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Library gets grant
Time to give thanks It’s Turkey Day and whether your sitting in the recliner watching football, planning your Black Friday attack or slaving over a hot stove, we all have one thing in common: reasons to give thanks. Whether it’s thanks for the spread of food set out to celebrate with, or thanks for the family to share the day with, it’s that thanks that’s the reason for this season. Though times have been tough across the county and across the nation, things might be looking up. Ohio’s unemployment rate was 9.9 percent in October, down slightly from 10 percent in September, according to data released last week by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. “The number of Ohioans with jobs increased in September, driving the unemployment rate down for the seventh consecutive month,” said ODJFS Director Douglas Lumpkin. But jobs and money aren’t at the top of everyone’s prority list, just ask the first-graders at Danbury Elementary.
TURKEY BY ROBBIE TYSON
First-graders in Mrs. Bergman’s and Mrs. Cichocki’s classes told us what they are thankful for this Thanksgiving. Their answers are below.
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I am thankful for: • My mom, my brothers and my sister, and my dad — CADE MCCARTHY • My sisters, my brother and my mom and dad — RYANN STEINBRICK • My dad buying me a dirt bike — ZACHARY BICKLEY • My mom, my sister, and my dog — TY KOBUS • My friend, my sisters, mom and dad — PERRY GROSE • Everybody’s homes, especially my home, my sisters and my mom and dad — KAYLA RODRIGUEZ • My mom and dad and teacher — CHASE CARDERO • Thanksgiving and my teachers — ALEX WOLF • My family because they take care of me. I am thankful for my food because it makes me big. — CONNOR MCCARTHY • My brother, my mom, my nana and papa, and Spike the dog — MADDIE MESNARD • Thanksgiving and Christmas — ZAVIER MANNING • My mom because I love my mom, my dog, food, my family — DRAIKE PLUMMER • Food — MATTHEW ABISTEL • My frog melody — GRACIE BIRO • My dad and mom and my sister — HENRY PARKER • My baby sister and my brother — LIA CANTU • My cat, meow, meow — JACOB DRESS • My mom and dad and my cats — DANNY HARRIS • Food because I can grow big and strong — ROBBIE TYSON • My teacher and my mom and dad — ANDREA CARICO • My grandma and grandpa, my uncles and my See THANKS 2A
Staff at Ida Rupp Public Library got word Monday of a Choose to Read Ohio grant for 2011. The library will get $2,155 to work with kids of all ages. The goal, according to library director Deborah Rossman, is “connecting children and authors to inspire lifelong readers and writers.” Rossman said the library will use the funding to start school programs for Port Clinton, Danbury and Put-in-Bay school districts as well as Immaculate Conception School. “We have a wonderful relationship with the schools and this just makes that grow,” Rossman said. Choose to Read Ohio is a project of the State Library of Ohio. According to its website, the program spotlights Ohio authors and promotes reading across the state. Funding is made available for use in classrooms, libraries, bookstores, by book discussion groups, families and other community groups. Rossman said the library hopes to bring in Toledo author Denise Fleming and possibly use Skype or other online technology for a direct feed into the classrooms. Fleming’s children’s book “The First Day of Winter” is on the program’s “children’s titles” list. Other titles, discussion questions and more can be found at oh.webjunction.org/ohctrointro For information about Ida Rupp, visit www.idarupp.org, or call 419-732-3212.
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By JOHN SCHAFFNER
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The Helping Hand Toy Drive — an effort of The Salvation Army, Toys for Tots Weapons Company 124 and Holiday Bureau — kicked off with a shopping trip last week. For information, to donate or apply for help this holiday season, call Maureen Saponari at 419732-2769.
Thanks to all of you Welcome to our annual Thanksgiving issue of The Beacon. We have much to be thankful for here. First, we all live in one of the most naturally beautiful places in the world. Second, we are particularly thankful for our readers and our advertisers, who keep us in business. Our latest audit indicates that nearly 97 percent of you report that you get The Beacon every week, and that 82 percent of you actually read it every week. Those
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new venture, Common Grounds in the Sutton Center has been taking off pretty well, and it was originally John’s intention to keep both open, but with his growing catering business, that just was not going to happen. He and his wife Robyn wish to thank all of their patrons at the diner as they move forward to new horizons with Common Grounds.
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