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Three police depts. seek more funds By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com In Ottawa County, three area police departments will be asking for additional tax revenues on the May 8 ballot. Departments in the Village of Genoa and Clay and Carroll townships are each seeking voter approval of 2-mill levies. Clay Township police chief Terry Mitchell said routine operations for his department have stretched his budget since voters last approved more millage. “We’ve done as well as we can do. No big purchases are planned, no big pay raises are planned,” he said. “The entire Genoa school system has moved into the township. We’re responsible for the entire district K though 12 and we spend a great deal of time there. It’s been about 20 years since we’ve asked for additional millage.” The levy would be continuous if approved. The ballot language says the levy would also be used for emergency medical service.

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A dedication was held for the new Howard Marsh Metropark, Jerusalem Township. The new park is the second largest of the 16 parks in the Metroparks Toledo system. Top photo, Metroparks staff members Amanda Howard and Jake Willing take a canoe ride. Bottom left, Scott Savage, right, president of the Metroparks Toledo board, honors Steve Madewell, left, retired executive director. The quarter-mile boardwalk was named the Madewell Trail in recognition of Madewell’s leadership. Bottom right, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and others recite the Pledge of Allegiance. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)

Rare blond, long-haired cat missing in Elmore By Kelly J. Kaczala News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com Last year, when E.J. Mansour left town, one of his friends in Elmore volunteered to take care of his two cats, Tommy and Timmy. When he got back to pick up his cats on Dec. 26, as he was preparing to go home, Tommy bolted out the door. Since then, he has been tirelessly looking for the eight-year-old feline. “I work on the road,” he explained. “When I have to go out of town, they are cared for. A friend of mine in Elmore said she’d be more than happy to take care of them until I was done with the project. She never let them out. They were going to remain indoors because they were completely unfamiliar with their environment. When I dropped them off, Tommy scooted out the garage door while my attention was on something else. Before I could even react, he was out the door and gone. There was no locating him. I took a lot of time looking for his tracks, and stopped

virtually at every house in the general vicinity, but nobody had seen him.” Tommy’s coloring is rather rare, he said. The brown eyed, long-haired blond cat has a little bit of red coloring down the middle of his back and a small white patch on his chest. “The interesting thing about him is there are only about 4 percent of cats in this country that are long-haired. Of that 4 percent, only 1 percent are blond colored. So he’s an unusual cat in that regard. But nobody has seen him.” Mansour, who lives in the village of Dunbridge, between Perrysburg and Bowling Green, goes frequently to the Elmore address where Tommy escaped to leave food and water in the garage in the morning and at night. He leaves the garage door cracked open about 15 inches in hopes of luring Tommy back. “There are people who think they’ve seen him, but it’s not him,” said Mansour. “The sightings usually turn out to be a

Tommy was last seen in Elmore.

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Genoa Voters in the Village of Genoa last November narrowly rejected a request for a 2-mill, 5-year levy that would have been used to update equipment and training for the village police department: 245 for to 267 against. That same millage request will be on the ballot May 8. Village officials cite a loss of federal and state funding as one reason for the millage request. Chief Brad Weis said the equipment needs include replacement of the department’s military surplus rifles and the officers’ Tasers, which are outdated and no longer serviceable. Other police equipment which will be updated through the levy includes the bulletproof vests, which are approaching their five-year expiration limit. The department-issued handguns are also due to be replaced due to their age. Police vehicles Continued on page 2

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