WILLARD - The Rainbow Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Mercy Hospital of Willard announce the kick-off of Great Strides: Taking Steps to Cure Cystic Fibrosis. The kick-off celebration will be held at noon Wednesday at the American Legion. This kick-off celebration will provide an opportunity for the community to hear from past participants in Great Strides, get information to form a team, learn ways to reach fundraising goals and learn how your business can sponsor the 2007 Great Strides Walkathon scheduled for 1 p.m. May 20 at Willard park. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...

Huron County Juvenile Court Judge Timothy Cardwell made the correct rulings in the caged children case that's what the judges in the 6th District Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The ruling affirms Cardwell's Dec. 22, 2005 judgment that eight of the 11 adopted Clarksfield Township children were abused and all 11 children were dependent. The decision by Judges Peter Handwork, Mark Pietrykowski and Thomas Osowik also supported Cardwell's March 20, 2006 decision to give permanent custody of the children to the Huron County Department of Job and Family Services (HCDJFS).

MARCH 14, 1968 The top stories in the Norwalk Reflector on this date 39 years ago:

Americans are individually, and as a whole, addicted to instant gratification. So I ask you, what is the hold up with this global warming thing? The northern area of Ohio is somewhere about 800 feet above sea level, so even if the Greenland ice cap and all of the North and South poles were to thaw out, the seas would never rise high enough to flood us here. Think of the housing industry boom for Ohio. More than half of America's population lives along the coastline, and those displaced millions will have to move somewhere. The flooded coastal cities would then become artificial reefs that would provide protection for new schools of fish and create more jobs for the sport fishermen whose industry is being greatly reduced because of over-fishing by corporate fishing fleets.

"If I receive my party's nomination for President of the United States, I pledge to participate in nine, 90-minute dialogues in the nine weeks before the general election with my opponent. In the Lincoln-Douglas style, I will agree to debate my opponent with only a time-keeper, and to insist upon no rules. I understand it will be just me and my solutions and my opponent with theirs." This is a challenge by Newt Gingrich to any candidate for president in 2008. He has yet to declare his candidacy, but has proposed this for the candidates. It would eliminate the liberal media control of any debates and leave the candidates on their own to answer each others' questions and provide solutions to the country's problems from their core beliefs. It would require each candidate to be completely prepared in his own mind, not based on questions to be asked by a reporter. They must be able to substantiate their positions on issues with historical parallels. If it didn't work in the past, it probably won't work now. Americans deserve to know exactly where each candidate stands on the issues. Let's pressure all candidates to have this type of debate to get their stand on all of the issues that are important to us.

Bennett Pointe, a new senior apartment home community in Norwalk Commons, is now open and has recently moved in its first residents. Located on Stower Lane on the northern edge of Norwalk, Bennett Pointe will encompass 60 new two-bedroom apartment homes for residents 55 and over when completed.

BERLIN HEIGHTS - Police busted a Memorial Drive drinking party and charged five juveniles with underage consumption early Saturday morning. The three Berlin Heights residents, two girls and one boy, and the two Norwalk boys were cited and released to their parents, Berlin Heights Police Chief Charity Schafer said.

Garrett L. Mohr, a 2006 graduate of Norwalk High School, graduated on Jan. 25 from Army boot camp in Ft. Jackson, S.C. He studied rifle training and physical marksmanship, among other things. Mohr will be entering the Electrical Aviation Regiment Co. A 1-222 based in Ft. Eustis, Va.

MONROEVILLE - The 18-year-old Monroeville High School senior who died from injuries he sustained in a snowboarding fall Thursday afternoon was on one of the resort's most difficult slopes at the time. Bellevue resident Greg Jacobs, of 515 Killbourne St., died Tuesday at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa., where he had been taken by a medical helicopter after the accident. Lucia Conti, the Hamot manager of media relations, referred medical questions to Erie County (Pa.) Coroner Dr. Lyle Cook, who was at a conference through today.