The Perrysburg Exchange Club has named Allison Ludwig as the November Student of the Month. A senior at Perrysburg High School, Allison has a grade point average of 4.5 and is a member of the PHS strings orchestra and Toledo Youth Orchestra.

The Perrysburg Township food distribution will be held Thursday, December 14, from 8 to 10 a.m. The township fire department will sponsor the food give-away at the township building, 26609 Lime City Road, the second Thursday of each month.

To include your organization’s activities in this calendar, mail or drop off the details to the Messenger Journal, 130 Louisiana Avenue, PO Box 267, Perrysburg, Ohio 43552. Or send an e-mail, with the date, time and location, to dianaw@perrys burg.com. The deadline for the weekly calendar is Friday at noon. At press time, the following meetings are scheduled.

Each month, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Wood County hosts a chip-in day for community members to volunteer and give back. The volunteers can help in the NAMI office with tasks and projects such as data entry, folding, scrapbooking, filing, making phone calls and more.

Winter begins on December 21 and ends on March 19, 2024. Many people lament the arrival of winter, perhaps thinking the colder temperatures and shorter hours of sunlight will compromise their chances to have fun.

The Perrysburg Messenger Journal office, 130 Louisiana Avenue, is collecting winter accessories for distribution to area families in need this holiday season. Residents are invited to hang new mittens, gloves, scarves or hats on the tree.

Christmas Eve is viewed differently by different people, even those who live under the same Santa-ready roof. Adults may see this as crunch time when they must prepare food for the next day or set up presents for their children to open in the morning.

Plans for a new administration building are back on track with approval by the Perrysburg Township trustees to seek requests for qualifications. At the December 6 meeting, the trustees gave the green light to Administrator Jon Eckel to seek RFQs from area firms for designbuild services for construction of the approximately 9,000-square-foot singlestory structure.

At the November 6 meeting, the Perrysburg Township trustees learned that the fire department has been recognized as a class three hazmat team by the Ohio Department of Public Safety. “We are the first and only one in Wood County,” said Fire Chief Tom Brice, adding, “That is a pretty big deal for Perrysburg Township.” The chief said the department was considered for class two, but he believes they lack personnel and “we only applied for type three.” According to the Ohio Response System, class three is “an organized public safety hazmat/WMD response team with at least 10 members trained to the hazmat technician level and which meets the specific HMTAC criteria for being certified as a type three team.