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Guys and Dolls
St. Joseph's kindergartners enjoyed the warm
weather of spring by taking to the playground
Wednesday, March 29. Pictured, right, St. Joe's
youngsters fight for attention during recess Wed
nesday, while, above, the little ladies take a
more relaxed approach. (News-Times photos by
Keith Gribbins)
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Marie Robinson decides
to make millennium move
by PAUL MORTON
News-Times reporter
Timber!
Actually the logs were
felled a long time ago, and
for the last 24 years they
have been home to Marie's
Timbers Night Club. But on
April 8, owner Marie Robinson will sell the business to
Robert Kaiser x>f Amherst
Township.
"I think it's time. I've been
there 24 years," Robinson
said "I always did want to
stick to the year 2000. That
was my goal, and I made iL
So now it's time to n«ove
on."
She said her decision to
sell the bar has been a while
in the making. Her son,
Harry, was killed in an automobile accident in 1998, then
she was diagnosed with
cancer last year.
"That was like a turning
poinL" she said. "I said I've
got to get rid of this bar, because that's the first thought
you get. But then as time
went by and I came out 100
percent cured, I had a different attitude and decided to
stick with it a little longer."
Robinson first acquired the
bar, with her husband in 1976
in a building at Middle Ridge
and Leavitt roads. The liquor
license originally belonged to
her father.
In October of that year, she
moved to the bar's current location on the southeast comer
of Rts. 113 and 58. The
building, made of chestnut
logs, was originally owned by
John Kaminas, and it changed
hands twice before Robinson
bought iL
"My husband was so
happy, but he wasn't feeling
well," RuMnsWi spMi "Eight
months later he died of a
heart attack, and I didn't
know what I was going to
do, because I was so busy
taking care of my family. But
I got in there and decided I
was going to make it work."
One of the things that
helped to make it work was
Robinson's trademark roast
beef sandwiches.
"My roast beef has quite a
reputation," she said. "These
bikers used to come in on
Sundays just to get my roast
beef. They'd come riding in
just to get a roast beef
sandwich."
She said she came up with
the recipe, one of the most
loosely guarded secrets in history, using ingredients the
previous owner left when she
bought the bar. She plans to
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Marie Robinson
Students spend seven
weeks preparing play
for pub ic staging
by KEITH QRMBMS
News-Times reporter
The spring play is rolling into
town, and the Marion L. Steele High
School Theater Company is pulling
out the stops and laughs for the Amherst community with Tom Stop-
pard's "Rosencrantz and Guildensi-
ern are Dead."
The troupe is looking for a big
turnout to watch Stoppant'i Godot-
esque production that has two of
Shakespeare's background characters in "Hamlet" pondering existence and getting no where.
"It's a comedic rumination on
life," mused director and high
school drama teacher Chas Dere-
mer. "It's upbsaL and it's really
funny. Not at a sitcom level, but an
intelligent, insightful funny"
The audience gets to watch
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,
school chums of Hamlet's sent Cram
Germany to try and find out why
Hamlet it acting cnny, muddle abet* InMad ftc swaes of Shakes-
play and .** who they are.
what they're doing here, and basically what's it all about
One of Stoppaid's early productions, the play is strongly derivative
from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for
Godot", explained Deremer.
"But it's more upbeat. The bond
between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is what really makes it appealing
to the audience," Deremer stated.
Deremer choose the production
because of Stoppard's unique word
usage, and of course he finds the
production fun and interesting.
"When you work on something
for five to seven weeks, you need
something challenging and interesting. I'm not happy unless I'm doing
something like that." Deremer said.
"And this really benefits the students. It's good to have them stretch
their minds a little bit"
Seniors have taken over the three
main leads of the production. Matt
Stipe (Rosencrantz), Nick Trelka
(Guildenstern). and Jared Johnson
(The Player), will be heading the
play come the middle of April. Stipe
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Percival
ponders
national
contest
by KEITH
The MLS Theatre Company win be presenting
Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Gufcfenetern
are Dead" this april as their spring production.
Pictured, bottom, left to right. Nfc* Trefca (front)
and Matt Stipe as Rosencrantz and GuNdenctem
listen to Jared Johnson who plays The Player in
rehearsal Thursday, March 30.
News-Times reporter
Jake Percival ended his unprecedented high school career in wrestling during the last weekend in
March.
I   Undefeated as a senior, Parcivri
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season all the way to stats, taking
the number one position in Ohio for
the 140 pounders. With awn tfaaa
500 matches behind him. me senior
Comet was bound for greatness this
year on the mat.
Having only six losses in his entire career, most of those as a fiesh-
man, Percival has always been a
stop Shove the competition. Tares
time state competitor, two-time runner up, and finally a state caampion-
strip, the Comets' best wrestler to
date moved to the national level of
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