Amherst flower show and Bicentennial events in town
All Around Amherst features a flower show July 9 and 10 at the railroad depot with two public viewing windows and prize ribbons at noon Friday. Displays include antique train cars renovated by Nordson Corp and two public show categories. A track team trip to Eugene and a large summer recreation program at Steele High School and Harris Elementary engage hundreds of children with sports and arts activities.
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Amherst Garden
William Hempel
Frank Koyach
Garden Club
Pullman
Nordson Corp
Amherst
Dick Cooley
Eugene
Oregon
Jerry Shumuta
Steele High School
Harris
Hale
Homestead
Rajaland
Cleveland Zoo
Natural History Museum
Auto Museum
Amherst Public Library
Amherst Pool
Amherst Women’s League
Amherst Garden Club
St. Joseph's
Town Hall
Amherst Historical Society
Amherst Lions and Rotary
Marion L. Steele
Powers
St. Joseph's School
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Police Log Chronicle From City Streets Alarmed by Vandalism and Accidents
Random police notes detail vandalism on a car with three flat tires in the 206 block East 14th Street, a near miss collision on Beebe Ave, an Elyria man’s arrest on Lodi Street, a transformer issue near West Avenue, multiple two car crashes around Cleveland and Criswold Road, a shoplifting arrest at a department store, a fire at Merchants Alley, and a gas station fire safety response. Additional items include a theft report and a telegraphic warning from the sheriff and state patrol.
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Jorepa Baker
Middle Ave
East 14Th Street
Li Riciegbo
Depot Sire
Caran
East Avene
Elyria
Lodi Street
Clark
Oberlin Ross
West Avene
Trego
Cleveland
Beebe Avesee
William c
Beta Ave
Bradford L
Disco Dance in Oberlin Shifts to High School Gym
Oberlin hosts a disco dance at the high school Saturday from 9 p m to dawn. The event features Majestic Mist, local disk jockeys and dancers, with Indian jewelry awards for door and contest prizes. A one dollar donation is asked at the door.
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Oberlin
Oberlin High School
Majestic Mist
Indian immigrant builds restaurant empire in San Francisco
Sarwan Gill arrived from India in 1956 with a $5 bill and headed to San Francisco. He started as a bus boy at an Indian restaurant, then rose to bar boy, waiter, and bartender. Now he owns that restaurant and another Indian eatery in Berkeley.
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American Dream
San Francisco
America
Sarwan Gill
Berkeley
Amherst Frontier Week schedule for July 4 events
Amherst celebrates the bicentennial with a full day by day program. Events include a morning Freedom Bell ringing, community breakfast, a parade ending at Town Hall, a fireworks display, historic jamboree, food stands, flea market, Archibald Willard paintings, paper airplane contest, balloon toss, German band, tug of war, multiple vespers services, talent and antique shows, ice cream social, historical tours, flower show, railroad exhibit, wood cutting and archery displays, a Snell Award dinner, and several community picnics and band concerts across Amherst venues.
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Hickory Tree Grange
Town Hall
Memorial Field
Mort Plato
Amherst Historical Society
Archibald Willard
Old Stone Methodist Church
Lorain County
The
American Legion
Foursquare Goapel Chuch
Crash victim leaves hospital
A Cleveland man John Hale twenty of 7912 Lawn Avenue was released from Fairview General Hospital after June 12 injuries from a one car crash on an unfinished Rt 2 near Westlake in which George Carter Jr. of Sheffield Lake was killed. Two other Cleveland men Delmas and Michael White were treated and released.
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Cleveland
Rt. 2
Westlake
John Hale
Lawn Ave
Fairview General Hospital
George Carter Jr
Herbert Drive
Apt. F
Lorain
Carter
East Lake Rd
Sheffield Lake
Delmas
Michael White
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Clartins
Tapa
East Broad
East River Streets
Smith
Debbie Lane
Repor
Do Fen
Zayre Departmen
Marthgate Skopfan
T Tayer
Perat
Cantor Mistmance Co
Onl Benen At
Stomp
Nolen
Frontier Week
Amherst Sandstone
Maude Neiding Park City
Congregational United Church of Christ
Central School
Bicentennial Committee
St. Peters
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
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Coffee Magic
Zayre
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