Freshman Denied Ridgeville Prom Amid Policy Clash
North Ridgeville High School prom night ended in disappointment for junior Jason Peebles and freshman Jill Felke as Principal David Livingstone upheld a policy barring freshmen from attending. After a 20 minute private meeting with prom officials, the couple and Jill’s father argued the rule. police were called but no arrests followed. The pair left for a dinner with parents, while the policy remains unresolved.
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North Ridgeville
David Livingstone
Livingstone
Pat DuCharme
David Harper
Jason
Jill
Jil
James Felke
Pier W
North Ridgeville High School
Jason Peebles
Bie Cdots
Cathe Ora
Dnar
Iticida Nalhca
Visions of war and dreams of peace nurses’ writings
Phil Hicks interviews area Vietnam nurses recalling a collection titled Visions of war and dreams of peace. The piece reflects on their experiences and memories from the conflict and how peace is envisioned in their stories.
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Vietnam
Phil Hicks
Employers Aid GED Push With Planned Graduations
Larson Foundries and Invacare collaborate with Elyria schools to help workers pass GED tests and plan in house graduation ceremonies, signaling expanded workplace education efforts.
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Larson Foundries and Invacare
Elyria
Pearl Harbor Memorials honor fallen sailors and dead
In Honolulu the USS Arizona Memorial rises above the sunken ship and 1,102 men entombed there. The Punch Bowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific overlooks the city and mountains, symbolizing American war dead from the Pacific.
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Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Pacific
Punch Bowl
National Memorial Cemetery of
Bolote Rain and Penguins Triumph in Cup Sweep
Periods of showers and thunderstorms are forecast mainly in the afternoon. In sports, the Pittsburgh Penguins shut out the Minnesota Wild 8 to 0 to win the Stanley Cup in six games, sealing the title.
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Pittsburgh Penguins
Minnesota
Israel airlift brings 15000 Ethiopian Jews to promised land
The Operation Solomon airlift evacuated about 15,000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa to Israel over two days ending Saturday. The largest such mission, aided by US diplomacy, moved families onto crowded planes with minimal facilities as they fled fears of rebel advances, birthing four babies aboard and reuniting a long-isolated community with their ancestral homeland.
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Israel
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Ben-Gurion International
Avi
316th witnessed horrors of war
Tracy Dick, a 22 year old flight medic with the Elyria based 316th Medical Evacuation Detachment, frantically treated two soldiers during a reconnaissance mission days before the ground war in Operation Desert Storm. The 316th, part of the 1st Cavalry Division, conducted 260 missions across the Persian Gulf, transporting 74 casualties while some crews saved lives amid vehicle explosions and battle dangers.
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Tracy Dick
Amherst
Elyria
Persian Gulf
We were 9 feet tall story of a Huey crash hero
Army Lt Col Richard Gill, Elyria High School 1965 graduate and deputy commander of a 101st Airborne brigade, survived a 100 foot Huey crash in Iraq. He kept his crew alive as they awaited evacuation. The pilot suffered severe injuries but later recovered and his wife gave birth to a son.
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Army
Richard Gill
Bush
Gill
Elyria
101St Airborne Division
Iraq
Early CT to publish Monday morning for Memorial Day
The publication will release early on Monday to accommodate the Memorial Day holiday. Readers are advised to check before breakfast for the Connecticut edition, with the schedule adjusted to the holiday.
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