News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • Page A3

NEWS JOURNAL II 3A Malabar 6th-graders have car wash MANSFIELD A group of Malabar Intermediate School sixth-grade students will have a car wash from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday behind the school, 2 05 W. Cook Road. Proceeds from the car wash ill go towards the purchase of ooks for the library.

articipating students include Karlena Gonzalez, Keleigh Taylor, Lamaiya Boswell, Natalie Hershberger, Jericha Howell, Cortney Taska and Victoria Netter. VA Clinic to thank Vietnam vets MANSFIELD In recognition of the service and sacrifice of Veteran patients and taff, the Mansfield VA Outpatient Clinic will join with the Department of Defense and VA facilities across the country to thank Vietnam Veterans and commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. The commemoration will take place from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at the clinic, 1025 S.

Trimble Road. Vietnam Veteran patients and staff are encouraged to attend to receive a commemorative pin during the Veteran Appreciation Day. Second-grader planned MANSFIELD Second grade tudents at St. Peter's School a nd St. Peter's Parish recently made their First Communion at aspecial Mass.

The priests at St. Peter's ave planned a "priest feast" unch for the St. Peter's Elem entary School second grade students from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Both Father Hite and Father Jeremy will grill hot dogs and hamburgers for the tudents. For details, email second rade teacher Sarah Johnson at johnson.sarah@myspartans.org or call the school at 419-5243351. Soup Supper benefit lanned Friday MANSFIELD The Parent Aide Program, in partnership ith First United Methodist Church, will have a Soup Supp er Movie Night fundraising event Friday at the church, 12 orth Diamond St. The Parent Aide Program provides services to teach safe parenting skills in Richland ounty. Soup will be served from 5 to 7p.m.

and the movie will begin at 7 p.m. in the main sanctuary. The cost is $8 for 3 bowls of soup, $10 for unlimited soup; children ages 4 to 12, and children 3 and younger are free. Raffle tickets will be available for a chance to win four admission passes to Park. roceeds to benefit the Parent Aide Program to support child abuse and neglect prevent ion efforts in Richland County.

Call 419-524-9333 for any questions or to RSVP for event. Seltzer South Lake to be stocked SHELBY Seltzer South Lake, adjacent to the playscape parking lot, will be stocked with fish for the 2016 fishing season Tuesday. Shelby Mayor Steven Schag and Richland Soil and Water onservation District will be hosting the stocking event at 1:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend and bring fishing poles. For details, call 419-747-8686.

Click It or Ticket vent is Monday MANSFIELD The Richland County Safe Communities Coalition has planned a kick-off vent for the seat belt use enforcement period known as Click It or Ticket. he event will take place at 2 p.m. Monday in the main lobby OhioHealth Mansfield, 335 lessner Ave. There will be a brief presentation on the importance of occupant safety protection to revent injuries and fatalities in crashes. Speakers include Dr.

Jason Straus, lead physician of OhioHealth Mansfield Trauma ard, and Sgt. Brian Nelson of the Ohio State Patrol, Mansfield Post. BRIEFS MANSFIELD While the ichland County Convention and Visitors ureau held its annual meeting in the entral Guard Room on Wednesday, dozens of tourists were visiting the rest of the Ohio State Reformatory. It was fitting venue since for the tourism meeting since much of Shawshank starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, was filmed in and around the historic prison, which was turned into a museum in 1993. The facility is open for tours daily.

Thomas and Rheta Eversman of Marion, Indiana, and John and Sheila Eversman of VanWert, Ohio, came to see the Ohio tate Reformatory for the first time, alking below the massive cellblocks. a fascinating place to said homas Eversman, who said he also has oured the prison at Alcatraz Island and loved it, too. versman said OSR, which opened in 1 896, has the same flavor. said Eversman, who atched two nights ago with his wife so he could enjoy the tour even more. In the Central Guard Room, also known as the chow hall in local bureau members and 200 guests enjoyed a Shawshank-themed menu.

Bill Mullen, who operate the Stephens Lumberyard in Upper Sandusky, better known as the Shawshank Woodshop, 228 S. Eighth was among the guests. A fter the luncheon, Mullen toured the prison Wednesday. Mullen will bring the Shawshank bus to the Shawshank Hustle 5K on June 11at OSR, the same bus that carried actor Tim Robbins to the prison. all about supporting each other and making the experience better for everyone who Mullen said.

Lee Tasseff, president of the bureau, aid the organization in 2016 launched a ext generation Shawshank Trail webs ite, one which relies on video and panoramic photos. Tasseff said the bureau also launched an ad campaign tied to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. we want to do is get in their Tasseff said of the digital campaign, which millions of people see when searching the convention in Cleveland. Highlights for the bureau in 2015 included helping establish the Shawshank Hustle, the popular Wine Ale Trail, investment in the Brickyard Stage project, onducting visitor research and reaping he reward of the national public relations garnered during the two Shaws hank events in 2013-14 boosted by media eports about the capture and return to Ohio of real-life prison escapee Frank reshwaters. ourism, the fourth-largest employer in Richland County, supports 4,349 jobs ith a payroll of $83 million, while generating spending of $290.4 million and local taxes of $8.5 million, according to the CVB.

During the luncheon, four businesses and individuals who have achieved Excellence in Tourism were honored and welcomed into the Tourism Hall of Fame: Final Fridays Brickyard (Downtown Mansfield Walk of Parables (BibleWalk); The Phoenix Brewing and Little Buckeye Museum. 419-521-7223 Twitter: JASON J. JOURNAL Visitors tour the cell blocks of the Ohio State Reformatory on Wednesday during self-guided tours of the site used for filming Shawshank other movies and music videos. CVB celebrates tourism at meeting LOU WHITMIRE REPORTER ONTARIO Ann Robinson is devote to the Humane Society of Richland County. nothing I do for this organization because they gave me this she said.

This is a 4-year-old giant chnauzer mix. One of 10 puppies, was born at the shelter in December 2011. been a joy to Robinson said, adding has become her running artner. obinson was one of about 30 people and a few dogs who crammed into the humane society lobby Wednesday evening for a press conference. Board members made a public plea or donations to keep the shelter open.

hey already had announced they will uspend services effective June 1. That means humane agents will not respond to new cruelty complaints, accept more animals or transport animals to a low-cost spay-neuter clinic in Upper Sandusky. he shelter will remain open. umane agent and shelter supervi- or Missy Houghton said she estimates extra services will be suspended for three months. She says she hopes enough dona- ions will come in by then to sustain the helter.

fficials say they need $90,000 to get them through the end of the year. The annual budget is about $150,000. oard members told the people who attended the press conference that the humane society operates through private donations, grants, special events and fundraisers. Houghton, who has been shelter supervisor for 10 years, detailed the financial situation. She said officials had 700,000 in a capital campaign fund that went away when the new facility opened at 3025 Park Avenue West in 2 009.

Houghton did say, though, there is no debt. They own the building. he said a hoarding case in which the shelter had to take in about 50 dogs for early two years cost about $150,000. never got Houghton said. he added the shelter normally receives a large estate or donation, but that has not happened lately.

Houghton aid the humane society is operating on atwo-month cushion. We need a long-term sustainable goal so we never have to go to the public she said. oughton said if 1,500 people donated $5 or $10 a month, budget would be Anumber of the volunteers and board members were in tears during the press conference. Houghton told the crowd the board wants to hear from the public for policy tips going forward. main complaint that we hear from the public is that we euthanize too many she said.

want to move toward going no-kill with our She said no animals will be euthan- i zed if the shelter closes. For anyone who wants to help, a Save Our Shelter Facebook page has been set up. eople also can go to the website, adoptourstrays.com, drop off donations or send checks. In addition, MFD has set up a GoFundMe account. 4 19-521-7219 witter: MARK JOURNAL Adrian Ackerman cradles a kitten that was taken in Wednesday afternoon at the umane Society of Richland County.

Humane society makes ublic plea for money MARK CAUDILL REPORTER COLUMBUS Swing state Ohio saw its voters sway in the presidential primary, ith more than three times as many emocrats casting Republican ballots ompared with the number of GOP party witchers, according to new data re- eased Wednesday from the elect ion chief. Ohioans who previously affiliated with a party prior to the primary a lso voted Republican at a higher rate. oters do not register with a political arty when they sign up to vote in Ohio but are considered affiliated with the party whose ballot they cast in a primary. Republican Secretary of State Jon office said it compiled the part y-switching information from the state- ide voter database in response to re- uests following this primary. ow the numbers will translate to otes this fall for either president ial nominee remains to be seen.

But the data reflect the intense interest in the Republican presidential race in many states voters motivated to support or oppose he GOP front-runner, Donald Trump. Voters switched parties in primary contest ANN SANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS.