Archive for September, 2010
Thomas L. Morain
Thomas L. Morain, 69, a resident of Eaton Township, passed away Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at his home, following a valiant battle with cancer. He was born September 1, 1941 in Lorain. Tom was raised in Amherst and graduated from Marion L. Steele High School in the class of 1960. He had made his home [...]
Police: Thief hurt after being hauled away by trashmen
ALLIANCE — Police say a suspect in an Ohio store thief hid in some trash and was critically hurt when it was hauled away by a compacting truck. The man called a buddy from inside the truck. With the help of the cell phone’s global positioning system, police located the rig early Wednesday about 4 [...]
Dinner Makes a Difference: Eat as a Family, Share Memories and You Could Win!
Parents, do you want to prevent your children from engaging in risky behaviors, like drug and alcohol use? Research shows that having dinner together regularly as a family is an effective tool to get your kids talking, build strong relationships and prevent substance abuse. Read on to find out how you could win food for your family!
Communities That Care of Lorain County is sponsoring a contest to encourage everyone to eat dinner with their family as part of the national campaign Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children, taking place on Monday, September 27, 2010.
Winners will recieve Stouffers coupons toward free food! Contest deadline is October 22!
Dinner makes a difference!
Press Release and Contest Details:
Dinner Makes a Difference!
Monday September 27 is Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children
For Immediate Release
Contact: Catherine Gabe, cgabe@lorainadas.org; 440.282.9920 (w); 440.315.5434(cell)
Share your favorite dinner memories and stories; Win Stouffers Coupons!
Remember sitting around the dinner table, sharing stories, meals and laughs? Communities That Care of Lorain County, a countywide coalition working to prevent and reduce underage substance abuse, wants to hear your best family memories: the fun, the laughter, even the bittersweet memories. Well be awarding coupons for Stouffers Easy Express Skillets Meals and Stouffers Family Size Meals to the best of the best.
First off, celebrate. The coalition is reminding you to sit down to dinner on Monday, September 27 and celebrate Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children. Remember: the more often you have dinner with your kids, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.
At the dinner table you can check in with everyone on how theyre doing. Its a great place to get conversations started. You can use the time to share family meals and memories and it doesnt have to cost a lot. Just your time which we know is precious, but what better way to spend it than with your family?
Stouffers is a co-sponsor of the national Family Day campaign and the Solon-based company has generously donated coupons for our story contest. So get ready to share:
Entries should be made in the following categories:
- Best Family Day Memory
- Best Family Dinner/Meal
- Most Creative Way to Get Your Family Together
Keep the stories short (no more than 250 words), so we can reprint some of the winners on our coalitions website, www.ctcloraincounty.org.
Send entries to Catherine Gabe at cgabe@lorainadas.org or via mail: Catherine Gabe, Lorain ADAS Board, 4950 Oberlin Ave., Lorain, OH 44053. Stories must be received by October 22, 2010. Please make sure you have all your contact information included, so we can reach the winners for their coupons.
Now, go forth and eat dinner together!
Oberlin College students make foreign language elementary
OBERLIN — It’s a big day for the kindergartners in Miss Castaldi’s class. They might learn how to say “apple” or “desk” or “book.” They might even pick up how to string together a whole sentence. And they’ll learn to do all this without using a single word of English. These kindergartners are part of [...]
Police: Drunken mom crashed with daughter in the car
ELYRIA — An Elyria woman is facing drunken driving and other charges after she and her 15-year-old daughter were in a single-car accident Tuesday afternoon on Fillmore Avenue near West River Road North. Darlene Waters, 44, was LifeFlighted to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland after being taken to EMH Regional Medical Center by ambulance. She [...]
Brookside senior upgraded again, to good condition
SHEFFIELD VILLAGE — Police said today that a teenager who suffered head injuries after she fell from the hood of a moving car over the weekend was not “car surfing” as initially thought. “We’ve looked into it a little further and interviewed some witnesses and concluded that she was not car surfing,” Sheffield Village Police [...]
Woman in fair condition after brutal beating by would-be purse thief
LORAIN — A 47-year-old woman was severely beaten and dragged by her hair but managed to fend off a man who was trying to steal her purse yesterday morning. The woman was LifeFlighted to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. She was listed in fair condition today, according to a hospital spokeswoman. According to police, officers [...]
Lorain man robbed of cash, knife at gunpoint
LORAIN — A Lorain man was robbed at gunpoint Monday night by a man who forced him to the ground and went through his pockets, according to a police report. Police were called to the man’s East 25th Street house about 9 p.m. He told them he head been walking on East 27th Street when [...]
Update: Harrison, Robiskie miss Browns practice, along with Delhomme misses practice again
BEREA – Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme didn’t practice Wednesday as he continues to recover from an ankle injury suffered in the opener. He was joined in the training room by receiver Brian Robiskie (hamstring)and running back Jerome Harrison (thigh). Robiskie walked off the practice field with a trainer early in the session. Harrison wasn’t in the [...]
Fatal fire scene hit by copper thieves
LORAIN — A Lorain home where a man was found dead following a fire Sept. 7 has been hit by copper thieves as the owner tries to rehab it. According to a police report, work crew left the home at 4 p.m. Monday and returned at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. The didn’t notice anything out of [...]
Strickland, Kasich battle over public school funding
COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland and his rival in the fall election are locking horns over the new public schools funding system on which Strickland has staked his governorship. Republican John Kasich says the plan is unfunded and should be scrapped. Democrat Strickland says it’s transformative and that Kasich is reckless. The system, called the [...]
Police looking for man in green pickup who approached boy at bus stop
LORAIN — Police are looking for a man who approached a Lorain boy yesterday morning while he waited for his bus. Police were called to the boy’s F Street home a little before 7:30 a.m. to speak to his mother. According to a police report, the boy, who age is not listed, was waiting for [...]
Women stole 2-week-old puppy, dog-sitters say
ELYRIA — An Elyria couple who is dog-sitting for a friend who is incarcerated said a woman stole one of the dog’s puppies yesterday evening. According to a police report, the Brace Avenue couple have been watching the dog, which gave birth to a litter of pit bull-American bulldog mix puppies, and they have permission [...]
Amherst police looking for man who threatened to stab bank customer
AMHERST — Police are on the lookout for a black male in a maroon van who attempted to rob a merchant who was making a deposit at the Fifth Third Bank on state Route 58 this afternoon. According to an alert issued to area law enforcement, the man, who was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt [...]
Scott Petrak: Browns season not lost yet … really
Patience and perspective. I don’t expect Browns fans to have any patience left after 15 years of misery. But a little perspective would be nice. The 0-2 start destroyed any optimism that accompanied the new season. The frustration that gets hidden under a layer of hope in the offseason quickly resurfaced with two close losses [...]
Twins 6, Indians 4: Tribe can’t keep lead
MINNEAPOLIS — No need for a 163rd game in the AL Central division this year. The Minnesota Twins have this baby wrapped up with plenty of time to spare. Denard Span’s RBI-single highlighted a four-run eighth inning to rally the Twins to a 6-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night. The come-from-behind win [...]
EC volleyball knocks off state champ Padua
ELYRIA — Confidence, faith and a strong belief in your abilities have always been watchwords when it comes to success on the court or field no matter the sport. Elyria Catholic’s volleyball team took those ideas to heart Tuesday in knocking off twotime defending Division II state champion and stateranked Padua in five games at [...]
High school volleyball: Cardinals rebound, down Clippers in 5
SHEFFIELD TWP. — Brookside looked like it had a big win in the bag after the first two games Tuesday night against Clearview. After the fourth game, it was anybody’s match. The Cardinals, however, got it back together and picked up the hard-fought win, 25-18, 25-21, 19-25, 23-25 and 15-11. Brookside coach Ted Whitsel was [...]
Hitting now includes ‘the books’ as classes start at OSU
COLUMBUS — Now that classes are about to begin at Ohio State, the Buckeyes on the football team are even busier and less isolated. Despite a 3-0 start heading into Saturday’s game against Eastern Michigan (0-3), the No. 2 Buckeyes have plenty of areas to address at the same time they’re solving problems in the [...]
Vic’s drops license, but not the booze
ELYRIA — The owner of Vic’s Night Club is withdrawing a request to renew a state-issued liquor license for the downtown Elyria establishment, which has come under police scrutiny for the number of times officers have been called to the bar. Vic’s Night Club owner Dean Costa said he is not closing his business, which [...]
Building momentum: City uses federal funds to tear down, renovate homes
ELYRIA — The idea behind the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program was simple: Give cities a chunk of money to buy vacant, dilapidated properties with instructions to either fix them up and sell them cheap or tear them down and hold onto the land for future use. However, with a timetable of just 18 months to [...]
High school volleyball roundup: Sailors down Firelands in 5
VERMILION — Mallory Morris had nine kills and seven blocks as Vermilion scrambled to beat Firelands 25-15, 25-18, 17-25, 19-25, 15-11 in a West Shore Conference match Tuesday. Vermilion (5-7, 3-4) and Firelands (7-7, 2-5) were tied at 12 in the last game before the Sailors scored two points to take the advantage. Emily Cunningham [...]
Photo gallery: Family, friends remember Bryant Ortiz a year later
LORAIN — In a year, Bryant Ortiz has missed a lot. And a lot of people have missed him. More than two dozen family members and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday evening near the corner of West 37th Street and Pearl Avenue, where Ortiz, 33, was gunned down a year ago. The youth [...]
Finding a home for Lorain’s homeless: City, public officials meet
LORAIN — Church and state came together Tuesday afternoon to discuss how to make sure Lorain’s homeless who have depended on St. Joseph Church to shelter them in the winter aren’t left out in the cold this year. A zoning dispute has at least temporarily halted Catholic Charities’ plans to turn the former church at [...]
Penfield native paralyzed in freak hammock accident
PENFIELD TWP. — A Penfield Township native is hospitalized in Indiana with a spinal cord injury after a freak hammock accident that killed a Grace College schoolmate. Jeremy Mohr, 21, a senior at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, was in the intensive care unit at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Tuesday night. [...]