2024 Yellow Springs Giving & Gifting Catalogue
Dec
23
2024

From The Print Section :: Page 234

  • In September, a focus on dementia

    The 18-month-long Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs project is organizing several activities for September, World Alzheimer’s Month. Two of its organizers are, from left, Toni Dosik, and Karen Wolford of the Yellow Springs Senior Center. Not pictured are organizers Kate LeVesconte and Karen Puterbaugh of the Greene County Council on Aging. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    When organizers for the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs, or DFYS, project held a community book read last winter on a book about dementia, they were encouraged by the hardy response.

  • David Edward “Sonny” Blackman memorial

    David Edward Blackman

    A celebration of life reception for David Edward “Sonny” Blackman will be held Sunday, Sept. 2, 5–7 p.m., at Mills Park Hotel.

  • Virginia Helen Sander Nowik Bentley

    At 97 years old, Virginia Helen Sander Nowik Bentley took everyone by surprise and left us on July 23, 2018.

  • Perusing pages

    Ember McDonald of Yellow Springs browsed through used books and CDs at the 38th annual YS Book Fair, held last weekend at Mills Lawn. (Photo by Carla Steiger)

    Ember McDonald of Yellow Springs at the 38th annual YS Book Fair.

  • Conrad Balliet

    Conrad Balliet, longtime villager and lover of poetry, died on Saturday, Aug. 18. He was 92. 

  • YS School Board— Engineers: Structures safe

    The east exterior wall of the three-story section of Yellow Springs High School needs some joist work but is structurally safe, according to a report by the structural engineer firm Shell & Meyer Associates Inc., of Oakwood. (submitted photo)

    The structural safety of the three-story section of Yellow Springs High School and the modular units of McKinney Middle School “do not pose an immediate structural concern.

  • Local artist Christine Klinger — ‘Expressing the beauty I see’

    Local artist Christine Klinger, who often takes her inspiration from nature, has two art exhibits showing in Yellow Springs.

  • Bringing global leadership lessons home

    The educator became the learner this summer when Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Mario Basora spent about three weeks in Germany and the Czech Republic.

  • Unique bench honors beloved man

    A memorial bench for village resident Don Benning, who died last year, is in place in front of Tom’s Market, thanks to the efforts of lifelong family friend Shelly Blackman, left, who commissioned locally based artisan Bruce Parker, right, to create the bench that reflects Benning’s multiple interests. (photo by Carol Simmons)

    Nearly a year has gone by since the death last September of longtime villager Donald E. Benning at the age of 83.

  • Quarry opponents undaunted

    A “No quarry” sign stands on the Vanderglas family farm along Garrison Road in Mad River Township two miles north of Yellow Springs, near the first phase of a proposed limestone mine. (photo by Megan Bachman)

    A few miles north of Yellow Springs, where the fight over a proposed limestone quarry has been brewing for more than a year, Mike Verbillion recently surveyed the fields surrounding his property.

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