Safety Town offers two more sessions

It’s not too late to sign up for Safety Town.

Safety Town is a one-week course that teaches children safe practices at school and at home. Children are instructed on when, where and how to cross the street, bike safety, pedestrian safety, school bus safety, fire safety, seat belt safety, 911 emergency calls, stranger danger and what to do if they find a gun.

It also allows children to become comfortable around law enforcement and those from other agencies, and what the many different uniforms and cars look like.

The program, put on by The Elyria Police Department and Elyria Kiwanis Club, runs 9 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday with a graduation ceremony 9 a.m. Friday that includes guest speakers. The last two sessions of Safety Town are the weeks starting Monday and July 20.

Registration cards are available at the school where your child will attend kindergarten or the Elyria Police Department, or call Mary Inman-Gibbs at (440) 326-1332 or Sue Stefek at (440) 326-1337.

Safety Town is free to Elyria residents and surrounding areas through the cooperation of the Elyria Police Department, the Kiwanis Club, and other donors.

EHS class of 1939 meets Thursday

The Elyria High School class of 1939 will meet for lunch 1 p.m. Thursday, July 16, at Eat-N-Park on West River Road. Normally, the class meets the second week of the month, but the lunch was delayed this month.

Benefit raises money for Parkinson’s

Living with a chronic, progressive disease that causes uncontrollable tremors, stiffness and difficulty in speaking has not been easy for Doug Gigliotti.

Every day has been a struggle since a day in 1997 when his hand shook so badly that he could barely finish his breakfast. Since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the 51-year-old Elyria man said he has learned to live life to the fullest.

“You just have to learn to do what you can when you can,” he said. “It will never get better. It will always get worse. There is no cure – yet. Hopefully, we will find one soon.”

To raise money to help in that effort, Gigliotti is organizing a steak fry benefit on Aug. 1.

Starting at 4 p.m. at Elyria Catholic High School, the steak fry will benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Disease.

Tickets are $25 per person, which includes a steak, baked potato, salad and roll. There will be a cash bar, along with 50/50, tip boards and Chinese auctions.

In addition, Rudy Ruettiger, the Notre Dame football player who inspired the movie “Rudy,” will speak

Tickets are limited to 600. For information, call (440) 213-8209.

VFW hosts car show

Cars, trucks and bikes will fill the parking lot of VFW Post 1079, 500 S. Abbe Road, during a show and membership drive 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 26.

All vehicles are welcome.

Get there early for an all-you-can-eat breakfast of sausage gravy and biscuits, scrambled eggs, sausage, orange juice and coffee.

Tickets are $5.75 per person, $5 for senior citizens and veterans, and $3.75 for children. Bring cans of food or other donations for soldiers stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan and get a free drink ticket.

The show is $8.50 for tickets, $10.50 the days of the show. Call (440) 365-8500 for tickets, which include trophy eligibility and a door prize ticket.

Fifteen trophies will be awarded.

Fat Cats Restaurant opens in Elks Club

Fat Cats Restaurant and Custom Catering, a longtime Grafton establishment, is expanding into Elyria.

The newest locale is inside Elyria Elks Club 465, 246 Second St. The menu includes hot and cold sandwiches, and daily specials such as potato and onion pierogis, macaroni and cheese, ribs and wings.

Fat Cats owners Tony and Amy Zavallo have recently assumed restaurant and catering operations at the Elks Club and the restaurant is open to the public Monday through Friday for lunches 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Fat Cats also provides catering and can be contacted at the Grafton phone number (440) 926-0304 or Elks club phone (440) 323-4391. For more information including menus, go to the Fat Cats Web site at www.fatcatscatering.com.

Elyria mayor to speak at Kiwanis

Mayor Bill Grace will speak at the East Elyria Kiwanis Club’s meeting 7 p.m. Thursday in the Cascade Room at Wesleyan Village.

All residents and Kiwanis Club members are welcome to attend this informal question-and-answer session.

For information, call Andrew Allan at (440) 967-6701.

Meet Korean War Veterans officers

Meet the new officers of Korean War Veterans Chapter 71 at 7 p.m. Monday at American Legion Post 12 in Elyria. Nonmembers welcome.

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