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Daily Chief-Union/Alissa Paolella
A humbling honor
Retired pastor Charles Steward has been chosen as the 2008 Citizen of the Year. Steward spent 40 years as a reverend at First Lutheran Church and has volunteered with local organizations such as the Salvation Army, Lions Club and Wyandot County Historical Society.

Rev. Steward to be honored as 28th Citizen of the Year
By ALISSA PAOLELLA
Staff writer
The Citizen of the Year committee recently announced its 2008 honored resident is the Rev. Charles Steward.
The retired pastor will be honored at the annual Citizen of the Year banquet, slated for 6 p.m. April 28 at Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church, 108 Malabar Drive, Upper Sandusky.
Steward, who served at First Lutheran Church all 40 years of his career, said he was humbled to receive the award.
"I’m not so sure that I’m deserving of it, really. I just enjoy doing things for people," said Steward, who received his bachelor’s degree in divinity from Wittenberg University’s theology school. "... I have a belief that I have to give more than I need to take from the world.

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Forest man first to receive experimental heart implant
FOREST (AP) - Dean Tackett still tires easily, but he said his wife noticed an immediate change for the better this month after he became the first person in the United States to receive an experimental implant to improve the pumping of a damaged heart.
"The first thing she said to me was that I had color. Before I was pale and gray," said Tackett, 64, who underwent his procedure March 11 at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. It had been done 15 times before, though never in the U.S.
A device about an inch and a half tall shaped like an inside-out parachute was inserted into a section of Tackett’s heart damaged by a major heart attack last May that left him unable to walk even a few steps without becoming winded.