Ash Wednesday kicked off the 2019 Lenten season and the annual Men’s Lenten Luncheons at First Evangelical Lutheran Church. This year there are several great speakers on tap with community-minded topics.

Lenten luncheons for Wyandot County women will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church, located at 318 W. Wyandot Ave., Upper Sandusky. The luncheons will be noon to 1 p.m. A $4 donation is suggested and a nursery will be provided. Mothers are asked to feed their children before they come.

FINDLAY — University of Findlay Counseling Services, in collaboration with Hancock County Community Partnership, will host a free public suicide prevention session at 4 p.m. March 20 in the Winebrenner Building’s TLB Auditorium. No registration is required.

FINDLAY — Blanchard Valley Health System has added advanced technology that will differentiate between essential tremor and parkinsonian syndromes, among other conditions. DaTscan is a radioactive injection into the patient’s bloodstream to help take pictures of areas of the brain with a special camera called a single-photon emission computed tomography camera.

FREMONT — Mohawk student Ericka Hummel was among Sentinel Career and Technology Center’s first-place finishers in the Educators Rising state competition this weekend at Capital University in Columbus, qualifying her for the national competition in Dallas.

Carey resident takes part in UF theater production

The Knights of Columbus held its annual all-you-can eat pancake and sausage breakfast during the Catholic Schools Week open house at St. Peter School. The proceeds of the breakfast were donated to the school.

FINDLAY — A special drawing for youth interested in turkey hunting will be held March 23 at the Lake La Su An Wildlife Area headquarters, 9455 County Road R, Pioneer, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Youth age 17 and younger may participate.

The Wyandot Memorial Hospital Foundation will award five $1,000 scholarships this spring to Wyandot County residents planning careers in health care. Scholarship applications are available at the hospital’s information desk in the lobby and are due March 15.

FINDLAY — Any adult, group or conservation club who has an interest in taking kids fishing should consider becoming a certified Passport to Fishing instructor, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A certification course is being offered March 20 at the ODNR Division of Wildlife District Two Office, located at 952 Lima Ave., Findlay.