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MANCHESTER A commercial landscaper's tale of a boy and a big red truck caught the eye of Ford Motor Co.
The automaker shared Tom Topping's Facebook posting about his recent encounter with Kevin Fellows on its corporate Facebook page, then offered Topping, the boy and his family free tickets to the Toby Keith concert Saturday in Hartford.
"We love this heartwarming story about a man, a boy and an F-250 from Ford owner Tom Topping of Manchester Green Lawn Services," the Ford posting said. "Read on if you want a smile today."
On July 10, Kevin was visiting his grandmother, Gail Zanlungo, at her Grandview Street home. As Topping unloaded a mower from the heavy-duty pickup and went to work on Zanlungo's lawn, Kevin raced from window to window in the house, watching intently.
Kevin, 15, of Coventry, has Down syndrome, Zanlungo said Tuesday. He has spent many hours at her house playing with toy trucks, so the proximity of the real thing was exceptionally exciting, she said.
"He was pretty fascinated by the whole commercial lawn-mowing process, and actually grabbed a chair to watch me work," Topping wrote in his Facebook post.
"Anyway, he watched as I finished up and then ran over to watch me load the truck," Topping wrote. "I hooked the mower up to the winch and let him push the button to load it into the bed. When it was secure, he hopped in the truck and fastened his seatbelt. His sister and grandmother were out now, and ordered him out of the truck."
Zanlungo said Tuesday that she was surprised by her grandson's boldness..
"What are you doing Kevin?" she remembered asking.
But Topping said it was OK and offered to give Kevin and his younger sister, Hannah, a short ride in the truck he calls "the Big Red Monster."
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ENID, Okla. Ernie Currier brought Monday evenings Enid Public Schools Board of Education meeting to order with sharp rap of the gavel.
Im a little more forceful than Molly at least with the gavel, Currier quipped.
Currier has served as Enid city commissioner, Enid mayor and chairman of the Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce board, along with being a member of the NWOSU/NOC Advisory Board, the Vance Development Authority and the Autry Foundation board.
Molly Helm, formerly board president, and Cheryl Patterson, formerly vice president, both resigned Monday. Helm was not present, having submitted her resignation in advance because her sister has been offered a teaching position.
Patterson has been appointed Garfield County Election Board Secretary. State law prohibits each of them from serving on the school board following those events.
Board members voted Currier president and Kyle Whitehead vice president. The search for two new board members soon will begin.
Henson Construction, Enid, was awarded the bid for renovation work on Carver Early Childhood Center. Hensons bid for the work was $257,212. Six classrooms will be redone.
Each classroom will have a different color, and each child will have a T-shirt in a color that matches their room, said Karl White, chief financial officer for EPS.
In other business, board members approved a long list of routine contracts and appointments for the upcoming school year, including:
Transfers among funds and a contract with Blunck Studios for school photography services for Adams Elementary School.
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The late Robert E. Netzley, an Ohio House member for a record 40 years, was a Republican conservative from north of Dayton who walked his talk often as not, with a smile.
But Netzley's merry eyes could become gimlets when, as a veteran Controlling Board member, he confronted spenders. Among the watchdogs of Ohio's treasury, Bob Netzley was a purebred.
Netzley (1922-2010), of Laura, in Miami County, a decorated Navy veteran ofWorld War II, a Miami University graduate, was elected to the Ohio House in 1960. He served until Ohio's lunatic legislative term limits forced his retirement at the end of 2000. For decades, Netzley also chaired the Miami County Republican organization.
Last week, at a Capitol Square ceremony led by Netzley's close friend and conservative disciple, House Speaker William Batchelder, a Medina Republican, a Statehouse conference room (along the ground floor's north corridor) was named in honor of Netzley.
Netzley, for manyof his years in the House, had a work space the word "office" can't be stretched that far in the southeast corner of the Statehouse Annex's (now Senate Building's) ground floor. Heaps of clippings, legislative documents and budget spreadsheets grew like stalagmites on and around Netzley's desk.
For any question about Ohio's budget, or taxes, or the history of Controlling Board decisions, Netzley had the answer somewhere. What's more, he could find it.
As bystanders knew, Netzley could inspire fear when, at Controlling Board meetings, he cross-examined executive branch aides about their agencies' spending requests. But Bob Netzley also inspired respect. That was because he knew his stuff. That was also because, though Netzley was a committed partisan, he, unlike too many people on both sides of today's political divide, wasn't vicious. Netzley believed in checks and balances, not chokeholds and sucker punches.
To call Netzley a prophet might be gilding the cornstalk (the emblem of rural legislators' "Cornstalk Brigade"). But Netzley was a conservative who looked not just backward, but also forward. In 1965, for instance, when the General Assembly, with Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes' approval, passed a 100-word bill creating Ohio's Medicaid program, Netzley cast one of just three "no" votes in the entire legislature.
Then, Netzley was nearly alone in his concerns about Medicaid. But Netzley seemed to have a hunch about the future: Today, in the 60-member House Republican caucus, it'd be tough to get anywhere nearly enough "yeses" to match the 1965 Medicaid vote. That was proven by last year's fight over Medicaid expansion, finally accomplished when in one of the Statehouse's bigger political ironies expansion backers resorted to the very Controlling Boardwhere Netzley had been inquisitor-in-chief.
Netzley was a fierce opponent of Ohio's income tax, sought by Democratic Gov. John J. Gilligan. The income tax became law in December 1971 only because enough Republicans in the Republican-controlled General Assembly voted for it. Netzley wasn't one of them, and as late as the mid-1990s could still grouse about what he was too polite to call what he thought it was: A betrayal.
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Henricos extension office offers lawn program
HENRICO The Henrico County office of Virginia Cooperative Extension is enrolling residents in SMART Lawns, a program that provides customized plans for growing attractive, healthy lawns.
For a $20 fee, master gardener volunteers will visit a home, analyze the lawn, and prepare a plan for improving its condition, appearance and health. Participants will receive recommendations for fertilizer and lime, as well as suggestions for environmentally friendly weed control, mowing and watering practices.
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BAY CITY, MI A 62-year-old man police say mowed his lawn in the nude, in full-view of his neighbors, has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor.
Bobby O. Blodgetton Thursday, July 17, appeared before Bay County District Judge Dawn A. Klida and pleaded no contest to indecent exposure, the only charge he faced. The count is punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
A no contest plea is not an admission guilt but is treated as such for the purposes of sentencing. Klida reliedon police reports to enter a conviction on the record.
According to thosereports, officers on the evening ofWednesday, May 21, responded to Blodgett's home in the 300 block of McDonald Street after Bay County Central Dispatch received a call of himmowing his lawn naked. The caller, 40-year-old Jason S. Linton, told dispatchers he yelled at Blodgett to put some clothes on, and that Blodgett had done so, police reports show.
Linton told an officer that he and his teenage son were visiting his mother-in-law in the neighborhood and that they were in her back yard when they heard a lawnmower start up.
"Then the guy came walking out and started cutting his lawn in the nude," Linton said. "I yelled at him and told him that he needed to put some clothing on."
Linton said that though there is a privacy fence separating the yards, there are gaps in it that one can see through.
Linton's mother-in-law, Nancy M. Mercier, told the officer that a similar incident happened the week beforehand when Blodgett mowed his lawn wearing only lady's stockings.
"I don't need to see that," Mercier said. "I know he has a privacy fence but I can see through it."
The officer spoke with Blodgett, who maintained Linton and Mercier were mistaken regarding what they claimed to have seen.
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Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Joris Landscape Maintenance worker Jacob Hurt of Portales uses a weed trimmer at a Norris Street property. Lawn services and code compliance officers with the city have been hustling to catch up with increased growth due to recent rains.
By Joshua Lucero Staff writer jlucero@cnjonline.com
Recent rain fall has lawn services and the City of Clovis playing catch up with the amount of growth the moisture has caused.
Marcus Brice, chief code compliance officer for the city, said he has written more than 200 violation notices for weeds and still has 100 complaints that need to be addressed. And thats just in the past month.
A majority of it (the number of violation notices) is due to increased rainfall and a little bit of it is the fault of people not maintaining their property. said Brice.
Brice said that his staff cant go to one house without finding additional code violations in the same area as the complaint.
We can go to inspect one house and find 50 violations on the same block, Brice said.
Brice said even the city is having a difficult time keeping up with the weeds.
It seems like they (weeds) can grow a foot over night. said Brice.
Weeds more than 12 inches tall are in violation of the citys code, according to Brice.
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Published: Sunday, 7/13/2014 - Updated: 4 hours ago
BY MAYA AVERBUCH BLADE STAFF WRITER
Eddie Butler has been booked in the Lucas County jail 297 times since 1987. Arrested repeatedly through the years as a drug-addicted homeless person, he has been to jail more times than any other offender in the county.
When the National Institute of Corrections released its assessment of Lucas Countys pretrial services in October, 2013, a problem population came to light: Repeat offenders like Butler who clog the jail daily.
Data from the sheriffs office showed that just 6 percent of the jails offenders a total of 996 people accounted for nearly a fifth of the bookings.
The group includes people who were brought to the jail three or more times in the year, often for nonviolent misdemeanors.
Butlers record, for example, includes countless charges of panhandling, public intoxication, drug possession, and disorderly conduct, with a few more serious offenses thrown in.
At the request of the Lucas County Sheriffs Office and Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, more than 40 representatives from jails, prisons, courts, and a variety of community agencies met at the end of March to map out the gaps in assistance for offenders with mental illness and co-occurring disorders, such as substance abuse.
Projects targeted at repeat offenders through intensive case management and prescription medication provisions are under way, but after only a few months, there is little data to measure progress.
These folks are cycling in and out of the courts so fast, nobody can catch up to them, said Scott Sylak, director of the mental health board.
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