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Walking for a cure
Students, staff and parents walked the track at Riverdale Friday to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The event had a special meaning for Alissa and Brett Farmer, who are holding their daughter, Addie. With the two Riverdale teachers is Susan Cole, school nurse and Riverdale students who have Type I diabetes, (front) Shelby Blum, Bailey Thiel, Martin Brenneman, Jesiah Wright and Brooke Kuenzli. The students and community raised more than $7,000 for the JDRF.
Students support cause for teachers' family
By DAN ROBINSON
DC-U news bureau
MOUNT BLANCHARD — Students and staff from Riverdale made a continuous chain around the school’s track Friday morning, holding pinwheels over their heads to spin in the spring breeze. They were having fun, but more importantly, they were raising money in hopes of finding a cure for diabetes.
Six of the students have Type I diabetes and their friends and school community showed their support by taking part in the fundraiser. But for a pair of Riverdale teachers, the event marks the closing of three months on an emotional roller coaster.
Brett and Alissa Farmer each teach intervention classes at the school. The couple are the parents of three children, but their lives changed quickly when their youngest daughter, Addie, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes in February. Since then, the Farmers have learned much about the 16-month-old’s disease.
“Some people think this is something Addie will grow out of,” Brett said, “but she will have it the rest of her life or until there is a cure.”
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| FRIDAY MAY 30, 2008 |
 Daily Chief-Union/Aaron Korte
Heading out
Ceidyer Niederkohr begins her 18-mile bicycle ride Thursday morning with dozens of other St. Peter fifth and sixth grade students and chaperones. The annual excursion went to Ellis Lake this year.
St. Peter students show off lessons on annual bike trip
By AARON KORTE
Editor
The point of the bicycling lesson is to teach fifth and sixth graders at St. Peter the value of a lifelong physical activity.
The bonus comes when that lesson extends into the family.
Sandy Terry is a fine example of that.
The 43-year-old had no children on Thursday's annual bike ride but she was along to chaperone.
It was two years ago that her eighth-grade daughter, Janelle, last rode on the bike ride and her son Daniel is a year away from participating.
"That's what got us started, was her fifth grade year," Terry said of Janelle's first trip three years ago. "I went on her fifth grade ride. We had done some riding before but nothing significant. And that's what kind of got us started."
And started means the family now does four 30-mile rides a year in the area.
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Commissioners discuss possible maintenance project on courthouse
By ALISSA PAOLELLA
Staff writer
The Wyandot County Commissioners met with a representative from Mid-State Contractors Inc., of Marion, on Thursday morning to begin discussing a possible maintenance project on the Wyandot County Courthouse.
Doug Hooper of Mid-State Contractors suggested the board of commissioners receive an estimate on the total project, and then split it into phases in order to get the best value for its money over the next few years.
He said the project probably will be costly, but the commissioners can use grant money and other funding sources over several years to do work on the courthouse.
The board of commissioners said along with maintenance to Lady Justice and the rest of the tower at the top of the courthouse, the dome needs to be worked on so that water does not enter the building.
"I'm not altogether knowing what we might be able to do," commissioner Ed Kuenzli said. "... The worst part of the whole thing is what the general public considers, the rusty water has run down the sides of the actual tower, although the actual tower, from what we know, doesn't have physical damage to it. It No. 1, doesn't look good. And then along with that, the lead paint aspect comes into play, and also the Lady Justice needs (to be) reconstructed. I guess, at that point, that's going to probably have to come down to be redone and then be put back up."
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| THURSDAY MAY 29, 2008 |
 Daily Chief-Union/Aaron Korte
Remembering history
Chief Leaford Bearskin pauses to contemplate his ancestors at the Mission Church in Upper Sandusky. The Wyandotte tribe chief was part of a delegation that came to Ohio to purchase property in northern Ohio containing former Indian burial grounds. The delegation came to Upper Sandusky on Wednesday night to visit some of the former historical locations pertaining to the tribe's history.
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City finds past due water bills dating five years old
By ALISSA PAOLELLA
Staff writer
When Upper Sandusky Mayor Scott Washburn took office in January, he began going through all of the departments within the city to make sure there was open communication between departments to keep the city running smoothly.
A problem with computer software in the water department has brought on an "embarrassing" situation for the city, Washburn said Wednesday, as past due water bills had not been getting mailed out and had been lost in the computer program used in the department.
One of the biggest departments in the city, Washburn said the city had not provided the two clerks with adequate tools to do their jobs correctly.
"It's not a lack of them wanting to work," he said. "It's a lack of us giving them the tools to do their job."
Large numbers of past due water bills, up to five years old, now are being collected, Washburn said, as water department supervisor Dave Westbrook is helping to organize the department after taking the top spot about six weeks ago.
"(I am) upset, embarrassed as a city, that we let things get out that far," Washburn said. "We have to collect the money. This is a business and we're running it as such. ... We have to collect money owed to the city. We can't just hit delete. ... This is not how (the city does) business."
The service committee on Tuesday night approved the purchase of a new computer program as the city readies itself to go to monthly water billing instead of quarterly.
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