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Council president Adelman resigns JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Heather Adelman, who has served on Oberlin City Council president since 2018 and as its president since January, is resigning effective Sunday, April 24.

Adelman announced last week that she must leave her elected position to avoid a conflict of interest after being hired as Oberlin College’s new sustainability manager.

“I leave my position on Coun-

cil with great gratitude and great sorrow, but I know this is the right thing to do,” she said in a prepared statement. “I am so proud of all the work we’ve done together over the years.”

When first elected in 2017, Adelman was the top voteearner in an eight-way race. She repeated the feat in 2019, besting a field of 12, and in 2021 trailed Eboni Johnson by just six ballots for the top spot.

Since joining Council, she has championed the city’s Sustainable Reserve Fund and Climate Action Plan, new sidewalks,

Charges after 2nd bomb threat made against junior high JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — A pair of bomb threats against Amherst Junior High School caused panic, the first coming Friday and an apparent copycat following Monday.

A threat found scribbled on a girls restroom stall Friday morning at the Milan Avenue school caused it to be briefly evacuated while police swept the building.

Staff found the graffiti around 11 a.m. and alerted police officer Greg Ford, who is assigned to patrol the schools. According to Sgt. Michael Rosebeck, the message read, “We have a bomb” and listed a specific time within the hour.

It didn’t include any other details nor name any targets, he said.

The school was emptied for about 15 minutes, giv-

ing police time to search within its walls while about 800 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders waited outside, said Principal Andrew Gibson. Teachers treated the interruption like a fire drill so that kids didn’t panic.

The Lorain County Bomb Squad was consulted, but did not help sweep the building, said Rosebeck.

No explosives or other contraband were discovered, he said. That led police to deem the threat “non-credible.”

Though it was found in a girls restroom, the threat was too sloppy to get a sense of whether it may have been written by a boy or girl, Rosebeck said.

There are no suspects, and no other evidence turned up.

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dents were lifelong Oberlin residents, he said, but she chose to move to Oberlin and work to make it a better place.

“She chose to live in Oberlin.

She came in with an outsider’s perspective, but she loves the community,” Burgess said.

Adelman gave her goodbyes to Council on Monday, April 4. Though she will still technically be an official, she will not preside over the body’s meeting on April 18 due to a previouslyscheduled vacation.

Her new job at Oberlin College begins April 25.

So egg-cited for Easter

Photos by Jason Hawk | Wellington Enterprise

Kids rushed Saturday morning to grab as many candy-filled eggs as possible during Main Street Wellington’s Easter egg hunt. The prizes didn’t last long, as throngs of kids surged across the Town Hall gym to pack their baskets.

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New home for Salvation Army unit JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — The Salvation Army has a new home for its service unit and efforts to help prison inmates reenter society after serving their terms.

The Oberlin chapter moved April 1 from its small office at CoWork on Artino Street into Christ Temple Apostolic Church, 370 West Lincoln St.

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Ministry launched in 2014, it reached 900 inmates. Walker said she and Director Mark Fahringer “were in over our heads as quick as it took to snap our fingers.”

In the past three years, working with the Grafton Correctional Institution and other prisons, the pair have reached 6,000 inmates.

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Not only is there much more room at the church, but there is also privacy to meet with former inmates looking to turn their lives around, said administrator Stephanie Walker.

“Some of them are only incarcerated for six months and others for 15 years, but many come out with addictions,” she said. “We want to be right there when they come out so we can assist them.”

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Amherst Easter egg hunt

The Amherst Community Easter Egg Hunt will be held Saturday, April 16 at Maude Neiding Park on Cleveland Avenue.

The event is sponsored by the Amherst Lions and Leo clubs.

The Easter Bunny is scheduled to arrive at the park at 10:30 a.m., with egg hunts beginning at 11 a.m. for children ages 10 and under. There will be separate areas for toddlers to age 3, ages 4-6 and ages 7-10.

Parking at Maude Neiding is limited, so plan to either arrive early or park nearby and walk. Used, unwanted eyeglasses will also be accepted by the Lions for recycling.

Band cooks up flapjacks

The Firelands Band Boosters’ annual pancake breakfast will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 17 at the South Amherst fire station. The band will do the cooking. There will be a 50-50 raffle and basket raffles, with all proceeds going to the Firelands instrumental music department.

Earth Day 5K is April 16

The city of Oberlin’s 2022 Earth Day 5K will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 16 on Tappan Square.

The run is open to all ages. Registration is $20 before April 14 and $25 the day of the race. To sign up, visit www.tinyurl. com/2022EarthDay5K. There will be awards in all divisions.

T-shirts will be given to the first 100 registrants.

Concert and salad in Pittsfield

Springspiration Day will be held Tuesday, April 19 at Pittsfield Community Church, 17026 State Route 58.

Registration will begin at 10 a.m. with a concert at 10:30 a.m. by the Generations Quartet from Camden Baptist Church. A salad luncheon will follow at noon. An offering will be taken. All are welcome to attend. For reservations, call (440) 647-5170.

Grab baked chicken to go

What’s Cookin’ Wednesday will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on April 20 at First Congregational Church, 140 South Main St., Wellington. The menu includes baked chicken, scalloped potatoes, salad, roll and dessert. The cost is $12 per meal. Pre-order by calling (440) 647-3308.

OBITUARIES JAMES EDWARD HITESHEW, 70, and a resident of Elyria, passed away Monday, April 4, 2022, at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain.

VIOLA MICHAEL (nee Yoder), 81, of South Amherst, passed away Saturday, April 2, 2022, at New Life Hospice Center, following a full and meaningful life.

JOSEPH “GIUSEPPE” FAGA, 88, of Elyria Township, passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at his home surrounded by his family, following a full and meaningful life.

LETTERS All things are possible To the editor: Easter approaches, the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven to be with his father, forever enjoying the rich rewards of an everlasting and perfect existence.

We do not have to believe in that miraculous, spiritual transformation of an eternal life of peace. What is important is that we both believe in and practice "loving our neighbors at least as much as we love ourselves," "rearing children to respect and obey their parents," etc. Virtually all prophets espoused the above, though many followers engaged in the most violent, destructive and inhumane practices imaginable.

We in America embrace or reject any and all forms of religion and have the freedom to choose all our leaders in a marvelous democratic manner. Yet we stand to lose so much if we do not strive much harder to be a united America, not a divided one, which we are today.

Let us celebrate or not as we wish, but focus on loving and caring for all human beings no matter where or how they live, for we only have this tiny earth to call home but have the mind power to make some form of the resurrection a reality as we widen the circumference of our knowledge in science, engineering, medicine, etc. All things are possible, even life after death!

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Charges dropped, but Falcons coach is denied reinstatement JASON HAWK EDITOR

SOUTH AMHERST — Enraged over the treatment of now-former head wrestling coach Josh Walbom, Firelands wrestlers and their families showed up in force Monday to demand he be reinstated.

Following an alleged incident in a November practice, Walbom was placed on leave through the end of the season and faced misdemeanor charges of hazing and menacing.

Those counts were dropped without prejudice Thursday by prosecutor Farah Emeka in Oberlin Municipal Court.

She said the alleged victim, a student, “was significantly traumatized by the events giving rise to the charge and the state no longer wishes to pursue” it, according to court documents.

The case never went to trial. But Firelands Superintendent Mike Von Gunten and Board of Education President Mike O’Keefe said Monday that they won’t renew Walbom’s one-year coaching contract. They told parents it’s “a done deal.”

In return, the angry crowd shouted that the elected officials will be voted out at the next available opportunity and replaced with candidates who will fire Von Gunten.

“We teach our kids to punch a bully in the mouth” and fight to clear their names when wrongfully accused, said parent Todd Rogers, demanding the school board apologize to Walbom.

He accused Athletic Director Ty Stillman of “concocting a fraudulent review” of the wrestling coach.

Others also leveled complaints against Stillman, going so far as to call for his resignation or termination. Instead, the Board of Education voted to approve a three-year contract extension, further infuriating the room.

Junior Ruben Lorenzana, a two-time state placer, asked to simply get back the coach he views as a father figure. He said Walbom helped him rise

Photos by Angelo Angel | Amherst News-Times

Wrestling coach Josh Walbom, who was suspended most of the winter season and whose contract will not be renewed, speaks before the Firelands Board of Education on Monday night. higher than any other wrestler in Firelands High School history.

“He has also earned the respect of not only the wrestlers, but also their parents and other coaches as well,” Lorenzana said.

Walbom would do whatever he could to cheer up wrestlers when they were down and stayed late after practices to give one-onone attention, he said.

When Lorenzana’s single father died two years ago, Walbom was there to console him, said the wrestler’s uncle, Raymond Pina.

“I sat back and watched, and said, ‘That’s the person I want mentoring our kids.’ That’s what sets him apart,” he said.

And when Lorenzana got into an inexcusable confrontation with an opponent, the coach held him accountable and stripped him of his team captain role. That tough love, said Pina, further convinced him Walbom was the man for the job.

Attorney and wrestling parent Giovanna Bremke said the complaint against her client came after a team member made disparaging remarks about a female classmate. Later, Walbom made him run a “common” seven-minute drill that the team member felt was an unfair punishment.

“The child wasn’t harmed, wasn’t in danger of being harmed,” Bremke

said.

What emerged was a complaint that Firelands middle schoolers were practicing alongside high schoolers in violation of Ohio High School Athletic Association recruiting rules. According to Bremke, the district selfreported the issue.

Other parents accused Von Gunten of seizing on the situation as a way to “get” Walbom.

What the motive might be is unclear, even to the former coach.

“This is a pattern of behavior. I know this body doesn’t like me, and I don’t really know why,” he told the Board of Education on Monday.

Walbom admitted that he did break an OHSAA rule, but that the organization decided the infraction didn’t warrant discipline.

Von Gunten released information about potential misconduct to turn the public against him, Walbom claimed. He said he wasn’t given a chance to defend himself until a letter was drafted recommending his contract nonrenewal.

Von Gunten declined to comment on the complaints made in Monday’s public meeting. He only said that he conducted an investigation and based on the findings decided Walbom should not be allowed to return.

But parents are upset that the decision will stand without a criminal conviction.

“There is no wrongdoing here,” said parent Aaron Dunn. “The state hasn’t found anything wrong.

The prosecutor hasn’t found anything wrong.”

After the meeting, frustrations continued to boil over as parents left without any concessions. Several shouted that they’d see school board members replaced or sued if Walbom isn’t rehired.

A petition started Monday on Change.org calls for him to be reinstated.

As of 9:30 p.m. it had 407 signatures.

“They defamed this man's character and it was a very one-sided investigation on the schools’ part due to politics and popularity!” the petition language says.

If Walbom does not get his job back, it may lead to legal action, Bremke said in a phone interview.

Her client was more than a coach to Firelands teens, she said.

“I think that he’s made an impact on these kids,” Bremke said. “He’s helped them through their personal struggles, family loss, paying for uniforms for kids who couldn’t afford them, helped kids with homework. He’s sort of like a family member to a lot of these kids.”

Anti-Mahallati group joins pay fight JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — A protest group that has repeatedly called for the termination of an Islamic studies professor at Oberlin College is now backing a push for increased compensation for the institution’s employees.

Asking for raises and a better medical insurance plan, professors and students have rallied in recent months.

They’ve leveled accusations of mismanagement against the college, and have branded Board of Trustees members as hypocrites for their treatment of union of employees while sitting on a $1 billion endowment.

Joining the fray is the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists, which sent a letter to the college this week backing “better work conditions, health benefits and adequate remuneration” for Oberlin faculty and staff.

The group of alumni, human rights activists and Iran-Americans has demanded since October 2020 that the college fire religion professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. He was Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in the 1980s during the state-sanctioned execution of untold thousands of political prisoners.

At question is whether Mahallati was aware of and helped cover up evidence of the killings.

Amnesty International lists Mahallati among those the organization claims “were actively involved in denying the mass killings in media interviews and exchanges with the U.N. to shield those responsible from accountability.” Oberlin College claims it reviewed a 2018 Amnesty International report in which accusations were leveled against Mahallati and engaged professional investigators to evaluate what role he may have played.

Mahallati himself denies the allega-

tions, and the college said its inquiry didn’t find proof to corroborate them.

The college has not bowed to the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists’ demands, despite repeated protests. Another is being planned for June 5.

“We have requested that the college initiate a transparent and independent investigation into Professor Mahallati’s cover-up of the 1988 prison massacres,” said a release provided by activist Lawdan Bazargan. “All our calls have remained unanswered; all the documents we submitted to corroborate Mahallati’s role have been ignored. Our repeated demands for justice and accountability have been dismissed.”

The group said Oberlin College has failed to live up to its ideals of fighting for social justice and defending human rights.

Scott Wargo, director of media relations for the college, did not provide any new comment.

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Oberlin’s mystery park zoning could be solved JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — It’s a mystery why 27 properties spread across Oberlin’s residential neighborhoods are zoned either in whole or part as public park land.

Carrie Porter, the city’s planning and development director, has been trying to sleuth out the history behind the odd situation. She told the Planning Commission last week that maps made 31 years ago mark all neighborhoods south of Morgan Street under park zoning.

“Sometime between ‘91 and now, most of those houses got rezoned to R-1, except for those few on the end, on the west end, for some reason,” she said. “I don’t know if that could have been a mapping error.”

Now the commission is recommending that City Council remedy the situation by rezoning the affected land as residential.

Doing so could fix some real problems, not just a clerical error on paper.

Take for example one South Professor Street home, more than a century old, that technically sits on land dubbed for recreational use. Porter said the zoning disconnect has caused issues for owners over the years.

“I know that that house has turned over several

times, and they always have difficulty selling it because they can’t the financing because of the zoning, because it’s a nonconforming use,” she said.

Under P-1 zoning, conforming uses would only include parks, playgrounds, athletic fields, cemeteries, public educational institutions, libraries, museums, art galleries, golf courses, nonprofit facilities and noncommercial parking lots.

No ordinary houses.

There are several more homes on Kimberly Circle that are in violation of Oberlin’s rule book because they are on P-1 land, Porter said. Others sit on Morgan Street, Willowbrook Road, South Professor Street, East College Street and Oberlin Road.

Boundaries for the park zone area are strange — sometimes they follow the flood plain and other times they follow property lines.

According to Porter, there seems to be no consistent reason behind the way they are drawn.

Planning Commission member Deb Barman threw her support behind rezoning the 27 properties to fix the situation.

“This is the kind of stuff that, like you said, makes a difference with the lender, which affects our residents,” she said.

The commission voted to move in the opposite direction with two parcels located at 66 and 69 South

Oberlin residential properties with P-1 park zoning • 291 Morgan St. • 831 Kimberly Circle • 837 Kimberly Circle • 843 Kimberly Circle • 849 Kimberly Circle • 855 Kimberly Circle • 861 Kimberly Circle • 867 Kimberly Circle • 873 Kimberly Circle • 879 Kimberly Circle • 885 Kimberly Circle • 891 Kimberly Circle • 897 Kimberly Circle • 903 Kimberly Circle • 911 Kimberly Circle • 60 Willowbrook Rd. • 52 Willowbrook Rd. • 42 Willowbrook Rd. • 36 Willowbrook Rd. • 32 Willowbrook Rd. • 26 Willowbrook Rd. • 141 South Professor St. • 493 East College St. • 525 East College St. • 94 South Oberlin Rd. • 116 South Oberlin Rd. • 144 South Oberlin Rd. Park St. It recommended they be rezoned from R-1 residential to P-1 use.

Porter said the properties were lost through tax foreclosure several years ago, and the houses that once stood there have been demolished since being purchased by Oberlin.

The goal is to use them to connect Park Street Park and Spring Street Park, furthering development of the publicly-owned lands along Plum Creek, said Porter.

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“But you have to take it seriously, which is why we had the response we did.

You can’t ever discount something like that.”

The second threat was made public late Monday.

Made on Snapchat across several posts, it said, “You will all die tomorrow.

Those of you who have made my life a living hell will all pay tomorrow.

Good luck,” according to Detective Brian Griffin and Lt. Dan Makruski.

The poster went on to specify that a bomb would go off in the Amherst Junior High cafeteria at 12:34 p.m. They also included a “hit list” with four chil-

dren’s names.

This time, Nord Middle School was also mentioned.

Police charged a 14-yearold Amherst girl with misdemeanor counts of inducing panic and aggravated menacing.

According to Griffin, the eighth-grader “thought it would be funny to play a joke on the school” and was apparently inspired by the Friday incident. He said there was no evidence she had also scribbled the bathroom bomb threat.

The girl’s parents allowed police to search their home, Griffin said. Officers seized a phone, tablet device and internet router as evidence.

The Amherst bomb

threats come on the heels of three made in March at Lorain County Community College, which resulted in the evacuation of its campuses. All three were made via the college’s online live chat system, and were deemed to be unsubstantiated. After the third threat on March 29, LCCC went to remote classes for several days.

Those incidents were in the back of Amherst police officers’ minds as they responded Friday to the junior high, said Rosebeck.

He speculated that an Amherst student could have heard about the LCCC threats and made a bad decision to write their own.

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Former inmates are starting over, often with no support, no transportation, no job, no ID and no place to live, he said. They generally want to put the past behind and fit in with the community.

“Very few people come out with the idea of, ‘I’m just going to go back and do what I did before. I just got caught this time.’

You don’t hear that,” he said.

When they hit barriers, frustration rises.

Without day-to-day help available, many simply give up and turn back to crime.

That’s why Ohio’s recidivism rate is 30.7 percent, “which is a crazy number,” said Fahringer, his voice thick with grief.

In many ways, the system is designed to fail, he alleged. That keeps the money flowing.

Mass incarceration by for-profit prisons “is big business,” he said. “It’s not designed for people to get out and stay out.

It’s designed to break.”

The Oberlin Salvation Army unit is ramping up other programs in its new space, too.

Walker said she will teach free CPR classes twice each month at Christ Temple Apostolic.

The service unit is also throwing its assistance to the Oberlin Rotary Club’s BackPack program, which provides public school students with food to take home over the weekends.

Walker said she is also in the early stages of launching a program to provide boxed food staples to senior citizens.

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In that setting, Fahringer builds relationships with prisoners. When they are released, they are given vouchers for clothing from the Salvation Army’s retail locations, and Walker provides help with resume writing, getting state IDs and providing security and utility deposits.

Those who need psychiatric care or help battling addiction are referred to The Nord Center, Let’s Get Real, The LCADA Way, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and other counseling services.

Support is offered by appointment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

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In a typical week, the Salvation Army project works with 20 or more people who are trying to reclaim their lives after incarceration, said Walker.

And with the relocation to Christ Temple, those efforts are poised to grow.

Fahringer said Pastor Laurence Nevels has lent his support — not only has the church been involved with prison ministry, but Nevels served many years as a prison chaplain.

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Kiwanis Pancake Day returns

Kiwanis Pancake Day will run from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. on Friday, April 22 at the Wellington Eagles, 631 South Main St. For tickets, visit the third floor of Wellington Town Hall.

They are $5 for adults and $3 for kids ages 8 and under.

Vendors needed for flea market SULLIVAN — The Black River Schools and Black River Ruriteens will hold their 2nd Annual Spring Flea Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 7 at the Black River Education Center parking lot.

Vendors can de-clutter their homes and upcycle used items by reserving space for the market. An 18-by-18-foot space is $20 and 8-foot tables are $10. For reservations, call (419) 736-3304 by 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28.

Democratic conference at LCCC

A “Women Build Back Better” mini-conference will be held by the Lorain County Democratic Women’s Club and Federated Democratic Women of Ohio on Saturday, April 23 at Lorain County Community College, 1005 North Abbe Rd., Elyria.

It will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Spitzer Conference Center. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

The event is open to all residents regardless of gender and will feature speakers and candidates for local and state offices in the upcoming midterm election. They include Gail Bucker of the National Federation of Women; Elizabeth Walters, president of the Ohio Democratic Party; Andre Washington, vice president of the Ohio Democratic Party; Ted Teodosio, Ohio 9th District Court of Appeals; and gubernatorial candidates John Cranley and Nan Whaley. Virtually presenting the conference will be Christine Pelosi, vice president of the National Federation of Democratic Women and daughter of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

Tickets are $60 and can be purchased by searching for “Women Build Back Better” at www.eventbrite.com, or by visiting the Lorain County Democratic Women’s Club Facebook page.

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LEGALS O-22-01 An Ordinance authorizing and directing the Mayor to enter into a contract for professional services with Bramhall engineering and Surveying Company relating to the Cleveland Avenue Utility Improvements project (Central Drive to Orchard Hill - Part II); and authorizing and directing the Safety/Service Director to solicit bids for such project and award the contract for the project to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-02 An Ordinance authorizing and directing the Safety Service Director to enter into a Mutual Aid Multi-Jurisdictional Agreement for Lorain County Specialty Weapons and Tactics Team with certain Lorain County Subdivisions; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-03 An Ordinance amending Section 105.02 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Amherst, Ohio regarding boundaries of wards; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-04 An Ordinance authorizing and directing the Safety Service Director to solicit bids to trim trees (on a unit basis) In the city for the Year 2022 at a cost not to exceed $80,000.00. and declaring an emergency.

0-22-05 An Ordinance authorizing and directing the Safety Service Director to solicit bids for the 2022 Street Rehabilitation Program and authorizing and directing the Safety Service Director to award the contract for such work to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder; and appropriating additional funding for professional services provided by Bramhall Engineering & Surveying Company; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-06 An Ordinance creating a training/transitional employment position within the Auditor’s Office of the City of Amherst, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-07 An Ordinance authorizing and directing the Mayor to enter Into a Delinquent Debt Collection Agreement with the Ohio Attorney General.

0-22-08 An Ordinance re-appropriating funds for the CDBG Kiddie Pool and Parking Lot Projects; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-09 An Ordinance transferring unused monies for the CDBG Kiddie Pool and Parking Lot Projects back to their respective originating funds; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-10 An Ordinance approving the amended final development plan for the Eagle Ridge Subdivision; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-11 An Ordinance to make appropriations for current expenses and other expenditures of the City of Amherst, State of Ohio, during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022, repealing all ordinances in conflict herewith; and declaring an emergency.

0-22-12 An Ordinance authorizing the Safety Service Director to enter into a renewal contract between the City of Amherst, Ohio and Amherst Township for fire protection, first responder services and equipment and declaring an emergency.

R-22-01 A Resolution declaring the necessity for public sidewalk repair and replacement and authorizing and directing the Safety Service Director to award a contract for such repair and replacement of public sidewalks to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder at a cost to the city not to exceed $400,000.00; and declaring an emergency.

R-22-03 A Resolution authorizing the Safety Service Director to participate in the Ohio Department of Transportation winter contract (2022-2023) for road salt; and declaring an emergency.

The complete text of the above listed ordinances and resolutions may be viewed in the office of the Clerk of Council during regular business hours.

Olga Sivinski, Clerk of Council 206 S. Main St. Amherst, OH. 440-988-2420 L.C.C.G. 4/14/22 20700247 LEGALS 0-22-13 An Ordinance authorization the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to perform maintenance work on SR 2 during the summer of 2023; and declaring an emergency.

The complete text of the above listed ordinances and resolutions may be viewed in the office of the Clerk of Council during regular business hours.

Olga Sivinski, Clerk of Council 206 S. Main St. Amherst, OH. 440-988-2420 L.C.C.G. 4/14/22 20700248 PUBLICATION OF LEGISLATION

The following is a summary of legislation adopted by Lorain City Council on April 4, 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 Breanna Dull @ 204-2050 (Breanna_Dull@cityoflorain. org). The following summary of legislation passed has been reviewed/approved by the Law Director for legal accuracy as required by state laws.

Ordinance 48-22* Placing a moratorium of 180 days upon the consideration of apps for/ the issuance of any/all permits pertaining to composting facilities & est any new sites.

49-22* Auth & directing S/S Director to enter into agrmt to procure park equipment from Snider Rec for Harrison Cultural Community Centre. 50-22 Auth S/S Director to hire 10 part-time officers for the LPD, establish compensation & set terms of employment. 51-22* Auth S/S Director to hire 10 part-time Marine Patrol officers for the LPD, establish compensation & set terms of employment. 52-22* Amending Ord 146-21, Sec 1, auth S/S Director to enter contract for the lease/purchase of 10 vehicles for LPD. 53-22* Amending Ord 91-21, Sec 1, auth S/S Director to enter contract for purchase of 14 vehicles for the LPD. 54-22* Auth Mayor to submit apps for OPWC Integrating Committee for year 2024 funding (Round 37) for rehab/replacement of certain roadways. 55-22 Auth S/S Director to accept funding & enter into LPA agrmt w/ ODOT for West Erie Ave road project, TLCI Beachscape. 56-22* Auth & directing S/S Director to enter into participation agrmt w/ ODOT to purchase Sodium Chloride for 2022/2023 winter.

57-22* Auth the S/S Director to enter into a contract for grass cutting/maintenance of landscaping for vacant lots, houses & other structures that are privately owned within South Lorain area. 58-22* Auth the S/S Director to enter into a contract for grass cutting/maintenance of landscaping for vacant lots, houses & other structures that are privately owned within North Lorain area. 59-22* Auth the S/S Director to enter into an agrmt w/ Sustainable Strategies DC (S2)/ Verdantas for professional services related to securing funding for priority projects. 60-22* Appropriation. (*Denotes legislation was passed as an emergency.)

L.C.C.G. 4/14-21/22 20700204

$1 million plan calls for a new South Pleasant Street bridge at Plum Creek JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Built in 1930, the South Pleasant Street bridge is deteriorating as it inches toward its centennial, and will cost just over $1 million to fix.

It’s not a big or flashy structure, barely even noticeable to most drivers. But the bridge spans Plum Creek and provides access to City Hall, the Oberlin police station, Oberlin Public Library, Martin Luther King Jr. Park and Park Street Park.

“The current condition of the superstructure is poor,” City Engineer Randall Roberts told Council members last week.

Five of the bridge’s nine beams

are weakened by wear and tear, and its load rating has been reduced, he said. That prevents larger emergency vehicles, including the Fire Department’s aerial and tanker trucks, from passing over the bridge.

Roberts requested — and received, in an emergency vote — a $165,600 contract with Mansfieldbased Shaffer, Johnston, Lichtenwalter & Associates to start engineering for a new bridge.

The Ohio Department of Transportation has offered to use federal funding to cover 95 percent of the construction bill, up to a maximum of $818,340, according to a memo from Public Works Director Jeff Baumann.

The city must cover the remainder, plus the cost of engineering.

Overall, it appears to be a good

deal. The project is estimated at $1.05 million, which was under the expected price tag, according to Roberts and Baumann.

Design work for the new South Pleasant Street bridge will be ready

by December 2023. Roberts said the intent is to bid and award the project in March 2024, with the bridge reopening in November 2024.

The existing deck was replaced and widened in 1970, but City Council voiced interest in widening it further. Specifically, Councilman Bryan Burgess asked about providing a wider lane for walkers and cyclists to use.

“Wider is better,” he said.

Roberts said that is the intent — the new bridge will feature an at-least 6-foot-wide walkway.

Dance professor's lawsuit against Oberlin College reported settled DAVE O’BRIEN THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

OBERLIN — A lawsuit by a former Oberlin College dance professor who sued the college in 2020 alleging she didn't get a tenured teaching position because she is white and heterosexual recently was reported settled.

A trial was set to begin in Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski's courtroom on Feb. 2 in the civil suit brought by Alice Blumenfeld against the college, the dance department chairperson and an administrator.

Instead, attorney Michael Schroth informed the court that the case had been settled the final week of January, according to online court records.

It wasn't immediately clear what the terms of

the settlement were, or if they would be announced publicly. Oberlin College spokesman Scott Wargo said the college didn't have a comment on the matter Monday.

A message seeking comment was left for Schroth.

Blumenfeld sued the college, dance department Chairwoman Ann Cooper Albright and Rebecca Mosely, the college's director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, for more than $25,000 in compensation and punitive damages in September 2020.

Blumenfeld, of Huron, was a visiting professor of dance for two years up until June 2020, when the college eliminated her position and created a new, full-time position that she had to apply for.

She claimed Albright told her to start looking for a new job in July 2019 because "We just can't

hire another white woman from the Midwest with a husband" and told her the college had to "settle" for a white person for another professorship in the past.

A complaint Blumenfeld filed with Mosely, which she said she hoped would remain anonymous and confidential, didn't stay that way, according to the lawsuit. Blumenfeld said after she made the complaint, College of Arts and Sciences Dean David Kamitsuka later asked her about it.

Albright was removed as chairwoman of the hiring committee for the job Blumenfeld wanted, but remained on the committee and involved in the process, the lawsuit alleged.

Blumenfeld and three other candidates — whom her lawsuit described as "people of color" — were considered for the job and

interviewed. Blumenfeld alleged she never was given the chance to meet with students who were helping choose the new professor and also didn't get to meet some other members of the hiring committee.

The college later hired a "non-Caucasian, gay man of Filipino descent who does not appear to be from the Midwest or in a heterosexual marriage," according to the lawsuit.

In a review of Blumenfeld's complaint, the college found she had not suffered discrimination or retaliation but did find that there had been "a pattern of professionally inappropriate language that violates Oberlin's policy on discrimination," according to the lawsuit.

Original reporting by Jason Hawk was included in this story.

1950 Census data gives a snapshot into local residents’ family history CARISSA WOYTACH THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

Seventy-two years ago, census workers canvassed Lorain County and beyond, counting every individual, recording their occupation, familial status, income and other information for the decennial snapshot in American history.

Now, those records are publicly available, giving local historians and amateur genealogists alike a glimpse back more than seven decades prior.

The sweeping data dump available at no cost gives individual records on the 151 million people across 46 million households recorded in the 1950 census.

“It’s really exciting because it helps in multiple ways," said Lorain Historical Society curator Kaitlyn Donaldson. "It can help an individual genealogist or just a curious person who wants to look up their family history … and then it’s also exciting for historians and for research of broader trends in history. Before, we had the 1940 census, and that’s really showing the changes of the 1930s. So now we have the 1950 census and that’s really showing the changes from the 1940s.”

While trend data is available at the national and local levels, for privacy reasons enumeration sheets are not released until 72 years after the census.

The 1950 census was the last to use door-to-door enumerators, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and was the first headcount after World War II and the start of the baby boom.

Midwestern metropolises like Cleveland and Detroit were still

on the rise. At the time, Cleveland had about 915,000 people and was the nation’s seventh-largest city.

Lorain had about 51,000 and was growing, Donaldson said. The International City wouldn’t hit its peak until about 78,000 residents were counted in the 1970 census.

For many, Friday's release is a chance to search for grandparents or missing pieces in family history.

In his remarks Friday, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos said he planned to look for his grandmother’s address in San Antonio, comparing it to the enumeration data from the decade prior to see how his parents, aunts and uncles had dispersed.

Santos was far from alone in searching for familiar names on the country’s rolls.

Reference Librarian Ramona Flores looked for her parents and grandparents, finding the enumerator’s neat handwriting listing her father’s household in South Lorain.

“It's only today that we could see the handwriting of the enumerator telling our family stories out there like my dad's,” Flores said. “So it's a cool thing.”

Her father’s name, alongside his eight younger siblings, is listed in neat cursive for an address on Pearl Avenue. At the time, 19-yearold Roy Flores worked at the steel mill.

“My grandmother was a Mexican immigrant who came in the 1920s and she was working as well at a restaurant,” she said.

She added later, “It's kind of blindsided a lot of people — who keeps this on their radar, right? So it was happy news today. Especially for librarians.”

Enumeration sheets from East 28th Street list tenants in an

apartment building born in Puerto Rico, Hungary, Mexico, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece alongside Ohio natives and Southern transplants. Many worked at the steel mills, railroad or Thew Steam Shovel.

Always the International City, the late 1940s marked the first wave of Puerto Ricans coming to the city, with 400 men recruited

by National Tube in the latter part of the decade, and a second wave of Mexicans coming north from Texas.

“For Lorain, it’s really exciting because in 1940 we were coming out of the Great Depression and World War II hadn’t started yet,” Donaldson said. And then in the 1940s, we had World War II, we had large changes in our population and people coming and going because of the war, because of the industries hiring people — so there’s a lot of demographic change in the 1940s, so now we can compare 1940 to 1950 to see the differences in jobs that are offered, where people are living, who’s new and who’s left.”

The historic database is hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration. The digitized forms are searchable by name, or browsing sheets from an entire enumeration district, and a transcription feature can help correct misread names or add names to the site’s index to make the database more accurate.

Flores noted the libraries throughout the county have access to Ancestry.com on their computers, allowing amateur genealogists to take the data from the census and connect it with other records, documents or photos free of charge for patrons.

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Qualls qualifies for national BPA competition in Dallas PITTSFIELD TWP. — Aniya Qualls is going to Dallas, Texas.

The Midview junior, who studies cybersecurity and networking at the Lorain County JVS, won a trip to the Business Professionals of America national competition after placing second at the state level.

“Competing was exciting and going with my classmates from JVS was great,” Qualls said.

“Being the president of our BPA chapter made me proud to see us participate.”

She was one of nine JVS students who placed in the top 10 in their contests at the Columbus Convention Center in early March.

All of the vocational school’s competitors worked hard, and made teachers proud, said web and graphic design instructor Tina Krosse. They were also excited to go in person this year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the BPA to go virtual last year.

Qualls said she honestly didn’t feel too confident after her performance in the BPA state pre-

pared speech contest. Then they called her name at the awards ceremony, and she realized what it meant.

“It is not just a sense of school pride, I have a feeling of state pride too,” she said. “I’m excited to go to Texas!”

About 6,000 teens from across the country will gather in Dallas in May to vie for top honors in contests that test their business, finance, technology and marketing skills.

They’ll also have the chance to network with other BPA members and take part in a walk to raise money for the Special Olympics.

JVS students and the events they competed in are listed below by their associate school: • Avon Lake: Robert Simms, a Web and graphic design junior, competed in the extemporaneous speech event.

• Columbia: Jolie Pagan, a marketing and entrepreneurship senior, competed in the administrative support team event.

• Clearview: Dawson Fries, a

LEFT: Aniya Qualls, a cybersecurity and networking junior from Midview, proudly holds her trophy at the Business Professionals of America state competition. She will compete next at the national level in May. RIGHT: Cassandra Sirocky of Oberlin competed in the BPA’s state digital media production event. web and graphic design senior, competed in the computer animation team event. Damian Garcia, a web and graphic design senior, competed in the computer animation team event.

• Elyria: Olivia Floyd, a web

and graphic design senior, competed in the administrative support team event; Chase Lee, a web and graphic design senior, competed in the computer animation team event.

• North Ridgeville: Zackary

Hart, a web and graphic design senior, competed in the computer animation team event.

• Oberlin: Cassandra Sirocky, a web and graphic design senior, competed in the digital media production event.

Anna Fritz is Oberlin Rotary Club’s Senior of March 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.

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The Oberlin High School senior honored for the month of March is Anna Fritz.

She has enjoyed playing in both the OHS orchestra and the marching band, playing cello for four years and trumpet for three. In the band, she served as squad leader in her junior year and drill captain this year.

Fritz is also a member of the National Honor Society. In June 2020, she was recognized as a Borloug Scholar by the World Food Prize Founda-

tion for her research on a global challenge related to food insecurity. She was also selected as one of 200 global youth delegates to the annual Global Youth Institute. Though typically held each year in Iowa, she participated online due to COVID-19 restrictions.

During her junior year, while OHS was entirely online, Fritz worked as a nurse aid at Welcome Nursing Home.

Fritz has played on the Oberlin girls varsity soccer team all four years, leading the Phoenix as captain her senior year. She has earned several Lorain County awards: Division III honorable mention (2019) and First Team (2020 and 2021); Conference Second Team (2019) and honorable mention (2020); and the Coach Selected Offensive Award (2020).

She also won several honors competing with the Oberlin track team. In 2021 she won Conference First Team for girls long jump; Conference First Team for

the 100-meter hurdles; and Conference Second Team for the girls 4x100-meter relay. She won the Coaches’ Award in 2019 and was named MVP in 2021.

Fritz has been a member of the OHS Interact Club, the community service club at OHS sponsored by the Rotary Club, throughout her high school career, serving as vice president both her junior and senior years. Through Interact, Fritz has participated with the weekly BackPack

program, roadside cleanup, and the city’s Memorial Day observance. In the summer of 2019, she volunteered with the Appalachian Service Project to provide home repairs for low income families. In her junior year, as part of the International Baccalaureate CORE program, she joined the United Planet Virtual Exchange, a program dedicated to connecting students, exploring diverse cultures and tackling global issues. As part of this

program, she helped devise a “Book Buddies” program wherein CORE students would read with elementary school students.

Fritz will attend Oberlin College in the fall as part of the Robinson Scholarship. She plans to major in the natural sciences, possibly pursuing pre-medicine courses.

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Buzz and Beeper Bunny are back with all kinds of Easter fun!

Some phrases people use don’t mean exactly what they say. For example the saying, “Its raining cats and dogs,” doesn’t mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky. It is a phrase people use to say it is raining hard.

If the activities on this page seem hard, find some bunny to help you. If it looks easy, help some bunny younger than you!

These kinds of phrases are called idioms.

Mr. E.B. Rabbit has an Easter Basket all ready to deliver.

But he can’t remember where he put it. Take your pencil and show him the way through the maze to the basket. Don’t retrace your route or cross any lines.

und “I was just dozing off, aro my of e ___________ when on ietta eggs began to shake,” Henr y I recalls. “Now I know whand didn’t hear the tapping eet ________ sounds the sw lly beaks of my chicks usua ir make as they crack out of the shells.”

ally When Henrietta’s egg fin__ opened, a smiling ______

1. Meaning: I was really surprised!

Idiom:

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2. Meaning: To be afraid.

Idiom:

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n” Although she is a bit “chickethe when it comes to all of ta’s media _________, Henriet o a story will soon be made int book and a movie.

Only two of these bonnets are exactly alike. Can you find them?

Idiom:

me “I guess I’ll enjoy the fa ys. while it lasts,” Henrietta saput “However, I don’t like to et.” all of my ____ in one bask

4. Meaning: Things are getting busy.

Idiom:

Draw a line to where each of these missing words belongs in the article.

Look through the newspaper for advertisements with an Easter theme. Circle the facts in yellow.

Circle the opinions in green.

The secret code to crack Beeper’s riddle is hidden in the egg rows. is the letter A.The egg to the right of it is B. The next is C, and so on.

Standards Links: Decoding: Recognize letters of the alphabet. Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Standards Link: Math/Probability: Recognize patterns.

DECORATED BUDDIES OPINIONS HATCHING MOVIE MEDIA BONNET BASKET BEAKS COOP CRACK CHICKEN FACTS SHELLS EGGS

… laughing with people, not at them.

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

This week’s word:

IDIOM

The noun idiom means a phrase that cannot be understood from the meaning of the words that make up the phrase.

“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,” said Coach Pesko when we were sure we would win the game.

Try to use an idiom today when talking with your friends and family.

Easter Bunny Spotted

Reporter Game

With a partner, read a newspaper article. One of you must choose to be a person in the article and the other should be the reporter. Decide what questions were asked to get the relevant information and then role-play the interview.

ANSWER: An eggs-planation!

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Ask clarifying questions about essential textual elements, restate facts and details, clarify and organize ideas.

Standards Link: Vocabulary: Apply knowledge of idioms to determine the meaning of phrases.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Distinguish between fact and opinion in expository text.

The alphabet follows in order from left to right, top to bottom. Each egg stands for one letter of the alphabet.

Buzz Bunny has decorated his eggs with number patterns. Help Beeper figure out where to put each of the numbers left in the basket. Draw a line to where each egg belongs.

3. Meaning: Not to depend on one thing.

ANSWERS: 1. I nearly flew the coop!

2. she is a bit “chicken” 3. don’t put your eggs in one basket 4. things really started hopping

ht, COOPERVILLE – Last niging things really started hoppung for Henrietta Hen. The yo __ mother of 152 is ________the with excitement over her unusual __________ in nest last night.

The Eqq-quirer page has several idioms. Find the idiom that goes with each meaning below:

The Easter Bunny has been spotted, and you are the reporter covering the story.

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FIREWORKS

Oberlin proposal may extinguish legalization fuse JASON HAWK EDITOR

Photos by Jason Hawk | Wellington Enterprise

ThinkFast Interactive host Mars O’Neill poses a question to finalists Zeke Smith, Lily Oswald, Sam Smith and Robert Tegtmeyer during a quiz show held last Thursday at Wellington High School.

Game show pushes Wellington HS teens to be safer in the driver’s seat JASON HAWK EDITOR

WELLINGTON — Who was the principal at Bayside High in “Saved By the Bell”?

If you know the answer is Mr. Belding, you’d have picked up points last Thursday in a trivia show put on

by ThinkFast Interactive at Welling-

ton High School.

The mobile game show tested the Dukes’ brains and reflexes. Teams of four were given digital buzzers to compete for a shot in a lightning round at the podium, with $100 in Amazon gift cards on the line. Another $40 in gift cards were given as additional prizes.

While host Mars O’Neill quizzed kids on pop culture factoids from fa-

mous Los Angeles Lakers players to who was president in 1983 and being able to recognize the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” theme song, the event’s big questions centered on teen driving.

Founded in Michigan and sponsored by State Farm, ThinkFast brought its game show to Wellington to make teens think about roadway DRIVING PAGE B2

OBERLIN — Firecrackers, Roman candles and other small consumer-grade fireworks will be legal across Ohio starting July 1, except possibly in Oberlin.

On the advice of Law Director Jon Clark and Fire Chief Robert Hanmer, City Council talked last week about the possibility of re-outlawing them.

“I can’t think of any fire chief in the state that really supports this new law that’s coming through,” Hanmer said, throwing his support behind a renewed city-wide ban.

The chief said he would hate for firefighters to respond to a reported house fire, only to be surprised by a storage unit crammed with fireworks.

Clark provided Council with a draft ordinance that would keep the old rules in place: no fireworks allowed, ever.

Not all city legislators were convinced that’s the route to take, though.

“I don’t know that passing a law is going to make a difference in what I’ve observed,” said Councilman Bryan Burgess.

As of right now, possession of fireworks is a first-degree misdemeanor. If convicted, violators can be fined $1,000 and spend up to six months in jail.

Based on the pops and sizzle of fireworks set of every Fourth of July, Burgess said the criminal penalties haven’t been effective. And fireworks are going to be everywhere this summer, he said — if more are available and showrooms are larger, prices are going to go down and sales will go up.

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Wellington moves to restrict hours for launch noises ▲ Student Samantha Wreyford shows off her acting chops.

JASON HAWK EDITOR

◄ John Kinter and Jonah Stump dial in their answer to trivia questions using a wireless device in the WHS gym.

WELLINGTON — An effort to curb noise is underway as Village Council wrestles with the repercussions of a new Ohio law that legalizes consumer-grade firecrackers, skyrockets and smoke balls.

Signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine in November, House Bill 172 will go into effect July 1. While allowing fireworks statewide, towns are able to put their own regulations in place.

Wellington is moving forward with a plan to let residents have fun during “reasonable” hours, with a ban from 1-10 a.m. — as Councilman Gene Hartman put it, there shouldn’t be explosions throughout the whole night.

But in discussion last week, there were reservations about whether residents will follow the rules.

Only one councilman, Mark Bughman, argued for an outright ban. From the possibility of injuries to fears people won’t clean up fireworks-related litter, he said he feels the cons outweigh the pros.

“I’m OK sticking with what we already have on the books — everything prohibited,” he said.

Illegally-launched bottle rockets did once cause a dumpster fire at the Dickson Street football stadium, he said. Bughman also spoke passionately about a personal experience with a neighbor’s fireworks party that caused trash to go into his yard.

Oberlin College Conservatory hosts benefit concert for Ukrain’s children KEVIN MARTIN THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

OBERLIN — The Oberlin Conservatory of Music hosted a benefit concert Sunday called "For the Children of Ukraine."

It featured students and professors along with singers from the Oberlin’s choral ensemble performing works from Ukrainian composers.

Performing four pieces at Warner Concert Hall, the concert was organized by Oberlin College associate professor of flute Alexa Still who opened the evening asking the audience to donate to relief efforts if they can.

“The events in Ukraine are horrific and heartbreaking and I’m sure you will agree with me on that,” Still said.

The 45-minute program began with a brass interpretation of Myola Leontovych’s “The Carol of the Bells” performed by the Oberlin Conservatory brass ensemble, followed by a choral performance of Ukrainian hymn

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Celebrating 62 years in service!

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Students and faculty from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music perform pieces from “Peter and the Wolf” during its “For the Children of Ukraine” concert at Warner Concert Hall on Sunday.

“Stradal’na maty (Stabat Mater” by the Oberlin College Choir, Chamber Singers and Musical Union, conducted by Oberlin College professor Ben Johns.

Transitioning to the full orchestra, professor of conducting and director of Oberlin Orchestras Raphael Jimenez led a selection of two pieces, “Elegy”

from Seranade for Strings, Op. 48 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofieff.

Students from Oberlin College for Ukraine were on-site accepting donations directly to UNICEF Ukraine to support relief efforts in any way they can.

In March, Oberlin College President Carmen

Twillie Ambar condemned the Russian invasion Ukraine in addition to student organizers asking for the administration to divest from the Russian military industrial complex and to to support efforts to help Ukrainian students whose livelihoods are in jeopardy as a result of the conflict in two separate petitions.

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The Oberlin Public Library board of trustees will meet at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 14 at the library. The meeting is open to the public.

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One question pointed out that distracted driving kills nine people and injures 1,160 across the United States every day; another warned that drivers ages 15 to 24 were responsible for 38 percent of Ohio’s 11,006 distracted driving crashes in 2020.

O’Neill used the game show format to survey Wellington teens about whether they drive aggressively, and who in their friend group is most likely to wreck a vehicle.

And while Fridays are particularly dangerous on the roads and night driving up the risk significantly, texting while driving was painted as public enemy No. 1.

Dance-offs helped offset the heavy subject matter and keep the fun rolling. Those who won over their classmates by tearing up the gym floor joined captains from the teams with the most trivia points in the final round.

Zeke Smith emerged as the overall winner and was quickly mobbed by his buddies, who celebrated by lifting him off his feet.

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FROM B1 He voiced discomfort with re-criminalizing simply having fireworks after the state ban is lifted, though he said detonating them is still another matter.

Hanmer briefly defended his department, saying firefighters are tied up each July 4 monitoring safety at Oberlin’s fireworks show at the Hamilton Street recreation complex. They aren’t available to do neighborhood sweeps to enforce the law, though police do confiscate fireworks when they find them.

“I’m not trying to cast shade on your efforts, Chief. I just think it’s an overwhelming issue,” Burgess said.

Hanmer said he wants a limit on how many fireworks are in the city. That may not be legally possible, said Clark — “It’s simply possession or not.”

The issue is being weighed and debated all across Lorain County and the rest of the state as local officials react to the passage of House Bill 172, signed into law in November by Gov. Mike DeWine.

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David Babich, an Amherst native who has played saxophone for the U.S. Navy Concert Band the past 13 years, is coming home to Ohio.

The 2002 graduate of Marion L. Steele High School will perform with fellow Navy musicians in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 2 at Ashland High School.

“It’s exciting playing for very appreciative audiences, and just great to get to see the country,” said Babich, now 38, who has performed from sea to shining sea since joining the Navy band in 2009.

Wherever he has journeyed, the band’s repertoire of patriotic songs has stirred emotions. Babich said he’ll never forget one performance in Califor-

Fenway Park.

Lessons learned in the Amherst Marching Comets under director Chris Barbaro have served him well over the years, he said — the most important being to never move while standing

at attention.

Public concerts halted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Musician Sarah Blecker said the band remained busy creating videos and performing official ceremonies, including honoring the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery.

Now the Navy Concert Band’s first tour in two years will launch April 20.

The Ashland concert is one of 13 across five states on the 2022 schedule.

“The goal of our tour and the reason we’re here is we’re here to connect communities to their navy,” especially the families of men and women serving overseas, said Blecker.

At each concert, musicians make a point of honoring veterans in the audience by having them stand and be recognized, and by playing a medley of armed services songs.

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It allows fireworks to be launched July 3-5 and the Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays immediately before and after Independence Day. They can also be set off Labor Day weekend, on the Hindu festival of Diwali in the late fall, New Year’s Eve and day, Chinese New Year, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day weekend and Juneteenth.

In neighboring Wellington, Village Council raised the fireworks question in March, asking whether common sense limits can still be placed on celebratory noise.

“We wanted to look at whether fireworks were allowed for 24 hours on each of those days, or whether there were times of those days when exploding fireworks was something that could still be regulated,” said Guy Wells, chair of Wellington’s Police Committee.

Towns are allowed to put their own restrictions on fireworks, so long as they’re reviewed and approved by the state fire marshal.

That means Oberlin and others could invoke home rule to ban them altogether, only allow certain types or set acceptable hours for when fireworks can be set off.

A state fireworks committee is being formed to provide recommendations for cities to consider. It must meet a May 12 deadline to have guidance in place.

The change in Ohio law doesn’t completely throw open the doors for fireworks to be used in any manner without regard for safety. Drinking or being under the influence of drugs or alcohol will be a first-degree misdemeanor, for example.

Licensed vendors will also legally be required to provide buyers with safety glasses either for free or at a low cost. They must also distribute pamphlets to customers, laying out how to safety use fireworks.

Per Clark, a revised draft of Oberlin’s proposed fireworks ordinance is expected to go before Council on Monday, April 18.

WELLINGTON FIREWORKS FROM B1 A complete ban on fireworks won’t work, said Mayor Hans Schneider: “They’re going to set them off anyway.”

There are those who have set them off in defiance of the law for years, said Councilman Gary Feron.

Whether anyone will observe the new time limits could only be put to the test if Wellington tries them out, he said.

That doesn’t mean there can be a free-for-all. Under the new state law, fireworks can only be launched on certain days of the year.

They include New Year’s Eve and day, Chinese New Year, Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day weekend, Juneteenth, July 3-5 and

the weekends immediately before and after Independence Day, Labor Day weekend and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.

They can only be launched from private property with the owner’s permission, so setting up your display at the park is out.

Nor can Ohioans light up fireworks while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Doing so is a firstdegree misdemeanor, and could also potentially result in a disorderly conduct charge.

Wellington isn’t alone in trying to navigate the change — other Lorain County villages and cities are also weighing their options.

Neighboring Oberlin, for example, has discussed a full ban at the request of fire Chief Robert Hanmer and Law Director Jon Clark.

Hanmer argued that fireworks are a safety issue for his firefighters — he said allowing residents to store large amounts of explosives could turn a structure fire from a dangerous situation into a disaster.

Wellington fire Chief Mike Wetherbee, who also serves as president of the Lorain County Fire Chiefs Association, said the law isn’t going to sway how people use fireworks.

Even with fines of $1,000 and up to 6 months jail time, people have ignored

the state’s fireworks ban for years — and he doesn’t think it’s realistic to expect widespread enforcement, at least on the Fourth of July.

His greatest concern is that in recent years more and more large-grade fireworks are being set off.

Wetherbee said he fears the proliferation of exhibitor fireworks among residents who don’t have the proper license or training.

“You can drive around the village or the townships any evening around the holidays, and you know a lot of the fireworks that are being lit up are not the (small) fireworks that are being referenced in the language” of House Bill 172, he said.

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$6.8M per year riding on Amherst Schools renewals JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — A combined $6.8 million per year used to keep Amherst Schools classrooms running will appear on the May 3 ballot.

Issues 1 and 2 are both renewal levies that Superintendent Steve Sayers said the district can’t survive without.

They represent about 20 percent of the day-to-day operating budget.

“Obviously, this is a significant portion of our revenue,” he said.

Originally passed in 2012, Issue 1 asks voters to keep 4.9 mills in property taxes on the books.

That amount raises $2.8 million annually and with voter approval would continue for five years.

The breakdown: It would continue to cost $121.20 per year or $10.10 per month for every

$100,000 worth of property you own, according to the Lorain County Auditor’s Office.

Originally passed in 2008, Issue 2 asks voters to keep a 6.51mill levy on the books another 10 years, generating roughly $4 million annually.

The breakdown: It would continue to cost $199.37 per year or $16.61 per month for every $100,000 worth of property you own, the county auditor calculates.

Over the two levies’ lifespans, they would generate a combined $54 million.

To stay financial stable, the Amherst Schools need both renewals to pass, said Sayers.

There is no way the school system could absorb the loss of one-fifth of its operating income, he said. If both levies failed, the district would try again in the fall, and failures there would mean having to cut staffing, classroom supplies, cleaning

Issue No. 1 What it is: A 4.9-mill renewal levy Duration: 5 years How much would it raise: $2.8 million per year Purpose: For general operating expenses Cost to homeowner/taxpayer: The owner of a $100,000 home will pay $121.20 annually.

Issue No. 2 What it is: A 6.51-mill renewal levy Duration: 10 years How much would it raise: $4 million per year Purpose: For general operating expenses Cost to homeowner/taxpayer: The owner of a $100,000 home will pay $199.37 annually.

supplies, technology and scaling back programs, he said.

“We’re just focusing on making this a positive campaign and trying not to think about what we’d have to do if we were to lose these two levies,” said Sayers.

If the levies pass, they will keep the Amherst Schools financially sound “for the foreseeable future,” he said — but exactly how long is difficult to tell.

State funding is always in question, and it’s unclear how much Ohio’s new formula for funding

public schools will help. For this year, as it’s being introduced, that new funding formula is pretty much a wash for Amherst, according to Sayers.

Enrollment is a key factor in the district’s health. After years of decline, Amherst is starting to grow again, and every student helps financially.

Sayers said enrollment is around 3,725 right now, which is roughly 100 more students than last year — the biggest jump since 2004 — and he suspects

Black River asks for $8M to keep the district afloat JASON HAWK EDITOR

SULLIVAN — The Black River Schools have $8 million over the next five years riding on the May 3 ballot.

The district is asking voters to re-up a 6.4-mill emergency operations levy originally passed in 2012 to help get it out of serious financial trouble.

“This district has worked too hard to get some stability,” said Superintendent Chris Clark, who does not want to return to the days when cuts were on the table.

If passed, Issue 3 wouldn’t increase taxes, but it would keep $1.6 million per year rolling in. For the owner of a $100,000 home, that equates to about $224 annually or $18.67 each month, according to the Medina County Auditor’s office.

The rural Black River school system is seated in Medina County and stretches over the border into Huntington Township in Lorain County and south into Ashland County.

“We’ve tried to be very conservative with the funding,” said Clark — the district has projected 5 to 10 percent state funding cuts as part of its budget the past several years to make sure it doesn’t overspend its means, he said.

At the same time, it’s been working to expand its offerings, especially when it comes to science, technology, engineering and math. STEM courses have been rolled out in each of the district’s three buildings, with a focus on elementary-level instruction.

Reading, writing and arithmetic are the core skills students need to master, said Clark. But his goal has been to strengthen them by giving students hands-on options for learning, such as basic engineering courses and career exploration classes.

Those changes were made before the

Issue No. 3 What it is: A 6.4-mill renewal levy Duration: 5 years How much would it raise: $1.6 million per year Purpose: For general operating expenses Cost to homeowner/taxpayer: The owner of a $100,000 home will pay $224 annually.

COVID-19 pandemic hit. Black River was one of the few districts that didn’t go to remote learning when cases and hospitalizations peaked, causing statewide shutdowns.

Now supply chain issues are putting increasing pressure on the school system.

Take fuel, for example — at $3.10 per gallon, the cost of diesel is a hardship for the rural district’s pocketbook, said Clark.

Nor does he expect much in the way of rescue from Ohio’s new state funding model, which is rolling out this year. It’s not expected to give Black River a significant revenue boost.

The district is also being forced into hard decisions when it comes to open enrollment. Clark said he’s already had to cap or close certain grade levels off to students from outside Black River who want to attend there.

“I have to look at sustainability,” he said, “… “because we’re already exceeding the amount of students we can probably sustain.”

Passage of Issue 3 would provide some relief. Clark said it would allow the district to map out the next five years without worrying whether it will have access to a critical $8 million revenue stream.

If it’s not approved in May, the levy would have to go right back on the ballot in November, he said — there’s no way Black River can do without the property tax money.

Early voting is underway

Election Day for the spring primary is May 3, but early voting is already taking place at the Lorain County Board of Elections, 1985 North Ridge Rd. East, Sheffield Township. Voting hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 14 and 15 and Monday through Friday next week; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday, April 25 to Friday, April 29; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 30; 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, May 1; and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, May 2. The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3.

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the same number will be added in 2022-2023 and again in 20232024.

That’s due to the construction of several residential developments in the last few years, combined with expections of more. In his State of the City address Monday, Amherst Mayor Mark Costilow said he believes another 150 homes will be built inside the city limits in the next few years.

The big one, though, will be in Amherst Township between Route 113 and the Ohio Turnpike. Amherst Consolidated Properties LLC plans to build 770 new homes there as part of the Sandstone “mega-development,” which sits inside the Amherst Schools boundaries.

“We knew we were going to start to grow again, we just didn’t know how much or how fast,” Sayers said. “It’s actually starting to happen faster than we thought it would.”

County seeking 3 percent hotel bed tax to build convention center DAVE O’BRIEN THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

ELYRIA — The Lorain County Board of Commissioners is asking voters to support Issue 7, a 3 percent hotel bed tax to raise money for a convention center in the county.

Commissioners hope a convention center would increase and support tourism, business and trade shows, while also providing a space for community gatherings such as college or high school graduation ceremonies.

The board also recently created an 11-member, bipartisan Convention Facilities Authority to oversee planning for the proposed convention facility. It has held several meetings since it was created in February.

The county already collects a 3 percent tax on hotel beds that supports the Lorain County Visitors Bureau. That also raises approximately $600,000 to $700,000 annually.

Consumer and trade shows, boat, gun, garden and car shows could use the space.

High school and college graduations also are possible, and the facility could also be used

Issue No. 7 What it is: A 3 percent hotel bed tax Duration: continuing How much would it raise: An estimated $600,000 to $700,000 annually.

Purpose: To raise money to plan and build a convention center in Lorain County.

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This is the second attempt in a year to get voters to support the measure.

A previous attempt to pass the tax failed in November 2021, with voters rejecting it by a 2-to-1 margin.

Commissioners David Moore said the board did not properly get the word to the public about its plans last year. Commissioner Matt Lundy has said the facility should be functional, not flashy.

U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs won’t run again U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs has announced that he’s chosen not to run for another term in Congress.

Gibbs, a former state representative and state senator, was elected in 2011 to represent the 18th district, and then when that district was eliminated following the 2010 census, has since been re-elected to represent the 7th district.

In Lorain County, it encompasses Wellington,

LaGrange, Grafton, North Ridgeville and Avon.

The district spills into Cuyahoga County and takes in significant parts of North Central Ohio.

"After considerable deliberation, I have decided to not seek re-election this year," Gibbs said in a statement.

"This was a difficult decision, one which I did not make lightly."

Gibbs faced a crowded Republican primary in May,

running against Charlie Gaddis, Max Miller, Jonah Schulz and Anthony Leon Alexander.

Miller, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, announced plans to challenge Anthony Gonzalez, R-Rocky River, who voted to impeach Trump. Gonzalez, representing the 16th district, has since opted not to run again for a third term.

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▲ Black River's Joseph McKean runs in the 4x400-meter relay.

The Falcons and Pirates faced off in Lorain County League action in Sullivan on April 6. ABOVE: Firelands’ Zadie Grude and Black River’s Olivia Todd clear a hurdle in the 300-meter race. Todd finished first and Grude finished second.

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Thomas Fetcenko | Amherst News-Times Vermilion's Ethan Hendrickson collides with Amherst third baseman Carter Poulton while Comets pitcher Ethan Borgsteadt looks on during a game Saturday. Amherst won 3-1, with RBIs from Giles Little, Martin Polonkay and Devin Pritt, and runs by George Gotsis, Cam Gendics and Chrisian Gendics. Ethan Borgsteadt was the winning pitcher, striking out five and allowing three hits and a run.

Russ Gifford | Wellington Enterprise

A seventh-inning comeback gave Wellington a 4-3 win over Oberlin last week in Lorain County League competition. The Phoenix held a 3-0 lead in the fourth on runs by Katlyn Streator, Desiree Randleman and Emerson Freas. The Dukes answered back late in the game as Myranda Sickels crossed the plate twice and Mik Paramore and Mallory Pickering each made it home once. Pickering was the winning pitcher, with eight strikeouts and only one hit allowed in 3.7 innings.

Comets girls stomp Shoregals 12-3

Rachel Miller had quite the day on Thursday, April 7, when Amherst took Avon Lake to task 12-3. She led the Comets squad with two RBIs and two runs. Miller wasn’t alone out there — the Comets had lots of chances to score, as Cassidy Kettleman, Kristen Kelley, Lacie Stottlemire, Brianna Waldecki and Eliza Marcano all recorded RBIs. Additional runs came from Brianna Sadler, Nevaeh Sadler and Abigail Bertke. Emma Nagy was the winning pitcher, striking out four and allowing only three hits in seven innings.

The victory came two days after Amherst trounced Midview 10-4, this time with Sierra Dorobek leading the team on the mound, with four strikouts in seven innings. Stottlemire was the hero of the day, though, with a homer, three runs and three RBIs.

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Maile Oswald, Mallory Pickering and Jenna Pasadyn crossed home plate for the Dukes, but Wellington came up short in an 11-3 rout by Keystone in LaGrange.

Jordan Owca led the Wildcats with four runs, while Dana Pace and Kennedy Kerr each notched two and Jayln Owca, Abby Pace and Brynn Duta chipped in one apiece. Lilly Cassell was the winning pitcher, going seven innings on the mound and striking out 10 while allowing four hits.

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