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FORT JENNINGS — Fort Jennings is now a Purple Heart Village. Council approved a proclamation Tuesday noting the village as such with Aug. 7 designated as Purple Heart Day. Plans for celebrating are still underway. Mayor Jim Smith said the actual events in observance of Purple Heart Day will take place during the village’s annual celebration later in August.

The new sanitary sewer line project at Fort Jenning Park, which will also be run to the new restroom facility, will get underway soon. Smith said a pre-construction meeting between engineers and the contractor was held and work should begin as soon as weather permits and floodwaters recede in the park.

The village received a 50/50 match grant for $24,428 from the Ohio Public Works Commission State Capital Improvement program. The project’s estimated cost is $42,525.

A sanitary sewer line will be installed from Second Street north of Fort Jennings State Bank to and under the Auglaize River and to the Fort Jennings Park Board recreation building at the west entrance of the park.