Join the Ottawa River Kleanup Association Inc. (ORKA) at Cullen Park and the islands on Saturday, September 9, at 8:30 a.m., for fall cleaning.

Friendship Park Community Center has posted the weekly menu for the community lunches. Guests are asked for donations of $2.50 per meal, and lunch is served at 11:45 a.m.

Triple H Farms in Metamora opened its farm to nearly 3,000 guests on June 24 for their 2023 Breakfast on the Farm event. Guests of all ages enjoyed a free, locally- produced breakfast and self-guided tour of a modern grain, tomato and beef farm.

Artists are needed for the ninth annual Point Place Art Walk on Saturday, September 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Healing Barn, a nonprofit horse rescue facility at 27731 Bradner Road, Millbury, will host Be a Horse Hero fund-raiser on Friday, August 25, at Hilton Garden Inn, Perrysburg. The evening will feature music from DC Taylor, live and silent auctions, food and cash bar.

Included in the upcoming state operating budget by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is the Social Media Parental Notification Act, a new act championed by Lt. Governor Jon Husted.

Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge are hosting the West Sister Island sunset cruise on Friday, August 11. West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge is a rookery, where local wading birds like herons and egrets go to nest.

The Toledo Museum of Art has expanded its collection with its acquisition of “The Pozzi Gospels,” a collection of Armenian manuscripts of the Gospel, named after Jean Pozzi, who owned the manuscript from 1936 to 1967.

The public will have the opportunity to learn about plans for a habitat restoration project for Audubon Islands State Nature Preserve at an open house, on Thursday, July 13, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., at the Maumee Branch Library, 501 River Road.

When black-eyed susans are blooming you know the wildflower action has shifted from woods to meadows. Black-eyed susans are the poster species for moving into open spaces. Their affinity for being among the first plants to emerge in barren, newly cleared fields or after a burn is so well-known that they are called a pioneer plant. Their beautiful, dark-centered many-rayed bright yellow blooms are hard to miss.