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 Daily Chief-Union/Brandon Drake
Pedaling for a cause
Local educators and public officials met with Sen. Teresa Fedor during her Bike to the Capital Tour, which stopped by Subway Sandwich Shop in Upper Sandusky on Saturday. Pictured are (from left) Deb Foster, Findlay Education Association; Gene Foster, Mohawk Education Association; Tim Myers, Ohio Education Association; Fedor; Alan Lortz and Jennifer Frobose, Upper Sandusky Exempted Village School District Education Association; Isaiah Washburn; Wyandot County Commissioner Mike Wheeler; Upper Sandusky Mayor Scott Washburn; Cindy Constien, a third grade teacher at South Elementary; Bud Miller; and John Fedor.
Pedaling across the state in support of children's health
By BRANDON DRAKE
Staff writer
Sen. Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo) has been an advocate for healthy children ever since she left the classroom.
As a way to promote the importance of physical education and health standards in the public education system, Fedor spent the weekend pedaling from Toledo to Columbus as part of her Campaign for Healthy Children initiative, which included a stop Saturday at Subway Sandwich Shop, 444 W. Wyandot Ave., Upper Sandusky. There, she stressed the importance of those issues and discussed them with local educators and public officials.
"I left the classroom as a fourth grade teacher and I taught for 18 years," said Fedor, who currently is serving her second term representing the 11th Senate District in Lucas County. "I knew how important physical education was ... and as the testing system came into the state of Ohio, I kind of had to drop all those great health lessons as a fourth grade teacher.
(Refer to page 1 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
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Daily Chief-Union/Alissa Paolella
Honored family
Angeline Superintendent Todd Dilley (left) presents a plaque to Cleda Bell Barnes, a daughter of Angeline Eyestone, and recognized her family for its support of the school at the Wyandot County Association for Retarded Citizens 50-year anniversary fun festival Saturday. Eyestone was the first president of ARC.
Happiness first: County celebrates anniversary of MR/DD services
By ALISSA PAOLELLA
Staff writer
Wyandot County had much to celebrate Saturday, as many community members, elected officials and Angeline School and Industries employees and supporters gathered at Angeline for the Wyandot County Association for Retarded Citizens and Angeline anniversary fun festival.
The local ARC is celebrating 50 years this month, while the Angeline school building is 40 years old.
In 1958, a group of parents stood up against the idea that their children and loved ones would be better off in a state institution and began the early stages of a program to cater to those people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities in the community, Angeline Superintendent Todd Dilley said.
The parents' motto was "Happiness first - all else follows."
"I think it's easy to see why I have the best job in Wyandot County," Dilley said.
Dilley presented a plaque to Cleda Bell Barnes, a daughter of Angeline Eyestone, one of the parents first involved in getting together the ARC and the woman who Angeline School was named after.
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 Daily Chief-Union/Aaron Korte
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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