Hazardous leachate rains from old Ford Road landfill rivers
EPA and state officials sample a 15 acre Ford Road landfill in Lorain County as oily multi colored leachate runs into the Black River. Investigators await lab results on 229 listed chemicals to judge health risk and containment steps. The site has a 50 year history and was closed in 1974. Local residents report unsanitary conditions dating to 1954.
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Ford Road
Black River
Environmental Protection Agency
Mark Schmidt
OEPA
Kenneth A. Fenner
U.S. Epa
Ohio
EPA
Lorain
Cuyahoga
Ashtabula
Medina
Schmidt
Joe Fredie
Chicago
Indiana
Fenner
Ford Road Durop
Lorain County Metropolitan Park District
Black River Reservation
Henry Minert
Gene Krebs
Joe Fredle
Fredle
Weather outlook with showers possible tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for clearing tonight and Friday with a chance of showers. Lows near the upper 40s and highs around 64. Precipitation chances are 20 percent this afternoon and 38 percent tonight and Friday. Winds fall to 5 to 15 mph tonight. Sunrise 7 25 a.m. Sunset 7 03 p.m. Details on Page A 3.
Big industrial park eyed for Ridgeville
Graham seeks CIC approval of 2.5 million in tax free industrial revenue bonds to finance logos development project in Ridgeville. plan spans three stages over ten years with a Taylor Street extension and a 50 000 gallon sewer plant funded by EPA approval to serve the park before connecting to French Creek system.
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Graham
CIC
Industria
Logos Development Corp
Keep Court
Elyria
Logos Corporation
Taylor Road
Richard Noll
Gilbert Cornish
Cornish
Taylor Street
Noll
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
French Creek
Robert Kleinoeder
North Ridgeville
Iran Rejects Iraqi Truce as Hostage Crisis Escalates
Iran rejected Iraq’s four day truce offer and pushed Iraqi forces back toward Khurramshar while warning that U S intervention would cost the hostages in Iran their lives. An Iranian diplomat in Beirut warned the 52 American captives would be killed if the United States intervened.
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Baghdad
Iraq
UPI
Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Khurramshar
Beirut
Lebanon
United States
Eye on unpaid tickets by Cleveland’s Happy Hookers
Lorain County residents face summonses as James and Thomas Graven nicknamed The Happy Hookers expand from impounding cars to pursuing about 4.1 million dollars in unpaid Cleveland tickets. They will work with Ptl. Ronald Avemrent in Elyria and North Ridgeville and move into Lorain and other area communities to collect.
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Cleveland
James M
Thomas F. Graven
Lorain County
Elyria
North Ridgeville
Lorain
Ronald Avemrent
Cuyahoga County
North Olmsted
Avement
James Graven
Parma
James
Graven
Marriage license fee hike funds battered wives care
Ohio lawmakers raised the marriage license fee from nine to nineteen dollars on January 18 to fund a battered wives shelter program. Youth Services Inc. director John Ollerton notes higher unemployment increases wife beating and shelter demand, while the county funds await setup and future LEAA support. The shelter handles 2 to 6 week stays for residents and offers a 24-hour hotline and legal aid guidance.
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Ohio
John Ollerton
Youth Services Inc
Broadway Building
Lorain
Ollerton
Youth Services
Robert J. Corts
Olierton
Jan Kleinberg
Elyria
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Old Ford
U.S. Coast Guard
Vals
Tate Heg Bates
Steve
Ridgeville
U.S
Anwar Sadat
Persia Gulf States
Gulf
Indonesia
Mehdi
Egypt
Ameri Rajai
America
Carter
Strait of Hormuz
OPEC
Federal
Law Enforcement Assistance Agency
Welfare
Nordson Corp
United Way
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