AREA IV AGENCY ON AGING AND COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC. has been awarded a federal Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) to fund community services and activities.

CSBG funds are awarded to 24 Community Action Agencies that serve all 92 counties in the state. The services provided address issues including employment, education, housing, self-sufficiency, nutrition, youth, health, and emergency services.

Area IV serves White, Carroll, Tippecanoe and Clinton counties. The amount of the grant was $380,522.

JOYCE SIBBITT will be honored at a retirement open house on Jan. 2 from 2 to 5 p.m. at RME Insurance, 45 South Center Street, Flora.

She is retiring after 30 years as an insurance agent and bookkeeper.

Her career started in 1978 at the Sullivan Agency in Camden, where she was a bookkeeper and agent.

She continued with the agency when it was purchased by the Michael Agency in 1986 and when the Michael Agency merged into RME Insurance in 1991.

Sibbitt achieved the ACSR insurance customer service representative designation.

She enjoys vacationing in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and she's active in the Living Faith Church of the Brethren.

She and her husband, Jerry, live in rural Bringhurst. They have two children, Doug Sibbitt and Kris Seward, and six grandchildren.