The Plain City Lions Club now has the 2011 Entertainments Books on sale for $25. These books contain hundreds of 50% off and 2-for-1 coupons for things you do every day: dining, groceries, shopping, movie tickets, travel, special attractions, and much, much more. The books contain coupons that provide over $16,000 in savings. And while you are saving, you are also helping the Lions Club with this yearly fundraiser.

Buy your books now at the Hardware Store, here at Plain City Druggist, Plain City Chiropractic, Advanced Eyecare, Miller Family Chiropractic, and Schrock Automotive. These books make excellent gifts and with Christmas less than four months away, it is never too soon to begin shopping.

Anna, our August pharmacy student, is now doing a rotation with the Ohio Pharmacist’s Association (OPA). She will return in April 2011 to Plain City Druggist and has promised Veronica Taylor that she will attend the Lion’s Club Auction during her spring rotation with us.

One way that we always knew Anna was around was by her happy whistle in the compounding lab. I told her before she left that we were going to miss hearing her lively whistled tunes. She assured me that our next student, Jimmy Byun, was even happier than she was.

When I told Jimmy what Anna had said about him on his first day, he said she had set the bar too high for him and now he would feel like he had to dance around the compounding lab. As you can see from the photos, Jimmy is so happy to be at Plain City Druggist, he is dancing (Jimmy even told Anna that he would be dancing this month).

Jimmy is a fourth year pharmacy student at The Ohio State University. He will graduate next year and soon after will be a “two-stepping” pharmacist.

Jimmy didn’t always have a future so good that it made him want to dance.

Jimmy came to the United States from South Korea in 2000 when he was only 19. His family had no money and no idea what they were going to do. Jimmy enrolled at Ohio State and ten long years later is about to embark on a career where he will not have the same worries he came to the United States with.

Please welcome Jimmy to Plain City Druggist. He will be with us the whole month of September and again next March. If his career in pharmacy gets too boring, we know there is always a job for him at Radio City Music Hall (we hear the Rockettes are looking to add a pharmacist to their line up).

By the way, how does Joe get all of these students to perform with such style? Whatever his secret is, it helped him get Preceptor of the Year!

I had an email from Chris Long at the library and this program has been cancelled due to lack of reservations. Joe and I have to be out of town this day or we would have attended. I think this sounds like such an excellent event that I am so sorry more people did not email or call for a reservation. Perhaps if everyone inundated Chris with interest in this, the library might be persuaded to put this back on the schedule. Want to give it a try? Then email Chris at clong@plaincitylib.org or call her at 614-873-4912, ext. 23.

The Plain City Public Library will be hosting a program, “From the Harvest to the Table,” on Saturday, September 11 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm to celebrate locally grown foods. A Plain City area culinary arts student, Nathan Endres, will prepare a sampling of appetizers and desserts, all made with fresh, locally grown ingredients. Some of the ingredients will even come from the library’s own garden! Those that do not come from the library garden will be recognized in a booklet the library is preparing that will list local growers and ingredients.

If the weather cooperates, the event will take place in the library’s garden with the sounds of woodwinds and string instruments vibrating in the evening air thanks to the musical talents of Classical Sounds. As you listen to relaxing classical music and nibble on Plain City fruits and vegetables, combined in creative culinary concoctions, you can also stroll through the Library Garden Project.

The Library Garden Project was funded by a grant from the State Library of Ohio. While you are being entertained, you can also learn about the vegetables, native plants, and the smart irrigation system that helps the plants in the garden flourish. Additionally, you can meet Hope, the horse topiary, and her other animal topiary friends (among my favorites are the pigs and the rooster).

A donation of $10 per person for this evening is appreciated to allow the Plain City Public Library to raise funds for other exciting programs (we have the best library around!).

Reservations are required as space is limited. You can contact Chris Long at 614-873-4912, ext. 23 or via email at clong@plaincitylib.org for more info or to reserve you spot at this tempting event.

To read more about this program or print out a flyer to post (I encourage you to post this and send it along to others), click on the link below:

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The motto is: “Don’t just go to church. BE the Church.” And on Sunday, September 5, that is exactly what the twenty-one churches of the Plain City Church Fellowship are asking their congregations and the Plain City community to do. Be the Church. Many of the churches are canceling their services to instead carry out charitable activities within Plain City and the surrounding areas.

If you would like to get involved, you can gather with other participants in Pastime Park in Plain City at 8:30 am on Sunday, September 5. There will be a brief period of worship and prayer and then participants will spread throughout Plain City to partake in service projects. The American Red Cross Blood Drive mobile unit will be in the park for the day. There will also be “Neighborhood Festivals” in Green Meadows trailer park, Canaan Community trailer park, and Pastime Park.

After completing a day of “being the face of the church,” participants will gather in Pastime Park to share a meal and celebrate the day.

To find out more and read the complete list of projects, visit: Be the Church 2010