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Shrek the Musical
Genoa High School will present “Shrek the Musical” March 20, 21 and 22 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday March 23 at 2:30 pm. Top photo, Lord Farquaad (Carlos Baez) and chorus perform “The Ballad of Farquaad.” Bottom photo, Princess Fiona (Christy Dazley) and Shrek (David Riegle) perform “I Think I Got You Beat.” “Shrek the Musical” has only been available for amateur licensing since June 2013. Genoa High School will be the 4th high school in Ohio to present the show on stage. For tickets call 419-855-7741 ext. 31315 or ext. 41204. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
Reeves hurt attempting to break up fight
Job description didn’t include this By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com A lot of things aren’t written into a high school athletic director’s job description. One of them is breaking up a “disagreement” in the stands between students and/or alleged adults. Terry Reeves, a lifelong Oregon resident who is in serving his fourth term on Oregon City Council, is in his fifth year as the athletic director at Bowsher. On Dec. 20, in the Rebels’ home boys basketball game against City League rival Scott, Reeves saw a ruckus in the stands in the third quarter and took action. “It was the last day of school before Christmas break,” Reeves recalled. “There were some people up in the stands who were let in a different door than they should have been and they went up on our side. I guess this happened at halftime. They started getting a little rowdy with some of our fans. They weren’t all kids. Nineteen
people were arrested and probably only four of them were kids.” Reeves, a former state-tournament wrestler who now weighs more than 300 pounds, was in the hallway and looked through the gym doors and saw what was happening. Terry Reeves There were eight security officers on hand, but Reeves took off anyway. “There were people rushing out of the stands onto the floor,” he said. “I made sure the teams were off the court, and the officials. I took off up the steps towards one of our kids and I got bumped into by a couple students who were tying to get away from the situation. They weren’t involved in the fight. I went down to my right knee and my left foot was about two steps ahead.” Reeves, 55, tore a quad muscle that, at
that moment, he said, “sounded just like a gun going off.” He was in a leg brace until recently and is still going to physical therapy. “The injury I had, the doctor said if I was an athlete it would be at least a year before I could get back on the playing field,” Reeves said. “It’s probably going to be a year and a half for me.” Athletics in his blood Reeves isn’t an athlete anymore, but he was. A good one, too. The 1977 Cardinal Stritch grad was a two-year starter in football with the Cardinals, as a center his sophomore and junior year and a starting offensive tackle as a senior. He was inducted into the Cardinal Stritch Hall of Fame in 2012 along with the rest of the Cardinals’ 1975 state playoff team, coached by Tom Greer. Reeves was a three-year letterman in wrestling and was a two-time state tournament qualifier, placing sixth at heavyContinued on page 2
Days after losing officer Jose Chavez to an act of violence, members of the Elmore Police Department were still trying to come to terms with the sudden death of the man known as Andy to friends and colleagues. “I don’t think the reality has set in around here yet,” Chief George Hayes said Wednesday. Hayes said he received a call at 3 a.m. notifying him of the shooting of the 26-year-old Chavez. Chavez was off duty and belatedly celebrating his birthday at a tavern March 9 in Fremont when he and two others were shot and killed during an altercation. With only four full-time and three parttime officers on the Elmore department’s roster, the impact of the loss of Chavez has been profound, the chief said. “He was an excellent officer with a good personality,” Hayes said. “He was a well liked individual.” A statement issued by Sgt. Jeffrey Harrison the day of the shooting describe Chavez as “an exemplary officer in good standing with the department.” Chavez lived in Woodville with his wife and two children. He was an auxiliary member of the Woodville Police Department and worked full-time with a private security firm in Toledo before joining the Elmore department as a full-time officer in January 2012. “He would have gone far,” Chief Hayes said. “He was well educated and very articulate.” The chief described Chavez as his “go-to man” for the funeral procession last October for former Elmore mayor Lowell Krumnow. “He was on the motor scooter and was able to get wherever we needed him to be for traffic control or crowd control. He got around a lot better on that thing than I could have,” Hayes said. Like many of the officers in the department, Chavez found conducting investigations of crimes an especially interesting part of his job, the chief said. Flags were at half staff in the village Continued on page 2
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