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OTTOVILLE — Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Averesch are celebrating 55 years of marriage with a Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Ottoville, followed by a family dinner Aug. 26.
Averesch and the former Judith Miehls were married Aug. 25, 1962, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Fort Jennings, by the Rev. John Miller.
They are the parents of four children, Cindy (Jim) Klima, of Ottoville, Tina (Dennis) Menke, of Fort Jennings, Amy (Tim) Berelsman, of Wapakoneta, and Jeff (Jamie) Averesch, of Ottoville. They have 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

LIMA — Mr. and Mrs. Ken Birt are celebrating 50 years of marriage with a family dinner and a weekend trip back to Purdue University.
Birt and the former Lorna Lindsay were married Aug. 26, 1967, in Sycamore, Illinois.
They are the parents of two children, Tracy (Dave) Robinson, of Sherwood, and Deb (Matt) Housh, of Yellow Springs. They have five grandchildren.
Birt worked at Westinghouse Small Motor, Westinghouse Aerospace/Sundstrand and retired from Rhodes State College. His wife retired from Lima schools.

COLUMBUS GROVE — Mr. and Mrs. Roger Brinkman are celebrating 40 years of marriage. A family vacation in Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, was held in June.
Brinkman and the former Jackie Oglesbee were married Aug. 27, 1977, at St. John United Methodist Church, Columbus Grove.
They are the parents of four children, Kim (Brad) Smith, of Columbus Grove, Joy (Brian) Halker, of Columbus Grove, Kari (Wayne) Altstaetter, of Defiance, and Elizabeth (Darrick) Oswald, of Bluffton. They have nine grandchildren.

LIMA — Mr. and Mrs. James A. McPheron are celebrating 70 years of marriage.
McPheron and the former Catherine J. Garner were married Aug. 30, 1947, at St. Rose Catholic Church, Lima, by the Rev. Edward Dunn.
They are the parents of four children, Deb Vandivier, of Dayton, Tom (Janet) McPheron, of Lima, Mary Fredericks, of Dayton, and Jim McPheron, of Lima. A son, Mike McPheron, is deceased. They have four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
McPheron retired from Clark Equipment. His wife is a homemaker.

I am disappointed The Lima News chose to print the opinion expressed by Glep Tsipursky on the Editorial Page of Aug. 22. The “both sides argument” is bogus.
There is no justification for the acts of Neo Nazis, White Supremacists or the Ku Klux Klan. Their only cause for existence is to spread hate and to preach “otherness” propaganda. That is un-American and cannot be tolerated!

AKRON (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old boy has been found fatally shot in the back seat of a police cruiser in the northeast Ohio city of Akron.
Akron police said in a statement a gun was found Friday night next to the teen, whose name hasn’t been made public. Police haven’t said whether the teen shot himself or how the gun ended up inside the cruiser.
The shooting occurred after the teen and two 18-year-old men were arrested as suspects in an earlier armed robbery and were placed in separate cruisers around 11 p.m.

TOLEDO (AP) — Toledo has changed its water quality rating from “clear” to “watch” after algal toxins were detected in water drawn from Lake Erie at the city’s intake crib.
The Blade reports (http://bit.ly/2vrfVvF) the rating change came Friday after microcystin was detected. Toledo officials say no detectable levels of the toxin have been found in treated tap water and emphasized that it’s safe to drink.

There seems to be some historic confusion surrounding our memorials recognizing American leaders. None of the historic figures that have served our nation have been without flaws, or were immune from making decisions that in hindsight were quite wrong.
The editorial cartoon on Wednesday, Aug. 23, suggested the memorials for Presidents Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt were in jeopardy as cities and states removed memorials of Confederate leaders.

DUBLIN (AP) — Home renovations can yield surprises.
But few are as big as the one that Kevin Kemp and Jennifer Alexander discovered.
The couple were planning to raze a home that they bought recently on Riverside Drive in Dublin, to build a new house on the property, when Kemp and a friend, Larry Daniels, decided to remove some paneling for reuse.
“We pulled off one of the pieces of paneling and I said, ‘Larry, that’s a log,’” Kemp recalled. “We pulled off another and I said, ‘My god, this is a log cabin.’”

MASON (AP) — A search warrant affidavit says the Ohio woman who left her 15-month-old daughter in a car for nine hours at an office building parking lot outside Cincinnati was running late and forgot to drop off the baby at daycare.
The warrant was to search the car of Karen Osorio-Martinez, a senior research scientist at Procter & Gamble in Mason. She frantically called 911 Wednesday afternoon when she found her daughter, Sofia, strapped in a rear-facing car seat after learning from her husband the baby wasn’t at day care when he tried to pick her up.