December 19, 2012 PDF Edition of the Perrysburg Messenger Journal

P E R R Y S B U R G
MESSENGER JOURNAL
SECOND SECTION
This is a continuation of
a series on the City of Perrysburg’s
departments,
divisions, offices and
bureaus.
The City of Perrysburg
employs 154 individuals
plus 60 seasonal employees
who serve the more
than 20,000 Perrysburg
residents.
Features will give residents
the opportunity to
meet city employees and
learn how each job contributes
to the “quality of
life” in the city.
Department of
Public Utilities
By Tim Warren
Director
The Perrysburg Department
of Public Utilities
(DPU) provides water distribution,
sewer collection,
wastewater treatment and
stormwater management
for more than 8,700 water
customers and 9,600 sewer
customers in the City of
Perrysburg and surrounding
area.
DPU consists of two
bureaus–the bureau of
water distribution and
sewer collection and the
bureau of wastewater treatment.
There are currently
14 employees in the water
distribution and sewer collection
bureau at 211 East
Boundary Street and eight
employees in the bureau of
wastewater treatment at
One West Boundary Street.
DPU was formed in
2012 by splitting off the
Division of Public Utilities
from the Department of
Public Service. Increasing
regulatory requirements,
rising costs, staying abreast
of new technologies,
remaining economically
competitive and maintaining
positive relationships
with neighboring communities
and stakeholders
have become more challenging.
The new structure
allows DPU to focus on its
responsibilities and provide
better service to its
customers.
As part of the restructuring,
water distribution
and sewer collection were
combined into a single
bureau. The combined
operations provide greater
opportunities for crosstraining
and a more versatile
workforce. This allows
DPU to address customer
calls and perform routine
maintenance more efficiently.
DPU maintains 97 miles
of water lines, three elevated
water storage tanks,
three underground reservoirs
and two booster
pumping stations. The
water we supply is purchased
from the City of
Toledo. The elevated tanks
and underground reservoirs
provide four million gallons
of emergency storage
capacity.
A major improvement
project is currently under
construction to replace an
existing elevated tank on
Fort Meigs Road and build
a new one on Roachton
Road to improve fire flow
capacity.
DPU maintains 91 miles
of sanitary sewers, 98
miles of storm sewers, 12
wastewater pumping stations
and a wastewater
treatment plant. We are
nearing completion of a
20-year program to separate
our combined sewer
system and a multi-phase
project to expand the
capacity of our wastewater
treatment plant, aimed at
reducing sewer overflows
in the Maumee River. We
also are in the process of
implementing a stormwater
management program to
reduce pollution from
storm water runoff.
A typical day for DPU
staff is spent performing
maintenance on pumps and
equipment, monitoring
pumping stations,
installing water taps,
replacing water meters,
cleaning sewer lines,
repairing catch basins,
answering telephone calls
and responding to customer
requests, to name a
few activities. Sometimes,
our days–or nights–include
emergencies such as water
main breaks and sewer
backups.
Every day, DPU strives
to provide good, old-fashioned
customer service.
That means having someone
you can speak to in
person and arrange an
appointment with at your
convenience.
Our goals are to provide
reliable service, respond to
customer requests quickly,
and have a positive impact
on the environment. We
want to help make Perrysburg
the greatest place to
live.
The following employees
of DPU are proud to
serve you:
Denny Badik, plant
operator; Chad Baumbarger,
collections operator;
Andy Beier, heavy equipment
operator; Terri Brenner,
chemist-bacteriologist;
Brent Dhondt, light equipment
operator; Mark Dunsmoor,
commissioner; Ted
Floriana, plant operator;
Jim Fugate, clerk; TJ Haas,
light equipment operator;
Andy Hartman, light
equipment operator; Matt
Hess, plant operator; Rich
Jarosz, light equipment
operator; Chris Marko,
heavy equipment operator;
Dave Mysinger, light
equipment operator; Julie
Otte, chief clerk; Brian
Owens, light equipment
operator; Rick Schmeltz,
plant manager; Ernie
Shafer, plant operator; Jill
Van Vlerah, general office
clerk; Tony Violi, light
equipment operator; Tim
Warren, director, and Tim
Zirke, crew leader.
Christmas closings
In observance of Christmas, the following offices and
businesses will be closed on Tuesday, December 25, unless
noted otherwise.
•City offices closed December 24 and 25
•Perrysburg Municipal Court
•Perrysburg Messenger Journal closed December 24 and
25
•Perrysburg Township offices close at noon on December
24 and remain closed December 25
•Post Office
•Wood County Commissioners office
•Way Public Library will be closed December 23-25
•Owens Community College- closed December 22
through January 1
•These banks will be closed: Genoa Bank, 9920 Old U.S.
20 will close at noon on Christmas Eve and remain closed
Christmas Day; First Federal Bank, 1077 Louisiana Avenue
will close at noon on Christmas Eve and remain closed
Christmas Day; Charter One Bank, 144 East Front Street will
close at 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve and remain closed on
Christmas Day; Huntington Banks, 131 Louisiana Avenue,
690 West South Boundary Street and 1001 Sandusky Street
will close at 2 p.m. on Christmas Eve and remain closed
Christmas Day; Fifth Third Banks, 26521 North Dixie Highway
and 10105 Fremont Pike will close at 2 p.m. on Christmas
Eve and remain closed Christmas Day; Farmers and
Merchants Bank, 7001 Lighthouse Way; The State Bank and
Trust Company, 610 East South Boundary Street will close at
noon on Christmas Eve and remain closed Christmas Day;
Directions Credit Union, 27427 Crossroads Parkway and
4150 Brockway Drive will close at noon on Christmas Eve
and remain closed Christmas Day; PNC, formerly National
City Bank, 100 West South Boundary will close at 2 p.m. on
Christmas Eve and remain closed Christmas Day; and Key
Bank, 1088 Louisiana Avenue will close at 2 p.m. on Christmas
Eve and remain closed Christmas Day.
Meet the
City of Perrysburg
Department of Public Utilities
Please let us know if
you have questions, or how
we can better serve you, by
contacting DPU at 419-
872-8050.
Y O U R H O M E T O W N N E W S P A P E R
WWW.PERRYSBURG.COM
Department of Public Utilities office employees from left, Jim Fugate, clerk;
Mark Dunsmoor, commissioner; Julie Otte, chief clerk, and Tim Warren, director.
Bureau of Wastewater Treatment employees from left, Denny Badik, plant
operator; Rick Schmeltz, plant manager; Matt Hess, plant operator; Ted Floriana,
plant operator; Jill Van Vlerah, general office clerk; Rich Jarosz, light equipment
operator, and Ernie Shafer, plant operator. Not pictured, Terri Brenner, chemistbacteriologist.
Bureau of Water Distribution and Sewer Collection employees, from left,
Andy Beier, heavy equipment operator; Dave Mysinger, light equipment operator;
TJ Haas, light equipment operator; Andy Hartman, light equipment opeator;
Brent Dhondt, light equipment operator; Chad Baumbarger, collections operator;
Chris Marko, heavy equipment operator; Brian Owens, light equipment
operator, and Tony Violi, light equipment operator. Not pictured, Tim Zirke, crew
leader.
Kindergarten enrollment scheduled for February
Enrollment for incoming
kindergarten students for the
2013-14 school year will be
held at the central office
located at 140 East Indiana
Avenue, Perrysburg. Students
need to be age 5 on or before
August 1, 2013.
Registration will be held
in the cafeteria on the following
days, based on attendance
area:
•Tuesday, February 5,
Frank Elementary School
•Wednesday, February 6,
Woodland
•Thursday, February 7,
Toth
•Friday, February 8, Fort
Meigs
In order to keep waiting
time to a minimum, families
are asked to attend their attendance
area Round-Up Day at
the following times: Last
names A-L, from 8 a.m. to
noon; last names M-Z, from 1
to 4 p.m.
If school closes/delays on
the scheduled Round-Up Day,
the rescheduled date will be
one week later on the same
day of the week.
Parents and guardians will
turn in required registration
forms and documents. The
forms will be available at
www.perrysburgschools.net
under “For Parents” tab.
Click on “Enrollment Information”
and select “Required
Forms for 2013-14 Kindergarten
Registration” starting
January 21, 2013.
From the staff at Welch Publishing Co.
Hard copies also will be
available at the Board of Education
office starting January
28, at 8 a.m.
To ensure an equitable
selection for the All Day
Kindergarten (ADK) program,
all kindergarten parents/guardians
will receive
information regarding the
ADK placement process for
the upcoming school year
after the registration forms
and documents have been
submitted.
Parents who are uncertain
of their attendance area or
with questions about registration,
can call the Pupil Services
Office at 419-874-9131,
extension 2101 or 2147.
Dave Hall, head baseball
coach, assistant athletic director
and social studies teacher
at Perrysburg High School
was recently elected to the
Ohio High School Baseball
Coaches Association (OHSB-
CA) Hall of Fame and will be
inducted in January.
He currently serves as
president for the OHSBCA.
He begins his 28th season at
PHS after three years as
junior varsity coach and four
years as junior varsity coach
at Toledo Whitmer.
At PHS, he has compiled
an overall record of 504-280,
winning seven Northern
Lakes League, 12 sectional
and four district titles, four
trips to the regionals and two
trips to the state final four in
2003 and 2011. In 2011, the
team was the state runner-up.
Ten of his teams have won
20 games in a season going
22-7 in 1998, 27-3 in 1999,
23-5 in 2001, 22-7 in 2002,
23-8 in 2003, 20-9 in 2005,
21-8 in 2008, 23-7 in 2009,
26-6 in 2010, and 26-4 in
2011.
He has coached 16 All-
Ohio players. Sixty of his
players have played college
baseball, three have been
drafted and five have played
pro ball, with two making it
to the Majors Leagues–Ron
Rightnowar with the Milwaukee
Brewers and Burke
Badenhop who was recently
Santa Claus will be taking
time out from his busy
schedule to meet children in
Perrysburg on Saturday,
December 22, from 1 to 2
p.m., at O~Deer Diner.
Jim Delph, owner of
Commodore Way, has partnered
with O~Deer Diner to
host Santa Claus. Children
have the opportunity to
bring in a toy and/or nonperishable
food item and
have their pictures taken
with Santa. Each child who
brings in a canned good or
toy will receive a free ice
cream cone.
Children also can write a
letter to Santa Claus and
mail it in Santa’s mailbox
outside of the diner. Santa
said he will try to answer all
the letters he receives.
PCU Collection
In collaboration with
Commodore Way and O-
Deer Diner, Downtown Perrysburg,
Inc. (DPI) is conducting
a holiday collection
with Perrysburg Christians
United (PCU) of non-perishable
food items, toys and
monetary donations to help
families in need.
Drop-off locations for
canned goods and toys are
located at O~Deer Diner,
Commodore Way, YMCA-
Fort Meigs branch, Massage
Works, Comfort Keepers
and Fifth Street Brick Oven
Pub.
Donations will be accepted
through the end of
December.
“Downtown Perrysburg
hopes to use this holiday
PERRYSBURG MESSENGER JOURNAL — December 19, 2012 — Page 9
Dave Hall to be inducted into 2013 OHSBCA Hall of Fame
Visit with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 22
DPI continues holiday campaign with Perrysburg Christians United
Nancy Fitzpatrick completed
800 miles as she
walked into Perrysburg in
November on her journey
from Boston, Massachusetts,
to Newport, Oregon,
following U.S. Route 20
across the country.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s journey
is not a race of time, but
rather time to reflect on her
priorities for the next 15 to
20 years.
Her journey also is the
celebration of her 65th
birthday.
“Shortly after I turned
60, I realized that I wanted
to mark my 65th birthday
with an epic act that would
combine physical activity
with reflection on how to
use the next 20 years,
should I be lucky enough to
experience them in good
health,” she said. “Walking
across the United States fit
the bill perfectly.”
She and her husband
Lincoln, who own and manage
the Red Lion Inn in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
researched and mapped out
the journey deciding to follow
Route 20 because it is a
“cross country route that is
full of history.”
Route 20, she explained,
from Boston to the Pacific
coast of Oregon, traces the
westward embrace of this
continent by the people and
ideas that created our country.”
PHS baseball coach Dave Hall will be inducted into the
Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of
Fame in January.
traded from Tampa Bay to
Milwaukee.
He has been NLL Coach
of the Year seven times and
Northwest Ohio Coach of the
Year four times.
He was selected to coach
in the Mizuno Senior All Star
Series in 1998. In addition,
the Jackets have qualified for
the Ohio State Acme State
Championships nine times,
winning the Acme State Title
in 1998.
Santa Claus will meet with children on Saturday,
December 22, from 1 to 2 p.m., at O~Deer Diner. Children
have the opportunity to bring a unwrapped toy
or nonperishable food item to be donated to PCU and
have their picture taken with Santa.
Above, Clare and Jack Wellstein are all smiles with
Santa.
season as a way to bring
people of the community
together to achieve the common
goal of working as a
group to help those in need
throughout the Perrysburg
area,” said DPI president
Kerry Wellstein.
PCU, established in
1973, is a consortium of 12
On February 9, 2011, the
65 year-old began her journey,
which she expects to
take three years to complete
the 3,365 mile trek. Accompanied
by her husband on
the journey–coach, manager
and scout–Mrs. Fitzpatrick
walks rain or shine, 10
miles daily, two and a half
miles an hour, six days each
week.
The inn owner enjoys the
towns, cities and people.
“So many different places
and I have met so many
wonderful people,” she said,
adding that the governor of
Massachusetts even walked
several miles with her.
While walking through
Cleveland on Euclid
Avenue, Mrs. Fitzpatrick
had a surprise–a mini-concert
by the 200-member
Singing Angel chorus.
“There is nothing more
uplifting then being surrounded
by young people
sharing something so
enriching and joyful. What a
memorable experience. And
for sure, a high point of my
journey,” she added.
Along the route, Mr.
Fitzpatrick scouts out bed
and breakfast inns, historic
hotels and unique places to
stay for several days while
his wife continues her walk.
The walker ended her
journey for 2012 in Perrysburg
in November.
She wrote the following
Coach Hall has been a
member of the OHSBCA
Board of Directors from 1992
to 1998, 2002 to 2010, and an
officer from 2010 to the present.
He also is the Web site
coordinator for the OHSB-
CA. In addition he has been
on the Acme Baseball Congress
Board of Directors for
16 years and was inducted
into the Acme Hall of Fame
in 2010.
He was president of the
Perrysburg churches that
provides for needs of the
community through a food
bank, annual blood drives,
crisis assistance and a
Christmas toy project. PCU
serves individuals and families
who live in northern
Wood County, north of State
Route 582.
on her Web site: “From Fremont
to Perrysburg…It was
25 absolutely straight miles
from Fremont through
Woodville to Perrysburg. It
also was my first experience
with road construction that
forced me to walk near the
median strip on a four-ormore-lane
road. Worked
fine. The walk was the usual
mix of farms, houses, towns
and strip malls. Perrysburg
was a total delight. Actually,
it felt like the apex of civilization
with a thriving historic
downtown and, just
outside of town, an up-todate
mall complete with
Toledo Metro Baseball
Coaches Association. Coach
Hall has been involved as a
speaker at camps and clinics
throughout Ohio. He also is a
contributing writer for
www.WebBall.com.
Coach Hall is a graduate
of St. Marys Memorial High
School, where he played football,
basketball and baseball.
He is a graduate of the University
of Toledo with a bachelor
of education degree in
social sciences and an master’s
of education degree in
administration.
He was part of the baseball
team at the University of
Toledo serving as a member
of the freshman team, batting
practice pitcher and team statistician.
He said he always knew
he wanted to coach and was
always thankful for Coach
Sanders and Coach Carbone
allowing him to learn and be
part of the Rocket program.
Coach Hall has been a
teacher at PHS for 31 years,
where he teaches sociology
and American history. He
coached football for 25 years
and was offensive coordinator
and assistant head coach for
five years. He also coached
several years of junior high
basketball.
He taught four years at
Whitmer High School, where
he coached both baseball and
football.
This fall, the food pantry
reorganized to a “client
choice” pantry, said PCU
president Shirley Kleist.
“As a client choice
pantry, the client walks
along shelves of food and
selects which items will best
feed his or her family,” she
explained. “This allows
those with food allergies and
dietary restrictions to reject
foods which will not be consumed
by their families.
The food pantry is located
in the back parking lot of
Grace United Methodist
Church, 601 East Boundary
Street. The hours of operation
are Mondays, 1 to 3
p.m., and Fridays, 9 to 11
a.m.
Along with groceries,
clients receive a food voucher
for the purchase of fresh
dairy and meat products at
Kazmaier’s grocery store.
In 2011, 544 households
used the pantry.
Donations accepted
include instant potatoes,
canned meat, pasta, macaroni
and cheese, crackers,
cereal, soap, peanut butter,
canned vegetables, hamburger
helper, pork and
beans, and toilet paper.
Currently, the pantry is in
need of crackers, canned
milk and tomato products.
New, unwrapped toys for
children of all ages also will
be collected along with
monetary donations.
For additional information
on PCU or for volunteer
opportunities, contact Mrs.
Kleist at 419-874-7561.
From Massachusetts to Oregon–3,365 miles
Nancy Fitzpatrick stops in Perrysburg on her journey across the U.S.
Nancy Fitzpatrick completed 800 miles of her cross
country journey as she walked into Perrysburg. She
describes Perrysburg as the “apex of civilization with
a thriving historic downtown.” Now home in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, for the holidays, Mrs. Fitzpatrick
will continue her journey in April.
national brands and a cinema.
My son Casey joined us
and walked with me for two
days. We lived it up before
abandoning the road for the
holidays and winter.”
The Fitzpatricks spent
five nights at the Jones and
Jones Bed and Breakfast
and enjoyed the sites and
restaurants of Perrysburg.
The couple is now home
in Stockbridge for the holidays.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick will
continue her journey in
April of the new year. Follow
her journey on the Web
site nancytakesahike.com.
-Deb Buker