🌱 How you can support Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Ashland.
Ashland, Ohio Patch AM: a 4 min readHello Ashland! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How you can support Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Ashland.
- How Ashland’s foster-care ministry is changing children’s lives after 10 years
- New Coburn Gallery exhibition opens soon on College Avenue.
Also on today's calendar: Intro to Spanish and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 67 and low of 42 degrees.
- Sunday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 71, low: 47.
- Monday: Brilliant sunshine, with a high of 62 and low of 37 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. Ashland County Agencies Stand Together for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (ashlandcountypictures.com) — Ashland residents have several ways to support Domestic Violence Awareness Month, including a candlelight vigil at Ashland Corner Park on October 6 and a Speak Out event at Freer Field on October 14. Local law enforcement, prosecutors and advocates are uniting with Safe Haven’s memorial displays and activities to honor victims, uplift survivors and connect families with resources throughout October. 
2. A Community Opens Its Heart: Fostering Family Ministries Celebrates 10 Years of Helping Children Find Home (ashlandcountypictures.com) — Fostering Family Ministries, founded in Ashland County, just marked 10 years of supporting local foster, kinship and adoptive families with care teams, training and practical help. At a packed banquet in Ashland, community leaders honored the ministry’s impact, heard from a national foster-care advocate, and learned about new tools like a mobile app and expanded programs that will shape how Ashland-area residents can step up for vulnerable children.
3. Coburn Gallery hosting 'An Afterimage of a Myth Unraveling' exhibition from Oct. 8-31 (ashland.edu) — Art lovers in Ashland can visit Coburn Gallery at Ashland University for Michael Schmidt’s solo exhibition, "An Afterimage of a Myth Unraveling," running Oct. 8–31 with a free opening reception on Oct. 8. The show features time-focused, media-aware drawings and animations, and the gallery offers free admission with convenient weekday and weekend hours on College Avenue.
4. I-Team: Local case could lead to tougher penalties for animal abuse (fox8.com) — An animal abuse case in Ashland County, involving a local dog breeder now facing multiple misdemeanor charges, is fueling a push in Columbus to toughen Ohio’s penalties for sexual conduct with animals. Lawmakers are considering Senate Bill 393 to make such offenses felonies with possible prison time, while the Ashland case continues in court with another hearing set for mid-October.
5. Ashland University dedicates new Schar Plaza, honors benefactors of $20M donation – largest gift in university history (ashland.edu) — Ashland residents will see a transformed Ashland University campus thanks to a $20 million gift from Dwight and Martha Schar, funding major renovations to Amstutz, Jacobs and Andrews halls and the new Schar Plaza. The donation, part of $60 million in total support, upgrades student housing, beautifies campus spaces and strengthens academic and athletic programs right in the heart of Ashland.
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★ Featured events ★
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Other local events
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Intro to Spanish →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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Interview →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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Meeting →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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EFT →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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ABC 123 →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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October: Transformative Yoga with Lissa Lance →
Freer Home, 1260 Center Street, Ashland
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Emily Seymour, OOD →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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Nadia Solomon →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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Study →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
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Patio Smoke Social: Pierogies and Stogies →
Luna at The South Street Grille, 121 South Street, Ashland
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JHP Account Manager Meeting →
Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave, Ashland
9:30 am
Sunday October 4
Monday October 5
Tuesday October 6
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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