Vol. 141 No. 2

COMMUNITY

National Public Health Performance Standards Program is Jan. 23

Public health systems partners from Owen County will gather on Jan. 23, 2008, to participate in the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP).
The program includes partners from hospitals, schools, fire and police departments, faith communities, parks and recreation, mental health providers, private physicians, social service agencies, and other interested citizens. Three Rivers District Health Department will be conducting the program from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Owen County Extension Office.

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Community education

conference set for Jan. 26

In Owen County, 57 percent of 10th-graders report that they started drinking by the time they were 12. In comparison, across the state, the average is just 20 percent.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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Uncle Bo's school picture

My Uncle Nevel, whom I wrote about last year when he turned 100, marked his 101st birthday on December 10th. He’s Daddy’s brother, the oldest of Frank and Rushia Green’s seven children who lived to adulthood. His younger siblings always called him Bo, short for “brother,” and so I do, too.
Uncle Bo and one sister are the only survivors of that vivacious clan, and he misses the others. I miss them, too, I tell him, and we both let ourselves cry a little. But just a little. He and I believe in laughing more than we believe in crying.

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BIRTHS

Kylee Grace O'Banion

Joey and Leslie O’Banion are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Kylee Grace. Born Dec. 12, 2007, at Georgetown Community Hospital, Kylee weighed 7 pounds and 10 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.
Kylee was welcomed into this world by her oldest sister, Katelyn Jane, and middle sister, Olivia Kathleen.
Maternal grandparents are Johnny Duncan and Pamela Mertz. Paternal grandparents are Wayne and Marie O’Banion.