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By Cynthia L. Jacoby Special to The Press Officials in Oak Harbor are taking a stride in the effort to fix a major problem with the sewer system and related flooding in residential areas.

Village leaders recently received Ohio Environmental Protection Agency permission for a modified sewer system permit request to open the combined sewer overflow regulator valve on Portage Street, according to interim village administrator Randy Genzman.

Opening that site will help relieve stress on the system in times of heavy rainfall.

The agency gave its OK to the request after village council hired the engineering firm Jones & Henry. The village fired its former engineering firm, Poggemeyer Design Group, in the fall of last year following a number of incidents related to the construction of its now troubled combined sewer system overflow pond.

Genzman told village council members Monday the estimated cost to open the closed valve figured at $6,500 - well below the projected $10,000.

Since the project cost is beneath the dollar amount necessary to seek council approval, Genzman is on the hunt for a contractor to start the job as soon as possible.

The clock is ticking on the project as residents worry about seasonal rains.

In the mean time, Jones & Henry staff is pouring through data collected March 13 at a public meeting from flooding victims.

That information will be used to explain the severity of the flooding situation to EPA officials and, hopefully, convince them to allow more closed system regulator valves to be re-opened while village officials work on a long-term fix, Genzman said.

Opening the valves is not a catch-all solution to stop the flooding but is expected to make a considerable difference in handling flows, he added.

About 20 residents showed up with photos, damage bills and stories to tell engineers in one-on-one interviews.

The event was well received, councilman Jim Seaman said.

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Sarah Kuenzi, a campus minister at Kateri-Cardinal Stritch High School, helps (l-r) Sister Margaret, Sister Cecelia, and Sister Andreá unload a donation of hygiene products that were collected by Stritch students as part of their annual Lenten collection for the Little Sisters of the Poor-Sacred Heart Home. The donation goes towards the care of elderly residents at the home. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean)

Oldest Indigo Bunting banded here It’s another milestone for Tom Kashmer, Research Coordinator of Sandusky County Park District.

In 2010, Kashmer banded his 100,000th bird, a feat accomplished by very few individuals around the country.

Kashmer reached a unique place in history when an Indigo Bunting crossed his path on September 28, 2013 at Creek Bend Farm in Lindsey. The bird was a “recap”, meaning it had already been captured, recorded, banded and released. What makes this unique is that it was previously banded in 2001. It was estimated to have hatched in 2000.

Ironically, the Indigo Bunting was originally banded just down the road (as the buntings fly) on May 23, 2001 by Mark Shieldcastle in Ottawa County. The United States Geological Survey has officially certified the encounter as the oldest documented Indigo Bunting in the wild. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently lists the oldest known wild Indigo Bunting as 8 years, 3 months.

As Kashmer says, “This record flies way past that.”

Indigo Buntings are four to five inch sparrow-sized songbirds commonly seen midsummer on the edges of woods and fields, along roads and streams. Males ap-

A male and female Indigo Bunting. (Photo courtesy of Sandusky County Parks) pear a brilliant, jewel-like blue.

Kashmer says, “Since the birds migrate south each winter, to an area in southern Mexico or northern South America, we’re estimating that this Indigo Bunting has traveled approximately 65,000 miles in its lifetime…so far.”

That’s an accomplishment for both man and bird.

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Bunting Continued from front page Ohio Sea Grant at Ohio State University have released the Lake Erie Birding Trail Guidebook, a 232-page compilation of 88 popular and less well-known birding locations all along Ohio’s Lake Erie coast, from Ashtabula to Toledo. In addition to locations of parks and other birding spots, the book lists commonly sighted species and noteworthy rarities, park amenities, and online resources for visitors.

“Lake Erie and its environs are the premier birding destination in Ohio, and in the entire Great Lakes region,” says Jim McCormac of ODNR. “Nearly 400 species have been found along the Ohio shoreline, and migration periods see enormous numbers of songbirds and waterbirds. Many Lake Erie birders are from out-of-state or elsewhere in Ohio, and the Lake Erie Birding Trail helps visitors navigate the best hotspots.”

Birding along the Lake Erie coast contributes $30 million to the local economy every year, and Ohio’s 1.6 million selfidentified birders alone spend over three quarters of a billion dollars annually on their pursuits. The Lake Erie Birding Trail Guidebook not only makes it easier for them to spot both common and rare birds when visiting parks and preserves in northern Ohio, but it also gives birders the opportunity to point out their economic contribution to local businesses with a set of “birder calling cards” that link owners to more information.

“Every visitor to Lake Erie will consider this book an incredible resource and a must-have for their libraries,” says Jeff Reutter, director of Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab. “We were very pleased to partner with ODNR Division of Wildlife, with funding from Wildlife, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and Ohio Sea Grant, to develop this guide.”

The book itself is a companion piece to the ODNR Division of Wildlife and Ohio Sea Grant website lakeerieohiobirding.info, which showcases birding sites across the Ohio Lake Erie coastline to residents and visitors alike.

“Connecting birders to birding and other tourism amenities in local Ohio communities will not only help attract more visitors to Ohio, but will also help us provide exceptional experiences to our guests,” says Melinda Huntley, executive director of the Ohio Travel Association.

The guide is available online through Ohio Sea Grant for $13 per book and wholesale at $175 per case of 14, plus shipping and handling costs. To order, visit ohioseagrant.osu.edu/publications or contact the Ohio Sea Grant office at 614-292-8971 with questions.

More information about birding in northern Ohio and a list of recent sightings is available at lakeerieohiobirding.info.

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Penta holds first career expo

Genoa Middle School 8th grade students were among 14 area school districts that explored hands-on activities at Penta Career Center’s first Career Expo. At left, Benjamin Jackson and Logan Tegtmeier use a robot arm to pick up skittles in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies. Top right, Penta Medical Technology student Toni-Ann Snyder, Oak Harbor, explains Labor and Delivery to Chloe Sutton and Devona Mutchler. Bottom right, Penta student Lucas Getzinger tells Xavier Beach and Nick Jimerson about Solar Technology. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)

Oak Harbor to take steps to stem flooding Continued from front page officials have to curb the massive sewer water flows menacing residents.

Seaman believes the hearing helped forge a better relationship with some of those impacted by the repetitive flooding.

“People saw that we really are trying to do something to fix the problem,” Seaman said.

Councilman Jon Fickert suggested council send out the word via news media and others that they still wanted to hear from any residents who had stories to tell.

The more people willing to share those stories increases the village chances of reaching its eventually goal to stem the problem, he said.

Genzman noted that a few others residents had called in before and after the event to get their information on the record.

He also encouraged others to either call him at the administration office (419-898-5561) or to drop off their packets of information at town hall.

The discussion then turned to the continuing problem with the mats tethered to the walls of the overflow pond. Less than six months after the protective mats were installed, the mats can’t handle the turbulence created by the underflow at the pond “The pressure is eating at these mats,” Seaman said. At this rate, he concluded, they won’t last five years.

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Engineers and village wastewater department staff are busy compiling alternatives to keep the mats stationary.

Two local firms, Northern Manufacturing and Eagle Fabrication, were approached to create pins of various components that may help solve the problem. Cost estimates for prototypes were passed out among council members to consider.

Village staffers are also consulting the firm that installed the mats as well as the manufacturer Flexomat.

New dispatching services The Oak Harbor Police Department will soon begin dispatching services for the Rocky Ridge Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service.

Police Chief Steve Weirich said he was recently approached by Rocky Ridge officials about providing the service the department currently extends to Carroll Township

Fire and EMS, Portage Fire District Fire Department and Mid-County EMS. Weirich asked if council had any objections to a $1,000 a year contract similar to those signed by the other entities. Council members authorized the deal.

The goal, the chief said, is to have the contract ready within a week and begin services as soon as Rocky Ridge Village Council approves the paperwork.

Currently the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office tones out the Rocky Ridge emergency units for service calls. But that is the extent of their service, the chief said.

Oak Harbor will monitor the radio traffic after the initial tone, call utility services such as Toledo Edison and Columbia Gas as well as keep a detailed log of all the incidents. That continued monitoring clinched the deal for the units specifically because of liability and accountability issues, Weirich explained.

Friends of Pearson Sunday Program The Friends of Pearson’s March Sunday Series continues March 23 with a presentation by Mary Breymaier on “Pearson and Progress: George Pearson’s Leadership in the Development of the East Side.”

Breymaier, the author of “George W. Pearson, A Modest Hero,” will speak at 2 p.m. in Macomber Lodge at Pearson Metropark, 4999 Navarre Ave., Oregon.

Refreshments will be available.

The next and final presentation will be held March 30 at 2 p.m., when Robert Clark, former East Side District Leader for Toledo Public Schools, presents, “Landmark of Pride, The First Hundred Years of Waite High School.”

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School board extends day by half an hour

By Kelly J. Kaczala Press News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com The Oregon school board on Tuesday approved a plan that helps make up school days that were cancelled due to the harsh winter weather in the 2013-14 school year.

The Ohio Legislature for weeks had debated whether or not to allow additional calamity days for school districts because most have exhausted the legal five day allotment. The Legislature finally passed legislation last week that granted four more days.

“We put together a plan as soon as we had word that it had passed,” said Superintendent Lonny Rivera. “We had many ideas for a number of weeks, then we were actually happy to get this moving.”

The plan calls for the school day to be extended by half an hour at Clay High School, Fassett Junior High School and Eisenhower Intermediate School. .

“Just to let all our parents know, the starting times for Clay, Fassett and Eisenhower will be the same time you’re used to, but will end a half hour later,” said Rivera.

Coy, Jerusalem and Starr Elementary schools will start 15 minutes earlier and end 15 minutes later than their regular schedule.

The new times are: • Clay High School, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; • Fassett Junior High School, 7:40 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.

• Eisenhower Intermediate School, 7:40 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.

• Coy, Jerusalem and Starr Elementary schools, 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

For seniors at Clay, the date of graduation is unchanged at June 8.

The new schedule will become effective on Tuesday, March 26.

“With any plan you make up, I’m well aware that it’s not always going to fit into everyone’s best plans, but a lot of thought went into this. We do need to spend more time with our students,” said Rivera. “We have a lot of training to do for our students to prepare for their state tests and we want to make sure our students have more time.

An hour was out of the question – way too long. So we believe this is good.”

In addition, the district will extend the school year by two days to June 5, said Rivera.

“Barring any fog days or anything else, which we’re hoping we do not have, right now we have two days beyond our calendar to complete. I think that’s very doable for most people, most families. I think it’s a good balance for what we were able to come up with.”

School Board President P.J. Kapfhammer said there were other options that were

considered, such as “Blizzard Bags,” which allow students to complete classroom lesson assignments at home when school is cancelled.

“I think our staff, administration, and board, educationally decided that Blizzard Bags were a solution but not something we wanted to follow. You could throw a bunch of work at kids and they could probably get it done, but they won’t absorb anything along the way,” said Kapfhammer.

“And you don’t know who does it,” said Board Member Carol Molnar.

Kapfhammer agreed.

“They’re doing the regular homework and now the parents are doing the Blizzard Bags,” he said. “If not, you lose the kids. So this is a decision that a lot of effort went into. Everyone came together and we decided what was best educationally for your kids. While it isn’t a perfect plan, it does put education first.”

“Now that this is passed, we will be putting out a notice to our parents through our instant alert system so they will know,” said Rivera.

Reader’s Theatre Oregon Community Theatre will present its Reader’s Theatre with the Broadway hit “The Good Doctor” written by Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov and directed by Bill Quinlan March 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Faith United Methodist Church at Starr and Coy, Oregon.

Reader’s theatre is a more intimate style of theatre in which the actors do not memorize their lines, said cast member Nancy Ice. Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit/stand together on a stage and read through the script together.

Actors use vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, and intricate blocking.

Like storytelling, Reader’s Theatre can create images by suggestion that could never be realistically portrayed on stage.

Tickets are $5 at the door. Admission is free for OCT season ticketholders.

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Family Center Gala The East Toledo Family Center is gearing up for its Annual Gala, which this year will be themed, “The Great Gatsby.”

Proceeds from this year’s event, set for April 5 at 6 p.m. at St. Michael’s Hall on Navarre Avenue, will benefit transportation services at the center.

As in the past, Distinguished Citizen and Educator of the Year awardees will be introduced at the gala. Distinguished Citizens include Mark Bollin and King Peacock. The Richard Fisher Educators of the Year include Angie Dalton, Lynn Moran and Dave Yenrick.

Various auctions will be available for bidding and buying. New this year will be a “Nickel Raffle.” Five prizes will be awarded at the gala, however winners need not be present. Online raffle ticket sales are available.

Gala tickets are $55 per person and $100 per couple. To purchase tickets or become a sponsor, call Tracy at 419-691-1429 or visit www.etfc.org and click on “events” for more infor-

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Passport to Hope To bring attention to the growing number of youth in our community who struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues, Unison Behavioral Health Group will host a “Passport to Hope” event Saturday, April 5 from 6-10 p.m. at the Manor House, located at Toledo’s Wildwood Metropark.

In addition to the international grazing stations and silent auctions planned for the evening, professional dance instructors will be leading classes on the waltz, salsa, line dancing and belly dancing.

A limited number of tickets are available for $50 per person. For more information or to make a reservation, contact Diane Geisbuhler at 419-9367557 or dgeisbuhler@unisonbhg.org.

Event details can also be found at www.unisonbhg.org.

Proceeds will benefit children’s mental health services at Unison Behavioral Health Group, where nearly 6,000 adults, adolescents, and children receive care every year.

Testing policy A community panel discussion on “Ohio’s High Stakes Testing Policies and the Impact on Children, Teachers and Schools” will be held March 26 from 6:45-8:15 p.m. at Maumee Branch Library.

The presentation is the second event sponsored by Northwest Ohio Friends of Public Education, a citizendriven, non-partisan movement to inform and engage Northwest Ohioans to support and strengthen public schools.

Visit www.nwofpe.org or www.facebook.com/NWOFPE.

‘Ice Breaker’ Maumee River Yacht Club, located at 2735 Broadway St., Toledo, invites birders, artists, and naturalists to enjoy the view at “Ice Breaker” luncheon events March 23 and 30, noon-4 p.m.

Admission is $5 for adults and $4 for children. Reservations may be made by calling 419-382-3625.

Clay to present "Legally Blonde-the Musical"

The Clay High School Limelighters will present "Legally Blonde-The Musical" March 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm, and March 30 at 3:00 pm. Tickets are $8.00 for students and seniors, and $10.00 for adults. For tickets call Mrs. Nyitray at 419-693-0665. Pictured in rehearsal are Courtney Large, Mackenzie Myers, Madison Slovak, Cassy Barrett, Nate Beckman, Megan Maynhart, Kerstin Holman, and Taylor Daniel. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean)

Lake forms fund to maintain stadium turf, track

By Press Staff Writer The Lake Board of Education has adopted a plan to fund the cost of maintaining the turf at the stadium and all-weather track at the campus on Lemoyne Road for the next 10 years.

The board Wednesday approved the formation of a “turf and track fund” with the goal of minimizing the use of tax dollars, said Tim Krugh, board president.

Under the plan, volunteer organizations and the board will combine efforts to raise money for the facilities over the next 10 years.

The Lake Athletic Boosters and Lake Turf and Track Fundraising Committee have each set goals of contributing $10,000 annually and the athletic department and school board will each contribute $10,000 annually. The board’s allocation will come from the district’s permanent improvement fund.

Krugh said before the all-weather track and stadium field turf were installed, it cost about $15,000-$20,000 a year to maintain and repair the crushed stone track and grass field in the stadium.

The all-weather track was installed in 2003 as part of a bond issue project for the middle school,

The stadium field turf was installed during the summer of 2010 in the wake of a tornado that destroyed the high school building and damaged other facilities on the campus. The district’s insurance coverage paid for the turf.

Jeff Carpenter, district treasurer, said some in the community have raised concerns about how the district would pay for upkeep and replacement of the stadium turf.

Krugh said the track needs to be resurfaced every six to eight years and the stadium turf will need to be resurfaced in about 10 years.

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Donations sought for boardwalk repair The Friends of Magee Marsh are raising funds to renovate the popular Magee Marsh Boardwalk, located on the shore of Lake Erie near Oak Harbor.

Listed as one of the top 10 birding hotspots in the country, more than 80,000 people visit Magee Marsh during spring migration, which translates to millions of dollars spent at Northwest Ohio businesses.

The Friends of Magee Marsh are aiming to raise $300,000 to refurbish the 25-year-old boardwalk. Funds raised will be used to replace the decking and rails, stabilize the tower and make other improvements to ensure the boardwalk remains open to the public.

The Friends group has donated $25,000 to get the project started. Phase One is under way and will be complete

by April 1. All work will stop during peak migration. Phase Two will commence June 1. During the renovation, most of the boardwalk will remain accessible.

The Friends of Magee Marsh is asking for community support for the boardwalk renovation. Donation envelopes may be found at the Sportsmen’s Migratory Bird Center. Additionally, donations may be made via PayPal online at www.friendsofmageemarsh.org or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ friendsofmageemarsh.

Recognizing Ability March is Developmental Disabilities Month, and the Ottawa County Board of Developmental Disabilities and other related organizations invite the community to consider the true meaning of this year’s theme, “Ability @ Work.”

Statewide organizations are planning special events this month to raise public awareness of the many abilities people have, regardless of disability.

“Ability @ Work” encourages people to understand that everyone has goals and dreams and desires to live a full life.

“During ‘Developmental Disabilities Awareness month, we encourage people to learn more about the 340plus people in this community who have developmental disabilities and to recognize that all of us have goals and dreams and when we see ability at work, we all succeed, said Melinda Slusser, superintendent of the Board of Developmental Disabilities.”

To learn more, call 419-8980400 or follow the organization on Facebook.

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Volunteers sought for Global Youth Service Day

By J. Patrick Eaken Press Staff Writer sports@presspublications.com Adult and youth volunteers are needed to clean up East Toledo parks on Global Youth Service Day, April 12.

The annual nationally organized activity is considered the largest annual service event in the world. In the greater Toledo area, United Way Volunteer Center collaborates with more than 3,000 youth, local agency partners, and companies to volunteer and celebrate Global Youth Service Day. “We’ve got youth all over the world doing service during this week,” said Roger Dodsworth of the East Toledo Family Center, speaking to a monthly East Toledo Club luncheon at the East Toledo Senior Center at Navarre Park.

“We call it a day, but during this week we have kids providing clean-up services, environmental services, beautification projects, from all across the world. We’ve had kids come to us from England, from France, from all over the country here in the United States, and it’s a great project,” Dodsworth continued.

“It’s fun to be involved as an organization, the East Toledo Family Center and the East Toledo Club, and we have a group at the Family Center called One Voice for East Toledo, and that’s a group interested in improving the living conditions in East Toledo, the conditions of the Main Street area, and also making good choices for our community.

“One Voice is attempting to provide clean-up efforts in each and every part of

East Toledo, and currently we have a dozen parks that are spoken for, and we’re looking for just a few more of the city parks that need to be cleaned up on that day.

The East Toledo event, organized by the East Toledo Club, will begin at 8:30 a.m. and run until noon. Volunteers can sign up and help clean the Main Street corridor and parks this year. Contact Jodi Gross, community builder and One Voice leader, at the East Toledo Family Center at 419-691-1429, ext. 213.

“We’re also looking for volunteers to work there — if anyone knows a group of kids, like boy scouts or girl scouts, community groups, call Jodi at the Family Center, let her know that.

“We also need some equipment. People who would be kind enough to bring mulch to take care of the playgrounds, put mulch around the swings or slides and wherever it is needed. We’ll need wheelbarrows, so if you know anybody who has some wheelbarrows, let us know.”

Painting trash cans On the same day at 9 a.m. to noon, the East Toledo Family Center and East Toledo Club have the Easter Bunny coming to visit children, and there is a need for volunteers.

They also should contact Gross.

“We’re going to provide for families in need to come in and have breakfast with the Easter Bunny. We have a few groups coming in already that are going to help us with it,” Dodsworth said.

There are also needs for the East Toledo Club Dodsworth mentioned.

“Years ago they had something similar where they offered to fund projects for in-

dividual organizations, community groups, churches, boy scout groups to do projects,” Dodsworth said.

“Our focus this year has been to improve conditions in the Main-Starr business area. This week or early next week we are going to be sending letters to area businesses. We’re going to ask them to suggest some projects — clean-up projects, a beautification effort in their business area, along Main Street. Whatever it is they can come up with.

“We are going to take those suggestions, decide which ones we like the best, and present them to local groups and help fund the project for them to see if they are interested in making our community look a little bit better,” Dodsworth continued.

“Sounds like it might be a really good thing to do with some of our church groups, who we’ve had success with One Voice, and some of our community groups like block watches, et cetera, and several youth groups.

“So, I think we are going to see a lot of interest in that. If you know anybody who might be interested in applying for funding to do a project like that, we’ll be releasing that information soon. Just have them call the Family Center, again to Jodi Gross.

“Another interesting project along Main Street—we are going to have, Le Sol Art Gallery is going to have a project painting trash cans. We’re going to have people sponsor a trash can, and they can paint the trash can themselves, or they can have a group volunteer to do the trash can, that way we give different looks to the Main Street area,” said Dodsworth.

Oregon looks at installing warning lights on Otter Creek

By Kelly J. Kaczala Press News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com Oregon is considering installing advisory lights notifying motorists when trains are blocking Otter Creek Road to give them time to find detours before getting caught in traffic.

Oregon Councilman Jerry Peach said at a meeting March 10 that the lights would be similar to those at Pickle and Woodville roads, and Pickle and Wheeling roads.

“At the February 24 meeting, our last regular meeting, the mayor had said that the administration would likely be reevaluating the road program and identifying funds that might be available that would go toward the roads,” said Peach. “I’d like the administration to consider, while looking

at the road program, trying to find funds for installing a warning light notifying the public and fire and police department that there may be a train blocking Otter Creek Road.”

The lights would be placed at the intersection of Millard Avenue and Otter Creek Road and at Otter Creek and Corduroy roads.

“I think that would be a doable project.

I hope funds could be found for the installation…sooner rather than later,” he said.

Administrator Mike Beazley agreed.

“We’re going to take a look at that. As the mayor pointed out, our notions of our street needs are evolving with our weather.

The good news is we’re not going to have any more snow this season and we won’t have to worry about it. We’ll be able to get to it very quick,” said Beazley.

Also at the meeting, council:

• Awarded a contract for the purchase of 15, 800 MHZ portable radios and accessories to P&R Communications Service, Inc., Oregon, for $53,047.50. Acting Fire Chief Paul Mullen said it went through the state bidding process. “The radios will bolster our fleet of portable radios that are aging. They are under the state bidding contract. They come with regular service warranty and an additional two year warranty,” said Mullen, adding that the existing radios are no longer made by Motorolla “so ultimately they will be replaced.”

• Heard Council President Dennis Walendzak offer condolences to the family of Leonard Wasserman, former Oregon councilman and mayor, who died on March 10. Wasserman, who was 87, served on council from 1965 to 1975, and as mayor from 1975 to 1981.

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Electric vehicle enthusiasts to meet

By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com If you’re curious about the technology driving the development of electric vehicles but want to – for the time being - avoid the dealers’ showrooms and salesmen, Michael Hall and friends have just the venue for you.

Hall, the president of the recentlyformed Electric Auto Association of Northwest Ohio, is inviting the public to the association’s spring meeting March 29 at Owens Community College where he is an instructor.

The meeting will start at 9:30 a.m. in the Transportation Technologies building, 30335 Oregon Road.

The local chapter is part of a growing movement promoting “clean” vehicles and increasing public awareness of the number of electric vehicle choices on the market today, Hall said.

The national organization, Electric Auto Association, was formed in 1967 and is now based in Aptos, California.

“The national chapter wants us to promote public awareness of the new technologies of the electric vehicle hybrids and plug-ins,” Hall said. “We’ll have literature we can hand out to anyone who comes, including a vehicle buyer’s guide that offers all of the choices available in alternative fuel vehicles.

Our local chapter consists of members who have a passion for `going green.’

Some members have many years of service as environmental enthusiasts, educators, engineers, technicians and trainers; some working in the technical fields that helped in the development of the technology being used today.”

The chapter plans to again have a display in July at the Classics on Main Car Show in Bowling Green. Suitably, the display area is called “Electric Avenue.”

Hall has owned both an electric vehicle and a hybrid-electric vehicle.

“I drive an SUV (Ford Escape hybrid) that gets 33 miles to the gallon.

You’re never going to get that out of a gasoline engine. It’s a nice size vehicle and I’m impressed with the technology they’ve put into it,” he said.

While the prices of alternative fuel vehicles aren’t as low as Hall would like to see, he says consumers should realize they’re paying for fuel and technology “up front.”

“It’s about 3 cents a mile to operate an electric vehicle, compared to 20 cents a mile for a gasoline vehicle,” he said.

For information about the association visit www.electricauto.org.

Pancake breakfast to benefit hungry pets The Church of St. Andrew United Methodist Men will present their fourth annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast to raise awareness and help hungry pets in the community Saturday, April 5 from 8-10:30 a.m. at the church, 3620 Heatherdowns Blvd.

Proceeds raised will benefit Humane Ohio, a local non-profit organization.

The menu includes old fashioned pancakes, blueberry pancakes, Chef Paul’s potato-pancakes, French toast with warm fruit, gluten-free and lowcarb and vegetarian options, along with grits, beverages and more. The cost is a donation of any amount at the door.

“As a non-profit organization, we rely on the proceeds from fundraisers, donations and grants in order to keep our spay/neuter prices low for the community and to offer programs like the Humane Ohio Pet Food Bank,” said Humane Ohio’s Development and Marketing Director, Kristy Kissoff.

For more information visit www. humaneohio.org or call 419-266-5607.

Health care info Those who have questions or need information about the Affordable Act before the enrollment deadline of March 31 are invited to a community event being sponsored by Neighborhood Health Association March 25 from 3-7 p.m. at the East Toledo Family Center, 1020 Varland Ave., Toledo.

Local health insurance agencies and insurance navigators will be on hand to answer questions. Those attending can also apply for Medicaid at the event. For more information, call 419-214-0043.

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School board looks at strategic planning

By Kelly J. Kaczala Press News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com Oregon City Schools Superintendent Lonny Rivera wants to boost the private fund raising potential in the district to help support educational programs.

“We can’t do everything through taxpayer dollars,” said Rivera at a school board meeting on Tuesday. “What I really want to do is try and find a way that we can make the experience second to none for our kids.

And one of the ways that we are going to do that is to tap into the private resources in our community – people who have come from these halls, who have a tie to and love for our district. I think we have not tapped into that resource like we should.”

The district, he said, “is on the verge of some really exciting things.”

When he became superintendent last fall, he met with Mike Armstrong, cofounder of the Oregon Schools Foundation, a non-profit group that serves as a catalyst to bring local businesses and the community together to increase educational opportunities for Oregon students. Through an established endowment fund from donations, the Foundation provides grants as well as community resources to support programs to enhance the educational experiences in the district.

“It is my belief that if we want to go above and beyond, we need to have a very active Foundation,” said Rivera. “We have a wonderful group of people that have been assembled and are very energetic trying to bring us to the next level in Oregon city schools. In my six months here, I think it’s time to go to the next level. What I mean by that is how do we find out from our community and other stakeholders what it is that we need to do, where they would like us to go. I have an idea where I want to take

our kids, but I want to make sure that all our resources line up.”

Aly Sterling, a consulting firm, will put together a strategic plan “to find out what it is we can do to make this place great,” said Rivera.

Sara Best, of Aly Sterling, presented the board with a proposal for strategic planning.

“We believe that all school districts, institutions, and non-profits need three things: a solid board and strong leadership; a strategic vision - some clarity about where you’re going; and a fundraising program or machine to help fuel those strategic priorities,” said Best.

“We’ll start with tapping into your stakeholders, and gathering some data about what you’re doing well, where you want to go, how you want to improve, how the district can enhance its services to the students and to the community. It’s important. What we’re seeing across the country is strong public school districts are developing strong foundations or are supported by strong foundations because the underfunding will continue for school communities. What you’re able to accomplish will not be funded as it has in the past. There’s a beautiful trend that is emerging where private donors, private dollars and community funds are being gathered and channeled and funneled into those strategic priorities.

So step one will be to really reach out, talk to the community and find out what you need,” said Best.

“Once we gather that data, we’ll spend some time in a very robust retreat experience and we’ll identify what the most important strategic priorities are. Following that dialogue, looking into data, spinning it with your own thoughts and ideas, we will then craft those strategic initiatives, and spell out how they’ll happen and what is needed to make them happen – what kind

of funding is needed. The power behind that – the Oregon Schools Foundation – will be effective. They worked hard over the last several months, not only building a strong board, but understanding and learning how to create a fundraising program.

That’s the path. It’s exactly the way we would want you to move. It’s powerful and it would yield results which should then support what you need to achieve – your strategic priorities,” said Best.

Rivera said developing the strategic plan will cost the district $10,000.

“That’s something the Foundation has come forward to assist with the majority of the costs. By working together, we’re able to accomplish something very unique. I think this just shows also that we have some skin in the game and for a relatively low cost to our district, we’re able to have someone actually assist us – getting information out to the parents, community members, out to business owners - out to everybody. I want to establish this because I really believe we have to look outside what we currently are doing now. I know there’s a lot of people with giving hearts that are looking for legacy and want to make something last. I look forward to working with our teachers, our administration, our coaches - to say, `Ok, as a group collectively, this is where we need to go’, and we will do that.”

“There’s a lot of great things going on in our city every day,” said School Board President P.J. Kapfhammer. But there’s no collaboration. We need to get someone to drive that ship on a full time basis. The end result is we want to collaborate with all the entities and work together.”

“This is just the beginning,” said Rivera. “Once this gains energy and momentum, you’re going to see a lot of things and amenities for our kids that we normally otherwise would not be able to afford.

That’s my long term vision.”

Credit union may find home at Oak Harbor schools

By Cynthia L. Jacoby Special to The Press A local credit union has proposed a deal that would put Oak Harbor students on the road to financial literacy as well as place a satellite office within a school building.

Benton-Carroll-Salem Schools Superintendent Guy Parmigian and board member Heather Dewitz recently met with Commodore Perry Federal Credit Union representatives to discuss the idea. Part of the program would be education regarding savings accounts, using check books and accompanying registers and learning the ins and outs of loans, certificates of deposits and mortgages.

“This is a real world, real life opportunity for the kids. It’s part of their mission to be community-based,” Parmigian said of the credit union proposal. “The big picture is they would work with the kids.

Credit union officials asked the superintendent to take the proposal to the board to see if members were interested in pursuing the project.

“It’s an exciting opportunity … a learning lab situation,” said Dewitz, who believes the idea merits further exploration.

The BCS school system would not have to allocate any money over for the project and “The credit union has done this type of work with other schools,” she added.

Parmigian has asked for a list of those schools so that he can contact officials to get their spin on the advantages and disadvantages of the project. They also planned to see how such a program might be incorporated into the education system for class credits toward graduation.

“The hiccup would be the security issue,” Dusseau said.

Others wondered what was at the core of the credit union’s offer.

Board president Jamie Tooman asked what specific benefit does this kind of deal provide the credit union.

The program would get students comfortable with using a credit union versus a bank, and ultimately, they position themselves to possibly increasing their customer base, Dewitz surmised. Credit unions and banks vary in a number of different aspects.

The village’s only hometown bank recently merged with another banking company.

Had a local banking institution still existed here, board member Jeff Dornbush said he would have had a problem with considering this kind of collaboration with the school system.

Unlike banks, Dewitz noted, this credit union has a charitable organization of its own that acts as its own entity separate from the day-to-day business. The project would be housed within that arm of credit union.

Lake trustees say time to restore local government funding

By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com With more than $1.4 billion sitting in the Ohio Budget Stabilization Fund – also called the state’s rainy day fund – is it time for the state legislature to restore the cuts to revenues used by local governments for a host of services?

The Lake Township trustees think so.

The board of trustees Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution asking Gov. John Kasich and two state legislators to push for the restoration of local government funds that were cut in recent state budgets.

The resolution notes that the township budget for roads has been depleted due to overtime for snow removal and related repairs.

According to the resolution, the township’s share of local government funds has been cut by 30 percent “….an amount which now could be used for infrastructure repairs.”

It describes a safe, efficient infrastructure as a “…key element for economic growth and job creation and positively affects the overall transportation system.”

Besides the governor, the resolution asks Senator Randy Gardner and Representative Tim Brown to initiate a bill to restore the cut funds.

“We’re not really asking for a handout,” said Richard Welling, a trustee. “We’re just asking for our money back. We have to place levies on the ballot to fix our roads.”

Mark Hummer, township administrator, said the township should also work with the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments to gain support for the resolution.

“I hope other local governments follow your lead,” he said to the trustees.

According to the Office of Budget and Management, the rainy fund balance is at the maximum amount allowed by law, which is 5 percent of the preceding year general revenue fund.

A surplus is to be used to provide a temporary reduction in income tax rates through the Income Tax Reduction Fund, according to state law.

The rainy day fund balance at the end of fiscal 2012 was about $482 million.

Recent changes to the law that were adopted with the fiscal 2012-13 budget al-

ter the method for allocating revenues for both the local government fund and public library fund.

In other business, the trustees, after meeting in executive session, approved several personnel matters: • Joseph Sujkowski, Oregon Road, was hired a full-time cemetery worker at $13 per hour. He will be on one-year probation beginning March 31.

• Approved bonuses in lieu of raises for non-unionized full-time and part-time employees: $750 for full-time and $500 for part-time. In all, the bonuses will cost the township $8,000 but won’t be applied to pension calculations, said Vicki Schwamberger, fiscal officer.

• Approved a job description and pay rate of $15 per hour for the battalion chief position in the fire department.

Military Notes Army National Guard Pvt. Ivan R. Bumpus III has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received instruction in drill and ceremony, weapons, rifle marksmanship qualification, bayonet combat, chemical warfare, field training and tactical exercises, marches, military justice, physical fitness and Army history, traditions, and core values.

Bumpus, the brother of Michael Bumpus of Toledo, is a 2013 graduate of Central Catholic High School, Toledo.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Jacob Z. Flinchum graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Tex. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Flinchum is the son of Debbie Ritchey, of Perrysburg, and Craig Flinchum, of Lemoyne.

A 2007 graduate of Eastwood High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in 2011 from Kent State University.

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Court Log Oregon Municipal Court • Henry Benjamin Smith, 2267 Seaman, Toledo, 180 days Correction Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO), 177 days suspended, license suspended six months, $471 court costs and fines, driving under the influence of alcohol.

• John R. Sailer, 6674 Sandywell, Temperance, MI., 120 days CCNO, 120 days suspended, $212 court costs and fines, attempt to commit an offense.

• Alan R. Kao, 5168 Ottawa River, Toledo, 60 days CCNO, 60 days suspended, $337 court costs and fines, failure to file return.

• Harley David Harris, 332 Harding, Northwood, 90 days CCNO, 75 days suspended, $137 court costs and fines, attempt to commit an offense.

• Kayshone Angelo Nash, 2243 Vermont, Toledo, $137 court costs and fines, disorderly conduct.

• Tyler James Kiser, 734 Yondota, Toledo, 10 days CCNO, 10 days suspended, $87 court costs and fines, attempt to commit an offense.

• Kodee E. Arend, 5516 Fortune, Toledo, 160 days CCNO, 140 days suspended, $87 court costs and fines, theft.

• Freddie Lamar McDonald, 1320 Joffre, Toledo, 180 days CCNO, 180 days suspended, $187 court costs and fines, vehicular manslaughter.

• Lori Ann Carswell, 826 E. Bancroft, Toledo, 170 days CCNO, 150 days suspended, $87 court costs and fines, theft.

• Lori Ann Carswell, 826 E. Bancroft, Toledo, 10 days CCNO, endangering children.

• Michael Patrick Sheehy, P.O. Box 44, Hamler, Ohio, $696 court costs and fines, operating a motor vehicle under the influence.

• Rodney J. Holladay, 602 Washington, Findlay, 30 days CCNO, 25 days suspended, $137 court costs and fines, unauthorized use of property.

• Eboni Y. Irish, 4747 N. Detroit, Toledo, 30 days CCNO, 30 days suspended, $237 court costs and fines, unauthorized use of property.

• Christopher James Starcher, 252 Ponderosa, Oregon, 60 days CCNO, 50 days suspended, $237 court costs and fines, criminal mischief.

• Kerry M. Trester, 614 Berry, Toledo, 180 days CCNO, 170 days suspended, $187 court costs and fines, carrying concealed weapons.

• Erica T. Armstrong, 1332 Goodale, Toledo, 60 days CCNO, 30 days suspended, $237 court costs and fines, attempt to commit an offense.

• Natasha L. Hamilton, 1802 Freeman, Toledo, 180 days CCNO, 170 days suspended, $162 court costs and fines, theft.

• Marcus A. Baker, 1818 Upton, Toledo, $137 court costs and fines, disorderly conduct while intoxicated.

• Wayne J. Vansickle, 604 Earl, Toledo, 90 days CCNO, 90 days suspended, $137 court costs and fines, resisting arrest.

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Garden club is celebrating 80 years Garden club celebrating 80 years It was 1934 when 27 local women interested in beautifying the community joined together to form the Woodville Garden Club. Eighty years later, their mission continues.

The club will mark the anniversary with a luncheon at the Gathering Room in Elmore April 11.

Each spring, club members take on the job of filling the urns at Trail Marker Park with greenery. They also fill the Main Street planter at the post office, which the Garden Club had built in honor of Thelma Price.

They also decorate the gazebo at Christmas time.

The March meeting will be held March 28 at 1 p.m. at the home of Phyllis Wietelmann, 616 Riverside Dr., Woodville.

The speaker will be Jeff Wilbarger, founder and director of “The Daughter Project,” in Bowling Green.

Anyone interested in joining the club may call 419-849-2543.

A “spark” for families Oak Harbor native Ken Sayre has earned WSOS’ Spark Award for demonstrating leadership, quality, service, finance and innovation in his position as a family advocate working in the Pathways to Fatherhood Program.

Sayre, currently of Port Clinton, was hired two years ago to provide services to veterans in the Wood, Sandusky, Ottawa and Seneca counties in the Ohio VETS program. The program earned a Best Practice award in January from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies.

Sayre is credited for helping participants overcome barriers and secure employment, using key resources in the community for veterans and helping them to secure jobs through the On-the-Job Training (OJT) contracts WSOS has with employers.

According to his nomination, he is a great steward of the community, a professional resource for others, and a team player within the department.

Hudson co-pilot visits Jeff Skiles, co-pilot during Flight 1549 “Miracle on the Hudson,” and Bret Steffen, Director of Education at the Wisconsin-

Members of the Woodville Garden Club include (back row) Marian Stewart, Millie Sedlmeier (deceased), Phyllis Wietelmann, Mary Lou Busdiecker, Carmella Riffle, Brenda Sommer, Margi Kepus and Janet Lohmann; (seated) Marge Wilt, Virginia Andrews, Dee Avers, Ruth Nedelco, Mary Gray, Phyllis Natal, Bobbie Mauntler.

Absent from the photo are Victoria Pan, Gerry Grindstaff and Dorothy Tank.

People based Experimental Aircraft Association, flew to Port Clinton March 5 at the invitation of EAA Tin Goose Chapter 1247 to visit the chapter’s Tri-Motor restoration project.

The pair arrived at Erie-Ottawa International Airport in a Piper Aztec and spent the afternoon with local chapter officers before departing for Lorain County Airport for a speaking engagement later in the evening.

After lunch at the Tin Goose Diner, the guests toured the museum facility and the ambitious Tri-Motor restoration project.

For a number of years, EAA has been bringing their Tri-Motor to Port Clinton to offer plane rides to the public and help raise money for the restoration project. Tin Goose Chapter 1247 will host EAA’s Ford Tri-Motor this summer from July 1-6 at the Liberty Aviation museum complex. Tickets are $75 for adults and $50 for children 17 and under. A $5 savings is offered on adult tickets purchased in advance.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call 1-877-952-5395 or visit www. flytheford.org. Learn more about Tin Goose Chapter 1247 at www.tingoose.org.

Condos and Trees is relocating from the 4211 Woodville Rd. location on March 29th

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20,000 copies of this magazine-style guide will be available at selected news stands from Oregon to Port Clinton for visitors who will be looking for hotels, restaurants and other businesses along the lake. (Deadline March 28th) In addition, The Press and The Beacon will publish a special section on birding during The Biggest Week in American Birding, May 2-11.

This section will reach 50,000 homes from Oregon to Port Clinton.

This year’s festival headquarters is at Maumee Bay State Park.

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Your Voice on the Street: by Stephanie Szozda

The Press Poll

Where do you get your oil changed?

Will the closing of the High Level Bridge affect you?

Yes No To cast your ballot, go to www.presspublications.com Michelle Baldwin Little Rock, AK "I take mine back to the dealership where I bought my car."

Antonique Gaston Toledo "I get stuff for my oil change at Autozone."

False and baseless To the editor: This letter is in response to a letter submitted by Cecil Adkins in the March 10 issue of The Press.

Police Chief Ken Frost serves the Village of Walbridge and its residents with tremendous dedication and attention. His leadership encouraged council to use engineering firms for projects within the village, ensuring hired contractors are bonded and insured – which has proven to be solid advice.

Under Chief Frost, the Walbridge Police Department has become stronger and more efficient, leading to a safer community in which to reside. Mayor and council unanimously support the efforts of Chief Frost and recognize him as a valuable asset to Walbridge.

Without merit, it seems Mr. Adkins has taken on a personal vendetta for the police chief. What Mr. Adkins fails to inform the readers is, the village has previously employed, on multiple occasions, an individual serving dual roles, wearing both the hat of village administrator and another position.

Ironically, one of those individuals was his own brother. There was never any concern or problem then, so why the personal attack on Chief Frost, who has a flawless record, a decorated military résumé, and an impres-

Tim Spradlin Perrysburg Twp. "I get my oil changed at the dealership where I bought my car."

Alaina Kauffman Temperance "I actually live in Temperance, so we take ours to J&J's on Alexis because he's a small business and we like to support that."

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Dave Sandwich Woodville "I normally take it to Sears on Woodville Road, but now that they are closing I don't know where I'll take it. Wherever my wife tells me to I guess."

Last Week's Results What would you like to see constructed at the site of the Woodville Mall?

Letters should be about 350 words.

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sive education background?

The village continues to operate in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio and the policies and procedures of the village, as confirmed by the ruling from the State of Ohio Attorney General’s office received in October 2013. Mr. Adkins does not agree with the ruling from the attorney general and has isolated Chief Frost as his focus to dismantle the positive momentum in the village and police department.

Mr. Adkins blames the village for not providing ample information to the attorney general’s office for its legal opinion, which is completely false and baseless. The attorney general’s office spent seven months with the request on dual compatibility, often times contacting our village solicitor or village office for additional information they needed to complete their findings. They had complete access to any and all information they needed.

The village has gone above and beyond for Mr. Adkins. He seems at peace monopolizing the time of the village office to provide public records requests, which are often hundreds of pages long, simply to

gather information on Chief Frost and look for flaws within the operations of the police department and village office. The reason the village asked the attorney general for a ruling on the compatibility of the two positions was at the request of Mr. Adkins. Mr. Adkins did not receive the answer he was apparently hoping for.

Mr. Adkins has many good qualities to offer the village, including knowledge and rich history. Our wish is for him to work with, not against, the effort to continue moving the village forward in a positive direction.

Mayor Edward A. Kolanko Council members Ken Gilsdorf, Fred Sloyer, Sue Hart-Douglas, Ron Liwo, Larry Boday and Lauren LaRoe

Game over?

To the editor: A few weeks back The Press printed a letter that blamed our problems on the Republicans because they didn’t come to the table with President Obama.

We received Obamacare without any Republican input.

70% Shops and restaurants 23% A park, skating rink, etc.

7% A car dealer Libya was bombed without any Republican input and when the U.S. Consulate in Libya was attacked the president handled it alone.

The Internal Revenue Service harassment of conservative organizations was done without any Republican help.

When you go to the table with the President, if you don’t play his way, he takes the ball and goes home.

Rufus Wallace Millbury

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Ignore the naysayers and imagine anything is possible “It’s impossible!” is an often used excuse for not doing something. However, every invention, discovery, and advance throughout history is the result of someone striving for and accomplishing the impossible.

When you think something is impossible, you tell yourself you can’t do it, and you won’t. Conversely, if you feel something is possible, you will tell yourself you can do it, and you will.

History has repeatedly proven that those that declare impossibility are invariably wrong. So how can you ever claim with certainty to know what is and isn’t possible? Or how can anyone who is offering you advice as to what is impossible know?

You are limited by your thinking, not by what you know or what you have. While you are convincing yourself of all the reasons something is impossible, there are people accomplishing the very same thing.

Conversely, while you are making progress toward a goal, there are those who have already convinced themselves it’s not possible.

Your perspective as to what is possible is based on your knowledge and experience.

Impossibility is a state of mind, not an absolute. The only things you know are obtainable are those you have already accomplished.

When you don’t strive for a goal, you have no chance of attaining it. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you something is impossible. If you do, you will limit your accomplishments. You must first believe before you can achieve.

You should be striving for the impossible. Anything worth achieving takes effort. Although success isn’t easy, neither is struggling. Since life takes effort regardless of what you do, you may as well set your sights high.

When you strive for the impossible, you won’t have much competition. Most people are looking for routes requiring little or no effort. They prefer the path of least resistance.

Ignore the naysayers. Listening to those

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by Bryan Golden who profess to know that which is possible and impossible have nothing to offer you.

Listening to them inhibits any progress you would have made. Often these people assert that their claims of impossibility are merely realistic.

They will tell you that they are only looking out for your best interests and don’t want to see you get hurt. Although they may be well intentioned, you have nothing to gain by abandoning your dreams based on someone else’s opinion.

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Throughout history, if people only attempted that which is accepted to be possible, we would still be living in caves in the Stone Age. Take inspiration from the long list of innovators who have consistently achieved the impossible.

Look to those who are where you want to be. Study their approach. Learn from their experiences of how they achieved their goals. People who have strived for, and achieved the impossible are a great inspiration.

Success isn’t easy, but it’s worth the effort. Loftier goals are more difficult to attain than their ordinary counterparts. However, once achieved, the sense of satisfaction is awesome. How much you get out of life is directly connected to how much you put in.

Dream big. Break free of any self-imposed or externally imposed limitations.

Anything you can conceive and believe is possible. Conversely, impossibility exists if you believe it does. It is exclusively your outlook which defines what you can accomplish.

Make striving for the impossible a way of life. Your life can be a great adventure.

You can accomplish more than you ever thought possible. Harness your willpower.

Fire up your determination. Get your drive in gear. When anyone tells you are striving for the impossible, you are on the right track.

Redefine impossible to It Means Possible.

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Dr. Romules Durant and Dr. Lonnie Rivera. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)

Sports was training ground for these two superintendents Before you knew Dr. Romules Durant as superintendent of Toledo Public Schools you knew him as the hard-hitting linebacker at the University of Toledo.

Before you knew Dr. Lonnie Rivera as superintendent of Oregon Public Schools, you knew him as the Mid-American champion wrestler from the University of Toledo.

Both men have come a long way from the football fields and wrestling mats on the east side. Dr. Durant grew up in East Toledo and graduated from Waite and Dr. Rivera grew up in Bono and is a Clay grad.

So, how did they rise above other state and national candidates to lead our two largest school districts?

Both men cite their involvement in sports as one driving force. Dr. Durant grew up in a household in which his father coached little league football and his mother cheerleading. “Football became a family structure that glued us together,” he recalls.

For Dr. Rivera, a wrestling scholarship was the only way he could afford college.

At first, wrestling was his passion, but, as he matured, he also discovered a love of learning. “Athletics opened up a world to me that would not have been available…I discovered that I really enjoyed college. I began to think more about the degree than wrestling. The two became intertwined as I quickly learned that I had to excel at both if I wanted to continue to graduation.”

Balancing a full course load with collegiate sports forced both men to adopt organizational and planning skills they might not have honed, were it not for the passion they had to compete. These skills have become integral to their success today. Dr. Durant says, “Good planning makes good practices, good practices make good execution, good execution makes good outcomes.”

Athletes also assess their performances after every competition. Having a good understanding of your strengths and weak-

nesses and how they match up to your competition’s is crucial to devising a good game plan. It is also crucial when leading a school district in the age of open enrollment when students have more choices.

Dr. Rivera said, “To get to the top of your game takes a lot of preparation, working on the weak parts of your game and accentuating your strengths. The same thing holds with the district. We have a lot of really good assets, programs and processes and we want to make sure we accentuate those while, at the same time, work on our weaknesses.”

While wrestling is an individual sport, football is a team game and Dr. Durant shared his thoughts on how to motivate his staff. He claims he was an introvert until his performance on the field led to him being named a captain. That role called for him not only to lead by his actions but also to become a vocal leader so he could move players in the right position and devise strategy and communicate it.

Leadership takes more than talk. You need to be passionate about your mission. Dr. Durant said through his actions he sends the message to his staff and his students that he will do anything for them.

That means long days, forging relationships with businesses, community organizations and the public. It also means having an understanding of and being sensitive to the obstacles teammates, students and staff must overcome to achieve excellence.

Dr. Rivera adds you need to show your teammates you care and lead with a sense of humility. “You hope that everything you do will inspire others to be better than who they are. Somebody’s always watching.”

When Dr. Durant made the decision at age 19 to become a superintendent he set on a course that allowed him to see a school district from the bottom up. He started as a teacher, then moved up to dean of students, assistant principal, principal, assistant su-

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It was a journey with a purpose. “You need to know the walk of all shoes before you can make a decision to know how your decision will impact individuals from the student level all the way to the classroom and district wide.”

He tells his administrative staff, “Never forget the shoes you were in because what was appreciated then is appreciated now…

That’s what grows support because the small things are big wins in life when dealing with relationships with staff and support staff.”

The same is true in the violent game of football. If you are asking someone to sacrifice his body for a cause, you better show you appreciate the effort.

In education, as in sports, you can do everything right and still lose. Perseverance is a required and acquired skill. Dr. Rivera said, “You learn not to quit. In wrestling there were days when I did everything I could and didn’t win. But, the next day I had to pick myself back up and do it again.

You learn that tenacity. You can’t give up.

You have a team depending on you. I now have 3,800 kids depending on me.”

One of the most important lessons Dr. Durant learned from sports may surprise you—the importance of statistical analysis. Everything is measured in football.

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“You don’t do that kind of disruption unless you have some hard-core data. We learned sixth graders in elementary were out-performing those in the middle school setting.”

There are other ways to learn all these lessons. Sports is just one training ground where young men and women can learn organization, planning and scheduling skills; self motivation and how to motivate others; how to set goals, hone focus and develop a good work ethic; and how to overcome obstacles and inspire teammates and stakeholders.

Learning is a life-long process and both men are quick to point out it is important to continue the process and learn from others.

Dr. Rivera said, “You need to be able to remain coachable. No matter what position you ascend to, you never learn it all. We’re students and teachers at the same time.

There’s always more to learn.”

Dr. Durant agrees and he adds coaches deserve a player’s respect. “The schedule means something. Why lift weights at this time? Why eat at this time? Why is practice done the way it is? Why have 48 hours of preparation? Why are we required to understand the mission, vision and core commitment and wear them everyday?

“Understand this, these are Fortune 500 CEO coaches who are instilling transferable skills that can lead you into your industry to lead others.”

The last word? Both men say you have to put in the time. No exceptions. Dr. Durant said, “The only thing equal between us all is, we all have 24 hours in a day. What you do with your 24 hours will separate you from the next person.”

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By Tammy Walro Press Staff Writer twalro@presspublications.com The Alzheimer’s Association, relocated its Adult Day Center from its longtime location at the Lutheran Home at Toledo on Wheeling Street in East Toledo to the Challenger Learning Center Building, 4955 Seaman Rd. in Oregon.

The first day in the new location was March 3.

“We had been leasing the space at the Lutheran Home at Toledo, and they are expanding their services and needed the space,” said Traci Holland, respite coordinator. “After a good, long search, we were happy to find a new space that suited all of our needs.”

The Alzheimer’s Association, opened the East Side Adult Day Center – the organization’s second such facility – in 2008 to meet the needs of caregivers in Oregon, Northwood, Genoa, East Toledo and surrounding areas.

The center, which accommodates up to 10 participants, offers a secure, supportive environment for individuals experiencing memory loss, to enjoy physical, social and emotional stimulation. Caregivers have peace of mind knowing their family member is in a secure environment.”

The new space, comprised of a classroom area at the Challenger Center facility, includes a restroom and office area.

“I’d say the move went smoothly,” Holland said. “It’s been a labor of love. Like with any move, we’ve been adjusting – trying to find places for everything. The space is about the same size as our previous facility, but there’s a little more area devoted for center activities, which is what it’s all about.

“Our participants have been real troopers. They made a great transition, which we were somewhat concerned about because routine and familiarity are key with this disease,” she said.

“The majority of the caregivers have also been positive about the new location.

It’s kind of out there – once they found us that first Monday, it has gone real well since then,” she said. “For most all of them, it’s the same distance and for some, it’s even a little bit closer for them.”

“Overall, we love our new space and our landlords at the Challenger Center have been awesome and real welcoming and we appreciate that,” Holland said.

The Oregon site is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Currently, there are openings. To learn more about the Adult Day Centers, call 1-800-272-3900 or email alzheimersnwo@alz.org.

The Alzheimer’s Association, also operates an Adult Day Center at 2500 N. Reynolds Road.

Ron Ohm, of Toledo, a regular for lunch at the East Toledo Senior Activities Center, enjoys the new menu options being offered since meals are being prepared on-site.

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Diners enjoy “homemade” lunches at senior center

By Tammy Walro Press Staff Writer twalro@presspublications.com Seniors who come for lunch at the East Toledo Senior Activities Center are enjoying the joy of cooking…or more aptly, they’re enjoying Joy’s cooking.

Since March 3, the center is serving meals prepared in the on-site kitchen by cook Joy Fuller, which is getting rave reviews from the lunchtime diners.

Prior to that, lunch service was contracted by a national provider contracted through a grant from the Area Office on Aging. “Over the three years we were with that provider, our attendance dropped dramatically – some days we only had one to three come in for lunch,” said Mary Wolff, the center’s director.

“Not only was it evident by the drop in attendance that the seniors didn’t like the institutional-type meals, they were very vocal about it,” she said. “And on days when Brenda (Holden) and I would make meals here for whatever reason, we’d have a lot of people, so we knew there was an interest and a need.”

Late last year, when the Area Office on Aging opened up the bidding for the contract for the lunch program, Wolff applied for a grant, with the goal of preparing meals in the center’s kitchen.

“We felt we could have better control over the quality and variety if we made the

food here,” Wolff said. “We’ve had a food license since I’ve been here. We also have a kitchen which, for nine years or so, we’ve been using for parties, cooking classes, for our once-a-month evening meal and also to serve the meals that were brought in.”

After review, the Area Office on Aging awarded the senior center the grant, which includes a dollar amount per unit (meal served), and funds to pay for a cook who works 30 hours a week. “We only interviewed experienced cooks, and were happy to find Joy Fuller,” she said.

Wolff plans the menus using strict nutritional guidelines. “Once I get the menu planned, I have to submit it to the Area Office on Aging for approval, which, through all this has been very, very helpful and supportive,” she said.

March’s menu has included barbecue chicken breast, pork chop with cornbread stuffing, chicken pot pie and honey baked ham…with veal parmesan, roast turkey and baked tilapia still to come. A full soup and salad bar is also offered every day.

“The seniors want different foods, not the same-old, same-old options,” Wolff said. “For some, this is the only full and balanced meal they have in the day.

Dennis Boerst, of Toledo, and his wife Pat, who have been coming to the center for 11 years, give the new lunch programs two thumbs up. “It’s really great since Joy is doing the cooking,” Mr. Boerst said, adding that he enjoys the variety. “Joy’s had some

really nice soups; we had a Jiggs dinner on St. Patrick’s Day which was excellent and a lot of us are looking forward to the liver and onions tomorrow.”

Ron Ohm, of Toledo, agrees with Boerst’s assessment of the food – but not about the liver and onions. “I come every day – I think I started in 1990, when I retired from ODOT,” he said. “I definitely enjoy the new ‘home-cooking,’ but tomorrow, when we’re having the liver and onions, I’ll be eating the salad” “We’ve only been doing this for two weeks; we had 25 people here on one day, but we’re expecting that once word of mouth gets out, we’ll see more,” Wolff said.

The lunch program, open to anyon, and is served Monday-Friday at 11:45 a.m.

There is a suggested donation of $2.50 for those 60 and over and a fixed charge of $5 for those under the age of 60.

“We don’t ask the seniors for the money,” Wolff said. “There’s a container near the sign-up sheets; if they have the money, they put it in.”

Those interested must sign up 24 hours in advance at the center or by calling 419-697-9005. The menu is available at the center or online at www.etfc.org, clicking on the “Senior Center” tab and then “Daily Lunches.”

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Dig out your bat and dust off your ball glove. It is time for the East Toledo Senior Activities Center’s Senior Softball League to begin.

This recreational league is traditionally open to men aged 50 and over. However, there are two women, one on each league, who play. This year Senior Center Director Mary Wolff is proud to state that 11 teams have signed up, and there is still time to add more.

Wolff says the league began 21 years ago with just a few teams of men who wanted to remain active while having fun.

Within two years more teams from Point Place asked to join the league.

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north as Ann Arbor and south as Bowling Green. We even have some Senior Olympic wins under our belts,” Wolff said.

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Over 40 players have been with the league for 10 years or more with a handful of the original men still playing. And some who no longer are able to play come to the games to watch and visit with former teammates.

The league follows SSUSA softball rules in addition to some modifications that best suit the needs of the players for safety on the field. The modifications are taken from suggestions from the players, in which league commissioners adopt and add to the rules.

Games are played on Monday evenings for the age 58-plus league and on Wednesday evenings for the 50-plus league.

All games are played on the Navarre Park ball diamonds located between Woodville Road and East Broadway just behind the East Toledo Family Center.

“This year we have had a huge response with 77 players registering for our 50 plus league and 69 players registering for our 58 plus league. Registration officially ended March 14th but players are still being accepted,” Wolff said.

“What keeps the players coming back each year? One word, camaraderie. The players do have a respect for one another.

Once off the field and up on the hill there are no teams, just friends. Relaxing and enjoying a hot dog or two, talking about the great plays, missed opportunities and ‘blown’ calls of the games,” the director continued.

Anyone aged 50 (by Dec. 31 of this year) who would like to join the league or learn more can call Wolff at 419-691-2254 or visit HTOsports.com/etsacsoftball.

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Caregivers treat themselves to a well deserved night out Caregivers Night Out Wood County Committee on Aging, Inc. (WCCOA) invites caregivers of older adults from the Bowling Green area to take a well-deserved break with a night out from 5-9 p.m. Friday, April 11.

Many caregivers spend all of their time taking care of the ones they love and sometimes the stresses of caregiving can take a toll on the caregiver. The WCCOA wants to provide a special night out to thank caregivers for all the special care they provide.

Caregivers participating in the event may choose from one of two “night out” options.

The first option includes a meal sponsored by Max & Erma’s, followed by shopping at Levis Commons, sponsored by St. Clare Commons.

The second option includes an alternative evening of spending time independently.

With the help from local home health care agencies, care recipients will receive quality companionship from trained and bonded professionals during the night out.

Caregiver home health care sponsors include Senior Helpers, Right at Home NWO, Interim Healthcare & Homestyle and Caretakers Home Care Services. Caregiver gift bags are sponsored by Heritage Corner Health Care Campus.

This event is free, but space is limited.

Register by Friday, March 28 by contacting the Programs Department at the Wood County Committee on Aging at 419-3535661, 800-367-4935 or programs@wccoa. net.

The mission of the Wood County Committee on Aging, Inc., is to provide older adults with services and programs that empower them to remain independent and improve the quality of their lives.

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Spaghetti dinner planned The East Toledo Senior Activities Center will hold a Spaghetti Dinner and Craft Show April 9 from 4-7 p.m. The center is located at 1001 White St., Toledo (Navarre Park Shelterhouse).

Dinner will include spaghetti with or without meat sauce, salad, garlic toast and a beverage. Presale tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and children under 12.

All tickets purchased the day of the meal will be $9. Dine-in and carry-out service is available. In addition, homemade baked goods and craft items will be available for purchase.

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Monthly podiatric clinic For the benefit of older adults, Wood County Committee on Aging, Inc. (WCCOA) is offering a monthly podiatry clinic at the Wood County Senior Center, 305 N. Main St. Bowling Green.

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Patients should check with their insurance companies about coverage and co-pays. Medicare and Medicaid will be accepted.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Mystery

The story of a young girl abducted and living on a Genoa farm

By Lou Hebert Press Contributing Writer

Martha and James Bowers, and their daughter Lilly.

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Because she was so young when she was abducted, she had no recollection of her own family or her name.

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into the hut and rescued Lilly from the stove where she had been placed by the other children because she had refused to do their bidding. Soon after this, Old Jack brought the child to Mrs. Calkins’ home.

She was clothed in nothing but an old coffee-sac. The Calkins adopted the child and she was given the name “Ida Bell”.

For the next 15 years, they raised Ida Bell Calkins as their own child, although, they always told her they were not her real parents and that perhaps, someday, she might find her real family.

In the years that followed, Ida Bell Calkins grew up in rural Genoa and lived with her new parents, and her five stepbrothers on an 80-acre farm near the current intersection of State Route 51 and State Rt. 163. Because she was so young when she was abducted, she had no recollection of her own family or her name. Because there were no local papers at the time in Genoa, the Calkins family never saw the numerous stories about the missing girl from Sandusky.

By the time “Ida Bell” grew up to a beautiful woman of about 18 years, she had been schooled and raised to be a proper church-going lady and traveled in a “prominent circle” of friends. But Ida still wondered about her real identity. Strangely she always favored the name Lilly and wished that it had been hers. She loved the name so much that she often gave her pets the name Lilly.

In 1882, as she was about to be married and assume a new married name, she was about to learn her real maiden name. In an article that appeared in The Gibsonburg Christian Monthly of July 1910 it was written that Lilly’s real mother, Martha Bowers, who was still living in Hudson, Michigan at the time had “never ceased to have faith that some day, somehow, God only knew when or how, Lilly would be restored to them.” Then, seemingly out of the blue, Mrs. Bowers received word from friends in Sandusky that they had heard of a young woman in Genoa who might be the long lost Lilly. Quickly letters were exchanged and Mrs. Bowers soon made the trip south to Ohio to test another moment of truth. It was arranged that, during a picnic at the old GAR hall in Genoa (which still exists), Mrs. Bowers was to look at a group of girls and see if she could identify her daughter. When she saw “Ida Bell”, she is said to have immediately picked her out as her daughter Lilly. There was no reunion that day, however, for Mrs. Bowers was to visit the Calkins home the next day to reveal herself to the girl. When Mrs. Bowers was brought into the room, the girl recognized her immediately.

“My mother”, said Ida. These were the first words Mrs. Bowers had heard her daughter utter since she was a toddler.

Further identification was verified by a birthmark on Lilly’s head and as Jeanette Calkins would later write, “there was joy and weeping.” It was a miraculous mother and child reunion. After 14 long years, the misery and the mystery were over.

Preparations were made at once for Marie Lilly Bowers to return to the family home in Hudson. Newspapers across the country began picking up the story and Genoa, Ohio was the place where this miracle story had taken place. Within weeks after the reunion, Ida Bell, or Marie Lilly, headed back to her adopted hometown of Genoa to marry Daniel Cunningham. Curiously, within months, her biological baby sister, Edith Clara Bowers would also move from Hudson to Genoa to marry James Levi Calkins, Lilly’s step-brother, with whom she had been raised. Both sisters remained in the vicinity until their deaths many years later. Lilly and Daniel eventually relocated

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Newspapers across the country began picking up the story and Genoa, Ohio was the place where this miracle story had taken place.

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Genoa is a quiet village. Not much noise and not much big news. So rarely does it ever make national or world news.

It has happened, but not often. The deadly tornado in 1920 and the sensational bank robbery nearly a century ago when a druggist was shot to death, are two of the town’s biggest stories. But, perhaps the biggest story that sent ripples beyond its village borders is one that few people today have read.

It was a story so gripping that if it were to occur today, Genoa would likely have to endure a crush of TV crews and cameras all crowding each other to get the scoop. But, there were no TV cameras back in the mid1800s, just newspapers, and while they did report this story, its notoriety has faded along with the ink of the old news print.

The roots of this curious tale began to unfold in 1867 in Sandusky with the kidnapping of a three-year old girl named Marie Lilly Bowers.

Family records indicate that on October 26, 1867, a neighbor asked Mrs. Martha Bowers if it would be okay for their three-year-old daughter, Marie Lilly, to come to their house for a few hours to play. Her mother agreed and so Lilly left with the neighbor woman. She would never return. On her way home that afternoon, she vanished. An immediate search was conducted by her frantic family, and by the next day, much of the city became involved in the search. It was recounted in family records that every “vault and cistern” was searched and even nearby “Sandusky Bay” was dragged for her body, but not a “single clue” turned up. Days went by and still no sign of Marie Lilly Bowers.

Most of the major newspapers carried the story and the desperate search by James and Martha Bowers to find their precious “Lilly”. There was speculation she had been abducted by a group of “gypsies” who were camped nearby. Days passed into weeks and then months. Lilly was gone. Mr. Bowers for years bought advertisements in papers around the country in a vain attempt to find his daughter. Some leads were reported and followed, but in the end, all proved to be false. The only clues came in rumors and theories. The Bowers family even contacted Levi Stanley, the “King of the Gypsies”, who was living in Dayton, and asked him to get involved, thinking he might be able to find out if any of “his people” had the child. Stanley reportedly became angry, although he brought forth a child as a possible candidate for the missing Lilly, but after Mrs. Bowers saw the girl, she knew it wasn’t her daughter.

The Bowers family, crushed and heart broken, eventually left Sandusky, and moved back to Hudson, Michigan, to a previous home where many of their children had been born.

Meanwhile, about the time Lilly vanished, an old “gypsy” man, Jack Patterson, began working on the farm of James and Jeanette Calkins. Old Jack would work during the day while leaving his own “tawny” children in a nearby hovel along with a child of a much lighter complexion. It was Marie Lilly Bowers. As the story is passed down in the Calkins’ family records, “One day Mrs. Calkins, hearing screams, rushed

to Gibsonburg where they raised two children, while her husband Daniel worked in the oil fields of Sandusky County. L i l l y would later tell newspaper reporters that she felt very fortunate having two caring sets of parents. While she was very happy to have reunited with her real parents, the Bowers, she held the “highest and tenderest” regard for the James Calkins family and could not think of moving away and deserting them in their old age. Marie Lilly “Ida Bell” Calkins-Cunningham lived in nearby Gibsonburg until she passed away at the early age of 45, in 1910 from a mastoid infection. She is buried at Gibsonburg along with her two children and husband.

The Calkins family legacy does not end with Lilly’s passing, for Lilly’s sister, Edith Clara, who married James Levi Calkins, lived to be nearly a hundred years of age and died in the 1960s in the Genoa area. She was well known and well liked by all who knew her. The Calkins family tree still stands tall in the Genoa area and still is growing. It now includes many well known local names such as Navarre, Early, Nagucki, Hesselbart, Schnapp and Bowland.

My Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Schnapp of Elliston for helping to track down this fascinating story of Genoa’s past.

Lou Hebert has more on this story as well as other stories on local history on his website www.toledogazette.wordpress.com

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MARCH 24, 2014

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Lake’s father and son corner top basketball honors

By J. Patrick Eaken and Yaneek Smith sports@presspublications.com When you walk into Ryan and Tony’s Barber Shop in Millbury, you will find seven local school mascots painted on the wall by artist Deano Davis.

Lake basketball coach Ryan Bowen, who co-owns the shop with Tony Meadows, can now add another plaque to his wall — the Alan Miller Jewelers All-Press Coach of the Year.

It is Bowen’s fourth straight AMJ AllPress COY honor, which was bestowed on him once again by voting from 10 area coaches and 10 area media members.

As a matter of fact, Coach Bowen has been the Lake head coach for only four years, so he has never been at the helm without receiving the award. The last time a different coach received the honor was in 2009-10 when it went to former Eastwood coach Todd Henline.

However, this year Coach Bowen gets to add a fifth plaque to the wall — his son, Lake six foot tall junior point guard Connor Bowen is All-Press Player of the Year.

Connor, the reigning Northern Buckeye Conference POY, averaged 22.4 points, 8.4 assists, 5.2 rebounds, and 4.2 steals in leading the Flyers to a 21-2 season and league championship.

“Connor has been tremendous for us this season,” Coach Bowen said. “He is an extension of our coaching staff on the court. He makes things easy for us coaches.

He brings an enormous amount of energy every practice and is our guy to run all of our offenses. His experience over his freshman and sophomore years is definitely paying off.”

At one time this season, the Flyers were ranked fourth by the Associated Press in Division II statewide voting, sandwiched between state final four qualifier Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary and regional semi-finalist Dayton Dunbar, both perennial powers.

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shootout at Clay. Their only other loss was to league foe Eastwood during the regular season.

In the last two years, the Flyers have established themselves as a premier team in the NBC. Last year, Connor Bowen, Jayce Vancena, Marcus Pierce and company went 19-4 and just missed winning their second straight league title, falling to Eastwood, 61-

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Connor was a first team All-Press choice as a sophomore, averaging 14.2 points and 8.1 assists.

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Lake’s record over the last three years is a combined 57-12 (.826) and 35-7 in the conference, tops in the NBC. Like any successful program, Coach Bowen plays a role in building a strong foundation.

“It’s been easy for us so far to transition from year to Ryan Bowen year with the talent we have been blessed with,” Bowen said. “Every year we take the kids down south to a summer camp that is very intense and it’s a great way for our team to bond. If you’re not tough, you will struggle. And our kids have bought into that, and we feel they really look forward to competing in (camp). The first year, we brought nine kids down, and the number continues to grow. We had 24 kids attend (last) year.

“And we’ve had a lot of success with our middle school teams, placing a team in the championship game for four straight years. So we have some really good coaches working hard for us, understanding what we want accomplished at the younger levels. I have been lucky to have such great coaches to work with since I became head coach.”

For POY, Connor received all but three votes, which went to Waite 6-4 senior guard Taywyn Mason, Clay 6-1 senior guard Patricc Booth, and Cardinal Stritch Catholic 6-5 junior guard/forward Austin Adams.

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Three-sport Waite athlete now bird hunting champ

By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com Dan Steingraber started out small but wanted to go big – really big.

The 56-year-old Oregon resident, who played baseball, football and hockey at Waite High School before graduating in 1975, owns his own real estate appraisal business, Steingraber and Associates, on Main Street in East Toledo. In his spare time he and his four-legged companion, named Scout, compete in dog bird hunting competitions.

Steingraber started hunting rabbits with his father, Bud, and grandfather, Gus, beginning at age 9. Their dog breed of choice back then was a beagle.

“We hunted around Northwest Ohio,” Steingraber said. “I’ve loved the interaction with the dogs and watching the dogs do what they were born to do.”

Steingraber and Scout — and Steingraber’s human partner, Kevin Keisel from Pennsylvania — competed in the United Field Trialers Association (UFTA) Flushing Doubles National Championship from Feb. 14-22 at the Doublehead Resort in Town Creek, Ala. “We’ve run dogs together for a long time,” Steingraber said, referring to Keisel.

Steingraber and Keisel competed against 47 other doubles teams to win the event, and the first-place price of $1,485.

“You get in a (hunting) blind and they set six (quail) in this field,” Steingraber said. “In doubles fields, they’re usually larger (birds) and it’s a 10- to 15-acre range.

You and your partner get out of the blind with a judge. When you’re ready to go, you let the dog loose. Whoever’s dog finds the bird the fastest, with the least about of bullets, wins. Our time was 6:55.

“To win these big events, everything has to go perfect. It doesn’t go perfect that often, which is why you don’t win all these big events. We flushed them, shot them and (the dogs) retrieved them. All of the dogs at this level are great retrievers. Retrieving is not an issue. It usually comes down to shooting.”

Steingraber’s retriever on this occasion was his seven-year-old female

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“She’s just a heart-charger, just a million miles and hour,” said Steingraber, who used a 12-gauge Ruger over-under during the competition. “She’s my second Springer from the same breeder. I had a lot of success with the first one, Belle.”

The UFTA National Championship is one of the largest dog trials in the country, and Steingraber called his win there a “significant accomplishment.”

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Steingraber said he has finished in the top 10 a few times and took seventh, with Belle, at the 2009 National Bird Dog Challenge Association World Championships in Iowa.

“Initially I was looking for a way to extend my hunting season,” he said. “There’s a group of hunting clubs that semi-circle south and west of Cleveland, and they run small local trials called hunter’s trials, which are judged events where they just

judge the dog. I was having a significant amount of success in those.

“Through running in those, you hear from guys about other events. They used to have the Northwest Ohio Gun Dog Circuit, which was a small organization but was similiar in format to the UFTA. We ran six tournaments a year in Northwest Ohio. Me and Belle were having a lot of success in those events. Belle is 14 now, but she’s not in competitions anymore.”

Steingraber, who ran for Lucas County Commissioner in 2010, said he was always looking for the next level of bird dog competition. He began competing locally, then regionally before moving on to the next level.

That’s when he became involved with the National Bird Dog Challenge Association, which was founded in 1995.

“We started competing nationally around 2005 or ‘06,” Steingraber said. “We were competitive, just learning the game at that level. The highlight with Belle was making it to the finals of the world championships in 2009. We transitioned into UFTA because there were more local events and less travel.”

At the UFTA national event, doubles competition hunters have a 20-minute time limit to hunt and are allowed 12 shells.

Steingraber said the rules simply come down to this: the team that finds and bags six birds the fastest and has the most shells left, wins. Hunters can either keep the birds or donate them locally.

“If you take more than one shot to kill a bird, you lose,” Steingraber said. “That’s how competitive it is. You make any mistakes at all, you lose.”

The dog’s performance is also key.

“The dogs must retrieve to within one step of you for full credit,” Steingraber said.

“Each shell you use results in a deduction of points, as will a partial retrieve. Once you bag your sixth bird and leash your dog, the time stops and you are awarded 2 points for each minute you have left.”

Steingraber, who also competes in singles competitions, said his next event is in late March in West Liberty, Ohio. He and Scout have made it to the singles Nationals in four of the past six years, finishing as high as seventh.

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Slovak honored by conference for Clay turnaround

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By J. Patrick Eaken Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com

Having these type of versatile kids on a team is invaluable.

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Clay girls basketball coach Corey Slovak has been named the Three Rivers Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.

In his second year at the helm, Slovak brought the Eagles back to respectability, taking the Clay girls program to a 14-10 season, including 8-6 in the TRAC, with just two seniors on the roster.

“Getting TRAC Coach of the Year was definitely an honor, but I consider it a ‘program award,’ Slovak said. “Our players bought into the system, gave us great effort, and made things happen on the court.

“We have a great group of girls, and they deserve the credit for our success this season. My coaching staff also did a fantastic job all year long with preparation, adjustments, and teaching our game plan week in and week out.”

Slovak, a 1989 Clay graduate, was an Eagles assistant girls coach the year before he was hired under Kevin Crosson, who resigned the previous April after one season due to health issues. Slovak also helped coach Central Catholic’s boys’ team for three years under Jim Welling, who is this year’s TRAC Coach of the Year on the boys’ ledger.

Two Clay players, 5-foot-6 junior guard Morgan Connor and 5-6 sophomore guard Haley Hess, are second team All-TRAC selections.

Connor, who holds a 4.42 GPA, averaged 13.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, four turnovers, 2.2 assists, and had 41 steals. She shot 43 percent from inside the three-point arc (29 for 68) and 37 percent from beyond the arc with 40 treys.

“Morgan is a two-year varsity starter and our overall best player,” Slovak said.

“She is in the top five in TRAC scoring average and contributes each game in the steals and rebounding categories.

“Morgan is the key reason, both on and off the court that our program has rebounded to win 14 games this season after winning a total of eight the previous three seasons.”

Connor had 20 points, five rebounds, three steals, and four three-point goals in a 58-27 season opening win over Delta, 20 points, five rebounds, and four treys against Central, 19 points and three steals against Findlay, 17 points, four treys, four rebounds, three assists, and three steals against St. Ursula Academy, and 17 points, four treys, and six steals in a 66-51 loss to Sylvania Southview.

Clay second-year coach Corey Slovak, this year’s Three Rivers Athletic Conference girls basketball Coach of the Year. (Press file photo by Scott Grau) Haley Hess led the team in three-point field goal percentage (40), overall field goal percentage (60), and free throw percentage (78), even though she has two more years of varsity basketball.

“She has put the team above herself by accepting her role as sixth man for the greater good of the team chemistry, yet still leads our team in scoring,” Slovak said.

“Haley has played a major role in our overall turnaround here at Clay this year.”

Hess averaged 13.7 points, 2.5 rebounds, two turnovers, two assists, and had 26 steals. She also has a 3.93 GPA. Hess’ top games included 23 points, five rebounds, and 8 for 8 from the charity stripe in a nail biting 59-57 loss to Springfield, 18 points, four three-point field goals and three assists in a 70-58 win over Bryan, 19 points, three treys, and three steals against league foe Fremont Ross, 16 points and four treys in a 65-51 loss to Northern Lakes League champion

Perrysburg, and 16 points and four steals against TRAC champion and Division I state final four qualifier Notre Dame Academy.

Two other Eagles, juniors Samantha Enck and Haley Orr, are honorable mention picks. Enck, a 5-4 guard, averaged 9.2 points, 3.8 rebounds, and had 27 assists and 21 steals.

Enck had 21 points, four rebounds, three assists, and shot 9 for 12 from the field against Ross, had 16 points and seven steals against SUA, had 15 points and seven rebounds against Mansfield Senior, had 15 points, six rebounds, two assists, and was 6 for 8 from the field against Bryan, and had 15 points and four rebounds against Central Catholic. But there is another side to Enck’s game.

“Sam was a very important player to our successful turnaround this season at Clay,” Slovak said. “She is one of our top defenders and was always tasked with guarding the opposing team’s best player.

Whether it was a point guard or a 6-1 forward, Sam was up to the task.

“The fact that she nearly averaged double figures in scoring was an added bonus, as she was often our fourth option on offense.”

Orr, a junior guard, averaged just under four points a game but that doesn’t concern Slovak. Orr is another one of Clay’s defensive specialists, sharing that duty wth Enck.

“She’s smart,” Slovak said. “You get her on the court and she plays like she’s in a bad mood. She plays defense with kind of that chip on her shoulder, and she’s very selfless. She’s not worried about scoring or being a big part of our offense. She knows her role very well.

“Haley Orr did a lot of the gritty work for us this season. We usually put her on our opponent’s best offensive player, no matter what position. So she might be guarding a point guard one night, and then the next game we’d tell her she’s guarding a 6-1 post player. Having those type of versatile kids on a team is invaluable.”

Last week, Haley Hess and Connor were both chosen to the Alan Miller Jewelers All-Press second team, 5-8 sophomore guard Hannah Hess was third team, and Enck was honorable mention.

Hannah Hess averaged 7.9 points, 3.1 rebounds, had 29 assists and 16 steals. She had 15 points, two rebounds, and two assists against SUA, 12 points and seven rebounds against Ross, 14 points, two rebounds, and two assists against Notre Dame, 14 points, four rebounds, and two assists against Waite, and 14 points, three rebounds, two assists, and had four treys against Lake.

“Hannah started as a sophomore for us this season and scored in double figures in 10 of our games,” Slovak said.

“She has a great dual threat attack on offense with her ability to shoot the threeball and get to the rim with the dribble drive. As a first-year starter, even as a sophomore, she was a key player in helping us get to 14 wins this season.”

Former Eastwood, Owens guard honored by Three Rivers

By J. Patrick Eaken Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com Central Catholic boys basketball coach Jim Welling, a 1977 Eastwood graduate who now resides in Northwood, has been named Three Rivers Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.

Welling was rewarded for leading the Irish to a 20-4 season and TRAC championship with a 13-1 league record.

One of his former assistants, Clay girls coach Corey Slovak, was glad to see it.

“I think it’s great that Coach Welling and I earned Coach of the Year in the same year,” Slovak said. “He was and still is my mentor, and the four years I was on his staff (three at Central, one at Lake) gave me experiences I will never forget.

“Learning how to coach a team at a high level was only part of it, he showed me how to run a program, which is something I will always be thankful for.”

Wellling’s Irish were bounced from the Division I district tournament by regional semifinalist and Toledo City League champion Bowsher, 63-60, at the University of Toledo’s Savage Arena.

This year’s Irish were led by TRAC Player of the Year DeShone Kizer, a senior heading to the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.) on a football scholarship, and his classmate, Marcus Winters, both first team All-TRAC picks. Central junior Jeremiah Braswell is second team and seniors Nate Harris and Tom Vetter are honorable mention.

After losing in overtime to league runner-up St. John’s Jesuit, 62-59, at the Sullivan Center, Welling’s Irish came back to rout the Irish on the road, 55-37, to lay the path for the league trophy. One of the highlights of the season was a 103-57 nonleague victory over Bowling Green.

Welling won two junior college national championships during a 20-year stint coaching at Owens Community College,

Central Catholic coach Jim Welling, a Luckey native, cuts down the nets after the Fighting Irish win a championship this season. (Press file photo by Scott Grau) compiling a 550-127 record. As a player, he once held the all-time assists record at Owens.

He is now in his sixth season at Central.

In 2011, he took the Irish to the state final four for the first time since 1952. He once told The Press that his playing days and previous coaching background keeps him grounded.

“Here at Central, they get all giddy about the St. John’s and the St. Francis and the rivalries among the powers of the Catholic schools here in the city, but I didn’t come from that background,” Welling said.

“I came from a background where you strap it up and it doesn’t matter who you are playing. You want to give your best effort whether you are playing in front of 500 people or 3,000 people. You know, if you have passion for the game, it doesn’t matter who you play. You will do it with respect but you won’t do it in fear.”

Clay seniors Patricc Booth, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard, and Anthony Ramirez, a 6-2 senior forward, are All-TRAC honorable mention selections.

Booth, a second team All-Press selection, averaged 14.8 points, 4.7 rebounds,

was second team all-district and scored 1,025 career points, making him the fifth Clay player ever to better the 1,000 mark.

He also had 115 career treys, the most in school history.

Booth joined Jim Routson (1,226), Randy Felhaber (1,115), Ben Tobias (1,103) and Tom Clay (1,035) on Clay’s 1,000-point list.

Ramirez was also all-district HM and third team All-Press, averaging 13.8 points and 4.8 rebounds.

Clay coach Rob Belegrin notes that the level of competition the Eagles play against in the TRAC has an impact on keeping those stats in check. The Eagles finished 3-20 overall and 1-13 in the TRAC. The lone league win was 78-70 over Lima Senior on the road in the next to last regular season game, after losing to the Spartans 56-51 at home. Clay also defeated east side rival Waite, 66-61, at Grant Murray Field House and visiting Sylvania Northview, 66-59.

Among close, but disappointing games was a 53-52 conference loss to a much improved St. Francis DeSales team.

Clay lost seven games – to St. Francis twice, Fremont Ross, Lima Senior, Whitmer twice and Rossford – by five points or less “We’re in every game, but you have to close,” Belegrin told The Press. “It’s tough.

Our defense has been a lot better this year, but our free throw shooting has not been good. The guys on our team, they’re good players, but they’ve never won. We play good basketball, but we don’t sustain it for 32 minutes.”

“Over the last couple years, we haven’t had that many wins and we don’t know how to handle those situations,” he continued. “A lot of games we’d compete and lead near the end and we’d either turn it over or misread on defense and that can cause one big play. We’re competing against teams we should beat, and record-wise it doesn’t show it.” (— writer Mark Griffin contributed.)

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Lake cheerleaders state champs, Northwood runner-up

By Yaneek Smith Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com After a long season, the Lake cheerleading squad rose to the occasion when it mattered most, winning a Division II state crown.

“It was a surprise,” said Lake coach Kelly Melnyk. “Going into the state championship, we wanted to go out and do the very best we could. We were going up against teams we had never seen before.

The goal was to go out and do the very best we could — it was the first time Lake had gone to state. Going into the event, we had competed in several different competitions prior and had taken second in all of them.”

To win the title, the Flyers had to slay a few proverbial dragons by defeating Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary and Cleveland Central Catholic. And there’s nothing like performing at the highest level when everything is on the line, something Melnyk says the cheerleaders were able to do during the competition at the Stroh Center at Bowling Green State University.

“Coming into state, the girls were intimidated because of the level of competition, but once they saw Cleveland Central Catholic’s routine, they knew that they had a chance,” Melnyk said. “They knew that our stuff and our whole routine did add up. When we went back into the warm-up room, the seniors took over and said, ‘This is our last competition, we need to do our very best. We know we can do this.’

“It was the best routine I saw us do.

Every stunt hit. I’ve never seen a routine go so well. They had high energy throughout the entire routine. We were a little shaky in warm-ups, the pyramids had given us some problems but when they went out during the performance, they did well.”

Melnyk credited her four seniors, Kelsey Little, Kylie Grear, Leah Hughes and Brittany Ennis, for consistently giving the group direction when things went south.

“They’ve been the leaders of this team,” Melnyk said. “When things get difficult, they’re the ones to look at the girls and say, ‘We can do this.’ They keep setting the bar higher and they would achieve the goal and we’d set the bar higher and then achieve the goal and then we won state.”

Melynk notes that four girls quit the

Northwood cheerleaders — first row — Kelsey Smothers, Kaitlynn Edwards, Ashley Fullenlove, Paige Genson, Alyssa Arman, Jessica Tonti, and Amalya Stevenson.

Second row — Charly Saar, Gabbi Kirchner, Chasity Stark, Rubbi Husen, Maddison Schell, Allyah Haynes, Sydney Boisselle, and Morgan Satkowski. team after the squad had put the whole competition routine together. On top of that, there were whispers that the squad wasn’t going to be able to overcome the obstacles and perform when it mattered most.

“They just wanted to really overcome that,” Melynk said. “It was kind of their motivation to overcome and show everybody. We are an awesome team and we can do anything if we set our mind to it, and that’s exactly what they did. They put the goal of going into state and doing the best routine they possibly could, and they did that, and they’re state champions.”

Melnyk says the physical and mental stamina that comes with cheering requires a lot of hard work and dedication.

“The girls put in just as much time as probably any other sport,” Melnyk said.

“We were here all summer long, running and weight lifting. You have to have that agility to get through a two-and-a-half minute routine — they’re yelling, dancing, throwing girls and you have to get through

a routine with that same smile and make it look like it’s completely easy for them.”

Northwood building program Genoa also qualified and so did Lake’s Lemoyne Road rival, Northwood, which finished second in Division III, giving the area two of the tops teams in Ohio. The Rangers finished 17 points behind West Jefferson.

Under the director of coach Naomi Smith and behind the leadership of the five seniors, Paige Jenson, Ashley Fullenlove, Alyssa Arman, Jessica Tonti and Amalya Stevenson, the Rangers finished second for the second consecutive year.

What’s special about this group is the fact that Smith has been with them since their grade school days. She’s been with the program for 10 years and helped to strengthen the Little Rangers cheerleading program with the very girls that she’s currently coaching.

“This is my 10th year and third year at the high school,” said Smith, who credits her

assistant Marie Ramirez with being instrumental in the team’s success. “I revived the pee-wee program, the Little Rangers. This year’s seniors, they were third graders when I started. The pee-wee program keeps growing. I want to say I had about 45 girls in the program this year. I figured that if I got the girls practicing at a younger age, it would help the high-school program.

“I’ve been with your daughters for so long that I care for them like they were my own, but we fight like mother and daughters. But it’s helped that we’ve been together so long.”

For cheerleaders, it is not like most sports that last roughly three months. The sport is basically a nine-month commitment that requires plenty of mental and physical training.

“Our weight room is open and we start practices the week school goes out,” Smith said. “We get back to school in September and we don’t stop until March. We go to camp and train a couple times per week during the summer.”

Genoa grad, Szypka, brings SEC championship to Kentucky

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By Mark Griffin Press Contributing Writer sports@presspublications.com

To score in our conference it took 61 feet, and you don’t see that in any other conference.

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Genoa graduate and University of Kentucky junior thrower Brad Szypka didn’t underestimate the mental boost he got from winning the Southeastern Conference indoor track and field shot put title.

Winning the gold medal at the SEC meet on March 1 in College Station, Texas, was just what Szypka needed before heading off to compete at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships March 14-15 in Albuquerque, N.M. “I came in (to the SEC meet) ranked No. 1 and I was leading the SEC the entire year,” said the 6-foot-3, 260-pound Szypka.

“Coming in, I kind of had a target on my back. I was consistent all year, over 63 feet.

A lot of guys were 61 or 62 (feet) and I told myself they’re going to have to PR to beat me. I just told myself to do what I do and that would be good enough to win. That’s what I ended up doing.”

Szypka captured his first SEC title by throwing the 16-pound shot 63-10.5, becoming the first Kentucky athlete to win the conference shot put title in a decade.

“I ended up winning by like nine inches,” Szypka said. “I led the whole meet. It was amazing. My coach (Andrew Ninow) and I talked about it and said this was my year to step it up and win it. It was an amazing experience to step up there and represent UK.” Last Monday, Szypka became one of nine UK track and field athletes to earn All-America honors for the 2014 indoor season by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). He was the Wildcats’ lone male first-team honoree.

Two days earlier, Szypka placed fifth at the NCAA national meet in New Mexico, throwing the shot a personal-best 64-0.25.

He earned the UK men’s team its only four points of the meet.

Szypka sat in ninth place going into his third and final attempt in the preliminary round. Only the top eight placers advanced to the finals. That’s when he threw his personal best. His previous best indoor throw this season was 63-11.

Brad Szypka. (Courtesy of the University of Kentucky) “I was just under 62 and mid-61 on my first two throws,” Szypka said. “I wasn’t coming out of the back of the throw well. I was slipping and the wind was pretty fast. I was chatting with all of the other throwers – we’re all good friends – and the middle of the ring was the tackiest, roughest (area). I was lining up a little to the left. I said, ‘I got this.’ I went in my third throw and shifted more to the middle and came off the back and pushed a little harder.

“It wasn’t a pretty throw, but I got through it a little better. I was shocked. I wasn’t having a great meet; a lot of us were struggling. I thought it was just another 62or 63-foot throw, but then I thought, ‘wow, it’s still in the air!’ It finally landed over the 64-foot mark and I was like, ‘wow, will you look at that.’ That put me in second at that

point, so I was in second going into the finals.”

Szypka said competing against his SEC rivals during the season helped his confidence heading into the national meet.

“When you look at the SEC and the Big Ten, we’re the top two throw conferences in the nation,” Szypka said. “We have the deepest conferences. To score in our conference it took 61 feet, and you don’t see that in any other conference. Our top eight SEC guys were all (ranked) in the top 25 in the nation. When I walked into Nationals, I knew I could compete.”

Even though he was ranked 11th in the nation heading into Nationals, Szypka said, “I knew I could do some damage.”

“I knew I had 64 feet in me,” he said.

“I told myself what I was going to do. I took

fifth and threw 64 feet. I walked in with a lot of confidence, knowing I was one of the top shot-putters in the nation. With a really good day, I thought I could be top three. I’m happy with fifth place, but I’m not satisfied with it.”

Szypka said he fouled on three of his throws in the final round.

“I was chasing it more and pushing a little harder, and all of the throws were landing at 62 (feet),” he said. “I was missing a few technical things because I was a little amped up. I just fouled the last three on purpose. It was what it was, and I was satisfied with it.”

Szypka, 21, who is majoring in secondary education, has high hopes for the outdoor season, which has already started.

Szypka qualfied for the NCAA national outdoor meet as a sophomore and missed the finals by one spot, finishing 10th with a throw of 60-11.25.

Kentucky’s men’s and women’s teams headed to Phoenix on Wednesday to begin training for the outdoor season.

“I’ll take a little break from the shot until we go to Texas in a few weeks,” Szypka said. “We’ll be competing Saturday at the University of Arizona to begin our outdoor season. I’m throwing the discus there. The week after that we will be at the University of Texas and I’ll throw the shot there. That’s one of the biggest track meets of the year and there will be good competition. It will be a good chance for me to open up with a big (throw) and get my qualifying mark for regionals.”

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Pet store opens in Great Eastern Everything For Pets, an expansion of Condos and Trees, will open for business Monday, March 31 at 10 a.m. in the Great Eastern Shopping Center, 2674 Woodville Rd., Northwood.

Condos and Trees, located at 4211 Woodville Rd., Northwood, will close at 6 p.m. Friday, March 28. Its products will be offered for sale at the new location March 31.

Everything For Pets will be a full-line pet store featuring pet products as well as live animals, including guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats, rabbits, reptiles, crickets and fish. The store’s mascot, “Bacon, the Baconater, a miniature potbelly pig, will be on-site at the store for children to pet and feed.

“The 30,000-square-foot pet store and manufacturing facility will offer a great place for East Side pet owners to purchase items for their four-legged family members,” said owner Jennifer Stewart. “We will also manufacture cat furniture and cat products to buyers’ specifications on the premises.”

Store hours will be Monday through Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.4 p.m. Call 419-214-0PET (419-214-0738) for more information.

The right thing Johnson Controls has been named employer of the month by the Community Employment Services of Wood Lane, a job placement service for qualified workers with developmental disabilities.

According to a spokesperson for Wood Lane, Johnson Controls had been looking for a solution to recycle its cardboard at its Northwood plant. The company hired two workers through the Community Employment Services to collect and bale cardboard five days a week on two shifts.

Due to increase production through its ties with the Chrysler Jeep plant, the work has expanded to six days a week. Additional production lines have also been added and another two people per shift were hired.

The company’s relationship with Wood Lane goes beyond providing employment opportunities. Last year, JCI and Wood Lane were recipients of a $1000 Blue Sky Award to purchase a shelter for another Wood Lane business in Wood County and employees at JCI donated more than $500 to be distributed to individuals served by Wood Lane.

Opportunity knocks Woodville Chiropractic and Natural Health Center has added a chiropractic physician to their office, Robert C. Spain, Jr., D.C., M.Ed., LPCC. Dr. Spain is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in the State of Ohio and has been providing mental health services since 1985.

He has worked as an outpatient psychotherapist in a community mental health center and as a Behavior Medicine Counselor at the Medical College of Ohio. For the past 17 years he has been in private practice providing clinical counseling and behavioral medicine services.

He has also taught courses in behavioral management at the University of Toledo.

He earned his Doctor of Chiropractic

Workplace Medicine from the National University of Health Sciences in 2008.

Dr. Spain has been trained in clinical nutrition, neurology, kinesiology (muscle testing), and NeuroEmotional Technique. He will be available Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays by appointment. He is also available for public speaking engagements.

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Job opportunities The Lucas County Commissioners and the Economic Opportunity Planning Association has announced a partnership to offer a comprehensive employment program for county youths.

The eight-week program will target 700 youths in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and provide them with one week of training and seven weeks of work. All eight weeks will be paid. For more, call 419-242-7304.

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At the clubs The 21st Annual Prism Awards will be held Thursday, March 27, 6 p.m. at Sunrise Park and Banquet Center in Millbury.

Thirteen businesses and organizations will be honored. They are: Northwood Jewelers, Motor Carrier Service, Industrial Developers LTD and Miracle League of NW Ohio, all of Northwood; Croghan Colonial Bank, S & D Capital, C & W Tank Cleaning Co., H & M Open Arms Massage Studio and Food for Thought, all of Oregon and Martin and Martin Insurance Agency, The LaBuhn Center, Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center and Toledo Metropolitan Council of Governments, all of Toledo.

The event is sponsored by the Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce and honors excellence in this area’s businesses and organizations. Paul Toth, president of the Toledo/Lucas County Port Authority will be the keynote speaker.

RSVP to Sarah Beavers at 419693-5580 or email her at director@ embchamber.org. *** The Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 27, 7:30 a.m. in the Michigan Room at ProMedica Bay Park Hospital has been cancelled. *** The Ottawa County Improvement Corporation will host its annual Business and Industry Awards, Thursday, April 3 at the Catawba Island Club in Port Clinton.

Social hour starts at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30. RSVP at 419-898-6242.

Just the fax: Fax items before Wednesday, noon to The Workplace at 419-836-1319, email to zoz@presspublications.com or send to The Press, Box 169, Millbury, OH 43447.

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Hack a Snack at the Library, Birmingham Branch Library, 203 Paine Ave., March 28, 4 p.m. Schoolage children are invited to stop in at the library and discover easy ways to turn an ordinary snack into something extraordinary.

Glass City Singles Romp Stomping Hillbilly Western Hoe Down & Blue Jeans Ball March 28, 8 p.m.-midnight, Holland Gardens, Holland, Ohio. $8 admission.

Nightingales Harvest 5K Walk/Run to benefit cancer families March 29, 9 a.m., University of Toledo Medical Center Campus, 3000 Arlington Ave. Open registration starts at 7 a.m. Online registration open until March 27 at midnight at www.nightingales-harvest.org. Teams and individuals welcome.

Park Church Rummage Sale April 4, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and April 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Park Congregational Church, 1456 Harvard Blvd. Refreshments available. No early sales.

Card Party April 8 at noon, First St. John Lutheran Church, 2471 Seaman St. Admission includes lunch. Men and women welcome. For reservations, call 419-691-5506 or 419-691-7222.

“Give Hope a Hand,”– Turning Victims into Survivors event, in recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 8, 8:30-11:30 a.m., UT Health and Science Campus, Mulford Library Bldg. at UT Medical Center, 3000 Arlington Ave. Speaker, info on victim service providers from a wide variety of programs and agencies.

Lenten Fish Fries Fridays through April 18, 5-7 p.m., Epiphany of the Lord Parish – St. Thomas Aquinas, 729 White St. Featuring Alaskan pollock, scalloped potatoes, green beans or corn, cole slaw or salad, roll and butter, coffee and homemade desserts. Kids’ meals and carryouts available. Info: 419-698-1519.

Open-Late Dinners, served seven days a week, 4-7 p.m., Ashland Baptist Church, 2350 Starr Ave. Open to anyone in the community. Featuring soup, bread and a beverage in March and April. Freewill offerings accepted but not expected.

Waite High School, class of 1964 50th Class Reunion May 9 at the Holiday Inn French Quarter, Perrysburg. Invitations were recently mailed.

Those who did not receive an invitation may email jack.romp@yahoo.com or call 419-215-4394.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) welcomes new members who want to lose weight. The group meets Mondays from 7-8 p.m. at the East Toledo Senior Activities Center, 1001 White St. Weighins from 6-6:45 p.m. Yearly membership is $28.

Weekly dues 50 cents. Call Judy at 419-691-8033 or come to a free meeting. Everyone welcome.

Block Watch 410-N for the East Toledo Old Heffner School Area meets every 4th Monday of the month 6:30-7:30 p.m. at 2075 Kelsey Ave. Residents who live within the boundaries of Starr, the RR tracks (Belt Street), Dearborn and Lemert, Seaman to the I-280 Bridge and any surrounding neighbors/ business owners are also welcome.

Block Watch 420-C Meeting Martin Luther Lutheran Church, 601 Nevada, the 4th Thurs. of every month from 6-7:30 p.m.

VFW Post #2510 offers Friday-night dinners from 4-7 p.m. Public welcome. Meetings are held Tues. at 7 p.m.; Men’s Auxiliary meets the 1st Tues. and Ladies Auxiliary meets the 4th Tues.

Waite High School Alumni from the Class of 1951, meet the 2nd Mon. of every month. For info, call Betty at 419-691-7944 or Fran at 419-6936060.

Musicians are invited to Jam Sessions Wednesdays, 7 p.m., VFW 3338, South Avenue and Airport Highway. Open to the public.

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PERI Chapter #93 Meeting March 27, 1 p.m., Oregon Fire Station #2, 1102 S. Wheeling St. Speaker, business meeting, refreshments and fellowship. All PERI retirees welcome.

Crafters Sought for Fassett Middle School 8th Annual Spring Show March 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Supper April 2, 4-7 p.m., Little Sisters of the Poor auditorium, 930 Wynn Rd. Carryouts available at 3 p.m.

Oregon Fest 2Ol4 Planning Meeting April 3,

6:30 p.m., Oregon Branch Library, 3304 Dustin Rd. Open to all groups and individuals. Visit OregonFest.net for applications and enter contests that begin and end prior to the Fest.

Fish Fry March 28, 4-7 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 798 S Coy Rd. at Navarre. Dessert included. Dine in or carry out. Kids’ meals available.

Info: 419-691-9400.

All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner, April 12, 4-6 p.m., First St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1121 Grasser St. Includes salad, dessert and beverage.

Kids’ meals available. Dine in or carry out. 50/50 raffle. Building is wheelchair-accessible. For details, call 419-693-4578.

Oregon Branch Library, 3340 Dustin Rd., announces the following programs: Preschool Storytime meets Wednesdays through April 9 at 10 a.m.; Babytime Storytime meets Thursdays through April 10 at 10 a.m.; Saturday Surprise drop-in activity programs Saturdays through April 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Catholics Returning Home, a six-week series that will provide informal sharing and an update of the Catholic faith for non-practicing Catholics who are seeking answers about returning to the church, will meet Wednesdays at 7 p.m. beginning April 23 in the Family Life Center at St. Ignatius Church, 212 N. Stadium Rd. Info: Carol at 419-691-3562 or the Parish Office at 419-693-1150.

Theology with Toast, meets every 2nd Wed. of the month at 10 a.m. at Little Sisters of the Poor, 930 S Wynn Rd. Coffee and rolls at 9:30 a.m. For info, call Alice at 419-698-0405.

Senior Book Discussion Group meets the 1st Thursday of most months, 2:15-3:15 p.m., Oregon Branch Library, 3340 Dustin Rd. No registration is required. Books are available at the library circulation desk for extended check-out. For info, call 419-259-5250.

“James Wes Hancock” Oregon Senior Center, 5760 Bayshore Rd., open weekdays 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Daily activities include: bingo, fitness classes, line dancing, exercise, Bunco, Euchre, and health screenings. Lunch served at 11:30 a.m. daily. $2.50 donation is suggested for seniors 60 & older; all others $5.32. Reservations required 24 hours in advance. 419-698-7078.

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Monthly Government Food Distribution for eligible city residents March 26, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Josie Reinhart Community Center, located behind the Northwood Municipal Building (Parking Lot C), 6000 Wales Rd. Fish Fry every Fri., 5-7:45 p.m., Northwood VFW 2984. Featuring fish, steaks, shrimp and chicken.

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Beginners Bible Study for Teens & Young Adults, Sundays, 5 p.m., Northwood 7th-day Adventist Church, 2975 East Point Blvd. Everyone welcome. Info: www.northwoodadventist.org or 419-698-5100.

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Landscape positions available at Bosch Landscape, Mail Resume to 9046 Corduroy Rd, Curtice, Ohio 43412.

Need self motivated individual for small sign company-Driver's License a must. 419-637-7700

2nd and 3rd shift openings available. Drug and Bkg checks will be conducted. HS Diploma or GED is required.

Call MANPOWER for appointment and mention this ad. 419-893-4413

Part-Time Janitorial Position In Genoa Wednesday nights after 5pm For 3.5 hours And Friday nights after 5pm For 3.5 hours Dusting, Sweeping, Mopping And Cleaning Restrooms Must have own transportation and clean police record. $12 an hour Call Roxie at Toledo Building Services 419-241-3101 For application information

Supported Living Provider Luther Home of Mercy, a facility located in Williston, Ohio has homes throughout Lucas, Wood and Ottawa counties. LHM is accepting application for part time and casual employees to assist adults with Developmental Disability in our Oak Harbor, Port Clinton, and Fremont homes. Applicants must meet the following qualifications: HS Diploma or GED, valid driver’s licenses with reliable transportation for transporting, and be able to pass a drug test and BCI check.

If interested, send resume to Luther Home of Mercy/Director of Human Resources, 5810 N. Main St., P.O. Box 187, Williston, Ohio, 43468 or apply online at www.lutherhome.org. EOE

VILLAGE OF WOODVILLE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR LIFEGUARDS/REC. STAFF LIFEGUARDS: Responsibilities are to provide an environment which protects the health and welfare of each person using the Woodville Pool. Valid Advance Lifeguarding & Water Safety Instructors certificates preferred.

REC. STAFF: Responsibilities include opening/closing tasks as assigned by manager.

Applications are available at the Town Hall 219 W. Main St., Municipal Bldg - 530 Lime St, or online at www.villageofwoodville.com.

Applications may be turned in at the Municipal Bldg. M-F, 8am-4pm, or mailed to PO Box 156, Woodville, OH 43469.

Applications accepted until April 14, 2014. E-O-E

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EOE

THE PRESS

Part-time work available: Looking for individuals to show short fire safety videos, 2 to 3 nights a week.

(Pay $200/$300 a week) Must have reliable transportation. Please call 419-787-1780 Reino Linen Service, Inc. has an immediate opening for a full time, afternoon shift maintenance position in the Gibsonburg, Ohio plant. Must be self-motivated, detail oriented, team player for fast paced, high volume healthcare laundry facility. 3-5 years of Building and Machine Maintenance, Plumbing, and Electrical Maintenance experience required.

Physically demanding position, some heights involved. Resumes may be emailed to HR@reinolinen.com. We are an EEO/AA Employer.

SALES OPPORTUNITY NABF College World Series media publications/sponsorship. Commission only. Call 419-936-3887, leave name and phone number.

The Press has an opening for a small walking route in Oak Harbor, Ohio. If interested, please contact Jordan at 419-836-2221 Ext. 32.

Travel Centers of America Burger King and Taco Bell Managers. Apply in person or at www.mytajob.com Wanted: Sales Person-start parttime with advancement to full-time as soon as 1st month. Must be willing to travel (NW Ohio and SE Michigan).

Great pay and awesome company.

This person needs to be motivated!

Contact 419-836-4949.

Work part-time: Millbury company looking for someone to make phone calls Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings. Hourly wage plus bonuses. Contact 419-787-1780

YOU LUCKY DOG VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Wednesday mornings and afternoons and every other Thursday - times are flexible Our pooches are in need of play/socializing time volunteers.

This gives you the opportunity to enjoy a Rescue dog while they are waiting for their forever home. Please call to set up a time to visit us and meet our rescues. There is minimal "housework" involved.

WOOF You Lucky Dog, Inc 419-691-1375 youluckydogrescue.com

CHILDCARE COOK/FLOAT POSITION 35/week. CPR/FA preferred.

Experience preferred.

Contact Nehama at

419-697-5605

COUNTRY CHARM CLEANING Hiring Dependable People with Reliable Transportation

joan@countrycharmcleaning.com

419-836-8942

TRAINCO

Truck Driving Schools Day - Eve - Weekend Class Job Placement

Perrysburg 419-837-5730 Norwalk 419-499-2222

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Turnpike Service Plazas are hiring for:

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Hiring for All Shifts and Shift Managers Part time Positions Available One of the most successful LTL carriers in the US has an immediate opening for Line Haul Drivers at our Toledo Terminal $0.4650 - 0.5500 CPM PLUS $1,000 Sign On Bonus Must have Class A - CDL w/Hazmat, Doubles/Triples & Tanker endorsements & 1 year exp.

Excellent Benefits: Medical/Vision/RX Insurance starts at only $12.00/wk! Paid life & disability, 401K w/50% match & paid time off.

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Blue Heron Plaza

In Home Service

APPLIANCE WORKS INC. Washers, Dryer, Ranges, Microwaves, Refrig., Air Conditioners, Dishwashers, Disposers, Freezers

Concrete

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Operated By Mark Wells

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Automotive

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Carpet Cleaning

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SCHNEIDER SONSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ELECTRIC CORP. Whole House Generators Licensed & Insured New & Old Homewiring Specialists 1556 Oak St/At Oakdale Toledo, OH 43605

(419) 691-8284

Doing Daycare in my Northwood home, transportation available and am very reasonable. Can work AM or PM. Also do elderly care and housekeeping. Call Lori 419-6911275 Leave message.

Handy Man looking for Work Home repairs, Painting, Concrete, Plumbing, Siding, Windows, Gas Lines, Sub pumps.

24 years experience and fully insured.

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S andwisch Painting

A.A. COLLINS CONSTRUCTION & RENTAL PROPERTIES Basement Waterproofing Concrete â&#x20AC;˘ Roofing Interior â&#x20AC;˘ Exterior Lawncare â&#x20AC;˘ Stone & Dirt Hauling Bobcat Service â&#x20AC;˘ Espaniol

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836-7461

Home Improvement Excavating/Water Pumps

Rob 419-322-5891

Handyman TRACKER CO.

BAY AREA CONCRETE & WATERPROOFING

New or Replace Concrete Driveways, Sidewalks, Pole Barns, Porches, Stamped & Color Concrete Brick & Block work etc.

Veterans & Senior Citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Discounts Free Estimates, Licensed & Insured

Mike Halka

419-350-8662 Oregon, OH

Home Maintenance

Interior / Exterior painting, plumbing, decks, drywall repair, electrical

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go with the flowâ&#x20AC;?

$50.00 Drain Cleaning Specials Drain Problems??

Call Nate 419-205-5469

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Appraiser (Agriculture) Counties covered for this Agricultural Credit Association position include: Erie, Huron, Lorain, Ottawa, Sandusky & Seneca.

Required Education: BA/BS degree in agricultural production, agribusiness, finance, business administration or related field.

Responsibilities: Appraise current agricultural collateral and potential loan collateral to provide an unbiased determination of value for security analysis.

Understands fundamental appraisal approaches and procedures. Collect, record and analyze data necessary to the administration of the Appraisal Department.

Maintain sales data in assigned counties.

For more information and to apply, visit www.agcredit.net through April 6, 2014.

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

EOE M/F D/V

25 Years Experience **** 24 HR. SERVICE **** D.O.T. Certified. Insured/Bonded All Major Credit Cards Accepted â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Senior Discount â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LICENSED MASTER PLUMBER

ACE ROOFING - FREE ESTIMATES Senior Discounts Roofs/Gutters Siding/Windows

INSURED/ Lifetime Warranty PREFERRED CONTRACTOR â&#x20AC;˘ Better than the typical A+ BBB rated contractor. We have a clean record.

Call BBB at 419-531-3116.

Check on all contractors.

RECENTLY CHOSEN TO INSTALL ROOFS FOR OWENS CORNING PRESIDENT & COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF OUR EXCELLENT REPUTATION

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Lawn Mowing

Licensed Master Plumber Roy Bomyea

Low Priced and Local.

AFFORDABLE PRICES HIGH QUALITY WORK

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Remodeling

Call 419-367-6474

Musser

Roofing

Restoration & Remodeling, Inc

TURF TIGER LAWNCARE Commercial & Residential

* Senior & Vet Discounts *

Fully

â&#x20AC;˘Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘Trimming Insured â&#x20AC;˘Spring/Fall Cleanup â&#x20AC;˘Affordable â&#x20AC;˘17 yrs exp. Residential $25 & up â&#x20AC;˘References available on request

Phone 419-260-1213

Additions - Decks - Bathrooms Exteriors - Windows - Kitchens Licensed - Insured - Bonded In Business for over 30 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Free Estimates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; BBB Senior Discounts PRO

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REPAIRS: BIG OR SMALL NEW ROOFS: MATCH OR BEAT UP TO 10 PERCENT OFF

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Storage

MAUMEE BAY SELF STORAGE 7640 Jerusalem Road (Rt 2)

Your Services Change, Your Prices Change, Why Does Your Yellow Page Ad Stay The Same?

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Celebrating our 51st year in business

Multi-sized Units - Outside storage Security fence - 7 day access â&#x20AC;&#x153;We make every effort to accommodate YOU.â&#x20AC;?

Jim Gray

Lawn Care

BLUE LINE ROOFING

(419)836-4000

419-691-7958

No Jobs Too Small Insured - Bonded

Roofing

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Gray Plumbing

419-276-0608 Electrical, Paneling, Concrete, Roofing, Drywall, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Floors, Decks, Tile, Porch, Additions, Dormers â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Free Estimates â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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We can work directly with your Insurance Company

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â&#x20AC;˘Interior â&#x20AC;˘Exterior â&#x20AC;˘Residential - Commercial

Hauling

BOBCAT SERVICES

GL HENNINGSEN EXCAVATING AND WATER SYSTEMS Septic Systems Installation & Repair Water, Sewage & Sump Pump Installation & Repair

419-304-8666

419-340-0857 419-862-8031

Freddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Improvement Concrete

Lawn Care & Snowplowing MANY DISCOUNTS & OTHER SERVICES â&#x20AC;˘ FULLY INSURED â&#x20AC;˘ FREE ESTIMATES

Painting

Excavating

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We do: Clean Ups/Clean Outs

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MUSSERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOME AND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

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Deadline: 11 a.m. Thursday Lawn Service

Family Owned & Operated Since 1942

BELKOFER EXCAVATING â&#x20AC;˘ Septic Systems â&#x20AC;˘ Sewer Taps

Child care provided in my Oregon home or your home, volunteer parttime at Lucas County Children Services, references and very reasonable. Robin 567-218-4251

Hauling

KELLER CONCRETE INC. B & G HAULING Tear Out & Replace Concrete, Driveways, Patios, Porches, Pads, Sidewalks & Stamped/Colored Concrete ** Quality & Affordable Work **

Wyandot Plaza

419-855-3478 419-855-7239

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I do elderly care-home assistance , part-time. References upon request.

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IF YOU USED THE BLOOD THINNER PRADAXA and suffered internal bleeding, hemorrhaging, required hospitalization or a loved one died while taking Pradaxa between October 2010 and the present, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800535-5727.

Thanks St. Jude, Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Anne and all for prayers answered. JAH

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19-yrs experience.

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Mike Halka 419-350-8662 Oregon, OH. "Serving all of N.W. Ohio"

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Jake's Drywall We service Northwest Ohio.

No job is too big or too small.

20 years experience.

Fully insured. Free estimates.

419-360-3522

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Plumbing

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2 French Provincial End Tables.

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42â&#x20AC;? Round Pedestal Country Style Table w/18â&#x20AC;? leaf to open table up to 60â&#x20AC;?, Light brown table w/four light green and brown bow back chairs, Excellent Condition, $200.00 OBO, 419-836-5600, No calls after 9pm.

Hundreds of tools, T-Shirts, jackets, boots, Harley Davidson collection, furniture, exercise equipment, household items, riding mower, gun safe and much more!

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Stop in after Our Lady of Mount Carmel Rummage Sale!

9 Assorted Grout Trowels & Plaster, Cement Stirrer. $50.00 Call 419260-8174 Bunk Bed set w/chest $75/OBO Twin Bed w/2 large chests $75/OBO Organ-FREE call 419-461-4491

Annual Spring Rummage Sale

Fri. March 28 9am - 6pm Sat. March 29 9am -1pm $2.00 Bag Day! Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

I BUY USED GOLF CARTS CALL ANYTIME SANDUSKY 419-626-5053

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Call

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Reclining Lift Chair, Blue, $400.00.

419-265-0177 Reliance Propane Tank, Weight 18.5lbs. $15.00.

Call 419-836-9754

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Cycleman We repair Chinese Pocket Bikes and Scooters, and Mopeds, many parts available, also repair motorcycles, Call Wed. - Sat (10-6pm) 419-244-2525.

YOU LUCKY DOG VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Wednesday mornings and afternoons and every other Thursday - times are flexible Our pooches are in need of play/socializing time volunteers.

This gives you the opportunity to enjoy a Rescue dog while they are waiting for their forever home. Please call to set up a time to visit us and meet our rescues. There is minimal "housework" involved.

WOOF You Lucky Dog, Inc 419-691-1375 youluckydogrescue.com

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Universal Door Jamb. 36â&#x20AC;? standard. Never used, still in wrapper. $5. 36â&#x20AC;? wide roll of packing paper, $5. Call 419836-9754.

1105 Elliston Road (Just off SR 2 - Bono) 419-836-7681

For Your Wedding Grosjean Photography Call Ken or LaRae at 419-836-9754

White female and gray male chinchillas with huge, cage/accessories.

Must be sold together. $300. 419290-4358.

Cabbage Patch Dolls $5 each and other Collectibles. 419-855-7038.

Call 419-836-2221 or 1-800-300-6158 Perrysburg 7460 Reitz Road MOVING SALE!!

EVERYTHING MUST GO!!

March 27th, 28th & 29th 9am to 5pm Furniture, Dishes, Knick Knacks, Curtains, Pot & Pans Something for Everyone!

5 Garden Rakes and 1 Snow Shovel, $15. Call 419-836-9754.

Fertilizer Spreader, $5.00.

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NORTHWOOD 3307 Curtice Rd. March 27th - 29 th (9am-5pm)

Looking for a dog who can double as a foot stool? Well Rusty is your boy! He is a stocky little man who is all snuggles! He may be a senior but he is still a spunky guy with a ton of love to give! He has been patiently waiting at the shelter for several weeks to find a home. He came into Lucas County Canine Care & Control as a stray and he along with 20+ other lovable canines are all looking to share their love with a new family. Come meet them today at 410 S Erie St Toledo, 419-213-2800, open Mon-Fri 11-7, Sat & Sun 11-5. If you are missing a dog please come and walk through the kennels. Impounded as well as adoptable dogs can be viewed on PetHarbor.com. Check us out on Facebook, and lucascountydogs.com.

Share the love and adopt a shelter dog today!

RV Sites Year Round Full Hook-ups w/City Water Solid Pads/Off Street Parking $300 p/mo. + Electric Deluxe Park/Walbridge 419-392-8968

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CLAY TOWNSHIP CEMETERY Anyone wishing to save their Christmas Decorations, Wreaths and Blankets need to have them removed from the cemetery by March 25th VILLAGE OF HARBOR VIEW March 20, 2014 On March 10, 2014 during the regular meeting of the council of Harbor View, Council passed Resolution #01-2014. The resolution was passed to approve the ANNUAL APPROPRIATION BUDGET and to provide for the current expenses and other expenditures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014.

Lorraine Crapsey Fiscal Officer

The Village of Walbridge is accepting bids for the rental of the following farmland for agriculture production: Parcels H31-712-050000010000, H31-712-060000013001, H31-712-060000013002 consisting of 73 acres more or less total.

Bids will be accepted until 12:00 noon on Monday, April 28, 2014 at the Village of Walbridge Administration office, 111 N. Main Street, Walbridge, Ohio. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LEGAL NOTICE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Board of Trustees of Public Affairs, Village of Elmore, Ohio, will receive bids, at its office 340 Clinton Street, Elmore, Ohio, until 3:00 p.m., on April 16, 2014, for the furnishing of approximately three hundred fifty (350) tons of southern rock, 98 to 99 percent soluble water softening salt; not to exceed .01% of inert material. Bidder to quote price per ton, delivered to the Water Works Plant, 340 Clinton Street, and deposited in the storage basins available there. Delivery will be approximately twenty-five (25) tons per month, or upon notification of the official in charge. Control flow device required. Contract will run for one (1) year beginning May 1st 2014.

The Board reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 340 Clinton Street PO Box 1, Elmore, OH 43416

PUBLIC NOTICE The Jerusalem Township Board of Zoning Appeals will meet on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 6:30 PM at the Jerusalem Township Hall (9501 Jerusalem Road). The purpose is to hold a BZA Meeting for a variance request from Heng Kim. Mr. Kim would like to construct a pole barn on the property located at 8760 Cedar Point Road (33-10637). A variance is being sought for the relief of Section 1501(2) which prohibits an accessory structure in a front yard. The application may be reviewed in the Township Hall lobby or by contacting the Zoning Inspector at (419) 836-4510.

Richard Carstensen, Chairman Jerusalem Township Board of Zoning Appeals Jerusalem Township

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Allen-Clay Joint Fire District, Genoa, Ohio will offer for sale by sealed bid a large list of furnishings, components and appliances from our former headquarters house.

ACJFD will offer the entire list of items and other salvage rights as one bid with a reserve of $2,000.00.

Any bid in excess of the reserve will be awarded the entire list. The awardee will have 30 days to remove all items as demolition will occur after that.

In the event that the reserve is not met, ACJFD will offer each item for sale separately. The awardees of these bids will have 30 days to remove their items as demolition will occur after that.

Sealed bids must be submitted by 7:00 p.m. on 4/17/2014. They must clearly state your name, address, phone number and bid price with your signature. The envelope must be clearly marked as to what item you are bidding on. They will be opened and read aloud at 7:30 PM. The highest bidder will be awarded the bid. ACJFD reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

All items are as is and no surety or warranties apply.

To view these items contact Chief Denny Hartman 419-855-4733 for an appointment.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Allen-Clay Joint Fire District, Genoa, Ohio will offer for sale by sealed bid the following vehicles: 1979 Ford Fire Truck Pierce Front Mount 1000gpm 1987 Ford Type III Ambulance 1991 Ford Type III Ambulance Sealed bids must be submitted by 7:00 p.m. on 4/17/2014. They must clearly state your name, address, phone number and bid price with your signature. The envelope must be clearly marked as to what item you are bidding on. They will be opened and read aloud at 7:30 PM. The highest bidder will be awarded the bid. ACJFD reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

All vehicles are as is and no surety or warranties apply.

To view these vehicles contact Chief Denny Hartman 419-855-4733 for an appointment.

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