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• ORCHID: To the League of Women Voters of Trumbull County and others who organized events this week to encourage voter registration in time for the Nov. 6 general election. Tuesday's National Voter Registration Day events should have helped remind us all that voting is the civic duty of all Americans. If you're not registered, there is still time. Ohio's voter registration deadline for the upcoming election is Oct. 9.
• ORCHID: To Warren Police Department and city administrators for this week's hiring of six new city police officers. The move is another step toward the promise to taxpayers who supported the November 2016 income tax increase. The city hired 17 officers this year, bringing total police staffing to 69, just one shy of their promise to reach 70 with the new levy funds.
• ONION: To officials with the Trumbull County Transit Board, who have allowed a delay to occur in advertising for bids for a new transportation operator. The existing contract with Community Bus Services expires at the end of the year. So far, no steps have been taken to begin advertising for bids for the next contract -- a process that should have been in the works for several months already.
• ORCHID: To area farmers who consistently endure the challenges brought on by northeast Ohio's climate, yet keep up their faith and hard work. This month's very wet weather will mean higher costs for grain drying, equipment getting stuck and other challenges brought on by soggy fields.
• ORCHID: To area high school distance runners Vinny Mauri of Howland and Miranda Stanhope of Badger, who this week each won a third consecutive individual title at the annual Trumbull County Cross Country meet. Mauri ran the course in 15:53 and Stanhope ran it in 19:14. Fantastic!
• ORCHID: To former Weathersfield fire Chief Randall S. Pugh, who passed away in April, for all his efforts in reassuring the residents of Westwood Lake Mobile Home Park of their safety while a horizontal natural gas well was being drilled nearby. And Orchid to all the organizers who recently remembered the chief for these efforts by dedicating a new nearby bridge on Austintown-Warren Road in the chief's name.