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Thursday, December 20, 2018
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Christmas memories from long ago By NANCY SCHAAR FPS Correspondent
Several residents of Centreville Village sat down to share their Christmas memories from their childhood, from their years as parents with children of their own, and talked about how different Christmas is today. Lewis and Wilma Grigsby
Lewis and Wilma Grigsby are both 92 years old. Lewis was raised on a farm and worked at TRW in Minerva. He was born in West Virginia but moved to Ohio with his family when he was three years old. He had four sisters and his dad farmed. His mother died when he was in the third grade and they didn’t celebrate Christmas after that. He does remember a paper bell that always hung in the doorway at his home when he was young. “We always had a tree after we got married and had our own family. We had decorations for the tree that was cut from the farm. We had lots of lights
on the tree and the kids always had presents. They got clothing too,” said Lewis. Wilma worked at Surety Rubber, Kauffman’s, and the Villa Restaurant. When she was a child, Christmas was kind of just another day. She said they didn’t put up decorations but she and her sister and two brothers each got an orange. Wilma did remember they usually had a ham dinner. Wilma thought Christmas today is very different. She said the kids just get so much and they seem to expect it. “It was never like that when we were young,” said Wilma. Lois Newell
Lois Newell, 92, had many warm memories from her childhood. She is the daughter of Jake and Carrie Kirkpatrick Wadsworth and grew up on the family farm where the Great Trail festival is held now. Her father was a bookkeeper but they all helped with the work on the farm. She remembers back to when she was eight or nine years old and they had a neighbor, Mr. Young. Young would pay them 25 cents an hour to cut weeds at his house. She said
LOIS NEWELL
it was hard work, but they liked getting paid. The children of Jake and Carrie were
See MEMORIES, PG. 8
LEWIS and WILMA GRIGSBY
Construction begins for new Dollar General in Sherrodsville By NANCY SCHAAR FPS Correspondent A new Dollar General store is just beginning construction on state Route 212 just outside of Sherrodsville. The store will be located across from Gooding’s Nursery. The store is expected to open in April with a grand opening scheduled for June. Openings are dependent upon the weather’s cooperation this winter. The store will provide about 7,300 square feet for sale merchandise. They will employ between six and 10 em-
ployees at the new store location. According to the company Public Relations Officer Angela Petkovic, store locations are chosen in order to offer customers easy and convenient shopping. “We generally serve customers within a three to five mile radius, or a ten minute drive. We also take demographic trends, competitive factors, traffic patterns and community concerns into consideration,” stated Petkovic. Dollar General sells quality namebrand and private brand merchandise such as health and beauty products, home cleaning supplies, housewares, stationery, seasonal items and basic
clothing. They also sell an assortment of packaged foods, as well as some refrigerated foods and some frozen foods. Dollar General sells products from America’s most-trusted brands such as Proctor & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, Kellogg’s, General Mills, Nabisco, Hanes, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola. Dollar General is deeply involved in the communities it serves and is an ardent supporter of literacy and education through the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, which awards
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Early deadlines are in effect for holidays The Free Press Standard will have early deadlines for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. All news items and advertising must be submitted by noon the Thursday before the publication date (Dec. 20 for the Dec. 27 New Year’s issue
and Dec. 27 for the Jan. 3 issue). The FPS office will close at noon Dec. 24 and Jan. 31 and will re-open Thursday, Dec. 27 and Jan. 3. The office will also be closed from noon-2 p.m. Dec. 27.
Christopher Modranski named county’s economic development director Carroll County Commissioners announced on Thursday, Dec. 13, that Christopher R. Modranski, the board’s assistant clerk, has been promoted to perform the duties of economic development director. “I am excited to get started and one of the first tasks I will work on is engaging our current businesses and developing a relationship with them to learn what their current and future needs are. I believe making sure we provide resources to retain and expand our current business base is just as, if not more important than, obtaining new opportunities.” said Modranski Modranski, who is a 13-year employee of Carroll County, was hired in January, 2006 by Sheriff Dale R.
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Williams and spent eight years as an emergency dispatcher before transferring to the Commissioners’ Office in 2013, where he has served as an assistant clerk for the past five years. Modranski, a life-long Carroll County resident, graduated from Kent State University in 2013 with a bachelor of business administration and will begin his duties Dec. 21, as Carroll County’s next economic development director. He will spend 20 hours a week fulfilling the economic development duties and 20 hours assisting in the commissioners’ office. For any economic development inquiries, please call or email Christopher Modranski at 330-627-4869 or cmodranski@carrollcountyohio.us
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Bergholz Christmas display features variety of scenes A Bergholz home is aglow for Christmas this year. Curt and Laurie Croskey of 413 Fourth St., Bergholz, have a display that spans their entire home and features the Grinch, elves, Olaf from the movie “Frozen,” a dinosaur, reindeer, Santa Claus and a nativity scene. Curt begins setting up the display in October and Laurie added addition decorations this year. The family wishes everyone a “Merry Christmas.” Other suggested locations are: • First Christian Church in Malvern, every night starting at 5:30 p.m., turn the radio to 88.3 and enjoy the show. • Private display near Pattersonville on Arbor Road, west (left from Carrollton) of state Route 9 just after the railroad tracks. The house is located near the end of the road on the left. Be cautious of Amish buggies in that area. Carrollton’s Public Square. The Carrollton Business Women with assistance from the Village of Carrollton and the Carrollton Village Fire Department decorated Carrollton’s downtown.
CHRISTOPHER MODRANSKI
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