January 24, 2013 Bulldog Sports Round-up

This year’s Campaign to Renovate the Little Art Theatre reached its goal of $475,000 to bring the theater into the 21st century.

Betty Joan Baker died at Wright Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Fairborn on Jan. 22. She was 80.

Frankie Ritter Ruopp died peacefully at her home in Tucson, Ariz., on Tuesday, Jan. 8. She was 85.

Since the Yellow Springs Family Health Center, operated by Wright State University Physicians, was abandoned and demolished three years ago, the land has been vacant.

How should Village Council respond to funding requests from local nonprofits? Council members held an initial discussion on the issue at their Jan. 7 meeting, although the topic was discussion only, with no action taken at this time.

Village resident Robert Gage doesn’t relish heights, but even hovering at 70 feet in the air last week, he appeared less concerned with the drop than with the fertility of the newest shoots he was clipping.

Kazuko Kawano Radtke of Bellbrook died Monday, Jan. 21 at Southview Hospital. She was 80.

Donna May (Fink) Fulton Mathiasen died Sunday, Jan. 13 in Yellow Springs. She was 86.

Interim president and CEO of Yellow Springs Federal Credit Union Sandra Hollenberg was named permanent leader of the local lender.