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13 AREA NEWS telegraph-forum Page Two-BUCYRUS (OHIO) TELEGItAPII-FORUM Friday, November 10, 1989 ii mini humwmwwimi ihih ji imiwiiniww mu mjmwwm hiiii ii mmmiiiinmii mi an in muiMwmniii i i.Ti i Lin' iiiii.wuti ii iw 1 1 ii ji in mu -rrTHTm mmmm Supported employment plan being developed at Waycraft be paid at the same salary as a workshop speciadst two, $12,850, and receive an annual $1,000 stipend to pay for the necessary training to be rtified as a work adjustment specialist. Wurthmann was authorized to interview candidates for this position. Iinda Schurch, director of education and training, said the need for this position was identified by the Monitoring, Evaluation, Training and Technical Assistance Team (METT) from the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation. The vocational education dans primary job wid be to evaluate the capabibties of the 110 adults at Waycraft and the services they require. Board members also agreed to purchase evaluation tools to be used by the technician at a cost of $2,388.30.

The tools wid be purchased from donated funds. Wurthmann' reported that Tom Baum resigned as a workshop speciadst two and wid be replaced by Dan Jones, who has been working as an instrudors assistant. Linda Meadows wid fid the floating aide position at Fairway which the board authorized at the Od. 12 meeting. Meadows had been working as a substitute aide.

The board accepted a proposal from Kiess Electric for a 3,000 watt electrical heater, 12 circuit panel and two electrical outlets at a cost not to exceed $1,812.94. The heater wid be instaded in Administrative Assistant Marlene Sturgeons office. cepted a proposal from Gabon Fire Appbances Inc. to install a new fire alarm system for Fairway School at a cost not to exceed $3,974.38 and one for Waycraft Workshop at a cost not to exceed $3,706.26. The proposal is contingent on the blueprints being certified by the state fire marshals office.

Wurthmann said in March the state fire marshal inspected the buildings and noted that the present fire alarm systems need to be replaced. The superintendent said the present systems were found inadequate because strobe hghts and pud systems are needed and there was no backup system. Board members accepted a proposal from Kinn Brothers Inc. to replace the rooftop heating and cooling unit in the workshop with a Lennox gaselectric rooftop unit at a cost not to exceed $4,705. Wurthmann said there was a separation in the present systems heat exchanger.

He said ITT no longer manufactures the heat exchanger and the only way it can be replaced is to fabricate a new one at a cost of $17,000. He said the only problem with buying the new Lennox system is that it wdl not be debvered until Dec. 6. Wurthmann said enough heat is generated with the present system that there should be no problem unless temperatures drop into the teens. The board agreed to add a vocational education technician to the Waycraft staff.

The technician wid Jodi Self Keep that thermometer Tom Holtshouse, co-chairman of the Bucyrus Area United Way campaign drive, shows how much of the goal has been reached in the Special Gifts Division at a breakfast this morning at the YMCA; chairmen of each division gave reports. The fund drive for $150,000 has been extended to Nov. 20. Local news in brief Stacie Russell, left, 17, daughter of Doris and James Russell, 1207 E. Southern hands her pledge card for Bucyrus Area United Way to Veronica Ponziani, United Way executive director.

Russell, a senior at Bucyrus High School who works as a receptionist part-time at the Bucyrus YMCA, has pledged to have a specified amount taken from her paycheck for the United Way fund drive now under way. i if i BHS senior pledges to give to UW fund drive By RHONDA RARICK T-F Staff Writer A new supported employment program is being developed for Waycraft Workshop clients, according to Fairway School Superintendent Hal Wurthmanns report to the Board of Mental Retardation Thursday night. The program will enable persons with mental retardation and developmental disabibties to find jobs within the community. Wurthmann said Richland New Hope Industry would be contracted to do the job development and job placement tasks. The superintendent said 10 Waycraft cbents have expressed interest in this program and a meeting has been scheduled for Nov.

16 to explain the concept to their famibes. Richland New Hope Industry will accept Waycraft referrals for placement where job openings have been identified. The firm wib also provide job coaches to learn the jobs and train the referrals in those positions. Wurthmann said the program will be funded by the Bureau of Vocation and Rehabilitation at no cost to the board. He said this program will decrease the need to expand workshop space by removing cbents for placement in jobs within the community.

He said the program will also reduce the amount of support for these cbents because they will be working in the community and may be able to Uve on their own in apartments. Budding Completed In other discussion, Waycraft Workshop Director Mike Mider reported that the new building for the Recycling Center has been completed and has passed the electrical and building inspections. Waycraft received a $86,214 recycling operations tax grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Litter Prevention and Recycling, for 1989. The grant provided $25,000 of the funds for a new building and the Waycraft Board financed $35,000 of the $60,000 construction cost. Mider said recycling equipment purchased with the grant funds is now being moved into the building and the center is expected to be in fud operation by Nov.

25. Recyclable products can be donated or dropped off at the cpnter for buy-back from noon to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and from 8 p.m. until noon on Saturdays. MUler said two Waycraft cbents wid be employed fud-time at the center and three others wid work part-time.

He said a pickup service wid be operated for donated items. The center wid accept ad paper products, corrugated paper, ad aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles, bi-metal and tin cans. Mider said people are asked to separate the products if they are selling them to the center but those which are donated do not have to be separated. Fire Alarm System In other business, the board ac- Police mum on link in two cases BAY VILLAGE, Ohio (AP) -Pobce in Bossier City, wont comment on whether there is a connection between a former Geauga County resident arrested there on rape charges and a missing 10-year-old Bay Vdlage girl. Bossier City Pobce spokesman John Brann would not comment Thursday on whether James Edward Vachuska, 28, told pobce where he was the day Amy Mihal-jevic disappeared from a shopping mad here.

Vachuska was arraigned Thursday on charges he abducted and assaulted a Bossier City boy and charges of raping an 11-year-old Shreveport, girl. He remained jailed on a $200, (XX) bond. We cant comment on that (Vachuskas statements to pobce) because it wouldnt be right for the court case here, Brann said. We don't want to do anything to let this bugbear walk because if he walks, were going to put him right back on the bus to Cleveland. Vachuska was seen at a Hadoween party in Shreveport, about 9 p.m.

the night Amy disappeared, but Brann would not say if pobce know where Vachuska was the rest of that day. Friends of Amy told pobce they last saw her at about 3 p.m. Oct. 27. Meanwhile, FBI spokesman Robert Hawk said pobce and more than 35 FBI agents returned Thursday to a wooded area in Avon Lake, just west of Bay Vidage, for another search.

Morale is high because everyone can identify with this kind of case and cooperation between the pobce and FBI, Hawk said. Every agent has the behef that what he is doing wdl resolve this case, Hawk said. Want Ads Pay VAX (4 I $126,238 or 84 percent Reports on the progress made in 1 this years Bucyrus Area United Way campaign, given this morning by the chairmen of each division at a breakfast held at the YMCA, showed the fund drive is at 84 percent of its $150,000 goal with $126,238 pledged. It was also announced that the campaign would be extended to Nov. 20, when a wrapup dinner will be held at the at 6 p.m.

Following breakfast, chairmen gave reports on how much of their set goal the divisions have achieved to date. Divisions and their dona-l tions to date follow: I Industrial Division, $84,508.45, 90 percent of the $93,200 goal; Business Division, $17,417, 75 percent of the I $23,000 goal; Special Gifts, $13,317, 1 58 percent of the $22,600 goal; Government Division, $3,522, 95 per-; cent of the $3,700 goal; Retirement Division, $4,559.05, 91 percent of the i $5,000 goal; Rural and Agricultural Division, $2,760, 110 percent of the I $2,500 goal. The 13 agencies benefitting from the United Way are, Arthritus Foun-l dation, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts, Camp Michael, Community Counseling Services, CON- TACT Crawford County, Crawford County Council on Aging, Day Care Center, American Red Cross, Bucyrus Safety Town, Salvation Army, Turning Point and YMCA. Med center lays off 122 CLEVELAND (AP) -MetroHealth Medical Center has laid off 122 employees and reassigned 20 others to part-time status, a spokeswoman said. Mary Battaglia, a spokeswoman for the 742-bed public hospital, said that officials there eventually hope to place as many as 50 of the laid-off workers in new jobs.

The layoffs represent 2.6 percent of MetroHealths 4,600 employees. The layoffs include 52 management-level employees at MetroHealth, which formerly was known as Cleveland Metro General Hospital. Ms. Battaglia said the layoffs were a cost-cutting move related to stricter reimbursement standards by insurers. Last week, Clevelands 492-bed St.

Vincent Chanty hospital and Health Center laid off 22 management-level in a cosi-cutting move. Life after death NEW YORK (AP) Seventy-three percent of older Americans, aged 60 or older, believe in life after death, according to a survey by Mark Clements Research, for Parade magazine. high Russell, 17, daughter of Doris and James Russell, 1207 E. Southern turned in her pledge card with a pledge cl $1 twice a month from her paycheck. The total amount given will be $24.

Russell, a receptionist at the front desk, decided to make a donation after Moore asked the staff members if they wanted to give to the United Way fund drive, she says. Her main reason for giving was that it helps the she adds. The fund drive benefits 13 agencies in Bucyrus: Bucyrus YMCA, Turning Point, Salvation Army, Bucyrus Safety Town, American Red Cross, Day Care Center, Crawford County Council on Aging, Community Counseling Services, CONTACT Crawford County, Camp Michael, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts of America and Arthritis Foundation. This years total goal is $150,000. bonds cut guilty plea during her arraignment.

Jones was appointed at that tune after the judge found that Highman is indigent. She was an employee of Heartland Nursing Home when she allegedly took Tylenol 3 and Xanax, both non-scheduled prescription drugs, June 5. Shirley also known as Shirley Harris, 425 S. Union Gabon, had her bond reduced to $5,000 cash or surety with a 10 percent option. Kitzmiilers bond was originally set at $10,000 cash or surety with a 10 percent option during an arraignment Thursday morning on a November grand jury indictment for two counts of trafficking in marijuana, both fourth-degree felonies.

Kitzmiller is one of seven Gabonites who were indicted for drug trafficking based on an investigation by the Gabon Police Department involving drug sales to an informant. BOOK ANNIVERSARY PHILADELPHIA (AP) At a commemorative conference of the Episcopal Church marking the 200th anniversary of the American version of the Book of Common Prayer, church historian John Booty said the book fostered the churchs comprehensiveness and inclusiveness. Booty, of the University of the South's School of Theology, said the Episcopal Church has been a church of reconciliation in a plurabstic society. Pee wee gym, water baby classes A Pee Wee Gym class, designed to give boys and girls a variety of experiences to improve motor skids, flexibility, coordination, self-confidence and social growth, is being offered at the YMCA. Various equipment wdl be used to improve ad skills.

The class also wid work on the skills and knowledge of the different types of sport activities such as soccer, basketbad and gymnstics. It meets in the gym on Mondays from a.m.; the instructor is Kathy Erwin. A Saturday morning Water Babies class is being offered this six-week session at the Y. This is a parent-child class for children six months to three years. Parents are directed how to work with their child in the water with emphasis on water safety, games and pre-swimming skills.

The class starts at 10 a.m. this Saturday. The first class wid offer dry land explanations and then some pool time. Children must wear a cloth diaper or training pants, tight-legged rubber pants and a T-shirt to swim. 11 1 1 Registration for this and ad other swimming classes is being taken at the Bucyrus this week.

For more information persons can contact Judy Arnold at 562-6218. Timken signs credit agreement The Timken Company today announced that it recently signed a six-year, $350 midion revolving credit agreement with 13 banks. Ameritrust Company N.A. of Cleveland is the agent bank, with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York and Ameritrust acting as co-lead managers. This agreement replaces a previous $250 midion credit agreement with 11 banks.

The interest rate on any borrowings wid be based on one of three rates at the companys option prime, domestic certificate of deposit or London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). This new agreement will further enhance the companys strong financial position and wid facidtate the companys previously announced $1 bidion capital spending program, Timken said. It supports the companys commercial paper borrowing and permits repurchase of Timken Company common stock under terms defined in the agreement. The company currently has less than $15 midion of commercial paper outstanding. Karate, parent-tot gym classes set Classes are forming now at the for youth and adult karate lessons every Thursday from 6:30 p.m.

for children up to 14 years of age and p.m. for adults 15 and up. Persons can learn the best self-defense techniques from Okinawan karate as wed as Shotokan and Taekwondo sport karate. For more information persons can cad the at 562-6218. Parent and Tot Gym, a gym program for 1, 2, and 3-year-olds with mom or dad, is also being offered.

The purpose is for the parent and child to have fun together, for the child to learn coordination skids such as hopping, crawling, rolling, running and marching. The child can also participate in activities done with Hula Hoops, colors, numbers, large parachute, variety of bads, gym scooters and floor mats. Smad treats for the children wid be given occasionally. The class is open to both members and non-members and meets in the gym every Wednesday from 10:10:30 a.m. The instructor is Kathy Erwin.

Gilfillan to head Masonic lodge Dudley A. Gilfidan was voted worshipful master when Bucyrus Lodge No. 139 held its annual meeting and election of officers Tuesday. Also elected for the 1989-90 year were: senior warden, Harold Mider; junior warden, Tom Wade; secretary, Dean Fishpaw; treasurer, Floyd J. Farmer; senior deacon, William fi.

Gifford; junior deacon, Robert A. Denham; tyler, Robert A. Zaebst; trustee for Grace High Washburn Trust for three years, John Clime; trustee for Charles F. High Foundation for five years, Loy R. Likins.

The lodge voted to send $25 to each of the Grand Lodges of South Carolina and California for their disaster retief funds. The scholarship fund report showed 95 active scholarships with an additional 590 awarded to date from the Grace High Washburn Trust for girls and 119 active scholarships with an additional 366 awarded to date from the Charles F. High Foundation for boys. The scholarships are open to fulltime students from the Bucyrus area who attend Ohio State University or one of its branch campuses. A new jewel for the lodge educational officer was presented to Likins.

Only two members have served since the office was established: Wayne R. Mackling, who also served as 16th district educational officer, and present officer Likins. The following announcements were made: Nov. 21, 7:30 stated meeting with fellow craft degree; Nov. 25, inspection of Bucyrus Chapter 160 Royal Arch Masons, 3:30 dinner with the ladies, 6:30 p.m., inspection of Bucyrus Council 83 Royal and Select Masters, 7:30 p.m.; Nov.

29, installation of 16th District education officer Dan Thacker at the Galion Masonic Temple, Ohio 598, 7:30 p.m., with Masons, families and invited guests welcome; Dec. 1, installation of 16th District Grand Master Rodger P. Monroe at the Nevada Masonic Temple, with Masons, families and invited guests welcome; Dec. 2, 16th District Past Masters Convocation at Green Springs Masonic Terr.ole, 10 a.m., all Master Masons invited; Dec. 9, installation of Bucyrus Lodge 139 officers at Bucyrus Masonic Temple, 7 p.m., with 25, 50 and 65-year jewels to be presented and all Masons, their families and invited guests welcome.

Donors who give to the Bucyrus United Way are usually full-time employees well past their teens. However, at the Bucyrus YMCA some part-time students showed an interest in giving to this years United Way campaign drive. While about five or six indicated that they would make pledges, only one has turned in a pledge card so far, says Ron Moore, director of the YMCA and captain of Team 3 in the Business Division. The divisions goal this year is $23,000. Using pledge cards to donate means taking a specified amount of money from the individuals check each pay period to go to the United Way fund, says Moore.

Although only one student has turned a pledge card in, Moore says, Im predicting well end up with four or five pledge cards from students working at the part-time. Bucyrus High School senior Stacie Drug cases Common Pleas Judge Nelfred Kimerline Thursday agreed to reduce bond for two women charged with trafficking in marijuana and theft of drugs. Pamela L. Highman, 35, 224 Lawn had bond set at $2,500 cash or surety during an arraignment Wednesday on an August grand jury indictment for two counts of theft of drugs, fourth-degree felonies. Judge Kimerline granted defense attorney Regis Jones request to amend the bond to $2,500 cash or surety with a 10 percent option, allowing Highman to be freed from custody after posting $250.

not represented by she entered a not Galion Community Hospital admissions: Shirley Hershner, Bellville; Louella Hoffman, Crestline; Hazel Humphrey, Tiro. Releases: Willard Cochran, Galion; Mildred Frye, Gabon; Gertrude Krauss, Galion; Charles Pof-fenbaugh, Galion; Terrance Simonis, Upper Sandusky; Robert Rice, Gabon. Crestline Memorial Crestline Memorial Hospital admissions: Martell Powell, Crestline; Leonard Parrella, Crestline. Want Ads Pay Area hospitals Highman was an attorney when Bucyrus Community Bucyrus Community Hospital ad-missions: Anna Swartz, Fredericktown; Melvin Roop, Releases: Mrs. Dan Lohr and son, Bucyrus; Myrtle Cuffman, Bucyrus.

-Births: A son to Mr. and Mrs. Steven Allgire, Bucyrus, at 1:27 p.m. Friday, weighing 9 pounds, 44 ounces; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry Hargis, Bucyrus, at 9: 12 p.m. Friday, weighing 6 pounds, 12 410 ounces. Gallon Community 1 ii.