BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER Vol. 128 Friday, October 25, 2019 No. 263 AVAILABLE DAILY ONLINE @ examiner.org Commissioners present 100K donation towards show arena project Facility to be available to rent for winter storage, 2020 fair BY NATE SMITH EXAMINER STAFF WRITER [email protected] ot only will a new Nshow arena be complete in time for next year’s Logan Thursday during a check facility that our communi- EXAMINER PHOTOS | NATE SMITH presentation event staged ty, children and adults CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Logan County Comissioners stage a check presentation County Fair, on the fairgrounds by alike, can participate in Thursday with fair board leaders to help fund the new show arena. Work is nearly but the board members and safely,” Antram said. complete to enclose the new multi-purpose building (above) on the Logan County Logan County The new building will Fairgrounds, where it will generate revenue this winter for off-season storage ahead building will Commissioners. The com- also provide for greater of its debut as a new show arena next summer for the 2020 exposition. A look from missioners made good versatility, county officials inside the new show arena (below) is pictured. start paying Thursday on a $100,000 said. donation promised to the “The new show arena dividends yet fair board towards com- will be a multi-purpose this year pletion of the building. space for agriculture and Construction began on community use,” accord- after work is the facility last week. All- ing to promotional and Win Electric out of fundraising materials cir- complete Delaware was awarded culated by the fair board. early next the work for Phase I at a “During the fair, it will cost of $211,174. Ongoing host a greater number of month in work will outfit the new livestock shows and building with electricity, exhibitor activities. time for the as well as lining and insu- “In the offseason, the winter lation for the walls and building will provide ceiling. opportunities for addi- storage Concrete will be tional revenue for the Ag poured later. Amenities to Society; open livestock season. be added include bleach- shows and sales, commu- The 80-foot by 150-foot ers, stalls and show arena nity events, weddings, structure is expected to be equipment, are estimated reunions, or winter stor- enclosed on or about Nov. to cost about $350,000. age rental. 1, and will be utilized for The previous show Fair board members winter storage. Fair board arena dated to around also project some growth members have estimated 1970, was no longer safe in their livestock by pro- the building could gener- for use, and had to be grams by doubling the ate some $5,000 by func- replaced despite its “his- size of it the show arena. tioning as a storage facili- tory and heritage,” Contributions are still ty between November and Commissioner Joe Antram being accepted for the next April. said. new building, and may be Progress on the build- “It is our duty as com- made by contacting the ing was showcased missioners to provide a fair office. Source ur Trusted r! Yo thing Wate EASTONJACOBfor Every AUTO REPAIR WATER SOLUTION TRANSMISSIO 148 DOWELL AVE. JACOA Reputation BS 937.592.6572“Quality Service BELLEFONTAINE fisselfloorcovering.comThroughout The Year” YouAUTO Can REPAIR2620 & US HWY. 68 S. • BELLEFONTAINE (937) 592-7233 StandTRANSMISSION On! LLC. JACOBSAUTOREPAIR.COM NATIONAL SCHOOL BUS SAFETY WEEK Law enforcement: School bus traffic laws BELLEFONTAINE EXAMINER HUBBARD PUBLISHING CO. PO Box 40 • Bellefontaine, OH 43311 An independent daily newspa- per Founded in 1891 imperative to protecting students by E.O. & H.K. Hubbard BY NATE SMITH AND Randy Dodds said. He esti- Issued daily except Sunday at MANDY LOEHR mates the sheriff’s office 127 E. Chillicothe Ave. EXAMINER STAFF WRITERS fields upwards of 10 bus MEMBER OF THE: [email protected], safety complaints in a Ohio Newspaper Association [email protected] given school year. and the Inland Daily Press Deputies rely on infor- Association • The Associated mation provided by school Press • Ohio League of Home bus drivers to follow up on Dailies s time- complaints and/or poten- PUBLISHER: JON HUBBARD tial violations. Law GENERAL MANAGER: T.J. 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Five weeks .................................$9.50 Officers of the Thirteen weeks.........................$24.70 Bellefontaine Police pupils before EXAMINER PHOTO | NATE SMITH Twenty six weeks .....................$49.40 Department have fielded A Bellefontaine City Schools bus makes its way along Ludlow Road Friday morning dur- Fifty two weeks-(1 year)...........$98.80 or after 13 school bus complaints Lesser periods by mail slightly more than propor- so far in the 2019-20 school ing National School Safety Week. tionate cost of yearly rate. Mail subscriptions will school, not be accepted from territories served by an year. near a school at the begin- family car, she related. The district currently Examiner newspaper courier or motor routes. consequences “Over the course of a ning or the end of the Ohio’s school bus drivers has 13 full time drivers, All subscriptions for papers delivered school year, the police school day. rank among the top states nine certified sub drivers by carrier are payable in advance at for failure to in the nation for safely and 10 individuals certified the Examiner office. No paper sent by department investigates “We had one incident mail unless paid for in advance, a obey bus several school bus com- where a driver passed a transporting its students to to drive the school van. postal regulation. Subscriptions are plaints that originate from school bus on the right, and from school. In another local bus non-refundable. Online subscriptions must be paid in advance. traffic laws the bus drivers. Primarily, going down in the ditch, “Bellefontaine City safety measure, West HOW TO REACH US the violations reported are and then coming back up School bus drivers are Liberty-Salem Schools are far more trained to keep student GENERAL: 592-3060 motorists not stopping for on the road once they had Board of Education mem- safety as their daily num- CIRCULATION/SUBSCRIPTIONS: a stopped school bus, or cleared the front of the bers recently approved a inconvenient, ber one goal,” Garman Option 4 after the red flashers have bus,” Chief Rick Core said. motion that will enable said. “Drivers complete CLASSIFIEDS: and “I can tell you with our the district to install cam- Option 5 been activated,” Chief many hours of training to AFTERHOURS: (937) 407-0205 department, when you put eras on the stop signs potentially Brandon Standley said. acquire their bus driving “All motorists have to a whole bus load of kids at located on the side of NEWSROOM Option 1 license as well as an harmful to know that the drivers are risk, we don't give out a school buses. The cam- Nate Smith..........................................1118 extensive re-certification doing the best they can in warning, we issue cita- eras will be able to moni- Mandy Loehr......................................1116 life and process every 6 years to monitoring the students tions.” maintain the license. tor any traffic violations. SPORTS Option 2 property. on the bus, while watch- Bellefontaine City Drivers must also attend a The first school buses Matt Hammond-Sports Editor .......1122 Public school safety ing for distracted Schools Transportation 4 hour refresher course date back to 1886 and Aaron LaBatt ....................................1115 administrators, along with motorists not obeying the Supervisor Tammie annually just before the were horse-drawn car- ADVERTISING Option 3 area law enforcement law. It is a very serious Garman related that the start of each school year.” riages known as “school Bob Chapman-Ad. Director .........2125 agencies are issuing traffic offense to not fol- National Highway Combined, Jim Strzalka .....................................1126 hacks” or “kid hacks” and reminders to motorists this low our school bus traffic Transportation and Safety Bellefontaine City school were made by a company week during National laws.” Administration statistics buses travel 904 miles per called Wayne Works. School Bus Safety Week to Officers of the show that the school bus day, transporting 1,149 The first all-metal bus students safely during 379 watch out for school buses Washington Township is the safest form of trans- was built in 1921 by Blue www.examiner.org a.m. and 379 p.m. sched- making frequent stops and Police Department are portation to and from Bird. By 1956, the [email protected] to always obey bus traffic often in direct contact uled stops, the trans- school. National Transportation E-MAIL signals. with bus drivers reporting portation supervisor said. According to NHTSA, Safety Board made [email protected] School bus traffic viola- reckless drivers, and In addition, many others students are about 70 times “chrome yellow” the offi- [email protected] tions result in a mandatory advise motorists to leave ride a school bus on any [email protected] more likely to arrive to cial school bus color so municipal court summons, extra travel time if they given day to the multiple [email protected] school safely when taking a sporting and extracurricu- Logan County Sheriff know they’ll be traveling that the vehicles would [email protected] school bus, rather than the lar activities.