VITAL STATISTICS
BLOOD DRIVES
The American Red Cross has an ongoing need for donors of all blood types. Donors can call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1800-733-2767) or go to redcrossblood. org to schedule an appointment. Blood drives are open today at:
American Red Cross, 995 E. Broad St., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Carriage Place Blood Donation Center, 4820 Sawmill Road, 12:15-7:30 p.m.
Firefighters IAFF Local 67, 379 W. Broad St., 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Hilton Columbus Downtown, 401 N. High St., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ohio Auto Club, 90 E. Wilson Bridge Road, Worthington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Polaris Blood Donation Center, 1327 Cameron Ave., Oak Creek Building, Lewis Center, 12:15-7:15 p.m.
Stone Ridge Blood Donation Center, 337 Stoneridge Lane, Gahanna, 12:157:30 p.m.
Westbelt Donor Center, 4327 Equity Drive, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Westerville Christian Church, 471 E. College Ave., Westerville, 2-7 p.m.
Columbus police on Monday released the identity of the driver who was killed early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash on the Far West Side. Richard Mitchem, 32, of the West Side was driving a Chevrolet Impala southbound on Hilliard Rome Road at a high rate of speed about 12:45 a.m. Saturday when he lost control just south of the Glenchester
Drive intersection, police said. Police said the car went off the right, or west side, of the roadway and crashed into one tree in a row of trees outside an apartment complex. Mitchem was pronounced dead at the scene by Prairie Township medics.
His death was the 15th traffic fatality in the city this year.
No further information about the crash, such as whether Mitchem was wearing a seat belt, was made available Monday by police
People on social media have been linking Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Timken to the actions of Stark County-based bearings manufacturer Timken Co., a publicly traded company and not a private family-owned business.
But Timken, who announced she was running for Senate on Feb. 18, has never worked for the Timken Co. or Timkensteel, which was spun off from Timken Co. in 2014.
Fact check: Her only link is through marriage. Her husband, Ward J. “Tim” Timken, Jr. is the great-great grandson of the company’s founder, Henry Timken. Tim Timken was the CEO of Timkensteel and is currently a Timken Co. board member. He is not taking part in the day-to-day operations of the company.
A Canton resident recently submitted a letter to the editor of the Canton Repository seeking to tie Jane Timken “to the economics of her family-owned business,” which was a misleading statement. The resident criticized the company’s job cuts the past three years, and wrote that Jane Timken had failed to address them.
The Facebook account for Ohio Citizens for Trump in a post Thursday critical of Jane Timken in an apparent reference to Timken Co.’s job cuts and the company opening a bearings plant in
Mexico said inaccurately that “her family has shut down Timken bearing in Ohio, opened up a plant in Mexico.” All Timken Co. bearing factories in Stark County have remained open.
“Isn’t Timken building a new plant in Mexico?” one commenter asked on the Canton Repository’s Facebook page in response to an article about local Republican officials endorsing Jane Timken for Senate.
A spokesman for the company sent an email to several media outlets last week.
“Recently, we’ve noticed some inaccurate information on social media – not in your coverage – regarding our company and Senate candidate Jane Timken,” wrote Scott Schroeder, of Timken Company’s corporate communications. “Jane Timken has never had a role with The Timken Company and is not involved in the company’s operations.”
Timken family members including Tim Timken along with the Timken Foundation, whose board has Timken family members, own a significant percentage of Timken Co. stock but far fewer shares than necessary to have majority control of the company, according to the company’s Security and Exchange Commission filings.
More on Timken’s background
Jane Timken, 54, was born Jane Murphy and grew up in Cincinnati.
She got her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and her law degree from American University in Washington, D.C. She told the Cincinnati Enquirer in 2017 that she was in Washington during the late 1980s doing a law firm internship when she met Tim Timken, who was attending Georgetown University. The couple were married in 1994.
Jane Timken worked for the Canton law firm Black Mccuskey, as a magistrate for Stark County Common Pleas Court and was a director for Commquest and the North Canton Medical Foundation. She later became vice chair of the Stark County Republican Party, and she and her husband were prominent contributors to Republican candidates and campaign committees.
In 2017, Jane Timken won a hardfought battle for the chairmanship of the Ohio Republican Party over the incumbent chairman Matt Borges.
The Timken Co. has a political action committee, the Timken Co. Good Government Fund, which raises money from its executives and employees and makes political contributions to the campaigns of mostly Republicans but also Democrats like Congressman Tim Ryan of Howland Township.
Reach Robert at 330-580-8327 or robert.wang @cantonrep.com. Twitter: @rwangrep.