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Community Heroes Poster Contest
The City of Wadsworth Electric and Communication's Community Heroes poster contest will be accepting submissions until
Tuesday, March 31.
How to Enter the Contest 1. Wadsworth students can start by creating a poster about a community hero - whether their hero is one of their teachers, their soccer coach, a Scout leader, or anyone else! All they need to do is design a poster that creatively shows why their nominee is a #CommunityPoweredHero. The poster can be created on paper (e.g., with pen and paper) or online using software.
2. To be eligible for a #CommunityPoweredHero prize, students or their parents or caregiver can take a photo of the poster, then share it on a public Instagram or Twitter account using the contest hashtag #CommunityPoweredHero and tagging @CityofWadsworth. They should include a brief explanation that answers the question, "Why is this person your community hero?" Please note that submissions should not include any identifiable information (e.g., names, pictures) about children under the age of 13.
3. All submissions posted on Instagram and Twitter by 11:59 PM EST,
March 31, 2020, will be considered.
Judging and Prizes One winner from the community will receive a $50 electric bill credit and a Wadsworth gift basket.
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Auditor Kovack's Pet Drawing & Coloring Contest
Are your kids home during the COVID-19 crisis looking for activities to enjoy? From now until Monday, April 6, if your 5th grade or younger child draws a picture of your family pet, snap a photo and send it to our office!
To share some joy with the community during the Stay-at-Home Order, we will post them online. After April 6, our staff will pick one drawing to be awarded a prize with a $15 value to a local business (Brunswick - Scene 75, Medina - The Foundry, Wadsworth - Bidinger's ice cream).
Snap a photo of your drawings or coloring along with contact information, name, and age and send to khoffert-leja@medinaco.org.
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2020 Census
The 2020 Census will gather information from Mid-March to July 31, with the official Census Day being April 1. All information is confidential, protected by law and only used to produced statistics.
Census statistics impact our daily lives, informing important decisions about funding for services and infrastructure such as health care, senior centers, jobs, political representation, roads, schools and businesses. Most grant money is determined through population statistics. These statistics accurately determine how many representatives each state has in Congress and inform the redrawing of congressional district boundaries.
Personal information, including your address, gathered through the 2020 Census will not be shared with any level of law enforcement and can't be used against you. The sole purpose of the Census is to provide up-to-date statistics. Visit
Census.gov to learn more about the 2020 Census.
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BLOOD DONATIONS STILL NEEDED!
As the coronavirus continues to impact our communities, we need your help in ensuring we maintain a strong blood supply to support hospital patient care in Ohio. Without groups continuing to host blood drives and blood donors continuing to give blood, we could see a severe blood shortage which could impact hospital patient care.
Many organizations are heeding the advice from leadership to cancel public events, and this has led to a staggering number of scheduled Red Cross blood drives being canceled as well. To date, more than 1500 blood drives representing 46,000 blood donations have been canceled in the U.S. due to coronavirus concerns. In Northern Ohio alone, we have canceled 135 blood drives resulting in over 4000 fewer blood donations.
In the face of coronavirus fears, we need your help to communicate two vital messages to the public:
- Groups that have an upcoming scheduled blood drive should keep their blood drive on their schedule and not cancel it, which will allow donors to give blood.
- More healthy donors are needed to give now to prevent a blood shortage. Donating blood is a safe process and people should not be concerned about giving or receiving blood during this challenging time.
- As an emergency preparedness organization, the Red Cross has also taken additional steps to ensure the safety of staff and donors at each Red Cross blood drive.
- The Red Cross only collects blood from individuals who are healthy and feeling well at the time of donation - and who meet other eligibility requirements, available at RedCrossBlood.org.
- We are now pre-screening all individuals by checking their temperature before they enter any Red Cross blood drive or donation center, including our own staff and volunteers.
- At each blood drive and donation center, Red Cross employees follow thorough safety protocols including wearing gloves, routinely wiping down donor-touched areas, using sterile collection sets for every donation, and preparing the arm for donation with an aseptic scrub.
- Additional spacing has been implemented within each blood drive set up to incorporate social distancing measures between donation beds and stations within the blood drive.
These mitigation measures will help ensure blood recipient safety, as well as staff and donor safety in reducing contact with those who may potentially have this respiratory infection.
Those who are not feeling well should wait for 28 days before attempting to give blood. Additional donor eligibility travel restrictions have been implemented as well.
We're asking the American people to help keep the blood supply stable during this challenging time, and we are asking you as Mayor to help communicate this critical need.
Those who are healthy, feeling well and eligible to give blood or platelets, are urged to make an appointment to donate as soon as possible by using the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
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Care is Available!
The services at Alternative Paths are now being provided by telehealth. Mental health and addiction treatment is now available through telehealth for new and current clients.
Info or call 330-725-9195.
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2020 Auditor Kovack's Citizenship Scholarship
The Medina County Auditor's
$500 Citizenship Scholarship is awarded to one senior each at Brunswick and Wadsworth High Schools. ELIGIBILITY: Must be a 2020 Brunswick High School or Wadsworth High School graduate with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better
and reside in the Brunswick City School District or Wadsworth City School District.
Plan on attending a two or four-year degree program from an accredited community,
state or private college or university.
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American Association of University Women Medina County Scholarship Opportunity
The Medina County Branch of the American Association of University Women is accepting applications for two $1500.00 scholarships to be given to a "non-traditional" woman undergraduate student who is attending an accredited college or university.
This applies to the 2020-2021 academic year and applicants must be a resident of Medina County.
Applications are available through The Akron Community Foundation at www.akroncf.org/Students. For more information email Jill Morton, Scholarship Committee Chairperson at jillmorton@zoominternet.net
Completed Applications must be submitted by Friday, April 16, 2020.
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