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K-9 unit to patrol Genoa Park By Cynthia L. Jacoby Special to The Press
Memorial Day A Memorial Day service was held at Oakwood Cemetery, Jerusalem Township. Top left, members of the Jerusalem Township Fire Department pay their respects. Top right, bugler Jacob Lammers, Boy Scout Troop 131, plays taps. Bottom left, members of Christ Dunberger Post 537 salute those who served. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
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Local theaters carry ‘Gibsonburg’ By J. Patrick Eaken and Mark Griffin news@presspublications.com Maumee Indoor Theatre, Fremont Paramount, and Virginia Clark Theatre in North Baltimore will be among the first to offer viewings of “Gibsonburg,” a movie about the 2005 Division IV state championship baseball team. The movie is based on the true story of the Gibsonburg High School baseball team that finished the regular season 6-17, and then went on to win eight straight tournament games and a state title to finish 14-17 under first-year coach Kyle Rase. They were the first, and still the only, baseball team in Ohio history to win a state championship with a record under .500. The movie, starring Louis Bonafante and Lili Reinhart, has even more drama in it. “Along the road to the state championship a romantic love story unfolds as well as a mystery that rivals any discovery that has ever taken place in the Midwest,” a press release states. Comedienne/actress Judy Tenuta is part of the cast and crew.
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Kyle Rase, left, with Ryan Kunk, the actor who plays him in the movie. The two have become best of friends. “Judy is playing the ‘idiot’ parent we all know,” Producer Bob Mahaffey said, “the one who screams at the umpires and the players.”
Tenuta was an MTV stand-up star who Rase remembers watching doing comedy skits with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Rase says getting to work with Tenuta was special. “She was very, very nice and friendly,” Rase said. “She was great to work with. I didn’t know how she would be because she’s a big-time actor — her and Lili Reinhart, who has been in Law and Order and things. But she was great to everyone and some of the other guys who were amateur actors. She was trying to tell them some different things (acting tips). “She lives in (Los Angeles), so when we came to a film festival, she came to that, too,” Rase continued. “She plays a screaming parent in the crowd and she plays that role pretty well. The other girl, Lili Reinhart, has a pilot that was just picked up by Fox for the fall.” Five theaters in the Columbus area, six in the Cincinnati/Dayton area, eight in the Cleveland area, four in southeastern and eastern Ohio, and five in the northern and western parts of the state will also carry the film. One of those is Van Wert Cinemas,
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Read about the heroes living in the homes next to you. In these 50 short stories, Press columnist John Szozda tells the stories of common people who have met uncommon challenges with vision, courage, passion and determination. These men and women include the Genoa grandmother who helped
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Patrols by the Ottawa County K-9 unit and officers in unmarked cars will be used by Genoa police this summer to foil vandalism at Veterans Park. Police Chief Bob Bratton outlined a list of new ideas for heightened security at Genoa’s main park during a recent village council meeting. “We put a program together. The whole thing will be based on the element of surprise. We’re going to have officers in plain clothes at night, some in unmarked cars and we’ll be bringing in the county K-9 unit at times,” Bratton said in a telephone interview. The efforts interested village council because of a recent outbreak of extreme vandalism across the park including damaged trees, broken park signs and evidence of fires in the wooded area. In early May, Genoa police in uniform began extra foot patrols through the area to combat problems. Most of the damage appears to happen at night after the park closes at dusk. And those efforts appear to be deterring further destruction, Bratton said. “We’ve got about 18 hours in the park patrols,” Bratton said about the May schedule. “But we don’t want to cut our other duties short.” Traffic, however, at the park is about to pick up dramatically. Veterans Park, including the quarry, opened for the season over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Genoa Homecoming is Friday night and Saturday. Plus, area schools are letting out for the summer. Genoa students spent their last day in class Wednesday. And when school lets out, the park is a place for kids to congregate, the chief said. That is why Genoa police have asked for the assistance of the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department and its K-9 unit operated by Deputy Mark Nye and his canine companion, Nero, a three-year-old Belgium Malinois. “The unit works the afternoon shifts in the west end of the county. We will call
solve her daughter’s murder, the Polish-American boy who survived gruesome medical experiments during WWII and the woman, once a victim of fear, who fought back against crime and founded CrimeStoppers. The
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