What happens when one envi- ronmental interest interferes with another environ- mental interest?That is the ques- tion being looked at by Audubon interests, espe- cially in the areas close to the Lake Erie shoreline, and wind power interests looking to promote green energy sources in the same area.
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Volume 28 Number 42 www.thebeacon.net Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 Standard Mail U.S. Postage Paid Port Clinton, Ohio Permit #80 FREE On sale this week: Toft’s Gallon Milk 1%, 2% or Skim $ 1 99 Tell Tales BY JOHN SCHAFFNER ’Tis the season — basketball season that is This weekend is the opening weekend for boys’ high school basketball. The ladies started up last weekend. So, I refer you to the annual High School Basket- ball Preview in section B this week … a complete run down on the prospects for Port Clinton, Danbury and Oak Harbor high school basketball. We all remember last year, but I’ll bet nobody will remember thinking that the Port Clinton boys would make it all the way to Columbus and the state finals. On Friday, Dec. 10, the State Division II Runner-Up ban- ner will be unveiled at the PC game vs. Edison. Several of last year’s team members will be in attendance. n n n Give God A Second Thought! That is the theme of a very special Mission Program to be held starting this Monday, Dec. 6, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Paulist Fr. John Collins will be the presenter. He is a former chaplain at THE Ohio State University. The mis- sion programs will be held in the mornings and evenings from Dec. 6-8. The morning sessions begin with 8:30 Mass while the evening sessions begin at 7 p.m. in the church. On Wednesday, Dec. 8, the program will begin with a special Mass for the feast of the Immaculate Conception, marking the beginning of the 150 th Anniversary of the Church in Port Clinton. All are welcome, bring a friend. n n n Congratulations to our Find Wylie contest winner this week: Nancy Gurney who found Wylie in the ad for Pin Ups Hair Studio on page 7A. Nancy wins a $20 gift/ gas card from Friendship Convenience Stores. We’ll be hiding Wylie again this week, if you find him, just drop us a note at our office at Beacon Place on SE Catawba Road or click on the Find Wylie icon at www. thebeacon.net. n n n Main Street Port Clinton’s downtown Community Christ- mas celebration will be Sunday, Dec. 5, starting at 1 p.m. with Santa’s arrival at Mango Mamas. There will be strolling carolers, a special Christmas Parade at 4:30 p.m. that will end at the Adams St. Gazebo and a 5:30 p.m. tree lighting ceremony. n n n American Legion Post 113 lo- cated on Sand Road east of Port Clinton will be hosting a roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy dinner starting at 4 p.m. today (Thursday, Dec. 2) and going until they are sold out. Dinner 5050 E. Muggy Road, Catawba Island East of Thompson’s Landscaping 419-797-2100 or 419-341-0863 www.catawbabay.info WATERFRONT COMMUNITY • MARINA W/DIRECT ACCESS TO LAKE ERIE • POOL • CLUBHOUSE Experience Living Model Home Hours: Thurs - Sat. 11-5 Sun. & Mon. 11-4 Tue. & Wed by Appointment INSIDE RECORDS 3A n BEACON BITS 4A n HEALTH 7A n CALENDAR 11A n SCHOOLS 1B n CLASSIFIED 8B Hot Jobs list for Ottawa County: Service Department Position (OH520067) $11 to $12.50 Auto Service Technician (OH519972) $12 to $20 Server (OH519106) Wages Not Listed Cook (OH519110) $7.75 to $9 Job seekers must have OH numbers when calling or applying at The Job Store, 419- 898-3688, ext. 270. See TELL TALES 2A BY JOHN SCHAFFNER Publisher What happens when one envi- ronmental interest interferes with another environ- mental interest? That is the ques- tion being looked at by Audubon interests, espe- cially in the areas close to the Lake Erie shoreline, and wind power interests looking to promote green energy sources in the same area. Monday, Kim Kaufman of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory brought together a number of bird- ing experts and interested parties to the Lake Erie Shores Visitor Center to discuss the impact of wind tur- bines on migrating birds. “Our primary concern is, of course, bird mortality from direct collisions with the turbines as well as indirect loss related to displace- ment and avoidance,” she said. However, their concerns do not end there. “Over the last five years, BSBO has also taken a leadership role in pro- moting this area as a prime ecotour- ism destination to bird watchers around the world and the economic impact on this region,” she said. She estimated the impact during the months of April and May upwards of $20 million. Birds vs. Wind Turbines Former Redskins feel PC support KAUFMAN Ottawa County will be con- ducting a hazardous materials exercise from 8 to 11 a.m. Dec. 9. The exercise will be conduct- ed in Port Clinton. Participants include: Port Clinton Fire De- partment, North Central EMS, Port Clinton Police Depart- ment, Magruder Hospital and the Ottawa County Emergency Management Agency. The ex- ercise will be used to test Ot- tawa County and Magruder Hospital’s plans for handling contaminated victims, commu- nicating with first responders and the public, and for manag- ing resources for an emergency situation. Visitors to Magruder Hospi- tal may see fire trucks and am- bulances near the emergency room entrance. These units will be setting up an emergency de- contamination zone and will be decontaminating exercise participants prior to processing them into the emergency room. The hospital will remain open throughout the exercise. For information, call Fred Pe- tersen at 419-734-6900. HazMat exercise coming up at Magruder See TURBINES 2A BY ANGIE ADAIR ZAM Editor Though basketball season is just now kicking off around the county, two former Redskins have been at it for months. Ryan Hicks and Josh Francis, members of last year’s state runner-up squad, are now playing for Defiance College. And even though they are miles away, their Port Clinton family is still showing up to cheer them on. Last week the Yellow Jackets took on Ohio Northern and coaches, school officials, and current and former players made the trip to Ada to watch. “I didn’t know the whole team was coming,” said Francis in a phone interview. Both players said they heard some coaches and a few others might come but were surprised to see all but two members of this year’s Redskins team. “I liked having everyone there,” said Hicks. “It was good to see them.” The game was a nail-biter but af- ter double overtime, Defiance fell 93-90, bringing their record for the year to 2-2. “I’m playing more and more in every game,” Francis said. “Coach says to be patient. It’s hard to go in as a freshman after being a star.” Hicks and Francis have played in each contest so far, but both have noticed the bar has been raised. “The game is a lot faster and the people are a lot stronger,” said Hicks. “It’s a step up from high school.” Port Clinton varsity Coach Troy Diels, who brought PHOTOS BY ASHLEY HICKS Former Redskins Josh Francis and Ryan Hicks warm up before last week’s game against Ohio Northern. The pair, who now play for Defiance, were surprised when most of this year’s PC squad, coaches, school officials and former players showed up to cheer them on. HICKS FRANCIS See DEFIANCE 2A PC seniors Eric Reynolds and Derek Colston, former classmate Corey Brown and Coach Rick Dominick were in Ada cheering on their former teammates. For more photos, go to www.the beacon.net. High School Basketball preview | B3 GET IN THE SPIRIT Students and professionals planning a number of holiday performances around the area HOLIDAY 11A
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Volume 28 Number 42 www.thebeacon.net Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 Standard Mail U.S. Post age PaidPort Clinton, Ohio Permit #80FREE
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Tell TalesBy JOHN SCHAFFNER
’Tis the season — basketball season that isThis weekend is the opening
weekend for boys’ high school basketball. The ladies started up last weekend. So, I refer you to the annual High School Basket-ball Preview in section B this week … a complete run down on the prospects for Port Clinton, Danbury and Oak Harbor high school basketball.
We all remember last year, but I’ll bet nobody will remember thinking that the Port Clinton boys would make it all the way to Columbus and the state finals. On Friday, Dec. 10, the State
Division II Runner-Up ban-ner will be unveiled at the PC game vs. Edison. Several of last year’s team members will be in attendance.
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Give God A Second Thought! That is the theme of a very special Mission Program to be held starting this Monday, Dec. 6, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Paulist Fr. John Collins will be the presenter. He is a former chaplain at THE Ohio State University. The mis-sion programs will be held in
the mornings and evenings from Dec. 6-8. The morning sessions begin with 8:30 Mass while the evening sessions begin at 7 p.m. in the church. On Wednesday, Dec. 8, the program will begin with a special Mass for the feast of the Immaculate Conception, marking the beginning of the 150th Anniversary of the Church in Port Clinton. All are welcome, bring a friend.
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Congratulations to our Find Wylie contest winner this week: Nancy Gurney who found Wylie
in the ad for Pin Ups Hair Studio on page 7A. Nancy wins a $20 gift/
gas card from Friendship Convenience Stores. We’ll
be hiding Wylie again this week, if you find him, just drop us a note at our office at Beacon Place on SE Catawba Road or click on the Find Wylie icon at www.thebeacon.net.
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Main Street Port Clinton’s downtown Community Christ-mas celebration will be Sunday, Dec. 5, starting at 1 p.m. with
Santa’s arrival at Mango Mamas. There will be strolling carolers, a special Christmas Parade at 4:30 p.m. that will end at the Adams St. Gazebo and a 5:30 p.m. tree lighting ceremony.
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American Legion Post 113 lo-cated on Sand Road east of Port Clinton will be hosting a roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy dinner starting at 4 p.m. today (Thursday, Dec. 2) and going until they are sold out. Dinner
5050 E. Muggy Road, Catawba IslandEast of Thompson’s Landscaping
419-797-2100or 419-341-0863
www.catawbabay.infoWATERFRONT COMMUNITY • MARINA W/DIRECT ACCESS TO LAKE ERIE • POOL • CLUBHOUSE
Experience LivingModel Home Hours:
Thurs - Sat. 11-5Sun. & Mon. 11-4
Tue. & Wed by Appointment
INSIDE RECORDS 3A n BEACON BITS 4A n HEALTH 7A n CALENDAR 11A n SCHOOLS 1B n CLASSIFIED 8B
Hot Jobs list for Ottawa County:Service Department Position (OH520067)$11 to $12.50
Auto Service Technician(OH519972)$12 to $20
Server(OH519106)Wages Not Listed
Cook(OH519110)$7.75 to $9
Job seekers must have OH numbers when calling or applying at The Job Store, 419-898-3688, ext. 270.
See TELL TALES 2A
By JOHN SCHAFFNERPublisher
What happens when one envi-ronmental interest interferes with another environ-mental interest? That is the ques-tion being looked at by Audubon interests, espe-cially in the areas close to the Lake Erie shoreline, and wind power interests looking to promote green energy sources in the same area.
Monday, Kim Kaufman of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory brought together a number of bird-ing experts and interested parties to the Lake Erie Shores Visitor Center to discuss the impact of wind tur-bines on migrating birds.
“Our primary concern is, of course, bird mortality from direct collisions with the turbines as well as indirect loss related to displace-ment and avoidance,” she said.
However, their concerns do not end there.
“Over the last five years, BSBO has also taken a leadership role in pro-moting this area as a prime ecotour-ism destination to bird watchers around the world and the economic impact on this region,” she said. She estimated the impact during the months of April and May upwards of $20 million.
Birdsvs. Wind Turbines
Former Redskins feel PC support
KAUFMAN
Ottawa County will be con-ducting a hazardous materials exercise from 8 to 11 a.m. Dec. 9. The exercise will be conduct-ed in Port Clinton. Participants include: Port Clinton Fire De-partment, North Central EMS, Port Clinton Police Depart-
ment, Magruder Hospital and the Ottawa County Emergency Management Agency. The ex-ercise will be used to test Ot-tawa County and Magruder Hospital’s plans for handling contaminated victims, commu-nicating with first responders
and the public, and for manag-ing resources for an emergency situation.
Visitors to Magruder Hospi-tal may see fire trucks and am-bulances near the emergency room entrance. These units will be setting up an emergency de-
contamination zone and will be decontaminating exercise participants prior to processing them into the emergency room. The hospital will remain open throughout the exercise.
For information, call Fred Pe-tersen at 419-734-6900.
HazMat exercise coming up at Magruder
See TURBINES 2A
By ANGIE ADAIR ZAMEditor
Though basketball season is just now kicking off around the county, two former Redskins have been at it for months. Ryan Hicks and Josh Francis, members of last year’s state runner-up squad, are now playing for Defiance College. And even though they are miles away, their Port Clinton family is still showing up to cheer them on.
Last week the Yellow Jackets took on Ohio Northern and coaches, school officials, and current and former players made the trip to Ada to watch.
“I didn’t know the whole team was coming,” said Francis in a phone interview.
Both players said they heard some coaches and a few others might come but were surprised to see all but two members of this year’s Redskins team.
“I liked having everyone there,” said Hicks. “It was good to see them.”
The game was a nail-biter but af-ter double overtime, Defiance fell 93-90, bringing their record for the year to 2-2.
“I’m playing more and more in every game,” Francis said. “Coach says to be patient. It’s hard to go in as a freshman after being a star.”
Hicks and Francis have played in each contest so far, but both have noticed the bar has been raised.
“The game is a lot faster and the people are a lot stronger,” said Hicks. “It’s a step up from high school.”
Port Clinton varsity Coach Troy Diels, who brought
PHOTOS BY ASHLEY HICKSFormer Redskins Josh Francis and Ryan Hicks warm up before last week’s game against Ohio Northern. The pair, who now play for Defiance, were surprised when most of this year’s PC squad, coaches, school officials and former players showed up to cheer them on.
HICKS
FRANCIS
See DEFIANCE 2A
PC seniors Eric Reynolds and
Derek Colston, former classmate
Corey Brown and Coach Rick Dominick were in Ada cheering on their former teammates. For
more photos, go to www.the beacon.net.
High School Basketball preview | B3
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Each month Magruder Hospital will publish a list of screenings, programs and special events, which the public is welcome to attend. Please note that certain events require appointments or physician referrals in order to attend. Thank you for your support of Magruder Hospital.
Wellness ProgramsYoga Tuesdays 6:30pm Conference Center $10/week or $8/week if paid monthly 419-635-2337
Aquatic Exercise Program at Lake Erie Sportsmedicine $30/month - 3 times per week for 4 weeks Release from Dr. required 419-734-3131 ext. 3475
Strength Training Conference Center Tue & Thu 5:30pm $3 per class 419-734-3131 ext. 3363
Tai Chi Conference Center Wednesdays 10am $3 per class 419-734-3131 ext. 3363
Education & OutreachMonthly Luncheon Dr. Morris: Sleep’s Connection with Heart Attack & Stroke Wednesday, Dec. 8th 6:30pm No charge Open to the public Light refreshments RSVP to 419-732-4061 by Mon Dec 6th
Tobacco Cessation for Adults 6-8 week program $75 per person - Groups of 5-10 people – For questions or to sign up call 419-734-3131 ext. 3461
Diabetes Education instructional classes presented by our Dietitian and a Registered Nurse for diabetic individuals and their families. Physician referral needed. Call for times and dates. 419-734-3131 ext. 3544
American Red Cross Classes 419-734-1100 6th Adult CPR 6pm7th Infant/Child CPR 6pm8th First Aid 6pm
Support GroupsDepression Support Group Conference Center Thu Dec 2nd 6-8pm and Fri Dec 17th 6:30-8pm For more information 419-732-6264
Diabetic Support Group 2nd Thur. each month from Noon – 1pm Conference Center 419-734-3131 ext. 3544
Grief Support Group Sponsored by Stein Hospice & Crosser Funeral Homes Magruder Conference Center3rd Thursday each month 5:30pm 419-732-3141 for more information
Chronic Pain Support Group 2nd Thur each month 6pm Conference Center 419-271-3915 for more information
Alzheimer’s Support Group 2nd Monday each month 9am Conference Center 419-734-3131 ext. 3363 for more information
Multiple Sclerosis Support Group 1st Tuesday each month 6:30pm-8pm Conference Center For more information 419-797-4540
Health ScreeningsHealth Screening: Cholesterol (Total/LDL/HDL/Triglycerides) Blood Pressure and Glucose Screening $16 2nd Thursday each month in the Magruder Lab 419-734-3131 Ext. 3420 for appointments
Free HIV Testing Provided by the AIDS Resource Center Ohio 2nd Friday each month 1-3pm 1South Clinic Area Room 133 For more information call 1-419-241-9444 ext. 413
Auxiliary EventsAuxiliary Breakfast December 16th 9am Free & open to Auxiliary members & guests or anyone interested in the Auxiliary RSVP to 419-734-3131 ext. 3140
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and Family Services to the less fortunate children and families of our county.
Waldo Peppers is located in Knoll Crest Shopping Center, Catawba Island.Call 419-301-3700 for reservations or more information.
Come join the old crew from Nate’s Restaurantas they carry on the tradition at Waldo Pepper’s
Sunday, Dec. 129 a.m. to noon
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is being prepared again by Angel Francis and the cost of the entire dinner is only $8. You get a roll and butter and desert too! What a deal!
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Seniors and the community are invited to the Ottawa County Senior Resources Open House and Resource Fair on Friday, December 3 from Noon to 3 p.m. at 8200 W. State Route 163 in Oak Harbor. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served and there will also be raffles and a “Silent Auction” benefitting the senior activity commit-tee. To RSVP or for information, call Senior Resources at 419-898-6459.
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On Dec. 11, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is holding its first annual “Cookie Walk” in the school gym from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The public is invited to do their Christmas cookie shopping. All are welcome.
And while we are on that subject, The Beacon’s annual “Mitten Tree” is up and ready to take on your dona-tions. Please bring your mittens, gloves, scarves, caps and anything else you can think of to keep hands, heads and hearts warm this winter. Your donations to The Mitten Tree will be picked up in mid-December and distributed by the Holiday Bureau.
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The 71st annual Christmas Choir Concert will be presented at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, 122 Ottawa St., in Oak Harbor, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12. An organ and brass recital will precede the concert at 7 p.m. A free-will offering will be taken to benefit the Doris Mylander Scholarship Fund. Refreshments will be served after the concert in the upstairs social room.
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The Seventh Annual Tree-a-Rama at Mon Ami is just around the corner. It is a special fundraiser for the local Salvation Army’s Ottawa County Toy Drive. The public display of decorated trees, wreaths, centerpieces and gifts donated by local businesses has already been set up for you to look at and enjoy. The Live Auction will take place on Sunday, December 5 beginning at 4 p.m. in The Chalet at Mon Ami. For information call Mon Ami at 419-797-4445 or the Salvation Army at 419-732-2769.
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To support their concerns, three experts were asked for input. First was Ted Eubanks, who founded an ecotourism consulting firm in Galveston, Texas. He worked with for-mer Visitor’s Bureau Director Brenda Huntley in develop-ing the concept of tourism opportunities here because of the intense migratory bird arrivals and departures in the spring and fall of the year.
“We don’t have to build anything here, just protect it,” Eubanks said.
Also speaking was Bill Evans of Ithaca, N.Y., a leading authority on bird strike issues who has specialized in studying nocturnal bird migration.
“There has been exaggeration on both sides of this issue, but people first started noticing the impact of wind tur-bines out in California when they started losing 1 percent
of the golden eagle population annually,” he said. “Wind turbines came east in the late 1990s, and that industry has kind of adopted a ‘build and see’ mentality. What they found was there was an impact here affecting song birds like warblers and threshers and the like.” He noted that there was also a negative impact on bats. Evans proposes keeping wind turbines away from the lake shore.
Keith Lott of the ODNR Division of Wildlife noted that there are roughly 60 “major” proposed wind turbine proj-ects looking to begin in Ohio right now. And more than 80 “single turbine” projects that are not commercial grade. The vetting process for those two are vastly different. The major wind farm projects need to go through an exten-sive licensing and environmental impact process from the state. In the case of individual turbines placed on private property, local zoning laws and ordinances apply and not
necessarily in all cases.Dan Boone, a wildlife biologist from Maryland told
the gathering that Ohio would need more than 100,000 750-kilowatt wind turbines to satisfy 10 percent of the state’s demand for electricity. He concluded that wind turbines in Ohio cost twice as much to install and yield half of the electricity compared to national averages.
Local entrepreneur John Fellhauer representing San-dusky-based SUREnergy, talked about setting up a wind turbine at Clay High School in Oregon, 2 miles from the Lake and 9 miles from the Ottawa National Wildlife Ref-uge. He noted that when they are finished, their $1 mil-lion project would generate 95 percent of the school sys-tem’s needs. This year, Fellhauer’s company also installed turbines at Huron High School and in the Margaretta School District.
In focus is the area identified by ODNR as possessing the most intense migratory bird activity. Kaufman’s ma-jor concern was that wind turbines were just “popping up” all over the lakeshore landscape without any process for judging the environmental impact on local bird pop-ulations. She has offered a series of seven steps to rein in the proliferation of wind turbines close to Lake Erie. First and foremost, she would like to see a three-year moratorium on additional wind turbines within 3 miles of the Lake Erie Shoreline, including Sandusky Bay. She would like to buy some time until research on nocturnal migrating bird populations can be studied. She noted that she wanted to work cooperatively with business in-
terests, such as SUREnergy, to facilitate the time to study the issue.
She also proposes a permanent ban on any wind turbines 300 feet or higher within the zones of highest concern as identified by the ODNR, a zone that includes virtually all of Ottawa County except for the far western edge. When asked “who would enforce these moratoriums,” nobody knew the answer.
“We need to begin a process to study the impacts these structures could have on the local avian population,” Kaufman said.
Part of that process could include radar studies emanat-ing from Bowling Green State University that could be done during the three-year moratorium timeframe. Fell-hauer and Bryan Rathbun representing SUREnergy cat-egorically opposed the moratorium.
Wind Energy vs. Wildlife conservation. The door to dia-logue has been opened. At stake could be industrial devel-opment of wind turbines in Ottawa County and the near $20 million economic impact of eco-tourism dollars gen-erated by bird watchers who come from all over the world. Can the two environmentally positive forces live and work together? The issue is in doubt.
this year’s Redskins out, said the game was a great experience for ev-eryone involved.
“The kids that went are still very close with Ryan and Josh,” he said. “Anytime we can get our kids to ex-perience something on a college cam-pus, I think it is a good thing.”
And of course, watching former players continue their careers is great
for any coach. Diels, whose been at the varsity level for six years, has seen a number move on to the next level but it’s rare to have two at once, let alone at the same school.
“For the coaching staff it was a proud moment to see our former players playing at the collegiate level. They are both outstanding kids and they will forever be part of our bas-ketball family,“ Diels said.
As for school, Hicks and Francis
have some classes together and help each other out. Both say having a friend along for the ride has made the transition a lot easier.
For the future, their former coach sees big things.
“They will continue to get stronger and with that they will see an increase in playing time. Both kids are super competitive and proven winners, they will certainly have a bright future at Defiance,” said Diels.
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www.thebeacon.net SOUNDOFFnRECORDS Thursday, December 2, 2010 3A
Natassia Miro RamirezWe want to thank our entire amazing
community, family and friends for the love and support you’ve given us at this most difficult time. The love and compassion shown to us by people we don’t even know has filled out hearts, like the truck driver who handed me a freshly pressed bandana to wipe my tears when we learned that Natassia was in fact gone. Or the woman who bough the beautiful flowers for our child that probably wasn’t in her budget but did it anyway as Natassia was a friend to her daughter. To the Popes who lovingly placed a cross just yards away from their own beloved son’s.
Thanks also to Tom Priesman and the entire staff of Neidecker-LeVeck & Crosser Funeral Home for the attention and respect they paid to Natassia and our family. To the staff and students of PCHS for supporting us and each other. To the Nor’Easter Club, all the churches that said prayers for our daughter and all the kids that have stayed by our side, skipping school, sleeping on the floor, sharing toothbrushes and filling our home once again with music, laughter and normalcy.
The same loving arms you’ve wrapped around us we ask are wrapped around Da-vid and his family for their loss and pain is just as great. We love you David. We send our blessings to all who have blessed us in so many ways.With great gratitude,The Ramirez, Knowltonand Cosic familyBoo and DiggerP.S. Tazi, Mama loves you more than all the stars in the sky and the moon too!
Thanksgiving feastThe community support of Port Clin-
ton’s annual Thanksgiving Day Feast con-tinues to be wonderful. Once again, we served to shut-ins and made deliveries around the community to those people in need of a hot meal for themselves and their families. This year was our 20th anniver-sary at Trinity United Methodist Church and more than 60 people volunteered to help cook, serve and cleanup; another crew of cooks throughout the community sent in delicious pies for us to serve. Even more people donated turkeys with Chef ’s Best overseeing the cooking and provid-
ing support when needed. In addition, the out-pour of financial support from area businesses, organizations and individuals really made a difference ensuring that we could provide bounty for all on Thanks-giving Day 2010.
Many thanks to the 337 people who joined us for our Thanksgiving dinner in the church fellowship hall. Please plan to be with us again next year as either a vol-unteer or as a hungry diner. We are thank-ful for all of you.Sincerely,Chairwoman Ginna Fall and the Thanksgiving Day Feast Committee
Bike raffleWright’s General Contracting LLC held a
fundraiser for the Ottawa County Humane Society and the Danbury Food Pantry and it was a huge success. A 26” bike was do-nated by Wright’s General Contracting and was raffled off for this fundraiser. The winner of the bike was Tom Tuttle of West Harbor Lagoons.
The Ottawa County Humane Society was presented a check for $321 on Saturday, Nov. 11. The Danbury Food Pantry was
also given more than $250 worth of food from the fundraiser.
A special thanks to Carter Lumber, Erie Food Market and Marysville Marine for selling the raffle tickets. A special thanks also to Skip and Peg Ormsby for their do-nation to both the Humane Society and the food pantry. Again a special thank you to everyone for helping with this fundrais-er, especially those who purchased tickets. We need to help people and animals when in need. We need to help when we can be-cause someday it could be us in need.Wright’s General Contracting
Thank youThe Port Clinton Varsity Football team
and coaches would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone that contributed to Thursday night team feeds this season. Special thanks to The Elks Lodge 1718, The Eagles 2295, The Moose Family Cen-ter 1610, Wendys Restaurant, The PC Ath-letic Boosters, Walmart; Cal Colston, Dr. George and friends, Bill Yuhaz, and all the parents. It’s great to be a part of a winning community spirit!Redskins players and staff
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ObituariesJack ColvinMay 8, 1934 — Nov. 28, 2010
Jack Colvin, 76, of Port Clinton, passed away unexpectedly Sunday, Nov. 28, at his residence.
Visitation will be 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, at Gerner-Wolf-Walker Funeral Home & Crematory, Port Clinton.
Marilyn FranDec. 5, 1936 — Nov. 27, 2010
Marilyn D. Fran, 73, of Lakeside-Mar-blehead, died Saturday, Nov. 27, at Mary-mount Hospital in Garfield Heights.
Visitation will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, at the Neidecker, LeVeck & Crosser Funeral Home, Peninsula Cha-pel, 7755 E. Harbor Road, Lakeside-Mar-blehead. A memorial mass will be celebrat-ed at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 3, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 822 Barclay St., Marble-head, with Rev. Daniel J. Ring officiating. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Marblehead.
Avion NorrisNov. 26, 2010
Avion Scott Norris, son of Timothy Scott and Patricia Lynn Benore Norris II, was stillborn, Friday, Nov. 26, at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo.
Private services will be held. Arrange-ments were handled by Gerner-Wolf-Walker Funeral Home & Crematory, Port Clinton.
Delorez TelliardSept. 8, 1925 — Nov. 18, 2010
Delorez Emma Telliard passed away Nov. 18, 2010, at Riverview Senior Health Care Campus.
Delorez was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Criv-itz, Wis., to Arnold and Rossi (Louden) Nelezen. Delorez gave birth to six children (all before she
reached 35.) Over the years, Delorez en-joyed supporting and keeping up with each of her children’s and grandchildren’s lives and careers. She was always on-call if parents were going out of town, a new child had arrived or if there was anything else she could do to be helpful.
Delorez loved gardening and showed great talent at it, composting 30 years be-fore anyone else was. She was also an ac-complished seamstress, painter and golfer, and enjoyed traveling.
Survivors include James Telliard Sr., her former husband, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; a sister, Isabelle Gogia, of Mansfield, Ohio; children, Jonathon (Doris) Telliard, of Oak Harbor, Ohio; Charles (Laurel) Telliard, of Lakewood, Ohio; Jeffrey (Elizabeth) Telliard, of Jupiter, Fla.; Debbra (Mike) Bassett of Port Clinton, Ohio; Marscia Zaccaria, of Clearwater, Fla.; James Telliard Jr., of Sarasota, Fla.; grandchildren Daniel Turco, Traci Turco, Chelsey Telliard, Tracey Telliard, Emily Montague, Leah Telliard, Haley Telliard, Michael Bassett, Charles Bassett, Elliott Bassett, Elisabetta Rosell-
li, Joseph Zaccaria, Kimberly Buffa and James Telliard III. Her parents; brother, Clark Nellizen; and granddaughter, Me-lissa Weatherly, preceded her in death.
Services will be private for the family. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Alliance Chapel and the American Cancer Society. Robinson-Walker Funeral Home & Crematory, Oak Harbor, is assist-ing the family with arrangements. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.walkerfuneralhomes.com.
Madelon WadsworthDec. 7, 1921 — Nov. 25, 2010
Madelon D. Wadsworth, 88, of Port Clin-ton, died Thursday, Nov. 25, at Edgewood Manor Nursing Center in Port Clinton.
Visitation was held Sunday, Nov. 28, at the Neidecker, LeVeck & Crosser Funeral Home, 1124 Fulton St., Port Clinton. Fu-neral services were at the funeral home on Monday, Nov. 29, with the Rev. James Lehman officiating. Burial followed in Lakeview Cemetery, Port Clinton.
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Anne and Emily had been best friends for years. “Forever” is the word to describe it, they always said. They grew up in the same neighborhood and played together as chil-dren. When they started school, they went together on the first day. Emily’s father al-ways drove them to school on his way to work. He was president and owner of the only bank in town and Emily’s family was by far the wealthiest in the community. Emily had the prettiest clothes, the nicest toys — she even had a pony that was kept out in the country on the family’s farm. The family who lived on the farm took care of the pony, of course. Emily didn’t have to do work like that. In fact, she never had to work at all. Her mother made sure of that.
Emily was an only child. Her mother had said, after Emily’s birth, that there would never be another child and there wasn’t. Emily’s father had wanted at least one more. He was very fond of his daughter’s friend, Anne, because she was the second child he had never had.
Even though they lived in the same neighborhood, Anne and Emily grew up in very different circumstances. Anne lived with her mother and brother over a car-riage house behind one of the big houses in their neighborhood where Anne’s mother was a cook and housekeeper. Anne was glad her mother did not work for Em-ily’s mother. Anne learned early that Em-ily’s mother was mean and a lazy snob. She wasn’t nice or polite to her three servants. And she was a gossip, taking delight in tell-ing the young girls about the mistakes and habits of her friends.
As Anne and Emily got older, Emily be-came more and more like her mother. Anne rarely got a new dress, but when she did, Emily demanded one, too. Emily snapped at their servants and did noth-ing for herself. By the time the two girls were in high school, Emily had coerced the servants into doing her homework for her. Then her grades faltered. But Em-ily’s mother talked to the president of the school board (an employee of Emily’s fa-ther). Magically Emily’s grades improved.
Meantime, Anne, always the better stu-dent, started to gain admiration, not only for her academic abilities but also for her leadership skills. And Anne was popular. She had fun and was cheerful. She had
frequent dates and Emily’s mother often prevailed upon her, and later even upon Anne’s mother, to have Anne find dates for Emily.
Emily’s bad attitude at home spilled over into her school life. She had no difficulty in making friends — but lots of difficulty in keeping them. In fact, she made many en-emies and eventually gained a reputation as a troublemaker.
Unwilling to acknowledge that Emily was simply not invited to dances and parties, Emily’s mother always said to Anne, “You girls have so much fun when you are to-gether. I know that you can find a way to get Emily invited to the party.” And Anne had to find dates for Emily. During their high school years, it seemed to Anne that she was constantly asking some young man to invite Emily for a date. She grew tired of it.
When time for college approached. Em-ily’s dad lobbied for Emily to apply to his alma mater, Denison University at Gran-ville, Ohio. And to everyone’s surprise, Em-ily was accepted. Meantime Anne was still casting around for her college of choice. When she received a dual scholarship, she enrolled at Ohio Northern University. At last she and Emily would be separated. Anne breathed a small sigh of relief.
Anne loved Emily and Emily didn’t treat her badly. Anne was often the recipient of Emily’s cast off clothes and other pos-sessions. And Anne and Emily were still confidants, still shared secrets, confiding in each other almost exclusively. But Anne wanted some freedom from Emily’s needi-ness. Going to different colleges would put space between them. She knew they would always be friends. But it was time for them to take up a life apart from each other.
Then Emily’s mother stepped in. Emily had told her mother that she was afraid to go off to college by herself. Despite the protests of Emily’s father, Emily applied to Ohio Northern and was accepted. Emily’s mother even cajoled someone at the uni-versity into finding a room for Emily in the same dormitory as the one to which Anne had already been assigned.
Emily joyfully broke the news to Anne one afternoon after school. Anne’s heart sank. She hadn’t realized until that mo-ment just how much she had been look-ing forward to getting away from Emily.
But she hugged her friend and said she was glad they would still be together. That au-tumn they both went off to Ohio North-ern.
The demands and rigors of college life did conspire to give Anne more freedom from Emily’s demands than before. Both young women were studying journalism and Anne volunteered time on the school newspaper. Again she made friends eas-ily and, although she had a job, she soon found time to date and have fun on week-ends. Meantime Emily found college courses to be very difficult and fell behind in her studies. A telephone plea to her mother took care of the problem. Her fa-ther supplied tutors who helped with all of her studies. This took quite a lot of Emily’s free time so Anne had more freedom from Emily’s company.
The young women still saw each other frequently. But Anne had made a firm personal resolution that in college she was not going to help Emily study nor would she find dates for her. With Christmas ap-proaching, Emily realized what was hap-pening. At home she complained to her mother that, “Anne never has time for me any more. She’s just so … so busy with all her new friends.”
This time Emily’s mother wasn’t sure how to intervene. With Anne and Em-ily away from home — too far for Anne’s mother to be bullied into making Anne do what Emily wanted — Emily’s mother had little choice but to let matters take their course.
It was during the Christmas break that some of the old habits crept in again. Young people were home from school and had time on their hands. Anne’s mother had found a job for Anne at a retail store for the holidays. But each day, as soon as Anne was off work, Emily called and the two girls got together at Emily’s home. As Christmas Day approached, Emily was ex-cited. Her parents were giving a posh party on New Year’s Eve and Emily had been told to invite all their old friends from high school.
“Just think, Annie,” she said “We’ll see everyone and have such a good time. And here’s the great part. You and I are going to make the phone calls — just so I don’t forget anybody,” Emily rejoiced. “Mother said we should call everyone today. Where
should we start?” She thrust a phone to-ward Anne. “Here. You call somebody first.”
“I can’t do that Emily. It’s your family’s party and you know all the details. You should call the people you want to invite.”
“No. I insist. Everyone will want to see you, too. Mother specifically said you could invite anyone you wanted. Besides, we know all the same people. What’s the difference who asks them?”
Anne knew that their friends were likely to refuse an invitation from Emily and more likely to accept one if she invited them. So she said, “Well, I guess that would be all right. We’d better make a list, though.” So the two young women hur-riedly scratched out a list of their friends and while Emily looked up phone num-bers, Anne called them. She left messages where needed and on the first one asked that the person call Emily back.
“No, have everybody call you, back,” Em-ily quickly said. That’s when Anne knew, with certainty, that her long-time friend was using her. And for the first time ever, she wondered if she and Emily were truly friends. Or was their relationship, perhaps, more one of convenience, one that allowed Emily to have friends and lead a normal life only if Anne was by her side?
Deep inside, Anne finally acknowl-edged the answer. But this one last time she would help her friend. After this, she truly needed to put more distance between them. It was time for Emily to grow up and take responsibility for her own life.
“Oh,” Emily said, “we almost forgot Steve McDonald. We have to call him. He’s al-ways a lot of fun.” Emily looked up the number and Anne was delighted when Steve answered the phone. She told him about the party and he said he was sorry he couldn’t attend but he had brought a cou-ple of friends home from school to stay for the holiday and must spend the time with them. “Well,” Emily said. “Just tell him to bring his friends along with him.”
Just that easily it was decided. Steve and his friends would be there by 9:30 p.m. af-ter dining with his parents on New Year’s Eve. And that was how Emily and Anne met Alan Paul Lascalle.
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Students, staff and faculty who are U.S. armed forces veterans were honored recently at Terra Community Col-lege, but the real winners were those on the waiting list for Honor Flight Northwest Ohio.
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“The award requires the winning team to select a charity to receive the cash donation. We are honored and hum-bled to be able to give the award money to Honor Flight Northwest Ohio.”
Honor Flight Northwest Ohio is an all-volunteer orga-nization dedicated to flying veterans to Washington, D.C., to see their memorials. Flights are funded through the generosity of northwest Ohioans. Air transportation, mo-tor coach, meals and other amenities are provided to the veterans without charge.
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“For many World War II veterans without family or those with financial limitations or serious health condi-tions, Honor Flight Northwest Ohio provides their best hope of getting to Washington, D.C. The Northcoast Jobs Connection has dramatically increased their chances of getting on one of our flights. We lose over 1,000 World War II vets every day, and so the window of opportunity to accomplish our mission is closing rapidly.”
Through its latest flight in October, Honor Flight North-west Ohio has safely escorted 462 veterans to Washington, D.C., on 17 flights. There are still more than 400 men and women on the waiting list.
Across the country, thousands more are hoping to ex-perience an Honor Flight. Since its inception in 2005, the Honor Flight Network has transported nearly 40,000 vet-erans to the nation’s capital. There are Honor Flight hubs in more than 30 states.
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The West Ohio Conference will utilize $750,000 of the awarded funds to expand its existing Local Church Residency Pro-gram, $35,000 to fund transition from As-sociates to Residents in certain churches and $115,000 to assist in funding its Trans-formational Leadership Academy.
The West Ohio Conference is the min-istry office for The United Methodist Church in 58 counties of Ohio, supporting approximately 1,200 local United Meth-odist congregations, community centers, camps and retreat centers, as well as nearly 200,000 members. The group will hold its annual conference in Lakeside June 6-9.
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Diabetic Support Magruder Hospital will
offer its monthly Diabetic Support Group on Thurs-day, December 9th, at noon in the Conference Center. The group is for anyone dealing with Diabetes, in-cluding family and friends.
Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch or purchase one in the Fulton Street Café prior to noon and bring it to the meeting. Coffee, tea and water will be provided.
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Laboratory will offer a full cholesterol check (Total Cholesterol, HDL, LDL, Triglycerides) as well as blood pressure and blood sugar checks for $16 on Thursday, December 9th, beginning at 1pm. Ap-pointments for this can be made by calling 419-734-3131 ext. 3420.
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Sclerosis Support Group will meet on Tuesday, De-cember 7th at 6:30pm in the Magruder Conference Center. For the Decem-ber meeting, the group will have an open discus-sion and question and an-swer session. This support group is for anyone whose life has been touched by MS. This support group is an excellent way for pa-tients, caregivers and fam-ily members to connect with others to share infor-mation and resources. For more information about this group, please call Kar-en Ohm, group facilitator, at 419-797-4540.
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A dessert extravaganza was held on Wednesday, Nov. 17, to honor volunteers who generously give their time assisting staff in monitoring visits at Joyful Connec-tions. Those honored were:
• Volunteers since 2008: Patti Howell — 198 hours and Phyllis Howell — 166 hours
• Volunteers since 2009: Karen Johns — 179 hours, Shelly Grieger — 70 hours, Dorothy Waterhouse — 61 hours and Rex Rutledge — 12 hours
• Volunteers since 2010: Stephany Skrbi-na — 38 hours, Kim Bright — 24 hours and Jamie Beier-Grant — 4 hours
These volunteers spend time reading to the children or playing games for a few
minutes before the visiting party arrives. Volunteers also monitor visits between non-custodial parents and their children and record their observations using non-judgmental language. Volunteers are not asked to intervene with families at any-time, only record observations. At least two people, volunteers/staff members, are present in the facility for all visitations.
If you are willing to share some of your time (even an hour or two a month) with disadvantaged children who need a safe place to visit with their parents, call Karen Demangos at Joyful Connections at 567-262-3181. Joyful Connections is located at 8200 W. Ohio 163, Oak Harbor.
Volunteers honored
Andrew Slough, executive director of the Northwest Ohio Make-A-Wish Foundation receives a check for $32,000 from Jeni Hammond and Cindra Mielke, the result of their annual Kelleys Island Swim in August.
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The War of 1812 bi-centennial was the focus of the Ot-tawa County Historical Society’s annual meeting, Nov. 14, at the Catawba Island Club. Blanca Alvarez Stransky, Superintendent of the Perry’s Victory and Peace Memo-rial National Mon-ument, presented the program, lay-ing out the Nation-al Park Service’s plans for the cel-ebration that will take place between 2011-2015. It will include participa-tion by the U.S. Navy, tall ships and historical groups in Canada, Michi-gan and eastern United States. She is also working to partner with groups in the United Kingdom. Stransky has set plans in motion to “entice and engage youth, as well as historians.” Hooks to command attention and interest include focus on the food, clothing and even the beer of the 1812 era. “Dining with the Navy” will introduce visitors to what was on the dinner tables, and fashion shows and reenactments will highlight cloth-ing and day-to-day life for the combatants and their wom-en and children. The Native American perspective will be included with a Peace Powwow. Navy ships will conduct a ceremony at the Battle site, and a shore ceremony is
planned for Put-in-Bay. Other planned events include Paths to Peace, a student art project; a commemorative quarter; a peace quilt; and traveling exhibits made avail-able to museums. A wide variety of publicity is planned, ranging from social media to place mats with schedules and information at Put-in-Bay restaurants.
Stransky, whose 24-year carreer with the National Park Services includes the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Hawaii, Denali National Park in Alaska and Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska, wants Americans to “own” their history and feel excited. Although 97 percent of the Monument’s visitors are from Ohio, she is work-ing to increase awareness throughout the National Park System. She also is working to insure the safety of visitors. Stransky, since she came to the area in 2009, has continued work on the damaged upper deck of the Monument but is working to complete other necessary repairs before the bicentennial. The column’s mortar is disintegrating and water is seeping through to the foundation Currently, a protective canopy is in place to prevent accidents. Two million dollars is available to fix the most urgent needs, but much more is needed for adequate restoration.
In a brief business meeting, attending OCHS members approved a slate of officers including returning president, Paul Moon; vice president Doug Garrett; treasurer, Keith Addy; and approved new secretary, Ray Machar, replac-ing retiring Gwen Addy. Nancy Dunham, Bob Sidwell and Sally Williams were approved for a three-year term as trusteees. The Society is dedicated to discovering, docu-menting and sharing the history of Ottawa County with residents and visitors through restoration, oral histories and informative programs. Visit the website at www.the-keepershouse.org
The American Legion Post 114 will be serving up a chicken dinner on Friday, Dec. 10. The meal, which is $7 per person, will be from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Legion, 221 Park St., Oak Harbor. The public is welcome. Call 419-898-5888 for information.
Beginning Sunday, Ida Rupp Public Library will show the three movies based on Stieg Larsson’s popular Mil-lenium trilogy. The worldwide best-selling detective se-ries features brilliant computer hacker and asocial punk Lisbeth Salander, who assists disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist in his investigation of a 40-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a member of a power-ful Swedish family.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, the library will show the movie based on Larsson’s first best-selling book “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” The Swedish movie will be shown with English subtitles, is rated R and is 152 minutes long.
The second and third movies based on Larsson’s books will be shown on the first Sundays of January and February. The movie based on the book “The Girl Who Played with Fire” will be shown at 2 p.m. Jan. 2 and the movie based on “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” will be shown at 2 p.m. Feb. 6. All three movies are rated R.
Movies will be shown in the library community rooms. Admission will begin at 1:30 p.m., and a $5 donation is requested from each moviegoer to help pay for the special license to show the movies. Free popcorn and drinks will be available. The library is located at 310 Madison St., Port Clinton.
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BOWLING GREEN — The Ohio De-partment of Transportation has proposed resurfacing the entire length of Ohio 357 on South Bass Island and upgrading side-walk handicap ramps along Ohio 357 at Catawba Avenue and Hartford Avenue to insure compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
The project is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2011 and be completed by fall, possibly suspending any major work dur-ing the highlight of the 2011 summer tourist season.
ADA ramp construction will involve working on Trustee- and Village of Put-in-Bay- owned, De Rivera Park and U.S. Government owned Perry’s National Monument property. Associated project work will repair and resurface Ohio De-partment of Natural Resources facilities at South Bass Island State Park, Oak Point State Park and the Sandusky Bay Fishing Access area near the City of Port Clinton.
Because of the need to acquire a small amount of permanent highway easements for construction activity for the ADA handicap ramps and sidewalk sections at
De Rivera Park, and because De Rivera Park has unrestricted public recreational access, ODOT is required give the oppor-tunity for public comment in order to pro-ceed forward with roadway improvements.
Additional information is available on-line at www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D02/Pages/PublicMeetings.aspx
Comments may be sent by Wednesday, Dec. 15, to the following contact: The Ohio Department of Transportation Dis-trict 2 Office, Attention: Rick Perse, 317 E. Poe Road, Bowling Green, OH 43402, 419-373-4433 or [email protected].
ODOT seeking public comment for work on Put-in-Bay
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At 52, Deb Smith fought for four years to rid her body of cancer. But when the fi ght was over, Deb and her family did not want her life to end in a hospital room. On a spring afternoon Deb arrived at the Stein Hospice Care Center. By sunrise she had died. But in those 16 hours Deb and her family received many gifts...
A chaplain stopped by to pray. Volunteers helped the family with meals. Nurses watched over Deb to make sure she was not in pain.
“Everybody was so nice and considerate and would stop to talk, not small talk. It was personal to them. They felt like family,” said Deb’s daughter, Stephanie.
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The Sleep Link
This New Year it may be time to make a sleep resolution. There is a direct and proven link between sleep and your overall health. For example, conditions such as untreated, undiagnosed sleep apnea can increase a person’s risk for heart attacks and strokes. Sleep medicine is a simple way for people to optimize their health by addressing their sleep issues. Come and listen to Dr. Morris and enjoy a tour of Magruder’s tranquil sleep center environment.
Wednesday, December 8th 6:30 pmMagruder Hospital conference centerRSVP by Monday, December 6th, by calling 419-732-4061Light refreshments will be served
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Dec. 2
Blood driveWHEN: Noon to 6 p.m.WHERE: Community Mar-ket Oak Harbor VFW, 251 W. Main St., Oak Harbor
PC Chamber After HoursWHAT: Networking, raffles, 50/50 and more from the Port Clinton Chamber of CommerceWHEN: 5 to 7 p.m.WHERE: Zink Calls, 30 Park Drive, Port ClintonINFO: RSVP by calling 419-734-5503
Book DiscussionWHAT: “New Tricks,” by David Rosenfelt will be dis-cussed. Copies of the book are available at the library.WHEN: 7 p.m.WHERE: Ida Rupp Public Library, Madison Street
Dec. 3
Senior Resources Open House & Resource FairWHEN: Noon to 3 p.m.WHERE: 8200 W. Ohio 163, Oak HarborINFO: To RSVP or more information call 419-898-6459. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages, raffles and silent auction to benefit the senior activity committee.
Family movie nightWHAT: “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale,” G, 93 min. All ages are welcome. No registra-tion is required. WHEN: 7 p.m.WHERE: Ida Rupp Public Library. Guests should enter through the back door.INFO: 419-732-3212
Dec. 4
Traditional Christmas BazaarWHAT: Area cooks and crafters will be set up and lunch will be served. Rumor has it Santa might stop by at noon so bring kids and cameras. Banquet size tables for are available for $15 each. WHEN: Doors open at 9 a.m.; lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.WHERE: Oak Harbor United Methodist Church, 360 E. Ottawa St.INFO: To rent a table or for general information, call 419-898-8481.
Arts and Crafts ShowWHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.WHERE: Marblehead VFW, 421 W. Main St.INFO: 419-734-2170
Fulkert’s Craft ShowWHAT: Wood bowls, cutting boards, homemade jams, cookies, dips, and spreads, cards, hats, scarves, neck warmers, lighted arrange-ments, ornaments, jewelry, gifts and decorations. Refreshments available.WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.WHERE: Bay Township Hall Fire Station, Ohio 53, Port Clinton
Wine tourWHAT: The United Way in Ottawa County has char-tered a bus for a wine tour. Guests will tour and taste at Quarry Hill, Hermes, Fire-lands and Mon Ami winer-ies during the fundraiser. Space is limited.WHEN: Bus leaves at 11 a.m. and returns around 5 p.m.WHERE: Bus picks up and drops off at Mon Ami.COST: Cost is $55 per per-sona and includes bus transportation, wine sam-ples at all the wineries, appetizers at Mon Ami and one raffle ticket for a wine-themed gift basket. Addi-tional tickets will be on sale for $1 each or six for $5.INFO: Kristen Gerwin, 419-734-6645
Olde’ Fashioned Christmas CelebrationWHAT: Santa’s friends from the Portage District Fire Department will guide him through the streets of Oak Harbor before he magically lights the tree at Adolphus Kraemer Park. Each child then gets the opportunity to share their Christmas wish list with Santa at the Por-tage Fire Station. After their visit with Santa the children will then receive hot cocoa and a cookie and design their own packaging for their special gifts from San-ta’s Secret Shop.WHEN: Parade at 4:15 p.m., tree lighting at 4:45 p.m. and Santa’s Secret Shop is open from 5 to 7 p.m.WHERE: Santa’s Shop is upstairs in the fire station.INFO: 419-898-0479
Kingsway DanceWHAT: Crimson Lights pro-vides a variety of music for an evening of casual danc-ing and socializing.WHEN: 6 to 9 p.m.WHERE: Rice Township Hall, Ohio 19 North and Sandusky County Road 119, KingswayCOST: Admission is $8 per person and a “potluck dish” for sharing.INFO: Call Carolyn at 419-836-3308 or Nancy or Bill at 419-684-7474
Feather PartyWHAT: Games, drawings, dinner, munchies and 50/50 raffles.WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m.WHERE: Sons of the Ameri-can Legion, 221 Park St., Oak HarborCOST: $5 donation will be accepted at the doorINFO: Call Bob, 419-356-2611
Dec. 5
Community ChristmasWHAT: From 1 to 4 p.m., there will be carolers, ice sculptures on display and opportunities to start your holiday shopping. Several stores will be holding open houses with cookies and hot chocolate.Santa Claus will arrive at Mango Mama’s at 1 p.m. and will be greeting chil-dren until 4 p.m. There will be a Christmas parade at 4:30 p.m., when Santa will be transported by fire truck to the Adam’s Street Gaze-bo, where the annual Tree Lighting and Gift of Lights will occur at 5:30 p.m.WHERE: Downtown Port ClintonINFO: 419-734-5503
PC Senior Open House & TeaWHAT: Over the past few months, Port Clinton Seniors learned the true meaning of “there’s no place like home.” To celebrate their recent return to the Port Clinton Senior Center, PC Seniors will host the event open to all seniors, their families and friends.WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m.WHERE: 320 E. Third Street, Port ClintonINFO: Call Mary Jane Hap-pel-Meadows at 419-734-1481
Tree A RamaWHAT: Annual live auction of donated holiday trees, wreaths, centerpieces and gifts for the Salvation Army.WHEN: 4 p.m.WHERE: Mon Ami, 3845 E Wine Cellar Road, Port Clin-ton
Dec. 8
Sleep Medicine talkWHAT: David Morris, direc-tor of Magruder’s Sleep Medicine Center, is present-ing a free educational pro-gram on the importance of sleep to overall health.WHEN: 6:30 p.m.WHERE: Magruder Confer-ence CenterINFO: RSVP required by Dec. 6 by calling 419-732-4061
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Lung Health Lunch & LearnMon., Nov. 22, Noon – 1 p.m.Bay Park Community Hospital,Great Lakes Conference CenterHealthcare professionals will discuss lung health, including lung cancer and cancer-related symptoms. A complimentary lunch will be provided. To register or for more information, please call 419-291-5899.
Bay Park Community HospitalHoliday Tree LightingMon., Nov. 29, 4 – 6 p.m.Bay Park Community Hospital, Bay Café Bring your family and join us for holiday songs, lighting of the holiday tree and Beacon Gift Shop giveaways, as well as activities, food and refreshments.
Flu Shot ClinicFri., Dec. 3, 9 – 11 a.m.Bay Park Community Hospital, Professional Office Building, Suite 100Trained professionals will be availableto answer questions and administer fl u vaccinations. Vaccinations will cost $25.Paramount health insurance and Medicare will be accepted.
Bay Park Community HospitalWellness ScreeningsWed., Dec. 8, Noon – 1 p.m.Bay Park Community Hospital, Bay Café Free blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar,and bone density screenings will be offered. For more information, please call 419-291-5826.
Rossford Wellness ScreeningsThurs., Dec. 9., 10 a.m. – NoonProMedica Laboratory and Radiology,1209 Dixie HighwayFree blood pressure, women’s health, vascular, sleep apnea, and bone density screenings will be offered. For more information, please call 419-291-5826.
At Bay Park Community Hospital, we’re committed to offering programs and screenings for the benefi t of your health. For more information, pleasecall ProMedica Total Wellness at 419-291-5826.
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“Follow That Star” is the theme of the 74th annual Christmas Concert of the Sandusky Choral Soci-ety. It will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, at Trinity United Methodist Church at the corner of Second and Adams streets in Port Clinton.
The Choral Society has been presenting its Christ-mas concert in Port Clin-
ton for at least 17 years. The choir is under the direction of Bill Kraus; the accom-panist is James Gardner of Sandusky, a Port Clin-ton native and graduate of PCHS.
The public is invited to attend the concert. Tickets are available at the door for $7. The public is most cor-dially invited to attend.
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Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Black Swamp Bird Ob-servatory and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge are teaming up to celebrate wildlife with their annual open houses. The holiday celebration runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4.
Many exciting activities have been planned for the whole family including holiday shopping at a discount that benefits wildlife and our local area at the same time.
Visit the Sportsman’s Migratory Bird Center at Ma-gee Marsh for unique items from local vendors, cookies and fudge and enjoy live music by the fire. Black Swamp Bird Observatory will feature a book signing by natu-ralist and author Kenn Kaufman from 2 to 4 p.m., as well as green gift ideas and family-friendly activities and refreshments. Sally Deems-Moygordy will also be signing her 2011 calendar of birds. At Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge’s visitor center, there will be more win-
ter family crafts, free gift wrapping and winter wildlife walks at 1 and 3 p.m. Visit all three sites to be entered in a drawing for one of three holiday gift baskets.
For information about each open house, visit www.friendsofmageemarsh.org, www.bsbobird.org and www.fws.gov/Midwest/ottawa.
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Join the fun of the holiday season by attending any of the following musical programs presented by stu-dents and faculty of the Port Clinton City School District. All concerts are free (with the exception of the Terra Holiday Festival) and open to the public. Concerts are held at the Port Clinton High School Perform-ing Arts Center unless otherwise noted.
• Dec. 2 — Jefferson Grade 4 Holi-day Program — 7 p.m.
• Dec. 3 — Terra’s Holiday Festi-val Concert — 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Mary’s Blossom Shoppe or by calling 419-559-2233
In addition, Port Clinton High School will host the Ninth Annual
Holiday Breakfast with the Arts on Dec. 14 at the high school for Port Clinton City School District resi-dents age 60 and older. Tickets are on sale until Dec. 10 at Mary’s Blos-som Shoppe, Otto & Urban, and the PCHS Main Office. The cost per ticket is $2 which includes the cost of breakfast. Advance ticket pur-chase is required. In case of school cancellation or delay on Dec. 14, the Holiday Breakfast would be re-scheduled to Dec.r 15.
Port Clinton City Schools holiday program schedule
The Port Clinton High School Leadership Council is of-fering a babysitting service to help parents get their holi-day shopping done. Leadership Council is not charging for the service but accepting donations for the United Way.
Parents can bring their children, ages 3 to 12, to the PCHS Cafeteria from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5. Lunch will be provided along with a variety of fun activi-ties. Parents may use the entrance near the cafeteria off the former main parking lot.
Questions about the babysitting service can be directed to Mike Spencer, PCHS Leadership Council Advisor, at [email protected] or 419-341-0987.
Babysitting offered by PCHS Leadership
Join the Firelands Symphony Or-chestra, along with Lynne Winter-steller and the Terra Choral Soci-ety and conducted by Maestro Carl Topilow, in a program of popular holiday selections at the Sandusky State Theatre. A native of Sandusky, Wintersteller will get everyone in the festive mood with a holiday sing-along. A special mystery guest is ex-pected to cap off the Holiday Spec-tacular Concert.
The show is at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12. Single tickets are $26 for adults, $24 for seniors and $10 for students. Tick-ets are available at the Sandusky State Theatre box office at 419-626-1950, 877-626-1950 or www.sanduskystate.com.
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Senior gift requests are expected to be up this holiday season as the economic downturn continues and Social Security benefits fail to keep pace with cost of living in-creases.
Be a Santa to a Senior, the popular campaign that last year delivered more than 250 gifts to local needy seniors, is being planned again this holiday.
The Ottawa County office of the Home Instead Senior Care network has joined with local not-for-profit agencies to provide presents to seniors who otherwise might not receive a gift this holiday season.
Prior to the holiday season, participating groups iden-tify needy and isolated se-niors in the community and provide those names to Home Instead Senior Care for this community service program. Christ-mas trees, which are set up in the Rite-Aid Stores in Port Clinton, Oak Harbor and Genoa, as well as the Port Clinton Walmart will feature ornaments with the first names only of the se-niors and their respective gift requests.
Holiday shoppers can pick up an ornament, buy items on the list and return them unwrapped to the store, along with the orna-ment attached. The local Home Instead Senior Care then enlists the volunteer help of its staff, senior-care business associates, non-profit workers and others to collect, wrap and dis-tribute the gifts. A citywide gift-wrapping day, when hundreds of the presents will be wrapped, will be held in December.
“Last year we experienced unprecedented giving in our community, even in a recession,” said Ceinwen Price, owner of Home In-stead’s Ottawa County of-fice.
To help, call 419-734-5050.
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OAK HARBOR — What is the second best way to learn science?
From a scientist.What is the best way to learn
science?Be the scientist.St. Boniface fourth- and fifth-
graders did hands-on research during their overnight field trip to The Ohio State University’s Stone Lab on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie. Arriving home, the students were eager to share what they learned on the trip.
“I learned a lot of zebra mussels can harm the water and beaches,” said Carolyne Croy.
“Zooplankton is an animal,” added Alexander Spieldenner.
“I do not get seasick,” said Fran-cis Fritsch.
Braving wind, rain and high waves, the students went on the research vessel “Biolab” to mea-sure environmental conditions of Lake Erie and collect specimens of algae, plankton and fish. Back at the island laboratory, they used microscopes to view the zooplankton and phytoplankton samples collected and then dis-sected fish to study the internal organs. Resident research sci-entists talked with the students about the aquatic ecosystem of
the lake and the impact of inva-sive species on the native plants and animals.
Students also encountered many plant and animal species native to the area. Matthew Re-itzel’s favorite part of the trip was getting to hold Brutus, a fox snake.
“It was fun, it tickled,” he said.While exploring the island with
binoculars, students identified many native birds and learned the importance of Lake Erie as a migratory flyway. They also
searched for and sampled local edible plants such as wild grapes, nuts and mint used by pioneers to this area.
While some students were less than thrilled with the first day’s cold, rainy weather, all felt the excitement of studying science away from home. “I was happy and homesick for a couple of minutes,” admitted Victoria Frit-sch.
“I had a lot of fun at Stone Lab,” said Christopher Kuhn. “I would go again.”
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Each year the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics hon-ors outstanding math classroom teachers in each of its eight dis-tricts in Ohio. Ron Aukerman, Port Clinton Middle School mathematics teacher, was recog-nized as a district winner, sec-ondary classroom level, at the 60th annual OCTM awards.
According to the awards pro-gram, Aukerman teaches eighth-grade math at PCMS and believes all his students have the potential
to become better learners. His students are constantly working at discovering and discussing the concepts of the day as well as the possible life lessons that can be applied. He said that challenging students, encouraging thought, leading discussion and develop-ing learners are characteristics that best describe his teaching philosophy. Aukerman has at-tended the Connected Math-ematics Program conference and has led math in-services at
PCMS. “Ron is a highly dedicated pro-
fessional who knows how to mo-tivate his students and strive for excellence,” said Patrick Adkins, superintendent of schools. “He is a great communicator who possesses the gift of being able to make complex subjects un-derstandable, as well as, a person who loves to share his knowledge and experience with other teach-ers and parents.”
Ron Aukerman (center) was awarded “Outstanding Second-ary Classroom Math Teacher, Northwest District,” at the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics Awards. He is shown here with fellow PCMS teachers Diane Zam (left) and Lacy Hager.
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P i l g r i m s , Indians and Thanksgiving was the theme for first-grad-ers Rita Mc-Nutt’s class Monday, Nov. 22. Students cut ingredients for vegetable Stone Soup to be cooked and eaten for lunch on Tuesday. They complet-ed activities in their Thanks-giving book-lets, played Indian games with popsicle sticks, made papooses and d e c o r a t e d blankets with Indian symbols. The students also enjoyed treats that looked like pilgrim hats. This day was made possible by the generous involvement of parents, aunts, uncles, grand-
parents and friends. The first-graders also learned about the Plimouth Plantation and later in the morning, had fun singing seasonal songs with Greg Fox who played his accordion.
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WHERE: 3790 S. Opfer Lentz RdWoodville, Ohio 43469
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Week ending Nov. 24
Allen Township• 11-24-10 Lucille Gack-
stetter to Roger and Wendy Depew, 3660 N. Nissen, $154,000.
Bay Township• 11-24-10 Federal Na-
tional Mortgage to David F. and Rachel E. Dobbelare, 1551 W. Fremont Road, $80,000.
Catawba Twp• 11-22-10 William F.
Loucks III and Becky J. Loucks to Matthew C. and Amanda J. Zwayer, 4730D Marin Woods, $165,000.
• 11-22-10 Northern Trust Bank, FSB to Barbara J. Kane, 4398 E. Harbor’s Edge Drive, $390,000.
• 11-23-10 David and Marianne Glasser to Northern Ohio Title Hold-ing, LLC., 2855 North Can-terbury Circle-D, $250,000.
• 11-23-10 Northwest Ohio Title Holdings, LLC, to David and Marianne Glasser, 3920 Coachman’s Trail, $309,000.
• 11-23-10 Catawba bay Builders, LLC to Phyllis L. Snedegar. 5333 E. Swan Drive, No. J-1 , $305,900. • 11-23-10 Ronald C. Fox et al to Charles and Denise toil and Thomas and Jill Young, 2731 Sand Road, $257,000.
• 11-24-10 Beach Towne, LLC, to Charles A. and Deborah G. Beyer, 3139 Beach Towne Court, $275,000.
Danbury Twp• 11-22-10 Pamela S.
Morrow to Nicola T. and Mary Russo, 128 Gravel Bar and lot, $76,500.
Brewster to Carrie and Carlos Moreno, 814 E. Third St., $10,500.
Oak Harbor Corp• 11-22-10 Kyle Irene
Hollis to HSBC Mortgage Services Inc., 247 Church St., $53,334.
Financial Focuswith GARY COON
Take steps to help ‘immunize’ your portfolio
Real Estate Transfers
Now that winter is almost here, you probably see “Flu Shots Avail-able” signs at many of your local pharmacies. Whether or not you decide to get a flu shot depends on your individual situation, of course, but you may benefit from the idea of immunization in other areas of your life — such as your investments.
Specifically, you may want to help “immunize” your portfolio, as much as possible, against some of the volatility we’ve seen in the financial markets over the past couple of years. How can you do this? Here are a few suggestions:
• Diversify, diversify, diversify. If you were to only own stocks,
your portfolio would, at times, see some big gains — but at other times, you’d take some big hits. If you just owned bonds, you’d probably see fewer fluctuations than if you just owned stocks — but you’d almost certainly never get the gains you need to help achieve your goals. If you kept all your money in cash instruments, you’d protect your principal, but you’d eventually lose ground to inflation. In short, you can’t suc-ceed as an investor by putting all your money in one type of asset. You need to spread your resourc-es among stocks, bonds, and cash investments. And even within each of these categories, you need
to diver-sify. For example,
try to own a mixture of growth stocks and income-producing stocks; short-term and long-term bonds; and a variety of cash in-struments. While diversification, by itself, can’t guarantee profits or protect against loss, it can give you opportunities for potential success and help shield you from severe downturns that, at any giv-en time, primarily affect just one asset class.
• Know your risk tolerance. If you frequently find yourself sur-prised, or perhaps dismayed, at the fluctuations in your portfolio, you may be overestimating your risk tolerance. If you familiarize yourself with your investments before you buy them — and you should — then you probably shouldn’t be surprised at how they
perform. So, if you own growth-oriented stocks, you need to ac-cept the inevitable short-term volatility in exchange for poten-tial gains over the long term. But if you’re constantly worried over temporary setbacks, you may be taking on too much risk for your comfort level. If this happens, you may need to rebalance your port-folio to better accommodate your true risk tolerance.
• Maintain adequate cash re-serves. Having sufficient cash in your portfolio can help you com-bat volatility in at least two ways. First, since cash essentially doesn’t fluctuate in price — though it may lose value over time, relative to inflation — its very presence can help stabilize your portfolio. And second, if you have enough
cash in your investment mix, you may be less likely to dip into your long-term investments to pay for short-term needs, such as a ma-jor car repair, a new furnace and so on — and the less you disrupt your investments, the more prog-ress you can make toward your goals.
It’s not possible to fully shield your investments from volatil-ity all the time. But by taking the steps described above, and by maintaining a long-term per-spective, you can strengthen your portfolio’s resistance, and im-prove your own responses, to the effects of price fluctuations. And that’s a healthy way to invest.
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This article was written by Ed-ward Jones for use by Gary Coon.
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Encore!!! The 2009-2010 season was a dream season for the Port Clinton Redskins, Troy Diels and his coaching staff. Diels is in his 6th year as head coach at Port Clinton and heads into this season with an overall record of 82-33. Naturally, he knows that winning your first 26 games in a given season is a long shot, even for the best of teams. But when you lose 80% of your starting lineup, the question is, will 2010-2011 be a rebuilding season or will it be a “re-loading” season?
“As a group we have separated ourselves from last year’s team,” says Coach Troy Diels. “We do not want to compare what we will accomplish this year with what happened last year. We have a new group of kids and a new set of expec-tations and goals.”
Last year’s team was one for the record books, making it all the way to the state finals in Columbus, only to lose to Dayton Belmont, a perennial state power. Ryan Hicks became a member of the 1,000 point club, and was named first team All-Ohio. He and his teammates Allen Tigner and Josh Francis were so close, they all chose to continue their basketball careers at the same place, Defiance Col-lege. Guard Cory Brown took his baseball talents to Gar-rett Community College in Maryland.
The good news is that many underclassmen got a lot of experience from last year’s run and this year’s team re-turns 4 lettermen. This year’s roster will be dominated by seniors and juniors. Four seniors return including All SBC and 3-year letter winner Derek Colston, who suffered a turf toe injury in Port Clinton’s final football game of the season. No doubt, Colston all-around game and leader-ship will be sorely needed in 2010-11. Also returning are guards Josh Graves, Robert Fravel and post player Eric Reynolds.
“We are still trying to get comfortable with several new pieces in new places,” says coach Diels. “Every time we take the floor we are looking to get better and mesh this group together. The goal this year is the same as every year with us…we want to be playing our best basketball when Feb-ruary and March roll around.”
The cupboard is not exactly bare, as the JV team went 17-3 last season. Aaron Mier, Alex Greene, Andrew Carden, Kelly Freimark, Jordan Walter, Jason Faust, Chase Minnear and Brandon Stubblefield will all likely see ac-tion this year. 6’3” Steve Wingo, a newcomer to the pro-gram and a standout on the Redskin football team, may also see some varsity action.
In pre-season scrimmages, Coach Diels had this to say. “We faced some pretty stiff competition and we made a lot of mistakes. As coaches we hope that we are learning from those mistakes and we don’t want to make the same mistakes in the regular season.
Diels, along with the other SBC coaches and media, see Perkins and Margaretta as the top contender for the con-ference title. He also sees Edison and Oak Harbor to make some noise in the SBC this year.
Port Clinton Redskin BoysDec. 3 BELLEVUE 6 p.m.Dec. 10 EDISON 6 p.m.Dec. 11 Woodmore 6 p.m.Dec. 16 OAK HARBOR 6 p.m.Dec. 18 Margaretta 6 p.m.Dec. 22 ST. MARY 6 p.m.Dec. 28 PERKINS 6 p.m.Jan. 4 Tiffin Columbia 6 p.m.Jan. 7 Huron 6 p.m.Jan. 8 Clyde 6 p.m.Jan. 15 Edison 6 p.m.Jan. 21 Oak Harbor 6 p.m.Jan. 28 MARGARETTA 6 p.m.Jan. 29 NORWALK 6 p.m.Feb. 4 St. Mary 6 p.m.Feb. 11 Perkins 6 p.m.Feb. 12 Fremont Ross 6 p.m.Feb. 18 HURON 6 p.m.Feb. 19 FOSTORIA 6 p.m.Feb. 25 CLYDE 6 p.m.
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Front L-R: Rick Dominick, Andrew Carden, Derek Colston, Robert Frvel, Josh Graves, Eric Reynolds, Kevin Belden. Back: Don Drusbacky, Jason Faust, Brandon Stubblefield, Kelly Freimark, Alex Greene, Chase Minnear, Aaron Mier, Troy Diels. Not pictured: Steve Wingo
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Port Clinton Redskin GirlsNov. 27 WOODMORE 6 p.m.Nov. 30 Sandusky 6 p.m.Dec. 4 EDISON 1 p.m.Dec. 7 OAK HARBOR 6 p.m.Dec. 11 Margaretta 1 p.m.Dec. 14 Danbury 6 p.m.Dec. 17 ST. MARY 6 p.m.Dec. 21 PERKINS 6 p.m.Dec. 23 Huron 6 p.m.Dec. 29 Clyde 6 p.m.Jan. 6 Edison 6 p.m.Jan. 11 Bellevue 6 p.m.Jan. 14 Oak Harbor 6 p.m.Jan. 22 MARGARETTA 1 p.m.Jan. 25 Fostoria 6 p.m.Jan. 27 St. Mary 6 p.m.Feb. 5 Perkins 1 p.m.Feb. 8 ROSS 6 p.m.Feb. 10 HURON 6 p.m.Feb. 17 CLYDE 6 p.m.* Home games are ALL CAPS
By JOHN SCHAFFNER
PC girls’ basketball coach Toby Bickel has coached talented teams and not-so-talented teams in his ten-ure with the Lady Redskins. Last year was one of those difficult seasons, as his team went 3-17 overall and 3-11 in the SBC. Last Saturday they opened their season at home with a loss to Woodmore. Bickel now knows what his team has to work on … avoiding turnovers. They had 31 in the loss to Woodmore.
“We need to cut down on turnovers and shoot the ball better than we did
last year,” says Coach Bickel. “We also need to rebound more effectively.
Bickel has 6 returning letter winners to build this year’s team around. They include: Seniors Kacie Piacentino and Mary Kirkpatrick; Juniors Meigan Day, Alex Stephenson, Kenzie Payne and Halle Weaver.
Bickel is also looking for help from some of their newer players who will need to contribute this season. “We have added Laura Puffenberger, a junior, who is a transfer,” says Coach Bickel. “We also have a couple of promising freshmen, Hope Thorbahn
and Tiffany Colston who should add to the mix. Juniors Haley Millinger and Samantha Mizener will help add to the depth of the team as will soph-omore Sydney Adkins.
The Sandusky Bay Conference is al-ways tough for girls’ basketball. Tim Tucker and his Margaretta Lady Polar Bears are always waiting in the wings, along with improving programs in Oak Harbor, Clyde, Perkins and San-dusky St. Mary’s. That is what makes
Competing in the SBC such a chal-lenge. Based on their first go-around, they have a ways to go.
Lady Redskins look to rise after tough seasonFront L-R: Sa-mantha Mizener, Halle Weaver, Alex Stephenson, Mark Kirkpatrick, Kacie Piacentino, Kenzie Payne, Laura Puffen-berger. Back: Coach Tisza, Coach Hager, Sydney Adkins, Haley Millinger, Hope Thorbahn, Tiffany Colston, Meigan Day, Coach Bickel
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By J. PATRICK EAKEN
Drew Davie moves up as Dan-bury head varsity boys basketball coach after spending one year as a freshman and three years as junior varsity coach at the school.
He also spent two years as an as-sistant coach at Collins Western Reserve and one season as a stu-dent assistant for Capital Univer-sity men’s basketball team (2003-04). At Danbury, he takes over for
long time coach Joe Miller, who got his 100th career win last season.
Last season the Lakers were 10-11 overall, 5-7 in the Toledo Area Athletic Conference. Davie sees potential in doing better than what the pre-season prognosticators predicted.
“I believe our strengths this sea-son will be fundamental defense,” Davie said. “We have really focused on playing good hard fundamental
man defense, and have improved tremendously from a year ago in that category. I also believe our team strengths will be running an offense around our post players with the idea that things will open up for our guards because of our strength in the post.
“Our biggest weakness is our lack of experience at the varsity level
First year Danbury girls basket-ball coach Ron Aukerman comes over after previously spending his entire coaching career at Port Clin-ton.
From 2001-09, Aukerman coached the Redskins junior varsi-ty girls team, and from 1997-2001 he coached at Port Clinton Middle School.
“It is my honor to have been hired to continue the successful history of the Danbury Lakers girls’ bas-ketball program,” Aukerman said. “With the rich tradition of excel-lence, high quality of players, and incredible community support, Danbury is an incredible oppor-
tunity for any basketball coach. Chris (Pryor) Matta, my assistant varsity coach, is a connection from the present to the past of this tradi-tion.”
Last year, the Lakers finished 11-10 overall, 7-5 in the Toledo Area Athletic Conference. Aukerman hopes to improve on that.
“Our team’s strengths are athleti-cism, quickness, dedication, speed, ball pressure, intelligence, and coachability,” Aukerman said. “We, as a team, lack height. We will need to overcome this drawback by play-ing strong team defense, working together as a unit to ensure strong rebounding position, and each
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Second-year Oak Harbor coach Rob Collier returns after leading the Rockets to a 5-16 season, 4-10 in the Sandusky Bay Conference last year.
Key players are 6-2 senior center D.J. Everett, 6-3 senior forward Steve Young, 5-10 senior guard Jake Scott, 6-1 senior forward Josh Warnke, 5-9 junior point guard Andrew Carsten, 6-1 senior guard Zack Priesman, and 6-2 senior forward Kyle Sarrahman.
Could this be the year when the Oak Harbor basketball program turns the corner?
With a senior-laden team that is very experienced and has some versa-tile athletes, this may be the year the Rockets move into the upper-echelon of the Sandusky Bay Conference.
“Our expectations are pretty high this year,” said head coach Rob Col-lier, who came over from Lorain Clearview two years ago. “We have experience, we have athletes, (and) we have depth.”
The program has fallen on hard times in recent years. Last season, the Rockets finished 5-16 and, the year before, won just two games, going 2-19.
One of the few good things that happened during those years is the seniors on this year’s team were able to gain some experience. It is actually similar to the situation these seniors faced with the football program.
During their sophomore and junior years, the football team struggled, but the players were able to gain some valuable experience that helped to develop them, enabling them to have a successful senior season. Collier is hoping the same thing happens on the basketball court.
“These seniors have had a tough stretch,” said Collier. “(Hopefully), we’re able to take the next step and learn how to win. These kids proved some things to themselves mentally and physically in football this year. ”
Up front for the Rockets is power forward Steve Young and center D.J. Everett. Jake Scott, a shooting guard, led the team in three-point shooting last season. Everett and Scott were both SBC honorable mention last season. Carsten runs the point. The Rockets have a number of players who can fill in at the wings, with Josh Warnke, Zack Priesman, Kyle Sarrah-man and Andrew Sharp all being ca-pable of filling those positions.
The starting lineup will have Carsten at point guard, Scott at shooting guard, Warnke at small for-ward, Young at power forward and Everett at center. Priesman and Sar-rahman will likely start some games this year as well.
Collier is expecting a breakout sea-son from Sarrahman this year.
“He’s one of our best shooters from the outside. The summer before his
junior year, he broke his foot and could never get back to 100 percent. He’s put in a ton of time and, if he can stay healthy, we expect a big year from him.”
Offensively, Collier plans to have the Rockets run a variety of sets that compliment each other and hopes to see the team move the ball around from side-to-side, looking for back-door cuts when they’re available. They will also try to push the ball when the opportunity presents itself. The important thing for Oak Harbor is being smart with the ball and tak-ing good shots.
“We’re stressing to our kids shot-selection. We have to work to get good shots; that’s one of the things we struggled with in the past.”
While Collier does not see the team having a standout player, he believes the team will receive contributions from a variety of players.
“I think we’ll have six or seven guys that can average between eight and 12 points.”
Defensively, they will employ man-to-man and occasionally throw in some zone.
Playing in the SBC, which produced last season’s Division II State runner-up in Port Clinton, always makes things interesting.
“There’ s no night off,” said Collier.
By J. PATRICK EAKENand YANEEK SMITH
Brad Hemminger takes over for Dick Heller as the Oak Harbor’s girls’ basketball coach this season.
Key players are 5-10 senior center Kayla Diefenthaler, 5-9 junior post/forward Allison Dunn, 5-8 sopho-more forward Maggie Zurvalec, 5-5 junior guard Morgan Turnow, and 5-4 sophomore guard Makayla Car-penter.
For the Oak Harbor Rockets, it is going to be a gradual process.
With a relatively inexperienced team that returns five varsity players, the Rockets are looking to take things one game at a time this season.
The team, which finished 9-12 last season and lost to Bellevue at sec-tionals, is led by three-year letterwin-ner Kayla Diefenthaler, who averaged 10 ppg last season. Diefenthaler, the Rockets’ primary offensive options, has played on the varsity squad since she was a freshman.
Joining her in the post is junior Al-lison Dunn, a power forward who av-eraged four points last season. Fellow junior Morgan Turnow also chipped in last season, averaging five points.
The other players with varsity ex-perience include Carpenter and Zur-
valec. Zurvalec is actually the fourth sister in her family to have played basketball at Oak Harbor. She and Carpenter both gained some experi-ence playing on the varsity squad last year.
In all, there are 10 varsity players.“We’re really just trying to gain
some experience and get better ev-ery game,” said Brad Hemminger, the first-year varsity coach who was the JV coach for 13 years as well as the lead varsity assistant. “We certainly have some potential.”
For now, the Rockets will run more of a controlled offense and not look to get out on the break too much.
“We need to gain experience before we can starting picking up the pace.”
On the defensive side of the ball, Oak Harbor will use a mixture of man-to-man, zone and pressure de-fense to stifle the opposition.
In short, the game plan is simple: play great defense, limit turnovers and practice good, sound fundamen-tal basketball.
Since 2003 and ’04, when the Rock-ets went a combined 40-0 over two regular seasons, the program has ex-perienced modest success. The hope is that one day they can get back to being an elite program.
Hemminger realizes that it’s all a
work in progress.“Sometimes, I get excited and some-
times, I realize we have some work to do.”
Competing in the Sandusky Bay Conference doesn’t make things any easier.
“The SBC is probably as tough as I’ve ever seen from top-to-bottom.”
The Rockets were picked to finish seventh by the coaches in the league. Hopefully, being picked to finish near the bottom of the league will provide them with some extra motivation.
When I asked Coach Hemminger what it will take for his team to be successful this year, he said just one thing.
“Our defense must get better.”You hear coaches preach over and
over again about defense, but, the fact remains, it’s the basic foundation for success, and Hemminger knows it.
As for now, the goal is to continue to move forward.
“They’ve made some nice progress. We’re just going to take it one game at a time. That’s our goal everyday: let’s see if we can get better.”
The Rockets opened by routing Fos-toria 62-25 on Oak Harbor’s home court.
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Dec. 16 Port Clinton 6 p.m.
Dec. 18 EDISON 6 p.m.
Dec. 22 HURON 6 p.m.
Dec. 28 CLYDE 6 p.m.
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Feb. 11 Clyde 6 p.m.
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Feb. 19 DANBURY 6 p.m.
Feb. 25 PERKINS 6 p.m.
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Jan. 29 HURON 1 p.m.
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Feb. 8 TIFFIN COLUMBIA 6 p.m.
Feb. 12 SMCC 1 p.m.
Feb. 17 TOL. WHITMER 6 p.m.
Feb. 19 Perkins 1 p.m.
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“We had some question marks coming into the season with our lack of experience, so this was a good win for us,” Hemminger said. “Everyone stepped up and did some good things. Fostoria played hard to the final buzzer and (Veronica) Wonderly was almost unstoppable.”
It took some time for Oak Harbor to establish itself, leading only 13-10 after one quarter. But the Rock-ets outscored the Redmen 22-9 in the second quarter to take a 35-19 halftime lead.
Dunn had 16 points, Abbie Gezo had 15, and Diefenthaler had 13 for Oak Harbor. Gezo made 7-of-8 free throws, Dunn was a perfect 4-for-4, and Diefenthaler was a perfect 3-for-3.
Amanda Hetrick added five points, Caitlyn Harvey had four points, Maria Boers had three points, and three players, Carpen-ter, Zurvalec, and Turnow scored two points each.
The Rockets made 85 percent of their foul shots (20-of-26), but only 27 percent of field goals in the win. Fostoria made 71 percent of foul shots (11-of-18), 12 percent from the field.
The Rockets had 54 rebounds, led by Dunn, who had 12, and the Rockets committed 18 turnovers. It was both teams’ season opener.
Wonderly had 23 points to lead all scorers including two three-point goals and making 11-of-13 free throws. Stephanie Porter added two points for Fostoria. They were the only two players to score for the Redmen.
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ier. “You’ve got to be ready to play on a nightly basis. (This year), I could see the league champion hav-ing a couple losses. That shows the balance of our conference.”
Despite the hard times the pro-gram has endured recently, Collier believes that the future looks bright for Oak Harbor.
“The hard times the program has had to go through the last three, four years, we feel that it’s over.”
Collier believes the Rockets can take the next step.
“We want to compete for a con-ference championship. We want to win a game in the playoffs. We want to become a winning program.”
and our team depth,” Davie continued.
Davie has returning let-ter winners in 6-foot-4 senior post Hunter Stephens (13 pts., 9 reb.), 6-2 senior post Dakota Hruby, and 6-1 junior point guard Lucas Kennedy. Stephens was a second team All-TAAC choice last season and an league all-academic selection.
“We look at Hunter Stephens to be a top scorer this season based on his numbers from a year ago,” Davie said. “Hunter is a proven post player who has improved his offensive and de-fensive skills from last season. The offense will center around Hunter and many of our play-ers will benefit because of that. As far as other leading scorers on the team, that is yet to be de-termined because of our lack of varsity experience.
“Hunter Stephens is a very
gifted player whom is keeping his options open in both foot-ball and basketball at the next level. He has really improved and we are looking for big things out of him this season.”
Other key players are 5-9 ju-nior wing Dalton Chapman and 6-2 junior wing Caleb Helline.
“Dalton Chapman really com-mitted himself over the summer and in the fall along with Caleb Helline in both the weight room and the gym. I think they have both made tremendous im-provements in their game and will both be key players this sea-son,” Davie said.
Davie has a number of play-ers prepared to crash the boards and provide a strong defense this year.
“Hunter Stephens will be a top rebounder, he averaged nine a year ago. We look for Lucas Ken-nedy, Caleb Helline, and Dakota Hruby to contribute with that statistic as well,” Davie said.
“Defense will be an overall team improvement. We have to-tally different personnel from a year ago, with the exception of Hunter Stephens, and I truly believe everyone has improved their defensive skills and abili-ties. Defense will be a big em-phasis to our team this season and will be a contributing fac-tor to our success and failures throughout the year.”
Last year, two TAAC teams got far into the tournament, but it was Danbury that upset the Ea-gles on TC’s home floor. Davie hopes the Lakers show that po-tential in every TAAC game this season, even though coaches picked Danbury to finish sixth.
“I cannot say where I believe we will finish in the league this season. I believe we will be very competitive in the league and if we play the way we are capable of playing we will have a lot of success,” Davie said.
“The TAAC is a very deep
league this season. Ottawa Hills reached the (Division IV) state semi-finals last season and re-turns a number of those expe-rienced players. Maumee Val-ley and Toledo Christian both strong teams last season also return most letter winners from a year ago, and Maumee Valley adds Julius Turner, a key player from Emmanuel Christian last season.
“I am extremely excited for the season to begin. I enjoyed coaching this group of young men and I am extremely excited about my coaching staff as well. Assistant coach Wayne Watts has 34 years of coaching experi-ence at Hudson High School (in the Cleveland Area), including nine years of varsity head coach-ing experience. Jarret Ensign is my junior varsity coach, and is a former player of Danbury High School. He brings a passion for Danbury basketball that he can share with our current players.”
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teammate doing her part to make our squad the best it can be.”
Aukerman has three returning letter winners in senior guard Tori England, junior guard Kayla Oxendale and sophomore guard Kelsey Clemons. England re-ceived All-TAAC accolades her sophomore year. The coach ex-pects those three to provide the bulk of his scoring.
“With our style of offensive and defensive pressure, these players should be able to capitalize in our transition offense,” Aukerman said.
Aukerman expects senior post Felicia Beverick, sophomore guard/post Lilly Kennedy, sopho-more guard/post Kim Holmes, and Oxendale to be his top re-bounders.
“All four have displayed aggres-siveness in going after the missed shot. They work hard at establish-ing good position,” Aukerman said.
Defensive standouts this year are Clemons, sophomore guard Mollie Knighton, and sophomore guard Alexa Bintz.
“All three have quick hands and a non-stop motor. They have been focused on footwork and its implications in applying excep-
tional defensive pressure on the ball,” Aukerman explained.
First year players expected to contribute include two freshman, guard Alyssa Almendinger and guard/post Erin Lavelle.
“These two freshmen have the same athletic ability, quickness and determination to get to the rim on the offensive end, while providing the opposing team with a difficult time on the defensive side of the ball,” Aukerman said.
The Lakers were picked fourth in the TAAC pre-season coaches poll. Ottawa Hills and Toledo Christian are league favorites.
“I feel fortunate to have the op-portunity to coach in a strong league, such as the TAAC. Each year the league has continued to be produce quality players and strong teams,” Aukerman said.
One of the drawbacks for the Lakers this year is youth, but that could pay off down the road.
“We are also a very young team,” Aukerman said. “We have two seniors (England, Beverick), one junior (Oxendale), and five sophomores (Clemons, Kennedy, Bintz, Knighton, and Holmes). Our JV team consists entirely of seven freshmen. What the young-er players lack in experience, they make up for with tremendous ef-fort and determination.”
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determined that such Request for Release of Funds will not constitute an action
significantly affecting the quality of the human envi-ronment and, accordingly,
City of Port Clinton has decided not to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement under the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended. Environmental Review Record (ERR) for the
project listed above has
been conducted by the City of Port Clinton. The ERR
documents the environmen-tal review of the project and more fully sets forth the rea-sons why such statement is not required. The ERR is on
file and available for the public’s examination and copying, upon request, between the hours of 8:00am and 4:30 pm,
Monday through Friday (except holidays) at the
above address. No further environmental review of
such project is proposed to be conducted, prior to the request for the release of Federal funds. City of Port Clinton plans to undertake THE PROJECT DESCRIBED WITH THE Federal funds
cited above. Any interested person, agencies, and/or
groups, who have any com-ments regarding the envi-ronment or who disagree
with this Finding of No Significant Impact decision,
are invited to submit written comments for consideration to the City of Port Clinton at the address above listed, by 4:30 pm on December 17, 2010, which is at least 15
days after publication of this notice. A notice regarding
the responsible entity’s intent to request release of funds is listed immediately below. NOTICE OF INTENT
TO REQUEST A RELEASE OF FUNDS (NOI/RROF) To all
interested Persons, Agencies, and Groups: On or about, but not before, December 22, 2010, the City of Port Clinton will request the State of Ohio to release
Federal funds under Section 104(g) of Title 1 of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
amended; Section 288 of Title 11 of the Cranston
Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act
(NAHA), as amended; and/or Title IV of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended; to be used for the project listed above. The City of
Port Clinton is certifying to the State of Ohio, that the city and Debbie Hymore-
Tester, in his official capacity as Mayor, City of Port
Clinton, consent to accept the jurisdiction of Federal
courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in
relation to environmental reviews, decision-making, and action; and that these responsibilities have been
satisfied. The legal effect of the certification is that upon
its approval, City of Port Clinton may use the Federal funds, and the State of Ohio will have satisfied its respon-sibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended. The State
of Ohio will accept an objec-tion to its approval of the
release of funds and accep-tance of certification only if it is on one of the following grounds: (a) the certification was not, in fact, executed by
the responsible entity’s Certifying Officer; (b) the
responsible entity has failed to make one of the two
findings pursuant to Section 58.40 or to make the writ-ten determination required by section 58.35, 58.47, or 58.53 for the project, as
applicable; (c) the responsi-ble entity has omitted one
or more of the steps set forth at subpart E of 24 CFR Part 58 for the preparation, publication and completion
of an Environmental Assessment; (d) the responsi-
ble entity has omitted on one or more of the steps set forth at subparts F and G of 24 CFR Part 58 for the con-duct, preparation, publica-tion and completion of an
Environmental Impact Statement, (e) the recipient
has committed funds or incurred costs not autho-rized by 24 CFR Part 58
before release of funds and approval of the environmen-tal certification by the State, or (f) another federal agen-cy acting pursuant to 40 CFR
Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory
from the standpoint of envi-ronmental quality. Written
objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance the required procedure (24 CFR Part 58), and must be addressed to the State of
Ohio; Environmental Officer; Office of Housing and
Community Partnerships; P.O. Box 1001; Columbus,
Ohio 43216-1001.Objections to the Release of Funds on bases other than those stated above will not be considered by the State
of Ohio. No objections received after January 13, 2010 will be considered by
the State of Ohio. The address of the certifying
officer is: Debbie Hymore-Tester, Mayor
City of Port Clinton 1816 E Perry Street Port Clinton, OH
43452
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615 Tiffin, Nugents - Port Clinton• Waterfront with 50 ft dockage• 3 bedroom/ 2 bath• Oversized outside deck• $179,900• Margaret Lenthe 419-341-2014
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1850 N. WINDWARD4BR 4.5BA Stone home with waterfront views on 1.6 acres (includes submerged land). Three 40+ ft docks with 6 wa-terslips on West Harbor w/ac-cess to Federal Channel and Lake Erie. Listed below Audi-tor's appraisal. $875,000.
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1544 NW CATAWBA RD. Charming ranch located on 2.66 acres with lots of stor-age and extra space. Extra storage shed 14x30, an unat-tached building 30x56, and a machine shop 30x40. Home also has a 22x28 barn which has a loft inside measuring 16x28. For all your play time you have your machine shop which is heated and air condi-tioned! This home fea-tures 3 bedrooms, spacious living and dining room and an attached 2 car garage. Appliances included with purchase. $295,000
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