Kay Raypholtz:  

My greatest achievement since high school is becoming a mother to three wonderful children: a daughter, age 32 and two sons, ages 24 and 20. In 2011, I married Pastor Mike Raypholtz and I now live in Pioneer. I am a reporter for the Village Reporter, and I attend Defiance College part-time studying for a bachelor degree in social work. From 2005 - 2009 I was working as a chemical dependency counselor in Defiance. This means that I was helping men, women and teens learn the skills to get off alcohol and drugs and stay sober. I facilitated 4 groups and did individual counseling as well. I really enjoyed my job, but was permanently laid off in February due to funding cuts and was jobless for 4 1/2 months. I then worked for 3 years as a residential service provider, for a profoundly handicapped teenage boy. I ended that job when I decided to go back to college. My forties were some of the best years of my life. I got out of an emotionally abusive marriage, ended a dead end job, went back to college to earn a degree, and began a career doing what I had always wanted to do-be a counselor. Now I think that my 50s have been my best years! Since I can't post contact information here, you will just ha...Expand for more