Svat Studio founder Richard Svat, 50, dies
Richard Svat, noted Lorain sports sponsor and owner of Svat Studio of Photography, died after a two and a half year illness. An Army Air Force veteran and former Lorain Little League president, he coached several teams and supported local Catholic groups. Survived by wife Betty, sons Richard and Mark, daughter Beth Fantuz, daughter Susan, two granddaughters, and sister Elaine Laitman. Visitation Thursday. funeral Friday at St. Peter's Church.
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Richard W. Svat
Lorain
Svat
Cleveland Clinic
Mr. Svat
Betty
J C Woodings Jr Elyria broker dies
J C Woodings Jr 35 of 145 Wisconsin Circle Elyria died Monday The Lorain County Coroner will rule on the cause He was a licensed real estate broker and owner of Regency Real Estate Agency A longtime Elyria area resident he held multiple real estate affiliations and was active in local civic groups Funeral arrangements and memorials to the Elyria Public Library are noted for a later service date
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Jonathan C. Woodings Jr
Wisconsin Circle
Elyria
Lorain County
Regency Real Estate Agency
Mr. Woodings
Firelands High School
Ohio State University
Lorain County Community College
Realtor Institute
MA. Woodings
Middleburg approves fire police raises in 15 percent pact
Middleburg Heights city council approved two year contracts lifting police and fire pay and benefits by 15 percent over two years. An eight percent raise this year plus seven percent next year. Fire hours drop from 56 to 54 weekly. Total cost estimated at 170000 for 1979 and 1980. Union ratifications completed last week. Bargaining with service workers to follow after August vote.
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Middleburg Heights
Middleburg
Fire
Gary Starr
American Federation of State
Nord Center to launch 24 hour crisis intervention service
The W. G. Nord Center will start a 24 hour crisis intervention service on July 1 to assist residents with sudden emotional and mental health problems. Dr. Thomas J. Haglund named director, with six crisis intervention specialists. The program will coordinate with COPE and handle needs from family conflict to suicide threats, arranging hospital or involuntary admissions if needed. A new $1.3 million mental health center will house the service.
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W. G. Nord Center
Thomas J. Haglund
COPE
Haglund
CIS
Nord Center
Pine Ridge tenants keep rent strike. July checks go to escrow
North Ridgeville tenants at Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park vow to extend a rent strike with more than 100 July checks added to an escrow that already holds over $8,000. They previously deposited June payments as owners Marvin Orleans and David Rounds face lawsuits over the escrow funds and demanded park repairs. The group seeks 12 month leases, challenges a $3 per child and pet fee, and accuses unsafe conditions including a ditch, dangling wires, and rats.
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Pine Ridge
North Ridgeville
Marvin Orleans
David Rounds
Tile Group
Bruce Gaynor
Elyria
Gaynor
Homeowners Association
Linda McMillen
Memorial services for Edith Weber in Elyria
Memorial services for Edith E. Weber, former Elyria resident, set for Thursday at 7 p.m. at Wainwright Funeral Home with Rev. Martin Waidmann officiating. She died Thursday at Sheffield Convalorium Nursing Home in Fort Lauderdale after a long illness. She had lived in Florida five years. Also listed is the American Heart Association in Cleveland.
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Kathryn K. Colgan
High Point Blvd
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Elyria
Lorain
St. Mary's Church
Dennis K
Constance) Faubel
Columbus
Bruce Olsen
Dallas
Tex
Sade Youngs
James F
Cadillac Agency
Robert H
Lois A.) Olsen
St. Mary's Cemetery
Harold Dicken
American Heart Association
Northeast Ohio
E. 115Th St
Cleveland
Edith E. Weber
Wainwright
Martin Waidmann
Lottie E. Secrist
Forbush
N. Center St
LaGrange
Cleveland Clinic
LaGrange United Methodist Church
Chris
June
Joan
Lucille Forbush
Gordon Forbush
Wellington
Lena Forbush
Jean Forbush
Phyllis Simmons
Leonard
Fulton Funeral Home
Grafton
David Wilcox
LaGrange Cemetery
Hew team checks N London hospital for care quality
A Health, Education and Welfare Department team conducted a direct federal survey at New London Hospital in southeastern Huron County on Tuesday. The inspector trio a physician, a nurse and a pharmacist reviewed medical care amid prior reports of questionable practices and existing probes by the Ohio attorney general, the Ohio Medical Board and the county prosecutor.
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Cleveland
UPI
Health, Education and Welfare Department
New London Hospital
Huron County
Cleveland Press
Ohio Attorney General
Ohio Medical Board
Huron County Prosecutor's Office
Local births noted in Lorain Elyria area notices
June dates list multiple births with families in Lorain Amherst Vermilion and North Ridgeville. Names include Ran dleman Zilka Behn e Feliciano Miller Vitale Steinmetz Wasem Santiago Stipe Ouellet Ortiz Raible Beres Sanchez Young. Entries give parents and street addresses where the births occurred or were announced.
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J. S. Vitale
Sherwood Drive
Lorain
Harvey B
Charlene Steinmetz
Ferry St
Vermilion
Thomas J. Engler
Cambridge
Russell A. Wasem
Westwoods
Amherst
Joey
Deborah Santiago
Lakeside Ave
Michigan truck driver badly hurt in Ohio Turnpike crash
Richard Waskiewicz a 52 year old Ford driver from Howell Michigan was critically injured when his tractor-trailer flipped struck a parked truck and burst into flames on the Ohio Turnpike three miles east of Rt 57. Diesel spill halted traffic for 45 minutes and both Lorain County fire departments responded. Waskiewicz was cited for failure to drive within marked lanes.
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Michigan
Ohio Turnpike
Rt. 57
Richard Waskiewicz
Howell
Mich
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Majoras Ambulance
Berea
Highway Patrol
Waskiewitz
Ford Motor Co
North Ridgeville
Elyria
Harry Sherbine
Uniontown
Ohio
Waskiewicz
Vacant Two Family Home Burns in Elyria
An estimated $15,000 in damages occurred at a vacant two family dwelling on 245 Seventh St in Elyria. Firefighters were alerted at 1 10 am by an unidentified man and called for assistance from three trucks. The blaze began in the downstairs living room, spread through a partition wall to the second floor and attic, destroying the entire second story ceiling and heavily damaging the roof. Investigators search for a cause while locating the owner.
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Seventh St
Elyria
Ridgeville RTA Route Starts Monday to Cleveland
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will begin bus service from North Ridgeville to downtown Cleveland on Monday. Buses depart Fisher's Big Wheel at 6:29 and 7:03 am, reaching Eighteenth Street and Euclid Avenue at 7:40 and 4:18 am, with return trips at 4:53 and 5:20 pm. Five city stops are listed, exact times to be set after operation begins, fare 50 cents one way.
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North Ridgeville
Greater
E. 18Th
Euclid Avenue
Fisher's Big Wheel
Fazio's
Broad Street
Lear Nagle
Pitts and Wallace
RTA
Continental opens Elyria cable info office on Broad Street
Continental Cablevision opens a temporary information office beside Elyria City Hall on Broad Street to explain cable television and promote the bid for a local franchise. Director Stephen Ingram and assistant Linda Schalk will answer questions as City Council weighs last week’s proposals from Continental, Viacom Communications and Teleprompter Corp with a franchise decision expected by summer.
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Continental Cablevision Inc
Elyria
Broad Street
City Hall
Stephen Ingram
Continental
Lake Erie
Elyrians
Ingram
Linda Schalk
City Council
Public Utilities Committee
Continental Cablevision
Viacom Communications
Teleprompter Corp
Teenday 628.4 m Breakin at 103 Serand Street
Police log records a spree of thefts and break ins across multiple locations. Items stolen include two eight track tapes from a car on Sensin Avenue, a CD radio from a station wagon on Cornell Avenue, a lawnmower from River Street, an AM FM radio and helmet from a garage, and a bicycle from a garage. A vehicle collision occurred with no injuries after a bus driver waved a car around at an intersection. Police report several attempted thefts, a pawned or stolen jewelry incident, and other minor offenses reported through the day and night.
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Serand Steet
Sensin
WAZ Aim — Swart Syn Co
Lowell St
Stalen
Cornell Ave
Haat Hridge Steret
Tannery Street
Fargo
River Street
Abbe Road
Adams Street
Gateway
Middle Ave
Fourth Street
West Wer St
Wenety Lane
Delaware Ave
Abealarm
David Drive
Edna High School
Healam
Whitman
Charges dismissed by grand jury in municipal cases
The grand jury on Tuesday dismissed charges against six defendants from municipal courts. Names include Jody Willians 18, aggravated burglary. Houston Thacker 20, aggravated burglary. Douglas J. Pearston 24, complicity to rape. Dennie R. Kobett 24, rape. Lynn Acheson 26, felonious assault. plus additional details noting addresses and charges in the original report.
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Jody Willians
Spruce St
Houston Thacker
Douglas J. Pearston
Waar Ri
Dennie R.kobett
Weller Rd
Lynn Acheson
Fourth St
Ridgeville Dems Set Early Meeting on Kasab Future
NORTH RIDGEVILLE The Democratic Central Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday instead of 8 p.m. They will consider a replacement for Councilman Ronald Kasab, D-1, on the November ballot.
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North Ridgeville
Democratic Central Committee
Ronald Kasab
D-1
Chestnut Ridge Road to Close for Repairs
Chestnut Ridge Road will be closed between Bainbridge and Root roads from 7 a.m. to 5 30 p.m starting Thursday for work on relocated Route 10. The closure will last until the project is finished.
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North Ridgeville
Chestnut Ridge
Bainbridge and
Root Roads
Rt. 10
Editor's Sexual Imposition Charges Dropped
The grand jury dismissed two charges of Brass sexual imposition against Lawrence Hillock, 43, public service editor of the Lorain Journal of Avon Lake. He faced a misdemeanor sexual imposition charge in Avon Lake Municipal Court.
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Lawrence Hillock
Inwood Blvd
Avon Lake
Hillock
Public Service
Lorain Journal
Avon Lake Municipal Court
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Washington Ave
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Magyar St
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Clarence Reimer
Larain
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Cairo
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Norton Funeral Home
Michael Loser
Greenwood Cemetery
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Sam A. Mon
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Sam Banks
Sloan Kettering
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Weber Services
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Charles Jones
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Chuck) Jones
Lake Rd
Lorain St. Josephs Hospital
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St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
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PTA Mighty Goliath Players
Chef Henri
Huntington Players
Barbara
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Stephen P
Scott A
Colin
Alfred
Medina
Rita Brannigan
Norma Luck
Audrey Hulse
Burmeister
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Wolf and Bradley Roads
Arthur Lynch
Lakewood Park
Rocky River
St. Barnabus Organ Fund
London
Elyria Memorial
Terry (Janosko) Randleman
Newkirk St
New London
George Zilka
Nagel Road
Avon
Michael Behne
Miller Ct
Angel Feliciano
Jaycox Road
Lorain St. Joseph
Ronan
Cheryl Miller
W. 39Th St., Lorain
Thomas
Susan Stipe
Erie Ave
Pan Gilles Ouellet
22Nd St
Oscar
Rosemary Ortiz
Hamilton Ave
Michael Raibi
Homewood Drive
Tom Beres
E. 36Th St
Guadalupe
Aida Sanchez
E. 29Th St
Gary Young
Pearl Ave
Ridgeville Rta
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Elyria Fire and Police Departments
Sheriff's Department
Ridgeville
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