Hardin Northern Elementary School February Students of the Month are (not in order) Gunner Reffitt, Taylor Price, Brady Robey, Jonah Ruhlen, Leah Alberding, Mason Stewart, Bianca Epling, Brady Crooks, Madisun McCoy, Katie Good, Skylar Gauntt, Paytin Pore, David Whitaker and Austin Makley.

Members of the Hardin Northern Garden Club met March 6 at the Mary Lou Johnson Library. The program for the month was at the beginning of the meeting.

Two Hardin County area schools placed in the top 10 at the Rain Barrel Decorating Contest, sponsored by the Blanchard River Watershed Partnership.

March is designated as National Nutrition Month. The guideline of using the Food Pyramid that we once used in order to eat a balanced meal has been changed. First Lady Michelle Obama and United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack introduced the new food icon known as MyPlate on June 2, 2011.

The Tri-Moraine Audubon Society’s Saturday, March 28 field trip will be to Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot and Marion counties.

The Ada Kiwanis Club met on Tuesday, March 10 at noon at McIntosh Center, Ohio Northern University, Ada. President John Berg called the meeting to order.

On March 3 at 6 p.m., the president of the William Britton VFW Post 6817 Mount Victory Auxiliary called the meeting to order with six members present.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 AA and Al-Anon ACOA Hope – 7 p.m. at St. Mark Lutheran Church, Ada.

Latham Chapter 364 Order of the Eastern Star will award $500 scholarships to two graduating high school seniors.

One of the most abundant birds across North America, and one of the most boldly colored, the Red-winged Blackbird is a familiar sight atop cattails, along soggy roadsides, and on telephone wires. Glossy-black males have scarlet-and-yellow shoulder patches they can puff up or hide depending on how confident they feel. Females are a subdued, streaky brown, almost like a large, dark sparrow.