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Seventy years strong
Four original members still are alive and active in the Alpha Tri Sigma sorority: Jean Garner (from left), Edith Tilton, Martha Weaver and Colleen Sheeley. The four were part of a group of seven women who liked to play golf at Evergreens Golf Club, what now is known as Lincoln Hills Golf Course.
Sorority with silly start celebrates 70 years
By AARON KORTE
Editor
For a moment, it was 1938 again.
As Colleen Sheeley, Jean Garner, Edith Tilton and Martha Weaver sat around the table in We Luv Yogurt, they laughed and giggled about the beginnings of the Alpha Tri Sigma Sorority.
Like a little school girl, Garner leaned forward and with a devilish grin asks the other three surviving members if she should reveal the real name of the group when it first formed in 1938.
And for a moment, they transformed into Colleen Bauer, Jean Fleck, Edith Garner and Martha Stephan as they were known as late teens and early 20 year olds.
Garner lights up as she reveals the treasured secret.
Seven Silly Sisters.
“That was our name amongst ourselves. Nobody else knew that,” Garner said.
But who is going to take seriously a group of silly women?
“Then we decided if we keep going we can’t go by that,” Garner said.
(Refer to page 1 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
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| FRIDAY MAY 16, 2008 |
 BJ Queen
Upper turns to Queen in hopes of winning crown
By AARON KORTE
Editor
The Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District is hoping a Queen is going to lead it to king of the Northern Ohio League in football.
The board of education approved this morning hiring BJ Queen as its new varsity football coach and as a high school history teacher.
Queen comes from Pandora-Gilboa where he was the head coach of the Rockets for the last two seasons. He compiled an 8-12 record while there, including going 5-5 in his first season after the team had gone 1-9 the season before.
"Upper Sandusky has good tradition and just three years ago they came off a run where they made the playoffs four years in a row," Queen said. "I like the community. It reminds of the one I grew up in (east of Columbus)."
The selection committee was made up of athletic director Brad Ehrman, high school principal Jim Clifford, assistant principal Richard Stotts, board members Dan Patchett and Neil Kinley and teacher Scott Barnett.
When Queen interviewed for the job on May 10, he came with a complete schedule for the team, starting next week through the end of the football season.
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Special guest
Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Executive Director Dan Ohler (right) goes over a new board member reference manual with the Wyandot County Board of MR/DD at its regular meeting Thursday night. Also pictured is board president Greg Bishop, a three-year member of the board.
Head of county boards of MR/DD visits Angeline
By ALISSA PAOLELLA
Staff writer
As Angeline School and Industries prepares for its anniversary festival in conjunction with the Wyandot County Association for Retarded Citizens on Saturday, the Wyandot County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities had a special guest at its regular meeting Thursday night: Dan Ohler, executive director of the Ohio Association of County Boards of MR/DD.
Ohler said he is traveling to each of the state's 88 counties to go over a revised board member reference manual that has been created by the state association. He brought the new manuals for the county board's seven members and Angeline Superintendent Todd Dilley.
"I've been executive director for about five years and with our educational efforts, we took a look a couple years ago, and the last time we had put together a reference manual for board members was 2001," Ohler said. "Time goes pretty quick. ... We went about the task of putting a new one together. ... I've hit about 60 counties so far this year."
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| THURSDAY MAY 15, 2008 |
 Daily Chief-Union/Aaron Korte
Sentenced
Former Upper Sandusky Police Chief Robert Hollis, being followed by his wife Bobbie, was sentenced in Upper Sandusky Municipal Court on Wednesday for unlawful restraint. Hollis' request for a new trial was denied.
Hollis sentenced for misdemeanor
By AARON KORTE
Editor
Former Upper Sandusky Police Chief Robert Hollis was sentenced to a 30-day suspended jail sentence and fined $1,255.13 on Wednesday in Upper Sandusky Municipal Court.
Hollis, who was convicted of unlawful restraint in March, also was placed on community control for two years and cannot leave the state without the permission of his probation officer.
He also is to complete and pay for psychiatric and psychological assessments, a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test and all recommended counseling determined appropriate from this testing.
If Hollis is required to seek counseling, he also has a stipulation that he may neither use nor possess any drugs or alcohol.
Hollis had no comment on the sentence and said he would be appealing the conviction.
The former chief, who submitted his medical retirement to the city on April 21, started the day with a new attorney, as attorney Dennis Pfeifer removed himself for the case.
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Talking H2O
Upper Sandusky resident Stoney Johnston (right) talks about the new water plant with (from left) water plant supervisor Dave Westbrook and URS engineers Rob Shoaf and Marvin Gnagy Jr., on Wednesday night at the city's town hall meeting. Around 100 people turned out for the event.
Town hall meeting a rousing success
By AARON KORTE
Editor
Scott Washburn listened to his grandfather.
And it paid off.
When the Upper Sandusky mayor remembered his grandfather talking about how important town hall meetings were, he decided to try one.
Washburn deemed Wednesday night's town hall meeting a success as he estimated around 100 people turned out to hear what city officials had to say and answer questions the community had as well.
"I've never been to a town hall meeting before. My Grandpa Washburn always used to talk about them and so it was something I always wanted to try," Washburn said. "The people that were there were very knowledgable and asked a lot, a lot of great questions."
Washburn spoke first, and introduced the council and supervisors.
One of the main things he talked about was the new water plant and water tower.
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