Port Clinton News

Melanie Anslow has joined the nursing staff of the Ottawa County Health Department.
Anslow, a Catawba Island resident, has been in the nursing profession for 38 years.
She works in the home health care division on a part-time basis, visiting patients in the privacy of their homes. She began her employment there in mid-April.
“What’s not to like,” she said about the profession. “In my mind, I have always been a nurse for as long as I can remember.”

Dec. 7, 1922 — Aug. 18, 2012
Helen Louise Walls, 89, of Port Clinton, passed away Saturday, Aug. 18, at her residence, surrounded by her loving family.
Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21, in the Gerner-Wolf-Walker Funeral Home & Crematory, Port Clinton. Funeral service will be conducted by Rev. Daniel Keck at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22, in the funeral home.

The 2012-13 waterfowl hunting season dates have been approved by the Ohio Wildlife Council, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Wildlife.
The Lake Erie Marsh Zone encompasses portions of Lucas, Wood, Ottawa, Sandusky and Erie counties. The duck hunting season in the Lake Erie Marsh Zone is Oct. 13-28 followed by a second segment that opens Nov. 10-Dec. 23.
The daily bag limit for ducks is six, which may not include more than four mallards (no more than one may be female), three wood ducks, one black duck, two redheads, four scaup, one canvasback, two pintails and one mottled duck. The daily bag limit for mergansers is five, of which no more than two may be hooded mergansers. The daily bag limit for coots is 15. Possession limits after the first day are twice the daily bag limit.