Developer offers street plan tied to trailer park at Wilkes Villa
Wilkes Villa tenants debated a planned 100 unit trailer park on Wood Street and Middle Avenue tied to a new street extending Pratt Boulevard. Frank Dettore pledged 75 000 to 80 000 dollars in assessments for the city to build the street, hoping rezoning would proceed.
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Wilkes Villa
Frank Dettore
Wood St
Middle Ave
Pratt Boulevard
Wood Street
Fuller Road
North Ridgeville
Dettore
Margaret Bowman
John Sokol
Fifth Ward
Scribner Fauver
Church pledges 5000 for Wilkes Villa park project
Elyria’s oldest church plans a joint effort with the park board and Wilkes Villa tenants to create a vest pocket park on nearly an acre of LMHA land. First Congregational United Church of Christ will propose the idea and fund 5000 with state matching funds possible to total 10000, addressing youth behavior and lack of recreation this summer.
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Elyria
Wilkes Villa
First Congregational United Church of Christ
John Hall
Park Board
John Sokol
Fifth Ward
Hall
Lorain
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Smythe
First Church
Two men held for grand jury in Lotko slaying
James Harold Metts and Ralph E. Bowman were ordered held to the Lorain County Grand Jury in Elyria Municipal Court on charges of first degree murder in the death of roommate John Lotko Sr. The deputy coroner testified Lotko died from abdominal bleeding and multiple broken ribs likely from a beating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lotko Sr
Lorain County
Elyria
James Harold Metts
Ralph E. Bowman
W. River St
Robert G. Thomas
Lotko
Vermilion school chief resigns for family and health
Vermilion school superintendent John B. Baker, 56, resigns effective July 31 citing family and health reasons. He arrived in Vermilion Aug 1 1971 replacing Dr Lawrence Zinn. The district will begin accepting applications as the board faces levy defeats and seeks a successor.
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Vermilion — School
John B. Baker
Baker
Vermilion
Emil Novotny
Novotny
Lawrence Zinn
Anthony Wayne School System
Lucas County
Butler County
Maumee
Germantown
Sitka
Alaska
Midview students dive into new fitness classes at YMCA
Eleven classes totaling 320 pupils begin a five week program at Elyria YMCA with water safety and beginner swim instruction. John Beatty leads the initiative while three Elyrian instructors Dottie Baker Shelley ODonnell and Becky Holliday teach. Classes run five days per week at 9 a.m. with each elementary school assigned a day.
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BRUSH
Midview
YMCA
Court Street
George Shriver
Ymca Community
Elyria Ymca
John Beatty
Elyrians
Dottie Baker
Shelley O'Donnell
Becky Holliday
Red Cross
Aii
Eaton
Belden
East Carlisle
Grafton
Pollution Inspires Music From Husa At Avon Lake High
Pulitzer Prize winner Karel Husa conducts Avon Lake High School Symphonic Band in Apotheosis of this Earth and Divertimento for Brass and Percussion at an 8 p.m. concert. He lectures and rehearses with students after arriving from France in Avon Lake yesterday.
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Avon Lake
Avon Lake High School
Karel Husa
Cayuga Lake
New York State
Husa
Paris
Cologne
Salzburg
Brussels
United States
South America
Australia
William A. Babcock
ERA debate blends faith and law at Ohio Statehouse
Spiritual rhetoric dominates the ERA discussion as supporters and opponents converge on the Ohio Statehouse to sway the House State Government Committee. Sponsors Reps. Michael Stinziano and Harry Lehman frame ratification as addressing sex discrimination, while critics warn of family law erosion and labor protections.
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Columbus
Statehouse
House
Ohio
Marietta
ERA
Michael Stinziano
Harry Lehman
Shaker Heights
Stinziano
Ohio State University
Lehman
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Pat Geisler
Josephine Quinn
Tenants’ Council
LMHA
DR. Thomas
Vermilion School
Michael Lotko Jr
Thomas
Bowman
Turner Street
Robert Fields
Metts
Kisel
Broad St
Fields
Broad Street
Brenda Moss
East Ave
Chronicle-Telegram
George Verban
Midview Local
Beatty
Cleveland Orchestra
France
Cornell University
Pol
Sanziano
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