The Coshocton County Beacon July 1, 2020 | Page 2

2 • The Beacon July 1, 2020 226 Main Street Coshocton, Ohio 43812 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM NEWS/EDITORIAL DEADLINE THURSDAY AT NOON PROOF/AUCTION AD DEADLINE THURSDAY AT NOON DISPLAY AD DEADLINE FRIDAY AT NOON Call 220-201-9679 CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE FRIDAY AT 11 AM Call 740-622-4237 All deadlines subject to change for holidays. PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT THE COSHOCTON COUNTY BEACON is published weekly by AloNovus Corp., 226 Main Street, Coshocton, OH 43812. All rights reserved by AloNovus Corp. AloNovus Corp. does not necessarily support the opinion of writers. Mailed at Periodicals Postage Pricing Permit No. 25408 at Coshocton, OH, 43812. Postmaster, send address changes to The Coshocton County Beacon, 226 Main Street, Coshocton, OH 43812. Address changes may be sent via email to addresschange@ coshoctoncountybeacon.com. To request free in-county delivery of The Coshocton County Beacon, visit our office at 226 Main Street in Towne Centre, Coshocton to fill out a requestor card. You can also request free in-county delivery of The Beacon online at www.iwantmybeacon.com. MARK FORTUNE PUBLISHER [email protected] JOSIE SELLERS EDITOR [email protected] NANCY FORTUNE CIRCULATION [email protected] Follow us on Facebook The Beacon is published by AloNovus Corp. © Copyright 2020 BF-00471218 Coshocton Foundation awards nine grants The distribution committee of the Coshocton Foundation had its second meeting of fiscal year 2020 recently and awarded nine grants totaling $53,868.44 to several community organizations. The grants include $15,935 to the Coshocton City and County Park District for upgrades to the softball building and district office deck replacement with handicap ramp and designated parking; $8,000 to the Coshocton Opportunity School for Chromebooks for students without computer access at home; $8,000 to the Village of Warsaw for repairs, resurfacing and repainting of River View Community Pools at Warsaw Park; $5,749 to the Roscoe Village Foundation Inc. for equipment to be used in an archival digitization and storage project for historic photographs and documents; $5,000 to River View athletic boosters for the rental fee for the River View swim team to utilize the CHS pool; $4,790 to the Muskingum Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America for additional cleaning and sanitation supplies to help ensure camper safety during the COVID-19 pandemic; $3,250 to Rural Action for the Greater Walhonding Conservation Alliance Project outreach and education to Coshocton County residents about Walhonding River and its diverse biology; $1,644.44 to Coshocton City Schools for 10 automatic external defibrillator cabinets and first-aid kits; and $1,500 to the Coshocton County Fatherhood Initiative to support fathers’ interactions with families with a virtual all-county breakfast during the COVID-19 pandemic. The foundation’s distribution committee will hold its final meeting for fiscal year 2020 in September with a grant application deadline likely to be in mid- to late-August. The committee still has a healthy budget remaining and encourages all qualifying organizations with worthy projects to apply. For more information visit www.coshoctonfoundation.org. New storybook trail now open at Dillon State Park A new storybook trail is now open at Dillon State Park, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Storybook trails present children’s books in a series of child-height panels to blend the fun of outdoor exploration with reading. “Visiting a storybook trail is a great opportunity for families to enjoy learning in the outdoors together,” ODNR director Mary Mertz said. “Kids of all ages will find fun and interactive ways to engage with these stories, all while discovering more about conservation and the natural world.” The new storybook trail at Dillon can be found along the Black Locust Trail, near the ball courts and beach area, and currently features the book, “Miss Maple’s Seeds,” by Eliza Wheeler. In this story the tiny but mighty Miss Maple adopts orphan seeds and cares for them in her maple tree all year until they can be planted in spring. Each colorful story panel along the half-mile paved trail is accompanied by fun facts, nature clues and activities. Trail-side panels encourage readers to make acorn cap whistles, dance like seeds on the wind or share their own stories of planting seeds. A Little Free Library complements the trail, and visitors can borrow books for free or donate books to the collection. All books for the trail’s opening were provided by School Rocks Party Box and Ali Michaels, a 10-year-old from Chapman Elementary School in Dublin. ODNR launched the storybook trail program in 2019 to promote the importance of literacy, a healthy lifestyle and connecting with nature. In addition to the program’s first trail at Alum Creek State Park and now Dillon, ODNR recently opened three more trails at John Bryan, Maumee Bay and Wingfoot state parks for a total of five storybook trails across the state. This year ODNR partnered with the Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to provide story content for several trails and raise awareness of these resources for Ohio families. The Imagination Library provides one free book each month to children enrolled in the program from birth to age 5. To learn more about the program and how to participate, visit www.ohioimaginationlibrary.org. BF-00483635 Court Square Realty & Auction, Inc. Phil Covic | 740.502.7998 Broker and Owner YES 404 MAIN ST. COSHOCTON 740-622-3731 • www.wesellcoshocton.com