BUCYRUS — Friends, guests and board members of Harvey School brought an afternoon with informal activities to the building that has been restored and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Candles were in the windows at the one-room school Sunday, and the school bell rang several times.

CRESTLINE — Guest presenter Erin D’Ettorre will share a program on crystals and gemstones at 6:30 p.m. today at Lowe-Volk Park, 2401 Ohio 598, Crestline. D’Ettorre has collected rocks, minerals and gemstones throughout North America.

FREMONT — Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers in Fremont will offer a paramedic program starting April 6. The program will be from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and there still is time to enroll.

CRESTLINE — The Colonel Crawford Lions Club and the Friends of the Crawford Park District will host recycling from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Lowe-Volk Park Nature Center, located at 2401 Ohio 598, Crestline. Volunteers will not be present to assist.

Warpole Chapter No. 366 Order of the Eastern Star recently met at the Masonic Center in Upper Sandusky. Worthy matron Roberta Ekleberry welcomed 34 members with a reading of “A Different Christmas Poem,” which also was a Christmas tribute to military members.

SYCAMORE — Sycamore United Church of Christ will host a blue Christmas service at 7 p.m. Dec. 21. Also known as the “longest night” service, blue Christmas worship offers an opportunity for people who have lost loved ones to pray and hear scripture and music.

FOREST — One Voice gospel country group will perform at at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Forest United Methodist Church. The church is located at 111 E. Dixon St.

A Christmas home tour will be offered from 4-8 p.m. Dec. 20 to benefit Recognizing and Enriching All Children or REACH, which offers classes in a variety of topics for youth on Saturday mornings in April. Area residents are invited to tour three Upper Sandusky homes and two Lutheran churches that will be decorated for the Christmas season during the home tour.

The Upper Sandusky Rotary Club hosted its first pancake breakfast as part of Home for the Holidays on Saturday, with a “huge crowd” turning out for breakfast and entertainment by a dance school and the Findlay cheerleaders, according to a press release from the Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce.

FREMONT — Vanguard-Sentinel Career & Technology Centers in Fremont will offer a paramedic program starting April 6. The program will be from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and there still is time to enroll.