Briefs: Area Agency on Aging award, local inventor, Buy-Way Yard Sales Aug. 10-12

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Area Agency on Aging receives Aging Innovations Award from USAging

ONTARIO — The Area Agency on Aging's Community Care Services Program has received a 2023 Aging Innovations Award from USAging, one of the highest honors presented by USAging to its members. The Community Care Program provides in-home nursing services to individuals with immediate needs when the local provider network is unable due to lack of capacity.

Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging CEO Duana Patton (center) and a community care specialist were on hand to receive the Aging Innovations Award during the USAging National Conference in Salt Lake City.
Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging CEO Duana Patton (center) and a community care specialist were on hand to receive the Aging Innovations Award during the USAging National Conference in Salt Lake City.

The 2023 USAging Aging Innovations & Achievement Awards, supported by Caregiving.com and Cumulus, recognizes USAging’s Area Agency on Aging and Title VI Native American Aging Program members that have found new and innovative ways to support older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers as they live in their homes and communities.

“The agency is proud to be one of over 600 Area Agency’s across the country who are tireless advocates and innovators," said Duana Patton, CEO of the Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging Inc. "The Community Care Program has been a model for others to follow."

The 2023 USAging Aging Innovations & Achievement Awards honored traditional and new strategies in a range of categories, including Caregiving, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Health-LTSS Integration, Healthy Aging, Home and Community-Based Services, Housing and Homelessness, Nutrition, Public Health and Vaccinations, Social Engagement, Technology and Transportation and Mobility.

All winners are highlighted in the USAging Aging Innovations & Achievement Awards Showcase.

Local man credited with new patent

WASHINGTON, D.C. — James J. Collene of Bucyrus is one of eight inventors listed on a new federal patent assigned to the Whirlpool Corporation. Collene and seven others are credited with developing a lid hinge for a laundry treating appliance, such as washing machines.

Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sales set for Aug. 10-12

The 19th annual Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sales will take place across the State of Ohio Aug. 10-12.

The historic Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road for automobile travel in the United States, dedicated in 1913 and extending from New York City’s Times Square to San Francisco’s Lincoln Park. Combined, various routes across Ohio comprise more than 400 miles today.

Past year’s sales have seen families, neighbors, and groups of all kinds selling their wares from yards, porches, barns and garages; under tents and in open-air locations.

This novel idea began in 2005 and has spawned a variety of activities from Convoy, near the Indiana state line, to East Liverpool on the Ohio River across from West Virginia. A number of communities have group sales in public parks and other locations.

The primary route of the Lincoln Highway runs through Mansfield in Richland County. An alternate route also ran through Ontario and Mifflin.

Please visit historicbyway.com for sale locations and activities along Ohio’s Lincoln Highway.

This article originally appeared on Mansfield News Journal: USAging award, Bucyrus inventor cited on patent, yard sales