The Wyandot County Department of Job and Family Services hosted its annual foster-parent appreciation banquet Thursday evening at East of Chicago Pizza. Eight parents were recognized for being foster parents, with a couple that previously has been featured in The Daily Chief-Union for National Adoption Month receiving the 2015 foster parent of the year award.

Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church hosted its annual dinner theater Saturday night with more than 350 spectators in attendance to help raise funds to offset the cost of junior high and high school mission trips over the summer.

CAREY — Two 16-year-old Carey boys were transported to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Hospital, Toledo, on Friday afternoon after a motor vehicle accident on CH 29 near Ohio 199.

On Sunday morning, some breakfasts may be served in bed, bouquets of flowers and special homemade crafts may be proudly presented and restaurants may be unusually busy in celebration of one special woman. Most people call her “Mom.”

The body of an Upper Sandusky man reported missing Wednesday was found around 4 p.m. Thursday in the city’s reservoir after a day-long search by the local water rescue unit.

Memorials scattered throughout the county pay tribute to some of the approximately 2,000 Wyandot County men who enlisted to serve in the Union Army during the five years of the Civil War, local historian and museum curator Ron Marvin Jr. said during a program Thursday at the Wyandot County Museum.

A longtime St. Peter School teacher is being honored with the prestigious Golden Apple award by the Toledo Diocese for contributions to the school and community. Amy Flaherty has taught third grade at St. Peter School for 32 years, guiding multiple generations of families at the kindergarten through sixth-grade Catholic school in Upper Sandusky.

CAREY — The Carey Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed a new executive director at the beginning of this month after the retirement of longtime Carey businessman and chamber supporter Ron Dunn.

Winnifred, played by Upper Sandusky Middle School sixth-grader Lexi Ricker (front, right), sings “Shy” while an unhappy Queen Aggravain, portrayed by Olivia Walter (seated), shows disapproval for her son’s choice of a bride in a production of “Once Upon a Mattress” on Tuesday.