About This Blog

The purpose of this blog is to give an accurate account of what is said during Public Comment at Mantua Township Trustees meetings.



Trustees' decisions are in the official minutes, available on request from the Mantua Township Fiscal Officer, Jodi Thompson, at 330-274-8443. The Township charges 10 cents per page. FAX, 330-274-8447. E-mail, fiscalofficer@mantuatownshipohio.gov. The minutes are also posted on the website after they have been approved. That means that there is usually a two-week lag between a given meeting and the minutes being available to read on the website.

Since meetings are the first and third Thursdays of the month, there is a three-week wait during months with five Thursdays.



Other items of interest or the writer's opinions will be included from time to time, clearly identified.



This is not a forum or chat room, but a source of information, so it is closed to outside input.



During the time I have been doing the blog, the posts have expanded to become very detailed accounts of the meetings. Doing that is time consuming, to say the least, and I am going to try to return to the public comment focus, with background and perspective (and the occasional pointed editorial comment). Such additions are usually enclosed in brackets. However, since some extended accounts of the meetings reveal significant things--and character--better than I could by commenting, there will probably still be a fair amount of semi-transcript. (Sigh.)

My thanks to the readers who have found the blog, and to the ones who from time to time tell me that they value it. You have encouraged me when the tedious work of keyboarding has made me wonder why I am doing this. Then you have reminded me, and I am grateful.

Principles

Two ideas guide and support me:

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
______Attributed to Edmund Burke

GOOD PREVAILS.

Those ideas are also the reason I have been doing the blog since late February 2011.

I have discovered that a transcript is almost impossible to do and that verbatim accounts are usually not absolutely necessary. When in doubt, I check against a recording.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Three Nice Things to Do

Fortunately, there are truly pleasant or informative things going on in the area.  This blog post lists three that get us to the end of March.

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Open Tuesdays at Mantua Center School

March 12, 19, $ 26
April 2, 9, & 16    9am till??

Bring your friends of make some new ones.  Hang out, work a puzzle, play cards or board games, help with a service project learn a new skill.  Share in pot-luck lunch and/or supper.  Come for an hour or stay all day.

It's our School.  Let's use it!

Sponsored by Ellie Monroe
Questions:  efoster@config.com or 330-274-0711

No charge.  Open to all, in the fully accessible cafeteria wing.  Lessons scheduled in knitting, crochet, watercoor and quilting, possibly others  


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Hiram College: 

Hiram College has been working on a 2-mile Hike and Bike trail between the main College Campus and the James H. Barrow Biological Field Station.  Hiram College President Chema and former Congressman Steven C. LaTourette procured funding to do an "Alternative Route Study," considering environmenteal and economic factors to determine the best route for this mile lilnk.  PLanners have added a regional component to the Study so that travelers could ride or walk to the Headwaters Trail that is 2 miles or so south of the Field Station.  The Headwaters Trail is an existing east-west connection between Garrettsville and Mantua and is prjected to eventually extend west to the main Trails of Cleveland and Akron.  

We urge everyone to attend a public open house meeting sponsored by the Portage County Engineer's Office to discuss the project and the results of the survey . . . .  Engineers will be on hand to answer questions.  The public meeting will be

     Wednesday March 20th, 2013
            From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. 
                  Koritansky Hall

[Blogger:  I have been walking my dog sporadically on the Hike/Bike Headwaters Trail that goes through Mantua, and probably at least some of you have used and ejnoyed it, as well.  Each section is different in the terrain it goes through and the plants and trees growing along it.  At one point on the trail, I have heard an owl hooting from a stand of pine trees.  And it's quiet.  Well, quiet in terms of the noises of civilization.]

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Mantua Rotary program on fracking

The Mantua Rotary Club meets Tuesday evenings at 6:00 p.m. at the Hilltop Christian Church.  Members have dinner at 6:15p.m. and enjoy a program at 7:00p.m.  The programs are usually about 30 minutes long and are quite varied in subject matter.  Last month's Bigfoot program was quite a success.

On Tuesday, March 26, the program will be on fracking.  The speaker is a retired geologist with a law degree.  Two more programs on fracking are also scheduled and will be announced. 

The meeting will be in the basement of the Hilltop Christian Church. 

Anyone who wants to have dinner with the members of the club is welcome and should contact Helen Hazlett by March 19.  Dinners cost $8.50 and are provided by Jake's.

Helen:  330-274-2231 or hhazlett@juno.com     
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