Lorain County Community Guide - Sept. 21, 2023

Median income level drops

Census data recently released shows the median household income in Lorain County remains lower than it was 20 years ago or even pre-pandemic.

Meanwhile, the poverty rate in the city of Lorain saw a noticeable dip, while it remained more or less unchanged countywide.

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providers said that they did not need the numbers to show them that many Lorain County families are struggling.

“It does not surprise me at all that median income has gone down,” Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio Julie ChaseMorefield said. “We still hear a lot of stories, it’s anecdotal, but I think there’s data to prove it, that people have really struggled to get

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UAW 2000 rallies in front of Ford Plant

SHEFFIELD — Sept. 14, 1976, was the last time that the United Auto Workers declared a strike against the Ford Motor Company.

It also happened to be Keith Maholic’s first day at the Lorain Assembly Plant as an employee and member of the UAW.

On Sept. 17, almost exactly 47 years later, Maholic again stood in front of a Lorain County Ford plant fighting alongside his union.

“What I see is a bunch of new people,” Maholic said. “There’s not a lot of old-timers out here like me. But what you’re seeing out here, that is the future. I’m glad that they’re out here and they’re supporting the UAW. I’m so proud of these young men and women.”

Maholic joined around 200 members of the UAW Local 2000 to rally in front of the Ford Ohio Assembly Plant, which is located in Avon Lake, Sheffield and Sheffield Lake and employs almost all the members of Local 2000.

Local 2000 is not yet on strike, but UAW members at three General Motors, Stellantis and Ford plants across the country are after UAW President Shawn Fain declared a targeted strike Friday.

The demonstration Sunday included Local 2000 members and their families waving signs and chanting slogans along Abbe Road west of the plant, which employs about 1,800 total.

President Bill Samples said

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TOP: Drew Lashaway, of Bowling Green, tells his nephew Mason Lenke, 6, about the 1913 Port Huron steam engine during the LaGrange Engine Club Show on Saturday, Sept. 16 at the Lorain County Fairgrounds.

ABOVE LEFT: Josh Lenz, of Wooster, Ohio, poses for a photo while sitting on the wheel of a tractor.

ABOVE RIGHT: Ricky Saam, of Bowling Green, Ohio, operates his 1915 Frick tractor.

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back into the workforce.”

The Census Bureau released its American Community Survey data on income, poverty and health care access last week. The data showed that the median household income in Lorain County fell this year.

Median household income in Lorain County fell from $67,501 in 2021 to $66,330 in 2022, a decrease of 1.7 percent, adjusted for inflation. That means that half of the county’s households made more than that figure and half of its households made less.

Lorain County had the 19th highest median household income in 2022 among Ohio’s 38 most populous counties.

“The people that we serve are really struggling to meet their basic needs,” Lorain County Community Action Agency President and CEO Jackie Boehnlein said. “Between their housing costs, their transportation costs and their childcare costs. The struggle is real ...

“I know that demand for our services is up. If you look at demand for services as an indicator it’s hard to compare from year to year — but an increase in demand for services tells us that things are rough.”

Boehnlein said the agency has given out over $100,000 in benefits this year, the group’s second-highest benefit total since 2007.

“We have households that we’re helping and they are making their payments, they do what they need to do to stay in that program,” she said. “But something else in the household has to give, and a lot of times that’s food.”

Second Harvest’s food distribution numbers reflect this sacrificing of food, Chase-Morefield said, as the organization has struggled to meet growing demand.

“All of 2023 we’ve seen increases in need at all of our distribution centers,” Chase-Morefield said. “We’ve been tracking that all year, and it really started around March, when the additional SNAP benefits ended. Since then we have seen increasing numbers all summer long.”

The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as the food stamp program, ended additional benefits that had been provided during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The county narrowly outpaced Ohio’s average median income, which declined by 2.3 percent to $65,720 in 2022 but fell well below the U.S. average of $74,755.

The city of Lorain trails well behind the countywide as a whole, with a median household income of just $46,592 in 2022 after a fall of just 0.2 percent.

Lorain is the only city in the county that met the population threshold of at least 65,000 residents to be included in the survey in 2022, and data was not collected in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Income rates in Lorain County had climbed gradually since the 2008 recession, with a peak of $68,522 in 2018, but were knocked back down to just over $67,500 in 2021.

Both Chase-Morefield and Boehnlein mentioned that while unemployment remains relatively low, the jobs people take are often limited by a lack of transportation and childcare.

“Unemployment is low right now, but just because you have a job doesn’t mean you are not poor,” Boehnlein said. “People are working, they’re just not making enough money to make ends meet… They may not have benefits or paid time off. So it makes the household even more vulnerable, because if you miss work for a week with the flu that is absolutely devastating.”

Lorain County saw a slight decrease in its percentage of the population falling below the poverty line, from 13 percent to 12.9 percent, but the city of Lorain saw a much bigger drop. In 2021 the poverty rate in Lorain was 24.9 percent, while in 2022 21.7 percent of Lorain’s population were living below the poverty line.

The Census Bureau’s most recent population estimate for Lorain is 65,366, meaning that just 14,047 of the city’s residents would be expected to be living below the federal poverty line.

Chase-Morefield said that fewer people being in poverty is a good sign for the city, but that due to the nature of the benefit system people just above the poverty line can be just as vulnerable.

“It’s good news, but it isn’t perfect news,” she said. “Because our benefits system is not meant to trail off as your (income) goes up. It’s called the benefit cliff for a reason, people fall off and Prior to 2019, families in Lorain County had seemed to be recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, Chase-Morefield said.

“We had really started to see the signs that things were getting better for a larger number of people,” she said. “But then we saw that crash when COVID hit and people fell back in, because it was in all reality a recession.”

Of the nine most populous cities in Ohio, Lorain had the third lowest poverty rate in 2022.

Parma had the lowest number of residents living in poverty among those nine, 10.6 percent, and Cleveland ranked the highest with 31.8 percent of its residents below the poverty line.

“I think a lot of these programs are working, and that is reflected in the decrease in the city’s poverty rate,” Boehnlein said. “But when you look at the numbers, just based on the number of people that are affected we have a long way to go.”

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that the rally was about sending multiple messages.

“One to the company; that we are on a targeted strike which we have never done before,” Samples said. “All of the locals that are continuing to work are on standby. President Fain can walk us out at any given time, any given day.”

Samples said the other main audience of the rally was the UAW workers who are already striking at a Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, General Motors plant in Wentzville, Missouri, and Stellantis Jeep in Toledo.

“Today, a big thing was sending a message to the ones who are on the front lines,” he said. “Those first ones out of the gate who are actually on strike. We want to let our brothers and sisters know: Local 2000 is here, we support you and we have got your back. We are all in this fight together.”

Will Shannon, who works in maintenance at the Ohio Assembly Plant, also spoke about other plants nearby and making sure they knew they have the support of Local 2000.

“We’re strong,” Shannon said.

“This is a message to the Cleveland Engine Plant that if you strike, we’ve got you. It’s a message to them up north that they ain’t got to us yet, but we’re ready to fight. We’re gonna stand tall and we’re gonna stand together. One band, one sound.”

Maholic said that he plans to retire later this year, but felt he had to show up and help ensure younger Ford employees get the same benefits he did.

“As for this here, this is all about these younger people,” he said. “We want something we gave back to the auto industry; and that’s pension and retiree health care. These new people don’t have that and we need to get it

back for them.”

Samples said in addition to sending a message, the goal of the rally was to continue to build comradery and energy among members of Local 2000.

“It’s very good preparation, education and the members are talking with one another,” he said. “They might not all know each other by name, since it’s such a big plant, but here they get to meet and build that solidarity. We all have the same ultimate goal, and that is to fight for a great contract.”

Sunday marked the third day of the targeted strike, as Fain and the UAW national negotiating team continued to bargain with the “Big Three” Detroit automakers; Ford, GM and Stellantis.

Fain appeared on MSNBC Sunday morning and “Face the Nation” on CBS after NBC reported that President Joe Biden is sending a team to Detroit early this week to help resolve the strike.

“The good thing that I see in all this is our members are out there manning the picket lines with our allies, and this really to me isn’t about the president or the former president ... this is about working-class people standing up,” Fain said on MSNBC.

He added “progress is slow” in the talks, but the union and General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV are meeting Sunday.

“I don’t really want to say we’re closer,” he said.

The union is seeking significant wage increases, an end to a tiered wage system and cost-of-living adjustments, among other demands. Specifically, the UAW initially proposed 46% wage increases over the length of the contract (40 percent when not compounded). A subse-

quent offer decreased that to 36 percent not compounded.

On “Face the Nation,” Fain said Stellantis’ recent 21 percent wage increase offer is “definitely a no-go and we made that very clear to the companies.”

The UAW is also seeking an end to a two-tiered pay structure and increased benefits and health care for retirees.

A common refrain from strikers has been “record profits equal record wages,” with the UAW arguing automakers and their CEOs have received huge profits and wages off the backs of its members.

“This is how we feed our families,” Shannon said. “If we can’t take care of things with what we make then something definitely needs to change. Especially with these guys making million dollar profits, we’re the ones getting you those profits.”

Due to the nature of the targeted strike which the UAW has put in place, it is possible that any Ford, GM or Stellantis plant could additionally go on strike in the next week.

Samples said prior to the expiration of the UAW contract on Thursday, Sept. 14, that the Ohio Assembly Plant would be a target that “could make sense” due to the fact it produces chassis and trucks, which Ford sees high profit from.

The members of Local 2000 still have not been called upon to strike, but Samples said they are ready and the rally today showed that. “They’re energized and they’re ready,” he said. “If I’m called upon, they are gonna be ready without a doubt. They want justice.”

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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Rebecca Maholic, 19 year Ford worker, wife of Keith D. Maholic, a 12 year employee, and Keith Maholic, a 47 year Ford worker who was on the picket line at the last strike at the same plant in Avon Lake. The group was at the Ohio Assembly Plant for a Rally in support of the UAW on Sept. 17. The trio was yelling and cheering as cars drove by and showed support.

“People are working, they’re just not making enough money to make ends meet… So it makes the household even more vulnerable, because if you miss work for a week with the flu that is absolutely devastating.”

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ABOVE: Amherst senior Nick Costello, 17, explains the process of rewiring two 18-year-old Wowee Robosapien v2 robots at an open house for the high school’s new maker space on Thursday, Sept. 14.

BELOW: Amherst sophomore Aidan Wargo, 15, cuts out logos designed in the high school’s new maker space.

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AMHERST — For Amherst High School senior Nick Costello, the new maker space is “probably the best investment the school has ever made.”

The 17-year-old turned his love of tearing apart and rebuilding computers as a child into a knack for electrical wiring and 3D printing — something he found a home for in the newly unveiled space Thursday afternoon.

Amherst Schools unveiled the new space in its former wood shop, collaborating with Lorain County Community College to bring college-level robotics courses to the Comets.

Technology Director Doug Cogdell said he remembered going to Amherst High School years ago and walking down the corridor where the maker space now sits.

The space has always been where students would build and create new things, he said, so bringing those projects into 21stcentury technology was a satisfying accomplishment.

It’s something students can relate to with everchanging technology, and the synergy between that technology and a creative mindset, he said.

Equipment between the two spaces — a design lab and the maker space across the hall — includes everything from a six-color embroidery machine and Tshirt printing press to CNC machine for engraving and etching and a 3D printer farm.

Students can etch their names in drink tumblers, or 3D print their own name tags for their lockers, he said.

John Agostinelli is the district’s new robotics teacher and an adjunct professor at LCCC. For the 2023-24 school year and beyond he will be teaching robotics courses normally available at Lorain County Community College that can count toward a robotics operator certificate or associate degree.

LCCC loaned Amherst Schools several large pieces of machinery for its budding robotics lab. Robotics courses taken at Amherst Schools can set students up for higher degrees in robotics and automated engineering, or kickstart a soon-to-be graduate’s career in manufacturing using programmable machinery.

For students like Costello, it’s a chance to have a hands-on class rather than a study hall, or further hone skills they may have picked up on their own.

“I think it’ll take the interest of kids who maybe really don’t care about school and maybe be like ‘this isn’t that bad.’ Everything is hands-on — it’s just great,” he said.

Early Sept. 15, Marian

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Notice is given to Shawn Eyring-Smith, last known address 612 N. Center St., LaGrange, OH 44050 that contents of storage unit 7, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m. The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Office desk, tables, chairs, vacuum.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Bakos, 75, of Elyria, a former Army nurse, was greeted by applause as she walked through Cleveland Hopkins International Airport with 18 other veterans heading to Washington, D.C., for their trip to the nation’s capital sponsored by the Honor Flight organization. That wasn’t a sound she heard 52 years ago when she was in an airport returning from Vietnam.

Notice is given to Shawn Eyring-Smith, last known address 612 N. Center St., LaGrange, OH 44050 that contents of storage unit 9, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m. The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Rockers, luggage, tool box, totes, boxes.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Notice is given to Shawn Eyring-Smith, last known address 612 N. Center St., LaGrange, OH 44050 that contents of storage unit 30, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m. The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Toys, Radio Flyer wagon, gas stove, plastic table, flower pots, baby carriage, bubble gum machines.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Notice is given to Shawn Eyring-Smith, last known address 612 N. Center St., LaGrange, OH 44050 that contents of storage unit 94, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m. The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Shelves, mattresses, fan, wicker chair, step stool, totes, boxes.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Notice is given to Victoria Bauer/Lynda Bauer, last known address 1013 Van Dyke Ave., Wheelersburg, OH 45694 that contents of storage unit 8, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m. The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Mattresses, leather recliner, cabinets, tables, chairs.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Notice is given to Jack Groesser, last known address 104 Pike Ct., LaGrange, OH 44050 that contents of storage unit 73, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m.

The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Amana dryer, coolers, electric spray painter, chest freezer, tools, canoe, chain saw, shop vac, air hoses.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Notice is given to Bethany Albrecht, last known address 103 Brown St., Rear, Wellington, OH 44090 that contents of storage unit 104, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m. The following is summary of those items to be auctioned: Mattresses, lamps, mirror, furniture, cat playground.

STORAGE CONTENTS AUCTION! Pursuant to the requirements of the ORC, section 5322.02.

Notice is given to Bethany Albrecht, last known address 103 Brown St., Rear, Wellington, OH 44090 that contents of storage unit 105, of Wellington Self-Storage, 512 S. Main St., Wellington, OH 44090 will be offered at auction on October 7, 2023. Time of auction will be 9:00 a.m.

“I’m from the Vietnam era; we came home like one, two at a time and not as a group, so this is the first time that I really got applause from people,” Bakos said.

Bakos was in nursing school in her home state of Nebraska when she decided that she would enter the Army to finish her nursing training. She said it wasn’t something she gave much thought.

“It was an opportunity, so I decided to do it,’’ she said.

“The Army needed nurses.”

Bakos was deployed to the Third Army Field Hospital near Saigon. She said her experience was relatively calm.

“I wasn’t in any real fighting, so it was

a lot like working in a regular hospital. I worked on a medical ward ... treating soldiers as well as U.S. military dependents.”

Bakos is humble about her service — she didn’t work on the surgical patients and she wasn’t in the field. When pressed, she will say that working with the sick members of the military was one of the things that needed to be done.

“Me being there allowed some other nurse to be out in the field. Someone had to do what I was doing, but it wasn’t anything like being on the front line with soldiers coming in with limbs missing and that kind of stuff,” she

said.

During her time in Vietnam, the young nurse from Nebraska fell in love with a fellow soldier.

“I met this lovely man in Vietnam and thought I couldn’t live without him. He was born and raised in Elyria, Kenneth Bakos; he was a medic,” Bakos said.

After the war, they were married and had one child together. That nursing training in the Army served Bakos well as she went to work for Elyria Memorial Hospital for 15 years and did geriatric nursing at long-term care facilities before retiring in 2011.

Bakos took up gardening after retiring, including

planting flower beds in East Park in Elyria. That’s where she met Councilman Andrew Lipian, Ward 1, a master sergeant in the Ohio Air National Guard. That friendship resulted in an invitation to take the one-day whirlwind trip to Washington.

“Andrew called me about two and a half weeks ago to tell me there was a vacant spot on the Honor Flight,’’ she said. “We met before he was elected, and we talked about me being a veteran. When this came up, he remembered me. It was just a lucky thing.’’

Honor Flight Cleveland, the local arm of the national organization, takes groups of 20 veterans per trip, roughly 175 a year, on the trip that leaves Cleveland at 4 a.m. and stops at nearly a dozen memorials before boarding a plane to Cleveland late evening.

One of the first stops of the day was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Bakos walked quietly, scanning the reflective granite surface. She occasionally commented about the number of names engraved on each panel.

Eventually, she did what so

many do; she placed the palm of her hand on the monument.

“It just makes you remember the people I knew over there,” Bakos said. She also shared an experience that stuck with her all these years.

“It was before I even went over there — I was at an Army hospital in Massachusetts. There was a group of Special Forces that had just come back from Vietnam, and they were going to do one last jump before they got out of service, and one of the guys’ parachutes didn’t open, and he went down. Those are the horrible things you remember because he’d served his time,” Bakos said.

One of the final stops of the day, before a busload of tired, hungry veterans invaded a barbecue restaurant, was the Military Women’s Memorial just outside the gate of Arlington National Cemetery. The memorial is the only one to women who have served their country from the Revolutionary War through today.

The Vietnam Women’s Memorial is a black granite statue depicting three women treating a fallen soldier. The statue honors the 265,000 women who served in the conflict, and Bakos said that was one of her favorite stops of the day, “for obvious reasons.”

Bakos and fellow Honor flight member Marjorie Van De Stadt, of Willoughby, an Army and Coast Guard veteran who served in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War, were honored by the museum for their service. The museum has been gathering narratives of the experiences of women in the military, and both women were presented with challenge coins and a folio detailing their military honors.

“I’ll be thinking about the things I’ve seen

and it’s going to be with me a long time,” Bakos said.

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Elyria Councilman and Ohio Air National Guard Master Sergeant Andrew Lipian salutes Army Nurse Lieutenant Marian Bakos at the Womens War Memorial in Washington D.C.

Oberlin Community Services food pantry opens Monday

OBERLIN – Oberlin Community Services’ new pantry will open its doors on Sept. 25.

The nonprofit has officially moved into its East Lorain Street location and will begin operating its choice pantry and food box distribution out of the space on Monday afternoon.

The new space allows OCS to keep perishables and donations longer –as it now has a walk-in freezer and cooler, Food Programs Coordinator Suzette Sanchez said.

“The coolers and the freezers are amazing … Donations are going to be kept for longer, so we don’t have to worry about them spoiling fast because of the heat and not having enough space in the coolers,” she said.

Communications and Development Coordinator Jason Hawk agreed.

“There were times we were getting deliveries that we didn’t have anywhere to put them – the cooler was full, the freezer was full (at the S. Professor Street location) … So many of the decisions of ordering before were done about what we could take, not necessarily what we needed to have,” he said.

The new Cooper Community Resource Center, 500 E. Lorain St., saw OCS’ capacity between its pantry and warehouse nearly triple – allowing it to store not only frozen foods and perishables for longer, but house clothes, toiletries, diapers and other requested necessities for clients.

The expansion will decrease food waste, as the items donated from farms or provided by Second Harvest Food Bank, will last longer. The nonprofit will still have to purchase

Artists on the sidewalk

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WELLINGTON – Main Street Wellington and Wellington Arts hosted Artists on the Sidewalk on Saturday along Herrick Avenue.

The event invited community members to tie-dye donated Wellington Schools T-shirts, create watercolor paintings or watch local professional artists create works. Owen Cooper, 10, (pictured above) and his dad, Dennis, tye-died Wellington Duke shirts at the Wellington Arts’ Artist on the Sidewalk event on Saturday, Sept. 16 at Main Street Wellington. The event was ahead of the third gallery walk Oct. 1 to Nov. 1 at local businesses throughout downtown Wellington, Wellington Arts founder and Main Street Wellington President Shannon Meeks said.

About a dozen artists and businesses will participate in the seasonal gallery walk starting next month. Maps with participating businesses and artists will be available at Main Street Wellington as the event nears.

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TOP: Oberlin Community Services volunteer Aimee Condon, 17 cleans a shelf ahead of OCS’ pantry grand opening at its new East Lorain Street location on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The pantry will open to the public on Monday, Sept. 25.

ABOVE: Oberlin Community Services intern Diego Vega Sanchez, 17, unpacks a box of frozen chicken into a cooler ahead of OCS’ pantry grand opening.

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The new choice pantry will be open 1:30-4:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays and 1:303:30 p.m. Fridays. Driveup distributions will be available 1:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

out-of-season items like bananas, Hawk said, but it will be able to stretch the locally sourced perishables.

The building itself is also going to be more efficient for clients, with 78 parking spaces for visitors rather than requiring them to park along South Professor to wait for distributions

The choice pantry will operate three times a week, rather than once a week. It will be set up like a grocery store, Sanchez said. Clients will check in, get a cart and browse the shelves, rather than go down an assembly-line.

“People are going to have agency on what they

pick and choose to take home,” she said.

Hawk anticipates the start of Monday’s distribution to be a busy one – in part because the nonprofit was closed this week to move everything from its former offices. He asked clients be patient on Monday, as the staff is new to the building as well.

The Nord Family Foundation will take ownership of 36 S. Professor St. Oct.

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The renovation to the pantry and warehouse area was a priority for the Cooper Community Resource Center. Work will still be ongoing to second floor offices and other resource areas – including eventually a commercial-grade kitchen for Oberlin Christ Church’s weekday community meals.

OCS, via a $1 million donation from Fran and Roger Cooper, purchased 500 E. Lorain St. in 2022 to help address the growing need it has seen.

Since then, it’s gathered another $2 million in donations from community members to fund renovations to the building including a matching $100,000 donation from two anonymous donors for the Jaqui Willis Memorial Initiative.

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Dukes take homecoming crown

Falcons soaring high in Wednesday match

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ABOVE: Wellington’s John Kinter hauls in this pass over Brookside’s Shawn Moore. The Dukes won their Homecoming game against the Cardinals 34-14 on Friday, Sept. 15.

TOP LEFT: Wellington crowned Foreign Exchange Student Dulse Gomez as King and Gabby Miller as Queen for Homecoming.

LOWER LEFT: Wellington’s Will Sipos-Sutton breaks free into the Brookside secondary.

LEFT: Firelands’ Ariannah Floyd and Morgan Janicek are all smiles as they dominate the Dukes. Firelands won 9-1 against the Dukes on Sept. 13.

ABOVE: Firelands’ Emersyn Lehman pushes the ball past Wellington’s Amelia Overstreet.

Brownhelm Historical Association

The fourth annual Clambake is 5 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Historic Brownhelm School, 1950 North Ridge Rd., Vermilion.

The clambake will be a drive-thru again this year to pick up your order. It will be catered by Pogie’s Catering in Amherst. For $45, each dinner consists of 1 dozen clams, 1/2 dozen mussels, lemon chicken breast, corn on the cob, red skin potatoes, coleslaw, clam chowder, melted butter, and dinner roll.

You may also order an extra dozen clams if you’d like for $15.

If you would like to use a credit card, order online at https://bit.ly/BHAClam bake2023. If you want to pay by check, please send a note with your order and a check payable to Brownhelm Historical Association to: Brownhelm Historical Association

Attn: Clambake Order 1950 N. Ridge Road Vermilion, OH 44089

Due date for purchase is Oct. 14. Once you’ve placed your order, just drive on down to the Historic Brownhelm School on Oct. 21 to pick it up curbside.

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Amherst Historical Society

For more information or to register for a program, please contact the Amherst Historical Society at 440988-7255 or office@amher sthistoricalsociety.org.

● The Amherst Historical Society would like to interview individuals with ties to the sandstone quarry – either those who worked there or had a family member who worked there. Interviews are being planned to begin in September or October.

● Acrylic Painting is 2-4 p.m. Oct. 7. It will be led by Brian Mickey at The Grange, 763 Milan Ave. It is $10 a person, ages 14-andover. It is limited to 20 people.

Attendees must bring a 16x20 stretched canvases, three acrylic brushes, acrylic paints (black, white, blue, red, yellow, brown, green, orange and purple), a wide palette knife and an optional apron and easel. Water, cups, palettes and paper towels will be provided.

● By My Lantern’s Light is 3-5 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22 at the Cleveland Avenue Cemetery. Tours will start every 15 minutes. Tours are $5 with ages 5 and under free and are paid the day of at the cemetery. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

● Please join us at Cleve-

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land Avenue Cemetery 590 Cleveland Avenue, Amherst Ohio 44001. Additional parking is at St. Paul Lutheran Church 115 Central Drive, Amherst, OH 44001.

Avon/Avon Lake Republican Club

Kate Makra, executive director of Cleveland Right to Life and vice-president of the Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio will discuss the abortion rights amendment to the Ohio Constitution on the November ballot at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Knights of Columbus Ragan Hall, 1783 Moore Rd., Avon. The presentation is sponsored by the Father Ragan, St. Bernadette and St. Ladislas councils. RSVP by Sept. 15 to rudybreglia@ gmail.com.

Lorain County Democrats

● The Lorain County Democratic Women’s Club will attend joint meetings of

the Lorain County Democratic Executive and Central Committees from 6-7 p.m. Oct. 3 at the UAW Local 2000, 3151 Abbe Road North.

● The Lorain County Democratic Party has launched a new website: www.loraincountydems. com

Amherst Leo Club

The Amherst Steele Leo Club is sponsoring a STEPS WALK for Pediatric Cancer. The 1 mile walk will be Sept. 23 at Amherst High School Mercy Health Stadium. Registration – a $5 donation – is at 12:30 p.m., the walk starts at 1 p.m.

CS Lewis and Friends

CS Lewis and Friends Book Group will meet at the Amherst Library on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. We will be discussing the first book of CS Lewis’s Ransom

(Space) Trilogy entitled Out of the Silent Planet. Please contact Marcia Geary at 440-988-9803 or mgeary@ gearylawllc.com with any questions you may have about the group. All are welcome!

Oberlin Heritage Center

● Root beer and yesteryear is 1-4 p.m. Sept. 23. This event will feature live music, historic portrayals, old games, exhibits and root beer floats for everyone. Throughout most of its history, Oberlin was a “dry” town, meaning alcohol couldn’t be served within city limits – but root beer was available. The floats are generously provided by Oberlin IGA, while free popcorn is made possible by the Oberlin Athletic Boosters Club and Bethany Hobbs.

● Every Good Story Has a Plot is 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sept. 30. Business owners, families and con artists have all walked Oberlin’s Main Street. The Oberlin Heritage Center will highlight some familiar faces in its Main Street Memories program on Sept. 30. Attendees will walk through Westwood Cemetery for an hour, and talk to reenactors portraying individuals from Oberlin’s past. Reservations

are required, space is limited to 20 people per time slot. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for members and $5 for children.

● An introduction to historical redlining in Oberlin is 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17. Redlining is the discriminatory practice in which services, often financial services like loans, are withheld from neighborhoods often occupied by minorities, low-income, or otherwise marginalized groups. It is also a term used to describe many forms of housing segregation.

● OHC will present this new program at the Oberlin Public Library in the Community Room on Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. This program is free and registration is not required.

Amherst Library Trustees

The Amherst Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting at the library at 5:45 p.m. Oct. 9. The meeting is open to the public.

Oberlin Library Trustees

The Oberlin Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a regular meeting at the library at 5 p.m. Oct. 12. The meeting is open to the public.

WORLD SERIES

at the old ball game” 15. Capital of Egypt 16. *Yanees owner, George ____brenner

Mandela’s org.

Back street

*Walk-off move (2 words)

*One of MLB countries

Start an engine

Salvador Dali’s muse

Old French coin

Pass, as time

Antonym of is

Rumpelstiltskin’s weaver

Virgo’s brightest star

Snack, in Spain

*Yogi Berra - 295 PA, e.g.

44. *Player’s representative 46. Eyelid affliction 47. Shade of beige 48. *a.k.a. Mr. October 50. Small island 52. In the know 53. Part of armor 55. Octopus’ defense 57. *Last year’s World Series winners 60. *Ronald Acuña Jr.’s home base 64. Indian monetary unit 65. Sun, in Mexico 67. ____ Asimov 68. Artemis’ companion 69. E.T.’s craft, acr.

6. Printer cartridge color

7. *Guidry, Cey or Gardenhire

8. New Mexico’s state flower 9. Samoan money 10. *____ card 11. Length times width 12. Tofu ingredient 15. Lock sites 20. Soft palate hanger

34. Relish (2 words) 36. NASA’s orange drink 38. *”The Catch” (1954) catcher 42. Rekindled

Like theater seating

Big-headedness

Join the army

Matter of debate 56. Buckwheat dish 57. Halo 58. Do like volcano 59. Bluish green 60. Sir Mix-____-____ 61. Delhi bread 62. Spill the beans 63. *Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson and Christy Mathewson 64. *Commissioner Manfred 66. Bug enemy

Everyone CriesSometimes

Crying is natural! Sometimes crying getsthe sadness tnd after agoodcry,wefeelbetter. There is a good reason for this. Tears contain some special ingredients that make youfeel better

Whydotears come out of my eyes?

Your eyes always have tears. There are special glands near your eyes that maketears.Most of the time, the make just enough to keep our eyes cleanand healthy.Ifsomething gets in your eye, moretears aremade that rinse your eyes andremove what shouldn’t be there

What’sintears?

Usethe code!

HappyTears

When people have alot of hap inside, thatcan bring outthe te Circlethe thingsthatsometime

What’sthe di erence between sweatand tears?

Your body makes liquids.Some of those liquids aretears

Brain to Glands!

Apart of your brain turns the “tear faucet” offand on.Thishappens when you feel strongemotions— happy andsad.

Your eyeglands can produce more than half acup of tears in minutes. This is too much for the eye glands to hold, so the overflow tears fall out of your eyes. Sometimes, overflowing tears go down your nose. That’s whywhen you cry, your nosemight run.

Circle every other lettertodiscover what the glands thatmake the tears thatflowto your eyesare called.

Laughing with your friends

ThreeTypes of Tears

Follow

Madetoprotect youreyeswhen smokeoronion fumesgetin

them.

Alwaysinyour eyes to keepthemmoist andclean.

Made when you’re feelingemotional, such as happy or sad

Happy/Sad

Happy and sad mean oppositethings. Look throughthe newspaper forwords that meanthe opposite Glue thewords onto cards and playagame of fish where a “match” is twowordsthat mean theopposite.

Crocodile Tears

Some aresweat.

While they areboth wet,they do di erentthings

Tears keep your eyes from drying out.They can also help youfeel better

Sweat comes out of your skin to keep youcool on ahot day. Sweat also cools youdown when youexercise

howmanytearsdoour eyes produceeachday?

About

We produceabout 5-10 ounces of tearsevery day.

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