Archive for February 21st, 2008
Mark Allen Gregory
Mark Allen Gregory, 41, of Elyria, died on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, after a lengthy illness. He was born January 15, 1967, in Amherst. He had lived most of his life in Elyria. Mark had also lived in Florida and North Carolina. He enjoyed fishing, cards, football, movies and [...]
LaVerne Phyllis Biddinger Snyder
LaVerne Phyllis Biddinger Snyder, 96, of Nova, died Monday, February 18, 2008, at her home. LaVerne was born February 4, 1912, in Troy Township, Ohio, daughter of the late Clayton Orville and Rena Iona (Landon) Biddinger. She graduated from Troy Centralized School in 1929. LaVerne sold cosmetics for the former California Perfume Company, which later [...]
Kristina Moore
Kristina Moore, 35, of North Ridgeville, passed away Monday, February 18, 2008. She was the beloved mother of Courtney, Amber and Kala; loving daughter of Dennis and Rose Moore; cherished sister of Dennis (Lori) Moore, Kim (Ken) Watters, Mark Moore, Carol (Larry) Strickland, Audrey (Jim) Black; dearest aunt, niece, cousin and friend of many. Visitation [...]
Kelly L. Dull
Kelly L. Dull (nee Kroll), 45, of Lorain passed away unexpectedly Sunday, February 17, 2008, at her residence. She was born September 4, 1962 in Elyria and had been a lifelong resident of Lorain County. A homemaker, Kelly enjoyed gardening, music, animals and especially spending time with her family. She was active in the PTA [...]
John J. ‘Jack’ Gordon
John J. "Jack" Gordon, passed away Monday, February 18, 2008. He was the beloved husband of Beverly (nee Horrocks); dear father of June Vandenhaute (Don), John, Teri, Tom, Sharon Petro, Jim (Cathy), Patrick and Sheila Riberdy (Joe); grandfather of 13; brother of James A., Thomas E. (deceased, and Robert E. (deceased); friend of Bill W., [...]
Geraline F. Schmidt
Geraline F. Schmidt, (nee Feidler), 94, died Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at Golden Acres Nursing Home, in Amherst. She was born in Elyria, and was a former resident of Strongsville. She was a secretary for Brown Hardware, and a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ, in Berea. Beloved wife of the late [...]
Frederick J. “Freddie” Koviak
Frederick J. "Freddie" Koviak, 67, of North Ridgeville, died Wednesday in the Grace Unit of Fairview Hospital, Cleveland following a short illness. Arrangements will be announced by David Bogner Family Funeral Home, North Ridgeville.
Frederick A. Wolf
Frederick A. Wolf, 63, of Avon, died Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at his home. He was born December 10, 1944, in Cleveland. Mr. Wolf was currently employed as the maintenance director by Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Avon, where he dedicated over 26 years. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War,from September 1968 [...]
Dorothea Louise Peters
Dorothea Louise Peters (nee Husemann), 79, passed away on Sunday, February 17, 2008, at the Lutheran Home in Westlake. She was born March 18, 1927, in Chicago, the daughter of Edgar and Ruth (nee Hannaca) Husemann and attended Fort Dearborn Elementary school in Chicago. The family later moved to Ohio during her high school years [...]
Charles Rudolph Zelenka
Charles Rudolph Zelenka, 54, of Eaton Township, passed away Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at EMH Regional Medical Center after being stricken at work of an apparent heart attack. He was born Thursday, June 4, 1953, in Elyria, living in Eaton Township all his life. He attended the Cross Community Church in Elyria for many years. [...]
Alfred W. Damm
Retired Fire Chief Alfred W. Damm, formerly of Lorain, peacefully entered into eternal rest on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at his home in Inverness, Fla., after a lengthy illness. He was born July 23, 1934 in Elyria, to Alfred and Marguerite Damm. The family moved to Lorain in 1944. He has spent the past 10 [...]
Obama wins ex-pat vote
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama won the Democrats Abroad global primary in results announced today, giving him 11 straight victories in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Illinois senator won the primary in which Democrats living in other countries voted by Internet, mail and in person, according to results released by the Democrats Abroad, an [...]
Bye-bye Hughes and Gooden, hello Ben Wallace and Wally Szczerbiak
CLEVELAND — LeBron James finally got some help to win an NBA title. In a blockbuster, three-way trade involving Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle and including 11 players, the Cavaliers acquired center Ben Wallace from the Bulls and forward Wally Szczerbiak from the SuperSonics, two players to possibly get James and the Cavs through the Eastern Conference [...]
Ben Wallace reportedly coming to Cavs
ESPN is reporting that Bulls’ star forward/center Ben Wallace is coming to give LeBron James some help. It is being reported that Wallace is part of a three-way, 11-player trade with Chicago and Seattle that will bring four new players to the Cavs. The deal, ESPN is reporting, must still be approved by the NBA. [...]
BREAKING NEWS — Clinton promises Lorain visit
Presidential hopefull Hillary Clinton has promised Lorain Mayor Tony Krasienko that she will visit Lorain. Clinton made the promise during a phone call last night, Krasienko said. Krasienko doesn’t have any details of when the New York Senator, who is locked in fierce primary battle with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, will visit Lorain or where the event will [...]
Browns to hold onto Jamal Lewis
Browns general manager Phil Savage said Thursday morning a deal with running back Jamal Lewis is “almost imminent.” Lewis, who rushed for 1,304 yards and nine touchdowns in 2007, is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent Feb. 29. It was his lone year with the Browns after seven in Baltimore. “We ramped up here in [...]
LeBron James carries Cavaliers past Pacers with another big fourth quarter, second straight triple-double
INDIANAPOLIS — With all due respect to the league’s top talent, Cleveland coach Mike Brown considers the MVP race over. LeBron James had his second consecutive triple-double, with 31 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists, and the Cavaliers beat the Indiana Pacers 106-97 on Wednesday night. Brown was most impressed that James got the triple-doubles [...]
She never lost her stroke: Elyria Catholic’s Brittany Tweardy found swimming after getting cut from hoops team
Thirteen is a lucky number for the Elyria Catholic swim team. No, really. Consider that Elyria Catholic’s girls freshman basketball team kept 12 players when Brittany Tweardy tried out in the fall of 2004. She was No. 13 … the last player cut. Why is that lucky? Well, the basketball team’s loss has obviously been [...]
Boys sectional basketball: Keystone refuses to foul up, hits clutch free throws to defeat Padua
WESTLAKE — Once Keystone began to hit its free throws, there was little Padua could do. Except keep fouling and hope the Wildcats reverted to their former inaccurate ways at the foul line. “The tale of the game was free throws,” Keystone coach Greg Morgan said after his team defeated Padua 59-55 in a Division [...]
Boys sectional basketball: Westlake downs Amherst for third time this season
EATON TWP. — The Demons got what they wished for. Now it’s time to be careful. Westlake scored a 50-41 victory over Amherst — its third win over the Comets this season — in Wednesday night’s Division I sectional opener, and now will face the No. 2-seeded Elyria Pioneers on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in [...]
Boys sectional basketball: McNabb shines in Open Door loss; Lake Ridge edges Kingsway Christian
STRONGSVILLE — Momentum is a strange and sometimes cruel element of any sporting event. It can disappear just as quickly as it appeared and Wednesday night the Open Door Patriots found out first-hand. The Patriots fell to the Dalton Bulldogs 64-59 in the Division IV sectional play at Strongsville High School. The loss overshadows a [...]
Boys sectional basketball: Brooklyn Hurricanes blow away Black River
ELYRIA — As a rule of thumb, in putting together a good, solid game plan, you wouldn’t include spotting the other guys a 14-0 lead. It wasn’t part of the plan, but Black River did it Wednesday night. Big surprise, it didn’t work. The outcome was a 63-36 Brooklyn victory. If the score was lopsided, [...]
Browns thinking about contracts as combine begins
No coin flip, no top-five pick, no first-round draft pick at all. The Browns’ trip to the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis this week will have different dynamics than in the past, especially since general manager Phil Savage took over in 2005. While the team’s scouts will still spend the next several days scrutinizing the [...]
Tough season a good lesson: Studious Sowers says he learned from struggles
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — While his teammates scanned newspapers, watched mindless TV shows or horsed around in Cleveland’s clubhouse, pitcher Jeremy Sowers sat in front of his locker reading Alan Greenspan’s autobiography. The writings of the former Federal Reserve chairman aren’t exactly your standard major league fare, but then again, Sowers isn’t your average player. [...]
Missile hits wayward spy satellite
WASHINGTON — A missile launched from a Navy cruiser soared 130 miles above the Pacific and smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday, the Pentagon said. Two defense officials said it apparently achieved the main aim of destroying an onboard tank of toxic fuel. Officials had expressed cautious optimism that the missile [...]