DAVE MOSIER/independent editor What has been a dream for former body shop owner Dave Agler and his small band of Van Wert County Historical Society volunteers is now in pieces. Hundreds of pieces. Or, more appropriately, parts … auto parts. Agler’s dream is to renovate a 1917 Overland Opera Touring Coupe, a rare 4-cylinder automobile […]
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 6:44 am. FILED UNDER: News
Troopers from the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating a fire Friday morning that damaged a Lincolnview Local Schools bus and forced the evacuation of 37 students and the bus driver. The Patrol responded to a call at approximately 9:50 a.m. Friday that a school bus was on fire near […]
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 4:12 am. FILED UNDER: News
BOWLING GREEN — U.S. Representative Bob Latta welcomes Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), as the featured speaker at his 2012 Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. The dinner is scheduled for Saturday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at Bowling Green State University’s Lenhart Grand Ballroom in Bowen-Thompson Student Union, located off Thurstin Street in Bowling Green. Tickets are $25 per person. To purchase […]
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Van Wert High School is holding a pancake breakfast Saturday, February 4, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Van Wert. Presale tickets are $5 each and children 5 or under get in free with a purchase of an adult ticket. The meal includes pancakes, sausage, milk, […]
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WILLSHIRE — The Willshire Youth Activities will be sponsoring “Basket Bingo & More” on Sunday, January 29, at the Rockford Community Building. Doors will open at noon, with Bingo beginning at 1 p.m. Tickets are $20, which includes 20 games of Bingo. The winner of each game of Bingo will receive a Longaberger basket donated […]
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Boy Scout Troop 35 of Van Wert participated at the 2012 Klondike Derby held recently at Camp Lakota, near Defiance (above and below). The scouts participated in several skills from fire building to first aid. First Presbyterian Church of Van Wert sponsors the troop. (photos submitted)
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 3:55 am. FILED UNDER: Youth
DAVE MOSIER/independent sports CELINA – The Van Wert Cougar boys’ basketball team has struggle many times in the Celina High School gymnasium and Friday was no exception, as the Cougars were lucky to escape with a 63-61 Western Buckeye League victory over the Bulldogs on their home turf. Van Wert led 15-13 at the end […]
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 3:35 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Van Wert independent sports/YMCA information The YMCA of Van Wert County recently announced a partnership with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants for discounted game tickets and a free clinic at the Y with Mad Ants players and coaches for those grades K (4 years and up) through sixth grade. The clinic will be held at […]
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 3:29 am. FILED UNDER: Sports
Luke L. Kill, 98, of Landeck, died at 5:25 a.m. Sunday, January 22, 2012, in Naples, Fla. He was born November 6, 1913, in Landeck, the son of the late Joseph J. and Mary (Droll Vondran) Kill. On August 11, 1936, he married Mary Dolores (Doughty) Kill, who preceded him in death on March 13, […]
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 2:25 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries
Betty M. Lauer, 89, of Delphos, died at 11:55 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 2012, at St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima. She was born December 21, 1922, in Delphos, the daughter of the late Albert G. and Leona (Gulker) Laudick. On September 9, 1944, she married James A. Lauer, who survives in Delphos. Other survivors […]
POSTED: 01/28/12 at 2:25 am. FILED UNDER: Obituaries