A portion of Metroparks land at the former Toledo House of Corrections work farm on Schadel Road in Waterville Township is about to become a state nature preserve. At the November 15 meeting, the park commissioners approved articles of dedication for the Blue Creek Limestone Glade State Nature Preserve.

Editor’s Note: Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz noted in a recent news conference that the 2024 proposed budget has been submitted to Toledo City Council along with the following introductory letter: Honorable Council President Matt Cherry and Members of Toledo City Council, I am pleased to present for your review and consideration the proposed 2024 operating and capital budgets. These budgets build upon our momentum and allow us to continue to grow our safety forces, resurface hundreds of residential roads, fight blight, strengthen neighborhoods and build toward a more sustainable future.

Lane Montz, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan, shares the first three warnings about the 12 latest scams. With 2023 quickly winding down, Better Business Bureau has once again compiled its naughty list of the top 12 Scams of Christmas.

Friendship Park Community Center, at 2930 131st Street, Toledo, is having a fall craft show and bake sale on Saturday, November 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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.

The following is a list of activities for all at Friendship Park Community Center: •Monday, November 20, computer help, 9 a.m.; shuffleboard, 10 a.m.; lunch, 11:45 a.m.; bingo, 12:30 p.m.; mah jongg, 3 p.m.

TOPICS Camera Club, a non-profit organization open to everyone, will meet Wednesday, December 13, at 6:30 p.m., at the Monclova Community Center, 8115 Monclova Road, Monclova. Upcoming monthly meeting dates and topics: January 10–Monochrome February 14–Optical illusions March 13–Blue Hour April 10–Community designated site..

Real estate transfers received for November 7 to 9, 2023. Austin and Jennifer Engfer to Parker Z.

“We know they’re on the move these days, what we don’t know for sure is if they are carrying valuable information on their backs,” said Art Weber, Metroparks nature photographer. So is that woolly bear caterpillar silently making its way across the driveway or across the road really trying to tell people something? Some say it is.

The Wood County Committee on Aging, Inc. (WCCOA) is holding its 10th annual Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Holiday Outreach Project, partnering with Wood County Job and Family Services and Bowling Green Kiwanis. The project is intended to provide aid to grandparents living in Wood County who have custody and are raising their grandchildren.