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2A - Paulding County Progress Wednesday, January 22, 2014

COLUMBUS – The Paul-ding County Junior Fair Boardrecently attended the OhioFair Managers Conference inColumbus during the Junior Fair Day.

The 14 members who at-tended took part in a variety of different sessions, learningabout setting goals for them-

selves as well as the junior fair board, how to deal with chal-lenging people, how to make adifference at your county fair as well as other topics.

The junior fair board hadfour senior members take partin an all-day session called AStep Beyond – ExperiencedJFB Members Explore theWorld of EntertainmentContracts. This session pro-vided youths the opportunityto work with other junior fair

board members from aroundthe state to provide entertain-ment for their mock fair.

The event allowed junior

fair board members to exploreand generate ideas that theycan bring back to the local fair.

PAULDING – A financialaudit of Paulding CountyHospital for 2012 by Auditor

of State Dave Yost’s office hasreturned a clean audit report.Paulding County Hospital’sexcellent record keeping hasearned it the Auditor of StateAward.

This is the third consecutiveyear that PCH has won thehonor since the award pro-gram started three years ago.

Hospital CEO Gary Adkinssaid, “Paulding County Hos-

pital takes their fiduciary obli-gations very seriously. Thisaward exemplifies the commit-ment that the hospital places on

presenting the community withaccurate financial records to

ensure the public’s trust.“Striving for excellence in

the presentation of our finan-cial records is the norm for our organization as we have beenhonored by the Ohio Auditor of State in the past as well,”Adkins continued. “We com-mit to the community that wewill continue to strive for ex-cellence as we move forwardinto the future.”

The Auditor of State Awardis presented to local govern-ments and school districtsupon the completion of a fi-nancial audit. Entities that re-

ceive the award meet the fol-lowing criteria of a “clean”audit report:

• Must be a GAAP entitywithout a CAFT (CertifiedAnnual Financial Report) thattimely files their financial re-

ports with the Auditor of State.• The audit report does not

contain any findings for recov-ery, material citations, materialweaknesses, significant defi-

ciencies, Single Audit findingsor questioned costs.

• The entity’s managementletter contains no commentsrelated to ethics referrals,questioned costs less than$10,000, lack of timely reportsubmission, reconciliation,failure to obtain a timelySingle Audit, findings for re-covery less than $100 or pub-lic meetings or public record.

“We are really focusing oncaregivers this year,” saidMcMichael. “There’s not asingle survivor standing outthere without the help of sometype of caregiver.”

This year’s projected goal is$123,000.Jamie Orozco, newly ap-

pointed staff partner support-ing Paulding, Putnam and VanWert counties and the city of Delphos, said that she hasbeen very impressed with thecamaraderie and energy thathas made Paulding Countyone of the most successfulcancer drives in northwestOhio.

Orozco credited several suc-cessful elements of the local

county’s relay success includ-ing the actual relay eventwhich has the community in-volved in a very big way, thenumber of active teams andthe way the different teams

have promoted fundraisers asthey have continued their commitment leading up to theactual relay itself.

“Even though it is severalmonths away, teams are al-ready actively raising money,”Orozco said. “We strongly en-courage new teams to comeforward and get the feel of what this is all about.”

In addition to the relay pro-motion, McMichael said thatthe kickoff event will havevarious brochures and pam-

phlets explaining the variousoutreaches of the AmericanCancer Society in Paulding

County, including that of thevery critical program, “Roadto Recovery.”

Information will also beavailable concerning person-nel that can assist from the var-ious areas, including who their

patient navigator would be, if they are actually dealing witha cancer patient.

McMichael said that her passion for involvement in-creases continuously becauseeach relay seems to bringaround instances of other friends and family memberswho have or are sufferingfrom cancer.

For McMichael, cancer awareness started 10 years agowhen her Uncle Roger Kneller died with lung cancer. Her

relay team, EntouRog, isnamed after him. Both of her grandmothers suffered fromthe dreaded disease.

In addition to her commit-ment to Paulding County,

McMichael’s involvementwith the East Central Regionallows her to be a part of arelay advisory training team inthat area.

“We invite everyone tocome to the kickoff this year

because there are so manyquestions out there right now,especially with the PauldingMini-Relay situation,” saidMcMichael. “We ask peopleto come where professionalscan answer their questionswith a good positive spin.”

McMichael said that shefeels so blessed that she can bewith people to help in the

worst possible time of their lives.“Everyone is welcome to at-

tend the Relay For Life of Paulding County Kickoff cele-

bration,” said Karen Saxton,who heads up the local relay.“Enjoy the many exciting

booths, visit with our volun-teers and learn how you can

become involved in this excit-ing, family friendly event.Games, entertainment, liveand silent auctions, food andrefreshments will be offered.”

Saxton can be contacted at419-594-2636, or contactOrozco at 888-227-6446, ext.

5208.Also, the online address iswww.RelayForLife.org/Paulding.

satisfactory,” said relay com-mittee member Wendy Price.

Following the board meet-ing, the relay story was thebuzz story in the area, evenmaking the news on WANE-TV, Channel 15 out of FortWayne. Both Karen Saxtonand Hanak were interviewed,each stating their side of thesituation.

“I feel the Mini Relay is agreat event and is a goodcause. The problem is howthe event has escalated in tak-ing up so much instructionaltime in the classroom,” saidHanak. “In fact, we encour-age our students to do this,but we have to makechanges.”

Hanak went on to expresshow he has been approached

by other nonprofit groups andorganizations who would liketo have the opportunity to dosimilar in house projects.

“We certainly can’t honor every request that we receiveand it’s not fair to allow onegroup to have their time whileshutting out others,” he said.

Hanak reported how thereare options to the situation.

“The bottom line is theschool administration andleadership will have the finalsay in how this Relay will beconducted, if it is to be heldhere on school property.Right now the options would

be an after-school event or a

weekend Relay. In the formatthat it is in right now, it willhave to change,” said Hanak.

Relay representatives con-tinue to be in negotiationswith school board membersin order to resolve the situa-tion and come up with a MiniRelay that will meet the needsof both parties.

In the meantime, some stu-dents and other supportershopeful of changing the ad-ministration’s decision are

planning a peaceful protestWednesday, Jan. 29, when theschool will have a two-hour delay for teacher in-service.The protest is expected tostart around 7 a.m. and lastuntil school starts at 10 a.m.

PAULDING – The public isinvited to attend the 2014Journal Gazette PauldingCounty Spelling Bee. TheCounty Bee is scheduled for 7p.m. Monday, Jan. 27 in thePaulding School Auditeria.

Ten school champions, ingrades four through eight, willcompete for the honor of rep-resenting Paulding County atthe Journal Gazette AreaSpelling Bee on March 8 inFort Wayne.

Individual school champi-ons are:

• Joshua Poulson, AntwerpMiddle School

• Aaron Hawley, AntwerpElementary

• Josi Hopkins, ChristianHome Educators of Paulding

County• Kaden Sutton, Divine

Mercy Catholic School• Hailey Hartzell,

Oakwood Elementary• Olivia Clark, Paulding

Elementary

• Marcus Miller, PauldingMiddle School• Lauren Walls, Wayne

Trace-Grover Hill Elementary• Jayde Garcia, Wayne

Trace-Payne Elementary• Levi Manz, Wayne Trace

Jr. High.Doug Grooms, of Van Wert,

will be the pronouncer for theSpelling Bee. Judges for thecontest are: Tim Manz, princi-

pal, Antwerp ElementarySchool; Jody Dunham, princi-

pal, Wayne Trace-Payne

Elementary School; andJennifer Manz, principal,Oakwood Elementary School.

Steve Arnold, superintend-ent, Wayne Trace LocalSchools, will preside as master of ceremonies.

The Antwerp ExchangeBank sponsors the awards for the County Spelling Bee,which include gift cards andtrophies for first and second

place finishers, as well asmedals and certificates for allof the school champions.Sandra Freeman, WesternBuckeye ESC, is the awards li-aison.

Contestants are reminded toreport at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 27to the Paulding MiddleSchool, Room A119.

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KICKOFF Continued from Page 1A

MORALESContinued from Page 1A

MINI RELAY Continued from Page 1A

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DEMOLITION STARTED – The last part of Paulding Village’s new water plant project started Tuesday morning. PetersonConstruction began the demo of the 1964 one-half-million gallon finished water clear well storage tank, located next to thereservoir. The original hope was to refurbish this tank. It turned out that there was too much age-related damage to the tankand it had to be replaced. The replacement will match the new quarter-million-gallon tank that was just recently construct-ed as part of the new plant project. Construction of the newest tank is to be completed by July this year.

a hard time finding a job because most every-thing here is hands-on. So, I had to lean on mynetwork of friends in Dallas. It was throughtheir advise and counsel that I was able to usemy skills and expertise in the field of franchisedevelopment.”

Today, Morales is a successful franchiseconsultant focusing on legal matters, franchiselaw, as well as investments and job creation.

When looking back on his life as a youngster growing up in Texas, Damien tells of a visitfrom his mother who happened to be in thearea during the recent polar vortex. “Maybe

living in Ohio was meant to be all along. Mymom was showing me some family picturesand she had one particular photo of me when Iwas about 10 years old and we were visiting awax museum in Dallas. I don’t know how it allcame about and I don’t even remember wear-ing it, but in the photo I was wearing an OhioState Buckeye shirt,” said Morales.

Who knows. Maybe at the age of 10 the gift

of being a visionary was already a part of Damien’s character. And for Oakwood they arethankful he is a transplanted Buckeye ready tolead them to a better tomorrow.

County Spelling Bee is Jan. 27

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By DENISE GEBERSProgress Staff Writer

PAULDING – A fun, fami-

ly-oriented chicken dinner fundraiser is being planned on behalf of the Paulding CountySenior Fair Board on Feb. 8.Proceeds will go toward out-fitting the new animal barns

planned for the fairgrounds.Tickets are by presale only

for the event, to be held at theOSU Extension Hall on thefairgrounds. Tickets are $8 andmay be purchased at thePaulding County AreaFoundation office in Paulding,from any senior fair boardmember or county 4-H advis-er. They are available throughWednesday, Jan. 29.

For the cost of a ticket people will be served half of a bar- becued chicken with red-skinned potatoes, green beans,a cookie and bottled water.Serving time is 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Meals are dine-in or carryout.Following the meal, an auc-

tion of donated items will take

place.“Can’t make the dinner butwant to help?” asked dinner coordinator Rhonda Bates.She said there are two ways todo so.

Anyone wishing to donatean item for sale may drop it off at the Extension office or witha senior fair board member byFeb. 8, or by calling Bates at419-513-0117.

The other way would be tomake monetary donations tothe Paulding County AreaFoundation with a notationthat the money goes to theFriends of the Fair’s “Building

for the Future” fund.“We are thankful to thecommunity for its continuedsupport of the constructionand maintenance projects,”said Bates.

Dinner, auctionto benefit fair building project

Jr. fair board membersattend state conference

Hospital receives thirdstate auditor award

Staff Photo/Paulding County Progress

Derek Merrin (left), regional liaison for the state auditor’s of-fice, presented an Ohio Auditor of State Award to PauldingCounty Hospital for exemplary financial reporting. HospitalChief Financial Officer Rob Goshia accepted the award.

Four members from the Paulding County Junior Fair Boardparticipated in the Step Beyond session with other junior fair

board members from around the state. They are, seated fromleft – Kandee Manson, Olivia Cramer; back – Alec Kuhn, JustinCarnahan.



KATHRYN JENKINS1917-2014

VAN WERT – KathrynMarcile Jenkins, 96, of VanWert, died at 4:12 p.m. Tues-day, Jan. 14 at VancrestHealth Care Center, VanWert.

She wasborn May5, 1917, inG r o v e r

Hill, thedaughter of Lee M.and Belva( S h e r r y )Ross. On June 25, 1935, shemarried Clifford James Jenk-ins, who preceded her indeath on Oct. 18, 1992.

Survivors include two sis-ters, Doris Jean (Robert) Longof Middle Point and RuthMarie Crone of Grover Hill; agrandson, Bret (Melissa) Lewisof Van Wert, and great-grand-children, Jordan Nicole Brownand Hayley D. Brown.

She was preceded in death

by her children, Jimmie LeeJenkins and Judith A. Lewis, agranddaughter, Dawn ReneeBrown Endicott; and a brother:Lee McKinley Ross Jr.

Services will follow at alater date. Cowan & Son Fu-neral Home, Van Wert, is incharge of arrangements.

BRICE CARNAHAN1941-2014

SHELTON HOLLOW,W.Va. – Brice “Junior” Carna-han, age 72 of Shelton Hollow,W.Va. and formerly of Oak-wood, died at 2:58 p.m. Thurs-day, Jan. 16 at CabellHuntington West Virginia Hos-

pital.He was

born Feb.

14, 1941 inPau ld ingCounty tothe lateBrice andF r e d a(Ankney)Carnahan Sr. He married SusanYoh, who survives in Charloe.They later divorced. Junior re-tired from Stoneco. He alsoowned the Charloe Store from1976-91. He was a life member of Ohio Operators Engineer and was known as a collector of everything.

He is survived by his daugh-ters, Jetta (Bryan) Wildermuth

of Continental, Jodi Bell-Crosser of Antwerp and Julie(Rollin) Bullinger of Charloe;a son, Brice (Summer Lam-

bert) Carnahan III of Paulding;13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three brothers,Raynord (Bonnie) Carnahan of Kalida, Larry (Diana) Carna-han of Mandale and Gary(Sandy) Carnahan of Defiance;two sisters, Gladys Hammonof Charloe and Wanda (Martin)Taylor of Oakwood; two step-sisters, Lillian (Ron) Bruns of

Napoleon and Luella Kosch of Continental; and Harold“Gene” Yenser of Arthur, whowas like a brother to him. Briceloved his two dogs, White Dogand Baby Girl Dog, just likethey were part of the family.

He was preceded in death byhis stepfather, Rill Carnahan;two granddaughters, ShaLisaMoyer and Brandi Moyer; agreat-grandson, Jayden

Mitchell; and a stepsister, Viola“Bunny” Goings.

The funeral service was heldTuesday, Jan. 21 at Heitmeyer Funeral Home, Oakwood, withPastor Harold “Gene” Yenser officiating.

Condolences may be ex- pressed at www.heitmeyerfu-neralhome.com.

EUGENEHANDY1925-2014

ANTWERP – EugeneHandy, 88, of Antwerp, passedaway Thursday, Jan. 16 atHickory Creek Nursing Home.

JEANE SCHMUNK 1933-2014

ANTWERP – KathrynJeane Schmunk, 80, of Antwerp, passed away Friday,Jan. 17 at Paulding CountyHospital.

DALE NIENBERG1950-2014

KALIDA – Former educator and coach Dale J. Nienberg,63, of Kalida, died Sunday,Jan. 19 at his residence.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Paulding County Progress - 3A

Obituaries Updated weekdays at www.progressnewspaper.org

The Church Corner

The Amish CookBy: Lovina Eicher

tomatoes (chopped), green peppers (chopped), hot peppers, salsa, and cheese saucetopped with sausage gravy.

To make a breakfasthaystack, everyone takeswhatever they like and stacksit on top of each other in a

pile on their plate. Haystack is one of my favorite break-fasts. Along with haystack,there were all kinds of desserts such as chocolatechip cookies, oatmealwhoopee pies, peanut butter and cherry pies, butterscotchmuffins, and a variety of Christmas candy. Also coffee,tea, orange juice, grape juice,and milk were served.

We had exchanged namesfor the gift exchange earlier in December. After brunchwe all exchanged gifts whichwas exciting to see who hadour name. I had sister,Susan’s name and sister, Ver-ena, had my name.

The rest of the day wasspent playing games, singingand visiting. Everyone hadsnacks before leaving for home. It was a short, enjoy-able day.

Our parents always had thefamily together for Christmason New Year’s Day. Every-one would gather early in themorning to have breakfast to-gether. Dad and Mom wouldhave wrapped gifts for every-

Happy New Year to all youwonderful readers. I hope2014 will be a great year for everyone!

Here in Michigan, 2014 is bringing us frigid tempera-tures and lots of snow.Around 8 inches of new snowwas dumped on us NewYear’s Day. It made for somevery pretty scenery. Thismorning our mercury on thethermometer dipped waydown to -14°. It only warmedup to 13° all day.

On New Year’s Eve, myhusband, Joe, our eight chil-dren and I, Timothy, Mose,and my sisters, Verena andSusan, all went to sister Emma and Jacob’s house for the evening. We all stayed thenight there so their houseseemed pretty lively with 21

people there.The children were excited

to be able to stay up playinggames until midnight andshout “Happy New Year” tothe dark world outside. Four air mattresses were blown upto help make enough beds for everyone.

The next day we had a brunch which was a haystack breakfast. The haystack menuwas biscuits (cut up in bitesized pieces), scrambledeggs, hash browns, tator tots,

bacon (crumbled), ham(diced), onions (chopped),

one. Such an excitement for all the grandchildren!

Now us siblings take turnshaving the family every year,although most do not take itaround Christmas anymore,so that takes a lot of the funaway. Usually the gatheringis held around springtime.

It is brother Albert’s turnfor the 2013 Christmas gath-ering, but haven’t heard of any plans, so it is probablythis summer sometime. It isnice for the four of us siblingsthat live here in Michigan toat least get together in mem-ory of our dear parents on

New Year’s Day. A blessed2014 to all.

This week I will share therecipe Joe used to make our venison summer sausage.

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Every SundayFree community breakfast

GROVER HILL – There isa free community breakfastfrom 9:15-10:15 a.m. everySunday at the Grover HillZion United MethodistChurch.

The church is located onthe corner of First and Harri-son streets in Grover Hill.

“Church Corner” listingsare free. If your church ishaving any special servicesor programs, please call thePaulding County Progress at 419-399-4015 or email usyour information at [email protected].

Looking forward to a productive2014 session in the Ohio House

Last year featured manyimportant policy issues inthe state legislature, mostnotably the passage of thestate’s two-year budget. AsI enter my second year serving the people of Defi-ance, Paulding and VanWert counties, as well as

part of Auglaize County, Iwould like to inform myconstituents of some of

what they can expect to seein 2014.One of the issues that we

are currently looking at,addresses financing for in-frastructure projects likeroads, bridges and water

storage facilities. Once theterms of the legislation isagreed to and passed bythe legislature, the finalsay will be given to voterson the upcoming May bal-lot, where they will have anup or down vote on whether to approve funding the proj-ects.

Another important subjectincludes a potential reduc-tion or revenue neutral ad-

justment to the current

severance tax, which is a taxon drilling for oil and naturalgas. A bill brought beforethe House (HB 375) wouldassess a low, competitiveseverance tax that wouldfund the oil and gas regula-tory program in the state,

plug idle and orphanedwells and reduce personalincome taxes for Ohioans.

Additionally, the issue of prescription drug abuse has become a serious problemthroughout the state. Fortu-nately, as more people be-

come aware of the problem,more ideas are being

From The

State House

Rep. Tony Burkley

brought to the table to hope-fully help reverse its effectsand scope. The House studycommittees that were heldlast summer have resulted ina lot of great collaboration,and I look forward to con-tinue working with thistopic in the months ahead.

Finally, Governor Kasichwill once again be introduc-ing what is called the “mid-

biennial review,” whichgives legislators an opportu-nity to take another look atthe budget bill that was

passed last year and seewhere improvements can bemade. To my knowledge,Governor Kasich came upwith this idea during the lasttwo-year cycle. While I wasnot a member of the GeneralAssembly at that time, I sup-

port the concept and think itis a great way to find placeswhere we can perhaps savetaxpayer dollars.

This is obviously just asmall sample of what might be ahead for legislators inColumbus. As always, Ivalue your input on any or all of these matters, and Iwill do my best to keep youinformed on the issues thatare most important to North-west Ohio.

Rep. Burkley may bereached by calling (614)644-5091, e-mailing [email protected] or writing to State Representa-tive Tony Burkley, 77 South

High Street, Columbus,Ohio 43215.

‘Ohio Has Talent!’ returns on Feb. 8VAN WERT – Latty native

Danielle Stoller will beamong 20 contestants com-

peting for prize money in theseventh annual Ohio Has Tal-ent! at Niswonger PerformingArts Center in Van Wert at 7

p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8.Sponsored in part by Citi-

zens National Bank, the ben-efit show for CommunityHealth Professionals’ VanWert Inpatient Hospice Cen-ter features 20 local and re-gional performers competingfor $1,000, $500 and $250

prizes determined by audi-ence votes.

2014 Ohio Has Talent con-testants:

• Jon Albert of FortWayne, Ind. is a dancer com-

bining popping, b-boying and

hip-hop.• Hayleigh Bacome and

Amanda Leis of Delphos area contemporary dance duo.

• Gabriel Beming of Sid-ney and Caroline Prakel of Versailles are a creative pianoduet with antics inspired byVictor Borge.

• Shay Bolton of Rockfordis a vocal soloist who also

plays piano and dances.• Ann and James Brake, a

brother-sister duo from OhioCity; James plays piano andAnn dances.

• Makenna Cabe of Sidney

was the first place winner of the Shelby County Apple FestTalent Contest.

• May Coppler of Fostoriastudies voice, ballet, flute and

piano. She was the winner of her age group in Fostoria’s

Got Talent 2012 and 2013.• Yan Coppler of Fostoria

received classical training inhigh school and is a previouswinner in her category in Fos-toria’s Got Talent.

• Hailey and Heather Harshbarger from Anna. Hai-ley plays piano and they sharelead vocals and harmony.

• Kaden Hohman andSayler Wise of Van Wert arean award-winning dance duo.They placed third at Ohio HasTalent! in 2012 and got acasting call for America’s GotTalent.

• Michaella Johnson of Van Wert loves music. Shetakes voice lessons and playstrumpet and piano.

• Schylar Miller and ColeWilson of Spencerville per-

form a vocal/alto saxophoneduet.

• Craig Muhlenkamp of Coldwater and DannySchneible of Russia, Ohio,are a partner juggling teamthat combine juggling, com-edy and music.

• Tyler Nygren of VanWert is an award-winning il-lusionist who has performedacross the country.

• Katlayne Poorman of Fort Wayne performs in talentshows and pageants and audi-tioned for America’s Got Tal-ent last season.

• Victoria Ruble of Garrett,Ind., is a vocalist who hopesto pursue music as a career.

• Shelby County Line is acountry band that has openedfor national acts and playsarea festivals and fairs. Mem-

bers: Paul Luft, Yorkshire;Ben Tuttle, St. Marys; CodyPaul, Minster; and MichaelMolasky, New Bremen.

• Danielle Stoller grew upin Latty and is now a senior atIllinois State University. Shehas played classical violinsince she was 6 years old.

• Hanna Tumbusch of St.Henry has taken vocal lessonsand performed for audiencessince she was 9.

• Jimina Willis is a vocalistfrom Beavercreek.

Alex Wunder, 2013 Ohio

Has Talent winner, will per-form during the vote count-ing. Wunder is a talentedvocalist who enjoys singingthe classic songs of the1960s, ’70s and ’80s and put-ting his own spin to them.The high school sophomorefrom Kettering has won other talent competitions and sangthe National Anthem at aCincinnati Bengals game thisyear.

Contestant photos and biosare posted atwww.ComHealthPro.org/OhioHasTalent.php.

Tickets start at $10 throughthe NPAC ticket office, openMonday through Friday,noon-4 p.m., online atnpacvw.ticketforce.com or atCommunity Health Profes-sionals, 419-238-9223.

DANIELLE STOLLER

Two new members of the Paulding County Board of Develop-mental Disabilities were welcomed at the annual organizationalmeeting on Jan. 16. They are Angie Buchman (left) and NicoleHarris.

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Harry Wiebe was the speaker at the Paulding Kiwanis Clubmeeting. Wiebe is the administrator for the Village of Paulding,a position he has held for many years. He shared some of hisexperiences with kayaking. He said it is a sport that can be a lotof fun, but can be dangerous if you don’t know the rules.

Reader supports

Mini Relay Dear Editor,

I’m sure by now many people in the county haveheard the Paulding school

board has decided that theMini Relay For Life held atPaulding School footballfield track has been can-celed.

The reason is unclear toall the supporters, kids,

teachers, parents, grandpar-ents and survivors whoshowed up to the school

board meeting to supportthis special event.

Like most, I arrived at theschool board meeting at 6:45

p.m. as the fate of the MiniRelay was to be discussed at7 p.m. I was very disap-

pointed when I arrived to begreeted by a crowd of sup-

porters leaving as the boardhas already heard from thegroup’s spokesperson, Jil-lene McMichael. It seemsthey started early which did

not give everyone the oppor-tunity to be there to supportthis cause.

I was also informed theywent into executive sessionto make their decision on thefate of the Mini Relay For Life. If this is the case, theydid not follow the SunshineLaw, as executive session isonly to be used for mattersinvolving personnel, finan-cial and a few other matters,not to avoid letting the pub-lic know what was decidedand instead of opening it for discussion.

The reasons given for end-ing the relay don’t make anysense. Because of other groups? Because it inter-fered with learning? Thechildren usually spend thelast week of school watchingvideos and not much else.

The relay teaches team-work, the power of people innumbers, compassion, lead-ership, selflessness, serviceto the community and etc. Ithink these are qualities thatshould be included in our support of children andschool.

Cancer is something thathas touched most everyone’slife in one way or another and I ask the school board toPLEASE reconsider their hasty decision to end such aworthwhile event that effectsso many.

Con Shuherk

Paulding

The term “et al.” refers to and others; “et vir.,” and husband; “et ux.,” and

wife.

Auglaize Township

Paulding Leasing LLC to Samuel B. and Shelby J. Manz;Lot 31, 0.408 acre and Lot 36, 9.75 acres. Warranty deed.Blue Creek Township

Juanita L. Hotmire to Jesse A. Hotmire, trustee, et al.; Sec.18, 15 acres and 92.48 acres. Quit claim.Brown Township

Christopher L. Recker to Christopher L. Recker, trustee; Lot8, Coder Parcels, 1.36 acres. Affidavit.

Robert Leo Brown Jr. and C. Rainell Koenn, co-trustees toRobb Weisenburger; Sec. 1, 13.018 acres. Warranty deed.Crane Township

Terry L. Speiser to Danette S. Adams; Sec. 4, 1.317 acres.Warranty deed.Harrison Township

Lynn P. Wells III by Sheriff to Bank of America N.A.; Sec.18, 1 acre. Sheriff’s deed.Washington Township

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to Richard J.Landwehr; Sec. 27, 3.228 acres. Warranty deed.Bettie J. and Paul J. Altenburger to Mark T. and Lisa M.

Vorst; Sec. 24, 80 acres. Warranty deed.Melrose Village

Terrill S. Landers, dec. to Sonya K. Landers; Lots 12-15,Shirley’s Addition, 0.688 acre. Certificate of transfer.Oakwood Village

Twin Oaks United Methodist Church, et al. to Twin OaksUnited Methodist Church; Lots 6 and 8, Cooper’s Parcels, 0.47acre; Lots 92 and 93, S.S., 0.197 acre; Lots 92 and 93, OriginalPlat, 0.206 acre; Lot 123, 0.161 acre; Lots 120-121, 0.2 acre;Lots 6 and 7, Cooper’s Parcels, 0.2 acre; Lot 122, Original Plat,0.21 acre; Lot 123, 0.211 acre; Lots 26 and 31, Floyd Burt Ad-dition, 0.4 acre; Lots 94 and 95, Original Plat, 0.4 acre. Quitclaim.Payne Village

A. Leon and Gladys Adamski to Anthony L. and GladysAdamski; Lot 56, Gibson’s Subdivision, 0.272 acre. Survivor-ship deed.

ACCIDENTS:

Three car/deer INCIDENTS:Thursday, Jan. 9

7:42 a.m. Deputies docu-mented a motor vehicle acci-dent on Ohio 114 at Road 117in Latty Township.

8:50 a.m. Report of a suspicious male came in fromLatty.

9 a.m. Report of a horserunning loose along Road 7in Carryall Township was re-ceived. A deputy spent 45minutes at the scene.

9:54 a.m. A single Pauldingfire unit responded to reportof a carbon monoxide detec-

tor sounding along Road 115in Emerald Township. Theywere on scene less than 20minutes.

2:06 p.m. A suspiciousmale in a van was seen onRoad 177 in Brown Townshipon several occasions.

2:24 p.m. Dog complaintwas investigated on Road 166in Brown Township.

2:27 p.m. Two goats wereseen in the middle of Road137 in Jackson Township.

3:37 p.m. A dog complaintcame in from West PerryStreet in Paulding.

10:30 p.m. Intoxicated

pedestrians were seen onRoad 148 in Brown Town-ship.

11:47 p.m. Deputies as-sisted with an unwanted per-son on Road 148 in BrownTownship.Friday, Jan. 10

12:35 a.m. A domesticcomplaint was lodged fromAntwerp.

11:34 a.m. Suspicious truck was seen blocking the streetat the intersection of Bayneand Magee streets in Brice-ton, Paulding Township.

12:23 p.m. Possible childabuse was reported from

Grover Hill.12:27 p.m. Child abuse wasreported from Paulding.

12:42 p.m. Dog complaintwas looked into on Ohio 114in Blue Creek Township.

12:51 p.m. Deputies ar-rested a subject. No name

was given.

1:56 p.m. An animal complaint was answered on Road191 in Auglaize Township.

2:14 p.m. A suspiciouswhite truck was seen on Road230 in Crane Township.

3:42 p.m. Dog complaintwas handled on West WayneStreet in Paulding.

4:31 p.m. Deputies werecalled to assist another de-

partment on Road 111 inAuglaize Township.

8:26 p.m. Breaking and en-tering of a house in Latty wasinvestigated.Saturday, Jan. 11

2:36 a.m. Deputies assisted

Ohio State Highway Patrolwith traffic control on Road424 at Road 105 in CraneTownship.

3:34 a.m. Defiance CountySheriff’s office requestedAntwerp and Cecil fire de-

partments for a structure firein their county. TwoCecil/Crane units and oneAntwerp unit were on thescene, one up to eight hours.

3:29 a.m. A motor vehicleaccident on Ohio 111 at Ohio49 in Harrison Township washandled. The vehicle wastowed; a male subject wastaken to Paulding Police De-

partment for a test. No further information was available.9:57 a.m. Ten hogs were

seen on Ohio 111 at the stateline in Harrison Township.One deputy was on scenenearly 30 minutes.

1:51 p.m. A dog complaintwas handled on Road 192 inCrane Township.Sunday, Jan. 12

6:13 a.m. Deputies werecalled to assist Payne police,

but were later told to disre-gard.

9:21 a.m. Commercial bur-glar alarm sounded on US127 in Blue Creek Township.

11:47 a.m. Threats onFacebook were looked into inLatty.

4:24 p.m. Van Wert CountySheriff’s office requested aPayne fire unit in their county. It was on scene lessthan five minutes.

6:28 p.m. An alarm

sounded from a North MainStreet location in Paulding.11:30 p.m. Deputies ar-

rested Steven Brown on awarrant.

11:45 p.m. Domestic dis-turbance was looked into onRoad 7 in Carryall Township.Monday, Jan. 13

5:02 a.m. Report of a suspicious vehicle came in fromRoad 53 at Road 230 in Car-ryall Township.

9:50 a.m. Theft complaintwas lodged from Road 176 inAuglaize Township.

11:16 a.m. Damage to dirtRoad 61 in Paulding Town-

ship was reported.1:43 p.m. A slide-off in-

volving a car was docu-mented on Ohio 111 inAuglaize Township.

3:13 p.m. Telephone ha-rassment was the complaintfrom Road 230 in CraneTownship.

4:24 p.m. Someone wasseen dumping trash on Road263 in Auglaize Township.

5:45 p.m. Threats were in-vestigated on Road 142 inPaulding Township.

6:25 p.m. Deputies docu-mented a car/deer accident onRoad 180 west of Road 97 in

Crane Township.8:25 p.m. Norma White

was arrested.9:54 p.m. A homeowner

told deputies their house had been broken into on Road187 in Brown Township.Tuesday, Jan. 14

12:23 a.m. A car was seenstuck in a field outside of Haviland.

6:15 a.m. Deputies investi-gated a single-vehicle acci-dent on Road 138 east of Road 151 in Brown Townshipwhere a man swerved to missa dog, but ended up in a ditch.

6:28 a.m. Dog complaint

was handled on Road 138 inBrown Township.

7:43 a.m. Ohio Departmentof Transportation reported avehicle off the road along US127 in Crane Township.

1:57 p.m. A dog complaintwas handled on Ohio 111 inPaulding Township.

7:25 p.m. A driver was seenstuck on Ohio 49 at Road 152in Harrison Township.

9:11 p.m. The K-9 unit wasdeployed on West WayneStreet in Paulding.

9:28 p.m. Car/deer colli-sion on Road 138 in JacksonTownship was documented.

9:35 p.m. A PauldingTownship resident of Road 71made a dog complaint.

11:18 p.m. The K-9 unitwas deployed on Road 148 inBrown Township, making a

positive hit.Wednesday, Jan. 15

7:10 a.m. A strong smell of

Deadline for Dog Tags is January 31, 20141 year $15, 3 year $45 or Permanent $150

Dog Tags may be purchased at the County Auditor's Office1st Floor of the Courthouse, 115 N. Williams St., Paulding, OH 45879

419-399-8205, Mon.-Fri. 8-4:30 (Cash or Check Only)By mail (please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope) orvisit www.pauldingcountyauditor.com. Deadline for new tags is Friday, January 31, 2014.Penalties will be applied February 1, 2014.

d e a d l i n e

J a n u a r y 3 1,

2 0 1 4

Weather report weekly summary as recorded at Paulding Village’s water treatment plant

Observations recorded for the 24 hours ending at 7:30 a.m. on the morning of:

PRECIPITATION24-HOUR AMOUNTS Snow/Ice on

DATE HIGH LOW Rain-Melted snow Snow-Ice the ground

Jan. 14 42 27 -0- -0- 1”

Jan. 15 40 23 -0- -0- 1”

Jan. 16 28 17 -0- -0- 1”

Jan. 17 29 19 0.12” 1.5” 2”

Jan. 18 25 5 0.01” -0- 3” Jan. 19 19 6 0.15” 2.0 4”

Jan. 20 35 15 -0- -0- 4”

Sanctity of

human life is

basic to respectDear Editor,

Since Roe vs. Wade was

settled on Jan. 22, 1973,nearly 55 millions abortionshave been performed in theUnited States. Since then,several states have voted to

provide for limitations on the broader law of the land. Evenif Roe vs. Wade would beoverturned someday, therewill still be women and teensthat are “backed into a corner”and feel that they havenowhere to turn for help dur-ing their unplanned pregnan-cies.

This is where Hands of Hope Pregnancy Services will

be needed ... to bring encour-agement and teach thesefledgling young mothers im-

portant prenatal informationand help them with other

pregnancy-related concerns.Mentoring is a proven “best

practice” for helping suchclients who are willing tolearn life skills and how tohandle the unexpected situa-tions that happen with confi-

dence. They need to knowthat they are special, that the

baby growing inside of themhas a purpose for his or her life. The Sanctity of Life is

basic to respecting others atany age.

Life is dear to all of us ...from the womb to the tomb ...and if we want to have respectfrom others, we must give re-spect to others at any age.Some of the most inspira-tional life experiences havehappened to families who are

blessed with a child who hasDown’s syndrome, or to thosewho have the opportunity tocare for an aged grandparentor a parent with a disease thatlimits their ability to commu-nicate normally. Only withGod’s help will we recognizethe importance of serving oth-

ers, helping all persons to ful-fill their destiny for the fullnumber of their days ap-

pointed by God for them onthis earth. Let’s do what wecan do to make this happenwith those around us in 2014.

Shirley Briggeman president, Hands of Hope

Pregnancy Services

Paulding

propane was noted along

Road 232 in Emerald Town-ship. One Paulding fire unitresponded for about 15 min-utes.

8:53 a.m. A car/deer mishap was investigated onOhio 637 in Jackson Town-ship.

10:24 a.m. Facebook ha-rassment was reported fromUS 127 in Latty Township.

11:01 a.m. Deputies ar-rested Xavier Esparza.

4:09 p.m. A home was bro-ken into on Ohio 500 inPaulding Township.

7:02 p.m. Deputies handleda car/deer accident on Road

120 in Brown Township.9:58 p.m. A vehicle was

seen tearing up a yard inCecil.

11:20 p.m. The K9 unit wasdeployed on Road 114 inPaulding Township.

11:29 p.m. Deputies con-ducted a vehicle search onRoad 114 in Paulding Town-ship.Thursday, Jan. 16

8 a.m. Break-in was inves-tigated on Road 169 inBrown Township.

8:21 a.m. Dog complaintwas lodged from Road 53 inCarryall Township.

9:33 a.m. Tools were reported stolen from Road 169in Auglaize Township.

12:50 p.m. Deputies as-sisted with an unwanted sub-

ject on Road 218 in EmeraldTownship.

4:39 p.m. An AuglaizeTownship resident of Road171 reported her purse stolen.

5:27 p.m. Deputies assistedPost 81 at US 24 and US 127in Crane Township.

10:02 p.m. Post 81 re-quested an EMS at the sceneof an accident on Ohio 637 inLatty Township. Grover HillEMS and one of their fire units

responded. No further informa-tion was available.

10:05 p.m. ODOT reporteda slide-off on West WayneStreet in Paulding.Friday, Jan. 17

7:12 a.m. A driver reportedtheir vehicle was clipped by asemi on Ohio 111 east of Road123 in Emerald Township.

7:15 a.m. Paulding EMSmade a transport from an acci-dent on Road 143 north of Road 232 in Emerald Town-ship. One Paulding fire unit as-sisted at the scene. No further information was available.

8:39 a.m. Deputies assisted

Defiance County Sheriff’s of-fice by delivering a message onRoad 149 in Auglaize Town-ship.

9:02 a.m. Two Scott fireunits responded to a fire alarmon Road 107 in Blue Creek Township. They were thereless than five minutes.

The Progress ...is Paulding County’snewspaper of record.




In My Opinion Baby, it’s cold outside

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is a song with words and music by Frank Loesser and although it is popular during theChristmas season, it is a romantic winter song. According toWikipedia, Loesser wrote the duet in 1944. He premiered thesong with his wife, Lynn Garland, at their Navarro Hotelhousewarming party towardthe end of the evening, signi-fying to guests that it was

nearly time to end the partyand go home.Yes, you are right it is cold

outside, and undoubtedly for me, I find great comfort

being safe and warm, sittingnext to the fireplace, reading a good seed catalog and dream-ing of spring between short naps. But, did you not know?Have you not heard? It’s winter and baby its cold outside!Maybe, we should take some time, settle into the long nightswith loved ones and a cup of hot cocoa or some warm applecider.

In my opinion, I’m almost, but not quite ready, for springas I haven’t yet had my first attack of “cabin fever.” How-ever, I heard from several friends that being stuck at homefor a few days really made them them feel that they wereready for spring. However, for those of us that are keepingtrack, most of winter is still to come and “Baby, It’s ColdOutside.”

The winter solstice occurred on Dec. 21 and we experi-enced the shortest amount of daylight hours for the year. Ithappened to be approximately nine hours and 26 minuteswith the midday sun at its lowest point in the sky. Since thatdate in December, the day length is getting longer and thesun is slowly creeping higher in the sky. Something’s com-ing.

It is the spring equinox, which will occur on Thursday,March 20. Days are becoming longer and nights are gettingshorter, as the spring equinox, the day of equal daylight anddarkness, occurs for those of us living in Ohio. There is a

part of me that says, “Hang on a minute. That means thatthere will be trees to trim, lawn to mow and a garden to till.Whew! I think I need a cold drink of water, because herecomes spring.”

No matter if sugar plums are dancing in our heads, telling

those we love “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” or dreaming of the buzzing of the bees in the springtime, it comes around againand again here in Northwest Ohio. The seasons change andso do I. In my opinion, I am always looking for that firstsnow, first robin, first warm day, and first leaf to changecolor.

I am also looking forward to that big season change when Ileave this earth for my eternal home in Heaven. I do hope tosee you in church this Sunday; we need to talk because wehave something in common.

William W. Sherry is a correspondent for the Paulding County Progress.

The opinions stated are those of the writer, and do not nec-essarily reflect that of the newspaper.

County Court

Police Report

In My

Opinion

BillSherry

Common Pleas

For the Record It is the policy of the Pauld-

ing County Progress to publish public records as they are reported or released by variousagencies. Names appearing in“For the Record” are publishedwithout exception, to preserve

the fairness and impartiality of the Progress and as a newsservice to our readers.

Civil Docket:Sarah J. Mowery DDS Inc., Antwerp vs.

Carla Blair, Grover Hill. Money only, sat-isfied.

Velocity Investments, Inc., Wall, N.J. vs.Western Diversified Life Insurance Com-pany, Woodland Hills, Calif. Money only.Judgment against the defendant in the sumof $12,500.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.Amanda S. Boroff, Paulding. Smallclaims, satisfied.

Livingston Financial LLC, Columbusvs. Chasidy S. Gray, aka Geren, Paulding.Other action, judgment for the plaintiff inthe sum of $2,590.72.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.Colby Orthman, Oakwood. Small claims,satisfied.

Sarah J. Mowery DDS Inc., Antwerp vs.Craig Blair, Middle Point. Small claims,satisfied.

Sarah J. Mowery DDS Inc., Antwerp vs.Bridget (Fulton) Keezer, Paulding. Smallclaims, satisfied.

Sarah J. Mowery DDS Inc., Antwerp vs.Michael W. Wood, Paulding. Small claims,satisfied.

William S. Bricker DDS Inc., Antwerpvs. Robert Herr, Oakwood and Tina Herr,

Oakwood. Small claims, satisfied.Sarah J. Mowery DDS Inc., Antwerp vs.

Barry Hook, Antwerp. Small claims, judg-ment for the plaintiff in the sum of $286.20.

William S. Bricker DDS Inc., Antwerpvs. Kevin Chastain, Scott and BerniceChastain, Scott. Small claims, satisfied.

Stan Wisda, Defiance vs. H.L. Fraas,Wauseon. Small claims, judgment for theplaintiff, no dollar amount noted.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.Scott J. Meyer, Paulding. Small claims,judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,282.13.

Returned To You Ltd., Paulding vs. Vic-tor Dunson, Sherwood. Small claims, sat-isfied.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.Emily S. Apple, Paulding. Small claims,judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $589.49.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.Jeffrey C. Brinck, Paulding and DeborahA. Brinck, Paulding. Other action, judg-ment for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,379.71.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.Serena B. Pastor, Defiance. Other action,judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,316.11.

Pulmonary & Critical Care, Maumee vs.Viola Williamson, Paulding. Other action,judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $330.50.

Credit Adjustments Inc., Defiance vs.

Alfonso S. Gonzales Jr., Paulding. Smallclaims, judgment for the plaintiff in thesum of 546.06.

Cavalry SPV I, LLC, Columbus vs. San-tina Arellano, Oakwood. Other action,judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,108.85.Criminal Docket:

James R. Shugars, Antwerp, assault;$150 fine, $145 costs, two days jail with178 days suspended; probation ordered, 20

hours community service, complete“Thinking for a Change” program, anger management evaluation at Westwood, nocontact with victims or their residence.

Timothy M. Miller, Paulding, trespass-ing; $150 fine, $112 costs, 30 days jail;make restitution, probation ordered, nocontact with victim, 40 hours communityservice, evaluation at Westwood.

Kent R. Manson, Paulding, open con-tainer; $50 fine, $87 costs.

Nicholas R. Traxler, Cecil, confinement

of dog; $75 fine, $87 costs. Nicholas R. Traxler, Cecil, confinement

of dog; $25 fine.Matthew M. Krill, Paulding, confine-

ment of dog; $75 fine, $96 costs.Matthew M. Krill, Paulding, failure to

register dog; $100 fine with $75 suspended; must register dog by Jan. 31 or suspended amount is re-imposed.

Scott Collins, address unavailable, sexoffender registration; defendant indicted byGrand Jury, case bound over to CommonPleas Court, $64 costs.

Aaron S. McMillan, Scott, possession of drugs; defendant indicted by Grand Jury,case bound over to Common Pleas Court.

Jennifer L. McMillan, Scott, possessionof drugs; defendant indicted by Grand Jury,

case bound over to Common Pleas Court.Traffic Docket:

Jeffery A. Brummitt, Paulding, stopsign; $38 fine, $82 costs.

Manuel A. Cereceres, El Paso, Texas,65/55 speed; $33 fine, $77 costs.

Roger D. White, West Unity, 72/65speed; $33 fine, $77 costs.

Scott C. Cramer, Payne, improper back-ing; $53 fine, $80 costs.

Paul Korte, Woodburn, prohibited turn;$53 fine, $77 costs.

Alexander C. Bisca, Dublin, 75/55speed; $43 fine, $77 costs.

Steven Wade Ford, Benton, Ariz., 85/65speed; $43 fine, $80 costs.

James O. Martin, Columbus Grove, fail-ure to control; $68 fine, $77 costs.

Edward Hilaire Poulos, Grosseile,Mich., 79/65 speed; $33 fine, $80 costs.

Jacob A. Garza, Brunswick, 79/65speed; $33 fine, $80 costs.

Dennis C. Schwind Jr., Camden, 69/55speed; $33 fine, $77 costs.

Devon Mitchell Nannie, Muncie, Ind.78/65 speed; $33 fine, $80 costs.

Emily Foltz, Paulding, failure to control;$68 fine, $77 costs.

Christina R. Sinn, Haviland, failure tocontrol; $68 fine, $77 costs.

Jimmie Eugene Stovall, Hanover, Mich.,failure to dim; $68 fine, $77 costs.

Kent R. Manson, Paulding, OVI/under influence; $375 fine, $112 costs, three days

jail, six-month license suspension; may at-tend DIP program in lieu of jail, ALS va-

cated, pay $200 monthly, pay all by April25 or matter sent for collections, commu-nity control ordered, 20 hours communityservice, complete “Thinking for a Change”

program, 177 days jail reserved.Kent R. Manson, Paulding, OVI/ breath

high; count merged with above case.Kent R. Manson, Paulding, turn signals;

$50 fine, pay by April 25 or matter turnedin for collection.

Kent R. Manson, Paulding, seat belt;

$30 fine; pay by April 25 or matter sent for collection.

Rebecca Dawn Johnson, Shelbyville,Ind., 88/65 speed; $43 fine, $80 costs.

Katelyn J. Cole, Lafayette, Ind., 83/65speed; $43 fine, $80 costs.

Ellen D. Leatherman, Convoy, failure tocontrol; $68 fine, $77 costs.

Predest D. Richardson, Paulding, as-sured clear distance; $68 fine, $77 costs.

Maximina Cortez, Fort Wayne, failureto yield to emergency vehicle; $68 fine,

$82 costs.Isabell L. Rhenwrick, Defiance, 77/65

speed; $33 fine, $85 costs.Wendy K. Miller, Paulding, failure to

control; $68 fine, $77 costs.Scott D. McMillan, Haviland, failure to

control; $68 fine, $77 costs.Kaleb M. Berger, McComb, 71/55

speed; $43 fine, $80 costs.Levi E. Ringwald, Convoy, 65/55 speed;

$33 fine, $77 costs.Corey L. Sholl, Edgerton, Ohio, reckless

operation; $250 fine, $133 costs, threedays jail, six-month license suspension;may attend DIP in lieu of jail, ALS vacatedand fees waived, community control or-dered, 20 hours community service, com-

plete “Third Millennium” course, 27 days

jail reserved.Corey L. Sholl, Edgerton, marked lanes;

$100 fine.Tiffany Marie Partee, Defiance, driving

without a license; $50 fine, $87 costs, pay by Feb. 28 or matter sent for collection.

Jayron Lopez Pineda, Paulding, drivingwithout license; $150 fine, $95 costs; pay$100 monthly, pay all by March 28 or mat-ter sent for collection, upon payment of storage and towing charges 1995 greenFord truck may be released to owner with

proof of valid license.Jayron Lopez Pineda, Paulding, failure

to control; $68 fine, pay by March 28 or matter turned in for collection.

Jordan Nichole Beebe, Spencerville,Ohio, 80/65 speed; $43 fine, $80 costs.

David C. Bellaire, Defiance, stop sign;$53 fine, $77 costs.

James Bradley Brown, McComb, seat belt; $20 fine, $50 costs.

Kaine Harrison Lightner, Fort Wayne,seat belt; $20 fine, $50 costs.

Christopher B. Rosswurm, Payne, 66/55speed; $33 fine, $80 costs.

Quentin A. McKibben, Edon, failure tocontrol; $68 fine, $77 costs.

Carla M. Medina, Defiance, drivingunder suspension; $150 fine, $87 costs,

pay all by Feb. 28 or matter sent for col-lection; show proof of insurance, $75suspended on condition of valid driver’slicense secured by Feb. 28, 30 days jailreserved.

Stephan Burgess Walker, Paulding,

failure to control; $68 fine, $77 costs, pay by Feb. 28 or matter sent for collec-tion.

Hannah J. Tunis, Paulding, 66/55speed; $33 fine, $77 costs.

Adam Ray Carlson, Harrisburg, S.D.,disobeyed traffic control device; $53fine, $77 costs, pay all by Feb. 28 or matter sent for collection.

Clinisha T. Moore, Indianapolis, 80/65speed; $63 fine, $85 costs.

INCIDENT REPORTSTuesday, Jan. 7

10 a.m. While on patrol of-ficers observed two snowmo-

biles at a North WilliamsStreet business. The pair of drivers was told they were notallowed in the village onsnowmobiles.Wednesday, Jan. 8

7:15 a.m. An alarm at anEast Perry Street businesswas unfounded.

1 p.m. A West WayneStreet resident told officersthey are missing a license

plate.Thursday, Jan. 98:48 a.m. An odor of natu-

ral gas triggered several com- plaints from the Nancy Streetarea. Ohio Gas was con-tacted.Friday, Jan. 10

1:07 a.m. A commercialalarm on East Perry Streetwas unfounded.

8:25 a.m. Report of aschool-age male walkingalong Emerald Road with arifle was investigated. Offi-cers were unable to locate thesubject.Saturday, Jan. 11

2:50 a.m. Officers assistedan Ohio State Highway Patroltrooper with a traffic stop.One male was taken into cus-tody for OMVI.

8:30 a.m. A telephone scamconcerning computer serviceswas reported from Tom TimDrive.

10:49 a.m. A NorthWilliams Street business re-

ported receiving a counterfeit$20 bill, which was allegedlygiven as change from another local business.

8:28 p.m. A West PerryStreet business reported re-ceiving a counterfeit $20,

which was also allegedlygiven as change, from a dif-ferent local business.

9:55 p.m. A neighbor complaint involving loud musicwas handled on North MainStreet.Sunday, Jan. 12

12:55 a.m. Officers werecalled back to North MainStreet for a loud music com-

plaint.2:30 a.m. Officers wit-

nessed a BAC test for OSHP.3:35 a.m. Neighbor prob-

lems were investigated on North Main Street.

6:39 a.m. Dog complaint

came in from West HarrisonStreet.

3:40 p.m. Threats by text

and Facebook were reportedfrom North Williams Street.

8:15 p.m. A Dennis Streetresident told officers they had

been threatened by text. Asubject was warned.

11:02 p.m. An officer as-sisted a deputy with an arreston Emerald Road. Whilethere, the officer observedglass pipes and marijuana.Monday, Jan. 13

1:18 a.m. Officers assisted Napoleon Police Department by locating a subject on Fair-ground Drive.

11:35 a.m. Juvenile matter was looked into on East PerryStreet.

3 p.m. A female calledfrom West Perry Street re-quested no contact by another female. Both were advised.

5:50 p.m. An officer pro-vided a presence at a locationoutside the village on Road142 until a deputy could ar-rive. Threats had been made.

6:07 p.m. Call came inabout an alleged assault. Noaction was requested.

8 p.m. Threats were inves-tigated on East JacksonStreet.

Tuesday, Jan. 142:50 p.m. A North Williams

Street resident reported get-ting a text after a no contactorder for the subject.

9:17 p.m. Suspicious activ-ity was seen on West PerryStreet.Wednesday, Jan. 15

8:05 a.m. An alarm at a North Williams Street busi-ness was unfounded.

Noon. Officers were calledto East Jackson Street wherea subject at the door hadthreatened the resident the

previous day. They asked thesubject to leave. He com-

plied.Thursday, Jan. 16

5 p.m. Officers were re-quested at a West Perry Street

business where a customer failed to pay.

10:57 p.m. An officer wasa witness for the OSHP.

Civil DocketThe term “et al.” refers to

and others; “et vir.,” and hus-

band; “et ux.,” and wife.PHH Mortgage Corpora-

tion, Mount Laurel, N.J. vs.Debra K. Gray and her un-known spouse if any, Pauld-ing. Foreclosures.

Grange Mutual CasualtyCo., Columbus vs. AngelaD. Beard, Melrose. Moneyonly.

First Financial Bank N.A.,Cincinnati vs. Brian D. Hol-

brooks, Oakwood and Mar-sha L. Holbrooks, Oakwoodand Cashland FinancialServices Inc., Cleveland andThe State Bank and Trust

Company, Columbus andPaulding County Treasurer,Paulding. Foreclosures.

Todd A. Jackson, Pauldingvs. Angela C. Jackson, Defi-ance. Divorce.

Deutsche Bank NationalTrust Company, South SaltLake, Utah vs. Bonnie J.

Now, Payne and Michael S. Now Sr., Payne and Benefi-cial Ohio Inc., Cleveland.Foreclosures.Marriage Licenses

Michael Lee Froelich, 24,Cecil, welder and ElizabethAmanda Peterson, 27, Cecil,

retail manager. Parents areDaniel Froelich and RoseSheets; and Daniel Petersonand Laurie Aaland.

William Robert Lands, 39,Payne, unemployed and SaraJo Gray, 31, Payne, unem-

ployed. Parents are CecilLands and Teresa Mason;and Barry Gray and DebbieJohnston.

Jeffrey Scott Rider, 49,Paulding, mechanic andCrystal Dawn Willitzer, 43,Paulding, productionworker. Parents are LakeRider Sr. and Judy Sampson;

and John Willitzer Sr. andRose Reynolds.Administration Docket

In the Estate of Dorothy C.Jeffery, last will and testa-ment filed.

In the Estate of Marcus G.Hipp, application to admin-ister file.Criminal Docket

David A. Hayden, 28, of Woodburn, had a 2011 in-dictment alleging carryingconcealed weapon (F4) dis-missed without prejudicewith $132.13 costs at the re-quest of the State. The par-ties agreed to settle thematter in County Court.

John Reed Jr., 38, of Lima,had an indictment againsthim from 2012 alleging non-support of dependents (F5)

dismissed with prejudiceupon a motion of State be-cause the arrearages were

paid. Costs were $253.44.Mark Seibert II, 32, of

Continental, had an indict-ment from last January al-leging aggravated robbery(F1) dismissed without prej-udice upon a motion of State

because the parties agreed tosettle in County Court. Courtcosts were $139.

Jared A. Zipfel, 22, of De-fiance, had a 2013 indict-ment alleging corruptinganother with drugs (F4) dis-

missed without prejudiceupon a motion of State be-cause the matter will be set-tled in County Court. Courtcosts were $246.96.

James J. Herber, 45, of Antwerp, recently had achange of plea on his indict-ment alleging two countsgross sexual imposition (F3)and attempted gross sexualimposition (F4). One countwas dismissed and he pledno contest to the remainingtwo.

Daniel E. Ordway, 19, of Oakwood, was sentenced re-

cently, having previously been found guilty of twocounts grand theft (F4). He

was ordered to serve four years community controlsanctions on standard condi-

tions plus 60 days jail withcredit for 24 days, complywith drug and alcohol re-strictions, submit to randomtests, obtain and maintainemployment, obtain anGED, and pay $1,395 in-cluding $800 restitution.

Kasey L. Zartman, 26, of Paulding, was sentenced re-cently, having previously

been found guilty of theft(F4). She was ordered toserve three years communitycontrol sanctions on stan-dard conditions plus 14 days

jail with work release, com-

ply with drug and alcohol re-strictions, submit to randomtests, complete substanceabuse evaluation and treat-ment, maintain employment,

pay $1,135.76 costs includ-ing $879.76 restitution toRite Aid.

Dennis R. Mullins Jr., 38,of Antwerp, had a hearingJan. 16 on a recent motion tosuppress in his panderingobscenity involving a minor (F2) case. A Jan. 14 jury trialwas vacated. No further in-formation was available.

Timothy S. Fitzsimmons,

55, of Van Wert, had a hear-ing on a motion to suppressset for Jan. 22 in his felonyDWI (F3) case. A Feb. 3 sen-tencing date has been va-cated.

Charles I. Perry, 50, of Paulding, recently pleadedguilty to three counts grosssexual imposition (F3) whilea fourth count was dis-missed.

Kacy N. Wagner, 31, of Oakwood, was scheduled for a hearing on her request for intervention in lieu of con-viction in her aggravated ve-

hicular assault (F3) case. Itwill be conducted Feb. 20.Justin R. Meglich, 30, of

Antwerp, changed his plea toguilty of nonsupport of de-

pendents (F5). He will be

sentenced Feb. 24.Joshua P. Smith, 36, of

Paulding, had his indictment joined with two others re-cently for a Feb. 11 trial. Heis accused of illegal assem-

bly or possession of chemi-cals for the manufacture of drugs with a specificationthat $646 cash is subject toforfeiture (F2), illegal man-ufacture of drugs (F1), pos-session methamphetamine(F2), endangering children(F3) and having weaponsunder disability (F3) with thespecification that a Keltic

9mm firearm be subject toforfeiture. Not guilty pleaswere entered for each at a re-cent arraignment. He is

being held on $1 million bond with no cash privilege.He is not to have any contactwith his co-defendants.

Bobby J. Risner, 50, of Dupont, was scheduled for aFeb. 10 pretrial conferencefor his possession of drugs(F5) case.

Richard T. Stacey, 39, of Archbold, entered a guilty

plea to having weaponsunder disability (F3) and will

be sentenced Feb. 3. He is being held on $15,000 bondwith no privilege. He is tohave no contact with a spec-ified subject.

Jason C. Clark, 36, of Paulding, had a not guilty

plea entered in his nonsupport of dependents (F5) case.Court dates were set for aJan. 31 pretrial conferenceand a March 18 jury trial. Hewaived extradition and wasreleased on his own recogni-zance on the conditions of no arrests, pay $300 to ChildSupport Enforcement

Agency that day and haveCSEA address his child support obligation.




ommunity

Birthdays

Anniversaries

Jan. 25 – Donald andMiriam Baer.

Jan. 26 – David and DianneJones.

Jan. 27 – Joe and PennyKidd.

Jan. 28 – Gary and MaryBear, Lupe and Tulip Santos,Brent and Angie Stoller.

Jan. 29 – Joe and Amy San-tos.

Jan. 30 – Collie and MyrnaLamb.

Jan. 31 – Benjamin andCarolyn Manz.

(The Paulding Progress maintains

a file of birthdays and anniversaries. To

make any changes, please call our of-

fice at 419-399-4015 during business

hours, email to progress@progress-

newspaper.org, or drop us a note to

P.O. Box 180, Paulding.)

Jan. 25 – Kristy Aldrich,David L. Bakle, Dylan Flint,Wanda Hilgeman, Jaxon Kim-

pel, Kelly McMichael, DaveShepherd, Suzan Umbach,Paul Vieth, Austin Wenninger.

Jan. 26 – Nathan Andrews,Draven Bradford, Shirley Han-cock, Jesse Matthews, TinaRoughton, Ryan Rupp, AaronShepherd, Steve Wobler.

Jan. 27 – Janette Cook, GageDaniels, Roger Flemens, BettyFriend, Patricia Gordon, Dou-glas A. Goyings, Mary M.

Keller, Brayden McNeely,Logan Mudel.

Jan. 28 – Dane Budd, Jen-nifer L. Childs, Charlie Cook,Donnave Cooper, Edward S.Gonzales Sr., Alicia DawnGrimes, Nicole Mobley, JohnMurlin, Bartley Ripke, Mar-garet Sunday.

Jan. 29 – Tyler Church,Paula Lichty, Cody Thompson.

Jan. 30 – Tara Bakle, AshleyBauer, Kathryn Clark, AmandaLentz, Sara Lentz, Jay Priest,Trisha Sams, TiffanyTheobald.

Jan. 31 – Jeffery Bear, Travis

Elliott, Eric Johanns, RaynaLong, Jason Schlegel.

ByKylee Baumle

In TheGarden

Time to start on this

summer’s garden!your seedlings into your gar-den.

You won’t be able to groweverything this way, but asyou’ll see on the winter-sown.org website, your choices are many. More de-tails and tips can be foundthere. You can also do asearch of the blog posts I’vewritten on the topic by usingthe search box in the upper left corner of my website,using “wintersowing” as thesearch term.

Now get out there and getyour hands dirty!

Read Kylee’s blog, Our Little Acre, at www.ourlittleacre.comand on Facebook at www.face-book.com/OurLittleAcre. Con-tact her at PauldingProgressGardener@g mail.com.

time spring was starting inearnest, I had seedlings inmost of my containers. Later,I planted the seedlings out inthe garden and that was that.

I have found that the easi-est containers to use are theopaque plastic gallon-sizedmilk jugs. Take a knife andmake a horizontal cut aboutfour inches from the bottom,leaving a one-inch hinge con-necting the top to the bottom.Poke holes for drainage in the

bottom of the jug.Place the planting medium (I

use seed starter soilless mix) ata depth of about three inches.

Wet the mix before sprinklingit with seeds. Sprinkle theseeds across the top and thencover with dry mix, unless theseeds require light for germina-tion. In that case, do not cover with soilless mix.

Tip the top of the milk jug back over the bottom and useduct tape to seal the top to the

bottom along the cut. Use a permanent marker to labelyour jugs and inspect themfor readability as the weeks

pass, as sunlight may fadethem and you won’t be ableto read your labels.

Place your jugs outside in a

location that receives at leastsix hours of direct sunlighteach day. DO NOT RE-PLACE THE CAP ON THEJUG. You want moisture toget inside and as outside tem-

peratures rise, the heat cap-tured inside the jug needs away to escape. In effect, youhave created a miniaturegreenhouse effect.

The seeds will take their cues from Mother Nature andwill germinate and grow at

just the right time. No moreguessing if it’s the right timeto sow the seeds. As the

plants grow, they will get

hardened off gradually andyou’ll be able to transplant

It’s hard to believe that it’stime once again to start think-ing about sowing seeds for new plants for this year’s gar-den. Not those that you mightstart inside; it’s way too earlyfor that. But what’s this, yousay? Surely I don’t meanplanting seeds outside, do I?

Indeed I do. I’ve talkedabout this before and if youtook my advice then and triedit, then you know I’m notcrazy. It’s called wintersow-ing and it couldn’t be easier.

There are a number of annu-als, perennials, and evenshrubs that can be success-fully started outdoors in Jan-uary and February right herein Northwest Ohio.

First, decide what you wantto plant. For a comprehensivelist of all the seeds that dowell with wintersowing, visitthe website: wintersown.org.A good rule of thumb is thatanything that is known toself-seed, or need scarifica-tion or stratification to germi-nate will work.

Self-seeding plants arethose that come up voluntar-

ily in your garden near the lo-cation of the parent plants insubsequent years after plant-ing them in your garden. Seedheads that have been allowedto remain on the plant willdrop seed, it lays in the soiland then germinates at theright time the followingspring. This is likely one of the things that inspired thepractice of wintersowing.

Scarifying seed means tonick the hard outer coat thatsome seeds have, in order toallow moisture inside thatwill initiate germination.Stratification serves a similar

purpose of “breaking theseal,” by allowing the naturalprocesses of freezing andthawing that occur through-out winter to do the work.

When I first learned aboutwintersowing, I was skepti-cal. In theory, it made sense,but I lacked confidence that itwould work in reality. But Ididn’t have anything to loseexcept a few seed packets,some potting medium, andmy time. I tried it and by the

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PAULDING FFA

Alumni Pancake & Sausage Supper Thursday, January 23, 2014

4:30 to 7:00 P.M.Paulding High School Auditeria

Adults: $5 Children 3-12: $3.002 & Under: FREE

In case of school closingdue to inclement weather,the event will be held

Tuesday,January 28, 2014

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Thank You

We would like to thank all of our family &

friends who attendedour 50th Anniversary

celebration.

We appreciate all thecards & letters and

donations toe Caring & Sharing

Food Pantryin our honor.

Love to all,Forrest & Rose Munger

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Real Estate Taxes Are Due

Wednesday, February 5, 2014Failure To Receive Tax Bill Will Not

Avoid Penalty or Interest Charges.Please bring your tax bill with you

when coming into the office to makea payment. If you cannot make it into

the office, please use the addressedenvelope enclosed with your tax billand mail it to the office.

Trailer Tax Will Be Due

Saturday, March 1, 2014Paulding County Treasurer

Lou Ann WannemacherPhone: 419-399-8280

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Jerry Zielke, PCED executive director, welcomes Sarah Noggle to the PCED board.

Noggle joins PCED boardPAULDING – The Paulding

County Economic Develop-ment, Inc. Board of Director met on Tuesday, Jan. 15, witheight members present. Sarah

Noggle was approved as therepresentative from Ohio StateUniversity Extension to serveon the board.

Noggle, a lifelong residentof Paulding County, becamethe Paulding County OSUANR Extension Educator lastOctober. She attended OSUand has a master’s degree ineducation. she was formerlythe ag educator at the Pauld-ing Exempted VillageSchools, been involved inmany organizations andworked on many projects inPaulding County.

Election of officers was

held and include: RandyDerck, president, represent-

ing Antwerp CIC; HarryWiebe, vice president, repre-senting Paulding CIC; JohnKobee, treasurer, represent-ing area financial institutions;

and Linda Hodges, secretary,representing Oakwood De-velopment Company.

The board approved theamended 2014 PCED budget.

Executive director JerryZielke reported that he nowhas 16 active business proj-ects he is working on in thecounty. He updated boardmembers on the plans for up-grading the PCED website inthe coming year including thenew online county businessdirectory.

Zielke reported on a number of upcoming meetingswhich included “Timely Top-

ics in Economic Develop-ment” to be held Jan. 22, at

NWSCC in Archbold; a “FreeSmall Business Basics 2014Seminar” to be held at PCEDoffice on Jan. 23; and North-west Ohio MEP Manufactur-ing Forum to be held Feb. 7in Perrysburg with featuredspeaker Dr. James West, Boe-ing project manager/MEPTechnology Centers. Histopic will be “Building Com-munities and Jobs for the 21stCentury.”

Pam Miller, PCED officemanager, updated the boardon the annual membershipdrive progress.

If you would like to be-come a PCED member pleasecontact the PCED office at419-399-8282.

Mental health classesoffered in Defiance

DEFIANCE – Two free mental health education classes will beoffered next month by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Ill-ness) Four County.

One class, Family to Family, is for family members and friendsof persons who suffer from a mental illness. The other class, Peer to Peer, is for persons who have a mental illness.

Family to Family is a 12-week class that begins at 6 p.m. Thurs-day evening, Feb. 6, in the community room of the SherwoodState Bank, 400 W. Third St., Defiance.

Peer to Peer is a 10 week class that begins at 6 p.m. Monday,February 10 at the Four County ADAMhs Board office, T-761State Route 66 south of Archbold.

Although the classes are free, registration is required. To register or get more detailed information about the Family to Family classfor family members and friends of persons with a mental illness,

please call Gary or Barb Arnos at 419-636-0148 evenings or weekends.

To register or learn more about the Peer to Peer class for personswith a mental illness, please call Mark Krieger at 419-913-8576or 419-923-4841 or Jammie Richmond at 419-770-9488.




BOW WOW!Most of the dogs we have

owned have been smaller

breeds, live inside and I guessI could honestly say, “Our dogs have been and arespoiled.” The latest additionto our family is a Shih-Tzunamed Baylee.

Baylee, at age 8, has always been a pretty good little dog.He loves his toys, especiallythose that squeak, his warmfurry bed and laying in my re-cliner whenever he can.

He is basically “daddy’sdog” and goes outside withhim to take out trash and dooutside chores. Baylee has hisown little personality andeven though he can bark fero-

ciously at a cat in the yard, heis scared of any loud noisesuch as thunder.

At times I do wonder if Baylee is a normal dog or justan extension of our doggie parenting skills. Believe it or not, he has certain routinesthat he follows religiously, or let’s say, “We follow them.”

Every morning after hegoes outside, he gets a pieceof doggie bacon. He has al-ways gotten it and he wouldthink something was wrong if we didn’t give it to him.

Of course, Baylee is a picky eater, He takes spells

where he will eat his dogfood, but on some days actslike he could care less if heeats or not.

We do have to enter a“guilty” plea. We are pleadingguilty to the charge of givingour little pooch some samplesof what we eat. It is no won-der he turns up his nose at hisdog food.

One morning I was gettingready for work and had peeled myself a couple of boiled eggs for breakfast. I placed them on a plate andthen on a stand by my recliner Baylee loves to lay in. Yum.Those eggs were going totaste good.

After I showered anddressed, I went back to de-vour my eggs. Oh no! Theywere gone. I asked my husband, “Did you eat my boiledeggs?” He replied, “No, of course not.”

I happened to look over atBaylee perched on a pillow,licking his chops. He evenhad egg hanging from his beard. That little dog had notonly climbed on my chair, buthad walked along the armsand reached over and stole both boiled eggs.

It is really hard to resistfeeding our dog people food, because he stands on his hindlegs and just sniffs. He mustknow what we are cookingand he pulls out every trick inthe book to get some of thatgood smelling food.

I remember when I was akid, we always had outdoor dogs who seemed to eat any-thing and everything. I guessthey knew better than to be picky. As I look back, I am

sure we probably fed thoseoutdoor dogs things like bones, sweets and fatty foods.But, did you know that just be-cause we like a certain foodand our pooches like it too,there are certain foods not tofeed your dog? Some foodscan be poison to dogs or canmake them sick.

One thing is alcohol. Alco-hol can cause not only intoxi-cation, lack of coordination, poor breathing, and abnormalacidity, but potentially evencoma and/or death.

Apple seeds are also toxic toa dog as they contain a naturalchemical that releases cyanidewhen digested.

When it comes to bones, thedanger of them are thatcooked bones can easily splin-ter when chewed by your dog.Raw (uncooked) bones, how-

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ever, are appropriate and goodfor both your dog’s nutritionand teeth.

Candy and chewing gum isalso bad for your dog. Notonly does candy contain sugar, but it often contains Xylitol,which can lead to the over-re-lease of insulin, kidney failure,and worse.

You’ve probably heard this before, but chocolate is a def-inite no-no for your pup.There are also other foodssuch as grapes, certain kind of nuts, mushrooms and avoca-dos which can harm Rover.

Bottom line. There’s a reasonwhy there is food and treatsmade especially for dogs.

Do you spoil your dog? Doyou let them consume peoplefood? Are they picky eaters? Letme know and I’ll give you aPenny for Your Thoughts.

1.6 million acres goes into cropsand grasslands get squeezed

By Mark HoltsberryEducation specialist

Paulding SWCD1.6 million acres, that is about the area of

the state of Delaware. That’s how much landwas removed this year from the federal CRP(Conservation Reserve Program). This pro-gram pays farmers to keep land covered withnative grasses or even trees. Most of that landnow will produce crops like corn or wheat. It’sa sign of the shifting economic tides that aretransforming America’s farming landscape.

If you drive through farm country, espe-cially in the northern plain, you’ll see largefields covered with grass. The federal govern-ment is paying for much of that grass. TheU.S. Department of Agriculture pays farmersto plant permanent vegetation, usually nativegrasses, on that land instead of crops. This brings back a little of the prairie, which comeswith all kinds of environmental benefits, suchas duck and native bird populations. But the biggest benefit is preserving the soil.

There’s many species that live in grasslandsas well as several species of different grasses.Grasses that feed the species which keep themout of the planted fields. Permanent grass cov-ers keep the soil from washing away. Withthose deep roots that grasses have, and thick thatch, the water has a hard time getting holdof the soil. So more land in CRP meanscleaner streams, less fertilizer runoff and morecarbon stored in the soil.

At one time there were 34 million acres of land in the United States enrolled in the CRP,this is roughly the size of the state of NewYork. In recent years, though, the conservation

reserve has shrunk by more that 25 percent,including those 1.6 million acres that farmerstook out of the program this past year.

It’s partly because Congress has cut fundingfor the program. But there’s more importantreasons – high grain prices as well as govern-ment corn growing mandates.

Mandates for ethanol production have in thelong run, also take CRP land off the books!

Farmers have been making a lot of money re-cently growing corn, soybeans, and wheat.They’re bidding up prices for land, andlandowners are cashing in. Farmers are seeingthat they can make more for crops than leav-ing the ground on CRP.

In South Dakota, farmers are ripping upgrasslands that include native prairie grassesthat have never been plowed. Bobcats andfront end loaders in Kansas, Oklahoma andTexas, are removing rocks, boulders, fencerows, and even windbreaks to plant crops.

These items were placed there in the late1930s as a soil conservation measure to pro-tect and preserve soil! Does this seem to strikea historical moment? It was called the “DustBowl.”

Wake up America!

This is bad for the water quality, soil ero-sion, wildlife, not to mention, the air we breath. There’s a growing demand for morefood and biofuel and farmers are respondingto that demand. I feel that most of them alsowant to protect soil, streams, and wildlife.

Plant a tree. Our soil and water conservationdistrict is currently having our annual treesale. Please call us or stop in to get more in-formation.

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Paulding Village Coun-cil passed ordinance1468-13 on December 30, 2013, to increasethe village income taxfrom 0.5% to 1.0%.

This increase takeseffect January 1, 2014.

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NICK MENDEZ CALEB MILLER

New faces on board at sheriff’s officePAULDING – Six new em-

ployees have been hired at thePaulding County Sheriff’sOffice in the past six months.A seventh joined the force just over a year ago.

On Dec. 20, 2012 Nick Mendez became a deputy.Previously he had been withAlex Products in Paulding.

Caleb Miller has been withthe department since July2012 in a part-time communi-cations officer, but came on board as a full-time deputyJune 3, 2013. He had alsohelped with prisoner transportation in 2012. Prior to hisexperience at the sheriff’s of-fice, Miller held part-time po-sitions at several policedepartments in the area.

Brock Blackmore joinedthe department on Aug. 7. Be-fore coming to Paulding,Blackmore was a juvenile probation officer in Van WertCounty where he was also areserve for their sheriff.

Josh Hanenkrath was thelast new deputy hired in2013, being added to theforce on Nov. 13. Prior tocoming to Paulding, Ha-nenkrath was employed at

Alex Products in RidgevilleCorners.

Brandon Shuherk, former assistant dog warden, became

a full-time communicationsofficer at the office on Dec.26. He first became affiliatedwith the department as a part-time dispatcher last June after graduating the academy.

Jared Renollet was hired toreplace him as assistant dogwarden on Jan. 2. He is cur-rently attending the policeacademy at Northwest State

Community College whileholding down part-time jobs.

Matt McDougall is thenewest hire at the department

as a road deputy. His first daywas Jan. 6. His relationshipwith the department started inthe 1990s when he was a cor-rections officer and has re-mained on the reserves. Sincethen, he has also been withthe Antwerp and Hicksville police departments. He isowner of McDougallFirearms in Antwerp.

WBESC holds meeting VAN WERT – The Western Buckeye ESC board held

a meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Van Wert office.During the organizational meeting, Ron Treece was votedin as president and Jerry Zielke as vice president.

Treasurer Kim Jones and Linda Clark, assistant treas-urer, reviewed the current financial reports, investmentsand the monthly expenditures.

Superintendent Brian Gerber gave updates on legisla-tive issues, personnel items, and ESC activities.

He acknowledged January as school board recognitionmonth saying, “This is an opportunity for us to take amoment and thank our school board members for thetime and effort they put forward for the betterment of our schools. The board at Western Buckeye EducationalService Center functions within the team concept.

“They know their role as policy setters and enforce it.They work within the community, staff, and administra-tion to make Western Buckeye ESC a productive and ef-fective agency. It takes teamwork and collaboration fromall parties to ensure an educational agency’s success.

“We appreciate the commitment of members JerryZielke, Billy Poe III, P. James Grubaugh, Nick Miller andRon Treece.”

Western Buckeye ESC will partner with The Journal Gazette to conduct the 60th annual Journal GazetteSpelling Bee. This event offers local students the oppor-tunity to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Beeheld in Washington, D.C. The Paulding County SpellingBee will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, at PauldingMiddle School. For further information please contactSpelling Bee coordinator Sandi Freeman at 419-399-4711.

Under consent items the following was approved:• to employ Brittany Cunningham as a paraprofessional

at the Allen County ESC, effective Jan. 6.• six weeks of maternity leave for Ashley Shepherd.

The next meeting will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12at the Paulding ESC office.




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Paulding County Church Directory Paulding United Methodist Church, 321 North Williams Street,Paulding, church telephone number is 399-3591, Rev. Ben Lowell,Worship service at 9:45 a.m.; Sunday School, 11:15 a.m.; Wed. worshipat 6 pm. Church office is located at 308 N. Main St. Pentecostal Church of God, 601 W. Caroline St., Paulding, Elder George Robinson, Sunday school at 10 a.m., worship service at noon,prayer services Monday at 6 p.m. and Thursday at noon, Bible studyat 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Pioneer Christian Ministries, County Road 108 and Ohio 637, Paulding,Rev. Chuck Oliver, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:30a.m., and Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. including a youth service on atleast three Wednesday evenings. Rose Hill Church of God, corner of SR 637 and Charloe Trail, Paulding,399-3113, Pastor Ron Hofacker, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday wor-ship at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday service from 7-8 p.m. with children’s hour. St. John Lutheran Church–ELCA, 7611 Road 87, Briceton, Pastor Karen Stetins, church telephone number is 419-399-4962 or 419-399-2320. Sunday worship at 8:30 a.m., Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, 601 Flat Rock Drive (P.O. Box156), Paulding, Pastor Karen Stetins, church telephone number is 399-2320, Sunday Worship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday school at 9:15 a.m.

PAYNE AND OUTLYING AREAS

Divine Mercy Catholic Parish, 203 W. Townline, Payne, 399-2576, Pas-tor Very Rev. G. Allan Fillman, Masses: Saturday at 4 p.m.

Edgerton Wesleyan Church, 1717 Bertha St., Woodburn, (Edgerton)Ind. 46797, Pastor Dave Dignal, church telephone number is 260-632-4008, Sunday school at 9 a.m., children’s church at 10 a.m., worship at10 a.m., home groups at 6 p.m., Wednesday evening services at 6:30p.m.. Living Water Ministries, Contemporary worship service Sunday nightsat 10 a.m. & 6:30 p.m., The “Well” church for kids, Sunday mornings from10-11:30 a.m. The church is currently in the process of relocating. For lo-cation information, contact Pastor Rich Phelan, 419-263-2728. Payne Church of Christ, 220 West Merrin Street, Payne, Pastor MikealGeorge. Sunday worship at 9:30 am. 419-263-2092; 419-574-2150 (cell). Payne Church of the Nazarene, 509 E. Orchard St. (Ohio 500) Payne,Pastor Mike Harper, 263-2422, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday wor-ship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday night service at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. St. Jacob United Church of Christ, southwest corner of Oak andHyman streets, Payne, Rev. Jim Langham, 263-2763. Sunday School 9a.m, Church service-10 a.m. St. James Lutheran Church– NALC, West Townline Street (P.O. Box42), Payne, 263-2129, Pastor Fred Meuter, 260-492-2581. Sunday Schoolat 9 a.m., Sunday worship at 10 a.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, (P.O. Box 154) 312 South Main

Street, Payne, Rev. David Rohrer, church telephone number is 263-2418,parsonage telephone number is 263-2017, Sunday school at 9 a.m., Sun-day worship at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Editor’s Note: If your church doesn’t have service times listed, pleasecontact the Paulding County Progress office to notify of Sunday servicetimes.

worship at 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible study at 7 p.m.

PAULDING AND OUTLYING

Bethel United Methodist, Forders Bridge, Cecil, Pastor Kevin Doseck(419) 899-4153, worship service at 10:30 a.m., Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. Bethlehem Temple Pentecostal, 818 West Jackson Street, Paulding,399-3770, Rev. Burpo, Sunday school at 10 a.m., Sunday worship at 12p.m. Calvary Bible Church, Ohio 111 West across from Paulding CountyHospital, 399-4919, elders John Mohr, 260-632-4356, Bob Fessel 419-399-3398, Brad Sisson 419-263-3108, Don Baer 419-399-5805. Sunday schoolat 9 a.m., morning worship at 10:15 a.m., Bible Study at 7 p.m. Wed. Cecil Community Church, 203 S. Main St., Cecil. Pastor Ted Ramey.Sun. school 10:00 am, Worship service 11 am, Sun. eve. 6 pm, Wed.eve. 6 pm. Cecil First Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Cecil, Sunday worshipat 8 a.m., Sunday school at 9 a.m. Christian Fellowship Church, Paulding High School Auditeria, 10a.m. Sunday. Pastor Greg Cramer. Divine Mercy Catholic Parish, 417 N. Main, Paulding, 399-2576,Pastor Very Rev. G. Allan Fillman, Masses: Saturday at 6 p.m.; Sundayat 10:30 a.m. Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1275 Emerald Road, Paulding, 419-399-5061, Sunday School at 9:30 a.m., worship services at 10:45 a.m. and6 p.m. Sunday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Pastor Drew Gardner. First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 1233 Emerald Road,Paulding, 419-399-4576, Sunday school 9 a.m., Worship service 10a.m. Interim pastor is Rev. Dr. Paul Biery. First Presbyterian Church, 114 West Caroline Street, Paulding, 399-2438, Rev. David Meriwether, 9:00am Sunday school (youth and adult),10:15 a.m. praise singing, 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship. Communion1st Sunday each month. House of Love Ministries, 220 N. Williams St., Paulding. Pastor

Predest (Dwayne) Richardson or Sister Brenda Richardson, 419-399-9205 or 419-796-8718, Sunday worship at 3 p.m. Jail Ministry, FoodMinistry, Outreach Ministry. Overcomer Outreach - a Christian 12-steapmeeting, Sundays at 5 p.m. New Beginnings Church (Church of God), Cecil, Pastor Roy Burk,399-5041, Sunday worship at 11 a.m. Paulding Church of Christ, East Perry Street, Paulding, Minister Christopher Reno, 419-399-4761. Bible school at 9:30 a.m., Sundayworship at 10:30 a.m. Paulding Church of the Nazarene, 210 Dooley Dr., Paulding, 399-3932, Pastor Jeremy Thompson, Sunday school at 9:15 a.m., Sundayworship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday evening at 6 p.m.: Kids’ Summer Jam(ages 4-4th grade), Preteen class (5th-6th grade), Teen group (7th-

12th grade), and adult service. Wednesday at 7 p.m.: Teen group (7th-12th grade), adult bible study and prayer. Nursery available for allservices. Paulding Family Worship Center, 501 West Perry Street, Paulding,399-3525, Rev. Monte Moore, Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Jonathan L. Hoagland, 587-3376, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.,Morning worship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday evening gospel hour at 6 p.m.,Wednesday evening service at 7 p.m. Grover Hill Zion United Methodist Church, corner of First and Harrison,587-3941; Pastor Mike Waldron, 419-238-1493 or 419-233-2241 (cell).Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:20 a.m., nursery avail-able during all services. Mandale Church of Christ in Christian Union, Ohio 66, Pastor JustinSterrett, 419-786-9878, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 p.m. Middle Creek United Methodist Church, County Road 24, Grover Hill,Pastor William Sherry, Sunday worship at 9 a.m., Sunday school at 10:15a.m., Sunday evening Bible study at 6 p.m. Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Grover Hill, County Road 151, Sun-day school at 9:30 a.m., Pastor David Prior, Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m.,Wednesday evening prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. Roselms Christian Church, Ohio 114, Pastor Gary Church, 594-2445,Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m.

HAVILAND/LATTY/SCOTT

Apostolic Christian Church, 12867 Road 82, Haviland, 399-5220, wor-ship service at 10:30 a.m. Country Chapel United Methodist Church, Haviland, 419-622-5746,Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:15 a.m. Latty Zion Baptist Church, Latty, Pastor Levi Collins Jr., 399-2748, Sun-day school at 10 a.m., worship service at 11:15 a.m. Harvest Field Pentecostal Church of God, 13625 Road 12, Scott, Pastor Terry Martin, 419-622-2026, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday morningworship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday Evening worship at 6 pm, Wednesdayevening worship at 7:00 pm, Wednesday Youth Group at 7 pm. Friends United Methodist Church, Latty, Pastor Ron Johnson. Sundayworship at 9 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study at 7 p.m.

OAKWOOD/MELROSE AREAS

Auglaize Chapel Church of God, rural Oakwood, 3 miles south and half mile west on County Road 60, Pastor Stan Harmon, 594-2248, Sundayworship at 9:00 a.m. Sunday school at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday servicesfor children, youth and adults at 7:00 p.m.

Melrose United Methodist Church, Melrose, 594-2076, Pastor EileenKochensparger 399-5818; Sunday school 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at10:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible study and prayer at 7 p.m. Twin Oaks United Methodist Church, corner of Harmon and Secondstreets, Oakwood, Pastor Eric Dailey. 419-594-2992. Sunday worship at

9:30 a.m., Sunday school at 10:45 a.m., Bible Study Wednesdays at 10a.m. Prairie Chapel Bible Church, one mile east and a half-mile north of Oak-wood on the corner of Roads 104 and 209, Pastor Earl Chapman, 594-2057, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m., evening

ANTWERP AND SURROUNDING

Antwerp Community Church, 704 S. Erie St., SR 49, Antwerp; Pastor Ricky L. Grimes 419-258-2069. Bible Study Fellowship 9:30 am; Contem-porary Worship 10:30 am, Wednesday Discipleship Study, 7:00 pm

Antwerp United Methodist Church, East River Street, Rev. Pastor MikeSchneider, church telephone number is 258-4901, Comtemporaty serviceSunday 8:30a.m., Sunday school 9:30a.m., Traditional Service 10:30a.m. Divine Mercy Catholic Parish, 303 S. Monroe, Antwerp. Office: 417 N.Main, Paulding, 399-2576, Pastor Very Rev. G. Allan Fillman, Masses: Sun-day at 8:30am. First Baptist Church, 5482 CR 424, Pastor Todd Murray, 258-2056,Sunday school at 9 a.m., Sunday worship 10 a.m.; evening service 6 p.m.,Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 126 W. River St., Pastor Mike Pennington,258-2864, Sunday school at 11:15 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:00 a.m. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 2937 US 24, 258-2290. Publictalk 10 a.m. Sunday, Congregation Bible Study, Theocratic Ministry School& Service Meeting, Theocratic school 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Pastor Robert Becker. Sunday school at9 a.m., Sunday worship at 10 a.m. Riverside Christian Church, 15413 St. Rt. 49, (corne r Ohio 49 andRoad 192), Antwerp. 258-3895, Pastor Regan Clem.

ARTHUR/FIVE SPAN AREA Apostolic Christian Church, 13562 Road 147, Defiance (Junction), 399-3121, William Schlatter, Elder, Sunday services at 10:15 a.m. and 12:30p.m., Sunday school at 1 p.m., Wednesday services at 8 p.m. Bethel Christian Church, Ohio 66, Defiance (Arthur), Pastor Christopher Baker, Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. Church of Christ, corner of County Roads 166 and 191, Evangelist Lon-nie Lambert, 399-5022, Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Biblestudy at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Junction Bible Christian Church, County Road 111, Defiance (Junction),393-2671 or [email protected], Rev. C. Joseph Fifer, Sundayschool at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship follows at 10:30 a.m & Bible Study onWed. at 7pm. Pleasantview Missionary Baptist Church, County Road 180, Defiance(Junction), Rev. Alan Ray Newsome, Sunday worship at 11 a.m., eveningservice at 6 p.m.; Wednesday evening services at 7 p.m. Rock Church, SR 637, Five Span-Arthur area, Pastor Bobby Branham393-2924, Sunday school at 10 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:45 a.m., Sun-day evening worship at 7 p.m., Wednesday evening worship at 7 p.m.,Youth Service Wednesday at 7 p.m.

GROVER HILL AND OUTLYING

Bible Baptist Church, corner of Cleveland and Perry streets, Grover Hill, Pastor Pat Holt, 587-4021, Sunday school at 10 a.m., Sunday worshipat 11 a.m., Sunday evening worship at 6 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meetingat 7 p.m. Grover Hill Church of the Nazarene, Maple and East Jackson streets,

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QUESTION: When andhow should we tell our childthat she was adopted?JIM: According to our coun-selors and the team who over-sees our Focus on the Familyadoption outreach and initia-tive, a child adopted at birth

should be told about it from avery early age. This shouldhappen almost as soon as theyare capable of understandinglanguage. And it should be arecurring theme in conversa-tions with your child through-out the growing-up years.

Unfortunately, some par-ents avoid disclosing this totheir child because it makesthem uncomfortable. Then,later on, they’re faced withhaving to tell an older childsomething they’ve beenkeeping secret. This can un-dermine the child’s sense of security and may result in

feelings of rejection or be-trayal.

You’ll want to share thefacts using age-appropriatewords and imagery. Her adoption should always be presented in a positive light.For example, a parent mighttell a 2- or 3-year-old thatmommy and daddy chose her over all the other children inthe world. This will let her know how special she is.

When she is slightly older 4 or 5, maybe, you can explain the difference betweena biological parent and anadoptive parent. Explain that

she has actually had two dif-ferent mothers. Her firstmommy took care of her when she was very, very tiny,inside of her tummy.

Then, after she was born,you brought her home fromthe hospital to live with you because she was so extra-spe-cial. Please call our Focuscounselors if we can be of help.QUESTION: How can Ihelp my daughter, who isstruggling with her racialidentity? I’m white and myex-husband is black. Shestruggles with issues of her

“color” and I’m not surehow to help.DR. GREG SMALLEY,vice president, Family Min-istries: I’d encourage you totalk about race with your daughter. She needs to knowit’s okay to be herself, just ex-actly as she is, and you canhelp cultivate this attitude by

being free and frank in your discussion of the subject.

It’s particularly importantto spend time listening andunderstanding her situationfrom her viewpoint. Ask open-ended questions like,“Tell me what you like or

don’t like about the way youlook,” or “Describe a timewhen you felt different fromthe other kids at school.”

Also provide her with op- portunities to interact withchildren and families of vari-ous ethnic backgrounds. Thisis vital in helping develophealthy attitudes toward raceand ethnicity. You can alsoexpose your daughter tomedia (books, videos, etc.)featuring multicultural char-acters and themes. This willsupply her with positive rolemodels of people who, likeher, come from racially di-

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and that race isn’t the onlydistinguishing element. Pointout that people all have simi-lar needs and feelings, suchas being loved and accepted.When she is able to graspthis, explain that, while shemay look different from her

peers, she is also very muchlike them.

Finally, don’t shy awayfrom discussing racism, butremember to talk about it inan age-appropriate way. Shemay not be able to grasp thecomplexities of slavery, butshe does need to understandthat some people strongly dis-like others who are differentfrom them, and may eventreat them unkindly.

She’ll also need to learnhow to respond to the com-ments or questions of others.Both children and adults cansometimes be rude with their

remarks about race, but thereare also many occasionswhen their words and behav-ior are simply the result of ig-norance or curiosity.

‘Winning the Battle for a Generation’By Rick Jones

exec. director, DefianceArea Youth for Christ

How would you respond if you were to loseall your earthly possessions? Consider withme what happened in a meeting that took place at the Edgewater Beach Hotel inChicago in 1923.

A popular story recounts a meeting that mayhave taken place at the Edgewater BeachHotel in Chicago in 1923. There is debatewhether the meeting in fact occurred, but whatis not in question is the actual rise and fall of the men featured in the story, who were nineof the richest men in the world at that time:

• Charles Schwab, president of the world’slargest independent steel company;• Samuel Insull, president of the world’slargest utility company;

• Howard Hopson, president of the largestgas firm; • Arthur Cutten,the greatest wheat speculator;

• Richard Whitney, president of the NewYork Stock Exchange;

• Albert Fall, member of the president’s cab-inet;

• Leon Frazier, president of the Bank of In-ternational Settlements;

• Jessie Livermore, the greatest speculator in the stock market;

• Ivar Kreuger, head of the company withthe most widely distributed securities in theworld.

What happened to these powerful and richmen 25 years later?

• Charles Schwab died in bankruptcy, hav-ing lived on borrowed money for five years before his death.

• Samuel Insull died virtually penniless after spending some time as a fugitive from justice.

• Howard Hopson became insane.• Arthur Cutten died overseas, broke.• Richard Whitney had spent time in a men-

tal asylum.• Albert Fall was released from prison, so he

could die at home.• Leon Fraizer, Jessie Livermore, and Ivar

Kreuger each died by suicide.Measured by wealth and power these men

achieved success, at least temporarily. But itdid not surely guarantee them a truly success-ful life.

Many people think of fame and fortunewhen they measure success. However, at some point in life, most people come to realize thatinner peace and soul-deep satisfaction comenot from fame and money, but having lived alife based on integrity and noble character.

The scriptures put it this way, Matthew6:33-34 (NLT), “(33) Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, andhe will give you everything you need. (34) Sodon’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrowwill bring its own worries. Today’s trouble isenough for today.”

(From a sermon by Sajeev Painunkal SJ,What Changed Zaccheus? 10/30/2010)

For more information about the work of Youth for Christ, you may contact Youth for Christ at 419-782-0656, P.O. Box 111, 210Clinton Street, Defiance, Ohio 43512, or email to: [email protected],don’t shy away from discussing racism, but re-member to talk about it in an age-appropriateway. She may not be able to grasp the com- plexities of slavery, but she does need to un-derstand that some people strongly dislikeothers who are different from them, and mayeven treat them unkindly.

She’ll also need to learn how to respond tothe comments or questions of others. Bothchildren and adults can sometimes be rudewith their remarks about race, but there arealso many occasions when their words and be-havior are simply the result of ignorance or cu-riosity.

TEACHING YOUTHS TO BE LEADERS – The Paulding County 4-H Program held its annual 4-H officer training on Jan. 13 in theOSU Extension Hall. Over 30 4-H youths took part in a variety of activities to learn about their club office. The training began withget acquainted games ran by the Jr. Leaders 4-H Club and then members went to sessions to learn about their duties as a 4-Hclub officer. After the training sessions, members played large group games and had refreshments. The training concluded witha candle-lighting installation ceremony.

OAKWOOD CHAMPION –Fifth grader Hailey Hartzell isthe winner of the fifth-sixthgrade Spelling Bee at Oak-wood Elementary School. Hai-ley is the daughter of Sandraand the late Michael Hartzell.She correctly spelled “forbid-den” in the final round to be-come this year’s Spelling Beechampion.

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The annual Spelling Bee competition was held at Payne Ele-mentary. Sixth grade student Jayde Garcia (left) was the winner,correctly spelling “bolide.” Sydney Coyne finished as runner-up. Garcia will represent Payne Elementary at the PauldingCounty Spelling Bee on Jan. 27.

Wayne Trace Grover Hill Elementary held its annual SpellingBee on Jan. 10. After 15 rounds, first place winner was fourthgrader Lauren Walls, daughter of Bill and Kim Walls. She spelled“hermitage” correctly to win. Runner-up was sixth grader An-drew Sinn, son of Steve and Joy Sinn.

Divine Mercy Catholic School recently held its annual SpellingBee. Fifth grader Kaden Sutton (left), son of Kylie Folsum andMitch Sutton, won by spelling the word “obsidian” correctly. Ke-nadie Daeger, grade 5, daughter of Jeremy and Michele Daeger,came in second place.

Wayne Trace Jr. High recently held its annual Spelling Beewith 57 students participating. The winner was seventh grader Levi Manz (left), and the runner-up was Connor Baumle. Manz

advances to the County Spelling Bee scheduled for Monday, Jan.27 in Paulding.

Marcus Miller (left) won the Paulding Middle School SpellingBee. The eighth grader, son of Brian and Misti Miller of Paulding,correctly spelled “circumstantial” for the championship. Run-ner-up was seventh-grader Heather Manz, daughter of Anthonyand Denise Manz.

Paulding County Area Foundation has granted $541 to ScottBall Association. The grant funds will be used for new ball equip-ment. With the new equipment and a renovated ball field, softballand baseball will resume at Bressler Park. Here, executive direc-tor Lisa McClure presents the grant funds to Chris Martinez of the Scott Ball Association. For further information, contact Mc-Clure at 419-399-8296 or visit the website at www.pauldingcount-yareafoundation.net.

Paulding County Area Foundation has granted $1,000 to Bar-gain Bin of Paulding County Inc. The grant funds will be usedfor structural improvements in order to display more merchan-dise. The majority of the Bargain Bin income is used to purchasephysical therapy equipment for the Paulding County Hospital.Here, executive director Lisa McClure presents the grant fundsto Rhonda Smalley, president of Bargain Bin of Paulding County.

Paulding County Area Foundation has granted $1,000 to ChristCommunity Center Inc., located in Payne. The grant funds willbe used to paint the interior walls of the center. Here, executivedirector Lisa McClure presents the grant funds to Jennifer Mar-tin, secretary of Christ Community Center. For further informa-tion, contact McClure at 419-399-8296 or visit the website atwww.pauldingcountyareafoundation.net.

Paulding County Area Foundation has granted $1,000 to BoyScout Troop 315. The grant funds will be added to funds for sixin the troop to attend a 14-day high adventure trip to a Scoutcamp in New Mexico in June. Here, executive director Lisa Mc-Clure presents the grant funds to Phillip Jackson, AssistantScout Master.

NEW OFFICERS – The First Presbyterian Church, Paulding, recently ordained and installednew church officers. From left are David Bussing and Rhonda Smalley, new ruling elders begin-ning three-year terms on the church session (governing board); and Darwin Cline, Marcia Wiebeand Jeff Summers, who are each joining the board of deacons.



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WT claims win over Paulding By KEVIN

WANNEMACHER Sportswriter

PAULDING – Two Pauld-ing County rivals squared off

in non-league boys basketballaction at the ‘Jungle’ inPaulding as the host Pantherswelcomed in visiting WayneTrace last Tuesday night, Jan.14.

When the ball bounced for the final time, it was the vis-iting Raiders who left with a57-53 victory in the annual ri-valry battle.

Despite being a weeknightgame, both schools had goodcrowds providing a tourna-ment-like atmosphere to thecontest.

“This was a great game and both teams had very good

crowds here,” commentedPaulding head coach ShawnBrewer. “The atmospherewas tremendous and gaveyou a tournament feel to it.People really came out tosupport their teams tonight.”

Paulding appeared ready totake control of the game inthe first quarter, getting eight

points from Guy Harder inthe stanza to go in front 14-6.

Wayne Trace answeredwith consecutive 3-point fieldgoals by Colby Speice andCorbin Linder to close within14-12 at the end of eight min-utes of action.

“Everybody stepped up andmade a play at some pointtonight,” noted Wayne Tracehead coach Jim Linder,whose team moved to 7-1 onthe year.

A basket by David Sinn,two Ethan Linder free throwsand a bucket from Jake Arendquickly put the Raiders infront 19-18. After Pauldingrallied to take a 22-19 advan-tage behind a pair of JulianSalinas baskets, Ethan Linder scored on back-to-back Raider possessions for a 25-24 Wayne Trace lead.

Paulding came right back

with a Kyle Kauser “three” asthe maroon and white posteda 27-26 halftime advantage.

Brewer attributed “numer-ous breakdowns” in histeam’s place for the failure tohold the lead.

“We would make a littlerun but then they came upwith a key play, it seemed,every time,” Brewer contin-ued. “I am very proud of theguys, though. We played ex-tremely hard and battled allnight long.”

Although he didn’t scoremuch, Wayne Trace’s DevinWenzlick was a key part of

the Raiders’ first-half efforts.The senior forward totaled sixrebounds and four points be-fore the break and kept sev-eral other plays alive for thered, white and blue.

“I thought we did a good job, for the most part, in con-trolling their offense,” addedthe Panther mentor. “Ithought the one kid that really

provided them a lift wasDevin. He made plays andwas just very aggressive onthe boards. He kept alive a lotof plays for them.”

Trailing 32-28 early in thethird quarter, Wayne Trace

put together a 10-0 run high-lighted by a pair of EthanLinder treys.

“That was a big run for usand gave us a spark,” notedthe Raider head coach. “We

built some momentum thereand it seemed to provide us alittle boost.”

Paulding did close within46-40 at the end of the quarter

on a Kyle Kauser tip-in at the buzzer.

The Raiders againstretched the lead in the finalstanza, pushing the margin to

54-44 behind buckets fromArend, Ethan Linder andCorbin Linder. The maroonand white again tried to an-swer, getting a basket and twofree throws from Julian Sali-nas, to trim the deficit to 54-49.

Wayne Trace put the gameaway on a Wenzlick basketoff of a Corbin Linder assistto widen the lead back to 56-49, and the Raiders cruisesfrom that point to the 57-53win.

Ethan Linder led all scor-ers, bucketing 18 points for Wayne Trace, with Corbin

Linder adding a dozen. ColbySpeice chipped in seven fol-lowed by Wenzlick and JakeArend at six apiece. Wenzlick also paced the Raiders on the

boards with 14 while EthanLinder and Speice bothdished out five assists. Speice

posted five steals as well.

“Devin was big for ustonight,” commented theRaider head coach. “He reallywent to the boards aggres-sively. David was able to re-

bound for us as well, andColby hit some big shots.Ethan and Corbin were ableto hit some shots as well andmade some plays. It was atotal team effort for us.”

Treston Gonzales had 16 points for the Panthers withSalinas adding 14 and Harder chipping in a dozen. Harder and Gonzales both recordedseven boards for Paulding,which falls to 9-3 on the sea-son.

Wayne Trace’s junior var-

sity moved to 7-1 as well with

a 53-35 win over the rival

Panthers.Score by Quarters:

Wayne Trace 12 14 20 11- 57

Paulding 14 13 13 13- 53

Wayne Trace (57): E. Linder 18, C. Spe-

ice 7, Arend 6, C. Linder 12, Wenzlick 6,

Sinn 4, Blackmore 4

Paulding (53): K. Hernandez 0, Vance 0,

Kauser 8, J. Gonzalez 0, T. Gonzalez 16,

Salinas 14, Ge. Harder 3, Gu. Harder 12

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Paulding’s Kaleb Hernandez #4 drives the lane against WayneTrace last Tuesday night in the Jungle.


Ethan Linder #15 twists in the air to avoid the good defenseof Paulding’s Guy Harder #40 and Javier Gonzales #22 to add tothe Raider score.


Wayne Trace’s Jake Arend #25 gets behind the Paulding de-fense for a Raider deuce last Tuesday en route to a win.


Devin Wenzlick #34 fights to control an offensive rebound for the Raiders last Tuesday night in cross-county play at Paulding.

Panthers finallybreak streak

By JIM LANGHAMSportswriter

After losses to county rival Wayne Trace and conference foeColumbus Grove earlier in the week, the Paulding Panther boys

basketball team bounced back with a 53-45 win on the road at Ay-ersville on Saturday night.

The victory improved Paulding’s record to 10-4 overall.On Friday night, free throws, especially at a crucial moment,

proved to be the downfall for the Panthers as the local squaddropped a 58-55 decision to Columbus Grove, who walked off the floor with a 7-3 overall record and a 2-0 mark in conference

play.Columbus Grove jumped out to a 13-11 advantage at the end

of the first stanza, but Paulding fought back to grab a 27-25 half-time advantage. The teams played to a 47-47 tie at end of regula-tion play, but Grove outscored the Panthers, 11-8, in overtime toclaim the win.

Paulding’s record in the NWC now stands at 2-2.“It came down to making fourth quarter free throws and we

missed the front end of one and one situations,” said Brewer. “Wedid what we had to do, we just didn’t finish.

“We just need to continue to have steady play, not panic andwork hard,” continued Brewer. “Second shots hurt us through thewhole game. We have to do a better job getting second reboundsat the boards.”

Against Ayersville on Saturday, Kyle Kauser led the scoring punch with 19 points while Guy Harder finished with nine points.Paulding shot a steady 18-34 for 56 percent shooting from the field.

Paulding’s next encounter will be at a tough Crestview team onFriday night.

Raiders run win streak to six By KEVIN

WANNEMACHER SportswriterHAVILAND – Wayne Trace wrapped

up a five-game-in-10-day stretch on Satur-day with a 73-67 road win over LimaShawnee.

The Raiders ran their win streak to sixstraight, posting victories over Paulding,Ayersville and the Indians last week.

In Lima, freshman point guard EthanLinder scored a career-high 37 points for the Raiders as Wayne Trace picked up thesix-point win.

Corbin Linder chipped in ten for theRaiders to go along with five assists andthree steals. The red, white and blue alsogot a very solid effort by senior guardColby Speice, who dished out seven assists

while picking up six steals and six rebounds. Speice also got a key steal in thefinal seconds to seal the Wayne Trace win.

Devin Wenzlick topped the Raiders with

seven rebounds and David Sinn picked up

five caroms. Ethan Linder also had six boards.Wayne Trace led 17-8 after one quarter

before pushing the margin 37-24 at the in-termission. The Raiders led 53-43 at theend of three periods.

Jaquan Tucker scored 20 points for theIndians with Jaden O’Neal adding 17 andThad Vernon chipped in 14.WT 67, Ayersville 53

In Green Meadows Conference play, theRaiders rallied from a 14-point halftimedeficit to post a 67-53 victory at Ayersville.

The Pilots led 13-10 after one quarter and widened the margin to 33-19 at half-time. The Pilots got 18 points in the firsttwo quarters from Brayton Martin, includ-ing five treys.

However, the red, white and blue wouldrally in the third quarter. Wayne Traceoutscored the host Pilots 23-9 in the thirdquarter to knot the score at 42-42 entering

the final period.

Ethan Linder led the Raiders in the quar-ter with 10 points as Wayne Trace finishedthe period on a 17-3 run.

The fourth quarter proved to be the dif-ference as the red, white and blueoutscored Ayersville 25-11 to pull away for the 67-53 win.

Ethan Linder posted 19 points on theevening for the Raiders, adding five re-

bounds, two assists and six steals. Speicechipped in a dozen markers, five boards,five assists and four steals while CorbinLinder and Devin Wenzlick added 11

points each. Jake Arend and Wenzlick both picked up five caroms for the Raiders withArend also posting four steals.

Martin topped the Pilots with 21 pointsand Trey Bauman chipped in 13 markers.

Kevin Zimmerman and Dauson Dalesrecorded six rebounds each.



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The Raider junior varsity moved to 9-1 overall and 2-0 in theGMC as well with wins over the Panthers, Pilots and Indians lastweek.

On Saturday, Wayne Trace trailed 14-13 after one quarter buttook a 27-22 halftime advantage. The Raiders led 41-29 lead atthe end of three periods before settling on the 52-45 victory.

Cole Shepherd bucketed a dozen markers for the red, white andblue with Alec Vest adding 11 markers. Justin Speice chipped in10 for Wayne Trace. Speice added eight rebounds for the Raiders

and Shepherd grabbed five caroms. Other scorers for the red,white and blue were Darius Hale (eight), Luke Miller (four), GabeWobler (three), Chris Davis (two) and Rylen Asher (two).

Alec Vest scored 13 points and Justin Speice chipped in nine asthe Raiders posted a 46-35 win over the Pilots.

Cole Shepherd (five), Gabe Wobler (five), Nick Glass (four)and Brady Stabler (two) picked up the other Raider points. WayneTrace led 12-7 after one quarter before posting a 27-17 halftimeadvantage. The Raiders took a 35-23 lead at the end of three pe-riods.

Wayne Trace returns to action on Friday as the Raiders hostHicksville in Green Meadows Conference action.

RAIDERSContinued from Page 10A

Antwerp plays 32 minutes to victory Trenton Copsey’s 18 leads Archers over Lincolnview

By JOE SHOUSESportswriter

ANTWERP – On a personallevel, if Lincolnview boys’ headcoach Brett Hammons andAntwerp head coach TJ Ham-mer had their way, the game

played Saturday night atAntwerp would never have

tipped off. Not because oneteam was so much better thanthe other, but because of theclose friendship the two coacheshave developed over the years.

“We went to college together and became very good friends.We were even roommates whileattending Defiance College.This was tough to do tonight,”said Hammer.

But setting aside the friend-

ship, both teams played a verycompetitive game with theArchers prevailing down thestretch, 66-58.

It was a dog fight throughoutthe contest with neither teamtaking control in the first half.Lincolnview managed a three-

point lead on a 3-pointer from

Eli Farmer in the first period butthe Archers answered with a 6-0 run to close out the first quar-ter holding a 15-12 margin.

Antwerp’s 6-foot-4 center Trenton Copsey opened the sec-ond period with a soft jumper inthe paint to widen the Antwerplead 17-12, but two buckets byKyle Williams and a triple fromJustis Dowdy quickly put theLancers back on top 19-17 with4:19 remaining.

The Archers turned it aroundto hang on with a four-pointcushion prior to halftime, butDowdy came through for theLancers with a traditional 3-

point play to pull Lincolnviewto within one at intermission,27-26.

The Lancers relied on theemotional play of forwardDowdy in the first half. The jun-ior tallied 13 of his team’s 26first half points. But foul trouble

plagued Dowdy in the secondhalf and was held scorelesswhile spending time on the

bench.“That’s been trouble for us all

season. Our defense isn’t verygood right now and we pickedup too many fouls,” said CoachHammons.

The third frame appeared to

belong to Kyle Williams, whocame out looking for his shotand banging home his team’sfirst nine points and giving theLancers its largest lead of thenight, 35-28. Williams, whowas held to just four markers inthe first half finished with 23 tolead all scorers.

“I know he scored all those points, but I thought Sam(Williamson) did a nice job andmade it tough on Williams toscore. Our help side defensewas good tonight,” said Ham-mer.

Antwerp answered theLancers’ seven-point lead with

a 3-pointer from Derek Smalleyand a basket from SamWilliamson. Sandwiched be-tween the two scores was a bas-ket by Trenton Copsey, whowas spotted in the paint on anout-of-bounds play. The junior center timed his ally-oop jump

perfectly for an importantArcher basket.

Copsey finished the nightwith 18 points to lead the Archer attack. Joining Copsey withdouble digit scoring wereKaden Brumett (17), Derek Smalley (15) and SamWilliamson (10).

“When we got down by

seven we could have panicked, but we didn’t. Tonight we played 32 minutes of good bas-ketball. Often times we will

play 24 or 26 minutes, buttonight was a different story,”said Coach Hammer.

Both teams entered the finaleight minutes even at 42 apiece

and no lead was larger thanthree points until Smalley col-lected himself for a long range3-pointer to push the Archers infront 54-50 with 2:15 remain-ing.

“Derek hit some big shots for us,” said Hammer.

In the closing minutes, Lin-colnview found themselvesstruggling to score and missingseveral close range shots. TheArchers were in the double

bonus at the free throw line andwas able to hang on hitting eightfree throws in the final minute.

“They (Antwerp) made playsand we didn’t. We missed too

many easy bunnies and it costus,” said Hammons.

With the loss, the Lancers felleven at 6-6 while the Archersimproved to 7-5.Lincolnview (58): Leeth 1 0-0 2, Williams 8

6-6 23, Dowdy 5 2-5 13, Adams 3 5-5 11,

McCleery 1 0-1 2, Farmer 1 0-0 3, Ludwig 1

2-2 4. Totals: 20 15-19 58. Three point goals:

Williams 1, Dowdy 1, Farmer 1. Total fouls:

21.

Antwerp (66): Copsey 7 4-5 18, Brumett 5 6-

7 17, Smalley 4 5-7 15, Williamson 3 3-4 10,

Jones 1 2-4 4, Stout 1 0-1 2. Totals: 21 20-

28 66. Three point goals: Brumett 1, Smalley

2, Williamson 1. Total fouls: 19.

Tigers claw to winHOLGATE – Last Thursday,

the Antwerp Archers traveled toHolgate on a snowy night andfor 29 minutes the Archers con-trolled the game, trailing just

briefly at the start of the second period when Everett Kling-shirm drilled a triple to give theTigers a 16-15 lead.

The Tigers used the finalthree minutes of the contest to

power past the Archers by scor-ing the final seven points for the54-48 win.

Holding a 26-22 advantage atintermission, the Archersopened the third period with a2-point field goal from GarrettJones but back-to-back treys by

Dylan Szabo and Owen Cladytied the score at 30 apiece with2:30 remaining in the third.

Antwerp squeezed a 3-pointlead on a bucket from ColtonStout and Jones, but the Tigerscontinued to hang around witha 3-pointer by Klingshirm con-nected from behind the arc toeven the score at 34 heading into the final eight minutes.

Derek Smalley scoredAntwerp’s first five points to

push the blue and white advan-tage to 39-34 and the Archersnursed a lead with their lastcoming at the 1:55 mark whenKaden Brumett hit 1-of-2 free

throws to give the Archers aslim 48-47 lead. Holgate an-swered with a 7-0 run to pull outthe Green Meadows Confer-ence win.

Senior Derek Smalley wasthe leading scorer for theArchers with 14. SamWilliamson and Kaden Brumett

each added 11. Antwerp (48): Brumett 4 1-2 11, Smalley 6 0-

0 14, Stout 1 0-0 2, Williamson 5 0-0 11,

Jones 2 0-0 4, Copsey 2 2-2 6. Totals: 20 3-

4 48. Three point goals: Brumett 2, Smalley

2, Williamson 1. Fouls: 12.

Holgate (54): Gonzales 3 5-6 11, Mack 2 2-

2 7, Szabo 3 0-1 8, Clark 1 0-0 2, Klingshirn

4 1-2 11, Clark 1 4-4 6, Clady 1 0-0 3, Buch-

holz 3 1-2 6. Totals: 18 13-17 54. Three point

goals: Mack 1, Szabo 2, Klingshirn 2, Clady

1, Buchholz 1.

Archers win on roadCONTINENTAL – In a

rescheduled game due toweather, the Antwerp Archerstraveled to Continental lastMonday evening and escaped

with a 48-42 nonconferencewin over the Pirates.

The blue and white got out of the gate quickly to post a 12-3first quarter lead. After playingeven in the second period, theArchers outscored the Pirates,10-4, in the third period.

Trailing 35-20 heading intothe final eight minutes of playContinental made it interesting

by outscoring TJ Hammer’sclub, 22-13.

The 3-8 Pirates collected 12 points from Wade Stouffer and10 points from Gabe Williams.

For the winning Archers,only four players hit the scoring

column with Kaden Brumettleading the attack with 14 in-cluding four goals behind thearc. Sam Williamson was indouble digits with 13 followed

by Trenton Copsey, who had adouble-double with 12 pointsand 11 rebounds. Derek Smal-ley rounded out the Archers’scoring with nine.

Lady Raider rally comes

up short in loss to PilotsBy KEVIN


HAVILAND – Wayne Trace nearly ralliedfrom an 18-point third quarter deficit but vis-iting Ayersville held on for a 63-59 win over the Lady Raiders Friday night in Green Mead-ows Conference action.

Ayersville held a 49-31 advantage late in thethird quarter before the Raiders outscored thePilots 26-14 in the final stanza.

Trailing by three with 11 seconds remain-ing, the Raiders had possession with an oppor-tunity to tie the game but turned the ball over instead. Ayersville’s Megan Schubert then hit

a free throw with seven seconds on the clock to seal the Pilot victory.

“The girls did a great job of not giving upand continuing to battle until the end,” com-mented Raider head coach Bethany Hughes.“I am proud of the girls for not giving up and

playing hard.”Ayersville led 18-12 after one quarter be-

hind nine points and five rebounds from Schu- bert.

The Pilots pushed the lead to 22-14 on a basket by Brittany Addington before twoShayna Temple baskets and an Erin Mohr

bucket got Wayne Trace within 22-20.Ayersville responded, though, to widen the

margin to 27-22 at the intermission on basketsfrom Kelsey Johnston and Molly Hammer-smith.

Quarter number three saw the Pilots takecontrol, outscoring Wayne Trace 22-11 in thestanza to take a lead as much as 18 before set-tling on a 49-33 advantage at the end of threequarters.

Hammersmith had 14 points in the thirdquarter alone to lead the Pilots in the period.

“Too many turnovers,” commented Hughesafter a night that saw Wayne Trace commit 31miscues, including nine in the third quarter.“We have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball.”

Wayne Trace trailed 60-51 with 1:02 left inthe contest but the Raiders would make thingsinteresting.

A basket by Brenda Feasby got the Raiderswithin 62-54 before Erin Mohr followed itwith a trey that pulled the red, white and blue

within 62-57.Following a Pilot miss, Feasby added an-

other bucket to slice the deficit to 62-59 at the11 second mark.

However, following three straight Ayersvillemisses at the charity stripe, Wayne Trace wasunable to take advantage on the ensuing pos-session as the Raiders lost control of the balland the Pilots would hold on for the win.

Hammersmith and Schubert each picked updouble-doubles for the Pilots. Hammersmithrecorded a team high 19 points to go alongwith 10 rebounds while Schubert added 16markers and 14 boards. Hammersmith andKylee Tressler recorded seven and six steals,

respectively, with Addington dishing outseven assists.

Mohr bucketed 22 points to top the Raidersfollowed by Lauren Speice with 14 andFeasby added a dozen. Shayna Temple alsochipped in 11 markers for the red, white and

blue. Speice also recorded her fifth double-double of the season with 14 rebounds. Tem-

ple dished out four assists and posted fivesteals with Feasby adding three assists andfour steals.

With the win, the Pilots stay atop the GMCstandings with co-leader Holgate as both are now3-0 in league play. The Pilots and Tigers willmeet tomorrow night in Henry County. Ay-ersville is 11-2 overall. Wayne Trace falls to 8-5in all games and 1-2 in the conference.LCC 76, WT 63

Lima Central Catholic posted a 76-63 winover the Lady Raiders in non-league play lastweek.

Meredith Shepherd bucketed 20 points for theLady Thunderbirds with Liz Kidd adding 19 andMadison Stolly chipped in 13. Sydney Mohler also posted 11 markers and eight rebounds for LCC. Sydney Santaguida topped the Thunder-

birds with eight assists and eight steals.Feasby paced Wayne Trace with 15 markers

followed by Mohr and Speice with 14 each.Temple also chipped in 10 for the Raiders. Spe-ice topped the local squad with 17 reboundswhile Temple picked up nine caroms to go alongwith three assists and four steals.

The Lady Raiders return to action tomorrowas they travel to Hicksville in Green MeadowsConference action.

Panther girls drop three games in weather-beleaguered weekBy JIM LANGHAM

SportswriterMother Nature took its toll

on the Paulding girls this pastweek who were forced to

play three games in five days,thanks to an earlier cancellationagainst Bluffton due to badweather.

The Pirates invaded the localgym last Monday night for aleague encounter and walkedaway with a 63-54 win in

Northwest Conference action.

Bluffton drew blood early,out-racing the Panthers 17-5 inthe first quarter to establish thetempo for the game. However,the Panthers fought back in thesecond quarter to outscore thevisitors 18-14 and close the gapto 31-23 at the end of the firsthalf. The Panthers hung in thesecond half, but couldn’t digout of the hole that occurred inthe first quarter.

“I’m proud of the way our kids hung in there and didn’tgive up after that first quarter,”said Paulding head coach Lyn-dsi Schultz. “I was happy withthe way we regained our poise

in that second quarter. We had just fallen behind too far to beable to come all of the way

back.”For Paulding, Sierra McCul-

lough continued her steadyshooting to lead the Panthers

with 17 points while AbbyPease popped in 12 points for the local squad.

Following that contest,Paulding’s record was 5-5overall and 1-3 in NWC play.

Paulding took good care of the ball with only 14 turnoverscompared to 13 for Bluffton.

“I was happy with the wayour girls responded on the

boards,” said Schultz, whosePanthers out-rebounded the Pi-rates, 25-23.

On Tuesday night at VanWert, the Cougar defense shutdown Paulding’s offense,which connected on only 8-28from the field for 28 percentshooting. In addition, the Pan-thers turned over the ball 28times in losing to Van Wert, 50-24.

Van Wert, in the meantime,only turned the ball over 13times and connected on 44 of their shots from the field.

Once again, the local squadcame out struggling to fall be-hind Van Wert, 18-4 at the endof the first quarter and 38-6 atthe half. One bright spot for

Paulding was reboundingwhere the local squad out-re-

bounded the home team, 26-16.

Thursday night, the Pan-thers continued to strugglewith injuries in dropping a

60-29 loss to ColumbusGrove in conference play atGrove.

Columbus Grove jumpedout to an 18-8 first quarter lead, and extended it to 28-14at the half. The third quarter

proved to be fatal for anyhope the Panthers had, best-ing the local squad, 22-2, to

pull away for the big win.Columbus Grove improved

its record to 9-5 overall and3-1 in league play while the

Panthers dropped to 5-7 over-all and 1-4 in conference play.

Things won’t get any easier this week when the Panthershost a tough Crestview teamon Thursday night and playsone of the best teams in west-

ern Ohio in Ottoville on Sat-urday.

“We are going to have to play hard defense and do allwe can to take care of the

ball,” said Schultz of the Pan-ther’s challenging schedule.

At Ohio Dominican, former Wayne Trace standout Kacee Hock-enberry is a junior on the Lady Panther basketball team.

Hockenberry currently averages a team-high 16.6 points per gamefor the Lady Panthers while connecting on a team high 14 three-

pointers this year. Hockenberry also averages four rebounds, two as-sists and a steal each contest. The junior guard has started all 14games this season for the Lady Panthers, who are currently 6-8 over-all and 3-7 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Hockenberry scored a team-high 18 points and grabbed six rebounds in a 75-56 win over Hillsdale College this past Saturday.

• • •A pair of former Raiders are members of the Grace College

women’s basketball team as Jo Ellen Fickel and Sarah Feasby areeach sophomores on the Lady Lancers.

Fickel has played in all 19 games, starting four, and averages three points and two rebounds a contest. The former Raider standout hasdished out eight assists and recorded 10 steals on the year.

Feasby has also seen action in all 19 contests with 17 starts on theyear. The sophomore forward scores four points and grabs three

boards per game while dishing out 17 assists and posting 18 stealsthis season.

Grace College is currently 8-11 overall and 4-3 in the Crossroads

League.

St. Patrick’sbasketballtourney set

ANTWERP – The MACGym in Antwerp will host St.Patrick’s spring break boys andgirls youth basketball tourna-ments March 14-15.

The event is for fourth, fifthand sixth grade boys and girlsschool teams with separateevents for each class. Three-game guarantee. Entry fee is$125. Entry is open to the firsteight teams in each grade. Four

basketball courts will be used.For questions, email ronz-

[email protected]. Toenter, visit www.themacgy-mohio.com or phone 419-769-9991.



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PAULDING

Junior High Girls Basketball – Paulding split with

Delphos Jefferson in action last week. Against the

Wildcats, the Lady Panther seventh graders

recorded a 36-30 overtime win. Briana Townley

led the way for the maroon and white with 20

markers followed by Ashlynn Rice (four), Kamdyn

Etzler (three), Megan Tope (two), Asia Arellano

(two), Haylee Dominique (two) and Kalyn Strahley

(one).

The eighth grade battle saw Delphos Jefferson

post a 41-26 win over the Panthers. Scorers for

Paulding included Caitlyn Myers (six), Cassidy

Posey (six), Audrey Manz (five), Allison Ankney

(four) and Abby Adams (two).

Junior High Girls Basketball – The Panthers

swept past Lincolnview last week. Paulding’s sev-

enth graders defeated the Lancers 33-9 behind

15 markers from Townley and nine by Etzler. Rice

(two), Arellano (two), Dominique (two) and Trinity

Temple (one) picked up the other Paulding points. The Panther eighth graders recorded a 27-17

victory over Lincolnview as Myers scored 14 and

Posey chipped in nine. Manz and Adams each had

two points for the maroon and white.

WAYNE TRACE

Junior Varsity Girls Basketball –Wayne Trace’s jun-

ior varsity defeated Ayersville 53-47 in overtime. Estie

Sinn scored 16 points against the Pilots and Leah

Sinn added 15 to pace Wayne Trace to the victory.

Stacy Flint chipped in nine markers for the Raiders.

Estie Sinn and Flint each grabbed six rebounds to top

the Raider lineup while Leah Sinn dished out six as-

sists and recorded five steals. Wayne Trace improved

to 9-3 overall and 2-1 in the conference. Isela Brown

had 17 points for the Pilots who also got 10 from Ko-

rbyn Martin. Sabrina Bailey chipped in nine for Ay-

ersville, who fell to 5-5 overall and 1-2 in the GMC.

Junior Varsity Girls Basketball – Lima Central Catholic

rallied from a five-point halftime deficit by outscoring

the Lady Raiders 21-8 in the third quarter to rally for

the 55-43 victory. Leah Sinn posted 11 markers to lead

Wayne Trace with Hollie Wannemacher and Danae

Myers chipping in eight each. Leah Sinn also recorded

five assists and four steals in the contest while grabbing

six rebounds. Natalie Snider had 20 points for the Lady

Thunderbirds with Samantha Koenig adding 17.

Junior High Boys Basketball – Wayne Trace swept past

Fairview in junior high boys basketball action at the

home of the Raiders. The red, white and blue seventh

graders posted a 43-33 win over the Apaches to move

to 5-2 on the season. Trae Sinn led the way with 14

points while Caden Bland chipped in 13 markers. Other

scorers included Josiah Linder (six), Hayden Gillett (three), Caleb Yenser (two), Braden Zuber (two), Korbin

Slade (two) and Mox Price (one). Cole Burggrove led

the black and gold with 15 points with Dallas Curry

adding seven.

Wayne Trace’s eighth grade picked up their third win

in seven games with a 31-23 victory over the Apaches.

Jake Kuhn led the way for the Raiders with 13 points.

Eli Sinn (six), Noah Glass (six), Adam Stoller (three),

Weston Sinn (two) and Jordan Saylor (one). Crites

topped Fairview with 10 markers while Garrigus added

six.

Junior High Boys Basketball – Wayne Trace dropped

a pair of games to Van Wert last week as the Cougar

seventh graders posted a 38-33 victory while the VanWert eighth graders were victorious, 47-28. Josiah Lin-

der led the Raider seventh graders with a dozen points

while Trae Sinn chipped in seven and Caden Bland

added six. Braden Zuber (four), Korbin Slade (two) and

Mox Price (two) had the other points for the red, white

and blue, which falls to 5-3.

In the eighth grade contest, Jake Kuhn scored a

dozen markers for the Raiders, who fell to 3-5. Other

scorers included Eli Sinn (six), Josh Kuhn (five), Adam

Stoller (three) and Noah Glass (two).

Junior High Boys Basketball – Tinora picked up a pair

of wins over Wayne Trace last week as the Ram seventh

graders won 46-31 while the Tinora eighth grade

posted a 42-23 win. Caden Bland led the red, white

and blue with 10 points with Mox Price chipping in six

markers. Korbin Slade (four), Preston Moore (three),

Josiah Linder (two), Braden Zuber (two), Evan Mohr

(two) and Hayden Gillett (two) completed the Raider

scorers.In the eighth grade tilt, Eli Sinn paced Wayne Trace

with seven followed by Noah Glass (five), Gabe Sinn

(three), Weston Sinn (three), Josh Kuhn (two), Owen

Brigner (two) and Jake Kuhn (one).

Ranked Holgate easily defeats Lady ArchersBy JOE SHOUSE

SportswriterANTWERP – Last Thurs-

day the Lady Archers werehome to the Division IV 11th-ranked Holgate Tigers and thevisitors didn’t need long toprove their lofty ranking.Holgate, after a slow start, putit all together to improve itsrecord to 12-1 with a 56-25

thumping of Antwerp.The Lady Archers (1-11)

played very inspired basket-ball in the first period to forcethe Tigers into severalturnovers, but their superior height advantage took its tollin the early going. MarissaMyles, one of the 6-foot twintowers who plays for theTigers, collected 10 points inthe first period. Myles fin-ished with 16 to lead all scor-ers.

Trailing 17-11 after the ini-tial quarter, the Archers strug-gled offensively, scoring just14 points.

“Holgate has so manyweapons and they provedwhy they have their highranking,” said Antwerp headcoach Kevin Taylor.

The other weapons Taylor was referring to were a cou-ple of inside-outside playerswho came in off the bench tospark the Tigers with 22 totalpoints.

The second half of the twintowers, 6-foot Rachel Des-granges, made her presenceknown on the glass and fin-ished with 11 points whilesenior Jillian Clady also to-taled 11 points, including

three “bombs” from behindthe arc.

“When you have those 6-footers who can trap you inthe corner, it makes it difficult

to do much offensively,” saidCoach Taylor.

The Archers finished with21 turnovers.

For the blue and white,Kaiya Jemison finished witheight points to lead theArchers in scoring. Freshman

Peyton Short tallied sevenmarkers including a 3-

pointer, and sophomore Au-drie Longardner added six.

At the foul line Antwerpmade nine trips cashing in onfour while the Tigers madetheir way to the stripe 20times and hitting 18.

“We are a young team playing freshmen and sopho-mores and I have been very

pleased with a couple of our younger kids. Tonight, it was-n’t a lack of effort but we areinexperienced going upagainst one of the best teamsin the area,” Taylor said.

Score by Quarters:

Holgate 17 19 10 10—56

Antwerp 11 4 4 6—25

Holgate (56): Abel 1 2-2 4, Myles 6 3-3

16, Grim 1 4-4 6, Clady 3 2-2 11, Neise 1

2-2 5, Like 1 0-0 3, Desgranges 3 5-7 11.

Totals: 16 18-20 56. Three point goals:

Myles 1, Clady 3, Neise 1, Like 1. Total

fouls: 14.

Antwerp (25): Miller-Sweet 0 1-2 1,

Recker 0 1-2 1, Longardner 2 2-2 6,

Short 3 0-0 7, Jemison 3 0-2 8, Hart 1 0-

0 2, Johanns 0 0-1 0. Totals: 9 4-9 25.

Three point goals: Short 1.

Lincolnview tops AntwerpIn a low scoring defensive

struggle throughout the firsthalf for both teams, Lincol-

nview was able to turn it up anotch in the second half to

prevail over the LadyArchers, 40-28, in nonleagueaction last Tuesday.

Lincolnview took an early2-0 lead on a Hannah Mc-Cleery basket and the LadyLancers never trailed the restof the way. McCleery, the 5-foot-7 point guard for CoachDan Williamson, finishedwith 12 points as did sopho-

more teammate Ashton Bow-ersock.

In the second frame,Antwerp’s Audrie Longard-ner’s bucket cut the Lancer margin to 6-5, but Lincol-nview ignited a 6-0 run totake control 12-5 and went tothe dressing room at intermis-sion up 14-8.

“They (Lincolnview) pres-sured us pretty good and westruggled all night finding anopen shot,” said Antwerphead coach Kevin Taylor.

The Lady Archers came outin the third quarter and playedinspired basketball with Lon-

gardner and CheyenneMiller-Sweet each hitting a

basket to cut the margin to14-12. Lincolnview kept theupper hand with Bowersock and McCleery scoring back-to-back hoops to an eight-

point lead.The third period ended

with a basket from JuliaThatcher and Bowersock

buzzer beater. The Lancersentered the final eight min-utes of play holding its largestlead at nine, 26-17.

“We came out after half-time and scored some points

but our defensive intensity

was nonexistent. I had to sitsome of our starters who werenot getting the job done,” saidCoach Taylor.

Longardner dialed in from

behind the arc to pull theArchers to within six at 26-20to start the fourth quarter, buta Lincolnview scored the nextfive points, including a 12-foot jumper from the left

baseline followed by a clear out in the paint allowing Mc-

Cleery an uncontested lay-up.“Hannah was big for us

tonight. Her scoring and ballhandling was solid and weneed that from here in everygame,” said CoachWilliamson.

With just over three min-utes remaining, Claire Clayconnected on a 2-point goalto give Lincolnview their largest lead, 35-22.

“Offensively we were a bitoff. Usually we have a much

better flow but give Antwerpcredit they made it interestingin the third quarter,”Williamson said.

Longardner led the Archersoffensively with 11 points,followed by Kaiya Jemison,who collected 10. AlthoughCoach Taylor was disap-

pointed in the play of some of his veterans he was pleasedwith the overall play of fresh-man Becca Johanns andsophomore Kianna Recker,who gave the Lady Archerssome quality minutes.

Score by Quarters:

Lancers 6 8 12 14 – 40

Antwerp 3 5 9 11 – 28

Lincolnview (40): Bowersock 3 6-6 12,

Clay 1 0-0 2, Wendel 0 1-4 1, Thatcher 2

3-4 7, McCleery 5 2-2 12, Stemen 2 1-3

6. Totals: 13 13-20 40. Three point goals:

Steman 1. Total fouls: 15.

Antwerp (28): Miller-Sweet 2 0-0 4,

Braaten 1 1-3 3, Longardner 3 4-6 11,

Jemison 2 6-11 10. Totals: 8 11-20 28.


Peyton Short #32 looks for an opening in the Holgate defenselast Friday night in GMC play.

Lady Lancers 40-28 winner earlier in week


Antwerp’s Avery Braaten #10 drives along the baseline againstHolgate last Friday night.

The Special Olympics basketball team has had an exciting schedule despite the winter weather. The PC Tigers played HenryCounty on Jan. 14 and won handily, 62-44. Spencer Lust was the high scorer with 28 points. On Friday, Jan. 17, the AntwerpSchool faculty played the PC Tigers at the Antwerp High School and won in overtime, 60-56. Spencer Lust was high scorer with 22 points. The Antwerp students, as well as the employees from the PC Workshop, enjoyed this event immensely. Picturedare the Special Olympics team, Coach Randy Short, Assistant Coach John Claymiller, and the Antwerp School faculty team.Watch the PC Tigers play Putnam County at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29 at Brookhill in Ottawa. Coach Short remarked that heis very pleased with the success of the PC Tigers’ season and the support of the fans. All 17 players on the roster have playedin every game and have shown great enthusiasm in practice and on the court.

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WT advances to semisBy KEVIN


HAVILAND – The Green Meadows Conference eighthgrade girls basketball tournament started at Wayne Trace HighSchool on Saturday with Holgate, Edgerton, Hicksville and thehost Raiders posting opening round wins.

Game one saw Holgate defeat Ayersville 45-15 beforeEdgerton got past Antwerp 23-18 in the second contest of theday.

The Bulldogs led 6-4 after one quarter but the Archers ralliedto tie the contest at 10-10 at the intermission. Antwerp took a16-15 advantage at the end of three periods before Edgertonoutscored the blue and white 8-2 in the fourth quarter to rallyfor the victory.

Rachel Williamson and Ashley Miller both scored six pointsfor the Lady Archers while Amanda Roberts chipped in four

markers. Callie Perry also had two points for Antwerp.Hicksville advanced to the semifinals with a 34-20 win over Fairview before the host Lady Raiders, also moved on after defeating Tinora 37-28.

The Lady Raiders led 14-6 at the end of one quarter andwidened the margin to 24-13 at the intermission. Tinora cut thedeficit to 31-26 at the end of three periods before Wayne Traceheld on for the win.

Gracie Gudakunst recorded 13 points for Wayne Trace andLily Sinn chipped in 11. Brooke Sinn, Maggie Crosby andMegan Moore added four markers each for the Lady Raiders.

Semifinal matchups were scheduled take place on Monday,Jan. 20, with the championship and consolation games on Sat-urday, Jan. 25.





George Clemens 106 (top) takes down Nick Dehaven of St.Wendelin during the Van Buren Invitational last weekend.

Wayne Trace’s Jacob Dingus 160 (right), tries to escape DylanHartman of Corey Rawson.

WRESTLER MAKES HISTORY – Antwerp Wrestling Club’s EliReinhart recently competed at the Oregon Clay District WrestlingTournament and won first place. Reinhart was 3-0 on the daywith two pins and a major decision. By placing first, he has qual-ified for the Grade School State Wrestling Championships onMarch 14-15 in Youngstown. He is the first-ever Antwerp wrestler to win the Oregon Clay district as well as the first-ever Antwerpwrestler to qualify for state. His hard work day in and day outhave earned him the right to be called a champion. The wrestlingclub as well as everyone in the Antwerp wrestling communitycongratulates Eli and wish him the best as he prepares for thestate championships.

WT places 8th at Van BurenVAN BUREN – The Wayne Trace varsity wrestling team

competed in a two-day tournament held at Van Buren HighSchool, consisting of 26 teams. The Raiders placed eighthoverall.

The lone champion for the Raiders was George Clemens IV,106 lb. Clemens won his championship match via a pin over Jevyn Pratt from Carey.

Ruger Goeltzenleuchter, 120 lb., placed second. He was de-feated in the finals by returning state-placer Tyler Sarreshtehof Liberty Benton. Josh Reel placed fifth at 170 and Matt Bax-ter placed sixth at 126.

Finishing in the top eight, falling just short of the podium,

were Jacob Dingus at 160, and Justin Pierce at 220.“I feel we wrestled well, everyone is starting to improve, andwe are right on track for where we need to be for the postsea-son,” Coach Clemens commented. “It’s hard to compete whenyou’re missing a lot of key wrestlers. When they are back inthe lineup, we should be very competitive.”

TEAM PLACES EIGHTH – The Paulding Panther wrestling team participated at the Chuck Forward Duals in Archbold on Saturday,Jan. 18. The team went 1-4 for the day, defeating Patrick Henry 42-29. The Panthers finished in eighth place overall. Pauldingwrestlers going 5-0 for the day were Kage Seals, 113 lb., with three wins and two voids; Sidney Salinas, 106 lb., with one win andfour voids; Taylor Deatrick, 132 lb., with four wins and one void; and Adam Deatrick, 170 lb., with five wins. Here, Paulding senior Taylor Deatrick flips an opponent during one of his matches.

WT Wrestling Club qualifies

one for state tournamentOn Sunday, Jan. 19, six members of the Wayne Trace

Wrestling Club participated in the Oregon Clay Grade School

Districts. Each wrestler was eager to place in the top four toearn participation at the OAC Elementary State wrestling tour-nament in March in Youngstown.

Wrestlers who competed included Kameron Bevis, GabeSutton, Hunter Long, Jarrett Hornish, Eli Ames and Asa Ames.

Long was the lone wrestler guaranteed a spot at state, placingthird. Long’s record for the day was 5-1.

Hornish earned an alternate position, placing fifth. Hornish’srecord for the day was 3-2. Also earning an alternate position,

placing sixth, was Bevis. Bevis ended his day with a record of 2-3.

The Wayne Trace Club members and coaches would like tocongratulate Antwerp’s Eli Reinhart. Reinhart is the firstwrestler from the Antwerp Wrestling Club to advance to thestate tournament.

Raiders, Archers to vie for titleBy KEVIN


HAVILAND – Wayne Trace recorded a 35-26 win over Edgerton in the opening round of the Wayne Trace seventhgrade boys basketball tournament at the home of the Raiderson Saturday morning.

With the victory, the red, white and blue advances to take onAntwerp in the championship game Saturday morning.

Josiah Linder led Wayne Trace with 15 points while TraeSinn added six. Evan Mohr (four), Caden Bland (four), MoxPrice (two), Korbin Slade (two) and Braden Zuber (two)

picked up the other Raider points on the day.

Wayne Trace Junior

High wrestlers place

nine at invitationalAYERSVILLE – The

Wayne Trace Junior Highwrestling team finished secondout of 13 teams at the Ay-ersville Junior High WrestlingInvitational on Jan. 11.

The Raiders placed ninewrestlers in the event. Brax-ton Asher and Max Rassmanwere both champions.

Finishing in second placewere Noah Reel and WyattStabler, while Anthony Rooksand Austin Smith both placed

third.Fourth-place finishers were

Cassidy Knott, Hunter Showalter and Nick Barnett.

Colton Hower finished 3-2on the day, but did not place.

Team scores: Tinora 106,Wayne Trace 95, Fairview 86,Montpelier 75.5, Paulding 73,Edgerton 71, Ayersville 59,Defiance B 57, ColumbusGrove 48, Delphos St. Johns38, Hicksville 34, Antwerp30, Patrick Henry 14.

2014 OHSAA statebasketball, wrestling

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sales began Jan. 17 for 2014Ohio High School AthleticAssociation State Tourna-ments in wrestling (team andindividual), girls basketballand boys basketball, whichwill be held in February and

March on the campus of TheOhio State University inColumbus.

The OHSAA Boys StateBasketball Tournament isThursday-Saturday, March20-22, at the SchottensteinCenter, and sales will includeall-session tickets and specialall-session.

Single-session tickets salesfor the 2014 tournamentbegin Thursday, March 6, at10 a.m.

The OHSAA Girls StateBasketball Tournament isThursday-Saturday, March

13-15, and sales Friday willinclude all-session and sin-gle-game tickets.

Tickets for the second an-nual OHSAA State Team

Wrestling Tournament andthe 77th Annual OHSAAState Individual WrestlingTournament also began Fri-day.

The state team tournamentwill be held Saturday, Feb. 8,at Ohio State’s St. John

Arena, and sales will includeall-session tickets or single-session tickets.

The state individualwrestling tournament is Feb.27 through March 1 at theSchottenstein Center, and onsale are all-session tickets.Single-session ticket sales

begin on Monday, Feb. 24, at10 a.m.

State tournament ticketscan be purchased in person atTicketmaster locations (in-cluding most Kroger stores),

by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000 or by going

on-line at Ticketmaster.com.Once on-line, fans can easilyaccess OHSAA state tourna-ment tickets by keying in‘OHSAA’ in the search box.

Antwerp varsity

team wrestles

at WoodlanWOODLAN – The

Antwerp High School varsitywrestling team recently com-

peted at the Woodlan Invita-tional on Jan. 18. Five of thesix wrestlers who competedwere able to place in the topsix of their respective weightclasses.

Placing sixth at 182 poundswas sophomore AustinVanAtta. Placing fifth at 220

pounds was junior JordanLaker.

Finishing in the fourth spotwas freshman Logan Shaner,and finishing in third placewas junior Jarett Bute.

As a team, the Archers fin-ished in eighth place with 44

points. Woodlan was fourthwith 151.5 points.

Antwerp Jr. High

wrestlers place

WAUSEON – TheAntwerp Junior HighWrestling team recently com-

peted at the WauseonWrestling Invitational on Jan.18. Of the three wrestlerscompeting, two of them wereable to place in the top threeof their respective weightclasses.

Tyler Bauer placed third at86 pounds and Aiden

McAlexander placed secondin the 80 pound weight class.Catch the junior high

wrestlers as they compete for the championship of theGMC tournament on Jan. 25.

PEVS holds organizational meeting PAULDING – The Paulding

Exempted Village School board held its organizationalmeeting on Jan. 14. The oath of office was administered bytreasurer and CFO MariaRellinger to the re-elected

board member, Mark Manz,and new member, Clint Vance.

Motions were made to approve Mark Manz as presidentand approve James Foltz asvice-president for the 2014 cal-endar year.

James Foltz was appointedas the OSBA Legislative Liai-

son and as the OSBA StudentAchievement Liaison for 2014.

The board approved numer-ous consent agenda items au-thorizing the treasurer andsuperintendent to fulfill spe-cific duties for the calendar year.

After the 10-minute sessionwas held, the board began itsregular meeting.

Wendy Price and JilleneMcMichael, representing theMini Relay for Life, were pres-ent at the meeting. (See related story on page 1.)

Superintendent WilliamHanak, reported on the follow-

ing items:• Recognized board mem-

bers for school board recogni-tion month.

• Recognized Jack Palmer,writer for the Defiance Cres-cent News, who passed awayrecently.

• Rick Varner gave an up-date on the sewer project for the bus garage.

On Hanak’s recommenda-tions, the board approved:

• a motion to send approx-imately 18-25 National Honor Society students and 5-8 chap-erones to New York City bycharter bus, April 14-17, at an

estimated cost of $686 per stu-dent, which is paid for by thestudent or fund raisers.

• approved school make-updates for the 2014-15 schoolcalendar (Feb. 16, April 7, June1, 2).

The board also approved thefollowing personnel items:

• one-year limited extracur-

ricular contracts were approvedfor Debra Hornyak, Beth Thor-nell and Nancy Wehrkamp asOakwood Elementary Memo-rial Day program directors;Kyle Coleman, weight pro-gram; and Megan Crawford,eighth grade volleyball.

• increased the extracurric-ular contract previously givento Robert Schnippel, FFA ad-viser.

• approved Jace Crosslandas a substitute teacher; substi-tute support staff membersJohn Manz, bus driver, andKevin Saylor, custodian

• approved athletic de-

partment helpers MarshaBland and Brett Kauser;

• accepted the resignationof Jerry Hessel, technologycoordinator, effective Feb. 7.

The board went into exec-utive session to consider theemployment and compensa-tion of public employees or officials.

After the 90-minute ses-sion, the board voted to add anew aide position for the re-mainder of the 2013-14school year, to meet studentneeds, and a motion to au-thorize the superintendentand treasurer to negotiate

terms to sign the settlement of the pending grievance for thePEA.

WT hires technologycoordinator

By LINDSAY McCOYDHI Correspondent

HAVILAND – Wayne Trace Local School Board of Educationmet for its annual organizational meeting Monday, Jan. 13. LisaMcClure was named board president, and regularly monthly meet-ings were set for the second Monday of each month beginning at7:30 p.m.

A contract was approved for Jerry Hessel as the new technologycoordinator. Hessel is currently the technology coordinator at Pauld-

ing Exempted Village Schools and will be starting with the WayneTrace School district beginning Feb. 10.

“With the hiring of a new technology coordinator, we are now ina position to move forward with the implementation of the StraightA Fund grant monies,” said superintendent Stephen Arnold. “Thiswas the first step for the district.”

Arnold also reported that Wayne Trace has now exceeded the setamount of calamity days required for the 2013-14 school year. Makeup days have been set for Feb. 17 on Presidents Day as well as May29.

“We appreciate all the help we received from community members in helping to clean up water from the broken sprinkler systemat the Junior/Senior building,” Arnold said. A crack in the systemearly last week caused water to flood the building, and theschool received large support from members of the communitywho helped cleanup the mess within the school building.

The board accepted the resignation of Judith Snook as

teacher after 26 years with the district.Harry Bland was approved as a basketball volunteer coach

and Travis Tumblin was approved as baseball volunteer coach.

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known, will take noticethat on October 1, 2013,the Plaintiff, U.S.

BANK, NATIONALASSOCIATION, ASS U C C E S S O R TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,AS SUCCESSOR TOLASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEEFOR THE HOLDERSOF THE MERRILLLYNCH FIRSTFRANKLIN MORT-GAGE LOAN TRUST,MORTGAGE LOAN

A S S E T - B A C K E DCERTIFICATES, SE-RIES 2007-1, filed itsComplaint in Case No.CI 13 193, in the Courtof Common Pleas of Paulding County, Ohio,seeking a foreclosure of its mortgage interest inthe real property locatedat 17026 St Rt 49,Antwerp, OH 45813-9152, Permanent Parcel No. 1l-09S-009-00,("Real Estate"), and al-leged that the Defen-dant, have or may havean interest in this RealEstate.The Defendant, Un-

known Heirs, Legatees,Devisees, Executors,Administrators and As-

signs and their Spouses,if any, of Nellie R.Wroblewski, is requiredto answer the Plaintiff’sComplaint withintwenty-eight (28) daysafter the last date of pub-lication of this notice. Inthe event that the Defen-dant, Unknown Heirs,Legatees, Devisees, Ex-ecutors, Administratorsand Assigns and their Spouses, if any, of Nellie

R. Wroblewski, failed torespond in the allottedtime, judgment by de-fault can be enteredagainst them for the re-lief requested in thePlaintifFs Complaint.Matthew C. Gladwell(0075591)Carrie L. Rouse(0083281)Ryan F. Hemmerle(0079721)Robert A. Wood(0031620)Attorney for Plaintiff Reisenfeld & Associ-ates, LPA LLC3962 Red Bank RoadCincinnati, OH 45227

voice; (513) 322-7000facsimile: (513) 322-7099 17c6

IN THE COMMONPLEAS COURT OF

PAULDINGCOUNTY, OHIO

LEAUDREY BUCK- NER aka Leaudrey Youngaka Leaudry Buckner,et.al.Plaintiffsv.RENOTTA KELLYnka Renotta Young,et.al.

DefendentsCase No. CI 12 148To: Unknown Spouseof Renotta Kelly nkaRenotta Young; Jerry W.Young, deceased akaJerry William Young,deceased; Charles T.Young; UnknownSpouse of Charles T.Young; All the unknownheirs, executors, admin-istrators and assigns of Charles T. Young; AlvinEdsel Young, aka Auld-win E. Young; UnknownSpouse of Alvin EdselYoung, aka Auldwin E.Young; All the unknownheirs, executors, admin-

istrators and assigns of Alvin Edsel Young, akaAuldwin E. Young; Win-

fred Wingate; UnknownSpouse of WinfredWingate; All the un-known heirs, executors,

administrators and as-signs of WinfredWingatePlease take notice that anAmended Complaint has been filed in the above-captioned action againstyou seeking a declara-tory judgment clarifyingtitle to the subject real es-tate, and an action seek-ing to quiet title thesubject real estate, andseeking to partition to thesubject real estate, whichreal estate is described asfollows:Situate in the Townshipof Washington in theCounty of Paulding and

State of Ohio, and bounded and describedas follows; to wit: A partof the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of the NorthwestQuarter (1/4) of SectionFifteen (15), TownshipOne (1) North, RangeFour (4) East, of the first principal Meridian de-scribed as follows: Be-ginning at a pointSixty-four (64) rodsSouth of the Southwestcorner of the northwestQuarter (1/4) of thenorthwest Quarter (1/4)of said Section Fifteen(15), Township andRange aforesaid, and

running thence South onthe West line of Quarter-Quarter section, sixteen

(16) rods to the South-west corner thereof;thence East along thehalf section line running

East and West throughsaid section Fifteen (15),Eighty (80) rods to thecenter of a road runningthrough said section;thence in a Northerly di-rection in the center of said road to a pointwhere said road crossesthe North line of theSouthwest Quarter (1/4)of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section Fif-teen (15); thence Weston said quarter sectionline to a point Forty (40)rods East of the West lineof said Section Fifteen(15); thence South Sixty-four (64) rods; thence

West to the West line of said section and place of beginning, containingfifteen (15) acres of land,more or less.Also, the NorthwestQuarter (1/4) of theSouthwest Quarter (1/4)of said Section Fifteen(15), Township andrange aforesaid, contain-ing Forty (40) acres of land, more or less.Containing in all Fifty-five (55) acres of land,more or less, but subjectto all legal highways.Parcel ID Nos.: 31-15S-012-00 (40 acres) and32-15S-013-00 (15

acres)Situated in WashingtonTownship, Paulding

County, Ohio:The East one-half (1/2)of the West half (1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section Sixteen(16), Town One (1) North, Range Four (4)East, Paulding County,Ohio, forty (40) acres.Parcel ID No.: 31-16S-008-00 (40 acres)You are required to an-

swer the AmendedComplaint within 28days after the publicationof this Notice, which will be published once aweek for six (6) succes-sive weeks, the date of the last publication will be on Jan. 22, 2014, andthe 28 days for answer will commence on thatdate.Ann E. Pease, Clerk Common Pleas Court Of Paulding County, Ohio115 N.Williams StreetPaulding, Ohio 45879BRIAN S. GORRELL,ESQ. (#0075438)112 N. Water Street

Paulding, OH 45879(419) 399-2181Attorney for Plaintiffs17c6

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEASOF PAULDINGCOUNTY, OHIOFirst Federal Bank of the Midwest, 601 Clin-ton Street, Defiance,OH 43512,Plaintiff vs.Sean W. Sprouse, etc.,et al. Defendants.Case No. CI-13-236JUDGE RIGHTER-BECKMANJohn M. Liming(0008159), of Clemens, Korhn, Lim-ing & Warncke, Ltd.Block Six BusinessCenter


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Vantage honor roll

Paulding Middle School honor roll

Oakwood Elementary honor roll Paulding High School honor roll

Oakwood Elementary School has an-

nounced the honor roll for the second nineweeks:* Denotes all A’s

Grade 1 – Chloe Miner, Bryce Manz,Jaiden Stokes, Alexis Wharry, Abbie Bail*,Matthew Bail*, Emma Elkins*, Braelyx Bart-ley*, Aeylah Hitzeman*, Elana Bidlack*,Brooke Kilgore*, Allison Carnahan*, CurtisLangsdorf*, Libby Dotterer*, Riley Leather-man*, Hayden Elston*, Ashley Rickels*, Jeri-cho Guyton*, Brooklyn Schlatter*, KaylaHunter*, Kadence Thomas*, Emily Keezer*,Ethan Warner*, Cadance Lucas*, Jack Woods*, Max Stork*, Tiffany Swicker*

Grade 2 – Nathan Guyton, Harley Collins,Jackson Keller, Royce Cooper, Liberty Lucas,Taegan Manz, Ishara Mason, Kaiden Tucker,Tyler Schlatter, Zachery VanScoder, Tristan

White, Blake Weible, Courtney Dix*, ElliBarton*, Emma Dotterer*, Kurtis Bauer*,Jamy Hunt*, Kacy Hornish*, Rhaegan Mar-shall*, Layla Logan*, Allyson Merriman*,Kylie McCray*, Jocelynn Parrett*, AidenMiller*, Jesse Shaffer*

Grade 3 – John Rickels, Madison Egnor,

Savannah Peters, Emma Florence, BenjiParks, Tristan Dix, Gabe Nunez, Gavin King,Bridget Gribble, Gage Lloyd, Shelby Ford,Mason Schlatter, William Finch, Logan Seib-ert, Cassie Weller*, Hayden Mullen*, EanSeibert*, Caydence Rue*, Joe Estle*

Grade 4 – Erika Dobbelaere, Billie Vargo,Brianna Ford, Carsen Perl, Vanessa Krueger,Haiden Newsome, Stephanie Ladd, TiannaCooper, Deacon Laney, Sam Woods*, Hunter Long, Jarrett Hornish*, Wyatt Noffsinger,Alivia Perl, Mark Butler*

Grade 5 – Dylan Daniels, Selena Guyton,Hailee Huner, Hailey Hartzell, Jacob King,Brendan Hornish, Alexis Lamond, Connor Hunter, Seth Meggison, Raylynn Miler, BenWeible, Jalynn Parrett, Sadie Estle*, MeganDearth*, Marquise Seibert*, Hunter Dobbe-

laere*, Kaitlyn Shaffer*Grade 6 – Braxton Conley, Kennedy Foor,

Kelsey Guyton, Brendan Keith, Jordyn Mer-riman, Natalie Speiser, TJ Vargo, SamanthaWagner, Mackenzie Weible, Taylor Long*,Kaela Lucas*, Audra Stuck*

Payne Elementary honor roll The Payne Elementary honor roll for thesecond nine weeks grading period:

GRADE 1 – Jordan Banks, Christian Boh-land, Katelynn Dix, Brennan Egnor, KendelFranklin, Bailey Hildebrand, Riley Hilde- brand, Chase Holt, MaKenna Johnson, JuliahManz, Olivia McMillan, Beth Miller, ColeMorehead, Allison Noggle, Jazmyne Roddy,

Dyson Scott, Trenton Thomas, Zavier Wen-ninger, Melanie Buschor, Adalae Collins,Ailsa Doctor, Tyson Gerber, MaKenna Gun-nells, Emily Johnson, Isabella Knowles,Mason Lane, Mason Lee, Brooke Miller,Rylin Moore, Noah Parady, Keegan Rager, TyRiebesehl, Kayson Ross, Keira Sargent, BlakeSchultz, Luke Stouffer

GRADE 2 – Anastasia Adkins, KatieAnnaBaumle, Connor Blankenship, Melanie Dun-ham, Devan Egnor, Kemper Forrer, DylanHildebrand, Lucas Kennedy, Lillyann Lane,Adrian Laukhuf, Brooks Laukhuf, EmmaLyons, Meara Rager, Meg Thompson, EmilyThrasher, Zachary Wobler, Ava Zartman,Breven Anderson, Logen Bland, Hannah Dun-ham, Kyren Karhoff, Emma Laukhuf, JoyMoran, Brenna Parker, Jude Stoller, Tori Stoller,

Brenna Thomas, Caitlyn Thomas, Caden Tum- blin, Cooper Wenzlick, Cale Winans, RJ Nichter GRADE 3 – Martin Alejo, Lilli Anderson,

Zerika Burkley, Emily Manz, Mallory Moore,Lane Morehead, Jared Pierce, Laura Stoller, Nyle Stoller, Ian Clevenger, Evan Crosby, ArinJames, Elizabeth Mohr, Morgan Riebesehl, Gra-cie Shepherd, Brinley Warner GRADE 4

All A’s – Kate Laukhuf, Jeremiah Molitor,Cameron Stoller, Malia Wittwer

All A’s & B’s – Therin Coyne, CorbinDaulton, Raydyn Egnor, Morgan Hefner, Anas-tasia Gonzales, Kaylena Gray, Carson Laukhuf,Brookelynn LeeGRADE 5

All A’s – Carlee Mead, Joseph Munger,Samuel Rager, Natalie Schultz, Riley Stoller,Jacob Stouffer, Ryan Wenninger

All A’s & B’s – Bailey Coil, Emma Crosby,Draven Hanicq, Jeramiah Harris, Owen Manz,Eli Moore, Chloe Parker, Waylon Smallwood,Maria Stoller, Gage Tinlin, Emily ZamarripaGRADE 6

All A’s – Sydney Coyne, Nathan Gerber, Bri-anna Putman, Gage Waltmire

All A’s & B’s – Brittney Bauer, DeaconCrates, Cale Crosby, Caleb Flynn, Max Laukhuf,Zach Now, Kylie Pfeiffer, Austin Pierce, Kiera

Roddy, Zane Shaffer, Logan Smith, Kaitlin Vest,Libby Wenzlick, Richard Williams, ZoeyWright, Reed Zartman

Paulding Middle Schoolhonor roll for the secondnine weeks:GRADE 6

All A’s – Jacob Deisler, Ju-lianna Fife, Tyrel Goings,Zoe Kochel, Sidney Kohart,

Cole Mabis, Montserrat Mar-tinez, Sydney McCullough,Kameron Pastor, Joel Schnei-der, Savannah Shepherd,Katelyn Strayer, KaylieTressler, Alexis Varga, JadenVerfaillie

All A’s and B’s – ReaganAkom, Trevor Banet, ClaeClemens, Riley Coil, SethDysinger, Kolson Egnor,Shelby Flannagan, MeganGarrity, Kiarra Hawn,Matthew Henry, Robert Ho-bart, Nathan Hodge, BrandonJackson, McCailey Johanns,Tommy McGrath, Julia Mc-Master, Jordan Mudel, NoahPessefall, Ivy Riggenbach,Jacob Rose, Miah Rue,Matthew Schroeder, GageSmith, Tyler Snipes, OliviaStallard, Laney Stoller GRADE 7

All A’s – Alexandra Arend,Luke Brewer, Charles Clap-saddle, Fletcher Cook,Haylee Dominique, KamdynEtzler, Eugene Hemenway,Macy Iler, Tristan Kinder,Courtney Luderman, Heather Manz, Shana Manz, EthanMatty, Jaret Miller, JosephReineck, Kalyn Strahley

All A’s and B’s – Lexie

Beckman, Raven Bussing,Alexandra Cardin, Luke

Dunakin, Katelyn Estle,Sierra Halter, Hailey Harris,Casey Holman, MadisonHull, Abigail Leaman,Dustyn McCloud, Hailey Mc-Daniel, Leah Nusbaum, MaryPanico, Ty Plotts, Delaney

Porter, Sydney Price, BrandonScott, Dylan Shawver, ZoeShepherd, Hunter Sherry, Car-son Shull, Jennifer Stahl, Mal-lory Taylor, Trinity Temple,Megan Tope, Victoria Valle,Jessica Weller GRADE 8

All A’s – Isaac Baldwin,Logan Bradford, Miah Coil,Madison Good, Brianna Gor-rell, Savannah Habern, Hal-lieann Hale, Jacee Harwell,Shawn Jackson, Kalen Kelly,

Kyle Kovac, Audrey Manz,Brian Matson, Cade McGar-vey, Emma McMaster, Abbi-gaile McMichael, MarcusMiller, Elizabeth Mobley,Caitlyn Myers, Kaylee Plum-mer, Gabriella Stahl, Hunter

Vogel, Jordan Weidenhamer All A’s and B’s – AbigailAdams, Allison Ankney, Cas-sandra Bishop, AlexandraBrown, Blake Bussing, Joce-lyn Camposano, KirbyCarder, Ethan Dominique,Abigail English, AnthonyGarcia, Stephanie Habern,Corbin Kohart, Michael Ko-hart, Sunshine-Rae New-some, Daviah Pessefall,Cassidy Posey, Spencer Price,Devon Smith, Hannah Vance

Vantage Career Center has announced the honor roll forthe second nine weeks. Included are:*Denotes 4.0 GPA

ANTWERPJuniors – Julia Balser, *Jarett Bute, Marivelle Flint, Jasper

Godeke, Cheyenne Miller-SweetSeniors – *Bethany Dunderman, Christopher Edgar, Asia

Flinn, *Jenna Hankinson, Nathan Zuber PAULDING

Juniors – David Fisher, Chelsea Kelly, *Emily Pastor Seniors – *Emily Farr, Chazz Hahn, Mallory Laney,

Georgina Martinez, Cameron Mohley, Logan Stahl, Derek Varner WAYNE TRACE

Juniors – Grant Gillett, *Samantha Hinchcliff, Jenny Hol- brooks, Courtnie Laney, Katrina Lusk, Jill Ross, Samantha VanVlerah

Seniors – Sadia Canfield, Allison Laney, Dalton Miles,Danielle Miles, Olivia Sutton, Alexandra Winebrenner

Paulding High School honor

roll for the second nineweeks:SENIORS

4.00 – Emily Albert, JerikaBland, Megan Coak, Nick Hitchcock, Ashley Johanns,Ashlyn Laney, Janey McCourt,Kaylyn Rager, KaitlynRoughton, Julian Salinas, Sid-ney Salinas, Jaclyn Schlatter,Chelsie Schoepflin, AlyssaShelmadine, Allison Singer,Tiffany Spangler, Kaley Varner,CeCe Weidenhamer

3.5-3.9 – Stephanie Baldwin,Sarah Bales, Sean Bentley, EricBusch, Dylan Carnahan, OliviaCramer, Taylor Dangler, Taylor

Deatrick, Javier Gonzales, GuyHarder, Cody Jarrell, JoeKauser, Andrew Layman,Kandee Manson, Kelsi Manz,Brad Matson, Sierra McCul-lough, Michael Mott, Rachel Nicelley, Sydney Provines,Chelsea Rose, Kayla Shaffer,Alesha Simon, Andrea Singer,Austin Stafford, Shelly Stafford,Victoria Stephens-Vazquez,Jenifer Switzer, Jade VanCleve,Meagan Weller, Bailey Zeller

3.0-3.49 – Justin Carnahan,Gerod Harder, Travis Jones,Kyle Kauser, Sonny Manz, SethMattocks, Ryan Schindler JUNIORS

4.0 – Kathryn Clapsaddle,Kayla Deitrick, KarolinaJakuczun, Amanda LoCastro,Isaac Nice, Haley Schlegel,Shayla Shepherd, Bill Smith,Laurel Wehrkamp

3.5-3.9 – Taylor Ankney,

Katie Carnahan, LydiaClemence, Lyndi Clinton, Clau-dia Foltz, Kyle Gardner, PrestonGross, Ben Heilshorn, AlexisHowell, Erin Johanns, JacobLong, Ashleigh Marable,Melissa Martinez, Ellie Miller,Morgan Riley, JessicaSchroeder, Ashlyn Strahley,Malayna VanCleve

3.0-3.49 – Rachael Burkhart,Christian Burtch, BaileyCombs, Brooke Combs, AdamDeatrick, Hannah English, Tre-ston Gonzales, Kyla Hawn,Skyler Huth, Kastin Kelly,Aaron Mock, Konnor Owens,Suzanne Reinhart, Lorenzo

Salinas, Dalton TalbottSOPHOMORES

4.0 – Lucas Arend, VictoriaBradford, Allison Harpel,Matthew Martinez, Megan Rei-neck, Emilee Ringler, Taylor Schooley, Jordan Shull, JarrettSitton, Mei Tenwalde

3.5-3.9 – Zach Buchman,Sierra Bullard, KasandraCogswell, Destiny Dangler-Reed, Damon Egnor, KynsieEtzler, Megan Fife, NathanGee, Jowaine Grimes, LaurenJohanns, Kacie Karlstadt, Tay-lor Kochenour, Sam Ladd, Tay-lor Manz, Cynthia McCourt,Victoria Meadows, Branson

Minck, Bridgett Moore, KristaMullins, Haley Porter,Johnathon Rose, Jaycie Varner, Nick Warnimont, Cullen Wen-zlick, Drayson Wenzlick

3.0-3.49 – Alex Arellano,

Hailey Brittig, Jennifer Coil,

Angelicia Escalera, Leigha Flo-res, Kelsey Hale, Henry Hohen- berger, Luke Jackson, SabrinahLeaman, Brendon Lothamer,Kimberly Matson, BaileyMeyer, Kristen Schilt, SkySchooley, Wyatt WolfleFRESHMAN

4.0 – Allison Arend, BrittanyBrown, Christine Clapsaddle,William Deisler, Christopher Elder, Hannah Farr, PaigeFitzwater, Emily Knodel, MollyMeeker, Estee Miller, ChantalMonnier, Dayton Pracht, JoEllyn Salinas, Ashley Snipes,Beth Yates

3.5-3.9 – Jordan Barker,

Daleigh Davis, Robert Deitrick,Kameron Echols, KatlynnFuller, Lauren Hill, AaronHorstman, Preston Ingol,Caylin Johanns, Preston Jo-hanns, Matthew Karia, AndreaKremer, Skyler McCullough,Ava Moats-Landis, JaredPaschall, Bailey Pieper, MorrisaRue, Simeon Shepherd,Cameron Strahley, Chella Var-gas, Faith Vogel, Brooke Wei-denhamer, Peter Wharry

3.0-3.49 – Leona Aldred,Kaleb Becker, Michael Dangler,Andrew Deatrick, Hailey Dix,Kaleb Goshia, Ty Harwell,Sanora Keck, Coy King, Des-

tiney Kittle, Aubrey Kremer,Brea Ladd, Kaytlin Ladd,Karissa Lucas, Skyler Maassel,Taylor March, Ryan Nicelley,Tyler Nichols, Cherish Porter,Jacob Rodriguez, Ben Stuck

LEGALS

419 Fifth Street, Suite2000P. O. Box 787Defiance, OH 43512-0787Telephone: 419-782-6055Facsimile: 419-782-3227E m a i l : [email protected] for Plaintiff

LEGAL NOTICEApril L. Sprouse, whoselast known address was9206 County Road 171,Oakwood, Ohio; andwhose present residenceaddress is unknown andwhose place of resi-dence cannot be ascer-tained and, the unknownspouse, heirs, devisees,legatees, executors, ad-

ministrators, creditorsand assigns and the un-known guardians of anyminor and/or incompe-tent spouse, heirs, de-visees or legatees of April L. Sprouse, all of whose addresses are un-known and whose places of residence can-not be ascertained, shalltake notice that, on

Dec. 26, 2013, FirstFederal Bank of theMidwest filed a Com- plaint in Foreclosure of Mortgage in the above-captioned action in theCourt of Common Pleasof Paulding County,Ohio, Courthouse, 115 North Williams Street,Paulding, OH. The ob- ject of the Complaint is

to foreclose the lien of Plaintiff’s mortgagerecorded upon the fol-lowing described realestate in which Plaintiff alleges that the forego-ing Defendants have or may claim to have an in-terest in the subject realestate. Pursuant to2703.141, the completestreet address for the

subject real estate is9206 County Road 171,Oakwood, Ohio, and the parcel number is 08-22S-017-00. You arefurther advised that thecomplete legal descrip-tion of the parcel may beobtained from thecounty auditor.Defendants are requiredto answer within twenty-

eight (28) days to the last publication of this Legal Notice and to serve acopy of their Answer upon Plaintiff's attorneywho is John M. Liming,P.O. Box 787, Defiance,Ohio, 43512-0787, or default judgment may be granted against them,forever barring assertionof their claims.

Ann E. PeasePaulding County Clerk of Courts115 North WilliamsStreetPaulding, Ohio 4587920c3

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Wayne Trace honor roll

School Lunch Menus

Wayne Trace Junior High/High Schoolhonor roll for the second nine weeks:SENIORS

4.00 – Madison McClure, MackenzieHaney, Haley Linder, Rachael Kreischer,Sylvia Young, Madeline Baumle, JanelleJohnson, Matthew Klopfenstein, Madison Pol-ing, Kendall Germann, Jared Sherry, LoganFast, Katelynn Back, Brock Worden, LibbyStabler

3.67-4.0 – Abigail Shepherd, Treanna Bid-lack, Sean Durre, Colby Speice, BrookeWilcox, Brenda Feasby

3.3-3.66 – Brittany Jenkins, Emilie Linder,Amber Combs, Aaron Stoller, Austin Conlon,Alexis Flores, Jacob Gerber, Emily Mohr,Dustin Taylor, Matthew Lambert, AndrewLudwig, Wesley Goings, Arlen Stoller

3.0-3.29 – Devin Shaffer-Wenzlick, JordanElick, Janey Janka, TJ BlackmoreJUNIORS

4.00 – Blair Baumle, Hank Sinn, RebeccaHamrick, Addison Baumle, Sarah Young

3.67-4.0 – Jehane Hoagland, Hunter Martin,Erin Jewell, Jacob Dingus, Jacob Arend,Corbin Linder, Kayla Zuber, Isaiah Ross,

3.3-3.66 – Cassidy Hilkey, James Weaver,Latasha Rivera, Elizabeth Brown, MollyCrosby

3.0-3.29 – Leah Sinn, Matthew Baxter, Dar-ius Hale, Haley Saylor, Nicholas Mansfield,

Kristin Raab, Kayla Dilling, Bailey BergmanSOPHOMORES

4.00 – Victoria Ryan, Brianna Sinn, ErinMohr, Cole Shepherd, Estie Sinn, Scott Wen-ninger

3.67-4.0 – Sydney Critten, Shayna Temple,Stacy Flint, Taryn Homier, Hollie Wan-nemacher, Nathanael Roop, Mikayla Ander-son, Jayson Nowak

3.3-3.66 – Corey Davis, Christopher Davis,Nicholas Durre, Arlyn Cooper, EmileeColgan, Alec Vest, Quinton Harper, SydneyHofmann, Zachary Sinn, Noah Stoller

3.0-3.29 – Carley Wright, Clint Sinn, Luke

Miller, Brooke Ludwig, Jake Baksa, JessicaOfferle, Austin Kuhn, Kenzie Clemens, AustinFastFRESHMAN

4.00 – Emil Stoller, Brady Stabler 3.67-4.0 – Seth Saylor, Ethan Dunham,

Brooke Lelonek, Julie Holbrooks, SarahDyson, Daniel Sinn

3.3-3.66 – Joseph Schmidt, Korene Shel-ton, Gabrielle Gudakunst, Seth Yenser, GagePfeiffer, Colin Doerr, Danae Myers, MaddisonPessefall, Jonathan Sinn, Ethan Linder

3.0-3.29 – Ruger Goeltzenleuchter, Noah

Ryan, Samuel Nickols, Natalie Kuhn, CalebSchultz, Brooke Ramey, Kacey Reinhart,Ethan Crates, Chance Elliott, Madison Zart-man, Breia Eutsler, Lindsy Rivera, MegCrosbyGRADE EIGHT

4.00 – Kalin Gerber, Megan Moore, LeahMaassel, Connor Baumle, Lily Sinn

3.67-4.0 – Gracie Gudakunst, Sara Sinn3.3-3.66 – Erica Mohr, Adam Stoller, Celia

Baker, Quinton Stabler, Jaydon Edwards3.0-3.29 – Joel Johnson, Owen Brigner, We-

ston Sinn, Aden Baker, Elias Sinn, MadisonChastainGRADE SEVEN

4.00 – Ellie Stoller, Carissa Laukhuf, AustinReed

3.67-4.0 – Julianne Roop, Sadie Sinn,

Madison Coyne Clark Laukhuf, Wyatt Stabler 3.3-3.66 – Noah Hasch, Hannah Wilhelm,

Anne Eklund, Reece Thompson, Ellie Moore,Kaitlyn Doster, Rachel Ringler, MatthewStouffer, Trae Sinn, Kaylee Shepherd, AlliHefner, Olivia Egnor, Grant Baumle, Derek Myers, Keagann Parrish, Caden Bland, BryanHofmann, Josiah Linder, Madilyn Brigner,Gracie Laukhuf

3.0-3.29 – Meagan Speice, Chloe Stabler,Kristen Rittenhouse, Korbin Slade, Sara Ed-wards, Emily Williams, Hayden Williamson,Haleigh Stoller, Emily Dyson, BrookeGreulach

Menus are subject to changeANTWERP LOCAL SCHOOLS

Week of Jan. 27MONDAY – Lunch: Mini corn-

dogs, baked beans, pineapple, milk.Plus: Salad bar.

TUESDAY – Lunch: Walking taco,baked fries, peaches, milk. Plus:Salad bar.

WEDNESDAY – Lunch: Breadedchicken on bun, broccoli with riceand cheese, mixed fruit, milk. Plus:Salad bar.

THURSDAY – Lunch: Spaghettiwith meatballs, tossed salad, pears,milk. Plus: Salad bar.

FRIDAY – Lunch: Hodgepodgepizza, celery with dip, applesauce,milk. Plus: Salad bar.

PAULDING HIGH SCHOOLWeek of Jan. 27

MONDAY – Breakfast: Sausageegg pizza, fruit, juice, milk. Lunch:Popcorn chicken bowl, dinner roll or salad bar and breadstick, fruit, milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Egg andsausage burrito, salsa, juice, fruit,milk. Lunch: Chunk chicken salad,cheddar biscuit, sandwich on bun,oven fries, milk.

WEDNESDAY – Breakfast: 2hour delay. Grab and go breakfast.Lunch: Pizza sticks with marinarasauce, green beans or top your ownPhilly, WG chips, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Minipancakes, sausage links, juice, fruit,milk. Lunch: General Tso’s chickenbowl, eggroll, or BD pizza slice, sea-soned corn, baby carrots, fruit, milk.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Sausagegravy and biscuit, juice, fruit, milk.Lunch: Chili dog on bun, bakedbeans, oven potatoes, salad bar and

breadstick, fruit, milk.OAKWOOD ELEMENTARY

Week of Jan. 27Packed lunch: Peanut butter

and jelly, vegetable of the day,fruit, milk.

MONDAY – Breakfast: Pancakeon a stick, fruit, milk. Lunch: Minipancakes, mini sausage, celerysticks, carrot sticks, fruit, milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Mini pan-cake, fruit, milk. Lunch: Grilledchicken on bun, lettuce and tomato,peas, fruit, milk.

WEDNESDAY – 2 hour delayBreakfast: Warm cinnamon roll, fruit,milk. Lunch: Pepperoni cheesebread stick, marinara sauce, greenbeans, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Egg andsausage burrito, fruit, milk. Lunch:Popcorn chicken, whipped potatoes,gravy, bread, lettuce salad, fruit,milk.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Assorted ce-reals, fruit, milk. Lunch: Taco wrap,lettuce, refried beans, fruit, milk.

PAULDING ELEMENTARYWeek of Jan. 27

MONDAY – Breakfast: Yogurt,Goldfish grahams, fruit, juice, milk.Lunch: Hamburger on whole grainbun, carrots, fresh vegetable choice,or bologna on bun, fruit, milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Pan-cakes, fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Tacosalad with crackers, lettuce, cheese,

salsa, refried beans, or bologna onbun.WEDNESDAY – 2 hour delay.

Lunch: Pancakes with sausage,oven potatoes, tomato juice, or corndog, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Muffin,

string cheese, fruit, juice, milk.Lunch: Chicken nuggets, whippedpotatoes with gravy, corn, bread or peanut butter and jelly, Gogurt,crackers, fruit, milk.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Cereal or bar,Goldfish crackers, juice, fruit, milk.Lunch: Fish on bun, broccoli withcheese, fresh vegetable choice or peanut butter and jelly, Gogurt/crack-ers, fruit, milk.

WAYNE TRACE SCHOOLSWeek of Jan. 27

MONDAY – Breakfast: Sausagepizza. Lunch: Mini corn dogs, bakedbeans, cooked carrots, fruit, milk. Alsooffered to HS: Chef salad, pizza sub or grilled chicken on bun with salad bar.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Eggcheese muffin. Lunch: Chicken noo-dles, mashed potatoes, green beans,roll, fruit, milk. Also at Jr/Sr High - Pizzasub or grilled chicken on bun, saladbar.

WEDNESDAY – Breakfast: Minipancakes and sausage. Lunch: Meat-ball sub, corn, fruit, milk, fruit, milk. Alsoat Jr/Sr High – Chef salad, pizza subor barbecue rib on bun, salad bar.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Cheeseomelet, toast. Lunch: Chicken fajitawith lettuce, cheese, black beans,corn, fruit, milk. Also at Jr/Sr. HighSchool – Chef salad, pizza sub or grilled chicken on bun with salad bar.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Turnover.Lunch: Pizza, romaine lettuce salad,

fruit, milk. Also at Jr/Sr. High School –Chef salad, pizza sub or barbecue ribon bun with salad bar.

DIVINE MERCY SCHOOLWeek of Jan. 27

Same menu as Wayne Trace; nobreakfast served.

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