Holy Haus - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories

Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50’s & 60’s

Holy Haus

Fish Report recently posted several commercial properties for sale in Russia, including Buschur’s Market and Cruizers, both long time establishments in town. We always bring back sausage and other meats from Buschur’s whenever we visit as the sausage is the closest we’ve found to the original Ft. Loramie Busse’s sausage that I grew up enjoying. Check out this past blog about Busse’s. And my brother used to own Cruizers which we also patronized during our visits. If I recall, he bought Apt C from Ron Voisard and renamed it.

Here’s hoping both sales are successful and the new owners continue to provide fine service to the community. While browsing the commercial property link, also listed for sale was the old Minster high school building pictured below, where I had played basketball during high school and afterwards as part of the Minster Knights of Columbus team in the competitive Tri-County league.

The more surprising aspect of this listing was that my two nieces, April & Heather, rent space in the old high school (blue circle above) for their preschool called Holy Haus.

The Christian preschool just opened earlier this fall as shown in the photo below. They already have a waiting list for the next two years! Offering both morning and afternoon classes, their teaching focuses on the whole child - spiritually and mentally.

The old high school used to house Minster's kindergarten and as pictured below, my nieces have dramatically transformed the space into a kid friendly environment with lots of natural light and a non-traditional classroom setting.

And of course, April and Heather share their local German heritage with the kids as evidenced by the Octoberfest photo below.

The kids are also being taught about charity by organizing a toy drive for needy children through Rustic Hope in Russia. Here’s the flyer.

Regardless of the potential sale of the old high school, my nieces have already reached out to two other alternative places in town, but they really hope any new owner will continue to rent out the current space to them. To quote the pair, “God has a plan for Holy Haus and it will work itself out.” Praying that it does!

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