Trenton County Memorial Hospital and family over tragedy
SUSAN GORDON recalls Anthony and Jobin, Ridgeview Junior High students, as likeable and troubled. Anthony Bradford showed behavioral changes over the past year and had run away from home several times. The community was shocked by a killing and the arrest of the two youths, raising questions about avoiding violence.
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Susan Gordon
West Lafayette
Anthony
Jobin
Ridgeview Junior High School
Deane
Retired N.O. principal stays active in teaching work
Polly Bader, retired for four years after leading Coe Birch and Spruce Elementary Schools in North Olmsted, remains engaged in education. She helped develop reading materials for the International Teaching Alphabet in the 1960s and even served as a Lamaze coach for a relative’s birth last spring.
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Sheffield Lake
Polly Bader
Spruce School
Portable hug aims to give distance hugs in a box
OLD FORT Ohio Ron Hill promotes the portable hug a flexible plastic device with hands at both ends that wraps around the waist and can be mailed. He frames it as a simple sendable embrace for absent loved ones, hoping florists and manufacturers pick up the idea.
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Old Fort
Ohio
Ron Gill
Hill
Ninth Annual C T Jaycees Elyria Distance Classic Nears
The C T race returns with the ninth annual Elyria Distance Classic set to fire in two weeks at Lorain County Community College. An entry form is printed in today’s sports section for runners seeking to join the field.
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Lorain County Community College
Betty Crocker’s Face Sparks Mixed Reactions in 1980s Portrayal
Harriet Pertchik painted a Betty Crocker character as a contemporary capable leader. The portrayal drew feminist cheers and columnist Bob Greene’s whistles as the go getter stereotype meets modern business and style. Critics note the tension between career ambition and traditional homemaking in the era.
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General Mills
Long Island
Harriet Pertchik
Betty Crocker
Bob Greene
Pertchik
New Benny Crocker would charm Betty’s kitchen throne
A satirical note imagines replacing Betty Crocker with Benny Crocker a male homemaker who loves real food and domestic bliss. Benny, in a barbecue apron, is depicted baking for kids and writing about cream puffs while Betty is recast as a distant icon. The piece pokes at gender roles and modern working women.
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Betty Crocker
Betty
Benny Crocker
Benny
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