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XENIA — Greene County Public Health officials are encouraging residents to spread holiday cheer, not a virus, such as COVID-19 this holiday season and has free COVID-19 test kits available to the public.

FAIRBORN — The Fairborn Civic Band, Regional Orchestra, and Community Choir will hold its 27th annual Christmas program at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8.

XENIA — A well-known band is performing at the Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative to benefit the nonprofit in its efforts to bring vocational training, substance abuse treatment, and housing to those in need.

DAYTON — The Montgomery County Fairgrounds will be great place to kick off or complete the holiday season with a plethora of exhibitors at the 9th Annual Mistletoe Magic Holiday Marketplace.

KETTERING — U.S. News & World Report has recognized Kettering Health Main Campus and Soin Medical Center as 2024 High Performing hospitals for Maternity Care, the highest-level distinction for the category.

FAIRBORN — Wright State University’s Latino Center is partnering with the Latino Medical Student Association in the Boonshoft School of Medicine, the College of Health, Education and Human Services and the El Puente Learning Center to provide free bilingual mobile health clinics for area Latino communities.

Submitted photos | Fairborn City Schools

FAIRBORN —The first phase of a three-part veterans memorial project was revealed over the weekend with a large obelisk on the corner of Central Avenue and West Hebble Ave.

Submitted photo | HALO

Gloria took the week after Thanksgiving off from writing the column, but she will be back next week. As her editor and a writer myself, I can attest to the rigors of writing a weekly column. She and I joke often that the best way to make a weekly fly-by is to write a weekly column!