Ohio's Oct.
Unemployment Rates
Ohio's unemployment rate was 9.9 percent in October, down slightly from 10.0 percent in September. The U.S. unemployment rate for October was 9.6 percent. In the Region:
Hocking: 10.1%
Meigs: 13.5%
Monroe: 13.0%
Morgan: 12.5%
Noble: 13.4%
Perry: 11.7%
Wash.: 8.3%
Meetings of Note:
District 18 Ohio Public Works Commission
Small Government Meeting: Dec. 15 at 10 a.m. - Holiday Inn, Marietta
Buckeye Hills Honored
The Washington County Ohio State University Extension Office recently honored Buckeye Hills with a Key Supporter Award for work with its Community Development area.
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 Buckeye Hills Launches bhgis Program
Does your community have to rely on antique maps stored in tubes or the memories of key municipal or county staff as the resource for its critical infrastructure data? If you wish to get the details of your water, sewer, storm sewer, or other local utility data "out of the head" of employees and into a technology-based, user-friendly system for future use and prosperity, please read on!
Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District has been providing digital mapping (GIS) services to its eight-county region (Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Perry and Washington Counties) since the mid-1990s. Customized maps and data created by Buckeye Hills have been used to complete funding applications, studies, and countless other projects.
This high accuracy local data is becoming increasingly critical to a community's ability to secure grant funding from most state and federal programs. Potential business and industry site selectors are seeking this type of data as well.
Thanks to its GIS program, local governments have access to a wide variety of national, regional, state, and local GIS data, as well as Census and other information housed at the Buckeye Hills Data Center. GIS provides the valuable service of mapping a community's key infrastructures.
A new Community GIS Program - bhgis-is being made possible through grants from the Economic Development Association and The Appalachian Regional Commission. The Goal: To provide basic GPS data collection and custom GIS mapping services to communities with a population of fewer than 5,000 residents.
The program now makes these valuable GIS services available to the region's smaller communities in an affordable fashion. The first five eligible communities who respond will receive the bhgis program services. To learn more, please contact Bret Allphin, GIS Manager, at 740-374-9436. |
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Around the District:
 Washington County: Marietta Memorial Hospital Expansion Breaks Ground in Belpre
The Health Bridge Medical Park in Belpre was the scene of a groundbreaking celebration in November for the $12 million Marietta Memorial Hospital expansion. The Belpre facilities have seen a lot of growth over the past six years.
The expansion will include a 50,000-square-foot two-story building addition that will include urgent care facilities, an expansion of the current Strecker Cancer Center and physicians' offices.
Belpre Mayor Mike Lorentz said this project will change the footprint of Belpre with the expected growth of the now relatively open area.
Hocking County: Owner of Southeastern Ohio Home Health Receives Award
Ruby Hartley, owner of Southeastern Ohio Home Health, was a local Ohio women business owners recognized by The Ohio Department of Development for her achievements.
From the time her business first began in May 2008, her business has grown to include 40 employees who provide home health care to clients, and has reached annual revenues in excess of $250,000.
"We provide skilled nursing services, home health aid service, physical therapy and occupational therapy," Hartley explained of her business. "We're a home health agency and we provide care in patients' homes. We are basically enabling them to stay in their home. Typically, they're not all necessarily homebound, but they often are, and we enable them to keep their independence in their home and not go to assisted living." The 2010 Keys of Success Awards event is sponsored by the Ohio Department of Development's Entrepreneurship and Small Business Division, the Ohio Small Business Development Centers, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Central Ohio Women's Business Center, Key4Women/KeyBank, COSTCO, and The Women's Book | |
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 Save the Date for Choices Expo 2011: Nov. 9!
AAA8 thanks all of the 2010 Choices Expo partners for their support in making the event a success! We appreciate the more than 50 sponsors and exhibitors taking time to exhibit and share your services with the nearly 350 seniors, caregivers and providers attending the event, now in its fourth year.
Your continued support helps AAA8 make the event possible. We would especially like to thank this year's Expo Sponsors including Title Sponsor Results Radio for its pre-event promotion and on-site live remote! Special thanks also to The Marietta Times who supported the event with pre-event promotion and the Choices Expo Special insert.
Title Sponsor: Results Radio
Gold Sponsors: · Health Care Plus · Interim Healthcare of Zanesville · Marietta Times · Memorial Health System · Ohio Valley Home Health · United Seniors of Athens County
Silver Sponsors: · Fosterbridge Homemaker Services · Interim Healthcare of Lancaster · Settlers Bank
Bronze Sponsors: · Arcadia Nursing Center· Camden Clark Memorial Hospital Lifetime Partners· Interim Healthcare of Southeast Ohio · Keim Financial Services
Exhibiting at the Expo this year was The Home Healthcare Provider Co-op. Shown are Angela Robinson of Valley Home Care Solutions and Rebecca Jenei of Genesis.To learn more about the Co-op, visit www.hhpc.biz.
Know a Senior Citizen Who Needs to Save Money in Their Monthly Budget? Ask Them to Call AAA8:
1-800-331-2644
The "extra help" can save an average of $325 a month on costs associated with prescriptions. Many people in our rural region qualify for these big savings and don't know it! Application assistance and program details are available at AAA8 by calling 1-800-331-2644. Details are also available at www.areaagency8.org.
AAA8 can help low-income seniors potentially find money in their monthly budgets with programs like Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) and the Medicare "Extra Help" prescription program.
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Happy Holidays!
Executive Director Misty Casto and the staff at Buckeye Hills-HVRDD, wish you
a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to serving you and the residents across our
8-county region in 2011 and beyond! |
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