Archive for August 19th, 2008
Giants 37, Browns 34: Poor start too much to overcome
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Romeo Crennel’s miserable mood this morning might be matched by that of the suits at ESPN headquarters. Crennel has four days and two practices to get the Browns ready for the Detroit Lions and the “all-important” third preseason game. The regular season follows less than two weeks later. ESPN is obligated [...]
Browns notes: Anderson among those injured in loss to Giants
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Besides getting blown out in the first half Monday night versus the Giants, the Browns were hit with a series of injuries. Quarterback Derek Anderson suffered a possible concussion when he was crushed by Osi Umenyiora on a sack. Anderson faked a handoff and was set to roll out, but two [...]
High School Golf 2008: Team concept to reign this season
It’s the year of the team in local high school golf. It has to be. The big stars have done a vanishing act. Last year’s elite local players — Alex Treuel of Elyria and Jay Overy of Midview — graduated in June. And this year’s elite local players — Avon residents Kyle Kmiecik and Beau [...]
Olympic baseball: Tribe’s LaPorta part of beanball in U.S. victory over China
BEIJING — Injuries, hot tempers, ejections and a beanball war. Not exactly what the crowd of 7,563 mostly Chinese fans thought they’d see when Team USA took on the host country in baseball. They got all that and more as the U.S. notched an emotional 9-1 victory in Olympic round-robin play at Wukesong Baseball Field. [...]
High school football 2008: Southview looks to end losing ills
LORAIN — Todd Auvil is by nature a positive individual. “I didn’t either,” Auvil answered when someone told him they didn’t think the Saints would fail to win a game last year. The Southview football coach knows all about the losing streak the Saints have going entering the 2008 football season. “No doubt about it,” [...]
Elyrian, OSU star Robert Jabbusch dies at 84
Robert Jabbusch, who played on Ohio State’s 1942 national championship team for legendary coach Paul Brown, has died at the age of 84. A 1973 inductee to the Elyria Hall of Fame, Jabbusch succumbed from heart disease and pancreatic cancer on Friday in San Diego. He is the second Elyria Hall of Fame football player [...]
High school roundup: Open Door boys open soccer season with a win
SHEFFIELD — Preston Phillips and Kevin Squire scored two goals apiece to lead Open Door to a 6-3 win over Brookside in season-opening boys soccer action Monday. Mitchell Kurtzman scored two goals for the Cardinals. GOALS: (OD) Preston Phillips 2, Kevin Squire 2, Micah Stoneburner, Tom Kremic; (B) Mitchell Kurtzman 2, Cody Hughes ASSISTS: (OD) [...]
Hundreds protest Shoreway Shopping Center`s ‘slumlords`
SHEFFIELD LAKE — The mailboxes of Shoreway Shopping Center owners Marc Levin and James Ratner should soon be stuffed full of mail from Sheffield Lake. Postcards preprinted with their addresses were passed out to hundreds of Sheffield Lake residents who flocked to the shopping center Monday in an effort to convince the owners to sell [...]
Olympic Roundup: U.S. men’s basketball team gets past Germany, Australia next up
BEIJING — The U.S. Olympic team put away Dirk Nowitzki and Germany in a hurry. Next up: the only team so far these Americans couldn’t blow out. After destroying Germany 106-57 on Monday, the Americans (5-0) move on to a quarterfinal matchup Wednesday against Australia, the team that’s provided them with their toughest test in [...]
Rosie`s Family Restaurant reopens after ceiling crash
ELYRIA TWP. — More than two months after a ceiling collapse brought business at Rosie’s Family Restaurant to a crashing halt, the restaurant’s doors are set to reopen. “It’s been tough, but we stuck with it,” said owner Rosie Rogers. “I know everyone’s been anxious to get back to work.” Rosie’s will be open for [...]
LORAIN COUNTY FAIR: Gill buddies up to crowd with acoustic set
Perfect weather meant a perfect evening for country music legend Vince Gill’s 90-minute-plus Lorain County Fair performance Monday night at the packed Lorain County Fair grandstand. “Hey everybody, I’m your opening act,” said Gill, who moments before had walked onto the stage to overwhelming applause. “Let’s play them some music, boys.” The 51-year-old Nashville resident [...]
LORAIN COUNTY FAIR: Cheese curds – the fried food that`s fairest of them all
WELLINGTON — Turning an otherwise ordinary food item into a culinary delight at the Lorain County Fair starts and stops with two simple steps. First, smother said ordinary item in batter and then deep fry said ordinary item to golden perfection. You have your fair mainstays: french fries, onion rings and mushrooms. And, of course, [...]
OSU president joins campaign to rethink drinking age
College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus. The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago [...]
Drunken man stumbles into wrong apartment, gets cut
LORAIN — A drunken Lorain man stumbled into the wrong apartment Saturday and got cut as a result. Serafin Quintero Jr., 25, of Lorain, was charged with aggravated burglary after police found him just before midnight intoxicated and bloody on Oberlin Avenue. Lorain police met with an apartment resident who told them Quintero had suddenly [...]
Blotter: Aug. 19, 2008
Lorain police Saturday, Aug. 16 8:48 p.m. – Homewood Drive, Joseph Makuch, 36, 4200 block Timberview Drive, charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Sunday, Aug. 17 1:30 p.m. – 5900 block Oakpoint Road, theft of a vehicle. 5:21 p.m. – 3500 block Oberlin Ave., burglary. 11:44 p.m. – 4100 block Gary Ave., burglary. Monday, [...]
Fair director awarded prestigious prize
WELLINGTON — As the president of the Lorain County Fair Board, it’s unusual for anything to get past Ron Pickworth. He has his hand in almost every part of the fair process. But on Monday afternoon, Pickworth — who was in his element as he announced and awarded this year’s scholarship recipients — was reminded [...]
Gas line broken in Avon Lake
AVON LAKE — City firefighters spent a few nervous hours Monday keeping an eye on a gas leak after an excavation crew installing sewers along Moore Road accidentally punctured a line feeding the PolyOne plant. The incident began about 10:15 a.m. when a Fabrizi Excavating and Paving Co. crew digging in front of 668 Moore [...]
Lorain fugitive found in Florida jail
The long arm of the law has located the man accused of using a butcher knife to rob the Dollarama Plus store in Lorain in January, but he won’t be extradited back to Ohio any time soon. Local authorities will only be able to bring Eliezer Caraballo, 31, back to Ohio after a criminal case [...]
Labor Day DUI crackdown starts early
COLUMBUS — Extra officers are watching Ohio roads in a Labor Day push against drunken driving that got under way more than two weeks before the holiday. The crackdown was officially kicked off at a Monday morning news conference in Columbus, though the stepped-up enforcement had begun on Friday. Federal grant money will pick up [...]
Route 2 Vermilion rest stop reopens
VERMILION — Motorists can once more take a break at the state Route 2 eastbound rest area, half a mile east of Erie County. The rest stop was closed July 22 for parking lot renovations, including joint repairs and replacement of the pavement. This followed the closure of the westbound stop for the same reason. [...]
Vermilion`s Third Thursdays offer music, Lake Erie sunsets
VERMILION — It’s not really sponsored by any one group. Admission is free. And it’s likely the only time you will be able to hear country, jazz, rock, island, Russian folk, Irish, pop and many other varieties of music in one location. It’s Third Thursday, Music, Flowers & A Sunset, and the event is growing [...]
Amherst/Vermilion blotter: Aug. 19, 2008
Amherst police Monday, Aug. 11 3:19 p.m. – North Leavitt Road, Sherry Perkins charged with DUI following an accident between a vehicle and bicycle. Police said Perkins was riding the bicycle. Friday, Aug. 15 2:05 p.m. – Keswick Court, cell phone stolen. Saturday, Aug. 16 12:42 a.m. – Downtown, Michael Zimmer charged with disorderly conduct [...]
Amherst/Vermilion notebook: Aug. 19, 2008
Benefit to help woman suffering from cancer There’ll be yet another Elvis sighting this week when the immortal swivel-hipped singer (or more accurately, Tony Freda’s incarnation of him) performs at Vermilion High School on Wednesday for a fundraiser for the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition. The event is being hosted by the family of Linda Rogers, [...]
Victoria Cavell Ego
Victoria "Vicki" Cavell Ego (nee Taylor), 89, of Lorain, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at New Life Hospice Residential Center in Lorain, following a lingering illness. She was born May 25, 1919 in Cleveland. Vicki was raised in Vermilion, graduating from Vermilion High School with the class of [...]
Shirley L. Szakal
Shirley L. Szakal (nee Bates), 64, of Elyria, died Saturday, August 16, 2008 at EMH Regional Medical Center following a brief illness, surrounded by her entire family. She was born June 10, 1944 in Lorain and was an Elyria resident for most of her life. She and Joe Szakal lovingly raised their four children. Shirley [...]