Choosing a campus without the tour
By David Trinko - dtrinko@limanews.com
Mark Koch, a guidance counselor at Wapakoneta High School, talks about the challenges students face trying to choose a college in the midst of a pandemic. “They surely get a better feel on a tour than from a virtual tour or just talking to someone by phone who’s a counselor at a university,” Koch said.
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Madi Sams, a junior at Wapakoneta, said campus tours are irreplaceable. “You see what they post on social media,” she said. “That’s nothing like seeing it in person, what you’re actually going to see on campus or in the classes.”
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For Summit High School teacher Oakley Van Oss, education is about giving students the tools to improve the world around them literally.
In his construction technology and welding classes, Van Oss lets students take reins on various hands-on projects.
“To give kids the opportunity to have their first experience creating projects and fabricating, I feel like is just giving them this lifelong potential of making their own personal space and their own world better,” Van Oss said. “They can solve problems, fix things and create things, which is really fun.”
About five years ago, then-Principal Drew Adkins and one of the district’s maintenance workers approached Van Oss who taught Spanish and social studies at the time about creating a welding class for students to learn the trade.
Bohn selected as Allen County’s interim treasurer
Bohn
LIMA Allen County’s interim treasurer is very familiar with the office’s inner workings.
The Allen County commissioners appointed Krista Bohn, the chief deputy of finance in the treasurer’s office, as interim treasurer on Tuesday morning.
“Our main focus is taking care of the taxpayers, anyone in the county who comes into this office,” Bohn said. “That will continue to be the main focus, customer service.”
Bohn is a graduate of Allen East High School and graduated from the University of Northwestern Ohio with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
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In 2008, when owner/operator Tony Drouhard died, Loudonville lost its only automobile machining shop.
That shop was operated in the Parts Plus building at the corner of West Main Street and South Mount Vernon Avenue, in a building that housed a gasoline filling station for much of the 20th century.
There is a definite possibility that the machine shop will be reopened in the future, fulfilling the goal of Grant Portz, Tony Drouhard’s grandson.
Going to the University of Northwestern Ohio
Portz, who is a senior at Loudonville High School as well as president of the Loudonville-Perrysville FFA chapter, has set reopening the shop as a goal after he completes studies at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima, where he plans to major in high performance technology, with a minor in diesel mechanics.