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		<title>Dewey has neurotic fascination.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Emily,” Dewey said, “I have a confession to make to you. I don’t have a neurotic fascination with manure.” You don’t?” “No.” He kissed her again and they both smiled. “It’s my business. I supply fertilizer to people’s gardens. That’s what I do. When I told you I was in manure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major depressive episode causes financial struggles.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Thompson Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo Megan Riggs was just like many other people in their late twenties: bright, ambitious, and full of life. She earned Bachelor degrees in Forensic Science and Biology, with a minor in Chemistry. Riggs started working and building her career. In her spare time, she pursued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blissful spring evening great for walk.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles It was one of those blissful spring evenings when everything works out just right. Walking head-on to each other were two couples: Randy and Katie holding hands and moving east, and Dewey and Emily walking closely without actually touching, moving west. All four were smiling. There’s a magic about a spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is here, time for spring cleaning.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Thompson Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo Spring is officially here. That means it’s time for spring cleaning! People everywhere are shedding the effects of fall and winter. But what about dusting off your long-term financial plan, April is National Financial Literacy Month, the perfect time to spring into action when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family celebrates Ag Week with Ohio meal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate Ohio Ag Week (the second full week of March) at the Reese house, we made an all-Ohio meal. We used fresh eggs gathered from our own hens that day, bacon and ham from a hog we got from our neighbor, Snowville Creamery Milk from Pomeroy, Ohio and some cheese. The cheese came from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think tank coagulate at sale barn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Down at the sale barn Saturday, the think tank had coagulated there with coffees to go to celebrate spring. Doc and Dud had their dogs with them, while Bert and Dewey and Steve went stag. Dud tried to start a conversation, but the loudspeaker soon drove them outside, where they arrayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you need to know about disability benefits.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Thompson Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo Disability is something most people do not like to think about. But if you’re not able to work because you have a medical condition that is expected to last at least one year or result in death, you may be able to get Social Security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FFA BBQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FFA’s BBQ is March 25 Does half of a savory chicken or two flavorful pork chops sound like the start of a delicious meal? Add a baked potato, applesauce, dinner roll, a drink, and a cookie for dessert, and you have an entire mouth-watering meal. The Bellevue FFA will be hosting the Annual Chicken and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team building in the herd</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laura Nelson Preventing a “draft bust” in quarterback selection is the first step to build a winning team, says Pfizer Animal Health veterinarian Jason Osterstock. But the genetic epidemiologist isn’t talking about football or the gridiron; he’s analyzing sire selections for beef cattle herds. With cattlemen as general managers of the ranch team, their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverdale chapter has busy winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ag Answers Farmers looking to improve their operations will learn how to better evaluate their economic, agronomic and technological opportunities and challenges at the annual Top Farmer Crop Workshop in July at Purdue University. The July 9–11 workshop, in its 45th year, for the first time will be held in partnership with the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Farmers Crop workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ag Answers Farmers looking to improve their operations will learn how to better evaluate their economic, agronomic and technological opportunities and challenges at the annual Top Farmer Crop Workshop in July at Purdue University. The July 9–11 workshop, in its 45th year, for the first time will be held in partnership with the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeFranco reappointed bee inspector</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vicki D. Orians, Director Bee inspections available Joe DeFranco has been reappointed by the county commissioners to the position of bee inspector for Wyandot and serves in Hardin County also. Joe is assisted by his son Jonathan DeFranco and both can be contacted at 419–927-2906. Qualified bee inspectors are licensed by the Ohio Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TW scholarchips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS — Time Warner Cable Mid-Ohio is offering six, $2,000 scholarships to qualifying high-school graduates who intend to major in a field related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Candidates must be a graduating high-school senior with at least a 3.5 grade point average whose parent is a customer of Time Warner Cable Mid-Ohio, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Windy&quot; can not live without an audience.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Country Slim Randles Some of us live nicely without utilities and I’ve even heard of a teenager somewhere who doesn’t have a cell phone. But for Alphonse “Windy” Wilson, it’s quite impossible to live without an audience. There’s more than one benefit to being in that audience when Windy gets cranked up, too, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter egg hunt finds its roots in 1700&#039;s.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Thompson Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo Eggs have long been a symbol of new life in the spring. In America, the Easter egg hunt finds its roots in the 1700s when German immigrants brought the tradition to Pennsylvania. Today, the traditional egg hunt thrills children everywhere. We at Social Security would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safer produce program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CANFIELD — A program on preventing microbial contamination on fruit and vegetable farms takes place in Mahoning County on April 14. Hours are 1–4 p.m. at Mill Creek MetroParks Farm, McMahon Hall, 7574 Columbiana-Canfield Rd., Canfield. Good Agricultural Practices, or GAPS, for fruit and vegetable production are the focus. Experts from Ohio State University Extension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mohawk members attend conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dublin — Students from across Ohio attended the 212 degree Leadership Conference. The conference is an activity of the National FFA Organization sponsored by Syngenta, Crop Production Services and CSX Corporation as a special project of the National FFA Foundation. Emily Daniel, Kayla Draper, and Somer Freeman , members of the Mohawk FFA Chapter attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop to address herbicide-resistant weeks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ag Answers Purdue Extension experts will help corn growers plan for the 2012 growing season and address problems with herbicide-resistant weeds at a March 19 workshop in Danville. The 2012 Herbicide Resistant Weeds and Planning for the 2012 Corn Planting Season meeting will run from 9 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the Hendricks County [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm winter could bring early insects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AG Answers While the near-record warm winter will cause some insects to appear earlier than normal, whether the bugs negatively impact field crops will depend on spring weather, insect variety and planting dates, says an Ohio State University Extension entomologist. Insects such as the bean leaf beetle, corn flea beetle and alfalfa weevil will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drying laundry outside is refreshing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Amish Cook By Lovina Eicher The sun is shining brightly at 7:45 a.m. Looks like it will be a nice day to dry laundry outside. I do hope it will warm up as our thermometer shows 34 degrees. After having 80 degree weather this seems cold. We are leaving the propane lights on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Barn Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join barn enthusiasts, barn owners and maybe even a few barn “huggers” at Ohio’s only annual barn tour &#38; conference to be held in the Cuyahoga Valley of Summit County Ohio. Friday’s barn tour will visit several magnificent century barns and will also include lunch. Saturday’s barn conference will feature local historians, guest speakers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring on the pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bellevue High School FFA held its annual food drive on Feb. 27 through March 2. Cans and boxed goods were collected from high school students and faculty for an entire week. At the end of the week the food drive ended with an assembly and all the food collected was taken to the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community surging back to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A community that nearly disappeared is surging back to life. By Jeanette Ricker RFD Correspondent A once near dead crossroads has become a not so well kept secret. That is Planktown, located on SR 603 in Richland County. A small sign at the intersection of Planktown North Road and SR 603 marks the spot. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirement seems like a lifetime away for young workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Thompson Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo If you’re a young worker, retirement probably seems like a lifetime away. In fact, you may wonder if your contributions to Social Security, deducted from your paycheck, actually cover you for anything right now. The answer is yes, they do. And the time to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social security questions and answers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL Question: How many Social Security numbers have been issued since the program started? Answer: Since 1935, we have assigned more than 465 million Social Security numbers and each year we assign about 5.5 million new numbers. With approximately 1 billion combinations of the 9-digit Social Security number, the current system will provide us with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corn Institute holds  first policy summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago — Pam Horwitz, Executive Director of the American Corn Growers Institute for Public Policy today lauded the successful accomplishment of the first summit meeting held in Chicago last Friday. Following the meeting, a new slate of officers was elected to represent the Institute. Keith Dittrich, a corn farmer and longtime farm policy leader from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dairy producers reminded of MILC program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOUNT VERNON — Katie Mills, the Knox County Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director, reminds dairy producers of some important program eligibility requirements for payment under the Milk Income Loss Contract program (MILC). Mills says dairy prices may authorize potential MILC payments, but all dairy producers need to be aware of the program requirements should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Business and Lifestyle Network debuts on DISH Channel 232</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMAHA, NEB./NASHVILLE, TENN. — RURAL TV, the world’s first television network devoted to rural interests internationally, began broadcast operations debuting on DISH satellite TV channel 232 Feb. 15. This is Rural Media Group’s (RMG) second 24/7 television network building upon the success of RFD-TV, which recently celebrated its 11th year anniversary in serving the needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Science Review seeking stories from first 50 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becky Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS — As the Farm Science Review looks forward to its 50th farm show Sept. 18–20, show organizers want to get in contact with individuals who were in attendance at the early Reviews dating back as far as 1963 when it was held at Ohio State University’s Don Scott Field in Columbus. “Progress is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl scouts turn 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Potts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erin Thompson Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo March 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. It was on March 9, 1912 that Juliette Gordon Low made a phone call to her cousin and said, “I’ve got something for the girls … and we’re going to start it tonight.” A few [...]]]></description>
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