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When evaluating investments, look at value - not just price

  • February 15, 2010
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Most investors pay a great deal of attention to the price of their investments — yesterday’s price, today’s price, tomorrow’s price, next year’s price and so on. And that’s understandable, because we always want the prices of our investments to rise. Yet, if you focus too much on price, you could end up making some costly mistakes.Why? Because price-driven behavior is emotional...

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  • February 15, 2010
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It’s winter. I say that for all of you who haven’t noticed that right around this time of year – EVERY year – it gets cold. The trees are bare; the wind is chill. Sometimes, it even snows. After 45 years, each one with a winter, I’m pretty used to it. That is not to say I like winter. I don’t. I can deal with the cold, the snow, the freezing, but I do have some real complaints about the...

If Luca Brasi is sleeping with the fishes, my ring’s keeping him company

  • February 15, 2010
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“My social life’s a dud, my name is really mud.” -- From “Talk Talk” The Music Machine (1966) My wife isn’t like me when it comes to searching for and/or repairing old things. She’s more likely to buy a new car, for example, than to spend time on having her old one fixed. It’s just the way she’s wired. I, on the other hand, am still driving the 1991 Honda Civic I got when the price...

Career center crowns cake champs

  • February 15, 2010
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Thirty-two culinary arts students competed in the annual cake decorating contest at the Wayne County Schools Career Center Feb. 3. The students had two and a half hours to frost and decorate their cakes in one of three categories: traditional, whimsical or theme. First place winners received gold medals; second, silver; and third and fourth, bronze. Winning best of show with her Oreo cake,...

School levy campaign launched with Mine Plus Nine event

  • February 15, 2010
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Almost three months to the day from spring primary election, the Wooster Schools Alliance kicked off the campaign for the 6.5-mill operating levy for the Wooster City School District that voters will be asked to consider on the May 4 ballot. More than 300 area residents, members of the district’s board of education, staff and faculty gathered at Wooster High School (WHS) on Feb. 3, for the Mine...

Tickets go on sale for Hiland musical Grease

  • February 15, 2010
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The public is invited to join Danny Zuko, Sandy Olsson, Rizzo, The T-Birds and the Pink Ladies for a frolicking fun time at Hiland High School, as choir teacher John Harris and the music students at Hiland present the famed musical Grease. The musical, based on the lives of a group of high school teens back in 1959, gave birth to such famous songs as Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted to You,...

Career center seeking nominations for distinguished alumni

  • February 15, 2010
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The Wayne County Schools Career Center is seeking nominations for Distinguished Alumni Awards from area employers, past and present staff, and the community. Nomination forms can be obtained at www.wcscc.org or by calling the principal’s office at 330-669-7000, ext. 1021. The annual awards are a means of recognizing career center graduates who have made significant contributions to their...

Rocket man Builder of world’s largest model rocket visits WH science club

  • February 15, 2010
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When you’re an amateur rocket fanatic in high school, getting a chance to hear the world record-holder for the largest model rocket ever launched is a big deal. Getting him to come speak at your high school is even a bigger deal. That’s exactly what the members of the West Holmes Science Club did last week, when they brought Steve Eves and his famous one-ton rocket story to West Holmes High...

More meat, no problem for meat canning volunteers

  • February 15, 2010
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One may think that canning more meat than in past years might require more time, but thanks to the hard-working volunteers of the Holmes-Tuscarawas Relief canning for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) recently, more meat just meant a little extra work. The MCC meat canning project, which took place in the canning facility on the west edge of Berlin, was slated to take place from Feb. 1-4...

Riding arena provides unique therapy all year round

  • February 15, 2010
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It was weather like this that drove Christian Children’s Home of Ohio’s Poplar Ridge Stables to build a heated indoor riding arena. Winter weather like this... and children like Joy. She is seven years old. Joy can’t talk or walk, but she can ride. She uses an electronic communication device to tell the horse when to walk, and she loves to trot. Horseback riding helps to build her back...