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challenged, for example, or have a list of other personal problems, volunteers need to have a face- to-face meeting with that person at least once a month, make contact with the facility where that person is living, and then file quarterly and yearly guardian reports.
“An individual with a caring, compassionate and insightful heart could be a wonderful guard- ian,” Hartenburg said. “The most important part is to act in your ward’s best interest and make posi- tive decisions to enhance their lives.
“Being a volunteer guardian has brought me great joy,” she continued. “I have wonderful sup- port from the Probate Court. I find that it is a very rewarding and manageable volunteer position. I strongly encourage others to consider being a vol- unteer guardian.”
Bob Reynolds -
A Lifetime Of Boat Building
By Jerry Mix, Feature Writer
If you are a Lake Erie history buff or if you are just a plain old “boat nut,” you owe it to yourself to check out the Maritime Museum of Sandusky.
The museum currently has seven and one- half boats (the one-half is so that kids can climb aboard and get a look at things like boat controls), of all shapes and sizes on display in its adjacent out-buildings. A large number of the boats are wooden and this is where 86-year-old volunteer Bob Reynolds enters the picture as he has had a role in building many of those boats.
Reynolds, worked for the Matthews Boat Company for 25 years when it was located on West
Second St. in Port Clinton. He spent 20 years in the Matthews’ shop then an additional five years in engineering, so Reynolds knows wooden boats.
After 10 years in the boat building industry in Maryland Reynolds retired and returned to his Port Clinton, Ohio home. Here he has contribut- ed his boat building knowledge and skills to the Maritime Museum of Sandusky where he held classes for people interested in building boats.
In addition to Reynolds, we recently talked with Annette Wells, who has been the director of the Maritime Museum for five years. “We now cover all kinds of Lake Erie items from the wetlands, ice harvesting, commercial fishing, the underground railroad, the lake’s islands, pirates on the lake, and passenger boats,” she said.
The museum has several out-buildings where boats that were used on Lake Erie are on dis- play. And Reynolds now has a DVD that records for posterity the history of the Matthews Boat Company and its impact on Lake Erie boating. He also keeps busy donating his time as a volunteer on projects for United Way and his church, attending enrichment classes at Terra Tech. And some days, in the fall, he can be found picking grapes in the vineyards at Put-in-Bay. With a grin he adds that sometimes that will lead to a glass of wine with buddies at the local winery.
These days, Reynolds’ boat building days have slowed down as he had knee surgery about a year ago. “However, I won’t rule out building more boats,” he added. And, no doubt, he will continue to contribute his time to worthy causes like the Maritime Museum of Sandusky.
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Bob Reynolds and friends in the boat building workshop of the Maritime Museum of Sandusky. Pictured are Fred Rode, Jim Ziss, Norm Winkel, Ed Mantey, Reynolds, Mike Munn, and John Luipold. Photo circa 2010 by Barb Clemons
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