Archive for June 5th, 2007
Elyria graduation on for tonight
The commencement ceremony for Elyria High School ’s 438 graduates will begin tonight at 7 at Ely Stadium, 1915 Middle Ave. Parking spaces at the stadium will be limited but there will be shuttle buses from Value City and from Elyria High School beginning at 5:30.
Are Cavs experienced?
NBA FINALS: cavaliers VS. SPURS Snow’s been there, wants to make sure Cavs believe they belong CLEVELAND — The San Antonio Spurs have won NBA championships in 1999, 2003 and 2005, with Tim Duncan earning series MVP honors each time. Other than Eric Snow, who reached the NBA Finals as a seldom-used rookie with Seattle [...]
Spurs’ focus not just LeBron
Elizabeth White The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — LeBron James may be the star of the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the San Antonio Spurs know better than to ignore the other four players on the court. “They wouldn’t be in the finals without LeBron, we wouldn’t be in the finals without Tim Duncan,” Spurs coach Gregg [...]
Top pick big one this year
CLEVELAND — The Indians have used their top draft pick on college players the past five years. Expect that trend to change Thursday when another installment of the first-year player draft gets under way in Orlando, Fla. Cleveland, which owns the 13th overall pick in the draft, is expected to spend it on a high-ceiling, [...]
Truex breaks through
First win a boost for Dale Earnhardt Inc., stops Hendrick roll Dan Gelston The Associated Press DOVER, Del. — DEI returned to Victory Lane with a junior — Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s unheralded and previously winless teammate, Martin Truex Jr. After another weekend of nonstop Earnhardt speculation, Truex gave the Dale Earnhardt Inc. team a much-needed [...]
NASCAR’s boom
bill france jr.: 1933-2007 Jenna Fryer The Associated Press For Bill France Jr., it was never about fame or fortune. Everything he did — helping build Daytona International Speedway, moving the annual awards banquet to New York City and negotiating the first billion-dollar TV contract — he did with NASCAR’s best interests at heart. His [...]
Midview Schools to pay withheld money
ELYRIA — Midview Schools has settled a long-running feud with the contractor that built three elementary schools. The district has agreed to pay Sandusky-based Telamon Construction Inc. about $1.4 million in payments it withheld because work on the schools was completed three months late. The work was supposed to be done by May 2005, but [...]
Steelworkers picket, cite stickers, drug tests
LORAIN — Members of Local 1104 United Steelworkers of America at Lorain Tubular plan to hold what they call an informational picket Thursday, saying the company is not abiding by some portions of the union’s contract. The workers will gather at the intersection of Grove Avenue and East 28th Street in Lorain between 1 and [...]
Thunderstorms delay Elyria grads’ big day
ELYRIA — Seniors at Elyria High School will have to wait one more day to graduate after rain and thunderstorms put Monday’s ceremony on hold. The ceremony is rescheduled for 7 p.m. today at Ely Stadium, Elyria schools spokeswoman Amy Kren said. If another rain delay is necessary, the superintendent may decide to move the [...]
Graduates reach end of rainbow – Lorain Admiral King
LORAIN — A rainbow looked down on the Admiral King graduates as they embraced their family and friends as they walked outside in the light rain after their commencement ceremony Monday. The last minute change in the ceremony’s location did not hold back the graduates, or their fans, from their loud applause and even louder [...]
Report: Senator sought special rate cuts
COLUMBUS — A former state senator at the center of an ethics investigation held a meeting before he left office to ask other public officials about ways to reduce worker compensation rates on his company, a newspaper reported. Jeffry Armbruster, a Republican from North Ridgeville who left at the end of 2006 because of term [...]
Itchin’ to see the Cavs? It’ll take a lot of scratch
With Cavaliers merchandise retailers working in overdrive and the online auctions going strong, Cavs fever is hitting wallets as fast as Daniel Gibson sank 3-pointers the other night. For those hoping to be one of the thousands of screaming fans cheering for the Cavs as they take on San Antonio, get out the wallets. How [...]
Lorain native killed in Iraq
LORAIN — A Lorain native and 1982 Admiral King High School graduate became one of the latest U.S. casualties in the war in Iraq. Army Sgt. Bruce Horner, 43, grew up in Lorain and was killed while serving with the 127th Military Police Company in Iraq sometime last week, said his father, Ed Horner. Although [...]
80-year-old driver slams into train
ELYRIA —An 80-year-old Elyria man was critically injured after driving his car into an oncoming train Monday morning in Elyria. John Siwierka, 80, of Elyria, was driving his 1999 Oldsmobile 88 south on Huron Street around 11 a.m. when he failed to yield to an oncoming CSX train and crashed into the side of its [...]
Police cruiser swiped
AVON LAKE — Area police are investigating the theft of an Elyria police lieutenant’s unmarked police cruiser stolen from his Avon Lake home late last week, Elyria and Avon Lake police said. The 2006 Chevy Impala was parked in the driveway of the lieutenant’s Wolford Court home Thursday, and was stolen sometime that night or [...]
Fired worker sues city over alleged rape
ELYRIA — A fired North Ridgeville city employee who has accused a co-worker of raping her is suing the city, saying it was negligent when it hired the man who allegedly attacked her. The suit doesn’t address the victim’s wrongful termination claim, but her attorney, John Hildebrand Sr., said that could be tackled in a [...]
Lorain councilman quits tax committee
LORAIN — Councilman Dan Given on Monday relinquished his seat on the Tax Incentive Review Committee following calls from another council member last month to step down. Given, D-at large, said he had been planning on giving up the committee seat before the group met this month so that it could operate without controversy. He [...]
An Amherst foundation
Unearthing the history of the county’s quarries SOUTH AMHERST — What does the Yale University Library, the University of Michigan campus chapel and the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto have in common? James Hieb excavated the answer — the buildings were all built with Amherst sandstone. While researching information for his wife’s family tree, [...]
Martin O. Arndt
Martin O. Arndt, 81, of Wellington, died Sunday, June 3, 2007 in his home after a short illness. He was born December 31, 1925 in Maysville, Kentucky and grew up in Cleveland. He had lived in Wellington since 2002. He was a U.S. Navy WWII veteran who served as a Gunners Mate, Third Class in [...]
Darl H. Blake
Darl H. Blake, 86, of Sheffield Lake, passed away Saturday, June, 2, 2007. Services will be Thursday, June 7, 2007, 1 P.M. at Busch Funeral Home, 163 Avon-Belden Rd., Avon Lake. Pastor Christopher Robinson, Chaplain with Community Health Partners will officiate. Interment will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens.
Vincent G. Clark
Vincent G. Clark, 38, died suddenly Sunday, June 3, 2007. Beloved father of Jonathan J. and Katherine Ann; loved son of John Sr. (Linda) and the late Fannie (nee Lopez); brother of Anthony (Vanessa), John Jr. (Michelle), Colin (Angie), Keith (Patricia), Jody (Jacqueline), Nick Pinardo and Mike Pinardo (Sharon); uncle of 20; great-uncle of four. [...]
Joseph Lee Drachenberg
Joseph "Cool Joe" Drachenberg, died Friday, June 1, 2007 at the Louis Stokes Veteran Medical Center in Brecksville, after a long illness. He was born in Elyria on July 11, 1961 and grew up in Grafton, where he attended Midview High School. He also lived in Elyria, Fayetteville, Arkansas and Akron. He worked at Modern [...]
Rosemary G. Lustek
Rosemary G. Lustek (nee Wearsch), 80, of Lorain, died Sunday, June 3, 2007 at New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph following a lengthy illness. She was born April 6, 1927 in Westlake and has lived most of her life in Lorain. She graduated from Lorain High School in 1945 and for a short time [...]
Richard J. Wagner
Richard J. Wagner, 82, of Elyria died Sunday at the Elyria Wesleyan Village following a brief illness. He was born February 28, 1925 in Elyria and was a lifelong Elyria resident. He and his family owned the Wagner Music Store in Elyria for 44 Years, retiring in 1990. He was a member of St. Mary [...]