Village Life Section :: Page 84

• Clean-up week coming soon

  By YS News StaffApril 24, 2019

  

  The annual spring clean-up week will be held Monday–Friday, May 6–10. During that week, household items, large and small, placed at the curb with regular trash pick-up will be removed for free by Rumpke. This service is available to Village solid waste customers only.

• Joe Ayres: a fixer of people, things

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 18, 2019

  

  A visit to Ayres’ Polecat Road home shows that some of what Ayres rescues is stuff. Known as a man with many friends, he is also known as a fixer of anything, so of course he often fixes things for his friends.

• Co-op puts PVs within reach

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Gleaming solar panels hang on the steeply pitched roof of Eric Johnson’s South High Street home, and also top an all-electric tiny house in his backyard. Last year, Johnson’s solar panels met 90 percent of his household electricity use. And, most importantly to someone concerned about climate change, the 10-kilowatt array helped him produce less carbon dioxide.

• ‘A tear in the social fabric’— Beloved son, friend still missing

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Anyone who spends much time in downtown Yellow Springs knows Lonya Clark, called Leo by many of his friends. A once daily presence in the coffee shops and streets of town, the young man is known for greeting most everyone with a smile and friendly nod. But despite his growing up here, most people know only small pieces of who he is, how he spends his time and where he goes. And nobody seems to know where he’s been for close to three months now.

• Joseph Robinson at YSAC gallery— The village, seen through eyes of joy

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Joseph Robinson loved his family, his community and his town. All three come together in a new exhibit at the Yellow Springs Arts Council gallery, called “Through the Eyes of Joseph Robinson: Paintings and Poetry of Yellow Springs.” The exhibit opens with an evening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 19, and runs through May 12 during regular YSAC gallery hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.

• YSCCC now enrolls the ‘littles’

  By Audrey HackettApril 11, 2019

  

  Cuteness alert: there are new babies in town. Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, or YSCCC, now accepts infants aged six weeks to 17 months as part of its recently created infant program, which opened in November.

• Dementia friendly project ends, but effort continues

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 4, 2019

  

  During the year-and-a-half duration of the Dementia Friendly Yellow Springs project, organizers were most surprised by the number of people who approached them to say they personally had a connection to the disease.

• Doctors see cannabis as medicine

  By Gary McBrideMarch 28, 2019

  

  Last month, Villager Paul Beck came to the screening of “Weed the People” to learn more about medical marijuana.

• Help Kidscouts pack meals

  By YS News StaffMarch 25, 2019

  

  The Kidscouts Hunger Van will make a stop at the Senior Center on Sunday, March 31, 1–3 p.m.

• New healing arts school—Coming to grips with grief

  By YS News StaffMarch 21, 2019

  

  Like many of us, Joshua Hayward knows a thing or two about grief. His wife, Esther Lail, died in 2013, which is when Hayward’s “path to suffering opened up,” he said this week.