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Financing Resources for Small Businesses

SUBMITTED INFORMATION On SEPTEMBER 24, the Putnam County CIC will host “Financing Resources for Small Businesses”, a free workshop featuring state, regional and local financing professionals who will share information on business financing, loans and grants to start a business, grow an existing business, renovate a building, save energy costs, or purchase technology, machinery/equipment. Presenters include JobsOhio, the Ohio DepartmentofDevelopmentEntrepreneurship, Minority and Women Owned Business division, Small Business Development Center at Rhodes State College, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, CIFT Center for Innovative Food Technology, and Putnam County CIC.

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24 Fort Fes Preview

Every third weekend in August, the rural community of Fort Jennings, Ohio swells from a population of 500 to several thousand people who gather to celebrate our military history and our veterans. This three day event features unique exhibits from all over the United States This year’s feature display will be the GoldStars Tribute Wall TM. This traveling monument is dedicated to remembering the sacrifice of our fallen Veterans. On this wall, you will find seven-thousand stars, each with an individual name, each representing those who were killed while serving in Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Birthdays

Chandra Trenkamp Mallory Metcalfe Nicholas Grogg Eric Carder Whitney Landwehr James Shrader Dawn Maye Lucas Trentman Rick Boop Jr. Adrian Kimmett Arch Kious Leann Johnson Cody Warnecke Melissa Maye Sarah Lause Diane Speller Joan Risner Scott Vonderembse Lucy Wiltsie Trisha Haunhorst Aug.

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Reducing crop costs

With lower crop prices, many farmers are struggling to make ends meet. Corn is around $3.50 a and soybean $10/bushel, down from a high of $7 for Corn and $15 to $17 for soybeans/ bushel. Brazil crop production continues to drive crop prices lower as they expand acreage into the Amazon forest. To survive, farmers will need to cut costs. Here are tips on cutting crop production costs.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Allen County Delphos Bullinger, Patricia D/ Bullinger, Joseph/Swick, David A/Swick, Sheri to Vogt, Hayley/ Vogt, Eric, 1211 Joshua St., Delphos, $375,000 Howard, Alissa/Howard, Joshua to Johnson, Dequindra S, 445 S. Franklin St., Delphos, $110,300 Spieles Enterprises, LLC to Odyssey Operations, LLC, 465-475 Moxie Lane, Delphos, $355,700 ELIDA Bame, Julie Ann to Art, Kelli S/Art, Christopher J, 4688 Amaryllis St., Elida, $285,000 Strategic Investment Holdings, LLC to Freeman, John/Freeman, Amanda R, 702 Sunnydale St., Elida, $180,000 Spencerville Robey, Mark A/Robey, Sharon L to Krick, Sabrina R/ Bronson, Steven J, 415 E.

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