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SUBMITTED PHOTOStudents in Miss Catherine Lawson’s French classes began theirMari Gras celebration by creating one-of-a kind masks. KailaParker, who is a four-year French student, enjoys mixingcreativity with learning. “This is my fourth year in French andcelebrating Mardi Gras. Each year my designs have become

more intricate. This year’s masktook about six hours to designand complete. It’s something Ireally enjoy doing.” Pictured isKaila Parker and three of herone-of-a-kind masks

BY JAN PERALAGeneva Area City Schools

GENEVA - Marching Geneva’sband uniforms were brand newback in 1984 when alumna ToniaBrown Varckette was a GenevaHigh School senior, but her daugh-ters and the sons and daughtersof her fellow alumni are still wear-

BY CAROLYN BEHR-JEROMEGazette Newspapers

ROAMING SHORES - Over 35Jefferson Area High School studentsand staff took “the plunge” Satur-day, March 10, in Roaming Shores.Under the direction of AssistantPrincipal Jeremy Huber, Falcon sup-porters gathered sponsorships totake quick dip in the cold waters.

JAHS students also raised over$274.50 by sponsoring a hat/pj day.For every $50 raised, the Falconsadded one additional jumper.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE JAHS YEARBOOK STAFFFalcon supporters gathered sponsorships to take quick dip in the cold waters.

Falcons swim for a good cause

“The idea for the Plunge in theShores was inspired by JeffMeddock’s friends,” Huber ex-plained.

Huber was the assistant prin-cipal at Pymatuning Valley whileMeddock was principal.

“Jeff lived in Roaming Shoresand was very active in the PolarBear Plunge at Geneva on theLake. When Jeff passed, his friendsat Roaming Shores decided to bringthe Plunge to Roaming Shores toraise money for the scholarshipgiven in his name,” Huber said.

The event has now expanded toJefferson and Grand Valleyschools.

“Because Roaming Shores isclose to all three school district, acompetition has started to see whocan send the most students intothe freezing water or raise themost money,” Huber explained.

Jefferson raised over $1,800and Huber said all of that moneywill be donated to the AcademicBooster Club.

Lakeside High School Frenchclasses celebrates Mardi Gras

BY SADIE PORTMANGazette Newspapers

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP -Vencent Hickerson, a contestant onthe NBC television show The Big-gest Loser, came to Lakeside HighSchool to talk to the students aboutthe obstacles he has overcome.

“It’s always been a dream ofmine to inspire others,” Hickersonsaid.

When Hickerson came on theBiggest Loser, he weighed in at 426pounds and said he had been over-weight since he was nine years oldgrowing up in Tennessee.

Hickerson came from an abu-sive home with his stepfather, anex-Navy SEAL, being physicallyabusive to his mother and brother.

“I wasn’t blessed with an easylife to start with, and there areprobably people here who were notblessed with an easy life to startwith,” Hickerson said

Hickerson said he rememberswatching families on televisionand realizing he did not have the

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANVencent Hickerson sings to Lakeside High School students beforetalking to them about his life experience with weight loss and lifeon the road while performing with the band Trailer Choir.

Biggest Loser contestant tells studentshow to be winners in their own lives

loving family life portrayed onsitcoms.

“I remember waking up in themiddle of the night hearing mymother screaming,” Hickersonsaid.

One night Hickerson decidedenough was enough and tackledhis stepfather as he had pinned hismother to the ground.

“I was nine or 10 years old, andI took off running because I wantedto defend my mom,” Hickersonsaid.

Hickerson’s stepfather thenstarted hitting him. When it wasover, he found his mother outsidewith a gun facing toward the sky.

“Life had brought her down somuch she didn’t want to be hereanymore,” Hickerson said.

Hickerson eventually left thehouse to live with his father, whowas a former musician himself,playing with such bands as theSteve Miller Band before becom-ing a preacher.

Marching Geneva Alumni band togetherto raise funds for new uniforms

PHOTO BY JAN PERALA FOR GENEVA SCHOOLSMarching Geneva’s band uniforms were brand new in 1984 when alumna Tonia Brown Varckette was aGeneva High School senior, but her daughters and the sons and daughters of her fellow alumni are still wearingthose same uniforms. Spearheaded by Varckette, a group of Marching Geneva alumni have banded togetherto raise funds to replace the nearly 30-yea- old uniforms with new ones via their Give a Uniform/Get a Uniformfundraiser. Pictured from left are Theresa Morse Smith (GHS 1990) with daughter Courtney (a senior) and sonNick (seventh grade), Corrine Meehl Quickle (GHS 1983) with daughter Anna (a sophomore), Tonia BrownVarckette (GHS 1984) with daughters Amy (seventh grade) and Lindsey (a junior), Linda Bernard Jackson(GHS 1990) with daughter Erica (a junior), Karen Stillwell Watts (GHS 1985) and sons Norm ( senior), Zack (asophomore) and Ryan (seventh grade). In back is Marching Geneva Band Director Alexandria Lowe Uhlir(GHS Class of 2004).

ing those same uniforms. EaglePride and constant and carefulmaintenance have extended theuniforms’ use many years beyondexpectations, but now the fabric inthe once resplendent garments iswearing thin. Led by Varckette, agroup of fellow Marching Genevaalumni have banded together toraise funds to replace the nearly30-year-old uniforms via their Give

a Uniform/Get a Uniformfundraiser.

“Students in Marching Genevahave been selling oranges and par-ticipating in other fundraisers foryears to add to the new uniformfund,” Varckette explained. “In thefall of 2013, the current uniformswill be 30 years old and they are

See BAND page 6A

See PLUNGE page 13A

See HICKERSON page 6A

BY STEFANIE WESSELLGazette Newspapers

JEFFERSON - The BusinessExpo will return to the Village ofJefferson on Tuesday, March 20.

Jefferson Area Chamber ofCommerce members discussed theupcoming expo during their meet-ing last week.

This year, the Business Expo,will be held Tuesday, March 20,from 3-6:30 p.m. at the JeffersonCommunity Center, located at 11E. Jefferson St.

Business Expo returns to Jefferson March 20During this event, guests will

be able to visit with participatingbusinesses and learn about theservices they have to offer, Cham-ber members said.

The Business Expo is free toattend, and door prizes and re-freshments will be given away.

At least 20 businesses havesigned up to participate this year,so far including:

—Crystal Clear Water.—French Chiropractic.—First Merit Bank.—Ducro Funeral Services.

—Key Bank.—Kent State University at

Ashtabula.—Cruise One.—Subway.—Nassief Auto Group.—Lakeview Credit Union.—Gazette Newspapers.—WEK Industries.—Jefferson Healthcare.—Partylite.—Andover Bank.—American Alert.

See EXPO page 13A

BY STEFANIE WESSELL AND SADIEPORTMANGazette Newspapers

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP - Afire devastated the agriculturalcommunity on Monday, March 12,as a fire destroyed a barn at thehome of veterinarian BeckySalinger, killing the animals in-side.

At about 1:30 p.m. Monday, theSaybrook Township Fire Depart-ment received the call about thefire at 3800 South Ridge Road(Route 84) in Saybrook Township,

according to fire department re-ports.

When firefighters arrived onthe scene, they found the barn al-ready fully involved in the fire,with the roof already collapsed,Fire Chief John Jyurovat said. TheSaybrook Township Fire Depart-ment also received assistance fromthe Austinburg, Geneva andHarpersfield fire departments toput out the flames.

The fire department had to tem-porarily close a portion of Route 84because of the fire.

Fire destroys barn,killing animals inside

See FIRE page 16A

2A • GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS WEDNESDAY, March 14, 2012

Decorations asked to be removedfrom Maple Grove Cemetery

The Plymouth Township trustees have set the deadlinefor removal of winter cemetery decorations at Maple GroveCemetery for April 15, 2012.

Plymouth Township trusteesto hold special meeting

The Plymouth Township trustees will hold a SpecialMeeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the CommunityRoom, immediately preceding the regular meeting at 7 p.m.Purpose of the meeting is a work session with the RoadSuperintendent.


GENEVA – The UnitedStates Department of Jus-tice has announced an-other police grant whichthe City of Geneva Coun-cil approved for its policedepartment to apply for.

“Last year we went be-fore the safety committeeand we made a determina-tion to apply for the grant.

Geneva applies for police grantbeen on since the originalCOPS grant,” Dudik said.

Dudik would like to seeif they can partner withothers to help defray thecost of the grant, whichwill cost $26,000 for thefirst year with $41,666 be-ing paid for by the federalgovernment.

“This one is costly, butit is doable and we arelooking at ways to sharethe cost,” Dudik said.

The grant application isdue by March 22 and wouldrequire certain criteria innewly employed officers.

“If it is awarded and wedecided to accept it, theonly way we are eligible isif we hire laid-off employ-ees, potential laid-off em-ployees or military veter-ans that have served activeduty for 180 days from2001 until present andhave an honorable dis-charge,” Dudik said.

The City of Geneva’s po-lice department alreadyhas military veterans onits force, and Dudik did notsee the criteria as too muchof a challenge.

Dudik also said if theyreceived the grant, theywould look at putting anofficer back in the GenevaArea City Schools, al-though nothing official hasbeen discussed betweenthe city and the schools.

The Geneva City Coun-cil agreed the grant couldprovide a way to increasethe police force.


JEFFERSON - The staffof K Cupcakes, located inJefferson on Route 46, hadthe privilege of being con-testants on the Food Net-work show, Cupcake Wars.Their episode will air onMarch 25 at 8 p.m.

“We went out to film inOctober and ever since thenwe’ve had to be real quietabout it,” Amanda Kish,owner of K Cupcakes, said.

Each episode of CupcakeWars features a theme andguest judge.

“The episode name iscalled Cupcake Couture,and it’s featuring Angelaand Vanessa Simmons andtheir pastry shoes line,”Kish said.

The winning cupcakeswould be featured at a VIPcelebration for the shoeline, as well as winning acash prize of $10,000.

“When they told us whatthe event was, we weredefinitely really excited be-cause it fit us so well,” Kishsaid.

Kish’s partner andcousin Laura LaCavera wasby her side during the com-petition. The two were bothexcited to be on the showand auditioned for a placeon Cupcake Wars last year.

“We found out that theywere doing auditions forthe season and we had afriend who knew somefilmers and editors andthey came out and did anaudition tape for the showand then we submitted itand they called us in Sep-tember,” Kish said.

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PHOTO BY SADIE PORTMANK Cupcakes owner Amanda Kish and Laura LaCaverawere contestants on the Food Network show, CupcakeWars, which will premiere at 8 p.m. on March 25.

Ksih and LaCavera flewout to Los Angeles, Califor-nia for about a week in Oc-tober to film. The two arenot permitted to go into de-tail about what they pre-pared or where they placed,but could discuss their ex-perience.

“You’re on the edge ofyour seat the entire time,”Kish said about the compe-tition. “There’s pressureyou’ve got to make yourcupcakes, but you also haveto keep your energy up andyou have to keep smiling.”

Kish said the two ofthem are naturally com-petitive and the pressureonly fueled their will towin.

“I do like stressful envi-ronments. It makes me tryharder and challenges meand it makes me workharder,” LaCavera said.“We are pretty competi-tive.”

Every week on the show,contestants are asked toprepare cupcakes by pick-ing key ingredients that goalong with the episode’stheme.

“We lucked out. We gota good ingredient,”LaCavera said.

Some past used ingredi-ents include cayenne pep-per and corn.

If the pressure of cook-ing on the spot with new in-gredients was not enough,Kish and LaCavera said itmounted with the presenceof cameras.

“There are producersthere. There are cameraguys there and you’re try-ing to do your thing,” Kishsaid.

Kish said she used towatch the show and wonderhow contestants could for-get to put pumpkin in theirpumpkin cupcakes, but nowshe understands how eas-ily you can lose your trackof mind.

“They’re asking youquestions while you’re try-ing to work and you get dis-tracted very easily,” Kishsaid. “It’s a lot of in yourface.”

Even with the pressure,Kish and LaCavera saidthey were treated likequeens.

“We got treated like VIPfor the day. We had our owndressing room and theyasked you if you neededanything,” Kish said.

When Kish andLaCavera learned of their

placement on CupcakeWars, they immediatelyknew they wanted to havea premiere party with allproceeds going to a localcharity.

On March 25, they will

hold their party at Marti-nis! in Ashtabula, with thefunds raised going to thevictims of the ChardonHigh School shooting.

Tickets are $10 a pieceand include appetizers andcupcakes

“At the very last minutethat we could have chosenthe charity fund, we de-cided to give to the victimsof Chardon,” Kish said. “Wewant to give the money di-rectly to the victims.”

There will be no ticketsavailable at the door.

“There are only pre-saletickets available because wehave to let Martinis knowhow many appetizers tomake,” Kish said.

The K Cupcakes ownersare looking forward to shar-ing their adventure with thecommunity they love.

“It’s a perfect opportunityto come out and be a part ofa fun event and see some-one on national televisionthat is from the local area,as well as having good food,”Kish said.

Kish and LaCavera said

they are a little worriedabout how they will be por-trayed, saying they hopenothing they said was takenout of context.

“They didn’t send uswhat they edited, so wehaven’t seen anything,”Kish said. “The actual showis going to be a surprise forus as well as everybodyelse.”

Kish and LaCavera areexcited to see the show pre-mier and encourage anyonein the community whowould like to join them tocall either Kish at (440) 812-0262 or LaCavera at (440)858-3161 for tickets.

Both say the experiencewas once in a lifetime andis something they will notsoon forget.

“It was a lot of fun. Iwould do it again,” Kishsaid. “It was so much fun. Ican’t wait for our episode.”

Sadie Portman, reporterfor the Gazette, may bereached ats p o r t m a n @ g a z e t t enews.com.

Cupcake Wars experience a sweetexperience for local shop owners

And if the grant was givento Geneva, we’d at thatpoint determine whetherto accept the grant becausethere was an obligation inthe fourth year,” PoliceChief Dan Dudik said.

Geneva did not get thegrant last year and there-fore can still apply for thisyear ’s grant.

“Since we have not re-moved ourselves from thegrant, we are once againeligible in 2012,” Dudiksaid.

If the grant is given toGeneva, the city will be re-sponsible for 25 percent ofthe costs for the first threeyears and 100 percent ofthe cost for the fourth year.

“The grant is $111 mil-lion for the country andthey have converted theirgrant to a 75/25 percent,”Dudik said. “The fourthyear is paid by the jurisdic-tion and they do cap it at a$125,000 over the course ofthe three years per officer.”

Dudik encouraged thecity council to consider ap-plying for the grant, be-cause if they go off the listof eligible cities, they willnot be able to apply for thegrant in the future.

“If we remove our namefrom the list, we are done.We will no longer be eli-gible for cop grants. Be-cause we kept our name onthe list, we are eligible.There are no agencies al-lowed to participate in thisprogram if you have not


GENEVA - The City ofGeneva has canceled theannual Community Day dueto the re-dedication of theCivil War Monument.

“We have decided to nothave a Community Day thisyear due to other events.Mainly, there is a Civil WarMonument Re-dedicationCeremony that is looking tobe quite a large event May18,19, and 20,” MikeGoddard said.

Although CommunityDay was scheduled for theweek before, the city officialsfeel they need to use thattime to prepare themselvesfor Memorial Day celebra-tions, which include the re-dedication.

“This is the weekend af-ter we would have done

Geneva cancels Community Day,plans for memorial re-dedication

Community Day, but there isa lot of donations, time, andeffort being put into this one-time event by the entire com-munity, so we’ve decided tonot do the Community Day,”Goddard said.

Goddard said many of thepeople who help organizeCommunity Day are also in-volved in other events dur-ing the month of May.

“Also, the weekend beforewhat would have been Com-munity Day, there is anevent involving a lot of thechurches as well,” Goddardsaid.

The Geneva Area Cham-ber of Commerce, which usu-ally helps put on the Com-munity Day, is going to be in-volved with the dedication ofthe monument as well.

The Civil War Monumenthas been a staple of the cityand was placed in the middle

of town on August 4, 1880.The monument was latermoved to the corner of SouthEagle Street and ParkStreet to accommodate forautomobiles in the down-town.

Now the city has onceagain moved the monumentback to the historic down-town area in the new GenevaCity Civil War MonumentMemorial Park.

The City of Geneva is stillmaking final plans for there-dedication ceremony buthave some events in placeand is inviting the wholecommunity to help celebrate.

The day will feature CivilWar reenactments, crafts,entertainment and more.

Sadie Portman, reporterfor the Gazette, may bereached [email protected].

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JEFFERSON - Juniorsand seniors at JeffersonArea High School recentlyexperienced the conse-quences of distracted andimpaired driving during acomputer simulation pro-vided by the Ohio Depart-ment of Transportation(ODOT).

Brent Kovacs, PublicInformation Specialist forODOT District 4, set upthe equipment Mondaymorning and oversaw thesimulation throughout theschool day.

“Jefferson is our firststop in Ashtabula County,”Kovacs said.

ODOT District 4 in-cludes Ashtabula,Mahoning, Portage, Stark,Summit and Trumbullcounties.

Kovacs explained tostudents that researchshows that the chances ofa crash multiply while di-aling a phone or texting.

“You are four t imesmore likely to get in acrash if you drive dis-tracted. The simulationgives you a chance to ex-perience the consequencesof distracted driving,” hesaid

The Distracted DriverSimulator consisted ofthree computer screens, asteering wheel andpeddles for break and gas.One at a time, studentswere taken through a com-


JEFFERSON - A couple ofweeks ago, Village of Jeffersonresidents may have noticed alarge vehicle moving slowly upand down the village streets,keeping close to the curb.

The machine was a streetsweeper borrowed from the Vil-lage of Geneva on the Lake,Jefferson Village AdministratorTerry Finger said during his re-port to Jefferson Village Coun-cil on Monday, March 5. TheStreet Department used themachine to clean the villagestreets.

“We provide winter insidestorage in exchange for beingable to use it before the Stripopens and after it closes,” Fin-ger said.

PHOTOS BY CAROLYN BEHR-JEROMEThe Ohio Department of Transportation’s Brent Kovacs explains the DistractedDriving Simulator at to Jefferson students

The Ohio Department ofTransportation’s Brent Kovacspasses out distracted drivingtip cards and encouragesthe students not to text anddrive.

Distracted Driving

puter-generated simula-tion of realistic drivingscenarios.

“The equipment costsaround $10,000,” ex-plained Kovacs, “so that’swhy there is only one inthe state.”

Two simulations wereoffered: distracted drivingor impaired driving. Thedistracted driving simula-tion included an onscreenphone that students hadto text with and makecalls on while driving.

Senior Dylan Dean wasthe first in his group to dothe distracted drivingsimulation.

“It is a good learningexperience,” he said. “Itmakes you think. I defi-nitely should not textwhile driving.”

The impaired drivingsimulation handled asthough the driver was un-der the influence of drugsor alcohol . NickStranman, a senior, expe-rienced that simulation.

“It was hard to steerand the depth perceptionwas off. I will never drinkand drive,” he said.

Once a crash occurred,

students watched a shortvideo that demonstratedvarious consequences: ahospital, a field sobrietytest, a courtroom with ajudge and/or a failed jobinterview due to their DUIrecord.

“ODOT hopes that thissimulation will help stu-dents take driving moreseriously and promote safedriving practices,” Kovacssaid.

“We also have a long-term goal of eliminatingroadway fatalit ies andnear-term goal of reducingroadway fatalities by fivepercent by 2015,” he ex-plained.

Although most of theupper classmen visitedduring government, En-

glish or history classes totry out the DistractedDriver Simulator, someunderclassman tried it outduring their lunch period.

Sophomore MichaelWeldy has been driving forabout a year.

“I hit a deer,” he said,surprised. “I wasn’t pay-ing attention and a deerran out in front of me. Inever thought I’d hit adeer.”

According to ODOT thethree main types of dis-traction are 1.) Visual,taking your eyes off theroad, 2.) Manual, takingyour hands off the wheel,and 3.) Lack of focus, tak-ing your mind off whatyou’re doing.

“Texting involves allthree types of distrac-tions,” said Kovacs, “andthat is why it is so danger-ous, but driving distractedis more than that. It alsoincludes eating while driv-ing, not properly securinga pet, applying makeup,and playing with the ra-dio.”

Ohio State PatrolmenBrandon Miller and DanDubelko were on hand allday to answer questions.

“The only thing youshould do while you aredriving is drive,” OfficerDubelko said.

“Please rememberwhile you are driving tostay alert and refrain fromany activity that takesyour eyes off the road,”said Kovacs.Students from Bruce Thompson’s government class watch a simulation.

Dylan Dean was the first in his group to try the simulation.

Street crews keep busy in JeffersonThe Street Department has

been keeping busy in otherways during March as well.

At the time of his report lastMonday, Finger said crewswere installing drain tiles toclose in several open ditches atDorset at South Market, EastErie at South Sycamore andWestview and West Satinstreets.

Finger said Brobst Tree Ser-vice has removed dead woodfrom village shade trees onChestnut, Jefferson and Elmstreets.

“There are a lot more treesthat need trimming to preventdead wood from falling andcausing damage,” Finger said.

Finger recommended add-ing an additional $4,000 to thenext appropriation change tomake sure the village can deal

with problem trees. He said thischange will increase the lineitem back to $12,000, which iswhat the village spent last year.

“Our Street Departmentemployees have stopped trim-ming young/new trees untilthey go dormant at the end of

BY SUE LUTZGazette Newspapers

MORGAN TOWNSHIP –Morgan Township officials be-gan its warm weather prepa-rations March 7 with bidawards for gravel and lawnmowing, and the purchase ofa tractor for Union Cemetery.

At the inception of the 7p.m. meeting, Fiscal OfficerJean Brand opened and readaloud all bids for limestone.The Board unanimously ap-proved The Arms TruckingCompany’s bid of $17.18 perton based on 1,000 tons of #411and 700 tons of #304 limestonethat will be used for repair andmaintenance of roads through-out the township.

The $29,200 bid will in-clude delivery to the townshipyard located on State Route#45, in Rock Creek.

The sole bid for lawn mow-ing and trimming at UnionCemetery was awarded toC&J Landscaping of Geneva.According to Brand, the con-tract is unchanged from 2011rates, or $25 per week for amaximum of 26 weeks.

Board of Trustee Presi-dent and Union CemeteryCommittee member BrettBellas announced the town-ship purchased a usedKubota tractor that will pri-marily be used at UnionCemetery on Route 45.

Bellas reported that in ad-dition to the tractor, the $6,500“package deal” included mul-tiple accessories, such as boompole, tiller, box scraper, brushhog and a disc. Having all ofthe accoutrements will allowthe cemetery to be self-suffi-cient, Bellas said.

“We’re looking at this pur-chase as one that will makethe cemetery a lot more inde-


JEFFERSON - TheJefferson Community andRecreation Center is lookingto expand its program offer-ings, but it needs a little bitof help from the community.

“We’re looking for instruc-tors who are interested instarting some type of pro-gram,” Senior Center Coor-dinator Christina Blair said.

Located at 11 E. JeffersonSt. in the Village ofJefferson, the communitycenter offers quite a few pro-grams for adults, inlcudingthe many acitivites at the

Morgan Township eyes spring projectspendent,” he said, “because wewon’t be having to borrowequipment from the village allthe time.”

Bellas also pointed out thatthe three-cylinder Kubota hasa front bucket that will be use-ful in repairing driveways andsoil management throughoutthe cemetery.

Trustee Rod Truckey of theStreets and Bridges Commit-tee informed the Board that inaddition to problems with itsMack truck, which is sus-pended from service due to ir-reparable rust, the Township’sInternational truck is also ex-periencing maintenance con-cerns.

Truckey said a transmis-sion leak and rusted oil panhave been repaired, moreproblematic is the fact that re-placement parts are becomingincreasingly more scarce.

With the Mack truck out ofcommission and looming is-sues with the International,Truckey pressed the Board toonce again consider formulat-ing a plan to move forwardwith the possibility of buyinganother tandem axel truck. Hesaid currently the Ford truck“wouldn’t cut the mustard” inan ice storm.

Trustees Bellas, Truckeyand Don Dietrich discussedthe merits of new versus old,as well as the short- and long-term costs and benefits asso-ciated with each. Discussionended with Truckey agreeingto continue gathering informa-tion to determine exact speci-fications necessary, as well asvarious loan options.

The Board plans to discussthe topic in greater depth dur-ing the March 21 meeting at 7p.m. at the Morgan Hose Vol-unteer Fire Department inRock Creek.

Village Administrator’s Report for the period ending March 05, 2012. Projects update:

Jefferson Community Center looking for instructorssenior center and the weightroom and fitness center.

With spring coming up,the community center wantsto expand its youth pro-grams, Blair said. The com-munity center also is eyeingthose months when studentswill be out of school for thesummer, looking for some-thing to do during the day.

To do that, communitycenter staff members areasking people in the commu-nity who want to be an in-structor for a program at thefacility to give them a call ifthey have a special kind ofskill that can translate intoa program for youth.

The potential classescould range from danceclasses, cheerleading,tumble classes, gymnasticsand other programs, Blairsaid.

But if people are inter-ested in teaching a class,Blair said it’s important thatthe time commitment isthere, so the community cen-ter can organize a set sched-ule for the program and pro-mote it.

If someone is assigned asan instructor, they will re-ceive a share of the fees paidto the community center forthe program, Blair said.

Some children’s programs

currently offered at theJefferson Community Cen-ter include music lessonsand karate.

Blair said the communitycenter also is looking foradult volunteers for its T-Ball program, which is gear-ing up now.

To pitch an idea for ayouth program or to volun-teer for the T-Ball program,adults can call JCRC Direc-tor Allison Brown at 576-9052.

Stefanie Wessell, senioreditor for Gazette Newspa-pers, may be reached [email protected].

the year,” Finger concluded.In other projects, Finger

said the village is working to getloose ends wrapped up before

crews resume the South Sy-camore truck route phase 1 andthe Market Street Culvert re-placement project.

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Book Club to hostbest-selling author

GENEVA - The well red Book Club is proud topresent a Meet the Author event with New YorkTimes best-selling author Mary Doria Russell on 6p.m. Wednesday, May 2, at the Winery at Spring Hill.

Ms. Russell will sign her newest book, Doc, as shemeets and greets guests. The book signing will befollowed by Ms. Russell giving a presentation on Doc,complete with a question and answer time.

Doc is the story of Dr. John Henry Holliday, aneducated, Southern gentleman, whom most of usknow as the infamous Doc Holliday, the frontier gam-bler and friend of Wyatt Earp.

Authentic, moving, and witty, Ms. Russell’s fifthnovel defines these two towering figures of the Ameri-can West and brings to life an extraordinary cast ofhistorical characters, including Holliday’s unforget-table companion, Kate.

Doc is currently being made into an HBO series.Ms. Russell is a paleoanthropologist with special-

ties in bone biology and biomechanics, who has stud-ied cultural anthropology at the University of Illi-nois, social anthropology at Northeastern Universityin Boston, and biological anthropology at the Uni-versity of Michigan. After earning a doctorate, shetaught human gross anatomy at Case Western Re-serve University in the 1980s but left the academicworld to write fiction, which turned out to be a goodcareer move. Doc is her fifth novel. Ms. Russell hasreceived nine national and international literaryawards and has been a finalist for a number of oth-ers. She and her family live in Cleveland, Ohio.

Seating is limited. RSVP to [email protected].

A limited number of books will be available forpurchase at the event.


PLYMOUTH TOWN-SHIP - A couple’s decision todonate an 80-acre conserva-tion easement in AshtabulaCounty will permanentlyprotect several thousand feetof tributaries to theAshtabula River, WesternReserve Land Conservancyofficials announced.

Jeff and Cindy Suszynski,who own the property in Ply-mouth Township, donatedthe conservation easement toWestern Reserve Land Con-servancy, a non-profit organi-zation serving 14 counties innorthern Ohio. A conserva-tion easement is a legal docu-ment that restricts future de-velopment of the propertywhile allowing the donor toretain ownership, WesternReserve Land Conservancyofficials said.

This is the LandConservancy’s first conserva-tion easement in theAshtabula River watershed.

The protected property,which is located near thenorthwest corner of Morganand Brown roads, is almostentirely forested and will beused as a hunting area for thefamily, according to BrettRodstrom, northeast field di-rector for the Land Conser-vancy.

He said the Suszynskis,who live in Geauga County,retain the right to build acabin and lake on the land.

“It has always been mydream to own and manage apiece of property for wildlife,”said Jeff Suszynski, who is anavid outdoorsman. “I wantedto preserve this land so it cannever be developed, andhopefully my kids will be able


JEFFERSON - In theplay As You Like ItShakespeare wrote, “Allthe world’s a stage.” Fortwo Jefferson Area HighSchool students, theirworld really was a stage forfour short years.

Rachel Edge and BradWeisbarth played manyparts as members of theJefferson Players and werethe only members of theclass of 2012 to be in alleight productions.

Each school year theJefferson Players put ontwo productions, a musicaland a play. Each yearyoung men and women au-dition with the hopes of be-ing a player on the stage orbeing part of the crew back-stage. However, not every-one makes it.

“To be involved in alleight productions is quitean accomplishment,” saidformer director CarolynBehr-Jerome. “It also takesa strong commitment.Brad and Rachel have dem-onstrated both.”

Kelli Olesky has workedwith Weisbarth and Edgeon each musical.

“It has been so amazingto watch Brad and Rachelgrow as performers over thepast four years. These stu-dents are even closer to myheart because their fresh-man year was the first yearthat I became involved withthe Jefferson Players. Itwill definitely be sad to seethem move on to the nextphase of their lives, but Iwish them the best!” shesaid.

Weisbarth recalled be-ing very nervous for hisfirst audition.

“The main reason I au-ditioned was because mygood friend TravisEllsworth (2011 graduate)talked me into it and I don’tregret my decision. I wasreally nervous right until Istarted and then I was fine.I did my song and actingand I made it in,”Weisbarth said.

Cast in a supporting roleas Huey Jackson in Back tothe ‘80s, Weisbarth was thefirst to have his linesmemorized.

“I was very impressed,”Behr-Jerome explained.

Edge was scared, too,the first time she tried out.

“I was absolutely petri-fied!” she exclaimed. “Ibarely looked at the direc-tors and was so nervous fordays before the cast listcame out. I felt lucky justto get in! It was so worthit.”

Edge was cast in the en-semble of Back to the ‘80s

All the world’s a stagebut was at first over-shadowed by her oldersiblings. “My brotherand sister (Tyler andStephanie) had been inthe productionsthroughout highschool,” Edge ex-plained.

But by her junioryear, Edge proved shehad what it took to doa larger role and wascast as the Dormousein Alice in Wonderland.

“Rachel did a terrificjob in that part,” tech-nical director ChristySeymour said.

Edge was then castas a major supportingrole in Father of theBride as the youngestchild, Tammy.

“I was so pleasedwith Rachel’s perfor-mance,” Behr-Jeromeexplained. “Shelearned her linesquickly and followed di-rection well. The bestpart was that sheshowed up for all of herrehearsals!”

Over the course oftheir careers as Play-ers, Weisbarth andEdge became less ner-vous and more confident intheir ability, and, most im-portantly, they had fun onand off the stage.

Weisbarth’s favoritepart was the Blue Caterpil-lar in Alice in Wonderland.

“I had an awesome cos-tume with six arms,” hesaid.

“I love everything aboutcostumes,” Edge explained.“It’s my favorite part of anyshow. One show (Musicals:the Musical), I had a dozencostume changes!””

“I learned teamwork,how to work hard, andfriendship on a whole dif-ferent level. We had a lotof good times together,”Weisbarth said.

Edge learned somethings, too.

“Being a JeffersonPlayer, I learned a lot aboutmyself as well as aboutother people. I learnedthat, when I’m on stage, Icannot be self-conscious inany way. What separatedPlayers from everyone elseis that we have the guts tobe up there and no one elsedoes. Plus, I learned aboutpeople’s true character andmade so many greatfriends,” she said.

Edge is applying whatshe learned to other areasof her life and has advicefor underclassmen.

“Never, ever give up orquit!” she stressed. “Notjust in the theatre but ineverything. Don’t everthink you’re not goodenough or that you can’tmake a small part big. You

always have to be commit-ted. If you start something,finish it.”

“The advice I would giveto the underclassman,”Weisbarth explained, “is al-ways work hard and putyour best into everythingyou do, not just the produc-tion. Oh, and watch out fortech week. It’s scary some-times.”

In a few months,Weisbarth and Edge will begraduating and makingtheir final exit from highschool Edge, who will be go-ing to Kent State Ashtabulain the fall and majoring inHospitality Managementbut doesn’t know if she’ll doany more plays.

“I really hope I’ll be ableto be on stage again,” Edgesaid. “I’ll still sing all thetime. I’ll never forget whatwent on in the JeffersonPlayers.”

Weisbarth will be going

to a small, private collegein Northern Georgia to be-come a missionary.

“As for productions, Iwill probably do them incollege but I don’t plan oncontinuing it after college,”he explained.

The last four years havealso been about change.

“Seniors move on,” Edgeexplained, “and the nextshow is sad at first but thenexciting because the newseniors are fun and ener-getic.”

Edge continued, “Back-stage has different peopleevery show. No productionis the same. Plus new di-rectors bring new styles toget used to.”

However, the bestchange since their fresh-man year was the newbuilding.

“The auditorium isamazing,” Weisbarth said.

PHOTO BY CAROLYN BEHR-JEROMERachel Edge and Brad Weisbarth strike a pose with theirJefferson Players shirts, one for each of the eight production:Back to the ‘80s, The Clumsy Custard Horror Show and IceCream Clone Review, Good News, Something’s Rotten in theState of Denmark/Any Body for Tea, Alice in Wonderland,Father of the Bride, Musicals: the Musical, and the Trials ofRobin Hood.

Easement will protectPlymouth Township watershed

to enjoy it in its natural state.The (conservation easement)process was pretty easy, andthe Land Conservancy wasvery responsive.”

Rodstrom said they areseeing a lot more people andhunting/fishing clubs protect-ing natural lands with theLand Conservancy becauseits conservation easementsare such flexible documentsand are tailored specificallyto the property and the indi-vidual needs of the family orclub.

“Many landowners arenow working with us aheadof signing oil and gas leasesto not only help them ensuretheir property will be pro-tected as it is today, but toalso offset burdensome in-come taxes they accrue whensigning one of these largerleases. The lease and theeasement actually work verywell together,” Rodstromsaid.

The Land Conservancy,which works to preserve thescenic beauty, rural charac-ter and natural resources ofnorthern Ohio, was formed in2006 by the merger of eightlocal land trusts. The orga-nization grew again in 2009when it merged with GrandRiver Partners.

To date, the Land Conser-vancy has preserved 421properties and 28,721 acres,including 51 properties total-ing 5,512 acres in AshtabulaCounty. In 2011, the organi-zation helped protect 50properties encompassing5,473 acres.

The Land Conservancy isheadquartered inChesterland and has field of-fices in Painesville, Orwell,Akron, Medina, Oberlin andCleveland.


GENEVA - The GenevaArea Chamber of Commerceis holding its 12th AnnualSpring/Saint Patrick’s DayDinner on Monday, March 19,starting at 6:30 p.m. with asocial and dinner beginning at7 p.m.

The dinner is given forboth the Geneva Area CitySchools and the Grand RiverAcademy National Honor So-ciety members.

“The kids will be given afree meal and [Ohio Rep.]Casey Kozlowski will speakand the kids will also be givena gift bag from the Chamber,”Chamber Executive DirectorSue Ellen Foote said.

Although for 11 years theChamber has recognizedGeneva students, it was notalways a National Honor So-ciety event. The first year theChamber had ClevelandBrowns’ running back JohnnyDavis as its guest speaker.

“We invited the Genevafootball players who were se-niors as our guests and theyjust loved it,” Foote said. “Sothe next year we decided tostep it up and bring the Na-tional Honor Society kids.”

The Grand River Academystudents then became in-cluded in the dinner sevenyears ago.

Kozlowski is this year’sguest speaker and he will rec-ognize each student with acertificate.

“The students who comewill be receiving at least twocertificates recognizing theirachievements, one fromCasey Kozlowski and another

Bower graduates from basic infantry training

Geneva Area Chamber ofCommerce to honor National

Honor Society seniorsfrom Ohio State TreasurerJosh Mandel,” Foote said.

The Chamber likes to rec-ognize the students’ hardwork and let them know thearea is supportive in their fu-ture endeavors.

“We want to pat the kidson the back because they haveachieved a lot in high schooland they are all planning ongoing to college,” Foote said.“They have all done well andwe just want to recognize thatthey did good.”

The Chamber and busi-nesses from across the areasponsor a student’s meal andsit with them throughout thedinner. Members have achance to learn about thestudent’s goals and the stu-dent can learn about areabusinesses.

“By getting them to cometo the dinner, we are also sit-ting them with local businesspeople and we want them tosee the people who supportthem,” Foote said.

Foote said the studentswill hopefully see future op-portunities in the city and sur-rounding areas and possiblycome back after their collegeyears.

“We’re hoping some of thekids will come back,” Footesaid.

Foote sees the dinner as aboth a networking event anda way to honor students whohave spent their high schoolcareer volunteering, partici-pating in school activities andmaintaining good grades.

“Kids are told by their par-ents all the time that theyhave done well, but we wantthem to know that we are tak-ing notice, too,” Foote said.

In TheMilitary

Army Pvt. Luke A. Bowerhas graduated from basic in-fantry training at FortBenning, Columbus, Ga.

During the nine weeks oftraining, the soldier received

training in drill and ceremo-nies, weapons, map reading,tactics, military courtesy,military justice, physical fit-ness, first aid, and Army his-tory, core values and tradi-tions. Additional trainingincluded development of ba-sic combat skills and battle-field operations and tactics,and experiencing use of vari-ous weapons and weaponsdefenses available to the in-fantry crewman.

Bower is the son ofDeborah Bower of Geneva,Ohio, and Doug Bower ofLansdale, Pa.

The private is a 2005graduate of Geneva HighSchool.

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Hickerson said he wasnot used to a normal familylife and found himself pick-ing on his half-brother andeventually saying hatefulwords toward his step-mother. It was then that hisfather gave him a choice ofstaying with him and shap-ing up or leaving.

“He said if you can’t re-spect my life, then you haveto leave,” Hickerson said.“He was giving me a choice.He wasn’t kicking me out.”

Hickerson said he wasbullheaded at the time anddecided to take his thingsand rent an extra room at afriend’s house during histeenage years and washeddishes at $4 an hour to payhis way.

“I made my own lifeharder at that point,”Hickerson said.

Through it all,Hickerson said he keptgaining weight, but he triedto put on a persona of ahappy go lucky guy.

“I didn’t see anythingwrong with the weight be-cause I was comfortablewith who I was. I loved my-self, but I wasn’t ever reallyhappy,” Hickerson said.

After high school waswhen Hickerson found hislove of music.

“I started going to Nash-ville, and I started tellingeveryone I was going tomake it,” Hickerson said.

Hickerson said he en-countered many obstaclesof people telling him he wasnot good enough.

“I was always told Iwould never make it as asinger/songwriter and anentertainer because I wastoo fat,” Hickerson said. “Ididn’t fit the mold, andpeople told me that I wasn’t

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really getting worn and tat-tered. At almost every perfor-mance, repairs need to bemade due to seats of pants rip-ping out, buttons falling off,etc. It’s definitely time for newones. GAMBA (Geneva AreaMusic Boosters Association)has about two thirds of themoney raised that it will needto purchase new uniforms, buta group of us have started acampaign to speed up the pro-cess and help raise the rest ofthe cost,” Varckette continued.“Our children are in band andmany of us have younger chil-dren who will also be a part ofMarching Geneva. Band kids

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JEFFERSON - TheJefferson Community andRecreation Center is addingyet another service to its pro-grams at the facility, locatedat 11 E. Jefferson St. in theVillage of Jefferson.

Senior Coordinator Chris-tina Blair announced that thecommunity center is now of-fering a résumé writing ser-vice to residents.

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The cost is $20 per résumé,and residents can set up anappointment with Blair to re-invent their work history in away that grabs attention totheir best professional assets.

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Rae-Ann Geneva goes ‘Red for Women’BY SADIE PORTMANGazette Newspapers

ASHTABULA - Chris Raaband Jeremy Shank have beenworking on an art show en-titled Primal Focus, which willbe featured this Saturday andSunday at The Hang Suite inAshtabula.

“It’s going to be paintingand photography, but most ofit will be paintings,” Raabsaid.

Raab and Shank feelAshtabula is ready for such ashow and have been workingon pieces to fit the show’stheme of the elements.

“We wanted to bring a littleart to Ashtabula, so we set outto find a venue,” Raab said.

Raab and Shank were notsure when they first envi-sioned the show what localvenue would take interest, andthey were happy to find a sup-porter in The Hang Suite, lo-cated 4137 Main Avenue indowntown Ashtabula.

“We just went looking for aspace about January, and TheHang Suite ended up takingus in,” Raab said.

Since the booking of theshow, Raab and Shank havebeen working hard on creatingthe concept of the show.

“The art that we are sell-ing are previous pieces we feltwould fit in well and piecesthat we have been working onsince we came up with the artshow’s concept of earth, air,water, fire and energy,” Raabsaid.

There will be a $2 fee at thedoor and admission is good for

GENEVA - The Rae-Ann Geneva Skilled Nursing & Re-habilitation Center held events in celebration of the Ameri-can Heart Association’s National Go Red for Women eventon Friday, Feb. 3.

At 10 a.m., Eric Corbett, personal training and salescoordinator from Spire Institute, provided yoga (based froma seated position) for all residents and staff. Corbett per-sonally shook each participant’s hand following the yogasession, which brought a lot of smiles.

At 10:30 a.m., everyone played Heart Smart Bingo.At 2 p.m., fresh fruit smoothies were prepared by ad-

ministrative staff for all the residents, staff and guests.A heart healthy lunch was prepared by out kitchen for

all to enjoyEveryone was invited to dress in red for the day and

participate in the hidden heart game where lucky winners

SUBMITTED PHOTORae-Ann Geneva annually participates in the National Go Red for Women as a kick off of the annual Heart Walkthat is held in the fall.

received heart healthy treats.Rae-Ann Geneva annually participates in the National

Go Red for Women as a kick off of the annual Heart Walkthat is held in the fall.

Rae-Ann Geneva applies for the Fit Friendly CompanyProgram with the American Heart Association and hopesto receive their level of recognition within the next fewweeks. As a Fit Friendly Company you provide walkingpaths for your staff, healthy meal options, monthly sneakerdays just to mention a few of the requirements. Rae-AnnGeneva feels very strongly in Heart Health and Awarenessand in providing a healthy working environment for it’sstaff along with living environment for residents.

Events are coordinated by Beth Cheney, Admissions/Marketing Coordinator for Rae-Ann Geneva Skilled Nurs-ing & Rehabilitation Center.

Vencent Hickerson stands in front of an old picture of himself when he use to weigh426 before becoming a contestant on the Biggest Loser and losing the weight.

good enough, that I wasn’tgood looking enough.”

Hickerson finally got apublishing deal, whicheventually led to joiningthe band, Trailer Choir. Theband opened for Toby Keithand Sugarland

“I always believed in myheart that I was worthsomething,” Hickersonsaid. “I hope to bring thatto other people; to showthem that you have to knowthat you’re good enough inyour heart and go out andget it.”

Once Trailer Choirstarted taking off,Hickerson felt he was ontop of the world and evenstarted auditioning formovies.

“Everything was a feastand everyday was a holidayfor me,” Hickerson said.

Hickerson decided hewas going to lose weight af-

ter being told he wouldnever be cast in a lead roleand would only be consid-ered for the comedy relief.

Hickerson decided hewould have one last hurrahbefore losing weight as Su-per Bowl Sunday came. Butinstead of ending up at aparty, Hickerson ended upin the hospital, thinking hehad a hernia.

“The doctors told me,you have something wayworse than a hernia,”Hickerson said.

Hickerson was diag-noses with Cellulitis, whichis an infection that camefrom an undiagnosed caseof Type 2 Diabetes.

It was from that diagno-sis that Hickerson got achance to appear on TheBiggest Loser, where helost more than 250 pounds.

“I was carrying aroundso much weight, and it had

nothing to do with my realissue,” Hickerson said. “Istarted facing those things,and as I started forgiving,that’s when I started losingthe weight.”Hickerson saidin the end, everyone has is-sues they have to face.Whether it comes out in ex-tra weight or in uncon-trolled emotions, Hickersonsaid everyone has to knowthemselves in order toachieve real happiness andsuccess.

“We’re all the same be-cause you’re either climb-ing a mountain, you’reheaded for a mountain oryou just finished climbingthe mountain,” Hickersonsaid. “We all have thosethings we have to face.”

Sadie Portman, reporterfor the Gazette, may bereached at [email protected].

are always out in the commu-nity performing where theycan. It will be nice if they canlook their best while proudlywearing new uniforms.”

According to Varckette,Give a Uniform/Get a Uniformfundraiser organizers areturning to alumni, concernedcitizens, and area businessesfor help; asking patrons to pur-chase new uniform hats, coats,pants or whole uniforms.

“In return, the uniformpiece/pieces that they pur-chase will have a patch perma-nently sewn in the inside backof the pants or jackets, or af-fixed to the inside top of a hatrecognizing the person/busi-ness who donated it and indi-cating who it was purchasedin honor or memory of,” ex-plained Varckette.

A receipt will be providedfor each purchase, and patronswill also be offered pieces of theold uniform they are replacingas memorabilia.

“People have had pillowsmade out of old pants or jack-ets as a memento for a smallfee,” Varckette said.

Varckette explained thatpatrons who help with theGive a Uniform/Get a UniformFundraiser will be publicallyrecognized in event programsand other media the year theuniforms are purchased.

“We can’t set an order datenow, but we hope this will hap-pen in the next couple ofyears,” Varckette said. “It willdepend upon how generous thealumni, citizens, and busi-nesses are.”

The costs to purchase uni-form pieces are: Hat - $55.00,Coat - $205.00, Pants - $120.00,or a whole uniform - $360.00.For information or to partici-pate in the Give a Uniform/Geta Uniform fundraiser, pleasecontact Tonia (Brown)Varckette at (440) 466-7220.

both days. H’oeuvres and re-freshments will be provided,including wine.

As a bonus, those who at-tend will also be able to see thecreation of art live.

“The show will also featuretwo live paintings that we willbe working on both Saturdayand Sunday,” Raab said. “Apainting will be completedeach day.”

At the end of each day, thecompleted live painting will beauctioned off.

“We are going to auction offthe live paintings as they arecompleted on Saturday andthe last one on Sunday,” Raabsaid.

Raab is not sure exactlywhat he will be painting livebut said he will see how theroom feels before starting hispiece.

“I am not sure what we aregoing to paint just yet,” Raabsaid. “It’s going to come withthe feel of the room and wemay go and talk with thepeople.”

Raab and Shank would liketo see more art featured in thecity and hope their show willbe the first of many.

“The money raised is justgoing to go back to other artendeavors in the city,” Raabsaid.

The Primal Focus Art Showwill begin at noon on both daysand end at 7 p.m. on Saturdayand 9 p.m. on Sunday.

You can check out bothRaab’s and Shank’s work attheir websites, www.artisticneurosis.com and www.jeremyshank.com.

Hang Suite will host PrimalFocus Art Show this weekend

JCRC to offer résumé writing servicethe highest English literaturegrade in her graduating class.She also has preparedrésumés for federal govern-ment and civilian positions.

Blair said the averagemeeting will last between30-45 minutes, and she willhelp residents gain theknowledge necessary to bethe right candidate for thejob they desire.

Blair will sit down with thejob seekers and discuss theirwork history, their skills andtheir experiences. Using thatinformation, Blair will pre-pare a résumé specific to thejob the job seeker is interestedin applying for.

Residents also will receivehelp learning the key ingre-dients for a successful job in-terview.

After the meeting, therésumé will be ready to pickup in 48 hours or less, Blairsaid.

To schedule an appoint-ment, call the Jefferson Com-munity Center at 576-9052.Appointments are offeredfrom 2-5 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday.

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ASHTABULA – Hospiceof the Western Reserve iscelebrating a momentousmilestone in AshtabulaCounty, as the organizationhas served the county for 30years this year and wasawarded a resolution at theAshtabula City Councilmeeting last week.

“Twenty-four hours a day,seven days a week, 365 daysa year for the last 30 yearsthere have been the angelsof Hospice of AshtabulaCounty and the Western Re-serve watching over the citi-zens of this community,”Ashtabula City CouncilPresident J.P. Ducro IV said.

Hospice of the WesternReserve of AshtabulaCounty is located in the Cityof Ashtabula at 1166 LakeAve.

Although Hospice has be-come a household name inthe United States, it wasfounded in the United King-dom and was brought to theU.S. in 1971.

“The modern Hospicemovement is attributed toMiss Ciceley Saunders, anurse, social worker andphysician who in 1967founded Saint Christopher’sHospice in England,” Ducrosaid.

Hospice quickly startedexpanded throughout thenation as a go to for end-of-life care.

“Hospice of the WesternReserve has been dedicatedto providing excellent Hos-pice services to patients andfamilies in northeast Ohiosince 1978, and through thevision and efforts many com-munity individuals and or-ganizations, Hospice ofAshtabula County opened in1982,” Ducro said.

In 1990, the Hospice ofAshtabula County receiveda Best in the County awardfor its excellent healthcare.

“In 1992, with the sup-port of the Ashtabula Foun-dation and donations fromthousands of county resi-dents, the Hospice inpatientunit opened at AshtabulaCounty Medical Center,”Ducro said.

In 2003, Hospice ofAshtabula County joinedwith Hospice of the WesternReserve to become the Hos-pice of the Western Reserve

T-Shirts that send a mes-sage of school pride or sup-port for a cause make astatement, but when GenevaHigh School students beganwearing the same red andblack shirt to show their col-lective support for Chardon,

GHS students wear heartson their sleeves for Chardon

PHOTO BY JAN PERALA FOR GENEVA SCHOOLSArms linked and wearing their support, GHS students show their solidarity and offersolace to Chardon. (Back from left) Katie Beacom, Aaron Row, Geneva EAGLE TravisBlake , Haley Collis and Gabe McLeod. In front are Mandi Galloway, Leah Hassettand Mollie Kikel.

the statement became aproclamation straight fromthe heart.

GHS sophomore AaronRow, with the help of class-mate Saydi Saba, designeda unique tee emblazonedwith the words “Geneva

Cares, Chardon! Peace.Friendship. Love. Together.Stay Strong.”

The shirt is being sold atGHS with all proceeds di-rected to the United Wayfund established forChardon.

Upcoming Geneva Community Events• March 19 - Geneva Area Chamber of

Commerce Spring Dinner, at VFW Post#6846, 76 Depot St. Social 6:30 p.m., din-ner 7 p.m. Cost $25, sponsor NHS studentfor $20. Speaker Casey Kozlowski, StateRepresentative 99th House District. Res-ervations, call 466-8694.

• March 16-17, Geneva Public LibraryUsed Book Sale, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. FMI, call466-4521.

• March 23, and April 6, HarpersfieldFire Department Lenton Fish Fry, 5-7 p.m.,at Harpersfield Community Center, Cork-Cold Springs Road. Dine in or carry out. Adults $9, senior citizens $8, and children

12 and under $5. Fish, scrimp, and chicken.

• March 27, Memorial Service forChardon High School at Rae Ann Geneva,839 W. Main St., Geneva. At 7:30 a.m.. Baked goods, ribbons, and flowers will besold. Proceeds to benefit Chardon Angelsof Hope Memorial Fund. Please show sup-port by wearing “Forever Chardon” shirtsor any red shirt. FMI, call 466-5733

• April 1, 15th Annual Geneva AreaChamber Chinese Auction, at Geneva HighSchool, tickets $5 per person. Starting 1p.m., drawing 2:30 p.m. Grand Prize and50/50 tickets at event. For donations andtickets, call 466-8694.

Mary Pepperney hugs J.P. Ducro, who had his ownpersonal experience with Hospice during his father’spassing.

Meet YourNeighbor

Hospice celebrates 30 years in Ashtabula

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANMary Pepperney is thecommunity facilitationcoordinator of the Hospiceof the Western Reserve ofAshtabula County. Hospiceis celebrating 30 years ofservice to Ashtabula.

of Ashtabula County.“Per day, an average of

135 patients and their fami-lies are served by 62 employ-ees and 140 active volun-teers,” Ducro said.

Mary Pepperney, commu-nity facilitation coordinatorof the Hospice of the West-ern Reserve of AshtabulaCounty, was presented theresolution.

“I would like to thank youall for this wonderful recog-nition, and I would like toaccept it on behalf of all thepeople who over the yearshave been in support of Hos-pice of the Western Reserveof Ashtabula County,”Pepperney said.

Pepeprney said Hospicehas grown through the yearsand has had many peoplecome through its doors will-ing to help.

“There are some of themwho are no longer with us,but they had the vision andthe courage and the compas-sion to provide this programand these services for ourcommunity,” Pepperneysaid. “We have tried to befaithful with their visionthat they have entrustedupon us.”

Pepperney looks to thefuture of Hospice and ispleased to think they haveaided patients and theirfamilies for 30 years inAshtabula County.

“I hope we can continuefor another 30, 40 or 50years,” Pepperney said.

Pepperney said the orga-

nization could not havestayed afloat without theconstant support of theAshtabula community.

“I think this communityshould be very proud of allthe support they have givenus,” Pepperney said.

Ducro had his own expe-rience with Hospice with hisown father ’s passing andhad nothing but kind wordsfor the organization.

“We very much appreci-ate all 30 years of comfortand care,” Ducro said. “Weare so blessed to have younearby.”


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The percussion section of the Lakeside HighSchool concert band begins the song“Clocks” by Coldplay.

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANJoseph Tredent, the Lakeside High School band director, introduces the concert band to those who attended theSenior to Senior concert last Monday.

Lakeside High School band performs for seniorsBY SADIE PORTMANGazette Newspapers

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP- The Lakeside High Schoolband held its Senior to Se-nior concert last Monday.The band honored all thesenior members in the bandand choirs, as well as invitedgrandparents and other lo-cal seniors to enjoy a mati-nee concert.

“We are very happy youcould come out and supportus,” Jospeh Tredent, theLakeside band director, said.

Tredent chose pieces thatwere both recognizable, suchas Coldplay’s song “Clocks,”and others that held specialmeaning, like “Ceremony,Chant and Ritual” byShaffer.

“Shaffer is a former highschool band director fromthe Columbus, Ohio area. Heteaches now at Ohio State,”Tredent said. “He’s writtena lot of pieces for the band.”

Tredent said it was nicefor the band to perform apiece like “Clocks” because it

is something they recognizedfrom the very beginning andthat many audience mem-bers know as well.

“You probably have heardthis song somewhere alongthe way as it was popular,”Tredent said.

Two of the Lakeside HighSchool bands performed, theconcert band and the sym-phonic band.

“The difference betweenthe two bands if you’re notsure is that the concert bandis primarily comprised offreshmen and sophomoresand our symphonic band isprimarily upper classmen,”Tredent said.

Tredent says the sym-phonic band is his elitemembers.

“Our symphonic band isan audition group so thereare some sophomores andthere are even some fresh-men in our group this year,”Tredent said.


The concert band’s brass section prepares to perform Coldplay’s “Clocks.”The Lakeside High School concert band performed three pieces last week for thelocal senior citizens of the area.

Lakeside High School students sit with their grandparents who were invited to a matineeconcert.

Joseph Tredent has his concert band take a bow as he prepares for the symphonicband to play its pieces.

The symphonic band’s flute section performs the song“Peace Jubilee” by Carl King.The Lakeside High School symphonic band members

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LJHS students show support for CHS

Lakeside Junior High students and staff extend our sympathy and support to ChardonHigh School by wearing red and black to school. Pictured left to right: Jade Fobes,Erika van’Veer, Solisha Holley, Ashley Stoneman, Sarah Morehouse, Lindsey Shahan,Alexis Riker, Aryn Cochran, Kristin Keasling, Alycia Figueroa and Sierra Hall. SUBMITTED PHOTOSLJH staff dresses in red and black to support Chardon H.S.

BY JAN PERALAA-Tech

JEFFERSON TOWN-SHIP - Nearly 700 dinersgathered at AshtabulaCounty Technical and Ca-reer Campus (A-Tech) to re-connect with fellow alumni,neighbors and friends, totwirl up spaghetti andsample confections from anelaborate bake sale at theschool’s annual Spaghetti forScholarships dinner onMarch 1. Funds raised bythe Spaghetti Dinner willbe directed to the school’sscholarship fund.

“We try to attend all theA-Tech dinners,” saidGeneva resident Sue Roe.“The food is always deli-cious and abundant, andit’s fun to see the studentsparticipating in all areas oftheir culinary training.The dinners are alwaysvery affordable, and we un-derstand the money madefrom the dinners goes to-ward scholarships for thestudents. Also, the stu-dents bake and sell cakes,cookies, cheesecakes,breakfast pastries, etc., atthe dinners, so it’s nice tobe able to purchase bakedgoods to take home. We

Spaghetti dinner creates scholarship ‘Pastabilities’for college-bound A-Tech students

PHOTOS BY JAN PERALA FOR A-TECHSue and Mike Roe of Geneva have perfected the art of spaghetti twirling throughyears of dining at A-Tech’s scholarship benefit dinners. A-Tech’s annual spaghettidinner raises funds for scholarships for deserving A-Tech students. With Mr. and Mrs.Roe is A-Tech culinary arts student Juliann Hawes.

The confections were mesmerizing at the bake sale offered by A-Tech culinary artsstudents concurrently with the school’s annual spaghetti dinner. Here, Pat Reuschling(left) of Jefferson is faced with the sticky decision of which piece of carrot cake toindulge in. A-Tech pastry chefs Missy Short and Brianna Knapp baked the cake.

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graduates bound for ad-vanced education.Rebekah Daniels, a 2011graduate and A-TechScholarship receipient, isnow studying VeterinaryTechnology at TheBradford School.

“The scholarship I re-ceived from A-Tech helpedwith my college costs,”Daniels said. “Thanks to A-Tech, I am on the way tobecoming a VeterinaryTechnician.”

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JEFFERSON -Jefferson Village Councilpassed the second readingsto purchase a new vehicleand a new piece of equip-ment during its meeting onMonday, March 5.

First, council passed thesecond reading of an ordi-nance authorizingJefferson Village Adminis-trator Terry Finger to en-ter into a contract withLeader Machinery Com-pany LTD for the purchaseof a Duraco DuraPatcher,model 125DJT.

Council will purchasethe Duraco DuraPatcherpursuant to the Ohio De-partment of Administra-tive Services CooperativePurchasing Program, at acost not to exceed $62,000.

The DuraPatcher is ma-chinery used for road re-pair. Instead of men withshovels, tampers and hotmix, the DuraPatcher sys-tem cleans the area, ap-plies a tack coat, spraysthe emulsion/aggregatemix into the pothole withsufficient force to compactthe material as it is ap-plied and then follows withdry aggregate to preventlifting.

At a previous meeting,Finger said villages simi-lar to Jefferson typicallysee the machine pay for it-self in about a year. Hesaid he has seen the ma-chine demonstrated beforeand was impressed.

Council also passed thesecond reading of an ordi-nance authorizing Fingerto enter into a contractwith Tesco for the purchaseof a light transit, wide-body vehicle.

The van would be usedfor the Jefferson Commu-nity and Recreation Cen-ter, including the seniorcenter.

Originally the villagewas considering purchas-ing a van without thewheelchair lift, but aftersome concerns from coun-cil members, the villagewill now get the van withthe lift.

Council approvessecond readingfor purchases

“The revised ordinanceto purchase a new shuttlebus for the seniors andCommunity Center re-flects the addition of thewheelchair l i ft , as re-quested by council,” Fingersaid in his report.

The price for the vanwith the lift is $50,165.

“By purchasing throughthe state program, we willnot have to seek our ownbids,” Finger said.

By using the state pro-gram, the village also isgetting the best price pos-sible for the purchases.Council will pass a thirdreading for each ordinancebefore they become official.

During the citizens’ por-tion of the meeting, a resi-dent asked council how thevillage can pay for thesepurchases and some of theother recent purchases.

Council members, Fin-ger and Mayor JudyMaloney said the village isusing the income-taxmoney the village receivedfrom having the $99 mil-lion Mega Millions lotteryticket winner sold at aSpeedway gas station inJefferson last summer.

Some of that money isbeing used for the seniorvan and for part of thedownpayment on the newfire truck, Finger said.

Councilor Rick Hoysonsaid the goal was to use themoney on one-time ex-penses, since the villagewill only get the money onetime.

In other CommunityCenter news, Finger saidthe Street Departmentconstructed a new storagearea in the back of theCommunity Center to en-able the police departmentto move items currently instorage to another area ofthe Community Center.

“By the police movingwithin the building, thecurrent storage area can beopened up to allow the freeweight area to expand,”Finger said.

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First Assembly of God2300 Austinburg Rd., 275-7720Pastors Don and Debra Hammer9:30 Sunday School10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. Worship

Faith Community A/G Church5835 Route 166, Rock Creek,474-1851Sen Pastor: Rev. Brian L. Wright Sr.9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. SundayServices

New Life Assembly of God1961 La Fever Rd., GenevaPastor Harry Pishcura, 466-609310 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Sunday Services

BAPTIST

Central Missionary Baptist Church930 Clay Road, Dorset, 858-2460The Rev. Dave Chappell, Pastor10 a.m. Sun School11:30 a.m. Worship

KIngsville First Baptist Church (Am.)6003 St. Rt. 193, Kingsville224-1081The Rev. David Hines9:30 Sunday School10:45 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Worship

First Baptist Church (American)4353 Park Ave., Ashtabula, 992-9836Rev. Doug Wright9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Worship

First Baptist Church of Jefferson85 W. Jefferson St., Jefferson576-1631Rev. Jerry Bentley, Pastor9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship

First Baptist Church of Dorset2471 Route 193 N., Dorset858-9623Ed Pickard, Pastor10 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. Worship Service

Fundamental Baptist Church (Ind.)2219 Allen-Comp Rd., Dorset858-2609Pastor Michael Allen11 a.m. & 7 p.m. Worship Services

Geneva Baptist Church - SBC903 West Main St., 466-1481Pastor Richard L. Thompson9:45 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. & 7 p.m. Worship Services

Lighthouse Baptist Church2929 Carpenter Rd., 964-0222Senior Pastor John Jones10, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Sunday Worship

People’s Baptist Church3837 West Ave., Ashtabula992-9582Rev. Louis F. Grandberry11:00 Morning Service

The United Church75 South Broadway, Geneva 466-2824Pastor Bob Cunningham11:00 a.m. Worship

BIBLE

Bethel Bible Church877 E. Beech, Jefferson, 576-5949Pasot Joseph LaingSundays at Jefferson Comm. Center,11 E. Jefferson Street9 a.m. Bible School, 10 a.m. Worship

Eagleville Bible Church1981 Rt. 45 North, Rock Creek563-3407 www.eaglevilleonline.comPastors Bill McMinn, Chris Christianand Josh Wood8:30; 10:15 a.m. Sunday Worship

Fellowship Bible Church EVCA417 West 46th, Ashtabula, 992-2500Pastor Ed Christian,Pastor Duke DiPofi9:15 Sunday School10:30 a.m. Morning Worship

First Grace Gospel Church5730 Adams Ave., Ashtabula997-8191David Adams, pastor9:30 a.m. Sun. School, InformalService10:45 a.m. Bible Hour7 p.m. Bible Study & Prayer Time

CATHOLIC

Assumption Church594 West Main, Geneva, 466-3427Father Melvin Rusnak4:30 p.m. Saturday Mass9 & 11 a.m. Sunday Mass

Sacred Heart Catholic Church3049 St. Rt. 45, Rock Creek, 563-3010Pastor, Rev. David WeikartMass times: 6 p.m. Sat 11 a.m. Sun (Sept. - May) 8 a.m. Sun (June-Aug.) 12 Noon Wed &Fri

Mother of Sorrows1464 W. 6th St., Ashtabula, 964-3277Father Joseph Ruggieri5:30 p.m. Saturday Mass10 am Sun Mass (11:45 am Spanish)8 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday Mass

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church1200 E. 21st St., Ashtabula998-4111Father Joseph Ruggieri5 p.m. Saturday Mass8 a.m. & 12 noon Sunday Mass8 a.m. Wednesday Mass

St. Andrews Church3700 St. Rt. 193, Kingsville224-0987Rev. Stephen M. Wassie9 a.m. Sunday Mass

St. Joseph Church32 East Jefferson St., Jefferson576-3651Rev. Stephen M. Wassie8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday MassSat. 4:30 p.m. Mass

St. Joseph Church3330 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, 992-0330Father Philip Miller4 p.m. Saturday Mass9 a.m. Sunday Mass8 a.m. Monday & Friday Mass

St. Joseph Mission- Our Lady of Miracles4317 West Ave., Ashtabula997-7121Father Philip Miller10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass

St. Nicholas ByzantineCatholic Church1104 E. 15th St., Ashtabula964-3536Father Andrew Gretchko4:30 p.m. Divine Litergy

CHRISTIAN CHURCH

First Christian Church6920 Austinburg Rd., Ashtabula993-7056Rev. Richard L. Well9 a.m. Contemp Service & SundaySchool10:30 a.m. Traditional Service

CHRISTIAN MISSIONARYALLIANCES

People’s Church300 S. Ridge Rd. E., Geneva466-2020Rev. Jim Walker10:45 a.m. Worship

CHURCH OF CHRIST

Geneva Church of Christ1007 S. Broadway, Geneva, 466-76899:20 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. Worship

Rock Creek Church of Christ2965 High St., Rock Creek 563-95289:30 a.m. Bible Study, all ages10:30 a.m. Cont. Worship &Children’s Church

Church DirectoryWest Avenue Church of Christ5901 West Ave., Ashtabula992-0737Michael D. Williams, Minister9:30 a.m. BIble Class10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Worship

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

AustinburgFirst United Church of ChristRts 45 & 307, Austinburg, 275-5125Rev. Allison Milligan, Pastor,275-1129 (Pastor’s Office)11 a.m. Worship and Sunday Schoolwww.austinburgucc.org

First CongregationalUnited Church of Christ41 E. Jefferson St., Jefferson576-4531Pastor James E. BrehlerSunday Worship at 10 a.m.

Unionville United Church of Christ6870 S. Ridge Rd., 428-2235On Rt. 84 east of County Line Rd.Rev. Robert Cunningham9:30 a.m. Sunday worship

Unionville United Church6970 S. Ridge Rd., Unionville466-2824Pastor Bob Cunningham9:30 a.m. Worship

CHURCH OF GOD

Ashtabula Church of God2244 Harbor Ave., 997-3410Rev. Jay Rock10 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. worship

Church of God in Christ3417 Hiawatha Ave., Ashtabula997-39229:30 a.m. Sunday School11:30 a.m. Ceremony & Worship

Jefferson Church of God2701 St. Rt. 46, Jefferson, 992-6267Rev. Leon J. Alexander10 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Worship

EPISCOPAL

Christ Episcopal Church65 S. Eagle St., Geneva, 466-370610:30 a.m. Worship

Holy CrossCharismatic Episcopal Church341 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, 964-8089Pastor Nicholas Rizzo10 a.m. Adult BIble Study10:30 a.m. Worship

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church4901 Main Ave., Ashtabula, 992-8100Rev. David Evans, Interim Pastor8 & 10 a.m. Sunday Worship

INDEPENDENT

Ashtabula Baptist Church5909 Sheppard Rd., Ashtabula,228-9423Pastor Dan Evans10:30 a.m. Worship Service

Park Street Christian Church97 Park St., Geneva, 466-46019:30 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. Worship7:30 p.m. Wed Bible Study

Second CongregationalChurch of Christ319 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, 964-9640Rev. Peter Pritchard10:00 Sunday School11:00 a.m. Worship

Well of Hope Chapel4254 E. Center St., N. Kingsville593-3159The Rev. Tim Ranyak, pastor10:45 a.m. Sunday Services

JEHOVAH’S WITNESS

East Ashtabula Congregation5614 Poplar Ave., 992-363710 a.m. Public Meeting & Watchtower

LUTHERAN

Bethany Lutheran Church933 Michigan Ave., Ashtabula964-3157Pastor Larry Mackey10:30 a.m. Worship9:15 Sunday School

Beautiful SaviorLutheran Church-LCMS4896 N. Ridge W. Ashtabula466-455410:30 a.m. Worship & Children’s Church

Faith Lutheran Church-ELCA504 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, 964-90879:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Worship

Messiah Lutheran Church - ELCA615 Prospect Rd., Ashtabula992-9392Rev. Dr. Michael Meranda5 p.m. Saturday Holy Communion9 & 11 a.m. Sunday Holy Communion9:45 a.m. Adult Forum11 a.m. Sunday School

St. John’s Lutheran Church - LCMSP.O. Box 500, Geneva, 466-24739:30 a.m. Sun. School & Adult Bible Class10:30 a.m Service

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church89 East Satin St., Jefferson, 576-4671Rev. Fred Grimm8 & 10:15 a.m. Sunday Worship9:15 a.m. Sunday School

Zion Lutheran Church - LCMS2310 W. 9th St., Ashtabula, 964-9483Pastor Mark Berg9:15 a.m. Bible Class10:30 a.m. Worship10:45 Children’s Church

METHODIST

Ashtabula First UnitedMethodist Church4506 Elm Ave., Ashtabula, 993-3806Rev. John M. Germaine, Pastor9:30 a.m. Sunday School10 a.m. Sunday Worship(10:45 in winter)

Bulah Calvary United Methodist2070 Route 193 N., Jefferson858-2651Pastor Aletta Burkholder10 a.m. Sunday School11:15 a.m. worship

Dorset United Methodist Church2800 St. Rt. 193, 858-2831Rev. David Miller, Pastor9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Morning Worship

Gageville United Methodist Church4063 St. Rt. 193, Kingsville, 224-0165Rev. David L. Blood, pastor11 a.m. Worship

Geneva First UnitedMethodist Church89 South Broadway, 466-2817Rev. David & Rev. Suzanne Hill8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Worship9:15 a.m. Sunday School

Harbor United Methodist Church322 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, 964-9240Rev. Sandra Dennis9:30 a.m. Sunday School (all ages)11 a.m.Worship

Jefferson United Methodist125 East Jefferson St., Jefferson576-4561Pastor - Meredith Coleman8:30 & 11 a.m. Sunday Worship9:40 a.m. Sunday School for all ages

Leon United Methodist Church3599 Stanhope-Kelloggsville Rd, DorsetPastors Jason Hockran & Quincy Wheeler10 a.m. Worship11 a.m. Sunday school

Rock Creek CommunityUnited Methodist Church3210 N. Main, 563-3291Rev. David Miller, Pastor9 a.m. Worship,10:15 a.m. Sunday School

Saybrook United Methodist Church7900 South Depot Rd., Ashtabula969-1562Rev. Jeff Stoll9:15 a.m. Sunday School8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Worship Services

South HarpersfieldUnited Methodist Church5524 Cork-Cold Springs Rd., Geneva466-4778Pastor Shirley A Stoops-Frantz9:30 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. Worship

MORMON

Church of Jesus Christof Latter Day Saints571 W. Seven Hills Rd., Ashtabula993-36169:30 a.m. Sacrement10:45 a.m. Sunday School11:30 a.m. Priesthood & Relief Society

NAZARENE

Ashtabula First Church of theNazarene1820 S. Ridge Rd W., Ashtabula992-0246Rev. Michael Legg9-10 a.m. Sunday School10:10 a.m. Morning Services

Edgewood Church of the Nazarene3025 N. Ridge E, Ashtabula, 997-5645Pastor Kevin Ellis9:45 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. & 6 p.m. Worship

Geneva Church of the Nazarene710 Centennial, Geneva, 466-47119:30 Sunday School10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. Worship

Jefferson Church of the Nazarene55 E. Satin St., Jefferson, 576-6556Pastor Rodney Kincaid8:30, 11 a.m., 6 p.m. Sunday Worship10 a.m. Sunday School

Kelloggsville Church of the Nazarene4841 St. Rt. 84, Kingsville, 224-1136Pastor Jerry Webb10 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. & 7 p.m. Worship

NEW APOSTOLIC CHURCH

New Apostolic Church2305 W. 19th St., AshtabulaThe Rev. William McNutt9 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. Worship8 p.m. Wed Worship

NONDENOMINATIONAL

Alive Community Church4527 Elm Ave., Ashtabula, 992-7684Pastor Darren GollonFellowship 9:30 a.m., Service 10 a.m.

Bread of Life MinistriesAshtabula Plaza, 2257 Lake Ave.998-BOLMPastor Karen Bales, 858-948410 a.m. Sunday & 7 p.m Tuesday

Breaking Thru at the Crossroads3277 St. Rt. 167, Jefferson, 293-4421Pastor Enos Ali, Co-Pastor Launa Ali10-11 a.m. Sunday School11-11:25 Sunday Brunch11:30 Sunday Service

Edgewood Alliance Church3137 E. Center St., N. Kingsville224-2111Senior Pastor Gary Russell9 a.m. Sunday School,10 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Worship6 p.m Wed. Bible Study

Int. Gen. Assmbly Of Spiritualists5403 S. Ridge W., Ashtabula 969-1724Classes: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday11 a.m. worship - Guest speakerevery Sun.

Lenox Federated Church2610 Lenox-New Lyme Rd, Jefferson576-9932Pastor: Ken Zaebst9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. Worship & Teaching

The Peoples Church of theChristian and Missionary Alliance300 S Ridge E, Geneva, 466-2020www.peopleschurchgeneva.comPastor Rev. Alexander Zell9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:45 a.m. & 6 p.m. Worship

Open Door Community Church5802 Cemetery Rd, Kingsville224-2675The Rev. Greg Evans, pastor9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. Worship

Unitarian UniversalistsFellowship of Ashtabula CountyAsh Senior Citizens Center,4632 Main St., Ashtabula, 964-543211 a.m. Service

PENTECOSTAL

Apostolic Faith Body of JesusChrist of the Newborn Assemblies772 Griggs Rd., Ashtabula993-8339Bishop Charles D. Keyes Sr.

Faith Freedom Fellowship205 West Liberty St., Geneva466-8282Pastors Raymond & Edith Baker10 a.m. & 6 p.m. Praise andWorship

Grace Christian Assembly906 Joseph Ave., Ashtabula964-8592Elder Gerome Sing9:45 a.m. Sunday School11:30 a.m. Worship

Pentecostal Community Church5348 Peck Rd., New Lyme576-0384Pastor Scott C. Ardary10 a.m. Sunday School/Worship6 p.m. - 1st & 3rd Sun., EveningService

PRESBYTERIAN

East Side Presbyterian Church3440 Edgewood Dr., Ashtabula993-7546Reverend S. Shane Nanney9 a.m. Sunday School10 a.m. Worship

The First Presbyterian Church4317 Park Ave., Ashtabula993-3731Rev. Dr. Stephen R. Long, Pastor9:30 a.m. Sun. School10:45 a.m. Worship

Kingsville Presbyterian Church3056 W. Main St., Kingsville224-1023Rev. Bonnie Habbersett10 a.m. Worship and SundaySchool

North KingsvillePresbyterian Church6546 Church St., Kingsville224-1491Ken Ayers, CLP, pastor10:30 a.m. Worship

Pierpont Presbyterian Church71 St. Rt. 7 S., Pierpont577-12189:45 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. Worship

Rome PresbyterianRoute 45, Rome TownshipMary Jo Foust, Commissioned Lay Pastor11:10 a.m. Worship (May-Sept)

Trinity Presbyterian Church1342 W. Prospect Rd., Ashtabula993-7111Rev. Quincy Worthington9:30 a.m. Sunday School10:30 a.m. Worship

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

Berean Seventh Day Adventist874 Center St., Ashtabula 992-8796Pastor Gregory JacksonSat. 9:30 a.m. Bible StudySat. 11 a.m. Divine Worship

GENEVA - Companions ofthe Lamb will be presentinga special musical program“God’s Gift of Love” with Pas-tor Karen and Jack Bales andDana and Jay Skaggs on 6p.m. March 18 at Faith Free-dom Fellowship, located at205 West Liberty Street,Geneva, Ohio.

Pastor Karen Bales is thepastor of Bread of Life Min-istries – meeting temporarilyat 3300 Carpenter Road inAshtabula. Karen writes herown music that the Lord in-spires her with: songs of wor-ship, life, love, salvation,soaking in God’s presenceand more.

The Companions of theLamb desire is to lead God’speople into His very throneroom to worship at His feet.People with hearts desiringto have an intimate relation-ship with the Lord, will en-joy this musical presentationof the life of Jesus.

Pastor Karen said, “Ev-


JEFFERSON - TheJefferson United MethodistChurch is celebrating withthe local community the offi-cial opening of its adminis-trative and educational wing.

“It’s an educational andadministrative wing to ourchurch,” Pat Cramer, thechurch’s administrative as-sistant, said. “The buildingnow has classrooms foreach grade level from pre-kindergarten all the up tohigh school.”

The appreciation cer-emony will be held in thesanctuary at 1:15 p.m. onSunday and a celebrationwith games, prizes and re-freshments, among otheractivities, will be held.

“It’s been in the plan-ning for quite a while, andit was great to see it finallyopened on Dec. 18 of lastyear,” Cramer said.

Before the new additionwas added on, the church’sSunday School classes wereheld in the church base-ment, which was very lim-iting.

Cramer said they arelooking forward to showingthe community the new fa-cility and sharing withthem the joy of having amuch bigger space.

“It’s very exciting, andthe children and teachersare very excited to have theproper equipment andspace for teaching andlearning,” Cramer said.

The open house will alsofeature a community out-reach fair, as well as a min-istries and missions fairthat will feature severalmission groups and the

Special Easter Musical Presentation tobe held at Faith Freedom Fellowship

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ery person has been createdto know, to love and to servethe Lord God with theirwhole being. Jesus told thewoman at the well that Godis looking for a people toworship Him in spirit and intruth. What an opportunitywe miss when we allow thethings of the world to becomeso entangled with our livesthat we do not give to Godthe glory, the honor and theworship that is due only toHim.”

The Vision of Companionsof the Lamb is to allow God’sagenda to be their agendawhile they continue to workin the anointing power of HisHoly Spirit seeing the multi-tudes healed in their spirit,soul and body; to see people’slives change as they aretaught to make application ofthe Word of God which givesthem a new hope; to encour-age every man, woman andchild to seek the will of Godfor their life and walk in it;to see the church worship theFather in spirit and in truth.

They believe that thepeople of God need to reallyunderstand who Christ is inthem and who they are inChrist. Every Christianneeds to know the impor-tance of an intimate, one onone, relationship with God.After all, He, Himself, calledthe believer His friends. Hehas promised believers thatHe would never leave themnor forsake them and to stick

closer than a brother. He haspromised to be the Father tothe fatherless and a husbandto the widow. What a shameit is that many do not under-stand the actual closeness ofstrong family ties to relatethe love of God to.

Pastor Karen said, “Howspectacular it really is to bea part of the family of God, tohave the inheritance ofheaven, God is so good to us.May we begin to have a lifeof pure worship before Himfrom this day forward.”

Pastors Ray and Edith en-courage the public to attend– especially if they have fam-ily members that need salva-tion or if they need a miraclefrom God.

“We are excited to sharewith the city of Geneva andAshtabula County the mar-velous ways God is working,setting people free,” theysaid.

A love offering will betaken.

A full Sundayscheduled forJefferson UnitedMethodist Church

work they have accom-plished both overseas andin the states.

The church is also ex-cited to feature one of theirmission teams during its8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. ser-vices.

The mission team com-pleted a two-week trip toUganda, Africa. A memberof the church who worksfull time in Uganda, EmilyLocy, will also be speakingabout her experiences.

“The main mission is towork with former child sol-diers, and there are alsochildren living on thestreets which they helpout,” Cramer said.

Uganda has been expe-riencing guerrilla warfaresince 1987 under the Lord’sResistance Army.

According to United Na-tions statistics, the young-est children being recruitedfor guerrilla warfare isseven years old. The num-ber of children internation-ally under the age of 18who have been taken fornon-governmental warfareis about 300,000.

The team will speak atthe end of both services,and Cramer said it is sureto be interesting to hearabout their trip.

“We have many ties withthe Uganda missions, andwe are excited to hear themtalk,” Cramer said.

For more information onthe community open houseor the Uganda talks, con-tact the church at (440)576-4561.


The students who attend thechurch’s Sunday school classes,

along with the teachers, areexcited to have more room in

their classrooms. Theeducational wing has separate

classrooms for each grade levelfrom pre-kindergarten all the

way up to the high school.

Jefferson UMC to celebrate opening of new wing

The Jefferson United Methodist Churchhas added on with a new administrativeand educational wing and will becelebrating with a community openhouse on Sunday from 1-3 p.m.

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Zonta Club celebrates 85th anniversary

The Zonta Club of Ashtabula recently gathered to celebratethe 85th anniversary of the club. The Zonta Club of AshtabulaArea was organized in January of 1927. Charter membersincluded Jean Askew, Mary Miller Battles, Minerva Beardsley,Cora Clark, Anne Close, Verdi Wirth, Rachel David, ViolaDuress Mary Hall, Anna Hubbard, Kate Laughlin, EthelMcDowell, Henrietta McKinsey, Annette Fitch Nelson, ForencePerry, Ella Pierce, Frances Richards, Treva Stanton, MaryWebb and Catherine Whipple.Zonta International is a world-wide service organization of executives in business and the

professions working together to advance the status of women.Our local service projects help meet the needs of our commu-nity while furthering the mission of Zonta International. An-nually we give scholarship awards to college students, sup-port Homesafe, award volunteerism awards to one deservinghigh school senior and donate time and funds toward organi-zations who serve our mission.

For more details about the Zonta Club of Ashtabula Area,or if you would like membership information, send an emailto [email protected].

Religious BriefsMarch 16, 23, 30 Rock Creek:Fish/Shrimp Dinner

The Sacred Heart Church located on Route 45, just northof Rock Creek, will hold its annual fish/shrimp dinners.Adults are $8, children ages 4-10 are $4, and children un-der three are free. Carryouts available. Call for phone or-ders at 563-5255. Proceeds benefit our Adult SupportGroup.

March 18 Jefferson:Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner

The St.Joseph Calasanctius, located at 32 E. JeffersonStreet in Jefferson, will have a corned beef and cabbagedinner on 12:30-3 p.m. March 18 in the church hall. Menu:corned beef and cabbage, boiled potatoes, veggie, bread andbutter and assorted desserts. Adults, $8; seniors, $7; andchildren, $4. (Child’s menu available). Take outs available!

March 25 Ashtabula: Omer String QuartetThe Omer String Quartet, a student ensemble from the

Cleveland Institute of Music, will perform a recital of clas-sical music and popular songs at St. Peter’s EpiscopalChurch in downtown Ashtabula, 4901 Main Ave., on Sun-day, March 25, at 2 p.m. The concert is free and open to thepublic and will be followed by a free and open punch andcookie reception. Sponsored by the Fine Arts Concert Com-mittee of the Church. FMI, phone the Church at 440-992-8100.

March 25 Denmark Township: Easter Egg HuntBulah Calvary UMC, located at 2070 Route 193, will

hold an Easter Egg Hunt. Come and join us for a lot of fun!

March 29 Saybrook: Free Community DinnerA free community dinner will be held on Thursday,

March 29, from 5-6 p.m. in the Church Social Hall. Comeenjoy a free dinner, dessert and drink, served to you bymembers of Saybrook United Methodist Church, 7900 S.Depot Rd, Saybrook (across from Saybrook ElementarySchool). All are welcome!

March 31 Jefferson: CommunityChildren’s Easter Celebration

First Baptist Church of Jefferson announces its annual“Community Children’s Easter Celebration” on Saturday,March 31, starting at 1 p.m. Children through sixth gradewill also enjoy games, stories, prizes, crafts, balloons, cook-ies and punch. The public is welcome and there is nocharge. The “Community Children’s Easter Celebration”will be held at First Baptist Church, 85 West JeffersonStreet, Jefferson.

April 14 Saybrook: LuncheonSpringtime in Saybrook! 1 p.m. April 14 at the Saybrook

United Methodist Church, 7900 Depot Rd. Light luncheon,Mentor Follies dancers, door prizes, theme gift baskets soldby Chinese auction. Tickets are $15. Only 128 tickets avail-able. Call 440-969-1562, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Monday throughFriday for more info.

April 18 Ashtabula: DinnerChicken and Dumpling or Swiss Steak dinner, includ-

ing beverages and desserts. Also a craft sale. April 18from 4-7 p.m. Adults $8, children $4. Carry outs available.Sponsored by the Plymouth United Methodist Women So-ciety of Plymouth United Methodist Church 970 PlymouthRd. 970 Plymouth Rd. Ashtabula. For more info, call 998-0260.

Zonta Club of AshtabulaArea is preparing for itsupcoming champagneluncheon, which will beheld 10:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m. March 24 at theKatherine Rose BanquetCenter, located at 3116N. Bend Rd. in Ashtabula.The theme is “Springtimein Tuscany.” The eventwill feature flowingchampagne and muchmuch more. Come andenjoy a day just forwomen filled with avariety of entertainment,gifts to win, flowingchampagne and adelicious lunch. The mealwill be served by localmen, including JeffTanchak and ChrisVanVliet from Channel 19Action News. Tickets are$25 each and reservations are needed by calling Stephanie Canzonetta (440) 536-4979. Pictured: back row, CandyKoss, Barb Oxley and Robin Bolender; and front row, Stephanie Canzonetta, chair, Elaine Swanson and CarolJohnson, co-chair.

Zonta to celebrate women at Champagne Luncheon

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EDITOR’S NOTE:March 23 marks the 150thanniversary of the Battle ofKernstown. It was theopening battle in Confeder-ate General StonewallJackson’s famousShenandoah campaign andthe only battle Jacksonwould lose. It is also thebattle in which the 29thOhio Infantry Regiment“saw the elephant,” or sawcombat for the first time.

Abraham Lincoln waselected president of theUnited States on Nov. 6,1860 with the support of 80percent of the votes cast inAshtabula County. A monthlater South Carolina leftthe Union and was laterjoined by 10 other states toform the Confederacy. Inthe spring of 1861, Confed-erate artillery fired on FortSumter, launching the CivilWar.

Then, 150 years ago thismonth, hundreds of menfrom Ashtabula Countyserving in the 29th OhioVolunteer Infantry Regi-ment saw the elephant.

On Sunday, March 23,1862, Confederate GeneralThomas “Stonewall” Jack-son attacked Union infan-try deployed near the smallhamlet of Kernstown, Va.,just south of Winchester.That elephant was thebattle that was brewing inwhich some of those Ohioboys would die. Years later,when Civil War veteransrecalled “seeing the el-ephant,” they were refer-ring to the day they sawcombat for the first time.

At noon on March 23, Lt.Theron Winship ofConneaut realized, “Wedidn’t have much longer towait. A messenger cameand we were soon on thequick march for the sceneof the strife.”

The 29th Ohio had leftJefferson on ChristmasDay in 1861, nearly 1,000-men strong with visions ofglory marching beforethem. Three months later,they found themselves inVirginia’s Shenandoah Val-ley, part of a small armythat had orders to driveJackson’s Confederatesfrom the valley.

The 29th Ohio was partof the 3rd Brigade of theUnion Division of GeneralJames Shields.

“Ever ready, we weresoon on the quick march forthe scene,” Winship re-called in a letter writtenshortly after the Battle ofKernstown ended. “We hadeight miles of extremelymuddy roads to travel; butour men took the doublequick and at a little past 3o’clock were on the sceneand drawn up in a line ofbattle.”

They halted, loadedtheir weapons, and then ad-vanced still closer to thesounds of the battle. Itwasn’t long before theyhalted again and waited.

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Come meet Christin the Passover

Come meet Christ in the Passover on Thursday,March 22, at 6 p.m. at the Jefferson United MethodistChurch, 125 E. Jefferson St., Jefferson.

More than 3,000 years ago, God commanded theJewish people to celebrate the Passover. Jesus Him-self celebrated this holiday every year. Today, millionsof Jewish people around the world gather each springfor a Passover meal.

Stewart Weinisch, from Jews for Jesus, will be lead-ing us through a Model Seder Meal. Jews for Jesususes creative methods and contemporary issues topresent the message that Jesus is the Messiah to Jew-ish people around the world. A Model Seder meal (thePassover) will be served. The symbolic meaning ofeach of the foods served will be explained by Mr.Weinisch. (The food served will be in small portions,not a filling “meal.” Its purpose is to each us about aJewish Seder meal.)

Through this experience you’ll relive the drama ofthe Last Supper, discover the origin of Communion,experience the rich heritage of our Christian faith andgain a fuller understanding of Jewish evangelism.

Please make your reservation for the meal by call-ing the church office at 576-4561.

March 23 marks 150th anniversaryof the Battle of Kernstown

SeCheverell, fromHarpersfield, was a youngdrummer in the regimentand when he wrote a regi-ment history several yearslater, he remembered thewaiting as a “vexatious de-lay.” Several undoubtedlyworried that they mightshow the “white feather” orcowardice, yet they weredoing their best not to showeach other how scared theywere. It was during thishalt that the wait becameagonizing. They were aboutto experience “the ultimatereason for being in thearmy, the ultimate test ofcombat, that terrifyingmaelstrom which changedeveryone who experiencedit,” explained military his-torian Philip Katcher.

Finally, the waitingended.

“Down the WinchesterPike we went,” wrote amember of the 29th Ohiowho identified himself onlyas “Seelye” in a letter thatlater appeared in theAshtabula County Sentinelof Jefferson. “We came nearwhere the cannon fire wascoming from, yet we couldnot see the Rebel guns forthey occupied an elevatedand concealed position.There, the brigade stoodand waited while artilleryfire cut into its ranks.”

Soon, according toSeelye’s memory, “withloaded muskets at a rightshoulder shift,” the 29thOhio “took to the doublequick and yelling like tigerscame upon the foe.”

“As we were descendinga gentle slope of groundtheir infantry and artillery,concealed behind a stonewall, poured a volley of bul-lets and artillery roundsamong us, mowing mendown like grass,” Lt.Winship recalled in his let-ter. According to Seelye, “Itseemed as if the ballswhistled through every footof air and struck in everyyard of earth.”

“Many pressing invita-tions were given for eter-nity,” Seelye wrote, “yet thepassing over Jordan wastoo sudden for the nervesand comparatively few in-vitations were accepted.”The men of the 29th Ohiostaggered forward whileConfederate artillery filledthe air with hissing shardsof metal. Musket fireroared without letup. Offic-ers yelled. Wounded menscreamed in agony as minieballs shattered bone andripped through flesh.

The men knew little ofwhat was happening exceptfor what they could see di-rectly ahead of them andwhat they saw was a mix-ture of horror and confu-sion.

Corporal John Marsh ofCompany I of the 29th Ohiolater explained, in a letterto his father, how wicked hebecame at Kernstown: “Inthe excitement of battle Icould aim at them whenonly forty or fifty yardsfrom me, as coolly as I everdid at a squirrel. But nowit seems very much like

murder. They would throwup their hands and fall al-most every time we wouldget a fair shot at them, andwe would laugh at their mo-tions and make jest at theirmisfortune. I can’t imaginenow how we could do it. Thefact is, in battle, man be-comes a sinner and delightsin the work of death. If hisbest friend falls at his side,he heeds it not, but presseson, eager to engage in thewholesale murder.”

“Keep cool, aim well,”shouted Captain WilliamFitch, commander of Com-pany A, which had been re-cruited in Jefferson andHartsgrove.

“Every moment I lookedfor the captain to fall, yethe did not,” Seelye wrote.Lieutenant W.P.Williamson of Akron wasnot so fortunate. He wasshot in the head and diedimmediately. He was hitwhile “waving his swordand cheering on his men,”Seelye said. Williamsonwas the first officer of the29th Ohio to die in battle.

The fighting raged untilnightfall when the Rebelsbegan to show signs of giv-ing way. Jackson’s troopswere running out of ammu-nition. As darkness beganto cover the battlefield, theRebels began to fall backand the men of the 3rd Bri-gade dashed toward thestone wall, turning theConfederate withdrawalinto a near rout. In theirflight, Jackson’s men aban-doned two artillery pieces.

“The whole line sprangforward, and with cheerssounding above the roar ofthe conflict, in the teeth ofa murderous fire, we sweptover the stone wall and atbayonet point drove theRebels from their position,”SeCheverell recalled.

The Yankees who foughtat Kernstown were “goodsoldiers, westerners mostlyplus a few Pennsylvanians,and some regiments wouldeventually be listed withthe best combat units in theUnion Army,” Civil War his-torian Bruce Catton wrote.“For the rest of the warShields’ men bragged theywere the only ones who hadever beaten StonewallJackson in an open fight.”

Corporal March, in hisletter to his father, de-scribed the faces of thedead: “Some seemed to havedied in the greatest agony;others wore a smile even indeath.” The pitiful wails ofthe wounded, crying for wa-ter, mothers, wives, or sis-ters permeated the airaround the Northerners toadd more unpleasantness totheir evening after thebattle had ended.

The men of the 29thOhio took pride in the waythey stood up under fire atKernstown. “Not an officeror private on the fieldshowed the white feather,”the regiment’s chaplain,Russell Hurlburt, laterwrote. “Our officers and sol-diers all conducted them-selves bravely. Suffice it tosay that it was a very hard-

fought battle, and none ofus are anxious that itshould become necessaryfor us to be in as close quar-ters again.” PrivateThaddeus Simmons ofCompany A had a Rebelbullet “pass my face so closethat it cut both my lips.”

After the battle Ser-geant Thomas Hendersonof Company I wrote a let-ter to his sister in WestAndover. “We fought nearlythree hours,” he told her.“They left in haste,” he saidof the enemy. “Jackson hasthe best fighting men thatthe South has and we drovethem from the field. I stoodin the hottest of it. Theydropped on my right andleft but still I stood firm tillthe last gun was fired. Iescaped without a wound,but I got my pants cut justabove the knee. I got lots ofclose calls, more than Iwant again.”

Sergeant Henderson hadno idea the war would wearon for three more bloodyyears. “We all think weshall be home by theFourth of July. I hope so, forour work is hard and ourexposures are great.” Hispurpose for wearing theuniform remained strong,he said. He and his com-rades were fighting for “thepreservation of our country.It is the duty of every per-son to send prayers to quellthis evil which is spreadingdevastation throughout ourland.”

Years after the guns ofthe Civil War were silent,a former private in theStonewall Brigade remem-bered Kernstown as “one ofthe hardest little battles ofthe war.” In a letter to hiswife, another of Jackson’smen admitted, “We had asevere fight today and werepretty badly whipped.” AUnion officer who foughtthere remembered that,“the infantry fire was asheavy as it was at thebattles at Antietam,Gettysburg, or the Wilder-ness.”

Five men of the 29thOhio were killed, sevenwere wounded and two re-ported missing.

Jim Booth is a retiredjournalist and once servedon the staff of the GazettePublications. He is author ofA Good and Holy Cause, ahistory of the 29th Ohio Vol-unteer Infantry Regiment,which was raised in theWestern Reserve and rendez-voused in Jefferson in thelate summer and fall of1861. About half its mem-bers came from AshtabulaCounty. On Saturday,March 24, the Andover Pub-lic Library will host a CivilWar program that will fea-ture the 29th Ohio andBooth’s history. Proceeds ofthe sale of the book benefitthe Ashtabula County His-torical Society. The bookmay be purchased off theSociety’s Website atwww.ashtcohs.com or bycontacting the author [email protected] andis available at LofthouseBooks in Ashtabula.

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Danny Miles and Christi Perko provided the drumbeat atGHS Thespians Spring Musical production Once on thisIsland last weekend. On stage is lead actress MeganKern as Ti Moune.

PHOTOS BY JAN PERALA FOR GENEVA SCHOOLSGrace Lillie and Ariel Stehura provded pianoaccompaniment for Geneva High School ThespiansSpring Musical production Once on this Island lastweekend.

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“We want to thank thestudents and staff in theirsupport for this cause. OurStudent Council and Se-nior Leadership Club wereextra supportive. Ms.(Stacy) Hinkle and Mr.(Michael) Barney ralliedthe students,” Huber said.

The top two fund rais-ers were Jackie Pascsalko($156) and Matt Posiadala($200).

Patrick Martin pro-vided entertainment be-fore the plunge.

“Mr. Huber had me playthe violin,” he explained.“I guess he wanted to dosomething unique for ourschool.”

At the request of sev-eral plungers, Martinplayed the song “NearerMy God to Thee,” the songthe orchestra was playingin the movie Titanic as the

ship sank. Then he played“Danny Boy.”

Martin described theevent as being a lot of fun.

“I wish I would’ve doneit more than just thisyear,” he said. “It wasn’ttoo cold but the sand wasfreezing. We went out intothe water all in a line andwalked around to the res-cue team. We gave themeach a high-five as wepassed.”

Brad Kobernik was oneof the first in and out ofthe water.

“When I got there I wasnervous and cold. I jumpedin and got completely cov-ered with water. Then myentire body went numberbecause it was only 32 de-grees. I got through theline as quickly as pos-sible,” Kobernik said.

“There were plenty of

JAHS had over 35 participants in Saturday’s Polar Bear Plunge at Roaming Shores

medical personnel to keepthe jumpers safe,” Huberexplained. “The commu-nity organizers, Chris

Plickert, and Shawn Mor-ris, did an outstandingjob. We are looking for-ward to it next year.”

Other charities thatwil l benefit from theplunge are the Rock CreekArea Community Center,

Conversation Station andRoaming Shores Break-fast with Santa.

Falcons do swim, at least for a good cause.

Falcons rush into the water at Roaming Shores.

Cooper Cleveland, Kyle Dunford, Caitlin Sukalac, Jacob Dengg and Jon Hubler allparticipated in the Polar Bear Plunge

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bilitation Center.—Fleming and Billman Funeral Directors.—Bloomers Florist.Business owners and staff also will have

an opportunity to network during the event,as a special business-to-business network-ing portion of the event will be held from 2-3 p.m.

The Chamber also has a couple of otherupcoming events, including the Citizen ofthe Year Awards Banquet, which will be

held Tuesday, March 27, at the JeffersonCommunity Center. Social hour will beginat 6 p.m., with dinner being served at 7 p.m.

During the dinner, several awards willbe given out, including the Citizen of theYear and the Youth of the Year awards.

The Chamber also is making plans forits annual Easter Egg Hunt, to be heldMarch 31 at the Jefferson Area High School.

Stefanie Wessell, senior editor for GazetteNewspapers, may be reached [email protected].

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Kindergarten children must befive years of age on or before

Sept. 30, 2012Registration and screening will be by appointment

only at:• Jefferson Elementary SchoolTuesday, April 17, 2012 and Wednesday, April 18,

2012• Rock Creek Elementary SchoolThursday, April 19, 2012Make your appointment by calling your school office

from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. starting Monday, March 19,through Friday, March 30.

Important: During this call, please be prepared togive your child’s full name, mailing and street address,home phone number, cell phone number, date of birth,and the names and work phone numbers of parents/cus-todian/guardians.

You need to bring your child to the registration ap-pointment and your child’s:

1. Birth Certificate2. Immunization Record – State law requires:

Kindergarten registration to be heldfor Jefferson Area Local Schools

5 DTAP, 4 IPV, 2MMR, 3 Hepatitis B, 2 ChickenPox (Complete Immunization Record is required at thetime of registration.)

3. Proof of ResidencyBring your most recent electric or other utility bill –

must have your name, address and date on it. (If youare living with a relative or friend, bring their mostrecent electric or other utility bill – must have theirname, address, and date on it.)

4. Legal document showing proof of custody if adivorce or separation is involved.

Developmental Screening:A series of tests will be given to your child. The ar-

eas screened will be: Language Arts, Math, and Speech/Language. The screening program will not exclude anychildren from school that are of legal age. However, itwill help parents make informed decisions about theirchild’s school career. Allow approximately 45-60 min-utes for your appointment.

Additional Services:Jefferson Safety Town Registration – sponsored by

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Rock Creek Elementary School PTOIt is important that you register your child on one of

these dates so that we can plan classes now for the fall.

Author to speak at JCRCJEFFERSON - The

Jefferson Community/Recre-ation Center and theJefferson Senior Center ispleased to announce a veryspecial event.

Maribeth Morrissey, whois featured monthly in theAshtabula County Women’sJournal, will come speak inApril to Jefferson Villagearea residents.

This event is open to any-one and all proceeds benefitthe Jefferson Senior Center.

Details include:• 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 18.Cost is $12.RSVP required at 576-9052. Space is limitedIt’s never too late to feel better!Come learn skills to deal with life’s stresses:• Depression• Chronic Pain• Addiction• Sleep Problems• Illness

Maribeth Morrissey

BY DOUG HLADEKSuperintendentJefferson Area Local Schools

Thanks to our communityfor renewing two permanentimprovement levies in lastweek’s primary election. Thedistrict is grateful for thecontinued support receivedfrom our taxpayers to pro-vide quality facilities andeducation for the district’s1,960 students.

Similar to other countyand Ohio school districts,there are serious fundingchallenges facing theJefferson Area Local Schoolsnext year with the decreasein state revenue and in-creased operating costs. TheBoard and administrationare preparing expenditurereductions and consideringfunding options to maintaina balanced budget for nextschool year.

The district has reducedcosts for the past severalyears through reduction ofstaff positions and other pro-gram cuts. Last year, twelvestaff retirements reduced

News From Our Schools

the total number of positionsin the district through attri-tion and prevented any lay-off of current employees.Again this year staff reduc-tions, program adjustments,and other means will beneeded to maintain costs.

Jefferson High Schoolstudents are taking the OhioGraduation Test this week.Students must receive apassing score in all five sec-tions in order to graduate.Elementary students willtake the Ohio AchievementAssessments the week ofApril 23.

The state tests measurestudents, schools, and dis-tricts on their proficiency incore curriculum subjects.

The scores provide informa-tion to parents about theirchild compared to studentsof the same grade level inOhio. Also, test scores areused to compare and rankschools and districts for thestate report card.

In April, the JeffersonArea Local Schools will havea regular review by the OhioDepartment of Education forboth our Special Educationand Title I programs. Theprograms are funded withfederal and state revenue forqualifying students. The re-view will rate our compli-ance to the regulations guid-ing each program.

Monday, the high schoolband presented an outstand-ing concert for parents andthe community. The perfor-mance included musical se-lections to be played Fridaynight during the adjudicatedcontest at Warren HowlandHigh School.

The Jefferson HighSchool choir will host a din-ner music theater at theJefferson Nazarene Churchon Friday, March 16, from 5-6 p.m. A spaghetti dinner isplanned and tickets are

available at the door.Last Saturday, students

from Jefferson High Schoolparticipated in a chilly Po-lar Bear Plunge at RoamingShores. A total of $1,851 wascollected by students to ben-efit the Jefferson AcademicBooster organization. TheBoosters promote academicachievement and providerecognition throughout theschool year for students.Several teachers joined inthe frigid event.

The Falcon Follies arepracticing for their annualpresentation at JeffersonArea High School. It will beanother outstanding eventthat everyone should see.Plan to attend a show in theschool auditorium onMarch 22, 23, or 24 at 7p.m.

Thank you for supportingour schools. Check the dis-trict website calendar orwatch for announcementsabout our activities atwww.jefferson.k12.oh.us, orvisit your schools. For moreinformation about yourschools, contact me at theBoard of Education office(576-9180).

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Hillyer to serve on OSBA committeeJacqueline Hillyer, a member of the Buckeye Local

Schools, has been named to the following committees atthe Ohio School Boards Association:

—Legislative Platform CommitteeThe Legislative Platform Committee is composed of five

school board members from each of OSBA’s five regions. Thecommittee assists in state and federal legislative efforts,recommends policy positions and acts on resolutions sub-mitted by boards of education that are members of OSBA.

Committee appointments were finalized at the Janu-ary meeting of the OSBA Board of Trustees.

Ashtabula County Students in grades K - 12, you areinvited to submit one of your best paintings, drawings,or multi-media pieces to Henderson Memorial PublicLibrary’s annual art show and contest. The contest willbe judged for “Best of Show” by a panel of art critics.The public will judge “People’s Choice” by a popular voteduring a special one-night open house. Prizes areawarded for the best pieces in seven age groups. Teach-

Annual County-Wide Student Art Contesters are encouraged to submit students art work. Formore information stop by the library or call 576-3761and ask for Dee Culbertson.

Entries Due: March 20, 2012 by 5 p.m.Art Critics Judging: March 26, 2012Open House and Thursday, March 29, 2012Public Judging: 5-7:30 p.m.


ASHTABULA TOWN-SHIP - Hundreds of childrengathered at the AshtabulaTowne Square on Saturday,March 10, to celebrate Dr.Seuss’ birthday.

The children listened ea-gerly as Barb Tack, youthspecialist at the AshtabulaCounty District Library,read some of Dr. Seuss’ mostpopular books. Tack camedressed for the occasion,wearing a Cat in the Hat cos-tume that amused the chil-dren as they gatheredaround her on the stage atthe Ashtabula TowneSquare.

The event also included aspecial activity from theKingsville Public Librarycalled “There’s a Wocket inmy Pocket.” The ConneautPublic Library also de-lighted children with a pup-pet show, and staff from theAndover Public Library andHarbor-Topky Library alsoread their favorite books.

The Ashtabula CountyLiteracy Coalition sponsored

Birthday celebration at AshtabulaTowne Square promotes family literacy

Head Start displayed this Papier-mâché creation of theCat in the Hat.

the celebration in support ofthe National EducationAssociation’s Read AcrossAmerica Project. The eventwas geared toward childrenin grades pre-school throughfourth grade.

Children received freebooks and other free gifts,and door prizes were givenout between the readings,held every 30 minutes.

Parents also received in-formation on family-literacyprograms and special eventsbeing conducted throughoutthe county from vendorssuch as Head Start, AfterSchool Discovery and HelpMe Grow.

“The coalition would liketo express the importance ofhaving children start read-ing at a young age, or theparents reading to them,”ABLE Program SupervisorJeff Seth said. “Studies showthat children do better inschool if they start readingat a young age. They becomeexcited to read and look for-ward to it. We encourageparents to sit down withtheir children every night forat least a half hour.”

Parents brought theircameras and children en-joyed getting their phototaken with Cat in the Hat.Besides the free books, sev-eral drawings also were heldfor children to have an op-portunity to receive anotherfree book. Head Start inAshtabula also donated giftbaskets with the Dr. Seusstheme.

Adult Basic and LiteracyEducation Program Coordi-nator/Recruiter BeckyWayman-Harvey said thecrowd for Saturday’s pro-gram was probably theirlargest yet. She said the pro-gram had 527 books to giveaway to children that day.

“We sent out a flyer toeach and every elementaryschool in the county,”Wayman-Harvey said.

She also stressed the im-portance of children startingto read at an early age.

“Parents need to read totheir kids every day,”Wayman-Harvey said.

Wayman-Harvey alsothanked the partners in theliteracy coalition for theirsupport of the program.

The event was sponsoredby the Ashtabula CountyTechnical and Career Cen-ter; Adult Basic and LiteracyEducation/ABLE Program;After School Discovery;Andover Public Library;Ashtabula Area CitySchools/ESOL Program;Ashtabula County DistrictLibrary; Ashtabula County

Educational Ser-vice Center;Ashtabula CountyHead Start;Ashtabula TowneSquare; ConneautPublic Library; Ga-zette Newspapers;Harbor-Topky Me-morial Library;Henderson Memo-rial Public Library;Kent State Univer-sity – Ashtabula;Kingsville PublicLibrary; MediaOne; and the StarBeacon/Newspa-pers in EducationProgram.

Stefanie Wessell,senior editor for Ga-zette Newspapers,may be reached ats w e s s e l l @gazettenews.com.

PHOTOS BY STEFANIE WESSELLFour-year-old OliviaBrasome flips through hernew book during theliteracy event at theAshtabula Towne Square.

The children listen eagerly as Barb Tack, youth specialistat the Ashtabula County District Library, reads some ofDr. Seuss’ most popular books.

Children gathered around the stage to listen to some of Dr. Seuss’ most popular books being read.

Choosing ACMC.

Our community relies on ACMC for so many things in addition to quality healthcare. Th ings like good-paying jobs. More than 1,000 jobs, in fact, resulting in a $50 million payroll each year that is placed into our local communities — ranging from Geneva to Conneaut to the southern portions of Ashtabula county. Jobs that help support other county businesses. Jobs that generate nearly $650,000 in local income taxes — directly benefi tting our roads, our parks, and our police and fi re departments.

When you choose ACMC — a community-based, not-for-profi t hospital — you’re putting money back into our local economy. You’re helping to support the job of a relative, friend or neighbor. And you are providing a foundation to ensure that ACMC is here to benefi t you and our community for generations to come.

And our promise in return? With your help, to continue to invest in our communities and to deliver the highest level of care possible.

For a healthier community, choose ACMC. It’s a decision that aff ects so much more than your health.

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GENEVA - The GenevaShores Nursing and Reha-bilitation Center is keepingup with prosthetics rehaband research by workinghand in hand with HangerOrthopedic Group, a pros-thetics research companythat helped develop the pros-thetic fin for the dolphin thatinspired the movie, A DolphinTale.

Geneva Shores invitedHanger representatives to itsfacility to talk with staffabout the latest technology inprosthetics.

Hanger is constantly mak-ing new and improved pros-thetics models and helpedKevin Malloy, a local ampu-tee, find a leg that wouldwork for him.

“The technology is verysimilar to the way cell phoneshave changed,” Kim Reedsaid. “There’s a new cellphone all the time. So there’sa new foot all the time;there’s a new knee all thetime.”

Reed said Hanger is onthe cutting edge of prostheticscience.

“As science gets better,services and products get bet-ter,” Reed said.

John Gravino has been anamputee since 1989 when hewas hit by a drunk driver onthe way home from a partyand works with Hanger’sAmputee EmpowermentPartners.

“Some of the first stuff Iwas wearing is nowhere nearwhat is available today,”Gravino said.

Gravino said the socketdesign is one part of the pros-thetics he’s seen the biggestchange in.

“Socket design haschanged immensely. As far ascomfort and wearing time,there’s a lot of cool things in-volved in prosthetics andthey are making them moreuser friendly in my opinion,”Gravino said.

Gravino said Hanger isworking with the military toprovide services for troopswho come back with ampu-tees.

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANKim Reed speaks with theGeneva Shores staff aboutadvancements inprosthetics as they prepareto offer more services foramputee patients.

Geneva Shores invites prostheticscompany to talk with staff

John Gravino is anamputee himself and apart of the Hangersponsored group, AmputeeEmpowerment Partners.Gravino helped counselKevin Malloy at theGeneva Shores before andafter he became anamputee.

“A lot of this is beingdriven by military advance-ments and soldiers comingback because they deservethe best and that’s what isavailable to them right now,”Gravino said.

As a runner, Gravino wasexcited to see Hanger developa prosthetics just for running.

“The running feet aremuch stringier and it takesa lot to get used to,” Gravinosaid. “When you’re putting alot of energy load on thosefeet, they’re going to returna lot of energy and you needto be ready for that return onyour sound side.”

As a part of Amputee Em-powerment Partners,Gravino also goes and talkswith people who are, or areabout to become, amputees.

“We go out and reach outto other patients that needhelp and we talk to a lot ofthem,” Gravino said.

Gravino said it is verygratifying to provide an out-let for those who are still try-ing to cope with the idea ofno longer having a leg or arm.

“We can give them insightbased on what we wentthrough and that truly trans-lates into a good recovery andthey don’t feel like they’re inthe dark,” Gravino said.

Gravino wishes someone

who knew what he was go-ing through was readilyavailable in 1989 after hisaccident.

“I thought there was agap,” Gravino said. “It wasn’tanyone’s fault. You just feltlike you needed someone tocome and talk with you.”

Gravino said when losinga part of your body, you gothrough the five stages ofgrief just as if you had lostsomeone you love.

“Some people start at theend of the five stages of griefand work their way to the be-ginning. Everyone is differ-ent,” Gravino said.

Gravino said he acceptedthe fact he lost his leg, buthe found himself depressedafter leaving the hospital andrehab facility and no longerhaving their support.

“I think I accepted it earlyon, but then you reach a pointwhen you’re really de-pressed,” Gravino said.

As Geneva Shores acceptsmore amputee patients suchas Malloy, they want to con-tinue working with Hangerand Amputee EmpowermentPartners.

For more information onGeneva’s Shores involvementwith Hanger or to learn aboutthe facilities, call (440) 466-1181.

The Ashtabula County Choral MusicSociety will present Eternal Rest

The Ashtabula County Choral MusicSociety will present Eternal Rest, a con-cert of choral music for Lent and remem-brance on Sunday, March 25, at 4 p.m. atOur Lady of Mt Carmel Church, 1200 East21st Street, Ashtabula. Over 50 singersfrom throughout Ashtabula County willcombine their voices to perform Requiemby Gabriel Fauré with chamber orchestra,soloists Taylor Peel, soprano, and MaxJackson, baritone, and organist MaryRunyan. ACCMS Artistic DirectorKathleen Milford will conduct.

The concert is dedicated to the memoryof Carlos “Woody” Hudson, director (andsinging member) of choirs in the area for overfifty years including Edgewood High School,Town Choir, Messiah Chorus, AshtabulaCounty Choral Music Society, Men of Praise,and several area churches. He was also afounding Board member of the AshtabulaCounty Choral Music Society.

The Fauré Requiem is a setting of fu-neral and burial liturgy in seven move-ments: 1. Introit and Kyrie (Grant themeternal rest/Lord have mercy); 2. Offertory(O Lord, Jesus Christ); 3. Sanctus (Holy,holy, holy); 4. Pie Jesu (Blessed Jesu); 5.

Agnus Dei (Lamb of God); 6. Libera Me(Deliver Me); and 7. In Paradisum (In Para-dise). The French composer Gabriel Fauré(1845-1924), a choirmaster and organist inParis, completed his “first version” of theRequiem in 1888, in which five movementswere accompanied by a chamber orchestra.The “expanded” seven movement versionwas first performed in 1893. A third ver-sion for full orchestra premiered in 1900.The beauty of the melody lines, the rich cho-ral harmonies, and instrumental colorshave helped to make the work among themost popular of choral works of both sing-ers and audiences. The gentle forty minutesetting of the prayers for eternal peace in-vokes a genuine spiritual solace.

This concert is sponsored in part by: 1)event sponsor Nicholas Iarocci, attorneyat law; 2) a generous grant from the OhioArts Council; and 3) the generosity of pa-trons and business sponsors. Audiencemembers will be asked to contribute a sug-gested donation of five dollars to furtherdefray expenses and help provide futureopportunities for county singers and au-diences. For more information call 440-813-3771 or visit accms.org.

A l thoughno one was in-jured in thefire, a numberof animalsperished inthe fire, manyof which wereinvolved in theA s h t a b u l aCounty 4-Hprogram.

About 304-H Clubshow andb r e e d i n ggoats andmore than adozen chick-ens, as well assome rabbits,reportedly per-ished in thefire at theSalinger resi-dence. Severalhorses wereout of the barnand in the pas-ture whenfirefighters ar-rived and sur-vived, firefighters said.

Jyurovat estimates a totalloss of $190,000 from the fire.

A small number of ani-mals, including some other

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PHOTO BY BILL WESTGeneva firefighter J. Fortune carries a hose as GFD member DaleArkenburg pours water on the burning remnants of a livestock barnMonday at 3800 South Ridge Road (Route 84) in Saybrook Township.About 30 4-H Club show goats and more than a dozen chickensperished in the fire at the Becky Salinger residence. The barn was fullyengulfed by fire and the roof had already collapsed when Saybrookfirefighters arrived at the scene. Austinburg and Harpersfield firedepartments also responded to the call. South Ridge Road wastemporarily closed between Sanborn Road and Munson Hill Road.

chickens, that were housedseparately also survived,as well as a barn cat,Stripes.

The cause of the fire isstill under investigation bythe Saybrook TownshipFire Department.

Award Categories (Select one per nominee):

Cornerstone AwardDemonstration of the four “Cornerstones” of ACMC and Cleveland Clinic: Quality, Innovation, Teamwork and Service.

Living LegacyOngoing contributions that make Ashtabula County a better place to live, work and play.

Breaking the Barrier AwardExcellence in a position, program or task that had not previously been accessible due to gender, race, nationality, physical ability or other challenges.

REASON FOR NOMINATION

On a separate page, up to 400 words, describe the nominee’s community contributions as well as any other major accomplishments or volunteer activities that should be considered.

NOT ALL SUPERHEROES WEAR A CAPE.

This is for the modest ones. The selfless.

Those who are committed to making a difference

in Ashtabula County—every single day.

They don’t want a pat on the back. They just do what

they do for the love of our community.

And that’s exactly who we want to recognize at

the Third Annual ACMC Healthcare System

Community Impact Awards.

Simply complete the form below or at

www.acmchealth.org. Select the category that

best describes the outstanding contributions of your

nominee. A panel of community representatives will

then choose our 2012 award winners.

Let’s make a difference in the lives of our

community’s true difference makers.

ACMC Healthcare System Community Impact Awards Nomination Form

Please submit by March 19, 2012

Citizen of the YearGenerous contributions of time and talent to promote quality of life in Ashtabula County.

Youth Citizen of the YearDemonstrated leadership by those 18 or younger who make Ashtabula County better.

Spirit of ACMCAssociation with ACMC Healthcare System and demonstration of the Cornerstone tenets of Quality, Innovation, Teamwork and Service.

MAIL COMPLETED FORM TO:

ACMC Community Impact Awards c/o Business Development Ashtabula County Medical Center 2420 Lake Avenue Ashtabula, OH 44004

ACMC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARDS 2012

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