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 Members of the Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council pose for photo outside the classroom earlier this year. To date, the group has raised nearly $2,300 in which they have donated to various local and area organizations throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Photo provided By KRISTA HAYES
Staff Writer
With the end of the school year nearing, Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council members are hoping to end their term on a positive note.
During the school year, the school government raised nearly $2,300 for various local and area organizations.
“Each year, we try and raise as much money as we can for various clubs and organizations that we vote on and decide to help support at the beginning of the school year,” Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council President Neal Maxson said.
Elected a Student Council representative of his homeroom, Maxson, a seventh-grade student, said this is his second year serving on the council. This year as president, his main responsibility is to set forth an agenda and preside over the group’s monthly meetings which are held the first and third Thursday of each month.
“I joined the Student Council because I was looking for a new activity to do and thought it’d be challenging experience,” Maxson said. “Politics have always been one of the things to stick out in my head and when I grow up, I want to be a lawyer.
“Overall, as president I think I have done a pretty good job,” he said. “Being president is a lot harder than what I thought it would be since I have to make the agendas, run the meetings, and keep the advisers in the loop. I have the whole weight of the council on my shoulders, and at times it can get frustrating, but I would recommend it to all the kids coming to the middle school next year because it’s a fun activity to be involved in.”
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Traffic stop nets electronics stolen from Wal-Mart store |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Assistant Managing Editor
A motorist and a passenger were found to have several items apparently stolen from the Wapakoneta Wal-Mart in their possession during a routine traffic stop at 12:35 a.m. Sunday.
Wapakoneta Police Chief Dave Webb said a trooper with the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol stopped the vehicle on Interstate 75 and discovered the items, which Wal-Mart personnel had yet to report stolen.
Managers at the Wal-Mart Super Center, 1257 Bellefontaine St., were later notified and the items confirmed taken from there.
“During the stop the trooper recognized items in the car that were allegedly stolen from Wal-Mart,” Webb said.
He said the suspects, a 36-year-old Detroit female and a 39-year-old Dayton man, were interviewed with no formal charges made, but prosecutors with the Auglaize County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office are reviewing the case for possible charges.
The small, electronic items taken were valued at approximately $300.
Webb declined to comment further. No one from the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol could be reached for comment.
Wapakoneta
Police Department
• Prosecutors with the Auglaize County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office are reviewing details of an underage consumption case for possible charges.
According to the report:
During a routine traffic stop at 1:25 a.m. Sunday, two vehicles were stopped and three underage occupants were found to have been consuming alcohol.
The three males were coming from Tug a Truck at the fairgrounds and included two 19-year-olds from St. Marys and one from Wapakoneta.
Webb declined to give their names as they have not been charged.
The driver of one of the vehicles had not consumed any alcohol so the three teens were turned over to him to take home.
• After coming through the McDonald’s drive-thru allegedly so intoxicated that he could barely keep his eyes open and being vulgar to cashiers, a Marysville man was arrested at 2:30 a.m. Sunday
According to the report:
Cashiers called police to assist with Thomas Peterman, 31, at the restaurant at 1376 Bellefontaine St.
His vehicle was stopped as he pulled from the drive-thru.
He was taken to the Auglaize County Jail after refusing both field sobriety and chemical tests.
He was cited for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.
• Several bicycles were reported stolen throughout the city during the weekend.
At 9:15 p.m. Friday, a mountain bike was taken from the Zip Stop. The bike was later located near 506 Murray St., where someone said a juvenile came up and turned the bike over saying he did not want to get caught with it.
The stolen bike belonged to Michael Beam, 802 N. Circle Dr.
Another bike was reported stolen from 109 ½ Brighthorn St. at 8:15 a.m. Sunday.
The black Huffy girl’s three-speed was last scene late Saturday night. It was described as having a round seat and the word “water” on its handle bars.
An abandoned bike was located near 505 W. Benton St. at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
The blue and silver mountain bike was taken to the city’s impound. No one has claimed it.
A resident of 1308 Willipie Street reported a 24-inch mountain bike taken at 1:15 p.m. Sunday.
The pink and blue bike was not the one found earlier.
• Employees of Taco Bell, 903 Apollo Drive, reported problems at 12:20 and 12:55 a.m. Sunday, after Tug a Truck, with drunk people going through the drive-thru yelling at employees and being rude.
According to the report:
They were advised to deny service to customers based on their behavior.
• A resident of 606 Cass St. reported at 1:30 a.m. Friday that someone tried to break into his house.
According to the report:
Junior Conley later determined it was one of his children who kicked in the door and nothing further was needed.
• A Wapakoneta woman was cited after a collision at 10:40 a.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Broadway Street.
According to the incomplete report:
Jennifer Bowman, 35, 213 E. Pearl St., was driving in an alley when she failed to yield the right of way and pulled out in front of Julie Sturgill, 44, 308 Broadway St.
Bowman was cited for failure to yield the right of way.
No additional information was available.
• A white male was caught on video walking down the sidewalk in front of 7 E. Auglaize St. and busting a tree limb off at 3 a.m. Sunday.
According to the report:
It is unknown who the man was and it was impossible to tell anything other than he was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans in video footage.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 May 2009 )
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