The Wyandot County Young Professionals on Friday presented a $700 check to founding members of the Upper Sandusky Younger Professionals. The USYP was established to create an organization that offers a readily available opportunity for students attending high school who want to partake in activities related to the pursuit of a career.

TIFFIN — Put-in-Bay in the far north of the Seneca/Wyandot/Put-in-Bay/Sandusky/Crawford High School Quiz Bowl League territory, Buckeye Central in the south and St. Wendelin in the west hosted the matches opening the League’s 2016-17 regular season Sept. 20.

Upper Sandusky Warpole Chapter No. 366 was named an outstanding chapter at the Sept. 24 statewide meeting of the Grand Chapter of Ohio Order of the Eastern Star in Dayton. The award recognizes chapter excellence in the areas of charity and community service, chapter social activities, performance of chapter officers and communications.

United Way of Wyandot County’s annual campaign kicked off Sept. 22 at Lincoln Hills Golf Club. Four-person teams participated in the celebration, which started at 2 p.m. with a nine-hole scramble.

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM — A 2014 Upper Sandusky High School graduate and Upper Sandusky native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard a guided-missile destroyer, the USS Michael Murphy. Petty Officer 3rd Class Kieran Robertson is a boatswain’s mate aboard the forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer operating out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

Jean Moon, president of the Wyandot Tracers chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, recently opened the September meeting with eight members in attendance at the Upper Sandusky Community Library. The John Stewart 1816-2016 bicentennial observation schedule of events was distributed.

UF welcomes new students to campus FINDLAY — The University of Findlay recently welcomed new undergraduate and graduate students to campus for fall 2016.

Wynford students (from left) Bryke Williams, Chaase Schoonover, Kaden Dunford and Clay Easterday have been named Royal Leaders for the month of September based on the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey.

BUCYRUS — All former football players who graduated from Wynford High School are invited to the agriculture education shop at WHS at 6 p.m. Friday for a free meal. Mini chops, coleslaw, chips and pop will be served.

The Wellness Center at Wyandot Memorial Hospital will offer its Living with Diabetes course to diabetics and their support persons from 5-8:30 p.m. Oct. 19-20 in the Bowman and Kirkland conference rooms on the hospital’s lower level.