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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1985
Page
10
A summary of multiple obituary notices from Lorain and nearby towns notes deaths of Lewis Svanyi Jr 74 of Elyria Charmaine Szanyi and Lewis Szanyi III survive as well as others from Amherst LaGrange West Salem Oberlin and Lorain. The notices include church affiliations and funeral arrangements.
George Demetral of Baltimore Maryland died recently. Survived by his daughters Mrs Juan Ames and May Rather and Barbaressown breathers and two sisters. Friends may call, funeral service at the funeral home with a priest, Wednesday in Bronk Tale Cemetery planned.
Gilmore Minmue of Oberlin is survived by three sisters Meg Roberta Thompson Sara Gardin Jessie Weick and Retle Ferguson and three brothers McMickens Gane McMickens Prends. Funeral services Wednesday at Cowling Funeral Home Oberlin at 1 am with burial in Westland Cemetery Dhara.
Theresa Washtak, 21, of Lorain, survived by two daughters. Visitation at Tembreveska Funeral Home Lorain on Tuesday evening. Wake service and funeral mass at Nativity Blessed Virgin Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery Lorain. Funeral arrangements handled by the Lorain funeral home.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Local 1806 picket Red Plastics Corp as contract expires with no new agreement. Talks at 33625 Pin Oak Parkway fail. union seeks 50 cents an hour raise and benefits, company offers 15 cents and 2 dollars weekly health charge. Operations continue. First strike at the plant.
Recounts in Amherst and North Ridgeville produced no change in vote totals. Marilyn Jacobcik won Amherst auditor by 28 votes. William Pais won North Ridgeville Ward council by one vote. Louis Kordish edged Gilbert Cornish by 14 in at large race. Recounts were free and completed Monday with further recounts planned for Oberlin High School modernization and Avon Lake tolls issue.
Ricky D. Miller of Sheffield Lake filed a $275000 personal injury suit in Lorain County Common Pleas Court on behalf of his son Ricky after a merry go round center brace broke at Freedom Park on Sept 4. The city owns and operates the park. The father seeks $75000 for himself and $200000 for his son who walks with a limp. Judge Adrian Betleski assigned the case.
Two out-of-town men Richard Kubik and Antonio Marapese were arrested in Lorain on Saturday for using forged prescriptions at Gray Drug on Oberlin Avenue. Police found seven prescriptions and a small amount of marijuana. both men, from Youngstown and Newcastle PA, claimed they had never visited Lorain before. They were held pending charges.
Mayor Olejko faces a two week deadline to raise part of Lorain’s 615000 local share for the harbor breakwall. he plans to seek county and port authority support while pursuing bonds for the remaining amount. the project aims to start in may and spur harbor development, with federal 1.8 million and state 1.2 million contributions.
In Columbia Township a wheelchair bound 4 year old woman and nearby elderly neighbors were robbed by con men. A heavyset man in a white leather coat gained entry under the pretense of checking a gas problem and stole $600 from the mattress in the woman’s bedroom. A second man on the same red van took another $600 from the adjoining duplex. The van left with four people.
Elyria area Burger King outlets run a Dec 3 to 24 fundraiser for the County Cupboard in Lorain County. Customers donate 25 cents for a free coupon redeemable for a burger, with five coupons sold for $1. Goal is $9,000 to stock about 550 holiday food baskets including turkey and dairy. WOBL will air five broadcasts. Kickoff includes a candlelight breakfast in Elyria on Dec 3 and Amherst on Dec 4 with a $5 donation.
Ohio Highway Patrol Trooper Larry Firmi of the Hiram post was listed in serious condition in the ICU after his cruiser, parked in the Turnpike median near Gate 12 in Summit County, was struck by a westbound tractor trailer at 6:30 a.m. The truck driver may have swerved to avoid a van. investigation continues.
Sheffield Village Council passed the third reading of an ordinance to upgrade 2.05 miles of Routes 611 and 301. The project costs about 695 with state funding covering the rest and work including guardrail removal and replacement is slated to start in 1986.
North Ridgeville Mayor Floyd Peace is to be sworn in for a second term at a 5 p.m. City Hall ceremony. Judge Floyd D. Harris will preside as Peace was reelected 3 121 to 1 747 over Richard Noll on November 5.
The Chronicle Telegram corrects a prior report naming the wrong relation. Calvin Hollaway, 77, was charged Friday with felonious assault and handling a firearm while intoxicated after allegedly shooting at a 14 year old friend’s son, not his own.
A cement truck from Avon Concrete flipped onto its side at Broadway and 4th in Lorain at 9:15 a.m. The driver Keith R. Johnston, 41, of 2011 W. Erie Ave., was injured with a fractured hip and treated at St. Joseph Hospital in fair condition. Street spill cleaned. no citation issued. The piece notes the 1973 Vietnam War end.
Elyria announces an open house at First Community Interfaith Institute, 142 Cleveland St., Friday 6 8 p.m. and Saturday 4 6 p.m. The program includes a guided tour remarks and a slide presentation.
The Lake Ridge Academy announces its honor roll for the recent grading period with seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen listed. Notable names include Marina Berzins Rolly Gedegon Susan Kang Joanna Koethe Ben Lai Margee Morrisson Debra Pania Matt Zbornik Jennifer Zinn and many others across classes.
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