Booster raffle winner
To the editor: The Woodmore Athletic Boosters recently had a raffle in which the grand prize was a choice of five different cars or $15,000.

Tickets were sold from March 1 until the drawing, which was held July 3 at the Woodville 4th of July Celebration. Enough tickets were sold to enable the Boosters to give away the grand prize.

The winner of the raffle was Gary Sommer of Sylvania, who chose to take the grand prize of the $15,000. There were also nine other winners of $100 each.

The proceeds from the raffle, approximately $5,500, will go to help the athletic teams at Woodmore get the necessary equipment they require.

Everyone understands the budgets of the schools are not able to support all the needs of the athletic teams. Doing this type of fundraiser by the Woodmore Athletic Boosters allows for the extra equipment that the school cannot support with their limited budget.

I would like to thank everyone who purchased a ticket to support this event. Even the purchase of one ticket is a show of support for the student athletics at Woodmore and the support of Woodmore Schools.

I would also like to thank the sponsors for this event: Thayer Family Dealerships of Bowling Green, Diversified Insurance of Elmore, Cumulus Broadcasting, Fremont Federal Credit Union, Peak Physical Therapy, Coach’s Corner, Judy’s Pet Grooming, Marsh Funeral Home, Tri-County Bowl, Lighthouse of Elmore, John Zatko, DDS, Materion (formerly Brush Wellman), All Washed Up Car Wash, Country Hair Creation, Wittkamp Insurance Agency and JoJo’s Nite Club.

Soon the Boosters will be starting the raffle for next year. Look for tickets at the football and basketball games and on the Athletic Booster website. Our goal is to sell all 3,000 tickets. Help us support the needs of our Woodmore student athletes.
Donna Sandwisch
Co-Chair, Raffle Committee

Wrong attitude
To the editor: The reaction of the Lake Board of Education after the defeat of the new 4.75-mill, permanent operating levy was not encouraging to Lake taxpayers.

The board members voted to place a new 4.75-mill, 5-year levy on the November ballot with a comment that if it doesn’t pass, the board will request the state to balance their budget.

Instead, the board should request the state come in now and balance the budget. The odds of passing a new 4.75-mill levy are slim due to the current economic conditions property taxpayers are facing.

I would also recommend current board members turn in their resignations and allow new board members to take their place. They are not giving the superintendent and school administrators an opportunity to use the tools of Ohio Senate Bill 5 to recommend changes that would allow the district to educate our students with the funds that are available. The attitude of the board members is just plain wrong.

Senate Bill 5 gives local school boards tools to help them balance their budgets during hard economic times and at the same time protect student rights and programs.

Wages, including salary step increases, pensions, sick pay, and health care expenses may have to be changed at all levels to get the community and schools through these hard economic times. As President Obama has stressed in his speeches, we must all accept shared sacrifices but at least school employees have a job and benefits to support their families while others in the community may not be so well off.
Larry Knudson
Millbury
Editor’s note: Mr. Knudson is a former member of the Lake Board of Education.

Levy’s intent
To the editor: I was reading through the Aug. 1 edition of The Press when an ad caught my attention. It listed reasons to vote no on the Lake school levy and was paid for by Brad Schwamberger. I understand his points that he found and included in his ad but these schools were having problems with the state cutting funding and levies failing.

So these schools had to lay off teachers, cut programs to be within the budget. These levies are to keep teachers working and programs running for students to participate in. I graduated from Lake in 2007 and recently graduated from Adrian College this past May with the intention of going into the education field. It alarms me that there may not be any openings when it is my time to become a teacher.

Education is important for everyone and with schools cutting teachers and programs, students are at best getting a sub-par education and are not being properly being prepared for college. The Lake levy had the intent to generate money so teachers did not have to be cut. So I suggest Mr. Schwamberger the next time you create an ad, you come up with different points on why you think the next Lake levy should go down in defeat.
Thomas  Frisby
Lake Township

Term limits needed
To the editor: What is our federal government doing right? Nothing.

We vote them in and they stay forever. Maybe it should be like the president; two terms and out. Let them start making a real living with a job that is not given to them. And no benefits after two terms.

After two terms they get too much power and seem to forget who and how they got there.

It’s time we let them know who put them there and why.
Jerry Bronkowski
Curtice

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