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Tiffin boy killed in crash Driver of car that ran into minibike fled scene. Ottawa County, A3 Port Clinton, Massage Therapy 2 News Ohio Massage therapist sets up shop Old home made into new House of Healing Massage Therapy. Business, A6 Herald www.portclintonnewsherald.com Not what she expected Trip to China surprises OH grad By DAN DEARTH Staff writer CARROLL TOWNSHIP Emily Croll's trip to China provided the 18-year-old Carroll Township resident with quite a culture shock. The trip was a graduation gift from her uncle, who lives in China for his job as president of Cooper Tire's Asian Division. "Visiting China was the opportunity of a she said.

"I never would have gone alone." Croll said she went on the -week trip with her mother, Suzette, and expected things would be much different, considering China's Communist government is widely recognized for committing human rights violations. "It was quite the opposite," she said. "I thought it might be military controlled, but it seemed the people just took care of themselves and were very happy doing it." To emphasize her point, Croll said Chinese officials agreed to allow her family into the Olympic Village in Beijing, site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was a place, she said, few people are allowed to see. "Usually, only workers are allowed in," she said.

The Chinese aren't readily showing the village's progress to the press and public, she said. Although cranes are on the construction site, they sit idly by while about 100,000 workers perform a majority of the labor by hand. The budding communications major at Dennison University in Granville said she wants to revisit China during the Games and write articles for publication. Croll was a three sport athlete at Oak Harbor High School. Croll said she visited several cities in China, including Shanghai and Xian, and saw the Great Wall of China.

Work on the ancient struc- an THE ETERNAL GREAT WALL Polly Ann Herald Carroll Township resident Emily Croll, 18, surrounded by Terra-Cotta Warriors and other souvenirs she brought back from her trip to China, explains how divided the denomination marked on Chinese money by eight to determine its value in American money. A bill marked 10 is worth a little more than $1. ture began more than 3,000 years ago to repel invading armies. "It's amazing just the size of it," she said. "It goes on for thousands of miles." Candidate says no to mega-farms By MATT SANCTIS operations have stirred deStaff writer bate across the county, stirring some area residents to Democratic congression- create organizations to opal candidate Darrell Opfer pose the large farms.

Two called for a temporary ban farms, each planning more on industrial farms Tues- than 2,000 cows, are workday in the midst of San- ing to set up shop in the dusky County's biggest an- county. nual agricultural event. Members of the SanAt the Democratic tent dusky County Citizens Proat the fair, Opfer, a candi- tecting our Natural Redate for state representa- sources were also on hand, tive for the 81st District, decked out in T-shirts with said the moratorium is the slogan, "Say No to needed to study the eco- Dairy-Air." nomic and environmental impact of the farms. The See CANDIDATE, A2 Worker headed to jail for D-B scare Fake carjacking report put plant on lockdown By KRISTINA SMITH Staff writer PORT CLINTON A contractor will serve 30 days in jail for making a false carjacking report that put the DavisBesse Nuclear Power Station into lockdown and caused a Homeland Security alert in February. Despite the prosecutor and defense attorney's requests for probation, Judge Fritz Hany sentenced John Grochowski, 52, Wilmington, D.E.

to the maximum 180 days in jail with 150 days suspended on one misdemeanor count of inducing panic Friday in Ottawa County Municipal Court. Grochowski must also pay the maximum $1,000 fine and $1,104 in restitution to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office for manpower wasted on a search for the made-up carjackers. When he reported to his first day of work at the Carroll Township plant, he told security three men got into his car in Williston, held him at gunpoint and jumped out at the power station. The report sent the county into high alert and involved the FBI, a police helicopter and caused security officials to personally brief President George W. Bush on the situation, Hany said.

Though Ottawa County Assistant Prosecutor Christy Cole asked Hany for probation because Grochowski has no criminal record or traffic tickets, she said she felt the punishment was appropriate. "I think the judge was trying to send him a message," Cole said. "You can't abuse emergency services. In the days of we take that very seriously, and we have to." Grochowski's attorney, Paul Skaff of Perrysburg, told Hany Grochowski is a recovering alcoholic who was in withdrawal when he concocted the story. He is in counseling for alcoholism and has begun a new job, Skaff said.

"For someone who has never been before the court, this has been very stressful, and in his words, 'an awakening," Skaff said. "He's looking at this as a second chance. I don't believe we'll see him in this or any other court again." Five members of Grochowksi's family sitting behind him in the courtroom wore See JUDGE, A2 USA WEEKEND 16 Secrets Perfect Cruise ing on the wall when it collapsed beneath them. Croll said she asked him if a lot of people sue the gov- See OH, A2 72 M20 8. Plan your perfect cruise Insiders share secrets for the best cruise vacation.

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Staff Sgt. Gordon G. Solomon of Fairborn died Thursday while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province. The government did not list a cause of death. Solomon, who joined the Marines in 1990, was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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