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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Feds hold public meeting on Asian Carp WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama Administration is holding a public meeting Thursday in Port Clinton to discuss Asian Carp. White House Council on Environmental Quality Asian Carp Director John Goss will lead the meeting of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee to discuss the proactive efforts of the Obama Administration and
the Great Lakes states to prevent Asian carp from establishing a self-sustaining population in the Great Lakes. The meeting will feature updates by ACRCC members on actions under way as part of the Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework, an unprecedented, multi-tiered strategy that includes monitoring; barrier construction; harvesting; enforcement;
outreach; and research and development of long-term biological controls for Asian carp. The event also will include an opportunity for the public to comment and provide feedback on ACRCC efforts. The ACRCC is led by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and includes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast
Guard, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation and all eight Great Lakes states, as well as the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and the City of Chicago.
Meeing information WHEN: 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Thursday, July 7 WHERE: Sutton Center Technology Conference Center, 1848 E. Perry St., Port Clinton WATCH: The event will be webcast at: https:// www.mymeetings.com/tetratech/join/ Conference number: PG5314996/Passcode: ASIAN CARP LISTEN: Dial: 888-603-8914 to listen in to the conference
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Safety strategy revealed After a string of fatal crashes and an outcry from local residents, changes are coming to Ohio 53. The Ohio Department of Transportation recently led a safety audit of a stretch of the road from the Sandusky County line to Ohio 2. The audit team — which included local law enforcement, the Ottawa County engineer and school, city and township officials — studied data and made field observations, finally suggesting upgrades to increase safety. Those upgrades were revealed last week at a special meeting of the Bay Township Trustees. Michael Stormer, planning engineer for ODOT’s District 2 office, led the discussion and reviewed the audit findings which were based on relevant roadway data such as traffic volumes, traffic speed, locations maps, aerial images, crash data and collision diagrams. According to Stormer, most of the collisions on the 5.37-mile stretch of road were rear-end crashes and drivers following too close was “far and away” the main cause. The proposed changes for the road are split into three categories: low cost, short term; medium cost, medium term; and high cost long term. The short-term plans, which according to Stomer will be completed in the next year, will cost less than $50,000. • Install intersection warning signs before Paulsen, Little Portage East, Oak Harbor Southeast, Darr-Hopfinger and Streeter roads. • Install deer warning signs at mile marker 2.1-3.1, a quarter mile south of Little Portage to
FUN FOR THE FOURTH Families and friends lined Perry Street and filled City Beach in Port Clinton Monday to celebrate Independence Day.
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Audit report online To view the Road Safety Audit in its entirety, go to http://www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D02/ Pages/PublicMeetings.aspx and click on the meeting from June 29, 2011. PHOTOS BY ANGIE ADAIR ZAM
By JOHN SCHAFFNER
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Fourth Parade of Homes kicks off Saturday This weekend is the fourth annual Catawba/Marblehead Parade of Homes. Hours of the tour will be 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Last year’s Parade of Homes resulted in at least four sales, so it was extremely successful. Yes, that was me doing the commercials on Channel 11 in Toledo. I still say I have a “face for radio”!
neous dance that happens in an undisclosed public place. Only the dancers will know when and where it is going to happen. It is a You Tube and internet phenomenon. They are rehearsing every Wednesday in July. They need men, women and children of all ages to participate to make this the biggest flash mob in Ottawa County history! No previous dance experience is necessary.
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Mary Ann Snider of the Ballet School is putting together a “Flash Mob,” which is a sponta-
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Patricia Thursby, of Port Clinton, is our “Find n
Wylie” winner this week. She found our friendly fish in the ad for Underwood’s on page 4A in last week’s Beacon. Patricia wins a $20 gift card from Friendship Food Stores. We’ll be hiding Wylie again next week. If you find him, just drop off an entry form at our office in the Beacon Place Business Center, or hit the Find Wylie icon at www.thebeacon. net. nnn
The Port Clinton Knights of Columbus second Friday Fish Fry is this Friday, July 8, from 5
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to 7:30 p.m. at Bergeman Hall, 109 E. Perry St., next to Lakeland Motel. The Pollock Dinner is $10 and the perch or shrimp dinners are $12. It’s all you can eat and includes all of the fixings, including your choice of potato of pierogis. nnn
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Catawba Moorings is hosting “Dockers with Donations” to help the Salvation Army this weekend July 8-10. There will be a food bank donation drive in the clubhouse for non-perishable foods, a 50/50 raffle and a
If you didn’t make the American Red Cross Bloodmobiles at East Harbor and Marblehead last weekend and this week, you can be a donor at the Port Clinton
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raffle of a University of Toledo football raffle to include 2 tickets to the October 22 Miami game, seating and dinner for two in a loge with a parking pass. They are also having a boat show at Catawba Moorings this weekend as well.
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