Elyria Boys & Girls Club serves summer meals to hungry kids
In Elyria the Boys & Girls Club runs a summer backpack and meal program feeding about 500 children age six to twelve. Audrey Rowe of the USDA praised the effort as a model, noting volunteers and funding from Second Harvest and state sources sustain daily snack time and weekend backpacks with fruits vegetables crackers milk and other items.
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Elyria
Alayzia Jackson
Windsor Elementary School
Boys & Girls Club
Deon Fennell
Alayzia
Malik Felder
Crestwood
Malik
Audrey Rowe
U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service
Tor
Elyria Boys & Girls Club
Rowe
Ohio
Second Harvest Foodbank
Mike Conibear
Conibear
Tank plant in Lima faces idle period as Pentagon trims tanks
Lima workers at the northern Ohio plant that builds the Abrams and Stryker vehicles fear layoffs as the Pentagon plans to slow or halt Abrams production for about three years to cut defense spending. Congress debates funding while the White House threatens a veto over added military dollars.
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Lima
George W. Bush
Pentagon
Congress
Capitol Hill
White House
Northern Ohio
Paul Matson
Hair machine accident leaves Akron woman scalp torn
Monica Thayer, 25, of Norton, sustained a severe scalp injury at JR Engineering in Barberton when her hair became caught in a machine during a Monday 11 pm shift. Surgeons reattached about 75 percent of her scalp. 25 percent remains mangled and may require further plastic surgery.
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Akron
Monica Thayer
Norton
Akron General Medical Center
Thayer
Mary Thayer
JR Engineering
Barberton
Good Old Summertime Event in North Olmsted
Cleveland Metroparks hosts a family oriented day at Frostville Museum with games crafts ice cream kite making and a 19th century style vintage baseball game between Whiskey Island Shamrocks and North Baltimore Cyclones. Proceeds benefit Muscular Dystrophy Association and a rain date is July 18.
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Cleveland
Frostville Museum
Cedar Point Road
Valley Parkway
Columbia Road
North Olmsted
Mitchell
Ohio Society For the
Whiskey Island Shamrocks
North Baltimore Cyclones
Country Club
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Steve Fogarty
Chronicle
ITOS
Middle Avenue
Cuyahoga County
North Olmsted Firefighters
Great Northern
Council For Economic Opportunities of Greater Cleveland
North Olmsted Senior Center
Lorain Road
Tiffany
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Chip Richter
Richter
Gordon Korman
Rocky River Nature Center
Northeast Ohio Association of Herpetologists
Debbie Klinec
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