Fire safety in the workplace was the topic of this month’s Wyandot County Safety Council meeting, as area business representatives learned about prevention and had an opportunity to participate in a fire extinguisher demonstration.

The Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual steak fry for members and guests Wednesday at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. Two hundred members and guests attended the event that included music by Rusty Strings, of Delaware, and a meal catered by A & A Grocery.

The Wyandot County Safety Council’s next meeting will be a community forum on heroin in the local community.

FINDLAY — Recruitment is underway to enroll participants in the next small business development program offered by the Hardin Hancock Wyandot Putnam Community Action Commission.

Paul S. Hord, Upper Sandusky, was cited for failure to control early the morning of July 21 after a two-vehicle accident on Ohio 199 near U.S. 23.

Three Forest residents suffered minor injuries in two separate accidents Saturday on CH 53. According to a report from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office, Keith A. Walker, 43, was transported to Wyandot Memorial Hospital after a two-vehicle accident in Jackson Township late Saturday morning.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — When the yearly income tax figures came in for Riverdale Local Schools, Treasurer Jodie Ribley was pleasantly surprised. Ribley reported at Monday evening’s regular monthly board meeting that the income tax total had come in higher than anticipated.

Tom Connolly had wanted to walk across the Unites States ever since traveling from his native Connecticut to the West Coast in the early 1990s. After finishing his first independent film last year, the actor and comedian finally decided to try to make the 3,000-mile trek from near his home in Van Nuys, California to his native Windsor, Connecticut.

FINDLAY — State Wildlife Officer Nathan S. West has been assigned to Wyandot County, effective Sunday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A 2014 graduate of the Wildlife Academy, West has been serving with the ODNR Division of Wildlife as an at-large officer in southeast Ohio.

About 30 people attended a viewing of the documentary “Alive Inside,” which led to the start of Music & Memory programs in U.S. nursing facilities, on Monday at Trinity United Church of Christ.