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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
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School board unanimous against levy renewal This is the opportune time to do this. Board of Education President, Deb. Kenny
By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com
CADIZ – Last Thursday the Harrison Hills Board of Education (HHBOE) met at Westgate for their regular monthly meeting and unanimously
agreed to not seek a Permanent Improvement levy. The levy, on the books since 1985, according to Superintendent Dana Snider brought in a little more than $1 million. She said, after Treasurer Roxanne Harding supplied the numbers, the choice by the board seemed to be obvious. Snider said the Harrison power plant, which was officially announced at a special meeting held last month at Westgate, would “nearly” replace that levy money. Board Member DJ Watson began with opening remarks under the
Finance Report noting the board had been discussing the levy issue for the past year and-a-half and, recommendations across the board were unanimous for not renewing. “Mrs. Kenny (President Deborah Kenny) and I, our recommendations for the rest of the board…would be to not seek renewal [for] 3-mil levy for permanent improvement funds,” Watson stated before opening the floor for discussion. Kenny told the board their biggest concern was financial and even though, Harding was not present for the meeting, Kenny said she had agreed
with the board’s sentiments. “This is the opportune time to do this,” Kenny said adding that the last collection on the levy won’t come until next year (2019). She also touched on what she called a misconception on “how the money gets dispersed,” concerning the Harrison Power deal. “That doesn’t actually start for three years,” she said, which means the plant has to be up and running before payments to county entities such as Harrison Hills are made. She continued stating that those payments, as previously published, will be ongoing for 15 years and after that, the regular
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tax scale kicks in. Kenny basically confirmed what Snider later said regarding the power plant’s payment would “just about offset” what the levy has been producing. Kenny explained that this was their way of thanking those who helped the district in the past while at the same time, wanting to be financially responsible and not put the school district in jeopardy, but now felt they were in the position to make this move. Board Member Tracy Mattern and Duran Morgan repeated the other’s gratitude for the new school and this
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Jewett banning 4-wheelers from village By JD LONG
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Last Saturday, The Olive Branch outreach ministry took over the empty lot on the square in Cadiz to offer the community a free dinner that started at 4 p.m. and went on well into the evening. Olive Branch President, Sarah Dean, said that although the group didn’t sell tickets, she expected about 200 people to attend based on interest and messages received via the group’s Facebook page.
New outreach ministry looks to make impact in the community By MICHAEL SIEBER NH Editor
CADIZ — The Olive Branch Outreach ministry held a community dinner in Cadiz at the square on Saturday, Sept. 1, and while there were no loaves and fishes present, the people who attended got well fed with delicious food and desserts, most of which were donated by people and businesses in the community. The group’s president, Sara Dean, said the Dinner on the Square is the first event of its kind to be offered by the group and was designed to be a fundraiser to help the outreach ministry provide much-needed services to the community in the future. Dean said she would like to do a big fundraiser similar to this one at least once a year. “It’s a love offering, so if you only have $5 to give, that $5 goes a long way. We’re connected with the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, and we get a lot of our food for extremely cheap, so if people think, ‘I only have $5,’ I say thank you because we bought 48 pounds of chicken for $3.52.” She added the community dinner is a great way of getting the word out about
what the ministry has to offer, to meet people, and to give something back to the community. Although there are many churches throughout the area that provide services to those in need, Dean said the Olive Branch isn’t affiliated with any other organization or church, and this is partly because they prefer to run their organization without having to answer to anyone or to be affiliated with any particular denomination. “We’re our own 501c3 non-profit outreach. We’re not affiliated with any churches; we’re just a group of Christians that got together and said we need to do something in the community and give people a hand up rather than a handout and we decided to form this.” According to Dean, the group has been about a year in the making. She said that while many of the local churches do good things for the community, none of them were providing the kind of outreach on a community-wide scale in the way the Olive Branch hopes to do. She said they gathered together a group of service-minded people along with a
Olive Branch President, Sarah Dean
board of directors and crafted by-laws to create an outreach program that would serve everyone in the community. “We’re striving to unify the body of Christ without any denomination. Love for everyone despite denomination, despite race, color, shape, size; I don’t care if you’re an atheist, I don’t care if you’re a Presbyterian if you’re a Catholic, all are welcome,” she said. One of the goals of this outreach ministry is to give people a hand up rather than a hand out, and to do that, they intend to provide people with an
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Constcuction and Mining Show in New Athens
Pre-school showcased at Board of Education meeting
If you’re looking for something interesting this weekend, check out the Old Construction & Mining Equipment show in New Athens. See Page 9
Assistant principa, Don Madzai, introduced educators and staff to their pre-school program during last week’s regular board meeting. See Page 2
The Harrison Central Huskies football team played a tough game against the Griffins that came down to the final seconds. See Page 6
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education and to build them up on their own strengths so they can learn to provide for themselves. Dean said the group is offering classes such as how to build a resumé, and how to expand upon the natural skills that people already have. “We have educated people, we have people who have Master’s degrees, Bachelor’s degrees, and they’re going to provide individual classes for people and group classes . . . what is needed within the people we serve, that’s what we’re going to provide.” Dean went on to say that Olive Branch is opening up a soup kitchen on Sept. 18 at South Main Street in Cadiz in the lower half of the former Masonic Lodge. “We’re going to start off at twice a month (serving) until we get more volunteers and see what the need is. I want to open every day eventually.” Along with the soup kitchen, Dean emphasized the importance of providing the young people of the community a safe place to go, especially after school. “There’s going to be after school programming; we’re going to provide a family-like setting,
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JEWETT – During Police Chief Ron Carter’s monthly report at Wednesday’s council meeting, he brought up the issue of 4-wheelers becoming such a nuisance, mostly at the hands of one individual he admitted, that they would no longer permit 4-wheelers in the streets of the village. “Due to certain people,” he began explaining, “certain people, certain individuals [who] don’t want to obey the laws and drive their 4-wheelers through Jewett at one-two in the morning doing wheelies and flying past our office trying to taunt us, 4wheelers will not be permitted.” Carter stated that it was primarily because of one individual who he did not name, though he did refer to 4wheelers as in plural. “One has ruined it for everybody, so they can thank that person, I’m sure they know who he is.” Carter relayed one instance where some on 4wheelers rode past the office while one of his officers was present doing a wheelie, which he said led to a police pursuit through the village. “4-wheelers are not going to be tolerated no more in town,” he repeated. “Like I said, that’s one person…are ruining it for everybody. So, just to eliminate the whole problem we’re going to just eliminate that issue.” Council Member Dennis Hirschbach raised the issue of having owners of 4-wheelers register their vehicles. He suggested possibly doing it by a village ordinance but Mayor Dwight Busby told Carter that having them registered might not necessarily solve their problem “because by law they shouldn’t be on the street unless they’re licensed, which they could be arrested for anyway,” to which Carter
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