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Partying for a cause
2011 HARVEST FESTIVAL Signs of the season filled Madison Street as vendors sold mums, painted pumpkins, crafts and more during Port Clinton’s Harvest Festival. The event, held Friday through Sunday, is just the beginning of the area’s fall festival season. Check out next week’s Beacon for more on the upcoming Apple and Lighthouse festivals or flip to page 11A today for the Apple Festival royalty. PHOTO BY ANGIE ADAIR ZAM
More than people gathered downtown this weekend for the annual Harvest Festival. In addition to adoptable dogs from shelters, rescues and the Humane Society, these horses were pulling wagon rides for $2. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY BOB AND CATHY ADORNI
Local stars to dance for CASA Co-hosts Debra HymoreTester and Kami Sayre announced today the line-up of stars for the fourth annual “Ottawa County Casa Dances with the Stars” fundraising event. Stars dancing this year will be Lori Clune, court administrator for Ottawa County Juvenile and Probate court, with Hank Fox of Class A Performing Arts; Wendy Eller, Chief Operating Officer of Lakeside Association, with Timothy Nyman of
Black Tie Dance Studio; Tracy Gaines, Walker Family Funeral Homes, with Mary Ann Snider of The Ballet School; Brenda Murphy, principal, Genoa Elementary School, with Craig Olzsewski of Black Tie Dance Studio; and Dr. Jim Rumbarger with Annessia Nyman of Black Tie Dance Studio. The teams will be battling it out on the dance floor to raise funds for CASA, a program that provides advocacy for abused and neglected chil-
dren here in Ottawa County. The event will be held at The Ottawa County Fairgrounds on Nov. 5. The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the dancing will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 each and include hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be available. To purchase tickets contact the CASA office at 419-301-0225 or tickets will be available at The National Bank of Ohio, Oak Harbor, and Port Clinton offices beginning Oct. 1.
This year’s event will be co-hosted by the Honorable Kathleen Giesler and Chief Bob Bratton. D.J. Jerry Wittman of the band Legacy II will spin the tunes for the evening. There will be special performances by local dancers, a silent auction and raffles. As always, a sold out show is expected. This will be an evening filled with fun and surprises while supporting the most vulnerable children in our community.
Some businesses in downtown Port Clinton are getting together to throw a block party Oct. 1. The event — featuring entertainment, food and more — will benefit Champions for Children, Port Clinton’s after-school program for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. Captain Howdy (Jerry Baum), the Harmonica Man and Lenny Kromer have all donated their time to entertain the crowds gathering at from 5 to 9 p.m. along Second Street. There will be a chili cook-off in the Coffee Express parking lot and Focus Pointe will be on hand doing photographs with costumes for kids. Artwork will also be on display by Port Clinton High School students after art classes head down to the site Friday to decorate the sidewalk. Their work will be judged Friday evening. Businesses taking part include Coffee Express, Frederick Insurance, Second St. Gallery, Erie Cottage Trading Co, The End Zone, Captain Howdy and Dupps Printing. “I think what is most exciting about it, is that during a tough economy we have some industrious small business owners that are not sitting around just complaining about lack of business, but throwing a party to bring in business and support a great local organization like Champions at the same time,” said Lori Madison, who owns Frederick Insurance with her husband John.
Sheriff hopefuls to speak out The Ottawa County Democratic Party Central Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, to discuss the appointment of a Sheriff for Ottawa County. Qualified candidates will be given an opportunity to speak and tell the group why they should be selected to fill the sheriff ’s position. This meeting — held in the activities room of the Riverview Nursing Home complex on Ohio 163 between Oak Harbor and Port Clinton — is open to the public and there will be time available for attendees to address the gathering. Only Democratic Central Committee members may vote on this appointment.
By JOHN SCHAFFNER
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Thanks Beacon readers! I would like to say thank you to all of you … our loyal readers. We recently completed our latest readership audit and once again, the numbers were FANTASTIC! Once again, almost 80 percent of you reported that you read through The Beacon every single week. The audit company, Circulation Verification Council out of St. Louis, reports that slightly more than 2 people per household read The Beacon on a regular basis which puts our weekly readership at more than 20,000 per week. In addition, CVC also scored our website, www.thebeacon.net, extremely high as well with more than 323,000 page views. Once again, thanks to you, The
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in the ad for WPCR on page 10A in last week’s Beacon. Jim 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.
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A portion of Ohio 105 going west out of Oak Harbor will be officially dedicated as the Keith Kline Memorial Highway next week. Keith was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army and was killed in action in the Middle East several years ago. He was also a highly skilled wrestler for the Rocket wrestling program. I am delighted that his memory will live on.
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The Ida Rupp Public Library will be hosting a Star Wars Family Fun Fair from 2 to 3:30 p.m Saturday, Oct. 1. They will have games, crafts and fun activities. They would like the patrons to dress up as your favorite character and moms and dads should
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Jim Jevorski, of Catawba, was selected as our “Find Wylie” winner this week. He found our friendly fish n
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2011 ROCKET ROYALTY Congratulations to Oak Harbor High School’s Homecoming Court 2011: Hannah Tomor (front left), freshman; Taylor Blatt, junior; Katelyn Lowe, senior; Katelyn Stone, senior; Shelby Wilkins, senior; Alexis DeLeon, Penta senior; Trinity Gephart, sophomore; Ben Dresser (back left), freshman; Dalton Reau, junior; Adam Crabtree, senior; Ayron Wiegand, senior; Joey Mallernee, senior; Kevin Morse, Penta senior; and Cliff Biggert, sophomore. Go to the game Friday, Sept. 30, to celebrate with the newly elected King and Queen of Oak Harbor’s Homecoming festivities.
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