Galion city health commissioner resigns
GALION The City of Galion will be seeking a new health commissioner.
Mayor Tom O’Leary, chairperson of the board of health, said Galion City Health Department Commissioner Trish Factor submitted a letter of resignation to the board of health during its meeting on Tuesday, April 13. Her resignation is effective May 10, O’Leary said.
Factor has served as Galion health commissioner since March 2015. Prior to joining the Galion City Health Department, Factor served as the public health accreditation coordinator for the Wood County Health District. She worked for seven years as an emergency response planner for the Wood, Crawford, and Seneca health departments. Her professional background includes working as a health educator/disaster planner for the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.
Minnesota students walkout of classrooms to protest racial injustice They’re killing us, they’re killing the young people, they’re killing the future of this country.
Minnesota walked out of class on Monday in a state-wide protest against racial injustice.
The event was organized by Minnesota Teen Activists, and students from at least 118 high schools reportedly participated in the walkout. According to the
New York Times, the students demanded school leaders end their “silence over racial injustice.”
The coordinated action was in response to the police killings of
George Floyd and
Daunte Wright, a 20-year old Black man who was fatally shot last week in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
Community Roundup: Steward received Exchange Club honor
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Steward receives Exchange Club honor
FREMONT - The Exchange Club of Fremont presented its Accepting the Challenge of Excellence Award to Tylan Steward, who attends Vanguard Tech Center and is in the Welding Program.
The A.C.E. Award honors a student who, despite tremendous adversity, has stayed on track toward a high school diploma.
Trinity UMC plans Memorial Day Service
LINDSEY - The Trinity United Methodist Church Memorial Day Committee invites the church family and the Lindsey area community to honor, celebrate and remember its members who have served our country and our community.
An Ohio author spoke to Delaware Online Academy students Friday and used the story of getting his book published to encourage students to work hard and be
The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing produced 59 recommendations, following testimony from 140 witnesses.
“Building trust and legitimacy on both sides of the police-citizen divide is not only the first pillar of this task force’s report but also the foundational principle underlying this inquiry into the nature of the relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve,” the study group concluded.
Just six years later, the findings in what was then regarded as a landmark analysis of modern policing have been obscured in a new wave of deadly actions that have renewed calls for re-examining American law enforcement.