Vantage Career Center hosts All- Boards Dinner, Alumni HOF Induction

VAN WERT — Vantage Career Center held its monthly board meeting followed by the All Boards Dinner and Alumni Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday.

During the All Boards meeting, four alumni were introduced to the Vantage Alumni Hall of Fame. Those inducted included Roy Klopfenstein, class of 1979; Adam Brincefield, class of 2000; Dan Bowers, class of 1988, and Krista Schrader, class of 1999.

Klopfenstein is currently a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, Brincefield is a Sergeant with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Bowers is the owner of Advanced Chassis, and Schrader owns her own realty company with offices in Delphos and Van Wert.

 The keynote speaker during the All Boards meeting was Tim Copsey, Paulding County Economic Development Director.

“It’s going to bring in great paying and great opportunity jobs for our students. It’s going to cause a ripple effect in economic development because the opportunity that’s going to come here is going to suck some of the people out of the positions that we have in all of our surrounding counties today, but we can’t let that be a shock. We have to support that success and the growth from it and in doing so we’re going to need more room at Vantage to get more students through here, because these students are doing an outstanding job of getting ahead of the curve,” Copsey said.

During the regular meeting, board members heard from Treasurer Laura Peters who discussed the acceptance of an Ohio K-12 School Safety grant in the amount of $61,467 to help improve safety at the school.

“We had applied for that back last fall. We did not get awarded in the first ward but now we were awarded when it came out in the second round. That will go towards upgrading some of our security things around here and making things a little bit safer for everyone and to help make everybody feel comfortable,” Peters said.