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Stan Gebhardt has homes on Middle Bass Island and in Port Clinton, places where he can fiddle around in his home workshop while looking forward to enjoying an outdoorsman’s life in retirement. (Photo by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)
BY D’ARCY PATRICK EGAN
Stan Gebhardt gave the Erie-Ottawa International Airport his all for a decade. After amazing success in taking the small town airport all of the way to the big time, it’s time for the avid angler and hunter to kick back and enjoy Lake Erie Island life.
That formula is due to Gebhardt’s internal, unending seven-year itch.
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The Ottawa County Community Foundation honored its long-time president Joy Roth, with incoming President Jan Preston presenting the Joy Roth Little Tiger Award to General Manager Babs Klacik of the popular Bistro 163 pay-it-forward restaurant in Port Clinton. Roth passed away last July. (Photo by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)
BY D’ARCY PATRICK EGAN
This year’s grant awards presented by the Ottawa County Community Foundation were the focus of a bittersweet breakfast on Thursday at the Sutton Center in Port Clinton. The 35 grant recipients who received a collective $53,000 were overjoyed with the financial support, but for the first time in two decades the dynamic leader of the foundation, Joy Roth, was not there.