Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s office announced on Monday that First Lady Fran DeWine has now also been diagnosed with COVID.

The diagnosis was made by the First Lady’s personal physician, who says the First Lady is experiencing mild symptoms similar to Governor DeWine’s.

The First Lady has also received a monoclonal antibody treatment as Governor DeWine has.

Both Governor DeWine and the First Lady continue to quarantine at home.

On Friday, Governor DeWine announced he had COVID and was experiencing mild symptoms such as a runny nose, headache, body aches, and a sore throat.

Both Governor DeWine and the First Lady are fully vaccinated, each having received the two-dose vaccination and a booster shot.

The Findlay Police Department is warning the public about a scam involving someone claiming to represent AEP Ohio.

Police say the caller tells the potential victim that AEP is upgrading meters in their neighborhood and that their electric bill is past due.

The scammer advises that during the ‘upgrade’ their power will be turned off if they don’t pay their past due bill during the call.

The police department says this is a common scam tactic and anyone who receives such a call should simply hang up.

Anyone with questions about their bill should contact AEP at a trusted number.

Bluffton historian Fred Steiner says every town has its claim to fame and that Bluffton’s is ‘public enemy number 1’, John Dillinger.

Fred says Dillinger and his gang robbed Citizens National Bank of Bluffton of $2,100 on August 14th, 1933 and that the five-minute episode became the story of the century for Bluffton residents.

In a presentation at the Findlay-Hancock County Public Library on Wednesday, April 20th at 6 p.m., Fred will talk about the robbery, share eyewitness accounts and other stories that have evolved into oral history form and some that have stretched the truth.

Steiner was editor of the Bluffton News for two decades.

He then created two internet community journalism websites, Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon.

Get more on the John Dillinger presentation at the library by clicking here.

The Grand Reopening celebration for the Miracle League of Findlay Field and Playground is scheduled for Saturday, April 23rd at 11:00 a.m.

The Miracle League of Findlay provides opportunities for children and adults with special needs to play baseball, regardless of their abilities.

New additions include:

– New shade structures over our home plate bleachers.
– New shaded bleacher section in center field to watch and enjoy the games.
– New Zipline playground equipment.
– New recycled benches that have been placed around the entire facility.
– New signage, landscaping and other improvements to begin 2022.

Brad Koller is president of the board of the Miracle League.

As Brad mentioned in the audio above, there will be a ribbon-cutting, food and fun for the entire family beginning at 11 a.m.

It’s also opening day for the Spring League and the first game starts at noon.

The Miracle Field of Findlay is a custom baseball field with a cushioned, rubberized surface that allows players with disabilities to experience the game of baseball.

It features wheelchair and walker accessible dugouts and a flat surface to eliminate any barriers to players with restricted mobility or who are visually impaired.

The inclusive playground was designed to welcome children of all abilities and their families.

It provides individuals who are physically, mentally or emotionally challenged the opportunity to enjoy a playground with sensory-stimulating activities, an extensive ramping system and many more features for family and friends to enjoy year round.

The inclusive playground is over 11,000 square feet of surface and has over 55 pieces of equipment.

A major benefit of the playground is that it helps build stronger families by breaking down obstacles along the way.

The Blanchard Valley Health System Miracle Park of Findlay is part of Findlay’s Flag City Sports Complex at 3430 North Main Street.

The month of April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol says, with advances in technology and mobile devices, distracted driving has emerged as a major contributor to crashes and deaths on the roadways.

Lt. Grigsby says the Distracted Driving Corridor just south of Findlay on I-75 is educating drivers about the dangers of distracted driving and making them aware of law enforcement’s intense focus on stopping it.

The Lt. says talking or texting on cell phones, eating, and other distractions continue to cause crashes that have lifelong consequences for both violators and victims.

During the past five years, male drivers were more likely than their female counterparts to be the ones distracted in distracted driving crashes (55 percent vs 44 percent).

In fatal crashes, males made up 64 percent of distracted drivers.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol last summer unveiled a Distracted Driving Dashboard.

The dashboard includes a detailed view of crashes and violations across Ohio and the important work that troopers are doing to reduce distracted driving.

The Handbags That Help women’s giving circle awarded its fourteenth round of grants totaling $43,145 to four local nonprofits.

These latest grants bring the organization’s total in 15 years to more than $620,000.

The 2021-2022 grantees are:

• City Mission – $4,000 Updates to the five Family Rooms and items for an outdoor play area.
• Findlay City Schools – $10,655 Materials for the Land Lab Innovative Center at Chamberlain Hill School.
• Fort Findlay FOP Lodge 20 Foundation – $10,490 Cops and Kids Go Back to School event.
• Raise the Bar – $18,000 Seven Habits training and a keynote speaker for an upcoming Leadership Day.

Handbags That Help over the years has granted $623,740 in 15 grant cycles to support 30 local nonprofit organizations.

Handbags That Help is a women’s giving circle made up of 144 women from the community.

Hosted by The Community Foundation, Handbags That Help is a women’s giving circle dedicated to building strong families and increasing philanthropy in Hancock County.

HTH collectively funds significant grants to charitable projects and programs in the community.

For more information visit www.community-foundation.com/impact/handbags-that-help.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Friday announced that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 by his personal physician.

The governor says he’s been experiencing mild symptoms such as a runny nose, headache, body aches, and a sore throat.

To follow CDC COVID-19 diagnosis protocols, the governor is in quarantine.

He received a monoclonal antibody treatment on Friday.

First Lady Fran DeWine is experiencing no symptoms and has tested negative.

Both Governor DeWine and the First Lady are fully vaccinated, each having received the two-dose vaccination and a booster shot.

Findlay and Hancock County are included in a Wind Advisory issued by the National Weather Service.

The Wind Advisory goes until 8 p.m. Friday.

Forecasters say southwest winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour will gust up to 50 miles per hour at times.

Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.

Tree limbs could be blown down, causing a few power outages.

People should use caution when driving, especially if operating a high-profile vehicle.

The Tiffin Drive-In Theater has reopened after an extensive and lengthy renovation.

Owner Mike Cole says he can’t wait to have everyone out to check out the renovated facility.

Just about everything was replaced, from the screens to the box office to the concession building.

Cole thanks everyone for the kind words of encouragement throughout the renovation process as he said it was difficult at times.

The movies for Friday and Saturday, April 15-16 are as follows; Screen #1: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (PG-13) w/ Morbius (PG-13)

Screen #2: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (PG) w/ Uncharted (PG-13)

Gate opens at 7:30 p.m. and showtime is at 8:40 p.m.

Then on Easter Sunday they’ll be having a special showing of The Ten Commandments.

Order tickets and get more details on the drive-in here.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a fourth set of Ohio House and Senate district maps are still unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans and has ordered the Ohio Redistricting Commission to reconvene and adopt new General Assembly maps.

In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the revised plan “has not materially changed from” the third set of maps invalidated by the Court on March 16th.

The Court majority noted that the commission initially embraced the Court’s directive to draft the maps rather than adopt maps drafted solely by the Republican leaders of the Ohio House and Senate.

But in the end, the “process devolved into the same one-sided partisan map-drawing process that led us to invalidate the previous three plans.”

The Court stated that it discerned “intent of partisan favoritism from the timeline that led to the commission’s decision to scrap the work of the independent map drawers in favor of a plan that included minimal changes to one already invalidated as unconstitutional.”

The Court ordered the commission to file its new plan with the Ohio Secretary of State’s office by 9 a.m. on May 6, and with the Court by noon, May 6.

The Court noted that “for good cause shown,” the commission may seek an extension of time to submit the new plan.

The opinion stated that during final deliberations on the fourth set of maps, commission members misinterpreted the Court’s March 16th order and believed they could not request an extension of time.

Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Justices Michael P. Donnelly, Melody Stewart, and Jennifer Brunner joined the majority opinion.

Justices Sharon L. Kennedy, Patrick F. Fischer, and R. Patrick DeWine each issued a dissenting opinion.

Patrick DeWine is the son of Governor Mike DeWine, who is a member of the Ohio Redistricting Commission.

Ohio voters previously overwhelmingly approved changes to the state constitution to limit partisan line-drawing in the redistricting process.