Lorain County Community Guide - June 22, 2023

Maafa honors enslaved ancestors who died

OBERLIN — The somber and joyful mixed at Westwood Cemetery on June 17 as celebrants took part in a Maafa ceremony to bring to a close the annual observation of the Juneteenth holiday.

Maafa comes from the Kiswahili term meaning “terrible occurrence” or “great disaster,” according to the program for Saturday’s event.

It references the “holocaust of enslavement” or “the Black holocaust, when millions of Africans died during the journey of captivity from the coasts of Africa to the shores of America, known as the Middle Passage,” according to the program.

Adenike Sharpley performed a Yoruba libation ceremony, offered in the tradition of Africans who died from the slave trade and slavery in the New World.

“Though they did not live

to experience freedom, we give thanks for the prayers and sacrifices of our ancestors that we, their descendants, might live free,” according to the ceremonial program.

Amherst Republicans fill auditor, ballot vacancies

AMHERST — The Amherst Republican Central Committee elected a new city auditor, as well as a candidate for City Council Ward 2.

Brenda Phillips will serve as auditor, both as an interim for Derek Pittak’s unexpired term and to appear on the November ballot to run for the seat. Pittak announced his resignation in May, effective June 5, as he and his family moved to Avon.

Phillips will start today as auditor, serving through the end of the year. She will face a candidate selected by the city’s Democratic Central Committee, with the winner of the November race filling Pittak’s unexpired term through 2025.

Phillips is a registered nurse and substitute fitness instructor at the Amherst HealthPlex and previously worked as a hospital administrator. She is involved on several boards as well as volunteer opportunities, including at Amherst’s St. Joseph Church and Second

Harvest Food Bank, according to a brief biography that Amherst Republican Central Committee member Will Boose read during the meeting.

“My hopes are to meet and greet the staff and work well together with the staff and help promote the financial health and fiscal responsibility for the citizens of the city of Amherst,” Phillips said.

Kristin Dickerhoff will appear on the ballot for Ward 2, after candidate Jerry Gach resigned effective June 5, according to the letter sent to Central Committee members. Gach was unopposed in the GOP primary earlier this year.

The Rev. Laurence Nevels gave the invocation, praying that the names of those “too numerous to mention” who came before and died “for a cause larger than themselves” be

remembered for their commitment and sacrifice of time and talent.

Remembered this year was the late Linda Isabell, a longtime Oberlin Juneteenth committee member

who died Jan. 13 after a long illness.

Isabell lived in Oberlin for 67 years, graduating from Oberlin High School in 1966, attending Oberlin Business College in the

late 1960s and working at the Oberlin Public Library for 30 years before she retired due to illness in December 2018, according to her obituary, which Nevels read on Saturday.

Isabell “never designed acknowledgement or accolades,” he said, spending time as a substitute aide in the Oberlin Schools in the mid to late 1980s and being a 20-year member of the Oberlin Juneteenth committee.

“Linda’s sole interest was to err on the side of equality for all in her contributions toward the betterment of Oberlin and the inclusion of its Black community,” Nevels read from her obituary.

Shirley Chambers led those present in “Walk

Fish Festival water fight shows firefighters’ fellowship

VERMILION — Dozens gathered to watch one of the oldest traditions in Vermilion’s Festival of the Fish: The annual water fight hosted by the Vermilion Fire Department.

The event held on June 18 pitted teams of three firefighters from different departments against each other in a contest to judge their teamwork, accuracy and willingness to get a little wet.

A water fight is a kind of reverse tug-of-war, where each team aims a hose at a bright orange bucket suspended on a wire between them, and attempts to shoot it back to the other team’s base.

“Every year these guys get out and have a good time, and they love the competition,” Assistant Chief Doug Keith said. “It’s an important tradition for the festival now, we’ve been doing it longer than I’ve been here.”

Participating firefighters represented local depart-

ments including Berlin Township, South Amherst, Wakeman, Vermilion and Florence Township, which fielded three teams.

Prior to the water fight, members of ever participating department lead a parade through Vermilion with fire engines, trucks,

LifeCare ambulances and other support vehicles.

The tight-knit departments work together through mutual aid day in and day out, and the familiarity between their firefighters and families was clear.

But despite that close-

ness they are still a competitive bunch, and water fights are a perfect way to hone their skills and see who is the best, said Lt. Michael Lee of the Florence Township Fire Department. “I like the comradery of

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Shirley Chambers leads in song during the Maafa Memorial Service held at Westwood Cemetery on June 17 in Oberlin.

OWEN MacMILLAN | The Community Guide Florence Twp. Fire Chief Nick Halliwell (left) and Lt. Michael Lee dial in their water stream during the annual Vermilion water fight on June 18.

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Juneteenth caravan looks to build bridges in Elyria, Lorain and Oberlin

LORAIN — An event that started out of necessity during the pandemic is the foundation for a new tradition in Lorain County.

In 2020, organizers from Elyria, Lorain and Oberlin came together to create a caravan for Juneteenth, necessitated by social distancing requirements at the time.

In 2023, the event has returned, and this time, coorganizers Sherman Jones and Ethan West saw it as a way to connect cities in celebrating the national holiday.

“It is such an important thing in this time that we’re looking to be uniters,” Jones said. “Bridges need to be built instead of walls. Events like this help to build more bridges.”

Early Friday evening, participants filled the parking lot at Greater Victory Christian Ministries Church in Lorain. From classic cars to SUVs, attendees lined up to loop from Lorain to Oberlin to Elyria, ending the evening at Elyria City Hall.

The Rev. Anthony Carter of Jones Chapel AME Church in Elyria said the

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course, but it’s also a nice chance to be able to get some friendly competition in,” Lee, who was competing for the third time, said. “It’s also good practice. The name of the game is water on flames, and if you can hit a bucket hanging in the air, you can hit a fire.”

Since 2021 the water fight has been dedicated to late former Wakeman Fire Department Chief Jim Tansey.

Tansey died that year due to complications from COVID-19, and his time as a “legend” at the annual water fight was enough to see it named for him, Keith said.

The water fight was one of the marquee events of the final day of Vermilion’s Festival of the Fish, drawing a crowd which came from across the downtown area which was covered in booths and food trucks.

The water fight took place, as always, on Ohio Street in front of the Vermilion Parks and Recreation building.

AME church — the oldest Black independent congregation in the country — championed making Juneteenth a national holiday, making it all the more critical he and his congregation support the caravan Friday evening and celebrate the “momentous moment, our liberation and freedom in the country.”

Elyria Mayor Frank Whitfield appreciated seeing an event that started during the pandemic transform afterward and continue on.

Wendy Caldwell, execu-

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tive director of P2R Training and Resource Center, said she and several staff came in two vehicles Friday evening to celebrate the holiday.

Inez James, president of the Lorain Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club and Democratic appointee to the Lorain County Board of Elections, said she couldn’t imagine the feeling enslaved African Americans in Galveston must have had when the news finally reached them of their emancipation in 1865 — two years after President

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Abraham Lincoln signed the original proclamation.

Juneteenth is a celebration both of a historical milestone and how far the Black community and the United States as a whole has come, James said.

“We’ve still got mountains to climb, but we’re not still at the bottom,” she said.

Lorain Safety/Service Director Sanford Washington unveiled new, larger signs to delineate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard along West 21st Street between Leavitt Road and Elyria Avenue.

Together Children,” and a verse of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the 1900 hymn by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson that is also known as “The Black National Anthem.”

A candlelight vigil also was held, with candles lit to honor Harley Smith, director of the Oberlin Night School and founding vice president of the Oberlin chapter of the NAACP; Margaret R. Smith, founding president of the Oberlin chapter of the Negro Business and Professional Women’s Club; Seymour Wooten, the last gasmaker at the Oberlin Roundhouse; and Anna Maria Wooten,

his wife who “died under mysterious circumstances on the road to Wakeman,” according to the program for Saturday’s event.

The ceremony capped off Juneteenth Oberlin 2023, titled “Marching through Station 99 to Freedom.”

The day included the grand opening of the Oberlin Underground Railroad Center, music, dance, storytelling and a cross-city parade at noon Saturday. Juneteenth has been recognized as an official “day of commemoration and celebration” by resolution of Oberlin City Council since 2004 and has been a federal holiday since 2021.

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A crowd gathers on Ohio Street to watch the first match of the 2023 Vermilion water fight, dedicated to late Wakeman Fire Chief Jim Tansey on June 18.

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Daniel Spearman plays Taps during the Maafa Memorial Service held at Westwood Cemetery.

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Pastor Tim Williams holds up the Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. sign to be placed on W. 21st Street ahead of a Juneteenth caravan from Lorain to Oberlin.

Taste of History saw reenactment groups at Sandstone Village

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AMHERST — World War II infantrymen walked past a Civil War-era baker at Sandstone Village on June 17 and 18

It wasn’t time travel, but the Amherst Historical Society’s Taste of History event.

The event hosted reenactors from the Revolutionary War and Civil War, World War I and World War II, Vietnam, Operation Enduring Freedom and more, with many hosting field kitchens demonstrating period-specific cooking techniques.

Volunteers Joe and Elizabeth Fought contacted the reenactment groups they knew, Amherst Historical Society Director Sandy Kaiser said.

From there, it grew into the historical village hosting reenactors and vendors from nine different states for the weekend’s event.

“It’s one of those things that wasn’t on our agenda at all a few months ago,” she said.

From fresh bread to meatloaf and mashed potatoes, each reenactment group will highlight meals from their time period while educating visitors about the wars the fought in.

Gilbert White, owner of FlakWeasel, has been a reenactor for close to 30 years — starting after

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Dickerhoff is an intervention specialist at Murray Ridge School, as well as raising six children of her own, she said. She said Tuesday’s nomination was her first foray into politics.

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a friend invited him to a World War II reenactment in the late 1990s.

Since then, he’s done reenactments for the Napoleonic, Revolutionary, Civil War and other conflicts. And as his time spent reenacting grew, his collection of memorabilia did as well — promoting his military vendor store, he said.

“You can actually own a piece of history,” said White, a native of Springfield, Virginia.

Nearby, Jeff Pavlik, of Mount Clemens, Michigan, measured flour and checked the rise of dough for batches of soft bread ahead of today’s event.

A historian by study and baker by trade, Pavlik married the two to become a reenactor. His character for the weekend was a baker with the 13th Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary War.

The military, be it Roman or Revolutionary War soldiers, ran on bread, Pavlik said. Each soldier was given a ration of flour, which would be used to make the loaves of bread often shared among multiple men.

“The modern idea is that bread is an option. But bread was the staple,” he said. Pavlik will have samples available for Taste of History attendees.

The Sandstone Village’s Prisoner of War barracks also found German soldiers in it again — a sight the

walls hadn’t seen in about 80 years.

Amherst hosted a satellite POW camp from Camp Perry, said reenactors Karl Habe, of Burton, and Jon Barkett and Joseph Kreuz, both of Youngstown.

They, alongside other German POW reenactors, had spent the night in the barracks building and planned to spend today doling out coffee and teaching passersby about the history of prisoners of war in the U.S. during WWII.

Barkett noted German POWs in the United States were treated well — with many soldiers paid about 80 cents a day to work on local farms, quarries or other labor jobs.

Those in Amherst worked in the sandstone quarries, conscripted from Camp Perry. The original barracks site was closer to the railroad track, Kreuz said, but the one at Sandstone Village is the last of its kind in Ohio.

For Barkett, learning about World War II and staying in the barracks was personal, as his grandfather and great-uncle fought on opposite sides of the war at the battle of Monte Cassino.

But in the end, the pair became drinking buddies once both were in the United States, Barkett said — as no matter the side a soldier was on, they had the same complaints about leadership and rations.

tivated, I’m organized and efficient, as a mother of six and a teacher has to be,” she said. “Just super excited to join Council and be a part of making decisions and helping make decisions that can make life better for

the residents of Amherst.”

Dickerhoff will face Democrat Becky Harmych to represent the city’s 2nd Ward in November. Incumbent Councilman Ed Cowger is not seeking reelection.

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Greg Kuhlman of Perry, Ohio in uniform during the warmup for the Taste of History event at the Amherst Sandstone Village on June 17.

Lorain County All-Stars Blue team rallies for narrow win

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Firelands’ catcher Cory Ransom (4) is unable to tag out Oberlin’s Justin Yarber Jr. (15) as he arrives safely at home plate on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game at North Ridgeville High School. The Blue team, which featured all-stars from Avon Lake, Amherst, Columbia, Firelands, Midview, North Ridgeville and Wellington, won 11-10 after rallying to come from behind against the Red team in the Jim Popiel Lorain County All-Star Game on June 14 at North Ridgeville High School.

LEFT: Firelands’ Conner Rogers (10) and Cory Ransom (4) celebrate after Rogers hit a walk-off RBI on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

RIGHT: Firelands’ Silas Skvor (3) tosses the ball in the air between batters on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game at North Ridgeville High School.

LEFT: Amherst’s Cam Gendics (17) fields a ground ball to toss to North Ridgeville’s Carson Iezzi (15) who turned a double play after getting Lorain’s Anthony Lorenzo (5) out at second on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

RIGHT: Wellington’s CJ Polen (20) pitches on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

LEFT: Amherst’s Chase Mayer (7) fields a ball on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

RIGHT: Amherst’s Martin Polonkay reacts after he was named as the 2023 “Mr. Baseball” at the Lorain County All Star Game on Wednesday, June 14 hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

ABOVE LEFT: Wellington’s Riley Reyna (14) fields a ball on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

ABOVE RIGHT: Amherst’s Cam Gendics (17) takes the field on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

RIGHT: Amherst’s Martin Polonkay earned the 2023 “Mr. Baseball” on Wednesday, June 14 at the Lorain County All Star Game hosted at North Ridgeville High School.

Mercy Health Oberlin Primary Care now offers virtual cardiology care

rain Walk-in Care Medical Office Building, 3600 Kolbe Road, Suite 120, Lorain

OBERLIN — Mercy

Health now officers a virtual specialty care clinic within its Oberlin Primary Care services.

Virtual specialty care clinics allow patients to have appointments with specialty care providers from their primary care practices, according to a news release.

The clinic at Oberlin

Primary Care offers appointments to cardiology patients, with plans to add more specialties in the future.

The virtual clinic has its own room within the practice equipped with teleconference technology and a medical assistant on-site.

The appointments offered at the clinic are typically follow-up or consultation appointments, with blood work or other testing available at the primary care office.

In addition to the new clinic, Mercy Health operates several walk-in care locations in Lorain County. Patients can seek care at any Mercy Health walk-in location and see a physician without an appointment.

Walk-in locations and hours are:

● Mercy Health — Lo-

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

● Mercy Health — Oak Point Walk-in Care 5940 Oak Point Road, Lorain

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon.

● Mercy Health — Oberlin Walk-in Care 224 W. Lorain St., Suite 100, Oberlin

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon.

● Mercy Health — Sheffield Walk-in Care 5327 Detroit Road, Suite B, Sheffield

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;

Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon.

● Mercy Health — Vermilion Walk-in Care 1607 State Road, Suite 6, Vermilion

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;

Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon.

● Mercy Health — Wellington Walk-in Care 840 Patriot Drive, Wellington

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;

Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon.

Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Theater project hosts Juneteenth reception

SHEFFIELD — Playwright Ifa Bayeza discussed her newest project, “The Rescue of John Price,” at a Juneteenth reception Monday at Burrell Homestead in Sheffield, the last known local stop on the Underground Railroad before the voyage to Canada.

Bayeza, the playwright in residence for the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Theater Project, has written an original play on the story of 18-year-old John Price and his escape from Kentucky to his arrival in

Oberlin in 1858 where he was protected by a group of abolitionists while facing the threat of recapture under the Fugitive Slave Act.

Jeanine Donaldson, executive director of Elyria YWCA, said one of the tenets of the Lorain County Racial Equity Agenda is examining the intersections of race and history. A significant part of that is about reframing the negative perceptions of Black people in society through the work of artists like Bayeza.

Donaldson called the reception’s location significant because the Burrell House is allegedly the last place Price stayed in Lorain County, giving the property on East River Road particular meaning.

Bayeza described her creative process in having an understanding of the geographic narrative when crafting a story about history. With AfricanAmerican stories, Bayeza said, oftentimes there isn’t a lot of information from

traditional sources and she is looking to find the story that hasn’t been told.

Walking the land and understanding the time and space from the quality of the air and the trees to the activities that the characters might have participated in are central to how she develops a story. The Burrell House was central to the geography of that story.

Oberlin and Wellington in particular have a history of talented craftsmen who put particular care into their work in imagining the activities people participated in and the world Price existed in.

Mid-19th century Oberlin was a social experiment that not only served as a sanctuary to runaway enslaved people, but also served as a place where free people of color gravitated toward because they could get an education and pursue a better life.

“It was an incredibly interesting social experiment where Black and white lived side by side, worked

side by side and patronized each other, went to the church together, went to school together and was still able to live their lives as they desire,” Bayeza said. “So it was, in a way, a utopian experiment that we have yet to achieve.”

In a reading of the play, Bayeza described the challenges of writing characters who were enforcing or benefiting from slavery in allowing them to show their humanity while also describing their activities, sometimes reverting to humor and irony in her writing, and looking for love and the triumph toward it.

Staged concert readings of the play are scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater in Oberlin with a minimal set design that organizers hope will allow the audience to imagine what a full production might look like.

“I’m really looking for the dialogue of the play to inspire dialogue among us,” Bayeza said.

LCCAA taking appointments for summer crisis program

The Lorain County Community Action Agency is now taking appointments for those interested in its summer crisis program.

Households can receive up to $500 for regulated utilities, $800 for unregulated utilities and $500 for central air conditioning repairs, an LCCAA news release said.

Residents may request an air conditioning unit from LCCAA if they have not received a unit from the agency in the last three years. Box fans are also available and may be requested even if a household has received an air conditioning

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unit within three years.

The program runs July 5 to Sept. 30.

The agency said that the program’s primary qualification is that a household’s income is at or below 175 percent of the federal poverty line, which is $52,500 for a family of four.

A household must also meet one of the following requirements:

● At least one household member 60-years-old or over.

● A household member has a documented medical condition worsened by extreme heat.

● Electric service has been disconnected or the

household has received a disconnect notice or it trying to establish new service.

● The household is enrolling in the Percentage of Income Payment Plan Plus program for the first time or they are an existing PIPP customer in default.

Residents must sign up for an appointment to be eligible for the program at lccaa.net/programs/energyservices/summer_crisis and appointments will be conducted over the phone.

In-person appointments are available for seniors only by walk-in at the Lorain County Office on Aging at 534 Abbe Road from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

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BRUCE BISHOP | The Community Guide Elyria and Lorain YWCA Executive Director Jeanine Donaldson, left, leads the conversation with playwright Ifa Bayeza outside the Burrell Homestead, one of the final stops on the underground railroad.

Boys and Girls Clubs free summer meals

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio ll participate in the summer food service program, providing food to children at sites throughout Lorain, Erie and Huron counties June 12 to Aug. 11.

Children up to 18-years-old. Individuals 19-through-21-years-old with mental or physical disabilities currently enrolled in an educational program can also receive summer meals.

McCormick Middle School in Wellington, along with several schools in Lorain and Elyria are feeding sites.

Chalk Walk

The Oberlin Chalk Walk returns for its 16th year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Local and regional artists will create imaginative chalk drawings throughout downtown Oberlin. Volunteers will be on hand to provide free materials and visitors of all ages can add their own artwork to the sidewalk gallery.

Oberlin Chalk Walk is a collaborative event organized by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA), Oberlin Business Partnership (OBP), Oberlin Heritage Center, and Oberlin Public Library.

To learn more about the artists, and to see pictures from previous years’ events, please visit: www. facebook.com/ oberlinchalkwalk.

Amherst Public Library

6/23 - Music + Movement Storytime

6/23 and 6/24 - Summer Movie Matinee Series

6/24 - Adapted Storytime

6/27 - Tokusatsu Club

South Amherst Alumni Banquet

The South Amherst alumni banquet is July 15 at the New Russia Township Hall. The class of 1973 will be honored. Invitations have been sent out and must be returned by July 1. t. If you haven’t received one, please call Jerry Bozicevich at 440773-5546.

Any senior who’s parents or grandparents have graduated from South Amherst is eligible to apply for a $500.00 scholarship. Please call Jerry for an application. Donations for the scholarship fund are always welcome. For more information, call Raynelle Bozicevich (440) 242-1283, raynelle187@oh.rr.com or Jerry Bozicevich (440) 773-5546.

Herrick Memorial Library

● Summer Reading Program: June 1 to July 31. Partcipants can win prizes in their age category. Registration starts June 1 and the more books read or listened to, the higher chances of winning prizes.

● Read to Putter the therapy dog: 3:15-4:30 p.m. Thursdays

● Teen photo scavenger

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hunt: June 1-30. Stop by to register and receive rules and photos of places and things participants must find. A prize will be awarded to the person with the most correct answers

● Monday Kindness Crafts at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.: Ms. Janet will show children ages 5-and-up how to make easy crafts to share with family and friends. Registration is required.

June 26: Cupcake paper

flowers

July 3: Kindness Buggle

Kit

July 10: Sprinkle Kindness Donut Ornament

July 17: Felt Heart

Pocket Hug

● Family Story Times are 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays

● Baby lap-sit storytimes are 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays.

● School-age programs are 11 a.m. Thursdays

- June 29: Cardboard circle weaving - July 6: Recycled paper boxes - July 13: Wire and bead baloons July 20 Summer reading finale

Avon/Avon

Lake Republican Club

● The Avon-Avon Lake Republic Club Friends’ Breakfast is 8 a.m. July 5 at Sugar Creek Restauraunt in Sheffield Village Plaza.

Lorain County Community Development Director

Robert Duncan will speak about restoration of the Black River watershed, stimulating industrial development, fair housing programs, planning and zoning, development in flood zones and stormwater management. Attendees are responsible for their meals.

● The Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club will present state Sen. Nathan Manning, R-North Ridgeville, and Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Chardon, on the new state budget and news from the statehouse at 5 p.m. July 15 at the Knights of Columbus Ragan Hall, 1783 Moore Rd., Avon. Dolan will also discuss his campaign for U.S. Senator. Members are free and guests are $5.

Amherst Historical Society

The Amherst Historical Society extended its deadline for trade, vocational school and certification scholarship applications. There are two $1,500 scholarships available. The new deadline to apply is 4 p.m. June 23 to the Amherst Historical Society office, 113 South Lake St., Amherst.

Applications must include a two-pages or less, double-spaced personal statement, including information on eligiblility and/

or need. The full application can be downloaded at amhersthistoricalsociety. org.

Oberlin Heritage Center

● The Oberlin Heritage Center will offer its ‘Freedom’s Friends: Abolition and the Underground Railroad’ history walk in June.

Prior to the Civil War, as many as 3,000 African Americans passed through or lived in Oberlin after escaping from slavery. The town was said to be second only to Canada as an asylum for freedom seekers. Guests on this history walk are guided by a docent from OHC who discusses the historic decisions that shaped Oberlin’s growth as a station on the Underground Railroad and the individuals and events that marked Oberlin as one of the most active stations.

The tour is 11 a.m. June 24. The group meets on the front steps of First Church at the corner of routes 8 and 511.

Registration is recommended. Participants can register online at oberlinheritagecenter.org or by calling (440) 774-1700.

History Walk Fees: $6/ adult Children/students/members: Free

● The Heritage Center’s summer camp registration is now open.

Architecture Camp is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 7-11. It is for children ages 8 to 13.

Members (including children and grandchildren of members) $110

Non-members $125

Atronomy and antiquity camp is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 14-18. It is for children ages 10-15.

Members (including children and grandchildren of members) $110

Non-members $125

For more information, please email our Museum Education and Tour Manager at tourinfo@oberlinheritage.org or register online at oberlinheritagecenter.org

Oberlin Farmers Market

The market season will run on Saturdays through Oct. 14, starting at 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. The market specializes in seasonal fresh farm produce, fruit, farm raised meats, natural sweeteners, an assortment of baked goods, such as pies, breads, cookies, flowers, plants, jams,

sauces, crafts and more. The market is located in the parking lot of Oberlin Public Library and Oberlin City Hall across from the post office at 69-85 South Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074.

Oberlin Public Library

The Oberlin Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting at the library at 5 p.m. July 13. The meeting is open to the public.

Westwood Cemetery

Stone cleaning at Westwood will be 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. the first Saturday of the month, May through October.

Cleaning techniques are easy and supplies are provided. Please bring any small gardening tools, gloves, and/or brooms to help remove debris. Please note that all participants will complete a volunteer form which will be provided once you arrive. Cleaning sessions depend on the weather; check our Facebook page for updates. Everyone is welcome. Location is Westwood Cemetery, 455 Morgan St, Oberlin.

Motorcycle

Ohio training site at LCCC now open

Motorcycle Ohio, a division of the Ohio Traffic Safety Office, opened its first training site at Lorain County Community College, also its first in Lorain County, according to a news release.

Interested individuals can sign up for motorcycle safety classes.

The Motorcycle Ohio program, offered by the Ohio Department of Public Safety, provides different levels of motorcycle safety courses for riders based on their skill levels and objectives with programming funded through motorcycle license plate fees and class registrations.

Classes begin at $50 per course and students must have a validated motorcycle temporary permit before their first riding session.

Upon successful completion of any course, the student will earn a 60-day Bureau of Motor Vehicles skill test waiver for a motorcycle license or endorsement.

Down and out

DOWN 1. ____ constrictor, anagram 2. Word on a door 3. Duet plus one 4. Angry 5. Large California bird

Smelting waste

Stuff of inflation 8. Adagio and allegro, e.g. 9. German city on Rhine river

10. Con 11. Not of the cloth 12. Down with a bug 15. ____ someone ____ bed

20. Satirical publication, with The

22. Calligrapher’s purchase

24. *”From the ____ forest to the Gulf Stream waters” 25. *Old ____

26. Waterwheel

27. Hymn of praise

29. *Popular decoration

31. *”Rockin’ in the USA” band

32. Certain church member

33. Yiddish busybody 34. Theater guide 36. Kind of rock 38. Heroic tale

42. B on Mendeleev’s table

45. “Where ____ is heard a discouraging word...”

49. Sushi restaurant staple

51. Shiny cotton

54. High-strung

56. Car rack manufacturer

57. Charlie Chaplin’s prop

58. “Oh, my!”

59. Agrippina’s slayer 60. “I’ll second that”

61. Great Lake 62. State of mind 63. One in a litter 65. *King George ____ 67. Farm structure

OUCH! Hot fun in the summer time can be painful! Toomuch fun in the sun can burnyour sk in.

Normal skin cells.Cells thatget toomuch sunlightswell and ll with blood

Everybody has tiny grains of color called melanin in their skin.

Melanin grains are likeascreen. They protect the body from the burning rays of sunlight. Everybody’sskin makes melanin. Melanin grains are brown. When your skin is exposed to the sun, it makes more melanin. That is why your skin gets darker when you play in the sunshine.

Tanya has alot of melanin in her skin. Andy and Melody have alittle. Amy has very little. Some parts of Amy’s body make more melanin than others. These dark spots are called freckles.

Everybody needs to protect their skin from the sun. Even people with lots of melanin will burn. Their skin won’t burn as fast as Amy’s, but it will burn.

This turns the skin redan makes it hurt.

LifesaverLetters

What should you look for when you are getting too much sun? Cross out every letter that is printed twice on the innertube. The five letters left spell your answer!

HowHot

Think about important summer safety tips for kids (bike safety, pool safety, sun safety,etc.) Select one of the tips. Then list three steps to help kids follow this safety tip. Write the tip and then illustrate it in the boxesbelow

SAFETY TIP:

STEP 1

Using 12 toothpicks,try this puzzle. Layout thetoothpicksasshown below Canyou make four squaresbymoving only three toothpicks?

Sun Safety Scavenger Hunt

•Something to protect you from the

•Something to cool you ona hot day

•Something you do onasunny day

STEP 2

STEP 3

PROTECT

The verb protect means to keep someone or something safe from harm.

Andy used sunscreen to help protect his skin at the beach.

Tryto use the word protect in asentence today when talking with your friends and family

Keep Your Cool

Tanya