City officials praise ODNR officer; more discussion on possible cemetery levy
By John Hamilton - jhamilton@wnewsj.com
WILMINGTON An officer’s legacy and the city’s cemetery were the primary topics at Thursday’s Wilmington City Council meeting.
Officer Lagore
During his report, Mayor John Stanforth and other city officials paid tribute to Jason Lagore, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources officer who died in the line of duty.
Lagore, 36, of Clarksville, suffered an apparent medical emergency while recently attempting to rescue a 16-year-old girl who fell through the ice at Rocky Fork Lake in Highland County.
“He left behind a young widow and two small children,” said Stanforth. “It’s just one of those real tragedies.”
Eli Harvey: The forgotten Quaker artist … or is he?
Jonathan McKay - Contributing columnist
The name Eli Harvey isn’t as well-known in Clinton County as it once was. He is, though, one of our most famous citizens.
But who was he really? And what did he do to become so famous? Some know he was a painter, sculptor, and Quaker, but what else did he do? Why has he been forgotten by many?
Eli Harvey was born September 23, 1860 to William P. and Nancy M. Harvey. They were a Quaker family like so many others in Clinton County.
Eli took a liking to painting so much as a boy that he went to the Art Academy of Cincinnati, which was founded as the McMicken School of Design in 1869.
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Lessons of life and love: Local couple married nearly 70 years die same day
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
Dan Foland and Marjorie Haidet were married in Wilmington on Feb. 2, 1951, nearly 70 years ago.
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They met in second grade and were married nearly 70 years when they died Tuesday within five hours of each other, both of COVID-19 complications.
Dan Foland and his wife Marjorie were 90 and now were residing in the Ohio Living Quaker Heights Care Community in Waynesville, after living almost all their married life on a State Route 134 South farm in Clinton County.
As to their primary-grades introduction to one another, their daughter Susan Ertel said, “My mom just thought my dad was just the cutest boy in her class.” There’s an intermission to this otherwise lifelong love story when Marjorie’s family, which relocated frequently because her father was a salesman, moved to Michigan.