Lorain Labor Day Festival Canceled Over Volunteer Shortage
The Lorain County Organized Labor Day Family Celebration will not take place this Sunday due to a lack of volunteer planners. Co chair Kevin Zacovic who led the event since 2003 says years of aging organizers left no one to take over and the festival, funded by programs, was halted despite adequate fundraising.
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Lorain
Lorain County
Kevin Zacovic
Zacovic
Lorain Education Association
Lorain National Bank merger complaints persist
Lorain area customers report ongoing access problems after the Aug. 17 merger with Northwest Bank. Retired judge Stan Lampe and others say accounts are inaccessible and calls go unanswered despite Northwest’s apology and promise to assist as thousands switch over.
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Lorain National Bank
Northwest Bank
Stan Lampe
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Lampe
Northwest
Debacle in Handling Banking for 93-Year-Old Mother
Art Malcomson has faced a banking debacle while trying to manage finances for his 93 year old mother who recently moved from Lorain County to Illinois. The situation highlights the complications of elder banking and cross state affairs.
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Art Malcomson
Lorain County
Illinois
Increased visibility boosts hunger fight
The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio reports a dramatic rise in donations and volunteers after opening a $5 million Nordson Food Distribution Center on Baumhart Road. In July the center received 110000 pounds, a 76000 pound increase from 2014, with annual distribution climbing from 2.2 million pounds in 2005 to 7.5 million in 2014.
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Second Harvest Food Bank
Ohio
Julie Chase-Morefield
Second Harvest
Food Bank
Nordson
Baumhart Road
Chase Morefield
Baumhart
Drunken driver linked to August homicide in Lorain County
Wellington police tie John Landers of Wellington to a Brighton Township homicide case from Aug 4. Landers was indicted Aug 21 for improper discharging of a firearm into a habitation and arrested after a May 24 shooting incident. He remains jailed on $25,000 bond as investigators connect him to Bishop Howard Ryan Crews and Trevor White in the Zaffer death case.
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John Landers
Lorain County
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Ryan Crews
Carlisle Township
Trevor White
Spencer Township
Zaffer
Howard
Crews
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