registered for the three locations:
Barb Rohrs
reported on Family and Consumer Sciences.
Bard noted that the Family Nutrition Program presented 52 educational
sessions with approximately 415 participants.
Family Nutrition Programs and information is available at Defiance
County Job & Family Services, WIC, Senior Center sites, low income housing
sites and food pantries.
As food safety
continues to be a growing concern to consumers, the OSU office received over 50
called regarding proper food preservation methods in this 3 month period. Barb informed the Board about the ServSafe
program. ServSafe is a National
Restaurant Association food safety course for managers and food handlers. Many restaurants require managers to be
certified through this program. Five
people attended the food handler’s course and nine attended the manager’s
course.
Teresa Johnson
reported on 4-H Youth Development. 4-H
Camp Palmer had 165 total campers. This
number represents 108 youth campers, 47 teen counselors and 10 adult
volunteers. 45% of campers received a
scholarship. Youth participating at camp
made new friends, developed independence from their family, participated in
leadership and skill building activities and had safe supervised fun with their
friends. Kids Central 2008 had another
great year serving Defiance County Youth and their families. Throughout the summer an average of 185 you
participated in the five weeks at the Defiance Christian Church and the
The Commissioners
attended the Four County Solid Waste District Board of Directors Meeting at the
Fulton County Commissioners’ Office. The
Joint Board heard recycling and department updates from each of the four
counties’ (
The Joint Board of
Defiance and Paulding County Commissioners met at the Fulton County
Commissioners’ Office to approve the final construction assessments of BeeTree
Run Joint Ditch #04-03 and adding the BeeTree Run Joint Ditch #04-03 to
permanent maintenance in Defiance County’s Ditch Maintenance Program.
Release Approved: ____________________________________________________
Thomas
L. Kime, Defiance County Commissioner