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One season — Genoa wins two state championships
The Genoa wrestling team followed their dual tournament Division III state championship with another state championship at the individual tournament. The team not only took its second D-III crown this season, but junior Dylan D'Emilio went 52-0 and won an individual state title. At the Schottenstein Center on the campus of Ohio State University, Genoa’s coaches and state placers — Front row, left to right: head coach Bob Bergman, assistant coach Dave Wlodarz, coach Chris Kamelesky, Julian Sanchez, Dylan D'Emilio, Oscar Sanchez, Coach Dom D'Emilio, and coach Kevin Contos. Row two — coach Damian D'Emilio, Xavier Beach, James Limongi, Noah Koch and Dustin Morgillo. (Photo by Crystal Bays) For more about state wrestling, see the Second Section of this week's issue of The Press.
A special spring at Country Lane Tree Farm By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com The annual spring Easter event at the Country Lane Tree Farm this year will be especially poignant for owners John and Melissa Bowlander. Called the Easter Bunny hayride/egg hunt and baby animal tour – and scheduled for March 24, 25 and 31 - it will be the first event at the farm since a fire last month. The farm will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. those days. “The spring event has always been something special we do for families,” Melissa said. “They can come and celebrate spring at our farm. We have a hay wagon that takes them to an egg patch where the kids can collect eggs for candy. The Easter Bunny will be here for pictures and they can hold baby ducks, chicks and bunnies. We have baby lambs that were just born and baby goats. There will be pony rides, a barrel-train ride and hay climb. It’s been growing in popularity. I think people just want to get out after the winter.” The Bowlanders have been operating the farm for 27 years and Melissa says they were determined to not let the fire stop them from continuing. According to Mike Musolf, chief of the Allen-Clay Joint Fire District, the blaze was reported about 2:12 a.m. on Feb. 20. When firefighters arrived a barn structure had collapsed and another building was burning. Crews were at the scene for about three hours and were able to protect a third building from the fire. But six goats, including four babies, were killed as were several chickens and other fowl. Fortunately, the farm’s cows were not seriously injured. One day after the fire, Melissa said she and her husband and their two children, John, Jr., and Alexandria, decided the best way to ease the Chase Johnson holds a young turkey at the Country Lane Continued on page 4 Tree Farm. (Submitted photo)
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An East Toledo man was arraigned at the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas on March 14 after being indicted for the alleged rape, gross sexual imposition, and abduction of a woman who was shopping at Goodwill on Navarre Avenue in Oregon. Jesus L. Escalara, Sr., of 523 Potter Street, pled not guilty. On Feb. 21, Escalara allegedly entered a dressing room at Goodwill, 3249 Navarre Ave., and sexually assaulted a 29 year old female customer who had been trying on clothes in a dressing room at approximately 11:30 a.m. The suspect was told by the woman to leave, according to a report from the Oregon Police Department. He did, but came back a couple of seconds later. The suspect asked the woman for a lighter. She gave him one, and told him to leave. The suspect continued to stand in front of the door blocking the woman from exiting. He was mumbling, but she couldn’t understand what he was saying, according to the report. When the woman gave him a lighter, he exposed himself to her, according to the report. The suspect then asked the victim to perform a sexual act on him for $16. The woman states the suspect continued to “play with himself,” and that she continued to tell him to leave. The suspect then reached his hands down inside the woman’s underpants. The suspect leaned in close to the woman’s face and tried to kiss her. She felt him make contact on her lips, according to the police report. The woman was able to push the suspect away from her by placing her hands on his chest, continuing to tell him, “No.” After pushing the suspect away, the woman grabbed her purse, clothing off the rack and ran out of the dressing room. The woman told her friend, who was sitting outside the dressing room, “We have to go.” The woman told others inside the Goodwill store there was a guy inside the dressing room trying to rape her and he had exposed himself. There was a patron of the
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