Community

OXFORD– The annual Fourth of July Parade was both a little longer, and also a little shorter this year. The parade, held on Saturday, July 4, followed a different route, and also had noticeably fewer entries than in some previous years.
In June, a city council member, and a member of the Oxford First Responders, created the new and longer parade route in the hopes of spreading out the crowds for social distancing; a concern during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

TIFFIN– The City of Tiffin is getting ready to kick off its recreation programming.
Recreation Director Frank Haege announced the start of Tiffin’s first ever recreation programs for the upcoming fall of 2020.
Tiffin is adding a complete gamut of programming including: youth flag football, youth volleyball, adult softball, senior weight training, a morning open gym and fitness and yoga classes.
For complete listings and registration please www.tiffiniowarecreation.com.
- Youth Volleyball League
Third through sixth grade; Tuesday and Thursday– $45

TIFFIN When the COVID-19 crisis closed schools, districts across the state scrambled to provide distance learning opportunities and electronic devices to make it possible. They also had to come up with a way to provide a more basic need: the lunches and breakfasts many of their students depended on.
The Clear Creek Amana (CCA) Community School District quickly mobilized on both fronts, distributing Chromebook tablets and acquiring and distributing Internet hot spots. The district also formulated a first-of-its-kind (for CCA) plan to keep the meals coming.

IOWA CITY– John Adams commented on the Fourth of July, “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
However, with ongoing concerns over the COVID-19 virus and restrictions on the personal use of fireworks, this year’s celebration of Independence Day may well have far less pomp, fewer parades, socially-distant bonfires, and little in the way of “illuminations.”

TIFFIN– You see it all the time: businesses proclaiming, “We put the customer first,” “Customer service is our No.1 priority” and other similar platitudes. But sadly, reality is often disconnected from flowery rhetoric.
In Tiffin, Jeff Tackaberry and his NextHome Navigator real estate agency is putting meaning behind the words with a focus on putting people first. “#Humans over Houses” is the motto.
Tackaberry has been in the real estate industry for 17 years, and has worked with several different companies.