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FEATURES Decorating with a Worldly Wonder
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In the Kitchen 14 with Terri Bergman
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Small Talk 20 Jo Hill’s miniature wedding dress replicas
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A Cabin in the Woods 42 Pugh Cabin at Malabar Farm Kroger Marketplace 49 Who says you can’t have it all? JAN/FEB 2013
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FROM THE EDITOR
Visiting places and meeting people for interviews is the very best part of my job here at Heart of Ohio magazine. In this first issue of the New Year, it is my good luck to introduce you to some people and places that remind me just how lucky I am. I’d always been curious about it, so I spent an afternoon talking with Betty Berry about the Pugh Cabin. Betty has interesting stories about the cabin’s construction and her fascinating father who built it. After you read “A Cabin in the Woods” I am confident you will want to visit the Pugh cabin on your next trip to Malabar Farm. “Driving Safety Home” is about The Mid-Ohio School Honda Teen Defensive Driving Program. Anyone who is looking forward to or currently has a teenage driver should read this. I learned so much just watching the action! Meet the Cullers: a family that has called their land home since 1814. “The Old Summer House Has Seen Many Seasons” gave me the opportunity to take a trip back into the past as I toured the B & B filled with their family’s history. An amazing place and a beautiful family; it doesn’t get any better than that. You would recognize his voice from his commercial work, or you might have been in the audience at one of his many speaking engagements or watched him as the emcee of many town roasts. Enjoying a cup of coffee sitting across from Bill Sharp is always a pleasure; talking to him about his experiences marrying couples in some very odd ceremonies makes it doubly so. Read, “What is was, was a wedding,” and you’ll see what I mean. Jo Hill creates miniature wedding dresses; her sewing is her art. Look for “Small Talk” in this month’s Heart of Ohio, then get the story behind the story on my blog. Read “Third Time’s a Charm” to see how this story became very personal for me. Mike Greene gives us his slant on the new Kroger Marketplace and some sports stories, too. We’re welcoming Terri Bergman to this first issue and look forward to having her with us for many more! Julie McCready, Kym Lamb, Barb Haller and Chuck Hahn all add their particular talents to the mix. This edition marks the beginning of our fourth year of publication, an adventure we began without any idea of where it might go. So far it’s taken us to all four corners of the state… but never very far from the heart of Ohio that we love so much. Thank you for being with us every step of the way.
Diana L. Coon, Editor Heart of Ohio magazine
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS The Arts
Local Attractions
10 Bill Smith: The art of finding your talent
38 The Old Summer House has seen
Family Life
many seasons…
17 Thoughts from Barb Haller:
Health & Wellness
Interesting People
Money Matters
18 Bill Sharp: What is was, was a wedding…
59 Top 10 Financial Resolutions for the New Year
46 Virginia Imhoff: Community Leader
Collectors Corner
Safety First
61 The Hands of Time: John Walker
Becoming a Mother-in-Love
53 The Good Ole Days… Or Were They?
28 The Mid-Ohio School: Driving Safety Home
Sports & Recreation 32 Stan the Man 33 Charles Follis: The Black Cyclone
Tech Savvy
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36 That Was Then… This Is Now
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I love to travel. Within our country, outside its boundaries, it matters not to me. I enjoy planning, expediting and experiencing every aspect of my trips and the countless pictures and memories that will be treasured for a lifetime. Traveling is something that is not only in my blood but was executed to its finest in my family. I was reminded of it the other day when I was perusing through a box of old family photographs and came across a black and white picture of a luxury steam liner. I was told that it was one of the ships my paternal grandparents, along with my great uncle and aunt, sailed on as they traveled around the world. Around the world! Can you imagine? On steam ships! How amazing and how many stories I remember being told. And, oh, the treasures they amassed and brought back with them! There were fan-backed chairs and elephant tables with real ivory tusks from Africa in their
living room. Hooked wool rugs from New Zealand adored the floor in front of my grandfather’s dressers in his bedroom. Carved jade pieces and rolls of exquisite silk fabric were displayed in black lacquered shadow box tables all brought from the Orient. And to this day, I still have a toy Koala Bear made from real Koala fur sitting on my dresser. As a child I would sit in my Great Aunt’s bedroom where she would let me play among the trunks filled with beautiful fabrics and jewelry boxes filled with trinkets from exotic ports as she would tell me colorful stories of how each item came into their possession and how they were often times “smuggled” home! Of times spent touring the French countryside tasting wines and sitting in seaside retreats smoking freshly rolled cigars in Cuba. I always wondered if my grandmother and great aunt smoked the cigars as well, but as much of a
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chatterbox as I was, I never got the nerve to ask! It’s no wonder this gal has a wanderlust soul!! Can you imagine the planning and work that went into taking trips like that in the time after WWII? Not to belittle the lack of communication and safety! Today, with the assistance of travel experts or the solo research in front of a computer, the world is accessible for those who choose to experience it firsthand. And for those who care not to leave the comfort of their homes, they can simply tune into a television channel that focuses on showing them everything from beautiful countryside to couples scouring the area’s real estate to purchase a house there! And as they watch those shows, they can search on their I-devices and laptops and purchase luxury products from all over the world to use while cooking in their kitchens or wear on their bodies. It’s just that easy now. And it’s even easier to infuse worldly influences into home decorating now as well. JAN/FEB 2013
The flavors of the world continue to be strongly represented in the home fashion industry through the use of color, pattern and texture in upholstered fabrics, furniture styling and wall coverings. The five distinct color trends were even grouped and themed after cities of near and far when presented at the Fall International Home Furnishings Market and the Norwalk Furniture showroom in High Point, North Carolina by the team of Caroline Hipple and Dixon Bartlett, HB2 Resources. Maybe one of the new trends will speak to your wanderlust decorating soul!
B.A. Inspired by the vibrant energy of Buenos Aries, Argentina, B.A. encompasses warm shades of avocado, mustard and clay, imbued with tobacco tones for a somewhat vintage, weathered aesthetic. Punches of teal add brightness, while nature and foliage patterns add a subtropical vibe.
Cool Britannia With Union Jack-inspired themes and colors, this comfortable look combines heavily textured, nubby fabrics with architectural and industrial accents. A palette of British red, white and blue predominates. Amidst the mostly textural fabric story, look for occasional tongue-in-cheek references to classical motifs, such as roses or quatrefoils.
Indochine Infused with Asian design themes and touched with tropical references, hot hues of deep orange, pink, fuchsia, imperial red and turquoise are cooled with natural linen. Look for dragon, fan, lantern and calligraphy motifs, as well as a handful of fabrics with sateen finishes that reference Chinese silk.
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Bill Smith The art of finding your talent
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Bill Smith has a real job; he is an insurance agent at Roby-Foster-MillerEarick (RFME) Insurance in Mansfield. It’s his talent with pencil and brush, however, that inspired me to track him down at his office. It is quite evident that Bill has a love of the outdoors… the water, birds, nature, lighthouses… all things that populate his artwork. Given the obvious gift he has, it’s strange that he didn’t realize he had talent until later in life. “For Christmas 1998, my daughter bought
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me a big set of colored pencils. I had never done any sketching or painting, but the pencils inspired me to start doodling. That’s how I discovered I could draw,” Bill explained. The colored pencil drawing soon gave way to water color painting; today Bill still does pictures in ink, water color, pencil, and combinations of the three. He has done pictures of homes, pets and other things which he has given to friends as gifts. “I tend to work in spurts,” Bill explained. “I see something that inspires
me, or someone will ask me to take on a project, and I work like crazy. Then I pull back and wait till the next surge of interest hits me.” Bill uses his talent in a more personal way as well. He never buys a card for a special occasion; instead he draws or paints his own. “I guess my cards are my ‘claim to fame’. Our friends have gotten so used to getting my cards for various things throughout the year that I would be accosted on the street if I didn’t send them out for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries. I’ve even covered myself if I forget one. The person gets an apologetic note inside a card with a monkey face I drew just for the occasion,” Bill laughed. This outdoor-loving artist has combined his love of nature with his devotion to the Ohio Bird Sanctuary on Oreweiler Road in Mansfield.
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A supporter and board member of the Ohio Bird Sanctuary in Mansfield, Bill Smith is attempting to turn his talent into a fundraiser for the organization to which he is dedicated. Two of his original drawings, “Barred Owls, Mother and Chick”, and “Tawny Owl Chick” both hang in the lodge at the facility. These drawings have been reproduced for note cards, which are on sale in the gift area. The money from every purchase of these beautiful cards goes to support the Ohio Bird Sanctuary. The “Barred Owls, Mother and Chick” is Bill Smith’s all-time favorite subject and picture. “I just want to help out the Ohio Bird Sanctuary. These barred owls are so beautiful, and we’re lucky to have a place like the Ohio Bird Sanctuary right here in the area,” Bill said. Born in Fremont, Bill has been in Mansfield since 1978. “I met my then future wife here, and decided Mansfield was the place for me. I still love it. We have such a rich fabric of culture here, the symphony, the Ren, skiing, Malabar Farm; it’s a beautiful area and it’s our home.” Bill’s wife, Becki, supports his hobby and helps where she can. “Becki is my best critic. If she doesn’t like something she has no problem telling me. I guess everyone needs someone to keep him in line,” he chuckled.
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What a delight it was to grace the pages of Heart of Ohio magazine for the holiday issue! Now on to the romance of the winter months. With February upon us, we are sharing our recipe for chocolate soufflé torte served with a decadent berry caramel. A photo of this plated dessert was shown last month and we had so many request for the recipe, we decided to make this our romance dessert for the New Year. Here is the recipe, just right for a crowd or the perfect finish for that romantic dinner for two. Enjoy!
Chocolate Soufflé Torte
with Chantilly Cream and Berry Caramel Glaze This recipe can be baked in one pan as a whole torte to be sliced, or in individual pans or ramekins. This is a traditional chocolate torte recipe that I have lightened with extra egg whites to make into more of a soufflé texture. If you want this tall – serve as soon as it is out of the oven, for a cracked denser texture, bake – settle and serve. Truly decadent! Serves 8 Ingredients: 12 oz semisweet chocolate ½ cup butter 4 whole eggs 2 egg whites 1 ¼ cup powdered sugar ¼ cup rice or potato flour
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Melt chocolate and butter together in a sauce pan over low heat. Cool slightly.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat the 4 whole eggs with sugar until ribbon forms. Gently fold a small amount of the eggs into the chocolate, then fold chocolate into eggs blending well. Add the flour, blend well. In a separate bowl whip the 2 eggs whites until stiff and gently fold into the prepared torte batter. Pour into a buttered and floured spring form pan. Bake for 30 minutes.
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Torte is done when batter is cooked to about 1 inch towards the center, center will be moist but not runny. The surface will crack when cooled. When ready to serve, Beat the whipping cream, have berry caramel prepared – slice, dollop with cream and accent with berry caramel glaze. This glaze/sauce may also be served on the side.
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“ My husband is such a romantic! One day he ca me to my apartment with a puppy. I told him it was a lovely gift, but my landlord wouldn’t allow me to have a dog. He said, “Well, I guess we’ ll just have to get married to give this little guy a home.” We did, and I’m glad.”
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Thoughts from Barb Haller Becoming a Mother-in-Love experience. But too easily she oversteps a boundary and becomes the meddler, the judge, the one who disapproves. I didn’t want to go down that road. I once heard someone refer to her mother-in-love rather than mother-in-law. She believed it best described their relationship: one of trust and affection and one she would have chosen, as a love relationship. I liked that and Gaining another daughter-in-love in 2009. Photo by Lutz Studios adopted it as my own. It says, “I choose to accept and love remind myself to listen and to apologize you as one of my own.” when needed. And I choose to accept that Naturally, there’s more to a new my daughters-in-love won’t share relationship than adopting a name. everything with me. Attitudes and actions must also be Slowly, our hearts are knit together. adopted. Perhaps this is a new mother-inNo forced agenda, just a friendship. law’s greatest challenge. I still can’t quite be mother to my new It wasn’t easy letting go of my boys. I daughters, but I can try to strike a know what foods they like and how to balance between loving involvement and fold their t-shirts. I miss hearing about giving them breathing space. After all, it’s their school day or soccer practice. But their marriages and their lives. once my sons married, my job essentially There’s no fool-proof recipe for was over. A young man can “leave and becoming a mother-in-love. It’s not cleave” more smoothly if his mother gets always a smooth road. But armed with a out of his way and lets his wife become desire to build a relationship and plenty the first woman in his life. of time, a mother-in-love is born and can In a sense, it’s a beautiful exchange: reap the harvest of a lifetime. one relationship for another. As I let go of a son, I got to know my daughter-in-love. At this writing, Barb and her husband As I observed her personality, it became Bill have no other weddings in the works. easier to speak love into her life. We’ve She’s the mother of four, mother-in-love of shopped and had lunch together. I two, and grandmother of three. Barb writes occasionally send cards or small gifts. I from home in Delaware. Visit her blog at love to e-mail and text! We’ve taken walks, www.barbhaller.blogspot.com. chatted over coffee, and prayed together. I
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Weddings! They bring untold stress to brides, tears of joy to their mothers and financial angst to fathers. A wedding leaves the young groom bewildered and causes the groom’s mother to seriously question her role in the whole affair. What’s the adage? The groom’s mother wears beige and keeps her mouth shut. Weddings have risen to a new level of complicated planning and expense. Many couples spend a year or more preparing for the big day. No more cake and punch receptions in the church basement: today’s weddings are big, big business. A sweet side to raising a houseful of rambunctious boys is when they marry. The memories of smelly laundry and monstrous appetites fade once a serious girlfriend enters the picture . . . especially a girl you grow to love. Two of our sons became engaged while still in college. They seemed so young! What’s the hurry? Ah, young love! I decided to look at the big picture of their getting married and what it meant for our lives. After more than 30 years of marriage, I knew it went deeper than bridal showers, bachelor parties and color-coordinated reception décor. To me, the carefully-crafted wedding invitation and other details pale in comparison to something greater: my relationship with my sons’ wives. So began an intentional journey. Mother-in-law: a term with such negative overtones. Perhaps it’s wellearned. With all good intentions, a mother-in-law sets out to share her knowledge with the young couple, assuming they’ll embrace her years of
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No matter how formal or casual, a wedding day is always one to remember. Some people like to make it memorable in very unique ways. Bill Sharp is licensed to marry couples in the great State of Ohio. When asked what the most unique ceremonies he had performed might be, Bill didn’t have any trouble coming up with a list. Here are a few of his favorite wedding memories: “I performed a wedding on a commuter flight from Mansfield to Cleveland a number of years ago. The couple planned to leave from the Cleveland airport for a European honeymoon. In those days you weren’t licensed in the entire state, but in counties. I had to make certain the service was timed perfectly while we were in airspace above the counties for which I was licensed. We announced to the others on the small flight what was about to happen; I faced the couple over the seat back and we committed marriage. I started the ceremony saying, ‘We have gathered at this hour and this altitude to join this couple’,” Bill laughed. Height seems to be Mr. Sharp’s strongest category; he related this story about an interesting day on the Mohican Fire Tower. “We all met at the tower dressed for a formal wedding. It had begun to mist and I had on leather soled shoes, making my trip up and back down interesting. The full wedding party was to ascend, but as it turned out only six people are allowed on the tower at one time. That meant only the bride and groom, the maid of honor and best man, the photographer and I could go up. Everyone else remained on the ground, looking up at the procession. Evidently, no one had considered the fact that a wedding dress is to be observed straight on; a hoop skirted wedding dress on a fire tower with the crowd looking up is quite
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another matter. But, in spite of that, on up the tower we went until we reached the top. The ceremony progressed, and when we came to the part where I asked ‘what tokens do you bring?’ the bride and groom looked at each other in horror and said, ‘the rings are in our car’. No one was going back down the rain slick tower to get them, so the photographer took off his ring and we used that for the bride until we got back down on the ground,” Bill remembered. Other ceremonies include a wedding on the infield of Dragway 42 during a race; and a wedding on a volleyball court with everyone dressed to play the game except Bill – he was in a suit when he called the crowd together on the court. A wedding that took place in a bar at happy hour sticks in his memory as the only time a couple “stiffed” him for his fee. “This was during happy hour, so the place was full of half-price drinkers when the manager got up on the stage and announced ‘we’re going to have this wedding’. The bride marched to the stage to Lady in Red; they left the bar right after they said ‘I do’ and I never saw them again,” he said. Although Bill is no longer associated with a church, he gets calls from couples who have been turned down by their ministers, or from couples who don’t
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by Diana Coon Years ago Joanne Hill was looking for a unique wedding gift for a fellow teacher. After much thought she hit upon the idea of recreating the bridal gown in miniature; she talked to the bride’s mother, who gathered up the sewing scraps from the original gown. That was in 1989, and since that time Joanne has created over 150 gowns for friends, family and commissioned clients. Joanne’s creations are usually about two and a half feet tall, often with long veils. She shies away from putting the gowns on dolls because of their unrealistic figures; instead she uses wooden stands she purchases in Chicago to display the finished product. Over the years gowns have changed a great deal. Joanne explained, “In the 80’s many dresses had cut-out areas covered with see-through lace; today, many of the gowns I replicate are strapless.” One of her most complicated gowns was the wedding dress from Gone with the Wind. “My Mom kept talking about this dress, so I watched the movie and discovered it was only on the screen for a couple of seconds. I called MGM Studios and discovered they didn’t own the costume any longer. I finally located it in a home economics department at the University of Texas.” She was fortunate to find a student who had a pattern for the dress, complete with big balloon sleeves and satin oak leaves attached to the skirt. To recreate Jackie Kennedy’s wedding gown, Joanne traveled to the JFK Library in Boston to see it. The next year she went to Philadelphia to see the dress worn by Princess Grace. “I do a lot of research,” she said. “I like to see the dress up close; I need to look at the material carefully.” Creating her own patterns simply by looking at the dress is a talent
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Above left: Gone with the Wind replica. Above right: A replica of the dress worn by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Bottom right: Jo Hill
Joanne shrugs off, “You just have to study it and study it. It’s a lot of trial and error.” Last year Hill’s replica of the suit worn by Lauren Bacall at her wedding to Humphrey Bogart, at Malabar Farm, was on display in the Big House during the “Hollywood Returns” celebration. She says it was the most unusual bridal ensemble she has ever created. Joanne, a retired speech therapist, learned the art of sewing from her Mother. She sometimes goes as far as Cleveland to visit a favorite fabric store or vintage clothing store in search of the perfect material. Creating these half scale replicas is work intensive and requires a great deal of skill with a needle. While some seaming can be done by machine, linings,
lace, beading and hems must all be hand finished. “You simply can’t do it all on a sewing machine. It just wouldn’t look right,” Hill said. People find Joanne by word of mouth. “I don’t do a lot of them, just a couple each year. If I had to do it for a living I think it would cease to be fun,” she chuckled.
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When I met Jo Hill in the summer of 2012 at Malabar Farm I was impressed with the soft spoken woman’s talent as a seamstress. After working on this article with her it occurred to me that my own wedding dress was tucked away in the attic in a box. Since both my daughters wore my wedding dress and all three weddings took place at First English Lutheran on Park Avenue,that dress holds a lot of memories. I decided to give the dress and the pictures of all three of us on our wedding days to Jo just to see what she could come up with. The result was three exact replicas made (one replica pictured above) from the original gown. My daughters Tracy (Coon) Whitaker and Wendy (Coon) Hunt,and I now each have our own gown; this is truly the best gift I’ve ever been able to give to anyone.
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Here comes the bride Weddings are often the realization of a childhood dream, an expression of today’s joy and a stage for tomorrows hopes. Every couple wants their wedding to be unique and personal. Planning and preparation for your wedding day can save both time and money; it is never too late or too Bohland Jewelers 1430 Claremont Avenue, Ashland Bohland Jewelers understands your desire for wedding rings that are as unique as your relationship. That knowledge compels them to look for fresh, new designers and techniques that keep them ahead of the curve. Bohland’s “one of a kind” policy means you won’t see your selection on someone else; their complete customizing service brings you into the design process. Select a ring and work at the computer with a professional to bring your ring to life in 3-D. Once you are comfortable with the design and the price, your ring is created to meet your specifications. Every couple is different, every wedding unique; find your special ring at Bohland Jewelers. Visit them on the web at: www.Bohlandjewelers.com
early to plan. A timeline and budget are important; working with people who can guide you at every turn is vital. From choosing the gown to saying goodbyes, here are some experienced professionals who can help make your day very special:
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Bridal and Formal Wear by B 564 North Lexington Springmill Road (in the Kohl’s Plaza), Mansfield This may be your first wedding; it shouldn’t to be true of your bridal shop. Bonnie Schwiger, a consultant since 1986, owns “Bridal and Formal Wear by B”. “Some of the brides I work with were in the shop being fitted for gowns as flower girls or prom dresses. Now they trust us to provide the same expertise and service when choosing a bridal gown,” Bonnie said. Working with top designers and vendors, Bonnie brings the ‘big city’ look to her store. “Clients experience the ‘wow’ without traveling to find formal wear or a bridal gown.” JAN/FEB 2013
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Whether you’re shopping for prom, homecoming, the dream wedding gown, or the perfect tuxedo, we can make your dreams come true. From destination casual to ultra formal, we’ll make you look fabulous on your special day.
Full service and selection are the reasons women return to Brides by B for prom gowns, formal wear and bridal gowns. Your special event is our specialty. Visit us at: BridalandFormalwearbyB.net and on Facebook. D.W. Catering
1120 Lexington Avenue, Mansfield Planning a wedding reception or any event, no matter how large or how small, can be stressful. D. W. Catering has been helping reduce the stress since 2001. Their full menu is on their website; they can work within any budget. This family owned and operated business continues to grow because of their hands-on attention to detail, the quality of their menu and their full service convenience offerings. D W Catering can supply your reception with china, glassware, linens, chair covers and sashes and the food from hors d'oeuvres to dessert. Visit the website today at: DWCatering.com or call 419.756.6002 for an appointment to discuss your event planning.
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Ed Picken’s Café on Main 28 North Main Street, Mansfield Event planning becomes uncomplicated when you choose to bring your wedding, your reception or any event to Ed Picken’s Café on Main. The Kobacker Room comfortably accommodates 175 people; the Reeds Room 125. Your reception can be catered from cake to cutlery, on site with full bar services, or off site at any location. Ed has over 35 years’ experience in the field of food service, and he has put together a staff at Café on Main that has perfected the art of getting it right. Call 419. 522.7699 and ask to speak with Beth. Schedule a consultation and you will discover how excellence becomes easy when you choose Ed Picken’s Café on Main. Visit us at www.cafeonmain.net, and look for us on Facebook Flowers for You 22 East Gambier Street, Mt. Vernon Sally Wright may own a flower shop, but she sells emotion. “Anything you give flowers for; weddings, births,
Look no further! Bridal by B was created for the bride and her party to truly enjoy their experience. We offer one-on-one customer service as well as alterations and wedding day service. 564 N. Lex-Springmill Rd. (Kohl’s Plaza) Ontario, OH 44906 | 419-529-2009 bridalandformalwearbyb.net M, W, Th • 11am-8pm Tu, F • 11am-7pm
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anniversaries, funerals, it’s always about emotion. That’s what makes this business so rewarding.” Working with couples to turn their dreams into reality is something special. “They come to us with a vision and we try to make it happen.” Sitting down to establish a budget and gather information is the purpose of the first visit. The second visit Sally has a mock-up of the centerpieces, bridal bouquet or whatever she will be producing. “That way we have no surprises the day of the wedding. They’ve seen it and know what to expect.” At Flowers for You a couple can rent items instead of buying them. “We rent candelabras, pillars, centerpiece materials like bowls, mirrors and things like that. It helps keep the cost down.” Your dream can come true, at Flowers for You. Call 740. 393.2485 or visit them on the web: Flowersforyoumtvernon.com
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guests. We offer a full kitchen staff and an executive chef to oversee the catering, and the newly redone wedding menus can be tailored to fit almost any budget. Holiday Inn can host your out of town guests and prepare a delightful Fresh Start Brunch the next day before they depart for home. We are with you every step of the way. Call 419.525.6000 for a catering appointment; visit us on the web at: www.HolidayInn.com, and look for us on Facebook.
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Forget Me Not Flowers 146 E. Main Street, Lexington Kim Schrack, owner of Forget Me Not Flowers, loves weddings. That’s why she has worked for thirty years in businesses that dealt with brides, flowers and weddings. “Weddings are what I do; I love putting ideas together,” she said. Working with couples to establish a budget means discovering their needs and areas of compromise. “I find out who they are, then design around that. I suggest the bride bring me something sentimental, a piece of jewelry or something personal, to use in the design for a bouquet or altar piece that is her very own.” Magazines, Pinterest and the internet inspire brides to look for the trendy and unique. “The trick is to keep it fresh and different instead of copying what everyone else is doing. That’s why a consultation is very important,” Kim said. Forget Me Not offers personal or computer consultations. Call 419.884.0909, on the web at: forgetmenotlexington.com and on Facebook.
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Kuhn’s Bridal 703 Taylortown Road, Mansfield If you’re looking for the perfect wedding gown, or any special occasion attire, at the perfect price you may find it among the over 2,000 gowns in stock at Kuhn’s Bridal. For 15 years they’ve offered personal attention, low overhead and designer gowns at amazing prices. There is a size and price for every bride. Their motto says it all: At Kuhn’s Bridal we believe each person is beautiful and each one deserves to feel special. It is our goal to make your experience with us a pleasant one and to take the high price out of looking good while providing new designer gowns at outlet prices. Look for them on Facebook and at: www.Kuhnsbridalandformaloutlet.com, or call 419.522.0048. Maria’s Cakes 252 Park Avenue West, Mansfield Maria Bechstein started making cakes in her home 40 years ago. For fifteen years she was at home with her children, creating her beautiful cakes. As the children and the business grew, Maria moved to her current location. Using her own designs, Maria’s Cakes is still creating unique cakes for all occasions. Working with all size budgets, Maria said, “Today the wedding trend is for an elegant fondant cake, perhaps supplemented with cup-cakes or sheet cakes decorated to coordinate. We have created everything from a small cake to cakes that serve 500 people. I did an Ashland University building for one celebration; the Lumbermen’s building cake was in the newspaper,” she laughed. Working with brides Maria sometimes recreates the weddings floral theme. “Some brides may want to carry pink roses or orchids; we can match the cake to many of the flowers. The sky’s the limit!” For more information, call 419.522.7136. Mary Anne’s Meats 38 Church Street (rear), Lexington When your event, no matter how large or small, revolves around a spectacular meal you can count on Mary Anne’s Meats in Lexington for help. From
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Prestige Tent Rental Mansfield Planning a big outdoor reception? We’ve got you covered! Prestige Tent Rental can supply tents, flooring, tables and chairs, even linens and heating and cooling for any size event. Create an elegant environment for your gathering without worrying about the rain, the cold or the hot sun. Showers, wedding receptions, business and personal events of all sizes are no problem. Prestige Tent Rental is located in Mansfield and serving the Columbus and Cleveland areas as well. Call 419.571.1528 to discuss your event. Look for us on Facebook and on the web: www.prestigeeventrental.com.
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Tara’s Floral On Park Avenue West, Mansfield In the West Park Shopping Center At Tara’s Floral Expressions the guarantee of satisfaction if more than just a promise; it’s what the business was built upon when they opened the doors thirteen years ago. “We value our long term relationships with our customers; we’re with them every step of the way for any occasion,” owner Tara Beaire says. Weddings are especially exciting for the staff at Tara’s. “Beginning with a color palette, we work to translate the bride’s dream into reality whether it’s vintage, traditional or contemporary,” Tara explained. “We pride ourselves on being on the creative edge, and we know beautiful arrangements start with the proper care and handling of the flowers before a design even begins.” Visit Tara’s Floral Expressions to make your wedding day one that you will always remember, or look for them on Facebook and the web: Tarasfloral.com.
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SAFETY FIRST
The Mid-Ohio School: Driving safety home
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There is nothing more exciting for the average American teen and more terrifying for the average American parent than the day that child is handed a driver’s license. Looking into the driveway the new driver sees a guaranteed ticket to popularity and a dependable ride to the local mall; the parent sees a 4,000 pound weapon. They’re both right. For years The Mid-Ohio School has helped make the transition from pedestrian to driver just a little less stressful for everyone involved with defensive driving programs for teens and adults alike. This is not your basic Drivers Ed; The Honda Teen Defensive Driving Program prepares young motorists for the real world by exposing them to potentially hazardous situations in a safe, controlled environment. Watching a Honda Teen Defensive Driving Program Family Driving Day recently at the track, it was interesting to see instructors putting the drivers through wet braking and skid car drills. Parents and teens driving separate cars were being taught how to control the car on wet pavement. I was amazed to discover how little water it took to create
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a potentially dangerous situation. The instructor explained that even light rain blends with the oil and debris on the asphalt to create a slippery surface; brake or make a sharp turn on that surface and you might find yourself skidding out of control. The purpose of the controlled drill was to teach drivers how to deal with just such a skid. An overwhelming 75% of teen drivers admit to texting while driving; over 90% admit to doing multiple tasks. I watched with interest as teen drivers were put to the test texting as they drove an obstacle course. “We want to push the driver outside his comfort level. We try to show them what a car is capable of doing, and
what the driver is capable of doing,” Chief Instructor Todd Snyder said. He and the other instructors that day, Tommy Byrne and Greg Vandersluis, have that knowledge because they are all current or former race car drivers; they bring those years of experience on the track to the class. Cheri Burket of Mainville, Ohio researched driving schools on the net and decided to bring her son, Jonathan, to The Mid-Ohio School. “We had an incident earlier this year. An accident happened right in front of us; a car flipped over. Jonathan did well pulling over, and he thought Driver’s Ed was enough training, but that showed me how quickly things can happen and I want him to be as prepared as he can be.” Eric Ransom of Westerville, Ohio brought his twin daughters to learn defensive driving. “Either my wife or I are always in the car with the girls, but they’ll be 16 this fall. So far we’ve had no problems, but I believe training like this is a step in the right direction of prevention.” Richard Wolfe brought his son Robbie and friend Aiden to the school, “I actually saw a brochure on the school when Robbie was just six. It knew then that this was valuable experience that could save a life down the road. I know for me
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today gave me the chance to deal with things you rarely have to deal with. The skid instruction demonstrates counter intuitive techniques that you can use effectively. I’m taking that knowledge with me; it’s been a good day.” Talking with the teens as they finished their demonstrations I discovered one thing on which they all agreed; doing this kind of training at a real race track adds at least ten points to the cool quotient! “Part of the allure is that our instructors are all past or present race car drivers and the fact that it is held at a professional race track”, Mid Ohio President Craig Rust said. “The school is fascinating; it’s not a ‘hit your blinker, put on your seatbelt’ type of driver’s Ed. This is’ how do you handle it when the back end of your car slides out from under you’ driver’s Ed.” Knox County courts send juvenile traffic offenders to The Mid-Ohio School; the result has been a 76% reduction in repeat offenses. Approximately 2,500 people a year go through the school; an additional 1,500 attend the motorcycle courses. The Mid-Ohio School isn’t just for the new driver. Their comprehensive defensive driving programs can make any good driver a great driver. They also serve companies with employees driving fleet vehicles, police officers and civic officials. Any driver will benefit from one on one coaching and challenging drills designed to sharpen driving skills. “We have the defensive driving program for teens and adults, high performance classes that are on the race track, and corporate outings. The corporate outings are a good variation from a typical golf outing; instead they do a day of driving a car at the race track,” The Mid-Ohio School Director Steve Bidlack said. Now in its twentieth year of partnering with Honda, the professionals at The Mid-Ohio School continue to train teens and new drivers and improve the driving skills of advanced drivers. This year they expect to train their 50,000th overall graduate, which includes their 15,000th teen driver and their 10,000th motorcyclist. For more information, please visit www.midohioschool.com or call 877.793.TMOS (8667).
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Chaplain, 1LT Sarah Ditto 179th Airlift Wing Every time Sarah Ditto reports for work she is breaking ground; she is the first female chaplain at the 179th Airlift Wing. “I love the military; I have a huge passion for it. It’s my way of giving back to my country,” Chaplain Sarah Ditto said. She has served for 11 years in the Air Force, four of those years were in active duty. Sarah grew up in the ministry; both parents, Les and Grace Farley, are ministers at My Father’s House in Mansfield. “I have also helped out at My Father’s House for four and a half years. My goal would be to eventually be a youth pastor and have a youth group.” Qualifying for military base chaplain, each candidate must obtain a denominational backing. “My biggest challenge to entering this ministry was to obtain that backing. I just kept fighting and praying; I knew I was doing what God had called me to do. Some people still think women should not be in the ministry. It took me six to eight months to receive a denominational backing that should have taken a quarter of that. Thankfully, my husband is very supportive. He spent six months researching why women are needed in the ministry. He enjoys introducing himself as the Pastor’s husband,” Sarah chuckled. As one of three part-time chaplains at the 179th, Sarah’s duties include conducting services every third Sunday, as well as providing counseling and support to soldiers and their families as needed. “I visit every unit on base two days each month to try and let everyone know
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that we are there to help. Even though I am only physically on the base those two days a month, I am always on call. We offer counseling; we’re there when there is a deployment for the soldier, and the family that waits at home. We are called for casualty notifications and to be with those families,” she said. As the first woman chaplain for the 179th Airlift Wing Sarah offered this advice, “More women are needed in the chaplain role. There are more and more women in the military and more being deployed; they deal with stuff too. I know there were times when I wished there was a female chaplain to talk to. I hope by being the first female chaplain there will be more who follow.”
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Stan the Man In my last “Keeping Score” article, I wrote about Earle Bruce, ex Ohio State head football coach. At the risk of subjecting you to “Buckeye overload”, I am again going to take a look inside the OSU football program through the eyes of the man who serves as its Director of Player Development, Stan Jefferson. Like Earle, Stan’s ties to Mansfield run deep but are much more diversified in that he spent most of his early years as a teacher and a coach right here; both at what was then Malabar High School as well as Mansfield Sr. High School. He was a teacher, assistant football coach, head football coach, head track coach and a high school principal during the years that he walked the halls and the sidelines as either a Falcon or a Tyger. While still a teacher in the Mansfield system, Stan was an assistant football coach under Fred Martinelli at Ashland College (that was before they became Ashland University). In 1994 he brought his coaching skills back to town as the T Y Tygers’ head football coach; a job he held through the 2002 school year. It was a successful tenure too as Jefferson’s teams won 4 conference titles and made 4 playoff appearances. Through those many years as a high school football coach Stan made the acquaintance of many collegiate coaches at Division I programs; one of them was Jim Tressel. Their paths first crossed when Tressel was an assistant at Miami of Ohio. He then moved on to Syracuse as an assistant and spent a good deal of time successfully recruiting Rudy Reed; a linebacker who Stan coached at Malabar High. The coaching tree has multiple branches and if you trace the careers of
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those who move from job to job to job through the years, you’ll discover that they cross paths with others in the profession several times. If, they are fortunate enough to have acquired a “high profile” job, as Jim Tressel did in Columbus… and if you have a need for someone to fill a certain spot in your organization… and if you remember a high school coach who helped you in years gone by, it could be a match made in heaven. Such was the case for Tressel and Jefferson. Their paths crossed again in February of 2004 when the head coach of the Buckeyes called to inquire if Stan would be interested in interviewing for the position of Associate Director of Football Operations at Ohio State. At the time, Stan was principal at Mansfield Sr. overseeing the move from the old building to the new, state of the art campus that was to open the next fall. While Stan must have experienced some mixed emotions, he interviewed and was offered the job. He accepted, on the condition that he be allowed to finish out the school year; which he did. He’s now in his ninth year on the OSU campus and his title is now Director of Player Development and he has a new boss; Urban Meyer. I’m sure that that there were a few days or weeks, right after Meyer was named head coach, when Stan wondered if he would become a casualty of a staff change; if only because a new broom often sweeps clean. However, Mr. Jefferson is still working out of his office in the Woody Hayes facility and his work load has certainly not decreased. You might not have the foggiest idea as to what the responsibilities of the Director of Player
Development are and, to tell you the truth, I didn’t either until I spoke with Stan for this story. In a nutshell, a big part of the job is to make certain that the young men who strap on the pads for Ohio State during the Saturdays in the fall are more student than athlete. Stan and his support staff are tasked with making sure that the members of the OSU football team are achieving academic progress which is much more than studying just enough to stay eligible. They monitor the players in all areas of
the campus and bring reports back to the various members of the coaching staff. The goal is to help the young men learn life skills through academic achievement and the results speak for themselves. The Ohio State football program has had the No. 1 Academic Progress Rate score among the top 15 teams in the nation twice in the last three years. Very few of the Buckeye gridiron team members will wind up earning their livings by playing in the NFL and that’s a lesson that must not be lost on these campus celebrities. One of the people who, until just recently, worked as an “academic enforcer” in the Ohio State football program was Doug Castle. He and Stan were longtime teaching and coaching compatriots in the Mansfield system and I asked Doug to name a couple of qualities that Stan Jefferson possesses
that have made him successful in what has to be, at times, a stressful job. The first thing that Doug brought up was Stan’s ability to make kids ( from high school through college) believe in themselves. Perhaps that ability stems from Stan’s honesty and nonjudgemental nature. Those qualities certainly come in handy when you work in the highly visible bubble that is Ohio State football. Football coaches at the highest levels are notorious for working long hours and it’s a 7 day a week habit; especially in season. At Ohio State the Player Development Director must have a strong work ethic as well. When I interviewed him for this piece in early November, Stan had not been back to Mansfield, where he and his wife Shirley, maintain a home, for almost four months. But come to think of it, the Buckeyes had not lost a game in all
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that time and then some. If he’s superstitious, that may mean that Stan Jefferson won’t be back home for about ten more months, at the earliest.
Charles Follis: The Black Cyclone
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Black athletes have played a major role in professional sports. Today in the NFL, between 65% and 70% of the rosters of the 32 teams are made up of African- American athletes according to the Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sport. If you’re a pro football fan, you know most of the names. However, I’ll bet that not many of you can name the man who was the first African-American ever to sign a professional football contract. His name was Charles Follis and he signed that document in Shelby, Ohio on September 15, 1904 just before the start of his third season as the star player for the Shelby Athletic Association team. This noteworthy piece of sports trivia was uncovered by John Seaburn and Milton Roberts; two sportswriters from Akron. However, they didn’t come up with the information until 64 years after Follis’ death. While they were able to verify that there was a document that amounted to a contract, the two writers were never able to discover his salary or other terms of the agreement. However, I am quite certain that Charles did not have an agent who handled the negotiations. I grew up in Shelby and was a member of several Shelby High football teams but I only recall having heard that decades earlier there had been a professional football team in town, on a couple of occasions. I knew the team as the Shelby Blues; the nickname that was attached to the club in 1906, Follis’ final season with them. Follis spent his early years in Wooster, Ohio, where the family moved in 1881. Photo courtesy of He not only played running back on the first Wooster High football team, he even Shelby Museum helped organize it. Following his high school career, he went on to player for the Wooster Athletic Association club. They played Shelby twice and Follis impressed that team’s owner, Frank Schiffer, so much that he recruited Charles to play for his city’s team. I could continue the Charles Follis story for many more pages but we don’t have the space. However, you can learn more by going to see The Black Cyclone at Malabar Farm in August of next year. The Charles Follis Story is told in an original script written by Jim Stoner. Put it on your 2013 To Do list.
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That Was Then… This Is Now So… where are your pictures? In your wallet? (Shhh. I won’t tell anybody!) Are they on your phone? The average iphone user has over 500 images on their phone! Have you painstakingly handcrafted and meticulously designed acid paper free albums for every child? It is hard to believe it has been just over a decade since we started pointing and clicking our lives to digital memories. But do you miss the old cameras? Actually holding a picture in your hand with the white edge and date stamped? My friend, Deanna, reminisced, “I miss the cameras with the flash’s that were purchased separately and you had to buy more because it was a one-time use.” Who didn’t love waiting for the Polaroid to develop right before your eyes! The idea for this article came from a recent cartoon posted on Facebook. A couple is staring at an older gentleman with his hand in his pocket. The younger man says, “You won’t believe where that old guy keeps his pictures. In his wallet!” I began to image what my life would be like without technology. First of all, I would be unemployed… or at least doing something very different than I do today! As a Social Media Coordinator and Community Manager I spend my days on tools my parents didn’t even read about in comics. 78.6 % Of American’s currently use the internet! I am not alone. I would defiantly have to relearn how to spell and get a calendar to write all of my friends and families birthdays on. I would need to purchase stamps again to mail my bills — and checks to pay my bills. Are you one of the people that would need to reinstall a landline to make phone calls? And reestablish your little black book of contact numbers.
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My yellow pages would become a tool again instead of the booster seat for my son and my mailbox would have real mail… not e-mail.
If the internet would vanish in 30 seconds… what tool would you miss the most? I posed the previous question to my facebook page and received the following responses; “Email. Completely would miss email. From my job to my personal life it would be so much harder to communicate and would take much more time to do so.” Teresa “I would miss Google search. Being able to find information so quickly is so amazing. On the flip side, I do miss researching encyclopedias and history books.” Diane “My cell phone, no way I could live without… LOL. It replaced the worry about others cause I couldn’t reach them and vice versa.” Flutter Byes “I would miss being able to carry so many books so easily on my Kindle… I really have seen my reading prowess “Kindled” by this tool that heavily depends on the Internet.” Chris “I would miss no longer being able to see the faces and hear the voices of my family on my phone as I travel around the world! What a treat that is for the family. I would miss being able to communicate so easily to friends and our ministry team around the world… I have had the privilege this week to video conference with people in the Philippines and in Nepal. How fun… how cool! I would not miss the amount of time it seems to take to sync all the devices to the computers and to have to learn and spend time learning so many new things in order to “save” time. I would not miss carrying all of the intertwined plethora of cables in
my backpack that are needed to charge and sync all the “simple” gadgets.” Chris (Ministry leader for Global Youth Ministry Network)
Are We Giving Up Anything With All This New Technology? In our home we try to honor a “No Technology Sunday”. All toys and tools with internet capability are put away. This helps us recognize how much we appreciate these tools but realize that our lives are not dependent on them. It also gives us the opportunity to learn different ways to communicate, play and problem solve. We don’t “Google it”, “e-mail it” or “rack up the digital points” on this day. In the past, my virtual occupation made me available 24/7, 365 days a year. I worked with clients around the world in their time zones, when they needed me. They could e-mail, facebook, link-in, Skype, Facetime or call me. Sunday became my day to unplug in order to recharge. I have chosen to work more locally now, helping businesses learn how to create a social media plan that create
clients, not just likes and encourage transparency not just tweets. I have set business hours and I try to balance my business with my personal joys and responsibilities. How about you? Do you observe down days? Do you unplug in order to recharge? My friend Brian admits to being an “analog guy”. “I still listen to records and write with pencils. I use hand chisels and hand saws in the garage. I use computers all day at work so at home I am a very analog guy.” Brian What do you love that can never be replaced digitally? Planting gardens, riding bikes, singing in a choir or reading that classic book with dog eared pages and lightly musty smell… While I am adamant some activities should never be made into a phone app, I was in awe of how far we have come. I’m confident the ancient Mayans never imagined the calendar app and Alexander Graham Bell would have doubted wireless communications. We are only limited by our own imaginations!
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The Old Summer House has seen many seasons… It’s a tiny house, just four rooms really. And yet it was home to six members of the Culler family… seven generations ago. In 1814, Jacob Culler purchased a large piece of ground at $2.00 an acre. He was issued the deed in 1827, when he finished paying for the purchase. His deed, written on sheepskin, came through the U.S. mail; likely by pony express or stagecoach. Today it hangs in the home of his descendants; signed by the sixth president of the United States of America, John Quincy Adams, just as all deeds of that time were. The families of David, John, and Andrew Culler live on the land which has been passed down through this big family for generations. Some of the children and grandchildren also work on the farms to maintain a dairy and 1,300 acres of crops in their entirety. The Cullers are good stewards of the land; believing it is their
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responsibility to make certain it can be passed on to family members who are yet to be born. David Culler and his wife, Dee Dee, live on the property that is home to the Culler cabin. While the couple lives in the ‘new house’ which was built in 1900, it is the small summer house that means so much to them. When the new house was built the tiny cabin was just four feet from the back door. During the hottest part of the summer it was used as a summer kitchen to help keep the big house cooler. In 2000, David and Dee Dee decided to build a garage and outbuilding behind the big house, which would require them to move the original cabin. “We talked to several people who looked at the house,” Dee Dee remembers. “They either didn’t want to do it, or they wanted too much money to do it. Finally
we found Ivan Mast, a man from Apple Creek who said he could do the job.” For three months the family watched as Ivan dug out, jacked and underpinned the house. When moving day finally arrived, the house was positioned on a big, old truck. Dee Dee remembers, “Ivan moved that thing himself. When he had it loaded he drove the truck by walking along side and steering with one arm in the cab. There was a can of WD 40 oil sitting on the back of that truck and it didn’t even move.” The cabin’s new site was only about one hundred fifty feet from the main house; it was installed on a basement and new foundation. With a little remodeling they created two bathrooms. For modern comfort they added heating and cooling, although the original stove is still in the cabin. “You have to have all the comforts, you know,” Dee Dee smiled.
John, Andrew and David Culler display the deed signed by John Quincy Adams
role of family historian. A three-ring binder is filled with research, plat maps and family information that have taken years to accumulate. “Some of the information you just have to assume. We’ve put dates together as far back as we can, and we have to use our imagination to fill in some of the blanks,” Sheri said.
The Culler families live on the adjoining land, with eight children and fifteen grandchildren between them. The Culler clan is a big, loving family that is dedicated to keeping their own personal history alive… and sharing it with those who are lucky enough to meet them.
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The cabin is now the Old Summer House Bed and Breakfast. Walking past the big house on a garden path you come upon the little cabin; the front porch boasts an inviting swing. Inside are antiques and family treasures that have been on the property for too many years to count. “I know some people in the family thought I was crazy when I wanted to do this. But we have so many beautiful old things and I wanted to share them with people, instead of sticking them in a barn someplace,” Dee Dee said. A wedding gown artfully framed by a baby crib… remembrances from an Aunt’s trips around the globe… kitchen utensils, and the very table at which the family ate over a hundred years ago still fill the small house. “My husband’s family never threw anything away!” An original quilt graces the Sister-in-law, Sheri bedroom wall Culler, has assumed the
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Pugh Cabin at Malabar Farm People come from all over to see Malabar Farm. They are intrigued by the beauty of the area and the story of the famous author who created a working farm where movie stars were welcome, and perfectly at home. Tourists walk the trails, and some visit Pugh Cabin; most do not know the story of how the cabin came to be there. Jim Pugh was born in 1892 in Gretna, Virginia. He left school in the 8th grade, was living on his own and driving a taxi in Roanoke, Virginia by the age of fourteen, and served in France during WWI. After the war he returned to Mansfield Ohio and married Georgia Mowery (named after George Washington because of their shared birth dates) of Newville, Ohio. A self-taught man who would tackle any project, Jim eventually rose to the position of Line Superintendent for Ohio Public Service in Mansfield; the company later became Ohio Edison. In 1938, before Louis Bromfield came to Pleasant Valley, Jim Pugh owned a piece of property that was formerly part of the Beck farm; it was to be the site of a year round weekend retreat for the family to enjoy. He set to work to collect the materials to build it. The land that was to become Malabar Farm, formerly the Haring and Beck farms, surrounded the Pugh property. The Big House at Malabar was constructed from 1939 to 1941 by building 28 rooms to the four rooms kept from the original 8-room farmhouse. Louis and Mary Bromfield were to become good friends with Jim and Georgia Pugh. Betty (Pugh) Berry (now 86) was 12 the summer of 1938 when her father started constructing the cabin, “For over a year Dad had been collecting discarded decommissioned utility poles and bringing them to the site. They were in rough shape, and Dad and my brother, Bob, shaved every one of those poles by hand, then coated
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them with varnish to seal them. They were beautiful after they were cleaned up. My job was to burn all the shavings.” During the early 30’s the Pleasant Hill Dam was under construction. Believing the surrounding land would be flooded, the Army Corp of Engineers felt it necessary to vacate the town of Newville (near the corner of St. Rt. 95 and St. Rt. 603). Jim Pugh was given permission to remove the sandstone foundation from the basements of the homes after the buildings were relocated. The huge stones were moved, cut and faceted by hand to be used as walls, sidewalks, pillars, floors and fireplaces at the cabin. Using a block and tackle and an old truck, he painstakingly moved each enormous piece to his land. Ironically, when the Pleasant Hill Lake was completed in 1936 the land did not flood; the town had been relocated without reason. The 60 by 30 foot cabin was built in the woods, without benefit of electricity; but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have its own conveniences. Jim Pugh built a spring fed pond just below the cabin, complete with white sand beach. Constructing a water wheel to take advantage of the pond overflow, he installed a generator that provided enough electricity for a couple of lights in the cabin. When that proved to be impractical he bought an old Buick engine to run a generator that provided plenty of electricity. A spring above the cabin provided water via gravity to the sink and toilet. Just above the cabin Jim built a picnic shelter. Initially planned as an open air covered shelter, the site had a huge sandstone boulder on it. To clear the area Jim planned to put dynamite under the boulder, then remove the smaller stones. As he dug under the huge rock to place the explosives he unearthed human remains. Examining the bones with a doctor friend, they determined these were very likely an
Indian burial; he returned the remains to their resting place and built the picnic shelter around the boulder. The boulder became the eastern end of the shelter and the shelter was where many family celebrations were held and where Jim mounted his collection of steam locomotive bronze and brass bells, steam engine emblems, gauges, and a brass steam whistle on and around the huge stone. In 1948 Jim Pugh added the kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom, basement, side porch enclosure, and covered patio to the original cabin; he and his wife Georgia made Pugh cabin their permanent home. Betty (Pugh) Berry remembers the cabin as being a wonderful place to grow up. “There were parties, I played the piano and people sang. I remember James Cagney and the Bogarts being there. In 1948 Senator Robert Taft visited the cabin. It was always great fun. In the summer my girlfriend Zalene and I would visit the caves above the cabin. They had ice in them right up through June, and we’d go there
Betty’s parents, Georgia and Jim Pugh, and Duane’s parents, Mary and Wilson Berry.
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Jim Pugh, friend of the family Mr. Carr, and Betty Pugh Berry during the construction of the cabin. JAN/FEB 2013
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and play board games where it was cool.” She laughed as she remembered their playing tricks on people, “Louis (Bromfield) would bring people up to the caves to explore. My girlfriend and I would sneak up there and make noises to scare them; they thought those caves were haunted.” One night Betty recalls playing the piano for a party her parents were having and “I was playing Deep in the Heart of Texas. My Dad took a pistol outside and shot ‘bam-bam-bam-bam’ when the song got to the ‘the stars at night are big and bright’ part. Everyone laughed and clapped, and the next day we went outside to find he had shot holes in the spouting,” she chuckled. When she grew up Betty met and married her husband, Duane Berry, and they settled on a farm in the Lucas area. “Every week Bromfield’s chauffeur, Garth Forte, would stop by our farm to buy fresh chickens and 30 dozen eggs. Louis (Bromfield) always had a house full of people. In the summer young men would come there and stay in the Quonset hut or the Youth Hostel (which was built by Duane Berry’s father and grandfather); the young men worked on the farm for their keep. And of course Bromfield always had his famous friends there.” Jim Pugh was the master of barter and salvage. He traded his services for many items that still grace the cabins, including an ornate iron scrollwork stair railing from the Jones sisters at Oak Hill Cottage; JAN/FEB 2013
payment for his Jim Pugh’s bell collection electrical work. Windows from retired street cars found a home at the picnic shelter, and the solid brass chandeliers that grace the cabin are from the former Farmers Bank building in downtown Mansfield. When you add the highly polished ornate silver candelabras and punch set, deep burgundy oriental rugs, an ebony baby grand piano, and a wagon wheel coffee table, the cabin looked beautiful, almost magical. In 1956, at the age of 67, Jim started a second cabin on the land. The marquee from the old Ritz Theatre hangs over a handmade bar, and the sinks, sunken bathtub, toilets and architectural pieces that he purchased from mansions that were to be demolished in Cleveland. The two cabins were to be his legacy to his children; the first was for Betty and the second cabin was for son Bob. Jim Pugh, an amazing self-educated inventor and builder, died in 1974 at the age of 82. In 1977 Georgia Pugh, after pressure from the state of Ohio, reluctantly sold the cabins and property to become part of Malabar Farm State Park.
She moved to Mansfield where she resided until her death in 1989. Betty (Pugh) Berry still lives in the house she moved to from the cabin when she married Duane Berry in 1948; they were married for 62 years until Duane passed away in 2010. Their daughter, Joan Berry Kalamas, teaches for the College of Business and Economics at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, and their son Dr. Robert Berry, has his own Chiropractic business, Berry Chiropractic, in Loudonville, Ohio. They too, have many fond memories of family gatherings at the cabin, lake, and picnic shelter. Recently, thanks to the generosity of the Berry family (Pugh descendants), the Pugh cabin and the bell collection have been restored and opened to the public; the second cabin remains closed. The site is available for special event rental. Visit www.malabarfarm.org for complete site information.
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Yes, Virginia! Virginia Imhoff, Gini to her friends, is a fighter who has always loved boxers. Not the pugilist boxer; the four-legged variety. She has had a series of seven beautiful Boxer dogs; each assumed the job of greeting guests as they arrive at Gini’s home over the last sixty years. Born of Romanian immigrant parents, Gini came to Mansfield from Martins Ferry, Ohio when she was six months old. Her brother Nick , ten years older, was the first employee of Thermo-Disc, where he did all the company’s tooling. She grew up in a warm family and remembers her father telling his children it was their duty to give back to the community that had welcomed them. Still living in Mansfield in the house that has been home to five generations of the Imhoff family, Virginia remembers raising her own two children. “John and Michele knew I expected them to get an education and to do something with their lives. They told me early on neither was going to attend college in Ohio, even though their father, John Sr., went to Ohio State. They knew if one of them did something I’d know about it before they could concoct a cover story,” she laughed. In keeping with that philosophy John graduated from Notre Dame and Michelle from Boston University. “Their friends always knew it was okay to stop in if the light was on. One night we were out but the lights were not, so some of John’s friends stopped in. When they tried to leave, the dog wouldn’t let them. They finally ended up crawling out the den window to get away from her!” Mrs. Imhoff was a popular high school English, world history, creative writing and English literature teacher in the Mansfield system for many years.
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Eventually, she was the first guidance counselor at Mansfield Senior High School; her work with college placement eventually found her assigned to Director of School Communications. “I taught when teaching was fun. When you work with teenagers for a long time you find those are the best years. We had a good time, but the kids knew when to buckle down. They were receptive to learning,” she said. When retirement time came around life took a definite turn. “I thought I would have all kinds of time to do the things I’d never had time for, but I found myself busier than ever. I attended some Republican luncheons and ended up chairing some campaigns; then they asked if I would run for the council at large seat. I did, and to my surprise I won! I served eight years in that post; when Paul Delianides retired I ran for council president and ended up serving another twelve years as council president.”
Instrumental in creating or preserving so many organizations, Gini has also found time to serve on the boards of Richland Carrousel Park, Ohio State Reformatory, North Central State and OSU, The Academy, Day Spring, CACY, Sister Cities, the Appleseed Centre ; the list goes on and on. She has also been an Altrusa member for over 50 years. In 1980, Virginia was walking home from a hair appointment in downtown Mansfield when she was attacked. “An arm went around my throat, and someone started dragging me backward toward some shrubs. I struggled, but I wasn’t getting anywhere. Finally I said, ‘I’m having a heart attack!’ he loosened his grip just a little and I pulled away and ran into the middle of Marion Avenue, waving
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down cars and screaming for my life. The guy ran, and police arrived in what seemed to be just seconds. I don’t think anyone had a faster response time than I did that day. I knew the guy wouldn’t
follow me into the middle of a busy road, so I was lucky,” she remembered. About twenty years ago Gini started throwing herself a birthday party every five years. “I have always had the most
wonderful friends, family and extended family; this was an excuse to bring them all together,” she says. Although it’s her birthday, the party is lovingly put together to be a gift to all her friends. For her 65th birthday, it was a January “pool party” at Holiday Inn; someone stepped in her birthday cake but it didn’t spoil the fun. Her 70th was an indoor picnic at the Carrousel; the 75th a ‘dress as your favorite time period’ party at The Academy. For her 80th, guests were invited to the Art Center where the cake was a huge Faberge egg, which was almost too beautiful to cut. Birthday number 85 was a luau, with a ‘roasted pig’ cake, complete with an apple in the mouth, and dancing in hula skirts. The birthday girl is now busy coming up with a plan for her 90th. “I look back at the pictures of those birthday parties and I have to admit I feel a loss for every face that isn’t here anymore. Life throws you some ringers, but you get up and you go on. I’ve had a wonderful life, and I don’t want to grow up. I’m still having too much fun!”
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Who says you can’t have it all? Lambertville, Michigan this year. The Mansfield store on Lexington Avenue was originally expanded into a Marketplace in 2006. At that time much of the extra space, 44,531 sq. ft. to be exact, was filled with furniture and home furnishing. With the new configuration of the store, which did not include any additional square footage, much of the furniture is gone and what’s left is spread around the Marketplace. The local Marketplace celebrated its makeover with a grand re-opening this past September. However those of us who are regular shoppers there actually followed the progress on an almost daily basis. At least, I did. I would stop in just about every other day to see where they had moved the bread section from the day before. I quietly marveled at the effort it must have taken from those
tasked with moving the freezer cases to do so without bringing in heavy equipment and an overhead crane. Folklore has it that men hate to, and in most cases won’t, stop and ask for directions to any place or anything. Well, I cannot tell a lie; more than a few times during the changeover I actually requested the aisle number of a certain food item from a Kroger associate. They were always more than happy to help and, more importantly, they gave me the correct answer so that I didn’t feel like one of Ashton Kutcher’s “Punk’d” victims as I hopelessly searched for the chunky soup in the pet food area. The addition of apparel to a grocery store’s offerings is just the reverse of what many of the big box stores have been doing for years and that is adding a grocery section at their locations. To date the
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I love grocery stores; always have. Some may view it as a type of food fetish but I am very fond of heading into the Kroger Marketplace here in Mansfield and just pushing my cart up and down the aisles in search of a plastic container of French’s onion rings or an unsuspecting “live” lobster or a threepack of designer underwear. Go ahead, snicker if you’d like, but the newly remodeled Kroger Marketplace in Mansfield now includes an apparel section which takes up 4800 of the 103,671 sq. ft. at this unique shopping destination. The Lexington Avenue store is the first one operating under the Kroger banner to offer clothing and shoes. Currently there are only seven Kroger Marketplace stores. Six of them are in Columbus and the Mansfield location makes seven. Another will open in
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Mansfield Lexington Avenue Kroger store is the only Marketplace where you can find jeans, coats, sweaters along with shoes, boots and belts. However, if the shopping public takes to it here, rest assured that you’ll see other Marketplaces do the same. Another benefit of the Marketplace reconfiguration was that Kroger hired 70 new associates during the remodeling bringing their current employee census number at the Marketplace store to 203. The other two, Kroger stores in Mansfield, together, employ another 268 people bringing the total number of jobs provided by the company to 471. The bottom line is that Kroger is among the area’s top employers and that is tangible economic development and job creation at its most basic level. One of the questions I asked of Kroger’s Media Relations Manager, Jackie Sieckmann, was “why was Mansfield chosen to be the test market for the addition of apparel among the seven Marketplace locations?” She said that since 6 of the stores are in Columbus; it’s easier and less confusing to advertise the new apparel division in an area (Mansfield) where there are not multiple locations. Whatever the reason, Mansfield has gotten some PR mileage from the makeover. In fact shortly after the grand reopening, The Today Show was there and
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believe that you can tell a lot about people from what they have in their shopping cart. So sneak a peek without being too obvious about it. Remember the jingle from years gone by, “Let’s go Krogering”? Go ahead, hum a few bars… and continue to do so on your next, perhaps your first, visit to the Mansfield Kroger Marketplace. If you’re planning to peruse the apparel section first, I’ll tell you that it is in the back of the store on the far left side. In fact, if you’re there and standing next to the boxers and briefs display, you may be comforted in knowing that you’re just 25 paces from the Half-n-Half.
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did a piece that ran the next weekend. As a regular customer of the remodeled Kroger Marketplace in Mansfield, let me share one, important tip on how to maximize the enjoyment of your next visit. The local Marketplace has its own Starbucks. It’s just inside the door and has seating for a couple of dozen people. Because of its location, it is a “primo” people watching place. If you enjoy seeing and being seen, I suggest that you get there early and stake out a table where you can eyeball almost every entering human as you sip your latte or decaf. I’m not sure how you can turn that into something meaningful but I do
Dan and Kim Mager are Ohioans with a purpose. Both are law enforcement officers, but it’s their role as concerned parents that made the pair come up with the idea for Highway Guardian. “I’ve been in law enforcement for twenty five years, my wife and two brothers are, too. We’ve seen the devastation that high speed can cause. You don’t have to be at the scene of too many car wrecks before you want to do something to help prevent them,” Dan said. Highway Guardian is a GPSbased speed-limiting device that can be easily installed on your teen’s car. The device limits the cars top speed to 73 MPH by controlling the fuel injection system. “The top speed may vary slightly depending on the cars acceleration, but when the GPS registers 73 MPH the fuel injection system begins to pulse. If you never hit the speed preset you would never know it’s on the car. Push the car to the limit and it will begin to decelerate. We arrived at the 73 mph present because the highway speed limit is 70; you want the car to have the power for exit on/exit off speeds,” Dan said. Highway Guardian sets a new standard in automotive safety. The product is manufactured by Intellitronix in Mentor, Ohio. Visit www.highwayguardian.com for more information. JAN/FEB 2013
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HEALTH AND WELLNESS
The Good Ole Days… Or Were They? by Bev Rosich, Communications Manager, Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging, Inc.
to reach a friend — no instant text or phone call… imagines that! You also had no idea WHO was calling until you answered the phone — imagine no caller ID to screen calls! We also grew up without email or computers for that matter. We had to write letters by hand and then take them to the mailbox to mail them. There was no instant communication like there is today, sometimes taking weeks to hear from a loved one. While my grandparents grew up without television, my mom told us the story of going to their neighbor’s house when they got the first television in the neighborhood. She explained how exciting this was, gathering around this wonderful new contraption that very few people had and certainly not in every room of the house. You had to pick up the TV guide book to see what was going to be on television and it was a family affair. My dad usually got to decide what we watched each night, but we were there together and when he would fall asleep,
we would change the channel. When we traveled, it was by station wagon. There were six kids in my family who were crammed into every seat of the car, including the coveted back, back seat facing backwards. There were no seatbelts — when you had the luxury of riding in the front seat and mom had to stop quickly, her arm came out of nowhere to protect you from harm. Ironically, I have the same reaction even now when my kids are in the car with me with seatbelts! We played outside every day. There were no video games, cable and such. Your entertainment was exploring, building tree houses and playing games with siblings and neighborhood friends. Many days, we would be gone all day without any contact with our parents (which seem so strange now that I’m a parent). Yes, I’ve reached the age and the opinion that kids today have it made and don’t even know it — they wouldn’t have lasted a day growing up in a previous generation, but then, neither would I, I suppose.
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In thinking about this article, I turned to reminiscing about my own childhood and the stories of my parents and grandparents, possibly due in part to turning the big 5-0 this year, but possibly because I’ve turned into one of those people who remind their kids how good they have it compared to how we had it growing up. No, I didn’t walk to school in two feet of snow each day, without shoes or coat, five miles each way (all uphill) , but there were definitely some differences to the luxuries that were offered to my generation versus my parents and certainly my grandparents. It appears to me that the future generations could not possibly have more offered to them than the children of today, but I’m sure that’s what our ancestors thought as well. School, for instance, has changed so much over the years. I remember my grandparents talking about attending a one room schoolhouse, sharing desks and sometimes books, and having to take their lunch every day or go home at lunchtime. The school was heated by coal or woodstove that was started early each morning by one of the older boys in the class. When I was in school, we were fortunate to have a cafeteria, but there was no menu of choices like there is today — there was one entrée and that was it — take it or leave it. If you wanted something different, it came from home in a brown paper bag or super hero lunchbox. Another thing that came to mind was our communication methods; there were no cell phones. If we wanted to talk to someone, you went to the wall phone and called and if they were on the phone, you got a busy signal – no call waiting or three way calling. And, if the person you were calling was outside, you didn’t get to talk to them. Sometimes, it would take all day
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Carmie’s Grill & Bar 2460 S. SR 231, Tiffin, 419.448.7699 www.tiffincamdenfalls.com M-Sa 11-10, Su 11-9, Bar F-Sa til 12am TO D L Family atmosphere & we’re grillin’ and chillin’. $
Chris’s 111 W 4th St, Mansfield, 419.775.5670 M&T 11-9, W-Sa 11-1 TO D L Serving our famous Goulash for 56 years. Bar & grill. Live entertainment. $
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Coolridge Golf Course Diner 591 Vonhoff Blvd, Mansfield, 419.521.5159 M-Sa 6-7, Su 6-2 TO GG D B L Home-cooked meals, friendly atmosphere. Prime Rib Friday 4-7. Daily Specials. $
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MONEY MATTERS
Top 10 Financial Resolutions for the New Year by Charles P. Hahn, CFP® in conjunction with Lincoln Financial Advisors, a division of Lincoln Financial Advisors, a registered investment advisor
The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are a time to eat, drink and be merry. Reality typically sets in on New Year’s Day, which leads to the traditional round of resolution-making. This year (in addition to pledging to eat better and exercise more), you may want to consider these 10 resolutions to help put your financial house in order.
1. Think Strategically About Finances When it comes to vacations, most people plan months ahead, carefully selecting a destination and the best way to get there. Financial decisions should involve the same type of strategic thinking. It’s advisable to choose a financial destination and then map investment, savings, insurance and household needs to arrive as planned. Individuals who think strategically will know if they are on track toward reaching their goals and when they need to adjust their overall plan to match their financial situation.
2. Develop Financial Relationships
Limiting debt is critical to reaching your financial goals efficiently. Therefore, it’s important to keep nondeductible interest to a minimum. As you liquidate debt, you may want to direct those dollars to savings. It’s advisable to maximize your savings by contributing to pre-tax retirement savings plans such as a 401(k), a health savings account or a 529 college funding plan. In addition, you may want to consider making major household purchases on a “pay-as-you-go” basis. Anytime you reduce debt, you are, in effect, giving yourself a pay raise.
4. Review Household Expenditures and Set a Budget While often overlooked, cash flow management is fundamental to financial planning. Basically, this means spending less than you earn. Accordingly, it’s advisable to set priorities, decide how much to save and then adjust your budget accordingly. Try tracking your expenditures for three months so you know where your money is going. This way, it’s easier to start making intelligent decisions about spending habits.
5. Review Employment and Education Options Too many individuals fail to take advantage of employee benefits, especially when it comes to retirement plans. Most companies match a portion of an employee’s 401(k) contribution. An increasing number of companies also match contributions to college and health savings accounts and provide tuition reimbursement. An advanced degree can enhance your earning potential, so find out if your company can help finance higher education.
6. Plan Ahead for Marriage and Family You may not have tied the knot yet, but if you plan to marry someday, it’s advisable to start planning now. For example, do you and your partner see eye-to-eye on financial matters? Do you know whether you’ll use a joint checking account or separate accounts? How many children, if any, do you plan to have? How will a family change your insurance and housing needs? Financial arguments can frequently lead to divorce. By planning ahead, you can help minimize stress on your marriage.
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It’s never a good idea to make major decisions in a vacuum. Therefore, it’s important to develop relationships with people who can help guide you toward your financial well-being. Get to know them, and let them get to know you. That way, it’s more likely they’ll go the extra mile to provide the kind of personalized service that can help keep your goals on track. A good accountant can help you save money. A banker can help with loans when you really need them, and a lawyer can make sure your personal affairs are in order. A financial planner can act like a quarterback.
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8. Review Insurance Needs You can use insurance to protect your assets. Life insurance can provide an adequate financial cushion in the event of a spouse’s death. Therefore, it’s important to regularly review your policies. Many people overlook disability income coverage, but insuring against the loss of earning power is essential to sound financial planning. A long-term healthcare policy can help you pay your expenses in the event of a serious illness or injury. And, if you have a high salary or significant net worth, you should consider a personal liability umbrella of up to $1 million to protect against liability risks.
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The Hands of Time When John Walter retired as President and CEO of Gorman-Rupp in 1998, little did he know just how much time he would have on his hands. Barbara Boyd Walter, John’s wife, remembers, “One day a box arrived in the mail from my cousin. It contained a collection of pocket watches that had been a part of her late husband’s collection. Some of those needed repair, and John took it from there.” John Walter has had a passion for all things mechanical his entire life, but his knowledge of watch and clock repair was minimal. Not to be outdone, he found a class on watch maintenance and repair and signed up. The class list included watchmaker tools, but instead of buying those from a catalog John opted to make his own. “My tools were made right in my workshop. I used sewing needles to make micro sized screwdrivers; other tools were made from materials like aluminum, steel, brass, plastic and others. After some trial and error they worked perfectly.” John’s pocket watch collection contains some beautifully engraved pieces. One
favorite is a railroad watch; these were given to railroad employees many years ago and set by the railroad standards person. They had to run at no more than plus or minus thirty seconds per week; it still maintains that precision today. In 2008, John retired from the board of directors of Gorman-Rupp. “I retired on my 75th birthday and, coincidentally, that very day they celebrated the 75th birthday of the Gorman-Rupp Company,” John remembers. That was also the year Barb’s cousin, in Texas, asked John for help in deciding what to do with her late husband’s clock collection. “We went to Texas to help her with appraisals and selling the collection,” Barb said. An earlier gift of a beautiful Seth Thomas ogee mantle clock, that still graces the dining room in their home, may have started John’s love of clocks, but the trip to Texas cinched the deal. “We drove down to help her and drove back with 41 clocks (three of them grandfather clocks) in our SUV. I was officially in the clock repair and clock collection business. The clocks chimed all the way back
home,” John smiled. The Walters insist they don’t collect as much as they just accumulate. Two of their grandfather clocks date back to the 1700’s. One very big and beautiful clock stands on the floor, but it hung on the wall in the Avon City Hall for 90 years before it was taken down and stored in a building in Cleveland. “My wife’s cousin’s husband was negotiating a deal on the building; he saw the clock and told them he would take the building if they threw in the clock,” John said. Barb Walter explains her husband’s collection this way, “My husband has an obsession with time. I think it stems from his being a pilot, but the clocks must be accurate. A few years ago I was looking at our phone bill and I noticed all these one-minute phone calls to Washington, D.C. There were dozens of them, all one minute in duration. I knew that many calls couldn’t have been a wrong number, so I asked what they were about. His reply was, ‘Oh, yeah. Those are calls to the National Bureau of Standards in Washington to obtain the atomic clock time.”
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THE LAST WORD Mark Twain has been credited with saying, “Progress I’m in favor of, its change I’m against” Well Mr. Twain, we think you would have been pleased with our progress in 2012. First let me say how honored we were to feature our local World War II veteran, Don Timmer, “Who Will Bear Witness” in our November/December issue. His story touched many people, including his good friend, Bob Hunn, who sent the article to the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. We received a note from Rebecca Erbelding, Archivist, informing us that this article will be placed in the museum. Thank you Don for sharing your story with us and thank you Bob for submitting it to the museum. The witness that you bear lives on after you. Also, you may have already heard about our newest publication, Pairings. As a companion to your March/April and your September/October issues of Heart of Ohio magazine, Pairings will focus on local wines and wineries and the wonderful ways they pair with other Ohio made products. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it! Cheers! Diane Brown, Publisher
Announcing the debut of Pairings, a companion publication of Heart of Ohio magazine. This uniquely wine-focused magazine is distributed twice a year; a spring issue (March/April) and a fall issue (September/October). Features include articles on the pairing and enjoyment of Ohio wines and foods, as well as things we love from around the world. ■ Experience the art of creating fascinating cuisine with Terri Bergman of The Kitchen’s Bounty. ■ Learn the finer points of wine production from Doniella Winchell, President of Ohio Wine Producers Association. ■ Let Tom Noonen of Vino Where you Live entertain you. ■ Attend wine classes with Miami University’s Jack Keegan. ■ Award-winning winemaker Jennifer Wall of Barefoot Wine discusses food & wine pairings, seasonal cocktails and entertaining tips. ■ Stay up-to-date on local wineries, tours, events and all things delicious! Look for Pairings magazine; you will find it bundled with Heart of Ohio magazine in participating retail locations or receive it automatically with your Heart of Ohio subscription. You won’t want to miss a single issue! For more information, visit heartofohiomagazine.com/pairings.
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