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That's how some people, in one word, encapsulate the month of January – it's cold and bleak, the holidays are over, and spring is maddeningly distant.

"What on earth could possibly be exciting about January?"

That's a good question, and at Wenaha Gallery, the answer every year is the Annual Canned Food Drive, with all the food brought into the gallery during . . . January donated to the Dayton Community Food Bank.

"When we started the Canned Food Drive at the gallery – it was ten years ago or more – we purposely chose January," says Pat Harri, who co-owns Wenaha Gallery with her...