WILLARD POLICE The March 5-11 Willard Police Department blotter had the following highlights:

Berlin library program BERLIN HEIGHTS This library, located at 4 E. Main St., will have a "Kids' Spring Craft" program from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Register by calling (419) 588-2250. Opera in Bellevue BELLEVUE On Tuesday morning, professional musicians and performers from Opera Cleveland will present "An Aesop Odyssey" at the Bellevue Society for the Arts. The production is the result of a generous grant from The International Metal Hose Company, and is being presented to area fifth-graders, including all fifth-graders from Bellevue and ICS, as well as other area schools. There is no cost to the schools or students.

Make sure to set your calendars for the week of April 16 Norwalk's annual spring trash pickup week. The sanitation department will be out on your normal trash day in order to pickup any larger items, said sanitation department superintendent Jeff Montgomery. He said garbage should not be in boxes or paper bags. Before being picked up, any refrigerators, air conditioners or freezers must be certified that freon has been removed.

Country Music Showcase set for Saturday in Norwalk A Country Music Showcase is set for 7 p.m. Saturday at the Norwalk Theatre uptown. Eleven contestants from areas such as Fremont, Willard, Monroeville, Lexington and Ashland are slated to perform.

AVERY Cleveland Cavaliers and Indians game tickets, a weekend at a Port Clinton condominium and an antique quilt are also available for bid at the EHOVE Seker auction March 24. Staff members are seeking and accepting donation of items and services up to the auction date.

Christopher John Nadolny, 24, of Saint Anthony, Minn., counselor and Heather Lynn Helgeson, 27, of Norwalk, counselor. Rick P. Gunselman, 58, of Elyria, disabled and Deborah L. Harris, 53, of Willard, unemployed.

Some senior citizens reading this will remember the Rev. Charles Gardner who was pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Norwalk from 1917 to 1935. One of his greatest accomplishments in that time was the building of a new one-story wooden school building facing West League, where the rectory is now located, in 1919. He also struggled to keep the parish treasury in the black, especially in the darkest years of the Great Depression. The reason he built a new school is that there had been a brick school on West League with two classrooms on the first floor and a parish hall on the second. In the fall of 1913 it was determined that this school with wooden stairs, floors and interior walls was a fire hazard. The school was closed and razed. This caused all St. Mary children to either go to St. Paul elementary school or to the public schools. League Street School was being built at the time with four rooms, and the influx of new students caused the board of education to add two more rooms at the back and have just one grade in each room.

Dear Jane, I am finally going to paint my living room. Do I really need to prime first? The existing walls are white.

A Norwalk man convicted of two Settlement Road burglaries was sentenced Tuesday to four months in the Huron County Jail. Larry A. Long Jr., 32, of 38 E. Washington St., will be granted work release privileges, meaning he will be released from jail for a period of time on days that he works. He also was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $1,000 for two counts of burglary, both third-degree felonies.

Air Force Airman Brittany Van Natta has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. During the six weeks of training, the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special training in human relations.