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GREENFIELD – It’s goblins galore at the James Whitcomb Riley Boyhood Home and Museum, as Greenfield’s Riley enthusiasts celebrate the poet’s 174th birthday and mystical creatures brought to life through his children’s poetry.

The Community Foundation of Hancock County recently gathered its 2023-2024 Y-GIVE board for a group photo. Made up of four students from each public high school in Hancock County, the board gathers once a month while school is in session to learn about the community and volunteering. The youth philanthropy board acronym Y-GIVE stands for Youth-Giving, Investing, Volunteering and Engaging. Pictured are, front row, Christian Whisman, Griffin Lawrence, Tucker Brown, Aaron Lee, Misha Patel, Maya Morales, Luke Shelton, Nicole Johnson (Mt. Vernon advisor), Tyler Tharp; second row, Kaitlyn Lowes, Isabella Sotelo, Josie Kinnaman, Maddi Bowman, Vivian Miller, Jackson Clark, Moses Haynes, Saydie Miller, third row, Brian Bowen (Eastern Hancock advisor), Brent Oliver (Greenfield-Central advisor), Mitchell Burk (Southern Hancock advisor).

GREENFIELD – A new upcoming event will offer local senior residents insight into resources in Hancock County.

Mayor Chuck Fewell recently made a proclamation that October is Women Helping Women month. He is pictured here with the Women Helping Women committee. Back row is Aaron O’Connor, Kathy Locke, Sandy Miller, Kim Kelley, Allyson Smith, Mayor Chuck Fewell, Amy Kirkpatrick, Tonya Galbraith, Terry Beagle, Sondra Gullion and Becky Riley; front row, Jenny Lear, Lynn Kleiman, Beth Turpin, Debbie Muegge, Linda Jones, Myra Bleill, Nancy Davis and Becky Pohland.

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Here is a list of events happening in Hancock County this weekend and beyond. If you know of an upcoming community event that you’d like to see featured here, email [email protected].

We are past due for a review of basic manners and civic responsibility.

Parent University coming up

During this year’s bullying prevention lessons, third graders at Weston Elementary School had the opportunity to learn about the importance of T.H.I.N.K. before you speak or post anything online. A coloring contest was held and winners were Samara Fedor and Savannah Daugherty.

The woman was showing them around a parsonage where the Rev. Martin Luther King had lived, near the Montgomery, Alabama, church King pastored in the mid- to late 1950s.