Monthly Archives: March 2001
Teaching children financial lessons
In Dr. John Whitcomb's Capitate Your Kids, a guide to teaching teens financial independence, he suggests parents make a contract with their kids - and keep it.
Sound off on pool raiding
Write rather than call the Federal Order 33 market administrator.
Pork producer supports checkoff
A local pork producer take the opportunity to share a few facts about the recent settlement agreement reached between the USDA and the National Pork Producers Council.
Politics, not producers, steering agriculture
A reader stresses that agriculture is no longer a profession of farmers. It is a government institution fraught with bureaucrats, lobbyists and all the mud and muck of politics.
Planning important: Summer camp can be an adventure
Separation is a part of growing up. Camp can be an opportunity to give a child independence in safe, structured surroundings with caring adults.
Olde Tyme Horse traders Fair offers chance for buying trading or selling
The second annual Olde Tyme Horse Trader's Fair will be held April 28 at the Washington County Fairgrounds.
Ohio Historical Society offers genealogy classes
The Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library and the Franklin County Genealogical and Historical Society offer a geneology workshop series focusing on discovering family history.
Ohio farmers seek federal action
Ohio Farmers Union members who met with Ohio Congress members to discuss the Farmers Union's new legislative proposal.
New view of public education
Ohio State University President William E. Kirwan proposes a new education paradigm that views public education as one seamless system that begins with pre-school and continues through graduate school.
Movie plots abuse scientific facts
Movies do not give a very realistic picture of how science is done or why says an assistant professor of biology at James Madison University who teaches a general science course, "Biology in the Movies."
