Archive for July 11th, 2007
Member resigns from Lorain Port Authority
LORAIN — Lorain Port Authority member Scotti Campana has resigned from his position on the board. In his letter of resignation, Campana cited personal reasons and the fact that Mayor Craig Foltin is leaving office in August to take a position with Cuyahoga Community College. “(Foltin) was a great leader,” Campana said Tuesday. “He’s the [...]
Violet Vivian Kovalsky
Violet Vivian Kovalsky (nee Vance), 66, of Westlake, died July 8, 2007, at her home. Proprietor for 37 years of Dairy Whip in Cleveland. Beloved wife of Joseph; devoted daughter of Carmella Vance; dear mother of Debbie Jerrome (Steve), Sheryl Donaldson (Rick), Kathy Kovalsky (Tim Stack) and Michael (Amy); loving grandmother of Jennifer King (Regan), [...]
Margaret J. O’Neal
Margaret J. O’Neal, 67 , of Vermilion, died Saturday, July 7, 2007 at her daughter’s home, following a lengthy illness. She was born May 13, 1940 in Kingwood, WV and has lived in Vermilion since 1970, moving from LaGrange. She worked for the Ford Motor Company in Lorain as an assembler from 1973 until retiring [...]
Sylvia Ann Popovich
Sylvia Ann Popovich (nee Vidovich), 90, of Lorain, died on Friday, June 29, 2007, at Community Health Partners HSC – West, Lorain. She was born on June 24, 1917, in Flint, MI, moving to Lorain in 1922, where she resided as a homemaker, for the rest of her life. Sylvia attended Lorain High School. She [...]
Richard M. Shuman
Richard M. "Mike" Shuman, 71, lifelong resident of Elyria, died July 8, 2007, at Community Health Partners, Lorain, after a short illness. He was born May 14, 1936 in Elyria. He worked for 23 years with the former G.M. Fisher Body, Elyria, retiring as supervisor when the plant closed in 1987. He also worked for [...]
Lucy Spraggins
Lucy Spraggins, (nee Mastin), 91, of Lorain, passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at her residence. Arrangements will be announced by Brown-Robinson Funeral Home, Lorain.
Christian J. Walton
Christian J. Walton, 37, of Sheffield Lake, died Sunday, July 8, 2007. He was born July 23, 1969 in Newport, RI, and had lived most of his life in the Cleveland area. Christian was a 1987 graduate of Cleveland Central Catholic and graduated from the University of Toledo in 2003. Christian worked as a social [...]
Irene Helen Wohleber
Irene Helen Wohleber, 79, of Oberlin, died suddenly July 8, 2007 at the Allen Medical Center of Oberlin. She was born in Lakewood, July 7, 1928. She lived in Oberlin most of her life and was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Oberlin, the Altar & Rosary Society, and V.F.W. Women’s Auxiliary #1079, [...]
Mac Kenneth Young
Mac Kenneth "Big Mac" Young, 42, of Lorain passed away Saturday in the Community Health Partners of Lorain following a short illness. A life long resident of Lorain, he graduated from Lorain High, Class of 1984, where he played football and wrestling. Mac was employed as a cook by trade with the Ohio Turnpike, and [...]
Continued domination: MLB all-star game: al 5, nl 4
AL hangs on for 10th straight Ronald Blum The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — On a night of tricky hops, Ichiro Suzuki and the American League also bounced back to win. Instead of a Barry Bonds splash shot, the defining hit at Tuesday’s All-Star Game was Suzuki’s inside-the-park home run, the first in the game’s [...]
Ernestine J. Gondor-Yuhas
Ernestine J. Gondor-Yuhas (nee Kos), 90, of Lorain, died Monday, July 9, 2007, at Golden Acres Nursing Home, Amherst, following a lengthy illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced tomorrow by the Dovin Funeral Home, 2701 Elyria Avenue, Lorain.
K’s mounting for Tribe, but it’s OK with Wedge
If the Indians were playing at home in recent days, Jacobs Field would have been the coolest place in town. I’m saying cool as in temperature, not as in trendy, because the Indians’ bats would have air-conditioned the place. They certainly generate a breeze. This team can strike out like nothing we’ve ever seen. At [...]
Elyria drops nemesis
ELYRIA — The dynasty might not be over, but it was derailed for a year. Elyria will send an 11-12 girls team to the Little League state finals for the first time since 2001. Elyria defeated an old nemesis, Tallmadge, 7-1 to win the District 3 championship Tuesday at Vic Janowicz Park. “This is a [...]
Vote brings ‘pay-as-you-throw’ a step closer
ELYRIA — The county’s Solid Waste Management District’s Policy Committee approved a controversial “pay-as-you-throw” trash program Tuesday, but it’s still far from a done deal. County commissioners, the city of Lorain and communities representing 60 percent of the county’s population must still sign off on the plan for it to become reality. The biggest stumbling [...]
All pets must go
Adoption center being closed in favor of spay, neuter program VERMILION — Faced with the reality that adoption will not curtail the growing homeless pet population, the World Animal Foundation has decided to close its pet adoption center. President Gary Barnby said the nonprofit organization, headquartered on Liberty Avenue, instead plans to focus on low-cost [...]
High court asked to consider guns at Justice Center
ELYRIA — The county’s judges are asking the Ohio Supreme Court to conduct a review of the security at the county Justice Center to help settle a debate over whether police officers can carry firearms in the courthouse. The ban on any officer not assigned to courthouse security carrying a weapon has been in place [...]
Man charged with cruelty to alpacas
HUNTINGTON TWP. — A Huntington Township man has been charged with nine counts of animal cruelty after sheriff’s deputies discovered a pen full of neglected alpacas at his state Route 58 farm last month, deputies said. Dan Dailey, 41, was charged with nine counts of animal cruelty because deputies found two dead alpacas and squalid [...]
It’ll be a party when ‘Potter’ book hits stands
So nothing’s scarier than a Dementor? How about the feeding frenzy being conjured in area bookstores, theaters and towns at the marketing dream of a Harry Potter double-whammy? Today, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” opens on thousands of screens across the nation. And, if that wasn’t enough, bookstores, libraries and entire communities [...]
Avon Council adds sales tax hike to ballot
AVON — It’s officially up to Avon voters to decide if they want a recreation center, a minor league baseball team and other first-class athletics facilities. Council approved adding a 0.25 percent income tax increase to the November ballot during Monday’s meeting. The projects hinge on the tax increase, which would bring the city’s income [...]
Friends rescue teen in lake
VERMILION — Heather Schutes, 14, was feeling pretty good about herself around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. “I never saved someone in my whole life,” Heather said, smiling and crying a bit as she stood on a lakeside cliff at Vermilion’s Showse Park. Heather’s elation came after the unsettling event that she and her boyfriend, Ray Agront, [...]
Man’s dream home: A 66-foot tall windmill
LORAIN — The couch will go in the center of the room, on the very spot where grain was milled for cereal and breads. Directly above will be a glass section of the ceiling on which the dining room table will sit, surrounded by a refrigerator, range and laundry machine propped as good as they [...]
Wild about Harry
Local theaters draw in the crowds as latest ‘Potter’ movie hits The thermometer wasn’t the only thing heating up Tuesday. So were advance sales for local midnight screenings of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the fifth film in the staggeringly successful series of movies about the world’s best-known boy wizard. “Everyone tries [...]
More Names to Come, Lawyer for ‘D.C. Madam’ Vows
Sue Anne Pressley Montes The Washington Post WASHINGTON — For months, alleged D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey has promised that her voluminous phone records — all 46 pounds of them — contained some powerful secrets. Within hours of their public release, a senator acknowledged Monday night that his telephone number was on the [...]
Man finds approval a breeze for windmill
LORAIN — Tom Philipps achieved his 66-foot dream Wednesday. His plans to affix five, 30-foot blades to a windmill he wants to move into were approved by the Lorain Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday. The five-member board unanimously voted for the proposal, and gave Philipps the official go-ahead to call the Kolbe Road structure [...]
Swimming with a source: Chicago reporter in hot water over pool party
MEGAN REICHGOTT Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A television reporter left her job Tuesday after she was caught on video in a swimsuit at the home of a man whose wife disappeared two months ago — a story she was assigned to cover — raising ethical questions about her conduct. The video, [...]