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Twp. trustees weigh options
following failure of police levy
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 14 –APRIL 5, 2016
By Jane Maiolo
Failure of the police services levy on the March ballot
prompted the Springfield
Township trustees to consider
what options they have moving forward.
At the March 21 meeting,
Administrator Leslie Kohli
said failure of the levy does
not change the current contract for reduced services enacted earlier this year.
“We have an addendum to
our current contract with the
Lucas County sheriff through
the end of 2016. However, the
board will need to decide if
they want to put it on the ballot again for the same or different amount in November,”
she said.
She added, “If not, we will
have to discuss as the end of
the year gets closer what, if
anything, we will do regarding police coverage for
2017.”
The administrator noted
that nothing needs to be decided at the March meeting.
Trustee Bob Bethel believes many people supported
the concept that the township
needs police service, “but the
most consistent question I got
was ‘why so much?’”
“To give it a better chance
[to pass], I think we need to
do a lower amount,” he said.
Trustee Andy Glenn disagreed, “We’ve tried three
different times with three different amounts and all were
soundly defeated by township
residents.”
He continued, “Three
levies with the same result
sends a big statement. I’m not
in favor of asking for additional levies.”
Mr. Bethel countered that
all three levies were for
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higher amounts. He noted
that neighboring Monclova
Township passed a police
services levy on its first attempt, but at a much smaller
amount.
The trustees also discussed the possibility of establishing a focus group to
study the issue or sending a
survey to residents.
Energy Program
The trustees authorized
Mike Hampton, public services director, and Fire Chief
Barry Cousino to sign a letter
of intent to participate in a
specialized energy and building sustainability program
through Best Building Solutions.
Company representative
Doug Simmons said a complimentary audit of township
facilities was conducted in
February.
“Our report identifies the
potential energy conservation
measures found, an estimated
construction cost, energy savings and simple payback
time,” he explained.
“The total cost for implementation of all recommendations is $150,000 with a
simple payback of 14.7
years,” Mr. Simmons added.
Improvements to lighting,
HVAC and building management control systems are
among the audit’s recommendations.
To pay for the work, the
township will use PACE. The
Property-Assessed Clean Energy program allows local
governments to fund the upfront cost of energy improvements on properties, which
are paid back over time on
property taxes.
“It’s a worthwhile program,” said Mr. Simmons.
Mr. Glenn agreed, “It’s a
great way for the township to
get these improvements.”
“It seems like it has great
potential,” added Mr. Bethel.
Other Business
In other business, the
trustees:
•Approved construction of
a carport to better protect
maintenance department vehicles. The cost for the material will not exceed $10,000,
and the project is in the maintenance department budget,
explained Mr. Hampton.
He noted that the carport
will be constructed on the
southwest side of the Angola
Road complex with space for
eight to 10 vehicles.
“We’re trying to make the
best bang for the buck,” he
added.
Mr. Glenn noted, “It’s
wise money to spend.”
•Heard a final snow and
ice control report from Mr.
Hampton. The public services
director said 280 tons of rock
salt were applied to township
roads this season and 4,450
gallons of brine.
“It’s definitely a lot less,”
he said, adding that last year,
the department used 8,000
gallons of brine and 700 tons
of rock salt.
•Approved a five-step fertilization and grub control
proposal from Grounds Guys.
All three fire stations, the
township complex, Bear
Creek’s fields and Community Homecoming Park will
be treated at a cost of
$14,840.
Saving the salamanders
Penta students take part in conservation program
Many school projects capture students interest, but few
are embraced as much as a
recent conservation effort
under way at Penta Career
Center.
In conjunction with the
Toledo Zoo, ODNR Division
of Wildlife, Williams Company and the Ohio Hellbender Partnership, seniors
enrolled in small animal care
have been meticulously caring for nearly 200 baby Hellbender salamanders.
Owned by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Hellbenders are
a state endangered species.
Growing to more than two
feet in length, they are the
largest aquatic salamander in
the United States and listed
as near threatened by the International Union for Conser-
See TRUSTEES page 2➧
Airport Hwy. to undergo resurfacing
Todd Audet, ODOT District 2 deputy director, discusses the
upcoming construction season and its focus on safety with
Lieutenant William Bowers of the Ohio Highway Patrol.
On March 29, ODOT unveiled its plans for the 2016
construction season.
Held at Springfield High
School near the McCord
Road railroad underpass project, the construction kick-off
event included information
on projects that will impact
motorists this orange barrel
season.
“ODOT has planned more
than 1,100 projects statewide
that are intended to improve
the condition of roads and
bridges, increase safety and
make transportation more efficient,” explained Todd
Audet, District 2 deputy director.
$25.00 per year
Katelynn Richardson, front, and Brianna Morgan, SHS seniors enrolled in small animal
care, hold two of the baby salamanders the class has cared for with the hope to eventually
release the endangered species to its native habitat.
season
Volunteers ODOT prepares for 2016 construction
In northwest Ohio, $760
million will be invested in
celebrated
roads, he said.
The focus this year is on
safety, Mr. Audet continued.
in April
“Of the 1,100 projects, 157
April is National Volunteer Month, and Volunteer
Week will be celebrated
April 10 to 16. The theme for
this year’s event is “Celebrate Service.”
Since 1974, the week has
been set aside to recognize
volunteers and promote volunteer service. It is intended
to inspire, recognize and encourage people to seek out
imaginative ways to engage
in their communities.
The theme honors the
people who dedicate themselves to taking action and
solving problems in their
communities.
Points of Light, which
spearheads National Volunteer Week, is the world’s
largest organization dedicated to volunteer service.
To search for volunteer
opportunities, visit the website, www.pointsoflight.org.
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will focus specifically on
safety.”
ODOT also is adding capacity to the system where it
is most needed. This year, the
state will invest $207.1 million to expand roads and ease
current congestion.
To keep up with road
maintenance, ODOT is implementing a strategy that includes analyzing data on
roads and determining the
type of treatment for each
road.
“We’re charged with the
care of Ohio’s largest manmade asset–the transportation
network,” said Jerry Wray,
ODOT director.
“Investment in our infrastructure is vital to economic
growth and development. By
maintaining a safe, reliable
and efficient system, we help
to create the environment for
See ODOT page 2➧
vation of Nature due to habitat loss and degradation.
On March 23, the career
center opened the doors to a
special area housing the salamanders. Penta officials converted a storage room into a
custom classroom and laboratory with support from
Williams, an energy company.
The room features eight
large aquarium tanks with
clay pots for the salamanders
to sleep in and a plumbing
system. When the room was
completed in early February,
the baby salamanders were
transferred in several batches
to their new home where they
will spend the next two years.
“There are about 25 or 26
in each tank,” said instructor
Nicole Costello.
Superintendent Ron Matter said the new facility is a
“win-win with numerous
benefits to the students while
also allowing the Ohio Hellbender Partnership to increase its capacity for rearing
the threatened amphibians.”
Wildlife biologist Kent
Bekker of the Toledo Zoo
added, “The hope for this
collaboration is that through
caring for the hellbenders,
Penta will be able to integrate
hands-on animal husbandry
into other science classes.
“The facility is built to
See PENTA page 2➧
Citing a lack of information from the fiscal officer, the
Springfield Township trustees
declined to approve permanent appropriations by the
April 1 state deadline.
At the March 21 meeting,
Fiscal Officer Barb Dietze
presented the trustees with a
certificate of estimated resources, which showed revenues of $13.84 million but
did not indicate appropriations.
Under Ohio law, jurisdictions are required to submit
their budget by April 1 and
until it is approved, the township can’t spend any money
after March 31.
Trustee Andy Glenn reminded Ms. Dietze that under
Ohio Revised Code the
budget authority falls to the
administrator, adding that the
trustees had asked the fiscal
officer to present the budget
figures to administrator Leslie
Kohli several weeks ago.
Ms. Kohli contended that
she had requested the information from the fiscal officer,
but it was not provided.
“It is not on the common
network drive to view, so I am
not able to access it on my
own,” she said.
Ms. Dietze countered that
she gave the administrator
what she had to give, noting
that the budget is a “work in
progress.”
Trustee Bob Bethel said
he still doesn’t understand
why there is a problem sharing the information with Ms.
Kohli.
“It’s in multiple files,” said
the fiscal officer, adding that
she is concerned about
changes being instituted.
“I just need access to view
it, not make changes,” responded the administrator.
Mr. Bethel agreed, “All we
want is for Leslie to see the
numbers.”
Mr. Glenn requested that
Ms. Dietze provide the
budget to Ms. Kohli in 24
hours. He added that the issue
“just seems like a petty turf
war to me.”
The trustees expressed
concern over the consequences for failure to approve
the appropriations by the
deadline. He noted that if the
penalty is severe, a special
meeting would need to be
convened for passage.
According to the county
auditor’s office, the township
could be at risk of citation by
the state auditor’s office.
–Jane Maiolo
Trustees unable to approve
budget by April 1 deadline
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PENTA
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maintain biosecurity so students will change shoes and
wear lab coats while working
with the salamanders. Overall, it’s a good lesson in conservation and management.”
As for the students, they
appreciate the opportunity to
work with the animals and
are eager to tell visitors
about their little ones.
“I feel privileged to be
able to work with them,” said
Katelynn Richardson of
Springfield Local Schools.
She noted that they have
grown a little since the center
acquired them and eat a diet
of mysis shrimp.
“Each one eats about one
gram, and they only eat one
or two times a week,” she explained. As they grow, they
will be separated into other
tanks currently not in use.
Students carefully monitor the health of their Hell-
benders, looking for unusual
spots or signs of sickness
such as lethargy.
Ms. Costello remembers
being nervous when the animals first arrived. “At first it
was very stressful. I would
wake up at 1 a.m. with a
panic attack, worrying that
we were going to lose all of
them.”
She credits the students
for their meticulous care of
tha salamanders, adding that
none have died.
“They’re pretty easy to
care for,” believes Brianna
Morgan,
a
Springfield
Schools student with plans to
study vet tech at Stautzenberger College this fall. “We
use a reverse osmosis system
and clean the tanks weekly.”
Each is scrubbed with
special brushes and the water
changed daily, she added.
They also are labeled with
the location where the salamanders will be released.
“Half will go to Yellow
Creek and half to Scioto
This baby Hellbender can
grow to two feet long.
Brush,” she explained.
Katelynn, who will be
going to the University of
Findlay for a pre-veterinarian
degree, said the seniors have
been invited to attend the release when their young
charges are placed back in
the wild next year.
Marie Kuron of Rossford
Schools, looks forward to the
day they can be released but
is excited to be working with
the salamanders at this juncture. “I feel very honored and
am so happy to work with
them.”
She noted that it is a “big
deal” for Penta which is the
only high school in the state
to participate in the rehabilitation/conservation effort.
The senior, who plans to
attend Stauzenberger College
to study vet tech, prefers
working with aquatic animals.
While the small animal
care program has a salamander, it is not an aquatic
species like the Hellbenders.
“This is a passion of
mine, working with these animals,” she said, adding that
she cares for a bearded
dragon, snail, corn snake and
other animals at home.
Mr. Matter believes the
program provides excellent,
real world knowledge for
students. “It’s like an internship on campus. It’s a great
opportunity, and I can’t
thank Ms. Costello and the
operations staff enough for
getting
this
[program]
ready.”
–Jane Maiolo
improvements at the I-75/I475 and I-75/I-280 interchanges. During construction,
through traffic will be detoured via I-280 and State
Route 795. This portion of the
widening project will be complete in September 2018.
I-75 also is undergoing
pavement reconstruction. The
two-year project through the
heart of downtown Toledo
should be complete by August
and involves three miles of
pavement from the Anthony
Wayne Trail to Detroit Avenue.
Before traveling this summer, area residents are advised
to
visit
the
website
www.ohgo.com for the latest
traffic information.
–Jane Maiolo
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and a stronger Ohio for today
and tomorrow.”
2016 Projects
The following are projects
on tap for area motorists this
season:
•Airport Highway (State
Route 2) will undergo a resurfacing and bridge project on
April 4.
The project entails resurfacing four lanes of Airport
Highway, from the Ohio Turnpike at Toledo Express Airport
to Holloway Road, as well as
rehabilitating the bridge over
Wolf Creek.
Airport will close just west
of Apple Blossom at the end
of April for bridge replacement. The detour will be Holloway, Garden and Albon
roads.
•Work on the McCord
Road rail grade separation
continues. The road is expected to reopen to vehicular
traffic in November.
•Central Avenue/I-475 includes reconstruction of the
Central interchange and building a new bridge over I-475.
The project will feature a
single point urban interchange
and new interchange ramps.
Work is slated for completion
in August 2017.
•I-75 from Perrysburg to
Findlay is being widened to
six lanes. ODOT will maintain two lanes of traffic during
peak travel times.
Construction this season
will focus on safety improvements at the I-75/ I-475 interchange in Perrysburg.
Sometime between May
and July, ODOT will reconfigure and rebuild the interchange. To do the work safely,
they will close two interchange ramps and move all
lanes of southbound I-75 traffic to the current northbound
lanes just south of U.S. Route
20. The ramp closures are
scheduled to last for 120 days.
The project is expected to
be essentially complete by
Thanksgiving.
•I-75 in Toledo is being
widened to six lanes from Detroit Avenue to I-280. Construction focuses on safety
•Announced that the Strawberry Festival will be June 15
to 19. Organizers will continue
with their security measures
and will use a public address
system.
•Learned that the shelterhouse at Community Homecoming Park had been targeted
by vandals, who attempted to
set the garage door on fire. “A
report is on file with the Lucas
County sheriff,” said Mr.
Hampton.
•Discussed the need to replace chairs in the town hall.
“We’re down to 87 good ones,”
the public services director
said, adding that the chairs are
more than 25 years old and rivets are breaking.
•Heard from Mr. Hampton
that the first Dumpster Days of
the season went very well.
“Advertising definitely helped,”
he added.
•Announced that the EWaste Drive will be held from
8 a.m. to noon on Saturday,
September 10, at the township
hall, 7617 Angola Road. Computers, monitors, scanners,
printers projectors, cameras,
keyboards, video game consoles and more will be accepted.
•Paid bills for March 8 to 21
totaling $62,519, which included the final payment to
Bowers Asphalt and Paving for
the 2015 OPWC road work
project.
The trustees also approved
electronic payments from
March 4 to 17 of $174,212, including the biweekly payroll of
$160,580.
The next trustees meeting
will be at 7 p.m., Monday,
April 18, at the township meeting hall, 7617 Angola Road,
and is open to the public.
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The course will be offered Saturday, April 9, from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Ohio Boating Education Course covers state and
federal laws, navigational
rules of the road, basic boating safety practices, navigational signage and more.
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Sylvania Twp. Police Report
March 22 to 27, 2016
Tuesday, March 22
Theft, 7100 block Port
Sylvania; burglary, 6600
block Carrietowne Lane.
Wednesday, March 23
Theft, 2500 block Live
Oak.
Friday, March 25
Theft, 4400 block North
Holland Sylvania Road,
6000 block Red Oak; crimi-
nal damage and theft, 8700
block West Central Avenue.
Saturday, March 26
Theft, 7000 block West
Central Avenue.
Sunday, March 27
Theft, 6700 block West
Central Avenue.
Monday, March 28
Theft, 5200 block Monroe Street.
Several ODOT road projects will impact traffic in the
Holland/Springfield Township area this construction
season.
Through September, McCord Road between North
Mall Drive/Hall Road and
Spectrum Drive remains
closed to vehicular and
pedestrian traffic. Motorists
are being detoured via Holland Park Boulevard and
North Mall Drive.
Project completion is set
for November. All work is
weather permitting.
In addition to McCord
Road, ODOT is working on
an I-475 bridge widening.
Effective Monday, April
4, through July, overnight
from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., lane
restrictions are possible on I475, between Angola Road
and Salisbury Road/Dussel
Drive for pavement work.
Through August, 11-foot
lane width restrictions are in
place on I-475, between Angola Road and Salisbury
Road/Dussel Drive. The
project will be complete in
August, weather permitting.
Construction also continues on the Central Avenue
interchange. Through September 2017, overnight from
9 p.m. to 6 a.m., lane restrictions are possible on I475/US 23 between Dorr
Street and the I-475/US 23
interchange. The 11-foot
lane width restrictions are in
place within the work zone.
Additional restrictions
will be announced. The
work will be complete in
September 2017, weather
permitting.
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impacts area motorists
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Speed, road issues addressed
by Springfield Twp. trustees
Springfield Township residents seeking to have the
speed limit lowered on two
roads will be disappointed.
At the March 21 township
trustees meeting, Mike
Hampton, public services director, said results of speed
studies for Pilliod and King
roads went contrary to what
residents would like.
“I had the county do a traffic study,” he said after residents sought stop signs or
reduced speeds on the roads.
On Pilliod the average
daily traffic stood at 1,840,
and the vehicles averaged
speeds of 42.7 mph. The
county engineer’s office determined that based on those
numbers, the speed limit
could actually be raised to 40
mph.
Mr. Hampton recommended leaving the road at its
current 35 mph, and asking
the Lucas County sheriff’s department or the Ohio Highway Patrol to increase patrol
on the road.
King Road came back
with a suggestion to increase
the speed from 40 to 45 mph
for the stretch between Angola Road and University
Trails.
A request to a consider
stop signs on Deerfield also is
being looked into by Mr.
Hampton. “The speed is 25
mph, and they do speed,” he
said.
2015 Bridge Inspection
The public service director
provided the trustees with the
2015 bridge inspection. The
Lucas County engineer’s office inspected 10 bridges.
Four were listed as in very
good condition. They are Pilliod Road over Cairl Ditch;
Gunn Road over Stone Ditch,
Ponte Verde Drive over Drennan Ditch and Pine Valley
Road over Drennan Ditch.
Labeled as good are Rancamp Road over Wolf Creek;
Banquot Way over Heldman
Ditch, and Dorcas Road over
Heldman Ditch.
Receiving a satisfactory
rating are Roycroft Road over
Wolf Creek and Byrnwyck
West Road over Swan Creek.
Only the Orchard Lake
Road bridge over Drennan
Ditch was rated fair, and Mr.
Hampton said it will eventually be replaced as part of an
Ohio Public Works Commission project.
Other Business
In other business, the
trustees:
•Certified township highway mileage for 2015 at 70.65
miles.
•Accepted into the township Plum Grove Lane and
Plumcreek Road in the Plumgrove subdivision, and Meadowland Trail in the Village at
Wingate Meadow subdivision.
•Heard from Mr. Hampton
that public services is continuing to work on sign upgrades
on township roads. “We are
80 to 85 percent done,” he
said.
The next trustees meeting
will be at 7 p.m., Monday,
April 18, at the township hall,
7617 Angola Road, and is
open to the public.
–Jane Maiolo
Saint Ursula Academy lists honor roll
The following Holland
area residents were named to
the honor roll at Saint Ursula
Academy and Junior Academy for the third term of the
2015-16 school year.
SUA
Dean’s List
4.0 and Higher
Brooke Taylor, Samantha
Kohli, Selena Taha, Alexa
Keith, Lindsey Rife, Corinna
Nowicki, Keyana Scott, Julianna Tarsha, Steffi McCormick,
Ellie
Lyon,
Katharine Heller, Celina
Latta, Jordan Elliott, Emma
Kahmann, Kelsey Sager,
Samantha Meklus, Wintana
Eyob, Rebecca Irmen, Jaclyn
Graf, Kathryn Helminiak,
Ashley Wagonlander, Jessica
Rancatore, Kate McCune.
First Honors
3.75-3.999
Natalie Hoffmann, Grace
Almester, Chloe Hamilton,
Molly
Bennett,
Haley
Phillips, Regency Smith,
Olivia Livengood.
Second Honors
3.5-3.749
Samantha Pant, Madeline
Shiekh, Margaret Thebes,
Lauren McCune.
SUJA
First Honors
3.75-3.999
Daley Meklus, Shelby
Muntz, Simran Sharma, Zoey
Tan.
SUJA
Second Honors
3.5-3.749
Kayla Dillon, Olivia Bailey Johnson, Kelly Garrison.
HOLLAND-SPRINGFIELD JOURNAL — April 5, 2016 — Page 3
Some of the Students in Action members at the recent volunteer project for Springfield Schools.
Students in Action volunteer during spring break
Several years ago, the Jefferson Awards Foundation
sought input from communities on extending its prestigious recognition program to
high school students, bringing attention to some of our
country’s younger volunteers.
Leadership Toledo was
chosen to facilitate the fifth
“Region” in the nation and
conducted a pilot with four
high schools. The results of
that pilot, and similar ones
across 16 other “Regions” of
the country is what is now
known as Students In Action
(SIA).
Springfield High School
was included in the initial
Toledo Region pilot. One
premise identified as a must
is that SIA not be considered
a club or organization–at
Springfield the initiative is
inclusive of all 1,200 students. Leaders self-identify
and meet monthly with
Kristina White, Leadership
Toledo’s director of community impact, to ensure that
the culture of their school is
defined by charity, service to
others and teamwork.
SIA leaders represent a
variety of school organizations. This fosters awareness
of service projects that are
available for all students.
SIA leaders also identify opportunities for peers on days
when school is not in session, and like the one seen on
March 29, during school
breaks.
In preparing for the May
Kindergarten Registration
programs, Taryn Miley,
Springfield’s pre-K to grade
5 director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment,
saw that she needed help assembling almost 300 kindergarten readiness packets. So,
she reached out to SIA.
Despite it being spring
break, more than 30 volunteers stepped-up.
What
made the project even more
exciting was an unexpected
call from Denise Seifert,
Holland Walmart store manager. She called to inform the
district of Walmart’s wish to
donate three pallets of new
school supplies.
While
many of the items were delivered directly to one of the
district’s six schools, others
were combined with crayons
donated during fall “back-toschool” supplies drives conducted by local churches and
also assembled by the SIA
volunteers for distribution to
families during the kindergarten registration program
in May.
“This is what SIA is designed to do–give students a
way to use their time and tal-
ents today,” said Mrs. White.
“We do not do them a favor
when making statements
such as, ‘our future is in
good hands.’ Statements like
that almost grant permission
for our young people to wait
until tomorrow to step forward as volunteers. We prefer recognizing SIA as
young leaders of today and
supporting the efforts of students at all 42 area high
schools as they change our
world–today.”
Sylvania students advance in competitions
Twenty-one students from Northview and Southview qualified for and competed in the
Ohio Business Professionals of America (BPA) State Leadership Conference in Columbus
on March 17-18.
Placing in the top 10 for their respective contests are: Abby Rowland–advanced
spreadsheet; Ryan Czernakowski, Justin Netry, Patrick Sawrius and Parker Hoag– small
business management team; Alexa Below–administrative support research project, and
Katie Chung and Allyson Nguyen–economic research team.
Several students placed in the top three qualifying for the National Leadership Conference. They are Nicholas Goodman, advanced word processing, third place and William
McIntyre, extemporaneous speech, second. The Global Marketing Team of Austin Nemire,
Andrew Summers and George McCray, above, placed second qualifying for Nationals and
earning them scholarships. The National Leadership Conference will be held in Boston
on May 5 - 9, 2016.
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Holland Springfield
Join Us In Worship
Community Calendar
IN THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE
To include your organization’s activities in this calendar, drop off the details in the Journal’s drop box at the Holland Branch Library, or mail them to the Journal, 117 East Second
Street, PO Box 267, Perrysburg, Ohio 43552. Or send an e-mail, with the date, time and location to [email protected]. The deadline for the weekly calendar is Thursday at noon.
Wednesday, April 6
10:00 a.m. Low Vision Support Group at Heatherdowns Library, 3265
Glanzman Road, Toledo. See www.frogtownvision.org or call 419-8678007 for details.
11:00 a.m. Free Silver Sneakers strength and balance classes for seniors 65 and older
at Studio Fitness, 1413 Bernath Parkway. Call Karen at 419-870-2318 for
more information. Dancercise classes at 1 p.m.
11:00 a.m. Compass Club at the Black Pearl, 4630 Heatherdowns Boulevard. New
members welcome, new program every week. Call 419-865-5795 or 419841-8889 or visit compassclubnwo.com.
Thursday, April 7
10:00 a.m. Historical Museum, 7154 Front Street, open until 2 p.m.
10:00 a.m. Free Silver Sneakers chair Zumba for seniors 65 and older at Studio
Fitness, 1413 Bernath Parkway. Call Karen at 419-870-2318 for more
information.
11:30 a.m. Boomers Resource Network at Uncle John’s Restaurant, 3131 Secor Road.
See www.boomersrn.com for details or call 419-865-8503.
5:30 p.m. CedarCreek’s South Toledo Campus hosts the Community Care Free
Medical Clinic at 2150 South Byrne Road, Toledo, until 8 p.m. Call
419-482-8127 for information.
Friday, April 8
11:00 a.m. Free Silver Sneakers strength and balance classes for seniors 65 and older
at Studio Fitness, 1413 Bernath Parkway. Call Karen at 419-870-2318 for
more information. Dancercise classes at 1 p.m.
12:00 p.m. Holland-Springfield Rotary at Lutheran Village at Wolf Creek, 2001
Perrysburg-Holland Road.
5:00 p.m. All-you-care-to-eat fish dinner and more at Conn-Weissenberger
American Legion, 2020 West Alexis Road, until 7 p.m.
Monday, April 11
information. Strength and balance classes at 11 a.m.
7:00 p.m. Toledo Area Genealogical Society at Sylvania United Church of Christ,
7240 Erie Street, Sylvania, in Wright Hall. New topic each month. Open
to the public.
7:00 p.m. Springfield Township Zoning Commission at the township hall, 7617
Angola Road.
Tuesday, April 12
information.
11:00 a.m. Lucas County Commissioners at the Lucas County Office Building, One
Government Center, first floor commissioners’ hearing room, Toledo.
2:00 p.m. Lucas County Commissioners, regular meeting and potential grievance
hearings, at the Lucas County Office Building, One Government Center,
first floor commissioners’ hearing room, Toledo.
5:30 p.m. Citizen Advisory Group complimentary “Welcome to Medicare
Educational Seminar” at the Sylvania Senior Center in the Art Studio
Room, 7140 Sylvania Avenue, Sylvania. For more information, call 419872-0204 or visit citizenadvisory.com.
7:00 p.m. Real Estate Investors Association trade fair featuring more than 48 vendors
at Knights of Columbus, 4265 Secor Road, Toledo. There will be
discounts, games, prizes and food. Free and open to the public.
Check us out on the web: www.hollandsfj.us
FREE ‘WELCOME TO MEDICARE’ SEMINAR
Wednesday, April 20th @ 6:00 p.m.
Stautzenberger College, Arrowhead Park
1796 Indian Wood Circle, Room 127, Maumee, OH
Join me, Ron Myers, for my “Welcome to Medicare” educational seminar. This event is for anyone with questions about Medicare Insurance.
It is critical that you understand your options!! We will discuss
Medicare Part A&B, when and how to enroll, and the basics of Medicare
Supplement plans, Medicare Advantage Plans, and Medicare Part D.
This is an Educational Event NOT a Sales Event.
No specific carrier or plan materials will be presented or sold.
There is no cost to attend. There is no obligation in attending.
Walk-ins are welcome. RSVP is optional.
Individual appointments are available if you prefer.
Call 419-872-0204 with any questions.
(Not affiliated with Medicare or any government agency.)
Citizen Advisory Group
770 Commerce Drive • Perrysburg, OH 43551
419-872-0204
877-883-1224
www.citizenadvisory.com
PAYNE MEMORIAL
AME CHURCH
“Come Grow With Us”
209 S. King Rd
(between Angola
and Hill Avenue)
Sunday Worship 11 a.m.
Pastor: Regena J. Mangrum
NEW HOPE
CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
(Disciples of Christ)
Corner of Garden
and Holloway Roads
Holland, Ohio 43528
Sunday School: 9 a.m.
Worship: 10 a.m.
(419) 867-1535
www.newhopedisciples.com
PROVIDENCE
LUTHERAN CHURCH
8131 Airport Highway
(corner Albon and Airport)
Holland, Ohio 43528
(419) 865-4548
SATURDAY
5:00 p.m. - Contemporary
Worship
SUNDAY
9:00 a.m. - Traditional Worship
10:30 a.m. - Praise Service
with Faith Trek for the kids
10:00-10:30 a.m. - Coffee,
cookies and fellowship for all!
Communion Every Sunday.
LIVING FAITH
UNITED
METHODIST
CHURCH
1240 Columbus Ave.
Holland, OH 43528
419-865-3943
Pastor: Jared Groose
SUNDAY
10:30 a.m. - Sunday morning Worship Service
WEDNESDAY
6:00 p.m. - Potluck.
Come, join us!
We are just like you.
Open Hearts, Open Doors,
Open Minds.
“corner of Angola & Albon”
8201 Angola Road
www.aplacetomeetgod.org
419-867-7794
Join us Sunday morning
at 10 a.m.
Classes for the kids.
Attend
the Church
of Your
Choice
7001 Angola Road - Holland, Ohio
Sundays at 9:45 a.m.
Pastor David L. Carpenter, Jr.
419-491-8417
www.wonderministries.org
Non-denominational
SATURDAYS
SUNDAYS
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Holloway Elementary
SCHOOL NEWS
By William Renwand,
principal
Second Trimester
Honor Roll
Any child in grades 4 or 5
whose trimester’s grade card
containing all A’s or B’s or a
combination thereof with no
checkmarks or “U’s,” will be
named to Honor Roll.
In addition, students with
all A’s are named to the Principal’s List.
The following students in
our fourth and fifth grade
classes were recognized at
our Holloway Hornets Character/Honors Assembly:
Fourth Grade
Principal’s List: Evan
Ruffing, Lucille Thomas.
Honor Roll: Krew Akenberger, Isaiah Beauchamp,
Connor Berry, Kelsey Brooks,
Kane Burns, Amaya Greene,
Meghan Hickman, Emily
King, Ava Littin, Reese
Miller, Natalie Mohn, Cali
Plotts, Natalie Richard, Gavin
Robinson, Jackson Schultz,
Will Scott, Nikki Sizemore,
William Smith, Riley Snyder,
Lillian Stewart, Abed Taleb,
Kaleb Tran, Adam Whitehead, Lain Willis.
Fifth Grade
Principal’s List: Kyla
Carter, Lauren Gerbitz, Katie
Redd, Sarah Yaghi.
Honor Roll: Dejah BaileyHamilton, Sonee’ Brazzil,
Alexandria Brock-Barnes,
Bernadette Brown, Noah
Clark, Vernoica Florek, Ashlynn Jones, Nolan Koepfler,
Daija Miller, Jonathan Moreland, Stacey Morrison, Robert
Perez, Devin Prince, Shelby
Salatin, Harrison Schlachter,
Evalyn Scott, Mohamad
Taleb, Ainsley Vannette,
L’Nai Wiggins, Chase Woodson, Sarah Yaghi, Natalie
Zuccarell.
Holloway Recognizes
Good Character
In a school assembly, Holloway recognized those students who have shown that
they live by the 3 R’s of Holloway (Report, Responsibility
and Respect) and demonstrate
good character. Each month
we celebrate a “character
trait” from the pillars of character and host a character
color day. A student is selected monthly and is recognized with a certificate and an
award which hangs outside by
their classroom door. Congratulations to the following
students for Good Character.
December–Caring
Kindergarten: Christian
Celestino, McKenzie Cox,
Avary Costilla.
First: Yahya Hammood,
Landon Newman, Aubree
Shepherd.
Second: Leah Aburidi,
Raine Grames, Danielle
Vasquez.
Third: Sara Whitehead,
Alvera Brown, Dakota Strong.
Fourth: Maira Scott,
Madison Burnham, Logan
Mack.
Fifth: Andrew Tran, Victor
Esquivel.
January–Acceptance
Kindergarten:
Sarah
Atherton, Abby Kurz, Christian Stephens.
First: Alexiya Hendrickson, Gabi Tyler, Serenity
Hughes.
Second: AnnaMarie Mack,
Ally Mohn, Reem Sawalha.
Third: Madison Judson,
Ayman Youssef, Addison
Shepherd.
Fourth: Reese Miller, Hannah Arnold, Riley Snyder.
Fifth: Alijah Batey, Katie
Redd.
February–Cooperation
Kindergarten:
Messai
Brank-White, Charles Waldon, Topanga Campos.
First: Logan Keil, Blake
Miller, Jonathan Bates.
Second:
Da’Layshia
McCoy, Emilee Harris, Olivia
Colvin.
Third: Sa’Niyah Cunningham, McKenna Taylor, Cacee
Salatin.
Fourth: William Scott,
Landen Christy, Adam Whitehead.
Fifth: Eva Scott and
Stacey Morrison.
Springfield Middle School second trimester honor roll announced
Following are the Springfield Middle School students
who earned academic excellence during the second
trimester of the 2015-16
school year.
To reach the Merit Roll, a
student must obtain a grade
point average between 3.0
and 3.49; to reach the Honor
Roll, a student must obtain a
GPA between 3.4 and 3.9.
Congratulations to the
sixth, seventh and eighth
grade students who earned all
A’s during the trimester.
Sixth Grade
All A’s
Adam Cain, Maddox Altman, Mason Altman, Luke
Siefert, Jacob Casper-Mayer,
Benjamin Cubberly, Samuel
Cubberly, Luke Dawson,
Colin Hickman, Madeline
Irwin, Eyevett Harvey, Eric
Fox, Nilawan Levy, Marissa
Longenecker, Kendall Meek,
Elise Murphy, Luke Seed,
Madelyn Shepherd, Jacob
White, Samuel Zeller, Addison Davis, Alex Iserman,
Gary Lisenbee, Dominick
Mitchell, Harun Musa, Trent
Rahman, Spencer Brown,
Ryan Fong, Evan Hayward,
Olivia Robbins, Gabrielle
Sensenstein, Emelia Winchester, Jonah Vercellotti,
Sara Wong, Emily Nelson,
Taylee Long, Aryss Ruley,
Sarah Jewell, Sophie Jewell,
Ethan Lashley, Rosemary
Luong, Arman Matthews,
Kyle Sell, Carrington Kynard, Michaela Liner, Rowan
Dusseau, Gabriel Moore,
Quinn Pratt, Sara Daney,
Amaar Zarrieff, Sydney
Schwieterman, Bradlee Runkle, Zachary Sheehy, Toniah
Inthanamith,
Brooklynn
Marksch,
Paris
Love,
Nicholas Bielecki, Tiffany
Zhou, Gavin Dery, James
Kleshinski, Sadeen Jallad,
Bryce Chanthavong, Traevon
Roberts, McKenna Walker,
Pauline Nadal, Joseph Deters,
Aiden Graser.
Seventh Grade
All A’s
Sara Camick, Alexandra
Eckhart, Kendall Griffin,
Connor Martin, Emma
Phillips, Cassidy Szymanski,
Elizabeth Christian, Reagan
Christie, Mia Rose, Mary
Beth Yeager, Molly Yeager,
Cole Dodson, Mayuu Ono,
Ilayda Akdeniz, Saif AlAbed, Yasir Jallad, Taylor
Eley, Quyen Nguyen, Elise
Woods, Lindsey Jeffries.
Eighth Grade
All A’s
Genevieve Perkins, Rayonna Armstrong, Megan Zuccarell, Jillian Leung, Maya
Emmons, Emily Campbell,
Allison Beale, Noah Vercellotti, Emma Welker, Megan
Burnham, Olivia Holley,
Madison Zeller, Julianne Littin, Jenna Bal, Brooklyn
Burns, Ethan Schafer, Jacob
Whitehead.
Sixth Grade Honors
Kaydence
Whitehead,
William Jeffries, Ethan
Young, Isaiah Rogers, TylerThinh Dao, Reed Sautter,
Alexander Seed, Miles Jude,
Grace Brenner, Garrett
Pasker, Alyssa Breidling,
Blake Sell, Emily Russell,
Emilie Jones, Hailey Hatfield, Jesus Almanza, Miles
Wasil, Brian Meeker, Quin’Nia Henderson, Kara Bolton,
Khloe Willard, Coriana Hill,
Troy Jeffries, Clayton Dollison, Jocelyn Lincycomb,
Joshua Watson, Jordan
Welch, Julia Brazzil, Austin
Guevara,
Christianson
Cordero, McKayla Sprague,
Devyn Baillie, Farzeen Hussain, Benjamin Kleparek,
Joshua Sloan, Joshua Canizales, Adrianne House, Devon
Willman, Roshan Soni,
Samantha Heywood, Jasmia
Pope, Makaila Sharp, Wil
Heizelman, Dylan Wall,
Grace
Girlie,
Andrew
Richard, Justus Preston, Kaitlyn Leu, Bryce Givens, Kenneth McDonald, Avery Ellis,
Ryah
Nettles,
Andre
Williams, James Jordan.
Seventh Grade Honors
James Corona, Prince
Battle, Nathan Dauer, Joshua
King, Joshua Kraus, Kathryn
Schalow, Kylie Murphy,
Shelby Crippen, Hailey
Mitchell, Dominik Monroe,
Travis-Thuan Dao, Dominic
Barnes,
Trey
Materni,
Camilla Grow, Sadie Garner,
Breanne Kurtz, Leylah Fox,
Lucas Hafner, Madelyn Neff,
Blake Sharples, Jessica
Good, Mikayla King, Abigail
Sowinski, Bo Bucher, Olivia
Brake, Alexavier Holmes,
Haley Teifke, Courtnee
Chappetta,
Juleanna
DeShetler, ReighAnnon Pillarelli, Caroline Salatin, Lily
Hickey, Ivy Serres, John
Madden, Karissa Perez, Jarrah Ritchie, Alexia Morgan,
Ella Beatrice, Kathy Shaw,
Anajah Woodson, Kayla
Watkins, Kenya Chisholm,
Kayla Ptaszynski, Seth Brenner, Ethan Bennett, James
Elrod, Kayla Gaston, Alexia
Koepke, Robert Pham, Kyle
Kurz, Braydon Skalku, Elizabeth Welker, McKenzie McClellan, Savannah Sosbe,
Jalen Speiser, Reighlyn
Miller, Alexis Scharer, Jenna
Winslow, Hailey Alexander,
Stanly Gunter, Eliza Evans,
Kaila Hague, Shai Tomlin,
Mingliang Ou, Amaya
Ingwersen.
Eighth Grade Honors
Elijah Mahler, Abigail
Wells, Madeline Grup, Kara
Frantz, Cooper Sautter,
Emilio Martinez, Abbigale
Knauss, Taylor McCaleb,
Nicholas Vannette, Jacob
Seed, Taylor Turner, Arianna
Smith, Alexander Cassidy,
Mckenna Pietrowski, Brianna
Norwood, Katelyn Leung,
Lidya Hollingsworth, Joseph
Bruno, Courtney Brown,
Dylan Smith, Seth Bomar,
Aidan Pennington, Connor
Leck, Isabella Brazzil, Jonas
Meisner, Emersyn Haney,
Taylor
Baldwin,
Eric
Boerner, Jarod Clifford, Sterling Brown, Sarah Ziemke,
Ciarra Seman, Skylar Kolb,
Hannah Palmer, Serenity Rodriguez, Danielle Sabin,
Alyson Nightingale, Isabella
Miller, Taylor Briggs, Aliaha
Waterford, Keonna Smith,
Ashley Wells, Mya Montoya,
Chandler Bullinger, Kane
Ott, Tyler Kelly, Lisa Clark,
Noah Villanueva, Bionca
Gerard, Dylan Miller-Ralston, Travis Nehren, Michael
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Zender, Shealyn Koback,
Faten Aburidi, Chloe Jevince,
Jeffrey Blakeman, Jacob
Nehren, Trinity Gardner,
Vanessa Pilat, Olivia Opsahl,
Alex Rivera, Aidan Wagner,
Amelia Mathkour, Chastity
Polefko, Karmann Clark,
Cheyann Parker, Jessica Bailey, Amber Rosinski, Lauren
Bolton.
Sixth Grade Merit
Caleb
Cunningham,
Kayla Frank, Sheridan Wiggins, Annjel Adams, Ally
Hosman, Jaden Krajeski,
Logan Caudill, Andrea Mandracken, Riley Coe, Aliyah
Grier, Sri Lakshmi Maturi,
Jordan Meisenheimer, Joseph
Cooper, Hailey Burns,
Na’Kiya Willis, Arianna
Kurasz, Amanda Gandarilla,
Lila Christian, Nicholas
Meyette, Markiya Cunningham, Devon Sanders, Joshua
Smith, Landen Stone, Andrew Hart, Danissa Martinez,
Troy Williams, A’Maya
Hodges, Kaitlyn Sack, Juan
Campos, Leway Sawalha,
Chase Serr, Jacob Shaffer,
Joshua Waggoner, Alana
Welker, Dylan Wood, Joelle
Thomas, Joshua Brunner,
Noah Meyer, Jada RoseMcBee, Keivon Shy, Ean Allgire, Colin Morrow, Gavin
Bacholl, Ethan Miller, Alli
Schwerer, Nashia Clark,
Jaden Billian, Hunter Walker,
Sarah Abuyabes, Samantha
Brown,
Taden
Tulino,
Matthew Bashaw, Kylee Kirwen, Brenden Huntzinger,
Kylee Garber, Xian Thompson, Hamza Ghanim, Amaya
Beauchamp, Olivia Toney,
OMarion Darrington, Madison
Lindsey,
Amanda
Leininger, Heather House,
Mack Moon, Drew Pryba,
Corbin George, Christopher
Moharter, Bryson Geraghty,
Diamond Sekel, Danny Bussell, Chloe Dewart, Kane
Thomley, JR Edwards,
Nathan Silvers, Alondra
Maulsby, Rhema Gaston,
Hailey Richey, Abigail Paul,
Devon Harless.
Seventh Grade Merit
Simon Leck, Isaac Parke,
Katherine Gaich, William
Lanier, Hannah McCormick,
Alana Pietrzak, Lauren
Kuras, Nicholas PetersHieber, Dylan Boylan, Jaden
Woodson, Robert Sandridge,
Xica Hollingsworth, Autum
Farbrother, Miranda Tyler,
Layla Washington, Liberty
Vallance, Jeffrie Shirey,
Jaxon Cassavore, Brandon
Distel, Kayla Savory, Emma
Sellers, Morgan Taylor,
Trevor
Tabb,
Nicholas
Homer, Nichole Myers,
Rowan Cassidy, Jayly Brewington, Kennedy Harris,
Arieana Peace, Karlee Jeremiah, Hayley Leonard, Dylan
Austin, Jacquelyn Baumgardner, Adonay Eyob, Aliyah
Johnson, Evan Merillat, Andrew Stoll, Tracey Groves,
Jesuse Cordero, Skylar Dayton, Jaela Morris, Antwaan
Ellison, Shane Vollmar, Keith
Rosemond.
Eighth Grade Merit
Alexis Hinks, Alexandria
Atkins, Emma Johnson,
Jacob Sloan, Paige Livengood, Michelle Skeels, Tyler
Camp, Carolynn Ray, Kyle
White, Elijah Kimmons, Carson Ruelke, Avery Fleischmann, Akito Kina, Alexis
Mayo, Paige King, Stefan
Davis-Miller, Niesha Wilson,
Sage Backus, Vashawn Lightner, Cortney Gardner, Jayson
Willis, Kylie Rowe, Markas
Walker, Chloe Jablonski,
Seth Austin, Carson Tyler,
Delmond Lewis, Zackary
Brown, Jacob Buck, Meagan
Gartee, Justin Gartee, Hitesh
Thind, Jenna Butler, Miya
Liner, Akyra Thompson,
John Nowaczyk, Savannah
Kirk,
Giordan
Romey,
Kirsten Welker, Alexis Orner,
Kaylyn Hornbeak, Ariana
Henderson,
Christian
Sanders, Ashley Smith,
I’yana Autman, Lauryn Bay,
Lannie Sweet, Rysia Duszynski, Matthew Christoffer,
Tyhler
Monroe,
Jacob
Roberts, Kiley Stone, Triston
Todorowski, Leigha Moon,
Mariah Myers, Carmella
Sanders, Selby Gassner, Kailey Kowalski, Emma Claytor,
Konner Crouch, Justin Huddleston, Xavier Reinhart,
Christian Jadwisiak, Ayanna
Duren, Makaila Carter, Laura
Elizondo, Caleb Jordan.
RHS 50+ reunion planned
The annual Rossford High
School 50+ years or more reunion luncheon, will be held
Saturday, September 10, at
the Carranor Hunt and Polo
Club,
502 East Second
Street, Perrysburg.
The cost is $17.50, and a
cash bar will be available.
Social hour begins at noon,
and lunch is at 1 p.m.
For more information, call
Caroline Klotz, 419-8687670.
Attention All Veterans
Looking for new proud members to join
our post, if you have served in the military.
Would be glad to discuss eligibility.
Contact VFW Post 6409—Rossford Post
Commander Doug Austin—707-673-6316
Quartermaster Al Espen—419-340-5240
Post email - [email protected]
Metroparks board, staff to host public forum April 5
Following is the program
schedule at the Holland
Branch Library, 1032 South
McCord Road. Library hours
are Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.;
Friday and Saturday, from 9
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call
419-259-5240 or visit the
website
at
www.toledolibrary.org.
Ancestry.com
Interested in genealogical
research? Want to map your
family tree? From the wellknown research website Ancestry.com comes the library
edition with a database of
more than 2 billion names.
Search United States, United
Kingdom and Canadian census records, military records,
wills and more.
The website also contains
tips and research guides for
beginners along with printable copies of charts and
forms.
This site is only accessible
from within the library and
can
be
found
at
toledolibrary.org/research/
research tools.
Storytimes
Our next Storytime session will begin the week of
June 13. Registration begins
on June 6. Watch for more
information.
Interrupting Rabbits
Join the Enchanting Entertainers on Saturday, April 16,
at 10:30 a.m., as they perform
the rollicking story, “Interrupting Rabbits.” There will
be classic stories, laughter,
songs, dancing and audience
participation.
Registration is suggested
and begins Monday, April 4.
Homework Helper
The Holland Branch Library’s Homework Helper is
back. Ms. Bonnie will be
here to help grade school students with their homework,
play learning games or help
them do research on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from
3:30 to 5:30 p.m. when
school is in session.
President You!
Essay Contest
Congratulations! You’ve
been elected President of the
United States of America.
What would be your first proposal as President? What are
your goals? What changes
would you like to see?
Tell us all about your life
in our Nation’s Capital and
the White House. The essay
contest is for students in
kindergarten through grade
12, with prizes awarded in
each grade category from all
entries.
You could win up to $200.
Stop into the library to pick
up an entry form. All entry
forms must be turned in by
Monday, April 4.
It’s a Teen Contest
It’s a surprise, It’s a contest! Drop in to take your
chance to win a prize with
this month’s contest. Each
month brings a new challenge–what will this month’s
topic be? Beginning Monday,
April 11, and running
through Saturday, April 16,
tease your brain, tickle your
funny bone–and don’t miss
out.
Holland Library Cafe
Join us on Tuesday, April
12, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m., as we transform our
meeting room into the Holland Library Cafe in celebration of National Library
Week. Enjoy a free cup of
coffee, tea or juice, and a
snack. Make a bookmark, try
out puzzles and games, and
enter to win a Bag-of-Books.
Also, be sure to shop our
used book sale.
Book Discussion
Join us on Thursday, April
28, at 1 p.m., for a lively and
enlightening discussion of
the book “If You Ask Me
(and Of Course You Won’t”)
by Betty White.
The book is Ms. White’s
candid take on everything
from the unglamorous reality
behind red-carpet affairs to
her beauty regimen. Copies
of the book are now available
at the Holland Branch Library.
New members are always
welcome.
Return of Extreme
Couponing
On Wednesday, April 27,
from 6 to 8 p.m., coupon experts Latisha Williams and
Tasha Davis will return to
share even more techniques
for Extreme Couponing.
This class is geared toward
current couponers who are
looking to add a boost to their
couponing activity and to
their savings. Plus, it’s a
great way to share information with fellow couponers.
GED and Adult Basic
Literacy Education Classes
Penta Career Center is offering GED and Adult Basic
Literacy Education classes at
the Holland Branch Library
on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 1 to 5 p.m.
to register, call Penta at 419661-6184.
The Board of Park Commissioners and management
staff of Metroparks will host
an open house-style public
forum Tuesday, April 5, from
5:30 to 7 p.m., in the Ward
Pavilion at Wildwood Preserve (east entrance).
The open house format
will have stations that invite
visitors to discuss various aspects of the park system, such
as natural resources, law enforcement, programming, finances and the strategic plan.
The purpose of the event
is to provide an evening session in which members of the
public can meet the threemember board, made up of
president Scott Savage and
vice-presidents
Lera
Doneghy and Fritz Byers, as
well as other decision makers, including executive director Steve Madewell and
deputy directors Dave Zenk
and Matt Cleland.
In 2015, the park district
had a record attendance of
more than 4 million visits,
opened three new parks, grew
its volunteer program to more
than 5,000 people, expanded
programming and conducted
deer management in two
parks.
Those who attend the
meeting will have an opportunity to talk with staff about
these and other projects in
various stages of development, including another park,
Middlegrounds, set to open in
September in downtown
Toledo.
The east entrance to Wildwood is on Central Avenue,
just west of Corey Road.
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Resurfacing begins on Airport Hwy.
The Ohio Department of
Transportation (ODOT) District Two plans to start the
Airport Highway (State
Route 2) resurfacing and
bridge project on April 4.
The project entails resurfacing four lanes of Airport
Highway, from the Ohio
Turnpike at Toledo Express
Airport to Holloway Road, as
well as rehabilitating the
bridge over Wolf Creek.
Shelly Company, of
Thornville, Ohio, is working
on the $3.2 million project.
In conjunction with the
project effective Wednesday,
April 6, through August, lane
restrictions will be possible
on Airport Highway, between
Holloway Road and Albon
Road, for resurfacing.
Additional restrictions
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Lourdes Univ. to host ‘Serve Up an Ace’
career, internship fair Zepf Center hosts annual tennis fund-raiser
A Collegiate Employ-Net
Career and Internship Fair
will take place on Friday,
April 1, from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the Franciscan Center
of Lourdes University, 6832
Convent Boulevard, in Sylvania.
Collegiate Employ-Net is
a consortium of 20 colleges
and universities in northwest
Ohio and southeast Michigan.
This year’s Career and Internship Fair has more than
40 companies and organizations registered.
Job seekers who possess
certificates, associate or
bachelor degrees are invited
to attend.
Individuals can network
with professionals and learn
more about employment and
open positions at these organizations.
Employers wishing to
participate can visit Lour
des.edu/career or www.col
legecentral.com/employ-net.
There is no cost for job
seekers to attend.
Participants are asked to
bring updated copies of their
resume and are asked to arrive in professional attire.
For more information,
call Andrea Domachowski,
director of Lourdes University’s Career Services Department, at 419-824-3704 or
send
an
email
to
[email protected].
College graduates invited
to apply for Statehouse Fellowship
State Representative Barbara Sears has announced
that the Ohio Legislative
Service Commission is accepting applications for its
13-month Legislative and
Telecommunications Fellowship Program.
The commission will hire
24 fellows to work with
members of the Ohio General Assembly during 2017.
“The LSC Fellowship
Program is an excellent way
to truly learn about state government while having handson
input
regarding
legislation
affecting
Ohioans,” said Rep. Sears.
Legislative fellow duties
include assisting members of
the Ohio General Assembly
with constituent work, writing press releases and
speeches, assisting in legislative research, attending
meetings, and performing
administrative
duties.
Telecommunications fellows
assist in televising Ohio
House and Senate proceedings and in preparing educational video productions
about the General Assembly
and the legislative process.
Fellows receive full State
of Ohio employee benefits
and are paid $31,200 annually, with the opportunity to
earn a $2,000 bonus upon
completion of the program.
“The fellowship program
is a fantastic way to learn
about how state government
works and how it affects the
citizens of our state,” said
Tyler Bagdasarian, a current
fellow assisting in Rep.
Sears’ office.
“I have had the opportunity to learn about several
different departments and
see how legislating is actually done.”
The application deadline
for the two telecommunications positions is April 30.
All applicants must have
completed a bachelor’s degree program by the December start date.
Persons holding graduate
or professional degrees also
may apply.
The legislative fellowship
program is open to graduates
of all major fields of study
who have a genuine interest
in learning about state government, and no political experience is required.
The two telecommunications fellows must have majored or minored in a
telecommunications-related
field of study or have comparable experience.
for an application and instructions, call the fellowship coordinator at the Ohio
Legislative Service Commission by calling 614-4663615
or
visiting
www.lsc.ohio.gov/fellow
ship.
Block Watch meeting is April 19
The Brent Valley/Heritage
Green Block Watch will meet
on Tuesday, April 19, at 7
p.m., at Christian Fellowship
Church, Pilliod Road.
The meeting is free and
open to the public.
Sustaining an active Block
Watch group is of great importance. Neighbors are encouraged to attend as well as
helping to keep any new residents informed of the Block
Watch Group.
For more information,
contact Janet Kimble at 419297-8423.
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From left are Keith Walker of Walker Funeral Home; Jennifer Moses, CEO of the Zepf Center; 1993 French Open doubles winner Murphy Jensen, and Paul Toth, president of the
Zepf Center and the Toledo Lucas County Port Authority.
Sean Dixon, head tennis professional at Belmont Country
Club, provides instruction to attendees. He was among
more than a dozen tennis pros who assisted at the event.
The ninth annual “Serve
Up an Ace” tennis fund-raiser
on March 18 at Twos Athletic
Club in Toledo served up
more than just fun and entertainment.
This year’s event raised
$35,000 for the Zepf Center,
a behavioral health care facility that assists individuals
with mental health, substance
abuse, problem gambling
and other issues.
The 175 attendees enjoyed
an evening of food, drinks,
music, astrological readings
and socializing, but most of
all, tennis.
Brothers Luke and Murphy Jensen, winners of the
1993 French Open and Ludington, Michigan natives,
were this year’s special
guests.
Speaking on behalf of his
brother Luke who had to
leave, Murphy said the brothers were “honored and privileged” to attend.
Noting that their parents
provided them with the opportunity to play professional
tennis, they, in turn, believe it
is important to use opportunities such as this to serve other
people.
Of the Zepf Center, he
said, “I’m a fellow in longterm recovery so I get it. This
touches my heart.”
He continued, “Without
recovery, people have no
shot. They need places like
this.”
Following his presentation, more than a dozen tennis
professionals from country
clubs and athletic facilities
through northwest Ohio and
southeast Michigan took to
the indoor courts, offering
tennis tips to participants.
Regardless of ability,
everyone had the opportunity
to shine on the courts as different skills were taught.
In addition to tennis, the
event featured silent auctions,
a name that tune contest by
David Z and $2,500 raffle.
Jennifer Moses, CEO of
the Zepf Center, expressed
her appreciation to all who
came out for the event.
“Thank you so much for
supporting us. Our area is one
of the top three in the nation
with a heroin epidemic. It’s a
daily issue, and every dollar
helps.”
Paul Toth, center president
agreed, adding, “Thank you
to everyone who helped make
this possible.”
Keith Walker of Walker
Funeral Home and honorary
chairman for the event, noted
that his company launched a
campaign this year with Zepf
to combat the heroin epidemic.
“This is a great way to get
the message out. We appreciate the relationship and ability to get the word out,” he
said.
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Thank you,
Blue Devils surprised many in Linehan’s first year
game were tops on the squad.
Classmate Ricky Lightner
also became an integral part
of the half-court offense
thanks to his three-point
shooting and ball handling on
pick and rolls. He led the
team in scoring at 13.3 points
per game.
Senior point guard Trent
Bond finished third in scoring
at 10 per game, giving the
Blue Devils a trio of doublefigure scorers, a rare thing in
high school basketball and
enough to make up for the
losses they had from the
2014-15 team.
Despite that, Linehan did
lament not having the luxury
of that one superstar player in
certain situations.
“There were times where
we absolutely needed a
bucket, and we didn’t have a
go-to guy,” he said. “And
that’s rare for a lot of high
school teams I would say…
There wasn’t really a play that
we could go to really guarantee that [bucket]. If we had a
lead late in the game, we were
very strong at maintaining
possession and spreading the
floor. But if we were trailing
or we needed a run-stopper,
that was the part I was a little
bit disappointed with in terms
of our execution. There
wasn’t a guy or there wasn’t a
play where I knew we were
going to get a good look.”
There were few instances
that saw the Blue Devils desperately needing such a
player or play.
They often times exploded
out of the half to put their opponents in deep holes from
which they could not recover.
That pace was something
Linehan preached and expected from his senior-laden
group.
“When we went on a spurt
where we were flying around
and the energy was there, I
don’t think there was a team
in the league that could handle us athletically, especially
when we turned it into a fullcourt game,” he said. “Do I
wish it could happen all the
time in every game? Yeah, but
I realize that it’s not a realistic
thing. There’s going to be
dips and sparks and it’s just
tough to maintain that level of
energy for 32 minutes.”
Another thing that did
change, to a degree, was the
utilization of the bench and
the team’s overall depth. In
their opener against Bowling
Green, Springfield saw 11
players score at least two
points and featured freshman
Terrel Bryant as their leading
scorer.
That changed drastically
as the year went on with the
team becoming much more
reliant on their seven seniors,
especially on the starting five.
“Early on, there’s no film
on you and you don’t really
have a full scouting report.
Things are going to be spread
out a little bit more,” explained Linehan. “I talked
about it in our first set of
games that we may have had
five or six different leading
scorers. Once teams kind of
figure out what guys are good
at and what they’re not good
at, there’s going to be times
where, for example, Terrel,
the word on him was don’t let
him catch and shoot. Make
him put it on the floor. For
[senior] Rob [Boykin] it was
make him go right and for
[seniors] Bloomer and Wyatt
[Brown] it was make sure
you’re there on the catch.
“There are good coaches
in this league. They’re going
to figure these things out.
Then it goes down to your
guys who are your playmakers and most of the time that
was our senior class and our
first five.”
And it was those starting
five that perhaps defied outside expectations the most.
They featured remarkable
chemistry and at times looked
like one of the area’s most dynamic and best passing units,
all while pressing the issue on
defense as well.
The overall effect was a
team that fans came to expect
every night had a chance to
win and was a top contender
in the NLL.
“As far as what I learned
this year, I mean a lot of it
was I think in our little lull
that we had in the middle of
the season, there were times I
over-coached a little bit,”
Linehan said. “I tried to tweak
our game plan a little bit too
much to cater to other teams.
I think that with the level of
athleticism that we had and
will continue to have, we’re
going to have an athletic advantage against most teams
we play in the NLL.
“We’ve got to make teams
adjust to us. With our little lull
in there, I’ll take some of the
blame because I made us adjust a little too much.”
Sylvania Schools Science
Olympiad teams advance to state
On March 19 Bowling Green State University hosted the Regional Science Olympiad
Tournament. Schools from 17 counties in northwest Ohio took part in the Region 8
competition.
Teams from Arbor Hills, two from McCord and Timberstone junior high schools as
well as Northview and Southview high schools competed.
Numerous individual and team medals and trophies were won by each school.
Overall team winners in Division B include: McCord’s Red Team in first place and
the team from Arbor Hills in second place.
The team from Timberstone placed sixth. In Division C, Northview and Southview
placed first and second, respectively. McCord and Arbor Hills will join Northview and
Southview in Columbus for the state contest April 9.
Above is the Southview team with their trophy.
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By Sean Maiolo
Expectations, especially in
sports, often amount merely
to educated guesses–hypotheses even–of those with sufficient knowledge of the matter
at hand, hence why they are
often times shattered.
An argument could be
made quite palpably that the
2015-16 Springfield boys
basketball team defied the hypothesis of what their season
was supposed to look like in
year one of Head Coach Kyle
Linehan’s tenure.
First and foremost, they
lost perhaps the area’s best
player from last season in Demajeo Wiggins, now a projectable and exciting Division
I big man at Bowling Green
State University.
They also lost one of their
most dynamic guards to transfer.
Throw into that mix a
schedule that included City
League favorite Bowsher as
their first non-league game
and a multitude of talented
teams across the Northern
Lakes League. That combined
with a first-year coach, even
one as familiar as Linehan,
made a second place finish in
the conference and 15-win
campaign seem more of a
pipe dream than a reality.
But, of course, that’s why
they play the games.
“I’d give it a B-plus,”
Linehan said looking back.
“Not many teams get a
chance to win 15 games.
That’s something we can all
be proud of. Are there some
games that I wish we had
back? Yes absolutely, especially the Bowling Green
game. In your first year, you
lose two games at the buzzer.
I asked Coach Risener how
many games he lost at the
buzzer and he said ‘well, you
know more than you think.’
And I said ‘how about two in
your first year?’ And he said
‘no, that definitely did not
happen.’
“We had some nail biters
in there so of course there’s
some games you’d love to
have back,” he continued.
“But that means that you were
in the games. I don’t want to
say we overachieved because
that makes it look like our
guys weren’t good basketball
players. But I think we surprised some teams, and I’m
definitely happy with the way
the season went overall.
“I’m happy with the way
our guys progressed, especially some of the younger
guys. Hopefully, that’ll continue to be the case for years
to come.”
Before the season began,
Linehan expressed his hope to
utilize the Blue Devils athleticism and turn as much of the
game into a fast-paced, fullcourt affair as possible, making teams adjust to their
tempo. Such a formula would
yield the most success as their
half-court execution in December had him uncertain.
Even that, however, developed to the point where they
could for stretches play more
of a half-court game and succeed especially with crisp
passing from the guards and
the soft touch around the rim
from senior Marshall Cason.
The senior big man finished
the year second in scoring
with 10.2 points per contest
but easily led the team in
shooting 62 percent from the
field. His 6.3 rebounds per
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The Toledo-Lucas County
Public Library has always
housed a wealth of books and
reference materials but with
advances in technology, business owners and residents are
able to access far more information–some from the comfort of their offices or homes.
Linda Fayerweather, business technology specialist, provided Holland Springfield
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at the chamber’s March 17
luncheon.
Her goal is to help entrepreneurs build their businesses
through information, education
and technology.
Ms. Fayerweather said the
library provides numerous
databases that can be accessed
via a computer without ever
visiting the library. “All you
need is a library card,” she
added.
With library cards, business
owners can access databases
for up to 30 days, she explained, noting a number of
useful business sites.
To tap into electronic research databases outside of a library location, individuals
must hold a valid library card
and PIN number.
To browse databases, visit
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tools and the business and careers tab. Choose the database
and enter the library card barcode and PIN number.
“We have some of the most
powerful databases you can
use,” she said.
Among the sites Ms. Fayerweather recommended are
Reference USA, Business
Source Premier, Plunkett Research Online and Regional
Business News. Each offers
distinct information that can be
useful to entrepreneurs, she explained.
Reference USA contains
detailed information on more
than 16 million companies in
the United States and 1.5 million Canadian companies.
It also offers information
about international firms
through OneSource; information about physicians and dentists; new businesses, and the
U.S. and Canadian white
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Business Source Premier is
a complete resource for all aspects of business, including
management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more, she
said. “The database is provided
by OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network.”
Plunkett Research Online
offers business intelligence, industry trends and analysis,
market research, statistics,
sales leads along with company profiles and contacts for
33 different major industries.
The site also includes trends
in the U.S. economy that are
likely to affect employment
and an extensive list of websites and practical guidance for
job seekers.
Regional Business News
features full text articles from
75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from
throughout the country. Provided by OPLIN, it also includes local business stories.
But those databases are just
some of the tools businesses
can access.
“Your library card also allows you access to materials
from all over the state by using
SearchOhio and Ohio Link on
our website,” she said.
The library system has 2.5
million books and media, and
materials may be checked out
for a 21-day period.
Additionally, computers are
available at all 19 library
branches for research with typ-
ical sessions lasting one hour.
For those interested in
doing a personal search, such
as a family tree, the library offers access to ancestry.com at
any of its branches.
Audio visual materials including music and movies in a
variety of formats also are
available at all branches and
can be requested from anywhere, she said.
Ms. Fayerweather concluded, “The world is out there.
All it takes is a library card.”
Other Business
In other business, the chamber:
•Announced that the annual
member meeting went really
well and included the installation of the Holland Business
Council for 2016.
As new organizations join
the regional partnership, the organization continues to grow.
“We now have just under
3,000 members,” said Josh
Torres, president and CEO.
•Heard from Isaac Lee,
chief operating officer, that
plans are under way for the
Professional Remodelers Association Home, Garden and
Business Expo to be held April
15 to 17 at Seagate Centre in
Toledo.
“We have sold 120 booths
and can sell as many as 170,”
Mr. Lee said.
•Announced that a barbecue and networking event is
planned for Thursday, June 23
from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Countertop Shop on Airport Highway.
•Reminded members that
the annual golf outing will be
Monday, August 15 at Stone
Oak Country Club. The cost is
$100 per golfer.
The next chamber luncheon
meeting will be at 11:30 a.m.,
Thursday, April 21, at Stone
Oak Country Club, 100 Stone
Oak Boulevard, Holland.
The luncheon will focus on
workplace safety. Andy
Sprenger will discuss how to
keep yourself and employees
safe from harm.
David Moore with the
Springfield Township Fire Department will offer hands-only
CPR training using mannequins, and the Whitehouse
Police Department will talk
about their new Coffee with
Cops program.
For more information on
the chamber, visit their website
at www.hschamber.com.
–Jane Maiolo
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on April 8
Women’s Connection
West will meet Friday,
April 8, from 11:15 a.m. to
1:15 p.m., at Highland
Meadows Golf Club, 7455
Erie Street, Sylvania.
Guest speaker Sherry
Gray will share “Surviving
the Winds of Life and Still
Laughing.” Ajun Gokyigit
will present a fashion show
by White House Black Market.
The cost is $13 per person. For reservations, call
Sharon at 419-340-6046 by
Monday, April 4, or send an
e-mail
to
Sharonvan
[email protected].
The group meets on the
second Friday of each
month.
Chuck Ealey Foundation names
2016 Undefeated Spirit Finalists
Easter coloring contest winners announced
Through his Undefeated
Spirit Foundation, former University of Toledo and CFL football star Chuck Ealey gives back
to the community by providing
15 scholarships ranging from
$125-$500 to deserving area
high school seniors.
Ten athletes–five football
players (one $500 scholarship)
and five girls basketball players
(one $500 scholarship) have
been selected as finalists based
on the following criteria:
•An undefeated spirit-inspiring drive and leadership with
their teammates, campus, community and or youth;
•Strong family values with
strong family support-encouraging and supporting parent/family structure behind the athlete,
and
•Strong focus on education
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Scholarship winners were
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Finalists included Tyra
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Joe Smith, football, Start High
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Central Catholic High School,
and Matt Winsler, football, St.
John’s Jesuit High School.
Mr. Ealey also has partnered
with Leadership Toledo to encourage all area high school
seniors to share with him their
“Undefeated Spirit” stories
through a 500-word essay contest. In 2016, more than 70 students from more than 14 area
high schools entered the contest.
Awards will be presented
Sunday, April 10, at the UT
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“Think Local First”
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