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The Johlin Cabin was the site of Pearson Park’s annual Black Swamp Festival.Top photo, Caylin Aldridge, Waterville, does schoolwork the old fashioned way as her mother Elizabeth looks on. At right, Caylin’s twin sister Cady tries out an old time toy. Bottom photo, Beth Cutcher, Toledo, checks the progress on some vegetable soup. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
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We also know that your child’s health is always a top priority. ents. Oregon School officials say the project will be cost neutral over its scope. The district will make some initial facility upgrades with those costs recouped through the lease agreements with Mercy. The health center, which will have its own entrance separate from the high school, will offer a variety of day and evening hours. “With our busy schedules today, fitting in an appointment at your primary care office for wellness or illness visits can be difficult,” Gregory’s letter states. “We also know that your child’s health is always
a top priority.” Gregory says a child will not be seen without a parent’s prior consent. Mercy will accept both self-pay patients and those with insurance. Besides normal primary care and physicals, the center will also have the ability to perform immunizations. Sexton’s original idea School nurse practitioner Cherie Sexton will be joined at the center by a Mercy clerical staff member. It was originally Sexton’s vision. “The original idea happened maybe five, six, even seven years ago with our nurse, Cherie Sexton,” Gregory said. “It’s always been a dream of hers to have a schoolbased health center, but funding and partnerships were always a tough sell. There was lots of money years ago, but those got sucked up and stopped.” It helped that Mercy already had an established relationship with Clay’s athletic programs. Door 25 is on the back end of the high school, near the main entrance to Clay Memorial Stadium. “I think it started with our involvement with them with their athletes and our sports medicine group,” said Mercy
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Mercy Medical Partners and Oregon City Schools are forming a unique partnership to open a health care center on the Clay High School campus. Inside the high school’s Door 25, 1,500 square feet is being converted into Mercy Health Center at OCS. The center, staffed by a nurse practitioner, will open its door to pediatric patients on Nov. 11 and be available to students and the public 20 hours per week. Oregon school officials say the primary purpose is to keep students in class or be able to return to them to class as quickly as possible after being seen by a pediatric nurse, reducing student absenteeism. Other programming will go along with the center. “To keep our students and community vigorous and strong, we will offer wellness talks by Mercy specialists, school physicals in addition to pediatric health services. Together, we will work to create a healthier school system and a healthier community,” OCS Assistant Superintendent Hal Gregory wrote in a letter sent to the district’s par-
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The theft of ducks and Guinea fowl from her Sandusky County home has left Louise Linke more than a little perplexed. She estimates someone came to her and her husband’s farm on County Road 2 during the afternoon of Oct. 3 while she was running errands and her husband was at work and removed four Guinea fowl and four brown ducks from a cage behind a shed. “It had to be someone who knew our vehicles and knew my husband and I were both gone,” she said. Even more perplexing, whoever took the birds left $60 in the latch of the door to their cage. However, none of the birds were for sale. Linke said she had purchased the Guinea fowl about three months ago and the ducks shortly before then. Two younger Guineas weren’t taken. “I want them back regardless of them ‘paying’ me or not. It’s right by our driveway so I’m hoping someone may have driven by and saw them,” Linke said. “I’m tempted to put a sign out front that this is not a “Stop and Shop.’” The matter even surprised a deputy of the Sandusky County Sheriff’s Department when Linke filed a crime report. “He said he’d been a deputy sheriff for many years and this was the first time he’s seen someone take birds and actually leave money,” Linke said.” I said it kind of threw me for a loop too.” The $60 doesn’t cover the amount she spent for all the birds. Of the Guinea fowl, two were lavender, one was white and one was pearl. Linke describes the pearl as actually a light blue with white dots. “I had been looking and looking for lavenders for a while and finally found a lady who is retiring from the poultry business and she had them for sale,” Linke said. “I bought all that she had.” Agriculture literature describes Guinea fowl as a natural solution to garden pest problems. “Having a few Guinea fowl graze your property may be just the solution. Guinea fowl are natural grazers as they will eat