By Monty Siekerman
It was changing of the guard Saturday at the Ada Flea Market when Gus Guthrie (right) handed off the keys to the new owner, Dan McCrory of Rawson.
Gus, who opened the flea market 5 years ago, is retiring from the business but will continue to pastor St. Paul's United Church of Christ. On Friday, Dan retired from Ball Metal in Findlay after 38 years. He began ownership of the store the next day.
He and his wife, Cindy, said they will enjoy operating a store with ever-changing merchandise and repurposing the goods sold there, all at bargain prices.
Sara Mae (Petty) Weddle -Cleveland, age 86, died Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 3:45am at Lost Creek Care Center, Lima.
She was born on May 16, 1930 in Wooster, Ohio to Ralph and Mildred (Rosenlieb) Petty and they preceded her in death. On May 29, 1948 she married Samuel E. Weddle who died on March 6, 1995. On October 26, 2007 she married Floyd L. Cleveland and he survives in Harrod.
Sara was a beautician and she owned and operated Sara’s Beauty Shop in Harrod. She was a member of the Maysville United Methodist Church of Maysville, Ohio. She was a graduate of Fredrick's Beauty College in Lima, Ohio.
The current U.S. administration’s emphasis on coal could mean jobs and industries coming soon to the Ada-Bluffton area, although not all residents are excited about it.
One of northwestern Ohio’s untouched economic payloads is an enormous vein of Anthracite coal stretching from Sidney to Bowling Green. The coal lies beneath the pumped out natural gas and oil fields, which boomed here in the 1890s.
According to the U.S. Survey of Geology, the coal is about 200 feet under the soil. The northwestern Ohio vein was never mined because of the expense involved and because it was under oil and gas fields.
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will hear oral arguments at Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5 at the law college. This is the court’s first time holding session at an Ohio law school.
The case will be held before a five-judge panel consisting of Judges Charles E. Erdmann, Scott W. Stucky, Margaret A. Ryan, Kevin A. Ohlson and John E. Sparks Jr.
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited to the first 200 attendees. Seating will be first come, first served.
The play has ended. Its star, a beautiful actress named Vivian, graces the stage for her final bow. An adoring audience erupts in raucous applause at the sight of her. Suddenly, she jolts forward and stumbles to her knees. There is a gasp from the crowd as she falls lifelessly to the stage. The evening has come to an awful and abrupt halt. But the challenge has just begun.
This was the scene that played out before a number of Ohio Northern University students participating in “The Final Bow,” an interactive escape-room activity presented by ONU’s Theta Alpha Phi chapter on campus.
An internationally recognized expert on human rights, Juan E. Mendez, spoke at ONU on Friday. Here, he meets with Prof. Nusta Carranza Ko of the history, politics and justice department prior to his presentation. Mendez discussed torture in the world today.
