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‘This has ‘No place like home’ to stop’ Deadly Texas shootings again stir anger in Ohio

JASON HAWK EDITOR

The mass shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers last week at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, shook Laura Irvin to her core.

It’s exactly the kind of tragedy she’s been fighting for years to prevent.

“This has to stop. We can’t go on like this,” said Irvin, who is the Lorain County lead for Moms Demand Action, a grassroots effort to end gun violence.

The horror that “You can’t talk unfolded in Uvalde, Texas, was the 27th about school school shooting of safety without 2022, according to Education Week, talking about which has been tracklarger issues ing them the past four years. of community The independent safety. You news organization can’t pretend has counted 24 deaths and 40 injuries in this these issues year’s school shootdon’t exist.” ings. By comparison, 21 police have died of Scott DiMauro gunfire to date in 2022, Ohio Education Association according to the Officer President Down Memorial Page, which tracks law enforcement deaths.

Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association, said the Texas rampage makes clear the need to better protect schools here.

Since the Chardon High School shooting in 2012 — when six students were shot and three were killed — there has been a statewide push to beef up physical security at school buildings, he said.

“Every school I go into now, they have a buzz-in system. Schools are locked. Schools have reconfigured their space, moved their offices, installed cameras,” he said.

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Gavin Gede jumps up to pull Brian Shinsky into a hug during the conferring of diplomas Saturday at Firelands High School’s 68th annual commencement exercises.

Galloway: Firelands is second family JASON HAWK EDITOR

HENRIETTA TWP. — Home is where the heart is, and for Noah Galloway it’s been found inside Firelands Schools walls ever since kindergarten.

Standing proudly before 144 fellow Falcons graduates of the Class of 2022 on Saturday morning, he said they always made him feel like family.

“Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling – a feeling like no other,” Galloway told them, “a feeling of warmth, opportunity and growth.”

In a commencement speech, he said home is more than four walls and a roof. It’s also the effort and sacrifice a family puts into it — like his grandparents, Richard and Janice Galloway, did for decades, working from sunup to sundown for decades on their Berlin Heights dairy farm.

“If you know anything about my family, they go out of their way to help others. I’ve witnessed my parents offer to take people in, and I’d bet my last dime that any member of my family would take the shirt off their back for a stranger,” Galloway said. “This is what made that little farmhouse on Joppa Road a home. It was a place of love and compassion.”

That’s the same kind of acceptance he’s found at Firelands High School, he said.

The district does not recognize a valedictorian or salutorian. Students apply for the honor of speaking to their classmates at graduation.

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Police: Threat led to arrest of Wellington High School student A Wellington High School student was arrested Monday morning after being accused of making threats against the school, according to Wellington Schools Superintendent Ed Weber in a letter to district families.

A letter sent out Monday said an unidentified Wellington High School student was taken into custody after an investigation in collaboration with the Wellington Police Department determined the threats were credible.

The letter does not specify the nature of the threat or provide a timeline of when it was reported to authorities.

Weber encouraged district families to speak up and report their concerns directly, lauding the collaboration that resulted in Monday’s arrest.

“It is important to share that when any of us hear comments or threats to school safety from others that it is reported to a school official to be investigated. That is exactly what happened in this situation and allowed us to work together with law enforcement to act proactively. Thank you for the role you play in maintaining a safe school environment," Weber said.

In a follow-up email, district spokesperson Julie Short referred additional questions about the investigation to Wellington Police.

"Thee Wellington Village Police can address any additional questions regarding that investigation. Our first priority as a school district is the safety an welfare of our students and staff.

We thank our Wellington Village Police and those that correctly voiced their concerns to the proper individuals," Short wrote.

OBITUARIES Marie Bertha Yarosh Marie Bertha Yarosh, 97, of Wellington, passed away Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at Danbury Memory Care Nursing Home. Born on Oct. 13, 1924, in Mantua, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Mary (nee Bambousek) and Lad Remen.

Marie graduated from Penfield High School. She met the love of her life, Mike, and together they operated their family farm raising Holsteins. Throughout the years, the couple received many dairy awards.

Marie was also involved with 4-H, including scholarship funding and donating to auctions. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church and the Penfield Quilters.

In her spare time, Marie could be found working in her flower beds, tending to her garden, and canning. She will be remembered for her generous involvement in the community and helping others around her. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

Left to treasure her memory are her children, Kenneth (Patty Jean) Yarosh of Wellington, and Patricia (Dave) Gill-Moulder of LaGrange; grandchildren, Matt, Chris, Jerrod, Audrey, Greg, and Adam, and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; loving husband, Mike Yarosh; son, William Yarosh and sister, Alice Harrison.

Family and friends will be received Thursday, June 2, 2022, at Norton- Eastman Funeral Home, 370 S. Main Street, Wellington from 3-7 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, June 3, 2022, beginning at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 512 N. Main Street, Wellington, with The Reverend Trask officiating. Burial will follow at Penfield Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be directed to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Fond memories and online condolences may be expressed at www.norton-eastmanfuneralhome.com.

DAWN MARIE VAN WINGERDEN, 70, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.

Hempel Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Dawn van Wingerden.

JAMES IRVIN WOODRUM, 84, and a resident of Camden Township, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Friday, May 27, 2022, at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain, following a full and meaningful life.

Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

A LIFETIME OF SERVICE Photos by Erik Andrews | Oberlin News-Tribune

With the traditional venue of Wright Park closed for renovations, Oberlin’s Memorial Day ceremony was held outside Oberlin Elementary School. The Oberlin concert band played National Anthem and Taps, and Boy Scout Troop 401 raised the flag to half staff. U.S. Coast Guard veteran and Lorain County Health Commissioner Mark Adams (TOP LEFT) spoke on a lifetime of service, and the responsibility to fill gaps in communities where the fallen had served.

TOP RIGHT: Student Adam Freas waits to post a flag.

BOTTOM: Superintendent David Hall, a veteran, places a memorial flag.

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“They’re doing a lot of preparation,” he said.

Kyriece Brooks, activist and founder of Lorain Stop the Violence, said he was devastated by the loss of 19 Texas children who could have grown up to be doctors or lawyers. But he does not believe the Lorain City Schools, for example, are prepared to stop a similar attack.

“Too often in this district, we are reactive instead of proactive,” he said. “We wait until something happens and then we try to fix it.”

Roxann Caserio. Superintendent of the North Ridgeville Schools, reacted to the tragedy with a message to parents in her district. It said schools should and must be a place where students feel completely safe and secure, and stressed the school system’s relationship with the city police department.

“The most important aspect of keeping our students and staff safe is making sure that we immediately report any concerns we see or hear about to the proper authorities,” Caserio wrote.

Amherst police Lt. Dan Makruski run several massive active shooter drills that have involved cops, sheriff’s deputies, the county bomb squad, firefighters, paramedics, teachers and the media. The goal has been to practice for the worst that could happen.

Lorain County emergency workers are far more prepared for a shooting than they were 10 or 20 years ago, he said. Other school districts around the country could benefit from running the same kind of exercises.

“Sadly, that only addresses half of the bang,” Makruski said. “The only thing that’s going to reduce these things from happening is whatever we can do as a society to help make each other better.”

Yet he shied away from gun control as a preventative measure, saying “the toothpaste is already out of

the tube when it comes to how many guns are out there.”

There are about 49.4 million students in public K-12 schools as of Fall 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics; and 393 million civilian guns in the U.S., per the Small Firearms Survey. That means 12.5 guns for every public school student.

DiMauro said educators should work with families to raise awareness of the need for secure firearms storage, which would help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of young people.

But he and the OEA are also calling for “common sense gun safety measures” that “are long overdue” — starting with universal background checks.

In the aftermath of the 2019 mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pledged sweeping gun control reform. He’s since gone the other direction, signing into law bills that significantly loosen gun laws.

“Schools don’t exist in vacuums.

You can’t talk about school safety without talking about larger issues of community safety. You can’t pretend these issues don’t exist,” DiMauro said.

Irvin also took aim at “the handful of legislators who represent the people but are not doing their jobs.”

She said instead of passing standyour-ground and open carry laws, Ohio legislators should be voting for safe storage and red flag laws.

“It’s follow the money,” she said.

“Money is more important than children’s lives. And they can send all the thoughts and prayers they want to – obviously that’s not working.”

Even before the Texas shooting, Moms Demand Action had been planning a rally to mourn the victims of gun violence. It will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 on Ely Square in downtown Elyria.

Michelle Bell, whose son Andre Brown was killed Feb. 10, 2019, in Cleveland, will speak. Irvin said free

gun locks and prayer flags will be given away at the event, and the Ely Square fountain will be lit that night in orange, the color associated with National Gun Violence Awareness Day, observed each year on the first Friday in June.

Two days before the shooting, South Amherst Village Council was among the many communities across the nation to adopt a resolution supporting National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Signed by Mayor David Leshinski, it promised to “do all we can to keep firearms out of the wrong hands, and encourage responsible gun ownership to help keep our children safe.”

A total of 45,222 people died from gun-related injured in the United States in 2020, the last year for which complete data is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More than half – 54 percent – were suicides, while 43 percent were murders. The remainder were accidents, police-involved shootings or incidents where the circumstances couldn’t be pinned down.

The gun death rate in the U.S. is much higher than in other nations, particularly when compared to other developed countries, according to a February analysis by Pew Research Center.

In 2016, the gun death rate here was 10.6 per 100,000 people, compared to just 2.7 in France, 2.1 in Canada, 1 in Australia, 0.9 in Germany, and 0.6 in Spain.

For 2020, the U.S. gun death rate had climbed to 13.6 per 100,000 – the highest rate since the mid-1990s, Pew Research found.

More than 1,500 Ohioans died by gun violence in 2019, according to the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. That’s an average of four people every day.

A new record was set in 2020, when the Ohio Department of Health reported at least 1,764 Ohio residents had died due to firearms.

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warned the arduous journey does not stop at commencement, and will always take hard work.

It is essential to grab hold of every possible opportunity, she said.

“You will not find success at home on your couch. You must go out and look for it,” Keener said.

“Do not be afraid of failure. Failure is just the first step toward success.”

There will be times when life is painful, Superintendent Mike Von Gunten warned students. But he said he trusts that the long hours spent in classrooms, on sports teams, with clubs and at work have prepared them for the unknown challenges ahead.

“Trust yourself. Trust your ability to persevere through difficult situations,” he said. “Know that you are enough, and also don’t ever be afraid to ask for help along the way.”

Firelands’ 68th annual commencement ceremony began on a tearful note Saturday, with a moment of silence for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The attack left 19 children — innocent 10-year-olds — and two teachers dead. The American flag at Falcons Stadium flew at half-staff during the graduation ceremony.

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She remembered being humbled on the first day of her freshman year, as upperclassmen towered overhead. Edwards also recalled the chaos the COVID-19 pandemic caused the following year — the Class of 2022 is the third “COVID class” to graduate, and had to be resilient to make it through online learning, masks and social distancing, she said.

“However, we are all still standing here today, and that in itself it an outstanding accomplishment,” said Edwards.

Keener told seniors they traversed many hills and valleys before finally turning their tassels. She also

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This fall, Galloway plans to attend Ohio State University to study mechanical engineering.

Seventeen other members of the Firelands Class of 2022 graduated summa cum laude, with GPAs of 4.0 or greater. Another 11 graduated magna cum laude, with GPAs of 3.5 or higher.

One senior, Stephanie Landers, also earned an associate degree from Lorain County Community College.

Keener said the class earned scholarships totaling more than $1.3 million. In addition, 67 seniors earned a combined 1,768 early credits from LCCC, which is a savings equivalent to $317,000 at the community college or $779,000 at a four-year college.

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Gibsons to court: Make Oberlin College pay $36 million judgment

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Attorneys for Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin have asked a Lorain County judge to order their clients be paid a $36 million-plus judgment they're owed by Oberlin College after the college failed to file an appropriate motion with a state appeals court.

Oberlin College didn't ask for a stay of a 9th District Court of Appeals ruling in March that rejected its appeal, attorneys for the Gibsons argued in a court document filed Friday.

As a result, the college should pay what a jury and court determined was owed the family bakery and its owners from a 2019 civil trial — plus interest, attorneys for the Gibsons argued.

The 9th District Court of Appeals rejected appeals by both the college and the bakery in March.

Oberlin College appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court two weeks ago. The NAACP, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, the National Coalition Against Censorship and Defending Rights and the Student Press Law Center have filed briefs in support of the college.

In the motion filed in his court Friday, Gibson Bros.

Inc. and the estates of the late David Gibson and Allyn W. "Grandpa" Gibson asked Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi to award them the $36,127,181 they're owed.

The original award was $31,614,531 on the "date of filing," or July 17, 2019, according to the Gibsons. That comes with an interest rate of 5 percent over the 1,045 days since.

The interest payments on the judgment adds more than $4.5 million to the final bill the Gibsons are seeking from Oberlin College.

Oberlin College got an appeal bond through Zurich American Insurance Co. after Miraldi ordered the college to do so in July 2019. Also called supersedeas bonds, appeals bonds ensure a monetary judgment can be paid if an appeal fails.

Oberlin College posted the appeal bond after the jury initially awarded the Gibsons $44 million in damages. It was the largest damage award for libel in Ohio history until Miraldi reduced it to $25 million based on Ohio caps on civil damages.

As long as the judgment stands against it, Oberlin College also owes the Gibsons $6.5 million in attorney fees.

After Oberlin College's most recent appeal failed, the Gibsons intend to collect, their attorneys wrote.

"There is no valid stay of execution of judgment remaining, and the Gibsons are entitled to judgment in accordance with the mandate from the 9th District Court of Appeals," their attorneys wrote.

"Nearly three years ago, a jury of Lorain County citizens took an oath, served through a nearly six-week trial, carefully deliberated, and found Oberlin College and its dean of students (Meredith Raimondo) liable for their ruinous accusations and intentional conduct aimed at the Gibsons," their attorneys wrote. "Much has happened since, including the tragic deaths of David and Allyn Gibson — neither of whom lived to see justice done for their family and its business."

"The bakery continues to labor under the effects of the stigma created" by Oberlin College and Raimondo, the Gibsons' attorneys wrote, "but without the relief awarded by the jury."

It's now within Miraldi's power to enforce the court's original judgment and "honor the jury's verdict," they wrote.

"It is time to execute on the judgment awarded by them, entered by this court, and affirmed by a unanimous panel of the Ninth District Court of Appeals," the Gibsons' attorneys wrote.

The college has relied on an argument it was simply trying to protect students' rights to protest the bakery after three students were arrested there in November 2016 in a shoplifting incident and assault.

The students pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, but the college stopped doing business with the bakery for some time after, and allegedly tried to make the criminal case against its students go away.

Raimondo allegedly distributed fliers calling the bakery "racist" during the protest, and as Student Senate adviser allowed a similar resolution to remain posted in a campus building for weeks after.

When the bakery and the college couldn't come to an understanding — the college said the Gibsons demanded money — the Gibsons sued.

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The Amherst Historical Society will hold garage sale fundraisers at its Sandstone Village, 763 Milan Ave., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday through October.

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A Memorial Day parade traveled down Route 58 on Monday from Union School Park to Greenwood Cemetery, where a service was held to honor the sacrifices made by those who died in defense of their country’s ideals.

‘The glory of their deeds still echoes’

After honoring the dead of wars past at Cleveland Avenue Cemetery, Amherst veterans led a Memorial Day parade Monday down Park Avenue to Town Hall.

“On Memorial Day, we remember all of those that we lost — those who answered the call, those who summoned their bravery, and their willingness to sacrifice everything for their home, their families, their country, their freedom,” said the Rev. Brian Russell of Community Congregational Church of Christ, in a ceremony at the sandstone bandstand downtown.

Americans share the responsibility of mourning those brave souls who laid down their lives, he said. They also have an obligation to continue searching for and bring home all those still missing in action, who may still be prisoners of war.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this day is sacred,” said Clark Brunner, commander of American Legion Post 118.

Each Memorial Day, the sounds of 1,000 battles on land, sea and air still echo with the glory of the valiant deeds of those fallen brothers and sisters in arms, he said.

— Photos and story by Jason Hawk

The Amherst Marching Comets, including seniors who just graduated, take to the streets to pay tribute to the heroes of wars past.

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Drained, old reservoir one step closer to wetland JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — The watery depths of an old reservoir on Morgan Street are gone, reduced to mud baking in the sun. That was done on purpose — workers have pumped it dry as part of a $300,000 plan to convert the reservoir into a wetland, leaving its twin just to the east full.

“It’s going to be beautiful,” said Oberlin Public Works Director Jeff Baumann, giving a peek behind the construction fence last week to where a puddle here or there is all that remains of the western reservoir.

Baumann was excited as he showed plans to build an observation deck out into what will be restored as a serene marsh. As he talked, workers from Big Trees Inc. of Valley City were busy moving earth and spreading grass seed.

Saplings have been planted, and soon the new wetland will flourish with wildflowers, milkweed, sedge and rye.

The site is designed to collect rainwater in the coming months, filling to about 4 feet at its deepest parts. Baumann envisions the end result as a smaller version of the Lorain County Metro Parks’ Sandy Ridge Reservation in North Ridgeville, drawing water fowl such as cranes, heron, geese and ducks.

The project was borne out

of necessity. In 2019, the Ohio Department of Natural Resource brought down the hammer on the city, demanding about $1 million in repairs to the old reservoirs, which were actually classified as controlled dams.

The less costly and more environmentally attractive option was to lower the embankments and water level, making structural changes needed to reclassify the western reservoir so it’s no longer under the ODNR’s jurisdiction.

“Their primary interest is in the relative safety of upland reservoirs,” Baumann said. “So taking one out of service that had no continued purpose as a continued water supply and recreating it in this manner, yeah, they were on board.”

No longer will the neighboring bodies of water be connected — that was part of the deal to get out from under state regulation — and a new spillway has been built on the southwestern corner of the wetland to handle excess water.

Work on the project began last year, but continuing efforts this year have been delayed by a spate of bad weather, said Baumann. Now he anticipates fences coming down and the public having access to the park in July.

There’s much work to be done in the interim. A winding dirt ring around the former reservoir, which has been used by excavators and other heavy machinery, will

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ABOVE: Ben Miller of Big Trees Inc. of Valley City works on spreading a seed mixture onto a hillside at the Morgan Street reservoirs. The western of the two reservoirs has been drained to be remade as a wetland.

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RIGHT: Oberlin Public Works Director Jeff Baumann holds plans as he describes the renovation. be turned into a fine limestone gravel walking trail, for example. Stairs also need to be built where the path changes elevation.

Grass netting is being laid down, and workers want to rid the property of invasive plant species that could overrun the wetland, Baumann

said.

With the transformation of the Morgan Street reservoir and recent purchase of the former Prospect Elementary School, Oberlin will now have two recreational attractions on its west side.

About 15 years ago, the city put together a strategic

plan that showed it flush with parks. There was only one problem — they were all concentrated in the center of town and to the east.

There’s no mystery there.

Starting with Depot Park on Route 58, they’ve historically developed along railways and waterways, Baumann said.

Fogg planning huge commerce park buildings JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — Two huge industrial buildings with a combined 500,000 square feet of floor space are being planned for a wooded area wedged between Cooper Foster Park Road and Route 2.

The Amherst Commerce Park, as it’s called on site drawings, would be located at the end of Sandstone Boulevard, a deadend street that runs south past south past Depaola Park and the Ohio E-Check center.

No tenants have been locked down yet, engineer Jake Szaras of Ray Fogg Building Methods told the Amherst Board of Zoning Appeals last Wednesday night.

The company is seeking two variances. One would allow it to have just a 50-foot setback from the eastern edge of the property instead of the 300 feet required by city code.

The other asks for permission to construct a 50-foot-tall building where code allows a maximum height of 40 feet.

Szaras said he anticipates

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The area is zoned for C-2 commercial use. According to Building Official David Macartney, Fogg has not applied yet to the Planning Commission for site plan approval.

It did, however, provide a map and concept drawings showing the two massive buildings with a road running between them, and both ringed by hundreds of parking spaces.

Neighbors showed up to object to Fogg’s plans. Carol Brim, who lives on Virginia Drive, presented a petition with signatures from 31 households and asked the zoning board to deny the variances.

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Some said bald eagles and redtailed hawks make their homes in the trees where the commerce park would be built.

Speaking before the body, Brim specifically voiced concerns about increased traffic in the neighborhood, as well as storm water drainage.

“You don’t even know who’s going in it,” she heatedly told Szaras.

Jewel Botson, who lives nearby, worried about noise and trash, and asked for a fence to screen her property.

“This is all my back yard,” she said.

Plans call for a 6-foot-tall dirt mound to be placed 50 feet from the property line to act as a barrier. Szaras also said that placing the two buildings on either side of Sandstone Boulevard will dampen the noise of delivery trucks.

The Board of Zoning Appeals is a quasi-judicial body, meaning it treats proceedings like a court.

It purports not to be subject to the Ohio Open Meetings Act. Its members adjourned to deliberate in a closed session.

A public records request was filled Friday, showing the zoning board decided behind closed doors to table the request.

That is because Szaras mistakenly provided an application

seeking variances for just one of several parcels that would be affected on the 29-acre property.

Szaras will resubmit the requests for the next Board of Zoning Appeals meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29 at Amherst City Hall, according to Building Department Secretary Tammy Paterson.

Ray Fogg Building Methods has owned the land in question since 1970. According to the Lorain County Auditor’s Office, it has a market value of $467,700.

A Fogg sign visible from Route 2 advertises lots available for office, warehouse or retail use at Amherst Commerce Park.

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BULLETIN BOARD June food drive at OHC

The Oberlin Heritage Center will hold a food drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday throughout June at the Monroe House, 73 ½ South Professor St., to benefit Oberlin Community Services.

Nonperishable donations can be left in a marked container on the front porch. They must be unopened and within one year of the “best by” date.

Most-needed items include canned soups, canned tuna or chicken, pasta, peanut butter and vegan or gluten-free items.

Canned goods with pop-up tabs are preferred because they can be used by people who don’t have a can opener.

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All children up to age 11 can join the Herrick Memorial Library’s reading club in Wellington by registering in the Children’s Room. Then pick up a reading log and track the time you spend reading books you’ve checked out from now to July 30. Earn a paperback book of your choice for every five days you spend reading.

Ages 12-17 can join by registering at the front desk. Librarians will fill out an entry for each book that you read and enter you into our summer prize drawing that will take place Aug. 1.

Adults can also take part in the summer reading fun. Register at the front desk and librarians will fill out a ticket when you check out our books, audio books, magazines or digital reading materials. On Aug. 1, they’ll draw one ticket for a prize.

The Brownhelm Historical Association will teach participants how to properly and safely clean and treat headstones. The admission fee includes instruction as well as a small cleaning kit to take home for use on family headstones.

Tickets are $25. Purchase them at www.tinyurl.com/ RugbyCemetery.

Graduation parade

Residents can line village streets to celebrate the Wellington High School Class of 2022, which will hold a graduation parade at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 5 following commencement exercises.

The parade will travel south on Route 58, jog west on Route 18, head south on Depot Street to Prospect Street. Then it will turn west on Kent before continuing south on Parkside Reserve and then turn east on Jones Road. Then it will travel back north on Route 58 to Dickson Street and east to the stadium.

The graduation ceremony will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the WHS gym.

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Teen scavenger hunt

Through June 25, register and pick up a scavenger hunt packet at the Herrick Memorial Library in Wellington.

Can you find where the pictures were taken? Walk around Wellington to find them. Prizes will be award to three people with the most correct answers.

Blessing House diaper drive

Trinity Lutheran Church is holding a diaper drive to benefit Blessing House Children’s Crisis Care Center.

It is collecting diapers for newborns to size 6 through Saturday, June 11. Donations may be placed in the drop off box at the front door at the church, 3747 Liberty Ave., Vermilion.

Monetary donations are also welcome.

Read to Putter

Putter the visiting therapy dog will be at the Herrick Memorial Library in Wellington at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 2 to listen to kids practice their reading skills. To sign up your child for a 15-minute time slot, call (440) 647-2120.

Heritage Center tours

During Oberlin College’s commencement weekend, the Oberlin Heritage Center will offer several public tour options.

Guided walks include: • “Scholars and Settlers” at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4 • “Freedom Friends” at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 4 • “Civil War to Civil Rights” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 4 Self-guided tablet tours are also available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days.

Advance registration is required for guided history walks. Visit www.oberlinheritagecenter.org for start locations and pricing.

Explore the unexplained

Main Street Wellington will hold its First Friday event from 4-7 p.m. on June 3 with a theme of “Unexplained Phenomena.”

People can visit businesses in downtown Wellington, looking for clues about Bigfoot while shopping.

At 7 p.m., Ohio Department of Natural Resources naturalist John Hickenbottom will share stories from the trails near Cambridge, Ohio. The presentation will be held either at the gazebo on the village green or inside Town Hall.

Game on!

“Switch” up your Saturday afternoon starting at 2 p.m. on June 4 and show off your gaming skills as you play Nintendo Switch and Wii games at the Herrick Memorial Library in Wellington. Light refreshments will be provided. Registration is required.

Learn to clean headstones

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A gravestone cleaning workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 4 at Rugby Cemetery on North Ridge Road in Brownhelm Township.

Summer sports camps for boys and girls in grades 3-8 will be held in June at Oberlin High School. Kids will work with high school coaches to learn skills.

• Baseball and softball camp will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. on June 7-9.

• Basketball camp will run from 6-7:30 p.m. on June 7-9.

• Volleyball camp will run from 1-2:30 p.m. on June 14-16.

• Football camp will run from 1-2:30 p.m. on June 14-16.

• Soccer camp will run from 5:30-7 p.m. on June 21-23.

All camps are free. To register, visit www.tinyurl.com/ OberlinCamps.

Walkin’ on Wednesdays

Main Street Amherst’s annual Walkin’ on Wednesdays events will run from 4-7:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month from June to September.

Starting June 8, visit historic downtown Amherst to enjoy family-friendly entertainment. There will also be vendors and a car show, and many shops will remain open later than normal.

Enjoy yoga in South Amherst

Yoga will be offered this summer at South Amherst Community Park.

“Walk and Yoga Stretch” will be held from 6-6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays beginning June 8. Loosen up with guided stretches and take a walk, rain or shine. No special equipment is needed.

“Seated Yoga Flow” will be held from 6-7 p.m. on Thursdays beginning June 9. It’s geared toward all levels and ages, including beginners. The class will focus on breathing and movement, stretching and strengthening muscles, plus increasing flexibility.

Wear comfortable clothes and take water.

Oberlin library meeting

The Oberlin Public Library board will meet at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 at the library. The meeting is open to the public.

Republican club meeting

The Avon-Avon Lake Republican Club will meet at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 at the Father Ragan Knights of Columbus Hall, 1783 Moore Rd., Avon.

A candidates night will feature state Sen. Nathan Manning and primary challenger Kristen Hill; state representative primary candidates Sarah McGervey and Marty Gallagher; and state representatives Gayle Manning and Dick Stein.

The cost is $5 for guests.

Second Saturdays return

“Discover Oberlin” will be theme when Second Saturdays return to the city starting June 11.

The Oberlin Business Partnership invites families downtown for fun, music, shopping and a chance to win prizes.

The June 11 event will kick off at 9 a.m. with the opening of the Oberlin Farmers Market. There will also be family activities at that time in the East College Street courtyard. There will be

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Amherst library meeting

The Amherst Public Library board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 13 at the library. The meeting is open to the public.

Find your Slovak roots

Lisa Alzo will present “Find Your Slovak Roots Online” at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 13 in a virtual meeting of the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Lorain County chapter.

Alzo is a researcher, speaker, writer and teacher who has developed several courses that can be found at www.researchwriteconnect.com.

The chapter meeting is open to members and the general public. Those interested in watching the presentation should email meetings@loraincoogs.org to be added to the invitation list and to receive the online link.

Growing Artists Summer Camp

A Growing Artists Summer Camp will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon from June 13-17 at The People’s Garden, 285 South Professor St., Oberlin.

The event, sponsored by Oberlin Community Services and the Allen Memorial Art Museum, is for children ages 8 to 10. The free camp will celebrate art and gardening, exploring connections between people and the land they live on.

To register, visit www.bit.ly/Growing_Artists.

Learn to ride like a pro

The Amherst Police Department’s Bike Rodeo and SelfAwareness Day will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 18 in the south parking lot at Marion L. Steele High School.

Join police staff to learn about bike fun and safety, ride through a course designed to test and teach skills, and sign up for a chance to win a new bike. Be sure to take your bike, helmet, knee and elbow pads. Amherst firefighters and LifCare Ambulance paramedics will also be on hand.

In the event of rain, the bike rodeo will be held Saturday, July 9.

Tee off to support memorial

A golf outing to benefit the Carlisle Township Veterans Memorial will begin with a 9 a.m. shotgun start on Saturday, July 2 at the Carlisle Golf Club, 39709, Slife Rd. The cost is $280 per team, four-person scramble style; or $20 per skins team. There will be prizes for first, second and third place finishers, and dinner for all paid participants will be served at AMVETS Post 32, 11087 Middle Ave., Elyria.

For tickets, call Larry Stevaus at (440) 610-0684, Jim Lynsky at (440) 773-4831 or Ray Hildebrandt at (440) 4585814. Checks should be made to Carlisle Township Veterans Memorial. Sign up and pay by June 20.

Hole sponsorships are available for $50 each. Raffle baskets and 50-50 raffles will also be available.

South Amherst alumni banquet The South Amherst alumni board has announced its annual banquet will be held Saturday, July 16.

It will honor the classes of 1970,1971 and 1972. Invitations will be sent out after Memorial Day and must be returned by June 24. If you have changed your address, be sure to contact Barbie Standen at (440) 988-3505. Donations are also being accepted for the alumni scholarship fund.

Summer theater camp

The Patricia Lindley Center for the Performing Arts and Wellington Schools will hold their first summer theater camp for children ages 7-11.

The two-week camp runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, July 11-22. It will conclude with a single performance of “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Fairy Tales” at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 22 at the Lindley Center, 627 North Main St., Wellington.

Participants do not need to be residents or students of the Wellington school district. Tuition is $375 per student, and funding is available. Completed applications and tuition are due no later than June 28. Spots are limited to 30 students.

All applicants will be notified of their status by July 1 via email.

Completed applications will be accepted on a first-received basis.

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An empty chair for each victim JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Placing the last of 21 orange chairs on the lawn of the First Church in Oberlin last Thursday morning, Jennifer Bertoni stepped back and let loose a long, deep sigh.

Each empty chair at the corner of state routes 58 and 511 symbolized loss. They memorialized the 19 children and two teachers gunned down Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

“How do we protect our children? What are we supposed to be doing?” asked Bertoni, who is director of faith formation at the church.

On Friday, May 20, the church held a small service to pray for the souls of the 10 people killed less than a week earlier in a racially-motivated attack at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York.

Bertoni said the small group of believers who gathered inside the church then had no idea they would be mourning another mass shooting just a few days later.

The Robb Elementary memorial in Oberlin was inspired by an identical one at Church of the Saviour in Cleveland Heights, which is pastored by former Oberlin First United Methodist Church preacher Andy Call.

They aren’t alone — United Methodist Church of Berea, Church of the Redeemer in Westlake and United Methodist Church of Macedonia have all placed empty chairs outside.

“Our hearts are further broken by the inability or unwillingness to address the systemic evil that makes such heinous actions possible,” said a social media

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Jennifer Bertoni places a 21st chair on the lawn of the First Church in Oberlin. The empty chairs are a memorial to the lives lost in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The Rev. David Hill said he was considering adding another chair for Celia Gonzales, grandmother of gunman Salvador Ramos — she was shot in the face and remains hospitalized. Hill said he may add another chair for Ramos himself, who was killed in the attack: “Now that’s a controversial issue, but I think of that person’s family,” he said. post by Church of the Saviour.

“Thoughts and prayers are a good place to begin, but we must not stop there.”

The Rev. David Hill, who currently leads the Oberlin church, called the memorial “a tragic reflection of how as a country we have decided to prioritize individual rights around guns over the communal safety of all of our children.”

His voice was thick with frustration Thursday as he talked about the many years Americans have watched school shootings unfold without substantive changes being made to prevent them.

There have been 27 school shootings this year in the United States. The Gun Violence Archive tracked 693 mass shootings nationwide last year.

Statistics have consistently shown that a vast majority of Americans are in favor of reasonable gun restrictions, Hill said.

Only one-fifth of Americans believe possession of handguns, except by police and other authorities, should be outlawed, Gallup polls reveal.

A bare majority — 52 percent — believe laws covering the sale of firearms should be more strict.

In 1991, that number was much stronger at 78 percent, but has been steadily falling in recent years.

About half of adults (49 percent) say there would be fewer mass shootings if it were harder to get guns legally, according to Pew Research polling last year.

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Mary Dulio turned her own health challenges into an opportunity to share her experience with other nursing students at Lorain County Community College.

Dulio, 24, of Wellington, is one of 47 graduates who earned their associate degree nursing in May from LCCC. During the nurse pinning ceremony, she received the Florence Nightingale Student Nurse Award.

It is given to a student who demonstrates excellence in the clinical area caring for patients and as an emerging professional.

“Winning this award really solidified for me that I could do anything I truly wanted to do if I worked hard and never gave up,” Dulio said. “It reminded me that no matter the challenges in my way, I could always persevere. Just because my life changed, did not mean it would have to hold me back.”

◄ Mary Dulio is the recipient of the 2022 Florence Nightengale Award for excellence in nursing from Lorain County Community College.

Dulio said she has always felt called to work in health care. She began taking classes at LCCC in 2018 with plans to complete the nursing program in 2021. That all changed in May 2020, when she found out she was pregnant with her first child.

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SHEFFIELD TWP. — Results of the spring primary were certified last Wednesday afternoon by the Lorain County Board of Elections without any outcomes changing or the need for recounts.

A post-election audit required under state law began yesterday morning after press time at the board office, 1985 North Ridge Rd. East.

Picking slips of paper from a bowl last week, election board members randomly chose to audit ballots cast at Old Fashioned Grace Baptist Church in South Amherst, North Ridgeville Senior Center and Spitzer Conference Center in Elyria.

Those polling locations are where 5 percent of the county’s voting was done May 3.

Now attention turns to the state’s second primary election of the year, likely to be held Aug. 2.

It will decide party candidates for the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate — those races were supposed to appear on the May 3 ballot, but were pulled because of a long-running fight over drawing new district boundaries.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled four times now that maps created by state Republicans are unconstitutional. The rejected maps would have skewed elections to consolidate the party’s power, giving it a veto-proof supermajority.

Now the Republican-led redistricting commission has a court-set deadline of May 28 to produce fair maps.

Lorain County Board of Elections Director Paul Adams said he expects directives about how to carry out Ohio’s second primary to be handed down early next week by Secretary of State Frank LaRose.

The election board will need to meet in June to approve allocation of voting equipment and poll workers, he said — but for now, it’s unclear who will pay for the election, which he estimated will cost taxpayers another $350,000 to $400,000.

“At this point, there is no money in the budget to hold a second primary,” Adams said Wednesday.

There are rumblings the Ohio Legislature may take action to fund it, he said, “which I think they should. It shouldn’t be borne here locally.”

Adams has previously estimated the statewide price tag

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Doane named Rotary’s senior of April 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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Katherine Doane is the Oberlin High School senior honored by the Oberlin Rotary Club for the month of April.

Doane has participated

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Katherine Doane in the OHS drama club for most of her high school years. She has also participated in the marching band, rising to drum captain her senior year.

She has participated in track and field and is a member of the National Honor Society.

Doane has won many awards for her artwork, including an American Visions Award and three Gold Keys, all through the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition.

She also participated in the Shad Canada 2021 design challenge, for which her team received an honorary mention.

Doane works as a counselor at the FAVA Summer Art Camps and is a member of the Oberlin Dance Company at Oberlin College. She has previously

danced with Neos Dance Theatre and Movement Works.

Believing in service, Doane has been a member of the Interact Club, the community service club of Oberlin High School, sponsored by the Oberlin Rotary Club, for two years. She also volunteers at CityFresh Community Supported Agriculture, which serves Lorain and Cuyahoga counties. She helps to set up the booth, assemble the shares and assist clients.

Doane will attend Oberlin College in the fall, where she plans to study journalism.

Lorain County gets $137K to fight the drug trade The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office is getting $137,518 to fight drug trafficking, pharmaceutical thefts and other organized criminal activity associated with the drug trade.

The amount is part of $3.6 million announced by Gov. Mike DeWine that will go to 41 law enforcement agencies across Ohio. It is being distributed via the Office of Criminal Justice Services.

Captain Richard Bosley said the grant is used by the Lorain

County Drug Task Force to fund operations. The task force has been getting state money every year for decades to combat the illegal drug trade.

Several Northeast Ohio agencies received shares of the state funding, including $166,481 for the Cleveland police and $110,575 for the Medina County Drug Task Force. Neighboring Huron, Erie and Ashland counties did not receive a share of the grants.

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A large minority (43 percent) felt either allowing people to carry concealed guns in more places or arming teachers and other K-12 officials were good ideas, according to Pew’s surveys.

Hill said he wants ordinary

Americans to rise up and “lobby for common sense… We are going to have to raise our voices, because this is just insanity,” he said.

Every time there’s been a shooting in the U.S., the knee-jerk reaction has been to arm more people, said Hill. Meanwhile, other countries around the world have cracked down on guns, and their gun death rates have plummeted, he said.

Even among Christians there is disagreement on the issue of gun control, though, Hill admitted.

Some churches embrace a “God, guns and constitution” philosophy that has been mirrored on political

signs in recent years.

“There are people of faith who have lost their way and need to be brought back into the fold and pay more attention to what Jesus was modeling,” said Hill. “He was certainly modeling nonviolence.

Blessed are the peacemakers.”

Bertoni said she believes God expects his people to do something to stop the suffering.

For now, that means erecting a highly-visible reminder of what violence cost 21 Texas families.

“If it’s right in front of me as I’m driving down the street, going to the school down the street, I can’t ignore it,” she said.

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University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center has been awarded Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI from the American College of Cardiology.

This accreditation was given based on rigorous evaluation of the staff’s ability to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients who may be experiencing a heart attack.

Percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, is also known as coronary angioplasty. It is a non-surgical procedure that opens narrowed or blocked coronary arteries with a stent or balloon to relieve symptoms of heart disease or reduce heart damage during or after a heart attack.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 730,000 Americans suffer a heart attack each year.

The most common symptom of a heart attack for both men and women is chest pain or discomfort. However, women are more likely to have atypical symptoms.

Other heart attack symptoms include shortness of breath, cold sweat, unusual tiredness, heartburn-like feeling, nausea or vomiting, sudden dizziness or fainting as well as tingling or discomfort in one or both arms, back, shoulder, neck or jaw.

NURSING

FROM B1 certainly say it has changed me into a different person and it definitely gave me a different outlook on nursing,” she said.

So, when a nursing class suggested that students share their own health stories, she eagerly signed up.

“Before getting diagnosed with the disease myself, I really did not know a ton about it or what patients truly went through,” Dulio said. “Being able to give my peers a different perspective on a disease and medical appliance that has so much stigma around it was amazing.”

Nursing professor Nanci Berman was inspired by Dulio’s willingness to share her experience with others, and nominated her for the Florence Nightingale Award.

“Mary chose to take a health issue many would shy away from and share it with nursing students,” Berman said in her nomination. “This selfless act allowed future nurses the opportunity to ask open and intimate questions which may improve the care they will provide others.”

For Dulio, it was nursing faculty like Berman who made it possible for her to stay focused as she continued her education throughout her challenges.

“I loved LCCC and every single professor I had was more than amazing,” Dulio said. “They were all incredibly supportive of me and my situation from the day it started. I could not have gotten through it without their encouraging words and support, along with my family cheering me on every step of the way.”

Dulio plans to continue her education to earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She would like to work in digestive health or colorectal surgery.

“It is such a rewarding feeling when I work with a patient who has an ostomy or inflammatory bowel disease,” she said. “I am able to have such a different insight on their life and the way I am able to connect with them is something indescribable. I truly feel I have found my calling as a nurse.”

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at $20 million statewide.

In the meantime, the county elections board has voted to purchase new software from Esri and Cloudpoint Geospatial at a cost of $20,097. It will be used to map voting precincts at a street-by-street level.

The board is required by state law to provide those maps to voters, said President Marilyn Jacobcik. The maps are also used by candidates to determine their district boundaries, and where they are allowed to gather petition signatures when filing to run.

Some cities with designated wards have recently redrawn some of those boundaries to reflect population changes as a result of the 2020 census, Jacobcik said.

The election board also voted to buy a new mapping computer at a cost of about $1,800, and a conference table-sized mapping printer at a cost of $18,469.

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From farm to table

Wellington FFA members teach how food is raised JASON HAWK EDITOR

WELLINGTON — Most supermarket shoppers probably don’t know how much work went into stocking the butcher counter, Natalie Calfo believes.

“I think they know the basic facts, but they probably don’t know how much effort actually goes into raising the animals,” the 17-year-old senior said last Thursday, fondly patting three pigs penned behind Wellington High School.

Calfo, a member of the FFA, was one of several older students who took livestock to school as part of the club’s “Food for America” program, teaching younger kids from Westwood Elementary and McCormick Middle School about where their meat, milk and eggs come from.

“I hope they learn the importance of agriculture and there are different ways we can use animals to better ourselves,” said Heather Reininger, a junior who showed her sheep, Bean and Espresso.

Sarah the cow was a popular attraction, and tiny hands eagerly shot through a fence to pet her.

Freshman Paige Bremke told kindergartners that there are 31.2 million cows like Sarah in Ohio — each grows to between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds, which takes 24 pounds of food and 5 to 9 gallons of water every day.

Bremke raises sheep, goats and pigs, and like many of her classmates shows them each August at the Lorain County Fair.

“They’re a ton of work. Some people just think you get them and then you show them, but they are so much more work than that,” she said.

Photos by Jason Hawk | Wellington Enterprise

LEFT: Kids from Westwood Elementary School get a kick out of petting Sarah the cow while high school freshman Paige Bremke talks about what it takes to raise livestock.

BELOW: Heather Reininger, a junior at Wellington High School, shows off her sheep, Bean and Espresso.

An average day for a Wellington “farm kid” starts by 7 a.m., when Bremke said she starts feeding animals. After school on hot days, she checks their water, then is back out in the barn after 6 p.m. for the evening feeding.

Farmers aren’t just raising livestock to be killed, said Jillian Stannard, a sophomore at Wellington.

“You’re raising them to have the best lives they can have,” giving them the love and attention they deserve, she said.

Farmers still have to set boundaries, though, said Calfo. That’s one reason she hasn’t named the three little pigs she showed to younger students Thursday — that’s too much of an emotional

bond, she said.

Knowing her animals will someday go to the butcher block has always been hard, said Calfo, who hails from a dairy farm family.

“I used to struggle a lot when I was a kid,” she said. “I used to cry every time they went to slaughter. But I know that I’ve had time with them. I still like learning their personalities.”

Still, raising livestock is an experience most kids don’t get, and one she’s thankful for. Calfo said she hopes to turn it into a career, but via computer engineering — farming is a high-tech industry these days, she said.

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Lorain County JVS carpentry and masonry trades juniors stand with special guests in front of their replica Oberlin Midas building.

Mini-Midas is first building at new Oberlin Safety Town FOR THE NEWS-TRIBUNE

OBERLIN — Juniors in the carpentry and masonry programs at the Lorain County JVS built a replica of the Oberlin Midas building, the first at the new Oberlin Safety Town.

It was unveiled Monday, May 23 next to Oberlin Elementary School in front of guests that included Oberlin police Chief Ryan Warfield, Midas owner Barry Jones, Lorain County JVS Superintendent Glenn Faircloth and Oberlin City Schools Superintendent David Hall.

Jones was overwhelmed by the finished piece: “I have to tell you, as the owner of this building that I truly love, and to see what these young men have done has just blown me away.”

Carpentry students Kirk Yochum of Oberlin, Logan Rutz of Elyria and Ethan Sante of North Ridgeville led the ceremony, each speaking about their experiences with the project.

“The part I enjoyed the most was installing the brick look on the building,”

said Rutz. “It was something I had never done before and I enjoyed learning how to do it.”

The miniature Midas will be used as a storage shed, he said. Kids can take their bikes inside and pretend they are getting fixed.

“Teamwork is what I would like to highlight today,” Sante said. “We had to learn how to work together for the cause of this project and I am proud for not quitting when it got too hard and for putting in enough work so that we can all stand here and present the new safety town building.”

“Safety Town is truly a community project,” said Warfield. “Our community involvement in Oberlin includes Oberlin City Schools, Oberlin Police Department, Lorain County JVS, the City of Oberlin, Oberlin Rotary, and various other sponsors and businesses. We hope that our Safety Town will look like our community.”

The JVS carpentry class presented Warfield and Jones with engraved hammers as a symbol and remembrance of the occasion.

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Janet Hollingsworth, director of the Herrick Memorial Library, shows the vegetables growing in the raised beds in front of the library’s steps.

Garden is a WWII-style response to food shortages JASON HAWK EDITOR

WELLINGTON — Bare grocery store shelves and sky-high inflation are the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they remind Janet Hollingsworth of another dark chapter in history — World War II. Eighty years ago, Americans grew “victory gardens” to get through the hard times. So taking a page from the past, Hollingsworth has planted her own victory garden outside the Herrick Memorial Library, where she is director.

“I consider we’re in the same kind of food crisis now,” she said.

Chatting up patrons while checking out their books, Hollingsworth said she kept hearing frustrations and fears about food.

People in southern Lorain County are having a hard time putting dinner on the table.

Just outside her front doors lay an answer. The village removed a row of locust trees from raised beds in front of the library in March, trying to prevent their roots from growing large enough to ruin sidewalks.

Until the trees are replanted in the fall, Hollingsworth has turned the beds into “square-foot” gardens, tightly packed with green beans, sweet peppers, cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, zucchini, onions, basil and parsley, as well as flowers known to ward of insect pests.

Gardens don’t have to be sprawling, nor are long rows necessarily the best layout, she said. Veggies can grow closely together, which prevents weeds from sprouting, and a garden can be as small as a fivegallon bucket.

Her husband, David, helped build chicken wire enclosures to keep critters at bay.

Then Lorain County JVS junior Madison

Mickey and library patron Jessica Joppeck helped plant seeds.

When harvested, the produce will go to Well-Help, the Wellington nonprofit that distributes food in the village and surrounding townships.

“We’re getting more people who haven’t been to Well-Help for a really long time,” said the nonprofit’s office coordinator, Bernie Raab. “Most of them are saying they just can’t afford to go to the grocery store.”

She said more and more people are relying on the food pantry to cover gaps at the end of each month.

Hollingsworth said many people don’t realize that Well-Help has to purchase much of the food it gives away, and does so on a shoestring budget. With prices skyrocketing, Raab said she can’t afford to purchase much produce.

What comes from gardens, though, is basically free — Oberlin Community Services and Thrive Southern Lorain County provided seeds for the library’s project, and The Gathering, the nonprofit arm of Ken Ganley Auto of Norwalk, donated toward fertilizer.

The latter is also paying to bring in two speakers this summer to talk about gardening at the library.

So far, Hollingsworth and company have offered two introductory classes on growing food, and more are planned to cover canning, teaching people to preserve their produce through the cold months.

Even in a rural community surrounded by farmland, gardening has become something of a lost art, Hollingsworth said.

Many people know to put the seeds or roots in the ground — what they’re much less sure of is technique, and they’re turning to books and the library’s classes for a little guidance.

Oberlin police Chief Ryan Warfield and Oberlin Midas owner Barry Jones admire the work of Lorain County JVS students.

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The Oberlin connector bus service has expanded and is now available from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Friday.

Call (800) 406-7541 to schedule a ride. Trips are $2, one way. Discounts are available.

The service area includes the city of Oberlin and portions of New Russia Township, Amherst Township, the city of Amherst, Lorain, Sheffield Township, Elyria and Carlisle Township. Learn more at www.cityofoberlin.com/oberlin-connector.

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A victory garden has been planted in front of the Herrick Memorial Library.

It was created to feed people as hunger spikes in southern Lorain County, said Director Janet Hollingsworth.

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Over 90 graduates walk at Black River SARA CRAWFORD WELLINGTON ENTERPRISE

SULLIVAN — Black River graduate and author Jobie Hughes returned to the high school’s commencement after 24 years, this time as the commencement guest speaker.

Hughes is the author of the books "I am Number Four" and "The Power of Six" and a 1998 graduate of Black River Schools.

During his time at Black River, he was the 1997 state runner-up in wrestling and in 1998 the state champion.

“The title Black River alumni is the tie that binds you all now to each other, to me, to everyone who came before and will come after,” Hughes said.

As Hughes reflected on being back in the gymnasium after 24 years, he recognized that many of the people he graduated with are now watching their kids walk the stage and how fast the time has flown.

“However you spend your time working or hardly working, whatever it is you're going to do, it's going to pass," Hughes said.

"I've always been of mind that it's best to make the most of it.”

Throughout his speech, Hughes spoke about his journey to becoming a successful author.

Hughes attended Ohio University after high school, receiving a bachelor of arts in management information systems. Then, at 23, he decided to pursue writing.

When the success of his book occurred, Hughes said that he was asked in an interview how it felt to become an overnight success. He said that his gut reaction was to ask what the person was talking about, as he felt that was not the case.

The book was published when Hughes was 29, followed by the movie deal for "I am Number Four" when he was 30. Throughout that six-year period, Hughes’ other books were rejected by publishers, and he was rejected by multiple graduate schools.

“Nobody really sees the amount of work that goes into it, the behind-the-scenes stuff,” Hughes said. “Yes, they see the glitz and the glamour and the glory. But not what it took to reach that mountaintop.”

He told the graduates that when they have something they are passionate about, it is something they will have to work toward. He said they must be

Photos by Angelo Angel | Wellington Enterprise

Jacob Kodicovic reaches out to accept his diploma during commencement exercises Friday at Black River High School. willing to take risks and make sacrifices.

He added that "progress is oftentimes slow and messy and frustrating, but it's progress all the same.”

Before Hughes spoke, valedictorian Travis Owen and salutatorian Oliva Schlauch both spoke on the accomplishments made by the Black River Class of 2022.

Of the 91 graduates, 44 will be going to college or to a vocational school, 24 will be going straight into the workforce from the Medina County Career Center, and two will be serving in the military.

In his speech, Owen took audience members around the fouryear experience the Class of 2022 had — from experiencing a pandemic to exceeding academics like raising the school’s average ACT score above the state average, to the clubs and organizations people participated in.

“I think we'll have a mark on the school that lasts way beyond the walk out those doors,” Owen said. ► Members of the Black River High School Class of 2022 await their turn to receive diplomas.

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Are you an eagle-eyed reader?

Read the article below and circle the eight errors you find. Then rewite the article correctly.

Seaworthy Facts tingrays are flat fishes that seem to fly underwater. Stingrays and other rays are sometimes called batoids because they look a bit like bats when they are swimming.

Imagine what it would be like like if one person tryed to lift 50 jumbo jets. This amount of presure, more than eight tons per square inch, is the same as the pressure at the deepest part of the ocean.

Largest Ray is the Manta Ray

Stingrays got their name from the sharp, venom-tipped spines on their tails that can come out when the tail hits an animal. They only sting when threatened or stepped on.

The giant manta ray is the largest ray. Use the code to discover the manta ray’s size.

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Stingrays burrow in the sand in shallow waters to hide from predators or wait for prey to swim by. Their colors often match the sand or mud where they hide. This is called camouflage.

Stingray Shuffle

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Manta rays never stop swimming and travel in large groups to feeding grounds. These large groups can include as many as rays and are known as a fever.

When walking in shallow waters where stingrays live, do the stingray shuffle.

Shuffle your feet along the bottom to warn hiding stingrays that you are coming. The shy, gentle creature will hear you and swim away before you step on it.

Did you know that gold is suspended in the worlds seawater? If it was possible to extract that gold, each person on Earth would have nine pownds of gold.

Most people know that Mount Everest is Earth’s tallest mowntain at 29,029 feet. But Mauna Kea, an old volcano in Hawaii, is raelly taller. In total, Mauna Kea is 33,465 feet tall if measured from the seabed. Only 13,796 feet are above the surfis of the ocean.

Help the ray escape the shark!

What eats rays?

A ray’s predators include sharks, other large fish, orcas, seals and sea lions.

LSNISA A stingray’s mouth is on the underside of its body and the eyes, nostrils and gills are on the top. Why would that be good for stingrays?

What do rays eat?

Unscramble the letters to see some of the things rays eat.

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Smallest Rays

The smallest ray is the short-nose electric ray which is about 4 inches across and weighs less than a pound.

Electric rays are named for their ability to generate and transmit an electric current to stun prey and for protection from predators.

It’s been a long time!

Fossils of rays have been found that are million years old!

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Standards Link: Math/Number Sense: Calculate sums and differences.

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Long and Short Vowel Ocean Circle words with vowels on one page of the newspaper. Each word should contain a different long or short vowel sound. Can you find a word for each vowel sound?

Standards Link: Distinguish long/short vowels.

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

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

Why read?

ANSWER: A bee in a submarine.

Standards Link: Identify different types of angles.

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The noun venom means a poisonous matter produced by an animal.

All the Angles

The newspaper is a great place to find and identify angles. How many right angles (A) can you find in the newspaper? How many obtuse angles (B)? How many acute angles (C)?

This week’s word:

Why is it important to know how to read? Describe to other students the reasons reading is important and entertaining.