Marsha Reed loves snakes. Doesn t everyone?
NEW PHILADELPHIA – Marsha Reed finds snakes to be perfect pets. They get fed once a week. Their enclosures need cleaning at the same interval. They don t make any noise. No shedding, she said. For the most part, they re pretty tame.
The incoming Central Elementary School principal has found that agitated children can calm down when they hold a snake, quiet and still by nature.
Reed has kept Lucy, a female corn snake, on campus since she taught math and science at York Elementary. When I was teaching, she was a classroom pet. And now she just stays in my office. She s very tame and she s used to kids holding her, she said.
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“You can almost build a 1930 Model A four-door sedan from scratch today.”
That’s what Randy Gibbs of New Philadelphia says, and he knows, because he is restoring one. That may come as a surprise to the many people who know him as a choir director, or a teacher, or a principal, or assistant superintendent or part of the Moravian Music Foundation or a farmer who rides horses and raises goats, or a devoted family man, but that’s what’s mainly on Randy’s mind today.
Born at Union Hospital to Gerald and Lola Beahm Gibbs, 69-year-old G Randall Gibbs grew up on the edge of town, surrounded by farm country. His father owned companies that mined coal and and provided equipment for the building of state highways. His mother, taught Sunday School, and his grandmother, Bernice Gibbs, played the piano at church while he sat beside her on the bench.