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Genoa students preformed well in drug free event
Drug Free Action Alliance and the Start Talking! Program, in partnership with Verizon, recently hosted a competition in which middle and high school students in Ohio were invited to create minute-long videos encouraging parents and teens to have frequent and meaningful conversations about drug and alcohol abuse dangers.
More than 130 teens from schools and organizations throughout Ohio participated and submitted dozens of videos in the “Start Recording & Start Talking” contest — each sharing their advice on how teens and adults can initiate those important conversations. The level of creativity and initiative taken by the students was incredible and encouraging. After all, we all can play a role when it comes to drug prevention.
In April we had the opportunity to recognize the students who produced the three winning videos during the Ohio Youth Led Prevention Network’s annual “We are the Majority” rally at the Statehouse where each team was presented with college savings awards.
We thank the students and faculty at Genoa Area High School for their participation and for sharing their talents to support the drug prevention mission and helping to promote good decision-making among the teens in their community. To view some of the videos visit www.drugfreeactionalliance.org and please start talking.
MARCIE SEIDEL
Columbus
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Rossford road repair plan
Rossford City Council should implement my husband Bob’s plan to pay for road repairs.
He suggests scrapping the proposed roundabout at the intersections of Colony and Lime City roads and Rt. 65. Then selling the acquired property in anticipation of this “improvement.”
Any money allocated for this questionable project would be better used to enhance city roads, including those in the Eagle Point Colony. Admittedly, it may not cover the entire costs of resurfacing within the city limits. But, to our way of thinking, this certainly would demonstrate a “good faith” effort not to waste taxpayers’ money.
PENNY CAMPBELL
Rossford
Thumbs up to The Blade
Thanks, and a big thumbs up from this cruciverbalist for Timothy Parker. It’s a great enigma to me. Never want to be without my daily Blade!
DAVID GEORGIA
Briarwood Lane
Ghost Army article appreciated
Thank you Mary Alice Powell for writing a beautiful article about the “Ghost Army,” which was published in the Farmland News in Archbold, Ohio, on May 23. I have been trying for over a year to get the World War II Ghost Army Veterans recognized.
I have emailed many of the reporters on the Editorial page of The Blade and have had no results. About a year ago Mary Alice Powell wrote an article about a WWII veteran that was published in The Blade. I emailed Mary Alice and she got back with me this April. We met for lunch and I told her about my husband, Francis Myers, who was in the 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion ... AKA ... “The Ghost Army.”
Not many people know about the Ghost Army. The Ghost Army was a small group of 1,100 men specially trained to fool and deceive the Germans by using fake trucks, tanks, and artillery pieces made of rubber often operating a few hundred yards from the front lines. There objective was to convince the Germans that the Allies had landed a greater force than actually came ashore at Normandy.
The Ghost Army was a top secret unit of the Army that was declassified in 1996. Thank you Mary Alice for being so gracious and kind to take the time to write such a wonderful story. I pray that if any of the “Ghost Army” veterans are still alive that they are doing well and they finally get some recognition.
LOUISE MYERS
Maumee
First Published June 12, 2017, 11:52 p.m.
