Orrville Journal (Newspaper) - August 15, 1996, Orrville, Ohio ORR LARRY MARGARET 001S 1503 W HIGH ST SACK 005 ORRVILLE OH 44667-1445 Orrville and the surrounding communities in eastern Wayne 1 - Number 37 August 15, 1996 75 Creek folk group on tap at Rehm Mill Creek Ramblers will bring their folk music alive at the Rehm Performing Arts Pavilion in Orr Park tonight at 7. a repertoire which includes Appalachian and original songs and children's the group creates an old-fashioned atmosphere of traditional folk of box culvert closes Rt. 585 of Rt. 585 in Wayne 0.2 mile south of Geyers Chapel Rd. Wooster and will be closed for five days to replace a box The contractor is the Ohio Department of work will take place from Monday through and all nonlocal traffic will be rerouted along the following South on Rt. 3/83 to Rt. 30; east on Rt. 30 to Rt. 57; north on Rt. 57 to Rt. 585, and The detour is six additional and Girls Club holds annual Area Boys and Girls Club will be on its annual shutdown for fall programming preparation beginning this The last day that the club will be open for summer will be The club will be closed Aug. 17 through Sept. 9. this early bird will take place for boys 5th- and 6th-grade flag boys 3rd- and 4th-grade flag girls 4th-, 5th- and 6th-grade and co-ed 1st- and 2nd-grade indoor parents who need child care should sign up memberships are due Sept. 1. Yearly membership fee is per member for children ages 6 to 18. Chamber golf outing planned for annual Orrville Area Chamber of Commerce golf outing will be held Sept. 18 at the Riceland Country Club near are encouraged to get their corporate teams Information and forms will be included in the September Chamber set for Chamber Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Your breakfast on Friday at 7:30 a.m. in Restaurant at 410 W. High St. U.S. Rep. Ralph Regula will be the must be made by calling the Chamber at 682-8881. Cost is per of school board meeting regular meeting of the Orrville Board of Education has been changed from 7 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Monday in the board of education The change is due to a conflict with a board member's losses news for employees of 3 area DARLENE Staff at three Orrville companies are facing bad news due to the economy and a reduction in Employment at Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. and American Commercial Vehicles will be and Fontaine Modification Co. has announced it is headquartered in North is closing the doors of its leased building at 150 Allen Ave. on Aug. 31 due to economic general manager Virginia said that the business opened in November 1995 to perform work for the Volvo GM Heavy Truck said he estimated 90 percent of the 19 employees at the Orrville company will be met with several companies in the area that are and they took an interest in some of our 1 am glad that we have a large percentage who will be reemployed Kokalis reduction in orders is causing Volvo to begin a layoff of employees on Sept. 20, company officials manager of human resources at said in an Aug. 6 meeting that employees were told Volvo is going from manufacturing 22 trucks a day to 15 trucks a effective Sept. 16. the number of workers to be laid off has not been according to production manager of American Commercial said the company will go from producing 75 cabs per day on line to 53 units does work for and due to Volvo's reduction in the number of trucks produced per this will likewise Granneman of New London takes a break while trying out some of the merchandise offered for sale at Orrville Dollar Days The weather was a balmy 94 degrees for the auction but a lemonade stand was close at hand for those wanting to cool off. A story is on Page knocks out power in city Orrville Municipal Utilities electrical blamed Sunday evening's and Monday morning's power outages on bored caused an act of vandalism which resulted in a power outage for 100 residences in the Walnut St. area Sunday Brediger said a group of juveniles allegedly threw a cable up on the distribution circuit off Church St. near the Kinney Lumber leakage forces temporary pool trying to beat the heat on Thursday were unpleasantly surprised to find that they could not swim at Orr due to some substantial water correct the crews had to dig up some concrete to reach a tube feeding into the pool's recovery which had sprung a according to Orrville Director Becky was of a freak Jewell leak eventually was stopped up and the joints The pool reopened Saturday act of vandalism brought lines to the which affected the Walnut St. Brediger were called in to repair damages Sunday at 9:15 p.m. and had the lines in working order by 11 according to said Orrville police had received a report 10 minutes before the electrical outage of juveniles throwing rocks at transformers in the Church St. the group was not damage was located Monday morning in the same according to which caused a five-minute power outage around 9 while workers repaired was no equipment damage due to the The cost involved was labor for the linemen Sunday Brediger at officials Layoffs will be put into effect in mid-September at layoffs will be around the same time period as but at this time we don't have an exact number of employees who will be laid Elliott said two plants in Orrville employ about 400. far as an increase in cabs per don't anticipate any as far as Volvo's side of the but we're for and we anticipate the new buyer will bring in new Elliott 30: Moving to a DAN R. Staff the beginning of the 21st travel between Orrville and Wooster could be radically different from the year 2000, construction crews are expected to begin work on a million relocation of a section of Rt. 30 extending from Wooster to according to Ohio Department of Transportation ODOT gave a presentation about the project at a meeting sponsored by the Wayne Development Council last the state is looking at two possible alternate routes for the proposed one extending north of the current Rt. 30 and one south of to alleviate the heavy truck traffic running through the this road were not targeted as a major east-west corridor for the we wouldn't be standing here said Mary Ellen district deputy said the project is high on priority list of major construction projects to but the department needs community input to ensure that the relocation is in the best interest of the explained that the two alternatives were arrived at after considering the possible effects the relocation would have on the ecology and historical landmarks in the did our best to avoid wetlands and historical Kimberlin while it not our job to to create greater economic growth with relocating it is our intention to protect the businesses already in the Both routes are ecologically ODOT has no preference as to which is the deputy director did suggest that the northern route may be more advantageous for the affected northern route would avoid much of the congestion at said Orrville Chamber of Commerce President Jerry push to move Rt. 30 originated back in the 1960s, but due to changes in administration at the state serious plans weren't drawn up until 1992, according to Don engineer and chairman of the Wayne Development Council's task force for the relocation of Rt. 30. Rt. 30A2 RR crossing and are Conrail employees Butch Ed Smith and Terry all of busy tearing up the railroad crossing on S. Main St. in Giz Cline is operating the removing old railroad Conrail routinely repairs railroad ties every three to four The men said they were replacing the wooden crossing with a rubber crossing that should last long Call The Orrville Journal at 682-3777
