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Whenever I think of my dad coming home from work, I think of the same conversation playing out, day after day.

Alright, any other parent out there as exhausted as I am? Even though we are almost a full month in, most definitely, I am not in back-to-school and all the activities shape yet. It’s not like they ease you back in either, it is everything all at once.

VAN WERT – It’s all about building a strong pack of runners.

In the 1935 Broadway musical “Dumbo,” Jimmy Durante was leading an elephant across the stage when stopped by a policeman. Asked what he was doing with the elephant, Durante replied, “What elephant?” As time evolved since that early refusal to acknowledge something as obvious as an elephant on a stage, the expression “the elephant in the room” has come to mean that obvious something that someone refuses to see.

For financial nerds, the Big Three are not LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh of the NBA’s Miami Heat circa 2012. The Big Three of inflation are not nearly as flashy, but they are the stars dominating the field.

Traditionally, becoming an auctioneer in Ohio was a lengthy process that included education requirements, a verbal examination and a time period of acting as an apprentice auctioneer under an already licensed auctioneer. That traditional process prepared auctioneers for the typical, out loud and in-person auctions that have traditionally been what we think of when we think of auctions.

LIMA — If there is one thing Lima Senior is not going to miss in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference is playing Toledo Central Catholic in football. Toledo Central Catholic downed the Spartans 56-0 in the final conference clash between these two teams Friday.

CELINA – It took a little time for Celina’s offense to start clicking.

COLUMBUS GROVE — Columbus Grove’s defense was suffocating.

While the calendar said the fall equinox began Tuesday, the reality of the beginning of autumn struck us Thursday with much cooler temperatures.