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Mudd Center gets new statue Stone carver Nicholas Fairplay created the ‘Oberlin Reader’ for Oberlin College

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OBERLIN – A new stone carving outside the Mudd Center will hopefully be a part of Oberlin College traditions moving forward, the college’s library director said Tuesday.

The Friends of Oberlin College contracted with stone carver Nicholas Fairplay to create the “Oberlin Reader,” a 2-ton Indiana limestone slab inspired by its existing marble statue of “The Reading Girl,” by sculptor John Adams Jackson.

Fairplay’s “Oberlin Reader” features a pair of nongendered, tennis-shoed feet poking out of a ball chair while reading, an homage to the sneaker college students placed on one of “The Reading Girl’s” bare feet.

The Reader is on the back of the statue, with the front featuring the anonymous quote “read to learn, read to enjoy, read to forget, read to remember, read to know others, read to find yourself.”

Fairplay donated the Indiana limestone to the project, he said, as it was left over from another piece he’d worked on. It is the same type of limestone as is on the front facade of the building.

Fairplay has been creating stone carvings for 50 years, CARISSA WOYTACH | The Community Guide after starting an apprenticeship at 16. A European-trained Nicholas Fairplay, center, and contracted workers unload Fairplay’s work “Oberlin Reader” outside artisan and master carver, his work has been included at the Mudd Center on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Fairplay was commissioned by the Friends of Oberlin STATUE PAGE A6 College to create the carving for the Mudd Center’s new Contemplation Garden.

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Lorain County Metro Parks seeks replacement levy CARISSA WOYTACH THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

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Paulie Sorokas-Waller, 6, raced his cars down a track while his father, Paul, watched at Experience Oberlin: Summer in the City event on July 15. They attended the event as representatives of Cub Scouts Pack 460.

The Lorain County Metro Parks will look to voters this November to approve a replacement levy to help fund its increased parkland and programming throughout the county.

From 2014 to 2022, the parks district added 2,000 acres through land acquisitions and donations, according to the district’s new strategic plan, shared with The Chronicle-Telegram on Monday.

Director Jim Ziemnik said it takes time, money and people to keep those greenspaces up.

Adding land has meant adding staff and programs throughout the county, Ziemnik said, and without the replacement levy giving the parks district the additional funds it would “be in a pickle in a couple years.”

The district now has 77 full-time employees, 14 part-time employees and more than 180 seasonal workers.

“We certainly wouldn’t be able to do a whole heck of a lot of new stuff, whether it’s land or a trail if we did a strict renewal,” Ziemnik said.

The replacement levy the park district plans to put before voters would bring its current 10-year, 1.6-mill levy up to current property valuations, increasing its revenue by about $3 million annually.

The current tax levy, first passed in 2014, brings in about $11 million annually and costs the owner of a $100,000 home $50

a year. The replacement would bring in about $14 million and cost the owner of a $100,000 home $56 a year.

If the issue fails in November, the district will be able to put it back on the ballot in the spring.

During a meeting with The ChronicleTelegram, Ziemnik, Park Commission Chairman Kenneth Lieux and Metro Parks Assistant Director Jennifer Bracken highlighted the parks’ accomplishments during the past decade, including renovations to Cascade Park in Elyria.

“Obviously Cascade was a big part of our last strategic plan and the last time we went before voters,” Bracken said. “We’re very, very proud of Cascade, reclaiming that park, embracing its unique natural resources — it was a lot of public input, a lot of public meetings and it really is a park for everyone.”

The Metro Parks, via Burgess and Burgess, conducted a survey ahead of its new 10-year strategic plan to get the community’s input on what its focus should be for the next decade.

Those goals include acquiring and preserving habitats, with the group setting its potential sights on land in Columbia Township and along the lakefront at the former Avon Lake power plant.

The park district has about 11,000 acres spread throughout Lorain County, from Vermilion’s Cassell Reservation and Lorain’s Lakeview and Century parks down to Charlemont Reservation in New London.

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‘Humble postcard’ offers glimpse into Lorain’s past

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As a seventh grader at Masson Elementary School in 1970, Jerry McCoy hadn’t thought of Lorain as a city with a history.

It wasn’t until his class was studying a booklet titled “Lorain: Our International City,” that everything changed.

The 92-page, softcover spiralbound book had the history of his hometown, from shipbuilding to the steel mill and beyond.

“I was immediately fascinated that any local community, no matter how big or small, could have its own history that was worthy of being preserved in written form or through the preservation of historic buildings,” McCoy said.

It was a fascination that would carry into adulthood, shaping his career path to become a special collections archivist at District of Columbia Public Library in Washington and spurring his collection of more than 150 Lorainthemed postcards he hopes to share with future generations.

That 1970 illustrated booklet had reprints of a couple of postcards highlighting Lorain’s industrial giants, he said. He realized as a kid that those old postcards were still out there somewhere — prompting him to spend his weekends and summers biking to Broadway to sift through the Salvation Army and AmVets shops to start piecing together his collection.

After visiting Masson Elementary School as an adult, a former teacher gave him a copy of the 1972 edition of “Lorain: Our International City,” which is now a cherished part of his collection and received a dedication in a book on Silver Spring history McCoy wrote.

He said his parents didn’t share his love for collecting, having a very sparse, midcentury modern decorating style while McCoy was the “pack rat” of the family. But the interest in history segued into historic preservation — taking him to D.C. for college, and keeping him there and in Silver Spring, Maryland, since the 1980s.

He said in the mid-’80s his mother kept threaten-

LEFT: Jerry McCoy, of Silver Spring, Maryland, collects antique postcards from his hometown of Lorain.

This card, featuring the old post office on Broadway, has a stamp from July 1, 1971 with the inauguration of the U.S. Postal Service.

McCoy, then 13-yearsold, went to the Broadway Post Office to buy the commemorative envelope for $0.08.

LOWER LEFT: McCoy has shared several of his postcards on Facebook, including a realphoto postcard mailed in 1910 by “H.R.” to Iona Abrams of Walls, Pennsylvania. H.R.’s house, in the background of the photo, still exists at 1826 E. 31st St., Lorain.

This early 20th century card includes a felt pennant that could be printed with a town or city name on request and accompanied by a caricature or saying.

The postcard was not mailed, but includes a message from Ivy to her aunt for her birthday.

“I’ve always thought of the humble 3.5 x 5.25 as this window to the past. And in many cases, that image that you’re looking at no longer exists. ”

Jerry McCoy

ing to throw away his collection from the attic, so he made sure to get up there and rescue it before it could meet the trash bin.

And since then, it’s grown into a priceless collection of local history, including postcards of the 1924 tornado, personal notes between relatives and friends, and — McCoy’s favorite — the illuminated fountain at Lakeview Park.

The 1930s Work Projects Administration-funded fountain is a popular subject for postcards new and old, McCoy said. As kitschy as it is, he has a love for Lakeview Park, the fountain, and its accompanying Easter basket thanks to summer trips to the beach with his parents and brother, he said.

Postcards used to be like instant messenger, he said.

Letter carriers would visit homes multiple times a

day delivering the cardboard-backed notes, so a number of the cards in his collection have messages on them inviting friends to dinner that evening.

“You would never think of the humble postcard as a means of communication,” he said, as nowadays they’re something picked up on vacation for a few dollars and stuck in a scrapbook or mailed back to loved ones to

show up several weeks later.

Alongside his collection of Lorain postcards, he also collects historic cards for Gassaway, West Virginia, where his parents are from, and Silver Spring, Maryland, where McCoy currently lives.

The most important ones are those that have been used, including canceled stamps with dates, he said, but those are getting harder, and more expensive to find.

McCoy doubts postcards will make a comeback.

There’s too much competition with instant gratification: why pay for postage and wait for the card to show up two to three weeks later when you can snap a picture on your phone in front of a tourist

attraction and send it to a loved one instantly?

As the era of the postcard ends, McCoy hopes his collection can serve as a historical record for future generations. Now 65 years old and finally at a point where he is ready to let go of things, he plans to see if the Lorain city or the county historical society would like his collection.

“I’ve always thought of the humble 3.5 x 5.25 as this window to the past,” he said. “And in many cases, that image that you’re looking at no longer exists. Right there, that’s probably the primary importance of a postcard as primary source material: It’s showing you a place that no longer exists.”

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Citing improved conditions in the Black River Area of Concern, the Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency are planning to recommend to the U.S. EPA to remove a regulation regarding the health of fish found in the waterway.

“For decades, the Black River AOC was affected by industrial pollution, including sediment that was heavily contaminated with metals and chemicals that JEFF BARNES | The Community Guide caused tumors in the river’s fish populations. Conditions The Black River shown on July 13 at Black River Reservation Bur Oak Park. in the area have improved as a result of cleanups and Lorain County Metro Parks trial sites where waste was site restoration along the and other groups are drivdumped into or allowed to river, along with regulations ing improvements. flow into rivers that feed and limitations on industrial “The more people can see the lakes. discharges following the it, the more eyes are on it, The Ohio Lake Erie Clean Water Act,” the Ohio the more people have an Commission and Ohio EPA Lake Erie Commission said investment and interest in officials are seeking input in a news release. improving it,” Romancak from the public on the newA beneficial use impairsaid. est recommendation before ment, or BUI, identifies According to the U.S. submitting it to federal problems with bodies of EPA, the Black River was authorities. water that affect water qual- once nicknamed the “river A summary of the proity. The commission and of fish tumors.” The nickposal can be found on the Ohio EPA are proposing to name came about because Ohio EPA website. the U.S. EPA that the BUI of the river’s “long history Written comments on the for fish abnormalities such of industrial, agricultural proposal should be emailed as lesions and tumors be re- and urban uses, which led to Hannah Boesinger, moved from federal regula- to poor water quality, loss Northeast Ohio AOC tions, according to the Ohio of biodiversity, habitat coordinator, at hannah.

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People can fish in the tion,” according to the U.S. gov. Comments will be acBlack River, said Lynn EPA. cepted through Aug. 3, the Garrity, Lake Erie Program The Black River was Ohio Lake Erie Commisadministrator for the Ohio first designated an “area of sion said.

Lake Erie Commission, and concern” in 1987.

Romancak encour“this milestone just demBUIs “recognize various aged the public to review onstrates that conditions examples of significant enthe recommendation and continue to improve for vironmental degradation,” comment, “be it positive activities like fishing,” she according to the U.S. EPA. or negative or if they have said Thursday.

“As restoration and cleanup concerns about what is goDon Romancak, chairprojects make progress, ing on with the report and man of the Black River monitoring at the site can the delisting.”

AOC Advisory Committee, show recovery in environThe Black River is said when he first came to mental health.”

“Lorain County’s river,” he Lorain County, people were BUIs can be removed as said. advised to not even touch an “area of concern” recov“And it’s important that the water of the Black ers. A BUI for “restrictions the people take opportuRiver, which flows north on dredging activities” was nities when they have a into Lake Erie. removed in 2022, the fourth chance to learn and let the There has been major since late 2017.

Ohio and U.S. EPAs know progress since. Twenty “Once fish tumors or oth- what their thoughts are,” he years later, he said, the er deformities monitoring said.

Black River was host to a results confirm the rates are There’s still more work to national walleye tournano higher than non-AOC be done, “and to make sure ment. control sites, this BUI can we don’t backslide as well,” That’s a testament to the also be removed,” accordRomancak said. “Clean work that environmening to the U.S. EPA. water is important for all tal advocates, the city of When the final four BUIs uses, and as we improve Lorain, Lorain County and are removed, the process the Black River not only others have put into educa- can start for the Black ecologically will the river tion, cleanup and restoring River being delisted as an improve, but economiwildlife habitats, Romanarea of concern, according cally we’ll be able to take cak said. to the U.S. EPA. advantage of the river as a Environmental regulation, At a summit last year, resource in a positive way.” cleanups, habitat restoraofficials said the Black When fishing, Garrity tion, water quality and River AOC is on track to be said anglers should still recreational projects and delisted by 2030. pay attention or refer to educational plans all conIn his February 2022 stop the annual Ohio Sport Fish tributed to the improvement in Lorain, President Joe Consumption Advisory of the river, he said. IndusBiden made the health of from the Ohio Department tries got better at protecting the Great Lakes a part of of Health, Ohio Department natural resources. the focus as he touted a $1 of Natural Resources and “It’s really improved billion bipartisan infrastruc- Ohio EPA to figure out how the quality, the health of ture bill. to safely eat fish caught in the river,” he said. That The money was dedicated the state, including Lake the public has access to to accelerating cleanup in Erie. the water and recreational 22 of the 25 remaining ar“That just always makes activities on it means that eas of concern on the Great sure people know what the partnerships between Lakes, areas that had long they’re catching and fishing Lorain, the county, the been polluted by indussafely,” Garrity said.

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The Ohio Department of Transportation will be conducting a $10 million study into the state’s future transportation needs, Gov. Mike DeWine’s office announced July 11.

DeWine put funding into the state’s recent transportation budget to allow ODOT to look at the state’s transportation needs “now and into the future,” according to a news release.

A consulting team has been selected and the study will launch in August, DeWine said. The study, planned to be completed in late 2024, will be led by Cambridge Systematics, a national expert in transportation analysis, along with the consulting team.

ODOT, the Ohio Department of Development and the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation are analyzing statewide and regional demographics, investigating economic development growth oppor-

tunities, examining current transportation systems and capacities, and forecasting passenger and freight travel needs over the next 10, 20, and 30 years.

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Wellington: Clay Street named for Forest City Technologies CEO CARISSA WOYTACH THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

WELLINGTON — Soon, residents and visitors will be walking on Cloud Street in honor of a longtime businessman.

The Village Council voted June 10 evening to rename a portion of Clay Street between Barker Street and the railroad tracks for John Cloud, CEO of Forest City Technologies Inc. Cloud just celebrated his 50th year with the company, Mayor Hans Schneider said, and the manufacturing business is traditionally one of the village’s largest employers.

During a public hearing on the name change Monday evening, Cloud said he’s gotten calls, letters and emails trying to get him to

move the business out of Wellington, but has always turned them down.

School board member Ayers Ratliff said the village couldn’t be recognizing a better person than Cloud, noting the CEO has long supported Wellington Schools.

He said Cloud is generous and kind and said, “If John doesn’t make (it to) heaven, I’m going to split hell right open.”

He said Cloud donates annually to the district’s K Kids, Duke Pride Carnival and other student groups.

Council President Gene Hartman said Wellington is a special place because of people like Cloud.

“You decided to stay here in Wellington,” he said, “and for that, we are gratePROVIDED | Hans Schneider ful to you for making that From left: John Cloud III, John Cloud Jr., John Cloud and Mayor Hans Schneider pose together following Village Council’s vote to rename a portion of Clay Street to Cloud Street in honor of John commitment.”

Cloud, CEO of Forest City Technologies.

Lorain County GOP promotes voting ‘Yes on Issue 1’ in August election DAVE O’BRIEN THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

The Lorain County Republican Party is making a push for voters to say “Yes on Issue 1” and approve in the August special election an amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would make it more difficult to amend the Ohio Constitution.

Critics of the proposed amendment, who are encouraging “no” voters on Issue 1, say the issue will make it harder for Ohioans to amend the state constitution in the future and is an attempt by Republicans to undermine the passage of a reproductive and abortion rights amendment that will appear on the November ballot.

If Issue 1 passes on Aug. 8, it would change the law to require a constitutional amendment be approved by 60 percent of voters, rather than a simple majority — in essence making the state’s governing document harder to amend.

The Lorain County GOP invited potential Issue 1 supporters to join Chairman David Arredondo at the Lorain County Board of Elections on North Ridge Road in Sheffield Township to cast the first ballots on the first day of early voting July 11.

Arredondo, who said he tries to make a habit of casting the first or second ballot in person each election, said it was a successful turnout.

“We achieved what we wanted to, which is to make a statement that we want Issue 1 passed,” he said.

rights amendment on the November ballot to pass.

LaRose has said so publicly: At a Seneca County Lincoln Day dinner on May 22, he told those present that “This is 100 percent about keeping a radical proabortion amendment out of our constitution. The left wants to jam it in there this coming November.”

The “One Person One Vote Campaign” on Tuesday also launched a TV and digital ad campaign and campaign by mail against Issue 1 titled “Don’t Be SiBRUCE BISHOP | The Community Guide lenced on August 8th. Vote No on Issue 1.”

Early voters head to the polls at the Lorain Lorain County DemoCounty Board of Elections to vote on Issue One, cratic Party Chairwoman the group gathered before the polls opened.

Sharon Sweda on Tuesday The party, which has been standards, Arredondo said. said she, too, was excited “It doesn’t just come from for the start of early voting canvassing in-person and by phone, encouraged early the masses voting 50 perin the Aug. 8 election. and absentee voting through cent to change the Constitu“I received numertion. We need to elevate the ous calls from folks who Aug. 8. It will also put up level of our amendments in two digital billboards, one couldn’t wait to tell me that Ohio. We’re not asking for each in Elyria and Lorain, they voted ‘no’ today,” she 66 percent or 75 percent, and conduct a social media said. “This is one of those we’re only asking for 60 campaign. rare elections where many percent,” he said.

Arredondo praised the are coming together to put a Issue 1 will also require coalition of Republican and stop to the hypocrisy from gathering petitions from all right-leaning groups that Columbus lawmakers. Vot88 counties, and eliminate came together under the ers are angry that tax dollars umbrella of the “Committee the “cure” period. That’s the are being spent because short time petitioners have for Yes on Issue 1.” lawmakers are desperate to to “cure” the problem of That includes the Avonstrip voters of their rights.” not having enough signaAvon Lake Republican Democrats, Republicans tures by gathering more and and independents alike, Club, Lorain County Right resubmitting their petitions to Life, Lorain County Sweda said, all have told Young Republicans, Lorain to elections officials. her they “agree that it is “This raises the standard County TEA Party, and time to say no to lawmakers other volunteers, Arredondo to ensure we don’t have who want more government special interest groups from control and hope to strip us said. outside the state to come in Why change the way of our constitutional rights to say ‘We want legal mari- when things don’t go their the Ohio Constitution gets amended? Arredondo said it juana, open borders, climate way.” comes down to standards: It change provisions,’” Ar“The fear for lawmakers takes two-thirds of the U.S. redondo said. lies in the fact that votBoth Issue 1 critics and House and U.S. Senate, ers won’t just stand idly the state’s top elections ofand three-fourths of state by. Sadly, the wasted time ficial, Republican Secretary and money can never be legislatures to amend the U.S. Constitution, and Ohio of State Frank LaRose, have regained, but the lesson will said the intent of the amend- stand. Lawmakers were should have similar high ment is to make it more way out of their lane on difficult for a proposed this,” she said. reproductive and abortion

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LEGALS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS CITY OF LORAIN, OHIO CITY OF LORAIN PELLET TERMINAL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT PHASE I 203 Broadway, Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, 44052 In accordance with Ordinance No. 64-21 passed April 19, 2021, sealed bids will be received by the Engineering Department of the City of Lorain, Ohio until: TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING BIDS: UNTIL - 11:00 AM, August 14, 2023, Lorain time, Law Department, Lorain City Hall 3rd Floor, 200 W. Erie Avenue, Lorain, OH 44052.

TIME AND PLACE FOR OPENING BIDS: 11:15 AM, August 14, 2023, Lorain time, City of Lorain Council Chambers, Lorain City Hall 1st Floor.

SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION DATE: December 31, 2023 FINAL COMPLETION DATE: May 31, 2024 Bids must be accompanied by Certified Check or Cashier’s Check or Letter of Credit equals to ten percent (10%) of the amount bid, or a bond for the full amount of the bid as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into, and a performance bond properly secured.

Should any bid be rejected, such instrument will be forthwith returned upon proper execution of a contract. Cash deposits will not be accepted. The bid check/bond should be enclosed in the sealed bid, but in a separate envelope clearly marked ‘BID CHECK/BOND’ with the bidder’s name & address on the bid check/bond envelope.

Bid blanks and specifications may be secured at www.cityoflorain.org.

PRE BID MEETING: A Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting is scheduled for the following: Location: Lorain City Hall Council Chambers, Lorain City Hall 1st Floor Date/Time: August 1, 2023; 10:00 am Each Bidder must ensure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, creed, color, sex, or national origin. All bidders must comply with the provisions of the American Disabilities Act. All contractors and subcontractors involved with the project will to the extent practicable use Ohio products, materials, services, and labor in the implementation of their project.

Bidders shall submit a list of available equipment, and labor shall be paid not less than the prevailing wage rate as determined by the Ohio Department of Commerce requirements for Lorain County, Ohio.

Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages, as set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project.

The use of small businesses, minority business enterprises, and women’s business enterprises are encouraged.

The Director of Safety/Service reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

By order of the Director of Public Safety/ Service Sanford Washington.

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Pat Fenik and his son Adam Fenik packing bags with a dozen ears of corn each. The roadside stand at 6413 Lake Avenue is normally one of the first places in the area with corn.

Sweet corn season off to a good start despite drought OWEN MACMILLAN THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

Sweet corn season has started again, with local stands and farmer’s markets beginning to pick and sell their crop of this beloved summer treat.

Fenik’s Sweet Corn, at 6413 Lake Ave., Elyria, has been open since Sunday, and owner Pat Fenik said sales have been good since that first day.

“Business was really good, it was brisk,” he said. “We have a lot of community support and we have had a very good first few days.”

A brief, late spring drought had some farmers and experts worried about Lorain County’s summer crops such as sweet corn.

Interestingly, Fenik said that dry conditions can actually make a sweet corn crop taste even better.

“Production went well and as a matter of fact, whenever you have drought conditions, it kind of makes the corn even sweeter,” he said. “Because when there is less water available, there is less water in the kernel to actually dilute it.”

Fenik’s is open every day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. “until Halloween.”

Brett Fowl, of Fowl’s Farm Market at 43655

Telegraph Road, Elyria, said the drought left an impact on the first round of the crop. “(Drought) definitely affects the crop,” Fowl said. “It slows it down and just kind of delays everything. Part of that is the early crop is going to be a bit smaller, the ears will be a bit shorter than what people expect.”

Fowl said that the recent rains would have the later crops looking bigger, and Fowl’s Farm Market would be well supplied with sweet corn until the fall.

Fowl’s only started picking sweet corn on Tuesday and selling it Wednesday, but it will be available every day of the week between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

An even more recent opening in the sweet corn market was Grobe Fruit Farm, which began selling its crop on July 13.

Grobe Fruit Farm, like Fenik’s and Fowl’s, sells a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and other food items like jams along with sweet corn.

The Grobe location in Elyria at 48375 Telegraph Road is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, and the LaGrange location at 13111 Lagrange Road is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Produce ready for pickup in LaGrange through the KEY Collaborative and partners

Lorain County Public Health will take part in a produce pickup at Keystone-LaGrange Library, where bags of fresh, locally grown produce will be available for purchase on a reservation-only basis at bit.ly/KEYProducePickUp. Bags of produce are sold for $12 and payments are made during pickup

via cash, credit card or Venmo.

Produce will vary based on local harvest availability.

Sign up at bit.ly/KEYProducePickUp for the next produce pickup, which will be today from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Keystone-LaGrange Library, 133 E Commerce Drive in LaGrange.

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Oberlin bakery owners rebuilding after house fire CARISSA WOYTACH THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

CARISSA WOYTACH | The Community Guide

The first QR code at Margaret Peak Nature Preserve in Eaton Township. The QR codes were unveiled TJuly 11 in an effort to highlight work done to remediate problems in the Black River watershed, and teach visitors about the wildlife and plants in the area.

QR codes highlight work done in Black River watershed CARISSA WOYTACH THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

EATON TWP.— Visitors to several nature preserves in Lorain County can keep an eye out for QR codes for more information on wildlife and restoration efforts.

The new website and accompanying codes link visitors to LoCoBROH.com — or “Lorain County Black River Ohio” — and provide details on the work done in the Black River watershed, said Lyn Ickes, Lorain County stormwater outreach and maintenance manager, on Tuesday morning ahead of a tour of the Margaret Peak Nature Preserve.

The Margaret Peak Nature Preserve and Fortune Ditch in Eaton Township have the first of the QR codes, greeting visitors with its Lorain Countyshaped sticker at the preserve’s first sign, followed by 13 others scattered on poles throughout the site.

Scanning the code brings up information about flowers visitors may see in bloom — including Black-eyed Susans, goldenrod and New England aster — or wildlife cataloged in the area.

She said when getting ready for the tour Tuesday morning she saw two green herons in the area — the small, skittish cousin of the great blue heron.

Lorain Storm Water Manager Kathryn Golden said there are a total of 19 codes throughout the county, including at Black River Landing, the Heron Rookery, Martin’s Run wetland complex and Parker Marine Inc. in Sheffield.

The QR codes and posts were paid for with portions of federal restoration grants, and highlight the work done to remediate the environmental impacts on the Black River watershed due to heavy industry in Lorain and farming in Eaton Township.

The Margaret Peak Nature Preserve was a longstanding farm off Butternut Ridge Road deeded to the township in the early 2000s.

Returning the area to a wetland from what was once a soybean field has helped improve water quality in the Willow Creek watershed, and helps reduce flooding in the area, Ickes said.

Efforts also included a prairie pollinator field behind the wetlands on the site, Ickes said.

PROVIDED | Kathryn Golden

The provided map shows Black River remediation and restoration efforts in Lorain with QR codes on site to give visitors more information on work done on the sites, and wildlife or plants visible in the area.

Willow Creek eventually flows into the Black River and out to Lake Erie.

Restoration of the preserve included helping turn the straight, silt-filled Fortune Ditch into a meandering creek.

“This particular project was engineered within an inch of its life … there are structures that allow for the floods waters to go into the wetlands and flow out,” she said. “The number of birds and species that were never in this creek are astounding — we have muskrats, we have snails, we have darters.”

Chip Wendt, water resource specialist with Coldwater Consulting, said the stream flows into the floodplains of the wetlands, with catch basins to regulate how fast water recedes back

to Fortune Ditch.

The area also has ridgelines left behind by former banks of Lake Erie — the same as the ridges that now house North Ridge Road, Sugar Ridge Road and other thoroughfares in the area, he said.

Ickes said the QR codes are meant to give visitors a better idea of what they’re looking at when visiting different restoration sites.

Much of the remediation was paid for via federal grants, including funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

For more information on Black River remediation and restoration efforts, or work done at Margaret Peak Nature Preserve, visit locobroh. com.

Rochester Mayor won’t run for another term Rochester Mayor Cindy Kurpely is hanging up her mayor’s hat.

She told Village Council on July 10 that she won’t be running for another term as mayor of the southern Lorain County village.

Kurpely’s term expires Dec. 31. She was on Village Council for eight years and mayor for the last eight, she said Wednesday.

Kurpely said she has been traveling for work at least two weeks out of every month recently, “so I just don’t have the time to give it like I used to.”

“So if I can’t do a good job, a job I would be proud

The owners of an Oberlin bakery are trying to rebuild after a fire tore through their Sullivan Township home.

Leo and Wendy Boes, owners of Blue Rooster Bakehouse, were on vacation in South Carolina when they received a call on July 10 that their home had caught fire, Wendy Boes’ sister, Katie Cram, said.

Cram, speaking on behalf of the family, said the fire’s origin has been ruled inconclusive.

“They left to come home to nothing,” Cram said. She said her sister’s Amish neighbors saw the fire and flagged a passing motorist down to call 911.

Leo and Wendy Boes and their children Brenda, 25, and Charlie, 18, are staying in a hotel while working through the insurance claim, Cram said.

Leo and Wendy Boes adopted Brenda and Charlie from Guatemala as babies, Cram said, and the only home the pair has known is the one in Sullivan Township.

“The dust still hasn’t even settled,” Cram said.

“It’s hard just to think a day ahead — we haven’t sat down and talked about the plans.”

Cram created a GoFund-

Me account to help raise money to help the family replace their belongings and cover incidental costs — working to help her sister all the way from Alaska.

“When I got the call, it was just a light switch like, ‘What do I need to do?’” she said. “They get that news and at that point, they’re just robots.

They couldn’t think. I just started making phone calls.”

The Boes opened Blue Rooster Bakehouse in Oberlin about eight years ago, bringing the Southern hospitality instilled in Wendy Boes by her grandmother to the college town.

“The two of them in the bakery is the cutest thing you could see,” Cram said of her sister and brotherin-law.

Leo and Wendy Boes are “givers,” and initially didn’t want to accept the fundraiser she started, but it’s time for the universe help those who gave so much, she said.

She said since contacting the Oberlin Business Partnership, the community has stepped up.

As of Monday evening, the GoFundMe page had raised more than $26,500 of its $50,000 goal.

Donations to the GoFundMe may be made at tinyurl.com/3b27yjhd.

of, I need to let someone else step up and give it the attention it needs,” CINDY she said.

KURPELY Kurpely still is the president of the Rochester Historical Society and secretary of the Rochester Rod N Gun Club, she said, and won’t be stepping out of public service completely.

“I’ll still give my time to whatever people need

me to do, I’m just not in a position to take responsibility and say, ‘Look, I’m the guy to get everything done that needs to be done,’” she said.

Whoever steps up to run for her office, Kurpely said she’d be around to hear their ideas and help guide the way until they get used to doing the job on their own.

“I’ll support them 100 percent,” she said.

Sixteen years “is a good run,” Kurpely said.

“I’m not dying,” she said with a laugh. “I’ll still be here, I’ll still be doing stuff.”

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7-district county government plan goes to voters DAVE O’BRIEN THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

It will be up to Lorain County voters to decide whether to increase the Board of Commissioners from three members to seven after the current three-member board voted unanimously on July 14 to put the measure on the November ballot.

Based on a proposal by the Citizens for Equal Representation for Lorain County, Republican Commissioners Michelle Hung, David Moore and Jeff Riddell voted to let the people decide the future of their representation in county government.

The plan has its basis in state law, namely Ohio Revised Code sections 302.01 to 302.24.

Under the plan first presented to the board

by Brian Hoagland and Homer Taft on June 30, the county would be split up into seven districts of approximately 45,000 residents each. Each district would then elect one representative to the Board of Commissioners.

All other elected offices in the county would remain unaffected.

The proposal calls for seven part-time commissioners making $56,000 each — about 60 percent of what each current commissioner makes — to sit on the new board. That board would then choose an appointed county executive similar to the current position of county administrator.

The three current commissioners are all elected at-large, and each represents the approximately 300,000 residents of Lorain County, Moore said.

“We’re voting today on the map and precincts” drawn up by the Citizens for Equal Representation “and whether or not the public can then decide what they want,” he said prior to the vote.

Moore, who said he was involved in previous attempts to expand the size of the board through a charter, said there are tax savings to be had by having more representation “because you have to go back to the people you represent and tell them why you did what you did.”

Proponents of the plan say it would improve the representation of underrepresented Lorain County residents in county government, allow for greater diversity of races and backgrounds in county government, lower the cost of running for public office, and ensure that more than two votes are needed for a resolution or an issue to pass muster with the

board.

Opponents criticized the unknown cost of the measure, questioned how many more county government jobs in total would need to be created, why commissioners have decided to take this step now, the way the seven-district map was drawn and created, and questioned whether it would reduce representation by allowing a minority of voters to control a majority of seats on the seven-member board.

The party with the most to gain, critics said, is the Republican Party.

Hung said the Citizens for Equal Representation “spent tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours of work to get here today, and their dedication has not gone unnoticed.”

She said she has always been a proponent of putting the issue on the ballot “and letting the voters decide” based on their own research and due diligence.

Despite voting in favor of putting the issue on the ballot Nov. 7, Hung said Friday she still had some reservations about public input and financial matters.

“I would like the public to have additional time to review,” Hung said, with voters being included in discussions and presentations at public hearings so they can ask questions, gather facts and figure out the “ramifications related to their vote.”

“If it’s a great plan, and the financials have been properly vetted, it will stand the test of time; thus far it hasn’t been properly financially vetted. This checks off the box for no, the public does not have access to the costs of this ballot question,” she said. “At this time, I don’t believe the public is being afforded access to investigate and/or being provided the fixed costs at inception and the future projected costs on the ballot question.”

Riddell said campaigning for Lorain County commissioner “is twice as hard as doing this job.”

“I don’t regret the campaign because it got us here, but it truly prohibits many good people from serving because of budget and the time it takes,” he said. “If you look at the (seven-district) system, it’s about representation. If we’re serious about making Lorain County a better place, we need to find the money in a $73 million budget, not over-spend, spend prudently, to get it going in the right direction.”

Public comment

Lawrence Hall, an Elyria

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Valerie Hotchkiss, Azariah S. Root Director of Libraries for the College, watched as Fairplay and several workers hoisted the statue up over the bike racks outside the Mudd Center and placed it in the Contemplation Garden.

The Contemplation Garden itself is a recent addition, Hotchkiss said. The area was overgrown, but recently was cleared and has been home to yoga every Wednesday afternoon.

The area will include a bench carved by Fairplay alongside the “Oberlin Reader.”

Hotchkiss hopes the new sculpture will spawn a tradition for students to seek luck from the Reader before exams.

“We hope it will be a place where students will come and have their picture taken with the statue on graduation day,” she said. “Maybe they come here before an exam for good luck. We try to get a few charming traditions going.”

RIGHT: Stone carver Nicholas Fairplay, right, and workers unload Fairplay’s work “Oberlin Reader” outside the Mudd Center on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.

PROVIDED

A map of the proposed seven-districts to be created if the proposed initiative by Citizens for Equal Representation for Lorain County is placed on the November ballot.

Township resident, called the proposal “a terrible idea that will disenfranchise voters.”

“The creators of it are unelected and unappointed and completely unaccountable,” he said. “Why do they get the power to shape our future? We did not ask for this. Why do they get to draw the districts without our input?”

Some of the backers of the seven-district plan financially supported the election campaigns of Hung, Moore and Riddell, Hall said.

“Letting people who gave you money create a whole new system of government creates at least the perception of a conflict of interest,” Hall said, “and the districts they created just happen to favor one party 5 to 2.”

Five out of the proposed seven districts are majority Republican, according to the Citizens for Equal Representation’s own numbers, despite Lorain County having only a small, single-digit percentage majority of registered Republican voters.

Hall said the plan would not increase representation, but “strip power from the voters.”

“If you truly believe a district plan is the way to go, stop ramming this

plan so quickly down our throats. Create a nonpartisan, independent commission of people who have not previously donated to your campaigns. Let these people draw districts in a public process where they are accountable to the people. Or just give up the idea altogether,” he said.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Chuck Brooky, an official with Laborers Union Local No. 758 in Amherst, and Brian Baker of Brownhelm Township both questioned where the money would come from to pay for the four new board members and additional administrative staff for them.

“Are we going to have to impose a new tax to pay for this, for all these new employees?” Brooky asked the commissioners. “I just want to make an informed choice when I go to vote on this.”

“We gotta educate people on what it’s gonna cost,” and not give the county an “open checkbook,” Baker said. “For 200 years we ran this kind of process (three commissioners). Now we’re going to spend” money to increase it, he said.

Riddell said Baker’s comments were an assumption based on things

“not yet in evidence.”

“We’re going to have an opportunity to reallocate some other resources should this thing pass.

We have to fund county government, so we’ll fund seven commissioners instead of three. It’s not an increase in the cost of the county budget, it’s just money from somewhere else, that comes here,” he said.

“Currently we have 30some employee slots not even filled because of the labor market, so finding (those) resources we’re not going to have to increase total employment. We’re just going to reallocate some people to do what has to be done.”

Moore said it would be up to the new board to create new positions if it wishes to. State law allows it, but doesn’t require it, he said.

Other speakers at Friday’s meeting lauded the commissioners for taking the step, including Mike Bokulich, an Amherst business owner, who thanked commissioners for “putting your self-interest aside” and putting the issue to the voters; Sharon Givler of Avon Lake, who said she was in favor of the ballot measure because there are “areas in Lorain County that need to be

represented;” and Robert Heflin of Elyria, who said that “you are either part of the problem or part of the solution.”

“You (commissioners) are part of the solution,” Heflin said. “You are to be applauded.”

Kathleen Beyer of Vermilion, a Republican former candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives and former chairwoman of the Lorain County Young Republicans, said she was excited to vote on the plan.

“I don’t think equal representation is a political issue,” she said. The job of county commissioner is a part-time one, Beyer said, adding that she is fine with paying more money for government if government is more transparent.

“I’m OK with that.

Absolutely fine,” she said.

“I’m really excited to vote on it, and I think it should be the decision of the people.”

Moore said he also got three emails from county residents: One, whom he identified as Brian Miller of Lorain, was against the seven-district plan.

Wellington Mayor Hans Schneider and Amherst Township Trustee Neil Lynch both wrote Moore in support of the plan, he said.

Reading from Lynch’s email, Moore quoted him saying the plan “presents many positive aspects” including diversity in race, ethnicity, rural, urban, conservative and progressive demographics.

Both Lynch and Riddell have long backed alternative government for Lorain County.

Lynch lent $2,000 to the Citizens for Equal Representation back in 2013, and Riddell gave the group $2,000 in 2017, according to campaign finance reports obtained from the Lorain County Board of Elections as part of a public records request by The Chronicle-Telegram.

Previous attempts at creating a charter form of government in Lorain County failed three times for various reasons. Chief Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Dan Petticord told the board the Ohio Supreme Court has handed down several decisions over the past eight years dooming future attempts at county charter forms of government.

“In my professional opinion … it would be impossible to draft a charter petition that would survive a constitutional challenge” or make it past the Ohio Supreme Court, Petticord said.

Outside legal counsel agreed with that assessment, Petticord and Hung both said.

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BULLETIN BOARD Oberlin, Wellington electric

Oberlin, Wellington Electric customers can recycle appliances For a limited time, Efficiency Smart is offering Oberlin Municipal Light & Power and Village of Wellington Utilities customers a $100 reward for responsibly recycling an eligible refrigerator, freezer, window air conditioner, or dehumidifier.

Oberlin and Wellington electric customers can schedule a free pickup of their appliances through September 30. All units must be in working condition to be eligible for pickup.

In addition to the $100 reward for each unit responsibly recycled, residents will also save on their electric bill from no longer running an older appliance.

Oberlin and Wellington electric customers can schedule their free pickup by calling Efficiency Smart at 877-889-3777 or by visiting www.efficiencysmart. org, choosing their community, and selecting “Appliance Recycling Rewards”.

United Way of Greater Lorain County

United Way of Greater Lorain County is calling on the community to support its annual Fill the Bus school supply drive campaign to provide essential supplies to local schools.

Donations are being accepted at the United Way's downtown Lorain office, 642 Broadway Ave.,

or through an Amazon Wishlist link that can be found online at uwloraincounty.org/fillthebus, through July 28.

The United Way will distribute the collected items to schools in the first week of August.

The effort "aims to ensure that children have the tools they need for academic success and to alleviate the financial burden on teachers who often purchase supplies out of their own pockets when students don’t have their own supplies," the United Way said in a news release.

Last year's Fill the Bus drive saw nearly 30,000 school supplies distributed to 11 school districts in Lorain County, made possible by 47 businesses hosting collection drives and individuals donating from the community.

Firelands Genealogical Society

The Firelands Genealogical Society will host a summer field trip to tour the Milan History Museum, 10 North Edison Dr. at 6 p.m. July 24. Admittance is $6. Ann Basilone-Jones, author of the book "Milan: Images of America", will be our host for this special event.

Afterwards we will retreat to the Milan Wonder Bar & Grille for refreshments off the menu. Guests are welcome to join us

Pittsfield Community Church Rummage Sale: Aug. 2-5. Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturday 9

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Lorain Community Music Theater

The Lorain Community Music Theater, now in its 45th year, will present GODSPELL at 7:30 p.m.

July 27-29 and 2 p.m. July 30 at the Lorain Performing Arts Center, 2600 Ashland Ave., Lorain.

Tickets are available at loraincommunitymusictheater.org or at the door.

Adults are $18, students and seniors are $16. Online tickets are subject to a handling fee.

Nord Center

The Nord Center will host its third Mind over Miles race on Sunday, Aug. 13 at Black River Reservation Bur Oak, 6150 Ford Rd., Elyria.

The 5K walk/run is $25, the 1-mile walk is $20.

Amherst Public Library

● The Amherst Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting at the library on Monday, 5:45 p.m. Aug. 14. The meeting is open to the public.

● 7/27 - Alcohol Alternatives Tasting ● 7/28 - Summer Singing in the Library ● 7/29 - Adapted Storytime ● 7/31 - Couponing/ Savvy Shopper

Amherst HisAvon Demotorical Society cratic Club ● The Amherst Historical

Society is having a 50th anniversary celebration 1-4 p.m. Aug. 5 at Sandstone Village, 763 Milan Ave. Enterance is free, and the event includes hands-on history and trades displays, baked goods, crafters, animals, balloon artists, face painting, raffle baskets, a 50/50 raffle, shaved ice and tours of the historic buildings.

For more information, contact the Amherst Historical Society at (440) 988-7255 or office@amhersthistoricalsociety.org. ● The Quigley Museum is open for tours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays in July.

The museum is at 702 Milan Ave., Amherst, with the parking lot entrance off South Lake Street.

Herrick Memorial Library Registration is required for most programs. Call (440) 647-2120 to register or for more information. ● READ to PUTTER

DOWN 1. Cold War’s Warsaw Pact, e.g.

2. Turkish money 3. One on drugs 4. Run off to Vegas?

5. Sold on eBay, usually 6. Short for “and elsewhere” 7. Hammurabi’s code, e.g.

8. Plural of fundus 9. Porto____, Italy

Join the Avon Democratic Club for its annual baseball fundraiser at 7 p.m.

Aug. 10 at Mercy Health Stadium, 2009 Baseball Boulevard, in Avon, as the Lake Erie Crushers face the Washington Wild Things. Tickets can be purchased by going to: https:// secure.actblue.com/donate/ adcbaseball2023 Proceeds will benefit the Avon Democratic Club, local Democratic candidates and voter outreach.

NAMI Lorain County

NAMI of Lorain County will host its miniature golf outing 5:30-9 p.m. Aug. 3 at Sportsville in North Ridgeville. Check-in for the outing kicks off at 5:30 pm with play beginning at 6:00 pm. The participant fee is $25 for a single player, while the fee for a foursome is $100. Registration fees include food, beer and wine, and a fun time!

Oberlin Heritage Center

The Heritage Center’s summer camp registration is now open. ● Architecture Camp is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 7-11. It is for children ages 8 to 13.

Members (including children and grandchildren of members) $110 Non-members $125 ● Atronomy and antiquity camp is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 14-18. It is for children ages 10-15.

Members (including children and grandchildren of members) $110 Non-members $125 For more information, please email our Museum Education and Tour Manager at tourinfo@oberlinheritage.org or register online at oberlinheritagecenter.org ● The Oberlin Heritage

THEME: ON THE ROAD ACROSS 1. More down in the dumps 6. Will Ferrell’s 2003 Christmas character 9. Century Gothic, e.g.

13. Twisted cotton thread 14. Greek “t” 15. Biblical mount 16. Dessert sandwiches 17. Barley bristle 18. Pungent edible bulb 19. *Shared ride 21. *Yellow Brick Road traveller 23. Member of the Benevolent Order 24. Sword handle 25. The little one “stops to tie his shoe” 28. AI “fodder” 30. *Gas station option 35. Thailand money 37. Phone cam images 39. Fill with happy spirit 40. Bora ____ 41. Vexed 43. Uncontrolled swerve 44. Middle Eastern V.I.P.s 46. Genesis twin 47. “The Odyssey,” e.g.

48. Hooray!

50. Speaking platform 52. Campfire residue 53. What sailors are to captain 55. Lawyers’ org.

57. *Jack of “On the Road” fame 61. *Refreshment break 65. Live sign for radio, 2 words 66. Shakespearean “fuss” 68. Bar order, with “the” 69. Ownership document 70. Mitt Romney’s title, abbr.

71. Christmas Eve visitor 72. Keats’ works, e.g.

73. *Major road, abbr.

74. *Certain number of cylinders

from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Thursdays. ● Summer reading program through July 31 ● Family story times are 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays Baby lap-sit story times are 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays ● School-age programs are 11 a.m. Thursdays Today: Summer Reading finale ● Open Tech Help is 1:30-3 p.m. July 12 ● Glass charms craft is 6 p.m. July 18 ● Intro to Canning is 6 p.m. July 20

10. Got this!

11. Sodium hydroxide 12. Like Tim of “A Christmas Carol” 15. Foray 20. Giraffe’s striped-legged cousin 22. Like one of the Testaments 24. Fine-toothed metal cutter 25. *Famous road from Beatles crossing 26. Actress Watts 27. Minute parasite 29. *Spare one 31. “If all ____ fails” 32. Sarpa ____, coral reef fish 33. Tiny purses 34. Olden day phlebotomy instrument

Center presents its pitcher perfect event at ESP Brewing in Amherst at 6 p.m.

July 25. The event is $35 per person, and includes two drinks and food.

As part of the evening’s festivities, Mark Lesner, architect of the former Lorain County Visitor’s Bureau building and 170 Pyle South Amherst Road in Oberlin, will take guests for a walk around the outside of the visitor’s bureau building and answer questions about its construction and design. Additionally, there will be a 50/50 raffle and prize baskets. ● This July, OHC is offering its downtown Architecture walking tour on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.

Enjoy a leisurely stroll on this 1 hour-long tour which explores Oberlin’s architecture with a focus on such individuals as Walter Blythe, Cass Gilbert, and Minoru Yamasaki. This walk provides an opportunity to view an array of historic buildings that feature various styles, including Gothic Modernist, Neo-Classical Revival, Romanesque, Late Victorian, and Queen Anne Revival.

The tour is $6 for adults and free for children, students, or members.

Advanced registration is strongly recommended.

Oberlin Public Library

The Oberlin Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting at the library at 5 p.m. Aug. 10. The meeting is open to the public.

Oberlin Farmers Market

The market season will run on Saturdays through Oct. 14, starting at 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. The market specializes in seasonal fresh farm produce, fruit, farm raised meats, natural sweeteners, an assortment of baked goods, such as pies, breads, cookies, flowers, plants, jams, sauces, crafts and more.

The market is located in the parking lot of Oberlin Public Library and Oberlin City Hall across from the post office at 69-85 South Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074.

Westwood Cemetery

Stone cleaning at Westwood will be 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. the first Saturday of the month, May through October.

36. Waterproof canvas 38. Clothing line 42. UAE’s most populous city 45. Close the fastener, e.g.

49. Epoch 51. Between 90 and 180 degrees 54. E-wallet’s content 56. Very, in music 57. Japanese zither 58. Author Bagnold 59. Goes with interest 60. Great masters’ medium, pl.

61. *Hoofed “express” traveler 62. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” actress Lola ____ 63. Solemn promise 64. Surveyor’s map 67. Morning drops

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acob wants to earn $38 to buy a house for his dog, Jacob Junior. He is willing to work, but wants to do jobs that keep him wet and cool on hot summer days. He only did the jobs on the list below that included water in the work.

Check off the jobs he did.

Did he raise his $38?

Would you like to splash around in some water on these hot summer days? Try this activity and tell your mom you are doing a science experiment!

HINT: Underline each word that gives a clue that the job included water.

• a penny • an eyedropper • liquid detergent • tap water • paper towel • a place to work that your parents won’t mind getting wet!

Washed Mr. Thompson’s car ........................... $12 Watered Mrs. Toya’s houseplants ................ $3 Rinsed Grandma’s porch off with the hose ........ $5 Walked Aunt Jenny’s dog ............................ $6 Washed Aunt Barbara’s dog ............................ $8

Wash your penny.

Rinse it and dry it well.

Fill the eyedropper with water and slowly drop water onto the penny, one drop at a time. Count how many drops you can add.

Repeat this experiment with cold water and then with hot water. Does the temperature of the water change the number of drops that fit on the penny?

Look closely and find: toothbrush apple paper airplane envelope baseball watch strawberry sunglasses

Place the penny on a flat surface that’s okay to get wet.

As drops are added, they gradually mound into a dome instead of just flowing off the penny.

Each drop raises the surface of the dome, until it gets too big and breaks.

What shape does the water take? Repeat three times and find the average number of drops the penny can hold.

The dome shape is caused by surface tension.

Surface tension is caused by the grouping of molecules. Under the surface of the water, each water molecule attracts and is attracted to molecules on all sides of it.

Add a drop of soap to the water. Does this change the number of drops that fit on the penny?

Try this same activity with different liquids such as cooking oil, rubbing alcohol, liquid detergent, salad dressing, etc. Compare how many drops of each liquid fit on the top of a penny.

Standards Link: Nature of Science: Students understand the nature of scientific inquiry (using tools, making observations, recording notes).

The surface molecules are attracted to the Molecules molecules below and pull together on the surface to the sides. But there is nothing above the surface molecules to pull upward. The surface molecules pull together and act like a “skin” Water on the surface molecules of the water. attracting from all sides Standards Link: Physical Science: Students know that matter has different states (i.e., solid, liquid, gas) and that each state has distinct physical properties.

Solve this chilly puzzler before it melts away!

Fill in the blank blocks of ice to make the sum of each side and each diagonal add up to 15.

HINT: The numbers 1-9 are each used once.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

MOLECULES TENSION SURFACE WATER DROPS SKIN FRIGID BLANK WEATHER LIQUID WET DOME CHILL MELTS SALAD

Washed Uncle Bill’s new car .................... $10

The largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States, a seven-inch (17.8centimeter) wide chunk of ice almost as large as a soccer ball, was found in Aurora, Nebraska.

Look through the newspaper and find: • a temperature • a measurement • a date • a time • a number that tells how many • a weight Standards Link: Research: Understand that the newspaper has an organizational structure.

Standards Link: Number sense: Calculate sums using money.

… waiting without complaining.

W S A L A D N M E A T R E T A W O E C R

K N A L B E I L A E

R E D D U D S T F H

X N O I I C N S R T

R M I G U W E T U A E E I K R Q T L S E

D R O P S L I M O W F E N T C H I L L M

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

This week’s word:

MOLECULE

The noun molecule means the smallest unit of a substance that has all the properties of that substance.

Each molecule of water contains one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms.

Try to use the word molecule in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

FavoriteJokes and Riddles

Science News

Look through the newspaper for three examples of news articles related to science. Tell which science(s) the article relates to. For example, a weather story is related to the science of meteorology.

ANSWER: Thunderwear!

Standards Link: Scientific Enterprise: Students know that although people using scientific inquiry have learned much, science is an ongoing process.

Returned mom’s books to the library ............... $3

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