Cleveland restaurant owner seeks home for Miss Kitty the lion
Art Kapelle holds a five month old lion named Miss Kitty at his west side restaurant. City inspectors and officials remain unsure of housing rules for a lion. Metroparks Zoo offered help but warned about a glut of lions and possible destruction. Kapelle contemplates options while walking Miss Kitty on a wire leash and feeding her leftovers.
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UPI
Art Kapelle
Hon Cub
Miss Kitty
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City Health Department
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Kapelle
Gus Inarti
Metroparks Zoo
Hon
Art Kappele
Oberlin fires, then withdraws public works head action
City Manager Sherry Suttles cancelled the firing of public works director Michael Mahaney citing community tension. An executive session of the city council was scheduled to address the issue as residents and NAACP leaders questioned council reaction and potential racial dynamics.
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Oberlin
Sherry Suttles
Michael Mahaney
Sherry
Mahaney
Council
Simmons
Ms. Suttles
Cristell
Matthews
Pete Shilling
Clarkes Hoxgland
Hoxgland
Elyria mayor keys leases city car amid budget talk
Elyria Mayor Michael Keys again uses a city leased 1981 Ford LTD amid questions about city finances. Auditor Beverly Renner cited a projected 16,000 first quarter deficit but said austerity measures cleared it. Council records show travel and equipment rental accounts and plans for re election.
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Elyria
Michael Keys
Ford Ltd
J.R. Dall Ford
Keys
Beverly Renner
Reamer
Reaner
Coutrcil
Heat aid crisis looms in Lorain County as cuts rise
Lorain County faces possible 3400 plus residents without heat due to nonpayment cuts. LCCA director Charles Hopkins cites 200 weekly calls to aid programs from his agency and Neighborhood House. Edison reports 492 disconnections in November-December, Columbia Gas 88, with Energy Crisis grants unavailable this year. A local task force is formed to fund raise amid higher unemployment and worsened conditions.
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Charles Hopkins
Lorain County
Neighborhood House House Association
Hopkins
Ohio funds for heating aid prompt demand for probe
U.S. Senator Metzenbaum says Ohio may have received over 60 million dollars in Home Energy Assistance Act funds to help low income families heat their homes, but distribution has been virtually halted. He urges a GAO investigation and a moratorium on shutoffs, citing poor handling and unresolved applications of about 700,000 eligible Ohio households.
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Hopkins
U.S
Howard Metzenbaum
D-Ohio
Ohio
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Richard Schweiker
Metzenbaum
Federal General Accounting Office
Melzenbaum
Tax bills delayed due to State Issue 1 impact
County Treasurer J. Grant Keys says real estate tax bills will mail late and a March 5 deadline for penalty-free payment is set. Bills, numbering about 7.95 miles in quantity, are delayed by State Issue 1 changes shifting more burden to commercial and industrial properties, not homeowners, with County Auditor Jahan A Payor Sai noted in calculations.
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Oral County
Jahan
Sai
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