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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1986
Page
10
Short newspaper item from Elyria Ohio dated Thursday June 19 1986. Details unreadable in supplied OCR fragment.
Obituary notices announce deaths of Arthur Horvath 71 Amherst Lorain Community Hospital Phil and more. Henry Carmon 67 Cocoa Beach retired upholsterer served WWI survived by wife Elaine and siblings. services in Elyria and North Ridgeville. Emily Bazley 82 Elyria area. Sacred Heart of Jesus Church service. Robert Crawford 58 Avon Lake died Lorain St Joseph Hospital. longtime business owner and community member. services at Avon Lake United Church of Christ. Avon Cleanup Week planned with transfer station details for residents.
Terrell Louverua H. 80 of Blytia Shein died. Survived by husband Albert Bo and daughters Joan Marie Woolfork Geraldine Wilson Vivian Serenta and Ann McMillan. Friends may call Friday 7 pm at Jones Chapel AME Church. Funeral in Brookdale Cemetery.
Grafton will repair aging sewers using a no excavation liner method completed in 24 hours and costing about one quarter of full replacement. The city will add 35 071 to the sewer fund from Main Street and parking budget, with 131 071 total. Work on Cleveland and Barchard streets starts in July, water outages planned for residents on affected streets.
Recreation leaders and council committees discussed converting vacant Vivian Smith School on Wyleswood Drive into a civic center at about 1 million dollars or leasing for 1 dollar a year. The plan faces space and cost issues but could free land for meetings and potential federal funding if a senior group moves from a church. Concerns include homeowner association opposition and traffic loitering, with council aiming for careful review.
Put-in-Bay hosts Founders Day Weekend with a lakefront luncheon under a big tent on Saturday and a harborside ox roast served with trim mings. Sunday features a shoppers festival with artists flea market bake sales and an antique car parade at 1 pm drawing locals cottagers and boaters to the downtown village park by the marina.
Elyria Township trustee George Bracik abstained in Monday’s decision to appoint a citizen investigator over alleged mis conduct as fire chief. The recommending group is not led by members of the women’s firefighters auxiliary as previously reported. Trustee Ted Majoras is not affiliated with Majoras Ambulance Co. Tina Marie Ambrose’s name was misspelled in the Elyria High School graduate list published this week.
Four puzzle fans from Lorain County travel to Athens for the American Publishing National Jigsaw Puzzle Championship on August 16 and 17. Local entrants form two Elyria and Grafton teams competing for cash prizes and a doubles record, amid a weekend carnival of puzzling and antique displays.
Elyria police say a Hazel Street residence was broken into early Wednesday with cash stolen from two money banks. The thief gained entry by stacking concrete blocks beside the garage and entering via the garage roof to a bedroom window. A screen and window fan were removed. no other items reported missing.
The New London Local Board of Education will interview candidates for the superintendent position at three special meetings. The first at 8 pm July 2, the second at 10 am July 5, and the third at 7:30 pm July 7, all in executive session.
The United Health Foundation applied for an $800,000 grant from the US Public Health Service to run a Lorain low income medical center tentatively named Lorain Community Health Center. If funded the center would operate as a nonprofit with four doctors and a small staff, charging fees based on income. The grant is highly competitive and may be awarded in October with notification hoped by August.
A group of Ohio lawmakers led by Rep Bob McEwen urge severing the highway trust fund from the unified budget to safeguard federal transportation aid for Ohio and other donor states. They argue the fund, now in the unified budget, partly offsets the deficit, risking loss of money as funding declines.
Elyria police and fire units respond to numerous incidents from June 13 to 15. Reported thefts include locations on Sprague Road Chafian Road and East River Road plus vehicle crime on Bond Street and Midway Mall area. A street vandalism wave, a possible burglary, and a vehicle fire are noted with several arrests and juvenile referrals.
The Lorain County Visitors Bureau considers a new policy to rank requests from non profit groups for funding facilities or manpower. The policy aims to measure audience draw and event duration to determine support and move groups toward private funding. The policy committee will discuss the proposal further at a later meeting.
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