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Grabbing breakfast
Eastcrest fifth graders Mary Adams and Troy Freytag choose from a bin filled with two types of cereal as part of the breakfast in the classroom program.
First ‘class' is breakfast for some Kenton students
By CHRISTINA HOY
Times staff writer
Students at Eastcrest Elementary in Kenton will be starting their school day with some food in their tummies.
The breakfast in the classroom program, which began this week, offers the students a free breakfast.
Laura Widder, Kenton cafeteria supervisor, received a $650 grant from Ohio Action for Healthy Kids to fund the program.
"I have kids eating breakfast that haven't eaten breakfast all year," said Eastcrest cook Barb Baum, who feels moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classrooms at no charge to the students is a smart move for the children.
"I am tickled to death that we are able to reach the kids that need the meals the most," she said.
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Suspended deputy waives hearing
By DAN ROBINSON
Times staff writer
A suspended Hardin County sheriff's deputy found himself in a legal bind Tuesday morning.
Brandon Carey was scheduled for a preliminary hearing in municipal court, but was told by his attorney, William Kluge, if he didn't waive the hearing, it could cost him $2,000.
Carey faces one count of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, a felony of the fourth degree, in late March.
A preliminary hearing is where evidence is initially presented against a defendant in a felony case to determine if the case should be bound over to common pleas court.
A special prosecutor has been appointed to the case, Kluge told Judge Greg Grimslid. That prosecutor had instructed Hardin County Prosecutor Brad Bailey to dismiss the charges against Carey because he planned to present it to the grand jury. When that happens, continued Kluge, the $2,000 Carey posted for the $20,000 bond would be lost.
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 Times photo/Dan Robinson
Big Brothers
Zach Madden (left, back) and Jayvin Castle enjoy time they spend with their Big Brothers (from left, front) Tyler Shepherd and Brady
Pickford at the Upper Scioto Valley school. The USV program has seen great success this year with the young students finding role models in the high school.
Younger students find role models at USV High School
By DAN ROBINSON
Times staff writer
McGUFFEY - As Jayvin Castle enters the small room off the Upper Scioto Valley administrative office for his weekly visit with Brady Pickford, his face suddenly lights up.
Brady is his hero, said Castle; his role model.
The second grader looks forward to the time he spends with his Big Brother each week at the school. But, the boy's Big Brother isn't an adult. He is only 15 himself.
The Hardin County Big Brothers Big Sisters organization is reaching out beyond the typical relationships established in the program of an adult mentoring a child. It is now hoping to encourage teens to be mentors for younger students through its pilot school-based program.
The USV sessions began last fall with a handful of participants, said Hardin County Big Brothers Big Sisters Director Jill Ogle. This spring there are 22 pairs of students working and playing together each week.
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Dunkirk mayor under fire
By CHRISTINA HOY
Times staff writer
DUNKIRK- Newspaper comments by Mayor Pam Ruhlen caused quite a stir at Monday's Dunkirk council session.
Councilman Shane Curtis accused Ruhlen of not sticking with council.
"We were told to make no comment, that means no comment. We are a group, we need to stick together as a group," he said after stating that the mayor's comments in Friday's Times made it seem as if she was pointing fingers at the council concerning the former Dunkirk fiscal officer, Tom Foltz. Foltz has been arraigned on charges that he took nearly $150,000 of village funds over the last three years.
Ruhlen stated last week to the Times that "Dunkirk's council had been told by the auditors ... there were funds missing, but Foltz convinced them the auditors were picking on him. Council accepted the fiscal officer's excuse and continued his employment, but the mayor said she kept an eye on the town's accounts." She went on to say that she did not have a say in the matter concerning Foltz's employment. It was council's decision, not the mayor's, she said in the article.
Foltz was dismissed by council last month when he didn't return to the village for three days and the auditors confirmed money was missing.
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