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POSTAL PATRON www.westbendnews.net VOLUME 15 – ISSUE 49 Good News for Good Communities - Serving Northwest Ohio and Northeast Indiana TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019 MERRY & BRIGHT ANTWERP Wayne Trace, Paulding & CLINTON STREET BRIDGE OPENED & RENAMED CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Woodlan Boys Basketball Pre- CHAMBER’S SMALL view on Page 7,10,14 – Thanks to Sponsors! PAULDING, OH: What BUSINESS SATURDAY was once just a parade has MARKS SUCCESS! snowballed into an afternoon Community extravaganza! “When we started Merry Calendar and Bright we envisioned it December 5 becoming more than a pa- • Living w/Alzheimer’s @ Park rade, and each year it contin- ues to get bigger and brighter. Terrace Nursing & Rehab, This is the second year for Toledo, 3-4:45pm activities being added to the • Off the Clock @ Holly, afternoon before the parade” Wood&Vine, 5-6:30pm says Brenda Crawford, Merry • Women’s Ecumenical Potluck and Bright committee chair. @ St. Paul’s Luth. Ch., The celebration this year Paulding, 6pm is on Sunday, December 8th Small Business Saturday • Candy Cane Christmas @ PC beginning with the Christ- was created for towns the Library, 6-7pm mas Pageant at 1:30 p.m. likes of Paulding County. December 6 This past weekend amidst the Shop the Square begins at • HAAA Children’s Christmas 2:00 p.m. The majority of the hullabaloo of the epic OSU vs. Quality Work Michigan football game, peo- Party @ Hoagland Park festivalOver 25 years!activities and eventsCALL NOW Pavilion Creative Design & Construction LLC. FOR ple wereCreative out and Design about doing & Construction LLC. willSchmucker then begin at 3:00 p.m. December 6-7 GARAGES • BASEMENTS some Beenlocal doingshopping quality for work the for 25 years - Schmucker All activities will end just be- • Christmas at Home Tea @ (Foundation, fore the parade at 5:30 p.m. holidays. Antwerp Chamber ROOM ADDITIONSSwinney • GARAGES Homestead, FW, It’s not that the bridge is across the Maumee RiverWalls in& Repair,made Waterproofing) by McCann, ODOT Don’t miss the stunning tree sponsored the annual Shop BASEMENTS2pm; (Foundation, 10:30am & 2pm opening behind schedule or downtown Defiance is nowROOM Director ADDITIONS Jack Marchbanks, lighting at 5:25 p.m. to kick Small day by American Ex- press with many thingsWalls & toRepair, Waterproofing)December 7 that ODOT or the contrac- open for traffic, finally!Settling, Bowing,Ph.D; Cracking? Defiance No problem! Countyoff the parade and make our tors did a bad job, but it was The bridge closed in Feb- Commissioners and Purple downtown merry and bright. do in the local shopsBowing, of Cracking,the •Settling? Siberian No Solstice problem! concert @ the inconvenience of hav- ruary 2019 for total recon- Heart recipient Ryan Mack. The parade starts at the St. village. The sidewalks were Antwerp School, 7pm ing to go around the city of struction. The construction Proclamation Readings Paul Lutheran Church and teeming with people as they • Shop the Square @ Paulding, Defiance instead of straight continued throughout the were given260-403-8949 by Ohio Governor continues west on Jackson went from 260-403-8949store to store or 10a-2p Licensed • Bonded • Insured were stoppedLicensed by the •table Bonded • Insured through on Clinton St. to year despite many forms of Mike DeWine,Call for Estimates Ohio Lt. CDChomeimprovements.comGov- Street ending at the corner Call for Estimates CDChomeimprovements.com• Craft Bazaar & Cookie Walk in front of Petals & Vines to get to one side or the other severe weather that could ernor Jon A. Husted, 5th Dis- of Jackson Street and US 127 @ Lifeway Wesleyan Church, make a s’more. There were for appointments or shop- have caused all kinds of de- trict Congressman Bob Lat- (Williams Street). Any busi- 8:30a-2:30p two drawings of the day: a ping, etc. that seemed end- lays. Concrete was poured in ta, 1st District Congressman ness or organization want- • Holiday Fantasies Bazaar @ Receipt drawing and a Scav- less during 2019. The Clinton spectacular fashion October Bob Latta, 1st District State ing to register for the parade, NHUMC, 9a-3p enger Hunt. The winners of St. bridge, newly named, the 4th and 5th during the late Senator Robert A. McColley, visit the Paulding Chamber’s • Festival of Wreaths @ Huber, Purple Heart Bridge, going night hours into morning and 82nd District State Rep- (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 5) 1-5pm daybreak. It looks as though resentative Craig Riedel. • Huber Chorus Concert @ all the hard work and ex- The ribbon cutting took Quality Work 7pm SCHMUCKER tra effort has paid off as the place on the south side of the Creative Design & Construction LLC. December 8 bridge’s dedication took bridge under a tent near the Over 25 years! 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The Winneba- and get-together with the Na- go called it the “Big Bear’s “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the CLASSROOM FEAST tive Americans. There were Moon”. The Cheyenne called prophets at many times and in various ways, 90 Indians and 50 settlers it “the Moon When Wolves but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, present which must have been Run Together”. To the Len whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom quite a chore for preparing Lenape, it is the “Moon When the meal for the 4 English- Cold Makes Trees Crack”. The also he made the universe.” women and 2 teenage girls Northern Cheyenne also have Hebrews 1:1-2 NIV on hand to do the cooking. a name called: “Big Hard Face (13 Pilgrim women had been Moon”. All of these names re- in Paulding County to help (Continued from Page 1) those less fortunate and to buried during the terrible flect the Indians’ dread of the Purple Heart Veterans and first winter). There is no proof cold and probable suffering send kids to Camp Swoneky in the summer. all Veterans in attendance at there was turkey served, no it may bring in the coming this historic event. Following bread (no flour), no milk months. these fine upstanding people products (no cows), no apple Snow may not always be SANTA COMES TO was one of Defiance’s oldest cider. There was pumpkin, convenient, but for the out- ANTWERP! residents, 104 year old Emily corn, fried cakes, wild honey, doorsman/hunter it offers the White. cranberries, fish oysters, fish, greatest opportunity to study Saturday, December 7th, Naming the Clinton some other wild fowl and of the habits and trails of earth Street Bridge to the Purple course, deer. (And possibly a bound mammals. The tracks Santa arrives in Antwerp! It all happens at the Antwerp Heart Bridge background: harvest moon). can identify the species, the State Representative Note: History tells us that sex of the species, and the Fire Department beginning at 1:00 p.m. Kids can visit Craig S. Riedel recently in- the MAYFLOWER project home of the species. Seasoned troduced House Bill 332 that endured a long period of trial hunters go by signs such as with Santa till 2:30 p.m., get Mrs. Ash’s preschool classes at Paulding Elementary, entered their picture taken and then will designate a portion of and error.