Area deaths and a teen driver dies in highway crash
A 15 year old Cleveland boy Michael E. Driskill was crushed when the car he drove overturned on New London Eastern Road near Route 58 in Wellington. He died at Wellington Community Hospital after the 10 05 p m accident. The crash is under investigation.
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Huntington Township
Cleveland
Michael E. Driskill
92Nd St
Wellington Community Hospital
Driskill
New London Eastern Road
Wellington
Ohio Highway Patrol
Route 58
Hillcrest
No progress in Union Eye contract talks in Lorain
Machinists union official said there has been no progress in wage and fringe issue negotiations between management and 85 workers at Union Eye Care in Lorain. Talks have stalled and no new sessions were scheduled after a strike last week.
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Lorain
Tom Calani
International Association of Machinists District 24
Calani
Lakeview Beach Patrols Beefed Up for 4th Weekend
Lorain officials announced expanded Lakeview Beach and Park patrols for the Independence Day weekend. Auxiliary police will bolster regulars at Lorain’s premier summer attraction. Mayor Parker warned arrests for littering drinking and curfew violations. No major disturbances have occurred so far.
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Lorain
Lakeview Beach
Lakeview
William E. Parker
Death Hefires MARSH of El He
Obituary note lists survivors and funeral details with services at a funeral home and Bwookdale Cemetery. Readers are told of a memorial arrangement and viewing hours, with remaining information blurred in OCR.
Barbeque at the Hickories for July 4 events
Elyria reports a barbecue at the Hickories on Washington Ave with a flea market, kids games, square dancing, house tours, and antique cars. Barbecue runs 1 to 4 p.m. Monday with tickets at the door four fifty for a quarter chicken or five dollars for a half and other dishes included. Flea market runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the grounds free. Balloons and cotton candy for children. house tours cost one dollar for adults.
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Elyria
Washington Ave
Government agency reports 1982 profit and returns funds
The Overseas Private Investment Corp. AP says OPIC sent back 50 million dollars to the U S Treasury after a 1982 net income of 83.5 million. OPIC, a 125 person government agency promoting U S investment in developing countries, offers political risk insurance loan guarantees and direct loans to small businesses and has posted a profit each year since 1971.
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Washington
Overseas Private Investment Corp
U.S. Treasury
OPIC
U.S
Dad to stand trial in kidnapping case
A North Ridgeville man, James R. Hubbard, has been found competent to stand trial on charges including felonious assault, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of child stealing, and two counts of aggravated menacing. Trial is set for July 25 after an April incident at Lorain County Children Services in which Hubbard allegedly pulled a gun and was subdued by an off-duty officer while attempting to take his three children.
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Elyria
North Ridgeville
Lorain
Hubberd
Sesquibash marks Oberlin sesquicentennial homecoming weekend
Former Oberlin residents gather for Sesquicen tennial Home and Heritage Days celebrating the town's 150th birthday. Events start Saturday noon with torch relay from four corners to Memorial Arch, a Tappan Square picnic Sunday, tours, wagons encampment, and Revolutionary War recreations. Nigerian guest Mae Uelfe attends with Ile Ife ties. plaque at City Hall honors distance of 7 087 miles. Peace vigil Sunday night and fireworks Monday dusk conclude the weekend.
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Oberlin
Memorial Arch
Marion Bradley Kel
Ley
Thelma Smith
Oberlin High School
Mae Uelfe
Nigeria
City Hall
Ile-Ife
Vine Street
NAACP
College Athletic Fields
Tappan Square
Morgan Street
Elyria Fireworks Cases Charged In Illicit Transport
Elyria police charged three local residents Denise Conone 21 John Ford 52 and Todd Evans 22 after traffic stops and a sale to a police officer in Yellow Barrel of Magic store on Cleveland Street. Assistant Attorney General Bob Tenenbaum warned yearly attempts to skirt Ohio fireworks laws, noting possession for personal use is illegal and loopholes let some sellers pose as wholesalers with a $25 license.
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Elyria
Ohio
Denise Conone
Berkshire Drive
John Ford
Vermont Ave
Todd Evans
Yellow Barrel of Magic
Cleveland Street
ASST
Bob Tenenbaum
Nolls fly ash veto may be at override in North Ridgeville
North Ridgeville mayor Richard Noll vetoed an ordinance funding outside legal aid to fight fly ash. A special City Council meeting at 7:30 p m tonight will consider the veto, but five votes needed to override appear unlikely. The $2,500 measure passed 4-3 June 20 with three dissenters not changing stance. Burkhart will miss tonight. The council has approved earlier contracts totaling 2,803 for Elyria attorney John Gallagher in the fly ash appeal involving White Ready Mix Co. Lake Ridge Academy and the Dieneses are linked to the case, though no firm financial arrangements are disclosed.
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North Ridgeville
Richard Noll
Richard Glamner
Rat Large
John Juncker
D-3
Dennis Burkhart
D-4
Burkhart
Elyria
John Gallagher
Ohio Enironmental Protection Agency
White Ready Mix Co
Gallagher
Larry Dienes
Root Road
Lake Ridge
Dieneses
Robert Coombs
Coombs
Culmer Found Competent for Murder Trial
Oberlin College student Sean Culmer 20 of New York City was ruled competent to stand trial for the aggravated murder of his girlfriend Grace B. Austin 20 of Alexandria Virginia at the Afrikan Heritage House last April. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Trial set for September 12 before Common Pleas Judge Joseph B. Cirigliano.
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New York State
Air Force
Kirby
Ironworkers Local 17
Cleveland
Jehovah’s Witnesses
DAV Chapter 20
AmVets Post 22
Tronworkers Local 17
Judy
Kenneth B. IE
Jeffrey B
Kenneth B. Kirby
Lorain
Joseph A
Carolyn) Caruso
East Syracuse
N.Y
Rodney
Myrtle) Browning
Harry
Betty) Gray, Jr
Cynthia Baker
Vermilion
Lonnie
Elyria
Oberlin College
Sean Culmer
Culmer
New York City
Common Pleas
Joseph B. Cirigliano
Thomas J. Haglund
Nord Center
Jobless reps head for Chicago parley
About 30 unemployed worker representatives from Lorain County depart Lorain for Chicago to attend the founding convention of Jobs or Income Now JOIN. The delegation will share buses with groups from Youngstown and Cleveland and travel from 1623 Broadway around 7 p.m. The Chicago meeting will cover a national health care plan, cuts to the military budget, and strategies to organize jobless workers.
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Lorain
Lorain County
Chicago
Youngstown
Cleveland
Broadway
Lorain Mayor Counts Loss as Bricks Leave City
Lorain mayor William E. Parker complains over salvage of 428 inch paving bricks from South Broadway. Bricks will be sold for $10,000 to an Oberlin firm and stockpiled, rather than used locally for Veterans Park or walkways, despite calls from residents to buy at the site. The WPA era bricks date to the late 1920s and early 1930s as part of the Broadway project nearing completion.
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Lorain
South Broadway
William E. Parker
Band Concert Foundation
Veterans Park
Ohio Department of Transportation
ODOT
Columbus
Oberlin
South Lorain
Parker
Launching ramps open at Hot Waters on July weekend
In Lorain the Municipal Pier known as Hot Waters is completed with the first 169 882 stage adding three double concrete ramps and fixed docks. Mayor Parker credits S W Franks Construction Co of Rocky River for on time work. The pier, now a park, closes at 11 pm with weekend leniency.
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Lorain
Municipal Pier
Parker
Board nixes stay on fly ash dumping at plant
NORTH RIDGEVILLE The Environmental Board of Review in Columbus denied a request for a stay on fly ash dumping at White Ready Mix Co on Race Road. The stay would have halted dumping until the OEPA permit appeal is heard. Elyria attorney John Gallagher noted the appeal would proceed without a stay, with the hearing date set for Sept. 12.
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North
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Elyria
John Gallagher
OEPA
Sparks Manufacturing Inc. Hit With Fireworks Sales Injunction
Elyria Lorain County officials secured a preliminary injunction in Common Pleas Court against Sparks Manufacturing Inc at 167 N Ridge Rd Sheffield Township The firm barred from retailing fireworks and improper storage while hearing was set The complaint filed June 16 named Sparks and other licensees in Cambridge The owner Dennis Cannone and his mother Mary Cannone listed at Lorain addresses.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Sheffield Township
Sparks Manufacturing Inc
Common Pleas
Floyd D. Harris
N. Ridge Road
Sparks Manufacturing
Falcon Fire Works
Cambridge
Gregory A. White
James A. Mertz
Dennis Cannone
Berkshier
Mary Cannone
W. 40Th St
Lorain
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Russel Stipanovich
Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Earl L. Wearsch
Amherst
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Thomas
Rosemary) Lustek
Reidy-Scanlan Funeral Home
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Kenneth Retter
Calvary Cemetery
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Martin Wolk
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Alexandria
James R. Willis
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Joseph Blackwell
Hanna Pavilion
Robert Nagy
Harold Washington
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S.W. Franks Construction Co
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Ohio Department of Natural Resources
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