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GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS • WEEK OF WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016 • 1B
Gazette Newspapers
Ashtabula Township Trustees hold
meeting, decline to comment on
Veterans Corner controversy
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
ASHTABULA – The
Ashtabula Township Board
of Trustees met June 9 in
regular monthly session and
heard questions from township residents and businesspeople concerning the ongoing controversy regarding
the sale of Veterans Corner,
a property putatively sold
to Cleveland-based developer Visconsi, LLC for a new
Sheetz service station – now
in legal limbo as Ashtabula
County Prosecutor Nicholas
Iarocci reviews the transaction’s legality.
“[We] want to know progress you’ve made on Peleg
Sweet Park,” Ashtabula
Township resident Anthony
Metcalf said.
Part of the dispute regarding the Veterans Corner sale is whether or not
the property is a part of
Peleg Sweet Park – a property at the intersection of
State Road and East Prospect Road. Some township
residents claim it is, but
Ashtabula Township Trustee Bambi Paulchel said it
was vacated as part of Peleg
Sweet Park when State Road
was laid down during the
1940s.
“On the advice of our attorney [Ashtabula County
Prosecutor Nicholas Iarocci], we’ve been told not to
comment on this matter,”
Ashtabula Township Board
of Trustees Vice-Chairman
Stephen McClure said. “We
don’t know about progress
yet. We’re waiting on him.”
Documents obtained by
Gazette show the property
in question was donated
for “public use” by Revolutionary War veteran Peleg
Sweet, but were not deeded
to the township and therefore not township property. The deed attached
by Ashtabula Township as
part of the sale to Visconsi
describe a section of Edgewood Cemetery, according
to a May 10th finding by
Ashtabula-based Sharp’s
Land Surveying.
See TRUSTEES page 4B
Week of Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Senior Conference held at Lakeside
High, focused on ‘Living with Purpose’
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP – The ninth annual
senior conference put on by
Ashtabula County Department of Job & Family Services and the Ashtabula County
Senior Services Levy was
held at Lakeside High School
on June 10 and focused on a
“Living with Purpose” theme
– highlighted by Collins
Learning CEO Jim Collins.
“People who don’t have
purpose – they’re like a container that’s emptied out,”
Collins said – miming dumping out a container. “They’re
empty. They have nothing to
give. But if you have purpose,
you wake up full then you go
out there and you pour out
all that love. Then you go to
bed and wake up full again.”
Emcee and Ashtabula
County Commissioners Daniel Claypool echoed Collins’
point.
“I’ve learned as I get older
that age doesn’t change what
I can do,” Claypool said. “As
people age, sometimes they
United Way announces funding to programs
ASHTABULA COUNTY - The United
Way of Ashtabula County announced last
week that is will provide $484,802 in funding to local charities from the recent fundraising campaign. The money will be used
to support 32 programs that are reflective of
the organization’s focus areas of education,
basic needs and health. The United Way
will disburse the funds to the programs over
the next twelve months beginning in July.
“United Way of Ashtabula County is
excited to announce this support of vital
community efforts. Because of this funding
children will be prepared for their education, families will receive support in their
time of greatest financial need and homebound seniors will receive meals and social
interaction, improving the quality of their
lives,” said United Way of Ashtabula County
Executive Director Randy Jones.
The charities were required to submit
detailed information about their finances
and programs when they requested funding
from the United Way. Nearly 50 volunteers
evaluated the applications. The volunteers
visited the agencies, studied audits and
budgets, and reviewed program outcomes
to see long-term improvement in community needs.
“We are very grateful to those who
contributed to the United Way as well as
those who gave of their time to determine
the funding recommendations,” Jones said.
“Giving of one’s money and time is not an obligation, it is a choice individuals make, and
we are humbled by the countless individuals
that choose to support the United Way and
our efforts to improve the community.”
Funding for early reading initiatives will
be announced at a later date.
The United Way funding awarded for
July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, is as follows:
Partner Agency
Program
Amount Awarded
• American Red Cross
• American Red Cross
• Ashtabula County Community Action
• Ashtabula County Community Action
• Ashtabula County Council on Aging
• Ashtabula County Family YMCA
• Ashtabula Dream Center
• Ashtabula Regional Home Health
• Beatitude House
• Boy Scouts of America
• Catholic Charities of Ashtabula County
• Conneaut Human Resource Center
• Conneaut Human Resource Center
• Country Neighbor Program
• Girl Scouts of Northeast Ohio
• Goodwill Industries
• Homesafe
• Homesafe
• Jefferson Community Center
• Kidney Foundation
• Kidney Foundation
• Legal Aid Society
• Samaritan House
• The Salvation Army - Service Units
• The Salvation Army - Service Center
• The Salvation Army - Service Center
Armed Forces Support Service
Disaster Services
211
Home Repair
Ashtabula Senior Center
Scholarships
Soup Kitchen
Long-Term Care
Transitional Housing
Scouting
Emergency Assistance
Financial Literacy
Guardianship
Housing
Payeeship
Comprehensive Services
Right Track
Comprehensive Services
Elderly Services
Food Bank
Girl Scouts
Vocational Services
Domestic Violence Shelter
Outreach and Prevention
Jefferson Senior Center
Medication Assistance
Transportation Assistance
Legal Aid Services
Homeless Shelter
Food Programs
$5,000
$33,000
$21,300
$10,509
$13,000
$29,100
$6,450
$12,910
$10,000
$4,850
$19,000
$4,800
$3,805
$9,000
$19,228
$24,250
$24,000
$18,900
$22,000
$12,000
$7,300
$28,000
$32,200
$5,500
$7,800
$5,200
$4,800
$27,500
$18,000
$16,800
$12,600
$16,000
Robin and Debbie
Cumberland dance to
Frank Sinatra’s “You Make
PHOTOS BY GABRIEL MCVEY
Me Feel So Young” during Collins Learning CEO Jim Collins gave the keynote
a b a l l r o o m d a n c i n g address during the Senior Conference on learning to live
demonstration.
with purpose during the last years of life.
lose focus. The only thing
that’s changed as I age is
the direction I go and speed
I went.”
Ohio Representative John
Patterson chimed in on purpose as well.
“I taught for 29 years
at Jefferson High School
and I thought about their
purpose,” Patterson said. “I
find purpose in serving others. If you continue living
for others, loving others and
holding them up, you have
purpose.”
Collins pointed up loving
others as a way toward finding purpose for seniors.
“Children and especially
grandchildren are a wonderful source of purpose,” Collins said. “One of the biggest
trends we’re seeing today
is children being raised by
their grandparents.”
Self-improvement and
lifelong learning were another source of purpose, according to Collins.
“If you have goals, then
you have purpose,” Collins
said. “If you have something
you want to do, something
you want to learn, then you
have purpose.”
Collins said it’s never too
late to learn new skills, to
contribute to the community or to volunteer to help
other – something conference
materials made manifest in
a Senior Resource Directory
handed out to all attendees.
The directory detailed services for seniors in the area,
emergency contact numbers
but also a comprehensive
list of volunteer opportunities available to Ashtabula
County seniors.
The Lakeside High Gym-
nasium was wall-to-wall
crammed with vendors from
across the county – from the
Ashtabula Arts Center and
crematory services, hospice care and Community
Action’s meals-on-wheels
program were all on hand to
give seniors a better understanding of everything the
Ashtabula County Senior
Services Levy has made
available to them.
A brief bit of live entertainment before Collins’
speech and the senior forum
was held when Robin and
Debbie Cumberland performed a ballroom dance
routine. The Cumberlands
were introduced by Claypool, who highlighted dance
as a way for seniors to get
exercise, work off stress and
draw closer to one another –
literally and metaphorically.
A-Tech Horticulture students contribute skills
to beautify landscapes throughout county
BY JAN PERALA
A-Tech
ASHTABULA COUNTY - Green thumbs are
guaranteed for students in
A-Tech’s Horticulture and
Landscaping program, who
learn to cultivate hundreds
of varieties of flowering
plants in their on-campus
greenhouses.
Just before summer
break, they took their skills
on the road beautifying the
landscapes at an array of
area venues throughout
the county. Henderson Memorial Public Library, the
Vietnam Memorial site in
Jefferson as well as Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
943 on Main Avenue in
A Tech Horticulture and Landscaping student Adam
Sovel prepares to plant flowers at Ashtabula Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 943.
PHOTOS BY JAN PERALA
Ashtabula now have flower to the expertise of A-Tech
beds in full bloom with students and their instruccolorful plantings thanks tor Ken Noble.
A-Tech Horticulture
and Landscaping
students Zoe
Shreve, Matt
Conley and
Adam Sovel
(front) created a
colorful flower bed
around Henderson
Memorial Library’s
signage with
annuals they
cultivated in
their in campus
greenhouses.
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Local Government
Ashtabula County commissioners hold
public hearing on grant funding allocation
June 15 Geneva: Ashtabula County District Library Board of
Trustees
The Ashtabula County District Library Board of Trustees has BY GABRIEL McVEY
changed the board meeting locations for the following months due Gazette Newspapers
to construction. The June 15th meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at
the Geneva Library, 860 Sherman St.
JEFFERSON – The Ashtabula
County Board of Commissioners held
June 16 Ashtabula: Board of DD
its weekly session June 9 to review
A regular meeting of the Ashtabula County Board of Developmental a series of grant applications, as well
Disabilities will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 16, in the Board as hold a public hearing on the 2016
Office training room, 2505 South Ridge Rd. East, Ashtabula. The Community Development Block Grant
meeting is open to the public.
(CDBG) Program.
The CDBG allocation hearing covJune 21 Plymouth Township: Trustees
ered the disposition of a proposed
The Plymouth Township Trustees will begin their June 21st meet- $203,000 grant from the Ohio Develing at 6 p.m.
opment Services Agency that will be
distributed into three projects addressJune 21 Jefferson: BOE
ing pressing needs within the county.
The Jefferson Area Local Schools Board of Education is moving
The Ashtabula County Transportaits regular meeting from Tuesday, June 28, to 6 p.m. Tuesday, June tion System will receive $30,000 of the
21, in the library at the Jefferson Area Junior/Senior High School. overall grant funding. A mandatory cap
Action will be taken on agenda items.
of 15 percent is set on “public services”
as defined by the grant program.
June 24 Morgan Township: Budget work session
“This will allow us to increase
The Morgan Township trustees will hold a 2017 Budget work ses- our senior ride program,” Ashtabula
sion Saturday, June 24, at 8:30 a.m. at the Rock Creek Fire Hall.
County Community Services & Planning Director Janice Switzer said.
July 20 Ashtabula: Ashtabula County District Library Board
A Geneva-on-the-Lake Village
of Trustees
sewer project on New Street will reThe Ashtabula County District Library Board of Trustees will meet ceive $46,000 of a requested $75,000.
at 6:30 p.m. July 20 at the Ashtabula Library, 335 West 44th Street. The grant application said this will
benefit the entire village, 63 percent
Ongoing
of whom are low-to-moderate income
households – the benefit of whom is a
• The Saybrook Township Park Commission will meet at the main
CDBG requirement.
park, located at 5941 Lake Rd. West, State Route 531. All regular
“They asked for $75,000 to help
meetings are held at 1 p.m. on the third Tuesdays of the month. All
offset a loan [the village] had taken
meetings are open to the public.
out to fund the project,” Switzer said.
• The Dorset Township Board of Trustees meets the first and “The $46,000 [allocated] will offset a
third Monday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Dorset Community
Center. If Monday is a holiday, meeting will be held on Tuesday
that week.
The Lenox Township trustees will hold regular meetings on the
first and third Tuesday’s of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the Lenox
Community Center.
shortfall in the project.”
The bulk of the total grant – or
$86,000 – will go to a spot slum and
blight clearance project to remove
dilapidated residential homes throughout the county. At the time of the vote,
Swtizer said the list of houses slated for
demolition was still in progress, but two
or three will be in the City of Conneaut
and the rest throughout the county,
depending on availability of funds.
Six houses will be cleared as currently
planned and more may be cleared.
Switzer said since the clearance
project does not directly benefit lowto-moderate income households, the
county will have to apply for a waiver
since the bulk of this year’s CDBG
funding will go into the clearance project. Switzer said she was confident the
waiver will be granted.
The commissioners passed the grant
application as presented by Switzer in
a unanimous vote.
A pair of grant applications for
Ashtabula County’s felony probation
program and Western and Eastern
County Court’s misdemeanor programs
through the Ohio Community-Based
Corrections Programs passed in a
unanimous vote.
The Felony Probation Program
grant request by the Ashtabula County
Court of Common Pleas through an
Ohio Department of Corrections grant
for $274,978 to fund felony probation
programs beginning July 1 and extend-
ing until June 30, 2017.
Western and Eastern County Courts’
misdemeanor probation programs will
receive $118,841 through a separate
Ohio Department of Corrections nonresidential program. Ashtabula County
Board of Commissioners President
Daniel Claypool said Ashtabula Municipal Court and Conneaut Municipal
Courts have similar misdemeanor programs that are applied for and financed
separately.
The commissioners also named a
new Dangerous Wild Animal Emergency Response Team to handle intentional or unintentional release of dangerous animals into the community.
The revised list of members will serve
a three-year term beginning June 30.
The team members must come from
distinct areas of responsibility per
Ohio law.
The team members are:
Jefferson Village Police Chief David
Wassie
Morgan Hose Volunteer Fire Department Chief Shaun Buehner
Ashtabula County Emergency Management Director Mike Fitchet
Ashtabula County Commissioner
Casey Kozlowski
Dangerous Wild Animal Owner
Terry Sullivan
Ashtabula County Health Department Representative Ray Saporito
OSU Extension Director David
Marrison
Growth Partnership holds Economic
Development Training Workshop
• The Ashtabula County Market Animal Committee, a standing
committee of the Ashtabula County Agricultural Society, will meet
at 7:30 p.m. at the OSU Extension Office on the third Thursday of
BY STEFANIE WESSELL
the month with the exception of August, December and March.
Gazette Newspapers
• Sheffield Township will be holding Zoning Board meetings the
last Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Sheffield Vol. Fire DeASHTABULA - County and compartment unless otherwise stated.
munity leaders packed the Greater
• The Ashtabula Metroparks Board will hold regular meetings on Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce
the second Wednesday of the Month and work sessions the fourth on Tuesday, June 7, for an Economic
Wednesday of the Month at 6:30 p.m. Meetings are held at the Development Training Workshop
put on by Growth Partnership for
Metroparks Board Office 91 N Chestnut St. in Jefferson.
Ashtabula County.
• The Morgan Township Board of Trustees meets the first and third
Growth Partnership Chief ExecuWednesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Rock Creek Fire Hall. tive Officer/Executive Director Don
• The Ashtabula Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Iannone led the workshop, which was
Supervisors meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. geared toward economic and comand will be held at the District’s office location at 39 Wall Street munity developers, city and village
managers, elected officials, chamber
in Jefferson. The public is welcome.
managers, tourism developers, and
board members of local economic
and community development organizations.
“I’m glad to see there’s such an
interesting mix of people,” Iannone
said at the start of the workshop.
The purpose of the workshop was
to build local development capacity
JEFFERSON - The County Commissioners Association through knowledge and skill; encourof Ohio Service Corporation (CCAOSC) has partnered with age greater strategic thinking and
Palmer Energy Company to help manage an electricity action; share some insights about
program for member counties. The program was designed the local economic base; and provide
specifically to help counties save money on their electric ideas on building greater teamwork
bills at county related facilities by utilizing the strength for collective impact.
of group buying.
“People say - what is economic deThe independent energy professionals of Palmer Energy velopment?” Iannone said. “Economic
Company, on behalf of the CCAOSC, obtain the best price development reflects the world. So
for electricity from various reputable suppliers through an whatever you see out there - economic
RFP process.
development is just a reflection. Why
After months of planning and working with Palmer is that important? It forces us to see
Energy under the County Commissioners Association of the bigger picture.”
Ohio Service Corporation energy savings program, the
Iannone said this workshop was a
Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners approved an pilot program.
agreement with MidAmerican Energy Services to save on
“Let’s think about collective imelectricity costs.
pact,” Iannone said.
“By grouping together, counties can leverage their buyThe group explored Ashtabula
ing power when shopping the market, thus securing the County’s economic-development path
best deals possible,” said Board President Dan Claypool. forward - should the county continue
“We are extremely pleased to enter into this agreement on the same path, and train to stay on
and experience the cost savings based upon this endeavor.” this path, or should it train to mount
This agreement secures competitively priced electricity a new pathy?
supplies through an electricity purchase program under
The rationale for training to mount
contractual terms favorable for Ashtabula County and will the new path forward included:
result in an estimated total of $15,000 of savings per month
—Training Focus: This course is
for various county offices.
about exploring ideas about a new,
Commissioner Casey Kozlowski stated, “Partnering with potentially “higher impact” apCCAOSC will allow our county to reduce utility costs, thus proach to economic development in
enabling the county to save valuable tax dollars.”
Ashtabula County.
Commissioner Peggy Carlo said, “This is a great oppor—Control and Impact: Currently
tunity for the county to reduce our utility costs. Joining this we have very limited control over
consortium will benefit all of Ashtabula County.”
the economic changes taking place
County saves on
electric utility costs
in Ashtabula County. (All geographic
areas struggle with this challenge,
but some have increased their control and impact through strategic
planning, coordinated strategic investment, and collective effort and
impact.)
—New Path (Collective Impact
Approach): If economic conditions
are to improve (increased prosperity,
reduced poverty, more quality jobs,
more livable communities, increased
business growth and entrepreneurship) in the county in the future, we
must experiment with and adopt a
more powerful economic development
approach grounded in the principles
of collective action, strategic investment and collective impact.
The group then had to look at its
starting point, what it’s trying to do
with respect to local economic development and why. Areas explored
need to be knowing what the priorities are, why be focused on them and
asking if they’re the right priorities
- and if they’re being tackled in the
right way.
Iannone said that the biggest
thing companies have learned in
recent years is that they need to
realign themselves to be customer
orientated.
He then shared the local economicdevelopment priorities that have
come out of other recent group meetings:
Top Priorities in Last Five Years:
• Existing business retention and
expansion
• Tourism development
• Workforce development
• Career awareness, internships,
mentorships
• Sites, buildings, infrastructure,
public services
• Quality of life amenities (shopping,
downtowns)
• Business financing
• New business attraction
Emerging Priorities:
• Entrepreneurial development
• Business succession planning
• Talent retention and attraction
(young and older)
• Education-business partnerships
• Resident retention and attraction:
New housing development
• Regional collaboration with surrounding counties
• Educational attainment (future
worker pipeline development)
• Reducing poverty and social problems impairing growth
The group then spent time exploring key questions relating to those
priorities, such as what are the major
strategies and policies utilized to
foster economic development, and
what are Ashtabula County’s top economic development challenges and
opportunities, as well as exploring
the concept of economic development.
People interested in learning more
about the workshop may download
the presentation at www.ashtabulagrowth.com, on the right-hand
side of the page, the red link titled,
“Download ED Workshop presentation here (6-7-16).”
Finnish American Cultural
group to hold picnic on June 20
The Finnish American Cultural group is inviting
friends as well as members to a special mid-summer potluck picnic at Saybrook Township Park on Monday, June
20, 5 p.m. Beverages and tableware will be furnished.
Scholarship awards will be given to five part-Finnish
descent graduates from area high schools. Founder and
Director Linda Riddell, of the Finnish Center, will be
giving a report on a Finnish botanist, Pehr Kalm, who
was responsible in naming the Mountain Laurel bush in
the 1700s. After he met with Ben Franklin, the Natural
History studies started at the Univiversity of Pa.
June 17
Jefferson:
Jefferson
Emergency
Rescue
The Jefferson
Rescue Board
will hold a special meeting on
noon June 17 at
the rescue building.
County News
Truckmen hands over tractor-trailers to Action in Motion to build up local workforce
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP– Geneva-based
Truckmen handed over a
pair of Mack CX613 tractor-trailers to Ashtabula
County Community Action
Agency’s Action in Motion
Workforce Training Academy at Ashtabula Towne
Square on June 9 in a bid
to expand the academy’s
road-training capacity.
“There’s a real need for
truck drivers here and nationwide,” Action in Motion
Director of Vocational Services Director Kreigh Spahr
said. “As the older generation of truck drivers retires,
the younger people aren’t
stepping into that gap.”
Spahr pointed to the
need for 100,000 truck drivers nationwide within the
next year and the pay and
benefits associated with
driving trucks as part of
the motivation behind the
program.
“We can train people
here and after they get their
CDL (Commercial Driver’s
License), they can make
$50,000 a year,” Spahr
said. “That’s a huge benefit
for the county. Regardless
of who they’re working for
– that money comes here
rather than going out.”
Spahr said many carriers are switching to a more
regional approach, allowing truck drivers to spend
more time at home, often
on a rotating basis and local
carriers such as Truckmen
often have drivers home
nearly every night.
The trucks donated to
Action in Motion supplement their ability to give
trainees road training,
something required in addition to classroom time and
the road simulator present
“Day classes are four
weeks long with testing on
the fifth week,” Spahr said.
“Night and Weekend classes are eight weeks testing
on the ninth week. Tuition
is all inclusive – the physical, drug screen, the CDL
learner’s permit, all training, testing and the CDL
license when the student
passes the practical test.”
Spahr said applicants
are often able to secure
assistance with tuition.
Students may qualify for
grants through the Ohio
Means Jobs office in their
PHOTOS BY GABRIEL MCVEY county or may qualify or
(From left to right) Truckmen General Manager Bruce have access to other funding
Fleischmann, Truckmen Controller Julie Lefelhoc, Action sources.
in Motion Director of Vocational Services Kreigh Spahr
“When they get help,
and Ashtabula County Community Action Agency it’s usually with all of it or
Director Judith Barris are pictured during the handover none of it,” Spahr said. “Our
of keys to a pair of Mack CX613 tractor-trailers to train students normally have
Action in Motion students
multiple job offers before
at the academy. Action every month in one or both they even start class.”
The classroom section of
in Motion Truck Driving locations to meet the needs
Academy starts classes of students and employers. the training is conducted
at and in partnership with
Kent State University’s
Ashtabula campus and then
simulator and practical
training is held at Towne
Square in Ashtabula – but
Action in Motion has also
opened a secondary location
in Euclid as well to fill high
demand for drivers.
“Our students start out
with big regional, national
and international carriers,”
Spahr said. “After they get a
few years’ experience, they
can move to a local carrier
like Truckmen, make more
money and stay close to
home.”
Spahr said Action in Motion is personal for him.
“I could have stayed out
there as a driver and made
that pile [of money] a lot
bigger,” Spahr said. “But
for me, giving back – helping people – that’s more
important.”
Andover Bank expands its footprint but looks to maintain its place in the community
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
ANDOVER – The recent
acquisition by Andover Bank
of Community National
Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania and Andover’s expansion into Lake County is part
of an effort to grow revenue,
but it’s also aimed at retaining expanding services and
retaining the bank’s position within the community,
according to Andover Bank
President Steve Varckette.
“For us, the area is not
growing that fast, so even
though we’re going to do as
much as we can organically,
we have mergers and acquisitions as part of our future,”
Varckette said. “CNB is contiguous with our market and
one of the challenges we’re
facing is growing revenue. We
are the number one bank as
far as deposits and the FDIC
market share in Ashtabula
County. We hope to be that
in Erie County, we’ve got
room to grow there and room
to grow in Madison and we’re
going to focus there.”
That expansion of both
market share and revenue
is aimed at making Andover
Bank more competitive in
a marketplace where small
community banks must compete with larger regional and
national banks, as well as
smaller community credit
unions – leaving Andover
Bank in a middle ground
where they’re taxed and
regulated in the same manner as a big bank – which can
better afford it – and credit
unions aren’t taxed at all.
“We’re not really on a level
playing field because a credit
union can do pretty much
anything a bank can but
they’re not taxed,” Varckette
said. “Their original purpose
was to meet the credit needs
of folks that banks weren’t
meeting, but that’s really
expanded. We think we do
a phenomenal job taking
care of the average person
and community banks have
a pulse on the community
larger banks do not.”
The needs of the average
person is the prime driver
for Andover Bank and the
proximity Andover Bank
has to the local community
allows them the better meet
those needs, according to
Varckette.
“First and foremost, we
make our decisions locally,”
Varckette said. “We make
our decisions in the community and I think we’ve
got a big advantage over the
competition by being fast and
flexible, being able to make
decisions quickly where a lot
of times our larger brethren
aren’t able to do that. We
connect with the customer
– if you apply for a loan, we
fully underwrite it, we don’t
just look at a credit score.”
That connection with customers allows Andover Bank
Tickets on sale
for Senior Prom
BY STEFANIE WESSELL
Gazette Newspapers
JEFFERSON - The
Signature Health Ballroom will be the site
for the 2016 Ashtabula
County Senior Citizen
Prom on Friday, June 17.
Ashtabula County residents 55 years and older
are invited to attend the
event, which will be held
from 5-9:30 p.m. at the
Ballroom, located at 4726
Main Ave.
This year’s theme is
the Roaring Twenties.
Tickets are on sale
now for $13 per person. This tickets includes
a meal catered by Culinary Delight. Proper
attire is required.
Light of Day Duty will
provide musical entertainment.
Tickets are on sale
now at county senior centers, or call Lisa Bruckman at (440) 998-6750
or Toni Tulajew at (440)
576-9052.
The prom is sponsored
by the Ashtabula County
Medical Center, Carrington Park and Saybrook Landing.
to look beyond a credit score
and invest in customers
who larger banks and credit
unions often overlook.
“When you look at our donations, when you look at our
involvement, when you look
at the types of loans that we
do, when you look at someone who may not have perfect credit and bigger banks
aren’t doing those loans, the
credit unions aren’t doing
those loans, but we are,”
Varckette said. “We are legitimately meeting the credit
needs of the community and
we’re doing the same thing
on the deposit side. We try
to work with customers and
we have a product line to
match any bank out there.
We take it very seriously.
Being a community bank,
it’s important that we are
meeting those credit needs.”
Well-intentioned but
poorly-suited regulations
put into place following the
2007 financial crisis present
a hurdle Andover Bank faces
in meeting credit needs in
the community.
“There was a lot of fallout
from the financial crisis and
a lot of the rules were written for larger banks – they
weren’t really written for the
community banks that were
not the cause of the financial
crisis,” Varckette said. “From
an unintended consequence
point, it’s trickled down to us.
Working so closely with the
community, we’re from this
community and it’s very frustrating because ultimately
what I think the laws have
done is restricted credit from
those who need it the most.
We have made the decision to
make the kinds of loans that
maybe put us in a position of
greater liability, but we feel
it’s important to do that for
the community.”
Moving forward, Varckette said Andover Bank is
making its best use of social
media, mobile apps and other technological innovations
that – added to its advantages working closely with
the community – give the
bank a leg up on its larger
competitors.
“Technology is allowing
us to compete with the Bank
of Americas of the world,”
Varckette said. “The technology side of things is very expensive and that’s something
we’re conscious of and it’s
why we’re looking at growing revenue because those
expenses are just going to
go up. Another thing we’re
looking at is social media,
one thing I think is really
cool is that we can get our
message out in a targeted
way to people to let them
know what we’re about and
what we’re up to.”
Varckette said that while
the atmosphere is highly
competitive in banking, Andover Bank’s community
involvement, reputation and
local focus mean the bank’s
employees and shareholders can feel good about what
Andover Bank does.
“We have 13 branches
total, and five in Erie County
now,” Varckette said. “Looking at competing with larger
banks and the marketing
Austinburg
woman
wins
Spring
Home
Makeover
PHOTO BY STEFANIE WESSELL
Rita Smith, of Austinburg, is the winner of the Spring
Home Makeover contest that ran in the Gazette.
As the winner, Smith will receive $1,000 to be used
at 16 participating businesses. “I’ll think of things
that are priority first, and then I’ll have fun,” Smith
joked. The win comes at perfect timing, as Smith
needs gravel for her driveway and needs to repair
a lawnmower that recently broke. Smith works at
Hair Dimensions in Jefferson.
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TRUSTEES
In an Oct. 14th Ashtabula Township Trustees’ meeting, the board
declared the property “abandoned”
for burial purposes – necessitating
the exhumation of any remains there
if the sale proceeds as-is.
“It came to our attention the township doesn’t own it,” Ashtabula Township business developer Carl Caylor
said. “What’s the township doing to
get back the part of Edgewood Cemetery you and the courts vacated?”
McClure said returning the nowvacated section of Edgewood to township care and custody is part of Iarocci’s investigation.
Caylor alleged the board knew
it didn’t own Veterans Corner and
hoped to make a quick sale of the property with a fraudulent deed and this
knowledge is borne out in a refusal
to turn over Peleg Sweet Park to the
Ashtabula Township Park Commission when it offered to take over Peleg
budgets they have is a daunting task for us, but leveraging social media I think it
levels the playing field. I’m
proud of our involvement in
the community and that’s
important to us. It goes beyond making money – we
are a shareholder-driven
company – without that relationship with the community
it just doesn’t work.”
Sweet Park in 2014.
“It came to our attention that back
in 2014 the Township Park Commission sent a letter and offered to take
over all costs and responsibility and
you said absolutely not,” Caylor said.
“They offered to maintain it expand
it. What changed between then and
now? What changed from when you
said you’d never ever give it up?”
Part of the reasoning McClure and
the other board members gave for selling Veterans Corner to Visconsi was
the expense of mowing and otherwise
maintaining the property.
“I was concerned about the part
with the gazebo in it,” McClure said.
“I’d have to look at it if it’s in a letter
form – which it probably is.”
The sale by Ashtabula Township
of Veterans Corner to Visconsi has attracted disapproval. Detractors have
cited the low sale price - $2,425 for
what Ashtabula Towne Square Man-
ager Ken Kister said is a considerably
more valuable property. The price is
derived from a broker’s opinion of
value rather than a full assessment of
value. It later came to light that the
broker in question was contracted by
Visconsi and not a neutral, third party
contracted to evaluate the property.
Ashtabula Township Fiscal Officer
Robert Dille presented a report following the citizens’ question detailing five
renewal levies coming up. Three levies
totaling 5.5 mills will continue to fund
the fire department and emergency
medical services, one 1.25-mil levy
will fund cemeteries and another 1.25mil levy will go to the township roads
department. No additional levies were
proposed at the meeting.
The Board of Trustees then entered into executive session to discuss
personnel matters and adjourned
until their next scheduled meeting
on July 12.
County News
ACMC Geneva Family Health Center holds open house
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
GENEVA – The Ashtabula County Medical Center’s
Geneva Family Health Center satellite location held an
open house from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. on June 11 to showcase
the brand new facilities for
the community, as well as offering hot dogs and a chance
to get to know some of the
staff who’ll be working there.
The 4,000-square-foot
facility on South Broadway
in Colonel’s Plaza will play
host to one primary care
physician, an urgent care
practice, a laboratory facility
as well as a rotating staff of
specialists – including Cleveland Clinic Cardiologist Dr.
Adriana Rosario.
ACMC CEO Michael
Habowski was on hand to
meet and greet guests and
conducted tours for the curi-
ous and answer questions.
“Our aim is to get primary
care available, get patients
to stay,” Habowski said. “Our
partnership with the Cleveland Clinic gives us access
to the best of the best – we
have four full-time Cleveland
Clinic cardiologists from the
number one cardiology program in the world.”
Primary Care Physician
Dr. Emily Cheich will be
keeping regular, full-time
hours at Geneva Family
Health Center.
“She’s experienced,”
Habowski said. “She’s a resident of Ashtabula County
now and that’s speaks of
permanency. We encourage
and incentivize that.”
Habowski said keeping
staff as full-time residents
of Ashtabula County communities keeps the economic effects of job creation
in-county. In his March
28th Geneva City Council presentation, Habowski
said $5 million in salaries
and benefits goes just to
employees in Geneva – and
that figure does not include
the $700,000 ACMC has
invested in Geneva Family
Health Center and a projected $1 million in payroll
a year for staff thereafter,
according to Habowski.
Of the 16,000 annual
inpatient discharges of
Ashtabula County residents,
half occur from hospitals outside the county – costing the
Ashtabula County economy
$100 million annually, according to Habowski.
The urgent care facilities
at Geneva Family Health
Center are part of a response
to survey data from Geneva
residents that paralleled
findings leading to the establishment of a similar practice
in Conneaut in 2014.
“It’s a walk-in, low cost
facility for bumps and bruises,” Habowski said. “As you
know, an emergency department is tremendously expensive. No express care facility
exists in Geneva.”
A comprehensive list of
specialists who’ll be keeping
appointments at Geneva
Family Health Center was
available during the open
house. The current roster is
as follows:
• General Surgeon Dr.
Evangelos Bibidakis
• Orthopedist Dr. Amar
Mutnal
• Pulmonologist Dr. Sanjay Srivastava
• Cardiologist Dr. Adriana Rosario
• Urologist Dr. Craig
Zippe
Nurse Practitioners Heidi
PHOTO BY GABRIEL MCVEY
Alflen and Susan PerDue- Urologist Dr. Craig Zippe (left) and ACMC CEO Michael
Schultz will staff the express Habowski (right) were on hand to answer questions about
care facilities.
the new Geneva Family Health Center.
An ACMC roster of doctors, nurses and staff will be keeping appointments at the new Geneva Family Health Center.
Amar Mutnal, MD,
Orthopaedics
Adriana Rosario,
MD, Cardiology
Evangelos Bibidakis,
MD, General Surgery
Heidi Alflen, FNP,
Express Care
Cassie Knapp,
Patient Service
Representative
Craig Zippe, MD,
Urology
Jen Cauwenbergh,
Medical Assistant
Emily Cheich, DO,
Family Practice
Jodee Johnson,
Lab Technician
Erin Delbrugge,
Medical Assistant
Kayla Gebhardt,
Patient Service
Representative
Ashtabula County Weekly Traffic Advisory
***NEW***
US Route 6 in Richmond Township: (Monday, June 20 – Friday,
June 24) - Beginning Monday, June 20, US 6 just south of Leon Rd.
will be closed through Friday, June 24, for a culvert replacement.
The detour will be SR 193 to SR 167 to SR 307.
through early October. The detour is SR 45 south to SR 307 east to
SR 167 to SR 11 south.
• The ramp from SR 11 southbound to I-90 eastbound is closed
through early October. The detour is US 20 eastbound to SR 193
south to I-90 eastbound.
This work is part of a $68 million project to replace pavement along
I-90 from just west of SR 45 to just east of SR 11. The project also
includes modifications to the I-90/SR 11 interchange and repairs
to seven bridges along I-90. The entire project is scheduled to be
completed by November 2016.
State Route 86 in Windsor Township: (Monday, June 13 – until
further notice) - On Monday, June 13, SR 86 between Ireland Rd.
and SR 534 will have various lane restrictions for pavement repairs.
This work is part of a $900,000 project to make spot paving repairs
to various routes in Ashtabula, Mahoning & Trumbull Counties. The
entire project is scheduled to be completed by late September 2016. State Route 193 in Cherry Valley Township: (Monday, June 13 –
Thursday, June 23) - Beginning Monday, June 13, SR 193 between
Interstate 90 in Austinburg, Plymouth and Saybrook Townships: US 322 and US 6 will be closed through Thursday, June 23, for a
(Wednesday, June 15 – until further notice) - Beginning Wednesday, culvert replacement. The detour will be US 322 to SR 11 to US 6.
June 15, the following traffic pattern changes will occur:
***ONGOING***
• The ramp from SR 11 northbound to I-90 westbound will re-open.
• The ramp from I-90 westbound to SR 11 southbound will be closed State Route 11 in New Lyme and Lenox Townships: (Until
through mid-October. The detour will be SR 11 northbound to Seven further notice) - SR 11 between US Route 6 and SR 307 is reduced
to one lane in each direction for resurfacing. This work is part of
Hills Rd. to SR 11 southbound.
• SR 11 northbound and southbound over I-90 will be reduced to a $5.4 million project to repair and resurface SR 11 between SR
one lane of traffic in each direction, with all traffic traveling on the 307 and US 6. The entire project is scheduled to be completed by
September 2016.
northbound lanes of SR 11.
(Until further notice) - Traffic on I-90 eastbound between Chapel Rd.
and State Rd. is shifted over to the westbound lanes via a crossover US Route 20 in the Village of North Kingsville & the City of
condition. Two lanes of traffic are maintained in each direction with Conneaut: (Until further notice) - US Route 20 at the Village of
North Kingsville and City of Conneaut between Overpass Drive and
all traffic placed on the I-90 westbound lanes.
(Until further notice) - SR 11 northbound and southbound over I-90 Industry Rd. is reduced to one lane in each directions for various
is reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction, with all traffic construction activities. This work is part of an $11.3 million project
to replace the bridge between Industry Rd. and Overpass Drive.
traveling on the southbound lanes of SR 11.
The entire project is scheduled to be completed by late June 2016.
(Until further notice) - The following ramp closures are in place :
• The ramp from SR 11 northbound to I-90 westbound is closed
through mid-June. The detour is SR 11 northbound to Seven Hills State Routes 46 & 307 in Village of Jefferson; Jefferson
Plymouth, Austinburg and Harpersfield Townships: (Until
Rd. to SR 11 southbound.
• The ramp from SR 11 northbound to I-90 eastbound is closed Further Notice) - SR 46 between SR 307 and SR 11 and SR 307
through early August. The detour is SR 167 east to SR 193 north between SR 534 and SR 46 has various daily lane restrictions for
resurfacing. This work is part of a $2.2 million project to resurface
to I-90 eastbound.
• The ramp from I-90 eastbound to SR 11 northbound is closed SR 46 between the southern Village of Jefferson corporation limit
through early October. The detour is SR 45 north to US 20 east to and SR 11 and on SR 307 between SR 534 and SR 46. The project
also includes bridge repairs on SR 307. The entire project is schedule
SR 11 north.
• The ramp from I-90 eastbound to SR 11 southbound is closed to be completed by late July 2016.
Susan PerDue
Schultz, FNP,
Express Care
Sanjay Srivastava,
MD, Pulmonology
Kristin Marquez,
Licensed Practical
Nurse
Peter Chismar, Patient
Service Representative
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Conneaut Police
• At 2:45 a.m. June 3, a suspicious person was checked on Park
Avenue.
• At 8:20 a.m. June 3, a 911 hangup call came in from Main Street.
• At 10:32 a.m. June 3, a suspicious person was reported on
Woodworth Road.
• At 10:45 p.m. June 3, a reckless driver was reported on Bliss
Avenue.
• At 1:38 p.m. June 3, an open
door was reported at a Sandusky
Street property.
• At 2:28 p.m. June 3, an ATV
complaint was reported in the area
of Harbor and Ackerman Street.
• At 4:01 p.m. June 3, a domestic
altercation was reported on Park
Avenue.
• At 4:15 p.m. June 3, a reckless
driver was reported on I-90.
• At 5:53 p.m. June 3, an unwanted
person/trespassing incident was
reported on Cleveland Court.
• At 6:01 p.m. June 3, a suspicious
person was reported on Broad
Street.
• At 6:51 p.m. June 3, a road
hazard was reported in the area of
Hayward and Harbor Street.
• At 8:38 p.m. June 3, a road
hazard was reported in the area of
State and Sandusky Street.
altercation was reported on Daniels Avenue.
• At 10:23 p.m. June 3, a Chestnut
Street resident reported harassment.
• At 12:02 a.m. June 4, a stand-by
was requested while a subject obtained belongings from a Daniels
Avenue residence.
• At 1:59 a.m. June 4, a road hazard was reported in the roadway in
the area of Route 7 and Gateway
Avenue.
• At 6:33 a.m. June 4, a suspicious
vehicle was reported on Woodworth Road.
• At 9:10 a.m. June 4, a 911 hangup call came in from Orange
Street.
person was reported on Evergreen
Street.
• At 10:21 a.m. June 4, suspicious
activity was reported on Chestnut
Street.
• At 10:44 a.m. June 4, a lawn
mower was reported stolen from a
residence on Liberty Street.
• At 11:14 a.m. June 4, a 911
hang-up call came in from E.
Main Road.
driver reported on I-90.
• At 12:17 p.m. June 4, an animal
call on I-90.
• At 12:39 p.m. June 4, a Harbor
Street resident reported harassment.
altercation was reported on West
Main Road.
• At 3:17 p.m. June 4, a suspicious person was reported on
Mill Street.
• At 5:07 p.m. June 4, a civil
dispute was reported on Carnegie
Street.
complaint was reported at the
sandbar.
complaint was reported in the area
of East Main and Furnace Roads.
• At 6:15 p.m. June 4, suspicious
activity was reported on Old Main
Road.
• At 8:12 p.m. June 4, reckless
drivers were reported on Madison
Street.
• At 8:25 p.m. June 4, a neighbor
dispute was reported on Broad
Street.
• At 8:45 p.m. June 4, a juvenile
complaint was reported in the
area of Broad Street at the CSX
RR overpass.
• At 9:43 p.m. June 4, units were
requested to check the well- being
of a Furnace Road resident.
• At 9:54 p.m. June 4, a burglary
was reported at a Sandusky Street
residence.
Main Road.
• At 10:58 p.m. June 4, a fireworks
complaint was reported on Harbor
Street.
vehicle was reported on Naylor
Drive.
• At 1:25 a.m. June 5, a domestic
Main Road.
• At 6:39 a.m. June 5, units responded to Buffalo Street regard-
ing an alarm.
• At 9:13 a.m. June 5, a 911 hangup call came in on Parkview Drive.
• At 11:49 a.m. June 5, a Broad
Street resident reported lost property.
• At noon June 5, a Clark Street
resident reported threats.
activity was reported on Buffalo
Street.
• At 12:38 p.m. June 5, a 911
hang-up call came in from Furnace Road.
• At 1:56 p.m. June 5, a 911
hang-up call came in from South
Ridge Road.
• At 3:19 p.m. June 5, a burglary
alarm was reported on Mill Street.
• At 3:23 p.m. June 5, a motorist
assist was requested on Madison
Street.
• At 3:26 p.m. June 5, a motorist
assist was requested on Route 7.
• At 4:15 p.m. June 5, a 911 hangup call came in from Center Street.
• At 6:59 p.m. June 5, a civil dispute was reported on Main Street.
• At 8:10 p.m. June 5, a suspicious
person was checked in the area of
Chestnut and State Streets.
• At 10:22 p.m. June 5, an unwanted person was reported on
Madison Street.
• At 11:27 p.m. June 5, a disturbance was reported on West Main
Road.
• At 11:29 p.m. June 5, a 911 hangup call came on from Main Street.
• At 12:41 a.m. June 6, a reckless
driver was reported on I-90.
• At 10:10 a.m. June 6, an unwanted person was reported on
15th Street.
• At 10:43 a.m. June 6, a civil
dispute was reported on Lake
Breeze Drive.
activity was reported at Love’s
Drive.
driver was reported on Lincoln
Drive.
altercation was reported on Main
Street.
driver was reported on Center
Street.
dispute was reported on 14th
Street.
• At 6:51 p.m. June 6, a custody
dispute was reported on East Main
Road.
altercation was reported on Day
Street.
• At 7:43 p.m. June 6, a motor
vehicle accident was reported
on I-90.
• At 8:54 p.m. June 6, a 911 hangup call came in from Center Road.
dispute was reported on Hayward
Avenue.
• At 10:20 p.m. June 6, a 911 hangup call came in from Bliss Avenue.
• At 10:34 p.m. June 6, a suspicious vehicle was reported on
State Street.
Ashtabula Police
6/3/16
• 01:55 - 5000 block of Madison
Ave. FIRING/DISCHARGING.
• 01:58 - 100 block of W 44th St.
A subject in the lobby reported her
son snuck out of the house.
• 08:40 - 5000 block of Woodman
Ave. A caller requested a standby
to retrieve some personal items.
Ave. Ashtabula City Police Officers assisted Ohio Adult Parole
with an arrest warrant. A methamphetamine lab was found.
• 10:32 - 2000 block of Lake Ave.
Reporting a male in a vehicle acting strange and out of sorts.
• 13:27 - 4000 block of Main Ave.
A custody dispute was reported.
• 14:09 - 800 block of Lyndon Ave.
Possible fraud.
• 14:31 - 100 block of W 44th
St. Female in the lobby to report
threats and harassment.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Caller reports suspicious person.
Child custody dispute in parking
lot of Rite Aid.
• 18:23 - 900 block of E 16th St.
PSYCHIATRIC SITUATION.
Report of a disturbance.
• 21:44 - 5000 block of Reed Ave.
A disturbance was reported.
• 21:49 - 3000 block of West Ave.
Caller reports a disturbance.
• 22:00 - 500 block of Audrey Pl.
ALARMS. A caller reports an attempted burglary.
• 22:11 - 200 block of W 50th St. • 09:59 - 5000 block of Adams
Caller reports fight.
Ave. An officer conducted a traffic
stop resulting in the driver being
6/4/16
cited for driving under suspension
• 00:43 - 800 block of W 48th St. and arrested on a warrant through
CRIMINAL DAMAGE OR EN- ACSO.
DANGERING. A vehicle window • 10:11 - 800 block of block of Alwas shot out.
len Ave. Male in the lobby to make
• 05:30 - 1000 block of W 10th St. a report regarding fraud.
ASSIST FIRE DEPARTMENT. A • 11:04 - 900 block of E 6th St. A
report of a total structure fire was landlord reported property damreceived.
age and suspicious condition of
• 07:15 - 600 block of Goodwill the property.
Dr. PSYCHIATRIC SITUATION. • 12:59 - 2000 block of Michigan
Caller reporting threats from her Ave. A caller reported a theft of
boyfriend.
mail.
• 08:48- 2000 block of Lake Ave. • 14:24 - 2000 block of W Prospect
PERSONAL WELFARE. ACMC Rd. A caller reported a lost child.
requested officers for an uncoop- • 14:45 - 1000 block of Union Ave.
erative patient.
FRAUD. Female in the lobby to
• 10:16 - 1000 block of E 51st make a report.
St. DOA AND BODY FOUND. • 16:08 - 5000 block of Main Ave.
CCAN requesting an officer for Theft from store.
a DOA.
• 17:19 - 100 block of Grove Dr.
• 10:32 - 2000 block of Lake Ave. DISCHARGING FIREARMS. A
Complaint of a small child unsu- male shot himself in the leg with
pervised pushing a stroller down a pellet gun and was transported
Lake Ave.
to ACMC.
• 11:38 - 600 block of W 57th St. • 18:22 - 5000 block of WashCaller makes a report of an assault. ington Ave. CUSTODY INTER• 11:41- 4000 block of Jefferson FERENCE. A caller reported an
Ave. DISTURBANCE. Caller interference with custody.
reports problems with her boy- • 18:46 - 1000 block of W Prospect
friend over custody and a stolen Rd. A caller reports a theft of bikes.
cell phone.
• 11:52 - 4000 block of Cleveland Ave. THEFT BIKES. The caller
Ave. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. stated her bikes were taken from
A caller hears a domestic in prog- her front yard.
ress.
• 19:30 - 4000 block of Birchwood
• 12:06- 4000 block of Fern Ave. Ave. THEFT FROM BUILDING.
CIVIL MATTER. A caller re- The caller reports theft of her apported a custody issue involving pliances.
a babysitter and the children’s • 22:46 - 3000 block of Lake Ave.
father.
TRAFFIC OFFENSE.
• 13:11 - 1000 block of Hamlin
Dr. UNAUTHORIZED USE OF 6/7/16
AUTO.
• 12:49 - 300 block of W Prospect
• 13:17 - Walnut Beach parking Rd. PHONE CALLS THREATlot. AGGRAVATED ROBBERY- ENING. Caller reports harassing
STREET-WEAPON. Caller re- phone calls at the business number.
ported her 19-year-old boyfriend • 14:29- 1000 block of E 46th
was just assaulted in the parking St. OBSTRUCTING OFFICIAL
lot of the beach by several males BUSINESS. A subject requested
in a gold Saturn.
a standby. The standby resulted in
• 14:33 - 5000 block of Hope Ave. an arrest for obstructing official
A caller reports a disturbance with business and felony warrants.
a neighbor.
• 15:05 - 1000 block of W 54th
• 15:26 - 1000 block of W Prospect St. THEFT FROM BUILDING.
Rd. Lost property was reported.
A caller reported a theft.
• 16:45 - 800 block of E 16th • 15:14 - 1000 block of W Prospect
St. INDUCING PANIC. Caller Rd. SIMPLE ASSAULT. Female
reports a couple pulling knives on in the lobby to make a report.
each other.
• 16:12 - 200 block of W Prospect
• 19:36 - 800 block of Thayer Ave. Rd. MOTOR VEHICLE ACPETTY THEFT-BIKES. A theft CIDENT. Caller reports a MVA.
was reported.
• 20:35 - 1000 block of W 13th St.
• 19:59 - 3000 block of Glover A caller reported a child custody
Dr. DISTURBANCE-NOISE. A dispute.
disturbance was reported.
• 20:46 - 900 block of W 38th St.
• 22:37 - 1000 block of Norman Family disturbance.
Ave. PETTY THEFT FROM
YARDS. A theft from a yard was 06/8/16
• 00:29 - 1000 block of W 7th St.
reported.
COMPLAINTS-JUVENILE. A
6/5/16
caller reported a runaway juvenile.
• 02:02 - 1000 block of W 5th St. • 01:25 - 500 block of W 57th St.
A report of a suicidal male was An animal was dispatched.
received.
• 11:59 - 6000 block of Bardmoore. Report of an alarm.
A caller reported she was assaulted • 06:58 - 500 block of Center St.
by her sister.
ROBBERY.
• 13:29 - 100 block of W 44th St.
COCAINE POSSESS. Subject in 6/8/16
the lobby arrested for possession • 00:29 - 1000 block of W 7th St.
COMPLAINTS- JUVENILE. A
of drugs.
• 13:43 - 3000 block of Lake Ave. caller reported a runaway juvenile.
• 01:25 - 500 block of W 57th St.
A disturbance was received.
• 14:12 - 3000 block of Lake Ave. ANIMAL-MISCELLANEOUS.
An animal was dispatched.
Caller reports a disturbance.
• 16:31- 400 block of Myrtle Ave. • 04:06 - 5000 block of West Ave.
Report of an alarm.
Caller reports theft.
• 17:47 - 4000 block of Lake Ave. • 06:58 - 500 block of Center St.
ILLEGAL USE OF CREDIT FORCIBLE PURSE SNATCHCARDS. A caller reports credit ING. A theft was reported.
• 13:44 - 1000 block of Seymour
card fraud and theft.
• 18:39 - 1000 block of W Pros- Dr. Dispatched in reference to a
pect Rd. UNRULY JUVENILE. family dispute involving a mother
A caller is reporting an unruly and son.
juvenile.
• 19:26 - 500 block of W 48th MUTUAL AID REQUESTED/
St. TRESPASSING. A report of RECEIVING AGENCY/GIVEN.
Vehicle investigation.
trespassing was made.
• 21:11 - 1000 block of W 38th • 14:48 - 4000 block of Park Ave.
St. BURGLARY FORCED. A A caller reported panhandling and
burglary was reported on AMHA trespassing.
• 16:01 - 2000 block of Ashbrook
property.
• 23:06 - 100 block of W 44th St. Dr. HARASSING COMMUNIDEPARTMENTAL INFORMA- CATION. Report of harassment.
TION. A report of possible fraud • 16:18 - 100 block of W 44th St.
involving the Ashtabula Police WARRANT SERVED.
Department.
• 22:58 - 700 block of W 58th St. NEIGHBOR TROUBLE. Caller
DISTURBANCE. A caller reports reports neighbor trouble.
an intoxicated man trying to drive. 6/9/16
• 01:43 - 500 block of W 41st St.
6/6/16
• 06:47 - 1000 block of W 12th St. AGG ASSAULT. An assault was
Caller reports threats and damage reported.
• 03:22 - 100 block of W 44th St.
to his vehicles.
• 08:17 - 4000 block of Valleyview PRISONER MEDICAL CARE.
An inmate issue was addressed.
Blvd. Report of vandalism.
• 08:58 - 800 block of W Prospect • 03:54 - 5000 block of Woodman
Rd. Two subjects were arrested on Ave. CRIMINAL DAMAGE/
ENDANGERING. A caller reports
active warrants.
For the Record
criminal damage.
Jefferson Police
June 2
• 12:59 p.m. - An officer responded
to a threats complaint at 153
Monroe Cir. A woman there said
her father-in-law had threatened
to harm himself, her and her
11-year-old son. The woman said
her father-in-law is also currently
charged with domestic violence for
an incident involving her son. As
the subject is currently residing in
Rock Creek, the officer referred
the complaint to the Ashtabula
County Sheriff’s Office, who
took over handling and advised
the complainant to file for a civil
protection order.
June 3
• 11:25 a.m. - An officer responded
to a disorderly conduct complaint
at Hardee’s. Customers and staff
said two males entered the restaurant and shouted profanities
regarding a service and left. Staff
identified one of the males as a
former employee.
to bear sighting on East Beech St.
The officer patrolled the area, but
did not spot the animal.
June 4
to a medical call at Dollar General.
An ambulance on scene was treating a male subject for a suspected
seizure. The subject has stopped en
route to a drug treatment facility
in Warren, Ohio, for some drinks
and collapsed. The male admitted
he’d used heroin earlier in the day.
June 6
to a harassment complaint at
McDonald’s. A male employee
there said his ex-girlfriend had
shut off his phone and had stolen
his identity. The woman, another
employee, said the phone and bank
account were both in her name
and they’d broken up after she’d
discovered he was sleeping with
another employee. The officer
advised both to work out with
their general manager to find arrangements for the three of them
to avoid working together.
June 7
to a vehicle crash at the intersection of South Market Street and
East Jefferson Street. A vehicle
traveling westward on Jefferson
failed to stop at a red light and
was struck by a greenlighted vehicle traveling north through the
intersection. No one was injured
in the crash.
June 8
to a vehicle crash at the intersection of S. Chestnut St. and E.
Satin St. A vehicle backing out of
a driveway struck another vehicle
stopped at the intersection. No one
was injured in the crash.
sponded to a telephone harassment
complaint at 860 Sherman St.
to a domestic violence complaint
at 27 Walnut St., #6. The officer
cited a subject with domestic violence, unlawful restraint, disrupting public services and telephone
harassment.
June 8
• 6:35 p.m. - An officer conducted
a warrant service at 47 Swan St.
The officer also cited a subject
with a noise violation.
June 9
• 10:20 p.m. - An officer responded to a telephone harassment
complaint at 570 Eastlawn St.
June 10
• 9:20 a.m. - An officer conducted
a traffic stop near the intersection
of Erie St. and S. Broadway. The
officer cited the driver with operating a vehicle with a suspended
license.
• 10:28 a.m. - An officer conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Kiwanis Park Dr. and
Sherman St. The officer placed a
subject under arrest on outstanding
warrants.
• 1:39 p.m. - An officer cited a subject for an open liquor container
violation at 240 South Ridge E.
to a telephone harassment complaint at 285 Lockwood St.
June 12
• 8:00 a.m. - An officer conducted
a warrant service at 401 Morrison
St. The officer cited a subject for
drug possession.
to a suspicious person complaint
at 354 East Main St.
to a criminal mischief/theft complaint at 488 Eastwood St.
Andover Police
June 6
• 1:17 a.m. - South Main St - Assist
Life Flight
• 9:15 a.m. - East Main St. - Private
Property Crash
• 12:27 p.m. - Maple St. - Warrant
for Arrest
June 7
• 9:30 a.m. - Public Square - Damaged Property
• 5:49 p.m. - Gates St. - Assist
Ambulance
• 11:56 p.m. - Vandalism
June 8
• 6:38 a.m. - East Main St. - Suspicious Vehicle
• 11:56 p.m. - Chestnut St. - Traffic Complaint
June 9
• 8:30 a.m. - Public Square - Bank
Escort
• 6:30 p.m. - Owl Point - Assist
County Agency
June 10
• 2:52 p.m. - Pymatuning Lake Assist Fire Dept.
• 9:05 p.m. - South Main St. - AsJune 9
sist
Life Flight
to a harassment complaint at June 11
Circle K. A woman said she was • 4:58 p.m. - Public Square - Bank
threatened by an acquaintance Alarm
who harangued her while shopping, threatening to assault her. June 12
The officer questioned the on-duty • 12:22 p.m. - South Main St. clerk, whose version of events was Traffic Crash
substantially similar. The woman • 7:00 p.m. - Maple St. - Found
said she’d filed another report Property
previously with the Ashtabula • 7:58 p.m. - Gates St. - Found
County Sheriff’s Officer after Property
another incident of harassment
Orwell Police
by the subject. The officer filed a June 8
report with the Ashtabula County • 12:05 am – Assist ACSO on
Prosecutor’s Officer for review on Staley Road
menacing charges.
• 5:01 am – Suspicious activity
on Leffingwell Drive
Geneva Police
• 6:40 am – Assist ACSO on
June 6
• 2:55 p.m. - An officer responded Dodgeville Road
to a theft complaint at 156 Leslie St. June 9
• 3:00 p.m. - An officer responded • 3:26 pm – Criminal trespass
to a vehicle theft complaint at 734 complaint on East Main Street
Timber Ln.
• 6:26 pm – Assist RSPD on
• 4:58 p.m. - An officer conducted Owl Point
a traffic stop at 120 W. Main St. • 9:38 pm – Civil dispute on East
The officer cited the driver for op- Main Street
erating a vehicle while intoxicated.
• 5:40 p.m. - An officer responded June 10
to a disorderly conduct complaint • 3:06 am – Suspicious activity
on Noe Avenue
at 142 Lockwood St.
• 7:34 p.m. - An officer responded June 11
to a telephone harassment com- • 2:48 pm – Alarm drop on East
plaint at 60 West St.
Main Street
• 9:37 p.m. - An officer responded • 5:25 pm – Neighbor dispute on
to an aggravated burglary com- East Main Street
plaint at 193 Grant St.
• 10:48 pm – Underage possession report taken on East Main
June 7
• 10:30 a.m. - An officer re- Street
For the Record
Austinburg man found dead near ASHTABULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS
Greenway Trail off Lampson Road
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
AUSTINBURG TOWNSHIP – The Ashtabula
County Sheriff’s Office
has identified a man found
dead near Lampson Road
on June 11 as 60-year-old
Keith Irwin of Austinburg
Township.
A call to the Ashtabula
County Sheriff’s Office regarding a body found near
the Western Reserve Greenway Trail led deputies
to the scene where Irwin’s
body was found.
Sheriff’s Office documents indicate Irwin was
riding the trails the night
before, struck a metal pylon and was thrown from
the all-terrain vehicle he
was riding and died. The
ATV was still running
when sheriff’s department
personnel found Irwin’s
body.
The Sheriff’s Department is still investigating
Irwin’s death.
Recent grand jury indictments
The following grand jury indictments have been announced by the
Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court.
Nichole Winchell was indicted on one count of possession of heroin,
a fifth-degree felony; one count of aggravated possession of drugs,
a fifth-degree felony; and one count of possession of cocaine, a
fifth-degree felony.
Disclaimer: All information
found on the Records pages has
been found in public records
provided by the law-enforcement
agencies. Although suspects may
have been arrested, they may not
have at this point been charged or
found guilty of a crime.
June 6
• 8:29 p.m. - A deputy conducted
a traffic stop in the 2200 block
of E. Prospect Rd., Ashtabula
Township. The deputy cited the
driver for operating a vehicle
under suspension and ordered the
vehicle towed.
March 31
• 7:12 p.m. - A deputy responded
to a found one-pot methamphetamine laboratory near the
intersection of Callendar Rd. and
Teleki Rd., Orwell Township.
On investigation of the materials found, a deputy determined
where they’d been purchased.
The deputy obtained surveillance
footage and linked the purchase to
Nathan Pace, 19, of 7961 Higley
Ave., Orwell. The deputy questioned Pace and a woman who’d
given him a ride to make the purchase. The deputy filed a report
with Western County Court for
review of charges against Pace for
illegal assembly of chemicals to
manufacture methamphetamine.
June 7
• 11:43 a.m. - A deputy responded
to a domestic violence complaint at Ashtabula City Police
Department, 5700 W. 58th St.,
Ashtabula. A female complainant
there said her live-in boyfriend
assaulted her as she drove him
to work in Ashtabula Township
and she wished to press charges.
Deputies proceeded to the alleged
assailant’s place of work, but he
fled prior to their arrival. A deputy issued a ‘be on the lookout’
alert for the subject and filed a
report with Ashtabula Municipal
Court for review on domestic
violence charges.
to a credit card fraud complaint
at 2222 E. 42nd St., Ashtabula
Township. A resident there said
her credit card provider contacted
her regarding a suspicious, out-ofstate purchase. The woman said
she needed a police report on file
to have the charges reversed.
to an unruly juvenile/domestic
violence complaint at 5968 State
Route 45, Rome Township. A
woman there said she had an
argument with her daughter that
escalated into a violent fit during which her daughter smashed
household items and struck her
repeatedly. The woman said when
she tried to call emergency services her daughter disconnected the
telephone. The deputy arrested
the girl and transported her to
Ashtabula County Youth Detention Center and filed a report to
the Ashtabula Juvenile Prosecutor
for review on charges of domestic
violence, criminal damaging and
disrupting public services.
to a found narcotics call at Indian
Trails on Plymouth Ridge Rd.,
Plymouth Township. The caller
said while hiking he’d found
marijuana plants in pots along one
of the trails. The deputy located
and seized the plants, but left the
empty pots with his business card.
at 7576 Staley Rd., Orwell Township. An Orwell Police officer
arrived to assist. A woman there
said her 37-year old son, Joshua
Angel L. Goodman was indicted on one count of attempted robbery,
a fourth-degree felony.
May 24
Erwin C. Coleman was indicted on one count of aggravated pos- • 1:37 p.m. - A deputy responded
to a burglary complaint at 3754
session of drugs, a fifth-degree felony.
Stumpville Rd., Lenox TownRichard R. Lapana was indicted on one count of aggravated ship. A resident there said when
possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony; and one count of drug he arrived at his cabin, he found
paraphernalia offense, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
the entrance had been forced
Shawn Gregory Barnard was indicted on one count of illegal and several items were missing.
manufacture of drugs, a second-degree felony; one count of illegal The resident named a neighassembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, bor – Ryan Dougherty, age 26,
a third-degree felony; one count of aggravated possession of drugs, of 1188 Brockway Rd. – as a
a third-degree felony; and one count of tampering with evidence, a possible suspect due to his stealing items from him in the past.
third-degree felony.
Brian Scott Bernard was indicted on one count of illegal assembly Dougherty’s grandmother lived
or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, a third- at the Brockway address and said
degree felony; one count of possessing criminal tools, a fifth-degree Dougherty lived in a camper on
felony; and one count of tampering with evidence, a third-degree her property and gave the deputy
consent to search the camper –
felony.
where the deputy located most of
Sierra Nicole Perry was indicted on one count of illegal manu- the missing items, as well as 14
facture of drugs, a second-degree felony; and one count of illegal potted marijuana plants behind
assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, a barn. The deputy questioned
a third-degree felony.
Dougherty, who denied stealing
Jessica Leeann Knowlton was indicted on one count of obstructing anything, claiming an acquaintance had brought the items to his
justice, a third-degree felony.
camper for storage. The deputy
Joshua Patrick Alan Javis was indicted on one count of illegal obtained a DNA swab off a shopassembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, ping cart he believed Dougherty
a third-degree felony; one count of possessing criminal tools, a used to transport the items to his
fifth-degree felony; and one count of tampering with evidence, a camper. The deputy filed a report
with Eastern County Court for
Michael Christopher Williams was indicted on one count of il- review on charges of breaking
legal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of and entering, receiving stolen
drugs, a third-degree felony; one count of possessing criminal tools, property, marijuana cultivation
a fifth-degree felony; and one count of tampering with evidence, a and weapons possession under
legal disability.
Russell Dwayne Litton was indicted on one count of illegal
manufacture of drugs, a second-degree felony; one count of illegal
assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs,
a third-degree felony; one count of aggravated possession of drugs,
a fifth-degree felony; and one count of possessing criminal tools, a
fifth-degree felony.
Marriages
Keith E. Reeder and Susan E. Wolfe,
both of Ashtabula
Mark L. Burch II and Jonathan D. Miller
Anna M. DiBattista, and Lorena L. Yoder,
both of Middlefield
both of Follansbee,
WV
Michael R. Fryer and
Tyrone J. Brininger
and Melissa A.
Shanley, both of
Rock Creek
Michael L. Burge,
Jr., and Latasha L.
Sheffey, both of
Ashtabula
Terry M. Raymond
and Kelly J. Gasper,
both of Ashtabula
Tricia R. Tackett,
both of Conneaut
Kevin J. Artman and
Kristin L. Urch, both
of Conneaut
Robert A. Goddin,
of Newbury, and
Martha B. Slocum, of
Geneva
Benjamin A. Garcia
and Tina M. Bowers,
both of Ashtabula
May 30
to a missing children report at
5579 Footville-Richmond Rd.,
Trumbull Township. A woman
there said her two juvenile daughters had run away sometime the
night before. The deputy logged
the girls’ information into a
missing children database and
had another deputy check an
address found among the girls’
belongings. Geneva City Police
later located the girls. The deputy
filed a report with the Ashtabula
County Juvenile Prosecutor for
review of unruly juvenile and
runaway charges.
June 4
to a credit card theft complaint
at 5674 State Route 193, Cherry
Valley Township. A resident
there said his niece had stolen his
credit card and used it to make
online purchases. The deputy
contacted the subject, who failed
to make her appointment to give
a statement.
June 5
at 3107 Myers Rd., Geneva
Township. On arrival the caller
said she’d had an argument with
her husband and there had been
no physical contact or harm to
her. The deputy gave her a waiver
form to sign and cleared without
further incident.
Conley, had assaulted her. She
also said her Conley had forced
his way into a bathroom and taken
her mobile phone when she tried
to call for help. Conley refused to
comply with an order to stand and
place his hands behind his back.
The deputy used mace to subdue
Conley and placed him under
arrest. The deputy transported
Conley to Ashtabula County Jail
and booked him on domestic violence, disrupting public services
and resisting arrest charges.
June 9
to a trespassing complaint at 6535
Jefferson Rd., Ashtabula Township. A resident there said she
and a neighbor had witnessed a
former acquaintance on their
property after he’d been told to
stay away and issued a previous
summons for criminal trespassing. The deputy located the subject and issued him a summons
the Ashtabula Municipal Court
on criminal trespassing charges.
The subject said he wouldn’t be
going to court and the deputy was
wasting his time.
at 6636 Crawford Rd., Saybrook
Township. A resident there said
her 15-year-old son had struck her
and threatened to kill her daughter
during an argument over chores.
The boy said he hates women and
would rather be in jail or a group
home than with them. The deputy
transported the boy to Ashtabula
County Youth Detention Center
and charged him with domestic
violence – enhanced due to this
incident being a repeat offense.
to a missing child report at 8077
Oak Dr., Williamsfield Township. A woman there said her
15-year-old daughter hadn’t
returned from a friend’s house as
agreed and had said she was going
to New York. The deputy located
the girl on Stanhope-Kellogsville
Rd. and took her into custody.
The girl wouldn’t divulge where
she’d been or with whom but
admitted to smoking methamphetamine. The deputy filed a
report with the Ashtabula County
Juvenile Prosecutor for review on
unruly juvenile charges.
June 12
• 11:07 a.m. - Deputies responded
at Saybrook Landing, 2300 Center Rd., Saybrook Township. An
argument between an employee
there and her live-in boyfriend
escalated. The male subject struck
her and took her mobile phone
and left in her vehicle. The vehicle was later located, but the
subject was not. A deputy filed a
Court for review of domestic
violence charges.
• 2:54 p.m. - Deputies responded
at 2994 County Line Rd. North,
Geneva Township. A woman said
an argument with her boyfriend,
Michael Church, age 26, escalated and he shoved her. A deputy
placed Church into custody and
transported him to Ashtabula
June 10
County Jail on domestic violence
and child endangerment charges
to an unwanted subject complaint
as well as an outstanding arrest
at 4431 Denise Dr., Ashtabula
warrant for failure to appear at a
Township. A woman there said
court hearing.
her son was on the premises and
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of his being under the influence
of drugs frightened her and she
could not make him leave. The
deputy was advised the subject
had multiple active felony arrest
warrants. The subject refused to
comply with the deputy’s orders
to stop and was tased. The deputy
discovered the subject in possession of a hypodermic syringe
and a bent, burnt metal spoon.
Ashtabula Township Fire Department transported the subject to
Ashtabula County Medical Center for observation as the subject
claimed he’d injected himself
with bleach. In addition to the
active warrants, the deputy filed a
Court for review on drug abuse,
possession of drug abuse instruments and resisting arrest charges.
to a suspicious person complaint
near the intersection of East 32nd
St. and State Rd., Ashtabula
Township. The caller said they’d
seen a man going onto porches of
homes in the neighborhood. The
deputy detained the subject and
conducted a search of his person.
The deputy found a used hypodermic syringe, a crack pipe and
other paraphernalia. The deputy
issued the subject a summons to
Ashtabula Municipal Court for
possession of drug abuse instruments and drug paraphernalia
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Community News
‘Dog of the Year’ to be
crowned this weekend
at SPIRE Institute
HARPERSFIELD
TOWNSHIP - The very
first “Dog of the Year” and
the Rally World Champion
will be crowned at the inaugural Title Mania® and
World Cynosport Rally
Championship events June
16 – 19 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva.
The Dog of the Year
award will go to the top dog
after completing 12 rounds
of agility competition over
the four-day event. The
Rally World Champion will
be awarded to the best rally
obedience competitor after
four rounds of competition.
Nearly 200 dogs from
more than 25 different
states are participating
in this inaugural event,
which is also the first canine sporting event and
competition designated as
an official Olympic Day
event. TitleMania is one
of more than 2,100 events
taking part in the Olympic
Day celebration.
The event will focus on
two of the most popular
canine team sports today
- dog agility and rally obedience – and hosted by the
United States Dog Agility
Association. Both sports
emphasize the Olympic values of teamwork, respect,
perseverance, fair play and
sportsmanship for success.
USDAA has a long his-
Local restaurants band together to support
Foodbank with ‘Empty Plate’ campaign
ASHTABULA COUNTY - More than a dozen locally
owned restaurants are banding together to raise funds for
the Ashtabula County Foodbank during the weekend of
June 24-26.
The effort, named “Empty Plate” to call attention to
families that struggle to put food on the table, will encourage customers to add a $5 donation (or increments of five
dollars) to their check. The donations will go directly to the
Ashtabula County Foodbank.
Ashtabula County has over twenty food pantries and
soup kitchens that provide emergency food to people in need.
They are generally operated by churches and social service
agencies and reach every area of the county.
Lesser known, however, is the Ashtabula County Foodbank, the program that provides most of the food to pantries and soup kitchens. The Ashtabula County Foodbank
tory of supporting Olympic acquires donated, surplus and low cost food and stores the
events and values. Over food in its warehouse until pantries and soup kitchens need
the years, the company
has provided interactive
demonstrations and competitions at U.S. Equestrian
ASHTABULA TOWNTeam events and the Pan
Am Games, and has hosted SHIP - Wildfire Dance Studio
and sponsored interna- will offer three two-hour dance
tional dog agility competi- camps on June 20, 21 and 22
tions both in the U.S. and at their studio in the Ashtabula
Towne Square in Ashtabula
abroad.
The action begins at 2 Township.
Guest choreographers Lindp.m. Thursday and 9 a.m.
Friday through Sunday say Lancaster and Katie Farry
and will wrap by 6 p.m. of Cincinnati will work with the
competitive teams at the camps,
each day.
Lindsay Lancaster
The SPIRE Institute is which are open to all intermedilocated at 5201 Spire Cir- ate area dancers ages 7 and up. scholarship to EDGE PAC
“We invite all kids who helped launch her career taking
cle, Geneva, OH 44041 and
is one of the largest indoor, love dance to experience these her across the world into Europe
multi-sport, training and amazing instructors,” stated and Asia. Lancaster has worked
competition complexes in Mary Murtha, Wildfire Direc- with Beyonce, Mel B (Spice
tor. “No matter where they take Girls), Lil’ Wayne, Taryn Manthe world.
For more information on class or what activities they do, ning, Melody Thornton (Pussythese two exciting events, any child who loves music and cat Dolls), and others. Her TV
please visit www.usdaa- movement would enjoy these credits include Dancing with the
Stars, X-Factor, Abbey Lee’s
titlemania.com or www.ral- camps.”
Lancaster is a fresh and Ultimate Dance Challenge,
lyworldchampionships.com.
exciting choreographer whose Conan O’Brien, America’s Got
Talent and David Letterman.
Farry is a senior soloist and
Rehearsal Director for Exhale
Dance Tribe in Cincinnati.
to be resupplied. The cooperative nature of the Foodbank
enables more food to be available to pantries at a very low
cost. There is no cost to the people who receive the food from
pantries and soup kitchens.
The Ashtabula County Foodbank provided over one million pounds of food to local pantries last year and will do so
again this year. That was the equivalent of 104,000 meals.
While these numbers are impressive, the need far outstrips
the amount of available food and this is what motivated the
restaurant owners to support the “Empty Plate” effort. The
Foodbank has an annual budget of just $95,000. The restaurant owners are hoping to significantly increase the Foodbank
budget and the numbers of families who can be helped.
The locally owned restaurants that are sponsoring “Empty
Plate” are Bascule Bridge Grille, Biscotti’s, Briquettes
Smokehouse, Casa Capelli, Crosswinds Grille, Crow’s Nest,
Dublin Down, Grind House, Martini’s, Piero’s Pasta, Purola
Brothers Pizza, Rennick Meat Market, Scribblers Coffee.
Guest choreographers to lead Wildfire Dance Camps
6287 St. Rt. 193
North Kingsville, Ohio
(440) 224-0111
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Katie Farry
Studying since age three, she
has trained under Missy Lay
Zimmer, Andrew Hubbard and
Jennifer Rutherford at Planet
Dance Cincinnati since 2008.
Farry has performed at Over
the Rhine, Bootsy Collins and
The Bengsons under the direction of Sonya Tayeh. Farry
also worked as an assistant to
choreographers Lay- Zimmer
and Hubbard for Cincinnati
Ballet’s 2013 performance with
Peter Frampton LIVE.
The accomplished duo will
offer a Hip Hop camp on Mon-
day, June 20, a contemporary
camp on Tuesday, June 21, and
a Video Dance Star camp on
Wednesday, June 22.
Registration is open to all
dancers age 7 and up.
Cost is $25 for each twohour hour camp.
Register at www.wildfiredance.com or call 440-7899541 for more information.
The camp descriptions:
— Monday, June 20, 12-2
p.m. Hip Hop, $25, Intermediate level. Open class: LA
style hip hop combinations &
movement
— Tuesday, June 21, 3:305:30 p.m., Contemporary, $25,
Intermediate level. Open class:
Creative freedom and interpretive movement
— Wednesday, June 22,
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Video
Dance Star, $25, Intermediate
level. Open Class: Learn the
moves of a video background
dance
Community News
Animals find sanctuary
BY WJ KEACH
Gazette Newspapers
JEFFERSON – Lasa
Sanctuary is a nonprofit animal sanctuary, with three
goals. In addition to animal
sanctuary, Lasa works in the
human community, reaching out to nursing homes,
schools and homeless shelters, trying to bridge the
gap between animals and
people. Lasa also promotes a
vegan diet with concern for
environmental issues and
holistic living.
Situated on almost eleven
acres, the sanctuary is home
to more than 90 animals,
although the population
continues to change.
The name Lasa is an
acronym for Love all, serve
all. Started in 2011, Lasa
was inspired by the familycompanion animal-rescue
group in Wooster, Ohio.
The founders and directors are Joy and Tom Karuna.
Joy, how did you find
this path in life?
Joy Karuna: I have always loved animals and grew
up around many various species. In 2007, I walked into a
humane society to see a dog
shivering in a concrete kennel, belly crawling from fear.
I took her home and created
We Are Family Animal Rescue, to help her and others
find safe forever homes. After a few years, and further
educating myself on animal
issues, I decided to expand
and redirect my efforts to
include farmed animals and
to move from adoption into
PHOTOS BY JOY KARUNA
Joy Karuna founded
Jefferson’s Lasa animal The Lasa animal sanctuary
in Jefferson provides
sanctuary in 2011.
permanent homes for farm
long-term sanctuary, Lasa and other animals.
was born from that personal
piglet when he was put on a
evolution.
What problems have transport truck to be taken
you had to overcome to to the feed lot for “fattenmake and keep Lasa suc- ing” for market. His fear
and smarts led him to hide
cessful?
Joy: Funding! Our biggest in the shadows of the truck
challenge is always find- when it was unloaded and
ing creative and inspiring then reloaded with adult
ways to grow along with our pigs bound for the slaughanimals’ needs. Rescue is terhouse. He survived the
impossible to strategize or trip in the cramped truck
predict so we must remain with pigs more than 25
adaptable while being re- times his size only to be
discovered during unloading
sponsible.
How is the sanctuary at the slaughterhouse. The
driver of the truck was told
doing now?
Joy: We have been blessed he could not be slaughtered
and fortunate beyond even due to his size and was
our understanding and have instructed to “hit it with a
grown amazingly in the 2x4 and leave it on the side
few years we’ve been here. of the road.” The driver,
We are so thankful to the thankfully, instead drove
amazing community who him to a friend’s house who
has supported us in getting reached out to us for perthis far and look forward to manent placement. Theo
connecting with many more arrived in the middle of
winter and had to spend the
in years to come.
Tell us some of your first few months living in
our basement until he could
favorite animal stories.
Joy: There are so many grow and we could construct
— Theodore Logan, for ex- a safe outside enclosure
ample. He was just a wee for him and his sanctuary
The Lasa animal sanctuary
provides permanent homes
for farm animals, even the
rude ones.
brother, Webster William.
Today Theo is a spunky,
ornery, full-of-life pig who
fully enjoys every minute of
mud play, sun bathing, and
snacks.
There is a YouTube
video with one of your
cows listening to flute
music. Do the cows prefer
classical, country, rap or
classic rock?
Joy: Just like people,
each animal has their own
personality and preferences.
I remember driving hours in
our Honda Element bringing
home our first cow, Donovan.
When Bob Marley started
playing, Donovan visibly
relaxed and laid down, letting out a deep sigh. To this
day, Donovan loves reggae.
Jasper, however, seems to
prefer hip hop.
Animals are a 365-daya-year responsibility.
How do you cope?
Joy: Our days are very
busy with several rounds
of chores to be completed
in addition to other tasks
such as vet visits, shopping
Who needs GPS? Yes,
that large bovine named
Donovan is watching the
road for sanctuary director
Tom Karuna.
trips, tours, etc. Lasa is a
volunteer organization and
we receive no income from
the work we do here. As for
coping, a Confucius quote
comes to mind - Choose a job
you love and you will never
have to work a day in your
life. This applies to me. This
is my passion and my life’s
purpose.
Where do you see Lasa
in 10 years?
We hope to expand our
land, our infrastructure, and
our education programming,
as well as network with various mental health and school
programs. We still have a
lot of kinks to work out like
running out of water (don’t
worry, we get it trucked in)
and manure management as
our herd grows. I never could
have predicted where we are
now. I can’t wait to see what
Lasa has become by 2027!
One last question, can
you tell us why the relationship between people
and animals is important?
Joy: My educational and
work background is in education and mental health
counseling. Part of my inspiration for founding Lasa, by
design a small and intimate
sanctuary, was to provide
connection between species
and to work from a perspective of paralleled healing.
That is to say that altruism
is, to me, the most genuine path to wellness that
has ever been. Sitting with
a cow, feeling the shared
heartbeat between their species and our own, or looking
into the eyes of a content pig
while knowing the trauma
they’ve felt, the trust they’ve
given, the healing they’ve
embraced… we heal our own
hearts and ultimately that
will heal the world.
Lasa does tours by prescheduled private reservation only, with periodic openhouse events posted online.
Lasa is all volunteer and has
no paid staff. Lasa generally does not take “owner
release” animals. Animals
are not up for adoption, Lasa
is a sanctuary. Animal sponsors are needed.
Donations can be made
online or by check to P.O.
Box 488, Ashtabula OH
44005.
Find Lasa on the web at
www.lasasanctuary.org, or
friend them on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/Lasa.
Santuary.Oh.
To see Lasa animals’ reaction to a live flute player go
to YouTube at www.youtube.
com/watch?v=0RhjlbIkAJo.
Mark Your Calendar: Upcoming Events
Firehouse Winery to
host Wine and Jazz
Festival June 18
June 16 Jefferson: Tracy Lake Day: It’s Tracy Lake Day at Lake
Effects Hair Salon on 1-5 p.m. Thursday, June 16. Stop in and say
hi and enjoy light refreshments. Tracy has been Virginia Minick’s
hairdresser for 25 years, and she wanted to honor her. “She deserves
a high-five for her awesome talent and successful business,” she said.
BY GABRIEL McVEY
Gazette Newspapers
June 17-19 Jefferson: Jefferson Days: Jefferson Days in downtown
Jefferson. Carnival begins Friday night with rides, games and more.
GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE
KE
– The Old Firehouse Winery
y
on the Strip at Geneva-onthe-Lake will play host to
its second annual Wine
and Jazz Festival on Saturday, June 18, with a
themed craft show as well
as the winery’s famous
Ferris wheel in operation
for guests.
“This is the second year
ear
we’ve done this,” Manager Bobby
Woods said. “It went over well last year, so we’re doing it
again.”
The Old Firehouse Winery hosts a craft show every
Saturday during the summer season, but during special
events Firehouse tries to set a theme, according to Woods.
“The theme this year will go along with the wine and
jazz theme,” Woods said. “People can come down and sit
and enjoy the show.”
Two local jazz bands will be performing as a part of the
Wine and Jazz Festival at the Old Firehouse Winery: the
L.S. Jazz Express will play from noon until 4 p.m. and then
the Teddy Pantelas Trio will take the stage from 4-8 p.m.
“The festival will run from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.,” Woods
said. “The vendors usually pack up by about 8. People can
come down and we don’t charge for entry, but people will
have to pay for their samplings.”
Woods said the Old Firehouse Winery typically partners
with other area wineries for the Wine and Jazz Festival,
with seven other wineries contributing their wares to last
year’s event.
“It’s a great time,” Woods said. “People can some down,
check out the crafts, sample some wines and enjoy the
show.”
June 17 Ashtabula: Ashtabula Friendly Quilters: On Friday,
June 17, from 7-9 p.m., the Ashtabula Friendly Quilters will have
Pat Knoechel from California and sister of and partner with Eleanor
Burns, noted for her “Quilt in a Day” TV show. She will have patterns from a new book, “Quilts from El’s Attic” and will demonstrate
how to assemble a block. There will be several quilts shown. Also
there will be books and quilting supplies for sale at show prices. The
show is at the Ashtabula Church of the Nazarene, located on South
Ridge Road West in Ashtabula.
Check out the barn quilt
at the Jefferson Depot
June 17-18 Roaming Shores: Annual Garage Sale: The Annual
Roaming Shores Garage Sale will be held Friday, June 17, and
Saturday, June 18, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
June 18 Jefferson: Ashtabula County Beekeepers Association:
The Ashtabula County Beekeepers Association will meet Saturday,
June 18, at the 4-H Extension Office, 39 Wall Street, Jefferson. Potluck dinner at noon. Please bring a dish/dessert to share. Meeting
at 1 p.m. Speaker: Sharon Riccio Topic: What to do with swarms.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Painted by artist Jane Wilson and constructed by David
Blough, Jim Dutton and Troy Bailey, the “Royal Star of
Ohio” Barn Quilt is mounted on the 1849 Church Barn
in the Jefferson Depot Village. View it from East Walnut
Street on your way to the Strawberry Festival - Craft
Bazaar this weekend, June 18-19. Crafters coming from
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio will line the Depot
midway and inside the Depot.
June 19 Geneva: Breakfast Buffet: A Breakfast Buffet will be
held Sunday, June 19, from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Geneva-Madison
Knights of Columbus Hall, 6113 N. Ridge Road W., Geneva. Buffet
includes: pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon,
sausage gravy, fruit cup, juice, and beverage. Cost is $6 each; children 3-10 $3; under 3, free; maximum $25 for family with children. on them? Who is buried there? Join Barrie Bottorf of the Ashtabula
County Historical Society for a walking tour of the cemetery 2 p.m.
June 19 Ashtabula: Big Bands on the Beach Summer Concert
June 19. The public is welcome and no reservation is necessary. The
Series: Big Bands on the Beach Summer Concert Series features the
walk will be held rain or shine.
Madison Jazz Project performing tunes from the 1930s and 1940s on
Sunday, June 19, from 4-6 p.m. at Walnut Beach, Ashtabula. Free June 20 Ashtabula Township: Senior Center Happy Travelers
and open to the public. Rain or shine. Flag raising and singing of Picnic: The Senior Center Happy Travelers will hold a picnic at
the National Anthem. ACMC information and literature table. Vets Lake Shore Park at noon. Chicken, drinks and place setting will be
will be asked to stand for recognition. Concession stand, restrooms, provided. Bring covered dish and unwrapped elephant gift. Happy
free parking, and handicapped ramp available. Bring parasols, lawn Travelers Social Club members only.
chairs, and bottled water if desired. Sponsored the City of Ashtabula
June 20 Ashtabula: Retired Teachers Association: The Ashtabula
and funded by ACMC.
County Retired Teachers Association will meet at the Trinity PresbyJune 19 Kingsville: Tour Lulu Falls Cemetery: Ever wonder about terian Church in Ashtabula. Program of the Pearly Shells Polynesian
the stories behind the graves at Lulu Falls Cemetery in Kingsville? Review. Reservations needed. Call (440) 563-3595 or (440) 275What about all those rows of grave stones that have only a number 5320 before the Wednesday before each meeting for reservations.
County News
Against All Odds
The medical heroes of the war
BY BARBARA J. HAMILTON
Gazette Newspapers
Editor’s Note: The Gazette has begun an ongoing
series of stories originally
published in the D-Day Conneaut programs. They are
dedicated to the men and
women who served during
World War II. This story appeared in the 2011 edition
and reflects details at that
time.
The training of the men
and women before the war
prepared them medically, but
the difficulties they would
encounter to help the injured
were beyond anything they
had ever experienced.
After arrival on the Normandy beaches, the medics
had their hands full. The
wounded were scattered
everywhere.
While going from man to
man, the medics were shot at
by German snipers. If a man
could be moved, he would
be dragged to the shelter of
the sea wall. Immediate aid
might simply be placing a
tourniquet to stop the bleeding, a great danger on the
battlefield. The medics would
clean a wound the best they
could and administer sulfa or
the newly introduced wonder
drug, penicillin.
During May, the month
leading up to D-Day, the
American pharmaceutical
industry had sent 100 million
units of penicillin in preparation for the great number of
men who would need it in the
invasion days and months.
Morphine was used to
deaden the pain. Each man
receiving a morphine shot
was tagged so that the next
medic would not give a man
a second shot.
Waiting for an opportunity to take the wounded
from the beaches, the medics
comforted the men, many
out of their minds with fear
and pain.
The wounded were transported back to the ships in
the same boats that had
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Retrieving the dead at Omaha Beach was difficult.
brought them uninjured and
whole. The boats were returning for more troops. Once
at the side of the ships, the
injured were hoisted into
litters and raised to the deck
with rigged booms.
Once on board, surgery
could begin. Amputation was
done with the aid of a new anesthetic, sodium pentothal,
easing the shock and pain
for the men.
Shrapnel and bullets had
to be removed. For many of
the men, shock had begun
to set in.
Their fears overwhelmed
them and many required
sedation.
The men were transported
to hospitals where they could
recuperate and return to the
field. This was usually done
at the first sign of healing
because so many men were
needed to fight. Most of the
men were willing and ready
to continue.
If the wounds were too
severe, they would be sent
back to the States if they
pulled through.
Many doctors and nurses
landed at Normandy within
days of the initial invasion.
Field hospitals were made
up of physicians, dentists,
medical administration
staff, nurses, enlisted men,
a chaplain and Red Cross
workers.
The field hospital was
then divided into a headquarters and three smaller
units known as platoons or
detachments.
Each unit was fully
equipped to serve as a separate mobile hospital. Small
teams of specialized surgeons
nurses and technicians were
assigned to each unit.
The medical teams often
had to set up temporary
hospitals close to enemy action. Some of the units were
bombed several times.
Blood for the blood banks
was shipped in from the
United States and transported to where it was needed.
America rallied for her
troops and blood collection from volunteer donors
reached 13.4 millions pints
during the war and it was
shipped all over the world
to those who’s very lives depended on it.
Later, in the winter after
D-Day, the medics not only
treated wounds, they were
faced with the problems of
trench foot, frostbite and
cold- and snow-related problems.
Hospitals were set up
wherever a large building
could be found. They used
schoolhouses, churches and,
often, shelled-out buildings.
The conditions were often
deplorable.
The hospital staff had to
spend their initial moving in
time cleaning the building to
the extent they could house
patients.
This was followed by setting up operating rooms, xray units and post-op wards.
Constant moving of the
hospital and the patients
was always necessary. Often
the fighting was so close the
staff feared being overrun by
Germans. It was common to
have to move several times
in a night.
Moving at night during
blackout allowed the roads
to be free in the daytime
for movement of troops and
equipment. Some units had
to move several times in
the night. The tension was
terrible. The staff had to
maintain calm in the midst
of each crisis to keep the
injured calm.
The three units under the
57th Field Hospital, which
supported the United States
7th Army and Infantry Divisions, moved 40 times from
October of 1944 to April of
1945, according to personal
testimony from one of the
nurses.
Unit B of the 57th Field
Hospital cared for the critically wounded during the
winter of 1944 to early June,
1945. To their credit, they
supported 24 battalions of
troops.
Many of our men would
not have survived D-Day or
the battles that followed if
it had not been through the
efforts of the medical men
and women who risked everything, some losing their life,
and went against all odds to
care for our troops.
Weekend full of
events in Jefferson
BY STEFANIE WESSELL
Gazette Newspapers
JEFFERSON - There will
be plenty to do in the Village
of Jefferson this weekend, as
Jefferson Days will return
this year on Friday, June 17,
through Sunday, June 19.
Jefferson Days is being
sponsored by the Jefferson
Area Chamber of Commerce
this year. In recent years,
the festival has been a oneday event called Village Day.
The Chamber has decided to
expand it this year to include
even more events for village
residents and visitors to
enjoy.
Jefferson Days will feature a carnival from Friday
afternoon through Sunday
evening at East Jefferson
Street down by the Giddings
Park and Jefferson United
Methodist Church. The road
will be closed for the rides,
food vendors and games that
will be set up.
The Strawberry Festival will take place at the
historic 19th century Jefferson Depot. Admission
is free this year. Hours for
the Strawberry Festival are
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday,
June 18, and from noon to 5
p.m. Sunday, June 19. There
will be free parking on East
Walnut Street.
Crafters coming from
New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio will line the Depot
midway and inside the Depot, Depot volunteer Jean
Dutton said.
“There’s going to be something that every type of person of every age can enjoy,”
Chamber President Patty
Fisher said. “There’s going to
be the Strawberry Festival,
antique cars, rides for the
kids and more.”
The merchants up town
are having special sales on
Friday and Saturday, and
many of the churches are
also having sales, Fisher
said. People are also encouraged to hold their own yard
sales in a community-wide
yard sale.
“It’ll bring lots of people
in,” Fisher said.
Park
•4-9 p.m. Covered Bridge
Festival booth at Giddings
Park
All day - Merchant sales at
participating businesses
•9 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Treasure
Sale at Jefferson United
Methodist Church
•9 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Rummage
Sale at St. Joseph’s Calasanctius Church
Saturday, June 18
•All day - Merchant sales at
participating businesses
•Fire safety house and kids’
firefighter training at the
Jefferson Fire Department
•12-11 p.m. - Carnival with
rides and games on East
Jefferson Street by Giddings
Park
•9 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Farmers’
market behind the Jefferson
Historical Society
•9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Treasure
Sale at Jefferson United
Methodist Church
•9 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Pick-up
Truck Show, display of barn
quilts, food and more at the
Jefferson Historical Society
•9 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Attic Treasures Sale at the First Congregational United Church
of Christ
•9 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Rummage
Sale at St. Joseph’s Calasanctius Church
•9 a.m. - 9 p.m. - Covered
Bridge Festival booth at Giddings Park
•9 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Rotary
Club cheese sales at the Jefferson Historical Society
•10 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Book
sale, children’s activities
and more at the Henderson
Memorial Public Library
•10 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Community Yard Sale at Village
Green
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Festival booth at Giddings
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Agriculture
We have had ideal weather for a great What happens to a
planting season in Ashtabula County plant when you cut
AGRICULTURAL
AGENT COMMENTS
by David Marrison
OSU Extension Agent
Hello, Ashtabula County!
What an incredible spring
and early summer it has
been for local farmers. Nearly all of our crops are in the
ground and a lot of excellent
hay has been made across
the county since the start of
June. I really have to search
my memory for a year where
so much high quality hay has
been made. I know the hay
we made on our farm is some
of the best we have made in
the past decade. The nice
weather has also allowed
for farmers to plant some of
our wetter fields, which have
not been planted the past few
years. Of course, we need
Mother Nature to provide
us with timely rain showers
and plenty of heat to help our
crops grow from here on out.
Even though we have had
ideal weather for a great
planting season in Ashtabula
County, it does not mean
all is well in paradise. The
corn and soybean prices have
retracted over the past year
and the milk prices are the
lowest we have seen since
2009. In fact, our current
milk prices are a good $1$2 per hundred weight of
milk below what it costs to
produce it.
There is no doubt the production agriculture sector is
going through a tough financial period. Financial stress
in the farm business often
equates to stress within the
farm family and can extend
to farm employees. My counterpart, Rory Lewandowski,
in Wayne County wrote a
nice article recently about
stress on the farm and I
would like to share some of
the key points Rory made.
We all know stress is a
normal part of life. Stress
can motivate us to get things
done or to make adjustments
in our life. However, when
stress events begin to a pile
up, things can snow ball out
of control. Because of this,
it is important to recognize
the common symptoms of
stress and be thinking of
how to manage the stress.
Some common symptoms of
stress include: feeling tired
all the time, inability to relax, disrupted sleep pattern,
irritability, anger, problems
getting along with people,
anxiousness, feelings of being overwhelmed, emotional
outbursts, trouble concentrating, headaches, frequent
illness, increased alcohol or
tobacco use, and withdrawal.
Rory stresses the need
to develop and maintain
avenues of communication
during tough financial times.
Communication allows farm
families to generate ideas
for problem solving, how to
cut production costs, and/or
how to increase efficiency or
productivity. Regular communication during stressful
financial times can help to
reduce a negative environment and to prevent finger
pointing and blaming. It is
natural to look for a source
to blame, but in the current
farm economy low prices
are not the fault of any farm
manager, family member or
farm employee. In addition,
it is known that often just
being able to talk about financial problems or feelings
of frustration, helplessness
and anxiety can be helpful
to mental and emotional
health.
In a family farm situation, it may take an extra
effort to maintain communication during stressful financial times. Rory suggest
putting some “structures” in
place that will help facilitate
regular communication. An
example of this is regularly
scheduled family or farm
business meetings. Meetings
should have planned agenda
items and a set starting and
ending time. Some ground
rules should be in place
that provide opportunity for
everyone to speak and that
prevent any kind of personal
attacks or blaming. The
focus should be on the farm
business.
One of the topics on the
agenda might be an update
of the current farm financial situation. This update
allows all family members
and farm employees to understand the current farm
situation, can squash any rumors that may have started,
and can help family members and farm employees
understand why repairs
instead of new purchases are
being made, why withdrawals for family living are being maintained or decreased,
and why employee raises
may be delayed or decreased.
Sharing financial information within this type of business meeting structure can
empower family members
and employees to feel valued
as a team member and new
ideas about how to meet
financial challenges may be
generated.
Rory also mentioned that
in addition to communicating with family members and
farm employees, the farm
owner or manager should
have a support network
that understands the farm’s
financial situation. Someone
who can look at the farm situation from a non-personal
perspective and that is not as
emotionally invested in the
farm operation can provide
some clearer thinking and/
or information that can be
helpful in making decisions.
These are people that want
to see your farm succeed
and be passed on to the next
generation. This support
network can include your
lender, equipment dealer,
seed/fertilizer dealer, financial advisor, nutritionist,
veterinarian, Extension educator, tax preparer, or other
trusted advisors.
I am currently helping
two local dairy farm families
examine their financial situation and I am confident we
will find ways for them to
weather this financial downturn. If you would like help,
do not hesitate to give me a
call at 440-576-9008
To end today’s column, I
would like to share a quote
from Marcus Buckingham,
who stated, “Many of us feel
stress and get overwhelmed
not because we’re taking on
too much, but because we’re
taking on too little of what
really strengthens us.” Have
a good and safe day!
David Marrison is Associate Professor and Extension
Educator, Agriculture &
Natural Resources, Ohio
State University Extension.
Mr. Marrison can be reached
at 440-576-9008 or [email protected]
New fact sheet could help producers keep
specialty crops safe from herbicide drift
Ohio’s corn and soybean growers could soon be spraying a lot more of two powerful herbicides on their fields.
That’s why experts from Ohio State University Extension
are offering tips on how to keep those herbicides from
getting on other crops, especially valuable specialty crops
such as grapes.
Doug Doohan and Roger Downer, both of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, are the authors
of Reducing 2,4-D and Dicamba Drift Risk to Fruits,
Vegetables and Landscape Plants, a new fact sheet that
explains how herbicide sprays can drift onto nontarget
fields, the special concerns about the herbicides 2,4-D
and dicamba, and how to prevent unwanted damage
to crops.
The fact sheet is also intended, Doohan said, to raise
awareness of Ohio’s specialty crops, which include not
just grapes but apples, berries, peaches, herbs, hops,
pumpkins, tomatoes and nursery-grown trees, to name
a few.
The grape and wine industry alone, according to
recent figures, contributes some $786 million to the
state’s economy.
“Creating and maintaining a heightened awareness of
the specialty crop industry is probably the most important way to reduce the risk of future herbicide damage
and the lawsuits that sometimes follow,” Doohan said.
Weed control for GM crops
2,4-D and dicamba are the cornerstones of two new
proposed weed control systems: Dow AgroSciences’ 2,4-Dbased Enlist Weed Control System for genetically modified corn and soybeans and Monsanto’s dicamba-based
Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System for GM soybeans.
Both systems were developed because more and more
weeds have grown resistant to glyphosate alone.
Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup, for
example, which is sprayed to kill weeds in widely grown
Roundup Ready GM crops including corn and soybeans.
Both new systems are awaiting regulatory approval.
But Doohan said both - and 2,4-D and dicamba as part
of them - are “likely to be used much more extensively
and intensively throughout the Midwest, starting in the
near future.” Included, he said, would be most of Ohio’s
4-plus million acres of soybeans.
The fact sheet is free at county offices of OSU Extension and go.osu.edu/ReducingDriftRisk.
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a lot of people visiting and
admiring Our National
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blended together with a roto-tiller. There are 19 rose cuttings planted according to their height when full grown.
The largest roses are in the back and the miniatures in
front. This September you will see the results of four
growing months. All I can say is that you have to see it to
believe it. Each of the cuttings had about two tablespoons
of bone meal added to the planting hole. Bone meal encourages good strong root growth. Total cost for this bed
of roses is less than $200 and about 10 hours of work.
These roses will give enjoyment for many, many years.
Speaking of work, what happens to a plant when you
cut off the spent flower? If you let a rose bloom die, and
let the petals fall off, you will be left with a rose hip that
contains seeds. All plants want to make seeds for next
year. When you cut off (dead head) a rose blossom, the
plant will send up another cane producing another rose
flower. What other flower does this?
Last week we talked about yellowing leaves. If this is
caused by a disease then some action will be required. If
left untreated, disease will defoliate a cane, putting that
cane is stress and eventually killing it. Black spot and
mildew are the primary diseases here in Northeast Ohio.
Black spot is a fungus that can found on the ground in
over wintering spores. These spores require 15-37 days
to form a visible colony. A rain followed by high humidity
would be a condition that would permit infection. Spores
are spread by splashing water and during cultivation
and are wind-borne only in water drops.
Powdery Mildew spreads the infection from overwintering fungus. Spores that land on plant surfaces
germinate at once. Successive spores develop on the
leaf or stem and additional cells are invaded to produce
the characteristic powdery appearance. Air movement
spreads the disease. High relative humidities, spore
production and germination generally occur at night.
The Downy Mildew disease is caused by a fungus that
under cool, moist conditions can produce a large number of spores that are easily spread by air currents or
splashing water. Downey Mildew differs from powdery
mildew in that it invades and kills the tissues of the rose
plant. The spores are produced on the lower surface of
infected leaves, while powder mildew is found mostly
on the upper surfaces of the leaves. Control would be to
keep the garden clean of infected foliage. Rake the debris
from under your rose bushes. Do not put this into your
compost pile. Put it with your garbage.
Cornell University conducted many experiments
with baking soda and concluded that two tablespoons
per gallon of water would control these diseases. Must
be applied after every rain. There are many fungicides
available. However, let’s try to be earth friendly. Neem
Oil is an organic material I am currently trying. Time will
tell how effective this product of the neem tree will be.
We want you to grow and enjoy our National Flower.
Call Ed at 624-4192. Stop in for a visit and let’s talk
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Pierpont Mix-N-Match PACS
4-H Club excited about the fair
The Pierpont Mix-N-Match PACS
4-H Club is very excited about this
2016 fair year. This year, we have
30 members all doing many different
projects. Our advisors Bart and Kelly
Kanicki and Ros Eldred take the 4-H
motto “To Make the Best Better” seriously by encouraging and helping us
grow in knowledge as we work on our
different projects.
This year’s officers for the Pierpont
Mix-N-Match PACS are: President
Josh Sommers, Vice President Adele
Bogardus, Secretary Olivia Holden,
Treasurer Levi Cole, News Reporters
Abbey and Kate Cole, and Recreation
Officers Cody Kanicki and Justin
Swiger.
In our meetings, we have been
talking about important information
regarding the preparations for this
year’s fair. This year’s fair theme is
“Blue Jeans and Country Dreams.”
We have been talking about float ideas
for the parade. Super Saturday is
July 16, so all those 4-H members out
there don’t forget to study. Required
Parent Advisor LIVESTOCK meetings are June 18, 2016, 10 a.m. - 12
p.m., held in the MAC Arena at the
fairgrounds and July 18, 2016, at 6
p.m., held at the 4-H Expo building
at the fairgrounds at least one parent
most attend one of these meetings.
Required parent/advisor SADDLE
HORSE meetings are June 26, 2016,
3-5 p.m. and July 18, 7-9 p.m., both
held at the 4-H Expo building at the
fairgrounds at least one parent must
attend this meeting. Carcass forms are
due by July 1 in the Ashtabula County
Extension Office. Carcass show details
July 27, 6-8 p.m., Steers, Sheep, and
Lamb drop-off and Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m.
Hog drop-off. Both need to be dropped
off at Smokin’ T’s. This year’s carcass
show will be held at Smokin’ T’s on
Aug. 6 at 1 p.m.
We hope to see a lot of people having fun and enjoying this year’s 2016
Ashtabula County fair. The fair will be
Aug. 9-14 and the Market animal sale
will be Aug. 13. We encourage you to
come out and support 4-H.
— Submitted by News Reporters
Abbey and Kate Cole
Outdoors
Lottery for Pickerel Creek’s Early Waterfowl Hunts
INSIDE THE OUTDOORS
BY DALE SUNDERLIN
Freelance writer from Geneva
[email protected]
Lottery for Pickerel
Creek’s Early Waterfowl
Hunts
Hunters interested in
hunting Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area on the opening day
of teal season and Labor Day
are encouraged to enter the online lottery, according to the
Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of
Wildlife. The application period opens Wednesday, June 1
and runs through Sunday, July 31.
Adults may apply for morning hunts being held each day.
Hunters under the age of 18 at the time of application may
apply for special youth hunts being held each afternoon.
Successful applicants will receive notification in the mail by
late August instructing them on how to find print their hunt
permit from the website.
Hunters can apply for the controlled hunts by completing
the application process online using the Wild Ohio Customer
Center at wildohio.gov or by calling 800-WILDLIFE (800945-3543) and requesting a mail-in application. There is a
non-refundable application fee of $3 per hunt.
Special hunts are held on selected areas to provide additional opportunities for Ohio’s hunting enthusiasts. All
applicants, youth and adult, must possess a 2016-2017 Ohio
hunting license and meet the age requirements in order to
apply for a controlled hunt.
Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area is located in Sandusky
County off State Route 6, between Fremont and Sandusky.
Soil Sample the #1 item to Food Plot Success.
It’s that time of year again when deer farmers start considering what to plant, how to plant it and how to get the
best results. For all you new plot masters you need to know
all forage products come with planting dates and planting
instructions on the package. The planting instructions are
short and designed to be easy to follow. That means, though,
that you should follow the instructions step-by-step and not
cut corners if you expect to get the best results. Of all the
factors that influence food plot success, other than using
high-quality seed, none are more important than making
sure soil pH is neutral (6.5 to 7.5) by adding lime to the soil if
soil pH is low, and that any low levels of important nutrients
in the soil, such as phosphorous and potassium, are brought
up with fertilizer.
To understand why that’s important, you need to know
two things. First, plants can freely uptake nutrients from the
soil only when soil pH is within a certain range. Otherwise,
nutrients are bound up in the soil in a way that inhibits the
plant from freely accessing them. Second, the soil pH range
in which plants can freely uptake nutrients from the soil isn’t
the same for all kinds of plants.
The optimum soil pH range for most high-quality forage
plantings for deer is neutral soil pH, or a soil pH between 6.5
to 7.5. When such forages are planted in soils with soil pH
below 6.5 (acidic soil), nutrients are bound up in the soil so
the forage plants cannot freely access them, and the lower the
soil pH is, the more the forage plants will struggle. Many farm
crops, vegetables and other kinds of plants, though, are able
to freely uptake nutrients even when soil pH is slightly acidic.
Why Have a Qualified Soil Testing Lab Test Your
Soil?
That can be answered generally with one word: precision.
First, only a qualified soil testing laboratory can accurately
determine what soil pH and soil fertility (levels of crucial
nutrients in your soil) are. Second, soils differ widely in capacity to hold lime activity and fertilizer, and only a lab can
scientifically analyze your soil’s characteristics accurately
enough to develop very precise recommendations concerning lime and/or fertilizer that you’ll need to add to the soil
if levels are low. Most cheap probes, slurries and other such
do-it-yourself soil test kits simply cannot provide the level of
accuracy necessary to precisely tell you those things.
And precision isn’t just important for making sure you buy
the lime and/or fertilizer that is needed to bring the soil into
optimum growing conditions. The precision of laboratory soil
testing also lets you make sure that you don’t waste money
buying lime and/or fertilizer you really don’t need. Most all
forage products come with de-fault lime and fertilizer recommendations on the back of the product bags for situations in
which a laboratory soil test isn’t available. Frankly, though,
that’s rarely if ever the case, because high-quality laboratory soil tests are widely available. You can get them online
through many of the retailers that carry forage products
and from most major agricultural universities as well the
agricultural agent in your area.
Also, consider that the default recommendations are
designed to cover as many planting situations as possible.
That being the case, the default recommendations will rarely
be exactly what’s actually needed, and if they are spot on,
it is only by pure chance. In most situations, the default
recommendations might be too much lime and/or fertilizer
or too little.
The bottom line is that only a laboratory soil test will
allow you to make sure your forage plants have access to all
the nutrients they need to grow vigorously and provide you
with a lush, healthy, highly attractive and nutritious forage
stand…and save you money at the same time.
Better Soil Healthier Deer
Does this even make sense? I mean think about it. What
does better soil have to do with healthier deer? Ok here’s a
quick explanation. The better your soil and the closer your pH
level matches up to what your growing the more robust your
planting will be. The end result to that is more high quality
forage for the deer in your area which equates to healthier
deer. Sounds like a no brainer now doesn’t it.
subsample and place it in a bag provided by the lab or a zip
lock baggy labeled with, very important, the food plot name/
number. Do this process for each food plot.
Max Yield Not Economic Yield
One additional tip (if your lab provides it) is to request
the “maximum yield” fertilizer recommendations, opposed
to “economic yield” which is what most agricultural farmers
want. The difference is economic yield returns the most profit
for large scale operations, cash croppers and farmers. This
is often not the most yield because the carrying cost of more
fertilizer for all those acres reduces the profit. “Max yield” on
the other hand, rarely cost much more in terms of fertilizer for
smaller acreages like food plots, but produces more tonnage
per acre which is what we want as food plotters. Food plot
farmers want the most productive and best tasting plants to
attract deer. The additional fertilizer costs associated with
the “max yield” recommendations is less expensive than
clearing and creating more acres of plots. Another bonus is
it serves to concentrate deer in fewer acres, which results in
better hunting. The bottom line is that you, and the deer you
feed, will benefit greatly if you give the soil what it needs.
You do this and soon you’ll be telling your buddies that your
dirt grew that massive set of antlers on that buck’s head!
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3D Archery Shoot: The Sports Junction 3-D Archery
Course is now open. Located on Claymill Rd in Harpersfield
Rd. in Harpersfield Township, the course is open from to dusk
Monday through Sunday. Sunday and Holidays, please use
the honesty box located at the front of the shop. The cost to
shoot is $10 per person (one arrow per target/30 targets), kids
12 and under are free. Leagues will be starting soon. For more
information, please contact Jim or Maryann at 440-466-3852
Hey, Look at My Dirt Pics!
Now realize there’s nothing sexy about collecting soil or stop in the shop during shop hours (Monday through Friday
samples, which is why so many food plotters and land 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.).
managers fail to do so. You never hear one hunter say to
3D Archery Shoot: Lake County Rod & Gun has ananother hunter, “Man, I gotta show you a picture of my dirt!”
(although I have done that on occasion) or “Check out my nounced it 2016 3D Archery shoot schedule. Starting the first
organic matter content!” Just because soil is boring (sorry weekend in April they will hold 3D Shoots on the first weeksoil scientist), doesn’t mean it should be neglected. In fact, end of each month, both Saturday and Sunday, throughout
it should mean quite the opposite. Soil is the foundation of the summer until the first weekend in September. For those
everything that grows, including deer. Plants are simply of you who can’t figure that out here’s the exact dates: April
the nutrient transfer agents between the soil/air and the 4th & 5th, May 2nd & 3rd, June 6th & 7th, July 3rd, 4th, &
consumer. Good deer farmers are good forage farmers. If the 5th (All kids cubs and youth shoot free with a paid adult, two
soil is lacking nutrients, so too will the plants, and the deer kids maximum, bonus day because of the holiday), August
1st & 2nd and lastly September 5th and 6th.
consuming the plants.
Registration starts at 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and 8
Both antler and fawn development are closely correlated to
the amount of quality forage available to the deer herd year a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sundays. 30, 3D targets are available with
round in free ranging environments. The most economical ground blinds, shooting platforms and steps. They do have
method to provide a deer herd with the highest nutritional limited youth equipment available. Refreshments are also
value is to insure the soil has all the necessary nutrients, available. Crossbow are welcome. Target and field tips only,
microorganisms, and soil structure required by the selected absolutely no broadheads.
The cost is Adults, $10.00, Youth, $8.00, (13 to 17 years
cultivar.
Adding the appropriate amount of nutrients based on a old), Cubs, $5.00 (12 and under).
Come shoot the Big Kahuna Competition, an additional
recommendation from a quality soil analyses will greatly increase the quantity and quality of forage produced. Addition- $10.00 for the year. For more information, contact Frank
ally, healthy plants are more resistant to drought and pests. Burkholder at 440-259-5775 or go to www.lakecountyrodandgunclub.org
Collecting Soil Samples
Collect soil samples from all food plots and send to a qualified lab for analyses and fertilizer recommendations (every
state has public and private soil testing labs that you can
send your samples). Soil subsamples can be taken in an “X”
or similar pattern with the goal of getting a representative
sample from the entire food plot.
Gather samples at 5+ locations taken in the root zone
We do have something for our kids not old enough to at(depth of 0-5 inches) from each food plot with a soil probe tend our week long 4-H camp. Once again this year, two of
(faster) or clean shovel (no rust or dirt from another use). Try our great 4-H Advisors will be conducting the “Cloverbud
to keep samples the same size and place into a clean bucket. Fun Days” on July 5 to 7, 2016 for kids ages 5-8 years old.
Then mix the samples together and pull out one pint-sized This program will be held at the 4-H Expo Building at the
Ashtabula County Fairgrounds in Jefferson from 9 a.m. to
noon each day.
This fun day is packed with crafts, games, and just plain
old fashion fun. This program is limited to the first 40
registrants so it is important that you register early as the
program sells out each year. The registration fee for the
The Ashtabula County Beekeepers Association will
program is $35 per participant. The $35 fee covers snacks,
meet Saturday, June 18, at the 4-H Extension Office,
craft supplies and event insurance. Activities will include
39 Wall Street, Jefferson. Pot-luck dinner at noon.
nature study, creative arts, songs, stories, games and much,
Please bring a dish/dessert to share. Meeting at 1
much more! Pre-registration is necessary to insure adequate
p.m. Speaker: Sharon Riccio. Topic: What to do with
supplies and supervision for your children. For registration
swarms.
details, contact the OSU Extension Office at 576-9008 for
more information.
Cloverbud Fun Days
scheduled for July 5-7
June 18 Jefferson: Ashtabula
County Beekeepers Association
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Open Tuesday-Sunday Serving from 4:00pm
Closed Mondays
Located one block from Lake Erie
in the beautiful Port Conneaut
From I-90: Exit 241, N. on Rt. 7 to Park Ave.
186 Park Avenue, Conneaut, OH
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440-437-6373
L2501DT
Kubota’s L2501 compact tractors are built for a lifetime of
versatility. And right now, when you purchase a new L2501DT
tractor and two qualifying implements, you’ll be taking
advantage of a powerful combination of generous instant
rebates, long-term 0% A.P.R. financing and six year limited
powertrain warranty coverage!
Act Now! Offers End 7/31/16.
Tractor
Sales, Inc.
5042 Center Rd.
Conneaut, OH 44030
440-594-3216
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1. Payments of $119.99 per month on new Kubota L2501DT based on limited time promotional price of $13,506.25 less $1,300 customer instant rebate2 for a sales price of $12,206.25. 20% down payment required with balance
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financed at 0.9% A.P.R. for 84 months. 84 payments of $12.29 per $1,000 financed. 0.9% A.P.R. is available to customers if no dealer documentation fee is charged. Dealer charge for documentation preparation fee shall be in
accordance with state laws. Inclusion of ineligible equipment may result in a higher blended A.P.R. Financing available from Kubota Credit Corporation, U.S.A., 3401 Del Amo Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503; subject to credit approval.
Payments do not include implements, freight, delivery, dealer prep or local taxes where applicable. Some exceptions apply. Offer limited to participating dealers’ in-stock inventory. Dealer participation may vary. Dealer sets actual
selling price and fees. Offer expires 7/31/2016. See dealership or go to www.kubota.com for more information and other low-rate finance options. 2. Customer instant rebates of $1,300 are available on purchases of new Kubota
L2501 equipment from participating dealers’ stock. Dealer subtracts rebate from dealer’s pre-rebate selling price on qualifying purchases. Rebate not available after completed sale. Some exceptions apply. Offer expires 7/31/2016. © Kubota Tractor Corporation, 2016
3. 20% down, 0.9% A.P.R. financing for up to 84 months on purchases of new Kubota L (excluding L39/L45 and Grand L) Series equipment is available to qualified purchasers from participating dealers’ in-stock inventory through
7/31/2016. Dealer Participation Required. Example: An 84-month monthly installment repayment term at 0.9% A.P.R. requires 84 payments of $12.29 per $1,000 financed. 0.9% A.P.R. interest is available to customers if no dealer
documentation preparation fee is charged. Dealer charge for document preparation fee shall be in accordance with state laws. Inclusion of ineligible equipment may result in a higher blended A.P.R. 0% A.P.R. and low-rate financing may not be available with customer instant
rebate offers. Financing is available through Kubota Credit Corporation, U.S.A., 3401 Del Amo Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503; subject to credit approval. Some exceptions apply. Offer expires 7/31/2016. See us for details on these and other low-rate options or go to
www.kubota.com for more information. 4. Customer instant rebates of $1,500 are available on purchases of new Kubota L2501/L3301/L3901/L4701 with two qualifying new implements from participating dealers’ stock. Dealer subtracts rebate from dealer’s pre-rebate
selling price on qualifying purchases. Rebate not available after completed sale. Some exceptions apply. Offer expires 7/31/2016. 5. Six year or 2,000 hour (whichever occurs first) limited powertrain warranty on new B, BX and L Series tractors, excluding B26, L39, L45 and
L47 models. For non-commercial, home and residential use only. Eligible units must be purchased and registered from dealer inventory beginning June 1, 2016 through July 31, 2016. Available to customers in 48 contiguous United States, Alaska and Hawaii. Only terms and
conditions of Kubota’s standard Limited Warranty apply. For warranty terms, see Kubota’s Limited Warranty at www.kubota.com or authorized Kubota Dealers. Optional equipment may be shown.
Dad got our Air Conditioner
serviced by J & S before the
dog days of summer set in!
J & S Heating & Cooling
Prompt, professional service since 1976
OH Lic. #12168
440-563-3985
THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIET Y RELAY FOR LIFE
Join Ashtabula County in the Fight Against Cancer!
Relay For Life of Ashtabula County
June 25th and 26th :: Noon until 8:00am :: Ashtabula County Fairgrounds
Opening Ceremony ..........................Noon
Survivor & Caregiver Lap ................Noon
Luminaria Ceremony.......................9pm
Closing Ceremony ............................7am
Contact us for more information!
RelayForLife.org/Ashtabula
Rachel McKelvey - American Cancer Society Staff:
[email protected]
888-227-6446 ext. 1205
AMERICAN
ELECTRIC LLC
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1427 Rt. 322
Orwell, OH 44076
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Storefront Glass
Entrance System
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Tabletops
Shower Doors
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Storm Doors
Lexan
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Windows
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many other applications. Call for ideas! Robert Bealer, Owner
“Our Business is a Wreck”
1496 St. Rt. 46 North, Jefferson, OH
440-576-1900
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Don’t forget to check out our large
selection of keepsakes.
Flowers, Centerpieces & More
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255 MAIN STREET, CONNEAUT
Ph: 440-593-1196
Toll Free: 877-593-1192
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Michelle and Mike Brennan
176 Washington St., Conneaut, OH 44030
265-6242
LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED FOR OVER 20 YEARS!
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Thank you for allowing us to serve you for the past 26 years
Quality Care & Individual Attention
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“A Tradition of Caring Since 1868”
M
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been family owned and
operated for over 148 years.
The staff members of Marcy
Funeral Home will guide your
family in creating a meaningful
ceremony to honor the life and
memory of a loved one.
Looking Forward to Another 148 Years!
208 Liberty St., Conneaut
(440) 593-4253
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Now Enrolling
Ashtabula County Technical & Career Center
WFD /Adult Fall Programs Beginning
in September 2016
Call 440.576.6015 for more information and to reserve your spot for one of the Orientation dates listed below.
* Attendance is required to complete the enrollment process. *
Workforce Orientation
Cosmetology Orientation
June 22
5:30 p.m.
July 13 & 20
5:30 p.m.
August 17 & 24 5:30 p.m.
Location: “A” Complex – Room 104
July 7
July 21
August 18
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
5:00 p.m.
* Meet Instructors & Staff * Learn about Financial Aid * Tour the Labs *
See reverse side for partial program listing or visit us at: www.atech.edu
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All current positions pay $20/hr.
Automotive
CNC
Cosmetology
High Pressure Boiler Operator
HVAC
Hydraulics
Industrial Electricity
Microsoft Office
Nail Technology
Pneumatics
Interested or want to find out more?
Please contact: Ken Porter 440.576.5505 [email protected]
The Ashtabula County Technical & Career Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disabilities,
or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.
1565 State Route 167 – Jefferson, Ohio 44047
Medical Administrative Assistant Program
Certified Patient Care Technician Program
The primary goal of this course is to provide you with
basic knowledge of administrative functions in a medical
office. Completion of this course will prepare the student
with basic office skills for an entry level position as a Medical Administrative Assistant.
This program prepares you for an entry-level position as
a Patient Care Technician. Emphasis is on technical skills
necessary to perform personal care to complex patients,
implementation of selection portions of care plans including respiratory services, and rehabilitation services.
Prerequisite: STNA Preferred.
Hours: 600
Tuition: $4,700
Days: Monday - Thursday
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Dates: 09/06/16 - 05/22/17
Hours: 600
Tuition: $4,800
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Dates: 10/03/16 - 06/08/17
Cosmetology Program
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Franklin University.
This program thoroughly prepares you for the Ohio State
Board of Cosmetology exam and includes all lab skills and
classroom theory knowledge.
State Certified Hours: 1500
Tuition: $9,600
Includes Ohio State Board of
Cosmetology application and license fees
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Dates: 09/06/16 - 12/14/17
LPN to RN Diploma Program
Now Recruiting for 2017 LPN - Licensed Practical Nursing
The LPN to RN Diploma Program at A-Tech offers a unique educational environment
that understands the learning needs of the LPN and can facilitate your educational transition to the role of the registered nurse. The close interaction with faculty, small group
atmosphere, superior technology and supportive environment is the ideal setting for
you to reach your professional goals.
Licensed Practical Nursing is an eleven month program emphasizing general nursing
skills including medication administration. This program prepares students to take the
state licensing examination. Employment opportunities in practical nursing continue to
be abundant. The license can be transferred to any state.
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Tuition: $14,000 (subject to change)
Days: Tuesday - Friday
Time: 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Dates: 2016-17 - 08/09/16 - 08/16/17 OR 2017-18 - 08/08/17 - 08/22/18
Hours: 1500
Tuition: $10,750 (subject to change)
Days: Monday - Friday
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Automotive Technology
Auto Body Introduction
Industrial Electricity
Prepare for the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Certificate Exam. This program includes both classroom and
lab instruction.
An introduction to the art of auto body repair. Students
learn types of tools needed, small dent repair, plastic fill,
sanding, and the use of paint guns, paint and primers and
finishing. Basic MIG welding included.
This is a 300 hour program to prepare students for an entry-level maintenance position. Students learn electrical
concepts, AC/DC motor controls, circuit theory, electrical troubleshooting, and PLCs.
Hours: 60
Tuition: $560
Days: Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Dates: 09/20/16 - 11/23/16
Hours: 300
Tuition: $3,800
Days: Mondays & Wednesdays
Time: 6:00 p.m.- 10:15 p.m.
Dates: 09/07/16 - 06/05/17
Intro to Machine Trades
HVAC
Industrial Welding
This course will introduce you to a number of the machines
and processes used in the industry. Students Learn: Milling Machines, Lathe Work (including Threading), Surface
Grinding, Shop Math, Measurement and Tools.
Qualify for employment in various heating and air conditioning
shops and businesses. Students learn residential and light commercial HVAC, refrigeration, heat pumps, HVAC field service and
troubleshooting.
Hours: 95
Tuition: $750
Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m.
Dates: 11/10/16 – 02/09/17
Hours: 300
Tuition: $3,800
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
Dates: 09/06/16 - 06/06/17
Hours: 1090
Tuition: $8,250
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
Start Date: 09/19/16
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Franklin University
Industrial Welding is a complete welding program offering training in stick, MIG, and TIG processes. You also
learn Oxyacetylene cutting, Plasma cutting, Blueprint
reading, Basic math, Pipefitting, Fabricating.
Hours: 300
Tuition: $4,250
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.
Dates: 09/06/16 - 06/08/17

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