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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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 Jacob Sterling, 19, left, and Larry Copeland, 20, of Delphos Tent & Awning, Inc. use a stake driver Wednesday morning to set up a tent for the St. Joseph Fourth of July Festival at the Auglaize County Fairgrounds. The festival begins Friday afternoon and culminates with the community fireworks show on Saturday night. Staff photo/Tessa Bargainnier By MATT NICHOLS
Staff Writer
For Cindy Walkup, the atmosphere surrounding the St. Joseph Fourth of July Festival hasn’t changed since she was a child.
Now the Catholic church’s administrative assistant, Walkup said the event still draws the same emotions every year when she sets foot in the Auglaize County Fairgrounds.
“Things have gotten bigger and better, but the feeling, the camaraderie and that sense of homecoming that I had when I was young, I still get,” Walkup said. “It’s something that always brings people back to town.”
On Friday and Saturday, residents from across the area will converge on the fairgrounds for the festival’s 59th year, enjoying games, prizes and the standard at any reputable July 4th event — the fireworks.
“The fireworks here are some of the best,” Walkup said, “and that’s because of the generosity of the businesses around here.”
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Ohio to ramp up attraction to businesses |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
By WILLIAM LANEY
Managing Editor
Organizers of a new state-wide group, which is still in its formative stages, aim to sharpen the state’s efforts to attract companies to Ohio — and a Wapakoneta business leader has been asked to help.
Wapakoneta Area Economic Development Council (WAEDC) Executive Director Greg Myers said he has been asked to serve as a board member with Ohio Sales Partnership, which is replacing Team Ohio.
The Ohio Sales Partnership is altering its primary objectives, Myers said.
“The idea is to focus more on aggressively pursuing high probability prospects rather than using the old-fashioned shotgun approach to sell Ohio,” Myers told the Wapakoneta Daily News. “Our efforts as the Ohio Sales Partnership will be focused on identifying those companies that are looking at projects and are considering Ohio as a possible location.”
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