Search Results for:

Wayne Elementary project gets underway

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 534 Views
What’s one of the surest signs of spring? The reappearance of construction equipment. Crews from G.E. Baker Construction will begin making their appearance at Wayne Elementary School over spring break as the long-awaited parking lot reconfiguration project gets underway. “We’ve been trying to reconfigure, for safety purposes, all the parking lots around our elementary and middle school,”...

A time to celebrate: Generals speech and debate team ends tournament in top 20

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 824 Views
After thousands of hours of practice, hundreds of rounds and months of hard work along the grueling seven-month tournament trail, the Wooster High School speech and debate team capped off another strong season with a top 20 finish at the Ohio High School Speech League state tournament. The demanding three-day tournament, which was held at John Carroll University, Hathaway Brown High School and...

Pi Day just the right number for WCSCC students

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 723 Views
“What do you get when you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter? Pumpkin pi!” This was one of the jokes shared in a Wayne County Schools Career Center Algebra 2 class by teacher Jennifer Casteel to celebrate “Pi Day.” The Greek letter Pi, is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Career center math students celebrated “Pi Day” a little bit...

Road to recovery leads back home

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 597 Views
It was a snowy, yet warm day Thursday, Jan. 14, when teenager Danny Jeandervin told his parents that he was heading out to go sled riding on Deis Hill in Dover, just a short distance from the family home. Jeandervin was looking forward to a four-day weekend free of school obligations, and his spirits were high. His dad, Tim, jokingly told him to “be careful not to break an arm or anything” as...

Community leader now needs support Nashville Boy Scout Troop 356 ready to help a friend who has helped them

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 525 Views
On Monday, Feb. 22, Ron Gilbert and his family of seven lost their home to a fire. The fire, started by an electrical short, spread so quickly that Ron, who is confined to a wheelchair, escaped with only the TV remote in his hand and the house phone that he grabbed on his way out and still his whiskers were singed. Very few personal items were salvaged and the home was a total loss. He also lost...

Millersburg Pack 357 visit to GPI has area scouts soaring to new heights

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 538 Views
Lost scouts, an imaginary plane that can take people throughout the universe and all kinds of scouting skills were on display when the Millersburg Pack 357 troop members visited Graphic Publications, Inc. for an afternoon of learning about what goes on at a newspaper business. Several members of the troop came with scout volunteer Melissa Biltz to fulfill part of the scout troop’s...

East of Chicago grand opening to create blessing for Haiti

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 635 Views
When Jeff and Tatiana Wilkins purchased both the Berlin and Millersburg East of Chicago Pizza restaurants this past summer, they wanted to make sweeping changes to both the look of the facilities and to the overall quality of the food. When they purchased them, little did they know that they would be making changes in a land as far away as Haiti, but that is exactly what will happen during the...

Wooster teen defies the odds

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 625 Views
Life for 13-year-old Wooster resident Caleb Schmidt has been a whirlwind of new experiences, new friends, and the development of an extreme new talent. For the past two years, the teen has pursued his hobby as a swimmer under the Wayne County Wildcats of the Adaptive Sports Program, and his efforts have truly paid off. Born with spina bifida, Schmidt has had a lot of limitations. In fourth grade,...

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 554 Views
On March 30, from 6-8 p.m., the Wooster Ambulatory Surgery Center (WASC), located at 3373 Commerce Parkway, Suite 1, will host a public educational forum on the importance of colon screenings or colonoscopy. Dr. Vincent Jabour, a board certified gastroenterologist, will speak on the importance of proper screenings with guidelines from the American College of Gastroenterology. The prevention of...

SpringHaven/Rest Haven meeting scheduled

  • March 22, 2010
  • Comments
  • 536 Views
SpringHaven Counseling Center is looking forward to the challenge of finding a home. Until now, the offices have been in a small space at The Pier Community Center near Mt. Eaton. Recently a property has become available to SpringHaven that would allow development of an Amish Rest Haven alongside the counseling offices. For the past two years conversations have been held with Oaklawn/Rest...