Avon Lake fireworks Thursday

Fireworks will be held at dusk Thursday at Weiss Field in Avon Lake. Rain date is Saturday.

There will be no fireworks this year at Avon Commons. The city is looking for a sponsor for the 2009 Independence Day show.

Avon students earns scholarship

An Avon High School student is one of only six Cleveland-area teens to earns a $2,000 scholarship from AXA Foundation.

Jeffery Pierce of Avon received a 2008 AXA Achievement Community Scholarship. The AXA Foundation was established in 2003 to help college-bound students overcome financial barriers and awards more than $1.3 million in scholarships each year.

Calling aspiring playwrights

Lorain County Metro Parks and TrueNorth Cultural Arts are looking for playwrights.

This past year, the groups commissioned local playwright Kimberly Ceja to write “Blooms of Steel: The Making of an International City,” and the show ran for nine performances, with 1,500 people attending.

Now they want to give other playwrights, directors and actors the chance to showcase their talents. For information, call (440) 724-7189 or e-mail TrueNorth Cultural Arts Executive Director Rick Fortney at rafortney@oh.rr.com.

There will also be an open house 7 p.m. July 7. Please contact Fortney if you plan to attend. The event will allow participants to visit the theater, meet staff and brainstorm artistic concepts.

The center will accept play proposals through July 18. TrueNorth and Metro Parks plan to contract two or three plays a year for the next three years.

For guidelines on show concepts that will be considered, contact Fortney.

Tour museum, garden

Peter Miller House Museum will hold an open house with tours at 6:30 p.m. July 8.

Jane Bird of the Lorain County Historical Society will talk about “The Love of Lace” at 7 p.m.

The wildflower and herb gardens at the museum, which may also be toured, are cared for by Avon-on-the-Lake Garden Club.

The museum is on the southwest corner of Miller Road Park next to Avon Lake Boat Landing.

Shred documents, recycle phone books

Two trucks will be available 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 12 at Avon City Hall — one to shred sensitive documents for Avon residents only, and the other to collect telephone books for recycling.

Both services are free to residents. City Hall is at 36080 Chester Road.

Learn about buttons

Avon Seniors will hold an executive board meeting 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Avon Senior Center main hall.

“Biography of Buttons” will be presented 1 p.m. July 18 at the center. Alfreda Taylor will display her button collection and share her knowledge of 18th-century decorative buttons for men.

She will also talk about Dalton Stevens, the Button King, elk horn buttons carved by American Indians, Scottish buttons dating back to 1040, military buttons and button salesman Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Call (440) 93402417 no later than July 15 to make reservations.

Avon Seniors will also hold an ice cream social 2 to 4 p.m. July 18 at the Senior Center, featuring a caricaturist who will do drawings.

Tickets at the door are $3 for adults and $2 for children 5 and under. The event is sponsored by Coldstone Creamery.

 

 

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