Public Service Information for Veterans of Highland County, Ohio - Announcing the First Annual Veterans Outreach - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. - 135 N. High Street, Hillsboro, Ohio

Please Note: To obtain free flags for veterans' gravesites for Memorial Day:  

Contact Robin at the Highland County Veterans Service ahead of time with your information and the number of flags you need for your veterans' graves in Highland County, Ohio, you can pick up the free flags the same day as the Outreach.

  Email: highlandcountyvso@yahoo.com

Telephone: (937) 393-8686

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Posting as a public service announcement for veterans of Highland County, Ohio: 

"First Annual Veterans Outreach" - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 9:a.m. to 4:00p.m. - 135 N. High Street, Hillsboro, Ohio

"Stop by and see what your County Veterans Service Officer can do for you!  Bring your DD-214 and let's check out what you may qualify for!! 

Come check out our new Veterans friendly lobby with free computer access for our Veterans who are job hunting!  Also, the VA Mobile Center will be here to provide readjustment and transition assistance." 

Outreach Highlights: 
Dayton VA Mobile Vet Center
Chillicothe VA Medical Center, and
AM Vets Career Resource Center.

We are doing this outreach on the same day we are distributing the flags and markers for the veterans graves. 

We thought it was fitting to tie everything together since most people do not know that we even provide the service of helping to take care of our Veterans graves.

It's an all day event so folks can show up anytime they are available to do so." 

v/r
Robin

Highland County Veterans Service Commission
135 N. High Street, Suite 134
Hillsboro, Ohio 45133
Email: highlandcountyvso@yahoo.com
Telephone: (937) 393-8686
Facsimile: (937) 393-8738

Announcing Cemetery Clean Up for Rowland Cemetery - Canton, Stark County, Ohio - May 12, 2012 - 9:30a.m. to 1:30p.m.

Announcing a Cemetery Clean Up scheduled for Rowland Cemetery being held by the N.E. Ohio Ghost Society on Saturday May 12, 2012 from 9:30a.m. to 1:30p.m. 

Excerpted from the N.E. Ohio Ghost Society's Facebook Page:

"We are starting our cemetery mowing details again, plus we will continue to restore it as we go. 

This cemetery is huge and we need all the help we can get, also lawn mowers and weed wackers." 

 Rowland Cemetery Map

(Click on title to link to Rowland Cemetery on Find A Grave where 1,154 interments are currently listed.)

How Twenty-First Century Technology Transforms "Silent" Tombstones into "Talkies"

Click on title to link to a story appearing in today's Cleveland "Plain Dealer" and offered online at "Cleveland.com" written by Mr. James Ewinger of the "Plain Dealer" newspaper.  

It is a well-written story about how the advancements in technology have reached the tombstones stage; to affix QR codes on tombstones which can be read by today's 'smartphones.'

I have added my 'two-cents worth' comment which appears after the article. 

If nothing else, reading news stories about these types of advancements reminds me that we all need to do what we can to document the lives of our relatives and loved ones whether we actually knew them or not.  

We simply cannot know at what point in history someone from a now distant future generation will search for information about them.  Being able to do that should be becoming easier, not more complicated.  

Keeping up with the advancements in technology also reminds us that the ability to 'read'  the information is also dependent upon having the appropriate device to do so.  All we have to do is consider the floppy disk, cassette tape or VHS tape, to realize how quickly outdated our technology has become in our own lifetime.  If current technology is not compatible with the source that means we can no longer view text or listen to music without some ability to convert it; which can be cost prohibitive for many of us.  

Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe not only in backing up the back ups, but making and keeping the time honored hard copy stored in as safe of a place as possible (backed up off-site of course!) is the best way to go.  One way to back up information off-site is to also share it with others so the history of our ancestors' lives is almost guaranteed not to be lost as the years march by to different drummers.