Archive for July 18th, 2007
In a pinch, Garko delivers – Indians 6, White Sox 5
CLEVELAND — Pitching to Ryan Garko these days can be a risky prospect. The Chicago White Sox learned as much emphatically on Tuesday night. Though Garko did not start the game, he wound up filling the hero role for the Indians once again in their latest comeback victory, a 6-5 decision over the Sox in [...]
Cabrera shaken, not stirred – Tribe Notes
CLEVELAND — Fernando Cabrera’s struggles have reached the monumental level, but Indians manager Eric Wedge still isn’t giving up on the reliever. “If you don’t feel like a guy can get the job done, there’s no reason for him to be here,” Wedge said. “He has as much upside as anybody (in the bullpen). When [...]
Newest Tribe reliever feeling right at home
Rookie pitcher Jensen Lewis’ baseball dreams came to life in front of his family and friends Monday night. The one-time Medina resident made his Major League Baseball debut with the Indians, tossing 11/3 innings of scoreless relief in Cleveland’s 11-10 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Despite the Tribe coming up one run short in [...]
Pioneers tab Chizmar
Northwood assistant principal named Elyria High’s newest athletic director ELYRIA — Elyria school officials on Tuesday appointed Elyria native and Elyria Schools employee Gerald Chizmar as the district’s new athletic director. “I’m just going to be myself and do what I can to improve athletics in Elyria,” Chizmar said. “It’s a great opportunity — I’m [...]
Vick facing dogfight charges
Hank Kurz Jr. The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — NFL star Michael Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of sponsoring a dogfighting operation so grisly the losers either died in the pit or sometimes were electrocuted, drowned, hanged or shot. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback and three others were charged with [...]
An old friend finds new moments, new meaning
An old friend, Mike Gallagher, invited me to tour his estate in Lorain County because for one week each summer he turns it into a camp for high school cross country runners and this is the week. I had not seen Mike in years, at least since he quit drinking in the early 1990s. In [...]
Judge seals records in Open Door abuse suit
ELYRIA — A county judge has taken the rare step of sealing the file of a lawsuit accusing the Church of the Open Door and the private school it operates of ignoring complaints of sexual abuse against a teacher who later was convicted and served six months in jail. Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery said [...]
History society aims for new center
ELYRIA — The Lorain County Historical Society is making progress toward its $1.6 million goal to fund an ambitious project aimed at creating a countywide historical center, said Historical Society Executive Director Bill Bird. Bird said the society is about $400,000 short of the goal, which will fund the purchase and renovation of the oldest [...]
Deputies face the naked facts
PENFIELD TWP. — A sheriff’s deputy had to call Wellington firefighters Sunday morning to help fish a suspect — a naked, intoxicated man resisting arrest — out of a Penfield Township pond, deputies said. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Nickel Plate Diagonal Road home around 2 a.m. Sunday when a homeowner reported a man [...]
Thousands apply for tax break
COLUMBUS — Thousands of senior citizens have applied for a property tax break that Gov. Ted Strickland says will be paid for using the sale of Ohio’s share of a landmark settlement with tobacco companies, officials said. The expanded Homestead Exemption Program took effect earlier this month as part of Ohio’s two-year, $52 billion operating [...]
Edwards brings his poverty tour to Cleveland
CLEVELAND — Democrat ic presidential candidate John Edwards, on an eight-state swing to highlight poverty issues, visited a struggling neighborhood Tuesday in the nation’s poorest big city. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator and John Kerry’s running mate in 2004, began the swing Sunday in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. “It’s not a Cleveland problem or a [...]
State logs 9K smoking complaints
Nearly 400 in Lorain County, most against private clubs ELYRIA — More than two months after the statewide smoking ban went into effect, the Ohio Health Department is still receiving smoking complaints about bars, restaurants and private clubs — 9,169 complaints, to be exact. The anti-smoking law, which passed in the November 2006 election with [...]
Ridgeville district pitches campus
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — The North Ridgeville school district kicked off its campaign to pass a 4.99-mill levy for a central campus school system Tuesday night. The Board of Education was joined by representatives from Regency Construction, architects Burgess and Niple, and bond issuers A.G. Edwards during a public meeting to explain the first phase of [...]
Army buddies
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Jeremy Howells and Justin Rogerson have been best friends since they were 5 and have done almost everything together — played sports, got into mischief and graduated high school. Today, they will begin their training to become U.S. Army soldiers. Howells and Rogerson were gathered Tuesday afternoon on Rogerson’s patio to say [...]
Elyria school board buys 6 more properties
ELYRIA — Elyria school officials on Tuesday agreed to shell out more than $500,000 for six properties that are part of an area targeted for a new high school. With Tuesday’s decision, school officials have used more than a third of the $3 million they’ve set aside to purchase more than 50 parcels of land [...]
Sharpshooter husband of slain Wyo. singer dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound
MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Writer LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A military sharpshooter accused of killing his estranged wife as she sang at a bar died Tuesday night after being found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, police said. Wyoming Army National Guardsman David Munis was found by a search team [...]
Man convicted of abducting woman, leaving her 5-year-old daughter to be attacked by alligators
KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — A man who had been released from prison early for good behavior was convicted Tuesday of trying to kill a young mother and leaving her 5-year-old daughter to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades. Harrel Franklin Braddy had befriended Shandelle Maycock and her [...]
Cardiac Scan Could Raise Chance of Cancer in Some
Delthia Ricks Newsday The risk of getting cancer in their lifetime increases for people exposed to radiation during cardiac screening with a 64-slice CT scanner, an increasingly popular diagnostic tool, doctors said Tuesday. Known technically as computed tomography coronary angiography, or CTCA, the test has become widely used because it is noninvasive [...]
Edward C. Dye
Edward C. Dye, 75, of Eaton Township died Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at Parma Community Hospital following a short illness. Friends may call Thursday from 5 to 8 P.M. at the Bauer-Laubenthal Funeral Home, Chestnut Ridge Road at State Route 57, Elyria. Further arrangements will be announced by the funeral home.
George Baluk
George Baluk, of Avon, passed away Monday, July 16, 2007 at St. John Westshore Hospital, following a sudden illness. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the David Bogner Family Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.
Anna Bungard
Anna Bungard (nee Gottschling), 82, of Elyria, died on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at Harborside Health Care in Perrysburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Reichlin Roberts Funeral Home, 327 Cleveland St., Elyria.
John L. Burnett
John L. Burnett, Jr., 65, of Elyria, died Friday, July 13, 2007 at Angel Adult Care in Lorain. He was born January 8, 1942 in Elyria and was a 1960 graduate of Midview High School. John was a U.S. Navy veteran and had lived in Texas, Florida and Kentucky before returning to Elyria in 1987. [...]
Lula Slone Hall Dulcie
Lula Slone Hall Dulcie, 88, of Raven, KY, died Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Born June 6, 1919 in Garrett, KY. She enjoyed art, painting and attending church. She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Ralph Dulcie; sons, James Ellis (Nada) Hall of Avon Lake, Edwin Jardine Hall of Newton Falls; step-children, Charles Dulcie, [...]
William Earl Jones
William Earl Jones, 82, of Lorain, died suddenly on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 in Livorno, Italy while on a vacation cruise with his wife and grandchildren. He was born December 9, 1924 in Dover, moving to Vermilion in 1970 from Youngstown. He had lived in Lorain since 2000. He was a veteran of the U.S. [...]
Delores J. Kulas
Dolores J. "Dee" Kulas, (nee Stauffer), 66, of Lorain, retired Community Health Partners Physical Therapy Technician, died Monday, July 16, 2007, at the New Life Hospice Center of Saint Joseph following an extended illness. Mrs. Kulas was born in McKeesport, PA on August 14, 1940 and was raised in Elyria. She had been a resident [...]