Do We Really Need This Much Variety In Life
Harvey Gitler questions the abundance of choices in modern retail as he counts cereals, car models, colors, and shirts across Giant Eagle, Ford dealers, Sears, and Land’s End. He notes 184 cereals 600 700 car models and 23 shirt colors illustrating how abundance shapes spending and daily life. He jokes about his wife enforcing restraint and hints his Monday column explores consumer excess.
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Giant Eagle
West River
Pittsburgh
Mike Bass
Ford
Lorain County
Sears
Land’s End
DUILs rise with new BAC limit
Ohio lowered its drunken driving threshold to 0.08 enabling arrests. In the first two months after July 1, 155 arrests were recorded by the Ohio Highway Patrol for BAC 0.08 or 0.09. An additional 485 drivers refused tests and faced automatic license suspension. Local police figures were not included.
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Toledo
Ohio Highway Patrol
Patrot
Robin Schman
Ohio
Pathways Enrichment Center Hosts 3rd Annual Celebration
LORAIN Pathways Enrichment Center held its third annual celebration at Deluca's Place in the Park. About 200 attendees enjoyed prayers, speeches, awards, dancing, and food as Pathways, a nonprofit tutoring and mentoring group, honors high risk children aged 5 to 15 for virtues like respect and manners under the theme Manner Matter. Guest speaker Clayton Harris, chief of police and safety director at Cuyahoga County Community College, urged turning traumatic experiences into positive life choices.
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Lorain
Pathways Enrichment Center
Deluca
Pathways
Norva Ross
Ross
Clayton Harris
Cuyahoga County Community College
Harris
Adrian Burns
State studies private outsourcing of HR work
Ohio considers outsourcing state human resources tasks such as job applications payroll and retirement enrollment after spending 9.1 million on reform efforts. union leaders warn outsourcing could cost hundreds of jobs while officials say no decision has been made and a consultant is evaluating potential savings and advantages.
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Columbus
Ohio
Taft
Management Improvement Commission
Bruce Wyngaard
One Civil Service Employees Association
Management Commission
Beverly Martin
Martin
BAE Systems
Huntsville
Ala
Columbus Dispatch
Convergys Corp
Florida
Convergys
BAE
Ohe
Thomas W. Johnson
Chronicle-Telegram to run weekly numbered courthouse photos
The Chronicle-Telegram will publish a new numbered photo each Monday to document the construction progress of the county justice center at Third and Court streets. The series will offer a pictorial history once the courthouse is completed in 2004, encouraging readers to clip and save the photos.
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County Justice Center
Chronicle-Telegram
Third and Court Streets
Visitors blamed for disruption at Nautical Nightmare
In Lorain two visitors Daniel Woodcock and William Woodcock assaulted an employee and damaged the Nautical Nightmare attraction at Black River Landing. They cracked a sink and a faucet, damaged a wall, and taunted performers. One struck by a door, the employee was not seriously injured. Belko and Evan own the ship now secured.
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Lorain
Daniel Woodcock
William Woodcock
Daniel
Black River
Toledo
John Belko
Diane Evan
Belko
Cedar Point
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