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Football Preview Cardinal Stritch • Clay Eastwood • Genoa Gibsonburg • Lake Northwood • Oak Harbor Waite • Woodmore
Coaches Emans, Lee return
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By J. Patrick Eaken Buckeye Conference) in his Press Sports Editor only season in 2012. sports@presspublications.com They are not the only new on the block — Brian Wical coaches Two coaches with roots in the comes to com- Cardinal Stritch Catholic munity have returned to take from his role as over foot- an assistant at Lima ball programs at Clay and Lake. Central Catholic, a school that is feared by other New Clay coach Mike Lee Northwest brother of Jeff Lee, who coached is the Ohio athletic programs. for eight Wical says that no one should seasons, resigning in 2006. Mike expect sumes the same position that now as- him to turn Stritch into an LCC overnight, Jeff once but he believes that success held. is on the horizon — maybe this year. But many local prep football aficio“We are young and that will nados remember Mike Lee for probhis Woodmore’s coach from 1992-98. role as ably hurt us at times,” Wical said. “We But Lee probably have an advantage has to fill the shoes of a coach on our oppowho never nents because they have no expectations really gave himself a chance on the field. for us. Because of that, I think we It was originally announced last able to sneak up on some teams.” may be January that Mike Vicars, who led both Otherwise, it’s the Delta and Genoa to state playoffs and Genoa and Northwood, same two teams, semifinal appearances, would which be ac- to defend their respective are picked cepting the assistant principal conference and head championships. Genoa coaching positions. In April, is now led by secbefore any- ond-year coach Tim thing was solidified, he changed Spiess, a long time his mind assistant under Vicars, and declined the positions. and Northwood is under the auspices of veteran At Clay, Vicars was supposed Ken James, to realthough the Rangers are expecting a chalplace Mike Donnelly, a Clay alumnus lenge from Gibsonburg who stepped away from his and other Toledo role iron coach but remains athletic as grid- Area Athletic Conference teams. director. In the NBC, the Comets’ “bowl Vicars since has been hired them as a middle over” offense is always school principal in the Pike-Delta-York a force, but their defense will have to deal school district as well as Delta’s with passing football attacks from veteran coach. quarterbacks Jared Rettig of Lake (2,838 passing The good news for Clay fans yards) and — the Jake Matwiejczyk of Woodmore return of quarterback Josh (2,112), Pennington who combined threw (2,025 passing yards, 53.9 percent for nearly 5,000 pass- yards and 55 touchdowns ing efficiency) and 106 showed last year. up to play Both are high efficiency, too, football this year, including as Rettig 20 seniors, completed 176 of 278 22 juniors, 27 sophomores, and 37 fresh- cent) and Matwiejczyk passes (63.3 perman. completed 190 of 347 (54.8) and will be under New Lake coach Mark Emans, the watchEastwood graduate, knows Wood a 1980 ful of state media and college scouts. The County same goes for Clay’s Pennington, and knows the school district who he coaching at. It’s right up the road is now started his schooling in the Lake district from the before transferring. Luckey home he grew up in. Waite coach Gardner Howard “The Lake (coaching) job always has in- witnessed about 60 players trigued me – their facilities, show up to the school’s play football as the Indians feel they have size,” Emans said. “Being an old Wood a chance to win the school’s County guy, I remember Lake always had City League championship first Toledo tough, physical kids when in about five they played decades. in the Northern Lakes League back in the Meanwhile, Mike May is also day.” looking for his first Sandusky Bay Emans, 51, was hired to Conference lead Flyers on April 20. He is replacing the title ever since showing up at Oak Harbor Bob from St. Mary’s, Ohio, and Olwin, who resigned after May believes leading the his Rockets have the athleticism to do it. Flyers to a 4-6 record (3-4 in the Northern
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New Metropark gets high level public interest By J. Patrick Eaken Press Staff Writer news@presspublications.com
Festival preparation Volunteers are busy cooking up Hungarian dishes for the annual Birmingham Festival. Top left, Cindy Gatewood and Betsy Sendi, with just a few of the 90 nut rolls (dios) and poppy seed rolls (mákos) that they and fellow volunteers baked at Calvin United Church. Top right, at St. Stephens Church, Sister Madelena and volunteers scald cabbage for pigs-ina-blanket. Bottom photo, Carl Peatee and Betty Ujvagi with a tray of chicken paprikas at the Hungarian Club. The festival runs August 17 and 18. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
Neighborhood dispute
Court upholds protection order By Larry Limpf News Editor news@prespublications.com
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An appeals court has upheld the issuance of civil stalking protection order against a Clay Township resident accused of harassing his neighbors. The Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals earlier this month ruled in favor of Dorothy Fondessy, of N. Genoa-Clay Center Road, who was issued a protection order in November 2011 by the Ottawa County Common Pleas Court. The order directs Anthony Simon, a neighbor of Dorothy and her husband Wayne, to stay at least 25 feet away from the Fondessys and to not have any contact with them. Simon is also to not have any item of his enter the Fondessy’s property. Simon filed an appeal about a month after the lower court issued the protection
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order, which is in effect for five years. According to court documents, the Fondessys have lived at their home since 1974 and Dorothy’s uncle, Charles Simon, lived next door. Charles, Anthony’s father, died in 2005 and Anthony inherited the residence. A property line dispute between the Fondessys and Anthony was resolved with a survey but confrontations between Dorothy and him continued. She alleged he “discharged lawn clip-
pings” into a pond of the Fondessys that abuts the property line and ran his mower into hers at the line. “Dorothy stated that although appellant has never directly threatened her, throughout all these exchanges, his verbiage and rage have caused her to fear him and have caused her mental distress,” the court record says. She testified that she feared the confrontations were especially harmful to her husband, who had health problems. Simon admitted using profanities and that the confrontations were “heated” and upsetting to all three but denied any name calling alleged by the Fondessys. The appeals court noted that the Ohio Revised Code prohibits menacing by stalking and states: “No person by engaging in a pattern of conduct shall knowingly cause
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Metroparks public relations director Scott Carpenter said an open house for the first Toledo Area Metropark in Jerusalem Township drew “a nice turnout” to the township hall Tuesday night. “The turnout demonstrates the significance of this project and the high level of public interest,” Carpenter said. The 1,000 acre park, located on the current Howard Farms property west of Metzger Marsh, will be unlike any other Metropark in that it will be the first located along Lake Erie’s coast. It will be the Metroparks largest park in its system, next to Oak Openings. At the open house, over 100 residents talked with staff from the Metroparks, the Ohio Division of Wildlife, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ducks Unlimited, and Smith Group JJR, the consultants designing the park. Ducks Unlimited, the consultants designing the wetland, is a national organization whose mission is to create and preserve habitat for North American waterfowl. Smith Group is the consulting firm designing the park. All three township trustees were there, too. “It could be a real jewel if they do it right and if they have enough money,” trustee Dave Bench said. “The old waterway that used to go through, they are going to hopefully raise Howard Road and they’ll put in a bridge there, and they will canoe and kayak in between Ward’s Canal and Cooley Canal. “It could be a real asset for Jerusalem Township — a place to come to. That’s what I’m thinking,” Bench continued. Many of the residents arrived because they were concerned about drainage. “The big issue, more or less, is how water is going to be taken care of, how water is currently being removed, and they are looking at what is proposed to take water off that property to make sure what we are proposing is not going to affect the residents who live nearby,” said Patrick Barnowski Bench and trustee Joe Kiss, who has sat on meetings that dealt with the new pumping system to be installed, says the property will be drained better than ever before.
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