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Dar Nevergall and wife Deb
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of Compassionate Friends for
six years to assist other parents
grieving the loss of a child. The
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A mother’s story: A heart never forgets
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“Be careful. I love you. Good-bye.”
These were the last words that Deb Williams-Nevergall said to her 19-year-old
daughter, Alyssa Dawn Wood. The brief
sentences were recorded on video when
Alyssa left a family birthday party.
Fifty-six-year-old Deb didn’t suspect
that she would never see her daughter
alive again.
“Four hours later, two officers showed
up at our door with one of them holding
her purse. No words were necessary,”
writes Deb in her recently released book,
“A Heart Never Forgets.”
On Aug. 8, 1998, Alyssa was a passenger
in a vehicle that crashed. The 1998 Liberty
High School Benton graduate was ejected
and died at the scene. Seventeen years
later, her mother has written a book about
this tragedy not so much as a memoir, but
more as a passionate attempt to minister
to others who are experiencing grief.
Photo courtesy of the Nevergall family
Alyssa Dawn Wood is pictured standing between
her guidance counselor, Ray Elbin, (left) and
the late Ron Burgel, her principal, (right) on her
graduation day from Liberty Benton High School in
June 1998. Two months later, she would die in a car
crash. Mr. Burgel died of cancer the following year.
Deb Williams-Nevergall lost a teenage daughter
and both of her parents in less than two years.
She used her gift of writing to author the recently
released inspirational book, “A Heart Never
Forgets,” to comfort others experiencing loss.
The Columbus Grove native knows a
lot about the subject of loss, because just
six months before Alyssa’s death, Deb’s
68-year-old father died unexpectedly.
The following year, she lost her 65-yearold mother to an aggressive form of
breast cancer.
Absent from the pages of the short
book are the harrowing details that many
survivors’ memoirs contain. Instead it is
filled with practical and spiritual advice
for those who have lost a loved one, and
the author’s original poetry and illustrations. There is also a short children’s
story that might be helpful to comfort a
grieving child, although it is allegorical
enough to minister to a hurting adult.
“The reason why I didn’t go into a lot
of detail … it was more to help other
people to overcome, to know that there
Dar Nevergall and wife Deb Williams-Nevergall led the now-defunct Putnam County Chapter of
Compassionate Friends for six years to assist other parents grieving the loss of a child. The organization’s
national website is www.compassionatefriends.org
is hope,” said the Findlay resident who
has been married to Dar Nevergall for 34
years. “This doesn’t have to define them.
There is life after the death of a child.”
“You feel it’s the end of the world, but
I encourage them to just keep taking the
next step to try to move forward,” said
the Columbus Grove High School graduate. “We never expect to lose a child.
We expect to lose our parents. [It’s] a
parent’s worst nightmare. You know it
could happen, but it always happens to
somebody else.”
Dar was Alyssa’s stepfather from the
time she was a year and half old, sharing this parenting role with Alyssa’s
father, Tim Wood, who lives in Lima. He
expected his wife to eventually write a
book.
“It was a long time coming. She’s
always written,” said Dar who works for
Hewlett-Packard in Findlay and is also
a color analyst for Lima’s WTLW-TV 44
sports programming. “She writes song
lyrics and poetry. To extend into writing
a book seemed natural.”
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In 1994, Deb initially began writing as a
way to express herself as she was battling
her way through a bout with depression.
“That’s when I first started putting my words
to paper,” said the mother of grown daughter Jessica Montague, and stepmother to
Dar’s sons, Paul and Michael. “I’m more of
a creative person, so if I am going to work
something through, it’s going to be in an art
from.”
The grandmother of eight is grateful for
her husband’s constant support.
“He’s just always there, and he does his
best if I’m discouraged,” said the new author.
The couple led the now-defunct Putnam
County Chapter of Compassionate Friends
for six years until 2010.
Daughter Jessica was only 16 when her
older sister died. Just two months before the
heartbreaking accident, Jessica purchased a
dachshund named Abby as a Mother’s Day
gift for Deb. That puppy would become a
vital tool in comforting her bereaved mom.
“Dachshund’s are notorious for being
glued,” said Deb. “I was in bed grieving —
Deb’s recently
released book, “A
Heart Never Forgets,”
is available through
her website at www.
DebWilliamsNevergall.
com or through www.
amazon.com. It is not
so much a memoir as
a road map of healing
for others grieving.
Christina Ryan Claypool
photos
lying around and didn’t do much — Abby
was right there. She helped me through.
If you have a dog, you feel like you are not
alone.”
Deb’s faith was pivotal in successfully navigating the dark days after losing her daughter and parents. A favorite scripture for her,
especially for ministering to those experiencing loss can be found in Psalm 34:18, “The
LORD is close to the brokenhearted and
saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
She said, “It’s the most helpful verse for
dealing with the grief.”
The creative woman has also designed her
own jewelry line to compliment the book and
is beginning to do speaking engagements as
a way to promote “A Heart Never Forgets.”
Public speaking has been a tremendous
leap of faith for her, but she feels her gift is
“encouraging women to just stay in the fight.
Run the race. Never give up!”
Christina Ryan Claypool is a freelance
journalist and inspirational speaker.
Contact her through her website at
www.christinaryanclaypool.com
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Favorite eateries of Indiana and Ohio:
Plymouth’s Brass Rail
Story and
photos by
John Grindrod
Downtown Plymouth, Indiana, has been maintained well.
The Brass Rail and Grill is in downtown Plymouth on its main thoroughfare.
Over the next four installments, I’m
going to show you four places to enjoy
a great dining experience here in our
Midwestern slice of America, two to the
west over in Indiana and two to the east
right here in Ohio, and all places I have
discovered in my work travels. While the
towns in which they’re located may not
be destination points, you may very well
be nearby when you feel compelled to
answer the call of a growling stomach.
The first place I discovered is in the
small Hoosier town of Plymouth, population abut 10,000, an hour or so west of
Fort Wayne in Marshall County off U.S.
30 West on Indiana Route 17.
The Brass Rail and Grill is located off
Plymouth’s main drag, at 225 N. Michigan St. in the well-maintained historic
downtown district.
John Grindrod photos
The Rail, as the locals call it, opened
in 1985 and continues to be family run
by native Plymouthians, the Langdons.
The best way to describe The Rail is to
call it an attractive corner gastro pub,
the food industry term used to describe
a combination bar-restaurant that serves
high-end food and spirits. The operation
has undergone two major renovations.
In 1988 a family dining room was added
to accommodate banquets and corporate
meetings. The establishment is a consistent selection when it comes time to vote
for Marshall County’s best bar and grill.
The lunch menu is quite extensive,
from appetizers like crab-stuffed mushrooms to a wide array of burgers and
sandwiches. As for the latter, besides the
traditional sandwiches you’d pretty much
expect in any grill, The Rail also features
a variety of pretzel sandwiches as well as
wraps, ciabatta sandwiches and focaccia
flatbreads. I was also impressed by the
wide range of entrée salads.
In addition to daily specials and a
nice range of wines, the Brass Rail has
an extensive dinner menu. There are 16
appetizer selections, including 20 peeland-eat shrimp for less than $10, as well
as a wide array of steaks, chicken and
seafood. The sandwich menu and salad
entrees also carry over to the dinner
menu.
If, as I did, you go there for lunch, I’d
recommend the Santa Fe chicken entrée
salad. If you’re a sandwich lover, I can
also personally attest that the teriyaki
chicken on sourdough is the way to go.
The grilled five-ounce breast is topped
with pineapple and jack cheese.
As for service, after selecting either
table or booth or one of the lounge spots
with wraparound benches to either side of
the entry door and seating yourself, which
is how the Langdons like it done, you’ll
find someone at your table quickly with
menus in hand, ready for a drink order.
The interior of The Rail, as the locals call it.
The atmosphere is comfortable and
well lit for lunch, especially if you sit
toward the front, where it is brightest because of the additional light that
streams through windows behind the
lounge spots with the wraparound
benches.
In next month’s second installment, I’ll
take you to Fort Wayne and a restaurant
that has a name with a familiar ring, and
for good reason if you know a little bit
about restaurant history in Lima. Please
join me.
Sports Spot
by John
Grindrod
Final
part
The vintage Rosarian year of 1951
As the final sport of basketball played
by the athletes of St. Rose began, following a stellar 8-0-1 football campaign, the
combined record of the spring baseball
team and the fall football team stood at
a jaw-dropping 23-0-1. So, really, even a
good cage season would probably be a
bit of a comedown. Such is the nature of
lofty expectations by fans when a school
has such sustained success covering two
different sports.
For John Zerante, fresh off quarterbacking the Cardinals to the best record
in St. Rose history in his very first year
of high school football, he had another
decision to make.
Although he’d never played basketball
while in high school, given a junioryear growth spurt of seven inches and
50 pounds that took him to 5’10,” 180
pounds, he decided he’d like to enter a
basketball program that had become in
recent years one of the area’s best. Just
three years earlier, led by the likes of
Johnny O’Connor, Tom Williams and
John Mulcahy, St. Rose had made it all
the way to the championship game in
Class B before finally bowing to Eaton.
Recalls Zerante, “Like a lot of athletes
of that time, I wanted to be known for
my versatility, not just for my best sport,
which was baseball. I think I did that in
football, so I wanted to see what I could
do in basketball.”
Athletic director Tom Hannon was the
head baseball coach and, as one of the
football assistant coaches, he’d already
seen what Zerante could do running
the spinner T offense for the first time
ever just weeks before. So, perhaps with
this in mind, he was able to allay any
skepticism when he told The Lima News
sports editor Allan White in the run-up
to the opener about his new player, Zerante, “He’s a natural and may develop
into one of our best rebounders.”
Against Wapak St. Joe’s, despite the
defending city scoring champ Kevin
John Zerante, second from left, poses for a team photo with the Lima Men’s league team sponsored by City Loan.
O’Connor having a scoreless first half,
both he and his Cardinal mates rebounded in the second half. O’Connor scored
11, Jim Stolly had a dozen and Bob Williams tossed in 10 in a 51-33 win. While
newcomer Zerante didn’t start the first
half, he did in the second half, dropped
his first two buckets in close and
grabbed several key rebounds. It would
be the only game all season Zerante
failed to start a game.
The second game produced an easy St.
Rose win, 74-32 versus Ada. O’Connor
suffered no slow start this time and
dropped 22 against the Bulldogs.
Following a loss to Marion St. Mary,
the first for several of St. Rose’s three-
sport athletes since the basketball season of 1950-51, the Rosarians restored
normalcy to their athletic universe and
demolished a totally outmanned St.
Gerard High squad, 71-37.
It was game Zerante recalls something
unique. “While I’m a little sketchy on
the details of a season well over 50 years
ago, I do remember it was the last home
game that year we played in the St. Rose
Gym, which, it was decided, was just too
small. The rest of the five home games,
we played at South.”
In the next game — one for iron men
only as there was only one sub total
between the two teams in the golden
age of short benches in Ohio high school
Courtesy of John Zerante
basketball — a very good New Knoxville
squad won. Led by Allen Vandermark’s
22 and Norman Wierwille’s 17, New
Knoxville knocked off the Cards despite
23 by Jim Stolly and 19 by O’Connor.
Wins followed in an alumni game that
actually counted in the team’s record,
according to Zerante and another versus
Tiffin Calvert on the road, but then St.
Rose fell to a fine Dayton Chaminade
squad at the University of Dayton Fieldhouse on a Sunday afternoon, 47-41. It
was a game plagued by Cardinal foul
trouble, recalls Zerante as all five starters had at least four and Jim Stolly and
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Sports Spot, continued from page 7
A wallet schedule card for the “Cardnals”
instead of the “Cardinals.”
Bob Williams fouled out. In the loss Zerante had his most productive offensive
game to date with nine points.
A three-game winning streak pushed
St Rose’s record to 8-3. One was against
bitter rival Delphos St. John’s 54-41 in a
game where four Blue Jay players were
suspended for disciplinary reasons in
a joint decision made by head coach
Bob Arnzen and DSJ’s athletic director,
Father E.C. Herr, both of whom were on
their way to legendary status in education in the Delphos and Lima communities.
Another win, an easy one over Lima
St. John’s 53-32 at South, made it 9-3
behind Kevin O’Connor’s 26.
By the time 1951 yielded to the new
year, St. Rose had pushed its record to
11-3, beating Covington, 55-27. Capturing the flavor of sports writing of the
time, The Lima News sports editor Allan
White wrote about Jim Stolly, who’d
scored 19 in the win, “Stolly put the
ball in the bucket from several odd and
wonderful angles. The fans gasped as
he threw the ball over his head without
looking. It went in!”
Led by newcomer Zerante’s dozen,
O’Connor’s dozen and Williams’ 11, the
Cardinals knocked off Fostoria St. Wendelin, 56-51, to reach a dozen wins on
the season. A 66-43 rout versus Lima St.
John earned St. Rose a 13th win in the
penultimate game of the regular season.
Kevin O’Connor, the player that White in
the local paper often called “the southpaw hook artist,” dropped 13.
A final win at South versus a rugged
Cridersville squad 53-50 made it 14 wins
on the season.
After a 15th win in the first contest
of the Exempted Village and Parochial
Tournament, 54-37 over Ada, the Cardinals finally ran into a buzz saw in a
game against Delphos Jefferson and its
fine guard Lee Himmeger, who brought
his 25-point-per-game average into the
contest.
Himmeger, who The Lima News’
White called “a master of all shots,” and
mates proved too much and the Cats
prevailed 48-29. Just as in football when
one-year player John Zerante saved his
best for last by throwing four TD passes,
Big Z did it again in basketball as he
paced the Cardinals with 13 points in the
loss.
And so the season ended a fine 15-5,
which made a core group of athletes
with names like Zerante and Bourk and
Stolly and Bonanno and several others a
remarkable 38-5-1 over three sports seasons in 1951 and the beginning of 1952.
As for Zerante, in both baseball and
basketball, he used that senior year as
a springboard into a post-high school
involvement in the highly competitive
Lima leagues, playing with some of the
area’s best athletes of the late 1940s and
50s, young men with names such as Dick
Finn, Len Volbert, Kenny Penhorwood,
John Mulcahy and Ray Dieringer.
While the years have indeed marched
on and many have passed to the next
realm, the record of a core group of St.
Rose athletes in the calendar year of
1951 that bridged two academic years
and three different sports serves in perpetuity as one of the finest records of
sustained excellence in Lima’s history.
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Q&A
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Question: I can’t seem to find my Social Security card.
Do I need to get a replacement?
Answer: In most cases, knowing your Social Security number
is enough. But, if you do apply for and receive a replacement
card, don’t carry that card with you. Keep it with your important papers. For more information about your Social Security
card and number, and for information about how to apply for
a replacement, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber. If you
believe you’re the victim of identity theft, read our publication Identity Theft and Your Social Security Number, at www.
socialsecurity.gov/pubs.
Question: I own a small business.
How can I verify employees’ Social
Security numbers?
Answer: Employers can use our Social
Security Number Verification Service
to verify the names and Social Security
numbers of current and former employees for wage reporting purposes. For
more information, go to www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/ssnv.htm.
RETIREMENT
Question: What can Social Security
do to help me plan for my retirement?
Answer: Social Security has some
great online financial planning tools you
can use to make an informed decision
about your retirement. Social Security’s
online Retirement Planner and our
online Retirement Estimator are both
tools you can access at any time. These
will let you compute estimates of your
future Social Security retirement benefits. They also provide important information on factors affecting retirement
benefits, such as military service, household earnings, and federal employment.
You can access our Retirement Planner
at www.socialsecurity.gov/retire2. And,
you can use the Retirement Estimator at
www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator.
Question: How do I earn Social
Security credits, and how many do I
need to qualify for benefits?
Answer: We use your total yearly
earnings to figure your Social Security credits. The amount needed for a
credit in 2015 is $1,220. You can earn
a maximum of four credits for any year.
The amount needed to earn one credit
increases automatically each year when
average wages increase.
You must earn a certain number of
credits to qualify for Social Security
benefits. The number of credits you need
depends on your age when you apply
and the type of benefit application. No
one needs more than 40 credits for any
Social Security benefit.
For more information, visit our website at www.socialsecurity.gov.
DISABILITY
Question: What is substantial gainful activity?
Answer: We use the term “substantial
gainful activity,” or “SGA,” to describe a
level of work activity and earnings. Work
is “substantial” if it involves doing significant physical or mental activities or a
combination of both.
If you earn more than a certain amount
and are doing productive work, we generally consider that you are engaging in
substantial gainful activity. For example,
the monthly SGA amount for 2015 is
$1,090. For statutorily blind individuals,
that amount is $1,820. You would not
be eligible for disability benefits. You
can read more about substantial gainful activity and if your earnings qualify
as substantial gainful activity at www.
socialsecurity.gov/oact/cola/sga.html.
Question: Will my disability benefits
be reduced if I get workers’ compensation or other public disability benefits?
Answer: If you get either workers’
compensation or public disability benefit
payments, we may reduce Social Security benefits for you and your family.
Public disability benefit payments
paid under a federal, state, or local
government law may affect your Social
Security benefit. This includes civil service disability benefits, temporary state
disability benefits, and state or local
government retirement benefits based
on disability. Disability payments from
private sources, such as a private pension or insurance benefits, don’t affect
your Social Security disability benefits.
However, in some cases, private disability insurers may require you to apply for
Social Security disability benefits before
they pay you. You may want to check
to find out about your private insurer’s
policy.
We reduce the Social Security disability benefits you and your family get
if the combined total amount, plus your
workers’ compensation payment, plus
any public disability payment you get,
exceeds 80 percent of your average earnings before you became injured or ill.
See the publication What You Need
To Know When You Get Social Security
Disability Benefits at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs for more information.
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME
Question: What is the difference
between Social Security disability
and Supplemental Security Income
disability?
Answer: Social Security is responsible
for running two major programs that
provide benefits based on disability.
Social Security Disability Insurance
(SSDI) is based on prior earnings. SSDI
is financed through the taxes you pay
into the Social Security program. To be
eligible for an SSDI benefit, the worker
must earn sufficient credits based on
taxable work to be “insured” for Social
Security purposes. SSDI benefits are payable to eligible blind or disabled workers,
the widow(er)s of a disabled worker, or
adults disabled since childhood.
SSI disability payments are made
based on financial need to adults or
children who are disabled or blind, have
limited income and resources, meet the
living arrangement requirements, and
are otherwise eligible. SSI is a program
financed through general revenues. For
more information, visit www.socialsecurity.gov.
Question: What is a Plan to Achieve
Self-Support (PASS)?
Answer: A PASS helps Supplemental
Security Income disability beneficiaries
return to work. It is a written plan of
action for getting a particular kind of job
or starting a business. In it, you identify:
• the job or business (this is your
work goal);
• the steps you will take and the
things you will need in order to
achieve your work goal (for example: education or training, transportation, child care, or assistive
technology);
• the money you will use to pay
for these things (this may be any
income (other than SSI benefits) or
assets, such as Social Security benefits, wages from a current job, or
savings); and
• a timetable for achieving your goal
For more information, visit our publication on the subject at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs.
MEDICARE
Question: What can I do if my
Medicare prescription drug plan says
it won’t pay for a drug that my doctor
prescribed for me?
Answer: If your Medicare prescription drug plan decides that it won’t pay
for a prescription drug, it must tell you
in writing why the drug isn’t covered
in a letter called a “Notice of Denial of
Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage.”
Read the notice carefully because it will
explain how to ask for an appeal. Your
prescribing doctor can ask your Medicare drug plan for an expedited redetermination (first level appeal) for you, if
the doctor tells the plan that waiting for
a standard appeal decision may seriously
harm your health. For more information,
visit www.medicare.gov.
Your Money
Cut the costs of holiday travel
Courtesy of Metro
Travel is a significant and often expensive part of the holiday season for many
men and women. Whether you’re hitting
the open road or taking to the friendly
skies to visit loved ones, this year there
are various ways you can cut the costs of
holiday travel.
• Book a budget-friendly rental. The
holiday season is a busy time of year
for rental car agencies, and holiday
travelers who are late to reserve
their vehicles may find themselves
driving gas guzzlers for the duration of their trip. When booking
your automobile rental this holiday
season, do your best to reserve a car
early so you have access to the agency’s entire inventory and not just
what’s left on the lot. If you do not
specifically reserve a fuel-efficient
vehicle, you might be stuck with a
large SUV or another car or truck
that costs a lot at the pump.
• Bring along your own food. Food
is another oft-overlooked expense
of holiday travel. If you’re flying,
PUZZLE ANSWER
try to eat before you leave for the
airport or look up the airport and/
or airline regulations to determine if
you can bring your own food. Food
purchased at the airport or on the
airplane will be more expensive and
is often more unhealthy than meals
you can prepare at home. When driving, pack a cooler instead of relying
on truck stop eateries, which tend to
be fast food restaurants.
• Try to bring gifts rather than ship
them. When possible, try to squeeze
as many of your holiday gifts into
your car rather than shipping them.
Shipping costs can quickly add up,
but you can save a lot of money if
you make room for gifts in your
trunk or in the backseat of your vehicle. Just be sure that the gifts do not
compromise your visibility on the
road. Even if you are flying, it might
be more economical to place gifts
in a bag you can check rather than
paying separate shipping charges for
each gift. Research the baggage fees
versus the cost of shipping to make
a more informed decision.
•Split hosting duties. If you want to
save money but are accustomed to
traveling to visit family and friends
during the holiday season, then consider hosting a gathering at your own
home. Friends and family likely won’t
scoff at being relieved of some of
their annual hosting duties, and you
can limit the cost of your travel to
just one trip instead of multiple trips.
•Share lodging. If you are used to
staying in hotels when traveling for
the holiday season, then you may
want to share a hotel room with
family members who also stay in
hotels. Lodging costs tend to be very
expensive during the holiday season,
but splitting such costs with a friend
or family member can help you stay
within budget.
Traveling during the holiday season
can be expensive, but men and women
willing to make a few travel concessions can save themselves a substantial
amount of money.
Events Calendar
Sun Nov 1, 2015
Food Pantry
8:00 am Lima Seventh-Day Adventist
Church, 1976 Spencerville Road, Lima.
First-time visitors need to bring a photo
identification, proof of address and birth
certificates of those living in the home.
419-235-8630.
Murder Inn
1:00 pm Van Wert Senior Center, 220 Fox
Road, Van Wert. Dinner theater. $28.
Open House 25 Years Anniversary
2:00 pm Jones-Clark Funeral Home, Inc.,
1302 Oakland Parkway, Lima.
Mon Nov 2, 2015
Financial Peace University
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown,
4900 Allentown Road, Elida.
Town & Gown Banquet
6:00 pm McIntosh Ballroom,
Ohio Northern University, Ada. $16.
Tue Nov 3, 2015
Barbecue Fundraiser
11:00 am LACNIP Resource Center,
1440 W Spring St, Lima. $8-$11.
Sertoma Club
12:00 pm Old Barn Out Back, 3175 W. Elm
St., Lima.
Kalida Election Night Dinner
4:30 pm Kalida High School, 301 N. 3rd St.,
Kalida. Funds raised directly support our
KHS ALUMNI Annual Scholarship Program,
$8. Tickets are pre-sale only. All dinners are
carry-out. Dinners to be picked up between
4:30-7 pm. For tickets, call Amy Recker
(Greg) 419-303-5874 Linda Honigfort (Dan)
419-236-1671 Deb Kahle (Virgil) 419-5322169. $8.
6:00 pm The Church at Allentown, 4900
Allentown Road, Elida.
Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm Lima Seventh-Day Adventist
Perry Township Trustees Meeting
7:30 pm Perry Township Administration
Building, 2408 E. Breese Road, Lima.
Wed Nov 4, 2015
St Marys Rotary Club
11:45 am Eagles Lodge, 404 E. Spring St.,
St. Marys. District Governor Gary Newton.
TOPS Club
4:00 pm Trinity United Methodist Church,
301 W. Market St., Lima.
Social Security Q&A
5:30 pm Findlay Inn & Conference Center,
200 E. Main Cross St., Findlay.
Thu Nov 5, 2015
10:00 am The Church at Allentown, 4900
Computer Class - Basic Computers
3:00 pm Lima Public Library, 650 W. Market
St., Lima.
Holiday Treasures
4:00 pm South Side Christian Church, 3300
South Side Drive, Lima.
Lima ChamberFest 2015
5:30 pm Veteran’s Memorial Civic &
Convention Center, 7 Town Square, Lima.
$30-$35.
Art Night
6:00 pm Wassenberg Art Center, 214 S.
Washington St., Van Wert.
Auglaize County Patriots Meeting
6:30 pm RJ’s Coffey Cup, 901 Defiance St.,
Wapakoneta. Guest Speaker: Dr Patrick
Johnston, Author, Founder of Physicians for
Life, board member of Personhood Ohio will
discuss Planned Parenthood.
Fri Nov 6, 2015
Murder Inn
Sat Nov 7, 2015
38th Annual Ada Music Feast Show Choir
Invitational Competition
8:00 am Ada High School, 725 W. North
Ave., Ada.
Woman to Woman
8:00 am Calvary Baptist Church, 1140 Rush
Ave., Bellefontaine. Author and speaker
Sherry Boykin will be the keynote speaker.
Her sessions ‘Hold the Salt…Please!’ is a
tongue-lashing on overbearing righteousness
versus overwhelming grace. $25.
Mom-to-Mom Fall Sale
9:00 am Lima Family YMCA, 345 S.
Elizabeth St., Lima. $1.
Holiday Treasures
9:00 am South Side Christian Church, 3300
South Side Drive, Lima.
Annual Youth Barbecue Fundraiser
4:00 pm Liberty Chapel UMC-Lima, 7590
Sandusky Rd., Lima. $8.
Smorgasbord
4:30 pm Cairo United Methodist Church, 210
West Main St., Cairo. $4-$7.50.
Ladies’ Victorian Tea
6:00 pm Lima Senior High School, 1
Spartan Way, Lima. Call New Life Church
International at 419-999-1615 by Sunday,
November 1. $12.
Murder Inn
Sun Nov 8, 2015
Bath Community United Methodist
Church Celebration
10:30 am Community United Methodist
Church-Lima, 2760 E. Bluelick Rd, Lima. B
Lake history exhibit
1:00 pm Mercer County Historical Museum,
130 E. Market St., Celina.
Kraut & Sausage Supper
3:30 pm St John the Baptist Catholic Church,
14755 landeck Rd, Delphos. Donation.
Mon Nov 9, 2015
Tue Nov 10, 2015
Memory Screening
9:00 am Allen County Council On Aging, 215
N. Central Ave., Lima. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00
12:45- 2:45 p.m. Memory screening offered
by trained professionals. Call 419-228-5135
for an appointment.
Election Day Barbecue
11:00 am LACNIP Resource Center, 1440 W
Spring St, Lima. Dinner can be purchased
presale or day of event. Deliveries of five
or more to businesses can be arranged by
calling the Resource Center at 419-302-4166
or 419-230-7997. $8-$11.
Westinghouse Sundstrand Retirees
Meeting
11:30 am Western Sizzlin Steakhouse, 2721
Elida Rd., Lima.
Sertoma Club
12:00 pm Old Barn Out Back, 3175 W. Elm
St., Lima.
Prayer Meeting
Wed Nov 11, 2015
St. Marys. Cheryl Beille
TOPS Club
Good Neighbor Annual Dinner & Awards
6:00 pm LACNIP Resource Center, 1440
W Spring St, Lima. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
RSVP: 419-221-5177.
Allen County Ohio Patriots Meeting
6:30 pm Allen County Sanitary Engineer’s
Office, 3230 N. Cole St., Lima. Join us to
hear Jim Jordan, Ohio Representative of the
4th District.
Thu Nov 12, 2015
10:00 am The Church at Allentown, 4900
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Art Night
Holiday Fundraiser for Foster Children
6:00 pm The City Club, 114 South Main
Street, 3rd Floor, Lima. $50.
Fri nOv 13, 2015
Ohio Has Talent Auditions
5:00 pm Trinity Friends Church, 605 N
Franklin St., Van Wert.
SAT nOv 14, 2015
Community Breakfast
7:30 am Liberty Chapel UMC-Lima, 7590
Sandusky Rd., Lima.
Ohio Has Talent Auditions
9:00 am Trinity Friends Church, 605 N
Franklin St., Van Wert.
Sun nOv 15, 2015
Food Pantry
8:00 am Lima Seventh-Day Adventist
Plant Based Supper Club
Delicious recipes, live demonstrations, food
sampling, free and open to the public. Call to
reserve a spot: 419-303-8576.
MOn nOv 16, 2015
Allen County ESC
6:00 pm Allen County Educational Service
Center, 1920 Slabtown Rd., Lima.
TOPS Club
Allen Water District Board of Trustees
Meeting
6:00 pm Allen Water District Office, 3230 N.
Cole St., Lima.
Thu nOv 19, 2015
ALS Support Group Meeting
6:00 pm Maple Crest, 700 Maple Crest
Court, Bluffton.
Art Night
Tue nOv 17, 2015
Volunteer Dinner
6:00 pm Veterans Memorial Civic &
Convention Center-Lima, 7 Town Square,
Lima.
Prayer Meeting
Perry Township Trustees Meeting
7:30 pm Perry Township Administration
Building, 2408 E. Breese Road, Lima.
Tue nOv 24, 2015
Prayer Meeting
Wed nOv 25, 2015
Wed nOv 18, 2015
St. Marys. Jeff Squire.
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Toenail Clinic
1:00 pm Adult Day Care Center, 1151
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TOPS Club
Thu nOv 26, 2015
Art Night
Fri nOv 27, 2015
“It’s a Wonderful Life”
8:00 pm Encore Theatre, 991 North Shore
Drive, Lima. $12-$17.
SAT nOv 28, 2015
Monthly Breakfast
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History
By Greg
Hoersten
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Design pioneer, patriot: Eli Mechling
LIMA — Lima worked around the
clock during World War II turning out
tanks that helped roll back the German
army, molding airplane canopies for the
U.S. Army Air Forces and constructing
special vehicles for the Navy. Lima area
workers made turbine blades and electric motors and controls. In fact, they
made so many items for the military
that the War Production Board, charged
with overseeing such things, had an
office in Lima.
In Eli Harlan Mechling’s small factory
on McClain Road in Perry Township,
three shifts of workers even made something for Air Forces gunners to shoot at,
as The Lima News explained in a March
1, 1944, story. “Standard clay pigeons,”
the News wrote, “now are important as
a military item because the skill normal-
ly acquired by trap and skeet shooters is
an indispensable adjunct to successful
aerial gunning.”
Skeet and trap shooting, it seems,
was good practice for hitting fast-flying
enemy aircraft. Mechling was a master at
making the targets.
“The Mechling machine, in top
operating form, is a sizzling, clinking
classic of ingenuity,” the News noted.
“Few pieces of new material have been
used in its construction. Motors, steel
beams, shafting, drive chains, springs,
valves, compressors, all are veterans of
previous use. But the important thing is
a seemingly endless row of hot pigeons
moving from the machine on a 10-foot
conveyor belt.”
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Allen County Historical Society photos
Eli Harlan Mechling, pictured in 1976. Mechling was a major producer of clay pigeons for the armed forces
during World War II. The government believed trap shooting prepared a soldier for aerial gunning.
Mechling, pictured in his shop in an unknown year.
History, continued from page 12
The Mechlings, pictured in the 1970s.
Mechling and his wife, Mary, pictured in 1938.
On Sept. 7, 1945, shortly after the Japanese surrender ended the war, Mechling was commended by General Brehon
Somervell, commander of the department charged with supplying the Army.
“Your company has played a very important role in producing the equipment and
supplies which have been such a decisive
factor in winning the war,” Somervell
wrote. “Now that the war is won, I want
to express to you the gratitude and
appreciation of the Army Service Forces
for the magnificent achievements of your
organization.”
Mechling, himself a classic of ingenuity, had deep roots in the land on which
he would later operate his business.
“As a family, the Mechlings were of
German origin and settled in the province of Pennsylvania about 1728,” a 1922
history of Allen County noted. “In 1832,
William Mechling had entered 1,162
acres in sections 18 and 13 in Perry
Township.” Section 18 in Perry Township is northeast of the intersection of
McClain and Breese roads.
In 1946, when Milton Mechling, Eli
H. Mechling’s father, died “in the home
where he was born,” the News wrote that
the “farm and land has been the property
of the Mechling family for four generations, being purchased from the govern-
ment by (Milton) Mechling’s great-great
grandfather, William Mechling, in 1832.
In 1836, the farm became the property
of William’s son, Joshua. His son, Eli,
inherited the land in 1893, and, in turn,
transferred the property to Milton in
1916.” After purchasing the land, William Mechling donated a portion of it for
the “erection of a cemetery near the old
St. Paul’s Lutheran church. The lot, formerly known as the St. Paul’s Cemetery,
now is Fletcher cemetery.” Fletcher
Cemetery straddles St. Johns Road just
north of Breese Road. St. Paul church
and cemetery stood on the west side of
St. Johns Road.
Eli H. Mechling was born Oct. 22,
1898, to Milton and Ollie Hoskins
Mechling. He had a brother, Clyde, and
a sister, Helen Irene. On Oct. 4, 1926, he
married Mary L. Hux.
In March 1927, Mechling, who worked
as a tool and die maker at Ohio Steel,
just down the road from the family farm,
applied for his first patent. The patent, granted to Mechling and John R.
Hoskins of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in
January 1932, was for a device designed
to “take advantage of the flotation effect
of water” to aid in inserting or removing
casings from oil wells.
The ever-inventive Mechlng soon
Mechling as a young man. He manufactured clay
pigeons in a lean-to on the side of his garage.
turned to making clay pigeons, and making the machines to make clay pigeons
— the brittle, saucer-like discs which
actually are molded from a mixture of
hot coal tar and limestone. Instead of
standard clay pigeons, however, Mechling decided to make a miniature version,
designed to be broken by shot charges
from .22 caliber weapons.
“He built his own automatic machine
in the spare time of one year,” the News
wrote March 1, 1944. “That was four
years ago. His machine was designed
to turn out a product that would be a
specialty within a specialty field – miniature clay pigeons. With the aid of Mrs.
Mechling, he carried on this business in
a lean-to attached to the family garage.”
With the outbreak of World War II,
Mechling, with help from a neighbor,
quickly re-tooled to produce the standard-size target. At its height during the
war, the Mechling Target Manufacturing Co. was, according to the News, a
“three-shift operation, employing 21
workers, neighbors, men, women” who
would “come to that garage behind the
side-road cottage to do their daily stint.”
On the morning of April 17, 1945, as
a fierce spring storm lashed the area, a
fire “indirectly resulting from the high
Mechling received this letter of gratitude after
the war.
winds” destroyed Mechling’s plant.
“Summoned at 7:10 a.m. Tuesday, firemen arrived to find the building engulfed
in flames, which because of the high
wind, threatened the nearby residence of
the manager Eli Mechling …”
Mechling rebuilt. “Eli Mechling, route
6, has just finished turning out 2 million
targets of the clay pigeon variety for
the government, reportedly for use by
the Air Force,” the News wrote July 31,
1949. “That sounds like a big order, but
during the war Mechling’s plant … produced a total of 9 million such targets.”
Mechling, the News added, “made all his
own machinery for the local target plant,
which is one of only six in the entire
United States.” Remington Arms Manufacturing Co. operated a target plant in
Findlay.
In June 1971, Mechling produced an
improved machine for, according to the
patent application, “handling and coating clay pigeons or targets” at the rate of
6,000 to 8,000 per hour.
Mechling died Oct. 31, 1986. “A patent holder, he designed and built the
equipment to manufacture the clay targets,” the News wrote in his obituary.
“He continued to do so at the time of his
death. He was a pioneer in the field of
design.”
Reach Greg Hoersten at [email protected].
Seasonings
Gingered Applesauce Cake
Glazed with Caramel
By Gretchen McKay
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS)
Looking for a change from traditional pumpkin pie
— or an addition to the holiday table? For those of us
with a sweet tooth (everybody?), nothing quite beats
a good applesauce cake, especially when it comes perfumed with fresh grated ginger and just a hint of cloves.
Gingered Applesauce Cake.
Just as good for breakfast as it is for dessert, this moist
Bundt cake earned rave reviews in my kitchen. And it
took fewer than 10 minutes to stir together.
The cake is delicious by itself “but even better
with this sweet, sticky glaze,” Ruth Reichl writes in
her new book, “My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes that
Saved My Life.” She’s right. The sauce is a must,
even if you’re drizzling it directly into your mouth.
(Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gzette/TNS)
GINGERED APPLESAUCE CAKE
GLAZED WITH CARAMEL
For cake
1 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 knob fresh ginger
2/3 cup neutral vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
For glaze
1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a
12-cup Bundt pan.
Break eggs into a large bowl. Whisk in sugars and
brown sugar. Add 1/2 tablespoon (or more) of freshly
grated ginger and the applesauce. Whisk in the oil and
vanilla and mix until smooth.
Put flour in small bowl. Whisk baking soda, salt, a
few grinds of pepper, cinnamon and ground cloves into
the flour and stir gently into the applesauce mixture.
Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan and bake for
about 45 minutes until cake bounces back when you
press your finger into it.
Cook cake for 15 minutes on a rack before turning it
out and allowing it to cool.
Make glaze: Put cream in a heavy-bottomed pot.
Whisk in brown sugar, corn syrup and a pinch of salt,
and bring it to a boil. Turn heat down to medium and
continue to boil for about 15 minutes, whisking every
few minutes.
When glaze has come together into a smooth, thick
caramel, remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Put the cake, still on the rack, over a sheet of waxed
paper. Carefully pour the glaze over the cake. If you
don’t mind a bit of a mess, you can simply pour the
glaze less carefully over the cake and let it drop onto
the plate.
Serves 8 to 10.
— “My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes that Saved my
Life” by Ruth Reichl (Random House, Sept. 2015, $35.
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