One Year Ago
• Over the past few years, the 4-H Interstate Exchange Club has made their annual Holiday Light Show at the Fair an end-of-the-year tradition for many families in Van Wert County. Now celebrating its fifth anniversary, the event has grown to more than 60 light displays stretching over much of the Van Wert County Fairgrounds.

25 Years Ago — 1987
• Members of Ladies Auxiliary to Waltrick-Hemme Post 3035 Veterans of Foreign Wars Americanism Chairman Meredith Brown and Denelda Brokamp, president, presented an American flag to Edna Jane Nolte, first vice national regent of the Catholic Daughters of Americas. The flag will be flown at their headquarters in New York City.