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GENEVA - It was a meeting ofthe minds as present and futurecommunity leaders gathered at theLodge and Conference Center atGeneva on the Lake on Fridaymorning. Geneva High School’sTop 100 students, those who haveearned grade point averages rank-ing them among the top twentyfive in their respective classes,were feted at the 18th annualBreakfast of Champions sponsoredby Geneva Rotary Club. TheBreakfast of Champions was es-tablished in 1996 by Geneva Ro-tary Past President and GenevaSchools Board of Education mem-ber Ford Behm to honor GenevaHigh School’s most accomplishedstudents, and an invitation to at-tend the event has become one ofthe most coveted honors a studentcan receive.

“To be invited to the breakfastis an honor and it is nice to see stu-dents being recognized for theirhard work and getting the oppor-tunity to have breakfast with ac-complished members of the com-

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JEFFERSON - Voters of theJefferson Area Local Schools dis-trict are being asked to renew a4.5-mills levy for current operat-ing expenses when they go to thevoting booth on Tuesday, May 7.

Superintendent Doug Hladeksaid this operating levy is used foroperating expenses of the schooldistrict, such as salaries, supplies,purchase services, electric, gaso-line for the bus, etc.

The levy pays for the day-to-dayoperations of the school, JALSTreasurer Pat Smith said.

Hladek stressed that the levy isa renewal levy, meaning voters arenot being asked to support a new

Rotarians honor Geneva High School’s top students

Geneva City Council President and Geneva Rotarian JeffreyPiotrowski serves up breakfast to future community leaders BrentMcFarland, Kim Brumagin, Emily Deering. Kaylee Madden and TylerHobel at the eighteen annual Breakfast of Champions at the Lodgeat Geneva on the Lake last Friday morning.

PHOTOS BY JAN PERALA FOR GENEVA SCHOOLSSophomore Jodi Zell was among the 100 high-achieving GenevaHigh School students honored at the eighteenth annual Breakfast ofChampions last Friday. Pictured with Zell are her father the Rev.Alexander Zell, who offered the invocation at the event, her momJulie and (left) Geneva Rotary President Evan Jahn and Breakfast ofChampions founder Ford Behm. munity,” GHS senior and four-timehonoree Clare Carlisle said.

Clare’s twin brother Ford, alsoa four-time honoree, agreed.

“It is always a great honor. Asstudents we always look forwardto the breakfast and strive to makethe top 25. It’s great to see so manycommunity leaders honoring edu-cation,” he said.

Following the Invocation of-fered by Pastor Alexander Zell ofPeoples Church, Breakfast ofChampions founder Ford Behmprovided opening remarks. Key-note Speaker for the event waseducator Charlie Rhyan. Rhyan’scomments were drawn from athirty two year career focused onimproving the lives of youngpeople.

Rhyan has served as a teacher,coach, athletic director, principal,bus driver and superintendent.Rhyan also served on a nationalboard which partnered withMicrosoft and Toshiba geared tobring technology to the classroom.He has been a Sunday Schoolteacher and presided on the boardsof Young Life and Big Brothers/BigSisters.

See ROTARIANS page 2A

JALS seeks renewal of operating levytax, and their property taxes willnot increase if they vote to renewthe levy.

The levy is actually 20 years oldand was first approved by votersin 1993, Hladek said. Since then,voters have been asked to renewthe levy every five years.

Because of the way schools arefunded in Ohio, this renewal levycan only provide the same revenueit generated in 1993. Meaning thateven if home values increased inthe district, a school district’s rev-enue remains the same as it waswhen the levy was first passed - inthis case, the values and revenueof 20 years ago.

Voting yes and renewing the levywill allow the district to maintain$595,477 per year of currently col-

lected tax revenue that the levy hasprovided since 1993, Hladek said.

If the levy is not renewed,Hladek said the district will haveto eliminate that amount from itsbudget.

“The district will have to find away to balance the budget,” Hladeksaid.

This will result in further cuts tothe district, and more than $2.25million of programs and personnelalready have been cut the past twoyears because of rising costs and theloss of state, federal and local rev-enue. Hladek said the district hasbeen very fiscally responsible inmeeting the demands of the cuts fromthe state and federal government.

See JALS page 2A


ASHTABULA - The AshtabulaSenior Center will soon be relocat-ing.

The Ashtabula County CouncilOn Aging Board voted to accept anoffer made by Ken Kister, owner ofMK2 PROPERTIES, LLC, to do-nate a building and property lo-cated at 4148 Main Ave., Ashtabula,for use as a senior center, ACCOABoard President Troy Bailey said.

“Plans for renovation and up-date of the building and propertyfor use by the Ashtabula SeniorCenter are currently in develop-ment,” Bailey said.

Bailey said the board is workingwith an architect on restorationplans. He explained that the Coun-cil on Aging received a $247,000 fed-eral grant to assist in the renova-tions. Former Congressman Steve

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The new property is located onMain Avenue, across from the oldSlappy’s building and next to a flo-rist. The building used to serve asa bank, Bailey said.

He said the new property willgive the senior center about 10,000square feet of usable space.

The senior center’s present loca-tion, at 4632 Main Ave., the oldShea’s Theater, only has about8,000 square feet of usable space.Bailey said the current location hashigh maintenance costs and notenough space for the seniors.

“Our operating expenses will belower at this new facility,” Baileysaid.

Bailey said the board has noimmediate plans for the use of thecurrent property.

“Hopefully we’ll be there in thefall,” Bailey said of the new loca-tion.


JEFFERSON - The JeffersonArea Chamber of Commerce hasnamed Jack and Mary Howe as the2012 Citizens of the Year.

The Howe family received theaward during the Chamber’s annualdinner on Tuesday, April 30, at theJefferson Community Center. Otherawards also were given out thatnight, including Nancy and the lateKen Sweet with the Lifetime of Ser-

vice Award; the Jefferson HistoricalSociety with the Charles “Chuck”Lewis Community Service Award;Melanie March as the Youth of theYear; and Frank Hall with the GoodSamaritan Award.

2011 Citizen of the Year JerryMarch presented the Howe couplewith their award.

“Our 2012 Citizens of the Year arevery active in their respectivechurches. Sometimes she refers to

Howes named 2012Citizens of the Year

PHOTO BY STEFANIE WESSELLThe Jefferson Area Chamber of Commerce have named Jack andMary Howe as the 2012 Citizens of the Year. Pictured, from left, are2011 Citizen of the Year Jerry March, Jack Howe, and Mary Howe.

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At the conclusion of theprogram, Geneva Schools Su-perintendent and RotarianMary Zappitelli and GenevaRotary President Evan Jahnpresented each Breakfast ofChampions honoree with aframed certificate of achieve-ment.

“We have lots of highachievers at GHS, and it iscompetitive to make the top25,” Principal DouglasWetherholt said. “But the stu-dents honored at the Break-fast of Champions are not justacademically excellent. As Ilooked around the room, I sawa state ranked golfer, tennis,soccer and track stars. EagleScouts, school columnists,State Science Team members,the winner of the Rotary 4Way Speech Contest, MissGrapette and members of hercourt, class officers and threeHugh O’Brien LeadershipConference delegates. Thesestudents are talented actors,writers, artists, vocal and in-strumental musicians andthey devote hours of theirtime to community serviceprojects and many hold downpart time jobs. These stu-dents personify Eagle Pride.”

2013 Geneva RotaryBreakfast of Champions

honorees:Freshmen: Noel

Armstrong, Brittany Aveni, Lo-gan Barmess, HannahBendelewski, CourtneyCoffman, Shayla Cross, DavidDeLaat, Mitchell Felde, TylerHall, Courtney Harriman, Aus-tin Hungerford, Cecelia Hunt,Taylor Isbell Stoltz, LauraJackam, Brittani Kurt, AmandaLandon, Lindsey Mayle,

ROTARIANS From page 1A JALS From page 1A

Makayla Novak, Erika Perko,Jacob Rogerson, Alyce Simoes,Zachary Stehura, Derek Studer,Hannah West, Thomas Weston.

Sophomores: AnneliseBaker, Brianna Berrier,Michelle Brick, KimberlyBrumagin, Anthony Cardaman,III, Emma Cigany, SarahCulliton, , Emily Deering, HaleyDodge, Jason Downie, TylerHobel, Isaac Hraga, MeganKern, Grace Lillie, Kaylee Mad-den, Taylor Maiher, BrentMcFarland, Madeleine Miller,Danielle Nicholson, MichaelaParker, Joshua Roney,Alexander Smith, JamesWiencek, Kyle Williams, JodiZell.

Juniors: Jacob Burgett, Christa Cash, VladislavChipiga, Annaliesa Fistek, Ashley Freeman, Tyler Hunt,Shannon Joseph, Ekaterina

Kovshikova, Joseph Loftus, Alyx Lynham, KathleenMcDonald, Daniel Miles, RyanNappi, Samantha Nousak, Kateline Peck, Allison Penna, Elyse Pitkin, Anna Quickle,Matthew Seeds, Ariel Stehura, Joshua Swanson, RonaldVarckette, Zachary Watts, MaryWessell, Abigail Williams.

Seniors: LyndseyArmstrong, Jacob Blakeslee,Alisabeth Cardaman, ClareCarlisle, Ford Carlisle, HannahCasey, Alexandria Clarke, GinaColosi, Giovanni DeJesusGonzalez, Cameron Dodge,Shelby Domino, Anna Forman,Nicole Grimmett, Jacob Groce,Paige Huggins, SpencerHuggins, Julia Kibler, NicholasLamb, Alexander Logan,Caitlyn Long, Morgan Nazor,Christine Perko, Joseph Roney,Amy Scott, Joshua Smith.

Budget cuts already have eliminated el-ementary band, elementary computer in-struction, Family Consumer Science classes,select extracurricular and sports activitiesand other offerings. Cuts also have reducedguidance counselor services, high school aca-demic offerings, bus routes, custodial servicesand more, Hladek said. The school districtnow only has one half of a guidance counse-lor, who also teaches health, instead of thethree it had previously. This means studentsare not receiving as much guidance when itcomes to scholarship applications and theirplans for after high school.

One of the biggest effects on the studentshave been the larger class sizes, JALS Boardof Education President Pat Inman said.Teacher reductions have resulted in increasedclass sizes of 30 or more students in many el-ementary classrooms and 35 or more studentsin many junior/senior high school classes.

Hladek and Inman said these larger classsizes have put stress on the students and haveresulted in less individualized attention tothe students.

Voting yes on the levy will help preventfurther program or personnel cuts in the dis-trict, Hladek said.

“We are highly encouraging our voters toget out and vote,” Hladek said.

Hladek also cleared up some misconcep-tions about the school district, including ques-tions of whether anyone has received raises.For the past two years, the unions haveagreed to a zero-percent salary increase.Hladek said the union also agreed to freezestep increases. A step increase is an automaticincrease in salary based on previous experi-ence.

Some people also have asked why theschool district purchased a bus instead of us-ing that money for sports or other activities.Hladek said the money to buy the bus camefrom the permanent-improvement levy,which is earmarked for specific purposes only,including textbooks, technology and buses.The bus had to be replaced because every yearthe Ohio State Highway Patrol conducts in-

spections, and the school district was told totake some of its older buses out of service, thusthe need for the replacement bus.

Inman shared a discussion she had withher mother about the levy.

“My mother, who is going to be 93 nextmonth, said to me, ‘I guess people are not valu-ing education,’” Inman said.

Inman’s mother told her that when she wasyounger, the only way people could changetheir lives was through getting an education.

“She said, ‘All I can see is, it seems to behurting the kids,’” Inman recalled. “She and Iboth said, ‘as the schools go, so goes the com-munity.’ Do people want to come to theJefferson area? If the schools are going well,they do.”

Levy Chair Philip Pawlowski said peoplemight not always agree with the school dis-trict, but you can’t make improvements bythrowing everything out.

“We’ve supported the schools for decades,”Pawlowski said.

For people to get hung up on small thingsand defund the schools over small issues doesn’tmake sense, Pawlowski said. If people want tochange things, they should attend the boardmeetings or run for a seat on the board them-selves, not vote down renewal levies, he said.

“To yank funds is a short-sighted view,”Pawlowski said.

Michelle Fioritto, treasurer for the levycommittee, agreed with Pawlowski that noteveryone is going to agree with everyone else,but change takes time. She stressed the im-portance of going out to vote.

“Every single vote is important,” Fiorittosaid.

Smith said that she hasn’t been with thedistrict for very long, but she already has no-ticed that the district does what is best for thekids and students.

“When I look at anything, I think of ourstudents and kids and how it will affect them,”Smith said.

The renewal of the levy is necessary tomaintain the current level of services at thedistrict, Smith said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DR. MIKE MESHGINPOOSHGeneva Rotary President Evan Jahn presents GenevaHigh School sophomore Kyle Williams with a certificateof achievement at the eighteenth annual Breakfast ofChampions. Williams, who is a three-year member of theGeneva Schools award wining State Science Team,earned a grade-point average ranking him among theTop 25 students in the Class of 2015.


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GENEVA – The Friendsof the Geneva Library ishosting the third annualwinery fundraiser, UncorkedFor Books, Saturday, May 4,from 4 to 8 p.m. at DebonneVineyard.

The yearly event, thatraises a significant amountof the group’s budget, will beheld in the private pavilionat the Doty Road establish-ment. There will be a winetasting, iced tea, an assort-ment of light appetizers,door prizes, a Chinese auc-tion, a 50/50 raffle and asmall gift for all in atten-dance. The band, Hat Trick,is scheduled

Tickets are $20 per per-son and may be purchased atGeneva Library or by callingRuth Bogue at 440-520-3497. A limited number oftickets will be available atthe door, Bogue said.

Raffle items include agrill accessory kit; a rollingpin and cookie cutters; amixing bowl set; a readingflex light and bookmark; bin-oculars; a toaster; a quilt;gardening supplies; an as-sortment of books; a wall

SUBMITTED PHOTOStudents at Jefferson Area High School recently were inducted into the National Honor Society. Advisor for theprogram is Scott Barber. Pictured are: row 1, Allison Simon, Andrea Eddy, Sarah Jeppesen, Tesla Stone, SydneyBaldwin, Ashton Adkins, Bernadette Geraghty and Kadi Scafuro; row 2, Giulia Giancola, Sarah Solarek, JenicaKidd, Caitlin Sukalac, Megan Cowling, Tayler Johnson, Colleen O’Connor and Katherine DeVivo; row 3, LeeAnnFarr, Ashton Allen, Autumn Hayes, Bionca McCullough, Melanie March, Hannah Frederick and Dena LaPlante; row4, Steven Houser, Kyle Ashburn, Audra Franley, Ariann Barille, Abigail Kovacs and Sarah Brook; row 5, David Chase,Conor Cicon, Troy Bloom, Andrew Picard, Nicholas Tripodi, Dylan Dean and Justin Butler. Missing from the photoare Nicholas Hiltz and Mollie Ballew.

JAHS students inducted into NHS

Friends are ‘Uncorked for Books’

clock; wine and jewelry.“This year we will be rais-

ing funds to build a gazeboon the grounds in the frontof the library,” she said. Inprevious years, a much-

needed storage shed waspurchased for placement be-hind the library and also asurveillance system brand isbeing decided upon to com-bat vandalism she added.

Friends of the Geneva Li-brary hold regular meetingson the first Tuesday of eachmonth at 6 p.m., at the library.

“We’re always looking fornew members,” Bogue said.

PHOTO BY MELINDA FRANCISRuth Bogue (left), Louise Stein, and Mary Schneider are a few of the Friends of theGeneva Public Library who are hosting Uncorked for Books at Debonne Winery, may4 from 4 to 8 p.m.

Third Annual Community Prayer Service todayToday, Wednesday, from 7 to 8 p.m., Eagleville Bible

Church is hosting the third annual Community PrayerService at 1981 SR 45, Rock Creek. A teen hang-time willimmediately follow for all youth and will include an hourgames, food, and fellowship. All are welcome.


GENEVA – City residentswill have an opportunity tovote on Issue three nextweek that, if passed, will al-low the income tax to beraised from 1.5 to 2 percent,City Manager JamesPearson said.

This is the first time in 12years voters have been askedto approve a tax increase.

“We did 1 percent in 1977.It was not until 2001 that we

Geneva voters asked to consider income-tax increaseasked voters to increase it to1.5 percent,” he said.

The most recent requestcomes as a result of the citybeing left in a tail spin overcuts made by the state.

“There’s been a reductionfrom the state in local fund-ing, the repeal of the inherit-ance tax, and a loss in per-sonal property taxes. We’regoing to lose about half a mil-lion dollars each year,” hesaid.

The income tax is the fair-est for residents to help with

that deficit, he said.“This income tax is based

strictly on earned income.This way the seniors on afixed income won’t be af-fected,” he said.

If the issue fails, then thecity’s futures ability to docapital improvement projectsand purchase new equipmentwill be diminished.

“That’s our road paving,bridge repair, storm sewers,equipment purchases. Any-thing that’s done in theground is a capital improve-

ment. When we went from1 to 1.5 percent, we prom-ised to invest at least 60percent into capital im-provement projects and wefar exceeded that amount,”Pearson said.

Although cuts from thestate have been in effect forthe last couple of years, 2013is the first year the city hasfelt the full effect, he said.

“As a city, we want to keepmoving forward and the in-crease will allow us to do justthat,” Pearson said.

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BY KIM PICKARDGazette Newspapers

ROCK CREEK - RockCreek Elementary Schoolhas announced its newestRoadrunner Award winner.

Monica Devine wasnominated by her third-grade teacher, KathrynDalheim, for being a goodcitizen at her school.

At recess Monica orga-nized students to help herclean the playground, pick-ing up litter that she sawlying around. She sawempty Powerade bottlesand lots of food wrappersthat had been left on theplayground by children vis-iting the playground afterschool, or bringing foodwith them at recess time.Monica did not like to seeall the garbage on herschool’s playground and feltit was dangerous for thechildren. She had beenlearning about Earth Dayand how to care for the en-vironment during her timeat the Redstone School-house, and knew the gar-bage was not good for theenvironment.

“I feel really excited, andvery proud of myself. It isan honor to be nominatedfor the Roadrunner Award,”Monica shared.

In recognition of theaward Monica received aRoadrunner t-shirt and abook called My Big Book of

March Roadrunnerorganizes clean-up

Animals.Mrs. Dalheim also said

Monica always wants tohelp others. She is willingto assist any other studentsand enjoys peer tutoring.Even substitute teacherswill comment on Monica’shelpfulness. She has astrong desire to “do her bestwork” and “wants to go theextra mile.”

Monica has expressedher plan to be a teacherwhen she grows up. Mrs.Dalheim has noticed thatMonica has picked up onmodeling her teachingmethods and has goodquestioning strategies.She likes to spend hertime after school each dayplaying preschool with twoyounger friends, Blakeand Jayden, to help thembe “really, really smart.”

Monica is the daughterof Jenie Morgan ofJefferson. Her favoritething about school is hang-ing around with herfriends and having fun.Her favorite books are NoDavid!, the MagicTreehouse books, andThunder Cupcakes.

The monthly Roadrun-ner award is given to stu-dents at Rock Creek el-ementary who have shownextra effort or good citizen-ship. The award is spon-sored by the school andCantini’s Village Market inRock Creek.


JEFFERSON - The2012-2013 school year sawmany budget cuts that leftJefferson Area LocalSchools students withlarger class sizes and fewereducational opportunities.

One of the classes thatwas cut at both Rock Creekand Jefferson Elementaryschools was computer in-struction for students inthird through sixth grade.

Janet Grout had beenteaching elementary com-puter education in theJefferson Area LocalSchools district for approxi-mately 10 years. Fortu-nately she was able to re-tain a position with the dis-trict when she was movedto the junior/senior high toteach computers there.

When Grout taught theyounger grades, third grad-ers were introduced toTouch Typing, which wasthen reinforced in the fol-lowing grades. This is amethod of typing thatteaches the student to typewithout looking at the keys,allowing for speed and ac-curacy. In a world wherecomputers are prevalent,this is an essential skill.

Grout explains, “Mostoccupations these days in-volve computer use. Thefaster and more accuratesomeone is while using acomputer, the more effi-cient they will be.”

And the more valuableto their employer, she said.Now students are not intro-duced to Touch Typing un-til eighth grade. By then,bad typing habits have al-ready set in and are harderto eliminate. Students willtype slower and with lessaccuracy throughout therest of their school years

Students will lag behind without computer instruction

PHOTOS BY KIM PICKARDJefferson Elementary’s computer lab is unused manydays.

Rock Creek Elementary’s computer lab sits waiting forthe next class that has time to visit.

and into the workplace, un-dermining their value as anemployee.

The other computerskills the Grout taught car-ried over into the regularclassroom. She taughtword processing, workingwith spreadsheets, usingslide show programs, usinggraphics programs, under-standing Internet safetyand how to use theInternet. As students be-came comfortable with avariety of computer pro-grams, the classroomteachers were able to inte-grate technology into thecurriculum. And the ear-lier a student begins tolearn these computer skillsthe more Grout could buildon what they know andteach them even more.

This knowledge is alsoessential, Grout believes,because, “almost any occu-pation will use a computer.The more experience a stu-dent has with a variety ofcomputer programs, thequicker they will be toadapt to whatever newsoftware they will have touse as an adult or as a stu-dent.”

In today’s social andemployment culture it isessential that studentsknow how to use comput-ers.

“I find that in the highschool there are many stu-dents who don’t have theInternet at home and evenstudents who don’t have acomputer at home. With-out computer experience atschool, these students willbe at a huge disadvantageat school...to say nothing ofa disadvantage when theystart to look for a job,”Grout explains.

The later they receivecomputer instruction, thefurther behind they will be.

The classroom teachershave expressed their con-cern over the loss of com-puter instruction. KarenGough, second-gradeteacher, explained, “We areliving in a technologicalworld and even the secondgraders need to learn basicson computers. It is essen-tial that they learn how totype, use a word processingdocument with all of its fea-tures, and navigate theInternet safely.”

Ohio is one of 45 statesthat have adopted theCommon Core Standardsfor education. TheJefferson Area LocalSchools district will be re-quired to see to it that stu-dents achieve those stan-dards. Elementary com-puter instruction facili-tated achievement in theareas listed for the acqui-sition of English and Lan-guage Arts. Students im-

prove reading skills whenthey are exposed to a widerange of materials for in-formation and research.Using word processing pro-grams allows childrenmore freedom to expresstheir thoughts and ideas inwritten form. Children areencouraged to practiceproper language usage andbetter vocabulary whenthey can easily see theirthoughts in print. Com-puter instruction also al-lows them to use a varietyof media in their educationthat they would not havewithout it. The CommonCore Standards will beharder for students to ob-tain without elementarycomputer instruction.

The computer labs arestill in place and they areavailable for the teachers

to use with their students.But as second-grade

teacher Mary Ford shared,“I feel the children’s futureis working on computersand we don’t have time toexplore its use orabilities...especially be-cause many children do nothave computers at home touse and I have limitedknowledge.”

This is just one more ex-ample of what has been cutfrom the education of theJefferson Area students. Ifthe renewal levy up forvote on May 7th does notpass, another $600,000worth of cuts will be made,with school officials sayingthat with those cuts, moreeducational opportunitiesfor the children of Dorset,Rock Creek and Jeffersonwill be lost.

PHOTO BY KIM PICKARDMonica Devine with her teacher Kathryn Dalheim.

This ad featuring the Crosley Shelvador ran in TheGazette this day in 1936.

The Shelvador was innovative as it was the firstrefrigerator to offer shelving in the door to contain foodand it was available to residents at J.G. Williams Elec-tric Shop, located on the corner of where the JeffersonCommunity Center now stands.

The Powell Crosley was patented in 1934 and al-though it did not excel others in performance, it be-came a sales leader because of what it offered theAmerican housewife: she no longer had to reach so farinto the cold ice box for food.

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JEFFERSON - “In thenonstop tsunami of globalinformation, librariansprovide us with floatiesand teach us to swim.” -Linton Weeks, NationalCorrespondent for NationalPublic Radio.

The 2012 -2013 schoolyear has seen the librariesof the Rock Creek andJefferson Elementaryschools dark and mostlyunused. After the lastround of budget cuts, thelibrarians for each build-ing were moved to otherpositions. There are no li-brarians for either school.

As a result, the elemen-tary students have not hadweekly instructional visitsto the school library andhave rarely been able tocheck out books at all. Theonly books the childrenhave access to are thesmall collections theirteachers keep in the class-room.

The collection of 10,000to 12,000 books in theschool libraries, covering awide variety of topics, onmultiple reading levels,built over many years ofcareful research and selec-tion, is no longer readilyavailable to the students ofJefferson and Rock Creek.

According to the formerschool librarians, the li-braries each have an ap-proximate value of$70,000, with possibly$40,000 spent on booksand materials alone.

Without librarians, theseresources are extremelyunderutilized. Classroomteachers may visit and lookfor materials, when theycan find the time, but thechildren don’t often havethe opportunity to visit.

Without a librarian togive instruction about howto use a library, how to findthings, and teach what isavailable, the money spenthas been wasted.

Second-grade teacherMary Ford explained, “Ifeel the excitement and joyand love of reading is lostwithout the library. I havebooks in the room, but theyare not as loved as the li-brary books...even if theyare the same book! Thechildren are also losing theinstruction given as to howthe library is set up, cat-egories and other things tolend besides books. I alsofeel that having the re-sponsibility of borrowingand returning is lost.”

Karen Gough, also a sec-ond-grade teacher, says, “Ifeel it is such a loss to allstudents. Weekly library

Lost without the librarians

The Rock Creek Elementary library is usually dark andunused.

PHOTOS BY KIM PICKARDThe library at Jefferson Elementary is dark most of thetime.

time encourages students,especially at the second-grade level, to read. Stu-dents this year have missedout on the book talks andbeing read aloud to bysomeone else other thanthe classroom teacher.”

Former Jefferson El-ementary Librarian KathyDalsky shared how shewould teach the studentsthe four main sections ofthe library, book care, ABCorder and would doStorytime. She taught herstudents the call numbersfor each section and how touse the numbers to findwhat they want. Shetaught about the differentgenres in literature andhelped children to pick justthe right book.

Mrs. Dalsky showedstudents how to use refer-ence materials for researchand reports, how to use theonline catalog, the DeweyDecimal System and hadthem share what they readin classroom Book Talks.

More importantly,Dalsky shared her love ofbooks: “...you can travelthe world, solve a mystery,laugh until your stomachhurts, research a project,learn interesting factsabout people, places andthings...just by opening upa book!”

Barb Hale, former li-brarian for Rock Creek el-ementary, taught the sameskills as Kathy Dalsky inher classes with students.She feels strongly aboutthe need for librarians atthe elementary schools.

“These are skills thestudents will needthroughout their lives,from elementary school,through high school andcollege. As adults, it pre-pares them for jobs theymust do in the workforce,”Hale said.

She believes that nothaving this instructionwill put the students be-hind.

“Students need to knowhow to find materials notonly for pleasure readingbut for research and re-ports,” Hale said. “Our jobsas school employees are toprepare the students forthe future, and it’s gettingmore and more difficult ifwe don’t have the re-sources to do our job.”

“To all my librarianfriends, champions ofbooks, true magicians inthe House of Life. Withoutyou, this writer would belost in the dust.” - RickRiordan, author of thePercy Jackson and theOlympians series

The elementary schoollibrarians also provided a

much-needed service to theteachers at each building.From researching and or-dering materials, catalog-ing what was in stock, tobeing available to help thestaff find and check outwhat they need for theirown classroom instructionor for special projects, thelibrarians were there tohelp. Keeping the libraryin order so materials areeasily found, spendinghours at the end of eachyear doing inventory, andkeeping track of howschool library funds werespent are just a few otherways that Hale and Dalskyhave served the studentsand staff of the school dis-trict throughout the years.

Both the Jefferson andRock Creek communitiesare fortunate enough tohave their own public li-braries, but these cannotreplace the benefit of hav-ing access to a library atschool. Many families arenot able to get to the pub-lic library or parents arenot home after school totake their children.

Dalsky says, “That’swhere school l ibrariescome in...school librariescan also contribute to im-proved student achieve-ment by providing up- to-date instructional materi-als aligned to the curricu-lum and instructionalpractices.”

Also, without exposureto a library at school, chil-dren may not feel comfort-able in a public library, orknow what to do.

As Hale explains, “Thestudents need to be ex-posed to the resources inthe school library as muchas possible. This gets themprepared to utilize the pub-lic libraries also.”

“They open up the world.Because knowledge is use-less if you don’t know howto find it, if you don’t evenknow where to begin tolook.” — on librarians,Patrick Ness, author,Carnegie Medal winner,2012

The Common Core Stan-dards are curriculumguidelines which have beenadopted by 45 states, in-

cluding Ohio. These stan-dards list five main areasof importance for the acqui-sition of English and Lan-guage Arts skills; Reading,Writing, Speaking and Lis-tening, Language, Mediaand Technology.

Elementary library in-struction played a key rolein students achieving inthese areas. The librariansencouraged the love ofreading and facilitated anincrease in reading skills.The more a child reads, thebetter reader and writerthey become, the betterthey are at vocabulary andlanguage usage, grammarand spelling. When theyshare and discuss booksthey become better speak-ers and listeners. Whenthey use the library com-puters to search out a bookthey want to read, they be-come familiar with usingtechnology and media.

Without library instruc-tion, school officials be-lieve Jefferson studentswill struggle to meet theseCommon Core standardsand basic literacy will be-come more difficult toachieve.

There are many reasonsfor the shortage of funds inthe area schools. Whateverthe reason, when cuts aremade, the consequencesare always the same: thechildren suffer and fall be-hind, officials said.

Literacy is the founda-tion of all education. Li-braries are where literacythrives. When a decrease infunds necessitates remov-ing library instruction andlimits access to the schoollibrary, it undermines theliteracy potential of thestudents of the JeffersonArea school district.

Hale insists, “If you canread, you can learn to doanything.”

Without school librar-ians, the children of theJefferson Area School Dis-trict will be reading, anddoing, less and less.

“Whatever the cost of ourlibraries, the cost is cheapcompared to that of an ig-norant nation.” - WalterCronkite


JEFFERSON - For the pastseven years, the JeffersonArea Local School District hasbeen very fortunate to haveband director Fred Burazer.Mr. Burazer spent the first fiveyears in Jefferson teaching thefifth and sixth grade bands atJefferson and Rock Creek el-ementary schools. After theretirement of Mr. DennisLawrence, the district hiredhim to take over as junior andsenior high school director ofbands. Fred also teaches theStage Band class and assistswith an online AdvancedPlacement Music Theorycourse. Next year he will uti-lize his musical expertise toteach the music theory classhimself.

Mr. Burazer received hisbachelor’s degree in musiceducation from the DanaSchool of Music at YoungstownState University in 2006, oneof the oldest music schools inthe country. He is currentlypursuing his master’s degreein music education with KentState University. He holds thedesignation of Highly Quali-fied for teaching music pre K-grade twelve, according to thestate of Ohio standards for li-censing teachers.

Fred is a member of theOhio Music Educators Asso-ciation and takes advantageof their resources and oppor-tunities to continue his devel-opment as a teacher. He alsoinvolves his students in re-gional events such as Solo andEnsemble contest and HighSchool Band contest.

With the budget cuts madein the last year, Mr. Burazer’sjob has gotten more demand-ing. The position that includedelementary band director andhigh school assistant band di-rector was eliminated. Mr.Burazer alone has had to carrythe weight of training and or-ganizing the 100 membermarching band, conductingdaily band practices beginningin the middle of summer, su-pervising the band in perform-ing for all 10 football gameshome and away, changing theshow several times through-out the season. He must alsoprepare the band for contest,work with individual studentmusicians on their solo andensemble pieces, supervise theband through five different pa-rades, four band nights, fivedifferent concerts and appear-ances, three or more differentperformances for the twenty-two member Stage Band, andget both the 60 member sev-enth-grade and 58 membereighth-grade bands ready forthree of their own concertsthroughout the year.

Mr. Burazer must choosebetween at least 50-80 differ-ent pieces of music each yearto supply the four differentbands with new music foreach appearance. Since stu-dents stay in the high schoolband for several years, it isnecessary that he keep themchallenged and excited withnew music. Unlike manyteachers who can use thesame curriculum materialseach year, Fred has to startfresh. He can build on the tal-ents of the musicians he hadthe previous year, but he alsohas to accommodate the be-

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PHOTO BY KIM PICKARDFred Burazer directs the highschool band during class.

ginning skill levels of his newstudents as well.

Mr. Burazer has discov-ered that a lot of the publishedmusic available often doesn’tfit what he needs for his stu-dents.

“I do a lot of my own arrang-ing for my bands...oftentimes,the song we want to playdoesn’t exist for a particularensemble, or it does exist butit doesn’t suit the group. I tryto write arrangements of songsthat are educationally pur-poseful, but appropriate in dif-ficulty for the ensemble,” Fredexplained.

With the loss of the el-ementary band program,Fred also has to plan aheadfor when he has seventh-grade students who havenever had band before. With-out those first two years ofearly instrumental instruc-tion, those students will be-gin band at a lower skill levelthan students in previousyears. Over time the qualityof the high school band willdiminish. Fred supervises theYoung Artist Outreach pro-gram in hopes of preservingthe quality of the band pro-gram. This is a student-ledprogram where high schoolband students spend timewith sixth grade students whohad band in fifth grade butmiss having it this year. Theywork together on basic play-ing skills and share their en-thusiasm for music.

“I think music is vital tothe education of students atany grade level,” Fred shares.“When you first learn music,the value is in communica-tion and language. Musicteaches us how to read bet-ter by learning the languageof music. Music teaches usmath by counting rhythms.Music teaches us science bydividing and blending soundfrequencies. Music teachesus history, because some ofthe most famous music everwritten was written hun-dreds of years ago.” Fred goeson to say that later on, musicteaches us about ourselves. Itchallenges us to be perfect,yet creative at the same time.

Mr. Burazer believes thatthe qualities of a good musi-cian are the same as the typeof imaginative, innovative, in-ventive person that is goingto find a way to solve theworld’s problems.

“Music teaches us aboutothers and how to not justwork as a group, but to createsomething as a group.”

With Mr. Burazer as aband director, it is likely thatmany of his students will be-come the type of people whowill know how to be creativetogether, and strive to changetheir world.

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PHOTO BY MELINDA FRANCISPeter Forinash of Ohio Heritage Farm in Geneva,holds a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, one of the 14different breeds of poultry he raises.


GENEVA – Ohio Heritage Farm and Girard Nurs-eries will host Poultry Fest Saturday, May 11, from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. at 6839 North Ridge East.

“Basically we’re having 15 or so vendors from all overOhio who show birds,” said Peter Forinash of Ohio Heri-tage Farm. “When they show birds, they have to be bredto a standard and can not be mixed. They’re much higherquality and they will be vending chicks and adults.”

Free seminars will be held as well.Seminars include:11 a.m. - Raising a backyard flock1 p.m. - NPIP Rep and OBA2 p.m. - Raising water fowl3 p.m. - Ashtabula 4-H – Showing poultry4 p.m. - Breeding PoultryLocal 4-H groups will also have an opportunity to

take advantage of the sale before the general public,Forinash said. Several groups have already signed up.

Quality is the main reason they have organized theevent: to get better stock into the hands of 4-H kids.

“We want them to have an opportunity to have abetter choice of stock instead of just what comes froma hatchery,” Forinash said.

Vendors will be offering a high number of differentegg laying chicken and duck breeds that are true tostandard. Also available will be ornamental birds suchas geese and peacocks.

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JEFFERSON - Each year,the Village of Jefferson cel-ebrates Arbor Day by plant-ing a tree in honor of some-one who has impacted thecommunity.

This year, the tree wasplanted in honor of retiredJefferson Police Chief SteveFebel. Febel retired this pastyear after 33 years of service.Twenty-two of those yearswere spent as chief of theJefferson Police Depart-ment. Febel remains a part-time officer to assist the de-partment.

Because of Febel’s contri-butions to the local schools,the village and JeffersonArea Local School officialscame together to plant thetree. On Friday, village coun-cil members and officials,school administrators andboard of education membersand students from the GreenTeam planted the oak tree ina plot of land near the park-ing lot of the Jefferson AreaHigh School.

“We’d like to thank youfor all your years of hardwork,” Green Team officerDylan Dean said. “There arenot words strong enough toexpress our appreciation.”

Superintendent DougHladek said they picked thespot especially for retiredChief Febel because it over-looks the school campus,much like how Febel over-looked the campus.

“Chief Febel, you’ve beena loyal Falcon all your life,”Hladek said.

Not only did Febel gradu-ate from the school district,but he also once worked as aschool bus driver and me-chanic. He also coached sev-eral sports teams.

“We thank him for all theservice that he’s done,”Hladek said. “As a parentand as a law officer, we knowyou gave your heart and soulto these kids.”

Febel said he was veryhonored and humbled tohave the tree planted in hishonor. He thanked his par-ents, Joann and Peter, forhow they raised him, and healso gave credit to his wifefor sticking by him all theseyears. Febel also talkedabout his children, who alsoare graduates from theschool district.

On Arbor Day, individu-

Retired Jefferson Police Chief Steve Febel poses for a photo with his parents, Joannand Peter, and students at Jefferson Area High School.

Retired Jefferson Police Chief Steve Febel was honored with a tree planting in hishonor at Jefferson Area High School. Pictured, from left, are seniors Blake Perry andTroy Stitt, Superintendent Doug Hladek, JAHS Principal John Montanaro, Febel andJefferson Junior High School Principal Rick Hoyson.

Tree planted in retired police chief’s honor

Guests attended the tree-planting ceremony.

als and groups are encour-aged to plant and care fortrees. It originated in Ne-braska City, Nebraska, dur-ing 1872 by J. SterlingMorton. The first Arbor Daywas held on April 10, 1872,and an estimated one mil-lion trees were planted thatday.

Last year, the villageplanted a tree in honor of thelate Stu Case in front of theFirst Congregational UnitedChurch of Christ.

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

PHOTOS BY STEFANIE WESSELLRetired Jefferson Police Chief Steve Febel watches asJefferson Area High Schol seniors Blake Perry and TroyStitt finish planting a tree in his honor.

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themselves as a ‘Metholic’couple, since he is active in St.Joseph’s Catholic Church, andshe is active at JeffersonUnited Methodist Church,”March said.

March shared with the au-dience some of the accomplish-ments and service the Howecouple have received or con-tributed to the community, in-cluding Mary serving as theSunday School superinten-dent at Jefferson United Meth-odist Church for many yearsand organizing the first LivingGift Market, in which eachSunday school class sponsorsfundraising to purchase ananimal through Heifer Project

International.Howe also served on the

original Ashtabula CountyHabitat for Humanity Boardand recently served a secondterm. She encouragedJefferson United MethodistChurch to provide all of themanpower and finances tobuild a Habitat home here inJefferson, and two homes werebuilt through the church’sleadership.

Besides her many church-related activities, Mary alsohas been an active member ofthe Jefferson Food Co-Op, pro-viding people with an oppor-tunity to order healthy, organicand other hard-to-find foods.

She also has been a memberof the Ashtabula CountyLeague of Women Voters since2001 and has helped organizeand administer the AshtabulaCounty High School BotanyCompetition .

“She helped start ChristianCafe ten years ago,” Marchsaid. “On most nights both ofour Citizens of the Year arethere to bus tables and workin the kitchen.”

As for Jack, he serves as aEucharistic Minister and leadsa coffee and scripture timetwice a month. He organizesnursing home visitationteams, takes Communion tonursing home residents, orga-

nized trips to FairmountTemple in Beachwood for theirSeder meal and acts as a youthleader and faithful member ofthe parish.

He has been active in thePatrick Sorohan Adult Guard-ianship program, March said.Jack also has been an activeHospice volunteer.

“He has participated in theRamp Exchange programthrough Faith in ActionCaregivers to provide wheel-chair ramps for people inneed,” March said. “The rampsare built in a series of compo-nents so when their need isover, the components can beeasily removed and recycled to

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another person in need.”Jack also is a board mem-

ber of H2O Mission Team, acounty-wide ecumenical move-ment to provide home repairservices for those in need.

A Cub Scout Den Leaderfrom 1987-1991, he was instru-mental for many years in run-ning the double eliminationPinewood Derbies, March said.

Together, the Howes haveheaded up the HALO programthrough Catholic Charities.

“The couple has raised twosons who are following theirparents’ example and contrib-uting to a better world. Evan isready to begin practice as a fam-ily practitioner and Nathan is


JEFFERSON - TheJefferson Area Chamber ofCommerce has namedMelanie March as the 2012Youth of the Year.

March received theaward during the Chamber’sannual dinner on Tuesday,April 30, at the JeffersonCommunity Center.

Jefferson Area LocalSchools SuperintendentDoug Hladek presentedMarch with the award.March is a senior atJefferson Area High Schooland the daughter of Jerryand Virginia March.

Before presenting Marchwith her award, Hladekspoke of her extensive list ofaccomplishments.

Her achievements in-

clude membership in theNational Honor Society,Yearbook Staff and SeniorLeadership Club; enroll-ment in Post-SecondaryEducation classes; participa-tion in Model U.N. from sev-enth through 12th grade;serving as class president for10th through 12th grade;and serving on student coun-cil in 10th and 11 grade. Shealso plays French horn in themarching and concert bands.

Hladek said March alsohas been involved in varsitycheerleading; soccer; soft-ball; the Powder Puff foot-ball team; and Ski Club asco-advisor.

“Our Youth of the Yearfound time and energy to beinvolved in service andchurch activities outside ofschool to develop character,”Hladek said.

These activities includeYouth LEADERshipAshtabula County;Ashtabula CountyMentorship Program at theSpire Institute; CoveredBridge Festival volunteer;Jefferson United MethodistChurch Youth Group; Sun-day School volunteerteacher; missions inAshtabula County andPhiladelphia; membershipin the Conference Council onYouth Ministry for East OhioConference for three years;4-H Camp counselor forthree years at Camp White-wood; Election Boardworker; Salvation Army bellringer; Jefferson GrangeFair Food Booth volunteer;participating in many ser-vice projects through variousorganizations, includingplanting flowers at JUMC

for 4-H; presenting a 4-HStyle Review at JeffersonHealthcare; making basketsfor the 4-H pig roast and auc-tion; sponsoring individualsthrough HALO and helpingat HALO gift distribution;walking dogs at APL’s malllocation for Girl Scouts; andcollecting food for Mannapantry.

“And just because thatmight not be enough to keepour Youth of the Year busy,she spent time as a Sand-wich Artist at Subway andworked as a babysitter, pro-viding wonderful care fortwo young children on week-ends and weekdays duringthe summer,” Hladek said.

Hladek said March lovesto travel, read, bake, and isworking on her SCUBA cer-tification.

“She plans to attend col-

PHOTO BY STEFANIE WESSELLPictured, from left, are Jefferson Area Local SchoolsSuperintendent Doug Hladek and Melanie March.

Melanie March named 2012 Youth of the Year

lege in the fall and, judgingfrom her past experience andachievements, she has abright future ahead,” Hladeksaid.

Said March as she re-ceived her award, “I’d like tothank my family and myparents for always pushingme to do my best.”

a United Methodist pastor inNiles,” March said.

As they received the award,Mary Howe said she was for-tunate and decided to be astay-at-home mom, which al-lowed her the opportunity tovolunteer her time to causesand organizations. She talkedabout how volunteering is agroup effort, and she thankedher fellow volunteers.

“Thank you,” Jack Howesaid. “It’s quite an honor andhumbling.”

Howe said Jefferson is awonderful community to livein, and he likes interactingwith all of the people who livethere.

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SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP- On Saturday, May 11, theLakeside Theatre Companywill present the BroadwayDinner at Lakeside HighSchool. The Lakeside Com-mons will once again betransformed into a dinnertheater complete with a pro-fessional stage, sound, light-ing, and will feature some ofthe best talent in the schoolperforming popular hits fromBroadway.

This year ’s BroadwayDinner will feature over 60high school students eitherperforming on stage or play-ing in the Jazz Ensemble.The show is produced anddirected by Mrs. AndreaTredent and the Jazz En-semble is under the directionof Ms. Michelle Falcione.

“The event is a great ex-perience for the students, be-cause it gives so many ofthem the opportunity to takecenter stage,” says LHSChoir Director AndreaTredent. “Many studentshave been working on songsfor months. The studentspick the songs they want toperform and then we work

SUBMITTED PHOTOThis year’s Broadway Dinner will feature over 60 high school students either performing on stage or playing in theJazz Ensemble. The show is produced and directed by Mrs. Andrea Tredent and the Jazz Ensemble is under thedirection of Ms. Michelle Falcione.

LHS presents Broadway dinnerindividually or in smallgroups after school to learnthe music and choreography.”

Broadway songs includedin this year’s Dinner Theatreinclude selections fromShrek, Hairspray, LesMiserables, Wicked, TheSound of Music, and manyother wonderful musical pro-ductions.

Throughout the evening,various acts entertain thecrowd; in addition, theLakeside Jazz Ensemble pro-vides entertainment duringthe main course while thecast serves the audience.

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SUBMITTED PHOTOLakeside Junior High School is proud to announce their Students of the Month forMarch. Pictured in the back row, left to right, are Kolt Ernst, Alexis Smith, andJacob Dixon, and front row, left to right, are Alexis Bryan and Nathaniel Joseph.

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GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS • WEEK OF WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 • 12ASportsJefferson Lanes Bowling Scores

***Stars Of The Week Sid Leary 300 -815 &Suzie Garvey 227 -631***

Sunday Night Mixed League1) 71-27 ..................................................................... Team 32) 65-33 ..................................................................Damifino3) 62-36 ............................................................ Dawg Pound4) 56-42 ................................................................ E Express5) 50-48 ..................................................................... Team 46) 44-54 ........................................... The Young & The Olde7) 36-62 ..................................................................... Team 7Joe Throckmorton 264; DJ Caskey 248; Jt Throckmorton 243;Micki Jones 170; Brittany Linger 166; Teressa Meadors 153

First Nighters1) 69-29 .......................................... 3 Hot Chicks & Rooster2) 58-40 ................................................... Taco Bell Express3) 58-40 .................................................. Taco Bell Expreme4) 46-52 ...................................................... Power Financial5) 36-62 ...................................................... Duchess Shoppe6) 27-71 ..................................................................... Team 2Ann Kenyon 201; Kurt Ross 188; Rebecca Kenyon 187

Wednesday Afternoon Ladies1) 67-31 ................................................................. Cool Cats2) 45-53 ................................................................. Tri Hards3) 43-55 ........................................................ Gutter Dusters4) 41-57 ................................................................ Par ThreeSuzanne Meighen 170; Wilhelmina Finlaw 168; CappyChilders 158

Friday Senior League1) 69-22 ................................................ Over The Hill Gang2) 60-31 ........................................................The Go Getters3) 54-37 .................................................................. Mindless4) 54-37 .................................................................. The 3 A’s5) 45-46 ........................................................ The Gardeners6) 45-46 ..................................................................... Team 97) 42-49 ..................................................................... Birdies8) 31-60 ................................................................... Team 109) 28-63 ................................................... The Trouble Team10) 27-64 ........................................................... Pin BustersFred Inman 215; Bob Hellmer 213; Ken Watts 208; KarlWoodin 205; Janet Hellmer 200 180; Nancy Radar 174

Divine Roofing Wednesday Night Ladies1) 79-33 .............................................................. Gray’s Auto2) 75-37 ........................................... Country Mold & Miche3) 69-43 ....................................................... Jefferson Lanes4) 59-53 ............................................................. Crow’s Nest5) 54-58 ...................................................... Treen InsuranceTonya Fultz 224; Peggy Brown 207; Lynne Millard 206 180;Tammy Stills 202 198; Marilyn Wright 189; Kathy Stuart185; Pat Kanack 184

JCI Construction Wednesday Men1) 81-31 ........................................................... Scoop’s Team2) 77-35 ..................................................................... Team 33) 76-36 ........................................................................... JCI4) 60-52 .............................................. Casey’s Construction5) 57-55 .................................................... Great Lakes Cdjr6) 49-63 ............................................................ Frank’s Men7) 48-64 ........................................................................TifigoReal Deal 279 245; Steve Nettles 268; Howard Burkhart260; Dave Frawley 248 256; Rich Becker 225; Jr Valtman232; James Valtman 247 248/711; Nick Miklacic 226; TroyLayman 229

Thursday Night Mixed League1) 66.5 -38.5 .................................................. Alley Invaders2) 60-45 ..................................................... Sum Ting Wongs3) 60-45 ..............................................................Blondes + 14) 57-48 .......................................................................4 Play5) 52-53 .............................................................. Soggy Dogs6) 50-55 ............................................................... City Hicks7) 49-56 ............................................ Gillettes Rte 8 Marine8) 47.5-57.5 ....................................................... Low Ballerz9) 43-62 ............................................................ Gutter Ballz10) 40-65 ............................................................. Jaded PinsDan Alexander 251; Ron Elwood 248; Dave Frawley 227;Suzie Garvey 227 202 202/631; Tonya Fultz 228; LaurelGarvey 207; Nancy Sidley 193 196; Shannon Mack 182

K&S Auto Body Friday Men1) 54.5-22.5 ........................................................ Diamond C2) 51-26 ....................................................................... C & S3) 48.5-28.5 ................................................. Jefferson Lanes4) 48-29 .................................................... Organized Chaos5) 45-32 .................................................... Reed Active Wear6) 45-32 .............................................. New Vision Eye Care7) 42-35 ........................................................... Scoop’s Team8) 40-37 ............................................. Wild Side Bar & Grill9) 39-38 .............................................. Carpet Store & More10) 35-42 ............................................... Seldom Rest Ranch11) 32-45 ................................................... Brown Sprinkler12) 28-49 ........................................ Fleming & Billman Dir13) 25-52 ................................................................... Team 1Sid Leary 300 279 236/815; Ronnie Kaydo 279 249/721;Frank Cole 279 268/713; Scott Perala 268; Mike JohnsonJr 267 234/723; Shawn Burns 244 254 254/752; Brad Perala245 248/709; Brad Brininger 246; Dave Lehnert 255; GregBrown 236 254; Nick Miklacic 236; DJ Caskey 235; ScottSwanson 226; Troy Layman 241; Jon Dalton 225 246; BobFenton 226; Ryan Sidley 255; Chuck Anthony 226; RandySidley 236; Jeff Marnicio 226; Pat Talcott 243; JasonLemmon 234; Merle Tingley 244; Doug Moyer 242; MikeJohnson Sr 233 243; Gary Novak 226 236 249/711; ChrisKnieren 232; Lance Velez 244

Eagles blow past Dragons

Deangela Olaverria plays shortstop for the LakesideDragons during a game against Geneva.

Kaylin Hansen plays shortstop for the Geneva Eaglesduring a recent home game.

GENEVA - The Geneva Eagles softball team used an eightrun fourth inning to get past the visiting Lakeside Dragons11-1. The Eagles improved to 5-1 on the season and 4-0 in thePAC. The Dragons fell to 1-8 on the season and 0-3 in thePAC.

Kristen Schupska picked up her first win of the seasonwith six innings of work giving up one run on two hits, onewalk and one hit by pitch. Schupska struck out eight hittersin the win. Brianna Leonard started on the hill for the Drag-

PHOTOS BY BYRON C. WESSELLKristen Schupska pitches for the Geneva Eagles duringa game against Lakeside.

Toni Stranman pitches for Lakeside during a gameagainst Geneva.

ons and was replace after only three inning sof work aftergiving up two runs on four hits and five walks. Toni Stranmanrelieved Leonard in the fourth inning and pitched the rest ofthe game.

Amy Pitcher seemed to be on base all day for the Eagleswith three hits and three runs scored. Alysaa Donato contrib-uted two hits and two RBI’s. Both Taylor Stoltz and KaylinHansen scored two runs for the Eagles. Becky Depp had theonly extra base hit of the game with a double for Geneva.

For the opening day of Ohio’s 2013 spring wild tur-key season, hunters harvested 2,762 wild turkeys, ac-cording to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources(ODNR). The 2013 opening day total is a 24 percentincrease from the 2012 opening day tally when 2,227turkeys were killed.

This year, Ashtabula County had the most checkedwild turkeys of the opening day with 114 turkeys.Ashtabula County also had the largest number of tur-keys harvested during the 2012 opening day.

Ohio’s spring turkey season began Monday, April 22,and closes Sunday, May 19. The spring turkey seasonis open statewide except for Lake La Su An Wildlife Areain Williams County. Find more information in the 2012-2013 Ohio Hunting and Trapping Regulations, avail-able where licenses are sold, and at wildohio.com.

The ODNR Division of Wildlife estimates that morethan 70,000 people will hunt turkeys during the four-week season. Legal hunting hours are one-half hour be-fore sunrise until noon from April 22 to May 5. Huntinghours May 6-19 will be one-half hour before sunrise tosunset. Ohio’s wild turkey population was estimated at180,000 prior to the start of the spring season.

Only bearded wild turkeys may be killed during thespring hunting season. A hunter is required to checktheir turkey by 11:30 p.m. on the day of harvest. Hunt-ers with the proper permits may kill a limit of twobearded gobblers during the four-week season, but notmore than one wild turkey per day.

A new tagging procedure implemented this year al-lows hunters to make their own game tag to attach to awild turkey. Game tags can be made of any material

More Turkey Hunters Successfulon Ohio’s Opening Day

(cardboard, plastic, paper, etc.) as long as it containsthe hunter’s name, date, time and county of the kill. Goto the Turkey Hunting Resources page at wildohio.comfor more information on changes to the game check pro-cess.

All hunters must report their turkey harvest usingthe automated game-check system. Hunters have threeoptions to complete the game-check:

Online at wildohio.com or ohiogamecheck.com;Call 877-TAG-ITOH (877-824-4864);Any license agent. A list of agents can be found at

wildohio.com or by calling800-WILDLIFE (800-945-3543).Game-check transactions are available online and by

telephone seven days a week, including holidays. Land-owners exempt from purchasing a turkey permit, andother people not required to purchase a turkey permit,cannot use the phone-in option.

The ODNR Division of Wildlife will update the totalturkey harvest numbers on Monday, April 29, Monday,May 13, and Monday, May 20, at wildohio.com. The tur-key harvest numbers will be listed by county as well asstatewide.

Ohio’s first modern day wild turkey season openedin 1966 in nine counties, and hunters checked 12 birds.The total number of checked turkeys topped 1,000 forthe first time in 1984. Turkey hunting opened state-wide in 2000.

Watch Governor John Kasich and ODNR DirectorJames Zehringer share a message to hunters for thestart of wild turkey season here: http:/ /bit . ly/WildTurkeyHuntingWelcome/.

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BY ALLAN MONONENGazette Newspapers

ANDOVER TOWNSHIP -It was a beautiful day for run-ning at the PV InvitationalSaturday. Sixteen schools anda large gathering or parentsand fans watched the competi-tors run, jump and throw.

Ashtabula County schoolsdid well. Edgewood won theboys division with Jeffersonthird and PV sixth.

Lakeside ran fourth in thegirls, with Edgewood fourth,Jefferson fifth and PV seventh.

“It was so nice to come outon a bright, sunny day. We hadsome great performances byConnor Lynch in the 300hurdles, Brandon Kluge in the800. James Lyles stepped in asa replacement in the 4/10 re-lay as we finished second,”Edgewood coach Jim Sanchezsaid.

“Give credit to the coaches,Joe Gerics, distance; BethSimpson, throws, StephanieSimmons, sprints; they get theguys prepared. We put it all to-gether. The kids work theirbutts off,” Sanchez added.

Several Ashtabula countyathletes gave fine perfor-mances.

Girls ResultsShot Put: First Place,

Courtney Humphrey,Edgewood; Second, GeenaGabriel, PV; Third, Brady Nye,GV; Fifth, Lee AnnFarr,Jefferson;Sixth, ShyquestaPollard, Lakeside

Discus: Second, Humphrey,Edge.Fifth, Jillian Dick, Edg;Sixth, Brady Nye, GV; Eighth,Farr, Jeff.

High Jump: First, KellyPreske, GV; Second, HayleyAllen, Jeff.;Third, Alexisbenedict, Lakeside; Fourth,Kat Hall, PV; Fifth, MichelleGaggiano, Edg.

Long Jump: First, GeenaGabriel, PV; Fifth, LauraStrubbe, Lake.

100 meter run: Third,Karneisha Partridge, Lake.;Sixth, Gabriel, PV; Eighth,Sarah Jeppesen, Jeff.

200 ; Fifth, MikahlaPassmore, Conn.; Sixth, Par-tridge, Lake.; Eighth, TaylorHawkins, Edg.

400: Second, Passmore,Conn; Fifth, Savannah Spring,Edg.; Seventh, Kristen Berus,Lake.

800: Fourth, Carli Watt,Lake; Fifth Rebecca Dillon, PV

1600: Second, Watt, Lake.;Fourth, Colleen O’Connor,Jeff.; Sixth, Spring, Edg, NinthKeely Cole, Conn.

3200: First KarenBarrientos, Lake.;

Relays: 4/100: Second,Jefferson, DeVivo, Jeppesen,Heather Hamilton, ShannenBartone

Third, PV, Gabriel, MorganLower, Savannah Kirby,

Lakers host Invitational

PHOTOS BY ALLAN MONONENSarah Jeppesen of Jefferson edges out Geena Gabriel of PV for second place in the4/100 relay

Autumn Hill of Edgewood runs the 300 hurdles.

Otis Conel of Lakeside won the 100, 200 and 400.

KayDee DeVivo of Jefferson was the Girls Champ in thepole vault.

Kelsea Brown4/200: Second, Jefferson,

Bartone, DeVivo, Hamilton,Jeppesen

Third,, Lakeside, Berus,Benedict, Strubbe, AerianneJohnson

4/800: Second: Lakeside,Berus, Barrientos, Watt, AbbyLicate

Girls Pole Vault, FirstKayDee DeVivo, Jeff.; Fourth,Ally Workman, PV; FifthAllison Massaro, Edg.; SixthJamie Schiedel, Lakeside

100 Hurdles: Third,DeVivo, Jeff. Fifth, HeatherHamilton, PV, Eighth ToriCox, Lakeside

300 Hurdles: Sixth, Au-tumn Hall, Edge; Eighth,Tesla Stone, Jeff.

Boys ResultsGuys ResultsShot Put: Second, Nathan

O’Connor, Jefferson. Fourth,Alex Oscar, GV, Fifth, MattFitchet, Edgewood. SeventhBryce McMullen, Lakeside

Discus: Second, O’Connor,Jefferson ,Fourth Oscar, GV;

High Jump: David Chase,Jefferson; Second, QuintinRatliff, PV; Third, KameronManhard, Edgewood; Sev-enth, Cole Farr, Lakeside

Long Jump: First, Ratliff,PV; Third, Manhard,Edgewood; Sixth, Zach Oscar,GV

Pole Vault: First JacobHamilton, Jefferson; SecondRyan Harte, PV; Third JamesLyles, Edgewood; Fourth ZacHutchinson, Edgewood.’Eighth Lucas Hitchhock,Jefferson

100: First, Otis Conel,Lakeside.; Second, Ratliff, PV;Fifth, Riis Smith, Edgewood;Eighth, Tori Cox, Lakeside

200: First, Conel,Lakeside; Second, Ratliff, PV;

400: First, Conel, Lake.’800: First, Brandon Kluge,

Edge.; Eighth, Rodney BellPV

1600: Second, ChrisLeMay, Edge.; Fourth JoshLeMay, Edg.; Eighth, AndyPicard, Jeff

3200: Third Chris lLeMay,Edg

4/100 Relay: Second,Edgewood, Smith, ConnorLynch, Jacob Cardona, MikeDiDonato; Third, Jefferson,Joey Babic, Hamilton, ConorCicon, Derek Parke; Fourth,

PV, Matt Silvers, Josh Young,, Wade Buckley, Ryan Harte;Fifth GV, Jake Vormelker, Pe-ter Trapp, Jason Hart,Darrien Miller

4/200: First, Edgewood,Cardona, Lynch, Smith,DiDonato; Third, Jefferson,Jon Simon, Jerry Scott, Cicon,Hamilton; Fourth, PV, Sil-vers, Buckley, Ryan, Harte

Fifth, GV, Trapp, Hart,Vormelker, Miller

4/400: Second, PV4/800: First, Lakeside,

Brady Bunnell, CalebHenery, Chad Whetro, Bran-don Lopez; Fifth, Jefferson,Kendrick Maple, AndyPicard, Brenan Scribben,Matt Kantor; Sixth, PV, ChadMientkiewicz, CorryMientkiewicz, Rory Gallatin,Rodney Bell

110 Hurdles: Second, JonPendleton, Edg; Fifth JoeyBabic, Jeff.; Seventh LeviStewart, Conn

300 Hurdles: First ConnorLynch, Edg.; Third, Scott,Jeff.; Fifth, Jason Hart, GV;Sixth, Pendleton EDG.;Eighth, James Jackson, Jeff.

ODNR Anticipates GoodFishing at Lake Erie in 2013

Lake Erie anglers should enjoy diverse fishing opportu-nities in 2013, according to the Ohio Department of NaturalResources (ODNR).

“When you consider the mix of species and sizes that areseasonally available to Ohio anglers, we are optimistic aboutthe fishing prospects this year,” said Jeff Tyson, Lake Eriefisheries program manager for the ODNR Division of Wild-life. “Weather is always a wild card at Lake Erie, but if con-ditions are similar to those in 2012, anglers should haveexcellent seasonal opportunities this year to catch walleye,yellow perch, smallmouth bass, white bass and steelhead.”

Lake Erie walleye and yellow perch fisheries are man-aged through an interagency quota system that involvesOntario, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio juris-dictions. Each jurisdiction regulates their catches to complywith quotas and minimize the risk of over-fishing these spe-cies. Quotas for the upcoming fishing season are determinedthrough consensus agreement by these jurisdictions throughthe Lake Erie Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Com-mission, which were recently announced for 2013.

The walleye daily bag limit is four, and the yellow perchdaily bag limit is 30 per angler in Ohio waters until April30. The daily bag limit will be six walleye from May 1 throughFeb. 28, 2014. From March 1, 2014, through April 30, 2014,the daily walleye bag limit will be four. A 15-inch minimumsize limit is in effect during the entire season for walleye.The yellow perch daily bag limit is 30 from May 1 throughApril 30, 2014, with no minimum size limit.

WalleyeOhio walleye anglers in 2013 will catch fish mostly from

the 2010, 2009, 2007 and 2003 hatches. Walleye from the2011 hatch continue to show good growth based on 2012 fallsurveys and many individuals will be near or over the 15-inch minimum size limit during the 2013 fishing season.Walleye from the moderate 2010 hatch will range from 17-22 inches, while walleye from the 2007 hatch will range from18-25 inches. The 2003 and 2007 hatches are likely to carrymost of the Central Basin fisheries. These walleye willcomplement the larger 22- to 30-inch fish from the strong2003 hatch. Large walleye from strong hatches in the mid-1990s will provide “Fish Ohio” opportunities (greater than28 inches).

Yellow PerchExpect good perch fishing in 2013, with the largest fish

in the eastern areas of the Central Basin. Perch anglersshould encounter fish ranging from 7- to 13-inches from the2011 through 2007 hatches in this year’s fishery, with majorcontributions from the 2007 and 2008 year classes. Fish fromthe large 2003 year class are still present, particularly inthe central basin, and will provide some of this year’s tro-phy perch opportunities.

Smallmouth BassSmallmouth bass fishing in 2013 is expected to be fair.

Bass catch rates in 2012 were the highest observed sincethe mid-1990s. Smallmouth bass caught should be excel-lent size (14 to 22 inches, weighing up to 6 pounds). Bassfishing is best in areas with good bottom structure, which isthe available habitat across much of the entire Ohio nearshore area. All black bass (smallmouth and largemouth)must be immediately released from May 1-June 28. Begin-ning June 29, the daily bag limit for bass is five, with a 14-inch minimum length limit.

SteelheadSteelhead anglers should enjoy another year of great fish-

ing in 2013 in Ohio’s Lake Erie open waters and in tributar-ies. Peak summer steelhead action on Lake Erie can be foundoffshore from June through August between Vermilion andConneaut, with catches measuring 17 to 29 inches. MostLake Erie anglers troll for steelhead in deep waters usingspoons with dipsy divers or downriggers until fish move closeto shore in the fall. The daily bag limit remains at five fishper angler from May 16-Aug. 31, and two fish per anglerbetween Sept. 1 and May 15, 2014. A 12-inch minimum sizelimit is in effect throughout the year.

White BassWhite bass continue to provide excellent seasonal fish-

ing opportunities in the Maumee and Sandusky rivers andin the open lake. The 2013 catch will be dominated by fishfrom the 2010 and 2011 year classes. Fish from 2005 couldbe as large as 16 inches. Anglers should focus on major West-ern Basin tributaries during May and June and near shoreareas of the open lake during the summer. There is no whitebass daily bag limit or size limit.

Other SpeciesLargemouth bass fishing efforts and catch rates have in-

creased significantly. Bays, harbors and main lake shore-lines offer excellent fishing for panfish, as well as largemouthbass. Anglers may also catch an occasional northern pike ormuskellunge in vegetated areas.

Anglers are reminded that fishing conditions on Lake Eriecan change hourly and adjustments are often necessary toimprove success. Anglers should take into account factorssuch as water temperature, cloud cover, water clarity, boattraffic, wave action, structure, currents and the amount ofbaitfish in the area. Anglers are also reminded to carefullymonitor Lake Erie weather and to seek safe harbor beforestorms approach.

Updated Lake Erie fishing reports are available atwildohio.com or by calling 888-HOOKFISH (888-466-5347).Information is available from ODNR Division of Wildlife stafffrom 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the Fairport Harbor sta-tion (440-352-4199) for the Central Basin and at theSandusky station (419-625-8062) for the Western Basin.


BY DOUG HLADEKSuperintendentJefferson Area Local

Schools

Vote YES - Voters of theJefferson Area Local Schoolsare asked to say YES andrenew a 4.5 mill levy for cur-rent operating expenses onMay 7. No new taxes are be-ing proposed. Supportingrenewal levies will NOT in-crease taxes to propertyowners.

Voting YES will renew alevy first approved by votersin 1993 and renewed everyfive years since its inception.Voting YES to renew thistwenty year old operatinglevy will continue to providethe same revenue generatedin 1993 by the levy.

Voting YES on the re-newal levy will NOT in-crease taxes. NO new taxesare being proposed.

Construction Bond Refi-nancing - In the summer of2012 and again in April2013, the Jefferson Area Lo-cal School District took ad-vantage of the current favor-able low interest rates to re-finance $16.47 million of itsoutstanding tax-exempt con-struction bonds. This refi-nancing, like refinancingone’s home mortgage, savedthe District and you, the tax-payers, more than $1.9 mil-lion over the next 20 years.

The refinancing alsostructured the savings tomaximize the lower interestrates and generate highersavings each year for thenext 11 years to help taxpay-ers in this more challengingeconomic environment. Theinterest rate on the District’soutstanding debt is now halfof what it was before the re-financing.

In the process of refinanc-ing the District’s 2005 bondissue, the District applied fora credit rating from Stan-

Vote YES for Renewal Levy on May 7and Construction Bond Refinancing

dard & Poor’s Corporation.Like your personal creditscore, the higher theDistrict’s credit rating, thelower the interest expensethe District pays on its debtand therefore, lower taxes tobe paid by you, the taxpayer.

The District received ahigh rating of “A+” due to itsfocus on cost managementby reducing expenses by$2.25 million over the lasttwo years in order toweather changes in statefunding levels which equalabout half of the District’stotal revenue. The Districtspends less per student to-day than it did in 2009 and$729 per student less thanits peer schools.

The credit rating agencynoted this as a very strongattribute of the District.Other key attributes notedby the rating agency in-cluded a median householdeffective buying income at105% of the national leveland real estate market val-ues per resident in the Dis-trict equal to $58,630.

The District also has alow total debt burden in com-parison to peer schools inOhio. Refinancing its bonddebt helped to lower thatdebt burden on our taxpay-ers and helped maintain theservices the District pro-vides to our students.

Our staff is working hardto provide the students of theJefferson Area Local Schoolsthe best education possiblein a safe, caring environ-ment. We thank our commu-nity for their past supportand ask residents to pleasevote YES for the school issueon May 7.

Check our website calen-dar or watch for announce-ments about our activities.For more information aboutyour schools contact me atthe Board of Education office(576-9180) or visit the dis-trict websitewww.jefferson.k12.oh.us.

PHOTO BY STEFANIE WESSELL

Have you seen this Site Solver? It’s a photo from some placeand/or thing in the three school districts of Jefferson, Genevaand Ashtabula. The first few people to guess where the photois from will have their names printed in the next issue. Al-though some people guessed last week’s photo as the ticketbooth at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds, it was actuallythe ticket booth at the Falcon Pride Stadium. Betty Colvenbachcorrectly guessed last week’s photo. Guesses for this week canbe sent in after 5 p.m. May 1 to (440) 576-9125 ext. 107.

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Change of location forProduce to People event

The volunteers of Genevaare excited to announce a newlocation for the Produce toPeople event coming up on Sat-urday, May 11. The new loca-tion is the Geneva Platt R.Spencer elementary school at755 Austin Rd. in Geneva.

Event coordinator HenryMetzler explained, “We had atremendous response to thefirst produce give-away lastmonth and the Geneva FireDepartment generously al-lowed us to use their fire train-ing facility. But with such a re-sponse, parking was a little con-gested and our traffic flowwasn’t the best. The GenevaSchool System really came toour rescue when we explainedthe problems we were having.”

Mr. Metzler said over 500people were fed with producepicked up last month and theyexpect even more people tocome out this month now thatthe word has spread that theprogram has started again. Mr.Metzler said the produce dis-tributed each month varies buta great selection is availableand usually includes somebread items. People attending

must fill out a form stating theyare living in the AshtabulaCounty area.

“There is no cost for theitems the people receive, al-though there is a cost of $100each month to operate the pro-gram,” Mr. Metzler said. “Theschool system doesn’t charge afee for using their facility, butthere is a cost of $100 to dropoff the food each month.”

Those wishing to help de-fray this cost can make a dona-tion there or send it in care ofthe Food Pantry at 62 WestMain Street, Geneva. Mr.Metzler wanted to clarify thatthe produce program is not apart of the Food Pantry opera-tions, so if donations are sentto the Food Pantry, they mustbe clearly marked “Produce toPeople.”

The Produce to People pro-gram is manned by volunteersin and around the Geneva area.

“Those wishing to receiveproduce should bring their ownbags or boxes and not arriveuntil around 9 a.m. Producewill not be distributed until 10a.m. sharp.” Mr. Metzler said.“Rain or shine.”


ASHTABULA – Voters inthe Ashtabula Area City Schoolsdistrict will have an opportunityto bring back busing in the May7 election as they consider a 6.2-mil emergency, five-year taxlevy.

Sally Bradley, linkage coor-dinator for Closing the Achieve-ment Gap, said she and the restof the levy committee membersare, “thinking positively,” aboutthe election.

“A passing levy means greatthings to our area,” Bradleysaid. “This is really the levy tobring back the school busing.”

Additionally, in the event thelevy passes, pay to play wouldbe eliminated beginning Sep-tember, 2013; the district will beable to maintain the length ofthe current school day; and thearts, music, and physical edu-cation programs would remainintact, she said. If the levy fails,she added the current pay toplay would increase from $250per year to $250 per activity.

“We're working really hardto get the parents out to vote.The future of this community is

Ashtabula Area City Schoolsfaced with emergency levy

Geneva Ministerial Associationto hold prayer service May 2The Geneva Ministerial Association, under the direction of

Rev. Raymond Baker will hold its annual National Day ofPrayer Service on noon Thursday, May 2. Many pastors fromthe Geneva and Harpersfield churches will pray for the com-munity and the Geneva High School Band under the directionof Gianna Colella and the Geneva VFW will also be participat-ing in the program. The entire city is invited to come and be apart of program and take part by praying for your community.

our schools...it's about the kids,”Bradley said.

The Ashtabula County RealEstate Manager DennisDeCamillo said that for every$100,000 of valuation, it willcost homeowners $195.30. Thisfigure is without any reductionsand does not take into consid-eration owner occupied proper-ties, which get a two-percent re-duction.

Owner-occupied propertieswould see an additional $189.88while owner occupied with aHomestead reduction would be$142.41, he added.

Superintendent of SchoolsPatrick Colucci said he, too, isoptimistic about the outcome.

“In our district this levy iscritical, that's why it's called anemergency,” he said. “It reallyis crucial to our students andtheir future academic success.”

Although the state does havelegislation before it that wouldgive some money back to theschools, Colucci said that theirdistrict can't count on what mayhappen.

“There's a lot that has to bedone before we'll see anything,”he said. “We can't rely on whatmay happen.”

Issues to appear on Geneva-area ballotsGENEVA – Residents of Geneva on the Lake face a re-

placement levy of 1.5 mills. If passed, the continued tax willgo to maintain roads and bridges for the next four years.

Village Administrator Jim Hockaday said the previouslevy ran from 2009 through 2012 and was based on 2009home valuations. If passed this levy at the same millage willbe based on 2013 valuations.

The current levy generates $28,141. The estimated moneycoming from the more recent valuations would be $41,630.

Hockaday said that money covers 10.5 miles of pavedroads and 4.7 miles of gravel road.

“We have 78 streets we maintain with this money. Divideit out...that’s $533 per road,” he said.

Hockaday said that was not very much money.Harpersfield Township residents will vote on a 1-mill re-

newal levy for five years and Geneva Union Cemeteries Dis-trict has an additional .5-five year levy on the ballot.

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ASHTABULA – Althoughcertainly not their first forayinto Ashtabula County cook-ing, restauranteurs NateRockwell and John Senger arehappy and excited to say theirnearly four-year-old eatery,Briquettes Smokehouse, hasmoved. The Bridge Street ha-ven for authentic Southernfood is now located just acrossthe street, into a much largerlocation, at 1033 and 1035

Local favorite moves into big venue

Bridge Street.“We’re in our second place

now,” Rockwell said.With the new venue comes

an extended menu that in-cludes melted sandwichesmade with the smoked meatsthat locals have come to love,a full liquor license that allowsfor top shelf bourbons, andthree times the seating. Thereis space for more than 100 pa-trons now, Rockwell said.

Well into their secondweek, Rockwell said the recep-tion shown by patrons hasbeen very enthusiastic and theentire place has filled at leastonce during every seating.

“It’s been great,” he said.

Their namesake is rootedin the pride they had in theirchoice of fuel when first open-ing the establishment. Mostplaces use gas instead of char-coal as it takes too long to heatup and gas can be difficult atbest.

“We were excited to usecharcoal so we named it afterthe briquettes we used. Wenow use lump coal, but not atfirst,” he said.

Hours of operation can oc-casionally change as they con-tinue to offer catering, he said.

For updated information,visit www.briquettessmokehouse.com or call ahead at440-964-2273.

SUBMITTED PHOTOBriquettes Smokehouse in Ashtabula has a new location at 1033 and 1035 Bridge Street.

BY PATRICK E.COLUCCI, SR.Superintendent of Schools

Ashtabula Area City Schools

I just want to remind ev-eryone about voting on May7, 2013 and how importantthe passage of our Emer-gency Levy will be to the stu-dents of the Ashtabula AreaCity Schools. The AshtabulaArea City Schools Districthas been making tremen-dous strides in academicachievement that have beenfoundational and researchbased. Here are a few facts.

Our Value Added Ratingwas the best in the countyand our District was rated 67out of 832 school districts.Value Added Rating mea-sures the growth of the stu-dent academically over oneschool year. This year we alsoachieved our highest Perfor-mance Index Rating in thehistory of our school district.Performance Index is a mea-sure of how well students areachieving on the OGT/OAAtests. For the first time ever,we had three schools receivea rating of “Excellent”. Michi-gan Primary was named bythe Ohio House of Represen-tatives a Reward School forsubstantial gains in studentperformance in the areas ofreading and math. Also, hereis an excerpt from a recent

Superintendent’s Messageemail sent by Susan Ross, aState Consultant, about ourBuilding Leadership Team atLakeside High School, “Youare doing amazing work andI haven’t seen anything likeit in any high school that Ihave had contact with! Youare to be congratulated!”

These are just a few of thehighlights received this yearbased on the hard work,dedication, and involvementof our students, staff, admin-istration and parents. Arewe perfect, absolutely not? Isthere much work to be done,absolutely? This may soundcliché but it takes a villageto raise a child.

I know how greatAshtabula can be and I wantour children to have thesame great memories oftheir hometown as I do. Weall can make this happentogether. Let’s become a mo-bilizing force that we canpour into the next genera-tion and fill our children’smind, heart, and soul with amessage of hope. We encour-age all community membersto visit our schools; everyoneis welcome at their conve-nience. Please feel free tocontact me at 440 992-1202or email me, [email protected], with any ques-tions, concerns, or com-ments. I am always willingto meet and listen.

Thank you for your timeand support.

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The $15 cost includes everything — entrée, vegetables, beverages and dessert. Reservations and advance payment are required, so reserve your spot by Friday, May 10. Visit www.acmchealth.org and click “Sign Up for Events.” You can also register by calling (440) 997-6555.

If you have a heart health question for Dr. Stephens, he’ll answer them at Dinner With a Doc, and we’ll post the answer on our Facebook page. Submit questions by emailing [email protected], or on the “Sign Up” page for Dinner With a Doc.

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