Ohio seeks rule changes to boost minority firm work
Ohio transportation officials ask the federal government to adjust highway design and construction bid rules to award more work to minority owned firms. The request follows a disparity study showing uneven participation among black Hispanic and Asian Pacific businesses and cites the Opportunity Corridor project as a model for targeted minority subcontracting.
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Cleveland
Ohio
State Department of Transportation
Department
Cleveland.com
Jerry Wray
LaGrange Hosts Its First Relay for Life May 20
Keystone High School stadium will host LaGrange’s first Relay for Life with the theme Paint Your World Purple. The six to eleven pm event aims to raise cancer awareness and funds, led by Keystone High School staff Sarah Robinson and Kari Dove Deal with support from students and the LaGrange United Methodist Church.
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Lagrange
Keystone
Keystone-LaGrange
Sarah Robinson
American Cancer Society
Keystone High School
Robinson
Kari Dove Deal
Dove Deal
Youth For
LaGrange United Methodist Church
Andrew Scott
Habitat volunteers work on Elyria home for Melendez family
Jennifer and Carmelo Melendez, with Lorain County Habitat for Humanity volunteers, install insulation on a 1,400-square-foot four bedroom house on Warden Avenue. The family expects to move in July, upgrading from a leaky moldy home on state Route 57 in Elyria.
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Kristin Bauer
Chronicle
Lynn Dillon
Amherst
Habitat For Humanity
Elyria
Jennifer
Carmelo Melendez
Jennifer Melendez
Ping
Carmelo
Lorain County
Avenue
Funeral Saturday for Pike massacre victim
In Pike County Ohio eight members of the Rhoden family were killed in a March 22 massacre. Funeral services continued Saturday for Hannah Gilley a 20 year old mother betrothed to Frankie Rhoden. The investigation remains unsolved with authorities silent on suspects or motive.
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Piketon
Ohio
Rhoden
Leonard Manley
Dana Rhoden
Hannah Gilley
Otway
Gilley
Clarence
Frankie” Rhoden
Christopher Rhoden
Frankie
Christopher Jr
Hanna
Christopher Rhoden Sr
Kenneth Rhoden
Gary Rhoden
Hanna Rhoden
Samantha Tschudy
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Melissa Linebrink
Chronicle-Telegram
Rachel Miller
Karl Dove Deal
Staci Crabeels
Steve Fogarty
Pike County Fairgrounds
Columbus Dispatch
Wesleyan Village
Wesleyan
Beth McKee
Villageliving.org
Facebook.com
WesleyanSenior Living
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