Etzkorn grows flower and gift businesses
Kirsten Barnhart, DHI Media News Editor Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12:00 AM Ashley Etzkorn
VAN WERT – After graduating from Bowling Green University with a
degree in tourism and event planning, Delphos native Ashley Etzkorn knew
she wanted to work with people in a creative setting and saw the
perfect opportunity when the Ivy Hutch flower and gift store in Delphos
became available in 2012. After years of success there, Etzkorn
purchased Fettig’s Flowers in downtown Van Wert in 2020.
“I liked
the creative part of tourism and event planning,” said Etzkorn. “I
started working for a flower shop in Findlay while I was in college, but
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The Western Treasure Valley is mourning the loss of a local woman who was an ardent musician and lover of music, who used to write columns regarding music for years in the Argus Observer.
Joyce McLean, who was known by many as âJoy,â died at the age of 85 on Jan. 31, but her imprint on the music scene in the Western Treasure Valley will carry on.
McLean arrived in the area from Ohio in 1968 with her husband, Fran, who had moved his family after accepting a job to be publisher of the newspaper â a job he held until health reasons forced him to retire in 1997. During the course of his nearly three-decade career, Joy McLeanâs writings began to appear in the Argus. In the 1970s, she was writing a weekly column titled Art & Music, which gave a rundown of all events related to those topics that were happening around the valley. Sometime in the 1980s, that column morphed into âThe Hungry Ear,â in which she would talk about upcoming events, as well as
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One of the main reasons people buy a home is to build wealth. The common line is: “Why pay someone else’s mortgage and contribute to their equity (via rent) when you can spend the same amount of money or less and reap the rewards?”
But, if you’re in a pricey area, that wealth can quickly get eaten up by a mortgage that resembles a tapeworm constantly sucking up funds as your bank account shrinks. This is what’s bluntly referred to as being “house poor.”
Leon Bibb recalls a college internship assignment to cover Dr. King. Author: Leon Bibb Updated: 7:50 PM EST January 18, 2021
CLEVELAND It was Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s that pushed the conscience of this nation.
Had he lived; MLK Jr. would be 92, today. But the Civil Rights leader was assassinated at age 39 in 1968.
The federal holiday honoring Dr. King’s memory was signed into law in 1983 and first observed three years later.
With so many of the horrible things in the news today, one wonders what Dr. King would say if he was still with us. Despite that thought, many believe that the words he said then are still relevant now.
Cincinnati Magazine
January 13, 2021
Rick Dudley vividly remembers driving through a small town in Ontario, Canada, several years ago. What the long-retired Cincinnati Stingers hockey player saw that day still amuses him. “It was a Dudley No. 9 Stingers jersey on a young kid walking down the sidewalk, and I was going to ask where in the hell he got it,” he says. “I parked and looked in every store window, but I never did find him. That’s amazing.”
Illustration by Zachary Ghaderi
Four decades have passed since the end of the Cincinnati Stingers era, and it’s fitting that a piece of Rick Dudley memorabilia is among the last vestiges still in circulation. From 1975 to 1979, the Stingers played in the World Hockey Association, a rival circuit to the National Hockey League. “Duds,” as he was known throughout hockey, joined the team at the beginning, an established player from the NHL with previous Cincinnati hockey roots. As such, he became the face of the franchise th