Archive for June 22nd, 2007
Teen’s body recovered in Lake Erie
The body of 15-year-old Christopher Pacheco was found by the Lorain police dive team around 11:35 a.m. today. Pacheco and three friends went swimming the night before off of a private beach on West 2nd Street and Brownell Avenue. The four teens swam past the break wall, when the current began to pull them out. [...]
Angelo Bangas
Angelo Bangas, 79, of Lorain, died on Friday, June 15, 2007 in the emergency room at Community Health Partners Hospital and Surgical Center West. He was born on March 12, 1928 in Lorain and was a lifelong resident. He was a graduate of Lorain High School and Baldwin Wallace College. He received his masters degree [...]
Aura Earline Griggs
Aura Earline Griggs, 79, of Huntington Township, died June 21, 2007, at her home after a short illness. She was born December 22, 1927, in Hartfield Center, daughter of the late William and Anna (Ironmonger) VonSeggern. Mrs. Griggs was raised in Norwalk and was a resident of Huntington Township for 57 years. She graduated from [...]
John Maloney
John Maloney, 60, of Amherst, died Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at his home after a sudden illness. He was born January 9, 1947, in Lorain, and had lived in Amherst the past 25 years. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corp serving in Vietnam. He was an Electronic Technician for U.S. Steel, [...]
Rita S. (nee Siegelman) Weingarten
Rita S. (nee Siegelman) Weingarten, 84 of Aventure, FL, formerly of Lorain, died Wednesday, June 20, 2007, at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Fl. Mrs. Weingarten was born in Cleveland on August 6, 1922. She had attended the University of Illinois. She was a homemaker. She worked in the U.S. Naval Department during W.W. [...]
Blake keeps proving worth
Streak’s over, but Casey’s better than ever Casey Blake wasn’t quite saying he was relieved. But make no mistake, he’s much more relaxed. The media onslaught created by his 26-game hitting streak was something of an adjustment for a player not normally used to the camera’s glare. But Blake’s play has demanded attention. He registered [...]
The need for speed: grand prix of cleveland
Bourdais ready to go fast, reclaim Cleveland crown Tom Withers The Associated Press CLEVELAND — Like the average dad on a summer road trip, Sebastien Bourdais obeyed the speed limit while driving the family motorhome down from Wisconsin along with his wife and 6-month-old daughter. He hardly broke 65 mph, not easy for someone accustomed [...]
Giambi, Mitchell to meet
Ronald Blum The Associated Press NEW YORK — Jason Giambi will meet with George Mitchell, agreeing right before baseball commissioner Bud Selig’s deadline Thursday to cooperate with the steroids investigator. Giambi, who for the first time publicly admitted he had a “personal history regarding steroids,” will become the first active player known to speak with [...]
Sammy won’t stop at 600
Stephen Hawkins The Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Sitting home in the Dominican Republic last summer without a place to play, Sammy Sosa knew he was too close to an elite mark not to come back. Still, since being given that chance by his original team, Sosa has insisted he wanted more than the dozen [...]
County gives tax break for airport hangars
ELYRIA — County commissioners approved a 10-year tax abatement Thursday that will support the construction of new hangars at the Lorain County Regional Airport. The vote came after the Oberlin school board rejected a plan earlier this year that would have exempted the owners of the hangars from paying taxes for 30 years. The plan [...]
Panel also votes: Out of Iraq now
ELYRIA — The county commissioners — all Democrats — unanimously passed a resolution Thursday calling for the U.S. military to pull out of Iraq as soon as possible. Commissioner Lori Kokoski said she hopes that other counties around the state will follow suit and the pressure from politically influential Ohio will force the Bush administration [...]
Allen at 100
AFTER A CENTURY, HOSPITAL FINDS ITS FOOTING OBERLIN — If you needed an operation in the 1800s or early 1900s, your doctor put you on a streetcar and took you to a hospital in Cleveland. Or you took your chance in what became known as “kitchen-table surgeries,” said Dr. W. Jeanne McKibben. At that time, [...]
Kilts and caber tosses at Scottish Games
WELLINGTON — Watch burly Scottish strongmen perform feats of wonder, enjoy Highland dancing and hear the sounds of bagpipe bands at the Ohio Scottish Games today and Saturday. Men in kilts, lilting Celtic music, Scottish food and crafts, solo piping and drumming and the famous caber toss — throwing a huge log resembling a telephone [...]
Search Continues
Thousands of volunteers comb woods for missing woman; fresh plot pointed out by cadaver dogs was marijuana stash Matt Reed The Associated Press UNIONTOWN — Volunteers on horseback and in golf carts and all-terrain vehicles searched through backyards, vacant fields and a Christmas tree farm on Thursday for a woman who was nine months pregnant [...]
Sheriff’s Department manpower woes affect Grafton Safety Town program
GRAFTON — Members of a Midview PTA scrambled to save Safety Town after the Sheriff’s Department pulled out with only three weeks warning. “By the time we found out, parents had already signed up and paid for their kids to come,” said Cathy Tennis, president of the Midview Early Education Parent-Teacher Association. “We didn’t want [...]
Commissioners to trustees: Pony up
County officials suggest that townships contribute money to fund sheriff’s patrols in their areas ELYRIA — The county commissioners said that township trustees should consider chipping in some cash if they want to boost the number of sheriff’s deputies patrolling the townships. During Thursday’s meeting, the commissioners pushed for more townships to sign pacts with [...]
From simple to super
Chef competition uses food bank ingredients AVON — Clad in a starched white chef’s jacket — a cook’s couture of choice — Paul Jagielski is ready to do battle. In his arsenal is a lethal supply of fresh peppers, andouille sausage, jumbo shrimp and grits. The combination won’t kill — but the seasoned chef is [...]
Acquittal leaves Nords seeking justice
One of two suspects has been cleared in Jamaica murders ELYRIA — One of the suspects in the killing of two members of the prominent Nord family was acquitted of murder charges last month in Jamaica. The verdict left Virginia Nord reeling and wondering how to get justice for her 38-year-old daughter Michele Thornton and [...]
Local fire officials: Codes prevent tragedy
ELYRIA — Local firefighters say the only way to prevent large-scale blazes like the one Tuesday in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine firefighters is by staying vigilant on code enforcement. “Even though some people get upset that we enforce fire codes, there is a reason — to prevent things like this,” Elyria Fire Capt. Dave [...]