NEWARK, Ohio - On July 10, the Ohio Pest Management Association (OPMA) held its annual summer meeting at the Cherry Valley Lodge in beautiful Newark, Ohio.
One of the highlights of the summer meeting was the scholarship fundraising auction held following the banquet style dinner on Friday evening. A silent auction yielded $2,457.00 and was followed by auctioneer and OPMA president, William Kirchner Jr., "working the crowd" to bring the grand total raised for the scholarship fund to $5,932.
The item commanding the single highest bid, $750.00, was a scale model of the WW II aircraft carrier USS Hornet, assembled by William Kirchner, Jr. of Cleveland Chemical Pest Control, Inc., and populated with bald-faced hornet "jet fighters," damselfly "helicopters," field ant "crew" and a longhorned beetle "auxiliary antenna" by Dr. Gerry Wegner of Varment Guard Environmental Services, Inc.
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