When The Weather Channel Came to Town

By Hannah Blackwell

          Football, the great American pastime, has brought our small town together on Friday nights for decades.  The boys that make up the Huron High School Football Team put hard work and dedication into the sport so that they can continue to make Huron proud.  Yet, who would have guessed that the team’s success and our little piece of paradise on the lake could catch the attention of Senior Producer of special projects for The Weather Channel, Mike Jenkins?  Early this week, Huron High School Athletic Director, Steve Camella, was notified that The Weather Channel was working on a segment called “12 Weeks, 12 Towns” and that they wanted to include Huron in the mix.  Jenkins and a camera crew of one rolled into town late Thursday afternoon to catch the Thursday night football practice with a drone camera.  They were also able to capture footage of the team members putting the “H” on their helmets for Friday night’s big game.  The segment for which Jenkins is traveling across the country is not just about small-town football programs, but about “getting into Middle America and telling the stories so the rest of America knows what you have; your hidden jewel.”  Huron was picked for the segment purely based on research with keywords such as “small town,” “community,” and “football.”  Jenkins and his team wanted to capture what makes Huron such a great place in the three-minute segment that will air throughout the day on The Weather Channel on Friday, September 5.  He explained that the segment “is not about the Friday nights; it’s about what the Friday nights mean to the community.”  Huron has something special, and this will be broadcast to the world next Friday.  

Caryl Crane Youth Theatre and BGSU Firelands College present SEUSSICAL AT A GLANCE

What: Seussical, the Musical
When: September 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 @ 7:30 pm; September 7 and 14 @ 2:00 pm
Where: McBride Auditorium, BGSU Firelands,  One University Drive, Huron, OH 44839
Cost: All tickets under $15, Call The new central ticketing center at the Sandusky State Theatre, 419-626-1950.
Info: Call 419.372.0732 or visit: http://www.firelands.bgsu.edu/arts/caryl-crane-youth-theatre.html

We have all the characters from Dr. Seuss,

They’re off of the page and out on the loose!

Horton the elephant, Gertrude the bird!

And JoJo the thinker who thinks a new word!

The Wickersham Brothers, the Sour Kangaroo,

And all of the Who’s play a major role too!

And of course we can’t have a big show like that

Without our emcee – the Cat in the Hat!

From Whoville to the Circus to the Jungle of Nool,

Why we’ll even take you to McElligot’s Pool!

Fun for all ages and sizes and kinds

With big imaginations and open-upped minds!

Caryl Crane Youth Theatre at BGSU Firelands College opens it’s 2014-2015 with the family musical,
Seussical! From Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the team who created Once on This Island, comes a
new and whimsical musical that weaves together Dr. Seuss’s most famous tales. Seuss’s stories have taught
tolerance, peace, and the value of dignity to generations of kids — that “a person’s a person, no matter how
small” — in fun and captivating ways. A heart warming kid-friendly story that also won't insult an adult's
intelligence, Seussical is the show for adults and children alike. Rated G.

Featuring a cast of 60 from 16 area schools, Seussical is directed
by CCYT Artistic Director Brian Marshall, and plays on the McBride Auditorium stage in the North Building on BGSU Firelands Campus September 5-14, 2014. Recommended for children ages 3 and up. Rated G.

The Shoreline Showdown

Huron Memorial Stadium will be the site of the 1^st “Shoreline Showdown” this Friday evening.  The Sandusky Blue Streaks will travel east to take on their lakefront neighbors, the Huron Tigers, in the first meeting of these teams in 100 years.  In his anthology entitled, Huron Football: Volume 1, A History of Huron, Ohio’s Football Program 1939-1979, Dave Brown states that Huron and Sandusky last met in football in 1914.  The outcome was not too good for Huron- a 98-0 loss for the Tigers.

 

Huron’s Athletic Director, Steve Camella, has been working on bringing these two teams together for about two years.  Camella explained that Sandusky’s enrollment is down, making the school a more comparable rival for Huron.  Since the schools are in close proximity to each other and both towns are on the lakeshore, Camella dubbed the game, the “Shoreline Showdown”.  This will be the first game of the season for both teams which, historically, is a difficult game to draw crowds.  Both schools hope this burgeoning rivalry will bring spectators out to watch the teams play.  Sandusky and Huron have committed to beginning their football seasons playing each other for the next two years, thus continuing the Shoreline Showdown.

Camella is hopeful that this will be the start of a wonderful, new tradition.  “I am looking forward to a competitive and entertaining game.” he stated.  The game will begin at 7 PM, and gates open at 5:30 PM.  Pre-sale tickets are available at the high school until the end of the school day on Friday.  The forecast looks great for Friday evening, so get out and support your Huron Tigers!

Real Estate Transactions

8/21/2014- 219 Munsee Place; Linda K. Beer, Trustee to Joanna & Teresa Beer; $118,000

8/25/2014- 335 Center Street; Joseph T. & Rebecca L. Dandurand to Thomas W. Rice; $249,000

Huron Cross Country Competes at Tiger Classic

The Huron Cross Country teams headed to Seneca East High School in Attica, Ohio, this past Saturday for the Tiger Classic.  Despite the heat and humidity, the runners performed quite well.  Eight girls and six boys ran their first 5K cross country race ever  

at the Tiger Classic.  The girls ended up 6th out of 13 teams despite not having two of their top three runners.  Several veteran runners ran course records including Sarah Neibler, Hannah Blackwell, Kate Will, Nick Lachowyn, and Elijah Hart.  Of these, Nick Lachowyn and Elijah Hart set personal records.  The season continues on Saturday, August 30 when the Huron runners head to Ashland for the Ashland Invite.