Lear North School seeks overcrowding solutions
Lear North Elementary in North Ridgeville confronts severe overcrowding with about 600 students in a building designed for 450. Superintendent Beitler studies changes before January 29, including transferring students to Wilcox School and hiring paraprofessionals. A May bond issue may fund an 18 room addition and a new elementary school to relieve strain on teachers and morale.
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North Ridgeville
Lear North Elementary
Roger T. Beitler
Wilcox School
Lear Nagle Road
Center Ridge Road
Beitler
Lear North
Wilcox and Fields
Gayle Bates
Ateat North
Bates
Ridgeville to build pool funded by housing permit fees
Ridgeville council prioritizes a municipal pool funded by a new 200 dollar housing permit fee. First year revenue about 100000 dollars will finance a pool on Avon Belden Road, with future funds for recreation. Other actions include railroad crossing reporting, narcotics funding requests, and council clerk resignation.
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Ridgeville
North Ridgeville
Avon-Belden
City Recreation Board
Rezoning Hearing Set for North Ridge Plaza Shopping Center
The council schedules a public hearing tomorrow at 7 30 p m on rezoning 15 acres at Center Ridge and Jaycox for a Sunrise Development Co shopping center. The $1 5 million complex will house Meyer Goldberg Super Market Revco Drug W T Grant and several stores, creating about 200 jobs and $32 000 yearly in city taxes. A traffic light, turn lane, and six foot fence around catch basins are proposed plus a $15 000 donation to safety forces.
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North Ridgeville
North Ridge Plaza
Meyer Goldberg
Revco Drug
W. T. Grant
Lysaght
Bagley Road
Pythian Sisters plan installation in Spencer
Mrs Geor ge Cowan to be installed as excellent chief of Liberty Bell Temple 464 Pythian Sisters tonight. Installation by Mrs Adrian Dalgleist with assistants at 8 p m in Pythian Hall 310 W Main St. other officers listed including Gerri Kidd Judy Wolfe Betty Eichel Lloyd Keily and Norman Massie with Carleton Brewley as past chief and a pianist.
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Spencer
George Cowan
Liberty Bell Temple
Pythian Sisters
Adrian Dalgleist
Ernest Wolfe
Lowell Coomer
Pythian Hall
W. Main St
Harold Owens
Gerri Kidd
Kenneth Grieve
Judy Wolfe
Betty Eichel
Carl Breyley
Lloyd Keily
Norman Massie
Carleton Brewley
Church Women to Host Smorgasbord Dinner
The Ladies Evening Society of the First Congregational United Church of Christ will hold a smorgasbord next Saturday in Whitcomb Fellowship Hall. Serving runs 4 30 to 7 30 p m. Public welcome. Co chairs are Mrs Ronald MacGiven and Mrs Argene Carr. Society members have tickets. public sale at the door. Proceeds fund church service projects.
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North Ridgeville
Ladies Evening Society
First Congregational United Church of Christ
Whitcomb
Ronald MacGiven
Argene Carr
Councilman Opposes Ridgeville Rezoning Despite Backing Off
Councilman Bernard P. Lysaght submitted a written minority report opposing the Crystal Springs rezoning approved 6-1 by the council last month. He described himself as “beating a dead horse” while criticizing the planning actions.
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Dead Horse
Ridgeville
North Ridgeville
Bernard P. Lysaght
Crystal Springs
Program on child molesting to be presented by deputy sheriff
Deputy Sheriff Andrew Doychak of the Lorain County Sheriff's Department will speak at 7 30 p m Wednesday to Fields PTA on the dangers of child molesting. The session aims to inform parents and promote safer practices, with a babysitting program already used to boost attendance.
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North Ridgeville
Andrew Doychak
Lorain County
Huntington Trustees Reelect Louis Wilson As Chairman
Huntington Township trustees re elected Louis Wilson as chairman for the coming year with Daniel Nesbett as vice chairman and Ronald Twining as the third member. Meetings will be held the first and third Mondays at 8 p.m. in the township hall. William Bates was reappointed zoning inspector. A special meeting will receive bids for custodian and caretaker jobs, landfill supervisor, truck hauling contracts, and a road supervisor.
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Huntington
Louis Wilson
Huntington Township
Daniel Nesbett
Ronald Twining
William Bates
Ceive
Township Hall
Center
Evergreen
Fruit and Potato Meeting Set in Columbus Trade Show
A winter meeting and trade show for fruit and potato growers will be held at the Sheraton Hotel and Veterans Memorial in Columbus. Co sponsored by the Ohio State Horticultural Society and Allied Industries, the event includes separate sessions for the Fruit Growers Marketing Cooperative, the Ohio Peach Council, and the Ohio Apple Institute with dates set for late January and late February.
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Norwalk
Huron County
Ohio
Sheraton Hotel
Veterans Memorial
Columbus
Ohio State Horticultural Society
Allied Industries
Fruit Iewers Marketing Coppers Tive
Ohio Peach Council
Ohio Apple Institute
Faun
Norwalk Sues for Land for Linwood Avenue Bridge
Norwalk files suit in Huron County Common Pleas against Kenneth Conway and co defendants Janet Conway and Downtown Dodge Inc for appropriation of part of a lot at South Linwood Avenue and East Seminary Street. City seeks land for bridge approach and temporary easements, after Conway rejected 2520 offer.
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Norwalk
Huron County Common Pleas Court
South Linwood Avenue
East Seminary Street
Kenneth Conway
Old State Road
Janet
Downtown Dodge Inc
Linwood Avenue
Conway
Western Reserve elects Beck to third term as board president
Gerald Beck was re-elected president of the Western Reserve Board of Education at a recent meeting, starting his third term. Emory Weitzel was re-elected vice president. The board approved a temporary appropriation of 271,505 to cover operating expenses until April 1 and approved a new reading series workbook for the 1973-74 school year.
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Wakeman
Gerald Beck
Western Reserve Board of Education
Beck
Emory Weitzel
Election Officials Name Officers at Ohio Convention
NORWALK Mrs. Gilbert Leona Weisenberger deputy director of the Huron Board of Elections was elected first vice president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials. Other officers named were Dale Bricker Richland County president Frank Justen Lucas County second vice president Jennings Cole Scioto County treasurer and Mrs Ethel Lucas Fulton County treasurer The election occurred last week at the annual convention in Columbus.
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Norwalk
Gilbert
Leona) Weisenberger
Huron Board of Elections
Ohio Association of Election Officials
Dale Bricker
Richland
Frank Justen
Lucas County
Jennings Cole
Scioto County
Ethel Lucas
Fulton County
Columbus
Six Hundred Enroll in Winter Adult Education Push
Lorain County Joint Vocational School reports 600 enrollments for evening adult education courses starting Monday. Sandusky High School offers a Red Cross sponsored sailing prerequisite course beginning February 1, with registration via the Sandusky adult education office. Courses in wiping, speed reading, speed writing and shop subjects still have openings as the program enters its second year, praised by director William E. Ruth for strong local demand.
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Oberlin
Lorain County
Jour Vocational School
Sandusky
Sandusky High School
Firelands
American Red Cross
Sandushi High School
Elyria
Ohio State Department of Vacationdd
Lorain
William E. Ruth
Tor
Red Cross Bloodmobile Schedule for Norwalk Area
The Red Cross bloodmobile will be in Norwalk on January 22 from 8 30 am to 1 30 pm at the Hayles Club near the corner of Linwood and Monroe streets with free parking provided from the police station. The quota for Norwalk is 141 pints. The last visit in December collected 19 pints and the next visit in the area is planned for January 29 at St Pauls Lutheran Church in Sandusky.
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Norwalk
Red Cross
Hayles Club
Linwead
Monroe Streets
St Pauls Lutheran Church
I Sandushs
FBI transfers Cleveland agent to Northeastern New York
John W Burns, 46, special agent in charge of Cleveland, will be transferred to northeastern New York state and Vermont to lead the FBI office there. A Cleveland successor has not yet been named. Burns previously served in Oklahoma City before moving to Cleveland last year.
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Cleveland
John W Burns
Qeveland Pri Obug
Wall
Mbans Noy
FBI
Festerdas Burns
New York State
Vermont
Burns
Oklahoma City
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