Archive - 2013 - News Article
April 22nd
Students and staff were rerouted and evacuated from Cridersville Elementary School this morning after a bomb threat.
Wapakoneta City Schools Superintendent Keith Horner said the threat was discovered at this school this morning shortly before 7:45 a.m., requiring that they make other plans for 37 staff members and 341 kindergarten through fourth-grade students, as well as preschoolers who attend class in the building each day.
“It happened at the time of day that as soon as we found out we started evacuations and rerouting kids,” Horner said.
One Wapakoneta High School junior this spring stepped down as a member of royalty.
Aprille Steinke, who served the last year as the Auglaize County Dairy Princess, says Kimberly Brown needs to cherish the position of helping promote the work of dairy farmers and dairy products in the county and the region.
Football, football and more football.
That is what is on the mind of one Cridersville Elementary School fourth-grader.
He plays it in the fall and practices his skills on video games and watches old game replays on ESPN the rest of the year.
Ten-year-old Connor McDonald is a running back for the Cridersville Rams and says his favorite thing about playing football is hitting people.
This spring he also is playing soccer. It’s his second year of using the sport to help with his running and other skills used in playing football.
April 19th
It’s hard to find an organization or office in Wapakoneta that performs a service for others that doesn’t have a framed writing by a local man hanging on its wall.
James L. Matson Sr.’s writings can be found in the Auglaize County Courthouse, and throughout the county in police and fire stations, military posts and clubs, service clubs, recreational centers, post offices, nursing homes, libraries, schools, businesses and even homes.
WAYNESFIELD — Anyone can go and purchase a calf from another county in Ohio or even from another state, as Candace Muir sees it.
Working with the animal is still there, anyone who has shown animals at the Auglaize County Fair or any other fair knows that.
However, there is an extra sense of pride in participating in the Auglaize County Born and Raised Steer Show — knowing the animal was born here, raised here and trained here.
No longer wanted or needed items can be “dropped” or “swapped” during the annual Drop and Swap to be held May 11.
The event, which is being held in conjunction with Auglaize County Household Hazardous Waste Day, is planned from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Public Works Department, 110 E. Harrison St., Wapakoneta. Most items may be disposed of for free.
A free shopping day, for the items left the day before, is planned from noon to 2 p.m. May 12. Any item left may be taken.
Excessive drinking is a problem in Auglaize County, as shown by a study released this month by the University of Wisconsion, data that bothers the county’s medical director.
According to that study, Auglaize County ranked 15th among the 88 counties in the state, a decline in recent years, but especially troubling to the county’s Medical Director Dr. Juan Torres is the county’s 15 percent score for excessive drinking.
Two local volunteers’ faces revealed the pair’s pleasant surprise of earning a top honor during an annual Volunteer Appreciation Brunch hosted by Mercy Unlimited.
Marcie Hawk and Jamie Braun have spent numerous hours of their spare time volunteering at Mercy Unlimited, and on Thursday, they were presented with “Volunteer of the Year” awards.
“It made me feel really good and appreciated,” Braun said after he received the award during the brunch.
The 25th anniversary of the Auglaize County Crisis Center celebrated its milestone anniversary with another successful event, topping at least $35,000 in funds raised.
“We still have cash donations and chili auction proceeds to count,” event organizer Heide Koenig said, “but we will match last year’s total and likely be a little bit higher than last year. Every year we generally do a little better than the year before.”
April 18th
The director of the Auglaize County Elections Board announced Wednesday plans to retire at the end of July.
Effective Aug. 1, Carolyn Campbell said she will be leaving the position she has held overseeing county elections for the last seven years.
