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Moms team up with Legion to raise $12,000 JASON HAWK EDITOR

WELLINGTON — Eight years ago, Lisa Taylor and Barb Sawyer each lost a son.

A mother’s grief never fades. Rather than be consumed by loss, Taylor and Sawyer decided to harness it, and raised $12,000 in their late sons’ memory.

“Nobody realizes how

many people in Wellington need help,” Sawyer said last Wednesday morning, handing over a check to Bernie Raab of the nonprofit Well-Help.

“It’s sometimes invisible, that there are so many people out there in need,” she said.

“That’s why we did it.”

The money will be used to provide food for people in Wellington and surrounding townships who otherwise might not have it.

Sawyer’s son Ty Moore died of lung cancer in 2014 at age 46. She shed tears remembering how he went through chemotherapy and ultimately lost the battle.

Taylor’s son, Zachary LeCuyer, 23, died unexpectedly the same year after a sudden illness. She recalled how he was rushed to the hospital, where “for some reason, MOMS PAGE A3

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◄ American Legion members Scott Lambert and Gary Thompson, bereaved mothers Barb Sawyer and Lisa Taylor and Well-Help Office Coordinator Bernie Raab celebrate a $12,000 donation that will help put food on a lot of tables.

Phoenix Pantry will ensure kids don’t go hungry OBERLIN – The new Phoenix Pantry has opened to make sure Oberlin City Schools students have access to food they need, not just in the cafeteria but on evenings and weekends, too.

Kids can check in with district social worker Sarah McCall and grab what they need to avoid going hungry, said Director of Student and Family Provided photo Support Services Jay Oberlin High School social Nimene. worker Sarah McCall stands As the pantry inside the Phoenix Pantry. launches, McCall is ensuring it consists of different dietary needs.

“The goal is to have food that students enjoy, and ones that are quick and easy to make,” she said.

McCall said she hopes the program will expand over the next few months to include four shelving units.

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President Joe Biden waves goodbye to the audience after delivering remarks about a $1 billion investment in Great Lake restoration at The Shipyards in Lorain.

President announces $1 billion investment in the Great Lakes CARISSA WOYTACH THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

LORAIN — President Joe Biden stopped in the International City last week to announce a nearly $1 billion investment into the Great Lakes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Joined by Rep. Marcy Kaptur, DToledo, Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan onstage at The Shipyards in Lorain, he touted plans to remediate ecological areas of concern throughout the region and bring back union jobs.

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A year ago after a joint session of Congress, Kaptur handed Biden a letter about the Great Lakes, Biden said during his remarks, describing the area’s economic, ecological and tourism values — providing clean drinking water and jobs to millions.

Her letter said the lakes supported life in the area and she implored investment from the federal government for a “brighter, more prosperous future,” he said.

Kaptur got her wish.

The $1 billion will help accelerate the cleanup across 22 of the 25 remaining areas of concern — holdovers from the age when factories BIDEN PAGE A3

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Biden is the first sitting president to visit the city of Lorain. In 2010, then President Barack Obama came to the county during a campaign stop in Elyria, and had been to the now-shuttered National Gypsum Co. during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

"It's going to allow the most significant restoration of the Great Lakes in the history of the Great Lakes," Biden said of the funding announced Thursday, Feb. 17.

"We're going to accelerate cleanup of sites across six states in the Great Lakes basin, from Duluth, Minnesota, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Gary, Indiana; Buffalo, New York; and everywhere in between."

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17 writers give a glimpse of the youth experience Winners of the Community Foundation of Lorain County’s 2022 Toni Morrison Essay Contest for Young People have been named.

They include 17 essays chosen from more than 100 submissions made by local students, honoring the Pulitzer Prize-winning late author and Lorain native.

“It is a joy and privilege for the Community Foundation to host this essay contest for Lorain County youth,” said President and CEO Cynthia Andrews. “Toni Morrison is our hometown hero who challenged and inspired people worldwide to share their unique experiences. It’s our honor to connect the younger generation to her captivating stories while encouraging them to create their own.”

The 2022 winners are: Elementary school category • First place — Eva Jones, St Paul Lutheran School • Second place — Ava Salter, Toni Morrison Elementary

• Third place — Duy Minh Pham, Toni Morrison Elementary • Special recognition — Savanah Tidmore, Toni Morrison Elementary • Toni Morrison Emeritus Scholar — Peyton Haney, Toni Morrison Elementary Middle school category • First place — Caitlin Gardner, Ranger High Tech Academy • Second place — Jada Martin, Avon Middle School • Third place — Maria Bak, Amherst Junior High • Special recognition — Abigail Dudek, General Johnnie Wilson Middle School • Toni Morrison Emeritus Scholar — Ezra Jones, St. Paul Lutheran School High school category • First place — Alexia Nwankwo, Avon High School • Second place — Makayla Dotson, Clearview • Third place — Ramya Lee-Mosely, Elyria High • Special recognition — Jayleen Chatelin, Marion L. Steele High School

• Toni Morrison Emeritus Scholar — Kendal Bott, Marion L. Steele High School • Toni Morrison Emeritus Scholar — Sereena Sperry, Lake Ridge Academy College category • First place — Vera Menafee, Oberlin College The writing prompt for this year’s contest was about students’ environments. If you have ever read a Toni Morrison novel, chances are you remember some of the characters, their challenges, and the environment that surrounded them. Students were asked to reflect on how their physical and virtual environment has shaped their identity.

Established in 2020, the Lorain County Toni Morrison Essay Contest for Young People seeks to harness the author’s energy, creativity and initiative.

To read the Toni Morrison scholars' essays, visit www.peoplewhocare. org.

OBITUARIES Bernita Elaine Hurst

Michael Joseph Toth

Bernita Elaine Hurst, 78, of Wellington, died Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, at University Hospital, Cleveland. Born June 23, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Warner and Mary (nee Hales) Merrill.

Bernita moved from Kipton as a child to Wellington and graduated from Wellington High School in 1961.

Bernita was a member of the Pittsfield Community Church for many years. She remained active for nearly all of her 78 years, enjoying gardening, making blankets for families with new born babies and cooking and baking for friends and family.

Bernita was an avid sports fan and loved attending games, especially her beloved Wellington Dukes. Most of all she cherished time with family, hosting family gatherings and Sunday dinners.

Survivors include her children, Brian Hurst, Kevin Hurst, Todd Hurst and Beth (Thad) Gott; grandchildren, Ethan, Josh, Jeremy, Cara, Lilli, Lindsey and Ned and great-grandchildren, Kaiden and Emma.

Bernita was preceded in death by her loving husband, Edwin Hurst in 2017 and her sister, Jean Hartman in 1994.

Services were held Saturday, Feb. 19 at the Pittsfield Community Church, with the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Cheatham officiating.

Norton-Eastman Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements and expressions of sympathy may be shared online at www.eastmanfuneralhome.com.

Michael Joseph Toth, 52, of Wellington, died Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, at home with his family by his side.

Born on Aug. 3, 1969, in Windber Pennsylvania, he was the son of the late Michael and Margie (nee Makoczy) Toth.

He was a 1987 graduate of Bishop McCort High School. Michael grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and moved to Wellington in 1996. Michael retired this past June as an air traffic controller in Oberlin. Prior to coming to Wellington, he had lived in Depew, New York for five years, where he started his air traffic control career.

Faith was an integral part of Michael's life and he lived by the words, 'Jezu Ufam Tobie' - Jesus, I trust in You. He was a devoted member of St. Patrick Catholic Parish. Michael dabbled in beekeeping and enjoyed playing the guitar, but his true passion and joy was his family. He cherished time spent with his wife, children, and grandchildren.

Survivors include his loving wife of 30 years, Christine (nee Whitcomb); children, Mandolyn (Alex) Barni of LaGrange, Christian, Michaela, Gabriel, Melanie, and Graciella Toth, all of Wellington; granddaughters, Gemma and Avarie Barni; brothers, Matthew and Mark Toth, both of Pittsburgh; father-in-law, Robert Whitcomb, as well as many sisters and brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews.

Friends and family were received Sunday, Feb. 20 at Norton-Eastman Funeral Home, Wellington. A Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, Feb. 21 at St. Patrick DAVID H. GILLESPIE, 71, of Vermilion, passed away Catholic Parish, Wellington. Burial was at Greenwood Cemetery.

Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, at his home following a sudden The family would like to extend a special thank you to illness. Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

Dr. Jay Sidloski, his colleagues and staff.

Expressions of sympathy may be shared online at www.

LAVERNE M. TOTH (nee Linn), 93, a lifetime resident of Amherst, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, eastmanfuneralhome.com. at Amherst Manor Nursing Home, following a full and meaningful life. Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

KENNETH “MIKE” CLOUD, 84, of Amherst, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Thursday, Feb. 17, MICHAEL BENDE, 64, of Amherst, passed away 2022, at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain, folFriday, Feb. 18, 2022, at the Cleveland Clinic in Avon, lowing a full and meaningful life. No doubt he heard, following a sudden illness. Arrangements by Hempel “Well done my good and faithful servant.” Arrangements Funeral Home.

by Hempel Funeral Home.

Our condolences go out to families that have suffered the loss of a loved one.

To place an obituary or death notice in the Community Guide, call (440) 329-7000.

Online filing option added Amherst residents can file their city taxes electronically this year at www.mitstaxonline.com/amherst in a new service offered by the city, according to Treasurer Rich Ramsey.

You can file and pay current year taxes and upload related documents ahead of the Monday, April 18 deadline.

Traditional methods of filing taxes in person, by drop box and by mail at 480 Park Ave. are still accepted.

For more information, call (440) 988-3745.

Golf league seeks players The Amherst City Golf League has openings for players for the upcoming season. Two-man teams or singles to play as subs or regulars are needed. This is a men’s league, mostly retirees, for fun with competition. It plays Tuesday afternoons at Forest Hills. Contact Gregg at (440) 277-7349 if interested.

Seed swap is March 3 The Amherst Garden Club will hold a free seed swap from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 3 at the Amherst Historical Society, 111 South Lake St. Categories are perennials, annuals, herbs, vegetables, houseplants, bulbs and rhizomes, and miscellaneous. There will also be tables for gardening books (by donation) and information about the club’s plant sale in May. Take your unwanted seeds, plants and cuttings. Anyone taking seeds they harvested themselves should put them in separate envelopes, and list as much information as possible, such as name, variety, color and sun/shade. Small envelopes will be provided for those who need them.

For more information, call or text Gina Welch at (440) 759-2314.

Artists receive $5,000 grants Three Oberlin residents have won $5,000 each in Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council.

They were among 75 artists statewide who received a total of $375,000 in grant funding in February. Winners are: • Holly Handman-Lopez for choreography.

• Jeffrey Mumford for music composition.

• Chanda Feldman for poetry.

Oberlin faculty to perform Oberlin Conservatory of Music faculty will perform in a Rocky River Chamber Music Society concert at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28 at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River.

Led by clarinet professor Richard Hawkins, seven musicians will showcase the contrasting styles of wind music with piano and strings. They will play shorter works of Franz Schreker and Valerie Colman, and the longer work, “Sextet in C Major,” by Hungarian composer Erno Dohnanyi.

There will be both a live audience and live streaming at www.rrcms.org. Masks will be required as soon as there is entry into the building.

Get your fill of fish A fish fry dinner will be served from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, March 4 at Pittsfield Community Church, located at the corner of routes 58 and 303.

All dinners are $12, with dine-in and carry-out options. All are welcome.

Republican Club meeting The Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club will meet for breakfast from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 2 at Sugar Creek Restaurant, 5196 Detroit Rd., Sheffield Village. Get to know local Republicans and share ideas.

Attendees are responsible for their meals.

Jackson earns award Shalonda “Nikki” Jackson has been presented with the Katie King RN Compassionate Service Award.

She works at the Nord Center in Lorain, where she is a team lead in the residential services department. Jackson has been an employee there for 20 years.

King, after whom the award is named, was a case manager for the Nord Center, serving on the Africancentric team. She worked at the agency from 1995 until her illness and death in 2008.

The Nord Center established the award in her memory in 2009, and planted a weeping cherry tree and installed a sandstone plaque on the agency grounds.

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Jazz lovers give $1.6M to create a fellowship at Oberlin Conservatory JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — A $1.6 million gift will help jazz up offerings at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music starting this fall.

It will create an endowed position to teach jazz history. The postdoctoral fellowship will be appointed on a rotating basis, providing for two specialized courses during each twoyear period, according to a release

by Erich Burnett, Oberlin College’s associate director of Conservatory communications.

“Increasing the number of academic courses dedicated to jazz history has been an interest of numerous members of our community here at Oberlin — and a particular interest of mine — and I’m thrilled that we are able to achieve such a goal through the addition of bright new faculty members,” said William Quillen, dean

of the Conservatory. “The generous, longtime support of Jim and Susan Neumann has been instrumental to the development of the unrivaled opportunities for jazz study that exist at Oberlin.”

James Neumann is a lifelong jazz enthusiast who promoted concerts as a student at the college in the 1950s.

He’s kept close times to his alma mater ever since.

In 2011, the Neumanns donated a collection of more than 100,000 jazz recordings, books, posters and other artifacts to Oberlin College.

About $100,000 of the $1.6 million endowment will be set aside to support that collection.

The donation will also allow fellows to pursue their own research into jazz history, with the help of Oberlin students.

“It is fortuitous that this gift is going to the school where I graduated from,” Neumann told the college in January, speaking from his home in

suburban Chicago. “It is a wonderful way to come full circle, just an incredible piece of good fortune for me, and I hope for Oberlin too."

Oberlin College and the Conservatory of Music recently also announced the creation of a cross-disciplinary minor in African American music studies.

That minor will be available to students starting this fall.

It will launch this spring with the appointment of a tenure-track faculty member in African American and African diasporic music.

"In many regards, this program formalizes and recognizes pathways of study long pursued by students in these areas, and lines of scholarly and creative inquiry of interest to faculty and staff throughout campus,” Quillen said.

Oberlin has been growing its list of minors in the last few years. Other offerings have included music and popular culture, arts and creative technologies, music and cognition and interdisciplinary performance.

Firelands partners with Good Knights to build beds HENRIETTA TWP. — Little did social worker Deanna Watts realize that the Future Farmers of America program at Firelands High school would be a resource she could rely on.

She knew that woodworking classes were part of the program, and she knew about the nonprofit Good Knights, which builds beds for kids in need.

After she reached out to the charity’s director, Roger Dorsey, he agreed to talk to students. They bought into the cause, and to date have

built 25 beds, with plans for another 50.

Through this partnership, students are applying skills learned in the classroom and understanding the value of community service, said Firelands Superintendent Mike Von Gunten.

“To see these young men and women with the enthusiasm to get involved in a new project just merely to help their community really speaks to their character and desire to make their community at school and at home a better place,” said Dorsey.

Firelands FFA students are making a difference in the lives of Lorain County children by partnering with the nonprofit Good Knights.

The event almost was canceled by Winter Storm Lambert. It closed roads the night before, and Finance Officer Gary Thompson said there was concern people wouldn’t be able to venture out.

Moved by the cause, more than 100 showed up for dinner and raffles. Plenty of the village’s businesses chipped in with donations as well.

Thompson and Legion Trustee Scott Lambert helped Sawyer and Taylor present a giant check to Raab at Well-Help’s office, located in the basement of First United Methodist

Church on Park Place.

Well-stocked shelves there have been crucial to feeding families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, with federal stimulus checks used, demand for food is starting to once again swell, said Raab.

People who used to ask for assistance on a sporadic basis are now showing up every month like clockwork, she said. Raab said she never knows how many will be waiting outside her door at opening time.

So every dollar and every nonperishable food donation counts, she said.

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At the time, Taylor’s family had just moved to the area from Illinois, where LeCuyer was still in college.

She recalled how members of American Legion Post 8 in Wellington showed compassion.

“They helped us through a very hard point in our life, and we met some very nice people,” she said.

Today, both mothers are part of the Legion women’s auxiliary, which held a memorial benefit Feb. 4 at the post. The Legion matched every dollar raised.

The $12,000 gift will go a long way. Raab said it is used to buy some provisions from Second Harvest Food Bank, but mostly the nonprofit relies on deep discounts from Village Market on Route 58 and the kindness of individual donors.

Food banks often deal in staples such as peanut butter, cereal, tuna and pasta.

Raab said she likes to give coffee to those in need as well, and paper products are always needed.

For more information on giving, call Well-Help at (440) 647-2689.

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On the last Saturday of every month, a pop-up pantry will be available in the high school parking lot. It will be open to all Oberlin community members from 11 a.m. to noon.

And food deliveries will be carried out once per month through Oberlin Community Services for families who have opted into the service. To opt in to food delivery service, call (440) 774-1295 ext. 5500.

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“All the programs are in collaboration with Oberlin Community Services and Second Harvest Food Bank to ensure students and families have access to nutritional food sources,” McCall said.

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FROM A1 and industrial sites dumped toxic waste into rivers and lakes that left areas like the Black River long known as the “River of Fish Tumors,” EPA Administrator Regan said.

At the heart of the infrastructure bill is an understanding that protecting the environment and protecting the economy can go hand in hand, Regan said.

The Great Lakes supply drinking water to more than 40 million people in the Midwest, he said, and are essential to the region's way of life.

There are 25 areas of concern in the Great Lakes, he said, many tied to former industrial sites long abandoned and blighted, and all too often those are in or near communities of color and lower socioeconomic standing, he said. Progress since the AOCs were established in 1987 has been painstaking, but the influx in funding could prove to be a game changer.

“We have a once-in-a-generational opportunity to build a better America... to create a future where all of our children, regardless of the color of their skin, how much money they have in their pockets or the ZIP codes that they live in can play in local rivers and streams without fear of hazard and harm,” Regan said.

Biden noted those efforts will make those waterways safer for swimming, drinking, fishing and other activities and for every $1 put into the cleanup, the lakes generate $3 to $4 in economic benefits.

“It’s a really good investment,” he said.

The bill also will fund repairs to as many as 1,300 bridges and 5,000 miles of highway in the state and plans to undo the “legacy of lead” piping in the country — which Ohio has the second most of in the U.S. — by helping to replace lines and address contamination in the water.

More than $9 billion in federal funds will go toward highway programs, with another $483 million for bridge replacements and repairs over the next five years. Public transit in Ohio will get a $1.2 billion boost.

Electronic vehicle charging networks and broadband internet access are also supported in the bill.

Biden did not take questions after the event.

Kaptur, who spoke before the president’s remarks, was happy to celebrate the bill and its promises to “America’s heartland” — while name dropping Lorain’s El Centro de Servicios Sociales Inc., Admiral Ernest King, Fligner’s Market, Toni Morrison and Amherst’s Kiedrowski’s Bakery for a national audience.

“We are honored by your visit here at the most southern rim of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie. The step-off point to the largest body of freshwater on earth,” Kaptur said. “... The president made a major commitment here at the Black River that flows here through Lorain County and out into Lake Erie, to move forward with the cleanup project that had languished since 1987.”

For Bradley, the event marked a “very, very great day in the city of Lorain,” he said, as well as a chance to see the Black River soon delisted as an area of concern. While all of the management actions to restore the river have been completed, a monitoring period is still in effect.

Standing on the banks of the river in what was once the American Ship Building Co., Biden congratulated the city on its efforts to reclaim its waterfront, restore its wetlands and set the stage for economic growth in the future.

On the eve of what would have been Nobel Laureate and Lorain native Toni Morrison’s 91st birthday, Biden quoted her novel “Beloved.”

“Her words she told us to live by: ‘We’ve got more yesterday(s) than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow,’ he said. “Places like Lorain have a lot of proud yesterdays. Now (you’re) going to have a lot of brighter tomorrows.”

Bradley and Kaptur were joined by several local, state and federal officials at the small gathering Thursday, including City Council President Joel Arredondo; Shipyards owner and Lorain County Democratic Party Chairman Anthony Giardini; Lorain County Commissioner Matt Lundy; Board of Elections Director and Lorain City Democratic Party Chair Paul Adams; Elyria Mayor Frank Whitfield; state Rep. Joe Miller, D-Amherst; U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Cleveland; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge; and Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb.

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‘Shrek: The Musical’ auditions Lorain Community Music Theater auditions for “Shrek: The Musical” will be held from 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3 at St. Peter School, 3655 Oberlin Ave., Lorain.

Callbacks, if needed, will be held from 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 9.

Registration begins at 1 p.m.; be prepared to stay for the entire audition session. Masks are required of all attendees.

Those auditioning will be asked to sing a 32-bar cut in a vocal selection that reflects the style of the show.

Take sheet music in the proper key, as an accompanist will be provided.

Auditions will not be permitted with any electronic accompaniment nor in a capella format. Dress for movement, as a dance combination will be taught. The age range for this cast will be pre-teen to adult. A list of show characters and vocal range can be found at www.loraincommunitymusictheater.org.

Performances will be July 15, 16, 22, 23 and 24 at the Lorain Performing Arts center, 2600 Ashland Ave.

LETTER Republican club supports Canadian truckers To the editor: Citizens of Canada and the United States of America have a constitutional right to freedom and control over their lives, including their health, without fear of intimation or reprisals from their respective governments.

Therefore, the Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club has resolved to support the Canadian truckers’ peaceful protest known as the “Freedom Convoy” against the harsh, draconian vaccine mandates being imposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government against cross border truck drivers.

Such measures are not only an unwarranted infringement on their individual and collective freedoms, but will have a severe impact on the Canadian economy and the well-being of millions Canadian citizens.

The Canadian national motto is “A Mari Usque ad Mare,” which translates to “From Sea to Sea,” or as interpreted by the Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club, as we stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the Canadian truckers, in their honorable and peaceful protest against unwarranted government health mandates and infringement on personal freedom.

Tomie Patton President, Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club

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LEGALS PUBLICATION OF LEGISLATION The following is a summary of legislation adopted by Lorain City Council on February 7, 2022. The complete text of each item may be viewed or purchased in the Clerk of Council Office @ Lorain City Hall, 200 W. Erie Ave., Lorain, OH, during normal business hours or contact Nancy Greer @ 204-2050 (Nancy_Greer@ cityoflorain.org). The following summary of legislation passed has been reviewed/approved by the Law Director for legal accuracy as required by state laws.

Resolution 8-22 Recognizing & commending Nancy Greer upon her retirement after 30 years of public service. 9-22* Amending Reso 1-22, Council Rule 42- Conduct. 10-22 Auth S/S Director to apply for and enter into contract for a grant to fund the construction of the Planned Active Transportation SRTS. 11-22* Supporting establishing an Executive Training Facility operated by Military Veterans. Ordinance 10-22* Auth S/S Director to apply for and accept a grant w/ the Lorain Historical Society for submission to the National Register of Historical Places.

11-22* Assessing the cost of abating nuisance by removing litter/garbage/rubbish/junk during the current calendar year.

12-22 Auth the S/S Director to modify a contract w/ GPD for professional services related

to the design of 3 intersection safety improvements (W 21st & Leavitt, Oberlin & Washington) 13-22 Auth the S/S Director to apply for, accept & enter into WPCLP agrmt on behalf of the City for construction of Martin’s Run Pump Station Improvement project.

14-22* Auth the S/S Director to enter into contracts w/ Williams Brothers Builders for renovation and alterations of Oakwood Pool & bathhouse at Oakwood Park. 15-22 Auth the S/S Director to enter into a contract for the purpose of rehabilitation of E36th St from Globe to Grove 16-22* Auth the S/s Director to enter into a contract w/ the highest rated and ranked engineering firm for prof services related to the E. 28th St Rehab project 17-22 Adopting the rec of Planning Commission to approve request to rezone 6301 W. Erie Avenue from R-3, B-2 and R1-B to I-1. 18-22 Adopting the rec of Planning Commission to approve request to rezone 5445 Beavercrest Dr. to Mixed Use. 19-22 Adopting the rec of Planning Commission to approve request to rezone SE Broadway & E 22nd Street from B-2 to MU. 20-22* Auth Mayor to accept 2022 NOPEC Energized Community Grant for $114,797. 21-22* Appropriation. 22-22* Auth Mayor to accept Home Investment Partnerships- American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) from HUD & execute all necessary documents. 23-22 Auth the S/S Director to advertise for proposals for the sale of real property no longer needed for municipal purposes. (*Denotes

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Students advance to BPA state event PITTSFIELD TWP. – Thirty Lorain County JVS students are advancing to the Business Professionals of America state competition in March after scoring well at regional competition in January.

BPA has a profound impact on those who take part, said JVS Principal Tina Pelto.

“I can stand here today and say I know exactly how you are feeling in this moment because as a high school student I also competed in BPA,” she said.

In closing, she told students, “Know that we are really proud of all of you for taking this journey and for trying to make yourself better every single day.”

Those advancing to the state level are listed below by associate school district: Amherst • Cameron Santiago, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the podcast production team event.

Avon • Peyton Stefanich, a web and graphic design junior, placed first in the business law and ethics event.

Avon Lake • Robert Simms, a web and graphic design junior, placed first in the extemporaneous speech event and second in the advanced desktop publishing event.

• Haiden Skiles, a cybersecurity and networking senior, placed first in the interview skills event.

Brookside • Patrick Dibattiste, a cybersecurity and networking junior, placed second in the PC servicing and troubleshooting event.

• JC McCallie, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the broadcast news production team event.

• Robert Parks, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the podcast production team event.

Clearview • Dawson Fries, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the computer animation team event.

• Damian Garcia, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the computer animation team event.

Columbia • Gabrielle Kalin, a web and graphic design junior, placed first in the graphic design promotion event.

• Bryan Spaniel, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the fundamental word processing event and first in the broadcast news production team event.

Elyria • Olivia Floyd, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the administrative support team event.

• Chase Lee, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the computer animation team event.

• Hailey Lloyd, a digital media arts senior, placed first in the fundamental desktop publishing event and first in the advanced interview skills event.

• Ronald Malone, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the broadcast news production team event.

Firelands • Logan Bober, a web and graphic design junior, placed second in the fundamentals of web design event and first in the video production team event.

• Grace Gilles, a web and graphic design junior, placed second in the fundamental desktop publishing event.

Keystone • Cheyenne Dudziak, a cybersecurity and networking senior, placed

second in the computer network technology event.

Midview • Aniya Qualls, a cybersecurity and networking junior, placed first in the prepared speech event.

• Emily Stonestreet, a web and graphic design junior, placed first in the advanced desktop publishing event.

North Ridgeville • Lauren Anderson, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the administrative support team event.

• James Clarke, a digital media arts junior, placed first in the video production team event.

• Jack Harrington, a web and graphic design junior, placed first in the fundamentals of web design event.

• Zackary Hart, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the computer animation team event.

• Eric Jurina, a cybersecurity and networking junior, placed first in the Linux operating system fundamentals event.

• Owen Kopp, a web and graphic design junior, placed first in the video production team event.

• Anthony March, a cybersecurity and networking junior, placed first in the computer network technology event.

Oberlin • Cassandra Sirocky, a web and graphic design senior, placed first in the digital media production.

Wellington • Joseph Danesi, a cybersecurity and networking junior, placed first in the PC servicing and troubleshooting event.

• Sadie Willis, a web and graphic design senior, placed second in the fundamental word processing event.

Debunking myths during American Heart Health Month LORAIN – February is American Heart Month, a time to focus on cardiovascular health.

Cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke, is the number one killer of both men and women.

However, people still don’t seem to know as much about this vital organ as they should.

“There are a lot of false assumptions out there when it comes to heart health from who is more at risk to when you’re most likely to experience problems,” said Mercy Health cardiologist Manuel Cortes. “It’s important to separate fact from fiction because those assumptions can put you at risk without you knowing it.”

So, Mercy Health Lorain Hospital is setting the record straight on the five most common misconceptions: I’ll know when I’m having a heart attack because I’ll have chest pain.

It’s important to realize that while chest pain is a common sign, there are other symptoms that can be just as much of an indicator that you need immediate medical help – things like shortness of breath, nausea, feeling lightheaded or pain in your arm.

Bottom line: If something feels off and you’re not sure, call 911.

I’d know if I had high blood pressure because there would be warning signs.

It’s true that high blood pressure is a problem you want to know about – it can cause hardening and thickening of the arteries, which can result in a heart attack, stroke or other complications.

However, it’s known as the ‘silent killer’ for a reason.

Most people don’t know they have it until the damage is already done, which is all the more reason to know

your numbers, such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar levels and body mass index.

I take medications for diabetes, to lower my cholesterol or other conditions so, I’m all set.

While medications are a helpful part of treatment, they’re not a cure or license to let loose. Even when your numbers are under control, your habits are key to staying healthy.

Eating poorly and physical inactivity can reduce the drug’s effectiveness and still put you at an increased risk for heart disease.

If you have heart disease, you should take it easy.

This may be the most dangerous myth of all, as a sedentary lifestyle is one of the more serious public health problems of our time. Sitting around too much can double your risk of cardiovascular diseases and increase the risk of high blood pressure.

Increasing physical activity doesn’t mean you have to run a marathon. Any extra movement helps strengthen the heart muscle and improve blood flow, so talk to your provider today about developing an exercise plan that suits your needs and abilities.

If you have heart disease or a family history of heart disease, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Heart diseases are 80 percent preventable, so regardless of your background, healthy behaviors can make a huge difference toward keeping you healthy.

Even if you’ve already been diagnosed, the most important thing to remember is it’s never too late to treat or prevent heart disease.

L.C.C.G. 2/14-24/22 20697544 LEGAL NOTICE The Rochester Township Zoning Board of Appeals will meet on March 8, 2022 at 7:00 PM at the Rochester Township Hall. The Board will reorganize officers and review the renewal of Conditional Use Permits issued in the township. All concerned parties are invited to attend.

Jim Mencl Chairman, Rochester Township Zoning Board of Appeals L.C.C.G. 2/24/22 20697716 Legal Notice Village of Wellington Notice of Special Assessments You are hereby notified that the Council of the Village of Wellington has introduced legislation authorizing the Finance Director to certify the expenses of weeds and grass removal as a lien on the tax duplicate for collection in the matter provided for real estate taxes. To avoid a lien on your property, please contact the Village of Wellington Finance office immediately.

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Anderson is Rotary’s Student of January The Oberlin Rotary Club honors a high school senior each month during the school year. These young people are recognized for character and positive attitudes. The Oberlin Rotary Club will donate $25 to a charity or project of the student’s choosing in their name.

SARAH COLSON OBERLIN HIGH SCHOOL

The Oberlin High School senior honored for the month of January is Julian Anderson.

Anderson said marching band has been one of the highlights of his school career. He has played flute in marching band since the eighth grade, rising to field captain in his senior

year. He even Club, the comreceived a spemunity service cial award from club of Oberlin band director High School, Len Gnizak for sponsored by the going above and Oberlin Rotary beyond to keep Club, his junior the uniform room and senior years. organized and The BackPack Julian spending time afProgram, run Anderson ter football games by the Interact to properly stow Club, has been equipment. a meaningful experience Anderson said World — it was his first volunLanguage Club was alteer experience, and he ways fun and a chance to valued the camaraderie learn about other cultures. of working with others in Early in his high school a positive environment career, he participated to accomplish something in the OHS League of meaningful for his comLegends Esports team, munity. finding the game tough Anderson is a full to learn but enjoying his diploma candidate for the work with the team.

OHS International BaccaBelieving in service, laureate program. He has Anderson has been a worked hard to earn an IB member of the Interact diploma to accompany his

OHS diploma.

He has also been nominated for an American Municipal Power Company Scholarship. Anderson has been accepted to Ohio Wesleyan University and the University of Toledo, and is still waiting to hear from the University of Rochester and Oberlin College.

He plans to major in physics — specifically, Anderson hopes to pursue a career path that “improves quality of life or finds solutions to problems related to recent technological and scientific advancements.”

He said his interest in physics started when he was very young. He has always been interested in how objects work and space exploration.

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022

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Dunkleosteus

Bruce Bishop | Community Guide

A model of one of the apex predators of history hangs from the ceiling of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It is a fossil of a Dunkleosteus.

Digs planned to find ‘T-Rex of the sea’ near Mill Hollow JASON HAWK EDITOR

CLEVELAND — A 400 million-yearold sea monster could be hiding in the black shale cliffs along the Vermilion River, and Dr. Caitlin Colleary wants to find it.

In a rock outcropping on private property near the Ohio Turnpike and Mill Hollow in Erie County, she hopes to unearth fossils of an ancient armored fish called Dunkleosteus terrelli.

Weighing in at about a ton and stretching up to 20 feet long, a complete skeleton would be the find of the century.

Dunkleosteus is sometimes called “the tyrannosaurus rex of the sea” and actually “at sharks for breakfast” when it roamed the oceans during the Devonian period, said Samantha Guenther, spokeswoman for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where she works with Colleary.

Paleontologists don’t look to Northeast Ohio to find dinosaur bones, Guenther said. That’s because the region was once part of a vast warm ocean bed teeming with plant and “a lot of really weird looking” animal life, according to Colleary, assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum.

Dunkleosteus was named for David Dunkle, the former Cleveland museum curator curator who discovered it.

Most of the Cleveland natural history museum’s specimens date back to construction of Interstate 71 in the mid-1960s, and were found by workers in Rocky River.

The fossils had been entombed in rock for some 358 million years, since the armored fish was wiped out in a mass extinction event.

In a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum’s collection last week, Colleary pulled open cabinet after cabinet and drawer after drawer of fossils found in Northeast Ohio shale.

There were aquatic plants, tiny, inchlong prehistoric fish, hand-sized armor plates from their monstrous cousins and shark fossils with stomach contents intact.

One drawer held a baby Dunkleosteus, only about a foot long.

Hardly able to contain her excitement, Colleary bounced around warehouse-style rooms where valuable pieces are stored, from mastodon teeth to dinosaur skeletons.

“Check this out,” she said, rolling from under a table a large slab of hard clay holding a mess of coelophysis fossils.

The turkey-sized dinosaurs, which look much like smaller velociraptors, had likely been buried in a mudslide, said Colleary.

They lay on top of each other, with unbroken spines, ribs and claws tangled together — a paleontologist spent a decade brushing away sediment to reveal what lay beneath.

With every precious artifact she drew forth, Colleary’s eyes grew more excited.

Her office in the basement level of the mu-

seum puts her in shouting distance of fossils she only dreamed of seeing as a kid.

A California native, she spent a summer working at the La Brea tar pits, and started volunteering at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles after receiving her undergraduate diploma in 2011.

Colleary moved east two years ago to work at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. After arriving, she fell in love with its collection of arthrodira fossils — that’s the family of powerful armored fish to which Dunkleosteus belongs.

Whether talking fish or triceratops, her true love is preservation.

“I’m really interested in how something can go from an animal to a fossil, especially what’s left after hundreds of millions of years,” Colleary said.

And that’s what’s so exciting about the Wolf Run Preserve, the 64 acres the museum owns in Erie County, about five miles west of South Amherst.

It’s home to a promising shale outcrop where for the first time the museum can set up a long-term excavation site, Colleary said.

“It’s an amazing outcrop. Nobody’s worked there before in terms of looking for fossils,” she said.

When shale cliffs erode, they lay bare some of the treasures within. Each of the three times Colleary has visited the outcrop, there’s been a recent rockfall, exposing rocks that have been previously inaccessible, and potentially holding a wealth of fossils.

Among them may be nothing at all, or maybe some armor plates. Or the Vermilion River site may hold a Dunkleosteus skull, or even a tail — a complete tail would answer so many questions that paleontologists have debated for decades, Colleary said. Its shape has been a contested subject, and it’s still unclear exactly how large the fish may have gotten.

The problem is that, like sharks, arthrodira had bodies of cartilage, not bone. That means they did not fossilize as easily, and are far more rare to find. They certainly did not preserve well in shale.

Guenther and Colleary said that while Wolf Run is private, there are plans to open it for public digs this summer.

The chances those public digs will reveal much are extremely low, Colleary said — they’ll be mostly educational.

Amateur fossil hunters looking along the banks of the Vermilion or Black rivers, or on the shores of Lake Erie, are most likely to find plant fossils, she said.

The majority are hard to recognize, because they are the same dark color as the shale. Fish scales are also somewhat common, easily recognizable by their rainbow shimmer. “And then if you get lucky, you find something like an arthrodira bone,” Colleary said.

Dunkleosteus could be lurking just below the surface, she said, and she’d be thrilled to find any tiny fragment.

In the lower level of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a fossil of a Dunkleosteus skull. It came from the excavations below what is now I-71. Scientists rescued tons of fossils there.

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Eva Hesse drawings return after long international tour OBERLIN — Delayed for two years due to the pandemic, “Forms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings” is now on exhibit at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.

The show, which draws its pieces entirely from the Allen’s collection, has appeared the last two years at Museum Wiesbaden in Germany, Hauser & Wirth New York and The Mumok in Austria.

Featuring more than 70 works on paper, along with archival material and a sculpture, the show runs through June 5.

“Forms Larger and Bolder” illustrates the foundational role that drawing played throughout Hesse’s career. The Oberlin iteration is the most comprehensive of the tour, with the addition of materials from the Eva Hesse Archive, housed at the Allen, and the pioneering sculpture Laocoon, which was one of the first museum acquisitions of a sculpture by Hesse when the Allen acquired it in 1970.

German-born American artist Eva Hesse (1936–1970) produced a prodigious body of work that forged inventive approaches to artistic materials, forms and processes. Although she died far too young — of a brain tumor at age 34 — her works are major touchstones of postminimalism.

Although Hesse’s career was centered in New York City, she visited Oberlin for two days in 1968 at the invitation of Ellen Johnson, an art history professor at Oberlin College. Hesse arrived with a stack of recent drawings that so impressed Johnson and her colleague Athena Tacha, the Allen’s first curator of modern art, that they mounted an impromptu exhibition in the art building behind the museum.

Recognizing the Allen’s early interest

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This picture of Eva Hesse was taken around 1969 and is now part of the Allen Memorial Art Museum collection.

in Eva Hesse’s work, the artist’s sister, Helen Hesse Charash, donated both archival materials and hundreds of works to the museum. The Eva Hesse Archive comprises more than 1,300 items documenting Hesse’s life and work: notebooks, diaries, datebooks, sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition-related ephemera, postcards, and letters. These materials join more than 300 artworks

by Hesse in the Allen’s permanent collection — a resource for scholars and a living testament to the artist’s boundless creativity and determination.

Admission to the Allen, 87 North Main St., is free. It is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Learn about Ohio’s owls What’s an owl prowl? Learn the answer as the Black River Audubon Society presents Jim Tomko’s program “Owls of Ohio and Other Curious Owl Trivia” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1 at the Carlisle Reservation Visitor Center, 12282 Diagonal Road, Carlisle Township.

This program will emphasize the amazing adaptations of owls and will also concentrate on the owls of Ohio. It is free to the public.

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Oberlin High School student Caleb Peterson is president of the Black Student Union at the school.

Oberlin senior Caleb Peterson leads high school's Black Student Union CARISSA WOYTACH THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

OBERLIN — Caleb Peterson wants to put Oberlin on the map.

Peterson, 17, runs Oberlin High School’s Black Student Union this year, but he’s sure it won’t be the last impact he makes on his community.

Peterson is Oberlin born and raised. His parents, Charles Peterson and Meredith Gadsby, are both Africana Studies professors at Oberlin College.

Joining the Black Student Union was a “no-brainer,” he said, something he credits his parents’ influence for.

“They really instilled me wanting to speak up, because I’ve seen multiple examples of them do the same thing and speak up about things they’re passionate about and they do a lot of work, not only for me and my siblings but for the people they love and care about,” he said.

“They love Oberlin and they want to make sure it reaches its full potential and becomes the best place it can be. And without them, I really don’t know how I would be doing what I’m doing.”

Peterson inherited his parents' love for his hometown, along with their activism.

In summer 2020 they helped at Black Lives Matter protests after George Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin. Peterson, along with other Oberlin High School and College students, participated that summer — an action Peterson says was beautiful to be a part of.

His parents were out there making sure the march that wound its way through downtown Oberlin stayed peaceful. While Peterson knew people could orchestrate a movement, he’d never seen it in person.

Two years later, Peterson is leading his school’s Black Student Union to help give his classmates a voice.

“I feel like this is not just the Black Student union, but any other minorities that want to join — anybody is welcome to join,” he said. “I feel that we’re very inclusive, we don’t separate people or create borders between anybody — anybody who wants to join can join and everybody has a say, a voice. I feel like it’s a good outlet for kids to join and feel like a part of a community.”

He also wants to give his younger brother and sister a blueprint to build on — being a part of the BSU gives them a good role model, he said.

He admits he was nervous at first to take over the group, worried he wouldn’t be a good president, but he says he’s adjusted

to it well.

“I’m trying to become a better president so that we can be taken seriously as a group and not just something we do after school,” he said. “We want to really make a change on the school and impact Oberlin and the county.”

For Black History Month the group makes announcements every morning highlighting famous African Americans — engineers, activists, authors — or events, and are planning movie nights to show “The Princess and the Frog,” “42” and “Selma.”

Its work doesn’t end in February. In April the union is re planning a trip to the Charles H. Wright African American History Museum in Detroit, he said.

As Peterson’s year starts to wind down and he looks toward the future, he hopes the Black Student Union of the future blows his presidency out of the water.

“Whatever we’re doing right now, I want them to be doing like tenfold,” he said. “I want to come back and see what they’re doing and be like ‘Man, we never even thought about doing that.’ … I want to see somebody preparing to give a speech in Oberlin, not even just at the high school. I think that would be pretty cool.”

Juggling his duties as president, responsibilities on student council, job at the Slow Train and finishing out his senior year, Peterson is looking forward to his next chapter.

He’s been accepted into five different colleges — including Temple University in Philadelphia and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta — but is undecided on a major.

He’s passionate about music creation and production, especially the business side.

He credits his dad for his love of music; his favorites being Kendrick Lamar, G Herbo and Veeze.

“In the future, I really want to leave a mark on the world and I want to be able to come back to Oberlin and be able to speak to kids,” he said. “I want to be a role model for everyone in the city and even the county as a big name who came from a really little town, a really unknown place and is recognized by the world.”

No matter where he ends up, Peterson plans to be involved in his community — and give back to his hometown.

“No matter where I am I feel like I’ll always be involved and have a direct impact on the community,” he said. “Especially still in Oberlin, I want to be able to come back and really help out the city if they need anything. I’m still going to be a part of Oberlin, it’s where I’m from. I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons and I plan to still be involved with the city.”

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‘The Brown Crayon’ author visits elementary kids JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Wearing silver shoes with flashing red LEDs, author Michael G. Williams easily captured the attention of some of Lorain County’s youngest learners last Thursday afternoon.

He was full of energy as he danced across the Oberlin Elementary School library, and kids were quick to notice that after surviving cancer and losing 300 pounds, Williams’ body was a little different.

That look was the hook, but it was his voice that reeled in the crowd as he read his children’s book, “The Brown Crayon.”

“This book is about appreciating different shades of color, appreciating that we are Jason Hawk | Oberlin News-Tribune all important,” said Williams, 50, of Maple Heights, who works as dean of engageAuthor Michael G. Williams reads his book, “The Brown Crayon,” to kids ment and student support at Glenville in prekindergarten through first grade last Thursday afternoon at Oberlin High School in Cleveland.

Elementary School. It was written in reaction to rising racism and hate The poetic children’s story was written across the country in early 2020.

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in early 2020, during Ohio’s COVID-19 lockdown.

That spring was also marked by nationwide protests after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, both Black, were killed by police. Williams saw hate and racism on the rise, and innocent children witnessing it all.

Kids are smart enough to know that like the crayons in Williams’ book, people come in all colors too, said school librarian Brianna Smith.

In class they ask questions, she said, like why some classmates have hair of differing textures and colors, and why their hands are different shapes and sizes.

“As they develop, we answer the questions as honest as we can, age appropriate,” Smith said. “I think this book helps us to do that, and gives us kind of a blueprint to do so.”

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George Roling recreates the moment for a friend in the crowd as his painting is unveiled at Patriots Park in Amherst. It’s modeled on a picture snapped by Chronicle-Telegram photographer Bruce Bishop in November, as Roling watching Lee Greenwood perform “God Bless the USA” in a prerecorded video at Amherst’s Veterans Day ceremony in November.

90-year-old veteran surprised with portrait JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — George Roling couldn’t believe his eyes last Wednesday when, in a surprise ceremony at Patriots Park, he found himself staring at a familiar whitebearded face — his own.

A cloth was pulled at noon from the sandstone art wall on Park Avenue to reveal the latest painting

by Amherst artist Mike Sekletar.

It depicts Roling in his tan Army

uniform, fist proudly raised in front of an American flag.

“Oh my goodness. Oh my lord, beautiful,” the 90-year-old veteran said, trying to keep his composure.

“What is this? Unbelievable.”

The painting is based on a shot taken by Chronicle-Telegram chief photographer Bruce Bishop at Amherst’s Veterans Day ceremony in November.

“George is a good friend of ours, and everyone, really,” said Sekletar.

He could have chosen to paint any number of worthy Lorain County

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“Everyone loves him,” Sekletar said. “He’s just a great guy and has the biggest heart in the world. He’s just a good man.”

Roling joined the Army on Dec. 8, 1953, just months after the end of hostilities in Korea. He was first stationed at Fort Knox in Kentucky, and spent a year in Germany.

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SULLIVAN TWP. — The Black River Board of Education held a community meeting in early February to discuss a possible drug-testing policy for students in the district.

Students in the Black River School District may be subject to drug tests as soon as the next school year, according to Superintendent Chris Clark.

The board wants to implement this drug-testing policy in an attempt to prevent students from getting introduced to drugs.

“The goal of this policy is to help give students another way to say no to using drugs,” Clark said. “And then, in the same sense, to allow students the opportunity to seek out counseling and assistance. So, just another way to force that issue.”

The board began looking further into the implementation of a drug-testing policy after students reported high levels of marijuana and alcohol use on their Ohio Healthy Youth Environments Survey in 2020. The survey is given to Ohio students voluntarily to complete to help school districts find out what is going on in the county’s student body.

“They ask questions like, 'At what age did you start to consume alcohol?’ and … for ours, we’ve got students in ages 13 through 16 year old. So … almost 33 percent of our students abused some sort of alcohol and consumed it,” Clark said, adding that “for marijuana usage, in the ages of 13- to 16-year-olds, we got 21 percent … that have used it more than once.”

It is the first time the district is implementing a drugtesting-related policy, with the board asking Clark last year to research the benefits it would potentially have in the district.

“They started this right towards the end of September, asking me to research whether to implement a drug-testing program here in the district,” Clark said. “So, I gave them a summary back at the January board meeting of all my findings and everything and they decided to have one last community meeting before they authorized me to write this drug-testing policy.”

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Wellington claims victory in challenge Team Wellington has won the 2022 Winter Warm-up Step Challenge against Team Keystone and Team Midview, defending its 2021 title.

Represented by THRIVE! Southern Lorain County, the winning team achieved the highest daily team average of 8,094 steps during the contest preiod.

Keystone, led by the Keystone Empowers You Collaborative, put up a strong fight with a daily team average of 7,750 steps. Midview, led by the CommonVIEW collaborative, also made a good showing with a daily team average of 5,764 steps.

The 177 challenge participants walked a total of

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38,613,512 steps.

That’s enough steps to walk from New York City to Los Angeles six times.

Between Jan. 15 through Feb. 14, residents and school staff in the Keystone, Wellington and Midview school districts competed to see which group walked the most. Participants also earned steps through other physical activities, such as housework, shoveling snow or stretching.

In keeping with the contest rules, Keystone Superintendent Dan White and Midview Superintendent Bruce Willingham each spent a day of shame wearing Wellington Dukes maroon on Wednesday, Feb. 23.

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Miller calls for lower fees State Rep. Joe Miller, D-Amherst, testified last week in support of lowering the annual registration fee for plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles.

“Many of my constituents have contacted me to ask why they are being overburdened with these fees when they have made an environmentally conscious decision to drive an electric vehicle,” he said. “If we are going to express that Ohio is open for business and open to green energy and technology, we need to demonstrate that to our constituents and the manufacturers of these electric vehicles.”

His remarks were made to the Ohio House Transportation and Public Safety Committee, which is considering Bill 346.

If passed, it would lower electric vehicle registration fees from $200 per year to $100, and fees for hybrids from $100 to $50 per year.

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Photos by Jason Hawk | Wellington Enterprise

William Shakespeare’s plays are as relevant today as ever, Nina Fisher of the Oberlin-based MAD Factory theater group told Wellington High School students last week. She visits WHS every Wednesday as part of a nine-week focus on the bard. Students in Holly O’Daly’s class spent their time last week doing improvisational scenes from “Romeo and Juliet,” putting lines from the play into their own modern wording, and writing their own sonnets. “In this day and age, in this culture, everyone knows the gist of the story a little bit,” O’Daly said, recapping the plot points of the tale of star-crossed lovers who take their own lives. ABOVE: Teacher Holly O’Daly gets into the act as Juliet, with Jackson Harris as Mercutio and Logan Cuson as Romeo. BELOW: Baron Turner takes a shot at being nursemaid to Nathan Krosse’s Juliet.

between white and brown people.

He didn’t miss a beat: “The only thing that’s different is the color,” Williams said. “If you cut us all open, we all bleed red blood.”

On the way out of the library, every student was handed their own copy of “The Brown Crayon” to take home.

They were purchased using grants from the Oberlin Schools Endowment Fund and Oberlin Public Library.

They were also told they could take it back to the school Thursday, when Williams held a book signing.

The visit was part of the Oberlin City Schools’ Black History Month observances.

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FROM B1 local event where the red, white and blue flies.

These days he’s also a regular in the Lunch Bunch, a group started by Navy veteran Mike Bokulich. In the past year, the crowd of educators, business people and veterans has visited more than 50 local residents to share meals and each others’ company.

Bokulich leads the Pledge of Allegiance at each Wednesday get-together, like he did last summer when former President Donald Trump held a rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington. And Roling leads the gang in singing “God Bless America.”

“He’s a patriot. He is so kind and caring,” Bokulich said.

“We love him.”

Roling was shocked when that affection was put into portrait form. He said he was caught off-guard by the outpouring of love from his friends — and it suddenly made sense why all his family members showed up at the municipal lot on Park Avenue where Patriots Park is located.

“I couldn’t believe it. I never dreamed that could happen.” he said. “I spent many hours watching them build this mural wall, and wondered at how they found all the right stone pieces to put it together, rock by rock. I couldn’t really do anything to help, myself, but I loved to watch them.

And now I’m hanging right up there on the wall.”

THE 1940s ACROSS 1. Decree 6. *U.S./U.S.S.R.’s cold one 9. Harry Potter’s mark 13. Syrup flavor 14. ____ Khan 15. Bird of prey’s nest 16. Lieu 17. H+, e.g.

18. Bashful or Happy 19. *”1984” author George 21. *Best-selling pop artist Bing 23. Writer ____ Monk Kidd 24. Genghis or Kubla 25. Cranberry habitat 28. Not nice 30. Saddle holders 35. *Boris Karloff’s movie “The ____,” pl.

37. Actress Barrymore 39. Asian goat antelope 40. Supernatural life force 41. Seethes 43. South African antelope 44. Cook from above 46. Rotisserie part 47. Not odd 48. Italy in Italian 50. What snob puts on 52. .0000001 joule 53. Sound of a dropped tome 55. Beer acronym 57. *____ Doctrine, U.S. foreign policy 60. *”How Green Was My ____” 63. Another word for nutria 64. Ciao in the U.S. 66. Trip guide 68. Surveyor’s maps 69. Afflict 70. Will alternative 71. Additionally 72. Nucleic acid 73. Term of endearment DOWN 1. Emergency acronym 2. *1949 international org.

3. Copycat 4. Chicken feet 5. Christian hymn (2 words) 6. Graveside sound

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on the topic, with people living in the community giving their thoughts on different parts of the current drug policy.

The grade range of those being tested, outcomes for students caught using drugs and how the district plans to finance the tests were a few of the topics discussed.

These topics the board discussed take inspiration from other drug-testing policies used by New London, Wadsworth, Brunswick, Northwestern, Keystone, Cloverleaf and Medina school districts, according to Clark.

Parents, students and teachers all participated in the meeting and all shared their own unique points of view on the situation. At certain points, the meeting broke out in heated debate between different individuals but the aim of the participants was uniting in preventing students from getting into drugs. The common goal was something the board was thankful for.

“We appreciate their feedback,” Clark said. “All those parents, I appreciate their feedback.”

The board will hold another meeting on the future of the drug policy in March.

7. Gone by 8. TV’s Yellowstone, e.g.

9. Uses a Singer 10. Underwater hermit 11. Ethereal 12. Gridiron official, for short 15. Apollo Creed’s son 20. City in northern England 22. Old towel, e.g.

24. Rollerskater’s protector (2 words) 25. *Disney’s 1942 orphan 26. Abstractionism using optical illusion 27. Kind of salami 29. Crafts’ companion 31. Network of nerves 32. Treasure collection 33. Dreamer?

34. *Popular music style 36. Ship canvas 38. *1939-1945 42. Parallel grooves 45. Acid turns it red 49. “Bingo!”

51. Daryl Hannah’s 1984 movie 54. Open up 56. In spite of the fact, arch.

57. Church sound 58. Swedish shag rugs 59. Plotting 60. Velum, pl.

61. Zeal 62. New Haven University 63. IRS employee?

65. Yang’s opposite 67. Canny

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LOW-SCORING SECTIONAL LOSS

Photos by Russ Gifford | Wellington Enterprise

Here’s a heartbreaker: Mapleton effectively shut down the Dukes’ offense in a 39-20 low-scorer in the Division III sectional semifinal, ending Wellington’s postseason run. The Mounties were led by Sara Hickey, who put up 21 points. Usual Dukes scorers Karlie Frenk and Tori Paramore were held to just 5 points apiece. LEFT: Wellington’s Gabby Miller turns for a shot at Mapleton. CENTER: Tori Paramore gets to the basket. RIGHT: Taylor Morris drives the baseline.

VALERIUS SHINES

Photos by Russ Gifford | Amherst News-Times Photos by Erik Andrews | Oberlin News-Tribune

Oberlin senior Marius Harrell drives the baseline against Nordonia.

Back-to-back losses for LC League champions ERIK ANDREWS CORRESPONDENT

After claiming a share of the Lorain County League title, Oberlin’s energy was sapped and the team went 0-2 on the week.

Losses to Nordonia and Columbia set the Phoenix’s regular season record at 14-8 overall, 12-2 in LCL play. The stellar 12-win conference record was Oberlin's highest league victory total since the league's inception.

Coach Kurt Russell's team jumped ahead early against Nordonia, running out to a 38-31 halftime lead.

But the Knights stabilized their game and came roaring back with a 28-point third quarter to take the lead and control of the game and ultimately the victory, 77-71.

Senior Ty Locklear led the Phoenix with 25 points in the team's final home game.

Closing out the regular

Lauren Valerius netted 16 points to help Firelands cruise through the Division II sectional final Saturday with a 41-25 win over Tallmadge.

Larren Rounds added 10 to the Falcons’ tally in the playoff game.

ABOVE: Firelands' Bella Simmons battles for a loose ball against Tallmadge.

RIGHT: Firelands' Abbey Schmitz gets a steal against Tallmadge.

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BOARD AND COMMISSION MEETING DATES - ALL MEETINGS WILL TAKE PLACE AT 85 SOUTH MAIN STREET UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

FEBRUARY 28, 2022 .............. RESOURCE CONSERVATION & RECOVERY COMMISSION – 5:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2022 .............. CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING – 7:00 P.M.– COUNCIL CHAMBERS - PURPOSE: To consider the application of Fence Row Productions, LLC for Oberlin senior Andre Yarber looks for operating room down low. season, Oberlin traveled to Columbia where the Raiders avenged their earlier defeat with a 74-63 win.

Isaac Thompson paced the visitors with 18 points while Locklear (11), Josiah Bowen-Pride (11), and Marius Harrell (10) all contributed double-

digit totals.

The Phoenix now step onto the tournament trail, hoping to make a little noise in the Division 3 Wooster district.

The team plays host to the Manchester-Northwestern winner on Friday evening at home, with opening tip set for 7 p.m.

the continued inclusion of a certain parcel of real estate in an agricultural district, being Lorain County Auditor’s Parcel No. 09-00-088-105-056 and the application of Anthony R. Ignagni and Peggi M. Ignagni for the continued inclusion of certain parcels of real estate in an agricultural district, being Lorain County Auditor’s Parcel Nos. 09-00-087-105-001 and 09-00-087-105-022 all being located within the corporate limits of the City of Oberlin.

FEBRUARY 28, 2022 .............. CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING – IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE PUBLIC HEARING - PURPOSE: To Discuss and Consider A Resolution to Modify and Approve the Application of Fence Row Productions, LLC to Continue the Inclusion of Certain Land Located within the City of Oberlin in an Agricultural District Pursuant to Section 929.02 of the Ohio Revised Code as an Emergency Measure; and a Resolution to Approve the Application of Anthony R. Ignagni and Peggi M. Ignagni to Continue the Inclusion of Certain Land Located within the City of Oberlin in an Agricultural District Pursuant to Section 929.02 of the Ohio Revised Code as an Emergency Measure.

MARCH 1, 2022 ..................... HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION – 5:15 P.M. MARCH 2, 2022 ..................... PLANNING COMMISSION – 4:30 P.M. NOTICE: DISABLED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO MAY NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CALL 775-7203 OR E-MAIL: banderson@cityofoberlin.com NOTICE REQUIRED: TWO (2) WORKING DAYS IN ADVANCE OF MEETING (48 HOURS) CLERK OF COUNCIL’S OFFICE.

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FINAL SEASON FOR THESE COMETS Photos by Joe Colon | Amherst News-Times

Amherst Steele winter sports players in their final seasons have been honored in recent weeks.

Amherst Athletic Association gearing up for 2022 season JASON HAWK EDITOR

Varsity basketball seniors are Sam Risdon, Jordan Koury, Torre Weatherspoon, Justin Zakrajsek, Austin Bray, George Fayer, Austin Kucirek, Nick Hamrilik and George Gotsis.

Senior wrestlers are Aidan Santiago, Jacob Bally, Richard Tennant and Alex Fabiku.

AMHERST — Tom Anderson remembers knocking balls out of the park as a kid at the old Shupe Elementary School, which is now long since demolished.

He tells his daughter, a high school sophomore, about the glory days on the diamond, and of friendships made in the dugout.

Anderson hopes to give today’s kids the same kind of summer memories. As president of the Amherst Athletic Association, he talked to City Council last week about his goals for 2022.

“It’s a labor of love,” he said, describing the work that goes into organizing some 60 recreation league teams for kindergarten through 12th grade, eight Tom travel baseball teams and an adult co-ed Anderson softball league.

Last year, more than 850 children from about 600 families in Amherst and the surrounding township turned out to play, said Anderson.

This year, even with snow still on the ground, he told Council that 400 had signed up already, including 200 who have never played before.

“We don’t want to turn any kids away, either,” Anderson said — the Amherst Athletic Association aims to embrace all kids, regardless of skill level, whether they’re belting home runs or picking dandelions in the outfield.

That mission has existed for a long time.

According to Councilman Chuck Winiarski, the organization was established in 1954 and has grown to become one of the largest privately-funded summer recreation programs in Ohio.

The city of Amherst does not fund the summer leagues, although some prominent politicians have been involved over the years. Former Mayor David Taylor and Winiarski, for example, have taken on the duties of president in years past.

Keeping the program continuously running for seven decades hasn’t always been easy. Anderson said it managed to continue through the COVID-19 pandemic, though.

The work is handled by a board of directors. A couple of years ago, there were three, and the board has grown in 2022 to include five members.

They are no longer using St. Joseph Field, according to Anderson, and it’s been difficult to get every game scheduled with limited venues available. He said this year the organization is reaching out to Amherst Township trustees about the possibility of using their public park fields.

For more information on summer recreation fees and sign-ups, visit www.tinyurl.com/amherstball.

COMETS BRIEFS Boys Basketball • With Nick Hamrlik’s 23 points paving the way, Amherst easily topped Avon 76-58 in Southwestern Conference play.

The Comets shot out to a 27-18 first quarter lead and kept up the pressure, with 13 points apiece from George Gotsis and George Fayer. Zane Austin led the Eagles with 9 points.

Ice Hockey • Brooklyn goalie Jason Nicholson was simply overwhelmed as the Comets put shot after shot past him in an 11-1 rout.

Amherst standout Joey Kramer had four goals, but there were plenty more to go around. Gavyn Cumberledge, Thomas Hall and Justus Owens each added two more to the tally, and Nick Ciura sank one into the net.

The lone Hurricanes goal came from Matt Nicholson — Brooklyn was unable to muster a single other shot, making for an easy time for goalies River Ambroz, Maguire Mihalek and Logan Orlandi.

Senior Comets cheerleaders are Kylie Tann, Sydnie Ruth, Juliana Janis, Sydney Huynh, Mikenna Folley, Allison Cooke and Ava Barnes.

OBERLIN CITY COUNCIL CLERK’S OFFICE

NOTICE OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS VACANCIES

The following City commissions have vacancies for terms expiring on the dates provided below. Applications for interested parties are available at the Clerk of Council’s office, located at 85 South Main Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074, or by submitting a form via the City’s website, at https://www.cityofoberlin.com.

Applications will be received until filled.

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DATE TERM EXPIRES

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Resource Conservation and Recovery Commission

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12/31/2023

Underground Railroad Center Implementation Team

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Girls Bowling • For the third straight year, the Amherst varsity team claimed the OHSAA sectional title in competition at Rollhouse North Olmsted, scoring 4,105 for first place.

Senior Makayla Velasquez led the Comets with a 778 series on games of 279, 288 and 211. Allison Taylor rolled a 597 series (206, 190, 201) and Sabrina Stawicki rolled 587 (179, 206, 202).

Hannah Aschenbach rolled a 554 series (205, 159, 190) and Melissa Nunez rolled 470 (163, 153, 154).

The team advances to the district tournament on Tuesday, March 1 in Oakwood, Ohio, with hopes of qualifying for state.

Boys Bowling • Amherst placed third with 4,234 points at the OHSAA sectional tournament in North Olmsted.

JP Gregory rolled a 731 series on games of 236, 269 and 226 to lead the Comets. Logan Stewart rolled 652 (228, 204, 220), Zack Zakrajsek rolled 604 (208, 193, 203), Micah Mercado rolled 505 (160, 179, 166) and Nathan Palos rolled games of 157 and 172.

The boys move on to district competition on Monday, Feb. 28.

Indoor Track and Field The Comets competed Friday at the Northeast Ohio Indoor Track Conference All-Star Championship. Top performances include: • Ella Baker placed fourth in the 400-meter race with a time of 60.21 seconds.

• Ella Baker placed sixth in the 60-meter race with a time of 8.16 seconds.

• The girls 4x800 relay team of Aurora Wilson, Marisa Del Valle, Leah Gerke and Catherine Turner placed seventh with a finishing time of 10:10.31.

• Marisa Del Valle placed eighth in the 3,200-meter race in 11:57.45.

• The boys 4x200 relay team of Ryan Szczepanik, Evan Draga, Roman Giannuzzi and Sean McQuate set a new school record of 1:35.79.

The Comets head to the Division 1 indoor state championships Friday, March 4.

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PHOENIX SENIOR RECOGNITION

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GROESSER LEADS PIRATES

Photos by Erik Andrews | Oberlin News-Tribune

Oberlin High School recognized senior cheerleaders and basketball support staff prior to its Senior Night game on Friday, Feb. 11. Tip o’ the cap to scorekeeper Maggie Shuck, Pearl-Hannah Gunn, Emerson Freas, Mariah Thompson, Jennah Ortiz and videographer Liz Canseco.

Photos by Russ Gifford | Wellington Enterprise

After a slow first quarter start, Black River dominated Mansfield St. Peter’s on Saturday, winning the non-conference bout 67-55. Eric Groesser had 13 points to lead the Pirates, while Ridge Martin and Johnny Kray each put 11 on the board. ABOVE: Black River's Ridge Martin gets fouled at the basket by St. Peter's Kaleb Kososky. BELOW: Andon O'Neal gets the layup past Kososky.

The Phoenix also celebrated their five senior ballers prior to the game: Dayvion Witherspoon, Marius Harrell, Andre Yarber, Ty Locklear and Korey Russell.

ANDOLSEK HONORED FOR 100 WINS

LAST GAME IN THE OLD GYM

Photos by Russ Gifford | Wellington Enterprise

Wellington’s Derrick Andolsek was congratulated for his 100 career wins as a Dukes wrestler during the team’s Senior Night against Avon Lake, receiving a banner from coach Bill Watters.

BELOW: Andolsek controls Avon Lake's Jack Shepard.

Angelo Angel | Amherst News-Times

Keystone jumped out to a 13-8 lead Friday and never let Firelands catch up, topping the Falcons 66-46 in a strong finish. Christian Pataky led the Wildcats to victory with 20 points, while Jake Morgan contributed 11. Nate Draga had a decent night for the Falcons, notching 18 points, and Anthony Januzzi had 11. With a new school under construction next door and on track to open this fall, it was the final regular season in the old Firelands High School gymnasium, making for a bittersweet Falcons finale.

ABOVE: Fireland’s Timmy Phillips fails to stop Keystone’s Christian Pataky from going for the layup.

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Replace the missing words.

What do you want to be when you grow up? If you like building things, have you ever thought about being a welder?

Choose a story in this newspaper.

Cut out the headline or write the headline in the box below.

welder “welds” pieces of metal together. When you want to ___________ two pieces of paper together you could use glue, _______ or a stapler.

But how do you get two pieces of metal to ________ and stay together? It takes some intense heat!

Welders work with __________ and flames or very hot equipment.

It takes a lot of heat to melt _________. A blowtorch is aimed at metal to ___________ high heat to melt metal. Sometimes, when watching a welder work you will see him or her surrounded by a shower of __________. Those sparks are little pieces of melted metal! They can burn clothing and skin, so _____________ is very important in welding.

WHY did the editor of this newspaper choose to send a reporter to find out more about this event?

To be safe, welders wear special jackets, gloves and work shoes. They wear a helmet with a safety visor or safety glasses — sometimes both.

They also make sure to have a fire extinguisher within ___________.

Welding Around Home

Wendy wants to be a welder someday like her Uncle Wesley.

She drew pictures of some of the things she thinks required welding in order to be built. Cross out the things that were not welded together. Have a family member check your work.

How can I become a welder?

Welders learn their trade by working in an apprenticeship training program. Circle every other letter to discover what an apprentice is.

WHY did this event happen?

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Being a Welder is a Good Job! Replace the missing vowels to find out the many ways being a welder is a good career.

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The p_y is v_ry g_ _d.

The w_rk w_ld_rs do touches m_st ev_ryb_dy’s lives.

There is a sh_rtage of w_ld_rs so th_re are m_ny j_b _penings.

TOOL BOX TRIVIA: BLOWTORCH A blowtorch produces a very, very hot flame to make heat that allows a welder to mold and cut metal. It’s a dangerous tool and takes training and special safety equipment to use safely.

Blowtorch is a compound word—a word created by combining two smaller words. Draw lines to weld pairs of words to create compound words.

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Welders in the News

Look through the newspaper for images that show things a welder might have made. Find 10 images and then group them into categories based on similarities. Come up with a name for each category.

Standards Link: Write descriptively comparing past and present.

BLOWTORCH SHORTAGE INTENSE TRAINING WELDER SPARKS SAFETY HELMET GLOVES VISOR METAL HEAT BURN MELT TOOL

Look through the newspaper for pictures or words that go with each of the words hot, hotter, and hottest. Paste these onto a blank sheet of paper and label each one. Repeat this activity for more adjectives such as cold, small, short, tall, funny, and other adjectives that can be used to compare nouns.

Standards Link: Language Arts: Understand and identify antonyms.

Standards Link: Reading/Writing: Draw evidence from informational text.

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This week’s word:

SURROUND

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The verb surround means to enclose on all sides.

E S E R I O T G A I

The players surrounded Devon in clebration when he scored a goal.

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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Try to use the word surround in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

The Magic Key One day, while walking down the street, I found a key. Every time I tried to open a lock it …

Finish this story.