DID YOU MISS WEEC FOR AWHILE THIS MORNING? POWER WENT OUT HERE FOR OVER AN HOUR, BUT WE ARE GLAD TO BE BACK UP AND SHARING NEWS WITH YOU, AS WELL AS REFRESHING MUSIC AND PROGRAMMING THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON!
EMPTY BOWLS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY WILL HOLD THEIR FUNDRAISER FOR THE SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CLARK, CHAMPAIGN AND LOGAN COUNTIES AT 5PM ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH AT THE URBANA UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTER AND THEIR GOAL IS TO RAISE $14,000. THE FIRST YEAR THAT EMPTY BOWLS HAD THEIR FUNDRAISER THEY RAISED MORE THAN $13,000 FOR THE LOCAL FOOD PANTRIES. STUDENTS FROM URBANA UNIVERSITY AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS DESIGNED AND MADE ABOUT 700 BOWLS FOR THIS EVENT. THIS IS HOW IT WORKS…COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ATTEND CAN PURCHASE A MEAL FOR $15, WHICH INCLUDES SOUP AND BREAD DONATED BY SEVERAL AREA RESTAURANTS. RESIDENTS GET TO KEEP THEIR BOWL AT THE END OF THE MEAL, SAID DAVE FAULKNER, A PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR FOR CHAMPAIGN RESIDENTIAL SERVICES, INC, WHO HELPED ORGANIZE THE EVENT. THE SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CLARK, CHAMPAIGN AND LOGAN COUNTIES PROVIDES AID TO AGENCIES INCLUDING FOOD PANTRIES, SHELTERS AND SOUP KITCHENS. FOR MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN CALL 937/325-8715.
REPORTS OF COYOTES BEING NEAR HOMES HAVE INCREASED ACCORDING TO JEFF KRAZNARICH, OWNER OF MIAMI VALLEY WILDLIFE CONTROL. HE SAID HE GETS CALLS NEARLY EVERY DAY. HE ADVISES THAT PEOPLE SHOULD LEAVE COYOTES ALONE, BUT IF THEY ARE A NUISANCE, THEY SHOULD CALL A PEST CONTROL COMPANY OR REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL STATE WILDLIFE OFFICIAL. TO REPORT A PROBLEM WITH COYOTES, CONTACT THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF WILDLIFE AT 1/800/WILDLIFE. AN EXPERT FROM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WILL HOST AN INFORMATIONAL MEETING ABOUT COYOTES AT 2:30 SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 27TH AT AULLWOOD AUDUBON CENTER AND FARM, 1000 AULLWOOD ROAD IN DAYTON.
THE CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ARRESTED 23 YEAR OLD WILLIE RUSSELL ON A CHARGE OF FELONIOUS ASSAULT AND DISCHARGING A FIREARM INTO A HABITATION. AUTHORITIES SAY TWO MEN WERE FIGHTING IN A PARKING LOT ON HADDIX ROAD IN CLARK COUNTY FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN THE SUSPECT, IDENTIFIED AS RUSSELL, PULLED A GUN AND SHOT THE VICTIM, RICKY DELAWDER IN THE STOMACH. AUTHORITIES SAID THE FIGHT BEGAN AS A NEIGHBOR DISPUTE.
WORKERS AT KLOSTERMAN BAKERY IN SPRINGFIELD GOT QUITE A SURPRISE THIS MORNING! A PICKUP TRUCK CRASHED AFTER GOING THROUGH A RED LIGHT AND RAN INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE THIS MORNING, SENDING THE CAR DRIVEN BY AN 80 YEAR OLD WOMAN INTO THE KLOSTERMAN BUILDING. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP TRUCK WILL BE CITED ACCORDING TO SPRINGFIELD POLICE.
IN LEBANON, A STATE TROOPER NARROWLY MISSED BEING HIT BY A MAN INVOLVED IN A PURSUIT WITH LAW AUTHORITIES. HER CRUISER HOWEVER WAS STRUCK AND TROOPERS HAVE ARRESTED THE SUSPECT, 21 YEAR OLD TREVON BROOMFIELD OF DAYTON. REPORTEDLY BROOMFIELD STOLE A VEHICLE IN WESTCHESTER TOWNSHIP JUST BEFORE 10PM YESTERDAY. POLICE SPOTTED THE VEHICLE AND BEGAN FOLLOWING IT ONTO I-75. AFTER LEADING POLICE ONTO I-75, OFFICERS INITIATED A PURSUIT, WHICH ENDED WITH BROOMFIELD SLAMMING INTO THE REAR OF THE OHIO STATE PATROL CRUISER AND FLIPPING HIS CAR ON ITS TOP IN A WOODED AREA NEAR LEBANON. SPEEDS IN THIS CHASE WERE OVER 100 MPH. BROOMFIELD WAS EJECTED FROM HIS VEHICLE AND TRANSPORTED TO ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER IN MIDDLETOWN WHERE HE WAS LISTED IN SERIOUS CONDITION. THE STATE TROOPER HAD JUST THROWN DOWN STOP STICKS AND BACKED AWAY JUST IN TIME TO AVOID BEING HIT HERSELF WHEN BROOMFIELD SLAMMED HER CRUISER. THE CASE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND CHARGES ARE PENDING.
THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 19TH, THE WORLDWIDE MOM’S DAY OF PRAYER WILL HOST ITS FIRST “BLANKETING OUR NATION IN PRAYER” EVENT IN WASHINGTON D.C. IT WILL BE LED BY FOUNDER KATHY J. COLEMAN NAD MOTHERS WILL GATHER TOGETHER ON THE EAST CAPITOL GROUNDS OF THE NATION’S CAPITAL FROM 10AM-NOON TO PRAY FOR THE LEADERS, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF ALL 50 UNITED STATES. COLEMAN BELIEVES “IT’S TIME FOR MOMS TO DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND AND STAND UP AND PRAY FOR OUR NATION TO RETURN TO THE PRINCIPALS AND MORALS THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON.”
LET’S LOOK AT OUR WEATHER FORECAST. IT WILL BE CLOUDY TONIGHT AND LOWS WILL DROP TO 25 DEGREES. WE’LL SEE SOME SUNSHINE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, AS WELL AS ON SATURDAY WITH HIGHS PEAKING AT 36 DEGREES FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, THEN THINGS WARM A LITTLE AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO 43 ON SATURDAY. IT GETS COLD AGAIN ON SUNDAY AS HIGHS ONLY REACH 27 DEGREES AND OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL DIP TO 16. TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO GO DOWN ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH HIGHS ON MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY COMING IN NEAR 20 DEGREES AND OVERNIGHT LOWS DROPPING TO 10. TUESDAY’S HIGHS WILL COME IN AT 17 DEGREES. WE MIGHT SEE SOME SNOW ON MONDAY!
