Obama calls Americans to serve spurring volunteers
A feature on retirees and others inspired by President Obama to volunteer through programs like Experience Corps. Loretta Martin, 61, tutors first graders 15 hours weekly, using literacy skills learned over a career in education. The Obama family promotes United We Serve and national service with events and speeches.
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Wall Street
Barack Obama
Loretta Martin
Beachwood
Obama
Martin
Michelle Obama
Tured
AmeriCorps
Obamas
United We Serve
Martin Luther King Jr
Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
White House
King
Hospital employee evacuated after possible ethylene oxide leak
At Community Regional Medical Center in Lorain an alarm in a lab suggested a potential ethylene oxide leak. The HazMat team tested the area and found no leak three hours later. The employee followed protocol and the area was cleared for safe return.
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Lorain
Community Regional Medical Center
Fire Department
Jennifer Kennedy
Hazmat
Kenney
Kennedy
Nursing career draws more Ohio job seekers
Ohio economists note growth in nursing and health care roles. From 2001 to 2009 health care jobs rose 19 percent in Ohio. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio projects Ohio will have the greatest nurse demand among Texas and California in the next decade, with a projected shortfall of 32,000 nurses by 2020.
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Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
Health Policy Institute of Ohio
Texas
California
Lorain Russian New Year Eve at St Nicholas Church
The Lorain County Sacred Landmarks Initiative marked the Russian New Year by gathering at St Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church. Attendees enjoyed black bread dipped in salt garlic and honey with performances by singers dancers and strolling violinists plus a fortune teller. Participants toasted with the traditional S novim Godom greeting.
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Lorain County
Sacred Landmarks Initiative
St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church
Lorain
Novim Godom
Steve Manheim
Chronicle
Brian Wilbert
Christ Episcopal
Furniture Bank of Central Ohio expands aims and name
The Furniture Bank of Central Ohio grows amid rising demand and shrinking donations. With sponsor Big Lots support and vendors funding over 2 million since 2004, the group now makes items like dressers and tables alongside free furniture for about 15 families daily referred by nearly 200 local agencies.
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Columbus
MAP Furniture Bank
Big Lots
Furniture Bank of
Central Ohio
Jeff Hay
United States
Minneapolis
Furniture Bank
Jim Stein
Salvation Army
Franklin County Children Services
Brad Waite
Waite
Stein
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