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BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — Providing 15 million pounds of food each year to 417 pantries and programs is no easy feat – but thanks to a generous community, the Toledo SeaGate Food Bank is filling bellies, educating minds and warming feet throughout Northwest Ohio. On November 18, Toledo SeaGate Food …

Thanks to a generous community, the pickup truck at Steve Rogers Ford in Whitehouse was stuffed with toys that will go to children in need this holiday season. Steve Rogers Ford and Farmers and Merchants State Bank teamed up for an afternoon of fun while the U.S. Marines and Santa …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — Jamie Irwin and her daughter Veda Mitchell were given matching mother/daughter T-shirts that read, “Tough like my mommy” and “Tough like my daughter.” Veda, a Fort Miami Elementary kindergartner is undergoing maintenance treatment for leukemia and Jamie recently began treatment for breast cancer, which was …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER— Finding the right care for an elderly loved one can be challenging. Plenty of options exist, but finding the best fit takes time and may be difficult to do, especially with a busy schedule to juggle. CarePatrol is a senior living placement organization that takes the …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — It’s been over 50 years since Robert King, Tom Marriman and William Mershman died while serving in Vietnam, but Rev. Robert Fry still remembers his friends from Delphos, Ohio. “One of them, we went on a double date to prom. The last I saw him was …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — After an extended closure, the Wolcott Museum will open its doors for a holiday tour. The historic River Road museum complex features the Wolcott House along with a historic church, one-room school house, farm house, log house and train depot on its 6-acre campus. Site …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — ProMedica has opened a new emergency room and urgent care facility at Side Cut Crossings in Maumee. ProMedica officials were on hand on October 28 for the ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the Toledo Hospital Emer-gency and Urgent Care Center, which is said to be a first-of-its-kind …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — Lisa Justice would like the opportunity to stop by and visit her mother for occasional weekday visits, but the lack of public transportation is preventing her from doing that. Her mother, Joyce Nelms, is a resident of Monclova Township, and Justice is hopeful that things …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — Ghosts, vampires and zombies didn’t spook the residents of Waterville past. Typhoid fever, dysentery, malaria and Spanish flu were much scarier. On October 13, several teachers and physicians from Waterville’s past came to life to share just how treacherous life on the frontier could be, telling …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — The stakeholders of Maumee Pointe, a new memory care facility under construction at Side Cut Crossings, held a preview in late August. The Douglas Company is serving as the general contractor for the $11.7 million project. Because the event took place while under construction, organizers …