Jim Brewer
Special to Ashland Times-Gazette
LOUDONVILLE The Loudonville Rotary Club parlayed a $1,000 We Are One grant from Rotary District 6600 (northwest Ohio) with $2,000 in locally raised funds to make a $3,000 contribution to next year’s Mohican Area Community Fund Drive.
Challenged by the district last fall to come up with uses of the We Are One grant, the Rotary decided to make the funds and the local match available to the community fund as a way to help the most people in the Mohican area.
Local match for the grant came from money raised in the OSU football raffle last fall, and the flower sale earlier this spring.
The story of Damon Winkleman, a combat medic killed in Afghanistan in 2009, was retold as part of the Memorial Day message given Monday in Loudonville.
Jim Brewer
Special to the Ashland Times-Gazette
LOUDONVILLE Memories of the past were dredged out during the dedication of the new suspension footbridge across the Clear Fork in Mohican State Park on Wednesday morning.
Lee Fromme, who represented the Loudonville Fire Department in the program, produced a black and white photo of an attractive young couple taken in the 1940s on the iron suspension bridge which traversed the river then at nearly the same point as the recently completed new bridge.
“In the picture are my wife Dianne’s parents, Carl and Thelma Stitzlein, we think was taken in the early 1940s when they were dating,” Fromme said.