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Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/strong><\/em> Stumped with a morning group at the Pelican Coffee Shop in Bucyrus early today. There were some 25 men with, I was told, an average age of 80. (The group has been meeting since 1958 and is kind of the behind-the-scenes voice in town.) Howared Pfleiderer, 84, told me they are often joined by the mayor, police chief, council people… I told a reporter for the Telegraph-Reporter <\/em>newspaper here that I would like to see these men also regularly joined, “elbow to elbow,” by area youth, young adults, middle-age adults… like it was in the old days. Anymore, I then told radio reporter Becky Abernathy of WQEL here, the seniors in America are cast aside in nursing homes, retirement communities, RV travel, “when they have all these years of accumulated life experience and wisdom that is going unheard.” Social security is not just about maintaining a monetary fund, I said. I then met with Floyd Reinhart of nearby Sycamore, Ohio. He is a retired district director for the U.S. Farm Service Agency. We talked about strategies for steering the country back to more small family farms, which was once the fabric of America. In addition, Reinhart is also active in the Catholic Rural Life Association. He said in this area, the Association is considering a program to inspire local farmers to set aside an acre of land for gardens and so on. Food grown on these parcels by local volunteers would be sold at farmer’s markets, and the like, with the proceeds going to provide seed money for poor, rural farmers in the Third World. (I was so impressed with Mr. Reinhart’s ideas and enthusiasm to make a difference, I couldn’t help but think: ‘Wouldn’t this small town man be a good Secretary of Agriculture?’.) To round out the morning, I stopped at Liz Tiball’s eighth grade class at Holy Trinity School here. The older students, I learned, are making items for the younger ones which will be won at games, etc., at a yearly Mardi Gras event. All the proceeds go into the Toledo Diocese mission to help in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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