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Harrison County seeking $550,000 in gov’t funds By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com CADIZ – The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds are up for grabs again and Harrison County is in the running for upwards of $550,000 from two separate 2019 monies out there for critical needs. Harrison County Community Improvement Corporation (HCCIC) Administrative Assistant Jody Hennis appeared before the county commissioners Wednesday to announce their opportunity in a first public hearing for the $400,000
Community Housing Impact and Preservation (CHIP) funding (under CDBG) along with an additional $150,000 of Community Development Allocation (CDA) funding, “providing the County meets applicable program requirements.” CDBG funding provides for a wide range of activities, which include: “planning, improvements to public facilities, public services, housing, economic development and fair housing. The activities must be designed to primarily benefit low and moderate income persons; aid in the prevention or elimination of slum and
blight or meet an urgent need of the community,” Hennis explained reading from a prepared statement. “The CHIP program can fund home repair, private rehab, rental repair or rental rehab activities,” she said. She continued by stating that the CDA program, modified back in 2017 to a “biennial allocation” and that the funds available are to be $120,000 “limited to 4 projects/activities.” The eligible areas listed as determined by census data (Low to Moderate Income percentages) are: Deersville: 60.87 percent; Harrisville: 56.2percent; Jewett: 65.47
Pioneer in the Ohio newspaper publishing and printing industry passes Friends, former employees, colleagues mourn the passing of Maynard Buck By DON RUTLEDGE Free Press Standard &
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Harrison News Herald Maynard A. Buck Jr., former owner and publisher of The Free Press Standard, Freeport Press and Harrison News-Herald, passed away Friday, Feb. 22, in Westlake, Ohio, where he had resided since 2011. Maynard, who was affectionately known by his late wife, Anne, as “Mick,” also owned and operated the former Carrollton Graphics Printing Company in Carrollton, formerly known as the Standard Printing Company. Buck purchased The Free Press Standard and Standard Printing Co., founded and operated by the late Glenn and Jane Brenneman, in 1975. He sold the Carrollton Graphics plant in 1992 and The Free Press Standard to David Schloss in January 2015. Buck was president of the Freeport Press, Inc., a commercial printing plant in Freeport, from 1956 to 1986 when he sold the company. He also was the owner of the Harrison News-Herald, a weekly newspaper in Cadiz, until he sold it in 1992. During his astute and successful
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newspaper publishing and printing career, Buck was the major stockholder in a color separation company, American Colorscans, Inc. in Columbus, having sold it in 1993. His professional memberships included serving as a president of the Ohio Newspaper Association in 1982 and 1983 and chairman of the Association’s Board of Trustees in 1984 and 1985. In 1985, Buck received the Ohio
Newspaper Association’s Presidents Award for outstanding service to the Ohio newspaper industry. In 1986, he was the 31st recipient of the William Taylor Distinguished Alumnus Award from Kent State University’s School of Journalism. Perhaps one of the highlights of the Bucks’ newspaper career was in February 2015 when Maynard and Anne were honored as one of eight families with the First Families of Ohio Newspaper award at the annual Ohio Newspaper Association’s convention in Columbus. His civic service included 10 years on the Harrison Community Hospital Board of Trustees and chairman of a drive to raise funds to build the hospital. He also served two terms on the Cadiz Board of Education and was president of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District’s Board of Directors, having been a member of the board for 20 years. Upon the announcement of his death Friday, tributes poured in from friends, colleagues, and former employees. Among those were David Schloss, current owner and publisher of The Harrison News-Herald and The Free Press Standard who said, “As community newspapers remain a source of historical
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percent; New Athens: 70.21 percent; Scio: 64.32 percent; German Township: 53.25 percent and Rumley Township at 59.88 percent. Other funding programs listed were: Abandon gas station cleanup, neighborhood and downtown revitalization, critical and residential public infrastructure, housing and homeless assistance, roadwork development, infrastructure “or job creation programs and any new programs announced under the CDBG or HOME Program.” “Should any participant require auxiliary
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CADIZ – With the majority of emergency calls emanating from Cadiz Hopedale’s EMS personnel, at least some of them will set up shop in Cadiz, according to Ken Baker of the Cadiz Volunteer Fire Department. Baker spoke at last Thursday’s Cadiz council meeting to inform everyone of the plan and the fact that Hopedale reached out to Cadiz about the idea. “They’re supposed to start sometime here after March once they get it all stocked up and ready to go,” Baker explained. “They’re going to go on a six-day trial period running out of our station…for the first 60 days we’ll take a look at that if it’s working, we’ve got to maybe give them a little bit longer to find a place to put the e-squad or we’ll just
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jim@harrisonnewsherald.com CADIZ – One of the oldest businesses in the village of Cadiz is celebrating its 35th anniversary this Saturday. Class Act Hair Design, which is located at 153 S. Main Street is planning an open house with plenty of food and drink and pastry for anyone to come out and enjoy and celebrate their long history. Co-owners Debbie Lloyd and Theresa Gould have a well-appreciated and loyal staff
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where many have stuck with them over the years. Judy Sproul is one who has been with Class Act for the entire 35 years. Heather Thomas has been with the group for 12 years and Natalie Evans for another 10 years. Lloyd said many of their employees stay for extended periods of time before moving on. Their current location has been split almost equally with their first one, which is where Abacus Business & Tax Services now sit. Lloyd proudly states that they have served four generations of families over the years where they offer hair cutting, color, perms, styling, waxing, facials, formal hair,
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manicures and pedicures too. Class Act is celebrating with an open house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday where they will have raffles, gift baskets as well as much food and drink and a cake to top it off. “I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all the people of Harrison County who supported us all these years,” Lloyd said. “We couldn’t have done it without you.” She also added that for those who have not visited with Class Act Saturday would be the perfect opportunity to come out and meet the staff and enjoy the refreshments.
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hang on to them at our station.” Baker said there shouldn’t be extra costs but there will be two people “up there at all times from eight to five, especially Monday through Friday and we’ll see how it works out.” Other items of interest involved Liming Drive where council member John Vermillion said pipe would be installed this week to get the water flowing again then when the weather breaks in the spring, “raise the elevation of the ground.” He said there would be an attempt to have at least one lane of traffic would be left open. Mayor Ken Zitko announced that there had been some complaints regarding the E. Market Street parking lot and trucks being parked overnight. Vermillion said signs have
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Spill Response Team responds to Bowerston accident jim@harrisonnewsherald.com
Long standing Class Act celebrating 35th year
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Hopedale transferring EMS personnel to Cadiz
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From left to right-back row: Sara Miser (6 years); Maggie O’Donnell (2 years); Heather Thomas (12 years); Natalie Evans (10 years); Courtney Hyde (5 years). Front row: Co-owner Debbie Lloyd, Judy Sproul (35 years) and co-owner, Theresa Gould. Class Act is celebrating their 35th anniversary with an open house Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
aids due to disability, please contact this office at least one week prior to the hearing date to ensure needs will be accommodated,” Hennis noted. She said the next hearing will “probably be in May” though no exact date was given as of yet. County Engineer Doug Bachman brought to the commissioners two Road Use Maintenance Agreements (RUMA) for approval, which they did. Both were logging agreements with one being for Harrison 18 in Freeport Township and the other involved Harrison roads, 46 and 4
CADIZ – A Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) meeting was held in the cafeteria of the Harrison Community Hospital Wednesday morning. These meetings are held four times per year with EMA Director Eric Wilson hosting the event. Wilson explained that the LEPC is a function of the state where they are required to discuss “chemical reporting activities,” which also involve exercises and spill responses for example. Wilson explained that the state has a “recommendation of the composition of the LEPC,” he said, which involve law enforcement, elected officials and EMS personnel just to name a few. He said up until the morning of the day before he would have listed no reports of tactical responses they received a report of the Bowerston accident that resulted in a fatality. “We got a report, actually two accidents in Harrison County with injury,” he explained where they were requested to the Bowerston accident. He said their spill response trailer (donations from Williams and Chevron) was finally able to be put to use since receiving the 18-foot trailer. He said with a chemical release there are offensive and defensive operations. Wilson said in Harrison County they operate under defensive measures in an attempt to prevent the spread of the spill getting into local waterways for example. “We hold the fort until the cavalry comes,” Wilson said after stating that the county does not have a governmentbacked Hazmat team. He said that on Ohio 151 a vehicle ran a stop sign and struck a tractor trailer broadside rupturing both tanks of gas, which led to a spill. Wilson said there was 100 gallons of diesel fuel in each tank. “Unfortunately with the slope of the road…sloped down toward the stream
and all the diesel was running straight towards the stream,” Wilson said. He said the first team to respond did a good job of “defensive actions” with Scio Fire Chief Roger Bethel on site leading the early assessment where he determined more help was needed and requested the Spill Response Team. “Yesterday morning was the first morning that that was deployed on an actual incident,” Wilson stated. “We were pleased that we were able to put our resources to use unfortunately, it had to be in a situation like that…” He said they had good containment with 40 gallons of diesel being recovered but added that left 160 gallons unaccounted for. He said the team was out on site for four to five hours with an awful lot of fuel to deal with. Bethel said it “went really well” and explained that some supplies are carried on their trucks, but are limited in space. He said the spill was pretty much contained then asked Wilson if any did get into the stream. Wilson then described a condition that they witnessed called a sheen on the surface of the water where they laid down boons, or socks as they call them to absorb the spill on the banks. He said the “sheen,” which resembles a rainbow and is indicative of a petrochemical was observed and Wilson surmised that since the ground was already saturated with moisture some of the spill penetrated through and into the stream. “It’s hard to say how much got in, maybe a gallon, I don’t know but the important thing is once that appeared in the water the Hazmat team was already there,” Wilson said referring to the private service, IMS under Westfall. He said the EPA investigates then releases their report on the severity of the spill and waterway contamination. “And they’re equipped to do what we call a remediation, which is dig up the soil and do all that stuff so, the purpose of the defensive operation is to keep it from getting worse worked yesterday at that accident scene,” Wilson said.
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