News Briefs Crime Of The Week
Findlay/Hancock County Crime Stoppers wants information about a break-in at the Liberty Convenience store, 607 S. Main St., Mount Blanchard, at 11:30 p.m. March 14.
Entry was made after a window was broken. Several packs of cigarettes were taken before two male suspects fled.
One suspect wore a black-hooded coat, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
People with information about this or any other crime that leads to an arrest or indictment will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
Crime Stoppers can be called weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 419-425-TIPS or 419-425-8477. Callers can remain anonymous.
The Web site is www.hancockcrimestoppers.org.
Litter cleanup planned April 17
OTTAWA -- The Putnam County Solid Waste Management District will host a litter cleanup around the closed Putnam County landfill on April 17.
The cleanup will include the area between Road H-11, Ohio 15, Road H, Road 11 and Road 12.
The management district will also hold a tire collection at the landfill the same day. Up to nine tires from a residence will be accepted at 50 cents per car or light truck tire, and $3 per large truck tire.
Volunteers are being sought including civic clubs, agricultural societies, 4-H youth groups, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and church youth groups.
For questions, contact Brenda Bruce or Jessica Trinko, 419-523-3656.
Hospital board to hold meeting
Blanchard Valley Health System will host its annual board of trustees meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the Marathon Oil Auditorium at Blanchard Valley Hospital.
The board will review nominations for incoming board members. The meeting is open to the public.
McComb offering open enrollment
McCOMB -- McComb Schools will begin accepting open enrollment applications for the 2010-11 school year Monday.
Applications may be picked up at the superintendent's office between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Completed applications must be returned to the superintendent's office by May 7.
Parents whose children already attend McComb School through open enrollment must apply each year.
Van Buren plans kindergarten registration
VAN BUREN -- Van Buren Elementary School will hold kindergarten registration March 29 through April 16.
Parents or guardians of children who will be 5 years old on or before Aug. 1, and who plan to attend kindergarten in the 2010-11 school year, need to register by calling the school office at 419-299-3416. Registrations will be taken between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on school days.
An appointment time will be set for kindergarten screening, which will be held on April 19 at the school.
Parents or guardians should bring a birth certificate, immunization record, Social Security card and any custody papers to the screening.
At the screening, children will move through stations or centers designed to evaluate speech, hearing, language and vision development.
Graduate program open house slated
BLUFFTON -- Bluffton University will present a graduate programs open house from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Putnam County Education Service Center, 124 Putnam Parkway, Ottawa.
At the open house, adults can gain information about master's degree programs in business administration, arts and organizational management and education. The graduate programs are made for working adults, with classes one night a week on the Bluffton campus and at other regional locations.
For more information about the open house, call 1-800-488-3257.
Talk scheduled on social work
BLUFFTON -- Christina Gringeri, associate professor of social work at the University of Utah, will discuss "Social Work in the Twenty-First Century: Riding the Waves of Immigration, or Missing the Boat?" at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Bluffton University's Founders Hall. The forum is free.
Gringeri's address will explore the profession of social work and where it fits in the immigration debate in the United States.
Forest library showing movies
FOREST -- Two movies will be shown Friday at Forest-Jackson Public Library.
"The Blind Side" will be shown at 1 p.m. and the family movie "The Princess and the Frog" will be shown at 7 p.m.
Admission is $1 for each movie, which includes a pop and popcorn.Doors for the family movie open at 6:45 p.m. and attendance is limited to 75 people.
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Latest comments listed first.You on the other hand, will stand behind this bad practice until you're blue in the face, and have to file an itenerary with the government before you travel, because it's the LAW. Not that it's effective or a good idea, but it's the LAW!
Whether or not you contend that you "know exactly what you're talking about" is irrelevant. Because you chose the victorious side in this case, it seems you think you are smarter than the dissenters to the opinion. Your opinion of the subject at hand is not as unanimous as you would like to lead the impressionable to believe, hence my references to other jurisdictions who have ruled the same searches illegal.
I feel sorry for people such as yourself who still argue you are free as your Constitutional protections are stripped before your very eyes.
BTW - You ridiculed me for stating I have friends who are also cops. If I may rebut your unflattering comment, I didn't use the statement to lend credence to my claims. I would further expound to say I too have the highest respect for these men and women who are sworn to uphold the law.
Your comments are of great concern. I work on a daily basis with alcoholics and addicts who all try that same lame excuse you gave. "One or two cant hurt. I'm more aware when I've had a few." Perhaps sir, your drinking has escalated to a point where you even belive these statements to justify your actions. There is help out there. Please seek it before it's too late for you or your future victims.
Steve- Unanimous or not, in Ohio- it's the law. I was addressing, as were you, checkpoints-not traffic stops on the whole-and I content sir-that I know exactly what I'm talking about. You're trying to save face by changing the subject, but that's ok alot of people do that when they're wrong...'Quite a few close friends that wear the badge?' Doesn't everybody when they get into discussions about topics like this? And about the PC Nut-job activist, wrong again. I wish you could be right just once, but I'm sorry, you're not. I don't think it makes me a pc nut job activist because I know the law, abide by it, and defend the people out there every day protecting me and my freedom. That's what is great about freedom and this country-one person can be right and the other completely wrong-and it's ok. We both have the right to our opinions-because this is America.
I have never had a DUI or anything more serious than minor speeding tickets in 25 plus years of driving either. I don't have anything to hide, and have quite a few close friends who wear the badge, so you don't even need to go there.
Did I get "PC, nut job, activists" from TV? That's a good one. Who really cares when you're easy to spot, and ID from across the street (or on this blog).
There is no expectation of privacy at OVI checkpoints because these are conducted on PUBLIC thoroughfares. There's no violation of civil rights for at least two reasons I can think of just off the top of my head.
First, holding a drivers' license is a privilage and not a right. The state can revoke everyone's licenses anytime they want. And since issuing drivers' licenses is a state responsibility and not a federal one, there would be very little that could be done without someone suing the state. This is 9th grade Civics (Thank You, Mr. King). Granted there would be tremendous outcry, but, don't take my word for it. Look it up and see.
Second, they're not telling anyone where they can or cannot go. You're "O"perating a "V"ehicle which gives the police reason to suspect that you might be "I"ntoxicated ("probable cause" is for those that have already been convicted of OVI). If you're not intoxicated then the only thing that has happened is that it has taken you a little longer to get to your destination. Yeah, its inconvenient, but, you haven't been harmed in ANY way. If you ARE intoxicated then sucks to be you for being stupid enough to get behind the wheel in the first place. Go directly to jail. Do not pass "Go". Do not collect $200.
Your definition of a "fishing expedition" is an OVI checkpoint. The fact of the matter is that the only difference between an OVI checkpoint and a "cop on the beat" is that the officers at the checkpoint are simply waiting for the criminals to come to them as opposed to patrolling the city trying to find the criminals. By your definition, Mr. Cruz, a "cop on the beat" is doing just as much "fishing" as the cops at the checkpoint. On a side note, I have to agree with some of the other posters in that announcing where and when an OVI checkpoint is going to be seems counter-productive, but, as someone else correctly stated, the police are required by law to do so.
I understand you don't like this particular law, Mr. Cruz. I personally don't care for the concealed carry law, but, I'm not going to make a big deal out of it because its a fact of life. And before anybody goes ballistic, I'm NOT anti-gun. My Dad, may God rest and keep him, was an avid gun enthusiast and part-time smith and taught my brothers and me the proper way to handle a firearm. Frankly, I find target shooting very enjoyable. I just don't happen to think that carrying a gun under you jacket is necessary. But, the law is the law and so to each his own.
You don't like OVI checkpoints, Mr. Cruz, then do something to ban them. Good luck getting that past MADD, RADD, or any other organization dedicated to getting drunk drivers off the streets.
To Marilyn Manson: You want to have "innocent fun" with alcohol (or any other intoxicant for that matter) then KEEP YOUR REAR-END AT HOME! But, if your "innocent fun" includes driving somewhere after your fun is over then I suggest you issue a press release stating exactly where and when you're going to be having this "fun" so the rest of us can avoid you and the police can find you before you kill someone! You want to talk about pathetic! Calling drunk driving innocent fun is pathetic!
This is my soapbox and I'm standing on it!