OHIO STATEHOOD DAY--House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford, right, is presented a seventeen star American Flag by Rep. John Schlichter, R-Washington Court House, during a Joint Session of the 125th General Assembly at the Ross County Courthouse, in celebration of the Bicentennial, on Ohio Statehood Day, at the state's first capital of Chillicothe, on Saturday, March 1, 2003. Ohio was the 17th state to join the Union in 1803. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)