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THURSDAY September 2, 1993 Serving Port Clinton, Oak Harbor and Ottawa County 355 80 ire You're invited to OAK HARBOR The public is cordially invited to attend the opening ceremony and dedication of the Ohio 19 bridge in Oak Harbor at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3. on the Locust Street-north side of the bridge. Taking part in the ceremony will be V.F.W.

Post 8732 and American Legion Post 114 color guards; Terry Clark, president of Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce; Village Mayor Pete Macko; Steve Arndt, president of Ottawa County Commissioners; the Oak Harbor High School Band, under the direction of Jim Murray; Jim McCarty, deputy district director of the Ohio Department of Transportation; and Rev. Gene Hegemier, St. Paul United Church of Christ. ribbon cutting The first vehicles passing over the bridge will represent the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, Oak Harbor Police Department, the Oak Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce in a 1930 Model Ford owned by Harold Wadsworth Mid County EMS, Ottawa Ambulance Service, U.S. Postal Service, B-C-S school bus, a Portage District fire truck, and an ODOT snowplow.

The long-awaited ribbon cutting to open the span to traffic will be performed by Macko, Arndt, and McCarty. The public will then have approximately one hour to inspect, take pictures and walk the new span before the barricades are removed and the bridge is officially open to traffic. 'Traffic resumes on the bridge Friday after an 11 a.m. ceremony. The bridge closed Novem nally was set to open July 31.

"Oh, you can't believe how happy we are," Bassett's Bakery Manager Paul Weich- ber 1992. State officials said the condition was so badly deteriorated that they had to close the structure. It origi Weather TONIGHT: Occasional showers and thunderstorms. Low in the upper 60s. TOMORROW: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the morning.

High in the mid-70s. Complete weather, A2 Fishing Boating FISHING: Perch fishermen don't mind the rain so they'll be out today trying their luck, according to a Hi Way Bait Store employee. North of Kelleys Island and along the shoreline near Davis-Besse Nuclear Power station have been the hotspots. LAKE ERIE: Scattered showers today. Highs near 80.

Southeast winds of 10 knots or more, becoming southerly winds later. Waves 2 to 4 feet, subsiding by evening. Chance of rain, 60 percent. Around Ohio AMONG THE FIRST: The state Highway Patrol said it charged 29 people with driving under the influence in the first five hours after a tougher anti-drunken driving law took effect. Sgt.

John Born, patrol spokesman, said the number of citations issued from midnight to 5 a.m. Wednesday was about average. He said the 29 motorists charged reflected only patrol arrests, not those made by other law enforcement agencies. The new law provides for on-the-spot license suspension of drivers who flunk a blood-alcohol test or refuse to take it. Vehicle seizure, immobilization and forfeiture are mandated for repeat offenders.

A West Virginia man is believed to have been the first driver charged in Ohio under the new law. Pomeroy police Chief Gerald Rought said Gale Wolfe, of Mason, W.Va., was charged at 12:32 a.m. Wolfe was charged with driving under the influence, operating a vehicle under license suspension, and driving left of center. He was released on a recognizance bond after appearing in court Wednesday morning. Rousht said a conviction would be Wolfe's fourth DUI offense in the last five years.

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Solution: B4 The News Herald Is printed on recycled paper. A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 85 immm- a -i MocfcJ PIGSKIN PREVIEW Inside man said. "We lost a lot of our summer tourists. They directly bypassed us." "It's going to be a relief for the people and the busi-nesses," said Oak Harbor' Chamber of Commerce Secretary Jo Thompson. "It's been a burden for all the merchants.

They really have been hit hard by this." To celebrate the moment, businesses are getting creative. The National Bank of Oak Harbor is offering 5.9 percent financing for cars purchased at the two Ohio 19 car lots just south of the bridge, Tri Motor Sales Inc. and Vera Miller Chevrolet-Oldsmobile, and one in-town lot, Spangler Motor Sales, 121 Locust St. "We're all working together to get the promotions going," said Dick Ross of Spangler. High thrills Cedar Point unveils 'screamer' of a coaster Associated Press SANDUSKY -Cedar Point is building a roller coaster that promises to take riders to new heights.

"It's unlike any roller coaster in the world because of its seating," Cedar Point spokeswoman Janice Litke said Wednesday. "The seats don't have a floor to it. It's like a ski lift. Your feet will actually be dangling below." Cedar Point on Wednesday announced plans to build the "Raptor" roller coaster for $12 million, the largest investment in the park's history. Itvwill open in May.

The ride, designed by Bol-liger Mabillard of Monthey, Switzerland, and named for a prehistoric predatory dinosaur, will be the world's fastest, tallest inverted coaster, Ms. Litke said. The Raptor will be 137 feet high, travel 57 mph and have a 45-degree, 119-foot drop. It will turn riders upside down six times and have a 100-foot tall vertical loop. "It's like a cross between a roller coaster and a highspeed ski lift," she said.

"It will set the pace for the next century of roller coasters," said Richard Kinzel, Cedar Point president and chief executive officer. She said the Raptor will help the park strengthen its record for having more "scream machines" than any other park in the work. topless rage that was blown away in the storm was rebuilt, and the flush entranceway to the establishment is new. The inside, which used to be cooled off by big fans, now has an air conditioning system. The couple plan to have a grand opening celebration, which will include gifts, prizes, and a night on the town, including limosine service, dinner and dancing.

The Winner of the night out will be chosen, on Graytown Day, Sept. 18, the town's annual celebration. To register to win, stop by the store, at 1790 N. Walker St. bridge Boxed in i7 it i ji 1 1 Oii.

I By CYNTHIA L. REZA Stall writer OAK HARBOR A crum bling Portage River bridge left Oak Harbor shoppers hot-tempered and cursing over the past 10 months while the thoroughfare has been closed for repairs. Friday, a crumbling bridge is again on the lips of shop pers. This time, thougn, they're, smiling with every delicious bite. Twenty to thirty dozen round sugar coo kies iced witn a Dnage su-houette, sky and water will appear in the display counter at Bassett's IGA, 279 W.

Water St. A dozen cookies sell for $1.99. Bassett's bakery wizardry is one of a number of plays off the long-awaited opening of the Ohio 19 bridge over the Portage River bridge popping up around the village. SCAN calls it quits Drug task force officially disbands By CYNTHIA L. REZA Stall writer PORT CLINTON SCAN, the six-county drug task force which Ottawa County, has been part of for three years, will disband Sept.

30. A high personnel turnover and unexpected liabilities led to the decision to drop the Northwest Ohio undercover force, said Ottawa County Sheriff Craig Emahiser. The decision was made Tuesday. The membership had tentatively agreed to disband a week earlier. Tuesday, $42,000 worth of equipment including office supplies, guns and binoculars was divided among group members.

Ottawa County got a body wire worth about $5,500. "The decision was easy for us," Emahiser said. The sheriff's department body wire, used in recording conversations in undercover drug buys, has been in for repairs twice in the past year. During the next month, the Findlay-based SCAN office will wind down. Case files and intelligence related to Ottawa County will be turned over to the sheriff.

"It's a shame, honestly." Emahiser said. "We've turned SCAN around in the county as far as getting the police behind it." Emahiser is a former police chief who was at first against Ottawa County's joining SCAN in mid-1990 when the agency was forming. Former sheriff John R. Crosser was in office then. County officials worried Ottawa County wouldn't get much attention compared to larger counties.

Police chiefs were upset because talks for a similar in-county network were in the works and possible state grant funding was hurt. When he took office, Emahiser didn't have plans to stay with SCAN beyond Crosser's 1993 commitment. In the past few months SCAN has been an important tool in local drug probes. The sheriff's office has made approximately 90 to 100 drug buys since March, Ema- i if- i i Syr' Jeffrey Walter, 4, 746 Taft Street, drops a stick into a refrigerator box holding Saman-tha Conte, 6, 745 Taft Street, Clayton White, 9, 1112 Kaspar Street, and in back of the box, Conte's brother Keith Conte, 9, 745 Taft Street. Standing behind Walter is Michael Bloom, 5, 750 Taft Street.

The Contes get a refrigerator box (not a new refrigerator) every year to play in. The box was in front of the Conte house Wednesday afternoon. Newt HeraldEric Branda new look is Country Keg and electricity, among other things. About $60,000 in damages resulted, and although the establishment never closed, the Gaines have finally finished clearing away the last ham-v mers, nails, saws and debris that helped rebuild their business and achieve the new image. There are other changes to the bar as well.

The old windows and the crumbling brown stucco on the outside of the building, have been replaced with two-tone gray siding, a new, roof, and brand-new windows. The ga one level. Renovations to the building were necessary after a tornado blew through the small town in July 1992, flattening the establishment, which has been a mainstay in Graytown for more than 50 years. The Gaines have owned the Country Keg for 17 years. Before that, people might remember the old-fashioned looking establishment as appearing the same, but with the name of "Frieda's Place." When the storm was over, the Gaines found themselves jninus a chimney, windows, By ROBERTA L.

GEDERT Stall writer GRAYTOWN Ardy and Glen Gaines, owners of Gray-town's Country Keg and Store, are calling the new look for their establishment the town's only "topless bar," but there's nothing scandulous about it. "We aren't going topless, we just went topless," Ardy Gaines explained, laughing. The Graytown resident means that one of the makeovers the two-story structure went through was the removal of the second floor, shaving the building off into For convenient homo delivery, call 734-3141 or 090-7451.