Ohio Cooperative Living – February 2023 - Washington

Washington Electric Cooperative

A winter storm that cost too much

This past Christmas brought a blast of cold winter weather like we haven’t seen in several years. As we’ve come to expect when that kind of weather hits, people worked tirelessly across much of the country to keep the lights on and to restore power where and when it was lost.

Planners, engineers, and system operators worked diligently day and night to address frozen equipment and fuel supply shortages and to make needed adjustments to meet the high demand for electricity. Power plant employees worked around the clock to keep their plants running while wind chills dipped down near 40 below zero, creating challenges to keep critical equipment operating.

The high winds resulted in scattered power outages and broken power lines across Ohio and the entire Midwest and created brutal and dangerous working conditions for lineworkers tasked with making repairs to restore needed electric service.

As our electric system was stretched to its limits (once again), the market price of electricity exploded to 50 times its normal level. It was difficult to come to terms with that skyrocketing expense.

Tragically, however, money was not the highest cost. One young lineworker, Blake Rodgers, lost his life while working to restore electric service to members of Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative in southern Ohio.

Like nearly all of you, I did not know and never met Blake Rodgers. We can only pray for, and offer condolences to, his family and friends who will miss him the rest of their time on Earth. And we can honor the service and sacrifice of electric cooperative employees everywhere who work to provide this most essential and life-sustaining service to our homes and businesses. Thanks to all of them.

And God bless Blake Rodgers. May he rest in peace.

Pat O’Loughlin PRESIDENT & CEO OHIO’S ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

We honor the service and sacrifice of electric cooperative employees everywhere who work to provide this most essential and lifesustaining service.

Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives

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Patrick O’Loughlin President & CEO

Caryn Whitney Director of Communications

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Contributors: Margaret Buranen, Colleen Romick Clark, Getty Images, Randy Edwards, David Gattie, W.H. “Chip” Gross, Catherine Murray, Craig Springer, and Margie Wuebker.

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Power play: National interests are best served by an all-of-the-above energy approach. 8

CO-OP PEOPLE

A look at yesteryear: Ohio artist Gary Stretar paints rural landscapes as they once looked. 10 WOODS, WATERS, AND WILDLIFE

Nothing succeeds like Success: The incredible, and fraudulent, tale of a long-forgotten Lake Erie shipwreck.

Spice of life: Cinnamon, once more valuable than gold, is still a treasured ingredient in most everyone’s kitchen.

LOCAL PAGES News and information from your electric cooperative.

What’s happening: February/ March events and other things to do around Ohio.

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Beautiful barns: Our readers sought out some of the best rural landscapes the state has to offer.

Visit Ohio Cooperative Living magazine online at www.ohiocoopliving.com! Read past issues and watch videos about our articles or our recipes. Our site features an expanded Member Interactive area where you can share your stories, recipes, and photos and find content submitted by other co-op members across the state.

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Power play

National interests are best served by an all-of-the-above energy approach.

BY DAVID GATTIE

During an unprecedented crisis in NASA’s Apollo program, Ohio native and Apollo 13’s flight director, Gene Kranz, looked out across his mission control room and said: “OK, let’s everybody keep cool. Let’s solve the problem, but let’s not make it any worse by guessing.”

Composed, rational thinking. It’s crucial when problems are unknown, unfolding, and likely to compound with bad decisions. It’s also needed in the current debate around America’s energy and electric power sectors.

The U.S. economy, the largest and most important industrialized economy in the world, was built and currently stands on abundant, reliable energy resources. Fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewables have electrified America, energized its transportation sector, provided high-temperature industrial heat for manufacturing, and bolstered its military — the world’s most powerful and lethal.

However, climate change concerns are reorienting America’s energy and electric power debate to carbon reduction, and policies are being proposed for an energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewables. While nuclear power is not excluded in all transition proposals, nuclear is generally marginalized in favor of the preferred resources — renewables.

Never before has the U.S. debated eschewing the conventional energy resources on which its economy stands. And for good reason.

Energy resources and electricity aren’t merely market commodities or climate change issues — they’re foundational to America’s national security. And it has been generally understood that a hallmark of America’s energy and national security legacy is an abundant, domestic supply of diverse energy resources to provide the U.S. with flexibility and resilience in times of economic disruption and geopolitical disturbance.

This is critical for ensuring a resilient electric power grid: storable coal and nuclear to provide consistent baseload power; flexible natural gas for responding to minute-by-minute fluctuations in demand; and zero-carbon, cost-competitive renewables to fill in when available. Diverse resources, while not interchangeable, are crucial as each resource provides unique operational characteristics that ensure resilience.

The national security value of energy, however, extends beyond U.S. borders. America is facing some of the greatest global challenges in its history, with energy embedded in many of them.

Russia has invaded Ukraine and weaponized oil and natural gas to create severe shortages in Europe and supply disruptions globally. Russia has also established itself as a global leader in civilian nuclear exports — a position once occupied solely by the U.S. but lost, in part, because of policy decisions in the 1990s.

China, through its Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has emerged as the most serious threat to U.S.

security as it seeks to become the world’s greatest superpower. To that end, the CCP is deepening oil and natural gas ties with Russia and the Middle East while monopolizing the global market on minerals and metals used in manufacturing solar panels, electric vehicles, and batteries — the very technologies prioritized in the proposed U.S. energy transition. At a more comprehensive level, China is leveraging its Belt and Road Initiative to help emerging nations industrialize their economies around all energy resources, including fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Over the past decade, the U.S. has established itself as a global leader in oil and natural gas production. In doing so, it has achieved a level of energy selfsufficiency while establishing important energy partnerships with key allies and emerging economies around the world. However, as the U.S. considers restructuring its economy around carbon reduction, China, Russia, and other authoritarian nations aren’t debating energy as a climate issue. They’re debating it as an instrument of national power to advance their interests — interests that often are in opposition to America’s. Consequently, a U.S. divestment from fossil fuels will create vacuums in global energy trade — which will be filled by energy-rich nations eager to displace the U.S. in any way they can.

Climate change is a threat that should not be dismissed, but there’s only so much the U.S. can

do unilaterally. From 2000 to 2020, global carbon emissions increased 35.7%, with over 78% of this originating in China. During this same period, total U.S. carbon emissions decreased 22.8%, while carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector decreased 37.1%. This is a global issue with global sources and global impacts, and those impacts will not stop at U.S. borders simply because the U.S. has decarbonized its own economy. In fact, an electric power sector based predominantly on weather-dependent energy resources may be highly vulnerable to impacts of a changing climate.

This said, the U.S. should focus on shoring up all critical infrastructure subject to rising sea levels, droughts, and any other enduring climate shifts that could disrupt critical services.

When Gene Kranz looked across that mission control room, he could see myriad instrument panels. But it never crossed his mind to try and get that crew home safely by focusing on just one panel. Yet, America is considering a complete restructuring of its economy to dial down a single gauge on the complex instrument panel that is America’s economy and national security.

Given that America is facing multiple security challenges from multiple competitors on multiple fronts, this is worse than guessing. It’s gambling against a stacked deck.

Guest columnist David Gattie is an associate professor of engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Engineering, and a senior fellow at UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security. He has testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on energy, climate and nuclear power policy.

Throughout the ages, there have been many important advances in mobility. Canes, walkers, rollators, and scooters were created to help people with mobility issues get around and retain their independence. Lately, however, there haven’t been any new improvements to these existing products or developments in this field. Until now. Recently, an innovative design engineer who’s developed one of the world’s most popular products created a completely new breakthrough . . . a personal electric vehicle. It’s called the Zinger, and there is nothing out there quite like it.

“What my wife especially loves is it gives her back feelings of safety and independence which has given a real boost to her confidence and happiness! Thank You!”

–Kent C., California

The first thing you’ll notice about the Zinger is its unique look. It doesn’t look like a scooter. Its sleek, lightweight yet durable frame is made with aircraft grade aluminum so it weighs only 47.2 lbs. It features one-touch folding and unfolding – when folded it can be wheeled around like a suitcase and fits easily into a backseat or trunk. Then, there are the steering levers. They enable the Zinger to move forward, backward,

turn on a dime and even pull right up to a table or desk. With its compact yet powerful motor it can go up to 6 miles an hour and its rechargeable battery can go up to 8 miles on a single charge. With its low center of gravity and inflatable tires it can handle rugged terrain and is virtually tip-proof. Think about it, you can take your Zinger almost anywhere, so you don’t have to let mobility issues rule your life.

The Zinger folds to a mere 10 inches.

Why take our word for it? Call now, and find out how you can get a Zinger of your very own.

A look at yesteryear

When young Gary Stretar wasn’t playing sports, he was busy drawing something. He didn’t grow up to become an athlete, but two childhood influences cemented that second pastime into a rewarding career.

Stretar grew up in the western suburbs of Cleveland. Inspired by proximity to Lake Erie, he painted mostly seascapes in watercolors. He took art classes in high school and college, but didn’t major in art. He preferred creating realistic art to styles of art that were popular at the time. Today, he displays his work in a gallery on his property, and travels to sell his works at various shows around the country.

While he credits his wife, Mary, also a talented painter, for improving his painting, it was two early influences that gave him his inspiration.

The first was his teacher in both fifth and sixth grades, Miss Paul. Stretar says he didn’t learn much more in college art classes than what Miss Paul had already taught him. “Teachers don’t always challenge kids to learn more, but she did,” he says. “She wasn’t afraid to teach us

[advanced art techniques of] perspective, line, color values. A lot of us in her classes went on to art careers.”

The second influence was a schoolmate (and still friend) who invited Stretar to visit his family’s farm in Holmes County. Stretar ended up spending countless hours on that 150-acre tract, painting and visualizing. “It was a completely different world for me,” he says.

After the Stretars married, they continued living in the Cleveland area for a while, but they dreamed of one day living in an old house in the country. When they realized their dream and moved to a converted dairy farm near Spencer — where they are members of LorainMedina Rural Electric Cooperative — Stretar switched from painting those Lake Erie seascapes, mostly using watercolors, to painting rural landscapes, primarily in oil.

“I found that oils gave me more flexibility in what and how I could paint,” he says.

Stretar’s art studio is a converted dairy barn. Their 1835 Greek Revival house overlooks Mary’s extensive flower and vegetable gardens.

STORY BY MARGARET BURANEN; PHOTOS COURTESY OF GARY STRETAR

Many landscape artists set up their easels outside and paint their surroundings, a technique known as plein air, or they photograph a scene to paint later. Not Stretar. “Almost never do I paint [while] on-site,” he says. “And rarely do I photograph a scene to paint later.”

Instead, he makes a small, 3-by-5-inch sketch of what he wants to include in a painting. Then later, he starts painting scenes from memory. For authenticity of detail — such as the angle of a barn’s roof — he relies on the approximately 100 books on styles of rural architecture that he owns.

Stretar’s aim in his painting is “to make a farm look the way it did before the 1860s, so that early farmers would recognize it.”

His paintings portray farms before mechanization, when farmers used only oxen or draft horses. Because he doesn’t include people or animals, his art conveys both a sense of timelessness and a bit of mystery.

Stretar sells as many winter landscapes as he does paintings showing all the other seasons combined. He

notes that “the winter color palette is closer to those of the Dutch Masters,” who influence his style of painting, along with painters of the Hudson River School and French Barbizon School.

Stretar says that the most rewarding part of creating his paintings is “when a client says that a painting ‘takes me back to when I was a child.’”

Besides their artist parents, the Stretars’ five children learned about art from their maternal grandmother. Her watercolor paintings became illustrations for many greeting cards.

Several of the Stretars’ children are full- or part-time artists today. Daughter Ruth, a hairdresser, sells her watercolors at her salon. Son Luke has his own painting studio in Richfield. Son Caleb is a sculptor and painter. “They had a great art teacher, Dean Shaffer, here at Black River High School,” Stretar notes.

To view Stretar’s paintings, visit www.garystretar. com. His gallery is open by appointment only.

Ohio artist Gary Stretar paints rural landscapes as they once looked.

WOODS, WATERS, AND WILDLIFE

Nothing succeeds like Success

BY W.H. “CHIP” GROSS

There has likely never been a more ironic name for a prison ship than Success. The vessel — which was a Lake Erie icon for more than a decade — was successful in another sense: She was the focus of the longest and largest nautical hoax in the history of the Great Lakes, and possibly all of North America.

Measuring 135 feet in length and having three masts, Success was built in 1840 in India during the days of sail. Early in her long career, she made trips transporting immigrants from England to Australia, then functioned for several years as a prison ship, anchored in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo Bay. But it was when the ship’s owners put her up for sale that Success sailed into nautical history.

A group of promoters purchased the ship, planning to sail her around the world for the public to board and

tour — for a price, of course. But before her debut, they believed Success needed a bit of refurbishing.

They brought aboard some unusual equipment: handcuffs, leg irons, branding irons, metal straightjackets, a triangle-shaped whipping post, even a medieval torture device known as an iron maiden.

And they painted on the sides of the hull, in large black letters, the words “Convict Ship.”

None of the apparatuses had ever been on the ship previously, let alone used, but no matter. The promoters even went so far as to erroneously add half a century to the ship’s age. So now, Success had not only been converted to a “convict ship,” complete with all her ghastly accoutrements, but was also the “oldest and most historic ship afloat.”

The public ate it up, no questions asked.

Sailing from England, Success arrived in Boston in slow 99-day transatlantic trip — after which her captain for the voyage complained, “She sails like a bale of hay.” She toured major U.S. cities along America’s east and west coasts and the Gulf of Mexico, then sailed up the Mississippi, stopping at major ports along the way. Next, making her way up the Ohio River, she visited Cincinnati, Wheeling, and Pittsburgh in 1918 and 1919. In 1923, Success Lakes, where she toured for the next five years.

By 1924 — and despite protests from the Australian government about its entirely made-up history — Success was such a popular attraction at Toledo that local papers reported, “Every day since its arrival here, it has been visited by good-sized crowds.” Other Lake Erie ports included Lorain, Cleveland, and Sandusky, where she often docked for weeks at Cedar Point amusement park.

Her owner in 1925, a Captain David H. Smith, described his ship as “a tremendous paying game.” A conservative estimate of the ship’s income during the 1920s was $450,000 annually, equivalent to many millions in today’s dollars.

Unfortunately, the good times were not to last. With the stock market crash of 1929, the largesse of the Roaring ’ ended, ushering in the Great Depression. During the Americans struggled to make ends meet, let alone have money enough left over for entertainment. The crowds dwindled, then eventually stopped coming altogether, and Success popularity and into disrepair.

Purchased by a businessman in Port Clinton, Ohio, in the fall of 1945, the decrepit old hulk was being towed from Cleveland to Port Clinton when she ran aground and stuck fast on a sandbar about a half-mile from shore off the Port Clinton swimming beach. There she remained mired until the evening of July 4, set her afire just to watch her burn.

More than 1,700 shipwrecks lie at the bottom of Lake Erie, only 277 of which have been located. Success is one of those that have been identified, with what is left of her wooden keel, ribs, planking, and metal parts lying in just 8 to 10 feet of water. Today, divers are welcome to investigate Success and 32 other shipwrecks in Ohio’s Lake Erie waters.

Chip Gross is Ohio Cooperative Living’s outdoors editor.

To learn more about ghost ships and their locations, visit www.ohioshipwrecks.org.

The incredible, and fraudulent, tale of a long-forgotten Lake Erie shipwreck.

2 Trays – Diced Chicken Breasts (2.5 lb.)

2 Trays – Chicken Breast Strips (2.5 lb.)

2 Trays – Thin-Sliced Chicken Breasts (2.4 lb.)

1 Package – Organic Ground Chicken (1.5 lb.) Chicken

FREE –2 More Trays Diced Chicken Breasts (2.5 lb.)

FREE – 2 More Trays Chicken Breast Strips (2.5 lb.)

Cinnamon, once more valuable than gold, is still a treasured ingredient in most everyone’s kitchen.

Spice of life APPLE CINNAMON MONKEY BREAD

Prep: 15 minutes | Bake: 45 minutes | Servings: 8 ½ cup granulated sugar 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon ¼ cup butter, melted

2 16.3-ounce cans buttermilk biscuits (refrigerated tubes) 2 large tart apples, peeled and chopped 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon milk

In a large bowl, mix granulated sugar and cinnamon. Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces and add to the bowl with the cinnamon and sugar, along with the apples. Toss many times to coat. Heat oven to 350 F. Transfer coated biscuits and apples into a greased bundt pan. Pour butter evenly over top, then press down lightly on the top. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown across top and a toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes, then run knife around edge of pan to loosen. Place heatproof serving plate over pan and flip over. Slowly loosen pan from bread. Whisk together powdered sugar and milk into an icing. Drizzle icing over bread. (If icing doesn’t drizzle easily, add a little more milk.) Bread is easy to serve and eat — just pull apart into chunks with your hands!

Per serving: 556 calories, 22 grams fat (10 grams saturated fat), 15 milligrams cholesterol, 1,237 milligrams sodium, 84 grams total carbohydrates, 4 grams fiber, 8 grams protein.

RECIPES AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY CATHERINE MURRAY

Prep: 15 minutes | Cook: 20 minutes | Servings: 6 ½ cup bread crumbs Small sweet onion, minced 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon ground coriander 2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon dried mint 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon salt

teaspoon black pepper 1 lemon, zested and juiced

GREEK MEATBALLS

1 pound lean ground beef or lamb

In a large bowl, mix together breadcrumbs, onion, half of the minced garlic, coriander, cinnamon, mint, oregano, salt, pepper, and lemon zest. Add in ground meat and egg, incorporating with your hands. If you have some extra time, refrigerate mixture for 30 to 60 minutes — it will help the meatballs hold their shape.

Form mixture into 1-inch meatballs. Dredge each in flour, coating lightly then shaking off excess. Heat olive oil in medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add some meatballs, leaving space in between them. Cook 5 to 7 minutes, rolling them around to cook evenly. Transfer meatballs to a plate covered with a paper towel to soak up excess oil. Repeat with remaining meatballs. Make Tzatziki sauce by mixing together the remaining half of the minced garlic, lemon juice, sour cream, cucumber, and dill. Dip meatballs in the accompanying Tzatziki sauce as an appetizer, or serve both on top of a pita, Greek salad, or rice bowl for a full meal.

Per serving: 355 calories, 20 grams fat (9 grams saturated fat), 111 milligrams cholesterol, 551 milligrams sodium, 18 grams total carbohydrates, 2 grams fiber, 27 grams protein.

Prep: 10 minutes | Bake: 60 minutes | Servings: 2

Stu ed sweet potatoes

2 medium sweet potatoes

2 tablespoons cinnamon butter (recipe at right)

4 tablespoons chopped pecans

1 banana, sliced

½ cup miniature marshmallows

Cinnamon butter

1 stick unsalted butter, softened

1 tablespoon honey

½ tablespoon powdered sugar

1½ tablespoons ground cinnamon

NOTE: Try the cinnamon butter on pancakes, mu ns, biscuits, toast, and peanut butter sandwiches. The stu ed sweet potatoes are perfect for a decadent breakfast or warming winter dessert.

Preheat oven to 400 F. Poke some holes in the skin of the sweet potatoes with a fork and place on a baking sheet. (Sweet potatoes leak sticky syrup when baking.) Bake 45 to 60 minutes, or until potatoes are soft when lightly squeezed. Meanwhile, make cinnamon butter by combining butter, honey, powdered sugar, and cinnamon with an immersion blender or food processor. Set aside.

Remove potatoes from oven and cool on baking sheet for a few minutes until they’re easier to handle. Slice potatoes in half lengthwise and fluff/mash the insides a bit with a fork. Slather cinnamon butter over the open potatoes, tuck in banana slices and sprinkle with marshmallows, pecans, and some extra cinnamon. Turn oven to broil and place baking sheet back in the oven, keeping a close eye. Warm and toast marshmallows to your desired color. Serve while hot.

Per serving: 521 calories, 22 grams fat (8 grams saturated fat), 31 milligrams cholesterol, 254 milligrams sodium, 80 grams total carbohydrates, 12 grams fiber, 5 grams protein.

CINNAMON BUTTER-STUFFED SWEET POTATOES

Prep: 5 minutes | Cook: 45 minutes | Servings: 4

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 large onion, diced

2 large carrots, diced

3 to 4 cups chopped Swiss chard (separate stems from leaves)

3 cloves garlic, minced

2 tablespoons fresh grated ginger (peeled)

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon ground coriander

1 teaspoon paprika

½ teaspoon cayenne

1 14.5-ounce can tomatoes

3 15-ounce cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed

1 lemon, juiced

3 cups vegetable stock

2 cinnamon sticks

2 bay leaves

½ cup golden raisins (optional)

Heat olive oil in large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrots, and Swiss chard stems and sauté, 5 to 7 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, paprika, and cayenne and sauté another minute or so. Add tomatoes, chickpeas, lemon juice and broth, then stir. If vegetables aren’t fully covered, add a bit of water. Submerge cinnamon sticks and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then lower heat to medium-low, cover and simmer 30 minutes. Remove cinnamon sticks and bay leaves, stir in Swiss chard leaves and raisins, cook another 5 minutes or so, and serve.

Per serving: 472 calories, 7 grams fat (1 gram saturated fat), 0 milligrams cholesterol, 835 milligrams sodium, 89 grams total carbohydrates, 6 grams fiber, 19 grams protein.

Moroccan Spiced Chickpea Soup

Have you tried one of our recipes? Do you have a recipe to share with other Ohio co-op members? Visit the Member Interactive page on www.ohiocoopliving.com to find recipes submitted by our readers and to upload yours.

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While you’re there, check out a video of a few of our recipes being prepared.

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FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER

RATE ADJUSTMENT NECESSARY TO OFFSET RISING COSTS

Last month I shared in this publication some of the rising costs that Washington Electric is experiencing, and I said that a small rate increase would be necessary to continue meeting the long-term needs of our members.

Why are rates increasing?

As I discussed in last month’s article, we have all experienced the cost of just about everything going up considerably over the past year. The consumer price index, a measure of the cost of many consumer items, continues to be around 7%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. We are experiencing the same kinds of cost increases for the materials and services that are required to maintain the electric system. In many cases, we are seeing cost increases even greater than 7%.

We have absorbed a lot of these cost increases and have taken additional steps to control costs and improve efficiency; however, the magnitude of the increases we are seeing across so many items makes it necessary for us to pass some of this on through a rate increase, or risk deteriorating service.

How much are my rates going up?

The overall rate increase is about 2.8% and will be $4.00 per month for every member-consumer, except around 100 General Service and Large Power members who will see a slightly larger increase. The planned increase is on the Distribution Charge line item and is a flat $4.00 per month increase to the monthly facility charge, and an additional $0.75 per kW demand increase only to the General Service and Large Power members.

How was the amount of the rate increase determined?

The Washington Electric Board of Trustees and management staff have been closely monitoring costs and revenues to ensure we are maintaining a healthy organization and meeting the loan covenants relating to the cooperative’s financing arrangements through the USDA. A 10-year financial forecast was recently

updated to determine the necessary rate adjustment in order to the meet the projected revenue requirements. Based on the results of this forecast, the board of trustees decided that continuing to have smaller increases on a regular basis was preferable to having much larger, but less frequent increases. This strategy helps to stabilize the cooperative’s finances, keeps increases manageable for our members, and allows adapting to rapidly changing conditions like those experienced over the past year.

When will the rate increase go into effect?

Triplett GENERAL MANAGER

You will see the rate increase on your bill generated at the end of February for usage during the preceding 30 days.

What can I do to reduce my bill?

While this rate increase is focused on the fixed monthly facility charge, much of your overall bill is based on energy usage, so anything you can do to reduce your usage will help to keep your costs low. Through this publication, Facebook and our website we provide energy efficiency tips to help you reduce consumption. We also offer rebates for energy-efficient upgrades. Small changes throughout the year can add up to big savings.

Washington Electric continues to be committed as a sound steward of your investment in your electric cooperative. While no one ever wants to see a rate increase, we believe this small adjustment now will allow us to continue to maintain a financially healthy cooperative that provides you with reliable service through these turbulent times. If at any time you have questions regarding this rate adjustment, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re local, available, and here for our members.

Jeff

Winstanley earns associate’s degree

Washington Electric Cooperative employee Dan Winstanley has earned an associate’s degree in electrical engineering technology from Washington State Community College (WSCC).

Winstanley joined the co-op team in 2013 as the warehouse coordinator and now serves as a staking engineer. WSCC’s program provides its students with state-of-the-art equipment where they learn to design, operate, and maintain power and control systems. Students learn installation, operation, and servings of electrical equipment in several different industries, including power, manufacturing, polymer, metallurgical, oil and gas, and more.

“The skills I gained through this program will enable me to better design, develop, and test electrical equipment, devices, and systems and such as electric motors, navigation and communications systems, and power generation equipment,” Winstanley says. “With that also comes the ability to better serve and help our cooperative members with any needs they may have.”

Congratulations, Dan!

EVE center receives $500 donation

EVE (Ending Violence Effectively) Inc. was selected as the fourth recipient of a $500 donation through Washington Electric Cooperative’s Employee Giving Program.

EVE seeks to prevent family violence and sexual assault through education and intervention while providing support services to survivors — thereby promoting a safe and healthy community and improving the quality of life. EVE’s programs include an emergency shelter, a 24-hour toll-free hotline, legal advocacy, service coordination, counseling, children’s programs, prevention programs, transitional housing and aftercare, a Survivor’s Loan program, food pantry, educational groups, transportation and clothing, child care, and referrals to community resources.

1210837704 It is also one of only a few shelters equipped to shelter men as well as women, including adolescent boys who need to enter with their abused parent.

Each quarter, one co-op employee is selected to choose a local charity or not-for-profit organization to receive a $500 check to support the work they do in the communities that the co-op serves. Director of Marketing and Member Services Jennifer Greene selected EVE for the final quarter of 2022.

The Employee Giving Program was established at the co-op at the beginning of 2022. Previous donations have gone to the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and the Joyce M. Davis Senior Center.

Easy ways to control water use

Conserving water at home can result in several downstream benefits and savings. Being mindful of home water use helps preserve the amount of water in our local reservoirs and reduces costs associated with water and wastewater treatment — including the cost of delivering it to the home (for those using a public water service).

Leaky toilets, showerheads, and faucets can waste up to 2,700 gallons of water annually in a single home. You can start home water conservation simply by checking your house for any leaks and drips. Another simple way to conserve water is to limit running water when it isn’t necessary. For example, turn off the faucet while brushing your teeth, and defrost food in the refrigerator or in the microwave instead of placing frozen food under running water.

Home gardens are another potential area for water conservation. Thoughtful planning can transform your home garden from a water drain to a water-efficient oasis.

Start by planting drought-resistant plants or those with minimal water needs. Additionally, a drip irrigation system for plants that require more water can boost efficiency by using less water over a longer period. Alternatively, set lawn sprinklers on a timer to limit water use and place them where the water will only reach plants, not pavement.

Another conservation option is to use a rain barrel to collect water for nonpotable purposes. Harvested rainwater is an excellent option for watering ornate gardens and washing cars.

Reducing water use at home can also help lower your energy use. The Department of Energy estimates that water heating accounts for about 20% of a home’s energy bill. Switching to an energy-efficient heat-pump water heater can save considerable money on electric

bills. Heat-pump water heaters have higher upfront costs than storage-tank models, but tax incentives and potential rebates can offset this cost. Check with your local electric cooperative to see if they offer rebates or a load management program.

If upgrading your water heater isn’t an option, there are small changes you can make to increase water heating efficiency. Reduce hot water use by switching to low-flow faucets and showerheads. You can also turn down the water heater thermostat to 120 degrees and insulate hot water lines to increase energy savings.

Additional ways to conserve both water and electricity in the home include upgrading clothes washers and dishwashers to newer, more energy-efficient models. Running these appliances only when full or selecting a “light wash” setting reduces water and electricity use. Washing dishes by hand uses more water than an energyefficient dishwasher, so avoid this method when possible.

As you can see, there are a variety of changes — some large, some small — that can help you conserve water at home. Regardless of how you do it, thoughtfully managing water use can protect our water supply and make significant changes on energy bills.

Washington Electric staffers graduate leadership program

Washington Electric Cooperative employees

Melissa Ronald and Dakota Hornak have graduated from a statewide program aiming to hone the skills of the next generation of electric cooperative leaders.

The one-year Cooperative Leadership Edge program was hosted by Washington Electric’s trade association, Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives, and required six courses, two assessments, and a capstone project. Coursework focused on coaching employees, managing conflict, adapting communication approaches, carrying out difficult conversations, and delivering results.

Washington Electric invests in training and development with the goal of serving consumermembers with top talent and skills, says General Manager/CEO Jeff Triplett.

“We’re not just an electricity provider — we’re here to make this area an even better place to live, work, and serve,” he says. “That means investing in our employees and making sure we’re providing the best possible community services. We’re really proud of Melissa and Dakota for their accomplishment, and we’re pleased to have them on our staff.”

Ronald has been a member service representative for three years. Hornak, a lineman, has been with the co-op for four years.

Unclaimed

BEFORE YOU CALL...

With nearly 3 ,000 names on this list, we anticipate a high volume of inquiries. We want to assist everyone who contacts us as efficiently as possible, so we ask that you carefully read the following guidelines.

If your name or your spouse’s name appears on the list, please contact our office.

If you find the name of someone you know, and that person is still alive, please have that person contact our office directly.

If you find the name of someone on this list whom you know to be deceased, the executor of his/her estate or the appointed agent should contact our office.

We have set up a special phone line for capital credit inquiries. Again, because we expect a high number of calls, you may need to leave a message. When

ALLEN DONALD JR

ALLEN EDWARD

ALLEN MIKE

ANITLL MARGIE

ANKROM PAUL

ANTHONY LEWANDA

leaving a message, please provide your name, the name of the person who appeared on the list, your relationship to that person, and a phone number where a representative may return your call. Please do not leave multiple messages. We will return your call as quickly as possible. Again, please DO NOT leave multiple messages.

The processing of capital credit claims requires a small amount of paperwork. In certain cases, the cooperative’s board of trustees must approve the claim before it can be paid. The board meets once per month. For efficient processing, please follow the above guidelines.

ARMSTRONG BILL

ARMSTRONG S E

ARNOLD ALVIN

BADGER OIL AND GAS

BAGNELL LLOYD

BAILES LELA

A.T.&T.LONG

ADAMS & SON OIL WELL

ADAMS BRIAN

ADAMS FRANCIS H

ADAMS GEORGE

ADAMS LAWRENCE T

ADAMS MICHAEL

ADAMS WIONA S

ADDISON DAVID B

ADKINS ROAM

AER COMMUNICATIONS INC

AKE RAY

AKG OIL AND GAS

ALAN STONE COMPANY

ALBRECHT JOHN P

ALBRECHT ROBERT

ALBRIGHT DENNIE

ALEXANDER BONNIE

ALEXANDER J KEITH

ALGEO DONALD

ALLBRITAIN DANNY A

ALLEGHENY POWER

ALLEN CHARLES W

ALLEN VERNARD W

ALLENDER ROBERT

ALLISON EUGENE

ALLISON PEARL

ALMOND RONALD

AMERICAN PETREOL

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INC

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INC

AMICK CHERIE

AMOS BLAKE

AMOS MARY E

ANDERSON A H

ANDERSON HAROLD R

ANDERSON JAMES R ANDERSON LISA ANDERSON NELLIE

ANDERSON ODEN A ANDERSON RAYMOND

ANDERSON RUSSELL

ANDERSON TELMA

ANDES PHILLIP SR

ANGLE GEORGIA

ANGUS JEAN

ANTILL CHARLES

ANTILL DAVID

ANTILL EDWARD E

ANTILL OIL COMPANY

“ANTILL RICK I

APPALACHIAN PETROLEUM”

APPALACHIAN PETROLEUM

ARAPAHO OIL VENTURES OF ARCHER AUDREY

ARCHER DOROTHY

ARCHER EUNICE

ARCHER GLEN

ARCHER GREG A

ARCHER JOSEPHINE

ARCHER JUNIOR M

ARCHER MARGARET

ARCHER PAUL

ARCHIBALD MACK

ARCHIBALD PATRICK T

ARCHIBALD SHIRLEY

ARGABRITE JACK ARMANN CHARLES

ARMSTRONG ANGELA

ARNOLD JACKIE ARNOLD JOE

ARNOLD MARVIN J

ARNOLD RONALD

ARROWSMITH MARK

ASH PAUL

ASHCRAFT GEORGE W

ASHCRAFT JOSEPH

ASHLAND OIL INC

ASHLEY CLAIR W

ATER GENEVIEVE

AUBERLE WILLIAM

AUGENSTEIN ROBERT G

AVAGO OIL COMPANY

B & B ENERGY

B & B PETROLEUM

B & D DRILLING COMPA N

B & V OIL PRODUCTION

B K K PROSPECTING

B P VENTURE #1

BABCOCK LARRY

BACHELOR ALTON

BACKUS CONNIE S

BAILEY HELEN

BAILEY ORVIE

BAILEY RAYMOND

BAIRD ALBERT J

BAKER CHARLES L

BAKER DAVID

BAKER DIANNE

BAKER GARY D

BAKER JAMES H

BAKER JOHN

BAKER KEVIN

BAKER MARSHA L

BAKER OKLEY

BAKER RANDY

BAKER RICHARD L

BAKER ROBERT

BALDINGER JAMES E

BALDWIN STEPHEN

BALL CLYDE JJR

BALL FRANK

BALL JAMES D

BALL VIRGIL E

BALLEIN KEITH

The following is a list of former Washington Electric Cooperative members who are owed capital credits for their electricity purchases from 1984 to 1988 , for whom the cooperative no longer has valid mailing addresses. This publication is the first official notification for unclaimed credits from 1988 , and the second and final official notification for unclaimed credits for 1984 – 1985 .

BARBER JOSEPH L

BARBER THOMAS

BARKER ORLIE

“BARKER WAYNE I

BARLOW OIL & GAS CO”

BARNES LEWIS

BARNES REBECCA J

BARNES THOMAS

BARNETT MABEL

BARNHART JESSE

BARNHART RICHARD D

BARNHOUSE CHESTER

BARNHOUSE RAYMOND

BARR DAN

BARR ROBERT W

BARTH DONNA

BARTH F. H

BARTH MELVIN L

BARTON DAVID

BARTON LUCINDA

BARTON LYNN

BASIN MICHAEL

BATEMAN SHIRLEY

BATES COMMUNICATIONS

CORP

BATES D W

BATES EARL H

BATES L. D

BATES RUTH A

BATES THERESA

BATTEN OMA H

BAUER HERBERT

BAUMGARD OIL CO

BAXTER MARY S

BAYLESS ORLEN K

BEARDSLEY MARY J

BEARDSLEY PAUL

BEARDSLEY RUSSELL L

BEAVER OIL CO

BECK BETTY L

BECK STEPHEN W

BECKER C. L

BECKER FREDERICK E

BECKER LARRY

BECKER ROBERT JJR

BECKER STEVEN

BECKETT LARRY

BEE C RODNEY

BEEBE KENNETH L

BEGGS LUCILLE M

BEHA LESTER

BELLVILLE APRIL S

BELMONT FEDERAL

BELVILLE WILLIAM T

BEN COOKSON INC.

BENATTY CORPORATION

BENEDICT NELSON

BENNER MARGARET

BENNER W TAYE

BENNETT CLYDE E

BENNETT E. D

BENNETT JASPER JR

BENNETT JOE

BENNETT JUANITA

BENNETT ROGER

BENOIL

BENWOOD OIL COMPANY

BERDINE SHARON S

BEREIT RALPH H

BERG DAVID

BERG JOHN C

BERG SHIRLEY A

BERGA BERNICE V

BERGA KEVIN W

BERGA STEVEN C

BERRY CHRISTINA

BERRYHILL JACK C

BESSLER WILLIAM E

BETHEL APOSTOLIC TAB

BETTERTON ARTHUR

BETTINGER DENNIS

BETTINGER GAY

BETTINGER GAY D

BETTINGER RAY

BETTINGER SHILA

BETTINGER STANLEY

BETTINGER STANLEY E

BIBB M

BICHARD TERREN L

BICKISH GEORGE

BIEDEL JACK

BIEHL ARTHUR

BIEHL CHRIS

BIEHL JAMES O

BIEHL KATHY

BIEHL LEO EII

BIEHL ROY

BIGLER HOMER

BIGLEY LARRY D

BINEGAR CARL

BINEGAR CLARK

BINEGAR ELMER

BINEGAR FRANK

BINEGAR JEFFERY

BINGMAN LABORATORIES

BISHOP DAVID

BLACK JACKIE O

BLAIR CAROLYN BLAIR EVERETT L

BLAIR GARY BLAIR IRA D

BLAIR JAMES M

BLAIR OIL CO

BLAND EARL A

BLANEY JEFFREY

BLANKENSHIP DAVID G

BLOS LINNIE

BLOSS ROBERT H

BLUMENTHAL KENNETH

BOALS DOUGLAS W

BODE & RINARD OIL WE L

BODINE SANDRA L

BOERSMA R P

BOGGESS BILLY J

BOGGS BERNARD R

BOGGS KENNETH

BOHALL WAYNE

BOHL HOWARD

BOHL MARY

BOICE ROBERT

BOICE RUBY L

BOLDEN FRED

BOLEN HAROLD R

BOLEN OKEY

BOLES RICHARD JR

BOLEY JILL

BOLEY MICHAEL

BONAR JOHN BONAR LLOYD C

BOND 699 STONECREEK

GAS

BOND L. E BOND MICHAEL

BONHAM WILLIAM S

BOOKMAN GARY

BOONE OIL CO

BORDER RICHARD

BORDER RICHARD

BORELL JAN N

BORN E. D

BOSTAPH RAYMOND J

BOSTON KENNETH

BOSTON KEVIN

BOSTON STARLING SR

BOSWELL W N

BOTT VIOLET

BOWERSOCK CHARLES

BOWERSOCK HEIRS

BOYCE CONNIE S

BOYD JIMMIE

BOYD JUDY A

BOYD OIL COMPANY

BOYLEN JAMES

BRADEN CHARLES J BRADEN DEVELOPMENT C O

BRADFIELD GEORGE

BRADFORD CARL W

BRADFORD WANDA

BRADLEY JAMES R

BRADY CHARLES H

BRAGG CHARLES T

BRANHAM GAY

BRASHEAR ROBERT

BRAUN ROBERT E

BRIER STEVE

BRIGGS GAIL A

BRISTOL PRODUCTION

BRITTON JAMES E

BRITTON PAUL

BRONSKI BRUCE

BRONSKI WALTER S

BROOKOVER PAUL

BROOKS CLARENCE WJR

BROOKS FLOYD

BROOKS PENNY

BROOKS SHARON

BROTHERTON R S

BROUGHTON FOODS

BROWN BILLY D

BROWN CECIL

BROWN CECIL R

BROWN CHARLES J BROWN CHARLES SR

BROWN DIXIE BROWN ELVIN

BROWN GARY L

BROWN HARTSEL

BROWN HILDA

BROWN JANICE S

BROWN JERRY

BROWN JERRY

BROWN MICHAEL H

BROWN PERRY J

BROWN PHILLIP JR

BROWN RICHARD

BROWN ROBERT J

BROWN STELLA

BROWN WILLIAM

BROWN WILLIAM R

BROWNING RICKY

BROWNSVILLE UNITED METH

BRUBECK PAUL

BRUMBLES JIMMY

BRUNONI KATHY

BRUSKI DOMINICK

BRYAN CARLOS

BRYANT EVELYN

BUCHANAN GLENNA A

BUCHANAN RANDY

BUCK HAROLD J

BUCK JAMES

BUCK JEFFREY D

BUCKEY JOHN BUCKEY RICKY E

BUCKEY RONALD BUCKEY TONY

BUCKEY WILLIAM S

BUCKEYE CRUDE BUELL DENNIS

BUMBULIS CHARLES

BUNTING SARAH E

BURKHART JOE

BURKHART RAYMOND

BURKHART ROY J

BURKHART TOM

BURKHEIMER SUE

BURKHOLDER MIKE

BURNEM RICHARD

BURNER OLEN

BURNSIDE CARRIE

BURNSIDE CHARLES C

BURROWS JOHN

BURT HAROLD LJR

BURTON BONNIE

BURTON HERBERT

BUSCH NORMA J

BUSH WILLIAM L

BUTCHER ADA C

BUTCHER FLIM

BUTLER CLAYTON

BUTLER VERNA BUTLER WAYNE J

BUZZI MILES

BYERS DANNY BYRD ELIAS BYRD KENTON N C & G OIL COMPANY CO

C & V OIL & GAS CO

CABLE SYSTEMS USA

ASSOC

CAIN PEGGY

CAIN SHERRY D

CALDWELL BANKER

LANDMAR REALTORS

CALDWELL CHARLES D

CALDWELL J. W

CALHOUN ROBERT

CALL JAMES H

CALLIHAN DALE

CALTEK MINERALS CORP

CALTEK MINERALS CORP

CAMDEN JAMES S

CAMERON ROBERT

CAMP CLIFTON D

CAMPBELL JEFF

CAMPBELL JOHN

CAMPBELL KERRY D

CAMPBELL SHARON

CAMPBELL WANDA

CAMPBELL WILLARD

CANNELL SHERRY

CANNON THOMAS B

CANTWELL CLIFFORD

CANTWELL WILLIAM

CAPPADONA THOMAS

CARDINAL EXPLORATION

CARLSON CONNIE

CARLSON EINAR W

CARLTON OIL CORP

“CARNEY TERRI A I

CARPENTER

CHARLOTTE”

CARPENTER EARL

CARPENTER GENEVA E

CARPENTER JENIFER

CARPENTER MARK W

CARPENTER MARY M

CARPENTER NORMA J

CARPENTER PHILLIP W

CARR MARY

CARREL C

CARTENUTO ALBERT

CARTER CHARLES A

CARTER JOSEPH J

CARTER REX L

CASTILLEJO ALVARO

CASTO GARY

CASTO MARK A

CASTO TERRY D CATER M L

CAVALIER OIL COMPANY

CAYTON DAPHNE

CENTER FREE M E CHURCH

CENTER MEMORIAL CHUR C

CHAMBERS DAVID I

CHAMBERS WILLIAM

CHANDLER ALPHA M

CHANDLER HARLEY R

CHANDLER JAMES L

CHANDLER MILDRED

CHAPLIN HARRY CJR

CHAPMAN CLARENC

CHAPMAN DARRELL

CHAPMAN EDNA

CHEPLIC JOSEPH

CHESSON JIM

CHESTERHILL STONE CO

CHICWAK KEVIN A

CHIMLEY JOSEPH

CHRISTA OIL COMPANY

CHRISTIAN RALPH

CHRISTMAN WALTER

CHRISTMAS DARVIN

CHRISTMAS ROBERT J

CHRISTOPHER BILL R

“CHRISTOPHER PATRICIA J I CHUBB WADE”

CHURCH FRANK

CHURCH JACK

CISLER TERRILL K

CITY LOAN BANK

CLAPP HAROLD H

CLAPSADDLE MERRILL H

CLARK CHARLES

CLARK CHARLES

CLARK CHARLES H

CLARK ELDON D

CLARK GIFTS & CRAFTS

CLARK HAROLD

CLARK JACK L

CLARK MARY

CLARK PATRICIA A

CLARK RAYMOND H

CLARK RICKE L

CLARK WILLIAM C

CLAUGUS DALE

CLEVELAND O B

CLIFT BONNIE

CLIFT GEORGE

CLIFT NATHAN

CLIFT PEGGY

CLINE ARTHUR

CLINE B E

CLINE CLARA

CLINE DAVID M

CLINE DEBBIE

CLINE DONALD

CLINE ESTLE

CLINE FAYE

CLINE FORREST A

CLINE GEORGE E

CLINE KEVIN L

CLINE L W

CLINE PAUL

CLINE PAUL A

CLINE RANDY

CLINE RUTH

CLINE WILEY D

CLINE WILLIAM C

CLINT HURT & ASSOC INC

CLINTON OIL CO

CLOSE GOLDIE M

CMB INVESTMENT INC

COBUN DELORES

COCHRAN FLOYD

COCHRAN THOMAS

COE JOHN

COE T. J

COFFEY JOAN

COLE DARLA J

COLE VICTOR A

COLEMAN BROS DRILLING

COLEMAN CLAUDE

COLEMAN DONALD B

COLEMAN KATHERI

COLGROVE MELVIN

COLINA MARGARE L

COLLINS ARLIE

COLLINS ERNEST

COLOGNE ROBERT G COLOSI RUSSEL J

COLVIN CHARLES L

COLVIN NORMA L

COLVIN THEODORE J COLVIN WAYNE

COMMUNITY CHURCH

CONDO-MOBILE INC #8

CONGLETON H J

CONLEY ISADORE

CONLEY JUDY K

CONNELL TONI

CONNER ALTA B

CONNER CHARLES

CONNER DON CONNER GEORGE CONRAD JOE

CONSTABLE JEANETT CONSTABLE JOHN E CONSTITUTION

PETROLEUM

CONWAY BERNITA

COOK CHARLES H

COOK PEGGY B

COOK R G COOK RICHARD

COOK SHIRLEY

COOKE THOMAS W

COONS MARK H

COOPER HARRY W

COPUS CHARLES R

CORBETT PAUL P

CORDIER DOUGLAS W

CORMIER DORIS

CORNELL JERRY L

CORNER LAWRENC

CORNERSTONE MEM

CHUR C

CORNWELL BEVERLY CORP FRANK

CORRIGAN BETTY

CORY JAMES C

COSGRIFF & TILTON

COSS EDWARD C

COSSETT ROSE

COTTRILL SYLVIA

COUGHLIN BRIAN

COURNEY JOHN

COURTNEY GIL

COURY MICHAEL A

COVE OIL CO

COVERT KENNETH

COVEY JEFFREY M

COW RUN OIL COMPANY

“COWAN ROBERT E I

COWELL REALTY”

COX ELBERT J

COY ALBERT O

COYLE CHARLES J

COZZENS IRENE

CRAIG DOREEN

CRAIG JOSEPH H

CRAMER JOHN H

CRAWFORD ROBERT R

CRAWFORD WILLIAM

CREAN JERE J

CREIGHTON MACHINE CO

CREMEANS JERRY

CRIPPLE ARTHUR

CRISLIP MARSHA

CROCK A. J

CROCK DOROTHY

CROCK JANET

CROCK ROSE

CRONIN DEBBIE K

CROSS KAREN

CROSS KEVIN M

CROSTON ETHEL

CROSTON RUFUS

CROW MARY R

CROW RUTH

CROWL DAVID

CROY DICK

CRUM JAMES A

CRUM RONALD W

CRUM VERNA

CRUM VIOLA

CUB RUN OIL CO

CULVERHOUSE MICHAEL

CUMBERLAND EXPLORATION

CUMBERLAND GAS INC

CUNNINGHAM FORD K

CUNNINGHAM HARVEY E

CUNNINGHAM SONDRA S

CURRY R E

CURTIS MICHAEL

CUSTARD PAUL JR

CUSTER BOYD

CUSTER KEITH

CUSTER KEITH L

CUSTER WILMER B

CUTLIP WILLIAM W

CUYAHOGA EXPLORATION

D & S OIL CO

DAGGETT GENE H

DAGGETT HELEN

DAISY PETROLEUM INC

DALRYMPLE DANIEL J

DALRYMPLE PHEOBE

DALTON CLYDE

DALTON MICHAEL

DAN DEE OIL%FRANK WO O

DANA MAX

DANFORD KAREN

DANGEL SUE E

DANIELS MARGARET

DANNER PATSY A

DAUGHERTY JOYCE C

DAUGHERTY REGINALD

DAVIS BLANCHE

DAVIS DANA L

DAVIS DONALD W

DAVIS ERIN L

DAVIS GLEN E

DAVIS JEFF A

DAVIS JOHN E

DAVIS JOHN N

DAVIS JUANITA

DAVIS LARRY

DAVIS LIDA R

DAVIS MARTHA

DAVIS MERLIN

DAVIS RICHARD

DAVIS SHIRLEY D

DAVIS SHIRLEY L

DAVIS VIRGIL E DAVIS WAYNE

DAWSON STEVE DAY DAVID

DAY RALPH

DAY RANDALL DEBOER KURT

DECKER BONNIE

DECKER DAVID A

DECKER FAITH DECKER KEVIN

DECKER RICHARD C

DEEM BRENDA S

DEEM RICHARD

DEEN CORP (CLARK/WOLFE)

DEETER JACK E

DEHAVEN MARK

DELONG VANCE H

DELPHEY ELMER N

DEMING TEDDY F

DEMKO DELORES G

DENNETT MICHAEL P

DENNIS DONALD D

DENNIS KEVIN

DENNIS TERESA

DENNY DAVID R

DENTON BESSIE

DENTON JAMES C

DEPUY & BOWERSOCK

DEPUY LINDA DETWEILER JOSEPH

DEVOL A L

DEVOL VELDA B

DEVOLLD AMY

DEVOLLD BRENDA

DEVON PETROLEUM CORP

DEW WILLIAM E

DEWEY ROBERT G

DIAL PAUL

DIAMOND RESOURCES

DICK ROSELYN

DICKERSON HALLIE

DICKSON HAROLD DILLE CURTIS

DILLE LISA

DILLON CHARLES J DILLON CLAYTON

DILLON DELBERT

DIMMERLING MILDRED

DITTES ALBERT

DIYA DANIEL

DOAK THOMAS M

DOAN J L

DOBBINS SHIRLEY

DOBBINS WALTER

DOBBINS WILLIAM C

DODD SHIRLEY R

DODGE DAN

DOERING LEWIS G

DONATO BRUCE

DORAN & ASSOCIATES

DORNBUSCH W N

DOUCE NADA R

DOUGHERTY ANGELINE

DOUGHERTY VIRGINIA

DOUGLAS JAMES E

DOVE JOHN

DOVEDOT ARTHUR E

DOVENBARGER MABEL

DOVER OIL & GAS CO

DOYLE LEWIS

DOYLE PAUL

DRAIN THELMA

DRAKE GERALD A

DRAKE IMOGENE

DRAYER JOHN DRAYER SHIRLEY J

DRILCON INC PARKS 1

DUCHENOIS KENNETH J

DUCKWORTH JUSTINA DUDENAS PAUL

DUDLEY FRANKLIN R

DUDLEY HAZEL

DUFF JAMES

DUFF JOHN DUFF OTTMIRE DUFF WILLIAM E

DUFFY DANNY L

DUKE ROBERT D

DUNAWAY BETTY DUNBARGER DEBRA

DUNFEE F R

DUNFEE HAROLD

DUNKER JACK

DUNN GENEVIE DUNN JAMES B

DUNN JEROME

DUNN WILLIAM

DUVALL S W I

DYAR HOWARD

DYAR RALPH

DYAR THOMAS

DYE DAVID

DYE JOHN W

DYE MARIE N

DYER LORE K

EARHART DAVID M

EAST UNION HOMECOMING

EAST UNION SPORTSMAN

EASTERDAY FLOYD JR

EASTERLING BRIAN W

EASTERN PETROLEUM CO

EBENHACK L V

ECKELBERRY WARREN

ECKER GEORGE L

ECONO LODGE (SIGN)

ED PILCHER INC

EDDLEBLUTE PAUL

EDDLEBUTE JOHN L

EDDY ASH

EDDY JAMES D

EDDY KENNETH T

EDDY MARY

EDDY RALPH W

EDDY RAYMOND

EDGAR DONALD A

EDGERTON WILLIAM A

EDGINGTON LEE

EDINGER HENRY

EDINGER HERMAN E

EDINGER TOMMY

EDWARD KAISER OIL WELL

EGNOT-STACK DOROTHY T

EIFLER DONALD E

EIGHMEY GLORIA

ELDER LISA

ELIADES BARBARA

ELLIOTT GEORGE B

ELLIS H D

EMGE MARGENE

EMGE MARY M

ENERGY PRODUCTION IN C

ENERGY PRODUCTION IN C ENGLISH BRUCE

ENGLISH DAVID

ENGNES GARY P

ENNEY OILFIELD COMPANY

ENOCH COMMUNITY HALL

ENOCHS BEULAH F

ENSIGN JAMES

ENTERPRISE ENERGY CO R

ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGIES

EPLER DANIEL

EPPERSON BEULAH

ERB JIM

ERB PATTY J

ERB THELMA A

ERWIN JACK

ESCUE THOMAS E

ESTADT JENNIFER

ESTEP CATHERI

ESUGHI BONNIE

ETHERTON LORNA J

ETTER PAUL N

EVANS JOHN C

EVANS JOHN R

EVANS RICHARD

EVANS ROBERT A

EVERETT DOROTHY

EVERETT HARRY

EVERLY DIANA

EVERLY HEAVRIN

EVERSON DONALD E I

EVES JOHN

EWING CLARENC R

EWING NORMAN L

F AND T LEASING

F E PETROLEUM INC

FAHRENBACH DORIS

FAHRNI GLENN

FAIRBANKS KATHY

FAITH ASSEMBLY

FARLEY MICHAEL

FARLEY RYAN

FARLEY WAYNE

FARMERS LIVESTOCK AUCTN

FARNER JOHN

FARNSWORTH LLOYD

FARNSWORTH MARIE

FARNSWORTH RAYMOND

FARRELL OIL COMPANY

FAUVELLE R WJR

FEDERAL VALLEY INDIAN

FELDER JAMES

FELDNER CHARLOT

FELDNER CHESTER

FELDNER GREGORY

FELDNER MARVIN L

FELDNER PENNY

FELTON FORREST

FELTON PAUL E

FERGUSON REBECCA M

FERGUSON TOM

FICKIESEN R D

FICKIESEN RAYMOND

FIER JAMES R

FINKEL CHARLES E

FINLEY PAUL W

FINLEY T G

FINLEY TED

FIRST BAPT CH (CAMP)

FISH ALBERT

FISHER GREG A FISHER IVA

FITZGERALD H W

FIVECOAIT ROBERT

FLANDERS RIDGE

FLIEHMAN HUD

FLIEHMAN REALTY

FLORENCE ROBERT

FLOWER DON E

FLOWERS LUCY

FLOWERS RUTH A

FLY COMMUNITY PARENTS

FLYNN WENDELL

FOGLE CLARENC FOGLE LEE

FOGLE ROBERT

FORDYCE ROCKY

FOREMAN CHARLES FOREMAN GEORGE

FORINASH RANDY D FORSHEY DARREL

FORSHEY GLADYS B

FORSHEY JAMES W

FORSHEY JOHN W

FORSHEY LAWRENC

FORSHEY PHIL

FORT DEFIANCE CONSTRUCT

FOUGHT JAMES E

FOUSS SCOTT

FOWLER DAVID

FOX HARRY L

FRAKES KENNETH

FRAME A JSR

FRANCIS DANNY E

“FRANCIS RANDALL C I

FRANCIS RONALD L”

FRANCIS RUTH

FRANK JOHN L

FRASH MARTHA

FRAZIER FLOYD

FRAZIER JOHN F

FREDERICKSDALE CHURCH

FREELAND RONNIE L

FREEMAN DENNIS

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Meter tampering is a crime

Since August 1978, Ohio law has made theft of utility service and tampering with utility equipment a crime. The statute provides that a person does not have to be seen tampering with their meter to be held responsible for such action. In addition, in prosecution for a user’s reconnecting a device that was disconnected by a utility, such activity is now considered prima facie evidence the user intended to defraud the utility.

The law defines theft of utility service as a first-degree misdemeanor if the value of the stolen electricity, plus any equipment repairs, is less than $150. It’s a fourthdegree felony if more than $150, or if the offender previously was convicted of the charge.

Tampering carries similar penalties. It is defined as “to interfere with, damage, or bypass a utility meter, conduit, or attachment with intent to impede the correct registration of a meter or the proper function of a conduit or attachment.” Conviction of tampering can mean from six months in jail and a $1,000 fine to five years and a $2,500 fine. In addition, persons convicted must pay for the value of the electricity stolen and for any damaged equipment.

Meter tampering costs us all. And it’s downright dangerous. If you witness someone tampering with their electric meter, contact your co-op office. Anyone caught violating the law will be prosecuted.

Electric co-ops serve 8 consumers per mile of power lines — sometimes even less. Other electric utilities serve 32 or more consumers per mile. Even though we serve fewer consumers along the lines, that won’t stop us from going the extra mile for you, our members, whom we’re proud to serve.

Energy Efficiency Tip of the Month

Do you have a home office?

Set equipment like printers and scanners to automatically switch to sleep or energy-saver mode when not in use. In addition to saving energy, the equipment will stay cooler, which will help extend its life.

Another way to save in the home office is to use energyefficient lamps for task lighting. Small lamps use less energy than whole-room lighting.

Capital credits

Washington Electric Cooperative, Inc., refunded capital credits totaling $96,687.64 to the estates of 34 members through December. If you know a deceased member, please have the executor of the estate call our office for information on the member’s capital credits.

Credit for account number

If you find the number of your account in the local (center) pages of this magazine, call the co-op office by the 16th of the month in which it is published; you will receive at least a $10 credit on your electric bill.

Co-op Connections card

Washington Electric Cooperative members have saved a total of $98,654.66 on prescription drugs since the Co-op Connections® program launched in June 2011. Be sure to check out www.connections.coop for information on prescriptions and other discounts!

Co-op rebate programs

Water heater – rebates of $200 for qualifying 50-gallon or higher new electric water heaters. Geothermal – rebates of $600 for newly installed geothermal systems.

Air conditioners – rebates of $100 for whole-house air conditioning systems with co-op load management switch. Applies to systems younger than 10 years.

Refrigerators and freezers – $100 rebate for members who replace existing refrigerators and stand-alone freezers with a new ENERGY STAR-labeled appliance purchased after July 1, 2022. Rebates available on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Call or visit our website for details.

Co-op services

Outage reporting – Call 740-373-2141 or use the SmartHub app to report a power outage 24/7. Outage alerts — Use our SmartHub system to sign up for free outage alerts and other co-op information.

Online bill payment — Visit www.weci.org to use our secure SmartHub online payment system.

Automatic bill payment — Call our office for details on having your electric bill drafted from your checking or savings account each month.

Pay your bill by phone — Call 844-344-4362 to pay your electric bill with a check, credit card, or debit card.

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Pee Pee Creek?

Each of Ohio’s unique place names is a chapter in the state’s story.

BY CRAIG SPRINGER

An Ohio map reads like an autobiography. The names pinned to places — the towns, counties, watercourses, and junctures that you may have never even heard of — tell stories of experience, chance encounters, longings for a better future, or the wistful wishing for a place left behind. Some pay tribute to heroes of the past. Others are curious and comical, leaving one to wonder, “Uh, what were they thinking?”

The gouging push and soggy pull of glaciers and the long steady movement of water shaped the land we see today,

and strongly influenced names given the sinuous blue-line waters draining north to Lake Erie or south toward the Ohio River.

Then there’s the spilling of blood — the clash of cultures and struggle to possess what Native Americans, the British, and a fledgling United States of America all wanted to call their own.

Let’s consider the latter first.

Four Mile Creek, for example, rises in the uplands along the Indiana-Ohio state line, picking up the waters of small rills and runs and seeps. It bumps into glacial moraines and purls through pastoral farmsteads on its downhill destiny with the Great Miami River — by which time it has become a substantial stream. Its placid form and lyrical name belie the fact it was born from warfare.

In October 1791, the entirety of the U.S. Army set out from a freshly built Fort Hamilton (named to honor Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton) and nested on a bench of land above the Great Miami River. The autumn foray would become a march to massacre. The soldiers, in a slow slog north, cut a road in a wide swath through virgin forest. Four miles from the fort’s gate, the army camped for a night along a stream. The next day, three miles on, they crossed Seven Mile Creek. A month later, on the headwaters of the Wabash River, they met a confederation of Indian tribes and suffered a crushing defeat.

It became known as St. Clair’s Defeat. The battle site where upwards of 800 soldiers exhaled their last is today’s Fort Recovery. Those vanquished under the command of the Miami leader, Little Turtle, or the Shawnee leader, Blue Jacket — such as Arthur St. Clair, Richard Butler, and William Darke — live on in stream, county, and township names.

Of course, Native American place names also persist in Ohio. The difference is that they tend to be descriptive, rather than tributes to people or commemorative of experiences. “Miami,” of course, lives large in Ohio. According to linguist David Costa of the Myaamia Project at Miami University in Oxford, the Great and Little Miami river names include an adopted English use of the original Myaamia, meaning “downstream person.”

According to Costa, Miami Indians knew the Great Miami River as ahseni siipiiwi, literally “Rock River.” Lake Erie was known as ciinkwihtanwi kihcikami, literally “sea of the falls,” referring to Niagara Falls downstream. St. Mary’s River on the Indiana-Ohio state line was nameewa siipiiwi, literally “sturgeon river.”

You won’t find any of those on a map, though you will find numerous Anglicized versions of Algonquin and Iroquois words — Coshocton, for example, comes from the Lenape/Delaware word goschachgunk, which simply signified a river crossing.

Ohio has a fair number of communities with stilted names that speak to high aims of its early settlers. Akron derives from Greek for “high place.” Gallipolis evokes a sense of the Greek city-state self-governance. Xenia reflects the hospitality expected in the home in classical Greece.

Alert Station is a curious hamlet near Ross (formerly Venice, corrupted from Venus), northwest of Cincinnati (so-named after the Roman soldier-farmer Cincinnatus). Alert was and remains a crossroads. But those pioneer settlers valued literature and ensured early on they had a library populated with the classics, and the folks there were considered “alert,” as in “intellectual.”

Ohio had no shortage of volunteers answering President Polk’s call to action against Mexico in 1846. A good many Ohioans served in the Mexican War, and the effect of their return in 1848 was certainly felt in new place names. The soldiers may have desired to memorialize those killed in action, or they romanticized the places and people they had met in what is now New Mexico, California, and interior Mexico. Most prominent is Rio Grande, Ohio, pronounced “RYE-O Grand.” And there are the Buckeye burgs of Vera Cruz, Monterey, and Montezuma, as well as the City of Holy Faith: Santa Fe, Ohio.

One cannot consider the topic of Ohio’s place names without addressing those that leave you scratching your head. Ever heard of No Name, Knockemstiff, or Pee Pee Creek? All three exist in southern Ohio, and it’s the origin of the last that’s well-documented. Pee Pee Creek trickles through Pebble Township in Pike County, which had been named by Peter Patrick — who had carved his initials in a stream-side tree circa 1785

Ohio’s place names run the spectrum from commonplace to implausible. One can go to Russia, visit Rome, London and Paris, and take a drive through Mesopotamia — without ever leaving the state. Every place name relates to desires, experience and perception. And what they have in common across that spectrum is enchantment in the spirit of their origins.

Sweettooth

Harry Birt’s store has it all — but that candy section keeps the doors open.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARGIE WUEBKER

Afaded sign inside this Darke County institution proudly proclaims the store motto: “A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.” Sweetness certainly comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, and flavors at Birt’s Store in the village of New Weston.

The rustic shop typically stocks 350 varieties of candy as Valentine’s Day approaches. Decisions are even tougher at Christmastime, as the shelves get stocked with more than 525 varieties, according to third-generation owner Brad Birt.

Double-dipped chocolate peanuts, maple-filled chocolate peanut clusters, chocolate-covered caramels, and

Brad Birt, representing the third generation of his family to sell candy from the Darke County store, displays some of the sweet treats available in the candy aisle

chocolate drops top the list of favorites. After all, the love of chocolate spans all seasons.

Birt’s grandfather, Harry Birt Sr., unwittingly started a family tradition in the 1920s when he added five cases of white peppermint lozenges, orange slices, and chocolate drops to his general store shelves. The candy arrived via caboose at a nearby train depot, but it was evident that crew members had sampled plenty along the way.

Harry Birt Jr., who came on board after World War II, recognized the importance of establishing a niche market in the form of more candy, fresh fruits and vegetables, and deli meats and cheeses. He initially used the family

station wagon to pick up orders directly from suppliers. Trucks came later.

“My dad believed people would come if you offered a great product at a reasonable price,” Brad Birt says. “We have built a reputation over decades, and you don’t try to fix something that isn’t broke.”

The store deals with dozens of suppliers who share a commitment to quality, requiring regular trips covering Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.

Holiday shoppers grab silver scoops and white paper sacks to make their bulk selections — though chocolates and other specialties are prepackaged at other times of the year.

“Tastes change with age,” Birt says. “Kids are into sour candies and gummy anything these days. Everybody else wants chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, or the candy they grew up with. Folks do a lot of reminiscing up and down the aisles.”

Tiered shelves offer a smorgasbord of chocolates: flavored creams, assorted fruits, nuts, fudge clusters, and even coated animal crackers and sandwich cookies. Tenpound slabs of chocolate and 5-pound chunks of caramel are popular with at-home candymakers.

Individually wrapped candies like Tootsie Rolls, taffy, and Bit-O-Honey vie for space with flavored jelly beans, jumbo malted milk balls, divinity, old-fashioned hard tack candy, and 1-pound jawbreakers.

“My grandfather dealt with candy by the pound,” Birt says. “We deal with candy by the ton. Candy is our niche. It’s what keeps the doors open.”

Harry Birt’s Store, 501 Main St., New Weston. Open seven days a week. www.harybirtsstore.com, www.facebook.com/HarryBirtsStore; 937-338-3111.

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MAD RIVER MOUNTAIN

Ohio’s largest ski resort turns 70 this year.

BY RANDY EDWARDS; PHOTOS COURTESY OF MAD RIVER MOUNTAIN

When he was 12, John Buchenroth received a Christmas gift of $10, which was a considerable sum in 1962. It turned out to be a life-changing gift for the Bellefontaine youngster. Three days later, he put on warm clothes and took his money to the area’s new Alpine ski resort, which had opened for its first season a few days before Christmas that year.

“It was my first day of skiing,” recalls Buchenroth, 73. “The lift ticket was a dollar-fifty, rental was a buck, my first lesson was a buck-fifty. And I fell in love with the sport.”

Sixty ski seasons later, Buchenroth is still in love — and he’s passed along his enthusiasm for skiing to thousands of beginners who have strapped on their first pair of skis at the Logan County resort now known as Mad River Mountain. Buchenroth is supervisor of the Ski and Ride School at Mad River, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this season.

Mad River has been owned by Vail Resorts since 2019, when the Colorado-based company purchased all 17 properties previously owned by Peak Resorts, Inc., including three other Ohio resorts. Mad River isn’t the oldest resort in Ohio — Snow Trails in Mansfield opened a year earlier — but it lays claim to being the largest in the Buckeye State, covering 144 acres, with a peak elevation of 1,460 feet above sea level.

The vertical drop is just 300 feet, a molehill compared to ski mountains out West (Vail, the flagship of Mad River’s corporate owner, boasts a vertical drop of 3,450 feet), but this humble Ohio ski hill has been the resort where generations of central Ohioans have learned to ski, either on their own or with their school ski clubs. Olympic and X Games snowboarder Louie Vito, who learned to ski at Mad River, went on to be a superstar. Most others simply move on to bigger mountains but bring their kids back to Mad River to get their start.

“We’re teaching kids and grandkids of people we have had in our programs,” Buchenroth says. Located in the tiny village of Valley Hi, just outside of Bellefontaine, Mad River Mountain offers 20 ski runs, from the beginner area at the base of the hill to steeper, more challenging slopes and one wooded glade. There is a terrain park for Alpine acrobatics and a tubing park touted as Ohio’s largest. With Ohio winters unpredictable for snow, snowmaking is a must at all Ohio ski resorts, and Mad River has 128 snow guns, capable of covering all 144 skiable acres.

The resort’s new-ish lodge opened in 2016 after a fire destroyed the original lodge in 2015. The new lodge has increased capacity, seating 800 hungry skiers in the cafeteria and about 200 in The Loft bar.

Staff members at Mad River Mountain (left) work to ensure a great skiing and tubing experience for all who visit. John Buchenroth (right) fell in love with skiing as a child, after he took his first lesson at Mad River. He now supervises the resort’s Ski and Ride School.

The first couple of years have been a bit rocky for the new owners. The ski industry nationwide took a big hit during the pandemic, and operations during the 2021–22 season at Mad River were curtailed due to labor shortages and warm weather in December, which delayed the resort’s opening until Jan. 6, says Larry Kuebler, general manager of Mad River.

“We got a late start [and] we took away some operating hours, and people were not thrilled with that,” he says. “I don’t blame them one bit.”

Kuebler was optimistic as he was preparing for the opening of the 2022–23 season. Vail Resorts promised a $20-an-hour minimum wage for all positions, and Mad River started the season fully staffed, which has allowed a return to normal operating hours. Plans for the 60th anniversary season include weekly events, expanded menu offerings in the lodge, and a return to live music in the bar.

Vail Resorts considers attendance figures to be proprietary, Kuebler said. Prior to the pandemic, the resort’s previous owners said publicly that the ski hill sees about 150,000 skier visits and 40,000 tuber visits per season. Most come from Columbus, Dayton, and other mid-Ohio locations.

“We have so many passionate skiers who have been skiing here for so long, and they’re proud to call it home,” Kuebler says.

Over the past couple of decades, downhill skiing has witnessed a participation slump as Baby Boomers are aging out of the sport and not as many younger people are picking it up. Keubler said Mad River’s response has been to focus on recruiting new skiers and getting them involved in the ski school.

“If we’re going to help the overall industry, we have to focus on getting them to love the sport as we do,” he says.

School groups can be found at Mad River every night of the week. Many young skiers learn the sport through their school ski clubs, including Brady Whiteside, 18, a graduate of Hilliard Davidson High School who started snowboarding at Mad River in the seventh grade.

He learned to ski from Mad River instructors, who “taught us the basics” and inspired self-assurance, Whiteside says, so that later, when he began traveling to ski the much longer and steeper runs at Colorado resorts like Winter Park and Arapahoe Basin, he had confidence in his ability.

“You can only prepare so much for those crazy trails [in Colorado], but they took me as far as I could [at a hill the size of Mad River].”

Now a freshman at Ohio State University, Whiteside says Mad River can seem small, after skiing the big western mountains, but he will be going back to the local hill this winter.

“It’s close, and when I go to Mad River, I’m going to snowboard with friends,” he says. “We make our own fun.”

Children have been learning to ski on the slopes at Mad River Mountain since 1962. Today, families enjoy skiing and snowboarding on the resort’s 20 trails and snow tubing on the runs of Ohio’s largest tubing park.

2023 CALENDAR FEBRUARY/MARCH

NORTHWEST

FEB. 9–19 – The Lion in Winter, Van Wert Civic Theatre, 118 S. Race St., Van Wert, Thur.–Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Set during Christmas 1183, the play tells the wickedly amusing tale of King Henry II, his imprisoned queen (released only for the holiday), and their three entitled sons who vie for the throne in a double-dealing division of the kingdom. 419-238-9689 or www.vwct.org.

FEB. 17 – Mitchell Tenpenny, Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center., 7 Town Square, Lima, 7:30 p.m. Rising country star brings his debut tour to Lima. 419-224-1552 or www.limaciviccenter.com.

FEB. 19–20 – Horse-Drawn Sleigh Rides, Spiegel Grove, Hayes Presidential Library and Museums, Fremont. Celebrate Presidents Day by taking a horse-drawn sleigh or trolley ride through the estate, as President Hayes did when he lived here. $5 50 sleigh, $4 50 trolley, 2 and under free. 800-998-7737 or www.rbhayes.org.

WEST VIRGINIA

FEB. 24–26, MAR. 3–5 – Walking Across Egypt, Encore Theatre, 991 N. Shore Dr., Lima, Fri./Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. $8–$15. A spirited elderly widow decides to befriend and adopt an orphaned juvenile delinquent. 419-223-8866 or www.amitellers.org.

FEB. 25 – Burning Snowman Fest, Dock’s Beach House, 252 W. Lakeshore Dr., Port Clinton, 4–10 p.m. Say goodbye to winter with the burning of a giant snowman! Live music, food, and drink; all proceeds go to charity. 419-357-6247 or www.facebook.com/ BurningSnowman.

FEB. 25 – Menopause the Musical, Niswonger Performing Arts Ctr., 10700 St. Rte. 118 S., Van Wert, 3 p.m. $39–$69 419-238-6722 or www.npacvw.org.

MAR. 3 – Air Supply: “The Lost in Love Experience,” Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 St. Rte. 118 S., Van Wert, 7:30 p.m. $65–$95 419-238-6722 or www.npacvw.org.

MAR. 4 – Glass City Wine Festival, Glass City Center, 401 Jefferson Ave., Toledo. $25–$40. Toledo’s premier wine, food, and shopping festival. 419-255-3300 or www.glasscitywinefestival.com.

MAR. 5 – Acoustics for Autism Music Festival, 300 block of Conant and surrounding area, Maumee,

Sat. noon–Sun. 2 a.m. Free for all ages. More than 80 bands on eight stages. Proceeds go to provide support and information, resources, and financial assistance to families affected by autism. 419-5149817 or www.acousticsforautism.com.

MAR. 9 – Toledo Symphony Concert, Sauder Village, Founder’s Hall, 22611 St. Rte. 2, Archbold, 7:30 p.m. $15–$18; free for students K–12 800-590-9755 or www.saudervillage.org.

MAR. 12–13 – Spring Festival of Crafts, Premier Banquet Hall, 4480 Heatherdowns Blvd., Toledo, Sat. 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Free. New location! See the new crafts, gifts, and decorating ideas from our crafters and artists. Collecting household and food items to benefit Toledo SeaGate Food Bank. 419-842-1925 or www.toledocraftsmansguild.org/shows.html.

MAR. 13 – My Fair Lady, Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center., 7 Town Square, Lima, 7:30 p.m. $45+. Entertainment Weekly calls this “a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time.” Directed by Bartlett Sher. 419-224-1552 or www.limaciviccenter.com.

FEB. 26 – West Virginia’s Premier Wedding Expo, The Morris, 411 N. 6th St., Clarksburg, 1–3 p.m. $15. Find everything you need to plan your special day. Meet the area’s leading wedding professionals in a fun environment with other engaged people. https:// infinitystudioseventplanning.com/wedding-expofebruary-2023

MAR. 11-12 – Kanawha Valley Railroad Association Model Train and Craft Show, Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center, 200 Civic Center Dr., Charleston, Sat. 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $5; 12 and under free. Vendors, clinics, and layouts. www.kvrailroad.org/events.html.

THROUGH FEB. 25 – “The Me Decade: A Look Back at the 1970s,” McKinley Museum, Keller Gallery, 800 McKinley Monument Dr. N., Canton, Tues.–Sat., 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $8–$10. Featuring ’70s fashion, décor, appliances, pop culture objects, and commemorative items from the nation’s bicentennial celebration in 1976. 330-455-7043 or http://mckinleymuseum.org.

FEB. 11 – Lake Erie Folk Fest, Shore Cultural Centre, 291 E. 222nd St., Euclid. 1–6 p.m., free music workshops, jams, and performances; 7:30 p.m., Grand Finale concert (tickets required). www.lakeeriefolkfest.com.

FEB. 17 – Kent BeatleFest, downtown Kent. Free. Come together for the annual celebration of the Fab Four’s music, featuring a stellar lineup of bands at various venues throughout the downtown. www.kentbeatlefest.com or www.facebook.com/ KentBeatleFest.

FEB. 24–MAR. 5 – Cleveland Auto Show, I-X Center, One I-X Dr., Cleveland. $15, Srs./C. (7–12) $12, under 7 free. Featuring concept, pre-production, and

SOUTHEAST

production vehicles, plus an array of entertainment including sports and celebrity appearances, indoor test drives, vehicle giveaway, classic car competition, and more. www.clevelandautoshow.com.

FEB. 25 – Brite Winter, West Bank of the Flats, Cleveland, Sat. 3 p.m.–Sun. 1 a.m. Premier wintertime festival featuring diverse musical acts, artwork, fun outdoor activities, food and beer trucks, and more. www.britewinter.com.

FEB. 25 – Ohio Boating Education Course, Cleveland Watercraft Office, 1150 E. 49th St., Cleveland, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Free. Fulfills Ohio’s mandatory boater education law requirements. 216-361-1212 or https://ohiodnr.gov/home/news-andevents/all-events/parks-wc-events.

MAR. 2–4 – Ohio Amish Country Home and Garden Show, Chestnut Ridge Sewing, 5079 Township Rd. 401, Millersburg. www.chestnutridgesewing.com.

MAR. 4–5, 11–12 – Maple Syrup Festival, Malabar Farm State Park, 4050 Bromfield Rd., Lucas, 12–4 p.m. Free. Experience the sugar camp at Malabar Farm with live historical demonstrations. Horse-drawn wagon rides, food, and maple products for sale. 419-892-2784 or www.malabarfarm.org.

MAR. 4–5, 11–12 – Maple Sugar Festival and Pancake Breakfast, Hale Farm and Village, 2686 Oak Hill Rd., Bath, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Enjoy a hearty pancake breakfast and then head out to learn about tree tapping and maple sugar and syrup production. Watch evaporator demonstrations, hear stories about maple traditions, see seasonal cooking demonstrations, and more. www.wrhs.org/signature-events.

MAR. 5 – World Tour of Music: Les Délices, AkronSummit County Public Library, 60 S. High St., Akron,

necessary! 740-596-3030, www.facebook.com/ LakeHopeStatePark, or www.ohiodnr.gov.

FEB. 18 – Great Backyard Bird Count, Burr Oak State Park, 9:30–11:30 a.m. Free. We’ll identify and count all the birds we see on a 1 5-mile hike. Bring binoculars or borrow a pair from the nature center. Dress for the weather. 740-767-3570, www.facebook. com/BurrOakStatePark, or www.ohiodnr.gov.

2–4 p.m. Free, but reservations recommended. The Cleveland-based early music ensemble, led by baroque oboist Debra Nagy, will present an afternoon of medieval music. Firestone high school choir students will also perform. 419-853-6016 or www.ormaco.org.

MAR. 11 – Dane Vannatter Trio: “Come to the Cabaret,” Williams on the Lake, 787 Lafayette Rd., Medina, 6–9:30 p.m. $60. Enjoy an evening of favorite tunes from the American Songbook, as well as appetizers and drinks, a dinner buffet, desserts, and an auction to benefit ORMACO’s outreach programs. Book early to avoid disappointment: 419-853-6016 or www.ormaco.org.

MAR. 11–12 – Rocky River Spring Avant-Garde Art and Craft Show, Rocky River Memorial Hall, 21016 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River, Sat. 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. $3, under 12 free. Large show featuring artists and crafters selling their original handmade items. Full concession stand. 440-227-8794 or www.avantgardeshows.com.

MAR. 12 – Cleveland Comic Book and Nostalgia Festival, Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland/ Westlake, 1100 Crocker Rd., Westlake, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $5; 6 and under free. Comic and toy vendors, guest comic creators, hourly prizes. 330-462-3985 or www.harpercomics.com

MAR. 12 – “Moustache Yourself: Gypsy Jazz,” Wadsworth Public Library, 132 Broad St., Wadsworth, 2–3 p.m. Free; reservations recommended. The northeast Ohio–based band Moustache will bring to life the style of music that originates with Romani guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt and French swing violinist Stéphane Grappelli. 419-853-6016 or www.ormaco.org.

as blacksmiths, tinsmiths, horn makers, leather workers, and cabinetmakers. Also gunmakers’ supplies and books. 740-373-3750 or www. campusmartiusmuseum.org.

FEB. 11 – Valentine’s Chocolate Extravaganza, 118 S. Paul St., Woodsfield, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Contact 740-472-4848 with any questions.

FEB. 16 – Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner, Pritchard Laughlin Civic Ctr., 7033 Glenn Highway, Cambridge. 740-439-6688 or https:// cambridgeohiochamber.com.

FEB. 17 – Great Backyard Bird Count, Lake Hope State Park, Nature Center, 27331 St. Rte. 278, McArthur, noon–4 p.m. Free. Come out to assist us with this global citizen science project to identify and count bird species. No prior birding experience

FEB. 18 – Stonehouse Trail Nature Hike, Salt Fork State Park, 14755 Cadiz Rd., Lore City, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., weather permitting. Free. Join the naturalist on a moderately difficult 1 8-mile nature hike to the historic Kennedy Stonehouse. Weather-appropriate clothes and sturdy shoes recommended. 740-630-6105 (John Hickenbottom), www.facebook.com/saltforkstatepark, or www.ohiodnr.gov.

FEB. 18 – “Skunk Cabbage Caravan,” Shawnee State Park Lodge, 3–5 p.m. Free. Carpool to Bear Lake in Shawnee Forest to see a beautiful winter blooming plant with a very interesting life history. Dress in layers, wear waterproof boots, and be prepared to walk a short distance off trail along a stream. 740-858-6652, www.facebook.com/ ShawneeStatePark, or www.ohiodnr.gov.

FEB. 18 – “Contemporary Gunmakers and Allied Artists,” Campus Martius Museum, 601 Second St., Marietta, 9:30 a.m.– 4 p.m. Features the work of several dozen traditional gunmakers as well

FEB. 25 – “Visit the Nature Nook,” Shawnee State Park Lodge, 4404 St. Rte. 125, West Portsmouth, noon–3 p.m. Free. Visit with our animal ambassadors in the Shawnee Lodge Nature Nook. 740-858-6652, www.facebook.com/ShawneeStatePark, or www.ohiodnr.gov.

MAR. 5 – “An Afternoon with Fran Leibowitz,” Peoples Theatre, Marietta, 3 p.m. Free. Marietta College welcomes the Emmy-nominated author, journalist, and social commentator. www.marietta. edu/event/esbenshade-series-fran-lebowitz or www.peoplesbanktheatre.com.

MAR. 10–12 – Home, Garden, and Business Expo, Pritchard Laughlin Civic Ctr., 7033 Glenn Hwy., Cambridge. 740-439-6688 or www. cambridgeohiochamber.com.

MAR. 11 – “An Insider’s Tour,” Campus Martius Museum, 601 Second St., Marietta, 1:30–3:30 p.m. $10 + museum admission. Take a deeper look at the early settlers who are the focus of David McCullough’s book The Pioneers. Tour the home of General Rufus Putnam. Registration required. 740373-3750 or www.campusmartiusmuseum.org.

FEB. 17 – Great Backyard Bird Count 4-Mile Hike, Alum Creek State Park, New Galena Picnic Area, 4550 Africa Rd., Galena, 8:30–11 a.m. Free. We will identify and count all the birds we see and hear on our hike. Dress for the weather; bring binoculars. 740513-6382 (Lindsey Krusling) or www.facebook.com/ AlumCreekStatePark.

FEB. 17–19 – Chasing Charming, Marion Palace Theatre, 276 W. Center St., Marion, Fri./Sat. 7 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. $15–$22. Featuring a cast of local youth. 740-383-2101 or www.marionpalace.org.

FEB. 18 – “Basic Landscape Design,” Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E. Broad St., Columbus, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $20–$25. Learn the basic design principles of color, texture, scale, rhythm, repetition, and form and how these principles can be used to create a customized garden mixed with trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and bulbs. Register at www. fpconservatory.org/events/basic-landscape-design.

FEB. 18 – Winter Hike, A.W. Marion State Park, 7317 Warner-Huffer Rd., Circleville, 2–4 p.m. Free. Join us for a 2-mile hike along the northern shore of Hargus Lake. Moderately difficult trail; may not be suitable for young children or those with a physical impediment. Dress for the weather; bring water. 740-527-4008

or https://ohiodnr.gov/go-and-do/plan-a-visit/find-aproperty/a-w-marion-state-park.

FEB. 18–26 – Spring Home and Garden Show, Ohio Expo Center, Bricker and Celeste Bldgs.., 717 E. 11th St., Columbus, Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–6 p.m., weekdays 11 a.m.–7 p.m. $8–$10; 17 and under free. Connect with local experts for advice and find the best products and services for making every space of your home more functional and beautiful. www.dispatchshows.com/home-and-garden-show.

FEB. 19 – Fairfield County Antique Tractor Club Toy and Tractor Show, Fairfield Co. Fgds., AAA Bldg., 157 E. Fair Ave., Lancaster, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $2, under 12 free. Two large, heated buildings with toys and displays. Lunch served by local 4-H group. 740-407-2347 (Doug Shaw) or www.fairfieldcountytractorclub.com.

FEB. 24 – Michael Cavanaugh, Marion Palace Theatre, 276 W. Center St., Marion, Fri./Sat. 7:30 p.m. $28–$38. Tony and Grammy–nominated star of the Broadway musical Movin’ Out performs the greatest hits of Billy Joel and Elton John. 740-383-2101 or www.marionpalace.org.

FEB. 25 – Paul Francis Quartet, Majestic Theatre, 45 E. Second St., Chillicothe, 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. Grammy Award-winning drummer, educator, and Chillicothe native Paul Francis returns to perform at the historic theater. www.majesticchillicothe.net.

FEB. 25–26 – Maple Syrup Tours, Dawes Arboretum, Main Shelter House, 7770 Jacksontown Rd., Newark, 1–3 p.m. Walk along the trail to discover the many ways syrup has been made throughout history. Peek inside the log cabin, and taste a sample of this all-natural treat! Tours are first come, first served. 740323-2355 or www.dawesarb.org.

FEB. 25–26 – Scott Antique Market, Ohio Expo Ctr., Voinovich Bldg., 717 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, Sat. 9 a.m.–6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free; $5 parking. 800 exhibit booths. info@scottantiquemarket.com or www. scottantiquemarkets.com.

FEB. 20 – Monday Music Night: McIntyre Bluegrass Trio, Centerville Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Pike, Centerville, 7–8 p.m. Free. Enjoy lively banjo, fiddle, and guitar music performed by Vernon and Kitty McIntyre and guest Robert Campbell. 937-433-8091

FEB. 25 – TCA Ohio River Chapter Train Meet, American Legion Hall, 11100 Winton Rd., Cincinnati, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. for members; 10 a.m.–2 p.m. for the public. 513-256-9955 (Dan Miller). steamsparkles@ aol.com, or www.tcatrains.org/event/ohio-riverchapter-train-meet-7

MAR. 2–5 – Arnold Sports Festival and Arnold Expo, Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St., Columbus, Fri./Sat. 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Three-day, daily, and individual competition tickets. Nearly 1,000 booths of the latest in sports nutrition, apparel, and equipment, plus four stages of unique, non-stop competitions and entertainment. www.arnoldsports.com.

MAR. 4 – “Planning a Year of Vegetables,” Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E. Broad St., Columbus, 1–2:30 p.m. $20–$25. From seed selection to vegetable varieties and everything in between, you will learn how to plan a garden to provide you with a full year of vegetables, grown in your own yard! Register at www. fpconservatory.org/events/vegetable-planning.

MAR. 5 – Buckeye Comic Con, Courtyard Marriott Columbus West, 2350 Westbelt Dr., Columbus, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $5; 6 and under free. Comic and toy vendors, guest comic creators, hourly prizes. 330-462-3985 or www.harpercomics.com.

MAR. 10–12 – All American Columbus Pet Expo, Ohio Expo Center, Bricker and Ohio Bldgs., 717 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, Fri. noon–8 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Includes the Pet Expo, the All About Cats Expo, and the Mega Pet Adoption. www.allaboutcatsexpo.com.

MAR. 11 – Columbus Beer Festival, COSI, 333 W. Broad St., Columbus, 8–11 p.m. $50; early admission at 7 p.m., $65. Featuring over 50 breweries, 150 beers, and access to all the museum’s exhibits, plus some special surprises. Admission includes beer tastings, with food sold separately. www.columbusbrewfestival.com.

MAR. 12 – New Albany Symphony Orchestra: “Ellington Price Still,” McCoy Center, 100 W. Dublin-Granville Rd., New Albany, 3–4 p.m. $14–$22 Featuring the works of Duke Ellington, Florence Price, and William Grant Still. 614-469-0939 or www.newalbanysymphony.com.

11 a.m.–5 p.m., $10 admission good both days. Preview 9–11 a.m., $30; includes show pass. Under 18 free. One of the best modern design shows in the country. Over 50 sellers offering midcentury furniture, lighting, decorative objects, housewares, pop culture memorabilia, and fashion. 513-951-6626 or www.20thcenturycincinnati.com.

FEB. 25–26, MAR. 2–5 – Cincinnati Home and Garden Show, Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Cincinnati, Wed.–Fri. 11 a.m.–8 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.–9 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $13 online, $15 at door. More than 400 exhibitors. www.cincinnatihomeandgardenshow.com.

THROUGH MAR. 29 – Bluegrass Wednesdays, Vinoklet Winery, 11069 Colerain Ave., Cincinnati, Wed. 6:30–8:30 p.m. Free entertainment by Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. Reservations recommended. 513-385-9309, vinokletwinery@fuse. net, or www.vinokletwines.com.

FEB. 17–19 – Miami County Home and Garden Show, Hobart Arena, 255 Adams St., Troy, Fri. 2–6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $6; 12 and under free. We have everything from outdoor specialists to kitchen and bath renovators to help you plan your next home improvement project. 937339-7963 or www.miamicountyhomeshow.com.

FEB. 18–26 – Princess and Frog, Taft Theater, 317 E. 5th St., Cincinnati. $8–$54. Check website for performance times. 513-569-8080 or www. thechildrenstheatre.com.

FEB. 25 – “Early Signs of Spring,” Rocky Fork State Park, 9800 N. Shore Dr., Hillsboro, 1–2:30 p.m. Free. Join a naturalist on a guided 3-mile hike to search for early signs of spring. 937-393-4284 or www.ohiodnr.gov.

FEB. 25 – Winter Hike, St. Rte. 370, Yellow Springs. Free. Guided 6-mile hike along Little Miami River, departing from John Bryan State Park and stopping midway at Clifton Gorge Nature Center, where hot cocoa and snacks will be served. 937-537-6173 or www.ohiodnr.gov.

FEB. 25–26 – Dayton Off-Road and Outdoor Expo, Roberts Centre, 123 Gano Rd., Wilmington, Sat. 9 a.m.–6 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $5; 12 and under free. Vendors, Jeeps, monster trucks, and more! Fun for the whole family. 877-428-4748 or www. daytonoffroadexpo.com.

FEB. 25–26 – 20th Century Cincinnati, Sharonville Convention Center., 11355 Chester Rd., Cincinnati,

MAR. 7 – Downtown Downhome Bluegrass, Miami Downtown Downhome, 221 High St., Hamilton, 7–8:30 p.m. Free. Featuring Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. Enjoy an evening of lively bluegrass music with lightning-fast instrumentals, close harmonies, and entertaining novelty songs. For more information, email vaughnjh@gmail.com.

MAR. 11–12 – Sweet Spring Marketplace, Montgomery Co. Fgds., 645 Infirmary Rd., Dayton, Sat. 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. $5; 12 and under free. Early-bird shopping Sat. 8–10 a.m., $7. Over 80 exhibits filled with shabby chic, repurposed, vintage, primitive, farmhouse, country, contemporary, jewelry, clothing, bath and body, home décor, and yummy foods. www.montcofair. com/event/sweet-spring-marketplace-3

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