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Fireworks and parades Here’s where to catch patriotic light displays and festivals for Independence Day in Lorain County and beyond.

AVON Fireworks will be launched on Saturday, July 2 and Sunday, July 3 from Mercy Health Stadium, 2009 Baseball Blvd., following the Lake Erie Crushers’ 7:05 p.m. games against the Washington Wild Things.

Admission must be paid to enter the stadium, but the fireworks are visible from quite a distance.

AVON LAKE The Independence Day Fireworks Celebration will start at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 1 at Weiss Field, 33041 Webber Rd. There will be performances by Seeing Scarlet, Anne E. DeChant and the Dave Matthews Tribute Band. A patriotic program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks will start at dusk.

ELYRIA The “Fireworks and Festivities” celebration will be held Friday, July 1 with food, games and live bands at West Park, 1200 Foster Ave. Musical performances include ET and the Determination at 6 p.m., the Lydian Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. and The Domans from 9-10:30 p.m. Fireworks will follow.

LORAIN The Lorain Port Authority will launch fireworks when the sun completely sets over Lake Erie on Monday, July 4, from the Mile-Long Pier, 301 Lakeside Ave. The rain date is Tuesday, July 5.

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OBERLIN — For the 15th year, Oberlin residents, artists and visitors made downtown colorful.

An estimated 1,000 people, from seasoned artists to small children, claimed concrete squares Saturday for the Chalk Walk, after the event’s two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.

Oberlin Chalk Walk committee Chair Barry Richard said they were excited to see the walk come back this year.

“We’re glad to put it on, especially coming out of the last two years,” he said.

Longtime participant Dan Cherney, of Monroeville, said Oberlin’s event is one of his favorite chalk festivals to go to — even compared to those in France and Germany.

He spent the majority of his Saturday sprawled in front of the Apollo Theater bringing a Creature from the Black Lagoon to life, leaving him covered in bright green homemade chalk.

“Originally when this was done about 500 years ago, it was done because poor people weren’t allowed into the churches, so they would draw the church paintings,” Cherney said. “It’s a style of art called Madonnari. And I thought, well, since I’m in front of a theater, why

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not do something movierelated and bring what’s in there out here.”

In front of Ben Franklin, another pair of longtime participants, Wendy Mahon and Hector Castellanos-

Lara, were making a political statement with a sweeping Lake Mead landscape.

Mahon and CastellanosLara, both from Cleveland, have participated in

the Chalk Walk since its inception, they said, with pieces ranging from downtown Oberlin to the more political work like this year’s piece, meant to bring CHALK PAGE A3

Russell Dickerson, Night Ranger to headline Lorain County Fair Provided photos

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WELLINGTON — Country-pop singer Russell Dickerson and 1980s power ballad band Night Ranger will headline the grandstand later this summer at the 176th Lorain County Fair.

The big musical acts were announced Tuesday, along with a complete schedule for fair week, which runs from Sunday, Aug. 21 to Sunday, Aug. 28.

“We’re glad to be able to have some big national names again at the fair this year” after a “more conservative” selection in 2021 while recovering from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Fair Director Joe Buchs, who along with Brian Twining is in charge of entertainment.

◄ Russell Dickerson will perform Monday, Aug. 22 at the Lorain County Fair.

In a departure from prior years, the country act will take the stage first, a change fair spokesman Kim Meyers chalked up to the musicians’ travel

schedules.

Dickerson, known for singles such as “Blue Tacoma” and “Love You Like I Used To,” will perform at 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22.

The Nashville-based star entered the music scene in 2011 and released two studio albums: gold-charting “Yours” in 2017 and “Southern Symphony” in 2020.

Dickerson has toured widely, this spring hitting the road with Tim McGraw.

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BULLETIN BOARD Reserve your fresh produce The Keystone Empowers You Collaborative will host a popup produce stand from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays of July, August and September at the KeystoneLaGrange Library, 133 E. Commerce Dr. Bags of fresh fruit and vegetables are $10. You may pay ahead via Venmo to @Donna-Pycraft or pay upon pick-up with cash, credit card or Venmo. Produce is provided by Pycraft Farm market and availability will vary based on what is in season. In June 2021, customers received peaches, garlic, candy onion, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers and beets.

People must reserve their bag of fresh fruits and vegetables at www.bit.ly/KEYProducePickUp. KEY is a community-based group funded in part by the United Way of Greater Lorain County and facilitated by Lorain County Public Health.

Chargers receiver holds camp A skills and drills camp with Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Jason Moore will be held Saturday, July 2 at Oberlin College’s football stadium.

The camp is open to all Lorain County athletes. A session for kids in grades 3-7 will be held from 9 a.m. to noon; a session for kids in grades 8-12 will run from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $30 and includes snacks and a T-shirt. For more information, email lavonda.thomas75@gmail.com or call (440) 935-3580.

Tee off for veterans memorial A golf outing to benefit the Carlisle Township Veterans Memorial will begin with a 9 a.m. shotgun start on Saturday, July 2 at the Carlisle Golf Club, 39709, Slife Rd. The cost is $280 per team, four-person scramble style; or $20 per skins team. There will be prizes for first, second and third place finishers, and dinner for all paid participants will be served at AMVETS Post 32, 11087 Middle Ave., Elyria.

For tickets, call Larry Stevaus at (440) 610-0684, Jim Lynsky at (440) 773-4831 or Ray Hildebrandt at (440) 4585814. Checks should be made to Carlisle Township Veterans Memorial. Sign up and pay by June 20.

Hole sponsorships are available for $50 each. Raffle baskets and 50-50 raffles will also be available.

Of murder and simpler times Author Ben Ewell will appear from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 3 at Ben Franklin & Mindfair Books, 13 W. College St., Oberlin, to promote his new book, “Sunday Afternoons and Other Times Remembered.”

Released June 14, the memoir recalls a time before his brother’s murder — their peaceful afternoons on the family farm in Brighton, his 1950s high school antics and his journey through divorce and single-fatherhood.

Ewell’s life was turned upside down on Easter Sunday 1992, when his brother, sister-in-law and niece were murdered.

While reminiscing about simpler times, the book reveals details of the investigation of his family members’ murders and the arrest and trial of the parties involved.

Patriotic race America’s 5K will be held Sunday, July 4 at Veterans Memorial Park, 3701 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Avon.

The 5K race and a one-mile fun run will both begin at 8:30 a.m. Registration is $27.75 at www.peaceracing.com by July 1.

Republican club breakfast The Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club will hold a “friends breakfast” at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, July 6 at Sugar Creek Restaurant, 5196 Detroit Rd., Sheffield.

Paul Baumgartner, director of the Lorain County Free Clinic will speak about this volunteer-based clinic that provides a wide range of medical services to those patients falling through the gaps in our health care system.

Attendees are responsible for their meals.

50 years of contact improv Oberlin College will welcome 270 dancers from around the world and host hundreds of practitioners of contact improvisation during a festival from July 7-11.

“Critical Mass: CI@50” celebrates a half-century of contact improvisation — a form of partner dance centered around weight-sharing and physical contact — as well as Oberlin’s historic importance as one of the longest-running academic programs for the study, practice and development of the form.

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The five-day festival will include jams, workshops, panel discussions, public performances in the new Wurtzel Theater and a film showing at the historic Apollo Theater. Performers include veteran contact dancers Chris Aiken and Andrew de Lotbiniere Harwood, Karen Nelson, K.J. Holmes, Keith Hennessy and Ishmael Houston-Jones as well as many others.

There is no script or choreography in contact improvisation — dancers instead find and follow the points of contact between them, the floor and each other.

“It is a form that is based on physical contact and the sharing of weight with a partner,” said Professor of Dance Ann Cooper Albright. “By attuning to the sensations of that movement connection, two or more partners navigate the play of momentum across bodily surfaces and through space.”

At the Allen Memorial Art Museum, “Collective Gestures: The Impact of Experimental Performance at Oberlin in the 1970s” traces the 50-year history of contact improvisation.

The exhibition features paintings and drawings by Yoko Ono, Theresa Antonellis, John Cage, Robert Motherwell, Judit Reigl, Athena Tacha and other artists. The show is on display through July 17 in the Ripin Gallery.

Learn about aviation “Lorain County Pistons and Props” will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Lorain County Regional Airport, 44050 Russia Rd., New Russia Township.

A pancake breakfast sponsored by Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1252 will run from 8-11 a.m. The day will feature a classic car show, aviation education booths, kids activities, food and airplane ride opportunities. Aircraft on display will include the World War II B-25 “Georgia’s Gal,” a 1930s Stearman biplane and the Metro LifeFlight helicopter and crew.

There will be free Young Eagle airplane rides from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for kids ages 8-17. A parent or legal guardian must be present.

Admission is $10 per car or $5 per motorcycle.

Ride the Ford Tri-Motor from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10. Visit www.flytheford.org for details.

See ‘Hamlet’ on the river “Hamlet: Prince of Denmark” will be presented at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at Black River Landing in Lorain.

The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and Main Street Lorain are sponsoring this free performance. Lawn chairs or a picnic blanket are encouraged.

Amherst library meeting The Amherst Public Library board of trustees will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 11 at the library. The meeting is open to the public.

Rural Democrats to meet The Rural Lorain County Democrat Club will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 11 at the Historic Grafton School, 1111 Elm St., Grafton.

To join via Zoom, email ruralloraincounty@gmail.com.

Oberlin library meeting The Oberlin Public Library board of trustees will meet at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 14 at the library. The meeting is open to the public.

Visit Oz on stage in Amherst The Sandstone Summer Theatre production of “The Wizard of Oz” will be presented at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16 at Marion L. Steele High School, 450 Washington St., Amherst.

Follow young Dorothy Gale and her motley crew along the yellow brick road in this stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum's beloved tale.

Tickets are $5 to $15 and can be purchased at www.tinyurl. com/WizardOfAmherst.

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Floating solar array could be in the works at Oberlin reservoir JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — With energy costs climbing rapidly, Oberlin Municipal Light and Power System Director Doug McMillan’s mind is on solar power.

Giving a breakdown last week of where Oberlin gets its energy, how much it costs and what potential pitfalls lie ahead, McMillan told City Council he’s interested in the possibility of building a 2 to 4 megawatt solar array.

The one he’s excited about wouldn’t involved clear-cutting trees. Instead, McMillan described how panels could be built to float on the surface of the city’s Parsons Road reservoir.

He is working with a Florida-based company to get a proposal for Council to consider. That plan and an estimated cost were not immediately available.

The project would be “win-win,” he said — the panels are more efficient when cooled by water, and they would also block sunlight that allows algae to bloom in the reservoir.

Best of all, sunlight is a renewable resource.

Worst of all, it’s unreliable. The city’s existing solar assets have only about an 11 percent efficiency, since they don’t harvest power at night or on rainy days.

“Most of us like power around the clock, so you can’t depend on solar all the time,” McMillan said.

The most consistently reliable power for Oberlin comes from landfills, where gas is reclaimed from garbage.

Those operations can run all the time.

Hydro-electric power was the number two workhorse last year, McMillan said — but just like the sun and wind, water flow varies from day to day, season to season and year to year. Solar is attractive because it’s incredibly clean, and because it can be tapped to supplement other power sources during peak times of high demand from Oberlin residents and businesses.

McMillan said the city could also consider building a solar array atop its Route 58 fire station, or on its general maintenance building.

It could even partner with Republic Services to build a large farm at the Lorain County Landfill in neighboring New Russia Township, he said.

Oberlin’s power needs aren’t spiraling out of control.

While there are fears of brownouts and rolling blackouts to the west of Ohio due to vast increases in demand for electricity, the state has historically been power-rich, McMillan told City Council. It’s also situated next to Pennsylvania, which in recent years has become the nation’s No. 1 exporter of electricity.

But Oberlin has had problems with outages, which McMillan largely laid at the feet of First Energy.

Since 2016, the company has been responsible for 20 outages affecting Oberlin, he said, most of them “sustained” instead of just a moment in the dark.

Last year, First Energy was responsible for two citywide blackouts due to failure of the 69-kilovolt transmission line that supplies Oberlin, McMillan said.

In early 2022, First Energy started talking about the possibility of building a new high-voltage transmission feed, and rebuilding the existing one. It would take about three years to complete.

“I’ve been calling them for 10 years, probably, trying to get them to upgrade that line,” McMillan said.

He’s also been talking with representatives from American Municipal Power Transmission about a potential project to feed the city power from Carlisle Township — a project that could take much longer to realize.

Reliability isn’t the only concern. McMillan told Council he expects to pay $600,000 more this year to purchase power.

Hydro and wind costs are increasing steeply, he warned.

Oberlin needs to watch how much it invests in those providers.

In 2021, Oberlin spent nearly $7.4 million for electricity costs. It also earned roughly $2.9 million in energy credits, which save the average residential customer about $234 per year.

Oberlin’s power doesn’t primarily go to residents, however. Only about 21 percent goes to homes.

The vast majority — 69 percent — goes to large commercial users. The Federal Aviation Administration on state Route 511 is the city’s single largest power customer.

That’s not true everywhere. Amherst, just a few miles north, is more of a bedroom community with most power going to homes, not industry, McMillan said.

OBITUARIES TED CHILDRESS, 93, of Amherst Township, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, June 20, 2022, following a full and blessed life.

JACQUELINE SINCLAIR (nee Eulenberger), 86, and a resident of Rocky River, passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at The Welsh Home in Rocky River, following a full and meaningful life.

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ANNA ELIZABETH YONTS (nee Fugate), 93, a former resident of Amherst and a current resident of Kentucky, went home to be with her Lord on Friday, June 17, 2022, at Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Kentucky, following a full and meaningful life.

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Police warn Amherst fireworks ban remains in place for July 4 JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — Fireworks displays will remain illegal in the city of Amherst, despite changes many other communities across the state are making in time for the Fourth of July.

City Council has made no move to loosen its ordinances banning fireworks ahead of the holiday, despite a new state law that opens the skies.

“We don’t want to see anybody get hurt,” Amherst police Chief Mark Cawthon said. “We don’t want to see anybody cause a fire should they be careless with them.”

In years past, noise from fireworks has also been a problem, he said.

Officers will enforce the ban through Independence Day and the following weekend, he said. They have the power to give warnings to violators or charge them with a

first-degree misdemeanor.

That means setting off fireworks inside the city limits could cost you a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.

“The Fourth of July is a hard one.

You want people to have fun, but there are laws you have to follow,” Mayor Mark Costilow said.

Ohio House Bill 172 rolls back a statewide ban on launching consumer-grade firecrackers. Instead of a free-for-all, the new law lets towns decide whether to ban possession and displays or to allow them on select holidays.

Those dates include New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day weekend, Juneteenth, July 3-5 and the weekends immediately before and after Independence Day, Labor Day weekend and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.

Amherst has had a complete ban on fireworks possession, sales or discharge for many years.

Cawthon said that on the advice of Assistant Law Director Patrick Ward, that ordinance will stand with no amendments.

Communities across the county are taking different approaches to fireworks.

Lorain and Wellington, for example, are allowing launches on the holidays allowed under the new state law, but with curbs on the times they can be done.

Oberlin City Council, after much debate, passed a complete ban on launches and possession, taking the advice of fire Chief Robert Hanmer, who said they posed a danger to firefighters.

Amherst may eventually change its policy, said Cawthon, who will plans to see what kind of injuries and other emergencies result in less restrictive cities.

“I think this is going to be kind of a unique Fourth of July, because we’re going to see a different look,” he said.

Clark gets merit pay increase Oberlin Law Director Jon Clark has been given a raise to $77,274 per year, retroactive to April 1, 2022.

The merit increase was approve unanimously by City Council in a fast-tracked vote with emergency status on Tuesday, June 21.

Council President Bryan Burgess called Clark “one of the only people I know I can call on a Sunday morning if I need to” for guidance ahead of a city meeting.

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NORTH RIDGEVILLE The Freedom Festival and Fireworks will be held Sunday, July 3 at Victory Park, 777 Victory Ln. Gates open at 5 p.m.

There will be an inflatable village, an appearance by the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, bubble soccer, face painting, balloon and caricature artists, stilt walker, water ski show, magic show, fire juggling show and food. Fireworks will start around 10 p.m.

Tickets start at $20 per vehicle, with larger VIP packages, and can only be purchased in advance at www.victoryparkohio.com.

Net proceeds benefit North Ridgeville Community Care and the Canine Superheroes Foundation.

OBERLIN Fireworks will be launched at dusk on Monday, July 4 from the Oberlin Recreation Complex, 225 W. Hamilton Rd. The rain date is Tuesday, July 5.

ROCHESTER The 101st Rochester Homecoming will be held Monday, July 4 at the Eagle Street park and fire station. Food will be provided all day at a concession stand. The event’s signature parade will start at 10:30 a.m. from the center of town to the Rochester Cemetery and back.

The Rochester Historical Society will have an open house on South Street. A display of past Homecoming pictures will be at the park.

Fireman games will run from 5 p.m. to dark. There will also be old-time kids contests such as egg toss, balloon toss and wheelbarrow races at 5:30 p.m. From 6:30-10 p.m., Minor Adjustments will play music near the concession stand. Fireworks will be launched at dusk.

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It wasn’t only professional artists out Saturday morning.

Nora Jacobson, 4, and her sister, Amelia, 6, carefully colored in flower outlines painted on a large canvas outside the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts. Nearby, Chuck Gamble sat on the ground with his son, Wally, 6, while the boy drew pictures of Kirby on the sidewalk.

Catherine Perez, a fine arts student at Ohio University and Amherst High alumna, sat near Ratsy’s, recreating Giovanni Pietro’s “Cleopatra” painting in a mix of soft pastels.

After the hiatus, it was good to be back, she said.

While the majority of the art created Saturday will wash away when it rains, there is one piece that will be up until next year.

Outside the library, David Baker and his daughter, Elizabeth, worked on a wall mural titled “Allegory of those endangered.”

The piece, which will be preserved until next summer, includes endangered animals like polar bear and mountain gorillas, alongside a Lady Justice statue, two men holding hands and a pregnant woman.

“We are all in danger now because of the decisions that the right is making on our behalf. And it’s not good,” he said, noting he’d seen the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade on Friday coming, so he hadn’t had to change the design on the fly.

Richard said there are eight professional artists, including Cherney, Mahon and Castellanos-Lara, paid for by the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Library and Firelands Association for the Visual Arts.

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SHEFFIELD LAKE Community Days will run from 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 14 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 17 at the Shoreway Shopping Center, 4128 Lake Rd. The event will feature a parade on Thursday, fireworks on Friday, a car cruise-in and cornhole tournament Saturday and a craft show, flea market and petting zoo Sunday. There will be bounce houses and carnival games Saturday and Sunday, but this year’s event will not include any carnival rides.

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Catherine Perez, of Amherst, works on a chalk recreation of Giovanni Pietro’s “Cleopatra” painting, part of the Allen Museum’s collection on Saturday, June 25, 2022.

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“It sounds weird, but there’s this that was one of the underlying mantras is to keep it free,” he said. “And sort of an electricity here that doesn’t happen in other towns — not even fortunately we’ve been able to do in New York City,” he said. “New that with donations, primarily from the Allen museum, FAVA, the public York City, everybody’s too busy to pay attention to what you’re doing. library and the Oberlin Business Here, people do stop and smell the Partnership. … So the artists enjoy flowers.” it, they keep coming back — it’s Contact Carissa Woytach at (440) pretty low-key here.”

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A free ice cream social will be held at 6 p.m. on Sunday, July 3 on Wellington’s town square, where the Patriot Symphonic Band will perform a concert from 7-8:30 p.m. Fireworks will follow at dusk, launched from the Lorain County Fairgrounds.

An all-day Fourth of July festival will follow on Monday. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., enjoy a petting farm, pet parade, car show, Lil’ Miss Firecracker and Lil’ Uncle Sam contests for children, live music, visits with fairy tale characters, a balloon artist, games, hot dog eating contest and tug-o-war.

A parade will begin at 3 p.m. on Main Street, followed by a water fight with soaking wet pom-poms. At 4:30 p.m., see a frog jumping competition.

CEDAR POINT The amusement park will launch fireworks over the lake at dark on Monday, July 4.

CLEVELAND “Light Up the Lake” will be held at 10 p.m. on Monday, July 4 with a fireworks show over Lake Erie. View the lights from the Flats, Voinovich Park, Whiskey Island, Wendy Park, downtown Settlers Landing, Edgewater Park, Kirtland Park and a host of other lakefront sites.

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Night Ranger has also been on that “must get” list of class rock bands the fair has been eyeing for a long time, he said.

If you were listening to the radio in the spring of 1984, you know Night Ranger — their single “Sister Christian” from the album “Midnight Madness” was everywhere that year, and remains the band’s biggest hit, resurfacing in films such as “Boogie Nights.”

The glam rockers got together in 1979 in San Francisco, and reformed after a split-up in 1989.

They are still anchored by original guitarist Brad Gillis and drummer Kelly Keagy, and tour with bassist and vocalist Jack Blades, keyboardist Eric Levy and guitarist Keri Kelli.

Over the years, Night Ranger became known for singles including “When

Best known for the 1984 power ballad “Sister Christian,” Night Ranger has released 13 studio albums since forming in 1979. The band will perform Tuesday, Aug. 23 at the Lorain County Fair.

You Close Your Eyes” and “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” and in 2021 released their 13th studio album, “ATBPO,” short for “And the Band Played On.”

“It might not be that big name necessarily that jumps out at you like Foreigner, but if you go through their catalog, they had a lot of hits,” Buchs said. “They have a lot of

songs everybody knows.”

Tickets for grandstand events are on sale now at www.loraincountyfair. com/entertainment.

Seats for Dickerson range from $35 to $50,

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while Night Ranger seats are $25 to $40 each.

Also going for sale the same day are tickets for: • The OSTPA Truck Pull, which will start at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug.

24. Cost: $10 • The NTPA Grand National Pull, which will start at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26. Cost: $15 • The Combine Derby and Pick-Up Truck Pull, which will start at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Cost: $15 • The Demolition Derby, which will start at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28. Cost: $15.

A list of free entertainment acts for the 2022 fair has also been released. Musical performers include Chad Hoffman, Yellow Delicious, Brian Hayes, The Country Reign Band, Brent Lowry, Acoustic Scotti, Sudden Change, Rusty Joints Acoustic Rock, Kidd Renegade, RikOshay, Adam Calvert, Generations and K K Farnsworth.

The Cincinnati Circus Company will also provide a thrill show at 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily by Gate 3.

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hiny spotlights on deep-sea fish, flashing worms, squids that squirt clouds of glowing ink—they have no plugs, wires or batteries. How do they glow?

It’s bioluminescence (by-oh-loo-muh-NEHS-sense)— which means the making of light by living creatures.

This deep-sea creature fishes for food. It has a long, skinny fin on top of its head that works like a fishing rod. A little bulb filled with glowing bioluminescent bacteria sits at the end of the rod.

Most of the world’s glowing animals live in the sea.

These glowing creatures live down in the inky dark, deepest parts of the sea where sunlight can not reach. Glowing body parts attract prey and scare away predators. Some fish confuse their enemies by blinking on and off while zigzagging through the water.

Others attract mates and communicate using their flashing lights.

Are you an eagle-eyed reader?

Read the story below and circle the eight errors you find. Then rewite the story correctly.

Safety in the Light Bioluminescence cann sumetimes work as a great defence mechanism.

One kind of sea cucumber that lives the in deep ocean, can shed its glowwing skin if attacked by a preditor. This skin then sticks to to its attacker, making the attacker a target for other predators?

When it wants to eat, the angler fish dangles the glowing bait in front of its mouth. A curious fish swims up for a closer look and—snap! the angler fish’s huge jaws snatch it up!

Angler fish are small, but they can be big eaters. Once, a 3-1/2 inch angler was found with a nearly 7-inch lantern fish in its stretchable stomach!

Help this little fish escape the angler fish.

About half of all kinds of jellyfish are bioluminescent.

Find the jellyfish that match.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know animals have structures that serve different functions in survival.

Sometimes, on dark nights, the waves of the ocean appear to glow.

This is caused by tiny creatures called dinoflagellates (di-no-FLA-jel-lates).

Each one is about the size of a pencil point, and it produces tiny sparks in the surf.

Look through the newspaper to see if you can observe: • something that lights up • a word that rhymes with light • a word that describes light

Some kinds of deep sea squid squirt glowing ink when they are attacked. In the black depths of the ocean, the glowing cloud blinds and confuses predators and lets the squid escape.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know examples of diverse life forms in different environment such as oceans.

Fireworms ___________ an amazing ____________ light show. Most of the time these worms live ________ in holes and _________ at the bottom of the sea. But two nights after each full _____, the fireworms ______ to the surface, all aglow. The females and males swim around in circles. The females send out a glowing ________ of eggs.

Find where each missing word belongs in this paragraph.

Standards Link: Life Science: Students know animals have structures that serve different functions in reproduction.

LIGHT CREATURES ANGLER STOMACH JELLYFISH SPARKS CLOUD CONFUSE CIRCLES WORMS GLOW HOLES DANGLES FIN SNAP

… making sure you never skate or ride a bike without the proper equipment.

W O H C A M O T S H S E L G N A D E D S E A N G L E R U S I S S N A P U O E T F U S P N T L L S H Y F D M A C C E E G L N I E R R R F L I L O R N I O K O O L E C U C L F W S H I J Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

This week’s word:

LUMINOUS

The word luminous means shining brightly.

The forest that evening was lit by the luminous full moon.

Use the word luminous in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

KeepYour Cool

Message in the Dark

Use the letters that spell the word BIOLUMINESCENCE and your newspaper to make a poem about the deep ocean.

ANSWER: A ray of light

Standards Link: Writing Applications: Students write acrostic poems.

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Oberlin Community Services Director Margie Flood and National Association of College Stores CEO Ed Schlichenmayer sign papers for the sale of a NACS building.

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OBERLIN — With the sweep of a pen, Margie Flood signed a $2.7 million deal last Thursday morning to move Oberlin Community Services across town to a much larger headquarters.

She plans to move the nonprofit to a 27,000-square-foot office and warehouse building on Route 511, which was previously used by the National Association of College Stores.

“It will make our food distribution operations so much more efficient by having the loading docks, by having a walk-in cooler and freezer with garage doors,” said Flood, who serves as the organization’s director.

Since 2002, Oberlin Community Services has been located on South Professor Street, in a building designed to push a ton of food a week to hungry families in southern Lorain County.

But years of recession, foreclosures, evaporating jobs and the COVID-19 pandemic have taken a toll.

Today, OCS is distributing 5 tons of food every week.

That need isn’t going away anytime soon, Flood said. Between groceries, gas and clothing, inflation is killing household budgets and leaving many people desperate for help.

As a result, boxes of food are stacked everywhere inside OCS, leaving almost no elbow room for workers.

Ed Schlichenmayer, CEO of NACS, said he had the opposite problem.

The company has been in Oberlin since the 1940s and at its current location for 30 years. But three years ago, he shut down one of the company’s for-profit businesses, leaving a building empty, and when the pandemic hit he found productivity actually increased when his staff of 80 worked from home.

Now he has no intention of bringing everyone back to the office in person, leaving a great deal of empty real estate.

When he discovered OCS’ need, Schlichenmayer said he realized how easily the nonprofit could move into NACS’ fully-furnished office and warehouse.

“I thought, ‘This is what the next chapter of this building should be all about.’ It shouldn’t sit idle and be underutilized when there’s a legitimate need,” he said. “So we struck a deal and away we went.”

NACS isn’t leaving town.

Schlichenmayer said there is still plenty of room for his on-site operations in a separate building on the property, and businesses is slowly starting to recover from the hit it took in the past two years.

Oberlin Community Services has already raised about $1 million of the estimated $2.7 million needed to purchase and renovate

the NACS building, and is asking for donations to meet its goal by the end of the year.

Oberlin High School history teacher Kurt Russell, who was named the 2022 National Teacher of the Year, is co-chair of the capital campaign. He said Lorain County residents can fight hunger by contributing to the move.

“OCS provides vital services for so many of our neighbors and friends, from school kids to seniors,” he said. “At a time of increasing need, this new building will serve our people now and for many years to come.”

Donors can visit OCS at 285 South Professor St. or call (440) 774-6579.

The goal is to have enough money in hand to begin renovations in January and make the move in June 2023.

Flood said she had previously talked with architect Ron Cocco about the possibility of building on to OCS’ headquarters on South Professor Street, but the cost of doing so would have passed $4 million.

“So this is hugely more financially prudent,” she said.

Coincidentally, Cocco designed both the current OCS building and the one owned

by NACS — so he was able to advise Flood on how it could be modified to suit the nonprofit’s needs.

The new space on Route 511 already has a loading dock and large meeting rooms that will allow OCS to hold community events separate from its food pantry, including the ability to serve hot meals and send people home with more to last the week.

Remodeling will include installing a cooler and freezer large enough to drive in pallets of fresh produce.

It will also be much larger than the one OCS currently has, “which means we’ll be able to five out much more nutritious food, since we’ll

have the ability to store more of it all the time,” Flood said.

The new offices will be so large that OCS plans to invite some of its nonprofit partners to move in, she said. The hope is that a client who shows up to get food can also sign up for government assistance, get legal advice and tap other services.

“The idea is to have a community resource hub for low-income people to be able to come to one place, a one-stop shop, and really get what they need,” Flood said.

The new headquarters also has vastly increased parking, with a lot large enough to hold big drivethru food distributions, Flood said.

That’s a welcome feature because the South Professor site lacks that kind of access — during food giveaways, cars often back up traffic along the road for hours, she said.

While the NACS building is located on the far eastern side of town, a bit farther from Oberlin’s larger residential areas, the city plans to extend sidewalks there and the North Coast Inland Trail bike path runs close by, said Flood.

She also hopes to convince city officials to make the new OCS headquarters a regular stop for Lorain County Transit bus service.

What will become of OCS’ current building on South Professor Street has yet to be decided.

The nonprofit owns the property outright. However, the Nord Family Foundation, which financed its construction 20 years ago, has the right to take possession of the building if OCS moves out.

Flood said it’s unclear whether the foundation will exercise that option. In any case, she said there are several organizations interested in using the building, if the Nord Family Foundation is open to the possibility.

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Former Eastwood school rezoning fails, killing Oberlin College deal JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — An attempt to rezone the former Eastwood Elementary School fell flat last week, rejected by City Council even though a majority of members favored it.

In this case, the minority won — Council President Bryan Burgess and Vice President Kelley Singleton opposed changing the East College Street property from R-1 to R-2 residential zoning, which would have allowed Oberlin College to take ownership.

But with Council members Michael McFarlin and Eboni Johnson sitting out the vote because they are employed by the college, that left rezoning with a simple 3-2 majority.

At first, Burgess thought the matter had sailed through to another reading. Instead, Law Director Jon Clark pointed out Council’s rules require a four-vote majority to proceed.

Later in the meeting, Singleton and Burgess refused to backpedal.

Either could have called for a vote to reconsider — but without it, the rezoning request died.

Oberlin College had been angling for the building as a “swing space.” It would have renovated the old school so that offices, classroom space and storage could be shuffled there as main campus buildings are converted to geothermal heating and cooling, said Chief Facilities Officer Kevin Brown.

He said the college only needed the property in the short term, about five to 10 years.

The Oberlin Board of Education was willing to trade the property in exchange for land on North Park Street, where it has been consolidating its operations. Though much of it is wetland, the wooded area southeast of the new Oberlin Elementary School would have freed space for use, according to district Operations Manager Jim Eibel.

The college was only interested in the trade, however, if Council agreed to rezone the former Eastwood. Under the city’s zoning rules, colleges can only operate buildings in R-2 zones.

Not all officials were convinced handing the property over to the college was the best way to use it, though.

Councilwoman Kristin Peterson said she had no issue with Oberlin College taking over Eastwood for a short time — but she did object to it taking permanent ownership.

Some residents voiced similar concerns in a public hearing earlier this month. They worried about what would happen to the building once the college no longer needed swing space.

“That’s the question that hasn’t been addressed, because they wanted to kind of ensure that at the end of that period of time, the building would still be used for the good of the community,” said Councilwoman Elizabeth Meadows.

Brown said he sees the old school property one day being developed

for higher-density housing. He even said he’d consider an agreement to eventually return Eastwood to the Oberlin City Schools.

“Eastwood is a liability to the school district. That’s my opinion.

They don’t want it back,” said South Cedar Street resident Kevin Weidenbaum.

He said that if Council is concerned about Eastwood’s long-term fate, it should negotiate to buy the property.

Whether Burgess would be willing to make that deal isn’t clear.

But he did suggest an alternate use for the East College Street land.

“The community needs housing, and we need housing now,” he said. “There is other land in the city to be used for housing, absolutely, but that piece of land is in the middle of a residential neighborhood in close proximity to downtown, and not on the periphery.”

The city owns several residentially-zoned properties it could use to beef up Oberlin’s housing stock.

Public Works Director Jeff Baumann, who supported rezoning, pointed out that the city has long owned the land where the former Green Acres Children’s Home once stood, but has not used it.

The city paid $265,000 for the 15-acre property back in 2011 and another $117,900 to demolish the orphanage. In the years that followed, Council hotly debated how to build low-income housing there, but those plans never resulted in action.

Oceans of Possibilities at Herrick Memorial Library All children up to age 11 can join the Herrick Memorial Library’s reading club in Wellington by registering in the Children’s Room. Then pick up a reading log and track the time you spend reading books you’ve checked out from now to July 30. Earn a paperback book of your choice for every five days you spend reading.

Ages 12-17 can join by registering at the front desk. Librarians will fill out an entry for each book that you read and enter you into our summer prize drawing that will take place Aug. 1.

Adults can also take part in the summer reading fun. Register at the front desk and librarians will fill out a ticket when you check out our books, audio books, magazines or digital reading materials. On Aug. 1, they’ll draw one ticket for a prize.

ACROSS 1. Kitchen boss 5. Churchill’s “so few” 8. Epochs 12. “Watch out!” on a golf course 13. East of Java 14. *Pinocchio’s state of being 15. Hard currency 16. Emanation 17. TV and radio 18. *Mr. Popper’s birds 20. Newspaper piece 21. *Like “Goosebumps Classic” 22. “What?”

23. *Richard Scarry’s Things That Go 26. Oxygenate, as in lawn 29. Skin cyst 30. Middle Eastern meat dish, pl.

33. Antonym of “yup” 35. Dispatch boat 37. Female sheep 38. Throat infection 39. Searching for E.T. org.

40. *”I think I can, I think I can...”, e.g.

42. *”____ Spot run!”

43. Accounting journal 45. *The Plaza Hotel resident of kids’ book fame 47. Long, long time 48. Caffeine-containing nut trees 50. Off-color 52. *Ludwig Bemelmans’ Parisian boarding school resident 55. Middle Eastern porter 56. Movie “____ Brockovich” 57. Karl of politics 59. In a cold manner 60. Obscenity 61. Middle of March 62. Fringe benefit 63. *Side for Green Eggs 64. Put in the outbox

MHARS board announces $14M in funding for 2023 STAFF REPORT

The Mental Health, Addiction & Recovery Services Board of Lorain County has voted to provide more than $14 million in funding to local mental healthcare and addiction recovery services providers in the coming year.

The MHARS Board voted on the allocations at its May 23 meeting. Budget recommendations were made by MHARS Board staff in collaboration with the board’s Community Planning and Oversight Committee. They were then passed on to the board’s Finance Committee and brought before the entire board for a vote.

“As the funding agency for behavioral health services in Lorain County, we value the process of transparency in allocating dollars to the network of behavioral health providers in our area who directly serve individuals and families in need of help,” MHARS Executive Director Michael Doud said in a news release. “Approximately 16,000 Lorain County residents received mental health and recovery services across our network in 2020, providing the high level of care we have come to expect in Lorain County.”

Receiving a total of $14,147,826 from MHARS’ 2023 budget, according to the minutes of the May 23 board meeting, were: • The Nord Center: $7,625,732 • New Sunrise Properties: $812,374 • LCADA: $715,228 • Applewood Centers Inc.: $541,896 • OhioGuidestone: $481,035 • Firelands Counseling & Recovery Services: $445,849 • Road to Hope: $354,000 • El Centro: $291,845 • Bellefaire JCB: $287,154 • Gathering Hope House: $260,000 • Catholic Charities: $175,000 • Genesis House/Lorain County Safe Harbor: $170,000 • National Alliance on Mental Illness Lorain County: $137,632 • Neighborhood Alliance: $134,917 • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lorain County: $119,800 • Far West Center: $101,745 • Lorain Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program: $95,188 • Stella Maris: $92,400 • New Directions: $78,114 • Let’s Get Real Inc.: $76,823 • Silver Maple: $63,328 • Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry: $47,000 • Beech Brook: $40,000 • Pathways: $35,559

MHARS Board approves site for Crisis Receiving Center The Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery Services Board of Lorain County’s Board of Directors voted recently to move forward on building the new Lorain County Crisis Receiving Center on the campus of The Nord Center in Lorain.

“As we all know, addiction and mental health issues have hit Lorain County communities hard. That’s why this project is so long overdue,” Board Chair Dan Urbin said in a news release.

The facility will require new construction in a vacant area directly north of The Nord Center’s current building at 6140 South Broadway.

Perspectus was selected as the architect and the next phase will include getting zoning approval from the city of Lorain.

The MHARS Board along with the Lorain County Board of Commissioners authorized financial support for the project in August with each voting to provide up to $4 million in funding.

Additional funding for the receiving center comes from $1.5 million authorized by the federal government.

The MHARS Board is in the process of securing $750,000 in funding from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and approximately $2 million in donations from foundations including the Nord Family Foundation.

Private support for the project has come from the Bass Family with additional gifts being secured in collaboration with the Community Foundation of Lorain County.

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9. Thumb-up catch 10. Full of enthusiasm 11. *”The Little Mermaid” domain 13. Stock exchange, in Paris 14. Affair, to Emmanuel Macron 19. Michael Douglas’ 1987 greedy role 22. “For ____ a jolly ...”

23. *Clement Clark Moore’s famous beginning 24. Live it up 25. Join forces 26. Aid in crime 27. Bodies 28. *Athos’, Porthos’ and Aramis’ swords 31. *Corduroy or Paddington

32. Stiff grass bristle 34. *D’Artagnan’s sword 36. *It ends, according to Shel Silverstein 38. North American purple berry 40. ____ at Work, band 41. Give in 44. Worshipful 46. Isis’ brother and husband 48. Cause and effect cycle?

49. Abhorrence 50. RBG’s collar, e.g.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE STEPHEN PROSAK, Defendant, whose last known address is in Lorain County, is hereby notified that Lisa Schaefer, Plaintiff, has filed her Motion to Modify Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Child Support and Tax Credit, Affidavit of Income and Expenses, Health Insurance Affidavit and Parenting Proceeding Affidavit on March 18, 2022, captioned Lisa Schaefer v. Stephen Prosak, Case No. 13 DU 076983, against HIM in the Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, Lorain County Justice Center,

225 Court Street, Elyria, Ohio asking for a Modification of Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Child Support and Tax Credit. Said Defendant is required to serve upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, Tiffany Catherman, a copy of an answer to the Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after service of the posting of this notice.

Your answer must thereafter be filed with the Court within three (3) days after the service of a copy of the answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney and that the case will be set for hearing on or after the 11th day of May 2022.

LCCG 6/20-27; 7/4-25/22 20704015 PUBLICATION OF LEGISLATION The following is a summary of legislation adopted by Lorain City Council on June 6 & 8, 2022. The complete text of each item may be viewed or purchased in the Clerk of Council Office @ Lorain City Hall, 200 W. Erie Ave., Lorain, OH, during normal business hours or contact Breanna Dull @ 204-2050 (Breanna_Dull@ cityoflorain.org). The following summary of legislation passed has been reviewed/ approved by the Law Director for legal accuracy as required by state laws.

6-6-22-Resolution 24-22* Declaring it necessary to construct sidewalks on East Erie requiring that abutting property owners construct the same.

6-8-22 Resolution 25-22* Amending Reso 41-21, est

expenditures of ARPA funds as it pertains to LPD staffing.

Ordinance 77-22 Auth S/S Director to enter into agrmt w/ Verdantas for prof services related to the former St. Joe’s Hospital assessment project. 78-22 Amending Ords 163-18, 115-19 & 67-20, agrmt A-19-003, w/ Coldwater Consulting for prof services related to Black River Dredge Reuse Facility project funded

by ODNR. 79-22* Auth S/S Director to enter into contract for the lease and purchase of 6 Ford Explorers w/ all emergency equipment installed through State Purchasing NTE $395k. 80-22* Auth S/S Director to enter into an agrmt for grant funding from OH Dept of Development, Brownfield Remediation program. 81-22* Approving the PY2022 CDBG & HOME 1-year action plan & auth Mayor to submit for financial assistance & auth S/S Dir to enter all contracts/agrmts to accept financial assistance, appropriate funds & est funds consistent w/ budgets. 82-22* Auth Auditor to enter into loan agreement w/ ODOT SIB for $867,362 for local roadway project Round 35 & auth execution of all documents necessary. 83-22* Appropriation.

84-22* Auth S/S Director to enter into a contract w/ Southeast Security & Spectrum Cox Internet for internet service for City Hall & Century, Central & Oakwood Parks. 85-22* Appropriation. (*Denotes legislation was passed as an emergency.)

L.C.C.G. 6/23-30/22 20703693

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Langston students take part in Civil War Gallery Walk at the year’s end OBERLIN — In the final week of school, Langston Middle School social studies teacher Nikolas Ruiz wanted to make sure his students remembered not only the events of the past year, but also reflect on history.

So the entire eighth grade took part in a a Civil War Gallery Walk for their end-ofyear projects.

“This allowed students the opportunity to see what life was like during the Civil War," Ruiz said.

Kids were tasked with selecting a person, event or idea from the American Civil War to research, and present their findings to classmates.

“Students were able to observe, interact and inquire about the student-made projProvided photo ects, and they had a phenom- Drew Walter and Mya Gonzalez presented their Civil War project to their enal time learning too,” Ruiz class. Walter researched the Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Gonzalez studied the life of Robert E. Lee. said.

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$210,000 contract will shore up Underground Railroad Center’s floor JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Northstar Contracting of Cleveland has been awarded a $210,690 contract to shore up the main floor of the Gasholder Building, which is being transformed into the Oberlin Underground Railroad Center.

It will be tasked with removing temporary bracing and scaffolding in the basement, and constructing a circular masonry support column in the center of the lower level.

That column will encase all the existing structural steel in “cellular grout,” according to a briefing memo to City Council. The entire process is expected to take two weeks.

Carrie Porter, Oberlin’s planning and development director, said making sure the first floor is properly supported must be done before other work needed to finish renovating the building.

Council previously set aside $375,000 to complete work on the center. Porter said that based on quotes from contractors, the city will come “real close” to spending that amount — likely within $25,000.

The project’s most vocal critic has been former councilman and Planning Commission member Tony Mealy.

In a Council meeting last week, he voiced wide-ranging complaints about how the work is being handled.

“This is a sad story in my mind, to fill up the basement with basically concrete,” he said.

Mealy said he believes pouring the cellular grout will cause the building to sink and tilt over time.

He asked Council to abandon the plan — but officials instead unanimously fast-tracked the Northstar award with emergency status.

The Oberlin Underground Railroad Center has been a start-and-stop work in progress for about a decade.

When complete, it will educate the community about local residents’ roles in helping escaped slaves move stealthily toward freedom in Canada in the 1800s.

Because of its liberal atmosphere, strong Black community and proximity to Lake Erie, Oberlin was one of the last safe havens along the covert route for formerly enslaved people making their way to port cities such as Lorain and Cleveland.

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Lorain County JVS National Technical Honor Society members were inducted at the end of the year.

JVS inducts 26 members into the National Technical Honor Society PITTSFIELD TWP. — Twentysix members were inducted into the Lorain County JVS’ National Technical Honor Society chapter at the end of the school year.

This year’s class includes nine returning members and 17 new inductees.

The ceremony included the traditional lighting of the candles that symbolize the values of the society, such as scholarship, skill, responsibility, citizenship, service, honesty and leadership.

New members were awarded certificates, and seniors received purple and white cords to wear at graduation.

“Students, you truly are the best of the best and we are so proud of you,” Principal Tina Pelto said.

Inductees included: • Avon: Adam Donat, Camille Huguley, Isabella Pavone, Emilee Sheldon, Joseph Weatherspoon • Avon Lake: Autumn Burns, Alyssa Kordish, Kathryn Radca, Delaney Roth

• Brookside: Michael Bilczo • Clearview: Isaiah Allen, Jason Buschur • Columbia: Bryan Spaniel • Elyria: Paige Hale • Firelands: Izeck Manges • Keystone: Kylee Gill, Hannah Maitland, Maeve Vana • Midview: Savannah Douglas, Shiloh Gill, Donavyn Pasters • North Ridgeville: Mackenzie Blum, Hunter Roseto • Wellington: Madison Mickey, Jordan Wells

ELYRIA — The Lorain County Board of Commissioners has approved paying an additional $62,775 after more asbestos was found during pre-demolition work at the Golden Acres nursing home on North Ridge Road in Amherst Township.

Asbestos and other hazardous materials are being removed ahead of demolition this summer, but ENVi Environmental of Elyria recently found two abandoned pipe systems covered in asbestos that were hidden in the walls and upper ceilings of the former nursing home, Deputy County Administrator Karen Perkins said.

ENVi put in a $135,000 bid for the abatement last year, and commissioners accepted the bid in March.

Contractors are allowed to do a site visit before bidding for county projects, but can't do any "destructive testing so they couldn't get in all the nooks and crannies" of the walls and ceilings, she said. The two pipe chases were discovered only after the abatement work started, Perkins said.

Golden Acres should be ready for demolition by midto late July, she said. Under the provisions of the bid, that work must be completed by Sept. 1.

Commissioners awarded a $238,500 demolition contract to A1 Land Development LLC of Rock Creek last month.

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Closed since March, bigger Amherst library reopening JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — Behind construction fencing, the Amherst Public Library’s doors have been closed nearly four months.

Residents will at last be able to step foot inside again following a grand reopening ceremony at noon on Monday, July 11.

“Everybody is really anxious to have patrons back in the building,” said library Director Don Dovala.

Librarians are also excited to show off a 7,500-square-foot, two-story addition to the Spring Street building’s south side. The $5.6 million project started last summer, after voters overwhelmingly approved a 0.73-mill property tax increase for 15 years.

The new area includes meeting rooms, study areas and an outdoor terrace. The addition allowed the entire library to be reconfigured with the second floor dedicated to children — that means kids can be kids, playing without any worry of disturbing older library users on the first floor.

Dovala’s staff has spent the last couple of months returning the library’s collection of about 30,000 materials to their shelves.

The last few boxes were finally emptied last week.

During the building’s closure, residents have still been able to check out books and movies via a curbside service, and librarians have continued to offer notary public services, faxing and copying.

“We’re so excited that people are going to be able to be able to start browsing again,” said library Public Relations Manager

Becky Denes.

After the Amherst library reopens, a few finishing touches will still need to be added.

Dovala said a divider wall for the community room will still have to be installed, as will radiators for heat at the front windows.

Outside, a couple of lamp posts will also be installed, and the parking lot will need patched.

But otherwise librarians are excited for the reopening party, which will including a ribboncutting and cake. While construction fences started coming down Monday, the building will remain closed until the July 11 ceremony, Denes said.

The library will be open until 8:30 p.m. that day, and normal business hours will resume Tuesday, July 12, she said.

For the first week of regular business, there will be swag giveaways for the first 100 or so visitors, as well as special gifts for younger children.

Denes said summer reading programs have been going strong even while the building has been closed, with story times moving to Amherst Township Park.

Now she’s looking forward to offering craft days, chair yoga and a beach glass class inside the library again.

Denes also said she’s planning an after-hours tour of the library on Saturday, July 16, complete with non-alcoholic mocktails.

Dovala said patrons should also watch for the introduction of three new library card designs that will be available when the library reopens.

One will bear the portrait of the original Carnegie section of the library, another with feature its logo and a third will show the library’s Quarry Bear mascot.

Photos by Jason Hawk | Amherst News-Times

Over the past year, a 5,000-square-foot addition has been built on the south face of the Amherst Public Library. Pictured are the former view from the parking lot (ABOVE) and one showing progress toward the end of construction (BELOW).

Potts retiring from Oberlin Cable Co-op after 35 years JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Ralph Potts, who helped found the nonprofit Oberlin Cable Co-op, is retiring today.

He’s worked for decades to provide low-cost television and internet to the city’s residents, and also was a prime force behind the creation of both the Oberlin Business Partnership and The Bridge, the Oberlin Public Library’s technology center.

“I can’t believe it’s been 35 years,” he said last week while being honored by City Council. “I came here in 1987 with a dream, I honestly did.

And it came true.”

Potts has broadcasted meetings from the back of Council Chambers for the entire duration of his Provided photo time at Cable Co-op — a service that, along with For years, Ralph Potts sported an old-fashioned bathing suit while volunbroadcasting Oberlin teering in the dunk tank at Oberlin’s Family Fun Fair. In retirement, he’s Board of Education meetgifted the suit to his friend, Councilman Kelley Singleton.

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He thanked Council members for the memories made over thousands of hours in sessions, many serious and others full of laughter.

Potts also presented a gift. After years of wearing a 1920s-style swimsuit in the Family Fun Fair dunk tank, he handed it over to fellow dunkee, Councilman Kelley Singleton.

“It is yours, my friend,” he said with a chuckle and a hug, while Singleton groaned.

“Ralph is just a really good guy. Everybody he’s ever come across, he’s had a really great relationship with,” said Jay Shrewsbury, who is stepping into the general manager spot after working with Potts for 22 years.

Cable Co-op was founded by people who saw a need for TV service without the hassle of a big provider, he said. They started organizing in 1985

and two years later hired Potts, who had about 15 years of experience at Continental Cable.

“The uniqueness of cable co-op is that we’re member-owned and a nonprofit,” said Shrewsbury.

Today, the co-op has about 2,200 subscribers, which include about 78 percent of residential households and 82 percent of businesses in the city.

Over the years, Potts championed beefing up the co-op’s infrastructure as technology progressed and demand grew. The entire system was rebuilt about 20 years ago, said Shrewsbury, who intends to carry on Potts’ legacy by again upgrading the system over the next five years.

The internet is nothing like it was two decades ago, he said — Oberlin needs more capacity and bandwidth to buoy upload and download speeds.

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Schumacher makes a pit stop JASON HAWK EDITOR

WELLINGTON — Tony Schumacher says he picked a job that requires him to work just 6 minutes a year.

“The Sarge,” as he’s known in the racing world, was on the clock for only about 3 seconds this past weekend when he climbed into his drag car cockpit at the NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk.

“It’s only 3 seconds, but it’s every decision I make all week,” he said, signing autographs last Thursday afternoon at Wellington Implement on Route 58. “It’s everything I put in my mouth, everything I eat, every workout I do.

It’s all-consuming.”

Thousands of hours of practice go into those short races. The rest of the time is spent with fans, “and it’s the greatest fan sport in the world,” said Schumacher.

Mike Kindig, an Elyria resident who collects radio-controlled cars, including 1/10th scale dragsters, took his grandson, Evan Bradley to see Schumacher’s show car in Wellington.

“He’s into RC cars too, so I wanted him to see the real thing,” Kindig said.

For decades he’s watched racers burn rubber at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk and Lorain Raceway Park in South Amherst, listening to the roar of the engines.

Carl Zimmerman traveled from Wadsworth to see Schumacher, who he’s watched race for many years.

“He’s consistent. That means a lot in the driving world,” Zimmerman said.

“He’s the Dale Earnhardt Jr. of drag racing.”

Wellington Implement owner Tom Stannard made another comparison: The National Hot Rod Association event is “like the Super Bowl of racing,” he said.

Schumacher’s car is sponsored by SCAG Equipment. The company’s zero-turn mowers have been a big seller for Stannard’s three stores in the past 15 years.

So when he learned the driver was en route to Norwalk, Stannard reached out to arrange for a meet-and-greet and autograph signing.

The orange-striped drag car that was unloaded in his parking lot quickly drew attention, and for good reason.

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The car’s 12,000-horsepower hemi launches it from 0 to 100 mph in 0.8 seconds — it’s going full speed before it travels 60 feet.

Schumacher said he spent his childhood watching his father, legendary racer Don Schumacher, and dreaming of one day having his own dragster.

Now he’s spent so many hours in the cockpit that all trace of fear has vanished. On the track, Schumacher said he achieves a zen-like state of mind and trusts the machine completely.

It’s an experience few fans will ever have, but fantasizing about driving captures their imaginations.

“It’s shock and awe,” Schumacher said. “You can’t drive it, but you can stand next to (the drag car) when it starts. You can bring your family to see it and say, ‘That’s the baddest car in the world.’”

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Gibsons again demand $36M jugement payment STAFF REPORT

Attorneys for Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family have once again filed documents with the Ohio Supreme Court opposing Oberlin College’s request to halt payment of the more than $36 million the college owes the family and their business after losing a lawsuit.

The matter remains on appeal before the state’s highest court. It isn’t known when the Ohio Supreme Court might hear arguments in the case.

“The Gibsons have correctly completed

every step necessary to properly execute” a jury’s award and Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi’s 2019 judgment, the family’s attorneys wrote in a motion filed with the state’s highest court last week.

The family and their 137-year-old business won the largest award ever handed out for libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and interference with business relationships in 2019.

The judgment came almost three years after Oberlin College students protested alleged racism by the bakery and its owners against

students of color. Those allegations arose after three students were arrested following a shoplifting incident and assault on a store clerk in November 2016.

Jurors found that Oberlin College and its officials, including former Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo, libeled the bakery and co-owners David Gibson and Allyn “Grandpa” Gibson and damaged their reputation by allowing students to declare them racist, hand out flyers and put up unchallenged resolutions on campus saying as much.

The college argued it

was protecting students’ free speech, and a number of free speech organizations, the NAACP and the Ohio Chamber of Commerce have backed those arguments.

It’s too late for the college to ask the court to rescue it from paying the nearly $32 million in damages and attorney fees Miraldi awarded the Gibsons, plus another $4.5 million in interest and counting, their attorneys wrote.

“There is no reason for this court to now entertain Oberlin’s motion when its own inaction has already directed the outcome in this matter,” the Gibsons

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An appeals bond the college obtained from Zurich American Insurance Co. to guarantee payment could be made should its appeals fail should immediately be paid to the family and the bakery, the Gibsons argued.

The conditions for paying the bond have been met and “immediate payment is due,” their attorneys wrote.

Miraldi’s previous ruling suspending his own judgment doesn’t relieve Oberlin College from its obligation to seek a similar stay from the Ninth District

Court of Appeals, state law allows it, and Miraldi doesn’t have the power to stay a judgment through the entire appeals process, the Gibsons’ attorneys argued.

The bond also isn’t enough to halt the judgment against the college throughout the entire appeals process, and interest continues to pile up at a rate of more than $4,300 per day.

The Akron-based appeals court previously rejected Oberlin College’s arguments on appeal, as well as arguments made by the Gibsons and their attorneys that caps on monetary damages

Amherst residents demand city action on ‘hoarder house’ JASON HAWK EDITOR

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TOP: Longtime Oberlin high school band director Len Gnizak, left, speaks to attendees in his retirement party at the Oberlin Recreation Complex pavilion on June 26.

Gnizak has served as band director for 18 years.

RIGHT: A balloon banner displaying “Mr. Gnizak The Legend” twists in the wind his retirement party Sunday afternoon at the Oberlin Recreation Complex pavilion.

Oberlin College hosts 2022 Green Energy Ohio Awards SCOTT WARGO OBERLIN COLLEGE

Oberlin College hosted the 2022 Green Energy Ohio Awards ceremony and reception on Thursday, June 9 in the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies.

Hecate Energy served as the presenting sponsor of the event. The keynote presentation was delivered by Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology John Petersen, who shared information about the Oberlin Environmental Dashboard, which is designed to make the invisible flows of water and electricity through communities visible and

engaging.

Each year, Green Energy Ohio presents Green Achievement Awards to individuals, businesses, universities, nonprofits and government and community entities for the work they have accomplished in advancing GEO’s mission. They are the innovators, collaborators, educators, and leaders in their respective fields throughout Ohio.

Oberlin College was recognized as the recipient of the Green Achievement Award for Academia. Also receiving awards are Solar United Neighbors of Ohio for Nonprofit, GOJO Industries for Business, and the city of Oberlin for Community/ Government.

Oberlin College became one of the first institutions of higher learning to sign the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitment in 2006 and is currently working toward a goal of carbon neutrality by 2025.

In 2021, the Oberlin College board of trustees approved geothermal as the college’s carbon neutral energy source through the Sustainable Infrastructure Program.

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AMHERST — Neighbors are angry that clean-up efforts have stalled at what they’ve called a “hoarder house” at 167 Jackson St. The vacant home has been not just an eyesore, but the source of awful smells and a haven for wild animals, according to complaints made to Amherst City Council in recent months.

Susan Conkle, who lives next door, asked elected officials on June 13 to buckle down on property owner Sherwood Smith. Extensive repairs have been made to the roof and front of the house, she said, but there are still problems that cannot be seen from the street.

The back door, for example, remains unsecured, Conkle said: “It’s still just propped up with a table and propane tanks, and the broken door behind it.”

That allows animals to wander in and out of the house, he said.

Jim Todhunter, who lives two doors down, gave Council a similar report about the garage door. He said work was done, but the door doesn’t go up and down, and is propped open by wood boards.

Kelly Post, whose father lives on Jackson Street, said downspouts and gutters were removed to make the house look better, but they remain lying in the backyard. There are also 10 to 15 years of grass clippings there, she claimed.

“It is still an eyesore,” Post told Council.

The backyard is “pretty jungly-looking” with shrubbery, weeds and grass growing high, said Conkle. Trees were recently cut down, leaving large piles “like a beaver dam,” she said.

Neighbors said a dumpster placed on the property has sat there unused. It is the latest in a string of dumpsters that haven’t been filled, they alleged.

Jackson Street neighbors said the house is a nuisance and asked city officials to take action.

Last year, building officials placed a notice on the door declaring the owner was violating the property code. It has now been removed.

In a follow-up interview, Mayor Mark Costilow said the Law Department has been in touch with Smith and is following his progress.

The morning after Council’s meeting, he sat down with Building Official David Macartney and Law Director Tony Pecora to discuss options for addressing the situation.

There is a legal process that must be followed, Costilow said.

“Property owners have rights too on the other side of that fence,” he said.

The city does not have a right to go inside the house without a court order, said Costilow. It likely does have the option of mowing the lawn and billing Smith for the work, but that too requires notice by certified mail and a waiting period. Condemning and tearing down the alleged nuisance house is not an option at this point, he said — that type of action would have to be authorized by the court.

Conkle said she hopes the city will take some action to enforce its property maintenance code.

“Because we feel no longer than Mr. Smith will do anything about the property,” she said. “And just to leave it like this, when it was so close to actually sort of being OK, would be a shame.”