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PAULDING – The annu-al Health, Business andIndustry Fair will be heldfrom 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March20 at the OSU ExtensionCenter at the PauldingCounty Fairgrounds.

Tables are still availableat the cost of $15 for non-profit groups and $30 forprofit businesses.

The show is sponsored bythe Paulding County SeniorCenter with promotional as-sistance from the PauldingArea Social ServiceNetwork and the PauldingChamber of Commerce.

The Rock openPAYNE – Starting

March 6, Christ’s Com -munity Center (The Rock)in Payne will be open from6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednes daysand Fridays. Childrengrades 5- 2 are welcome.

Extended treeseedling sale

PAULDING – It’s nottoo late. The Paulding Soil& Water ConservationDistrict has extended itstree seedling sale. Orderswill be accepted throughMarch 20. Those interestedmay receive an order formby mail, email, or on theweb. Please call 419-399-4771 or visit www.pauld-ingswcd.org.

Weather reportA summary of February’s

weather highs and lows, asrecorded at Paulding’s watertreatment plant:

• Maximum temperature:53° on Feb 19.

• Low temperature: 6°on Feb. 2 and 6.

• Most rain/melted snowin a 24-hour period: 1.17inches on Feb. 27; mostice/snow: 2.1 inches onFeb. 5.

• Total rainfall/meltedsnow for the month: 2.03inches; total ice and snow:6.2 inches.

PPAULDINGAULDING CCOUNTYOUNTY

By BILL SHERRYCorrespondent

PAULDING – Paulding Village Councilheard details of a planned convenience store onthe north side of town during its regular meet-ing Monday, March 4.

Jack and Paul Grewal from Napoleon are in-terested in developing the former Paulding-Putnam building location on North WilliamsStreet into a convenience-store type of facility.The C-store would have truck/auto diesel andgas pumps with a 5,000-square-foot building.

The food service planned for the facility isdifferent types of chicken and simple sand-wiches with a drive-through.

Two facility layout options were presented;one had an entrance with no center traffic con-trol island and the other proposed entrancewould have a center traffic control island.

Councilman Randy Daeger asked, “Whendo you plan to open?” Paul Grewal respondedthat they hope to open this fall.

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At Monday’s Paulding Village Council meeting, council viewed drawings for a conveniencestore being proposed by Jack and Paul Grewal from Napoleon. The store would be located onNorth Williams Street at the old Paulding-Putnam Electric location. The proposed completiondate is the fall of 2013.

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Archers Trenton Copsey and Derek Smalley celebratetheir team’s victory over Holgate to win the Div. IV sectionalchampionship on Friday. For more coverage, see Page 2B in-

By JOE SHOUSECorrespondent

The Paulding Exempted Schools re-cently selected their new superintendentto lead them in the future.

William Hanak, high school principalat Wauseon High School since 2008,agreed to a three-year contract and willbegin on Aug. 1.

Hanak is excited about his new posi-tion and is looking forward to the move.“I am looking forward to this opportuni-ty. It’s been my goal to become a super-intendent and I believe Paulding is agood school district,” said Hanak.

Prior to serving as high school princi-pal, Hanak was assistant principal from

2000-08 at Wauseon.“I love Wauseon. My wife is from

Wauseon and we are going to leave be-hind many good friends and lots of won-derful memories,” commented Hanak.“The move will be a challenging one, butthis is a great opportunity and I ambreathing it all in and looking forward tobuilding new relationships.”

There were 17 applicants who wereseeking the position, according to boardpresident Greg Reinhart, with six beinginterviewed.

Reinhart said Hanak “is excited aboutmoving to Paulding and is looking for-ward to getting started. He reminded theboard that we would not regret hiring

him.”Talking to Hanak from his office in

Wauseon, he said, “When I toured theschools and their facilities I was so im-pressed. The facilities are good and theinterview process with the Pauldingschool board was very professional. I amabout community and people.”

The new superintendent and his wifehave already made a few trips toPaulding since being hired and are look-ing at housing and anxious to move. “Ibelieve you live where you work,” hesaid.

While stepping into his new leadership

WILLIAM HANAK

See OPEN ENROLLMENT, page 10A

fited financially from open enroll-ment, whereas Paulding ExemptedVillage Schools has suffered.

Reasons for attending a differentdistrict can vary; however in PauldingCounty, the three district superintend-ents echo the same reasons.

“It’s usually geographical reasons.A parent works in a different area andit’s just more convenient for a parentto take their child to school on theirway to work,” said Steve Arnold, su-perintendent at Wayne Trace.

Arnold commented how on occa-sion it is about academics where a stu-dent will come to a new district be-cause of the classes being offered.

For Wayne Trace, a student willoften leave in order to attend Pauldingor Antwerp because of location.

“We have one of the largest districtsin the state with 179 square miles. A

By JOE SHOUSECorrespondent

It’s been nearly 25 years since theOhio legislators created open enroll-ment as a pilot program. Four yearslater in 1993 the inter-district open en-rollment policy took effect in Ohio. Inshort, open enrollment is when a cer-tain school district allows a student toattend their district who lives outsidetheir regularly assigned school at nocost to the student.

Most Ohio school districts haveopen enrollment with 64 percent offer-ing state wide open enrollment while14 percent allow open enrollment withadjacent districts only.

In Paulding County, all three dis-tricts (Paulding, Antwerp, and WayneTrace) allow statewide open enroll-ment opportunities. Although open en-rollment has been in place for severalyears, it was just last month theCincinnati School Board approved an

open enrollment policy.Many larger inner-city districts in

places such as Columbus andCleveland, widely use open enroll-ment. The policy was originally de-signed to provide flexibility to stu-dents and their parents. One of thepros is giving students in poorly per-forming schools the option to attend abetter school nearby.

However, with the pros comes thecons, and in open enrollment, themajor concern for districts is funding.

State funding is based primarily onstudent enrollment. Recent figuresshow that each student is worth ap-proximately $5,000 to $6,000 in fund-ing to a district. Therefore, if a districtis at a negative where open enrollmentis concerned, then less money is di-rected to that district. Critics voicehow already struggling districts con-tinue to suffer from a lack of statefunding due to open enrollment.

In Paulding County, the Antwerpand Wayne Trace districts have bene-

Open enrollment impacts local schoolsPAULDING COUNTY OPEN ENROLLMENT 2012-13

Gain Loss Net Funding +/-Antwerp 68 22 + 46 +$230,000*Paulding Ex. 25 211 -186 -$930,000*Wayne Trace 88 66 + 22 +$110,000**based on $5,000 per student

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additional 24 years. Monroewas a community man whoserved Paulding in manyareas.

He served on variousboards, was a leader in hischurch, served Meals onWheels and received the OhioCaregiver of the Year awardfor the advent of theAlzheimer’s support group.

Also during the evening,recognition and plaques were

presented to businesses thathave made an impact on thePaulding community.

The Community ServiceAward was presented to KathyCadwallader from DairyQueen for their response andsupport to those in need fol-lowing the early summerstorm that ripped throughPaulding County last year.

The Outstanding Businessof the Year was presented toJohn Kobee from the Antwerp

Exchange Bank, and theBusiness Person of the Yearwas presented to PauldingCounty Hospital CEO GaryAdkins.

Receiving the GoldenShovel Award was VantageCareer Center for its renova-tion and expansion project.

Milestone recognition waspresented to AntwerpInsurance for 45 years of serv-ice; Advanced Chassis for 25years in business; Baker-

Shindler Ready Mix, 30 yearsin business; Cooper Farms, 75years in business; PauldingCounty Senior Center, 35years of business; andStykemain Chevrolet, 10 yearsin business.

Those who may have ques-tions about the Herb MonroeCommunity Park or about thePaulding Chamber ofCommerce may call the cham-ber at 419-399-5215 or visitwww.pauldingchamber.com.

By JOE SHOUSECorrespondent

The theme for the PauldingChamber of Commerce’s an-nual banquet was “Our Story”and by the time the eveningfaded into a memory, theirstory had a wonderful ending.

A celebration to recognizethe business community andthe announcement of a finan-cial partnership for the HerbCommunity Park was an-nounced before a packedhouse at Grant’s Catering fa-cility outside of Antwerp.

Through the leadership ofthe chamber of commerce andLeadership In Action the com-munity park named in honorof Herb Monroe will become areality. The community parkand gardens will be located onthe north side of the down-town square where the formerCertified gas station once oc-cupied.

Highlighting the chamberbanquet was the announce-ment by George Carter, repre-senting Paulding-PutnamElectric Cooperative, concern-ing Phase I of the park’s con-struction. Carter informedthose in attendance thatPaulding-Putnam Electric andState Bank and Trust werepartnering in order to financethe $30,000 Phase I portion ofthe project.

Project chairman SonyaHerber said, “We have beenmeeting since last Septemberand we are ready to break

ground. The first phase of thethree-phase project will in-clude a stone fountain in thecenter of the park, walkways,and utilities.”

“In our first phase, we wantto catch the attention of thecommunity with a big first im-pression and hopefully theywill get excited about thisproject and be supportive in itscompletion,” said Greg Good,project manager.

Ron Williamson, chairmanof fund-raising for the park,shared how LIA has received$27,500 in donations in thelast three weeks. With the$30,000 presented at the ban-quet, more than half of the$100,000 goal has beenreached.

“We will be contactingevery business, church, andorganization in the area fortheir financial support,” saidWilliamson.

“Fund-raisers will be takingplace in the near future includ-ing challenges among thethree county schools and aspaghetti supper is in theworks at the PauldingPresbyterian Church whereHerb (Monroe) attended,”Williamson added.

Monroe, for whom the parkis named, moved to Pauldingin the early 1940s and becamethe general manager ofPaulding-Putnam ElectricCooperative. He retired in1978 but continued to workpart-time at the cooperative an

role and looking at new ideas,Hanak said he respects thetraditions at Paulding and allthey are doing now, and hewouldn’t change anything.

However, when it comes toacademic goals, he lists:“continued academic success,long-term financial stabilityand success for co-curricular,curricular and extracurricularactivities.”

Wauseon and Paulding areboth exempted village schooldistricts and have similar en-rollments – about 2,000 and1,600, respectively.

Comparing Wauseon andPaulding, Hanak said the dif-ferences are somewhat geo-graphic. “Wauseon is a biggertown than Paulding, and thePaulding district is more

spread out and reminds me alot of the Patrick Henry dis-trict.”

Hanak served in the PatrickHenry School District as ateacher for 11 years and was acoach in various sports in-cluding head coach for thegirls softball team from 1994-2000.

Hanak received his bache-lor of science degree fromMuskingum College with amajor in mathematics whilereceiving his masters of edu-cation at the University ofToledo.

In 1996, Hanak receivedhis educational specialist de-gree with his major in admin-istration and supervision andhis superintendent certifica-tion in 2001.

Manor House is now Vancrest of AntwerpBy NANCY WHITAKERProgress Staff Reporter

PAULDING – Last Tuesday, ahearing was conducted on a motionto seek relief filed last week by an at-torney representing Vancrest ofAntwerp LLC. The court granted allthe requests.

After the hearing, Mark White,president of Vancrest Manage mentCorp., said, “The financial situationfor the Manor House has been an un-fortunate situation and we feel thatcourt guidance was appropriate giventhe number of parties involved, how-ever, I believe everyone has the staffand residents’ best interests at heart.”

The three-page motion, which wasfiled Feb. 19 had requested threethings of the court:

• to “require the current tangiblepersonal property located at 204Archer Drive and 305 WoodcoxDrive, Antwerp, Ohio to remain atsaid location until the issue of titleand liens can be resolved;”

• to “allow Vancrest access to usesaid personality for the benefit of theexisting residents until title issues areresolved with the requirement thatVancrest pay a fair and reasonablemonth rental for said personality;”and

• to “direct Vancrest as to whom

the monthly rental for the personalityshould be paid.”

“The lawsuit pertained to the furni-ture and equipment and who has theright to transfer its ownership inter-est,” White explained.

“We got everything we wanted.We’re real comfortable with movingforward. We will be meeting with(residents’) families on Thursdaynight, and we will be taking over onFriday, March 1,” noted White.

White and Vancrest met with em-ployees and also with families. Whitecommented, “The meetings with theemployees went well as did the fam-ily meeting. There was a good turn

out of concerned family membersand residents, along with solvable is-sues concerning the facility.

“We emphasized that we neededtime in the facility to observe andmake adjustments to their operations.We will hold another meeting at alater date for further discussions.”

On Feb. 26, former owner LouisLengacher, who had previouslyfiled Chapter 11 bankruptcy, refiledfor Chapter 7 which means total liq-uidation.

White said that the Lengachers areno longer involved in the ownershipor operations of the Antwerp facility.

“We have decided to rename the

facility Vancrest of Antwerp.Multiple factors influenced that deci-sion, not the least is the fact that thename Manor House reflected finan-cial insecurity in the community andamong vendors,” said White.

“I’m sure we will hit some bumpsalong the way, but we are committedto providing first class senior care toyour communities,” noted White.

“Vancrest is excited about the op-portunity to serve the residents of theAntwerp area and we look forward tobeing part of the community,” headded. “Everyone is looking forwardto getting back to the business of tak-ing care of people.”

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Paulding Chamber of Commerce presented several awards at its annual membership banquet Feb. 28. Among the recipientswere, from left – Dan Bowers of Advanced Chassis, 25 years in business; Kathy Cadwallader of Dairy Queen, CommunityService Award; Gary Adkins, CEO of Paulding County Hospital, Business Person of the Year; Cassie Jo Arend of Cooper Farms,75 years in business; Staci Kaufman, Vantage superintendent, Golden Shovel Award; and John Kobee from Antwerp ExchangeBank, Outstanding Business of the Year.

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BONNIE BATT1947-2013

OAKWOOD – Bonnie L.Batt, 65, of Oakwood, passedaway Tuesday, Feb. 26 atPaulding County Hospital ER.

She was born March 2, 1947in Paulding, the daughter of thelate Addie and Leotha (Hill)Strable. Bonnie was the wife ofJames Batt, whom she marriedNov. 12, 1966. She was a li-censed practical nurse, retiringin 2008 from Hickory CreekNursing Home, Hicksville. Shealso had worked at ParkviewNursing Center in Edgertonand Zellers. She enjoyed hergrandchildren and her dog,Sassy. She was a member ofthe former St. Mary’s CatholicChurch in Junction.

She will be greatly missedby her husband, Jim; daughter,Belinda (Kent) Laney of Defi-ance; a son, Jeremy “J.J.”(Katie) Batt of Oakwood; threebrothers, Sam Strable of Cecil,Eugene “Sport” Strable ofCecil and Roger Strable ofPaulding; and four grandchil-dren.

She was preceded in deathby a daughter, Nicole “Nikki”Batt; three sisters, RomonaBarth, Helen Lewis and Don-nie Ketterman; and three broth-ers, Billie Strable, Tom Strableand Dick Strable.

A Mass of Christian Burialwas celebrated Friday, March1, at St. John Catholic Church,Defiance, with Father JohnStites officiating. Burial was inSherman Cemetery. Lawson-Roessner Funeral Home, Defi-ance, was in charge ofarrangements.

Suggested memorials are tothe St. Jude Children’s Hospi-tal.

Condolences to the familymay be shared at www.defi-ancefuneralhome.com.

BRADLEY PASTOR1977-2013

WAPAKONETA – FormerPaulding resident BradleyAllen Pastor, age 35, passedaway Tuesday, Feb. 26.

He was born Sept. 5, 1977,in Paulding, the son of Deanna(Verfaillie) and Terry Pastor.On Sept. 10, 2011, he marriedMarcia Kantner in HockingHills, and she survives. He wasa 1995graduate ofPauldingH i g hSchool. Heworked atPlastipakPackagingin JacksonCenter, andwas an avid Michigan StateUniversity Spartans and SanFrancisco 49ers fan.

He also is survived by hismother, Deanna (Tom) Rhone-house, Paulding; father, Terry(Lisa) Pastor, Defiance; adaughter, Haley Pastor,Broughton; stepsons, Austin,Cody and Dylan Kantner, athome; two brothers, Jason Pas-tor of Paulding and Terry(Charlene) Pastor Jr., ofAntwerp; two stepbrothers,Jerad Rhonehouse of Lima andJustin Sheaks, Defiance; twostepsisters, Loralie (Scott)Adams, of Indiana and Ashley(Jonathon) Verhoff of Defi-ance; mother-in-law and fa-ther-in-law, Diana and FredKantner, Wapakoneta; twobrothers-in-law, Jason (Angie)Kantner of Thomasville, Ga.and Kevin (Karen) Kantner ofWapakoneta; a sister-in-law,Sara (Nic) Ball of Knoxville,Tenn.; grandmothers, ClaraLenhart and Dorothy Kantner,

both of Wapakoneta; and manynieces, nephews, aunts and un-cles.

Preceding him in death werehis grandparents, May andAndy Verfaillie and Helen andLouis Pastor, and grandfathers,Herman Lenhart and GrantKantner.

Funeral services were heldSaturday, March 2 at DenHerder Funeral Home, Pauld-ing. Burial was in PauldingMemorial Cemetery, Paulding.

In lieu of flowers, the familyrequests donations made to theBradley A. Pastor family.

Online condolences may besent to www.denherderfh.com.

GLENSNYDER

HAMILTON LAKE, Ind. –Glen Duane Snyder, of Hamil-ton Lake, Ind., died at St. Vin-cent Hospice on March 1,2013.

Glen was the son of Nathanand Jessie Snyder of Antwerp.Glen graduated from Tri-StateCollege In 1955 and AntwerpHigh School in 1952. He was aveteran of the United StatesArmy, serving in Ft. Knoxfrom 1957-59. He retired fromIinternational Harvester/Navis-tar in Fort Wayne after 30years. In his retirement, he fo-cused on things he loved:music, dancing, spending timewith family, playing cards andfollowing sports. He was amember of St. Michael theArchangel Catholic Church inWaterloo, Ind. Glen gave backto his community in manyways: the Scrip Program at St.Michael the Archangel in Wa-terloo, the Board of Works, andAdams Township YouthLeague president and coach inNew Haven and the hospitalboard in Paulding.

Glen is survived by his wifeof 55 years, Coleen (Schaefer);siblings, Ed, Fred, Wayne andRuth Anne Clem; three chil-dren, Dawn (Michael Clark),Michael “Duke” (Jane), andPatrick (Tammy); and eightgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death byhis parents and siblings Galeand Rita Robinson Murray.

Mass was held Tuesday,March 5 at St. Michael theArchangel Catholic Church inWaterloo. A private service willbe held graveside in Payne atthe St. John the Baptist Ceme-tery. Feller and Clark FuneralHome of Waterloo is handlingarrangements.

In lieu of flowers, the Snyderfamily requests donations to St.Michael the ArchangelCatholic Church.

To send condolences, visitwww.fellerandclark.com.

MICHAELTUNIS1948-2013

VAN WERT – MichaelTunis, 64, of Van Wert, diedFriday morning, March 1 at hisresidence.

He wasborn May19, 1948, inG r a n tC o u n t y ,Ind., to thel a t eW i l l i a mand Ethe-l e n a(Sharp) Tunis. He was a 1966graduate of Paulding HighSchool, a veteran of the U.S.Army, a member of AmericanLegion and VFW Post in VanWert, Delphos Eagles andLoyal Order of Moose, VanWert.

Survivors include his daugh-

ters, Amanda N. (Jason) Mor-rison of Syracuse, Ind., BrookTunis and Philip Kahle of VanWert and Courtney (Drew)Doner of Kaleen, Texas; broth-ers, Terrence Tunis of Pauldingand Scott (Reese) Tunis ofSummerfield, Fla.; sisters,Cheryl (Richard) Emerling ofPaulding, Judith Cook of FortWayne, Tammy Dugan ofPaulding and Lorna (Jeff)Beining of Ottawa; and fourgrandchildren, Grace andDerek Morrison, Lydia Fry andJericho Doner.

He was preceded in death bya brother, Roger Tunis.

Services were held Monday,March 4 at Cowan & Son Fu-neral Home, Van Wert, with theRev. Randy Bevington of OhioCity Church of God officiating.Military rites followed by thecombined honor guard ofVFW and American LegionPosts, Van Wert.

Preferred memorial is VFWPost 5803.

Expressions of sympathymay be forwarded at cowanfu-neralhome.com.

ROBERTREINHART1928-2013

DEFIANCE – RobertRichard Reinhart, age 85, diedSunday, March 3 at his resi-dence.

He wasborn Feb.17, 1928in AllenC o u n t y,Ind., theson of Leo“Jack” andS a r a h“Sadie” (Foltz) Reinhart. OnJan. 12, 1953, he married RuthD. Troyer, who survives. Hewas a U.S. Army veteran, serv-ing during the Korean War,and was employed by LafargeCorporation, retiring in 1990.He was a member of MelroseUnited Methodist Church anda life member of PauldingVFW Post #587, Paulding.

He is survived by his wife,Ruth Reinhart, Defiance; twosons, Dennis (Sue) Reinhart,Oakwood, and David (Rein-hilda) Reinhart, Morehead,Ky.; a daughter, Sue (Patrick)Irving, Napoleon; two grand-sons, Robert Neuenschwan-der and Michael (Alison)Neuenschwander; two step-grandchildren, Nicholas andJessica Irving; three great-grandchildren, Sydney Perrott,Mitchell and Samantha Neuen-schwander; and four great-stepgrandchildren, BaileeBauer, Aidan, Madison andNicholas Irving.

He was preceded in death bya grandson, Andrew Reinhart;a granddaughter, Sarah Rein-hart; three brothers, Maurice,Eugene and Donald Reinhart;and two sisters, Carolyn Diet-rick and Florence Cox.

Funeral services will be con-ducted at 11 a.m. Thursday,March 7 at Den Herder FuneralHome, Paulding, with PastorTim Burton officiating. Burialwill follow in Pleasant GroveCemetery, Paulding County.VFW Post #587 will accordmilitary graveside rites.

Visitation will be from 2-8p.m. today, March 6 and onehour prior to services on Thurs-day.

In lieu of flowers, memorialsmay be made to MelroseUnited Methodist ChurchHandicap Ramp Fund orLeukemia & Lymphoma Soci-ety.

Online condolences may besent to www.denherderfh.com.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Paulding County Progress - 3A

Obituaries Updated weekdays at www.progressnewspaper.org

The Amish CookBy: Lovina Eicher

could be getting some down-drafts, too. They are adding afresh air vent to prevent thebuild up of carbon monoxide.With so many gas appliancesrunning, plus the coal stove,we need more ventilation.

Our house is so air-tight and during the wintermonths when we don’t havewindows to air it out, it buildsup faster.

They tested our propanegas lights and they throw offa little too. We use themlonger during the wintermonths also. We hope thiswill take care of any moreproblems. I am glad we hadthe carbon monoxide detectordown there.

We received word thatJoe’s great Uncle Amos died.We regret that we didn’t findout in time to attend his fu-neral which was yesterday.Our sympathy goes to thefamily.

The children enjoyed theirtwo-day mid-winter break. Itwent way too fast. Fridayevening and Saturday wehelped Jacob butcher hogs.

They have lots of meatnow. We made pon hoss outof 12 gallons of juice fromthe pork bones. We have hadquite a few meals of it al-ready. Everyone in our familylikes it.

We have also been usingthe fresh sausage Jacob senthome with us. We use it inbreakfast burritos, casseroles,gravy, and fry it for sand-wiches.

We have two hogs onorder, but they are not quitebig enough to butcher. We arethinking they should be readyit about 3 weeks. We plan tocut up a big beef before that.I will be glad to get those

We are having some snowydays this week although thereis not much of an accumula-tion. We have had quite a dayalready. Joe left for workaround 3:30 a.m. I had turnedoff the light and was ready togo back to bed until 5 a.m.

I heard an alarm go off inthe basement, so I went to goout and check it out and itwas a carbon monoxidealarm. I could smell soot, so Ichecked our coal stove, but itlooked ok. I figured that itmight be the gas water heaterand shut it off.

I get worried more sincethe fire we had last year anddecided to wake all 8 chil-dren. I called 911 to ask whatI should do.

They said to get everyoneout of the house and theywould send someone to takea look. Everyone was stillsleepy and it was difficult tofind clothes and coats byflashlight. I didn’t want toturn on our gaslights just tobe safe.

Remembering the fire wehad, everyone was shook upa little more. It was cold andaround 20 degrees outside, soI told the children to go insidethe tool shed where it wouldbe warmer.

It ended up that the wholefire department showed up.They checked the carboncount and it was 32 close bythe water heater. It had prob-ably aired out since I had shutit off.

Elizabeth didn’t go back tosleep since she leaves forwork around 5:15 a.m. I thinkeveryone will be ready forbed early tonight.

We have someone herenow checking out the waterheater. It sounds like we

greasy jobs off the list. By then it will already be

time to do some spring clean-ing. Time does not stand still.Try this sausage and ricebake:CHEESY SAUSAGE AND

RICE BAKE1 pound sausage2 cups grated cheese1 can cream of mushroomsoup1/4 teaspoon onion powder3 cups hot cooked rice3 eggs, beaten1 4-ounce can of mushroompieces1/2 cup milk

Cook the sausage, crumbleand drain. Combine cookedrice and 1-1/2 cups of thecheese. Spread into a buttered2-quart casserole dish.

Sprinkle sausage over rice.Combine rest of the ingredi-ents except for a half cup ofcheese. Pour over thesausage. Sprinkle with 1/2cup cheese over on top ofeverything. Bake at 350° for40-45 minutes. Cover looselywith foil while baking.

Editor’s Note: Lovina’schurch is more progressivewhen it comes to safety-ori-ented technology like smokedetectors. When their homewas built, local home inspec-tors required such detectorsbe installed. Some more con-servative Amish groups, likethe Swartzentruber Amish,have opposed such devices.

We are experimenting withpreparing the recipe from thecolumn each week and pro-viding photos of the processand finished product. It’s funto see what a recipe lookslike. To view this week’srecipe visit www.theamish-cookonline.com/cheesysausage

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The Church Corner

Saturday, March 9Concert

CECIL – Broken Vessels will be in concert at the Cecil Com-munity Church at 6 p.m. March 9.

Singer Scott Roberts was born with a disease that caused brittlebones. His first break was when he was three weeks old. Whenhe came to the Lord at age 12, God healed his bones. He has nothad a break since.

Church members invite the community to hear his testimonyand Spirit-filled gospel music.

The church is located at 203 S. Main Street.Singers needed

VAN WERT – Attention singers aged high school through adult.Everyone is invited to join in the First Presbyterian Church of VanWert’s chancel choir for their spring concert, titled, “Sing On! DanceOn.” The concert will be performed at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 5.

The concert will be under the direction of the First PresbyterianChurch chancel choir director, David Van Tilburg. The only require-ment to participate is that you must love to sing,

“Sing On! Dance On!” is a concert that features many well-known, early American folk hymns, spirituals and patriotic musicalselections along with historical narration of America, the music,composers and lyricists of the time.

Rehearsals will begin on Sunday, March 17th in the sanctuaryfrom 3-4:30 p.m. and will be held every Sunday, with the exceptionof Easter Sunday, up to the date of performance.

Everyone is welcome tocome and sing at any or all of our re-hearsal dates to be a part of this moving and patriotic concert.

To learn more about First Presbyterian Church of Van Wert, theirmusic and choir programs and how to participate, contact DavidVan Tilburg at 419-363-2235, the church office at 419-238-3670 orSheila Chilcote-Collins at keithandsheila@roadrunner.com.

“Church Corner” listings are free. If your church is having anyspecial services or programs, please call the Paulding CountyProgress at 419-399-4015 or email us your information atprogress@progressnewspaper.org

Fair board to holdpublic meeting

VAN WERT – The Van WertCounty Agricultural Society’sBoard of Directors (fair board)will be holding a public meet-ing at 10 a.m. Saturday, March9. The directors and fair man-ager will be available to answerquestions from members of theSociety and the general publicon all matters related to thefairgrounds and the annual VanWert County Fair.

This is an opportunity to in-quire about exhibiting, conces-sions, entertainment, andvolunteering related to allevents during the 2013 VanWert County Fair.

This open door meeting willbe held in the fairground’s ad-ministration office building,Extension Meeting Room, atthe north end of the building,located at the Van Wert CountyFairgrounds, 1055 S. Washing-ton Street, Van Wert.

4A - Paulding County Progress Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Common Pleas

Weather report weekly summary as recorded at Paulding Village’s water treat-ment 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

Feb. 26 43 22 -0- -0- -0-Feb. 27 35 31 1.17” -0- -0-Feb. 28 35 31 0.16” 0.3” -0-March 1 38 29 -0- -0- -0-March 2 31 25 -0- -0- -0-March 3 28 22 0.01” 0.2” -0-March 4 32 19 -0- -0- -0-

Trooper Adam Brincefield (center) was the speaker at the Paulding Kiwanis Club. He is fromthe Van Wert Highway Patrol Post. He talked about the duties of the patrolman. Their main objec-tive is to keep the highways safe and get violators, when found, off the road. They do not havequotas, contrary to popular belief. Garrett Franz (right) recently graduated from the patrol acad-emy and Brincefield is showing him around. Jane Gray was program chairman.

Property Transfers

For the Record

Sunshine Week is March 10-16

Shadows lengthen onaccess to public records

By Dennis HetzelEvery year, Sunshine Week underscores the importance of

open government across the nation. It is a perfect moment toshare concerns in Ohio about ever-growing exceptions to anopen records law that should ensure you have access to infor-mation about what your government officials do and howwell they do it.

Whether you’re a Tea Party activist, just an everyday citi-zen or an unrepentant liberal, we think you should be able toagree on this subject. The exception train needs to slowdown.

Ohio’s statute once was considered a model open recordslaw nationally. Most public officials are well-intentioned,and it’s often the case that each idea for a new exception hasa justification that appears reasonable in isolation. It is thecumulative effect that alarms us.

We now have 29 categories of records that are secret underOhio law. They’ve run out of single letters, so the latest ex-ception was lettered “cc.” I have seen proposals already inthe new legislative session involving fees for county recorderrecords, new restrictions on school-related records and more.Certain categories require repairs, too. For example, the lackof information on how taxpayer money is being spent atmany Ohio charter schools should be fixed.

Government is a custodian of public records, not theowner. Restrictions on access should leap a high bar; thereshould be no reasonable doubt that secrecy is the better op-tion.

For example, no one would argue that everything in an ac-tive criminal investigation should be public record. However,did you know that a criminal case file isn’t considered closedin many Ohio jurisdictions if the defendant ever could filesomething in the case for any reason? This blocks the workof not only journalists but also organizations such as theOhio Innocence Project that have freed people from prisonfor crimes they didn’t commit. (And, by the way, many Inno-cence Project investigations show that law enforcement ar-rested the right person.)

Government officials also complain about the amount ofstaff time and expense it takes to manage records requests,particularly with the explosion of records in the Internet age.That’s a reasonable concern. Still, if there weren’t so manyexceptions and complexities in our open records laws, itwould be faster to review records with much less need toredact information by blacking it out either on paper or digi-tally. In other words, making more records open makes iteasier for government to handle requests.

There have been positive developments in recent months,too. We urge citizens to make use of the new open recordsmediation process announced in 2012 by Ohio AttorneyGeneral Mike DeWine.

His is a good way to resolve disputes without having tohire a lawyer and go to court, and the process can be initiatedwith a simple phone call or filling out a form on the AttorneyGeneral’s website.

However, the program is limited in that both sides have toagree, and it only applies to local governmental bodies. Wehope a way can be found to expand this in the future. Moststates have a stronger appeal process.

The other aspect of “sunshine law” involves open meet-ings. Here, I think the situation is more positive in Ohio. Weonly are aware of one pending measure to expand the use ofsecret meetings called executive sessions. We would like tosee better record-keeping or recording in executive sessions,and our association hopes to pursue that idea in the comingmonths.

We also have been working positively with governmentgroups to set good standards for situations in which it mightmake sense to allow some members of a board to participateremotely through audio or video technology.

Please use Sunshine Week to let your elected officialsknow that transparency matters. And if you need help mak-ing contact or need any background information, just let usknow, because a government operating in lengthening shad-ows will not serve the people properly in the long run.

Dennis Hetzel is the executive director of the Ohio News-paper Association and president of the Ohio Coalition forOpen Government. He can be reached atdhetzel@ohionews.org.

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

FORUM Reader’s Opinion

Express your opinion The Paulding County Progress pro-vides a public forum through “FORUMReader Opinion” Letters to the Editorfor area residents to express their opin-ions and exchange ideas on any topicof public interest. All letters submitted are subject tothe Publisher’s approval, and MUST in-clude an original signature and daytimetelephone number for verification. Wewon’t print unsigned letters. Letters should be brief and concise.Letters must also conform to libel lawand be in good taste. Please limit let-ters to no more than 500 words. We re-serve the right to edit and to correctgrammatical errors. We also reserve theright to verify statements or facts pre-sented in the letters. The opinions stated are those of thewriter, and do not necessarily reflectthat of the newspaper. Where to write: Letters to the Editor,Paulding County Progress, P.O. Box180, Paulding OH 45879; or dropthem off at the office, 113 S. WilliamsSt. The deadline is noon Thursday theweek prior to publication.

Craftsman toolslatest casualtyDear Editor,

I am a proud Americanand have in recent yearstried to increase my “madein the U.S.A.” purchases.

That is why the most re-cent casualty to America’sout sourcing has stunned thislong time tool man. I started

my tool collection when Iwas 13 years old on our fam-ily farm and by the time Iturned 16 I had over $3,000in tools.

When I was at WayneTrace High School, I, alongwith a few other FFA stu-dents, had completely over-hauled our ag departmenttools and tool storage sys-tem. We purchased a lot ofCraftsman, SK, as well assome high end Snap-On andMac Tools. We were proudthat the ag shop had a bettertool selection of USA toolsthan most of the students’family farm shops.

I have since left the farm-ing industry and started myown auto repair business in1998 where buying tools isstill an expensive hobby.

At the end of last year Ihad broken one of my 10Craftsman tape measuresand went back to the storeonly to find that they nolonger offer Craftsman tapemeasures.

They gave me two optionsI could receive a onetime re-placement with a Stanleybrand tape measure whichSears will not warranty or Icould receive a cash refund

for the original purchaseprice.

In January, I decided that Ineeded some additional toolstorage and they had a greatdeal on a stainless steelCraftsman tool box. I pur-chased the tool box and ofcourse found “made in Tai-wan” on the box.

I did know that theirpower tools and tool boxeshad been made overseas fora while now, so, this wasn’ta huge surprise and the sametoolbox through Snap-Onwould have cost me 4x’s asmuch.

Last night I was back atSears trying to get a fewtools replaced and pick-up afew small items. Uponcloser inspection I found thatCraftsman is starting tochange over their long timeUSA brand sockets andwrenches with ones made inChina. I also found a Crafts-man pry bar I was looking atmade in Taiwan. Needless tosay I passed on both itemsand will opt to put thatmoney towards my next visitfrom the Snap-On truck.

Chad BenschneiderBenschneider Auto

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Civil DocketThe term “et al.” refers to and oth-

ers; “et vir.,” and husband; “et ux.,”and wife.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC,Lewisville, Texas vs. RichardF. Pack and his unknownspouse if any, Antwerp andKimberly M. Dangler and herunknown spouse if any,Antwerp and Ohio Depart-ment of Taxation, Columbusand Paulding County Treas-urer, Paulding. Foreclosures.

Samantha J. Schwab, Mel-rose vs. Eric L. Schwab, De-fiance. Divorce.

In the matter of: AmyYates, Defiance and JosephPerry Yates, Oakwood. Dis-solution of marriage.

Marvin Estle, Oakwoodand Joyce Estle, Oakwood vs.Linda Yanna, Oakwood. Con-version.

The Sherwood State Bank,Sherwood vs. Lori Fleming,Cecil and Paulding CountyTreasurer, Paulding. Foreclo-sures.

In the matter of: Kenneth F.Keating, Antwerp vs.Melodie K. Keating, FortWayne. Dissolution of mar-riage.

In the matter of: Brad F.Kauser, Paulding and KendraL. Kauser, Paulding. Dissolu-tion of marriage.Administration Docket

In the Estate of Bernard L.English Sr., last will and tes-tament filed.

In the Estate of Darrold L.Scott Sr., application to ad-minister file.

In the Estate of Hope E.Smith, application to admin-ister file.

In the Estate of Marvin R.Slattman, application to ad-minister file.Criminal Docket

Jessica M. Rangel, 27, ofPaulding, will be in courtMarch 25 for sentencing fol-lowing a recent appearancefor theft (F5).

Jacob K. Roughton, 21, ofOakwood, was sentencedFeb. 19, having previouslybeen found guilty of traffick-ing in drugs (F5). He was or-dered to serve four yearscommunity control sanctionson standard conditions plus30 days jail with work releaseand credit for three daysserved, complete substanceabuse evaluation, complywith drug and alcohol restric-tions, submit to random tests,six-month license suspension,pay $160 restitution to WestCentral Ohio Crime TaskForce and costs, totaling$456.

Nicole M. Fisher, 33, ofOakwood, was sentenced re-cently, having been foundguilty of receiving stolenproperty (F5). She was or-dered to serve four yearscommunity control sanctionson standard conditions plus66 days jail with credit for 66days served, obtain/maintainemployment, comply withdrug and alcohol restrictions,submit to random tests, ob-tain GED and pay $320 costs.

Darin L. Rhoad, 28, of

Grover Hill, had a two countindictment alleging nonsup-port of dependents (F5) dis-missed without prejudiceupon a motion of the Statedue to the fact he is “substan-tially current” with his pay-ments. Costs were $188costs.

Holly B. May, 27, of Mel-rose, was sentenced Feb. 14,having previously been foundguilty of theft (F4). She wasordered to serve four yearscommunity control sanctionson standard conditions plus30 days in jail with credit fortime served, undergo sub-stance abuse evaluation andtreatment, comply with drugand alcohol restrictions, sub-mit to random tests, notify thecourt of any new prescrip-tions, obtain a GED by theend of sanctions, obtain em-ployment, pay $274 courtcosts.

Carl J. Pease, 21, of Ceciland William Bostelman, 21,of Paulding were sentencedFeb. 25, having previouslybeen found guilty of vandal-ism (F5). They were orderedto serve five years commu-nity control sanctions on stan-dard conditions plus 60 daysjail, comply with drug and al-cohol restrictions, submit torandom tests, pay restitutionof $2,100 to victim and$4,401.11 to their insurancecompany. With restitution in-cluded, Pease’s court costs of$6,725.11 are to be paid insums of $50 monthly. Also tobe paid monthly, Bostelman’scosts totaled $6,738.11 in-cluding the restitution. Peasewas also ordered to abide bya 10 p.m. curfew.

Arthur S. Stiltner, 53, ofAntwerp, was sentenced Feb.25, having previously beenfound guilty of corrupting an-other with drugs (F4). He wassentenced to four years com-munity control sanctions onstandard conditions plus 30days jail with work release,undergo substance abuseevaluation and treatment,comply with drug and alcoholrestrictions, obtain GED, pay$362 costs.

Thaddeus W. Lang, 23, ofGrover Hill, who is chargedwith theft (F4) and burglary(F2), was permitted to changehis address in Grover Hill. Heis to remain under curfewfrom 7 p.m. until 7 a.m.

Gary A. Hoschak, 59, ofPaulding, charged with rape(F1), had a May 1-2 jury trialvacated and reset for June 19-20. A pretrial conference wasscheduled for April 8.

Alan J. Deetz, 26, of Pauld-ing, was in court Feb. 19 fora change of plea. He wasfound guilty of attempted sexoffender registration violation(F5) and was sentenced tonine months in the Ohio De-partment of Rehabilitationand Corrections with creditfor 77 days served. Costs are$606.

Ryan A. Douglass, 26, ofPainesville, changed his pleato importuning (F5) to guiltyat a Feb. 25 pretrial confer-

ence. He will be sentencedApril 1.

Amber Vance, 23, ofPaulding was in court Feb. 19at which time she entered aguilty plea to aggravated as-sault (F4). She will be sen-tenced March 25. Her initialindictment alleged aggra-vated robbery (F1).

Lawrence H. Dickess, 57,Paulding, was in court Feb.25 at which time he changedhis plea to trafficking in drugs(F5) to guilty. He will be sen-tenced April 1.

Amanda K. Suffel, 32, ofPaulding, charged with illegalpossession of drug docu-ments (F5), will be in courtfor a pretrial conference onMarch 15.

Daric L. Fraley, 19, ofCecil, was in court Feb. 25 atwhich time he changed his pleato aggravated robbery (F1) to ano contest plea to aggravatedassault (F4). He will be sen-tenced March 25.

Derek M. Showalter, 30, ofPaulding, entered a not guiltyplea to felonious assault (F2) atarraignment recently. His pre-trial conference was set forMarch 25 with an April 9 jurytrial. Bond was set at $75,000with no 10 percent privilege.

Robert W. Berry, 32, addressunavailable, had a warrant onindictment and an alert for hisarrest canceled following hisarrest for felonious assault(F2). He was arraigned Feb.28.

The term “et al.” refers to and oth-ers; “et vir.,” and husband; “et ux.,”and wife.Blue Creek Township

Thomas G. and KimberlySinn to Craig A. and Ruth E.Stoller, trustees; Sec. 14,81.383 acres. Warranty deed.Brown Township

Timothy R. Bockrath, dec.to Norbert W. Bockrath andRita Jane Bockrath; Sec. 12,40.64 acres and 37.602 acres.Certificate of transfer.Carryall Township

Hope E. Smith, dec., undi-vided 1/2 interest to RobertMax Smith and Carol JeanChilcote; Sec. 32, 38.54acres. Affidavit.

Joseph H. and Barbara E.Barker to Joseph H. and Bar-bara E. Barker, trustees; Sec.22, 85.107 acres; Sec. 26,147.042 acres; Sec. 27,133.558 acres and 37.715acres; Sec. 34, 84.799 acresand Lots 1-3 and 8-9, JosephBarker Subdivision, 1.198acres; and Sec. 35, 32.878acres, 22.964 acres and 18.595acres. Quit claim.

Samuel W. Shepherd to Jef-frey S. and Brenda L. Conley;Sec. 23, 1.508 acres. Warrantydeed.Emerald Township

Roger C. and Patricia L.Eckart to P. Lenore Wakeland;Sec. 8, 3.679 acres. Warrantydeed.

Christale Brinkman to Dou-glas Marihugh; Sec. 33, 1.915acres. Quit claim.Harrison Township

Oscar F. Peters, dec. toMartha A. Peters; Sec. 35, Lot10, Horney’s Parcels #2, 0.344acre. Affidavit.

JPMorgan Chase Bank,N.A. to Secretary of Housingand Urban Development; Sec.5, 2 acres. Warranty deed.

Hope E. Smith, dec., undi-vided 1/2 interest to RobertMax Smith and Carol JeanChilcote; Sec. 5, 107.535 acres.Affidavit.

Joseph H. and Barbara E.Barker to Joseph H. Barbara E.Barker, trustees; Sec. 2, 40acres and Sec. 3, 11.153 acres.Quit claim.Latty Township

Ethel Ann Jones, fka EthelAnn Keck to Charles H.Cook; Sec. 27, 40 acres. War-ranty deed.

Charles H. and KimberlyCook to Charles H. and Kim-berly Cook; Sec. 27, 40 acres.Quit claim.

Craig A. and Ruth E.Stoller, trustees to Thomas G.Sinn; Sec. 1, 82.237 acres.Warranty deed.Antwerp Village

Ruby M. Nern, dec. toPamela J. Zartman, et al.; Lot37, Wilhelm’s Addition, 0.15acre. Affidavit.

Samuel W. Shepherd toOlen G. McMichael; Lots 2and 3, Daggett’s Second Ad-dition, 0.104 acre. Warrantydeed.

Mary L. Kitson, dec. toPhillip D. Kitson; Lots 91 and92, Canal Bed Wilhelm Addi-tion, 0.521 acre. Affidavit.

Hope E. Smith, dec. toRobert Max Smith and CarolJean Chilcote; Lots 14 and15, Block C, 0.305 acre andLot 6, Block A, 0.074 acreand Lot 5, Daggett’s FourthAddition, 0.034 acre. Affi-davit.Melrose Village

Gregory E. and Marsha K.Landers to Dustin A. and LisaL. Dobbelaere; Lots 166, 168and 170, Original Plat, 0.516acre. Warranty deed.Paulding Village

DJ Land Co. LLC to DJLand Co. Inc.; Sec. 1, Lot1004, Outlots, 1.005 acres.Warranty deed.

Joann M. Perl to YoderConstruction, Inc.; Sec. 13,Lot 23, Outlots, 1.56 acres.Warranty deed.

Yoder Construction, Inc. toJoann M. Perl; Lot 11,Condo#2, Bittersweet Subdi-vision. Warranty deed.

Federal Home Loan Mort-gage Corporation to FifthThird Mortgage Company;Lots 23 and 24, Noneman’sSubdivision, 0.286 acre. Quitclaim.Payne Village

Anna E. Harshman, et al. toJoseph H. and Terel C. More-head; Lot 49, Block G, 0.717acre. Warranty deed.

WBESC meetsThe Western Buckeye Edu-

cational Service Center’s regu-lar March board meeting willbe held at 6 p.m. Wednesday,March 13 in the Van Wert ESCOffice, 813 N. Franklin St.,Van Wert.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Paulding County Progress - 5A

Police Report

Sheriff’s Report

County Court In My OpinionA moment in the sun

If you live anywhere near where I live in northwest Ohio,you understand the significance of the calendar turning fromFebruary to March. The flipping of the page brings with itthe promise of long-lost sunshine. For me, a pasty-white per-son of European descent, it’sa much-anticipated event.

According to the websiteCurrentResults.com, thenumber of sunny days peryear in Ohio is dismallysmall. In fact, the number, onaverage, barely tops 70. Ifyou look at the month of February, Ohio gets a lousy fourclear, sunny days. Four. Out of 28! And it wasn’t sunny herelast year on February 29 so leap years are no help.

Let’s compare that data to the sunniest spot in the UnitedStates: Yuma, Ariz. Generally, it’s sunny in Yuma 90% of thetime from sunrise to sunset. In fact, with its typical 4300sunny hours a year, Yuma achieves the world record for mostrecorded annual average sunshine, according to the site. InFebruary, Yuma can expect an average of 16 sunny days.How about sharing some of that, you sun-greedy Yumans??

I crave sunshine. Like many northerners, after monthswithout regular exposure to sunshine my mood sags, my Vi-tamin D level plummets and my productivity wanes. I wantto do as my smart little puppy does in the photo. That is tofind the rare column of sun pouring in from the south win-dow and just curl up for a snooze. I usually try to sneak offsomewhere warm for a week or so every February, just tokeep from going stir crazy. I also dream about permanentlyretiring to someplace warmer and sunnier (Arizona? Florida?Kentucky?) like so many other snowbirds from my state.

But then I wonder. Would I appreciate the sunshine asmuch if it were commonplace? Would I rejoice as I do nowwhen the rays suddenly break through the clouds andbrighten my whole house? Would I watch the sunrises andsunsets in awe, or purposely position my arm out the carwindow to catch the returning warmth or sit on the dock ofmy pond watching the sun turn the water into diamonds?

Probably not. But, I think I’d be willing to find out.Mary Beth Weisenburger, a columnist for the Progress,

writes from her cloud-covered home and is ready for spring.See what else she’s up to atinthesameboatwithmarybeth.wordpress.com.

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

See SHERIFF, page 6A

See POLICE, page 6A

In MyOpinion

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CONCLUDED CASESCivil Dockets:

Dupont Hospital, Cincinnativs. Frank E. Lyons, Payne.Money only, judgment for theplaintiff in the sum of $753.92.

Paulding County HospitalCorp., Paulding vs. BrentMichael Savage, Newark.Other action, judgment for theplaintiff in the sum of$12,378.74.

Erica J. Snyder, Fort Waynevs. Spenser D. Snyder,Antwerp. Small claims, matterstayed in bankruptcy.

Cavalry SPV I, LLC, Val-halla, N.Y. vs. Jeffrey A. Har-ter, Paulding. Other action,judgment for the plaintiff in thesum of $1,503.36.

Randall McNamara, Paynevs. Reighter Landscaping,Payne. Small claims, judgmentfor the plaintiff in the sum of$820.

Olen G. McMichael,Antwerp vs. Adam Deetz,Antwerp and Jennifer Deetz,Antwerp. Evictions, judgmentfor the plaintiff in the sum of$2,398.

Cach, LLC, Denver, Colo.vs. Devin C. White, Payne.Other action, judgment for theplaintiff in the sum of$4,027.40.

William S. Bricker, DDSInc., Antwerp vs. PatriciaWood, Paulding. Small claims,judgment for the plaintiff in thesum of $176.11.

William S. Bricker DDSInc., Antwerp vs. Jade N. Fee,Cecil. Small claims, judgmentfor the plaintiff in the sum of$62.91.

Kevin Arnold, New Haven,Ind. vs. Neil Baker Inc. LifeAlert Rescue, Oakwood. Smallclaims, dismissed.Criminal Dockets:

Walter Harris, Van Wert, ve-hicular homicide; $750 fine,$166.70 costs, 180 days jailsuspended, five-year licensesuspension.

Steven L. Brown, Paulding,assault; $300 fine, $280 costs,five days jail and 175 days sus-pended, pay for stay; probationordered, 30 hours communityservice, complete “Thinkingfor a Change” program, securea valid driver’s license, no con-tact with victim, submit toevaluation at Westwood.

Jared L. Schibley, Wood-burn, Ind., aggravated robbery;case dismissed per State with-out prejudice, costs waived.

Kevin F. Dunakin, Paulding,two counts domestic violence;both dismissed per State.

Summer Hayden, Paulding,three counts confine of dog;$25 fine and $77 costs for eachcount.

Dale Martin, Payne, criminaldamage; $150 fine, $164 costs,90 days jail suspended; submitto an alcohol evaluation, no un-lawful contact with victim, 20hours community service,complete “Thinking for aChange” program, probationordered, restitution hearingMarch 28.

Dale Martin, Payne, disor-derly conduct; dismissed perState.

Robert W. Berry Jr., Pauld-ing, felonious assault; defen-dant indicted by the GrandJury, matter transferred to thedocket of Common PleasCourt, warrant and warrant

block rescinded.Traffic Dockets:

Randy L. Moore, GroverHill, fictitious registration;$100 fine with $50 suspended,$87 costs, pay all by March 13or appear in court.

Kent J. Smith, Defiance,failure to control; $68 fine, $77costs.

Kent J. Smith, Defiance, seatbelt; $30 fine.

Jake W. Eckhardt, Hager-stown, Md., 86/65 speed; $43fine, $85 costs.

Brandy R. Smith, Antwerp,failure to control; $68 fine, $82costs.

Florie Lee, Toledo, seat belt;$30 fine, $47 costs.

Steven L. Brown, Paulding,reckless operation; $150 fine,$95 costs, pay $25 monthly,pay all by June 12 or appear;administrative license suspen-sion terminated.

Steven L. Brown, Paulding,FR suspension; $250 fine, pay$25 monthly, pay all by June12 or appear.

Steven L. Brown, Paulding,fictitious plates; dismissed.

Ron Jon Timmons, FortWayne, 79/65 speed; $33 fine,$95 costs.

Sadie S. Kintz, Fort Wayne,66/55 speed; $33 fine, $77costs.

Steven Girlie, Antwerp, fail-ure to control; $68 fine, $77costs.

Elizabeth J. Sillman, Defi-ance, 77/65 speed; $33 fine,$80 costs.

Dustin Owen Hirsch, NewHaven, 65/55 speed; $33 fine,$77 costs.

Dustin Owen Hirsch, NewHaven, seat belt; $30 fine.

Stacy S. Hopkins, Antwerp,68/55 speed; $33 fine, $77costs.

Denny D. Schannep, NorthManchester, Ind., 65/55 speed;$33 fine, $77 costs.

William Carl Cleveland,Tifton, Ga., 65/55 speed; $33fine, $85 costs.

Doneta E. Adkins, Melrose,failure to control; $68 fine, $85costs.

Isai Buenrostro, Chula Vista,Calif., failure to control; $68fine, $77 costs.

Main Uddin, Toronto, Ont.,69/55 speed; $33 fine, $77costs.

Ryan T. Daye, Lima, 70/55speed; $43 fine, $80 costs.

Stephanie L. Altic, Antwerp,stop sign; $53 fine, $77 costs.

Shane E. Eaton, Waynet, Ill.,82/65 speed; $43 fine, $77costs.

Danielle M. Fowler, Defi-ance, 50/35 speed; $43 fine,$80 costs.

John Carl R. Fortune, Pauld-ing, seat belt; $30 fine, $47costs.

Bradley Allen Hardin, FortWayne, 65/55 speed; $33 fine,$77 costs.

Kay Michelle Grimes,Antwerp, 66/55 speed; $33fine, $77 costs.

Shaohai Jiang, Ann Arbor,Mich., 77/65 speed; $33 fine,$77 costs.

Jared G. Page, Payne, 69/55speed; $33 fine, $77 costs.

Ashley Estelle Strickler,Payne, 66/55 speed; $33 fine,$77 costs.

Megan J. Butler, Defiance,75/55 speed; $43 fine, $77costs.

Parminder B. Singh, Indi-anapolis, 84/65 speed; $43fine, $80 costs.

Christopher L. Smith, Pauld-ing, 82/65 speed; $43 fine, $82costs.

Donald L. Pearman Jr., An-drews, Ind., failure to control;$68 fine, $77 costs.

Harwinder S. Grewal,Brampton, Ont., stop sign; $53fine, $77 costs.

Michael K. Loop, Defiance,

failure to control; $68 fine, $77costs.

Matthew L. Bland, Scott,traffic control device; $150 finesuspended, $87 costs; makerestitution along with co-defen-dant to the victim.

Burton L. Hittle, Scott, traf-fic control device; $150 finesuspended, $87 costs; makerestitution along with co-defen-dant to the victim.

Kevin Wilton Byers, KansasCity, Mo., 66/55 speed; $33fine, $77 costs.

Ovidiu Clement Du-mitrescu, Plymouth, Mich.,68/55 speed; $33 fine, $80costs.

Michael E. Garrison, North-wood, 67/55 speed; $33 fine,$77 costs.

Michael Adam Ermel, BattleCreek, Mich., 65/55 speed; $33fine, $80 costs.

Joseph Neil McVay, Pauld-ing, seat belt; $30 fine, $47costs.

Lyndsay Lida Utke, Lans-ing, Mich., 80/65 speed; $43fine, $80 costs.

Daniel Michael Welty, FortWayne, traffic control device;$150 fine suspended, $87costs, make restitution.

Candy J. Minck, GroverHill, 69/55 speed; $33 fine,$77 costs.

Jessica A. Bauer, Oak-wood, seat belt; $30 fine, $52costs.

Ryan C. Schaadt, Mc-Connelsville, 65/55 speed;$33 fine, $85 costs.

Justin Ross Myers, Swan-ton, 76/65 speed; $33 fine,$80 costs.

Coral S. Fetzer, Van Wert,seat belt; $30 fine, $47 costs.

Safikhani Mohammad,Toronto, Ont., 68/55 speed;$33 fine, $80 costs.

Gregory T. Krugh, OhioCity, slow vehicle sign; $68fine, $80 costs.

SHERIFF’S REPORTAccidents:Tuesday, Feb. 26

12:20 p.m. John Davis Fifer III, 21, of Defi-ance was cited for failure to control following asingle-vehicle mishap on Road 133 north of US24 in Emerald Township. Reports say he wasdriving south in a 1995 Ford Mustang when helost control on the icy road and went off the eastside into a ditch. The car was disabled andtowed. Fifer was unhurt.Thursday, Feb. 28

9:41 p.m. Jeffrey Scott Rider, 48, of Pauldingwas cited for failure to control after a single-ve-hicle crash on Road 126 in Jackson Township.Reports say he was traveling west in a 1977Chevy Scotsdale when it went off the road andstruck a utility pole. The pole, which fell acrossthe truck, caught fire. The vehicle was disabledand towed. The driver was not hurt. Two Pauld-ing fire units and the EMS assisted at the scene.Incidents:Thursday, Feb. 21

2:08 p.m. Defiance County Sheriff’s office re-ported 15-20 horses running loose in the area ofRoads 153 and 232 in Emerald Township.

2:34 p.m. Two Paulding fire units respondedto a call for an odor investigation. Along with theEMS unit, they were on the scene less than tenminutes.

4:12 p.m. Possible meth lab was reported.4:44 p.m. A resident of Road 204 in Carryall

Township told deputies another subject cut downa tree on their property.

5:03 p.m. Deputies arrested Kevin Clay on awarrant.

8:27 p.m. Josh Evans was arrested on a Wood

County warrant.7:49 p.m. Domestic assault was reported from

Road 111 in Auglaize Township.Friday, Feb. 22

4:23 p.m. A car/deer mishap on Road 218 inEmerald Township was documented.

10:10 a.m. Deputies arrested Robert Beery ona warrant.

12:06 p.m. Subject was seen shooting from theroadway on Road 170 in Auglaize Township.

5:13 p.m. Telephone scam was reported fromRoad 48 in Benton Township.

10 p.m. Deputies investigated a domesticcomplaint on Road 82 in Brown Township.Saturday, Feb. 23

12:30 a.m. Assistance was given to Payne Po-lice Department by delivering a message inScott.

9:58 a.m. Larry D. Williams was arrested ona Defiance County warrant.

1:52 p.m. Theft complaint was lodged fromRoad 424 in Carryall Township.

4:49 p.m. Mailbox damage was investigatedon Road 140 in Brown Township.

6:02 p.m. A hit/skip collision on Road 177north of Road 48 in Washington Township washandled.

7:29 p.m. Jeremy Rittenhouse was arrested ona Geauga County warrant.

8:42 p.m. Deputies delivered messages toCecil and Grover Hill.Sunday, Feb. 24

2:49 a.m. Deputies assisted another depart-ment with a disturbance in Antwerp.

4:30 a.m. Deputies arrested Eric Bradbury.

ACCIDENT REPORTSNone.

INCIDENT REPORTSThursday, Feb. 21

3:30 p.m. Alleged theft ofmail was reported from WestPerry Street.

7:22 p.m. A female cameon station to report an assault.The matter was turned over tothe sheriff’s office because itoccurred in the county.

8:10 p.m. Officers, alongwith a deputy, served a war-rant on Josh Evans.Friday, Feb. 22

9:45 a.m. Robert Berry wasarrested on a warrant.Saturday, Feb. 23

8:39 a.m. An East Harrison

Street resident reported some-one smeared food on their ve-hicle overnight.Sunday, Feb. 24

8:10 p.m. Three truckswere reportedly doing burnouts in the Paulding Placeparking area. They were gonewhen officers arrived.Monday, Feb. 25

1:15 p.m. Officers assistedin getting two goats roundedup and back in their pen.

3 p.m. A stray chocolate labwas called in from NancyStreet. The dog warden wascontacted.

5:47 p.m. Theft of a bike

Community6A - Paulding County Progress Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Anniversaries

Birthdays

March 9 – Mike andKendra Gamble, Mr. andMrs. John LaFountain.

March 10 – Matthew andBrittany Gurtzweiler, Mr. andMrs. Ed Wenninger.

(The Paulding Progress maintains afile of birthdays and anniversaries. Tomake any changes, please call our of-fice at 419-399-4015 during businesshours, email to progress@progress -newspaper.org, or drop us a note toP.O. Box 180, Paulding.)

March 9 – Reta Beckman,Eunice Bell, Michelle

Cooper, Kristin Cox, LindsayCox, Neil Gordon, GinnyGraf, Whitney Jewel, MildredNoggle, Josephine Reyes,Linda Rhoad, Kaitlin Slade.

March 10 – Mike Arend,Mary Kenny, KellyKochensparger, DanielleRoughton, Maxine West.

March 11 – Doris Bidlack,Brian Caris, Denny Coburn,Cheryl Ganger, Cory Gold-fuss, Cory Kipfer, JamieLong, Richard Paulus, HollyA. Vance.

March 12 – Ella Cook,Timothy Heck, FlorenceLucas, Anna Meraz, DonaldShull, George Spitnale,Logan Tope, Robert E. Vance,Jennifer Wenninger, TomWhitaker.

March 13 – Alicia Aldrich,

In The Garden

By Kylee Baumle

It’s flower and garden show seasonThroughout the year, I at-

tend various home and gar-den shows, flower shows, andother horticultural events.Some of them I return toevery year, which might puz-zle those who aren’t as pas-sionate about gardening as Iam. If you’ve seen one gar-den show, you’ve seen themall, haven’t you?

Not by a long shot. It’s truethat I’ve stopped going to acouple of them because thetime, energy and the longdrive to and from the eventsdidn’t garner enough returnon my investment. Someshows are more home thangarden. I’m there for the gar-den.

Local shows tend to be leanon actual design and land-scaping ideas, but it’s nice toattend early in the season, be-cause it doesn’t take much toget enthused about theprospect of digging in the dirtand implementing the ideasthat have been percolatingthrough the winter.

Bonus: you can usuallyenjoy the fragrance of hy-acinths in the air as you walkthrough the displays.

Of the larger shows I’ve at-tended, one of my favorites isthe Northwest Flower andGarden Show, held everyFebruary in Seattle. Eventhough the unique climate ofthe Pacific Northwest (similarto England’s) allows them togrow many things we can’t,it’s also a very cultural area,

lushness and beauty, all inone place. The Botanical Gar-dens themselves are wellworth the trip to see them, butthere’s been no word that theshow will ever resume.

Cincinnati used to have apretty good flower show too,but that ceased in 2010. It’sdisappointing that the twobest shows in our area havedisappeared, with the expla-nation by people in the knowthat the economic climate isto blame.

The Chicago Flower andGarden Show at Navy Pierruns from March 9-17 thisyear and if you’ve not ever at-tended this one, it’s the clos-est location for a decentflower show available to ushere. For more information,check their website atwww.chicagoflower.com.

If you do attend one of thelarger shows, keep in mindthat the designs they showmay be over the top and youmight be tempted to look atthem and think, “Well, I can’tdo this in my garden.” I’m willing to bet, though,that you can find one or twogreat ideas that you can incor-porate in your own landscape.If not, it’s still fun to look atthe creativity and dream.

Read more at Kylee’s blog,Our Little Acre, atwww.ourlittleacre.com andon Facebook at www.face-book.com/OurLittleAcre.Contact her at PauldingPro-gressGardener@gmail.com.

home to artists of all sorts. This flavors their garden

environments as well as theinside of their homes, andbasic design principles seenat the show provide inspira-tion for gardens of all typesand locations.

The largest flower show inthe country is the Philadel-phia International FlowerShow, going on now. Momand I attended this show in2011, when the theme was“Springtime in Paris.”

It’s a little difficult to de-scribe the scope of this show,but I felt like I was in a Dis-neyland for gardeners. Allgardeners should try to attendthis show once in their lives.

Sadly, a couple of my fa-vorite larger shows are nolonger. The Cleveland FlowerShow used to be held everytwo years at the ClevelandBotanical Gardens, but thelast show was in 2008.

It was here that I first fell inlove with gardening. So much

n SHERIFFContinued from Page 5A

11:06 a.m. Neighbor prob-lems were handled on Road169 in Auglaize Township.

11:36 a.m. A Brown Town-ship resident of Ohio 66 re-ported a runaway.

12:26 p.m. Theft of a safewas called in from Road 181 inBrown Township.

2:15 p.m. A complainantcame on station to report mis-use of a credit card.

2:42 p.m. Martin Dobrovicturned himself in relating to aCuyahoga County warrant.

6:36 p.m. Four-wheelers onRoad 117 in Jackson Townshipwas looked into.

8:25 p.m. Reports of four-wheelers on the streets of Hav-iland came in.Monday, Feb. 25

4:51 a.m. Deputies handleda car/deer accident on Road111 in Paulding Township.

7:42 a.m. Domestic com-plaint was lodged from Ohio637 in Auglaize Township.Tuesday, Feb. 26

9:40 a.m. Harassing phonecalls were reported fromPaulding.

10:47 a.m. Scott EMS wascalled to Haviland where asubject was hit by a gate and afork lift.

2:44 p.m. Theft of coils wasnoted at a location along Road424 in Carryall Township.Wednesday, Feb. 27

7:55 p.m. An unidentifiedsubject was arrested.Thursday, Feb. 28

12:18 a.m. Deputies deliv-ered a message for DefianceCounty Sheriff’s office onRoad 125 in Jackson Town-ship.

7:46 a.m. A slide-off acci-dent on Road 138 in JacksonTownship was documented.

9:36 a.m. A deputy assistedthe Antwerp Police Depart-ment.

10:46 a.m. Multiple sale offirearms from Road 60 inWashington Township wasrecorded.

11:30 a.m. A slide-offmishap on Road 103 washandled.

3:51 p.m. Theft from atruck was reported from Road169 in Brown Township.

3:56 p.m. Deputieschecked for a vehicle onRoad 232 in Emerald Town-ship to assist the DefianceCounty Sheriff’s office.

4:08 p.m. Theft in GroverHill was investigated.

4:47 p.m. Carolyn Hartmanwas arrested.

5:21 p.m. Domestic prob-lems were investigated onRoad 169 in Brown Town-ship.

5:24 p.m. Four-wheelers onRoad 119 were reported.Friday, March 1

3:54 a.m. Defiance CountySheriff’s office requestedtransportation of a subject tothe county line.

9:54 a.m. Theft from Road1021 in Auglaize Townshipwas looked into.

n POLICEContinued from Page 5Awas reported from McDonald Pike.Tuesday, Feb. 26

1:18 a.m. Suspicious subjects with flash-lights were seen on East Caroline Street. Of-ficers were unable to locate them.

2:45 a.m. Stray dog report came in fromNancy Street.

3:50 p.m. Alleged theft of mail was reportedfrom West Perry Street.

11:41 p.m. An alleged forgery, reportedfrom North Main Street, is under investiga-tion.Wednesday, Feb. 27

6:20 a.m. An officer requested an EMS at aNorth Main Street location for a disorientedmale.

1:30 p.m. A man was reportedly struck by avehicle while in a parking lot at Dooley Driveand North Williams streets. He told officers hewas unhurt.

6:37 p.m. Officers assisted a deputy at theintersection of Jackson and Grant streets for avehicle search, then transported a male to thesheriff’s office per the deputy’s request.Thursday, Feb. 28

9:40 p.m. Two officers assisted a deputywho was investigating a motor vehicle acci-dent in which the driver fled the scene on foot.

11:40 p.m. Officers were called to PartridgePlace Drive where someone had thrown foodon a vehicle windshield and smeared lotion ona second vehicle.

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Payne Friends of the Librarylaunches annual member drive

PAYNE – What is one of your favoritechildhood memories? For many of us, it wasthe weekly trip to Paulding to visit the library.Remember pouring through stacks to find justthe right book? Remember how grown up youfelt when you handed the librarian your veryown library card?

Since 1996, the Friends of the Payne BranchLibrary has helped in bringing those samefeelings to the Payne area. Children no longerhave to wait a week to pick out a book. Thebranch library, with convenient hours, makesit easy to visit when you finish that book andare ready for another.

Who are the Friends of the Payne BranchLibrary? Quite simply, the group owns andmaintains the building that the Payne libraryis housed in and is responsible for all expensesrelated to the building which is gas, electric,insurance, real estate taxes and general up-keep.

They are only able to do this with the gen-erous support from the community. Therehave been many projects in the last 17 years.

In the past couple of years alone they have

replaced the main building roof, installed animproved ventilation system, removed and re-placed the floor in the back room, made elec-trical upgrades, replaced water damagedpaneling, painted the interior, and centralizedthe computer area.

As with any building, more projects are onthe horizon, including replacing the roof onthe far back addition to the library (a projectthat will cost in excess of $4,000).

Please consider renewing an annual mem-bership or becoming a new member to supportthe local library.

Single memberships are $20 and familymemberships are $40. Corporate membershipsare available for $100 and gold membershipsare available for $200.

The Payne Friends of the Library are a non-profit 501c(3) organization. They will alsogladly accept any additional donations forcontinued improvements and operations.

Membership forms are available at thePayne Library. Membership fees or donationsmay be mailed to Payne Friends of the LibraryP.O. Box 210 Payne, Ohio, 45880.

Grady Gudakunst has been awarded the Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award. The awardprogram was established by the Ohio Educational Service Center Association to promote andrecognize outstanding academic achievement. Here, Western Buckeye Educational Service Centersuperintendent Brian Gerber (left) presents the Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award to Gu-dakunst, who is a senior at Wayne Trace, and Wayne Trace JH-HS guidance counselor David Alt.Gudakunst has been invited to attend a special recognition luncheon at the Conference Centerat NorthPointe in Lewis Center to be recognized and receive his award. One senior from eachcounty in Ohio received this annual award. Recipients should demonstrate outstanding academicachievement as indicated by high school grades, test scores, and school activities and awards.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Paulding County Progress - 7A

4-H News

A Penny For Your Thoughts....

By: Nancy Whitaker

PEAS PORRIDGE OR DEADRINGER?

There are so many old say-ings, beliefs and old wives taleswhich are passed downthrough the years, sometimes itis hard to distinguish fact fromfiction.

I know there is probablysome type of story as to howeach of these old sayings gotstarted, so I did some researchon the topic. I was very sur-prised to find out some of thestories behind some of the oldsayings so I thought I wouldask you, “Did you know?”

Years ago urine was used toto tan animal skins. Now I dohappen to know that statementis true. It is said that some fam-ilies in order to survive andearn a bit of money all used torelieve themselves in the samevessel.

Once every day the body flu-ids were taken to the tanneryand sold. If this was a family’smain source of income andthey had to do this to survivethey were referred to as “p—spoor.”

Some were even worse offand could not afford a pot.They were referred to as “nothaving a pot to p—s in.”

Therefore these old sayingswere supposedly derived fromthat situation.

The next time you are wash-ing your hands or taking ashower and get upset becauseyou can’t get the temperatureregulated, think back of theway things used to be. This ishow things were supposedlydone way back when.

Most people got married inJune, because they took theiryearly bath in May. By June,they still smelled pretty good,but the brides would alwayscarry a nice bouquet of freshflowers to hide any body odor.Therefore the custom of carry-ing a bridal bouquet was born.

Baths many years ago, con-sisted of a big tub filled withhot water. The man of thehouse got the privilege of tak-ing a bath first in the good hotclean water. Then all of thesons and any other men of thehouse, followed by the daugh-ters and the women and youngchildren.

Getting the last bath were thebabies and by the time it wastheir turn, the water was sodirty you could actually losesomeone in it. Hence the say-ing, “Don’t throw the baby outwith the bath water.”

In some of those good olddays cooking was done in anold iron kettle that always hungover the fire. Every day the firewas lit and usually more veg-etables were added to the bigpot. Not a lot of meat wasadded because meat was some-times scarce.

Families would eat the stewfor supper and would leave the

leftovers in the pot overnight.The whole thing would startover the next day and some-times that stew had food in itthat had been there for quite awhile.

I always did wonder aboutthe old nursery rhyme: “Peasporridge hot, peas porridgecold, peas porridge in the potnine days old.”

To me this type of history isinteresting. England is old andsmall and the local folks startedrunning out of places to burypeople. So they would dig upcoffins, take the bones to abone-house and reuse thegrave.

It was reported that when re-opening these coffins, 1 out of25 were found to have scratchmarks on the inside. Peoplethen realized they had beenburying people alive.

So to solve the problem, theywould tie a string on the wristof the corpse, lead it throughthe coffin and up through theground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would then have tosit out in the graveyard all night(the graveyard shift) to listenfor the bell. Thus, someonecould be “saved by the bell” orwas considered a “deadringer.”

I am not saying that the ori-gins of these sayings are true orfalse, but I do believe they arefood for thought.

Have you ever heard of anyof these old sayings? Have youever heard how they gotstarted? Do you know any oldwives tales? Let me know andI’ll give you a Penny for YourThoughts.

By Jim LopshireOSU Extension educatorNutrient management is a

critical topic for anyone in-volved in agriculture. A con-cern is the wise use ofnutrients to maintain agricul-tural production levels whileprotecting water quality.Paulding County OSU Exten-sion and the Paulding CountyFarm Bureau are sponsoringa nutrient management semi-nar program for anyone whobuys, sells or manages ma-nure or uses fertilizer.

The program will be heldon Monday, March 18 in thePaulding County Extensionmeeting room located on thefairgrounds. Registration anda light dinner will be avail-able beginning at 6 p.m. withintroductions at 6:30 p.m.

This seminar will focus onmanaging nutrients that arebeing applied to the groundand setting up a basic nutrient

management plan.Speakers for the Paulding

County nutrient managementseminar include Larry An-tosch, senior director of pol-icy development andenvironmental policy with theOhio Farm Bureau, and JoeNester, owner and consultantwith Nester Ag.

Antosch will be coveringthe high phosphorous levelthat has caused the harmfulalgae bloom in Grand LakeSaint Marys and is also an

issue on Lake Erie. He will belooking at the importance ofthe 4R’s, impact of nutrientson water quality, the benefitsof using manure as a nutrientand its role in water quality,voluntary action versus regu-latory action, and developingtrust with the public regard-ing this issue.

Nester will be promotingthe use of best managementpractices (BMPs), availabilityof cost share programs to ad-dress this specific issue, andhow to set up a basic nutrientmanagement plan for a farm-ing operation.

The cost of the program isfree to Ohio Farm Bureaumembers and $5 for non-Farm Bureau members.Please RSVP by March 13 bycalling 419-523-5874 or byemail at paulding@ofbf.org.

Continuing education unitsfor certified crop advisors arebeing applied for.

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The Brown Betty’s andBuster Brown’s 4-H club helda meeting on Feb. 19, at theCooper Community Library inOakwood.

The meeting was called toorder by Katie Carnahan, pres-ident. The Pledge of Allegiancewas started by Ben Estle andthe American flag held by JackWoods. The 4-H pledge wasstarted by Katelyn Estle andthe 4-H flag held by EmmaElkins.

The roll call was taken byEstee Miller and 28 memberswere in attendance. The secre-tary’s minutes from the lastmeeting were read and ap-proved.

A bake sale was discussedand was tabled until next meet-ing. Stacy Hiler was a specialguest.

Demonstrations were doneby Tianna Cooper, Katie Car-nahan, Arlyn Cooper, HunterKesler, and Madison Parrett.Deedi Miller was the spotlightspeaker. Katie Carnahan ad-journed the meeting.

Snacks were provided byHunter Grimes and drinks wereprovided by Arlyn and TiannaCooper.

The next meeting will beMarch 19 at the Cooper Li-brary in Oakwood.

Poll resultsResults from last week’s poll

question on our websitewww.progressnewspaper.org:“Do you support or opposeGov. Kasich’s proposal to re-structure sales tax to begin tax-ing such items as professionalservices, admissions to sport-ing events, and amusements?”

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Candidate petitionsavailable for fall election

PAULDING – Nearly 80 village council members, schoolboard members and township trustees in Paulding County willbe voted on in the next election.

Petitions may be picked up now for the Nov. 5 General Elec-tion. The filing deadline for these non-partisan petitions is 4p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7 (90 days before the general election).This filing deadline is also the same filing deadline for localquestions and issues.

The candidates on the ballot for this election will be for:• Four village council members in each village• Cecil Village mayor• The clerk-treasurer in Latty Village• One board of public affairs (BPA) member in Latty and

Payne villages• Two township trustees in each township• A fiscal officer in Blue Creek, Crane and Harrison town-

ship for the unexpired term• Board of education members for the Antwerp Local (3),

Paulding Exempted Village (2) and Wayne Trace Local (3)school districts

• Western Buckeye Governing Board members for each theCrestview, Wayne Trace and At-Large District (unexpiredterm).

Avoid the last-minute pressure of filing a petition or localquestions and issues. Interested candidates do not have to waituntil the filing deadline. The election board office staff is readyto answer and assist with any questions.

Please contact the office if you or someone you know wouldlike to be a poll worker. You can also find information on theelection board website.

Staff and board members are Brenda Crawford, director;Janet Commers, deputy director; David Cline, chairman; andStanley Harmon, William Shugars and Roger Sierer, members.

Regular office hours are 8 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday. Office telephone number is 419-399-8230 andfax number is 419-399-8250. Email address ispaulding@ohiosecretaryofstate.gov.

Find the election board website through electionsonthe.netor through the Ohio Secretary of State website atwww.sos.state.oh.us.

Vantage holds open houseBY ED GEBERT

Times Bulletin EditorVAN WERT – With Vantage

staff and students, dressed inred polo shirts, guiding visitorsthrough the wide halls, thecommunity took a good look atthe results of a $35 million ren-ovation and expansion.

Vantage Career Center tooktime to celebrate the grandopening of the facility with anopen house, showing off thenew building and all its fea-tures.

The evening began with theceremony in the student com-mons area, featuring key par-ticipants in the project as wellas honored guests. Followingthe ceremony, guests were in-vited to walk the halls and dis-cover what had been built overthe past months. And manypeople did just that.

“It has been a fabulousturnout so far,” remarked su-perintendent Staci Kaufman di-rectly after the ceremony. “Ireally didn’t know that we’dhave an audience for the cere-mony.

“We wanted one, but this isbetter than I could have hoped.All told, we may have 1,500-2,000 people in the buildingtonight for open house, as wellas to celebrate the end of ourconstruction project.”

The cleanliness and organi-zation marked a major distinc-tion from the past 18 months orso. While the school seemed torun well despite ongoing con-struction work, there were in-conveniences that most had todeal with at one time or an-other, such as dust, noise, andmoving classrooms.

With that in the past, Kauf-man said she is happy to havethe work completed.

“It feels great. I think we’regoing to miss it a little bit, butnot for too long! It’s going tobe nice to get back to teachingand learning and what we dobest. It’s so exciting to havethis night finally come,” she re-lated.

At the ceremony, Kaufman,and board president LonnieNedderman each had a chanceto welcome the visitors and

speak about their own experi-ences in the Vantage halls dur-ing the past year and a half.

Many “thank yous” were ex-tended toward the general con-tractor Gilbane, the OhioSchool Facilities Commission,Garmann/Miller, and the staffand students of Vantage. Morethanks went to the voters whopassed a 1.05-mill levy in No-vember 2009.

This project marked the firstupgrade to the Vantage facilitysince it first opened to studentsin 1976. Over the past fewmonths, the remaining parts ofthe old building were com-pletely reworked while the newadditions to the building wereconstructed. Labs were ex-panded, and traditional class-rooms took on a new look withstate-of-the-art technology.

Each of the six phases of thebuilding project was com-pleted on time, and the entireproject was not only on time,but was also slightly underbudget. All parties involvedadmitted this was not alwayseasy to accomplish. ArchitectBruce Miller ofGarmann/Miller Architectsand Engineers was forthrightin his assessment of the diffi-culty of this project.

He said, “I told Staci thiswas probably one of the mostdifficult designs we’ve everhad to complete. We put allnew electrical in, all newHVAC, all new water lines,all new heating, and technol-ogy and fire alarms. “And by doing that, as wewent through the process ofeach phase, we had to keepthe old building runningwhile we were working onthe new. So it was very com-plex, very complicated.Gilbane did a wonderful jobcoordinating with us through-out the process. It was reallya team effort.”

During his remarks, ChadStevers of Gilbane introduceda group of high school stu-dents who had participated inthe Junior Builders program.These students sat in on plan-ning meetings, did job shad-owing, and eventually got achance to do a job interview,giving them a chance to de-velop various skills they will

need as they start to enter thework force.

The project itself wasfunded at 71 percent by theOhio School Facilities Com-mission, with the other 29percent coming in local fundsfrom residents living withinthe boundaries of the partici-pating school districts. Kauf-man noted that the projectwas only possible by the pas-sage of the tax levy back in2009. Once that passed, theplans could become more ex-tensive.

With the additional squarefootage and up-to-date equip-ment, many Vantage pro-grams will be able to handleup to three times more stu-dents. More opportunitiesalso have been created inadult education as well. SinceVantage is considered a bigasset for economic develop-ment, the win is not just forthe school and the students,but also the community.

Bob Dylan benefitconcert in BG toaid Red Cross

TOLEDO – Legendarymusician and cultural iconBob Dylan will perform at theBowling Green State Univer-sity’s Stroh Center on Sun-day, April 21.

The Los Angeles-basedfolk-rock band Dawes opensthe show at 6:30 p.m. Dylantakes the stage at 8 p.m.

Tickets go on sale at 10a.m. Friday, March 8 at theStroh Center box office and atticketmaster.com. VIP ticketsare $125 and are available ex-clusively through the RedCross at 419.329.2573. Stu-dent tickets are $25 and avail-able with a student ID at theStroh Center box office.

All proceeds from Tangledup in RED: An Evening withBob Dylan will benefit theprograms and services of theAmerican Red Cross North-west Ohio Region, includingdisaster preparedness, disas-ter relief and recovery assis-tance, support for militarymembers and their families,health and safety training,and more.

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Paulding County Church Directory6:00pm. Our church office is located at 308 N. Main St. Pentecostal Church of God, 601 W. Caroline St., Paulding, ElderGeorge 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 7:00 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, PastorKaren 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 Kare Stetins, church telephone number is 399-2320,Sunday Worship at 10:15 a.m., Sunday school at 9 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 4:00 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 at 10a.m., home groups at 6 p.m., Wednesday evening services at 6:30 p.m.(Indiana time). 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, Minister DanStaifer. Sunday worship at 9:30 am. 419-263-2092. 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 prayermeeting at 7:30 p.m. St. Jacob United Church of Christ, southwest corner of Oak and Hymanstreets, Payne, Rev. Jim Langham, 263-2763. Sunday School-9:00 am,Church service-10:00 am. St. James Lutheran Church– NALC, West Townline Street (P.O. Box42), Payne, 263-2129, Pastor Fred Meuter, 260-492-2581. Sunday Schoolat 9:00 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:00 a.m. St. Paul United Methodist Church, (P.O. Box 154) 312 South MainStreet, 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.

Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m., evening worshipat 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 County Hos-pital, 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 11:00 am, Sun. eve. 6:00 pm,Wed. eve. 6:00 pm. Cecil First Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Cecil, Sunday worshipat 8 a.m., Sunday school at 9 a.m. 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, Rev. Gregory Bibler, 419-399-4576, Sunday school 9:00 a.m.,Worship service 10:00 a.m. First Presbyterian Church, 114 West Caroline Street, Paulding, 399-2438, Rev. David Meriwether, 9:00am Sunday school, 10:15 a.m. praisesinging, 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship. House of Love Ministries, 220 N. Williams St., Paulding. Pastor Pre-

dest (Dwayne) Richardson or Sister Brenda Richardson, 419-399-9205or 419-796-8718, Sunday worship at 3:00 p.m. Jail Ministry, Food Min-istry, Outreach Ministry. Overcomer Outreach - a Christian 12-steapmeeting, Sundays at 5:00 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, MinisterChristopher 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, Revs. Kim and Cindy Semran, Sunday school at 9:15 a.m., Sun-day worship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m.: Kids’ SummerJam (ages 4-4th grade), Preteen class (5th-6th grade), Teen group (7th-12th grade), and adult service. Wednesday at 7:00 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. Paulding United Methodist Church, 321 North Williams Street, Pauld-ing, church telephone number is 399-3591, Rev. Ben Lowell, Worshipservice at 9:45 a.m.; Sunday School, 11:15 a.m.; Wed. worship at

Grover Hill Church of the Nazarene, Maple and East Jackson streets,Pastor Jonathan L. Hoagland, 587-3376, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Morn-ing worship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday evening gospel hour at 6 p.m., Wednes-day 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). Sun-day school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:20 a.m., nursery availableduring 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 7 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, PastorTerry Martin, 419-622-2026, Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., Sunday morningworship at 10:30 a.m., Sunday Evening worship at 6:00 pm, Wednesdayevening worship at 7:00 pm, Wednesday Youth Group at 7:00 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 halfmile west on County Road 60, Pastor Stan Harmon, 594-2248, Sundayworship at 9:00 a.m. Sunday school at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday services forchildren, 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 7:00 p.m. Twin Oaks United Methodist Church, corner of Harmon and Secondstreets, Oakwood, Pastor Eric Dailey. 419-594-2992. Sunday worship at9:30 a.m., Sunday school at 10:45 a.m., Bible Study Wednesdays at 10:00a.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,

ANTWERP AND SURROUNDING Antwerp Community Church, 704 S. Erie St., SR 49, Antwerp; PastorRicky 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, Sun-day 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 9:15 a.m., Sunday worship at 10:35 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, (corner Ohio 49 and Road192), 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 ChristopherBaker, 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 JunctionBible@copper.net, 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., Sundayevening worship at 7 p.m., Wednesday evening worship at 7 p.m., YouthService 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 worship at11 a.m., Sunday evening worship at 6 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meeting at7 p.m.

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QUESTION: Our teenageson is extremely intelligent.The problem is he onlywants to play video gamesall day and night when he’shome. It’s a struggle to gethim to do any physical ac-tivities or even just read abook. How can I encouragehim to do other things with-out completely taking hisvideo games away?

JIM: You’re not alone. Astudy by the Kaiser FamilyFoundation revealed that kidsaged 8 to 18 now spend morethan seven and a half hoursevery day using electronicgadgets, including game con-soles!

It’s time to go beyond “en-couraging him to do otherthings” and actually set somelimits. Sit down with him andexplain your concerns in clearlanguage. Tell him you feelthings have gotten out ofhand and that you’re going tostart limiting the amount oftime he spends gaming.

Point out that it’s importantto live a balanced life that in-cludes interests outside ofvideo games; things like read-ing, spending time withfriends, playing sports or en-joying the outdoors. Say thatyou won’t allow any videogames until homework andchores are complete.

Then be sure to followthrough. Don’t back down inthe face of whining and com-plaining. At worst, you mightneed to get rid of the gameconsole for a time. Most par-ents who stay strong in thisbattle find that their teenseventually discover thatthere’s more to life than pix-els on a screen.

We have implemented thisplan with our own two boys,ages 10 and 12. We also usean “earn to play” system.Both approaches have

worked well for us.QUESTIONS: I’m a singlefather, and I’m having a hardtime juggling work, home,school and my children. Iwant to be the best I can befor them. Do you have anyadvice for single dads in thesetypes of situations?

LEON WIRTH, execu-tive director of Parentingand Youth: My heart goesout to you. We often readabout the plight of singlemoms, and rightly so, butyour situation is no less chal-lenging.

To encourage you, here’san excerpt from an article thatanother single dad, Don Bar-low, wrote for Focus on theFamily:

“In January 1987, my wifeof 12 years died from pancre-atic cancer. This left me withthe responsibility of raisingmy 8-year-old daughteralone. After the shock of mywife’s death, I became awarethat I knew nothing aboutraising a daughter by myself.

“When she was in elemen-tary school, I became a‘Room Father.’ (When it wasmy turn to bring cookies, Icould buy the dough in rolls,cut it into individual cookiesand bake them.) I helpedcoach her softball team. I en-couraged her involvement inchurch activities, so shewould be spirituallygrounded. I enrolled her incharm school and we joinedballroom dancing classes to-gether.

“I tried to be involved bybalancing work and family. Ipassed up a job at a local uni-versity because of the posi-tion’s frequent out-of-statetravel.

“My daughter is 23 yearsold now. Like any parent, Ididn’t know it would turn out

OK, until it did. It boileddown to this. Ultimately, thebest gift I could give mydaughter was my time, mylove and my encouragement.

“You’re probably thinking,‘That’s easier said than done,’and you’re right. You’regoing to need all the prayerand support you can get asyou tackle the challenges ofbeing a single dad. “But take courage in the factthat investing time, love andencouragement in your kidswill reap huge benefits.”

For more insights, checkout the Dad Matters blog atwww.focusonthefamily.com/dadmatters.

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‘Winning the Battle for a Generation’By Rick Jones

exec. director, Defiance Area Youth forChrist

How do I know which religion is the rightone? Obviously, there are many religions in theworld, but which one is right, how do you knowwhich one to follow? For one Muslim man, asimple miracle made all the difference.

In a recent issue of Christianity Today (Janu-ary 2013), a Muslim man describes his commit-ment to follow Isa al Masih, Jesus the Messiah.Surprisingly, a rather “ordinary” miracle causedthis man to open his heart to Jesus. Here’s howhe described the miracle.

“One night the only food my wife and I hadwas a small portion of macaroni. My wife pre-pared it very nicely. Then one of her friendsknocked on the door. I told myself, ‘The maca-roni is not sufficient for even the two of us, sohow will it be enough for three of us?’ But be-cause we have no other custom, we opened thedoor, and she came in to eat with us.

“While we were eating, the macaroni started

to multiply; it became full in the bowl. I sus-pected that something was wrong with my eyes,so I started rubbing them. I thought maybe mywife hid some macaroni under the small table,so I checked, but there was nothing. My wife andI looked at each other, but because the guest wasthere we said nothing.

“Afterward I lay down on the bed and as Islept, Isa came to me and asked me, ‘Do youknow who multiplied the macaroni?’ I said, ‘Idon’t know.’ He said, ‘I am Isa al Masih [Jesus,the Messiah]. If you follow me, not only themacaroni, but your life will be multiplied.’”

With regards to determining which religion isthe right one and the vital need to get it right, weread in scripture, Proverbs 16:25 (NIV), “Thereis a way that seems right to a man, but in the endit leads to death.”

For more information about the work of Youthfor Christ, you may contact Youth for Christ at419-782-0656, P.O. Box 111, 210 Clinton Street,Defiance, Ohio 43512, or email to: defyfc@em-barqmail.com

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Paulding Middle School recently held its annual local science fair. The students worked all year on preparing their projects forjudging and the opportunity to move on to district competition. The science fair was coordinated by seventh grade science teacherMrs. Leann Favorito. Half of the auditeria was filled with science projects. Many, many students participated in the great day oflearning and presenting.

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Paulding County Progressto publish public records asthey are reported or releasedby various agencies. Namesappearing in “For theRecord” are published with-out exception, to preservethe fairness and impartialityof the Progress and as anews service to our readers.

RED ANGEL PIZZA RELOCATES – Red Angel Pizza in Paulding is settled in at its new locationat 740 Emerald Road in Paulding. The move has allowed the addition of a second oven to getyour favorites out quicker, hard dip ice cream, more customer parking and a drive-up window topick up orders. Red Angel is open for lunch 11 a.m.-1 p.m. weekdays, and every day at 4 p.m.Sunday through Thursday and 3:45 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Call 419-399-2295. Red Angelstaff includes, from left – Angie Wiswell, business manager Ethel Jewel, Brittany Farquhar, shopmanager Shawn Dempsey, Alex Durfey, Deb Heck, Steve Clark, Jarrod Clark. Not pictured: TaraSchooley, Nikki Dangler, Joe Wiswell, Mandy Briner, Joni Clason, Brenda Ross, Gina Vance,Shelli Cramer, Sue Brown.

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Forming a limited liabilitycompany (LLC) can pro-vide useful shield from lia-bility and can serve as ahandy estate planning toolat well (see earlier articleson LLCs at www.keister-baker.com). However, ifyou are planning to enter abusiness venture with an-other person, you shouldfirst consider several fac-tors. For example, whathappens if one of you wantsto sell a business interest toa third party? Or, what hap-pens if a partner dies—willyou be forced to run a busi-ness with the survivingspouse? All of these situa-tions can cause conflict anddisrupt business. However,all of these situations can beaddressed ahead of time byexecuting a “Buy-SellAgreement.”Simply stated, a Buy-SellAgreement is a contract be-tween all of the unitholders(shareholders) of an LLCthat governs every transferof units (shares) of an LLC.And transfers can happenunder various circum-stances—whether through asale, death, divorce or fore-closure. Here are a few ex-amples:If one partner (a fellowunitholder) suddenly wantsto sell their interest in theLLC, a Buy-Sell Agreementcan require that the remain-ing partner must be giventhe option to purchase theunits before any units canbe sold to a third party. Thisprevents you from doingbusiness with a stranger.Second, a Buy-Sell Agree-ment can control the saleprice. For example, theBuy-Sell Agreement canstate that if one party de-sires to sell, then all of thebusiness assets must first beappraised. This can allowthe remaining business part-ner to have the opportunityto purchase the units at anappraised value or at a pre-viously-agreed discount. If a business partner dies,the decedent’s interest in the

LLC will be distributed ac-cording to a will or trust.The most likely resultleaves you in business witha surviving spouse or theirchildren. This may put youin an awkward situation: forexample, perhaps a spouseis not as agreeable orknowledgeable as youroriginal partner. A Buy-SellAgreement can solve thisproblem by granting thesurviving partner the rightto purchase the business in-terest outright at an ap-praised value. This solutiongives all parties an ability tochoose whom they want todo business with and setsthe price of a sale ahead oftime. Lets examine a basic estate-planning scenario: a farmertransfers farm ground intoan LLC and passes awaythereafter. Each of thefarmer’s two children nowholds a 50% interest in afarm operation. After a fewyears, one child wants tocash out of the farm groundoperation. A Buy-SellAgreement can force thechild to first offer the farmground to the remainingsibling at an appraised fairmarket value—no auctionshere and no dispute as to theprice! An agreement couldeven require that the ap-praised value be discounted.For example, an Agreementcould require that the salesprice would be 80% of theappraised value of the farmground. In this situation, aBuy-Sell Agreement wouldencourage continued familyownership. In addition, thesiblings have little to dis-pute amongst themselves:everyone has an opportu-nity to purchase an owner-ship interest and the pricingmethod is settled ahead oftime. Family harmony andfarming continuity is pre-served. In summary, a Buy-SellAgreement provides cer-tainty, minimizes conflictand encourages businessstability.

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Staci Hiler, 4-H Program As-sistant for Paulding County, issmiling these days with theprospects of the upcomingPaulding County Fair in earlyJune and another successfulyear of 4-H in PauldingCounty.

The fact that the local countyorganization is joining othercounties in celebrating Ohio 4-H Week, March 3-9, only ener-gizes her spirit.

“In December, we went toschools to promote 4-H withJunior Leaders, camp coun-selors and junior fair boardmembers to to tell kids what 4-H is all about,” observed Hiler.“We talked to every thirdgrader in all of the countyschools and handed out flyersto students in grades twothrough five.”

As a result, said Hiler, thisyear’s program is celebratingthe arrival of 70 new membersinto 12 active clubs with 30 ad-visors. That makes a total of335 4-Hers in the county thisyear, compared to just 270three years ago.

This year’s fair will be heldJune 10-15.

“The celebration of 4-H thisweek is so exciting because itbegan in Ohio on Jan. 15,1902,” Hiler said. “In ClarkCounty (near Springfield), Al-bert Belmont Graham, superin-tendent of SpringfieldTownship Schools, organized ameeting with 30 boys and girlsin the county courthouse base-ment.

“Three years later, therewere over 2,000 youth within16 counties participating insimilar programs to that of theoriginal agricultural club,”Hiler said.

Graham established a basisfor youth that remains true tothis day through the 4-H em-phasis, “The development ofyouth as individuals and as re-sponsible, productive membersof the community in which

they live.”Originally, the 4-H emblem

had three leaves that stood forhead, heart and hands. Then afourth leaf was added symbol-izing hustle. In 1911, the cur-rent 4-H logo was adopted,which represents head, heart,hands and health.

This year’s fair theme, Hilersaid, is, “Growing and Show-ing at the Paulding CountyFair.”

She noted that 26 membersof the junior fair board helpprepare for the fair and in addi-tion run the livestock showsduring fair with two junior fairboard advisors.

4-Hers will also be partakingin this year’s 4-H camp held at4-H Camp Palmer nearFayette. This year’s theme, aspace theme, is “ 4-H CampPalmer is Out of this World,”and will set the tone for thecamp July 9-13.

This year’s event will incor-porate 28 camp counselors andfour Cloverbud counselors.Cloverbud members, saidHiler, will be invited to attendcamp on July 12.

“Cloverbud members get tospend the day at the camp thatday,” Hiler said.

Cloverbud is open to mem-bers, age 5 and in kindergarten,until they are old enough toparticipate in regular 4-H at age8 and in the third grade. Thisyear’s Cloverbud theme is fo-cused around fitness andhealthy eating.

“They do a variety of differ-ent projects,” noted Hiler.“They will learn how to bemore physically active andhow to make healthy snacks.

“This year, 4-H membershave over 200 different proj-ects that they can choosefrom,” Hiler said. “Preparationfor this year’s fair is right uponus.”

Livestock exhibitors are in-volved with Quality Assuranceon March 21 from 6-8 p.m. andMarch 23, 9-11 a.m. in the Ex-tension hall. Hiler emphasized

that exhibitors and a parent orlegal guardian must attend.

On Saturday, April 6, from9-11 a.m., there will be taggingand weigh-in of swine, goats,sheep and feeder calves.

May 4, from 9-11 a.m., therewill rabbit tattooing that is re-quired for meat pens and singlefryer rabbits.

“On that same day, we willhave spring work day at thefairgrounds,” said Hiler. “Thisday will be filled with 4-Hclubs and volunteers helpingprepare the fairgrounds for ourearly June fair.”

Skill-A-Thon will be heldMay 29 from 2-5 p.m. in theExtension hall in which mem-bers come in and bring theircompleted record books foreach species they exhibit alongwith knowing the parts, breedand medication label.

“This year we are havingsomething new at the fair. OnJune 12, we are having a 4-HAlumni Day,” observed Hiler.“We will set up a 4-H Alumnitent, complete with 4-H memo-rabilia and various other dis-plays of interest for those whoare alumni participants to 4-H. “

Hiler said that former 4-Hersare invited to bring pictures,project books and any otheritems from their 4-H experience.Please contact Staci at 419-399-8225 if you have some 4-Hmemorabilia.

Join the state of Ohio “ToMake the Best, Better” in cele-brating Ohio 4-H Week, thebirthplace of 4-H.

It’s Ohio 4-H Week! Celebrating are, from left – Emma Schmidt, Matthew Klopfenstein MaddieBaumle and Maggie Wilhelm.

The Paulding Putnam Electric Trust – Operation Round-Upprogram has granted $5,150 to five organizations for the fourthquarter of 2012. Melrose United Methodist Church received a$1,000 grant to be used for handicapped accessibility within thechurch. Here, trust president Ray Etzler presents the grant toGenevieve Noggle of the Melrose UMC. The trust’s purpose is todistribute gifts which will benefit people in the communitiesserved by PPEC.

The Paulding Putnam Electric Trust – Operation Round-Upprogram has granted $5,150 to five organizations for the fourthquarter of 2012. Blessings in a Bag received a $2,000 grant to beused to provide nutritious weekend meals for children in need.Trust president Ray Etzler presented the award to Kelsi Manz,who brought the idea for the program to Paulding Schools. Thetrust receives money through monthly contributions from mem-ber’s rounding up their electric bill to the next whole dollar. Do-nations are used to distribute gifts which will benefit people inthe communities served by PPEC.

The Paulding County Area Foundation has granted $3,000 tofour organizations in Paulding County for the year ending 2012.The Paulding County Area Foundation’s purpose is to receive,grow and distribute gifts for the benefit of the people of PauldingCounty. Friends of the Payne Branch Library was awarded $750to be used toward repairs to the building that houses the library.Pictured are executive director Lisa McClure and Stacy Thomas,president of Friends of the Payne Branch Library.

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student may live near Paynebut is four miles from Antwerpand 14 miles from WTHS,”said Arnold.

On the flip side, WayneTrace has some increase due toopen enrollment in gainingstudents from Paulding andCrestview. “Again, it’s stillabout location. Scott is a partof Wayne Trace, but just southof Scott is the Crestview dis-trict and we have students inthat area attending here,” com-mented Arnold.

Like Wayne Trace andAntwerp, the Paulding Ex-empted Village School systemoffers statewide open enroll-ment. The district is hardest hitby open enrollment with a netloss of 186 students.

State funding that the districtwill miss is based on the localtax base, the number of kinder-garten students (half funding)and those with special educa-tion needs.

According to interim super-intendent John Basinger, the

total per student could be asmuch as $6,000. “It’s a largenumber of people in a districtthat has 1,575 students. Wediscovered through a surveywe conducted in the last cou-ple of years that students trans-fer because of location,” saidBasinger.

Paulding, like its friendlyrival to the south, is a large dis-trict of nearly 175 square milesand therefore borders severalschool districts. “We have stu-dents who have left Pauldingto attend Wayne Trace,Antwerp, Continental andFairview. It’s for the simplereason a student lives closer toa particular district and so theyhave taken advantage of theopen enrollment opportunity,”Basinger said.

He cited an example of stu-dents living on the other sideof Oakwood, but living closerto Continental and attending

that district because of location.In some cases it’s about loy-

alty to a school. Mom or dadattended an area school and al-though they may not currentlylive in the district, they liveclose enough for their childrento attend without it being a bur-den.

Antwerp is a much smallerdistrict, consisting of 65 squaremiles, but open enrollment hashelped bring additional dollarsto their district. Pat Ross, for-mer Paulding superintendentand now filling that same posi-tion at Antwerp, has only beenat her new assignment for acouple months, but she is quickto point out the reasons foropen enrollment in her district.

“It’s loyalty to the schooland for convenience. Kids arecoming to Antwerp becausemom and dad came toAntwerp. Another reason ishow a mother has child care in

the district and she can drop herchild off at the babysitter or atschool and a routine is estab-lished with appropriate childcare that benefits the parent,”said Ross.

A total of 68 students that arecoming to Antwerp are fromPaulding, Wayne Trace,Hicksville, Fairview and Defi-ance, while just 22 are leavingthe Antwerp district and attend-ing the same areas schools.With the net increase of stu-dents Ross said her district willreceive an additional $212,000once adjustments are made.

School districts can chooseto accept students from adja-cent districts or from anywherein the state, or they can restrictenrollment to district residents.All three Paulding County dis-tricts currently allowsstatewide open enrollment.

Districts can set limits onhow many students they ac-

cept. This is based on capacity.Districts also can turn downstudents with disabilities if theydon’t already offer the requiredservices, and students who re-cently have been suspended orexpelled for at least 10 days.

No district can stop a resi-dent student from going to anopen enrollment district.

Students using open enroll-ment can get whatever trans-portation is offered tostudents who live in the dis-trict. But the receiving districtis required to make pickupsand drop-offs only at theirregular bus stops.

When a student leaves, ap-proximately $5,700 is deductedfrom the home district’s budgetand sent to the enrolling dis-trict. The amount may be largerfor a student in special educa-tion while a kindergarten stu-dent attending half-days wouldqualify for half the amount.

SEUSSICAL COMING MARCH 15-17 – The Wayne Trace Performing Arts Association is pleased to announce the upcoming musical,“Seussical,” presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International, New York. This energetic musical by Stephen Fla-herty and Lynn Ahrens is guaranteed fun for everyone. Remember the Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, and all the well-loved charactersin Dr. Seuss’s classic books? The Wayne Trace Jr./Sr. High School students will bring them to life with a twist. Under the direction ofMiss Sharon Spinner, this 56-member cast has been working hard to bring audiences an evening of entertainment. Join them on Friday,March 15 and Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 17 at 2:30 p.m. at Payne Elementary Auditorium. Doors open 45 minutesbefore performances and doors into the auditorium 30 minutes prior. There is a handicap accessible door on the east side through thecafeteria and elevator in the hallway to the second floor. Ticket prices are $7 for adults and $5 for children through high school students.

Daeger inquired about hours of operation, and Grewal respondedthat they planned to start by opening at 5 a.m. and closing at mid-night, but if business was good they would go to a 24/7 operation.

The Grewals represent TravelCenters of America and operatethe Napoleon Truck Stop on Industrial Drive in Napoleon.

A planning commission meeting was set for 4 p.m. today, March6, in council chambers to discuss this development in further de-tails. The public is welcome to attend this meeting.

Council President Roger Sierer reported the water treatmentplant construction project is on schedule. It was behind schedule,but once the building was closed in and under roof, the contractorswere able to gain the lost days due to no more weather delays.

The water plant commissioning is scheduled April 13-May 13.The commissioning is when water is run through the system tocheck and inspect pumps, values and piping connections for leaksand pressure, and how the computers respond to commands. Oncethe commissioning is complete, the plant will be put in service,possibly sometime in June if not sooner. The water plant comple-tion date is scheduled for Sept. 13.

Sierer also reported the sewer separation project is going fine.The contractor lost two days due to weather, but by working onFridays, the project is now back on schedule. As weather permits,work will be done at various locations around town.

All fence and backstop repairs are completed at Jeffery Park,and at the water park, all lifeguard and concession interviews arecomplete. Eleven new lifeguards are taking training March 9through May 7.

Sale of Hotel Barnes property is at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, March7 at the courthouse.

The next regularly scheduled council meeting will be held at6:30 p.m. Monday, March 19.

Vantage Adult Edoffers new program

VAN WERT – Vantage Career Center Adult Education, inpartnership with Boston Reed College, will be offering a newveterinary assistant program starting in April. The programcombines 35 hours of instruction with a 24-hour volunteer ex-perience in the local area.

The course is completed in five weeks. Financial assistance,including loans, can be arranged through Boston Reed.

A free informational meeting will be held from 6-7:30 p.m.Thursday March 7 at Vantage Career Center in the Cup andSaucer Restaurant.

For more information, call Dee Dee at 419-238-5411 ext.2121.

Brooke CombsPaulding

Sophomore, #10

Antwerp’s Alexis Jones named Player of the Year

ALL-PAULDING COUNTY FIRST TEAMALL-PAULDING COUNTY FIRST TEAM

Abbey EdwardsPaulding

Senior, #3

Abby PeasePaulding

Junior, #23

Krystal WannemacherWayne Trace

Senior, #3

Erin Mohr Wayne TraceFreshman, #5

Sierra McCulloughPauldingJunior, #4

Sylvia YoungWayne TraceJunior, #33

Brenda Feasby Wayne TraceJunior, #24

Kaiya JemisonAntwerp

Junior, #35

Sarah NardonePaulding

Senior, #43

Honorable MentionHonorable Mention

Antwerp’s Alexis Joneswas voted the PauldingCounty Girls BasketballPlayer of the Year for 2012-13 by the Paulding CountyProgress in voting recentlyby coaches and mediamembers.

Jones received everyplayer of the year vote, join-ing former Antwerp playersBryn Schlatter (twice) andDebbie Koenn as AllCounty Players of the Year.

The senior guard for theblue and white averaged19.1 points per game on theseason and crossed the1,000 point plateau in hersenior year as well.

Jones added 61 assistsand 42 steals for Antwerpwhile grabbing 52 reboundson the season. She alsopaced the Lady Archers in3-point field goals made(35) and in free throws, hit-ting 104 of 128 for 81.3 per-cent.

“She meant a lot to us,”noted Archer head coachKevin Taylor. “One of thebig things I thought she dida nice job of this year wasimproving her shot selectionand trying to get the othergirls involved in the offense.Her leadership was tremen-dous and she really workedon improving the team as a

whole. She put in a lot oftime over the summer to im-prove her strength and be-come a better shooter.”

Three Paulding playersand a pair of Wayne Tracegirls garnered First Teamhonors.

Abbey Edwards, AbbyPease and Sierra McCul-lough all picked up FirstTeam from the Lady Pan-thers while Krystal Wan-nemacher and Erin Mohrwere honored from WayneTrace.

Abbey Edwards scored6.5 points a night for Pauld-ing, along with posting 119rebounds, 56 assists and 29steals this past year.

Abby Pease topped thePanthers on the boards with147 rebounds and added 23assists to go along with 28steals. Pease also pacedPaulding in scoring at 8.5markers a game.

Sierra McCullough wasthe maroon and white’s topoutside threat, hitting 25treys this year and averag-ing 7.9 points per game.McCullough also posted 33assists and 36 steals on theseason while grabbing 96rebounds.

Erin Mohr paced WayneTrace in scoring with 9.4markers a night and in re-

bounding at 7.1 boards acontest. The freshman guardalso chipped in 24 assistsand 40 steals this season.

Krystal Wannemacherposted 7.2 markers a nightfor the Lady Raiders andadded 41 assists, 25 stealsand 108 rebounds.

Antwerp’s Kaiya Jemi-son picked up HonorableMention after scoring 7.3points a contest whileadding 22 steals on the sea-son. Jemison also picked up76 rebounds for Antwerp.

Receiving HonorableMention from Pauldingwere Sarah Nardone andBrooke Combs.

Sarah Nardone grabbed42 rebounds for the maroonand white and dished out 16assists while posting 11steals. Brooke Combschipped in 5.9 points pergame for the Lady Panthersto go along with 74 re-bounds, 11 steals and ten as-sists.

Wayne Trace’s BrendaFeasby and Sylvia Youngreceived Honorable Men-tion as well.

Brenda Feasby aided thered, white and blue causewith 4.2 points per game togo along with 65 rebounds,27 assists and 42 steals.

Sylvia Young chipped in

Final county girls’ basketball stats2012-13 final statistics (regular seasonstats plus postseason) for Paulding Countyhigh school girls’ basketball, compiled bysportswriter Kevin Wannemacher:

FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGEPLAYER/HS FGM FGA FG%Tanya Sinn/WT 56 109 51.4Alexis Jones/AHS 141 292 48.3Sylvia Young/WT 54 112 48.2Kaiya Jemison/AHS 58 133 43.6Erin Mohr/WT 85 217 39.2Abby Pease/PHS 62 164 37.8

3-POINT PERCENTAGEPLAYER/HS FGM FGA FG%Alexis Jones/AHS 35 84 41.7Abbey Edwards/PHS11 34 32.4Sierra McCullough/PHS 25 79 31.6Brooke Combs/PHS 8 30 26.7Karena Egnor/WT 16 69 23.2Avrial Sawyer/AHS 20 89 22.5

FREE THROWSPLAYER/HS FTM FTA FT%Alexis Jones/AHS 104 128 81.3Abby Pease/PHS 62 80 77.5Abbey Edwards/PHS40 58 69.0Krystal Wannemacher/WT 48 70 68.6Karena Egnor/WT 24 35 68.6Erin Mohr/WT 36 57 63.2

REBOUNDINGPLAYER/HS RB AVG.Erin Mohr/WT 156 7.1Abby Pease/PHS 147 6.7Abbey Edwards/PHS 119 5.4Krystal Wannemacher/WT 108 4.9Sierra McCullough/PHS 96 4.4Shayna Temple/WT 91 4.1

ASSISTSPLAYER/HS No.Alexis Jones/AHS 61Abbey Edwards/PHS 56Krystal Wannemacher/WT 41Karena Egnor/WT 36Sierra McCullough/PHS 33Avrial Sawyer/AHS 33

STEALSPLAYER/HS No.Alexis Jones/AHS 42Brenda Feasby/WT 42Erin Mohr/WT 40Sierra McCullough/PHS 36Shayna Temple/WT 35Annie Miesle/AHS 32

SCORING AVERAGEPLAYER/HS PTS AVG.Alexis Jones/AHS 421 19.1Erin Mohr/WT 206 9.4Abby Pease/PHS 186 8.5Sierra McCullough/PHS 174 7.9Kaiya Jemison/AHS 161 7.3Krystal Wannemacher/WT 158 7.2

6.3 markers a night whilegrabbing 72 rebounds on theseason.

PAULDING COUNTY PROGRESSPAULDING COUNTY PROGRESS2012- 2013 ALL-COUNTY GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM2012- 2013 ALL-COUNTY GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM

*PLAYER OF THE YEAR*

Alexis JonesAntwerp High School, Senior, #3

19.1 ppg, 104 free throws, 61 assists, 42 steals

“[Alexis] meant a lot to us.... Her leadership was tremendous and she really worked on improvingthe team as a whole.”

– Archer Head Coach Kevin Taylor

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VarsityGamesof theWeekBoys’ basketballDIV. III SECTIONALSTinora ...................62Paulding ...............59

Tinora ...................55Wayne Trace ..........48

DIV. IV SECTIONALSAntwerp ................37Miller City .............33

Antwerp ................29Holgate.................24

Sports scheduleFRIDAY, MARCH 8 –Boys Basketball: DIV. IV DIS-TRICTS – Antwerp/Fayette winnervs. Edgerton/Pettisville winner at7 p.m., played at Napoleon

Four county wrestlers compete at state

Tyler Ash of Paulding (right) wrestles Corey Ginn of West Jefferson in the opening round ofthe state wrestling tournament.

COLUMBUS – Pauldingand Wayne Trace both sentwrestlers to the OHSAA statewrestling tournament thispast weekend. GeorgeClemens, Dustin Taylor andSawyer Temple representedWT, and Tyler Ash was thelone wrestler for Paulding.All wrestlers are placed in a16-man bracket depending ontheir placement at districts theprior week.

Senior 220 pounder TylerAsh pitted his 38-9 recordagainst Philo district champCorey Ginn, 49-3, from WestJefferson. This was Tyler’ssecond trip to state. He wres-tled his beginning match verysolid, but dropped the match,5-3.

Dropping into the consibracket, Tyler next facedGarfield Heights district run-ner-up Caleb Fry, 33-4, fromMiddlefield Cardinal. For hislast match as a Panther, Tylercompeted the entire six min-utes, but ultimately came upshort, losing 6-2.

Freshman George Clemenswas competing in his first-everstate tournament at 106pounds. Finishing third at dis-tricts and with a 45-1 record,George faced Philo district run-ner-up Theodore Zoumpolidis.Wrestling aggressively,Clemens recorded his first statewin by a decision of 11-6.

Next, he competed againstGarfield Heights district cham-pion Sebastian Vidika, 39-1,from Black River. George was

unable to get much going inthis match and was handed hissecond loss of the season by adecision of 5-0. His state tour-nament ended with his nextloss to Shane Johnston, 44-8,of Massillon Tuslaw. Georgewas in this match till the endand had a chance late, butended up on the short end, 4-2.

Dustin Taylor made his firsttrip to state in the 113 poundweight class. Finishing districtsin fourth and with a record of33-13, he faced Philo districtchamp Caleb Ohl, 34-3, ofNewark Catholic. Taylor bat-tled hard, but dropped his firstmatch. Carson Mengerink, 38-7, of Upper Sandusky, was hisnext opponent, and Taylor fellshort in that match as well.

Wayne Trace’s only stateplacer and making his secondtrip to the Schott, seniorSawyer Temple, faced a roughdraw into his bracket. Finishingfourth at districts, Sawyer hadto face a district champ. Bowl-ing Green district winner JaredMattin, 36-7, would beSawyer’s opponent. Sawyerwent the distance, but droppedthe match, 8-0.

Falling into the consibracket, Sawyer faced Philodistrict runner-up Zach Gib-son, 42-6, from Bloom-Car-roll. Sawyer did not haveenough to oust Gibson andfell in this match, 12-4.Sawyer wrestled his lastmatch as a Raider on the floorof the Schottenstein Center inColumbus.

Wrestlers always hear andcoaches always say that any-thing can happen at state –you just have to get there.There were numerous upsetsthe entire tournament, but thegoal is always to get toColumbus, to be in that finalbracket of 16.

“The competition is so in-tense, so equal. There is neveran easy match down here andall the wrestlers are very tal-ented. It is just an accom-plishment to get here,”commented Coach Stabler.

Coach Clemens was quick

to point out that, obviously,you would like to see yourwrestlers win it all.

“I am really proud of allthree wrestlers. What an ac-complishment for Sawyer toreturn after placing last yearand the other two to maketheir first trip. All three ofthem wrestled to the best oftheir ability against the tough-est competition the state hasto offer. That’s all you canhope for as a coach,” com-mented Clemens.

After their hard-fought bat-tles and losses, the coaches

had one comment for all threeof them: “When you takeyour shoes off today, they arecoming off in Columbus.”

The Paulding Countywrestling community wouldlike to congratulate the fourcounty wrestlers on their suc-cess this season and for rep-resenting the county and theirrespective schools in Colum-bus. Also, would like to wishTyler and Sawyer success inwhatever path they choosefollowing high school, andGeorge and Dustin anothersuccessful season next year.

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Defensive minded Archers are sectional champsBy JOE SHOUSE

SportswriterPAULDING – Sectional

champs! Not many peoplegave the Antwerp Archersmuch of chance to claim thetitle, but a group of playersbelieving in themselves and ahard working coaching staffproved otherwise.

Entering the tournament,Antwerp faced a tall and tal-ented Miller City (16-7) teamlast Wednesday and afterfighting from behind and

trailing by as many as eightlate in the third quarter, theArchers took a lead at 29-28for good midway through thefourth quarter and hung onfor a 37-33 win. (See relatedstory.)

In the earlier game thatnight, Holgate defeated Con-tinental 20-18 after Continen-tal built a 15-10 advantageheading into the final eightminutes of play. After scoringjust 10 points in the first threequarters Holgate answered

with 10 in the fourth whileholding the Pirates to justthree.

Both Holgate and Antwerpreturned to Paulding on Fri-day night for the title matchup featuring the two GreenMeadows Conference teams.In another slow down defen-sive struggle the Archersnever trailed, and with clutchfree throw shooting down thestretch, Antwerp outlastedtheir conference rival, 29-24.

The sectional title movedthe Archers to Napoleon forDistrict play against Fayette.

Earlier in the season, theArchers defeated Holgate,31-26.

In a game where defenseruled and shots were few, itwas free throw shooting thatwas the difference. TheArchers were 12-of-19 fromthe line while Landon Grimwent to the line for three Hol-gate free throws hitting justonce.

From the field, Antwerpwas 4-of-11 from 2-pointrange and 3-of-5 from behindthe arc while turning the ballover 11 times.

In the first half, NoahGanger scored Antwerp’s firstfour points with a field goalin the first quarter and hissecond coming early in thesecond. Derek Smalley andBraeden Hormann eachscored from behind the arc toaccount for Antwerp’s 10 firsthalf points.

Defensively the Archersheld Holgate scoreless until1:02 of the first quarter whenJake Aelker scored on a shortjumper.

Holding a 10-6 advantageat intermission, the Archersopened the third period witha Smalley triple from the topof the key to give the blue andwhite a seven-point cushion,13-6.

“That three in the thirdquarter felt good,” said Smal-ley as he stood under the bas-ket clutching a piece of thevictory net. Smalley had been

nursing an ankle injury enter-ing the tournament, but man-aged to start in both gameswhile contributing eightpoints including two key freethrows with under a minuteremaining.

Late in the third quarterwith Antwerp holding a slimthree-point lead at 14-11,Ganger had the “play of thegame” when he reboundedhis own miss with time run-ning down, and while collect-ing himself along the baselinethe 6-foot-4 senior banged ina 10-footer as the hornsounded ending the third pe-riod.

Ganger ended with 12points to lead the Antwerp of-fensive attack, but it was thedefense he was most proud offollowing the game.

“We changed up our de-fense from a box-in-one, to adiamond and two, and a 1-3-1 and it kept them (Holgate)guessing. Our defense wasgood and we were trying tocut down on our turnovers,”said Ganger.

Antwerp ended the nightwith 11 turnovers.

Another individual high-light sparking the Archer wincame when Antwerp held an18-15 lead and Holgate cameup empty on three misses.Working the ball with justunder two minutes remaining,Smalley spotted Andy Cole-man breaking towards thebasket and Smalley con-nected with Coleman on thefly who scored off the glassand was fouled in the process.Coleman, who shoots just 30percent from the line, calmlysank the free throw.

“It’s no secret about myfree throw shooting and theteam has been telling me tojust concentrate, but I can’ttell you what they told me toconcentrate on,” Colemansaid with a laugh. “I just wentto the line and felt confident.”

Standing near center court,coach Scott McMichaelscanned the crowd and said

WIN GIRLS TOURNAMENT – The Paulding Fifth Grade Pink Lady Panthers went to Pioneer for a girls tournament March 2. Thegirls played great defense defeating Pittsville, Mich., 25-9, in the first game and then beat North Central 29-3, putting the Panthersin finals against Fremont, Ind. The girls again played a suffocating defense and hot shooting from Syd McCullough, Sierria Ku-persmith and Ivy Riggenbach to lead the Panthers to a 21-11 victory and first place. The girls will be traveling to Bluffton, Ohio,March 9 and at Antwerp March 16 for tournaments. Team members include Syd McCullough, Sidney Kohart, Katie Strayer, SierriaKupersmith, Ivy Riggenbach, Miah Rue, Megan Garrity and Julia Fife. Coaches are Sam Rue, Matt Strayer and Ron Riggenbach.

WT WrestlingClub competes

OTTAWA – On Sunday,March 3, Wayne TraceWrestling Club competed inthe 10th Annual Titan Openwrestling tournament in Ot-tawa. Placing for the Raiderswere: second – Asa Ames andLogan Vance; third – LandonFoltz and Jarrett Hornish;fourth – Kameryn Sutton, LukeBeckman, Gabe Sutton andKameron Bevis.

Manor HouseGym hosts newtournaments

ANTWERP – The ManorHouse Gym will be hostingnew tournaments for the areathis weekend.

Fourth grade boys and girlstournaments will be added towhat has already been busywinter tournament schedule.The day will begin with theboys division as teams travel infrom Adams Central, NewHaven and Hoagland, Ind. andCrestview, Bowling Green,Holgate, Napoleon St. JohnLutheran, as well has Antwerp.

The girls division will start alittle later with Butler Eastside,Woodburn Lutheran School,Edgerton St. Mary Catholicand Tinora.

Pool play will take placethroughout the day until thegirls finals take place at 1:50p.m. and the boys finals roundout the day at 5:30 p.m. Awardswill be presented to championand runner-up teams.

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During the last minute of the game, Coach Jim Linder was hoping for a miracle against Tinora with starters Jake Arend #25,Dalton Sinn #32 and Ryan Kortokrax #54 on the bench after fouling out in the game.

WT falls to Tinora in sectional finalBy KEVIN

WANNEMACHERSportswriter

DEFIANCE – In a battle of GreenMeadows Conference rivals, it wasTinora who made the plays down thestretch as the Rams posted a 55-48 winover Wayne Trace in Division III sec-tional final action at Defiance HighSchool Friday evening.

The Rams recorded their fifth consec-utive victory over the Raiders in the pastthree seasons to advance to Thursday’sdistrict semifinal against Archbold atNapoleon High School. Ottawa Glandorfand Evergreen will square off in theother semifinal Thursday.

Wayne Trace had chances but failed totake advantage of early opportunities toseize control of the contest. The Raidersend their season with a record of 20-3,posting the tenth 20-win season inschool history.

The two squads traded point for pointearly on in the contest before the Raidersgrabbed an 18-15 edge with a Nick Mc-Clain basket closing the first quarterscoring. Seniors Grady Gudakunst andDalton Sinn combined to score tenpoints in the opening stanza for theRaiders.

Wayne Trace got baskets early fromSinn and Gudakunst in the second periodto take a 22-16 advantage before Tinorarallied.

Buckets by Cameron Harris and DerekDrewes trimmed the Ram deficit to 22-20 but a Gudakunst 2-pointer widenedthe lead to 24-20 for Wayne Trace.

With the Raiders on top 28-25, a 3-

point play by Drewes knotted the contestat 28-28 at the intermission.

“They wore us down a little bit therein the second quarter and they were ableto take advantage,” noted Raider headcoach Jim Linder. “Tinora was able topush the tempo a little bit and we didn’talways make good decisions as a team.They defended well too so it made it dif-ficult to score.”

Tinora took its first lead since the firstminute of the game, using a free throwfrom Sam Lehman and a Drewes basketto go on top 33-30 in the third quarter.

Two Ryan Kortokrax baskets quicklyput the Raiders on top, 34-33, but itwould be the final lead for Wayne Trace.

A Lehman 3-point play and two foulshots by Brevin Renollet gave Tinora a38-34 advantage it wouldn’t relinquish.Sinn picked up a late basket for WayneTrace to get the Raiders within 38-36 atthe end of three periods.

“Tinora played well and it was a hardfought, physical game,” Linder contin-ued. “Each team had opportunities tomake plays. They stepped up and hitsome big free throws.”

The Rams took their biggest lead ofthe night at 44-38 after two Lehman foulshots before one final run by the Raiders.

Colby Speice connected on two treyson consecutive Raider possessions to getthe red, white and blue within 45-44 with3:51 remaining but Tinora answered.

Drewes’ final bucket of the gamemade it 47-44 before a Renollet foul shotpushed the lead to 48-44. It then becamea free throw shooting contest, with theRams getting two each from Alec Frank,

Drewes and Robert Wuo to seal the vic-tory.

“I am extremely proud of this seniorclass,” Linder concluded. “They aregoing out as Green Meadows Confer-ence champions and posted a 20-winseason.”

Drewes led the Rams with 17 pointsand 14 rebounds while Frank addedeight markers. Tinora finished the night17 of 49 from the field (35 percent) and18 of 31 at the charity stripe (58 percent).Lehman also picked up eight boards forthe green and white.

Gudakunst closed his career at WayneTrace with a team high 14 points whileadding two steals. Sinn wrapped up theseason with 10 points, 11 rebounds, threeassists and three steals against the Rams.Nick McClain posted six markers for theRaiders while grabbing three boards.Ryan Kortokrax chipped in ten pointsand a dozen rebounds.

Corbin Linder also added 10 reboundsfor the Raiders, who won the battle ofthe boards 43-34. Wayne Trace also had16 turnovers compared to Tinora’s 10.The red, white and blue hit 23 of 60shots (38 percent) from the field andmissed all three free throw attempts.

RAIDER NOTES – Sinn closes hiscareer with 695 points, putting him 21ston the career scoring list. Gudakunstwraps up his Wayne Trace career at 571points, which slots him into 31st on theRaider scoring list. Sinn ends with 140steals in a Raider uniform to move intofifth all time while also taking 16th in ca-reer assists with 155. Gudakunst is nowtied for 10th in career assists with 177.

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Jake Arend #24 shoots for Wayne Trace in the sectional finalsagainst Tinora.

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Raider Dalton Sinn #32 shoots over a Tinora player in Div. IIIsectionals.

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Setting up down low, Ryan Kortokrax #54 looks for an openingin the Tinora defense.

School menusMenus are subject to change

ANTWERP LOCAL SCHOOLSWeek of March 11

MONDAY – Hot dog on bun,cooked spinach, rosy applesauce,milk. Plus: Salad bar.

TUESDAY – Chicken strips regu-lar or spicy, french fries, peaches,milk. Plus: Salad bar.

WEDNESDAY – Mac andcheese, dinner roll, beets, mixedfruit, milk. Plus: Salad bar.

THURSDAY – Chicken nuggets,baked beans, pineapple, milk. Plus:Salad bar.

FRIDAY – French bread pizza oregg salad sandwich, celery and car-rots with dip, applesauce, milk.

PAULDING HIGH SCHOOLWeek of March 11

MONDAY – Breakfast: Breakfastpizza, juice, fruit, milk. Lunch: Saladbar with breadstick or chickennuggets, whipped potatoes, celery,roll, fruit, milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Egg andcheese burrito, juice, fruit, milk.Lunch: Oriental chicken salad, pret-zel breadstick or sandwich with bun,oven fries, fruit, milk.

WEDNESDAY – Breakfast: Hamegg and cheese muffin, juice, fruit,milk. Lunch: Walking taco, refriedbeans, salsa or top your potato, wholegrain bread stick, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Linksausage, mini pancakes, juice, fruit,milk. Lunch: Big Daddy pizza, babycarrots with ranch dip, or corn dog,baked beans, cole slaw, assorted fruit,milk.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Sausagegravy with biscuits, juice, fruit, milk.Lunch: Southwest chicken wrap, salsa,oven potatoes, or salad bar with bread-stick, fruit, milk.

OAKWOOD ELEMENTARYWeek of March 11

Packed lunch B: Hot dog onwhole grain bun, vegetable, fruit,milk.

MONDAY – Breakfast: Mini pan-cakes, fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Corndog, baked beans, celery sticks, fruit,milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Sausagebiscuit, fruit, milk. Lunch: Breadedmozzarella sticks with marinara sauce,green beans, fruit, milk.

WEDNESDAY – Breakfast: Break-fast pizza, fruit, milk. Lunch: Chickennuggets, whipped potatoes, gravy,bread, lettuce salad, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Breakfastburrito, fruit, milk. Lunch: Shreddedchicken on bun, broccoli, carrot sticks,fruit, milk.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Assorted ce-reals, crackers, fruit, milk. Lunch:Cheese pizza, lettuce salad, carrotsticks, fruit, milk.

PAULDING ELEMENTARYWeek of March 11

Each day a Hot dog on wholegrain bun will be available and

milk.MONDAY – Breakfast: Yogurt,

Goldfish crackers, fruit, juice, milk.Lunch: Hamburger on whole grainbun, Pennsylvania blend, vegetablechoice, fruit, milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Pancakes,fruit, juice, milk. Lunch: Taco salad, let-tuce, cheese, salsa, refried beans,crackers, fruit, milk.

WEDNESDAY – Breakfast: Break-fast burrito, juice, fruit, milk. Lunch:French toast, sausage, oven potatoes,tomato juice, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Muffin,string cheese, fruit, juice, milk. Lunch:Salisbury steak, whipped potatoes,

gravy, bread, corn, fruit, milk. FRIDAY – Breakfast: Assorted ce-

reals or cereal bar, juice, fruit, milk.Lunch: Fish shapes, bread, corn, veg-etable choice, sherbet, fruit, milk.

WAYNE TRACE SCHOOLSWeek of March 11

MONDAY – Breakfast: Sausagepizza. Lunch: Chicken strips, mashedpotatoes, gravy, fruit, milk.

TUESDAY – Breakfast: Eggcheese muffin. Lunch: Fiestado, ro-maine lettuce, carrot and celery sticks,fruit, milk.

WEDNESDAY – Breakfast: Mini

pancakes and sausage. Lunch: Ham-burger with bun, baked beans, hashbrown, fruit, milk.

THURSDAY – Breakfast: Cheeseomelet, toast, juice, milk. Lunch:Sloppy Joe with bun, green beans,fruit, milk.

FRIDAY – Breakfast: Fruit turnover,fruit, milk. Lunch: Macaroni andcheese, steamed carrots, fruit, milk.High school: Roll and butter.

DIVINE MERCY SCHOOLWeek of March 11

Same menu as Wayne Trace; nobreakfast served.

Antwerp WrestlingClub at O-G tourney

The Antwerp ArcherWrestling Club recently com-peted at Ottawa Glandorf onMarch 3. Twelve wrestlerscompeted in the tournamentand 10 were able to place inthe top four of their respec-tive weight classes.

Placing fourth for theArcher wrestlers were KarsenDonat, CJ Eaton, Avin John-son and Halie Davis. Placingthird were Jarrod Traxler andHeaven Eaton.

Placing second was Kam-ren Johnson. Placing first forthe wrestling club were EliReinhart, Aidan McAlexan-der and Justice Clark.

Catch the AntwerpWrestling Club in the next

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Guy Harder #40 scores near the end of the game.

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Paulding senior Trey Schroeder #55 scores inside.

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Lance Foor #24 slams down two against Tinora.

By JIM LANGHAMSportswriter

DEFIANCE – After work-ing themselves into the leadearly in the fourth quarter atlast week’s district gameagainst Tinora, the PauldingPanthers faded in the face ofRam aggressiveness and of-fensive attack in the finalminutes of the game to lose a62-59 heartbreaker to Tinora.

After trailing 30-26 at thehalf, Paulding battled back tograb a 41-37 lead headinginto the final eight minutes.The Panthers continued to putthe heat on early in the fourthstanza and when Guy Harder

turned in a three-point play,the local squad was baskingin a 50-42 lead with six min-utes remaining in the contest.

But no one told the Ramsto go away and a basket byTinora’s Derek Drewes with5:30 remaining in the gameinitiated a 15-5 run thatvaulted the Rams into a 57-55lead once again late in thecontest.

However, Paulding coun-tered on a basket by TreySchroeder to tie the score at57-57 with just over two min-utes to go in the contest.

But a pair of free throws bySam Lehman put the Rams

on top, 59-57. Then, with 5.8minutes remaining, Tinora’sRobert Wuo was fouled andconnected on one of two fromthe free throw line to give theRams the permanent go-ahead point, 60-57. KurtKahle then hit two shots fromthe foul line to lift the Ramsto a five-point 62-57 advan-tage.

The Panthers refused togive in as a quick shot by NeilRoehrig made it 62-59 withthree seconds left to go in thegame. Paulding almost turnedthe trick into overtime whenCaleb Klemens intercepted aTinora pass at mid-court and

fired a 30-foot shot that justhit the back of the iron andpopped out as the buzzersounded.

“It’s tough to go out thisway,” said Paulding headcoach Shawn Brewer.“You’ve got to credit Drewes(who scored six treys for thecontest). He made the shotswhen they needed them. Hedid what he had to do to givethem the offense.

“I’m proud of our guys.They came to play; they justdidn’t finish. Our defensebroke down a little. We madethe big plays but we justdidn’t finish. I thought we ex-ecuted extremely well,”Brewer said.

Brewer said that the Pan-ther defense allowed theRams to slash through themiddle and get some backdoor tallies to allow themback into the game.

“Two good teams came outand played tonight,” addedBrewer. “It was close; it wentback and forth. It’s too badthat two such good teams hadto meet this early in the tour-nament.”

Julian Salinas, who was onfire early, led the Pantherswith 11 points while Drewesled all players with 23 pointsfor Tinora.

Paulding ends its season at16-7 after ending conferenceplay at 5-4.

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Lance Foor #24 shoots for Paulding in the DIII Sectional at De-fiance on Feb. 26.

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Foor named NWCPlayer of the Year

Paulding’s Lance Foor was recently voted Northwest Con-ference Player of the Year in voting by the league’s coaches.

Foor led the Panthers by averaging 15.9 points per game togo along with 108 rebounds, 67 assists and 49 steals. The Pan-ther senior also connected on 13 treys this season and hit 75percent at the charity stripe (63 of 84).

“Lance had a tremendous year for us,” noted Panther headcoach Shawn Brewer. “He put the team first and did what wasbest for the team. His versatility and ability to score in multipleways and made him tough for teams to defend. Lance was agreat leader for us this year and did everything we could ask.”Panthers tied for fifth in the league with a 5-4 record.

Paulding senior Neil Roehrig and junior Kyle Kauser gar-nered Honorable Mention.

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Braeden Hormann #10 handles the ball out front for theArchers.

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Antwerp coach Scott McMichael talks to his players late infourth quarter during a timeout.

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Andy Coleman #11 lays the ball up after a hard drive to thebasket against Miller City.

Free throws propel Antwerp past Miller CityBy JOE SHOUSE

SportswriterPAULDING – In their

opening tournament gameagainst Miller City lastWednesday, it appeared theArchers were in for a longnight midway through thesecond quarter. After holdingan 8-5 lead after one period ofplay, Antwerp was forced intoeight turnovers while theWildcats outscored them 11-3 to take an 17-11 lead to thelocker room.

Miller City opened thethird quarter with a put backfrom Ross Kaufman to giveMiller City their largest leadat 19-11. Entering the finalquarter the Archers trailed 23-18 and following anotherMiller City field goal,Antwerp answered with acouple of 3-point plays fromDerek Smalley and NoahGanger to trim the Tigers’margin to just two, 28-26.

A Miller City turnover al-lowed the Archers to get theball back and respond with atrey from senior BraedenHormann to put the Archerson top, 29-28.

With the Archer lead atone, the blue and white wouldstay in control with solid freethrow shooting.

Kaden Brumett was nearperfect from the line in thefinal few minutes, hitting 7-of-8. Brumett was the topscorer for Antwerp with 10points.

“Free throw shooting waskey tonight and Brumett hit-ting those shots at the end

was key to our win,” saidhead coach Scott McMichael.

Like the sectional titlegame against Holgate (see re-lated story), it was free throwshooting that was the differ-ence. The Archers were 12-of-21 from the stripe whileMiller City was good on just6-of-13.

“It was a tough game andwith Noah (Ganger) needingto sit out due to foul troublein the first half I thought weweathered the storm and thenwe hit our foul shots in thefourth quarter once we got thelead,” said McMichael.

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Noah Ganger #24 gets past his defender for a shot late in thegame.Manor House winter volleyball season continues

ANTWERP – The winter volleyball seasoncontinues at the Manor House Gym, withleagues for sixth grade and under and juniorhigh girls, as well as adult league tournamentsbeing played monthly.

This Saturday will bring a close to the youthand JH regular seasons and seeding will takeplace for the season ending tournament March17.

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1550 - Quaint bungaloww/ newer roof, windows,etc. close to AuglaizeRiver. $47,000. CallDon 419-399-7699

#1549 - Remodeled 3bdrm, 1 1/2 bath home w/newer roof, C/A, N.Cherry St., Paulding.$79,900. Call DonGorrell 419-399-7699

NEW LISTING #1553 -Newer 3 bdrm, 2 1/2bath, 2 story home w/rec. room or 4th bdrm.Some updates, 1998sq. ft., deck & pool -Country Side Estates,Paulding. Priced tosell. $135,000. CallDon Gorrell 419-399-7699

LOCATION: Gorrell Bros. Auction Facility - 1201 N. Williams St., Paulding, OH

Antiques - Glassware - CollectiblesOver 150 Antique Dolls - Buggy - Sleigh

Antique AuctionSat., March 16

10:00 A.M.

Over 150 Antique Dolls Including Armand Marseille Dolls....KestnerDolls.....Handwerck Dolls.....Schoenut Dolls.....Ernst Huebach Dolls.....Kley & Hahn Dolls..... Cuno & Otto Dressel Dolls..... Many Other Dollsincluding Elektra T. NC, NY Copyright Black Papier Mache Compo Boy,30" straw filled cloth body..... General MacAuthur... Wax HermanSteiner.... Karl Hartmann.... Kammer & Rhinehart.... Several ChinaDolls and others....Call for Detailed Doll Catalogue or Free Brochure orVisit Our Website .... Glassware and pottery including Carnival glass ....pressed glass .... Stiegel glass mug.... Opalescent glass including Cobalt Hob-nail Creamer...... Cased glass vase, bowls and toothpick..... Majolica Leafplates .... Milk glass.... Many Ruby Flash souvenir glass..... Copper Lustre....Painted Germany and Bavaria Plates and Bowls.... EAPG Bread Plates....EAPG Lion Glass-Teapots, vases.... Bennington pottery dishes.... ShawneePuss N Boots creamer.... 4 Pitcher and Bowl sets and much much more.... Toys, Doll Accessories & Related including -Lots of China head doll parts..... Bisque Doll Heads.... Old Doll Clothing, Wigs, etc.... Childs Tea sets inboxes.... Pottery and metal banks.... Cast Iron Toys including Horse Drawn-wagons, carts, stoves including Eagle Gas Stove - Steel truck - 2 steel car...... American Wringer Co. Salesman's Sample clothes wringer ..... Celluloidwindup toy boy eating watermelon...... Baby Feeding dishes.... ABC Plateand Bowl .... EAPG Punch Bowl and cups.... Doll Furniture includingdressers, buffet, chairs, beds, cradles.... Doll trunks.... Antique baby carriagesincluding Joel Ellis type, Whitney, whicker, Sulkies.... Schoenhut Pianos....Tin Paris cork gun.... Die Cast race cars etc. etc., etc.... Over 30 KeroseneLamps.... Many Wagons & Tables Full of Primitives and Antiques.... OneHorse Sleigh and Harness.... Cincinnati Buggy Co. Doctors Buggy with Um-brella top.... Early Emerson Electric Motor.... Martin 60 Outboard Motor ....Several Clocks.... top for Visible Gas Pump .... Cast Iron dinner bell.... Cis-tern pump.... Cast iron kettles.... Items From Earl's Former Gun Shop& Related - 3 Indian hammer stones & apparent stone game balls.... 2 guncabinets.... older & newer bullet molds & related .... Bullet casings.... reload-ing dies.... Scopes.... Sights.... ammo boxes.... Antique Ammo including 2pc. Winchester box with shells & 2 pc Xtra Range shotgun shells box, box.... WWII era 45 Cal. Ml911 pistol ammo in box by Evansville Ordananceplant.... Sm amount of other ammunition.... Binoculars.... Sm brass tele-scope.... Lg safe w/ damage to door.... Old Powder Horns- .... Old Shotflasks.... ....Wood duck decoy ....Wood Olts Duck call.... Gun Books, Cata-logues & related.... Deer head mount.... Probable WWII Leather Flight Pantsand Jacket (fair).... Indian hammer stones and Game balls.... over a wagonfull of gun shop related items.... Very Partial Listing - 2 auction rings.... callfor brochure or; visit our web site @ www.gorrellbros-paulding.com. Orvisit Auction Zip or Proxibid.com.... Inspection Fri., Mar. 15 from 2:00 P.M.until 7:00 P.M. and beginning at 8:30 A.M. day of auction.... Terms: Cashor approved check day of auction with proper ID; VISA, Master Card or Dis-cover Card.... Seller: Marjorie Sickmiller Estate, Paulding Co. ProbateCourt Case 20121033, James M. Sponseller, Adm. DBN WWA.... GorrellBros. Auctioneers - Don Gorrell, Larry Gorrell, Matthew Bowers, AaronTimm, Sandra Mickelson, Nolan Shisler

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85 ACRE FARM - SECTION 19 - PLEASANT TWP.

85 ACRES IN SECTION 19, PLEASANT TOWNSHIP

BUYER GETS IMMEDIATE POSSESSION

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It has been professionally farmed and will make an ideal addition to your existing farming operation. The quality and productivity of the land is above average and a great opportunity for you. Call Bob Gamble at Bee Gee Realty & Auction Co., Ltd. for more information.Terms for Farm Land: 10% down day of auction with balance due on April 24th, 2013. Buyer will have 2013 farming rights and sale is subject to seller confirmation.

The pole barn is 54’x90’ and detached garage is 14’x24’. This great country package can be yours – just talk to your banker now and come prepared to bid and buy. Interest rates are AMAZINGLY LOW! Buy now and lock in a lower monthly payment before interest rates rise.

TRACT #2: A house with 2 acres and outbuildings is also selling. The address is 7367 US Rt. 224 West, Van Wert, Ohio. It is a brick ranch featuring 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ baths, a full basement and two car attached garage.

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You’ll want to see this house before the auction so call Bee Gee Realty at 419-238-5555 for your appointment to view.Terms for House: 10% down day of auction. Selling subject to seller confirmation. Balance due by April 24, 2013.TRACT #3: A combination of Tract #1 and Tract #2 will be offered. The bidding must begin at least $5,000 higher than the sum of Tracts #1 & #2.Terms for Combination: 10% down day of auction with balance due on April 24th, 2013. Buyer will have 2013 farming rights and sale is subject to seller confirmation.Seller: Harold E. & Ida E. Prill Trust, Gregory Prill – Trustee

TRACT #1: A total of 85.61 acres will be selling that is located in Section 19, Pleasant Township Van Wert County, Ohio. The land has frontage on US Rt. 224 and is situated between Dull-Robinson and Bergner Roads about 3 miles west of Van Wert. It is an excellent level farm with primary soil types of Pewamo Silty Clay Loam and Blount Silt Loam.

NOTICEBlue Creek Cemetery

Spring Clean-UpAll floral arrangements, graveblankets, plant hangers, and

shepherd hooks are to beremoved from Blue Creek

Township Cemetery by March29, 2013 if you wish to keep

them. The trustees will dispose of anything remaining

on graves and stones between April 1, 2013 and

April 14, 2013.

Decorations may be placedback on graves after April 15,2013. Due to safety issues andconcerns, shepherd hooks andplant hangers are prohibited

on all gravesites. Thank you in advance for

your cooperation.

Blue Creek Twp. Trustees.28c2

6B - Paulding County Progress Wednesday, March 6, 2013

PPLACE AA CCLASSIFIED AADQUICKLY...EASILY...

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TECTRIX GYM QUALITYSTEP CLIMBER. All digital,like new condition. $300 was$1700 new. 419-399-3885between 9am-5pm. 28c1

$125 QUEEN PILLOWTOPMATTRESS SET. New inplastic, can deliver 260-493-0805. 25p4

FOR THE LATEST NEWSupdates, check our websiteany day of the week atwww.progressnewspaper.org. Unlimited access is free tocurrent Progress subscribers- call 419-399-4015 or emailsubscr ipt ion@progress-newspaper.org for password.CENTRAL BOILER OUT-DOOR WOOD & corn fur-naces. Stop paying highenergy prices and use renew-able energy. Call for currentspecials. Classic ComfortHeating & Supply. Greenville,Ohio 888-296-3875. 19p52

IMMEDIATE OPENING - 2NDSHIFT, full-time cook position.Please apply in person atVagabond Village. 27c2

RNs – AREA HOME HEALTHAGENCY is looking for part-time RNs to work in Defiance,Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Put-nam, and Williams Counties.Submit resume, references,and preferred counties to:Human Resources P.O. Box255 Bryan, OH 43506 27c2

YEARS AGO ANTIQUEMALL, 108 W. Main Street,Van Wert (419) 238-3362,30+ Dealers. Closed Tues-days. Buy & Sell. 27ctf

AMISH CONSTRUCTIONCREW. New construction,reroof, remodel, barns,houses, additions, polebarns. Reasonable rates. 1-419-953-8215. 21p8

P&H MASONRY RESTORA-TION & REPAIR Specialist.Foundation,basement andchimney repair or replace-ments. Fully insured, Free Es-timates 419-438-2101. 13ctf

*P&H MASONRY* Founda-tion & Chimney Repairs,Free Estimates. PeterAnkney, 419-438-2101 36ctfAL GRIFFITHS CONSTRUCTION: Windows, light electri-cal, drywall, siding, doorsand more. Call Al for your re-pair or contruction needs.419-506-2102 51ctf

NICE 2 BDRM. HOUSE with1 car detached garage.Stove & refrigerator incl. Nopets. Located in peacefulneighborhood of Paulding.419-399-3003, 419-438-0834. $550 per month 28p2

2 BDRM. APT IN PAYNE. 1month rent plus deposit 419-263-4700 or 419-786-0991

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USE YOUR TAX RETURNFOR A DOWN payment on anew home. We have manyremodeled homes and op-tions to help you buy! 419-586-8220 chbsinc.com 25p4

IN PAULDING - WhisperingPines - 2 bdrm. Call 419-506-2102, 419-670-4024 or419-399-2419 8ctf

3 BDRM. 2 BATH HOME$450 rent or own in Brent-wood Community next toVagabond Restaurant 419-388-9977. 43ctf

PAULDING STORAGECENTER: Now renting stor-age units. Different sizesavailable. Call 419-399-2419for info. 18ctf

NOW LEASING: ONE &TWO BEDROOM APART-MENTS. Deposit & lease re-quired. No pets. Please callStraley Apts. at 419-399-4444 or 419-399-3721 35ctf

PAULDING MINI STOR-AGE UNITS. Located atsouth side of Paulding onUS 127. Various sizes.Please call 419-399-4444or 419-399-3721 20ctf

RESPECTABLE FAMILYWITH references looking torent a home in the Paynearea this spring. Phone 419-786-2862, leave message.

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REPLACING FOOTER ANDFOUNDATION - basementrepair floor leveling, roofing,cement work. Call Bill Miner419-596-3018 26p8

3 ACRE LOT $9,900, $500DOWN, $119 mo.; 3 acre lotwith well, septic, electric anddriveway $29,900, $1,000down, $325 mo. 813-349-0618. 23

768 N. CHERRY ST.. PAULD-ING. Just Reduced. 3 bdrm., 2full bath, beautiful oak floors, 2fireplace, FR, Game Rm, fulldry basement. Too many up-dates to mention, yet keepingthe home’s original characterand charm. I have listed myhome with Sandra Mickelsonof Gorrell Bros. Please contacther for more information, 419-506-1015 or www.gorrellbros-paulding.com 22ptfn

FREE PHONE, NO ACTIVA-TION FEE, No CreditChecks, No Hassle, No Con-tract Phone, $45.00 BestValue Unlimited Talk, Text,and Mobile Web. Van WertWireless the Alltel Store,1198 Westwood Drive SuiteB, Van Wert, Ohio Call: 419-238-3101 25c5

FREE KITTENS LITTERBOX trained eating on own.3 black, 1 calico, 1 orangetiger. 419-399-5969 28?1

WESLO GYM-SIZE crosstraining stepper. 419-670-4085. 27k1

THE REGULAR BOARDMEETING OF THE BLUECREEK TOWNSHIPTRUSTEES will be Tuesday,March 19, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. inthe Township Building 28c2

ARTS AND CRAFTS VEN-DORS WELCOME, Art-in-the-Park, Defiance Library,Fort grounds. Last Sunday ofJune. June 30, 2013. 10:30am to 4:00 pm. Booth rental$25.00 and $35.00. Earlyregistration by June 15th.Contact: Gary Boyer 419-784-3205. 813 Elbert, Defi-ance, OH 43512 26c3

EVELYN’S EXCURSIONSSPRING TRAVEL PARTYSUNDAY, MARCH 10 1:30-4:00pm Exit 13, Ramada InnFree-Free & Door Prizes,Refreshments & great Enter-tainment. New Fliers avail-able Evelyn’s Excursion’s877-771-4401 419-737-2055

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CHARTER BUS TOURS:April 27-May 1—Norfolk, Vir-ginia Beach & DC Lots of at-tractions!! Call for detailedflier--$699 Travel Party—Sunday, March 10—RamadaInn-Exit 13, 1:30-4:00—Freeand New Fliers availablethen. Lots of Day and Multi-Day Tours. Evelyn’s Excur-sions 877-771-4401419-737-2055 www.evelyn-s e x c u r s i o n s . c o m . I v a hLothamer—399-2386 27c2

COINS, ANTIQUES, OLDKNIVES, postcards, OLDtoys, jewelry, watches,stamps, estates. Ausin White419-399-3353 28p7

NON-WORKING RIDINGmower and lawn tractors. go-carts & go-cart frames. 419-263-8165. 28p4

WOODEN CHILD PATIOchair, air-pop popcorn pop-per, canvas baby stroller anda bike. 419-670-4085 28f1

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NOTICE OF SALEUNDER JUDGMENT

OF DISCLOSUREOF LIENS FOR

DELINQUENT LANDTAXES

Revised Code, Section5721.19.1

IN THE COURT OFCOMMON PLEASPAULDING COUNTY,OHIOIn the Matter of Foreclo-sure of Liens for delin-quent land taxes:LOU ANN WAN-NEMACHER, TREAS-URERPAULDING COUNTY,OHIO,Plaintiff, vs.AARON T. POWELL,Defendants.Case No. CI 12 208

Whereas, judgment hasbeen rendered against cer-tain parcels of real prop-erty for taxes,assessments, penalties,costs and charges as fol-lows:Situated in the Village ofCecil, County of Pauldingand State of Ohio, to-wit:the South Half (1/2) of thefollowing describedpremises, to-wit:Commencing at a pointForty (40) feet North ofthe Northeast corner ofLot Number Two (2), andTwenty (20) feet West ofthe center of Main Street,as per the original andrecorded plat of the Vil-lage of Cecil, Ohio; run-ning thence West OneHundred Forty-five (145)feet; thence North Eight(8) rods; thence East OneHundred Forty-five (145)feet; thence South Eight(8) rods to the place of be-ginning, in the Village ofCecil, Paulding County,Ohio, and being desig-nated as part of Outlet No.Two (2) on the Auditor’sTax List.Property of Address: 400North Main Street, Cecil,OhioParcel Number: 15-06S-020-00Total amount of judgmentis Five Thousand FiveHundred Thirty-five and36/100 ($5,535.36) Dol-lars, plus interest and costsof this suit.

Whereas, such judg-ment orders such realproperty to be sold by theundersigned to satisfy thetotal amount of said judg-ment;

Now, therefore, publicnotice is hereby given thatI, Jason K. Landers, Sher-iff, Paulding County,Ohio, will sell such realproperty at public auctionfor cash to the highest bid-der of an amount suffi-cient to satisfy thejudgment against eachparcel at 10:00 a.m. at theEast door of the Court-house in Paulding, Ohio,on Thursday, the 28th dayof March, 2013, and con-tinue from day to daythereafter. If any parceldoes not receive a suffi-cient bid, it shall be of-fered for sale, under thesame terms and condi-tions of the first sale and atthe same time of day andat the same place on the11th day of April, 2013for an amount sufficient tosatisfy the judgmentagainst the parcel.

PUBLIC NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN THATALL SUCH REALPROPERTY TO BE

SOLD AT PUBLICAUCTION MAY BESUBJECT TO A FED-ERAL TAX LIEN THATMAY NOT BE EXTIN-GUISHED BY THESALE, AND PUR-CHASERS OF ANYSUCH REAL PROP-ERTY ARE URGED TOSEARCH THE FED-ERAL TAX LIENINDEX THAT IS KEPTBY THE COUNTYRECORDER TO DE-TERMINE IF NOTICEOF A FEDERAL TAXLIEN HAS BEENFILED WITH RE-SPECT TO ANY SUCHREAL PROPERTY. 26c3

Sheriff Jason K. LandersPaulding County, Ohio

SHERIFF’S SALEOF REAL ESTATE

General Code, Section11681 Revise Code,

Section 2329.26THE STATE OF OHIO,PAULDING COUNTY:UNITED STATES OFAMERICA, ACTINGTHROUGH THERURAL DEVELOP-MENT, UNITEDSTATES DEPART-MENT OF AGRICUL-TURE, Plaintiff,vs.LARRY A. WOL-FORD, JR., ET AL.,Defendants,Case No. CI 12 185.Pursuant to an Order ofSale in the above enti-tled action, I will offerfor sale at public auc-tion, at the East door ofthe Courthouse in theVillage of Paulding, inthe above namedCounty, on Thursday,the Fourth day of April,2013 at 10:15 o’clockA.M., the real estate lo-cated at:13176 Nancy Street,Paulding, Ohio 45879 Parcel Number: 23-51B-099-00Said premises appraisedat Thirty-six Thousandand No/100($36,000.00) Dollarsand cannot be sold forless than two-thirds ofthat amount. The appraisal of thisproperty was completedwithout an interior in-spection. Neither theSheriff’s Office nor theappraisers are responsi-ble for the condition ofthe property at the timethe purchaser takes pos-session.TERMS OF SALE:Ten percent down onday of the sale and bal-ance before deed is tobe issued.Sheriff Jason K. LandersPaulding County, Ohiopauldingohsheriff.com Stephen D. Miles, At-torney for Plaintiff 27c3

SHERIFF’S SALEOF REAL ESTATE

General Code, Section11681 Revise Code,

Section 2329.26THE STATE OFOHIO, PAULDINGCOUNTY:THE HUNTINGTONNATIONAL BANK,Plaintiff,vs.DENNIE L. SKEENS,ET AL., Defendants,Case No. CI 12 189.Pursuant to an Order of

Sale in the above enti-tled action, I will offerfor sale at public auc-tion, at the East door ofthe Courthouse in theVillage of Paulding, inthe above namedCounty, on Thursday,the 4th day of April,2013 at 10:00 o’clockA.M., the real estate lo-cated at:104 Smithfield Drive,Antwerp, Ohio 45813 Parcel Number: 12-37S-007-00Said premises appraisedat One HundredTwenty-six Thousandand No/100($126,000.00) Dollarsand cannot be sold forless than two-thirds ofthat amount. The appraisal of thisproperty was completedwithout an interior in-spection. Neither theSheriff’s Office nor theappraisers are responsi-ble for the condition ofthe property at the timethe purchaser takes pos-session.TERMS OF SALE:Ten percent down onday of the sale and bal-ance before deed is tobe issued. 27c3

Sheriff Jason K. LandersPaulding County, Ohiopauldingohsheriff.com Douglas A. Haessig,Attorney for Plaintiff

SHERIFF’S SALEOF REAL ESTATE

General Code, Section11681 Revise Code,

Section 2329.26THE STATE OFOHIO, PAULDINGCOUNTY:JPMORGAN CHASEBANK, Plaintiff,vs.HILLIARD Mc-CLOUD, ET AL., De-fendants,Case No. CI 12 245.Pursuant to an Order ofSale in the above enti-tled action, I will offerfor sale at public auc-tion, at the East door ofthe Courthouse in theVillage of Paulding, inthe above namedCounty, on Thursday,the 4th day of April,2013 at 10:05 o’clockA.M., the real estate lo-cated at:15495 Road 201, Defi-ance, Ohio 43512 Parcel Number: 02-06S-014-01Said premises appraisedat Sixty Thousand andNo/100 ($60,000.00)Dollars and cannot besold for less than two-thirds of that amount. The appraisal of thisproperty was completedwithout an interior in-spection. Neither theSheriff’s Office nor theappraisers are responsi-ble for the condition ofthe property at the timethe purchaser takes pos-session.TERMS OF SALE:Ten percent down onday of the sale and bal-ance before deed is tobe issued.Sheriff Jason K. LandersPaulding County, Ohiopauldingohsheriff.com Melissa N. Hamble, At-torney for Plaintiff 27c3

SHERIFF’S SALEOF REAL ESTATE

General Code, Section11681 Revise Code,

Section 2329.26THE STATE OFOHIO, PAULDINGCOUNTY:CITIMORTGAGE,INC., Plaintiff,vs.JASON M. GER-MANN, ET AL., De-fendants,Case No. CI 12 190.Pursuant to an Order ofSale in the above enti-tled action, I will offerfor sale at public auc-tion, at the East door ofthe Courthouse in theVillage of Paulding, inthe above namedCounty, on Thursday,the 4th day of April,2013 at 10:10 o’clockA.M., the real estate lo-cated at:24731 Road 148, Oak-wood, Ohio 45873 Parcel Number: 08-01S-014-01Said premises appraisedat Sixty-three Thousandand No/100($63,000.00) Dollarsand cannot be sold forless than two-thirds ofthat amount. The appraisal of thisproperty was completedwithout an interior in-spection. Neither theSheriff’s Office nor theappraisers are responsi-ble for the condition ofthe property at the timethe purchaser takes pos-session. 27c3

TERMS OF SALE:Ten percent down onday of the sale and bal-ance before deed is tobe issued.Sheriff Jason K. LandersPaulding County, Ohiopauldingohsheriff.com Richard L. LaCivita,Attorney for Plaintiff

LEGAL NOTICEThe Annual FinancialReport of the Village ofPaulding for 2012 hasbeen completed. The re-port is available for in-spection at the Village ofPaulding, Office of theFinance Director, 116South Main Street,Paulding, OH 45879.Melissa S. Tope, 28c2

Finance Director

NOTICE OF DELIN-QUENT UTILITY

ACCOUNTSNotice is hereby giventhat persons owningproperties, described inthe continuation of thisnotice, are hereby noti-fied that certain waterand/or sewer chargesagainst the describedproperties are delinquentand past due. If delin-quent charges are notpaid within fifteen (15)days after the publica-tion of this notice theVillage Council of theVillage of Paulding,Ohio shall authorize saidcharges to be enteredupon the tax duplicateand be a lien upon suchproperties from and afterthe date of entry.The list of propertyowners and lot descrip-tion is as follows:Todd R DearingLot 186 S50' and Lot185 N20' NonemanEmerald Acres, Allot #3

LEGALSPaulding VillageBridget D FultonLot 104 W68FtNoneman EmeraldAcres, Allot #3Paulding Village 28c1

IN THE COMMONPLEAS COURT OF

PAULDINGCOUNTY, OHIOPROBATE DIVI-

SIONIN THE MATTER OFTHE GUARDIAN-SHIP OF:MASON CLYNTONSMITHCASE NO. 20132004NOTICE OF HEAR-ING ON APPLICA-TION FORGUARDIANSHIPTHE COURT herebygives notice to ShawnaM. Smith, aka ShawnaHostettler, biologicalmother of Mason Clyn-ton Smith, (DOB:8/03/01) and, UnknownFather of Mason Clyn-ton Smith, that ClyntonTracy Smith filed anApplication for Ap-pointment of Guardianof said Minor in the Pro-bate Court of PauldingCounty, Ohio. Saidhearing on appointmentof guardian will be heldon: WEDNES-

DAY - MAY 22, 2013 at9:00 a.m. at the Pauld-ing County ProbateCourt - Courthouse 2ndFloor - Office 202 - 115N. Williams Street,Paulding Ohio. 28c6

John A. DeMuth, Judge

COUNTY : PAULDINGThe following applica-tions and/or verifiedcomplaints were re-ceived, and the follow-ing draft, proposed andfinal actions were is-sued, by the Ohio Envi-ronmental ProtectionAgency (Ohio EPA) lastweek. The completepublic notice includingadditional instructionsfor submitting com-ments, requesting infor-mation or a publichearing, or filing an ap-peal may be obtained at:http://www.epa.ohio.gov/actions.aspx or Hear-ing Clerk, Ohio EPA, 50W. Town St. P.O. Box1049, Columbus, Ohio43216. Ph: 614-644-2129 email:HClerk@epa.state.oh.usAPPLICATION FORA N T I D E G R A D A -TION PROJECTVILLAGE OF CECIL

PO BOX 164CECIL, OH 45821OH ACTION DATE:03/04/2013RECEIVING WA-TERS: UT TOMAUMEE RIVERFACILITY DESCRIP-TION: WASTEWATERIDENTIFICATIONNO. : 2PA00033*FDAntidegradation projectas defined by OAC3745-1-05 - an exclu-sion or waiver is not ap-plicable. A publichearing will be heldTuesday, April, 30, 2013at 6:30 p.m. at the Vil-lage of Cecil MunicipalBuilding MeetingRoom, West Third St.Cecil, OH 45821. Sub-mit comments by5/7/2013 to OEPA-DSW-Permits Process-ing Unit, PO Box 1049, Columbus, OH 43216-1049.FINAL APPROVALOF PLANS ANDSPECIFICATIONSOAKWOOD VIL-LAGE WATERPO BOX 457OAKWOOD OHACTION DATE:02/28/2013

FACILITY DESCRIP-TION: COMMUNITYWATER SYSTEMIDENTIFICATIONNO. : 923301This final action notpreceded by proposedaction and is appealableto ERAC. DETAILPLANS FORPWSID:OH6300312PLAN NO:923301 RE-GARDING SR 613WATERLINE -COOPER FARMSAPPROVAL OF FA-CILITIES PLAN ANDAPPLICATION FORWATER POLLUTION CONTROL LOANFUND ASSISTANCEPAULDING116 S MAIN STPAULDING, OH45879-1408 OHACTION DATE :02/21/2013FACILITY DESCRIP-TION: CW FINAN-CIAL ASSISTANCEIDENTIFICATIONNO. : CS390741-0004The Village of PauldingCSO Phase 1 Construc-tion will address wet-weather overflows tobring its wastewater fa-cilities under compli-ance. 28c1

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Paulding County Progress - 7B

8B - Paulding County Progress Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Wednesday, March 6Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Creamed Peas, Mixed Fruit,

Dinner Roll, Chocolage Pudding

Thursday, March 7Liver & Onions, Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli, Mandarin Oranges,

W.W. Bread, Liver Alt: Swiss Steak

Friday, March 8Baked Fish, Cheesy Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables, Fruited Gelatin,

Cake, Dinner Roll

Monday, March 11Pork Cutlet, Rice Pilaf, Scalloped Corn, Fruit Compote,

Grape Juice, W.W. Bread

Tuesday, March 12Chili w/Crackers, Tossed Salad, Tropical Fruit, Gingerbread,

Apple Juice, W.W. Bread, Crackers

Wednesday, March 13Swiss Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts, Pears,

Fruit Crisp, Dinner Roll

Thursday, March 14Pork Chops, Hashbrown Bake, Beets, Mixed Fruit,

Cookie, W.W. Bread

Friday, March15Corned Beef, Red Potatoes, Carrots & Cabbage, Banana,

Green Jello, W.W. Bread

Monday, March 18Oven Fried Chicken, Red Potatoes, Scandanavian Vegetables,

Tomato Juice, Cookie, Biscuit

Tuesday, March 19Beef Stroganoff, Egg Noodles, Key West Vegetables,

Tropical Fruit, Coleslaw, Dinner Roll

Wednesday, March 20Sausage, Egg, & Cheese Sandwich, Hasbrown Potatoes, Stewed

Tomatoes, Fruit Salad, Orange Juice

Thursday, March 21BBQ Pork Sand., Broccoli, Cinnamon Peaches,

Fruited Jello, Crackers

Friday, March 22Tuna Salad Sandwich, Potato Salad, Marinated Tomato &

Cucumber Salad, Waldorf Salad, Cake

Monday, March 25Cabbage Roll Casserole over White Rice, Pineapple Tidbits,

Dinner Roll, Fruit Crisp

Tuesday, March 26Chicken & Noodles, Mashed Potatoes, Carrots, Strawberries &

Bananas, Dinner Roll

Wednesday, March 27Pork Cutlet, Baked Potato, Creamed Peas, Peaches,

W.W. Bread, Cookie

Thursday, March 28Cheeseburger, Oven Potatoes, BBQ Lima Beans, Orange Juice

Friday, March 29Sausage & Egg Casserole, Hashbrown Potatoes, Baked Apples, Orange

Juice, Biscuit, Yogurt

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Celebrating their February birthdays at the Paulding County Senior Center were, front fromleft – Eleanor Fellers, Caroline Zimmerman, Martha Bender; back row – Gene Scarbrough,Robert Franklin and Marjorie Phlipot.

WINTER DANCE – Nancy and Company played for the Winter Dance on Feb. 21, at the PauldingCounty Senior Center. Members of the group included, from left – Sherm Hathaway, Bob Ellis, DonBowdle and Nancy Whitaker. The group played old country and old time rock and roll.

February birthdays were observed at the Paulding CountySenior Center. Among those celebrating were, front from left –Peggy Merriman, Cindy Kennedy; back row – Odessie Brooksand Marilyn Greear.

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Social Security and‘March Madness’

By Erin ThompsonSocial Security public

affairs specialistIt’s that time of year.

Basketball fans are gearingup for March Madness, atime when the final fourteams in the NCAA fightfor the title of nationalchampion.

While basketball fans areexcited about MarchMadness, Social Securityalready has a winning “finalfour” of online services tocheer about. It is our newSocial Security servicewhich is the retirement esti-mator, online benefit appli-cation, and online extra helpapplication! Let’s take alook at the lineup.

My Social Security is anonline account that allowsyou quick access to yourpersonal Social Securityinformation. During your

working years, once youcreate your online account,you can use “My SocialSecurity” to obtain a copyof your Social Securitystatement to check yourearnings record and see esti-mates of the future retire-ment, disability, and sur-vivor benefits you and yourfamily may receive.

If you already receiveSocial Security benefits,you can now sign into youraccount to view, save, andprint your benefit verifica-tion letter, check your bene-fit payment information,and even change youraddress and phone numberin our records.

You also can start orchange your direct depositinformation.

The retirement estimatoris an easy way to get aninstant, personalized esti-

mate of your future SocialSecurity benefits. Just keyin some basic informationand the “Estimator” will useinformation on your SocialSecurity record, along withwhat you input, to give youa benefit estimate on thespot. You evencan experiment with differ-ent scenarios, such aschanging your future earn-ings and retirement date. The online benefit applica-tion is the most convenientway to apply for SocialSecurity retirement bene-fits. You can apply from thecomfort of your home andit’s fast, easy and secure. It’sso easy, in fact, it can takeyou as little as 15 minutes toapply online.

In most cases, once yourapplication is submittedelectronically, you’re done.There are no forms to signand usually no documenta-tion is required.

Social Security willprocess your applicationand contact you if any fur-ther information is needed.

The online extra helpapplication is an easy way tosave about $4,000 a year onyour Medicare prescriptiondrug costs. To qualify for theextra help, you must be onMedicare, have limitedincome and resources, andlive in one of the 50 states orthe District of Columbia.

Social Security’s onlineservices continue to hold thetop spots for customer satis-faction. In the recentAmerican CustomerSatisfaction Index quarterlyreport, Social Security con-tinued to score higher thanthe best private online serv-ices, including Amazon.

To learn more about ourwinning online services,v i s i twww.socialsecurity.gov/onlineservices.