TV's Go Digital...Eventually

AP Reports:
NEW YORK (AP) — Though hundreds of TV stations are turning off their analog signals next week, households in line for their $40 coupons for digital converter boxes are likely to have to wait at least several weeks longer. The fund that subsidizes the coupons has reached its authorized limit. It's still sending out around 100,000 coupons a day as older coupons expire unused, but there's a wait list of 4 million coupons. At that rate, it would take the National Telecommunications and Information Administration about two months to process coupon requests made today.

If you or someone you know is having an issue with the digital television conversion, please drop us a line at daveS@news-banner.com

Looking for local bee keepers!

Indiana Beekeepers school on February 28:
The Indiana Beekeepers' Association will hold its Indiana Bee School VII in Indianapolis Saturday, Feb. 28 at Southport Presbyterian Church at 7525 McFarland Blvd.
Randy Oliver, a commercial migratory beekeeper from Grass Valley, Calif. will be the keynote speaker. He writes for Bee Culture and American Bee Journal and maintains the website: www.scientificbeekeeping.com.
There will be four breakout sessions with each session having five different topics to choose from including introductory beekeeping tools and techniques as well as learning opportunities for the more advanced beekeeper.
There will be a raffle, an auction and vendor displays.
On-site registration begins at 8 a.m. The program will start at 9 a.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. Registration fee is $25 per person or $35 per family with lunch included. To guarantee a spot register by Feb. 20, 2009 by calling 317-485-5593 or email: jsdoty@indy.net or www.indianabeekeeper.goshen.edu.

(If you or someone you know is a bee keeper, thinking about being a bee keeper, or just plain gonna go to the beekeepers school in Indidnapolis for kicks, please let me know. I would love to talk with them. --jb)

CIA in Bluffton

For 15 years Ralph Garcia worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) based in Langley, Va. He saw more of the world than most have seen, spending time on “most continents” as he puts it.
Read Frank Shanly's story on Garcia and the CIA in this weeks News-Banner.

Wells County Spelling Bee Showdown!!

Ok, it's taken me longer than anticipated to sort through all the video I shot, but here it is: The showdown for runner-up.

NWCS AIDS ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING

The AIDS Advisory Council of Northern Wells Community Schools will meet Tuesday, February 24, 2009, from 5 to 5:30 p.m. in the school corporation board room at 312 North Jefferson Street in Ossian.
This is a public meeting where members of the community have the opportunity to comment on the corporation’s current AIDS instruction.

Covenant Christian Spelling Bee winner

Covenant Christian School spelling bee winner was eighth grader, Jonathon Stuech, who competed Friday in the Wells County Spelling Bee. Runner up was seventh grader, Jonse Hatfield.

Food Check-Out Week Feb. 15 to 21

(Center) Connie Kaehr, food bank coordinator, accepts a $400 check from Wells County Farm Bureau board member, Mike Fiechter, and Shari Fiechter in honor of Farm Bureau’s Food Check-Out Week, February 15 to 21, devoted to helping teach Americans how to stretch their grocery dollars with healthy, nutritious food. (Submitted Photo)