Orrville Courier Crescent (Newspaper) - December 23, 1993, Orrville, Ohio Riders are still beaten up at 128 No. 22 44667 USPS 135-500 December 23, 1993 headed for a warmer director at the Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club for the last 13 is headed for a warmer has accepted a position of as director of a boys club in Maple Street School where his is employed as a second grade colleagues are sponsoring a 4 to 6 p.m. Jan. 4 open house for her in her second grade mulls over annual report Mayor Howard E. Wade said he is definitely considering moving up his annual state of the city report to earlier in the and making it a the last few instead of at the Orrville Municipal Wade delivered his report in Orr Park's Schmid Hail the end of a place and time which also attracted a larger calls for unique city Councilwoman Joan Wiebe had one plea for design of a Improvement don't let it look like every other one she has who will leave office in at what is expected to be her last City Council meeting asked designers to come up with a unique Council sets legislative tongue in City Law Director John Kropf said Council Council apparently doesn't believe in the old maxim that who governs governs setup was for an announcement that in the last council has approved a record number of and other pieces of gifts keep going and YORK toilet seat imprinted with a college logo just didn't sit right with the The clothes brush shaped like a duck was gathering revelations came from a newly released poll in which one in four Americans admitted having passed on to someone else a gift they some of the recycled presents were they were mostly household clothing and other ordinary conducted by American Express Travel Related Services Co. found that electronic equipment and money top Americans wish lists this holiday poll found a fair share of spiritual-minded respondents wishing for and family Others aid they would be with a house or winning lottery develops signs of BRUCE F. proposed downtown improvement plan is showing signs of big unknown that officials haven't found a solution for is gauging public support for the commonly known as remedy proposed during a Monday night City Council meeting is to include a query with or on a separate piece of paper in city residential utility bills for January due to go out at the end of the it is a without an outline as to how the question will be phrased and whether it can be done in time to mail out with electric by Diana could also clear up some of the mixed signals council members acknowledged are coming concern over the million project is the potential impact on local electric Among recommendations in a conceptual master plan is one that could be potentially moving downtown electric lines from above to a more than million Ohio Department of grant will cover some of those costs in the downtown area along Ohio 57 which bisects Orrville's downtown Page 3 is said in many ways among city AMELIA REIHELD Special to The Courier Joyeux Froehliche it is each means Merry Although they're very much a part of their small midwestern American there are a number of WHO season in another and keep alive holiday traditions from aroma of goose along with and perhaps a fine plum reminds Pam Leeder of her girlhood in was much simpler and very oriented toward she The house was decorated but not and there of a Christmas dad used to put candles on so before you could go to bed or leave the house you had to put out the she Like most their house was heated with and the family roasted chestnuts on the children put up their Christmas hoping for a visit from Father Come Christmas the little ones would discover perhaps a skipping didn't exchange gifts with each we were Leeder were expected to take care of our We didn't draw or anything like day was a church she says and following Reiheld and Olga Pauley combine their Swiss and Austrian yule traditions into a sweet minute tree deals likely to be even DARLA K. LANDERS Last minute Christmas tree shoppers could find more of a bargain than the rule tends to be the closer to the the lower the this year an abundance of supply coupled with increased competion has held tree prices to last vendors downside of that last minute rush is there will likely be lu pick among premium trees like Douglas and Frazier Furs which tend to move who every year sets up Santa's Best on North Main Street next to Central Central for said by the Saturday before consumers would likely see prices drop Page 3 the family would go home to a starring the goose or and of Christmas Switzerland and Austria to had a very simple says Oswald Born and reared in he remembers decorating the family Christmas tree two days before kids had to do he There was the traditional play at then we had to go to bed on Christmas Eve very it was seven o'clock in the and the children could arise and find their had very little good things to like chocolates and If we we got a bundle of he admits with a twinkle in his he received sticks - of sticks for Christmas are a tradition has stuck with but these days in a different he gives them to he chops firewood from his and donates it to his Christ United Church of for underprivileged my labor of he had more fun because we believed in it. It was so major cultural difference for is that the Christmas Page 13 Leeder enjoys making her English Christmas DeHart Christmas is really all about DARLA K. sleigh slips out of the North Pole in the early Christmas darkness to bring smiles to the hearts of children the world Orrville and Pat watch over their own small corner to make sure those who missed are that their Christmas is a bright sometimes the couple finds that those who have the least are the ones who give the most to help others like 22 years of being elves to the needy in and Pat DeHart have come to the conclusion that the poor people that It seems that there are a few rich ones that but not said De wife interjected that maybe the reason for the paradox is the fact that most poorer understand what it feels ike to be down and child should be without a toy at said Pat pounding her fist on table for become involved in Toys for Tots while in the although DeHart mustered out 22 years ago from it and its project to give children who otherwise might not have one a bright he never really quite left it because he wanted to help those closer to DeHart started his own the Needy Children's Christmas to collect toys for local started It took about eight years to get things Some of the local businesses over the years have been he the personal satisfaction it brings there are those unforgettable the ones that wrenches at the heart and makes the soul remembered a last year who brought in a jar of pennies to It about tore me Pat DeHart said Page 2 Jean Steiner poses with an unusually large Christmas cactus in her home at 1920 W. Market St. It was given to her eight years ago by the late Amandus
