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May 3rd, 2013
The decision by Wapakoneta High School administrators to enforce the dress code now that warmer weather — and less clothing — has set in has been met with some students and parents saying they should have been better warned.
Summer Griner was sent home from school Wednesday by school administrators after telling the sophomore her athletic shorts were too short and did not have pockets. She changed and returned to class.
The community gathered Thursday at Heritage Park in Wapakoneta for one reason — to pray.
National Day of Prayer was celebrated nationwide Thursday afternoon, and the community of Wapakoneta joined in with their own prayer service that honored everyone in the community, from government officials to military and education personnel to families.
“I came because I believe in the cause,” said Darcy DeLeon, who is a minister at Wapakoneta Community Worship Center and the chaplain at Mercy Unlimited.
BOTKINS — A Botkins resident said the opening on village council was the perfect opportunity to do something he had always wanted to do.
“I wanted to be more active in the community,” Lance Symonds said. “This was something I was looking for.”
Botkins Village Council members unanimously elected Symonds to fill the opening on council at Tuesday’s meeting. The spot came open March 26 after Tammy Granger was hired as village treasurer.
May 2nd
After their game against the Ben Logan Raiders was called off, the Wapakoneta Redskins softball team scheduled a pick-up game against the Minster Wildcats.
Redskin varsity coach Bill Sammons used the unexpected match-up to get his younger girls and other non-starters some playing time before tournament and the end of the season.
Graveside services for Bernard C. “Barney” McCullough Jr., 90, of Wapakoneta, will be 11 a.m. Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wapakoneta, with the Rev. Daniel Hunt officiating.
Military rites will be conducted by the Wapakoneta V.F.W.
Barney died Feb. 2, 2013, at his residence.
Charlene Waterman, 80, of Wapakoneta, died at 11:37 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at Shawnee Manor.
Arrangements are incomplete at the Bayliff & Eley Funeral Home in Wapakoneta.
Paul B. Brown, 80, of Wapakoneta, died at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Auglaize Acres in Wapakoneta.
Arrangements are incomplete at the Bayliff & Eley Funeral Home in Wapakoneta.
Bernard C. McCullough Jr., 90, of Wapakoneta, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013.
He was born June 9, 1922.
A memorial graveside service will be held Saturday at Greenlawn Cemetery in Wapakoneta.
Memorial donations may be given to Grand Lake Hospice.
Emergency Management agencies throughout the state are being charged with creating plans to handle exotic animals.
Auglaize County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director Troy Anderson said state officials are requiring such plans be made after more than 50 exotic animals escaped from a farm near Zanesville in October 2011.
Forty-nine of the animals, including tigers, lions, black bears, mountain lions, grizzly bears, wolves and a baboon, were killed when law enforcement responded. Six animals, a grizzly bear, leopards and monkeys, were captured alive.
Wapakoneta city officials rejected a proposal to convert the city’s fleet of vehicle to natural gas.
Wapakoneta City Council Utilities Committee members declined to give a favorable recommendation on a written proposal by Dennis Black with King Clean Energy LLC, of Tipp City, who provided documents showing the city would save thousands of dollars switching the city’s vehicles to natural gas from gasoline.
