Fulton County Ohio Media

Delta resident, Delta High School graduate, and Delta Elementary Teacher, married father with three children, Jeffrey Mazurowski has had many jobs over the years, including contractor, used car salesman, steel worker and township trustee.  His passion, however, has always been the education of young children through his teaching positions and his coaching responsibilities in football and basketball.  Drawing on his myriad of experiences and his vivid imagination, Jeff or “Maz”, also writes children’s books. 

Jeff’s most recently published book, the third for the Defiance College alum, is titled “Red, White & Bloo”, written under the pen name Joey McGoo.  It was written just after the 9/11 terrorist attack on America.  He had it ready to print sometime in 2002 but, as life will often dictate, other priorities interrupted those plans and the book was put on the shelf for a very long time.

Ironically, this past year, Jeff was diagnosed with cancer, and, as he battled this terrible disease, he found he had time to finish the project.  “I had a lot of time on my hands to think about things and I found a program on Amazon where you could publish a book at a lot less cost than you could 20 years ago,” said Jeff.  “So, I spent the summer reformatting the book to their standards, got my first copy on September 15^th and have been selling them ever since.”

Despite having gone unpublished for more than 20 years, Jeff believes the story is applicable to the world today.  “It’s basically a story told from the point of view of a 12-year-old boy telling other kids that the United States is still safe and it’s still the best country in the world,” explained Jeff.  “It’s just a reassurance that things are okay even when people don’t think they are okay.  In today’s political climate, the story is back.  Stories come back for different reasons and I think it’s relevant again.”

Other “Maz” books include “The Bad Creek Gang”, an animal Habitat for Humanity-like story written with a great amount of creative input from Mr. Mazurowski’s fourth-grade students at the time.  There is also “The Christmas Boy” and “Aurora and Boris Touch the Sky”.  Currently, “Red, White & Bloo” is the only book available on Amazon.com. but Jeff does still have copies of the other three.  They are all well written and well-illustrated and would make a great holiday gift.

Photo: Jeff at the Delta Public Library