Archive for August, 2009
Months of hard work end in horse royalty honors
WELLINGTON — Nearly twice as many contestants are vying for the title of Lorain County Horse King and Horse Queen this year as last, even with the months of hard work and a nerve-wracking public-speaking test. “I don’t really like doing speeches, and I was really nervous,” said 14-year-old contestant Christina Lehane. The speech contest, [...]
Eight competing for Junior Fair royal honors
WELLINGTON — Four girls and four boys are vying for a $1,000 college scholarship and the title of Lorain County Junior Fair Queen and King. The winners will be announced at noon Monday at the pavilion behind the grandstands at the county fairgrounds. Four girls — Victoria Colella, Amanda Price, Madalyn McMinn and Rebecca Burgdorf [...]
Directions to the fairgrounds
Wellington is at the intersection of state Route 18 and state Route 58. The fairgrounds are at the west edge of Wellington, just off state Route 18 on Fairgrounds Road. From Cleveland Go west on Interstate 480. Merge onto state Route 10 via exit on left. Route 10 becomes U.S. Route 20 west. Turn left [...]
Fair ticket prices
$4 for adults and children ages 8 and older Free for children ages 8 and younger Senior citizens will be admitted for free on Thursday Veterans will be admitted for free on Thursday Any military personnel attending the fair in full uniform will be admitted for free any day at any gate Parking on fair [...]
Big improvement: Browns look like different team against Lions … even score a touchdown
CLEVELAND – Another week of practice under coach Eric Mangini, or a visit from the dreadful Detroit Lions? You make the call. Whatever the reason, the Browns were much improved Saturday night in their second preseason game. They ended their seven-game touchdown drought on the opening possession, scored on their first four possessions behind quarterback [...]
Tough way to end: Elyria falls 2-1 in final of Little League Junior softball World Series
The dream ended at 9:08 Saturday night. That was the time Elyria’s Little League Juniors were put down in order in the seventh inning of one of the biggest events ever to involve an athletic team from Lorain County. Unable to get its usually potent offense going, Elyria dropped a 2-1 heartbreaker to Maunabo, Puerto [...]
High school football preview: Firelands Falcons
If change is truly good, then the Firelands Falcons may have found a recipe for success this season. Second-year coach Todd Pooch took a look at game film from last season, watched his athletes perform in other sports and decided that most of his football players weren’t efficiently cast. So Pooch and staff began moving [...]
Indians edge Mariners on Valbuena home run in 11th
CLEVELAND – Travis Hafner’s home run in the fourth inning Saturday snapped an extended long-ball drought for the Indians, but Luis Valbuena’s solo shot in the 11th was far more significant. The light-hitting Valbuena connected on a 2-0 pitch from Seattle reliever Randy Messenger with two outs in the 11th inning, lining the ball just [...]
Chris Assenheimer: Present not so great, but will future be any better for Indians?
Because examining the present is probably far too painful for Indians fans, let’s look to the future and who will most likely be taking the field for the team in 2010. This is barring any offseason additions, which most likely won’t be substantial ones anyway. Caution to Tribe fans: The future might not be all [...]
Murderer without chance at parole could be sentenced to five years more
ELYRIA – Nine years ago, John Michael Robinson went on a robbery spree that left two drive-through clerks dead in Ottawa and Sandusky counties. In October, he’ll be in a Lorain County courtroom – on trial for allegedly attempting to escape from Lorain Correctional Institution last year by hiding in a trash container. Among the [...]
In Lorain, crowds brave rain for Blessings Music Fest
LORAIN – Chilly breezes and rain didn’t keep a couple hundred people away from the eighth annual Blessings Music Festival Saturday at Black River Landing. “Christians are die-hard,” event organizer Lou Acosta said with a laugh, “because they’ll come out in the rain and thank God for the rain.” The festival was created to promote [...]
Elyria fitness fair raises money for lymphoma
ELYRIA – The first-ever Family Fitness Fair raised $500 for A Spark of Hope Saturday in Ely Park. The money will be used for research into pediatric blood cancers, said event sponsor John Dixon, owner of Powerhouse Gym. Donna Sparkman’s 7-year-old son, Michael, died in October 2008 from lymphoma just six months after his diagnosis. [...]
Blotter: Aug. 23, 2009
Lorain police Tuesday, Aug. 18 8:29 a.m. – West 21st Street and Leavitt Road, a 52-year-old Lorain man reported two men jumped him, hit him with what looked like a crowbar and stole $150 cash from him. 6 p.m. – Marshall Avenue and West 26th Street, Antwaun Carlton, 19, charged with carrying a concealing weapon [...]
Man, woman sought for enticing Lorain boy
LORAIN – Police are investigating a 10-year-old Lorain boy’s report that a man and a woman tried to entice him into their vehicle Wednesday. The child was walking to visit a relative in the 2500 block of Reid Ave. when a relative at the house noticed the child talking to two people who’d pulled into [...]
Local artist paints for Wellington clinic
ELYRIA – When Elyria artist David Pavlak broke his right wrist – the wrist on his painting hand – on April 20, it threatened the progress on his biggest project in two years. However, Pavlak wasn’t deterred, and when his mother asked him in the emergency room how he was going to paint, he didn’t [...]
Elyria/Elyria Township notebook: Aug. 23, 2009
Explore arteries at EMH event EMH Regional Medical Center will host “Artery Explorer,” which will allow people to step inside an 18-wheel tractor-trailer that has been converted into a multisensory motion simulator. The Artery Explorer will be parked in the main lot of EMH Regional Medical Center in front of Gates Medical Building 9 a.m. [...]
Obituaries for Aug. 23, 2009
SHERMAN JONES EARNEST MULLINS CHARLES LEROY THOMPSON WILLIAM H. ROBBINS JEFFREY L. ELKINS DORTHY MAE CRAWFORD Read the full obituaries on The Chronicle E-edition at: http://www.chroniclet.com/ChroniclEdition/
Cleveland Pops concert at Lakeview Park rescheduled
A free Cleveland Pops Orchestra concert planned for 7 tonight at Lakeview Park has been rescheduled. The Pops Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday. The Pops Orchestra under the direction of Carl Topilow has delighted audiences since 1995 with popular contemporary American music that appeals to all musical tastes. The Cleveland Pops Orchestra has [...]
Justice Dept. investigators leave Lorain
LORAIN – U.S. Department of Justice attorneys and investigators left Lorain on Friday after a week of interviews with police, city officials and critics of the Lorain Police Department, which is the subject of a federal excessive force investigation. “They found that in many regards, operations and systems of the Lorain Police Department were proper [...]
Remembering Charles: Father feels ‘hurt in ways you cannot imagine’
ELYRIA – A crowd at a vigil for 17-year-old shooting victim Charles “Chuckie” Howard Jr. grew quiet when the teen’s father begged for justice, but no more violence. “I’m hurt in ways you never will imagine,” said the Rev. Charles Howard of Christian Kingdom International. “I’ll never hear him say ‘What’s up, Dad’ or see [...]
Police increase presence near Elyria High School
ELYRIA – The growing anxiety about the shooting death of a 17-year-old earlier this week made its way to Elyria High School on Friday. There, an increased police presence seemed to confirm what the students were sharing among themselves via text messages and their Facebook pages: That the school would be the target of violence. [...]
Victim’s grandmother pleads for shooter to turn self in
ELYRIA – The grandmother of an Elyria teenager who was shot and killed this week said Friday she believes her grandson made “negative” friends who are responsible for his death and she wants the person responsible to turn himself in. Charles “Chuckie” Howard Jr., 17, died after being shot in the chest Wednesday while at [...]
Elderly woman’s house set on fire
LORAIN – An arson fire caused more than $10,000 of damage to the home of an 85-year-old woman, but investigators are not convinced she was the intended target, said Lorain Fire Chief Tom Brown. Police and fire investigators are trying to find the person or persons who set the fire at 1113 Euclid Ave. and [...]
Sheriff’s deputies looking into missing elections document
SHEFFIELD TWP. – Lorain County sheriff’s deputies launched an investigation into a missing elections document that was required to place Lorain Law Director Pat Riley on the November ballot. The document, which Riley has said he signed and handed over to county Board of Elections Director Jose Candelario, a fellow Democrat, on April 30, could [...]
Brothers in police chase get prison
ELYRIA – Two brothers convicted earlier this year of leading police on a high-speed chase both were sentenced to prison Friday. Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi sentenced Douglas Rivers to 18 months in prison and David Washington to 8½ years behind bars. Washington, 20, was convicted of theft, receiving stolen property, failure to [...]