Penfield Students Embroider Read Theme Shirts
In Penfield School, Kristen Prechtel and classmates stitched storybook motifs onto T shirts to honor Right to Read Week. Students crafted designs from Charlottes Web and Star Wars characters, reading 260 books in ten days and creating two large reading quilts alongside posters and displays.
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Penfield School
Kristen
Snoopy
Chewbacca
Wiggy
Penfield
Elyria
Rt. 18
Nancy McCleery
Charlotte
Wilbur
Shannon van Meter
Kristin Prechtel
Allen Prechtel
Vermont Street
Grafton
Dave Zapotosky
Squeeze Hits Workshops for the Handicapped
Area workshops that train and employ the handicapped face job losses as the economy falters. Goodwill Industries in Lorain reports a 60 percent drop in subcontract work with no layoffs but reduced hours. The Center for the Sightless in Elyria cut staff from 60 to about 18 19 and lost substantial subcontract work. Murray Ridge Production Center shows a sales rise with a 10 percent drop in late 1980 subcontracting but a 31 percent increase early in 1980.
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Center For
Elyria
Goodwill Industries
Lorain
Terry Lugentheal
Lorain Youth Sentenced for School Shooting at Longfellow
A 14 year old Lorain boy who fired on counselor Frank Darmafall, abducted students, and held 20 to 30 in a Longfellow Junior High study hall was sentenced by Juvenile Court Judge Henry T. Webber to the Ohio Youth Center. The incident occurred December 12, with a trial lasting eight hours, and the youth faces potential confinement through age 21 though likely 12 to 18 months.
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Lorain
Ohio
Henry T. Webber
Longfellow Junior High
Webber
Earl Woodings
Frank Darmafall
James Jones
Darmafall
Nordson Eyes Avon Site for Administrative Offices
Nordson Corp of Amherst plans expansion and seeks a new Avon site for its administrative offices along I-90. Avon offers ready land and proximity to Lorain and Cuyahoga counties as it rezones a north I-90 parcel for an industrial park near the border.
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AVON
Nordson Corp of
Amherst
I-90
Neil Archambeau
Nordson
Lorain
Cuyahoga
Sunshine Law gaps still haunt Ohio public meetings
Ohio's Sunshine Law faces gaps as public bodies still hold closed sessions. The Bainbridge Township suit cost about 1800 dollars with potential appeal fees. Westlake officials exclusion and a Piqua charter ruling create gray areas, prompting citizens to seek charter inclusion to compel openness.
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Ees
Geauga County Common Pleas Court
Ohio
Piqua
Ohio Supreme Court
Cuyahogaity
Common Pleas
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Bainbridge Township
Westlake
Neihaus
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Kristen Prechtel
E. B. White
Shannon
Mark Stout
Mark
Gary Somerville
Mike Miller
Gary
Mike
Ernestine Sturgill
Clementine Thornsberry
Paul Somerville
Webster Road, LaGrange
Margaret Wright
Goodwill
Ford
Lugentheal
Murray Ridge
Ted Chruma
Chruma
Nordson Eyes Avon
Fema Neuvirth
Patricia Knopf
Cleveland Heights
Public
Bernard Neihaus
Council
Planning Commission
Niehaus
Jimmie Kinnan
Attorney General's
Fred McGunagh
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