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BY SADIE PORTMANGazette Newspapers

ASHTABULA - The tents aredown in Lance Cpl. Kevin M.Cornelius Memorial Park, but thisdoes not mean the OccupyAshtabula group is through.

Many people speculated theweather was to blame for the en-campment being disbanded.

“Weather had nothing to dowith not camping, when it camedown to it,” Mark Leathermansaid. “The group as a whole feltwith everyone working, runningbusiness and helping with otherAshtabula resources that we coulddo more by Occupying in protestsand giving back to the community.”

The group would like to spendmore time now getting informationout to the public.

“[We] helped out in gettingtruthful information about thetraffic camera program. Xerox/ACS is a one-percent company, soyou can say we did take the onepercent out of our city,”Leatherman said.

Occupy Ashtabula would alsolike to see the community get moreinvolved with residents who areless fortunate.

While camping out, OccupyAshtabula members felt theylearned a lot about their commu-nity and they would like to spreadthe knowledge they have learned.

“[We] fed the homeless, pro-

BY STEFANIE WESSELLGazette Newspapers

DORSET TOWNSHIP - An18-year-old teen and three juve-niles are facing multiple chargesafter allegedly assaulting a 50-year-old man in Dorset Town-ship in late November, resultingin him being hospitalized, ac-cording to the Ashtabula CountySheriff ’s Department.

Sheriff ’s Department deputiesarrested Cody Trenn, 18, of the2400 block of Route 193 in DorsetTownship, last Wednesday oncharges of robbery, complicity,burglary, aggravated arson andvandalism, according toAshtabula County Court records.

Trenn and three underagedteenagers allegedly entered thevictim’s home, located in the2200 block of Railroad Street inDorset Township, on Sunday,Nov. 27, and accused him ofstealing an iPod, according toSheriff ’s Department reports.When the victim responded thathe did not have the item, Trennallegedly punched him in theface several times while theother teens began breakingthings in the house, according toreports.

The teens then proceeded tobreak every window in thevictim’s house and rip all of thedoors of their hinges, accordingto reports. Nearly every piece offurniture was also damaged andbroken, and the teens damagedthe cabinets and countertopswith an ax and sledge hammer.Money was taken from thevictim’s wallet, and the teens seta fire in the middle of the livingroom, according to reports.

Deputies discovered the vic-tim after being called to hishome on a welfare check onTuesday, Nov. 29. While there,they saw the broken windowsand the doors wide open, accord-ing to reports. The victim wasfound lying on a couch coveredby a blanket, and South CentralAmbulance responded to thescene and transported him to theAshtabula County Medical Cen-ter for hypothermia and a cut on

Teen, three juveniles facecharges in Dorset assault

his head, according to reports.During the investigation of

the scene, deputies smelled aburnt odor and found itemsthrown in the yard and otherbroken items in the house.

Deputies found Trenn in aJefferson Township home after act-ing on a tip, and he admitted thathe and three juveniles were in-volved in the incident, according toreports. He was arrested and takento the Ashtabula County Jail, whilethe report will be forwarded to theAshtabula County Youth DetentionCenter for a review of charges onthe juveniles.

Trenn appeared in EasternCounty Court on Thursday, Dec.1, without counsel, according toreports. He was found indigent,and a public defender was ap-pointed to represent him. Bondwas set at $75,000 cash, with the10-percent rule.

The preliminary hearing wasset for 9:15 a.m. Monday, Dec. 12,in Judge Robert Wynn’s courtroom.

Since the teens destroyed partsof the home during the incident,organizations are collectingmoney to help restore the house.People wishing to donate to thefund may mail a check to theDorset Baptist Church, Box 81,Dorset, OH 44032. Donors shouldwrite “house restoration fund” onthe check memo line, as well ason the outside of the envelope.

Stefanie Wessell, senior editorfor Gazette Newspapers, may bereached at [email protected].

Cody Trenn

PHOTO BY SADIE PORTMANThe Geneva Grape JAMboree Royal Court makes its appearance in the Christmas parade held indowntown Geneva last Friday. The Geneva Business Association puts on the parade every year.

A Royal parade


JEFFERSON - Nary a parkingspot could be found in downtownJefferson on Saturday, Dec. 3, asthe village kicked off the holidayseason with events throughout theday for the entire family.

The Jefferson Area Chamberof Commerce organized the day-long festivities and encouragedother businesses, non-profitgroups and other organizations totake part in the “Snow AngelChristmas.”

Over at Jefferson Village Hall,children made crafts from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. The turnout was so great,children were spilling over ontospots on the floor with their crafts.A Santa’s Shopping Shack ran from12-4 p.m. at the village hall, giv-ing children an opportunity to shopfor Christmas gifts.

Downtown Jeffersoncelebrates the holidays

PHOTOS BY STEFANIE WESSELLAbigail and Michael Hartley enjoy cotton candy and popcorn whilewaiting for the start of the Christmas parade in downtown Jefferson.See CHRISTMAS page 5A

Occupy Ashtabula doneoccupying but not donefighting for Ashtabula

vided blankets, gave out personalhygiene products, found somehomeless homes and assisted oth-ers [with] jobs to help get them ontheir feet,” Leatherman said.

By not camping out, the groupsays it will give them more time togive back to the community, al-though Leatherman points out theoccupiers did give back while theywere still occupying the park.

“[We] provided ADDA andAshtabula’s Christmas paradewith street monitors with radiohandsets, out of nine people thatkept kids safe, seven of them whereOA members,” Leatherman said.

Leatherman wants to assureAshtabula the time they spentsleeping in tents was not wasted.

“[We] educated people in mov-ing their money from big banksthat took bail outs and never paidthem back to community banks,”Leatherman said. “[We] supportedsmall and local business ownerswith education of how to supportour own economy instead of largecorporations.”

Occupy Ashtabula members alsosaid they exposed the need for trans-parency in the local government byprotesting outside of City Hall.

“There are many other thingsdone, and no matter if we occupied20 or 200 days of the park, we didit for the people and to help get theword out,” Leatherman said. “Wedid what we wanted it to do.”

Leatherman said they are notdone fighting for the city and aregoing to continue to hold weeklyprotests.

Sadie Portman, reporter for theGazette, may be reached [email protected].


ASHTABULA - The right to re-call elected officials in the City ofAshtabula will make an appear-ance on the 2012 March primaryballot.

A recall effort was attempted toget on the ballot a few years ago,

Ashtabula’s citizens will have thechance to reinstall the recall process

but it was discovered the right torecall was not available to the citi-zens of the City of Ashtabula.

“The previous recall was an ac-tual recall effort where an attemptwas made to actually recall somemembers of council,” Ward 3 Coun-cilor Ann Stranman said.

Citizens put forth the gruntwork for recalling elected officials

they did not see fit for the job onlyto find out the city charter did notinclude a recall process.

“After the signatures where re-ceived, it was discovered our char-ter did not allow for a recall pro-cess,” Stranman said. “I think atone time it did and it was re-moved.”

PHOTOS BY JAN PERALA FOR GENEVA SCHOOLSGeneva Rotarians Robert Sheldon, Gerald Kujala and Bruce Greshamvisited Patrick Tannish’s (pictured second from right) Geneva Platt R.Spencer Elementary third-grade classroom bringing a dictionary froeach child. Displaying new books are (from left) Makayla VanSickle,Caden Karb, Ashley Oros, Kayli Stash, Joey Braun, and MichaelComadoll.

BY JAN PERALAGeneva Area City Schools

GENEVA - The English lan-guage vocabulary contains by someestimates as many as two millionwords, and Geneva Platt R. Spen-cer third-grader Joel Rivera saidhe wants to learn all of them.

“We are studying petroglyphs.They are a kind of picture wordswritten on rock,” explained Rivera.“I love learning about differentwords.”

Thanks to Geneva Rotary,Rivera and his classmates nowown an important tool which willhelp them to spell and decipher themeaning of new words they comeacross in their reading.

Geneva Rotarians bring the giftof language to area third graders

See ROTARIANS page 7A

See RECALL page 7A

Cosmetology students use skills tomake a difference — See page 9A

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JEFFERSON - Childrencan ride along with SantaClaus for one more week-end, as Santa on the Trainreturns to the Ashtabula,Carson & Jefferson ScenicLine in the Village ofJefferson for one last stopbefore he is busy at theNorth Pole.

Families will board theCarson Express at theJefferson Depot for an hour-long, 12-mile train ride ona vintage coach for a winterexploration along thetracks. During the ride, pas-sengers will look out intothe snow-scaped fields andwoods (weather depending!)as they cross over twobridges to meet Santa andMrs. Claus at the “NorthPole” at Carson Yard.

Four generations from one family made their fourth annual trip to ride the Santa Trainfrom Jefferson’s AC&J Railroad station. Children in front are: Ella Giltz, Emma Miklos,Kaitlyn Giltz and Laura Fusek holding Taylor Fusek. Diane Miklos, grandmother, is inmiddle on left. To the far right is Peg Thomas, great-grandmother, and Barbie Suchar,great-aunt.

‘Santa on the Train’ rolls on for one more weekend

PHOTOS BY BARBARA J. HAMILTONGidget and Annaliese Marrison, of Jefferson, werebusy handing out gifts and holiday greetings toeveryone on board the Santa Train recently.

Upon arrival at the“North Pole,” Santa andMrs. Claus will wave to allas the train passes their vil-lage. They will then boardthe train to visit with thechildren during the returntrip to Jefferson.

Santa Claus also willhave a treat for the guests,as some of his helpers assistin distributing gifts to thechildren.

After the train ride,Santa and Mrs. Claus willspend a short time visitingwith children for pictures inJefferson before returningto their North Pole work-shop.

The train ride is an op-portunity for all riders toview the countryside as itpasses by their window, andthe enclosed coaches aredecorated for the season.They also are heated, with

a lavatory on board andavailable for use after the

train leaves the station.The AC&J Scenic Line

departs from the boardingsite adjacent to 161 E.Jefferson St. in Jefferson.Departure times are 11a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sat-urday, Dec. 10. The trainalso will depart at 1 p.m.and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11.

Paid reservations for thetrain ride are required, withfares of $15 for adults (13and up) and $10 for children(one to 12 years old). Carseats are not permitted, andchildren under one year oldare free, when lap held.Groups wanting to sit to-gether must purchase tick-ets as one order, as assignedseating is used.

Tickets are availablethrough the website atwww.familytrainrides.comor by calling (440) 576-6346or (216) 759-5772.

BY STEFANIE WESSELLAND SADIE PORTMANGazette Newspapers

JEFFERSON - TheJefferson Police Depart-ment investigated an al-leged methamphetaminelab on Elliot Avenue in theVillage of Jefferson on Fri-day evening, Dec. 2, butthe bust will cost the vil-lage.

The meth lab was dis-covered after theAshtabula CountySheriff ’s Departmenttipped off the department,leading to a traffic stop onFriday at around 7:40 atnight, according to policereports. The police depart-ment proceeded to get asearch warrant from East-ern County Court and be-gan its search of the 248Elliot Ave. house on Fridaynight at about 10:30 p.m.

Police officials said theyspent more than 12 hoursat the home, breakingdown the alleged meth lab.During their time there, of-f icers found a largeamount of meth byproduct.

At least one suspect al-ready has been arrested inthe incident. The male sus-pect is facing multiplecharges of drug abuse,child endangering and pos-session of chemicals tomake methamphetamine,officials said.

Village officials arepleased with the work ofthe police department, but

Meth-lab bust willcost Jefferson

the bust will be costly forthe village because smallmunicipalities are respon-sible for the clean up ofmeth labs, unless theyhave ordinances shiftingthe responsibility else-where.

During a Jefferson Vil-lage Council meeting onMonday, Dec. 5, MayorJudy Maloney said theAshtabula CountySheriff ’s Department wasunable to assist with thebust, so the village had tocontact the Bureau ofCriminal Investigation toassist with the clean up ofthe lab.

The BCI helped to neu-tralize the hazardous ma-terial on the premisescaused by the meth lab.

The clean up will costthe village between $4,000to $6,000, Maloney said.That’s a lot out of the bud-get to clean up after some-one else, she said.

To make sure the villagewon’t be responsible forsuch costs in the future,Maloney said the villagewill look at an ordinancerecently passed by theGeneva-on-the-Lake Vil-lage Council that makesthe property owners re-sponsible for the clean-upcosts. A similar ordinancewould be beneficial for thevillage to have in case asimilar incident occurs.

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

Suspectarrested inAshtabulabankrobberies

ASHTABULA - Asuspect in two bankrobberies in Ashtabulahas been arrested, ac-cording to police re-ports.

The Ashtabula Po-lice Department ar-rested a suspect Mon-day afternoon, Dec. 5,as he was walking inthe Ashtabula Harbor,according to police re-ports.

The man, who wasset to be arraigned inAshtabula MunicipalCourt on Tuesday, wasfound walking in theHarbor by AshtabulaPolice Lt. RodneyBlaney, who believedhe matched the de-scription of the manthought to have robbedthe banks.

He is suspected tohave robbed two banksearlier this week, in-cluding the AndoverBank, 1630 CarpenterRd., around noon onMonday, and the Cardi-nal Credit Union, 625Lake Ave., at shortly af-ter 11 a.m. on Saturday,according to police re-ports. No weapon wasused in either incident.

During the incidentat Andover Bank, thesuspect told the tellerto hand over money andthen left the bank onfoot.

Ashtabula Policeand the FBI are inves-tigating the incidents.


JEFFERSON - TheJefferson Police Departmenttook down an alleged meth-amphetamine lab on ElliotAvenue, according to DavidWassie, deputy chief of theJefferson Police Department.

According to Wassie, ittook the police around 12hours to break down thehome’s meth lab.

The meth lab was discov-ered after the AshtabulaCounty Sheriff ’s Departmenttipped off the department,leading to a traffic stop onFriday at around 7:40 atnight, Wassie said.

The police departmentproceeded to get a searchwarrant from the Eastern

County Court and begantheir search of the 248 ElliotAve. house on Friday night atabout 10:30 p.m., Wassiesaid.

According to Wassie, thebreaking down of the methlab took hours and requiredoutside help from the Bu-reau of Criminal Investiga-tion (BCI).

“We were there in thehouse until noon [Saturday],”Wassie said.

According to Wassie, onemale suspect, StephenThroop, was arrested andarraigned on Tuesday at 8a.m.

Throop will be facingthree charges of illegal as-sembly of drugs, an F2 felony,possession of drugs, an F5felony, and possession of

criminal tools.“The F2 was given to

[Throop] because they wereoperating within a close prox-imity to a school,” Wassiesaid.

Wassie said Throop couldface a significant amount ofjail time.

“When our officers wentthere, we found a very largeamount of a byproduct ofmethamphetamine,” Wassiesaid.

According to Wassie, be-cause of the high level of haz-ardous materials, the policewent in the house and tookevidence pictures as fast asthey could until contactingfurther help to remove thematerials.

“We entered the house,found the items that were of

concern and took evidencepictures as fast as we could,”Wassie said.

The Jefferson Police De-partment contacted the BCIto help with the hazardousmaterial found inside thehouse, Wassie said. The BCIarrived at the house around5 a.m. Saturday morning andthey stayed until about 11a.m. the same day.

“We contacted BCI andthey sent a unit out to neu-tralize all the hazardous ma-terial from the premises,”Wassie said.

Wassie said an extensiveinvestigation into the methlab is being conducted, andsaid possibly more suspectswill be charged in the connec-tion with the Elliot Avenuemeth lab.

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offered at Cherry Valley First Church of God, located on SentinelRoad in Dorset, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 9-10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Dec. 13-15 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 20-22.

Dec. 11 Ashtabula: Christmas CabaretA “Christmas Cabaret” concert by the Musical Theater Project

of Cleveland (singers/actors Bill Rudman, Nancy Maier, SandraSimon) will perform evergreen Christmas songs as well as tradi-tional Carols at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in downtownAshtabula (4901 Main Ave.) on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. A pre-concert dessert table will be offered at 6 p.m. The concert anddesserts are free and open to the public and additionally, a free“Meet-the-Artists” reception will follow the performance. The con-cert is sponsored by the Fine Arts Concert Committee of the Church(phone 440-992-8100/website www.stpetersashtabula.org).

Dec 17 Dorset: Community LunchHearty beef stew will be served at the Dorset United Method-

ist Church, 2800 Rt. 193, on Saturday, Dec. 17, from 12 – 1:30p.m. The lunch includes beverage and dessert and is free to Dorsetarea residents.

Dec. 18 Saybrook Township: Breakfast with SantaCome have breakfast with Santa on 8:45 a.m. Dec. 18 at

Saybrook United Methodist Church. This is a free communitybreakfast. Everyone is invited! The church is located on DepotRoad across the street from Saybrook Elementary School.

Religious Briefs

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BY CAROLYN BEHR-JEROMEGazette Newspapers

JEFFERSON - “It is notabout you. It’s about whatyou do for the kids.”

That’s the quote JeffersonArea High School teacherCarla Haines tries to re-member when teaching andcoaching. Haines is in herfirst year teaching eighth-grade students as an Inter-vention Specialist.

A Geneva High Schoolgraduate, Haines convertedfrom an Eagle to a Falconwhen she did her studentteaching last fall at theJefferson Elementary Schoolwith Kathy Solarek.

“I graduated from KentState in December and ap-plied for a permanent subposition,” Haines explained.

She spent the rest of theschool year teaching in theself-contained classroom inthe high school.

Haines didn’t originallyplan to work with specialeducation children. Shestarted out in early educa-tion. Then she had a fieldexperience in the self-con-tained unit, which gave hera perspective of special edu-cation that she hadn’t hadbefore.

Haines explained, “Ateenage girl was saying howshe wanted to live on her

New JAHS teacher strivesto be advocate for students

PHOTO BY CAROLYN BEHR-JEROMECarla Haines is in her first year of teaching at JeffersonArea High School.

own, get married and havechildren. In my mind I wasthinking, this is not a real-ity for you, this poor girl willnever have the opportunitythat other children have. Iwent home and cried for herand the students in theclassroom. Then I thought Ican help these students.”

That is when she decidedshe wanted to work withyoung adults and transitionthem into adult services.

“I want to advocate forthese students and providethem with the life skills they

need to be active membersof society,” Haines ex-plained. “Just because somedoors are closed for somestudents of this populationdoes not mean they can’thave a fulfilling life andmake a difference in theirown way.”

Haines’ degree opens upthe doors to work at a schoolfor the developmentally dis-abled like Happy Hearts, butfor now she is happy withwhat she’s doing atJefferson.

“My confidence level is up

from last year,” she ex-plained. “Starting in themiddle of the year with stu-dents who were already usedto another teacher wastough.”

Haines’ favorite class toteach is eighth-grade read-ing.

Haines also coaches ten-nis.

“I played tennis atGeneva my junior and senioryears,” she said.

Lou Murphy, the currentvarsity tennis coach, knewthis, so he asked Haines tocoach the junior high boyslast spring.

“I enjoyed it,” she said.She enjoyed it so much

that she agreed to teach thejunior high girls this fall.However, she did get frus-trated with her alma mater.

“We finished 5 - 4 butcouldn’t seem to beatGeneva,” Haines explained.

Looking back on heryears at Geneva, Hainessays she doesn’t have a spe-cific experience that reallystands out.

“I now appreciate thoseteachers who took the timeto make lessons engaging. Asa student, you do not realizethe time and effort that goesinto a lesson that you enjoy,”she said.

Haines will wed JaredSzeiber on June 23rd of thisyear.

BY CASSANDRA NAGYGazette Newspapers

JEFFERSON - Craftersand shoppers alike were inthe holiday spirit this pastSaturday at the JeffersonCommunity Center’s CraftShow.

The show was a part ofthe day-long holiday cel-ebration, hosted by theJefferson Area Chamber ofCommerce. The theme forthe celebration was “SnowAngel Christmas,” part ofthe “Snow Better Place forFun” county-wide Christ-mas event. The Craft Show,which was one of the manyactivities available for indi-viduals to partake in, tookplace from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.and was free to the public.

Patrons were enticedwith aisles of goods to pe-ruse for their holiday shop-ping. The fair offered a littlebit of everything. A major-

PHOTOS BY CASSANDRA NAGYKathy Murray and Hannah Jo Woodruff sold crafts at the Jefferson Community Centeron Saturday.

A crafty afternoon

Dorthy Allen, Lynn Vallance and Beverly Hegfield participated in the JeffersonCommunity Center’s Craft Show on Saturday.

ity of tables consisted ofhandmade jewelry, appareland holiday decorations.Other tables consisted ofhouse-wares, toys, candles,blankets, home décor and

food products. Handmadebooths such as Sweet PeaBows offered bow clips, bowhats and headbands. Ahandmade jewelry table byHannah Jo Woodruff and

Kathy Murray offered a va-riety of bracelets, earringsand necklaces.

“Sales for us have gonevery well so far,” Woodruffsaid.

The Knitting Group ofJefferson members sat atthe entrance of the craft-show with their skillfullyknit pieces while sellingraffle tickets to benefit theSr. Center. The group meetsat the Jefferson CommunityCenter every Tuesday.

The event was not with-out tasty refreshments. TheCommunity Center kitchenoffered tasty beverages tobusy shoppers. After theparade later that night,children were invited to sipon hot chocolate and enjoypictures with Santa.


JEFFERSON - JeffersonVillage Council is interestedin purchasing a new truckfor the fire department andgetting rid of an old one.

During their meeting onMonday, Dec. 5, JeffersonVillage Council memberspassed the first reading of aresolution to declare a 2000International fire truck assurplus no longer needed formunicipal purposes. Al-though the truck is listed asa 2000 truck, it has beenpieced together with olderparts and is older than itappears from the date, coun-cil members said.

Council will put the saleof the truck up for bid, as theresolution also authorizesthe sale of the fire truck tothe highest and best bidder,with a minimum bid of$5,000.

Council discussed theneed to purchase a new firetruck during a recent SafetyCommittee meeting, as wellas mentioning it during ameeting in November duringCouncilor Rick Hoyson’s re-

Council receives updates on projectsBY STEFANIE WESSELLGazette Newspapers

JEFFERSON - Jefferson VillageAdministrator Terry Finger providedJefferson Village Council with an up-date on projects occurring in the vil-lage during its meeting on Monday,Dec. 5.

In one project, Finger said the wa-terline replacement on West ErieStreet is compete until spring, whenfinal “reclamation” will be completed.

The $211,000 upgrade on WestErie Street included the replacementof approximately 2,000 feet of six-inchdiameter, cast iron water main with

new eight-inch diameter, ductile ironpipe.

The pipe was installed along WestErie Street from Chestnut Street toFranley Drive, according to AquaOhio officials, and was part of Aqua’songoing capital improvement pro-gram.

In other projects, the project to re-pair the roof at Village Hall has beenunderway, Finger said. He said thatas soon as the rain breaks, the roofdecking will go on and it will be closedup for winter.

The project had hit a snag withsome heavy rain in November, assome water got into the building be-

cause of the temporary roof, causing$1,500 in damage, Finger said.

“Ceiling repairs will be completedafter the Village Hall roof is finishedand we are sure everything is driedout,” Finger said.

Entrance doors and the front doorfloor repairs also will be finishedsoon, Finger sad.

Lastly in projects, Finger said theStreet Department crews have fin-ished cleaning catch basins and areready for winter.

Stefanie Wessell, senior editor forGazette Newspapers, may be reachedat [email protected].

Congratulations to parade winnersWe were all winners for being able to have a beautiful

winter wonderland Christmas parade and enjoying the ef-forts of all who participated.

It was one of our most difficult to judge, and all whoattended said it is the best they’ve seen and the best in thecounty.

— Jefferson Area Chamber of Commerce

Snow Angel Christmas parade winners by category

Band and Drill1. Ashtabula Senior Center Blue Belles, $502. Twilight Twirlers, $25

Equestrian1. Bell’s Minis, $502. Ashtabula County 4-H, $25

Commercial1. Community First Credit Union, $502. Kids Only Learning Center III, $25

Youth Community Service1. Special Olympics, $502. Girl Scout #232, $25

Adult Community Service1. Grand River Trail Riders, $502. Lisa Wilks, $25

Religious1. Jefferson First Baptist Church, $50

Best Overall - Best of ShowKitchen Family and Friends, $75

cap of the committee meet-ing. One truck, Truck #402,the International fire truck,is out of service and needs apump. Another truck, Truck#412, needs maintenance.

Council wants to beginthe process of purchasing anew truck to replace the In-ternational truck, keepingTruck #412 as a back up.

Fire department officialsintended to send the specifi-cations and price for the newtruck to Clerk/TreasurerPatty Fisher to begin theprocess for council’s ap-proval.

During his report to coun-cil on Monday, Dec. 5, VillageAdministrator Terry Fingersaid the cost for the newtruck will be around$450,000 with equipment.The truck will be requestedin the 2012 budget.

Committee members alsonoted that there is enoughcash in this year’s budget topurchase air bottles that areneeded to replace old bottles.


Council intends tosell old fire truck,

buy new one

BY CAROLYN BEHR-JEROMEGazette Newspapers

JEFFERSON - A JeffersonArea Junior High Schooleighth grader “tied the knot”recently, but she didn’t walkdown the aisle to do it.

Carley Truckey helpedraise money for something shecalls “Knots for Love.”

The day before Thanksgiv-ing, the Junior High StudentCouncil sponsored a volleyballgame between the seventh

Knots forLove

and eighth graders. Each stu-dent who attended was askedto donate $.50.

“We raised over $128,”Truckey said.

That was enough to buynine fleece blanket kits.

Truckey will tie the blan-kets together and then donate

them to Ashtabula CountyChildren Services.

“We are going to donatethem on Christmas Eve orChristmas morning,” she said.

Emily Forristal, a 2010graduate of JAHS, started“Knots for Love” and donatedblankets to Rainbow Babies

and Children’s Hospital lastyear. Truckey explained thatshe wanted to do something,too, so she asked Forristal forhelp.

“We wanted to keep thedonations local, so we decidedon Children Services,” Truckeysaid.

The volleyball game was anexciting match between sev-enth and eighth graders whosenames were chosen at randomfrom a list of volunteers. Theeighth-grade team, whichTruckey was a part of, won andthen played a team made upof teachers.

Truckey explained, “Wewon a game and they won agame. It was a lot of fun.”

PHOTO PROVIDED BY CAROLYN-BEHR JEROME


Rock Creek holds giveaway and community potluck for the holidaysBY SADIE PORTMANGazette Newspapers

ROCK CREEK - The RockCreek Community Center isputting on its annual give-away this Saturday, Dec. 10,from 10 a.m. until noon.

An array of sweaters,coats, children’s clothes andeven some toys and Christ-mas decor will be free to who-ever walks in the doors.

“We do this every year,and it seems people donatemore items for the giveawaybecause they know it is go-ing to a good cause,” JoannDzurenko said.

The community center al-ready has quite a bit of itemsbeing set out for the two-hourgiveaway.

“We have a lot of sweat-ers and coats and some toys,”

Dzurenko said. “We also havesome Christmas items thatsomeone might be able touse, along with some house-hold items.”

Dzurenko said the com-munity center loves to giveback during this time of year.

“It’s really great to seepeople who really need stuffcome and get it,” Dzurenkosaid.

The Rock Creek Commu-nity Center is following in thefootsteps of several areachurches who also hold a give-away every year.

“We originally started thegiveaway when we saw theeconomy start to fall,”Dzurenko said. “We realizedpeople were going to needhelp to get them through thetough times.”

Dzurenko said they are

proud to live in a communitywhere people come together tohelp with a common cause.

“We’re very lucky peoplegive us a lot of items and careabout the less fortunate in thecommunity,” Dzurenko said.

This will be the first yearthe giveaway is not held onthe same day as the potluckdinner.

“We thought we’d spreadsome time between the give-away and the potluck dinnerso we have a little more en-ergy come 5 o’clock at nightwhen we have to start serv-ing the potluck,” Dzurenkosaid.

This year the potluck willbe the following week, Dec.17, from 5-7 p.m.

The Rock Creek Commu-nity Center will provide theturkey, which has been do-

nated, and organizers askeveryone attending to bringa dish to pass, along withsomething for the local foodpantry.

“We ask everyone to bringin an item for the food pan-try as your ticket in,”Dzurenko said.

Santa will make an ap-pearance for the children,and there will also be a crafttable available to make holi-day crafts and take themhome to share.

“We have a really greatSanta who comes everyyear,” Dzurenko said.

Each year they see newand better dishes than theprevious year.

“We’ve had some reallygood dishes come through overthe years,” Dzurenko said. “It’sreally a lot of fun for us.”


JEFFERSON - Village ofJefferson officials dis-cussed finances in the vil-lage during a council meet-ing on Monday, Dec. 5.

During the meeting onMonday, Clerk/TreasurerPatty Fisher provided themonth-end reconciliationsheets for October.

The ending fund balancefor the village at the end ofOctober was $909,155.

The income tax collec-tions are up $101,391 com-pared to last year, Fishersaid. The income-tax collec-tions totals for the year todate are $1,183,410.

The sewer departmentfees also are up $24,019compared to last year,Fisher said.

But in the RecreationDepartment, village recre-ation is down $5,281 fromlast year, and the village se-nior account is down $5,852compared to last year,Fisher said.

She said that the heavilyattended craft fair at theJefferson Senior Centerthis past weekend should

help boost the numbers abit.

Jefferson Village Coun-cil also passed the third andfinal reading of its appro-priations for 2012 duringits meeting.

The ordinance providesthe appropriations for cur-rent expenses and other ex-penditures for the Villageof Jefferson for the fiscalyear ending Dec. 31, 2012.

These are the temporaryappropriations for the firstquarter of the year, Fishersaid. She said she looked atthe expenditures from lastyear and pro-rated them,and worked in a number ofexpected projects, to comeup with the numbers.

The total of all appro-priations is $1.2 million,with $317,045 in the gen-eral fund; $416,197 in totalenterprise funds; $460 intotal special assessments;$326,538 in total specialrevenue funds; $159,255 incapital improvements; and$3,903 in total trusts.


Income-tax collectionsup in Jefferson

JEFFERSON - The winnersin the decorated-tree drawingsheld at a number of differentmerchants on Saturday, Dec. 3,have been announced.

Winners are:• Jefferson Diner, Darla

Taylor.• Classy Consignments,

Andrea Fagus.• Verizon Wireless, Gloria

Chamber announces winners of Christmas treesDean.

• Another Time Around,Mr. Kirk.

• Pizza Joe’s, AndrewKelner.

• Hofstetter ’s, KimBraden.

• Wild Side, Suzette Garvey.• Radio Shack, Scott

Mullen.• Subway, Dianna Seldon.• Rite Aid, Pam Morris.

• Carpet Store, RichardHicks.

• Bi-Lo, Nicole Schwentker.• Drug Mart, Mary Ann

Baka.• Jeff’s Flowers, Richard

Dreis.• Jefferson Rehab, Jenni-

fer Gray.• Mugs, Justin Williams.• Deli in the Rye, Joyce

Ritchie.

• Josephine’s, Diane Bates.• Family Dollar, Erie

Fenstimaker.• Domino’s, Ron Van

Winkle.• Valerie’s Hair Design,

Myrtle Cross.• Allstate Insurance,

Hunter Sticklain.• Western Reserve, Wendy

Puckrin.• Sarna’s, Suzette Garvey.

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The Henderson MemorialPublic Library also hostedone of its most popularevents of the year, continu-ing its book sale from the daybefore. The book sale gavepeople a chance to purchasebooks and other readingmaterials at bargain prices- and help support the li-brary at the same time.

The Jefferson Commu-nity Center hosted one of itslargest craft shows ever,with the center packed fullof vendors selling everythingfrom artwork, jewelry, choco-lates, holiday ornaments,candles and more.

The festivities also hadan old-fashioned bent tothem, as people hopped onhorse-drawn wagon ridesand watched an ice-carvingdemonstration on the villagegreen.

Various non-profit orga-nizations took part in thefestivities as a way to sup-port the community and givepeople a chance to learnabout their organization,such as the Grand RiverTrail Riders SnowmobileClub, which is part of theOhio State Snowmobile As-sociation.

Throughout the day, thesnowmobile club was sellingraffle tickets for a chance towin $500 in prize money ora snowmobile.

Besides organizing funactivities for snowmobiliers,the snowmobile club alsostresses the importance ofsafety by holding safetycourses during the year.President Gary Hines saidthe next course will be of-fered from 12-5 p.m. Sunday,Jan. 22, at the AshtabulaCounty Medical Center.

The course is free, andrefreshments will be pro-vided, Hines said. He saidthat although Ohio doesn’trequire riders to take asafety course, all of theneighboring states do, sothis is an opportunity forpeople to receive their certi-fication free of charge.

CHRISTMAS From page 1A

Miranda and Marlayna Rocha bundle up with blanketsas they wait for the start of the Christmas parade.

Since the club needs ahead count, people inter-ested in attending the courseare asked to contact theGrand River Trail RidersSnowmobile Club at (440)992-3434 to RSVP.

Twenty-three merchantsalso participated in the 19thannual Jefferson HolidaySale-A-Bration, as visitorsstopped in for drawings intheir store for a four-foot,fully decorated Christmastree.

For the tree-decoratingcontest, the merchant-deco-rated winners were Rite Aid,first place, and Mugs Res-taurant, second place. Forthe non-profit decoratedtrees, Jefferson Latchkeykids decorated the winningtree at Sarna’s Tree Farm,while Girl Scout Troop#80848 decorated the sec-ond-place tree at Subway.

Jeff ’s Flowers won themerchant window-decorat-ing contest.

The Chamber also had adrawing for a grand-prizegift basket, with DavidSeiffert drawn as the winner.He entered at Josephine’sRistorante.

Down at the JeffersonDepot, visitors took a stepback in time by visiting theJefferson Depot’s “Old-fash-ioned Williamsburg Christ-mas Celebration.” The vil-lage was specially decoratedfor Christmas, and the cel-ebration was free. Guestsmade old-fashioned orna-ments for the communityChristmas tree, sung carolsaround the old piano andadmired entries in the gin-gerbread house contest. Thefestivities at the Depotcapped off with a candlelightChristmas walk, preparingpeople for the other big eventfor the night back in down-town Jefferson.

With the town all lit upfor the holidays, the parademarched its way throughdowntown Jefferson, start-ing at the fairgrounds andmaking its way through the

streets lined with spectators.Little Abigail Hartley

said she was looking forwardto seeing Santa Claus, whomade a special appearancein the parade. After the pa-rade, children visited withhim at the community cen-ter, telling him all of theirwishes for Christmas.

Abigail and her brother,Michael, also were lookingforward to seeing their sis-ter Shelby in the parade, asshe was playing her trom-bone and marching with theJefferson Area High Schoolband.

As for Miranda andMarlayna Rocha, they werelooking forward to seeingtheir friends in the float sup-porting the 4-H organization.

Besides the marchingband, a variety of differentorganizations participatedin the parade, from a sing-

ing Elvis to fire departmentsfrom a number of differentcommunities, includingJefferson, Austinburg andHarpersfield, churches, A-Tech, baton twirlers, ABCChildcare, Community FirstCredit Union and more.

During the Jefferson Vil-lage Council and JeffersonArea Chamber of Commercemeetings this week, villageofficials and Chamber mem-bers noted that they had re-ceived many compliments onthe parade, with spectatorstelling them it was one of thenicest ones in the county.

“It was a wonderful day,”Jefferson Area Chamber ofCommerce President PatBradek said.


Grand River Trail Riders Snowmobile Club sold tickets fora raffle to win a snowmobile during the festiviites indowntown Jefferson on Saturday. Pictured are KimJukiewicz and two-year-old Joshua Jukiewicz.

The Hejl family visited Jefferson for the parade on Saturday,Dec. 3. Pictured, from left, are Holly Hejl, Charlotte“Charlie” Hejl, Jason Hejl, Tristan, Jacob and Mia.

Anthony, Kaydee and Ellie DeVivo find a place to sit andwatch the parade.

The Jefferson Area High School Band marched in the parade.

ABC Childcare families wave to the crowd.


SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP -The Saybrook Plaza GoodwillStore has officially closed itsdoors as of Nov. 30, and Good-will is asking for all donationsin the Ashtabula area to bedropped off at the AshtabulaHarbor store.

“We did officially close thedoors to the Saybrook store onNov. 30,” Alexandria VanAllen,marketing and developmentmanager, said. “It was a harddecision but cuts had to bemade.”

The Saybrook store openedtwo years ago when the liftbridge was closed for renova-tions, offering Goodwill cus-tomers an easier means ofdropping off donations andshopping in the store.

All the donations left overat the Saybrook store havegone to the store in the Har-bor. The Goodwill Harborstore is opened Mondaythrough Thursday from 9 a.m.until 7 p.m., Friday and Sat-


JEFFERSON - TheJefferson Area High Schoolprom may not be until May,but already the JAHS AfterProm Committee is lookingfor donations to help makeprom a night for the stu-dents to remember.

After Prom CommitteeChair Virginia March hassent out letters to school sup-porters about the event, andher husband, Jerry, dis-cussed the fundraising ef-forts during a meeting of theJefferson Area Chamber ofCommerce on Tuesday, Dec.6.

This year, prom will beheld at the SPIRE Institutein Harpersfield Township onMay 5, March said. He saidthe committee also has ar-ranged to have the after-prom activities at SPIRE aswell, so the students will beable to have everything inone place. The after-promactivities will be held at theAquatics Center at SPIRE.

“After Prom is a safe, funalternative for prom attend-ees to enjoy one another’scompany after the dance isover,” Virginia March wrote

JAHS After Prom Committee collecting donations

urday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.mand Sundays, 9 a.m. to 5:30p.m.

The Saybrook store em-ployed a total of nine people,including two senior aides.

“Everyone who worked inSaybrook was offered jobs atdifferent branches in the area.Whether they took the offeror not was up to them,”VanAllen said.

VanAllen said they valuetheir employees and want toensure they are not left with-out job options.

VanAllen said with theeconomy, they had to makecutbacks as stores in the areawere not making as much asthey have in the past.

VanAllen said it was a mat-ter of looking at the numbersand which store had the mostand least profits.

“It was us looking at thecost of doing business and howmuch we needed to make tokeep the lights on,” VanAllensaid.

Goodwill said it was a deci-sion of choosing between clos-

ing a store or stopping some oftheir community programs.

“We did not want to closeany of our programs we offerto the community, so one of thestores had to go and unfortu-nately it was Saybrook,”VanAllen said. “I guess itcomes down to, we have toclose stores if we’re not mak-ing money.”

VanAllen said the people ofSaybrook have been wonder-ful to work with over the pastfew years and they are sad tohave to close the store theyhave supported.

“The people in Saybrookhave been so great to us. Wewould like to thank everyonein Saybrook for their supportthroughout the two years,”VanAllen said.

Even with the store closing,Goodwill still has a store inAshtabula, Andover and Madi-son for the area residents toshop and support.

“We still are here to serveyou and we’ll do our best tokeep our programs going,”VanAllen said.

in her letter.The After Prom Commit-

tee will be holdingfundraisers to cover the costsof food and entrainment inorder to keep the costs toparticipants as low as pos-sible.

The committee’s mainfundraiser will be a gift bas-ket silent auction. The giftbaskets will be displayed atJAHS winter sportingevents, with the tickets alsobeing sold during theseevents, Jerry March said.

The committee is seekingdonations for the baskets,either in the form of a giftbasket from an organization,items to be placed in a giftbasket or a monetary dona-tion to help purchase itemsfor a gift basket. Checks canbe made payable to JAHSAfter Prom Committee.

The baskets will be puttogether and finalized onDec. 11, so items need to bereceived soon.

To donate to the basket,contact March at 576-1554.

Saybrook’s Goodwillcloses after two years

Pack 41 members ride on their float during the parade.

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H A R P E R S F I E L DTOWNSHIP - TheHarpersfield Covered Bridgehad its official lighting of thebridge ceremony on Satur-day night with live music,food and pictures with SantaClaus.

“It’s fun to come down be-cause everybody’s here andwe’re all having a really goodtime,” Trustee Ed Demsharsaid.

The line for pictures withSanta stretched to the pavil-ion, and the hayride backand forth across the bridgewas another popular attrac-tion.

“I couldn’t believe howmany groups went back andforth on the hayride,”Demshar said. “I bet hemade at least 40 trips.”

The hayride driver alsooffered rides for people whoparked on the other side ofthe bridge so they would nothave to walk in the dark totheir vehicles.

The Light the Bridge fes-tivities included a specialperformance by the bandGreen Tea, who offered a va-riety of music from classicrock to Christmas tunes.

Although the air wascold, the park stayed fulluntil near the end.

“It’s a little cold out to-night, but it’s good,”Demshar said. “Everybody issporting their red Santanoses.”

The large crowds wascredited to the great mediacoverage from the localnewspapers and radio.

“We have a great crowdtonight,” Rhonda McElroysaid. “We had a lot of mediacoverage, which I thinkhelped out a lot.”

McElroy was reallypleased with the celebrationand especially with GreenTea’s performance, as themembers are still studentsat Grand Valley High School.They proved they were morethan a high school band.

“It’s been such a greatnight,” McElroy said.

McElroy said the Friendsof the Harpersfield Bridge,who put on the event, hasstarted to also use Facebookand other internet outlets toalso help spread the word ofupcoming events.

“I put a lot of updates onFacebook,” McElroy said.

Operation Home Front’sRebecca Droenick camedown from Columbus, Ohioto help gather donation forthe cause, which helps fami-lies with active militarymembers.

“The VFW in Genevamade a check out to $200and that’s for [OperationHome Front],” McElroy saidwhile giving the check toDroenick.

Droenick was happy toreceive the donation and en-couraged people to take a

Harpersfield lights the covered bridge at annual celebration

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANSanta takes time to talk with the children who attendedthe lighting of the covered bridge.

Shawna Pope, Jenna Harryman, Ashley Kightlinger, Hannah Wilson and Raynah Cutlipfrom Edgewood High School volunteered their time to sing for the lighting event.

Groups stood by the band Green Tea to listen to them perform for the celebration.

Cards were handmade by those who attended thelighting of the bridge. The cards are going to be sent totroops celebrating Christmas overseas.

RIGHT: RebeccaDroenick came up from

Columbus, Ohio, torepresent Operation

Home Front. The GenevaVeterans of Foreign Warsraised $200 to be given

to the cause.

Truman gets held by his owner during the chilly night atthe Hapersfield Covered Bridge Park.

look at the website http://www.operationhomefront.net.

“We do a lot in Ohio com-munities to help with mili-tary families, so check outour website to see what’sgoing on near you,” Droenciksaid. “We are also a four-starcharity, which means everydollar earned goes right backto Ohio’s military families.”

As a special treat, a groupof freshmen ladies from theEdgewood choral programalso came and spread theChristmas cheer during thelighting ceremony.

“It was a lot of fun. It wasgreat and it was nice to singfor the them,” JennaHarryman said.

The girls came after be-ing encouraged by their mu-sic teacher.

“Our teacher comes hereevery year and she asked usto sing this year,” Harrymansaid.

The Friends of theHarpersfield Covered Bridgeconsidered the event highlysuccessful and are glad tosee the bridge lit up for theholidays and the smilingfaces of those who enjoyedtheir annual celebration.


ASHTABULA - The Oc-cupy Ashtabula movementhas started a new cam-paign of coordinating witha local hospital to start afree clinic.

The members of OccupyAshtabula are holding apublic meeting at e-CommCafe in Ashtabula on 4 p.m.Monday, Dec. 12. All whoare interested in startingthe clinic are encouraged tocome.

“According to a U.S.Census Bureau [survey] in2007, 45.7 million Ameri-cans were uninsured,”Mark Leatherman wrote ina memo. “As company ben-efits shrink and individualinsurance plans become in-creasingly more expensiveand harder to obtain, start-ing a free clinic can help somany people in your com-munity.”

Leatherman said withthe economic times, moreand more people are leftwithout money to covermedical expenses.

“Even if your clinic onlyoperates one day per week,you’ll be providing impor-tant preventive care andpeace of mind to patients ofall ages,” Leatherman said.

The free clinic will needlots of volunteers, includingdoctors, nurses and otherswho can keep the clinic at

Occupy Ashtabula wantsto help with free clinic

top performance.“We’re asking all medi-

cal professionals to comeand help out with the open-ing of the clinic,”Leatherman said. “We willalso need donations be-cause the costs of a freeclinic can be very expen-sive.”

It is estimated thebaseline cost of keeping afree clinic opened for justone day a week will cost be-tween $1,000 and $5,000.

“We want to be able toprovide basic healthcareand also have patients haveaccess to things like x-rays,” Leatherman said.

They are seeking outany all donations, whethermonetary, time or medicalssupplies and office equip-ment.

Occupy Ashtabula mem-bers are looking into alltheir options, including ap-plying for grants and ap-proaching local hospitalsfor assistance in grant re-search and other aid.

“You can get freesamples [of pharmaceuticaldrugs] from local hospitalsand doctors’ offices,”Leatherman wrote. “Youcan set up a contract witha local pharmacy to have allprescriptions billed to yourclinic.”

If they do contract withlocal outlets, all patientswill have to be informed ofwhich pharmacies will beable to fill their prescrip-tions.

The Ashtabula CountyMedical Center has men-tioned the possibility ofstarting a clinic, and if thehospital system does so, Oc-cupy Ashtabula would liketo work hand in hand withthe project.

Leatherman sees theproject as a way to benefitmany people in the commu-nity as well as bring peopletogether for a commoncause.

Occupy Ashtabula wouldlike all interested to con-tact them or attend theirmeeting next Monday at 4p.m.

Luke Smith receives help from his grandma, Gina Smith,in creating a card for a service member overseas thisholiday season.

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GENEVA - Kathy Kaurarepresented AshtabulaCounty’s Animal ProtectiveLeague (APL) duringFleming and Billman Fu-neral Homes’ annual char-ity dinner.

Fleming and Billmanstaff each bought a ticket tothe dinner, with the moneymade being donated to theAPL.

Fleming and Billman Funeral Homes donates to the APL

The Fleming and Billman staff gather around Kathy Kaura. Each one of the staff donatedmoney and donations such as dog food and toys to be given to the Ashtabula County APL.

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANKathy Kaura stands in front of Robert Billman and ThomasFleming with the pile of donations by their side. Alldonations were gathered from Fleming and BillmanFuneral Homes’ employees.

“It’s not just from the fu-neral home, it’s from all theemployees and our staff,”Thomas Fleming said.

The funeral home andits employees also donateditems such as dog food, pa-per towels and other essen-tials the APL can usethroughout the year.

“All the food and papergoods and kitty litter andtoys, everything is mostlyfrom the staff here andthey’ve just been terrificabout bringing everythingin,” Robert Billman said.“We also want to give you acheck to help you with ev-erything.”

Kaura has been involved

with the APL for 10 yearsand was once a board mem-ber.

“At the APL, I don’tthink there’s ever been agreater need than there isnow,” Kaura said.

The APL is becomingovercrowded, as the facilitycan only carry about 50dogs and 50 cats. The num-ber of animals beingbrought in is overwhelmingfor the shelter.

“When they first builtthat shelter, they figured itwould be good for the next50 years,” Kaura said.“That shelter was built for50 dogs and 50 cats. Theyhave at least twice that

much.”The APL recognizes that

hard economic times areplaying a factor in the num-ber of animals being aban-doned.

“It’s not an easy situa-tion. The economy certainlyis a huge factor in all ofthis,” Kaura said.

The APL will not acceptall dogs that are brought in.

“All of the animals thatcome from the county dogwarden must be accepted bythe APL,” Kaura said. “Ani-mals are not euthanized forspace, but they areeuthanized if they are con-sidered vicious or ill.”

Kaura said the APL

board members do every-thing in their power toavoid euthanizing any ani-mal.

“One of the board mem-bers drove six hours oneway last weekend to take apit bull to a rescue so hewouldn’t get euthanized,”Kaura said. “She’s not paidfor that, but that’s howmuch our members care.”

Billman and Flemingpick a charity to give to ev-ery year and for the last fewyears they have chosenProject HALO. This is thefirst year they have do-nated to the APL.

“We felt this was an op-portunity to do somethingdifferent and there really isa great need,” Joan Billmansaid.

Fleming and Billmanstaff were happy not to justdonate to the APL but tohave Kaura come in personto receive the donations.

“We appreciate you be-ing here and acceptingthis,” Fleming said.

Kaura said the APL is atthe mall every Saturdayfrom 11 a.m. until about 4p.m. and the organizationis always looking for morevolunteers.

“It’s a good time of yearto support those who can’tspeak for themselves,”Kaura said.

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

RECALL From page 1A

City Solicitor MichaelFranklin said after goingthrough the history of the citycharter, they saw the removalof the recall amendment.

“At some point, the recallauthorization that had beenin the charter was removedin an amendment,” Franklinsaid.

Removing the recall pro-cess from the charter createda lot of questions on whetheror not citizens could takeelected officials out of office.

“Whether or not the char-ter allows for a recall, thisprovision, if passed, wouldeliminate any such ques-tions,” Franklin said.

There has been much

support throughout the com-munity to see the ability torecall officials put back onthe charter and council hasanswered their concerns.

“Now we’re just puttingforth in general a process forrecalling back into the char-ter. There’s nothing going onin recalling anyone in par-ticular at this point andtime,” Stranman said. “It’sjust putting it on the ballotto let the voters decide ifthey want to have the rightto recall if they so choose toat some point.”

The council members saidthe citizens of Ashtabulashould make the final deci-sion on whether or not they

want the power to recallelected officials.

“This measure to allowthe recall to go back on theballot has language to createan opportunity for the citi-zens to recall an in-officeelected official if they sochoose to,” Council PresidentJ.P. Ducro said.

The council took a closelook at how the recall pro-cess worked throughout thestate and used Ohio’s provi-sions as a guide.

“What we are proposinghere is that our recall pro-cess would be the same asthe state’s,” Ward 4 Coun-cilor Julie Latimer said.“There is nothing new or spe-

cial about it.”Ducro said council wants

to place the initiative on theMarch ballot so the addedcosts of a special election areavoided.

“There has been some dis-cussion from citizens whowish to have the recall inplace and we want the oppor-tunity for citizens to havethis choice,” Ducro said.

The ordinance to placethe recall initiative on theballot was unanimouslypassed by council.


ROTARIANS From page 1A

Geneva RotariansGerald Kujala, BruceGresham and RobertSheldon made the roundsof third-grade classroomsin the Geneva Area CitySchools district and As-sumption School last week,bringing with them boxesof new dictionaries, one foreach third grader.

“Geneva Rotary pre-sented each third graderwith their own dictionaryto take home, to use atschool and we encouragethem to write their nameon the first page. The bookis theirs to keep and wehope the new dictionarieshelp students build their

vocabularies and helpmake them better readersand writers,” Kujala said.

The Dictionary Projectis just one way thatGeneva Rotary supportseducation for local stu-dents.

The club, through the J.Edward Gilliland RotaryFoundation, grants thou-sands of dollars in schol-arships to college boundseniors, fetes the top 25students at each gradelevel at GHS at the Break-fast of Champions eachspring and sponsors theannual Four Way SpeechContest.

The Board of Trustees of The Ashtabula Foundation will acceptLetters of Intent from 501(C) (3) charitable organizations in AshtabulaCounty seeking grant funds. Although the Board will review andconsider grant requests from all categories at the same time, theemphasis of funding will be with human services organizations thatbenefit the needy of the county. The categories to be consideredare: Recreation/Conservation; Education; Human Services; Arts/Culture; Religion, and Community Development.

The Letter of Intent should include the following information:

•A brief description of the reason for your request.

•The dollar amount of your request.

•Are there other sources of funding?If so, list the other sources.

•Is this project something that must bedone immediately, or can it be postponed?

•Rate this project as far as a priority to your organization(on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest priority).

•How many people will be affected by the grant funding?

The deadline to submit your Letter of Intent is February 1, 2012.Do not submit a full grant application at this time. The Board willreview all requests, and you will be notified if you should proceedwith a complete application packet, or if your request will not beconsidered.

If you have any questions, contact the Ashtabula Foundationoffice at (440) 992-6818, or by email at [email protected].

4510 Collins Boulevard, Suite 6, Ashtabula, Ohio 44004440-992-6818 • Fax: 440-992-0724

www.ashtabulafoundation.org • [email protected]

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Making a Difference

We Are Giving Back To OurCommunities This Holiday Season

• Andover, Geneva, North andSouth Jefferson offices andthe Operations Center staff areadopting families for Christmas.

• Ashtabula Harbor office iscollecting hats, scarves andmittens for G.O. Ministries.

• Conneaut office is collectingmoney to donate to the ConneautRotary for food baskets.

South Jefferson

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• Madison is collecting food for theMadison Food Bank.

• Austinburg is collecting toys for theHALO project and have put up ahat and mitten tree, acceptingitems to keep a child warm.

• Employees will be bell ringing forthe Salvation Army kettle drive atAshtabula Towne Square Dec. 9th.

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G E N E VA - O N - T H E -LAKE - Geneva-on-the-Lakeofficials have announcedTodd Bishop as the new gen-eral manager of the Geneva-on-the-Lake Municipal GolfCourse.

Bishop has been playinggolf since he was 12 years oldand even played in the localPGA tour while he was liv-ing in Columbus, Ohio.

“I’ve been in the golf in-dustry for about 25 years,”Bishop said. “I’ve been a golfcourse superintendent forover 10 years, and I’ve beena general manager now forabout ten years as well.”

Bishop took his passionfor the game and has beenworking in the golf industryfor the majority of his career.

“I started out in thegreens department and thenworked my way up over thecourse of my career,” Bishopsaid.

Bishop said working onthe golf course has been asatisfying career and helooks forward to bringing hisknowledge and expertise toGOTL.

“I just enjoy the industryand the business,” Bishopsaid. “You meet a lot of greatpeople and that’s the funpart.”

Bishop has lived in theGeneva area for six yearsnow with his wife.

“I’m excited. It’s a fun golfcourse,” Bishop said. “I’mreally excited to get in hereand make some positive

GOTL gives its blessings to Bishop asnew general manager of golf course

PHOTO BY SADIE PORTMANTodd Bishop has been named the new general mangerof the Geneva-on-the-Lake Municipal Golf Course, andhe looks forward to taking the course into the future withminor improvements and a strong membership drive.

things happen.”Living in the area, Bishop

is familiar with the courseand has spent time on thegreen.

“My wife and I haveplayed here for the last twoyears, as well as somefriends of mine who havecome out here and played,”Bishop said.

Bishop said he has neverhad a bad experience on thecourse and always felt thestaff was well informed.

“It’s been a fun golf courseand they treat you well uphere and it’s just very con-venient and affordable,”Bishop said.

Bishop hopes to continuebringing the course into thefuture with the plan the vil-lage has set up to improve

the course.“They’ve been doing capi-

tal improvements over thelast couple of years, andwe’re just going to continueon with that,” Bishop said.

Maintenance areas willbe worked on during the offseason as long as weatherpermits.

“They’ve been working onbunkers and putting new teeboxes in and we’ve got sometree removal we want towork on and some drainagein some areas need to bedrained a little better,”Bishop said.

Bishop said with thelarge amount of precipita-tion the area has seen thisyear, the drainage problemareas have come to light.

“It was a very wet year,

so the course showed us allits weak spots,” Bishop said.

Along with maintenanceof the golf course, Bishop willbe working on the member-ship drive.

“We’re trying to touchbase with our members andI’m introducing myself to allthe course’s members andletting them know who Iam,” Bishop said.

Bishop is already gettingfamiliar with the staff andis developing good relation-ships with every employeecurrently working on thecourse.

“They’ve got a great staffin place here,” Bishop said.

Bishop looks forward tohis new position and im-proving the course, which hefeels is already in goodshape.

“We’re looking forward totaking the golf course to thenext step and the next levelwith the conditioning andthings of that nature,”Bishop said.

Bishop has been wel-comed into the position byvillage officials, and he isready to create positive re-lationships with the course’scurrent and future mem-bers.

“I’m just thankful for theopportunity to come on asgeneral manager,” Bishopsaid. “I look forward to im-proving the golf course andthe business overall.”


By Josh WoodEagleville Bible Church

Many of us are familiar with the city of Nineveh, amajor city in the Assyrian empire, thanks to the Biblestory of Jonah. God told Jonah to go and preach repen-tance to the people of Nineveh because God was pre-pared to destroy the city if they were going to continuein their wicked ways.

As the story goes, Jonah despises the Ninevites, andso instead of listening to God, he flees in the oppositedirection. Over the next week or so, Jonah goes througha living nightmare (caught in a storm, thrown over-board, swallowed by a fish, three days in the belly of afish, eventually vomited back on shore) until he decidesthat he will listen to God’s call and go to Nineveh.

So Jonah went to Nineveh and prophesied that un-less the city repented and turned to God then it wouldbe destroyed. As Jonah had feared, the people listenedto the message and turned away from their wicked waysand towards God. Many times, this amazing act of God’slove and mercy is overlooked by Jonah’s extravagantstory. An entire city turned around their entire culturewithin the span of just a few days!

Thousands of people who were destined to destruc-tion were saved and began living for the Lord, what amagnificent thing! Unfortunately, the Ninevites had afatal flaw. Their faith, although real, was weak, andthey failed to pass it down to their children and grand-children.

The next time we see the city of Nineveh in scrip-ture is in the book of Nahum. Little is known about theprophet Nahum, but what he writes exposes a lot aboutthe city of Nineveh. Somewhere around 100 years afterJonah visited the great city and preached repentance,Nahum was at the same city and writing about how itwould be destroyed.

This time there was no call to repentance. Nahummakes references to idols and carved images that theNinevites are worshipping and also the fact that theyare oppressing God’s people in Judah. The people havefallen back into the selfish living patterns of what theirparents and grandparents repented from.

What a sad reality. It makes me wonder if they wereever taught the history of their city. You would thinkthat they would want to avoid the mistakes of their an-cestors at all costs.

Nineveh’s fatal flaw was not passing down their faiththrough the generations. They allowed their offspringto repeat the same mistakes they made when they wereyounger. Unfortunately, we see this in America as well.As parents we want the best for our children, howeverit is often the guilt from our own sins that keeps usfrom correcting the actions of our offspring.

People seem to feel like a hypocrite if they tell theirteenager to abstain from alcohol or drugs, because theyexperimented with it when they were young. Parentswho conceived their children out of wedlock remain si-lent with their teens have premarital sex, because theyfeel like they don’t have the right to speak up.

My friends, it is just the opposite that should be true.We have all made mistakes in our lives, just as theNinevites in the book of Jonah. We know the pain thatour mistakes brought us and if we love our children weshould be doing everything possible to keep them fromrepeating the same mistakes and sharing in the samepain we had to deal with.

To not educate them on the consequences of their ac-tions would be sentencing them to the pain that surelyfollows whatever mistakes they are making. This iswhat happened to the Ninevites in Nahum’s day. Yesthey are responsible for their own actions, but I can’thelp but believe it could have been avoided had theparents and grandparents taken a more active role ineducating their children on the consequences of theiractions.

Imagine you are driving along a curvy mountainousroad. It is a warm spring day and the windows are downwith the radio blaring, you have no cares in the world.You’ve driven this road a thousand times and are re-flecting on fond memories of days gone past. When sud-denly around the next turn you see that the bridge iscollapsed. You slam on your breaks and send your tiresscreeching as they swerve back and forth.

There is no way your car will stop before the bridgeand you decide to bury it into the ditch. Painfully, youclimb out of your car, thankful to be alive. As you beginwalking back towards town all the thoughts of whatcould have happened are rushing through your mind.You wonder why there was no sign warning you thatthe bridge was out.

Just then you hear a car coming up the road. You canhear its radio blaring and you realize that this personhas no idea that the bridge is out.

What do you do? Do you try to flag them down andwarn them about the imminent danger, or do you justlet them go on by to repeat the same mistake? Of courseyou would warn them! It is the only right and humanething to do.

Many of our young people are living lives that arewinding roads with nothing but collapsed bridges at theend. Who will warn them? Let’s not share in Nineveh’sfatal flaw.

Nineveh’s fatal flaw

BY KAYLEENA BRASHEARGeneva High School

GENEVA - The holidayseason is quickly approach-ing, and Geneva HighSchool students are deter-mined to help local familieshave a truly merry Christ-mas. We hope that others inthe community will join inour efforts to make the holi-days a joyful time for all, es-pecially those in need.

The GHS chapter ofProject Love is sponsoring adonation drive called G.E.T.M.A.D. (Geneva Eagles To-gether Making A Differ-ence). Project Love willwork together with the Fel-lowship of Christian Ath-letes (FCA), the French andSpanish clubs, StudentCouncil and the AmericanRed Cross to make this en-deavor happen.

Project Love members

Bobby Bowen to perform at churchesCountry gospel recording artist Bobby Bowen and his

family will present a Christmas concert at two areachurches Sunday, Dec. 11. The family will be in concert atBulah Calvary United Methodist, 2070 Rt. 193, Jeffersonat 11 a.m. Family Foursquare Gospel Church, 641 Mill St.,Conneaut, will host the Bowens at 6 p.m.

Bowen, of Greenbrier, Tenn., is a former lead vocalist ofMidSouth Boys Quartet. During his tenure with the group,he was nominated in the top 10 finalists for lead singer ofthe year at the Singing News Fan Awards. The group hadmany hit songs over the years.

The Bowens travel to many states each week sharingthe gospel and their music ministry. A free will offeringwill be taken at both concerts.

Geneva High School’s Project Love sponsors G.E.T. M.A.D.

PHOTO BY GHS EAGLE EYE PHOTOGRAPHER VERONICA CLUTTER GHS Project Love members are organizing a community food, toy and clothing drivethat will be held on Dec. 10 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the front parking lot of the highschool. All community members are encouraged to drop off non-perishable fooditems, coats, gently used and new toys, hats, gloves and monetary donations. Picturedfrom left are Ford Carlisle, Lewie Wortman, Dan Camplese, Sarah Orlando, DiedraInman, Jacob Groce, Clare Carlisle, Josh Smith, Sierra Levak, Morgan Nazor, AdamGruber, Megan Lara and Morgan Brubaker.

hope to achieve their ulti-mate goal of positively im-pacting the community.

This project is an annualcommunity food, toy andclothing drive that will beheld on Dec. 10 from 10 a.m.until 2 p.m. in the frontparking lot of the highschool. All community mem-bers are encouraged to dropoff non-perishable fooditems, coats, gently usedand new toys, hats, glovesand monetary donations.

All of the collected fooditems will be sent to theGeneva Food Pantry, mon-etary donations will go toHALO, FCA plans to givethe collected coats to theAshtabula PentecostalChurch of God and to the

Ghana Outreach Ministriesin Ashtabula, and theFrench and Spanish clubswill donate the collectedhats and gloves to theCatholic Charities ofAshtabula County.

These organizations relyon donations, especiallyduring the holiday season.They will have an influx ofcustomers during the up-coming month, and will de-pend on receiving an abun-dance of donations to meetthe increased demand.Please come out this Satur-day to join us in making theholidays special for those inneed!

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Baldwin-Wallaceinducts studentsinto honor society

The following studentswere inducted into the Day-ton C. Miller Honor Societyat Baldwin-Wallace Collegeduring a ceremony on Dec.3.

• Tina Stuart ofJefferson.

• Kelsey Amidon ofAshtabula.

Inductees are selected forconsistently maintainingsuperior academic work.Only four percent of the un-dergraduate student bodyachieves membership.

by Jan PeralaA-Tech

The Ashtabula CountyTechnical and Career Cam-pus (A-Tech) AdultWorkforce CosmetologyClass gathered forces andused their skills to “Make aDifference” in the lives ofseriously ill patients andyoung mothers in need whenthey offered their skills andservices to raise funds forHospice of the Western Re-serve and collected a bountyof baby items for BirthCareof Ashtabula County.

On National Make a Dif-ference Day, A-Tech’s cosme-tology students trimmedhair, manicured nails andoffered spa pedicures withall proceeds directed to Hos-pice. Patrons who donatedbaby needs such as bottles,rattles, receiving blanketsand sleepers received a freegift. According to instructorTina Teter, more than $400was raised in only threehours to benefit Hospice andbaskets brimming with babyitems as well as $100 in cashwere donated to BirthCare.

“We had a great day,” saidTeter. “The students all feelthat they’ve helped thesewonderful programs by us-ing the skills they are learn-ing here at A-Tech. I thinkthis effort also helped toraise awareness aboutBirthCare and Hospice andthe important ways theyhelp those in need of theirservices.”

Hospice of the WesternReserve provides in homecare palliative care,caregiver support and be-reavement services for pa-

A-Tech Adult Workforce Cosmetologystudents use their skills to make a difference!

tients and families through-out Northern Ohio whileBirthCare of AshtabulaCounty provides free ser-vices and necessary items forpregnant women and momsand children in need of as-sistance throughout thecounty. According toBirthCare Board of Direc-tors President MaureenSmith, BirthCare is fundedentirely by donations andhas helped more than 30,000moms in need since theagency was founded in 1976.

“The young moms theagency assists lack themeans to provide even themost basic needs for theirbabies so the donation of anyitem is precious,”BirthCare’s JoAnn Welchsaid. “The items so gener-ously provided through theefforts of A-Tech’s Adult Cos-metology classes will help usmeet the needs of those inneed of our services.”

“We are so grateful tohave been chosen by the cos-metology students at A-Techto receive some of the pro-ceeds from the 2011 Make ADifference Day activitiesthat they sponsored,” saidMary Pepperney of Hospice.“For them to give up a Sat-urday to help raise moneyfor Hospice of the WesternReserve is an indication oftheir personal awarenessand sensitivity to the needsof others. It is donations likethis that have helped us pro-vide quality hospice care andservices to patients andfamilies in our communityfor almost 30 years, Withouthesitation, I can say thatthese young people defi-nitely Make a Difference to

Manicurist Kayla Gombar, a student in A-Tech’s AdultWorkforce Cosmtology class creates a “perfect 10” forclient Pat Good...for a good cause. A-Tech’s AdultWorkforce Cosmetology class provided manicures,haircuts and spa pedicures for clients with all proceedsdirected to BirthCare of Ashtabula County and theHospice of the Western Reserve.

A-Tech Adult Workforce Cosmetology student AmberDegnan (front) gives Amy Codney a manicure for a goodcause on Make a Difference Day. In back, Sara Fuscomanicures the nails of friend Cara Reibold. Degnan andFusco are students in A-Tech’s Adult WorkforceCosmetology class. The students donated their skills andservices to raise funds for BirthCare of Ashtabula Countyand the Hospice of the Western Reserve.

PHOTOS BY JAN PERALAA-Tech Adult WorkforceCosmetology manicuristStefani Hamilton-Hannagives her mom Kim Petersa “perfect 10”on Make aDifference Day. A-Tech’sAdult WorkforceCosmetology classprovided manicures,haircuts and spa pedicuresfor a crowd of eager clientswith all proceeds directedto BirthCare of AshtabulaCounty and the Hospice ofthe Western Reserve.

The Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus (A-Tech) Adult Workforce Cosmetology Class gatheredforces to “Make a Difference” in the lives of young mothers in need when they offered their skills and services toraise funds and collect basketfuls of baby items for BirthCare of Ashtabula County. A-Tech students donated anarray of baby items including rattles, receiving blankets, sleepers, bottles and bibs as well as $100 cash to BirthCare.On hand to receive the baby baggage bounty were (seated) Maureen Smith, Kay Baird and JoAnn Welch ofBirthCare. They are pictured with A-Tech Adult Workforce Cosmetology Instructor Tina Teter (second from left) andstudents (from left) Jackie Lewis, Bill Galiardi, Heidi Clark, Carla Nicholai, Cheyenne Dunkley, Janel Carlton, AmberDegnan, Brianna Bernard, Sara Fusco, R.J.Vandercook, Jennifer Turcie, Kayla Gombar, Taylor Stoneman, LoriStoneman and Susan Lewis.our community and theyshould be very proud of whatthey have accomplished.Hospice of the Western Re-serve is deeply grateful fortheir thoughtfulness andgenerosity and even moregrateful for each of them.”

The Adult Workforce Cos-metology curriculum pro-vides thorough preparationfor State Board of Cosmetol-ogy Certification. Studentsmaster skills in Hair Color-ing, Manicuring, Hair Styl-ing and Cutting, Permanent

Waving and Relaxing andSpa Services. In the last fiveyears, A-Tech’s Adult Cosme-tology graduates have

achieved a 100-percent pas-sage rate on the State Cos-metology Board Certifica-tion Examination.

Weeklyseminars tobe held at

Seventh-dayAdventist

Church

A weekly seminar,Amazing Discoveriesin the Ancient Lands:The Search for theTruth, will be heldevery Thursday at 7p.m. at the Seventh-day Adventist Church,4815 Carpenter Road,Saybrook.

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1565 State Route 167, Jefferson, Ohio 44047 . 440-576-6015 . WWW.ATECH.EDU The Ashtabula County Technical and Career Center Board of Education and its staff are dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal

employment opportunities without regard to sex, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, pregnancy, handicap or disability.

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Days: Monday - Thursday Time: 5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

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The Industrial Welding program offers training in stick, MIG, and

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Days: Mondays & Wednesdays Times: 6:00 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.

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Microsoft Word I & II

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newsletters, flyers.

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Location:Ashtabula Area City School District’s Lakeside High School (Lecture Hall) 6600 Sanborn Road Ashtabula, Ohio 44004

For more information contact us at:

Tom Taranto – [email protected] / 330.758.8613

Matt Warnock – [email protected] / 614.227.2388

Oil and Gas/Shale Town Hall Meeting

Open to All Northeast Ohio Residents

December 13 at 6:30 p.m.

Featuring representatives from

Hill, Barth & King LLC and Bricker & Eckler LLP

BY JAN PERALAA-Tech

JEFFERSON TOWN-SHIP - In the spirit of theseason, A-Tech Culinary Artsstudents will be serving upa festive, full course HolidayDinner with all the trim-mings on Thursday, Dec. 8.

The Holiday Dinner, anannual A-Tech tradition, isopen to the public and allproceeds from the eveningwill benefit the school’sScholarship Fund.

The menu will includesliced roast turkey, mapleglazed ham, old fashioneddressing, cranberry sauce,green beans almondine andmashed potatoes with gravy.Tossed salad with a selectionof toppings and dinner rollswill accompany the meal’smain courses. Culinary ArtsI students will provide an

Wight graduates from basic trainingAir Force Airman Robert C. Wight graduated from ba-

sic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San An-tonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week programthat included training in military discipline and studies,Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfareprinciples and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four creditstoward an associate in applied science degree through theCommunity College of the Air Force.

Wight is the son of Carrie Bradbury of Jefferson. He is a2010 graduate of Jefferson Area High School.


ASHTABULA – AshtabulaCity Council recognized theAshtabula County EducationService Center at its meetingon Nov. 21 for its purchase ofState Road Elementary Schooland its dedication to the com-munity.

“The Ashtabula CountyEducation Service Center isprobably one of the best keptsecrets in the county,” JohnRubesich, superintendent ofthe Ashtabula County Educa-tion Service Center (ACESC),said.

ACESC mission is to im-prove all the local schools inthe area by providing cooper-ated services all the schoolscan have access to.

“Our main responsibility isto local school districts. Whatwe do is coordinate services,”Rubesich said.

Ohio has been encouragingschools partner together so


JEFFERSON - Moremeetings are being plannedfor people to learn more in-formation about oil and gasdrilling.

The next event is an oiland gas/shale town hallmeeting that will be held6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday,Dec. 13, at the AshtabulaArea City School District’s

More meetings planned on oil and gas drillingLakeside High School (Lec-ture Hall), located at 6600Sanborn Rd. in SaybrookTownship.

Invited are northeastOhio residents who are in-terested in learning moreabout the legal issues asso-ciated with entering into anoil and gas lease. Bricker &Eckler attorneys will be onhand to discuss oil and gasleasing issues and land-owner groups. Also,

representatives from Hill,Barth & King will addresstax/financial planning issuesfor landowners.

Educational meetingsalso will be held on Monday,Dec. 19, in WilliamsfieldTownship and Parkman.

To help landowners learnmore about the leasing oftheir land for shale drilling,The Ohio State UniversityExtension Office, Farm Bu-reau and the AshtabulaCounty Soil & Water Conser-vation District are teamingup to offer the two informa-tional meetings. Thesemeetings will feature ClifLittle and Chris Penrose,who both serve as OSU Ex-tension Educators in south-east Ohio where a lot ofMarcellus Shale leasing hasoccurred already.

The first session will beheld at the WilliamsfieldCommunity Center on Route322 in Williamsfield 1-3 p.m.An evening session will beheld at the Parkman Com-munity Center on Route 422in Geauga County from 6 to8 p.m.

These workshops havebeen developed to help land-

owners better understand oiland gas leases and how toprotect their best interests,officials said.

“As a landowner, it is im-portant to become knowl-edgeable about oil and gasdrilling. Be prepared to askthe company questions re-garding payment, drillingtechnology and equipmentimpact, lease expiration,impact on water supplies,use of your water, receipt offree natural gas, royalties,post-drilling reclamationand other issues that areimportant to you,” officialssaid. “Learn about oil andgas leases with no companysales pressure.”

There are no charges forthese programs, but pre-reg-istration is required at theOSU Extension events sothat handouts may be pre-pared. Pre-register by call-ing (440) 576-9008 (for theafternoon program inWilliamsfield) and (440)834-4656 (for the eveningprogram in Parkman).


ASHTABULA – TheAshtabula Post of the OhioState Highway Patrol is warn-ing drivers about the dangersof driving in winter weatherand is offering some tips onwhat drivers should do in theevent of a vehicle break downor a crash.

From December 2010through March 2011, 37,429crashes occurred on snow, iceor slush covered roadways kill-ing 46 people and injuring7,844. Speed was reported asthe main cause in 77 percentof these crashes. To view abreakdown of these crashesvisit http://www.statepatrol.ohio.gov/doc/Winter_Driving.pdf.

In the event of inclementweather, the Patrol is urgingmotorists to allow extra timeto get to their destination,maintain a safe distance be-tween their vehicle and thetraffic ahead, pay close atten-tion to bridges and overpasses- as they are often the first tofreeze over – and to driveslowly, as everything includingaccelerating, turning andbraking, take longer on snow-covered roadways.

“In case of a vehicle break—down, motorists should turnon their hazard warninglights, safely position the ve-hicle as far off the road as pos-

sible, -call 1-877-7-PATROLfor assistance and remain inthe vehicle until help arrives,”explained Lt. Jerad Sutton,commander of the AshtabulaPost.

Troopers further suggestthat if you get stuck in snow,make sure that your tail pipeis free of all snow and debris,to decrease your chance of car-bon monoxide poisoning.

All motorists are encour-aged to prepare their vehiclefor winter driving by - ensur-ing that the battery, coolingsystem, tires, wipers and de-froster- are all in working or-der. Drivers are also encour-aged to carry the followingwinter car kit items in theirvehicle in case of a breakdown:

• Cell phone with carcharger

• Road flares or reflectors• Help or Call Police signs• First aid kit• Flashlight• Blanket/Sleeping bag• Small shovel• Bottled water and energy

foods• Candles and matches• Tow strap/chainUp-to-the-minute road

conditions are always avail-able by logging onto the OhioDepartment ofTransportation’s website,www.buckeyetraffic.org.

Patrol offers tips and warningsabout driving in winter weather

City of Ashtabula recognizesAshtabula Education Service Center

they can assist each other andsave money.

“The state keeps talkingabout shared services, coop-eration among different dis-tricts,” Rubesich said. “Weprobably have one of the bestmodels in the state for doingthat.”

All the schools in the countyare connected throughACESC.

Rubesich said when theyfully move into the old StateRoad Elementary, they willtake with them around 60 em-ployees.

“Currently we have justunder 200 employees workingfor us,” Rubesich said.

ACESC has been providingjobs for many of Ashtabula’sresidents and officials areproud to say they are addingto economy.

“We were able to bring oneof the officers who was laid offback as a school resource of-ficer. That school is serving at-risk students,” Rubesich said.

State Road Elementarywill be used as the board of-fices, as well as a school for at-risk students.

“When we first started [theat-risk] school, we probablyhad somewhere around 30 stu-dents in that building and thegrades were between secondgrade through 12th grade,”Rubesich said.

Prior to their at risk pro-gram, students went to LakeCounty every school day.

“There’s been a big call andwe just started a kindergartenunit about three weeks agoand we already have about 11students in that kindergartenprogram,” Rubesich said.

ACESC officials also arehappy to say they have pro-vided autistic programing forthe county as well.

“We also have autistic unitsin south county - two autisticclassrooms at Grand Valley -and they are cutting edge pro-grams,” Rubesich said.

Dec. 27 is the official move

in date when State Road El-ementary will be used forboard offices.

“I would encourage anyonein council just to pop in. Youdon’t even have to call in tomake an appointment,”Rubesich said.

Rubesich said the City ofAshtabula has been very wel-coming to its new neighbors.

An open house will bescheduled so the public canview the building and the Cityof Ashtabula officials will beable to see the progress theACESC is bringing to the area.

“When you see what we’vedone with the building, I thinkAshtabula City, especially resi-dents around State Road El-ementary School, are going tobe extremely proud of the part-nership we’re going to havewith the community,”Rubesich said.

Sadie Portman, reporter forthe Gazette, may be reached atsportman@gazette news.com.

In TheMilitary

A-Tech Culinary Arts studentspresent Annual Holiday Dinner

array of sumptuous dessertsincluding fresh baked piesand cookies.

A “Dessert Extravaganza”bake sale prepared by seniorsin the Culinary Arts II pro-gram will include giantcream puffs, cinnamon rolls,cheesecakes, carrot cake,trays of decorated cookiesand more. Students enrolledin the Horticulture programwill sell poinsettias grown inthe A-Tech greenhouses.

The A-Tech Holiday Din-ner will be served on Thurs-day, Dec. 8, 2011 from 4:30– 7 p.m. in Building B. Pricesfor the full course meal are:adults, $6.75, senior citi-zens, $4.75 and children 12and under may dine for $4.

A-Tech is located at 1565State Route 167 in Jefferson.For additional information,call (440) 576-6015, ext.1049.



GENEVA - The City ofGeneva held its annualChristmas parade on Fridaywith wreaths on fire trucksand lights on cars.

The Geneva Business As-

Christmas comes to Geneva

sociation (GBA) plans andholds the parade through theGeneva downtown everyyear.

Crowds came together toline the streets as theywaited waved to firemen,Geneva Area City School’sstudents and many other

acts in the lineup.Candy was throughout to

the crowd in handfuls andmany children were anx-iously awaiting the arrival ofSanta to ring in the holidayseason on the back of the lastfiretruck parading down thestreets.

GBA always has a goal ofexpanding the parade andthis year the organizationadded an extra bonus withfree carriage rides.

PHOTOS BY SADIE PORTMANThe Guardian United States of America Vets had a floatfull of family members and Christmas fun.


GENEVA/JEFFERSON- The Kiwanis Club ofGeneva is holding its an-

Breakfasts with Santa held throughout the communitynual Breakfast with Santathis Saturday, Dec. 10,from 7 a.m. until 12:30p.m. at the Geneva UnitedMethodist Church.

“This is an annual eventthat we staredyears ago,” FredFrisbie, mem-ber of theclub, said.

The break-fast will in-clude helpfrom allthree oftheir clubs,

the men’sclub, the

Circle K Cluband the Aktion

Club.“The Circle K

Club is our high

school organization madeup of young men andwomen,” Frisbie said.“They are pretty active intheir school and commu-nity.”

The Aktion Club is thenewest club, formed aboutfour years ago.

“The Aktion Club sup-ports the mentally andphysically disabled adultsin our community,” Frisbiesaid. “The things they cando with their handicaps isjust marvelous.”

The Breakfast withSanta funds earned will godirectly back to theKiwanis Club’s programsheld throughout the year.

“Just this past Thanks-giving, we gave to theThanksgiving basket pro-

gram in our city,” Frisbiesaid. “I’d say we donatedsome 22 or 23 turkeys andthis Christmas we’ll beproviding another 25 or soturkeys for those basketsas well.”

The breakfast will in-clude pancakes and sau-sage or the club’s famoussausage and biscuits.Santa, of course, will bethere for pictures and tolisten to the children’sChristmas wishes.

“For $5 you can have a8.5-by-11-inch photo ofSanta with the kids or fam-ily,” Frisbie said.

The photo takes aboutfive minutes to print outbut will be ready to takehome before you leave.

With the wide range of

time to attend the break-fast, Frisbie said you cancome whether it ’s forbreakfast, lunch or any-thing in between.

“Some come for break-fast, some come for brunchand others come for lunch.It’s a great day,” Frisbiesaid.

The Jefferson UnitedMethodist Church will alsobe holding its Breakfastwith Santa on Saturday,Dec. 10.

The breakfast will startat 9:30 a.m. and end at 11a.m.

The breakfast includespancakes, bacon, juice andmilk and pictures withSanta.

There will also be acraft area available for the

children to make holidaycrafts and bring a Christ-mas souvenir home.

The cost will be $5, andparents eat for just $3.

All the money raisedwill go toward the HomeMission and Christo Mis-sion Teams.

You can call in for res-ervations at the JeffersonUnited Methodist Church’soffice, (440) 576-4561.

Lastly, the JeffersonCommunity Center alsowill host a breakfast withSanta from 9-11 a.m. Sat-urday, Dec. 17. The cost is$3 per person.


A-Tech displayed its float during the parade as well, showing the crowd the specialskills they learned at the school.

One of the youngestDazzling Divas falls a littlebehind but gets a little helpfrom an advisor.

The Blue Bells dance to Jingle Bell Rock and entertainthe masses with their routine.

The Grinch not only stole Christmas but the GenevaChristmas parade as well.

Assumption School assembles for the parade withadministration and students alike representing theschool.


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Then check out Toy-N-Hobby Headquarters, Inc., inGeneva, where model air-plane, car and rocket kits fillthe shelves.

Jefferson-resident HaroldCattell opened Toy-N-Hobby,located at 775 South Broadwayin the plaza next to Giant Eaglein Geneva, four years ago.

Browsing the store is like tak-ing a step back in time, as visitorswon’t find any PlayStations,Nintendo Wiis or video games.Instead, the store is filled withmore old-fashioned toys, such askites, model airplane and carkits, that require hands-on activ-ity and thinking and provide atangible result at the end of play,such as a rocket that can actu-ally shoot into the sky.

“I try to put in things thatare creative,” said Cattell.

Many people come intothe store and say they haven’tseen a particular toy sincethey were a kid, said Cattell.

They haven’t seen the toybecause there aren’t manyhobby stores anymore andpeople are buying off theInternet because there aren’tany storefronts, said Cattell.

There are some Christmasdiscounts to be had this seasonat the Toy-N-Hobby andCattell says pretty much every-thing is on sale for the holidays.

“Stop in from now untilChristmas and see what saleswe have,” Cattell said. “There’stoo many sale items to list.”

In order to allow customersto take advantage of thisChristmas sale, Toy-N-HobbyHeadquarters will be openseven days a week fromThanksgiving through Christ-mas. Holiday hours are 10 a.m.to 7 p.m. Monday through Sat-urday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Sundays.

Besides the trains, planes,cars and boat models, as wellas pinecars, puzzles andslotcars, Toy-N-Hobby alsocarries a full line of remote-control products, includingairplanes, helicopters, boats,cars and more.

Besides the kits, the storeis filled with instructionbooks and all of the accesso-ries, such as modeling clay,paint, glue, fuel tanks, wheelsand fuel.

Many people rememberplaying for hours with a toy

train set as a child, and thestore is filled with miniaturefigures, trees, bushes, rockdebris and tunnel portals totruly personalize and createa railroad station and tracks.

If customers are lookingfor something they can’t findon the shelves, Cattell canspecial order many items forthem, including parts.

Cattell said he also stockedmany “impulse toys” for chil-dren of all ages, such as greenArmy men, silly putty, high-bounce balls and more. Dolls,paint-by-number scenes, toyhorses, puzzles, die-cast carsand more also fill the shelves.

Many different people comein the store, from people whodo this as a hobby to peoplelooking for gifts, said Cattell.

With many families want-ing to avoid the costs oftravel, playing with remote-control cars is a fun thing todo at home, Cattell said. Atleast one car stocked on hisshelves can reach 55 miles-per-hour.

Cattell enjoys the remote-control items himself, and heis now the president of theGeneva R/C, the local radio-control flying club. The grouphas about 50 members and hasaccess to a large, private flyingfield in Saybrook Township.

New members are wel-come, and people interested injoining the club can contactCattell at the Toy-N-HobbyHeadquarters. The club usu-ally puts on a demonstrationfor the public in the summer,with a couple hundred peopleattending the most recent one.

“It’s just a lot of fun,” Cattellsaid of the appeal of the models.

Depending on someone’sinterest, they can either builda model themselves or buy onealready put together, Cattellsaid. They can then take thatmodel for a fly or drive.

Customers can visit www.toynhobbyheadquarters.comto find out more informationabout the store, as well aslearn about discounts andspecial holiday hours.

Toy-N-Hobby Headquar-ters, Inc., located at 775 SouthBroadway in the plaza next toGiant Eagle in Geneva, is openfrom 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tues-day through Saturday andclosed Sunday and Mondayduring its non-holiday hours.For more information, contactthe store at (440) 466-0696.

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