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‘A pain we’re all sharing’ Gas prices roar past $5 per gallon JASON HAWK EDITOR FBI live stream

Amherst police Chief Mark Cawthon shakes hands with and receives his diploma from FBI Director Christopher Wray during a ceremony for FBI National Academy graduates.

Cawthon graduates from FBI training JASON HAWK EDITOR

Amherst police Chief Mark Cawthon graduated last Thursday morning from the FBI National Academy with 254 classmates from across the world.

He spent 10 weeks at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, studying intelligence theory, terrorism, management, law, behavioral science, communication and forensics.

While the experience includes rigorous mental and physical training, it also creates relationships across every level of law enforcement, from city police to county sheriffs, state troopers, the Secret Service, intelligence officials, tribal police and criminal agencies in other countries.

“As the world becomes smaller and perils loom larger, we’ve learned time and again that our network of good guys needs to become tighter because a threat to one of us can be a threat to all of us,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in an address to graduates, which was broadcast live.

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The price of gas has revved right past $5 per gallon in Lorain County.

Sunoco on East Avenue in Elyria started asking $5.04 for regular unleaded last week, while signs read $5.09 at BP and GetGo on East Bridge Street, Speedway on Griswold Road and Shell on Lorain Boulevard.

BP, Amoco and Certified in Wellington on the southern end of the county all carried the $5.09 price point, as did BP and Speedway on the far north side in Avon Lake.

BJ’s Wholesale Club in Avon boasted the lowest price spotted in the county, at $4.66 per-gallon.

“It’s eating into people’s budgets,” said Tony Gallo, president of the Lorain County Chamber of Commerce. “Everybody’s dealing with this. It’s a pain we’re all sharing.”

For Zachary Nagy, who has delivered the past three years for Master Pizza in North Ridgeville, the situation has gone south.

“It’s definitely a struggle,” he said — filling up his 2013 Chevy Malibu costs between $60 and $80 now, and tips are starting to dry up.

The good news is that the restaurant pays for mileage, which helps, but a lot of nights Nagy has to dig into his tips to cover his gas.

Master Pizza plans to help its drivers by buying two company cars and paying to keep them filled up, he said.

Aaron Freas, owner of Sambino’s Pizza in Elyria, said his drivers are having a hard time since gas passed the $4 per gallon mark earlier this year. He increased his delivery charge from $2.75 to $4 to compensate.

“I can’t continue to increase it forever,” Freas said. “At some point, people won’t pay any more.”

While Sambino’s customers have stayed fairly loyal, he said that if he has

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to lift the fee again to $6 it will be the breaking point for many.

About 75 percent of his business is delivery. But with prices rising sharply, Freas said he doesn’t know how long he can remain fully staffed.

He said keeping drivers will mean upping benefits and incentives, and that will eat away at his profit.

There was no way for companies that pay mileage to know, when budgeting for 2022, that these kind of hikes were coming, said Gallo. Most suspected fuel prices would rise, but didn’t suspect such a sharp jump.

“I haven’t heard of any say they’re going to make their workers stay at home because it’s too expensive to go to work — yet,” he said. “For now, it’s a kind of something uncomfortable we’re going to have to deal with.”

His concern is the impact of shipping costs to grocery and big box stores. Higher gas prices are going to continue to be reflected on consumer price tags.

Chuck Haslage, owner of Haslage Fleet Services in Lorain, has seen firsthand the effect of increased diesel costs.

His trucks are running 1,000 to 2,000 miles per week, going through about 7,000 to 8,000 gallons in that window.

“We have our own bulk tank and get better than average pricing, but still every day it goes up more,” Haslage said. “It’s out of control.”

There’s only so much a company can eat, and only so much it can pass on to customers in the form of fuel surcharges, he said.

“And the fact that it keeps increasing as fast as it has, it makes it hard to keep up,” Haslage said.

Kimberly Mason, chief operating officer of LifeCare Ambulance, said she has anticipated a 5 or 6 percent bump in fuel prices when making the company’s 2022 budget.

Since April, LifeCare’s fuel expenses have jumped 11 percent.

That’s big money when putting 35 to 40 trucks on the road each day. Last

month, they racked up 87,332 miles for patients in Amherst, Elyria, Lorain, South Amherst, Vermilion and surrounding townships — that’s expensive with a 98-cent increase at the pump.

To compensate, LifeCare is no longer allowing trucks to idle when not being used. They’re also required to be parked inside their bays to keep cooler, Mason said.

Dispatchers are also working to consolidate trips to save gas. If they make a run to a Cleveland hospital, for example, they try to get another patient coming back instead of running empty.

Mason said she’s looking at other potential costsaving measures, such as adding a gas fee for ambulance runs. By law, those charges can only be added in certain circumstances, though.

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Gas prices topped $5 per gallon last week throughout Northeast Ohio, including in Lorain County. Many have backed down now to rest at $4.99.

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Hoarders, sidewalks, parking get Council pitches JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Looking to crack down on some rules while loosening up on others, Oberlin City Council heard a range of proposals last week that could change the look and feel of the city.

The first involves violations of the property maintenance code. The city’s code administrator, Chris Yates, said he wants more leverage over “hoarder” situations, junk vehicles, vacant properties and absentee landlords.

Current standards require Yates to take such cases to court, where the maximum fine is $150, he said.

He wants to bypass due process by creating an Environmental Health Housing Code chapter of the city’s rule book.

It would cover pest control, cleaning up garbage and other health, safety and sanitation responsibilities.

Yates said he would use penalties for “the most stringent cases.”

“The first thing I’d use it to address is the accumulation of rubbish on properties we just can’t get to,” he said.

Carrie Porter, Oberlin’s planning and development director, said the code would have a three strikes system before going to court, and be used “for those situations where we just haven’t been able to gain compliance for a long time.”

Council is also considering rolling back its rules for sidewalks in the downtown business district.

Diane Ramos, Oberlin’s communications manager, asked to essentially toss the permit process for businesses to hold sidewalk sales and place flower pots and other decorations on public walkways.

The proposed change would also create guidance for holding musical performances on sidewalks, Ramos said.

Porter also asked Council to roll back a section of city code that regulates outdoor dining on patios and other places that aren’t directly in the right-of-way.

Approval of those areas can be handled by the Planning Commission during the site plan approval process, she said.

Council President Bryan Burgess characterized the changes as “reducing red tape and being more business friendly.”

Downtown on-street parking could

also see some changes. Ramos said limited parking availability been a point of contention for many years, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Right now, all on-street parking in the historic business district is limited to 2 hours, with the exception of some shortterm spots, such as 15-minute spaces in front of City Hall. Ramos proposed giving City Manager Rob Hillard the authority to create parking zones with varying limits as the need arises.

Burgess agreed there is a need to address parking — it’s not always easy to find a spot, especially when making a quick drop-off downtown, he said.

“Having 15-minute, quick in-and-out spaces downtown I think would definitely be a plus,” he said.

Ramos also proposed changing the way Oberlin’s bed tax from hotel stays, which has been on the books since 1987, can be used. She asked Council to allow those revenues to be used to promote and sponsor community events that will draw visitors to the city.

All of the proposals appeared wellreceived, but will require further votes for approval.

OBITUARIES Alice Wilhelmine Burge

Margaret Celine Nagy

Our wonderful mother, Alice Wilhelmine Burge (nee Tran), of Wellington, passed away Tuesday, June 7, 2022.

Mom was born in 1920 in Grafton and graduated from high school in 1938. She married Marlin E. Burge on Sept. 9, 1944, at the Grafton Methodist Church and moved to Wellington, where she continued to live.

She worked alongside our Dad, a prominent dairy and grain farmer and Wellington Township Trustee. Dad died in 1970.

Mom was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Wellington and active in United Methodist Women, Mary Martha Circle and other church committees. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Penfield Needlecraft Club. She and Dad were longtime members of Farm Bureau Council 5-A and Wellington Grange. Mom created and installed the Wellington Grange booth at the Lorain County Fair for many years.

Surviving are her sons, Dr. Robert A. Burge and wife, Susan of Brecksville and Dr. Donald E. Burge and wife, Trudy of Lincoln, Nebraska and her daughter, Beverly Burge and husband, Jim Moore of Salt Lake City, Utah.

She is also survived by grandchildren, Ashley Gibson (Shad) of Salt Lake City, Utah, Brooke Burge of Chicago, Illinois, Ben Burge (Jill Gallagher) of Buffalo, New York, Paul Facio (Kat Heinrichs) of San Luis Obispo, California and Toby Burge (Jenn Tran) of San Jose, California; great-grandchildren, Amelia and Marshall Gibson of Salt Lake City, Utah, Elizabeth Alice Burge of Buffalo, New York; nieces, Barbara Jantz of Grafton and Cheryl Vail of Lawrenceville, Georgia.

In addition to losing our Dad, Mom was preceded in death by her parents, Elmer D. Tran and Margaret Bring Tran (who died when Mom was just 17); infant daughter, Jo Anne; beloved sister, Helen Bruhn; brothers, Harold and Russell Tran and niece, Dicie Grella.

Bob, Bev and Don would like to thank Ginny Allen of Whitney Home Care, who treated Mom as if she were her own mother and enabled Mom to continue to live at home. Thank you so much, Ginny! We also want to thank Hospice of the Western Reserve and Mom's lawnmower/ handyman extraordinaire, Todd Whitney. Todd, it looks like you won that deal you had with Mom. A service for Mom will be held at a later date.

Donations in Mom's memory may be made to the Wellington First United Methodist Church.

Margaret Celine Nagy, 81, of Wellington, died Monday, June 13, 2022, at Amherst Manor. A daughter of the late Edward and Wilma Nuhn, Margaret was born March 2, 1941, in Elyria.

Margaret became an RN at St. Alexis Nursing School. She taught pediatrics in Elyria for several years. Margaret was certified in geriatrics; she worked at the Elms Retirement Village in Wellington and Kendal at Oberlin. In 2014, Margaret retired from 888 Ohio Comp. Margaret was a longtime 4-H Advisor and a member of a gardening club. She found great enjoyment in gardening, sewing, quilting and embroidery.

She is survived by her sister, Barbara (Alan Tegar) Krupp; children, Michelle (Stewart Ross) Turley of Wilmington, Michael Nagy of Vermilion, Jeff Nagy of Edgerton, Tim Nagy of Mississippi, Bob Nagy of Dayton and Dan Nagy of Lorain; eight grandchildren, Dustyn, Owen, Wyatt, Ashley, Jessica, Kyle, Austin, Dena; a great-grandchild and another on the way.

Family and friends will be received Thursday, June 16, 2022, at Norton-Eastman Funeral Home, 370 S. Main St., Wellington from 11 a.m. until the 1 p.m. funeral service. Burial will follow at Greenwood Cemetery, Wellington.

Expressions of sympathy for the Nagy family can be shared at www.eastmanfuneralhome.com.

DOUGLAS L. JACKSON, 69, of South Amherst, passed away Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at Welcome Nursing Home in Oberlin. Arrangements are being handled by Hempel Funeral Home.

EUGENE CHESLIE LOCKHART, 97, of Lorain, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, June 10, 2022, at New Life Hospice Center in Lorain, following a full and meaningful life. Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

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

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James Reymann, ‘the priest who built St. Patrick’s’ dies at age 98 JASON HAWK EDITOR

WELLINGTON — Father James Reymann, who led St. Patrick Catholic Church in Wellington for four decades, died Saturday at age 98.

Assigned to the parish in 1976, he oversaw construction of the new church building the following year, and always kept the shovel used to turn over the first pile of dirt. Reymann also established St. Patrick Manor, a 50-unit affordable housing center for senior citizens with low income.

As he grew older and faced his own health issues, Reymann fought retirement, not wanting to give up the flock he’d shepherded so long.

"I don't even know what to do," he said in 2016, at age 92. "I didn't become a priest to retire. I am an instrument of God's grace."

That year, Father David Trask was James installed by Bishop Richard Lennon as Reymann Reymann’s successor.

“For many people in the parish, he’s the only priest they ever knew,” Trask said, reflecting on his predecessor's long tenure. “… I think part of him was afraid he’d be forgotten and he was never forgotten. He was an integral part of the community, even in retirement.”

He warmly remembered how difficult it was for Reymann to make the transition after being invested in his role for so long. Trask also recalled how their relationship finally softened, and the years of shared lunches and long talks as brothers in the faith that followed.

After taking up residence on McKinley Street in Wellington, Reymann continued to support the parish with all his heart — and often with all his stomach. Trask said that although he remained rail thin, Reymann could eat anyone under the table at a pancake breakfast.

Born April 17, 1924, Reymann was the 15th of 16 children of French immigrants. He grew up working on the family’s 8-acre farm, and graduated from St. Vincent High School in Akron in 1942.

He attended the Jesuit University of Detroit for just a semester before enlisting in the military, serving as a B-29 navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. According to a history he penned for the Military Aviation Preservation Society Air Museum in North Canton, 1st Lt. James Reymann flew four bombing missions over Tokyo, including the very last bombing run of the war. After the Japanese signaled surrender, his crew flew from Iwo Jima to take aerial photographs of major cities, with a special eye on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as a prisoners-of-war camp.

When he returned home, Reymann attended John Carroll University, then Notre Dame, Case Institute of Technology and Saint Mary’s Seminary. He was ordained in 1960 and taught at Borromeo Seminary in Wickliffe before becoming parish priest in Wellington.

When he arrived in down, the parish was one of the smallest in the diocese, and badly needed investment, said longtime Wellington Councilman Guy Wells.

Reymann “presided over it changing form that into a nice, large parish,” he said. At the time, Catholics did not live in large numbers in southern Lorain County, but Reymann embraced an outward migration from Cleveland and Lorain in the 1970s and 1980s, helping St. Patrick Catholic Church to grow.

“He did a phenomenal job bringing Wellington the St. Patrick’s that we now have, architecturally and forging the community,” Wells said.

Former Mayor Barbara O’Keefe, who has attended there all her life, said Reymann took pride in the church he helped build and it was common to see him on a tractor, keeping up the grounds.

“We always teased him that if he wasn’t a priest, he would have been a farmer,” she said.

Both O’Keefe and Wells said Reymann lovingly fostered the large “forest” of miracle lilies on the grounds, which look like flowerless daffodils in the spring and die off in June. But in late July and August, they are resurrected in full bloom.

Reymann was also trained at Case as an engineer, and sat on the committee that recommended construction of the Route 58 railway underpass in the center of Wellington.

O’Keefe said his engineering advice was valuable — and once work finally began after decades of planning, Reymann would also walk down to the project site every day to check on its progress.

Through the yeas, he kept boxers and would walk the dogs around town for hours.

At the time of retirement, Reymann was the oldest active priest in the Diocese of Cleveland. He continued to live in Wellington for several years, but with declining health moved to The Village of St. Edward in Fairlawn.

Trask said Reymann was “an icon” who will always be remembered for being personable and earning his parishioners’ respect. “He made you feel welcome,” Trask said.

Funeral arrangements include vespers at 3 p.m. Monday at the church, followed by visitation until 7 p.m.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick Church, with interment at Greenwood Cemetery in Wellington.

Both the vesper service and Mass of Christian burial will be streamed live at www.youtube.stpatrick.cc.

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Juneteenth celebrations a chance to learn and mourn JASON HAWK EDITOR

Juneteenth celebrations this weekend across Lorain County will showcase Black culture while also remembering the horrific treatment of African Americans through the centuries.

Established as a federal holiday last year, Juneteenth will be observed across the United States on Sunday, June 19. It commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

Recognition by Congress, combined with racial justice marches following highprofile killings of Black people by police officers, have stirred interest in the holiday, said Elyria/Lorain YWCA Director Jeanine Donaldson.

“There were a lot of African Americans who just weren’t sure what it was before,” she said. “A lot of young Black people started to think about what it means to be African American. It started a lot of reflection and soul-searching, and I think it made people want to be more involved.”

Oberlin’s Juneteenth Celebration Festival will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 18 at the Oberlin Underground Railroad Center, 273 South Main St. Its theme will revolve around the “second line,” a New Orleans parade tradition that has its origins in West African dance circles.

The “first line” is the main body of a parade, and the second line follows the band, dancing with parasols and handkerchiefs.

Over the years, it has become a staple of Louisiana funeral processions.

A more light-hearted parade will be held at noon, traveling from Spring Street Park down Groveland Street to Pleasant Street and ending at the Underground Railroad Center. There will be games, face painting, raffles, vendors and food trucks there through the day.

A more solemn second line parade to honor the spirits of Black people will begin around 6 p.m., traveling down Morgan Street to Westwood Cemetery.

The dirge with horns and dancing will undertake to “release the tormented spirits of those African Americans who are out at that cemetery, that no one comes to visit, that have been there for a long time,” said Oberlin Juneteenth board member Adenike Sharpley.

“We hope that wherever they are is better than when they were here on Earth,” she said.

At the cemetery, marchers will hold a Maafa ceremony to pray for the souls of slaves who escaped from plantations in Louisiana, Sharpley said. Research indicates there may be a direct line between a specific plantation near the sister city of Oberlin, Louisiana, with slaves traveling the Underground Railroad north to Ohio en route to freedom in Canada.

The Maafa, or “Holocaust of Enslavement,” ceremony will run from 6:30-7:30

p.m., and will include a tribute to Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The graves of those who are known will be cleaned and decorated with floral wreaths.

Elyria is also looking to start its own annual Juneteenth tradition, with a celebration planned for 1-5 p.m. at Ely Square Park, 400 Broad St. Line-up for a commemorative march to Ely Square will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the corner of East Avenue and Depot Street, behind Fifth Third Bank.

The starting point marks where one of Elyria’s first Black neighborhoods stood, said Ethan West of the Black Legacy Project.

“We would hope to usher in first and foremost the history of Juneteenth – understand what happened and what didn’t, and what’s happened since then,” West said.

The day will include speakers, entertainment, food trucks, vendors and kids activities. There will also be a Little Miss and Mister Juneteenth pageant for boys and girls ages 4-8 and 9-12. It will be judged not on looks, but how much participants know about their family lineage.

A memorial baseball game will be played at 6:30 p.m. at the Thomas Shores South Rec Center, 101 South Park Dr., Elyria. It will hearken back to the semi-pro Black baseball team called the Smart Set, which played from roughly 1910 to 1921, with a roster of World War I veterans and business people from Elyria.

In Lorain, festivities will start at 11 a.m.

Sunday, June 19 with a Juneteenth basketball tournament at Fulton Home Park, 3228 Fulton Rd. The free three-on-three tournament is for ages 6-11. Sign up by calling Roz Charlton at (440) 285-5405.

The 3rd Junteenth Business Expo will run from 2 p.m. to sunset at General Johnnie Wilson Park on Plant Street.

The crown jewel will be the Juneteenth Blues Fest from 2:30-6 p.m. at Lakeview Park, 1800 West Erie Ave. It will start with a first line parade led

by Da Land Band, followed at 3 p.m. by remarks from Mayor Jack Bradley.

At 3:15 p.m., there will be a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and a Sojourner Truth impersonator will speak at 4:15 p.m.

Entertainment through the day will include music by JSimms & Friends and Hubbs Groove, and a fashion show. There will also be a pound cake contest and plenty of food.

Donaldson said the Blues Fest is a chance to bring people of different cultures together to learn about each other.

“In order to move forward, we have to change the negative narrative that’s out there,” she said. “That narrative is that when there are large numbers of African Americans together, it’s dangerous.

That’s not true. What we know is that when we come together, it’s like a family reunion.”

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BULLETIN BOARD Learn to paddleboard

A free introduction to stand-up paddleboarding will be offered on Friday, June 17 at Findley State Park south of Wellington.

Naturalist Wiz Moore will offer three sessions, starting at 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. at the beach area. Registration is by email only at williard.moore@dnr.ohio.gov. Participants must be at least 12 years old, physically able to maneuver a paddleboard and dressed for the water. Those under age 18 must have a waiver signed by a parent or guardian.

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.

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Meeting cancellation

The New Russia Township trustees have voted to cancel their regular business meeting on Tuesday, July 5. The next trustees’ meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19 at 46300 Butternut Ridge Rd.”

See ‘Hamlet’ on the river

“Hamlet: Prince of Denmark” will be presented at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at Black River Landing in Lorain.

The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and Main Street Lorain are sponsoring this free performance. Lawn chairs or a picnic blanket are encouraged.

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Summer craft days

Visit the Amherst Public Library’s front lawn for weekly summer craft days from 2-6 p.m. each Wednesday from June 18 through July 13.

No registration is required. Craft days will be moved indoors in the event of inclement weather.

Play games at Oberlin Rec

A family game night will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, June 24 at the Oberlin Recreation Complex, 225 West Hamilton St. Enjoy giant kickball, sack races, cornhole, board games, bubble soccer, face painting and more. The city Recreation Department event is free and open to the public.

There will be pizza and ice cream for sale.

Tee off for veterans 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.

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.

Camp 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.

For more information or to register, visit www.tinyurl.com/ LindleyKids.

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.

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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.

Resolution 22-22 22-22 Celebrating & commending Makayla Velasquez upon her victory at the OHSAA Division I Bowling Championship. 23-22 Honoring the life and legacy of Mitch Gillam to the citizens of

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the city of Lorain. Ordinance 68-22 Approving the Chief of Police to accept an award from the ODNR Marine Patrol Assistance Program. 69-22 Auth S/S Director to enter into a contract for the purpose of replacement and expansion of the Water Distribution parking lot at 2111 West Park Drive.

70-22* Auth S/S Director to enter contract w/ Anser Advisory to provide technical assistance in administering ARPA funding. 71-22 Approving the proposed MOU between the City of Lorain & USW6621. 72-22* Auth S/S Director to purchase 1 Chevy F3500 & 2 F2500HD Trucks for Storm Sewer Management. 73-22 Auth S/S Director to take all action necessary to apply for and enter into an agrmt for grant funding from the EPA for Black River Riparian Restoration Project.

74-22 Auth the S/S Director to enter into a contract w/ lowest and best bidder for 2022 lead service line replacement program. 75-22* Auth Auditor to pay an invoice submitted by Utilities Dept which invokes Then & Now Certification Exception Process. 76-22* Appropriation. (*Denotes legislation was passed as an emergency.)

L.C.C.G. 6/16-23/22 20703693 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS CITY OF LORAIN, OHIO LOR LORAIN TRAFFIC

SIGNALS PID 109412 Sealed bids will be received by the Engineering Department of the City of Lorain, Ohio until: TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING BIDS: UNTIL - 11:00 AM, July 5, 2022, Lorain time, Law Department, Lorain City Hall 3rd Floor.

TIME AND PLACE FOR OPENING BIDS: 11:15 AM, July 5, 2022, Lorain time, City of Lorain Council Chambers, Lorain City Hall 1st Floor.

COMPLETION DATE: June 1, 2023 Bids must be accompanied by Certified Check or Cashier’s Check or Letter of Credit equals to ten percent (10%) of the amount bid, or a bond for the full amount of the bid as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into and a performance bond properly secured. Should any bid be rejected, such instrument will be forthwith returned upon proper execution of a contract. Cash deposits will not be accepted.

Bid blanks and specifications may be secured at www.cityoflorain.org Each bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, creed, color, sex or national origin. All bidders must comply with the provisions of the American Disabilities Act. All federal minority business enterprise and women business enterprise

requirements shall be met. All contractors and subcontractors involved with the project will to the extent practicable use Ohio products, materials, services and labor in the implementation of their project.

Bidders must be listed on the ODOT pre-qualified list for highway construction. Bidders shall submit a list of available equipment, and labor shall be paid not less than the prevailing wage rate as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Davis Bacon requirements for Lorain County, Ohio.

NO BID WILL BE OPENED WITHOUT THE CERTIFICATION OF QUALIFICATION OR THE ACCEPTABLE LETTER OF APPLICATION ATTACHED TO THE OUTSIDE AS DIRECTED. The Director of Safety/Service reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

No Pre-Bid meeting is scheduled.

By order of the Director of Public Safety/Service

nority business enterprise and women business enterprise requirements shall be met. All contractors and subcontractors involved with the project will to the extent practicable use Ohio products, materials, services and labor in the implementation of their project.

Electronic packages may be secured at the city website: www.cityoflorain.org/Bids. aspx.

The Director of Safety/Service reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS CITY OF LORAIN, OHIO SHAFFER DRIVE PAVEMENT RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT (OBERLIN AVE TO ASHLAND AVE) HUD FUNDED PROJECT Sealed bids will be received by the Law Department of the City of Lorain, Ohio:

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS CITY OF LORAIN, OHIO PAWLAK PARK IMPROVEMENTS W. 14TH STREET, LORAIN, OHIO Sealed bids will be received by the Law Department of the City of Lorain, Ohio until: TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING BIDS: UNTIL - 11:00 AM, June 27, 2022, Lorain time, Law Department, Lorain City Hall 3rd Floor.

TIME AND PLACE FOR OPENING BIDS: 11:15 AM, June 27, 2022, Lorain time, City of Lorain Council Chambers, Lorain City Hall 1st Floor.

COMPLETION DATE: October 1, 2022 Bids must be accompanied

by Certified Check or Cashier’s Check or Letter of Credit equals to ten percent (10%) of the amount bid, or a bond for the full amount of the bid as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into and a performance bond properly secured. Should any bid be rejected, such instrument will be forthwith returned upon proper execution of a contract. Cash deposits will not be accepted.

Bid blanks and specifications may be secured at www.city oflorain.org.

Each bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, creed, color, sex or national origin.

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TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIVING BIDS: UNTIL - 11:00 AM, Monday, June 27th, 2022 Lorain time, Law Department, Lorain City Hall 3rd Floor.

TIME AND PLACE FOR OPENING BIDS: 11:15 AM, Lorain time, City of Lorain Council Chambers, Lorain City Hall 1st Floor.

COMPLETION DATE: OCTOBER 1, 2022 Bidders shall submit a list of available equipment, and labor shall be paid not less than the Wage Determinations as set forth by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Bids must be accompanied by Certified Check or Cashier’s Check or Letter of Credit equals to ten percent (10%) of the amount bid, or a bond for the full amount of the bid as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into and a performance bond properly secured.

Should any bid be rejected, such instrument will be forthwith returned upon proper execution of a contract. Cash deposits will not be accepted.

Each bidder must ensure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, creed, color, sex or national origin.

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C.G. 6/9-16/22 20703209 LEGAL NOTICE The Village of South Amherst Council, at a special meeting on Monday, June 27, 2022 at 6:45 pm, will meet for the purpose of discussing the 2023 Tax Budget. The Public is invited.

tors involved with the project will to the extent practicable use Ohio products, materials, services and labor in the implementation of their project.

Bidders shall submit a list of available equipment, and labor shall be paid not less than the prevailing wage rate as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Davis Bacon requirements for Lorain County, Ohio.

The Director of Safety/Service reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

No Pre-Bid meeting is scheduled.

By order of the Director of Public Safety/Service L.C.C.G. 6/9-16/22 20702782 PUBLICATION OF LEGISLATION The following is a summary of legislation adopted by Lorain City Council on May 2, 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.

Resolution 22-22 22-22 Celebrating & commending Makayla Velasquez upon her victory at the OHSAA Division I Bowling Championship.

23-22 Honoring the life and legacy of Mitch Gillam to the citizens of the city of Lorain.

Ordinance 68-22 Approving the Chief of Police to accept an award from the ODNR Marine Patrol Assistance Program. 69-22 Auth S/S Director to enter into a contract for the purpose of replacement and expansion of the Water Distribution parking lot at 2111 West Park Drive. 7022* Auth S/S Director to enter contract w/ Anser Advisory to provide technical assistance in administering ARPA funding. 71-22 Approving the proposed MOU between the City of Lorain & USW6621.

72-22* Auth S/S Director to purchase 1 Chevy F3500 & 2 F2500HD Trucks for Storm Sewer Management. 73-22 Auth S/S Director to take all action necessary to apply for and enter into an agrmt for grant funding from the EPA for Black River Riparian Restoration Project. 74-22 Auth the S/S Director to enter into a contract w/ lowest and best bidder for 2022 lead service line replacement program.

75-22* Auth Auditor to pay an invoice submitted by Utilities Dept which invokes Then & Now Certification Exception Process. 76-22* Appropriation. (*Denotes legislation was passed as an emergency.)

L.C.C.G. 6/16-23/22 20703693

Appreciation Day will run from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, July 23 at 240 Glendale Rd., LaGrange.

There will be free food and games, plus a paid beer tent; face painting, a 50-50 raffle, rock wall, cornhole tournament, inflatables and live music. The event will be held rain or shine.

Sale to benefit county parks

The Friends of Metro Parks will hold an indoor garage sale fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 30 at the Carlisle Reservation Visitor Center, 12882 Diagonal Rd., Carlisle Township.

Sales are by cash only. A final clearance sale will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, July 31 — buy a $5 bag from the Friends and fill it.

Donate your unwanted household items such as kitchen items, linens, decor, holiday decorations, books, movies, arts and crafts, framed artwork, sports equipment, tools, baby items, toys, board games, puzzles and jewelry.

The Friends request no clothing, shoes, electronics, large furniture, artificial Christmas trees or broken or dirty items.

Tax-deductible receipts can be provided.

Drop-offs will be accepted from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, July 24; 1-7 p.m. on Monday, July 25; and 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, July 28.

Sandstone fundraisers

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.

Duck Tape Fest returns with new locations in Avon JOHN BENSON FOR THE COMMUNITY GUIDE

AVON — Three years removed from the last Avon Heritage Duck Tape Festival, the free, three-day affair returns today through Saturday at Mercy Health Stadium.

“We’re excited and nervous at the same time because it’s a totally new venue this year,” Duck Tape Festival Committee President Marty Noga said. “The reasons we moved were tied to parking, visibility and ease of access.

“The Lake Erie Crushers Stadium is right off the highway. The parking is the best aspect of it.”

When it comes to celebrating Father’s Day Weekend, what could be better than attending a festival revolving around the handy construction adhesive tape?

“The festival is really all about celebrating the wacky use of Duck Tape,” said Noga, who noted this year’s event is more of a rebuilding affair due to the move with the hope of returning to normal in 2023.

That means more children’s attractions but without carnival rides, which due to the uncertainty involving the pandemic forced organizers to pass this year.

“Though our event will be on a slightly smaller scale this year than in years past, there will be plenty of fun to be had, including what makes our festival unique — hand-crafted Duck Tape sculptures, Duck Tape crafting, live music and more,” Bill Kahl, executive vice president of marketing for Shurtape Technologies LLC, the company that markets Duck Tape, said in a news release.

This year’s festivities will run from 4-10 p.m. Thursday, 4-11 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.

In addition to fair food offerings, attendees can check out larger-than-life baseball-themed sculptures made of Duck Tape by students and artists from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

There will also be live performances at various stages on the festival grounds.

The entertainment schedule includes The Michelle Romary Trio on Thursday, Curt Vigg followed by Jump the Gun on Friday and “The Rock Academy” from Ron Zehel Guitar Center with Mr. Breeze ending the festival on Saturday.

There’s also the annual Duck Tape parade, which kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday at Recreation Boulevard.

Families can also create spectacular Duck Tape creations in a maker tent featuring arts and crafts. Plus, the first 500 visitors each day will receive a free roll of Duck Tape.

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Working together is the only option, he said. Graduates develop a bond of trust and teamwork during their time in Quantico, and a network they can reach out to in times of need.

“No one here needs to be reminded of the very real threats we face every second of every day,” Wray said. “And we all know that scores of innocent people depend on us to do our jobs well and keep them safe.

The threats may be daunting,

but together I like our chances.”

Wray presented each National Academy graduate with their diploma, and Cawthon had a moment after crossing the stage to shake his hand.

Jimmy Johnson, assistant police chief of Amarillo, Texas, served as spokesman for the graduating class.

“Being away from home for 10 weeks, there was a lot of sacrifice,” he said. “We had family members that died while we were here. We had at least one

baby born… We missed anniversaries, we missed birthdays, we missed holidays, a countless number of school functions.

That’s what we do. We sacrifice.”

But the families of those who attended the academy also sacrificed, Johnson said in a tearful address.

He pledged to make the most of the knowledge gained and relationships forged during the long weeks in Virginia. There is a great deal of work to do after

returning home.

“Over the last several years, we’ve witnessed the results of strained and broken relationships in our communities, especially our minority communities,” Johnson said. “We go back home now and begin the work both inside our agencies and outside our agencies. We have a role to play in both of those places.”

Since it was founded as the Police Training School in 1935, more than 53,000 law enforce-

ment members have graduated from the FBI National Academy.

Graduates call their experiences there the “Yellow Brick Road” after the punishing 6.1mile final run they must make.

They traverse a trail built by Marines through woods, creeks and mud, up rock faces and under barbed wire. Cawthon and company undertook the challenge Monday, June 6.

After graduating, they carry home commemorative yellow bricks.

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Columbus, she said.

“It could become a problem if (the cost) keeps increasing, because it’s going to affect where we can travel, and we don’t want to do that,” she said.

“We want to get patients to where they need to go.”

Julie Cobb has already rolled back the amount of territory her Avon-based company, Jewlz Cleaning, covers.

She used to be willing to drive or send cleaners to Erie County in the west and Cleveland in the east — “Now I’ve had to take not as far-out jobs, because it doesn’t pay to drive too far anymore,” Cobb said.

When pump prices hit $4 per gallon, she upped hers to match. And though she’s still willing to drive to Strongsville for certain jobs, she’ll only do the trip once per week.

If gas prices climb high enough, Cobb said she’ll pull back her staff to only Lorain County destinations.

Rick Hammond of R Hammond Construction has already taken that step.

He said there’s enough local work for his general contractor crew that they no longer need to incur the cost of driving across the entire region.

His fuel bill has gone up by 35 percent in the last couple of months: “It means you try to become more efficient and not spin your wheels as much,” Hammond said. “Try to get more delivered instead of picking it up. Try to do as much to save as you can.”

Nathan Joppeck said there’s little he can do to control the toll of rising fuel costs.

He owns Fair View Meadow Farm in Wellington, raising livestock. The cost of feed has increased about 20 percent this year, largely due to delivery.

Joppeck said he tried to absorb the increases as long as possible, but finally had no choice but to pass them along.

“It’s not something we like to do, but if we want to stay in business it’s necessary,” he said.

Gallo said gas affects every segment of the economy, from food trucks and restaurants to hotels and lumber. Across the board, products are getting smaller while prices remain flat or edge upward, he said.

But most of all, he’s worried about manufacturing.

“I worry about our trading sector, the goods that are made here and sold somewhere else,” Gallo said. “If the prices get raised on that, it doesn’t necessarily affect us all day to day, because we’re not all buying wheelchairs from Invacare right this minute. We’re not getting tools from Ridge Tool right this minute. But that’s money that’s keeping the lights on for a lot of local businesses and their employees.”

Sky-high prices are also putting pressure on the nonprofits that help Lorain County’s most vulnerable residents.

Take Neighborhood Alliance, which is reeling from the higher cost of its homedelivered meals program.

“You get so much for the meals as far as our funding on it, and no more. So you feel it,” said Chief Financial Officer Mark Charvat.

Gas costs $1.60 more per gallon on average than it did last June, he said. But demand is also up, which means keeping a fleet of Ford F-150s on the road four days a week, carrying thousands of meals.

Neighborhood Alliance’s finances are strong, said Charvat, but the speed at which gas prices have increased is a concern. And there’s no way for the nonprofit to just raise its prices like a commercial business can.

“We can ride it out short-term, but long term, something obviously has to give,” he said. “… It’s not sustainable.”

Local governments are also swallowing the costs — which means taxpayers are.

Amherst Mayor Mark Costilow undertook a review of the fuel budget last week. In 2020, the city

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Costilow said he budgeted $189,650 for this year. “I’m guessing we’ll go over that,” he said.

The Amherst Police Department is the city’s largest user. Last year, it used $53,000 for fuel, and this year has a budget of $75,000.

Amherst workers are using an average of 400 gallons of gasoline every 10 days and 250 gallons of diesel every two weeks, said Costilow. The city’s last purchase on May 25 was $4.36 per gallon for gas and $4.39 per gallon for diesel.

Compare that to $2.26 per gallon in January 2019.

When there’s a theft, a domestic violence call, a fire, a water main break or power outage, the vehicles have to roll he said: “We can’t quit.”

What the city can do is cut down on routine driving. Costilow said he’s asked workers not to drive around looking for potholes, houses where projects are being done without permits, stop signs that are crooked or catch basins that are covered.

“We’re making a conscious choice to have a purpose when we drive, not just driving around,” he said.

Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley said he met with department heads a couple months ago to brainstorm ways to cut gasoline use.

Like LifeCare, he’s ordered police officers to stop idling vehicles if they’re going to sit for an extended amount of time, he said.

Bradley said he’s also talked with the Building Department about making inspection routes as lean and efficient as possible.

Instead of bouncing back and forth across the entire city, schedules are being more strategically crafted, he said.

Public Property Manager Lori Garcia is tasked with watching over the expenses of Lorain’s fleet, which ac-

cording to Safety Services Director Sanford Washington contains 379 police, fire, maintenance, utility and other official vehicles.

Garcia works with a broker to buy bulk fuel when prices are the lowest, said Bradley. It’s a tactic Lorain has employed for years.

Analysts predict the pinch will get worse before it gets better.

Since hitting $4.11 per gallon in March — breaking a record that had stood since 2008 — the national average has been creeping steadily upward.

The average price for gasoline across Northeast Ohio rose by 38 cents in just the past week, according to AAA East Central.

Compare that to a shockingly low $2.91 per gallon back on June 7, 2021.

And prices are much higher elsewhere. While sitting at a national average of $4.86, the highest can be found in California, where drivers are filling up for $6.34 per gallon. Nevada residents are paying $5.49.

They are among 10 states where the average has surged past the $5 mark.

Others are Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Oregon and Washington.

Pump averages ranged Monday from $4.79 in Lorain to $4.88 in Cleveland and Independence.

AAA said the rising cost of crude oil is to blame, along with the usual seasonal trends. A barrel of oil is nearing $120, nearly double from last August, because demand far outpaces what oil makers are producing.

Domestic gasoline stocks are slowly being used up, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Last week, they decreased by 700,000 barrels, with 219 million barrels in reserve.

“Coupled with volatile crude oil prices, pump prices will likely remain elevated as long as demand grows and supply remains tight,” AAA’s analysis said.

While the United States uses very little crude oil

from Russia, disruptions resulting from its invasion of Ukraine have taken a hard toll on the gas supply of Europe and China.

That’s bitten into the global commodity markets, skewing prices here.

But the biggest issue has been underproduction.

OPEC and its allies cut the amount of oil they were producing during the worst parts of the pandemic, when demand fell drastically, and now that drivers have hit the roads again in high volume, those companies have not kept pace.

The result is low supply and high demand, so customers are paying the price.

President Joe Biden has been touting his job creation numbers — his White House has seen 8.7 million new jobs, four times all those created in the last 16 years combined — but hasn’t been able to come up with an answer for the gas price problem going into midterm elections.

On June 1, he said there wasn’t much he could do to lower gas costs right away: "There's a lot going on right now, but the idea we're going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.”

That’s led to increasing economic pessimism.

The Gallup Economic Confidence Index, a phone survey that’s been running since 1992, has been steeply falling over the past three months, signaling Americans are losing faith in the future.

Only 14 percent of U.S. adults say economic conditions are either “excellent” or “good,” it found. Another 39 percent say they are “fair,” and 46 percent say they are “poor.”

The winners are the oil companies themselves.

They’ve been raking in record profits totaling $93.3 billion.

In its first quarter disclosures, Shell showed it made $9.1 billion in profit, which is nearly three times what it make in the same period last year. Exxon

made $8.8 billion in profit, also a nearly 300 percent increase.

Chevron reported its profits jumped $6.5 billion, and BP raked in $6.2 billion, its highest margin in 10 years.

“Oil executives should not be able to profit off everyone else’s financial pain as their companies earn record profits,” said an analysis by the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan policy institute.

“Congress must provide some relief to consumers — and hold oil companies accountable.”

It said Congress should tackle high gas prices by directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate price gouging, adopting a use-it-or-lose-it policy for drilling on public lands and implementing a windfall profits tax.

“Oil and gas corporations and the trade groups they fund to lobby on their behalf would have people believe that they need access to more places to drill, better market signals and fewer regulations in order to make the investments needed to help lower prices,” the CAP analysis said. “But the truth is that they are flush with the cash that could be used to make those very investments — a fact they are not even trying to hide.”

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Powerful Plankton

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Though they are quite tiny, swarms of this plankton are so huge they can be seen from space! Circle every other letter to How many discover its of me can you find name. on this page?

How many plankton are in a teaspoon of water?

How many would you guess? Use the secret code to discover the surprising answer!

= THAN = SIX = HUNDRED = PLANKTON = MORE = MILLION = ONE = LESS = THOUSAND A teaspoon of water can contain

Are plankton plants or animals?

A Breath of Fresh Air

The answer is both! There are two main types of plankton: phytoplankton (fi-toe-plank-ton) and zooplankton. Follow the maze to discover which are plants and which are animals.

ANIMAL

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Phytoplankton make more than half of the oxygen in our world.

Think of it this way, every time you take four breaths, two of those breaths came from oxygen made by phytoplankton through photosynthesis. So even if you live far from the ocean, you depend on it to survive!

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Ocean Food Chain

Plankton is made up of tiny, usually one-celled plants and small water animals such as larvae and eggs. Zooplankton and other small marine creatures eat phytoplankton and then become food for fish, crustaceans, and other larger species.

Complete this food chain diagram by drawing an ocean predator (shark, orca, barracuda) here: fish larvae phytoplankton

zooplankton

fish

Standards Link: Match letters and sounds to spell words.

Standards Link: Science: Undertstand how food chains support the life cycles of animals and humans.

The world’s largest animal, eats up to 16 tons of plankton daily. Ten adult men together would weigh about one ton. So 16 tons of plankton would be equal to the weight of 160 men. Good thing it likes plankton and not people!

Color the spaces with odd numbers blue to reveal the animal’s name.

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In English, when the letters p and h are next to each other, they make an F sound.

Words like phytoplankton, phone, photograph and pharmacy. Look through the newspaper and find letters to spell each of these words.

Glue the letters onto a piece of paper, spelling out each word. Then read each one aloud.

PLANKTON ANIMALS BREATHE PLANTS OXYGEN CARBON PLANET OCEAN DRIFT WATER FISH SWIM TINY FOOD SEA

2. Zooplankton is an plant animal island 3. What does planktos mean in Greek? swimmer drifter boat 4. Where do plankton live? oceans and lakes ponds and rivers all of the above 5. How much of the world’s oxygen is made by phytoplankton? about 7% 12.4% more than half 6. How many tons of plankton does a blue whale eat each day?

16 tons 100 tons 232 tons 7. How many plankton can be found in 1 tsp. of water?

Between 30-40 About 10,000 More than 1,000,000

Photosynthesis light energy

oxygen carbon dioxide

water Like plants on land, phytoplankton use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make food and oxygen.

This process is called photosynthesis.

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The noun crustacean refers to a water animal whose body is made of segments.

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Shrimps, crabs and lobsters are all crustaceans.

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C T N E G Y X O O N Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

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

Message in a Bottle

ANSWER: Because he was shellfish.

Standards Link: Language Arts: Write complete sentences.

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Look through the newspaper for three headlines. Rewrite each one as a complete sentence. See how many more words you can add to make the longest sentence you can.

Can you find the answer to each of these questions? They can all be found on this Kid Scoop page!

While walking on a beach, you spy a strange bottle with a note inside. What does the note say?

What will you do next?

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Appalachia volunteers on a mission

Hats off to grads!

Photos by Jason Hawk, Angelo Angel and Kristin Bauer | Community Guide

Never underestimate the clever messages that graduating seniors dream up to wear on mortarboards as they cross the commencement stage. Here are a few of our favorites from the various highs school and college classes of 2022 across Lorain County!

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Erik Andrews of Oberlin, who has long served as a sports photographer and correspondent for the Community Guide, volunteers each summer, repairing and building homes in Appalachia.

From Oberlin to Kentucky JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Erik Andrews is rolling up his sleeves and heading south from Oberlin to the hollers of rural Kentucky, where he hopes to make life a little easier for some of the nation’s most impoverished families.

For 25 years, he’s spent summers in Appalachia, repairing and building homes in rugged, mountainous territory from West Virginia to Tennessee.

This year he’s in Harlan County, population 26,164 and falling, found close to the Virginia border. With an average household income of $28,261, more than one-third of its residents live under the poverty line.

“When people have to choose between food and home repair, or between medicine and home repair, it’s very often that home repair is the part that gets left out,” said Andrews.

That leaks plenty of roofs to fix, foundations to patch and insulation to install — and that’s where the Appalachia Service Project comes in. It’s a Christian ministry that aims to make homes warmer, safer and drier.

Andrews said the evangelical nonprofit would tackle between 500 and 700 homes — often building new ones — in a summer. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused its operations to shut down.

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He is also charged with lesser counts of entering and remaining on the Capitol grounds and engaging in disorderly and disruptive conduct.

The terms of the standing plea deal Clifford aren’t laid out in U.S. District Court Mackrell online records — and they’re still being negotiated, with a deadline of July 27.

Mackrell has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

His case has been on the books since last March, but his trial has been delayed numerous times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the sheer volume of evidence federal prosecutors must turn over to defense attorneys for cases related to the attack on Congress.

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‘Wonderland’ is 2022 theme for the Festival of the Fish JASON HAWK EDITOR

VERMILION — The 56th Annual Festival of the Fish will be held from noon to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday with an “Alice in Wonderland” theme.

That may not sound too nautical at first blush, but expect to meet not-so-classic characters like the Queen of Carp, Cheshire the Catfish and Alice the Angelfish, said Sandra Coe, executive director of the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce. Instead of decorating the lakefront with fish every year, the chamber tries to put a creative spin on the festival, she said.

“It’s all about fun. Our festival is just about having fun, relaxing, not being serious,” Coe said. “Everything in our world is so serious anymore. We want everyone to come here and be a kid.”

Keeping with the Wonderland theme, there will be a Mad Hatter 5K Fun Run and Walk at 9 a.m. Saturday at Blind Dog Gym on Route 60. The route takes runners to the Vermilion lighthouse and back. There will also be a contest to find the best “Alice in Wonderland” costumes for humans and animals.

Friday’s festivities include the guppy, junior mister and miss, prince and princess and king and queen pageants. At 7 p.m., Disco Inferno will perform 70s hits on the main stage, followed by fireworks at dusk over Lake Erie.

Saturday’s attractions include a sandcastle contest at Main Street Beach, a crazy craft race at the public boat docks and a 2 p.m. performance by The French Lenards. At 8 p.m. The Ohio Pink Floyd Concert Experience will perform “The Dark Side of the Moon,” followed at dusk by a lighted boat parade on the Vermilion River.

Sunday will feature the Vermilion Port Authority Paddle Fest Poker Run, a Father’s Day parade starting at 12:30 p.m. on Liberty Avenue and the Vermilion firefighters’ water fight on Ohio Street by Victory Park.

For a complete schedule, visit www.vermilionohio.com.

Coe said she is bracing for the possibility of record turnout for this year’s Festival of the Fish. The event was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and made a comeback in 2021 with social distancing and plenty of hand sanitizer. During last year’s planning, Coe said state health restrictions were still in place until Gov. Mike DeWine finally removed them a week before the festival.

The result was huge attendance from people desperate to get out of the house and reconnect in person. While there are no gates or tickets, Coe estimated it was the biggest crowd ever.

This weekend, she is hoping the weather holds, since storms can literally rain on the parade. But Coe said she’s also worried that vendors will have a hard time keeping up with crowds — many don’t have as many employees as usual, and supply chain issues mean many food items are in short supply.

And just like at the grocery store — or any store right now — expect higher prices across the board, she said.

Costs have gone up on everything, including fireworks.

On the other hand, high gas prices may translate to higher attendance, Coe said. Instead of traveling long distances, she believes many Lorain, Erie and Huron county residents may prefer to hit up festivals closer to home.

Vermilion shopkeepers are certainly praying for a lot of visitors, she said. “I hope it helps everybody in this community, because everybody took a hit,” said Coe. In 2021, Ohio officials asked chambers across the state for information on the economic impact of losing fairs and festivals because of the pandemic. Based on surveys about typical spending by event-goers, the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce estimated a loss of $685,000 to its revenues as well as vendors, downtown shops and nonprofits.

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Project SEARCH prepares students with disabilities for work Six interns from the Class of 2022 have completed the Project SEARCH program at Mercy Health Lorain Hospital.

Each year, the health care system hosts a group of high school-aged students with disabilities. It’s an opportunity for them to receive on-the-job training through internship rotations in areas such as the emergency department or human resources.

“Project SEARCH immerses students into a real work atmosphere from day one,” said program coordinator Kellie Gunter. “Among other skills, students are taught workplace safety, team building,

APPALACHIA FROM B1 from coast to coast by bicycle, raising $60,000 for ASP. Last year, work restarted with a reduced scope and schedule. Instead of the 15,000 volunteers that would head to 25 counties in the four-state Appalachia region, there were about 5,000.

Andrews, 62, now sits on the Appalachia Service Project board, and he left Sunday to do his share of the heavy lifting, taking a dozen people from Oberlin on the mission trip.

They met up in Kentucky with volunteers from Hudson, Ohio, as well as Indiana and Wisconsin.

Over the course of eight weeks, they will spend time with homeowners in need — young couples with

professional etiquette, technology, financial literacy, customer service skills and they get to practice professionalism with support from job coaches and mentors.”

Mercy Health Lorain Hospital works with several community partners including the Education Service Center of Lorain County and UCP of Greater Cleveland to prepare the interns for fulfilling and productive jobs after high school.

Since launching in August 2012, more than 81 percent of Mercy Health Lorain’s interns found employment within their first year of graduation, including some who were hired for roles within the health

system.

“Our community is impacted greatly by teaching and training students with disabilities who are an untapped and underused workforce,” Gunter said. “By hiring a person with a disability, they are showing others that they are open to working with a community of folks that bring a great work ethic, dedication, and positivity into their workforce.”

The program also helps interns with driver’s training, accessing benefits and other important assistance that enables them to grow into confident, independent citizens.

Oberlin's Appalachia Service Project team hoists a girder up to the roofline last summer in West Virginia. kids, single moms trying to make ends meet and older people often living with disabilities, often the result of injuries from working in mining or logging.

“Those can be very powerful times, and you develop a relationship across the course of a week that can stay with you,” Andrews said.

He still stays in touch with Appalachian residents he met in 1996 and 1997.

Andrews said he has felt compelled to serve since he was a teenager in the 1970s, when he was part of a First Church in Oberlin group that traveled to the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

He remembers helping to set up a

YMCA camp there for children, and getting involved with those who attended. It was a turning point in the way he looked at the world.

Later, living in Maryland, he attended a church where there were no youth programs. Andrews talked to the minister — still a friend after three decades — and pitched a summer service mission. It grew and grew until he moved to Ohio, but after 10 years Andrews was was vested and wanted his own children to help with the work.

With the help of his friend, Kris Carter, who has coordinated trips since 2012, Andrews has led hundreds of Oberlin-area youth to Appalachia.

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The FBI has accused Mackrell of being part of the mob that stormed the Capitol, pushing past barricades and interrupting a joint session of Congress, where the result of the 2020 presidential election were being certified.

In a lengthy report, the intelligence agency alleged Mackrell repeatedly struck a Capitol police officer "The assailant first strikes the officer multiple times," the report said. "The assailant then grabs for the officer’s gas mask, under the officer’s face shield," and pulled it off in an apparent attempt to expose him to a chemical spray that had been released.

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ment against Mackrell was amended, removing language that had at first indicated the mob had placed Vice President Kamala Harris’ life in danger.

The change was a result of Secret Service disclosures that Harris had actually been inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters during the attack, not at the Capitol. She was evacuated from the building when a pipe bomb was discovered outside.

Mackrell again pleaded not guilty to the counts listed in the revised indictment.

He remains free on a personal recognizance bond, according to U.S. District Court records.

By the latest count, at least 861 people have been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The FBI is still seeking the public’s help to identify people who took part.

Keyboard vigilantes have played a big role in helping to ID suspects, using photos and video provided by law enforcement. Mackrell himself was reportedly identified by a tipster who recognized him as a 2018 graduate of Wellington High School.

Acting on that tip, the FBI found Mackrell’s Facebook page, where on Jan. 6 he posted that the government has been "corrupted for a very long time now how about we get rid of all of them because well

it is out literal job as american’s to kill the tyrannical government. [sic]" So far, 306 rioters who have been charged at the federal level have entered guilty pleas.

The attack caused Congress to evacuate for several hours, and resulted in roughly $1.5 million in damages to the Capitol building, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Other local suspects Kimberly Wargo, 55, and Colton Wargo, 26, both of Westlake, were charged last month with entering and remaining on restricted grounds, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

A report from the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division in Cleveland said last spring it received a lead that Colton Wargo had been part of the mob that breached the Capitol.

Through a search warrant, it determined his mobile device was there inside the building. The FBI also spotted him on surveillance camera footage inside the building, and matched his image to his driver’s license.

Video showed his mother, Kimberly Wargo, immediately behind him as they pushed inside the Capitol, the FBI said.

For a few minutes, the pair were seen walking in and out of the Rotunda, according to still photos provided by the FBI. Then

Kimberly appeared to lead her son through the hallways near Kimberly House of Wargo Representatives and Senate offices and into Statuary Hall.

Rejoining the mob, Colton they Wargo entered the East Staircase and then the House Gallery before leaving the building.

According to the FBI’s report, the Wargos were inside for about 30 minutes.

It said Colton agreed in May 2021 to be interviewed at his Westlake home, and admitted to being inside the Capitol with his mother.

He reportedly told investigators he and his mother drove to Washington, D.C., to take part in a rally for then-President Donald Trump and then walked with a crowd to the Capitol Building. He said they left after being yelled at by an armed tactical police team.

Kimberly also was interviewed, confirming her son’s story.

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One last trip around the bases Photos by Russ Gifford | Wellington Enterprise

In a long-overdue return to tradition, players gathered June 7 on the softball diamond one last time for the Lorain County Softball Coaches Association All-Star game at LaGrange Community Park. The last time high school standouts had been able to field the game was 2019, and the COVID-19 pandemic dashed the chance to do so in the past two years. Players from Amherst, Elyria Catholic, Keystone, North Ridgeville and Wellington combined forces to win the all-star showing 9-5. TOP: Amherst’s Cassidy Kettleman and Elyria Catholic’s Annika Bredel share the 2022 title for Lorain County Miss Softball. BOTTOM: Wellington’s Maile Oswald makes the throw to first base for an out, and Firelands’ Abby Aslaksen scoops up a ground ball.

Oberlin Council’s mass rezoning ‘fix’ raises concerns JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — The prospect of mass-rezoning 27 properties scattered across the city had some residents’ hackles up last week.

Oberlin City Council is trying to right what appears to be a longstanding clerical error. It intends to change the zoning of parcels mysteriously zoned P-1 for parks despite the homes that stand there, marking them instead as residential.

“By rezoning these properties, we’re making financing available to people who want to purchase these homes,” whether it’s today or years down the line, said Council President Bryan Burgess.

The problem is that after the national financial meltdown of 2008, which resulted from subprime lending practices, lenders have cracked down, he said. They’ll no longer approve mortgages for properties where the zoning doesn’t match the land’s actual use.

The city’s zoning map dates back to 1965. At some point, for reasons unknown, large tracts were labeled P-1, Planning and Development Director Carrie Porter previously said. Many have been corrected over the years.

But some Oberlin homeowners whose land incorrectly remains on the map as park zoning have run into walls trying to sell, said Burgess. Banks have already turned down mort-

gages for potential buyers.

“We’re trying to be proactive to protect the owners of the properties,” said Councilwoman Elizabeth Meadows.

Some residents were alarmed by Council’s attempt to fix the issue, however.

Among them was David Laczko of East College Street, who said the zoning was laid out by professional surveyors according to federal guidelines. He also suggested that property taxes would increase as a result of rezoning.

“What we have here is a solution in search of a problem,” Laczko said.

Burgess said property taxes are based on the val-

ue of land and the buildings it holds — rezoning will not affect valuation.

Property taxes will rise, Council Vice President Kelley Singleton predicted, but not because of rezoning.

Lorain County Auditor Craig Snodgrass has already stated that if trends hold through the next year, residential tax rates will go up starting Jan. 1, 2024.

They’ll rise due to the hot housing market and high demand.

“It’s because the auditor wants his pound of flesh,” Singleton told residents Monday.

He tried to dispel any number of misconceptions about what the city

intends, and how property owners will be affected.

That included assuring them their park-zoned land is not actually public property, and that they will not lose land as the result of rezoning.

Zoning is simply a list of rules on paper for how properties can be used. It determines whether singlefamily houses, churches, schools, farms, factories, big box stores, apartment complexes, hospitals, sports fields and other buildings and uses can be developed.

“You won’t notice anything. I don’t think there will be any change in your life,” Singleton said. “Your property isn’t going to

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Council wants to rezone two other parcels from residential use to park use.

They are located at 66 and 69 South Park St. Porter said both lots were acquired by the city through tax foreclosures, one in 2010 and the other in 2014.

Because they are close to Park Street Park, Spring Street Park and Plum Creek, the plan is to use them one day to connect other city-owned “greenway” properties along the water. She envisions walking and cycling paths.

“Basically they’re going to become part of the city’s park system,” Porter

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That suggestion also had critics.

Phyllis Yarber-Hogan of Willowbrook Road said she was “saddened to know that more property is not going to be residential” at a time when there aren’t enough homes in Oberlin to meet demand.

Terrie Smith, who lives on Kimberly Circle, said she doesn’t want parkbound traffic in the area, and asked for the two lots to remain residentially zoned.

The discussions played out in a public hearing.

Burgess said Council will be weighing the rezoning proposals over the course of the six weeks.

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Ohio’s ‘permitless carry’ doesn’t allow a free-for-all JASON HAWK EDITOR

Permits are no longer be required to carry a concealed handgun in Ohio as of this week — but that doesn’t mean weapons can suddenly be carried anywhere by anyone.

The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office is wary about confusion around Senate Bill 215, signed into law this spring by Gov. Mike DeWine.

It warned that firearms are still not allowed in county or municipal

court buildings, and that attempting to take one inside is a felony.

Capt. Richard Bosley said Friday that jails, schools, airports and all government buildings are still off limits.

“I think whenever there’s a law change like that, especially when it’s one this major, there’s going to be a learning curve,” he said.

Lorain County Administrator J.R. White confirmed that any county building under the commissioners’ direct control remain no-carry zones.

Private businesses and

places of worship are still free to place signs at entry points, banning firearms inside. That even applies to some public places, such as libraries — Director Jennifer Starkey said the Elyria Public Library will continue its gun-free policy, for example.

Under federal law, a concealed carry license will still be required to carry in a school zone in your vehicle. It must remained secured and locked in the vehicle when you get out.

The change in state law means that “qualifying

adults” can carry without any training, background check or documentation.

That applies to anyone age 21 or up who is a legal resident of the United States, not a fugitive, has no protection orders against them and are not considered mentally ill or hospitalized for psychiatric treatment.

A dishonorable discharge from the military also disqualifies someone from carrying a concealed handgun. So do felony, drug or domestic violence convictions, or committing one violent misdemeanor offense in

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the past three years or two within the last five years, according to the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.

In some cases, a plea deal can include a restriction on possessing or receiving firearms — that’s still binding.

Bosley said that people who are legally able to carry should consider still getting a concealed carry license, even if it’s optional.

“They need to know how to carry a firearm,” he said. “They need to know what the laws are surrounding the use of firearms. It’s a great right they have, but it’s also a great responsibility.”

Getting a license involves not only a background check but also paying a minimum $67 fee and taking an eighthour training class with two hours of hands-on instruction.

A license is needed if an Ohioan wants to carry a concealed handgun in another state, he said.

Ohio first passed a law requiring concealed carry permits in 2004.

In 2021, the Ohio Attorney General’s office reported it had issued 94,298 new permits through the year.

The number of licenses renewed last year was also 50 percent higher than in 2020, a record high for the program, Attorney General Dave Yost said.

His office also reported that a record number of regular license applications — 2,668 — were denied last year.

Lorain County did not make the top 10 in the state for new licenses issued — the top spot went to Franklin County, then Lake, Greene, Ashland, Portage, Butler, Stark, Madison, Geauga and Clermont counties.

There were 439 licenses issued last year in Lorain County, plus 801 renewed, 16 suspended, six revoked and six denied.

Last year, sheriffs across the state suspended 1,880 licenses after learning the holder was charged with certain offenses or was the subject of a protection order.

Bosley and the state Legislative Commission both said people who were previously denied licenses still cannot carry, even with the new law in effect.

The Buckeye Firearms Association, which lobbied for permitless concealed carry, also stressed that there are changes to the “duty to inform.”

Under the old law, anyone stopped by law enforcement was required to promptly tell officers they had a concealed weapon. That’s not necessarily the case anymore.

Now you only have to inform an officer who asks whether you are carrying — and that officer only. There is no longer a duty to tell other officers who arrive or approach.

Ohioans are able to carry a concealed, loaded handgun in their vehicles with or without a concealed carry license, the Buckeye Firearms Association said.

There are other laws for transporting rifles and shotguns, however: They must be “unloaded, in a closed container, with ammunition in a separate container or closed compartment, in your trunk or in an area not accessible without leaving your vehicle,” according to a BFA guide.

Nor does the new state law allow anyone to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun.

“Surprisingly, someone actually did ask this question,” said the BFA guide. “We’re not sure exactly how someone would carry concealed rifles and shotguns other than under a long trench coat. However, the answer is no. Ohio’s concealed carry laws apply to handguns only.”

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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Oberlin College Dull and Locklear are Seniors of May gets grant for $240K study on data privacy SARAH COLSON OBERLIN HIGH SCHOOL

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OBERLIN — Companies know what you’ve bought and what you’re thinking of buying next. They know your likes, your dislikes, your politics, your age, your family members, your religion, where you’ve traveled and what income bracket you fit into.

How that information should be ethically used is the $239,830 question for Sam Taggart, assistant professor of computer science at Oberlin College.

A grant in that amount from the National Science Foundation will fund three years of research by Taggart, his students and collaborator Emmanouil Pountourakis of Drexel University in Sam Taggart Pennsylvania.

Together, they’ll explore how the algorithms that rule the internet can be designed to inform big economic decisions, especially when it comes to social safety nets. Taggart said one of his chief goals is to study how the government can use data collected online to better administer benefits to people who need them.

“They are questions of who gets resources, but they’re also about picking the rules for who gets resources,” he said.

The National Science Foundation is interested in better understanding how data privacy is affected by the constant "feedback loops" of interactions between companies and consumers, according to a grant announcement from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

“Science and technology research is critical to create jobs and improve our economy,” he said. “We unleash more American innovation when everyone is able to participate and we nurture all Ohio talent. Oberlin College is one of Ohio’s great institutions of higher education. This award will help the college advance our knowledge and continue Ohio’s leadership in innovation.”

A graduate of Northwestern University, Taggart has taught at Oberlin for five years, focusing mainly on the study of algorithms. They are used to guide shoppers’ behaviors, mostly benefiting companies’ profit margins, he said.

While analyzing those interactions involves a lot of math, it also means understanding why people behave the way they do. Taggart said looking at data privacy marries the study of computer science and economics with psychology and responsible social policy.

“We don’t really have the right math to make predictions about these kind of interactions, even though they’re happening all of the time and have huge material impact,” Taggart said. “That’s bothersome.”

He said he wants to see computer scientists think more seriously about providing support to people who are economically vulnerable — while human behavior is much more complex than ones and zeroes, algorithms can do a lot to predict needs, desires and solutions.

The hope, according to Taggart’s application to the NSF, is that his findings will be used to guide not only those who design the systems that collect data, but also how they are regulated.

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.

Two seniors were honored by the Oberlin Rotary Club in May. They are Faith Dull and Ty Locklear.

Dull has been involved in Student Council for two years and is currently acting as treasurer. She has participated in marching band for three years, including being a majorette this past year.

She has been part of the track and field team since sixth grade, then added cross country since 10th grade. Dull was named to the Third Team All-Conference for girls cross country in 2020 and Second Team in 2021.

She also received an AllCounty honorable mention in 2021.

Dull is a member of the National Honor Society and Ruling Our Experience, a female support group at Oberlin High School.

Dull is a member of the youth group at Harvest Christian Church and is involved in many of its

AMHERST — Bar-hopping with a brew in hand could soon be allowed during special events in downtown Amherst.

Main Street Amherst Director Teresa Gilles and Mayor Mark Costilow are pitching the creation of a “designated outdoor refreshment area” similar to the zones Lorain and Sandusky have in place.

It would mean customers with special cups or bracelets could do crawls between pubs during Miracle on Main Street’s Christmas parade, summer street parties or other festivals.

“It’s a way to help the businesses get more income,” Gilles said in an interview.

She said she doesn’t see it as a go-ahead to have alcohol outdoors 24/7 — the city would have to first approve the event, and the Ohio Division of Liquor Control would need to issue permits.

Nor would the “refreshment area” by an invitation for people to overdrink and cause problems, Gilles said.

The proposal was made to Council’s Ordinance Committee last week, but immediately withdrawn because a variety of details have not been locked down.

Chief among them is a description of how far the outdoor refreshment area would stretch. Main Street has asked for much of the historical downtown district around Park Avenue, Church Street and Cleveland Avenue to be included.

Costilow said planned to resubmit the proposal with more information. A public hearing will also be required before Council votes.

“I think this is a fun item. We’re going to watch it closely,” said Costilow.

If problems arise, he said he would be the first to call for the designated outdoor refreshment area’s status to be revoked.

Ty Locklear In his senior year, he was named First Team All-County, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-District and All-Ohio special mentions. Locklear said he learned a great deal from coaches Kurt Russell, Jordan Beard and Phil Payne. Locklear says he loves the game and loves sharing this passion with younger players. For several years, he taught the fundamentals at Hoop Camp.

Locklear has served on Student Council for four years and as vice president of the Black Student Union in his senior year.

Looking back on his work with the BSU, he said what most stands out are the thought-provoking discussions about important topics such as police brutality and how Black students feel in their own skin. These discussions were meaningful because students were able to unburden themselves in a comfortable environment

Oberlin commercial trash collection rate could rise

Oberlin City Council is considering a hike to commercial trash rates.

Public Works Director Jeff Baumann has proposed a 10 percent increase effective as early as July 1.

If passed by Council, it would mean a container that costs $15 now would now cost $16.50. Larger containers that cost $53.65 would increase to $59.02. Baumann has requested another 10 percent increase in January 2023, followed by a 2.25 percent increase every year beginning in January 2024.

Oberlin hasn’t raised its commercial trash rates in 5 years, he said. That’s cut into the city’s budget considerably.

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Faith Dull activities, such as a recent retreat in Mansfield to learn team-building skills. She also assists teachers with Sunday school and helps in the church nursery. She is looking forward to a mission trip to Brazil this summer to help dig a well for the village of Maues in the Amazon. The village has no clean drinking water.

Dull plans to attend either Bowling Green State University or Lorain County Community College. She is considering a degree in art or in the health and fitness field.

She has received the Thompson Working Families Scholarship and the University Freshman Academic Scholarship from Bowling Green State University.

Locklear has played on the boys varsity basketball team for four years, winning conference championships in his sophomore and senior years.

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Locklear has also participated in Art Club and Drama Club. For the Drama Club, he helped design and produce sets for plays.

Being part of the Ninde Program was a huge part of his senior year, he said.

Through that program he received assistance on college visitation, scholarship availability, financial aid information and connection with an Oberlin College tutor.

Outside of OHS, Locklear works for the city of Oberlin Recreation Department, where he enjoys helping young children and appreciates being part of their early years of development. He is a member of the youth group at Mount Zion Baptist Church, and in his early teens he served as a drummer for Sunday services. He remembers memorizing passages of scripture and reciting them for the congregation at Easter services.

Locklear plans to continue his education at the University of Dayton and major in visual art and film production. He said he has been surrounded by artists his whole life, from his preschool teacher to his brothers.

He fell in love with the process of starting out with a blank canvas and letting the “magic” of strokes, lines and creativity unfold.

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