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Volume 7, Issue 34

‘Save the Post Office’ rally set for Saturday JASON HAWK EDITOR

AMHERST — Jake Wachholz stood a solitary vigil for 90 minutes Monday morning outside the Amherst Post Office on Route 58 to make a statement about the mail's important role in the 2020 election.

"I can't possibly just sit by and be angry while the post office is under attack," he said.

The U.S. Postal Service is at the heart of a political battle,

with absentee voting expected to soar this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump said openly in a Fox Business Network interview last week that he's killing USPS funding sought

by Democrats so the independent agency won't be able to handle what's expected to be a record number of ballots leading up to Nov. 3.

“If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money,” he told told anchor Maria Bartiromo. “That means they can’t

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COVID-19 tests offered weekly ELYRIA — Lorain County Health & Dentistry now offers curbside COVID-19 testing every Wednesday and Friday at the Elyria City Hall parking lot, 131 Court St. Testing is by appointment only, between 9 a.m. adn 3:30 p.m. To sign up, call 440-240-1655.

Callers who are not established patients of Lorain County Health & Dentistry must first have a telehealth visit with a LCH&D provider to receive a testing order.

Those to be tested should arrive at their appointed time and remain in their vehicle. A properly protected LCH&D staff member will approach the vehicle to confirm the appointment and collect the specimen.

LCH&D uses LabCorp to process specimens. Results are generally available in three to five days.

Curbside COVID-19 testing is also offered by Lorain County Health & Dentistry at 1205 Broadway in Lorain. Hours are Monday through Friday by appointment only.

“Our mission is to serve and our commitment to the community goes very deep. We are happy to improve access to COVID testing for all persons, especially those who are most vulnerable, and including those without symptoms,” said Stephanie Wiersma, LCH&D president and CEO. Testing is an important tool for community health and safety whether or not you have symptoms, said Chief Medical Officer Jennifer Casey.

"We want to reduce the spread of the virus in our community," she said. "Early testing and identification of persons with the virus means we can better manage those affected and implement measures to protect others."

For more information, visit www.lorainhealth-dentistry. org or call 440-240-1655.

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‘American Pickers’ coming to Ohio Oberlin Business Partnership wants to draw show to town JASON HAWK EDITOR

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Frank Fritz and Mike Wolfe of "American Pickers" are looking for sizable private collections to sort through as they search for lost treasures.

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OBERLIN — Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz make a living treasurehunting on TV's "American Pickers," and are looking for prospects this October in Ohio.

"We're looking for leads throughout the state, specifically interesting characters with interesting items and lots of them!" said casting

associate Maggie Kissinger in an email last week.

Janet Haar, director of the Oberlin Business Partnership, said she is making a bid to bring the production to Lorain County after receiving a phone call from a promotional worker.

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"We're not aiming to protest the post office. We're aiming to support the post office," he said.

"We want to keep the post office funded... Everyone's vote needs to be counted."

The Postal Service is as American as apple pie, said Wachholz.

Not only is it important to the integrity of the 2020 election, but millions of Americans rely on mail carriers to deliver prescription medication, bills, passports, driver's licenses, census surveys

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FBI contest winners

Cammden Gross and Cameron Dumais of Amherst Steele High School won first place in the Cleveland FBI office's poster contest on the dangers of heroin and prescription opioids.

They took the top spot in the 11th and 12th grade division.

Amherst Steele also won for Best Detailed Drug Education Program. Students from 20 area schools submitted 130 posters in the contest.

Other Lorain County winners included: • Zoie Jarem of Columbia High School in third place in the 11th and 12th grade category.

• Brielle Large, Midview High School, honorable mention in the 11th and 12th grade category.

• Bella Keller, Avon Middle School, honorable mention in the seventh and eighth grade category.

League of Women Voters guide A voting guide published by the League of Women Voters of the Oberlin Area is intended to be available by early October. Information will also be posted at www.vote411.org.

PICKERS

FROM A1 movement, for example — and Haar believes the Pickers could discover priceless links to the past here.

"You just look at the history. You can dig deeper and deeper and find all sorts of amazing things in this little town in rural Ohio," she said.

Haar said part of her motivation is community pride, but she feels the town and county need a morale boost too after long months of fighting COVID-19.

"This seemed to be something that could help people think outside the COVID box for a little bit," she said.

In her email seeking sites to "pick," Kissinger said Wolfe, Fritz and company are also taking the pandemic seriously.

They are adjusting schedules for the safety of those who appear on the show and the crew. "We won't pick unless everybody is safe, so if we cannot make those dates, nobody’s time is wasted as we will re-schedule to a date when conditions allow filming," she wrote.

If your backyard, barn or basement is prime picking territory, call the offices of Cineflix in New York at (855) 653-7878 or email americanpickers@cineflix.com.

The show is only looking for private collections and won't consider stores, malls, flea markets, museums, auctions or any other business that's open to the public.

"American Pickers" has been popular with History Channel viewers since January 2010. It follows Wolfe, Fritz and office manager Danielle Colby as they crisscross the United States from their home bases in Le Claire, Iowa, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Their motto at the top of each episode: "We're looking for amazing things buried in people's garages and barns.

What most people see as junk, we see as dollar signs.

We'll buy anything we think we can make a buck on. Each item we pick has a history all its own. And the people we meet? Well, they're a breed all their own."

OBITUARIES PATRICIA A. LESHER (nee Dietsche), 61, of Elyria, passed away Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, at David Simpson Hospice House in Cleveland following a lingering illness.

Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

ISAAC W. DICK, 91, of South Amherst, passed away Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, at his home following a full and meaningful life. Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

PERRY JACKSON BOX SR., 91, of Sheffield Lake, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, after a long and full life. Hempel Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

JOAN IVES, 59, of Elyria, passed away Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, during a short stay at Keystone Pointe Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Hempel Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.

GERALDINE ELIZABETH CHURCH (nee WaltersCreel), 91, a resident of Wakeman, went home to be with her Lord and Saviour Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, at her home following a long and blessed life. Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home.

Akron Children's to run three Mercy Health pediatric offices in Lorain STAFF REPORT

Akron Children's Hospital will assume operations at three Mercy Health pediatric primary care offices in Lorain County.

In early 2021, the Chuang Medical Center in Oberlin, the Bitar Medical Center on Oak Point Road in Lorain and the Lorain Hospital Medical Office building on Kolbe Road will be branded as Akron Children's.

Mercy's Veard Family Birthing Center will remain in place, with expanded pediatric services.

This comes as the result of a partnership between Mercy and Akron to expand pediatric health care services in

Lorain and Oberlin, according to a news release Friday.

The same staff and providers will be at the three locations, just under the umbrella of Akron Children's.

According to the release, the two organizations will work collaboratively to further Mercy Health-Lorain’s focus on delivering highquality and expert care from birth through adulthood.

“Akron Children’s has provided exceptional pediatric care to children in Northeast Ohio for 130 years, and we’re happy to soon bring our services to families in Lorain County,” Shawn Lyden, chief strategy officer at Akron Children’s, said in the release. “Our providers look forward to helping families find the highly

specialized, quality care their children need close to home.”

Akron Children’s will offer physician specialty services in Lorain, including pediatric cardiology. Akron Children’s plans to add other specialties, including pediatric gastroenterology and maternal fetal medicine, in the near future.

“We have been fortunate at Mercy Health to provide highly specialized care for newborns at our Level II special care nursery,” Marcietta Wilson-Coleman, OB/GYN at Mercy HealthLorain, said in the release.

“With this affiliation, we will be able to intervene during a mother’s pregnancy, if needed, further emphasizing our ability to foster healthy newborns.”

In addition to primary and specialty care, Akron Children’s will provide its expertise in pediatric emergency medical care at Mercy Health-Lorain Hospital to enhance the care provided to children with medical emergencies. Akron Children’s is expected to begin offering its services in three to four months.

“This is not only a milestone for our health systems, but one for our entire community,” said Edwin Oley, market president at Mercy Health-Lorain. “In today’s changing health care environment, Mercy Health is proud to be able to further invest in access to some of the most highly specialized pediatric care here within Lorain County,” he added.

Officials worried about closure of UH birthing unit With the impending closure of birthing services at University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center, Lorain County Public Health is renewing its commitment to expecting parents and new babies.

“The LCPH board is concerned that the transition of labor and delivery services out of Elyria may cause more barriers for the most vulnerable users of these services,” said LCPH board President Patricia Schrull. “It may not be easy or even possible for UH Elyria’s expecting parents to travel to UH St. John’s for labor and delivery.”

LCPH and other health partners have worked hard to successfully lower Lorain County’s infant mortality rate for babies under one year of age. Between 2007 and 2018, the infant mortality rate dropped from 7.2 to 5.8 deaths per 1,000 live births.

Even more significantly, the infant mortality rate for African-American babies dropped from 21.7 to 8.6 deaths per 1,000 live births in the same period.

“Access to services is vital to outcomes for families and babies,” said county Health Commissioner David Covell. “We will continue our ser-

vices and partnerships to help parents and babies get a healthy start.”

UH has also committed to increase levels of prenatal and postnatal care here in Lorain County to help keep the infant mortality rate low.

While birthing services transition to UH St. John’s, UH plans to perform more heart surgeries at UH Elyria.

This plan will increase local access to cardiovascular health experts and services.

In 2019, heart disease was the second leading cause of death, so the LCPH board appreciates better access to these life-saving services.

outdoors. Be sure to clean grills and outdoor tables after using, keep garbage cans tightly closed and take pet food water and food bowls inside in the evenings. Do not feed feral cats; doing so is an open invitation for these animals. They will not only

do damage outside of your home and sheds, but they can infiltrate the inside of your home as well and cause serious damage.

For more information, call Lorain County Animal Control at 330-2453032.

Animal complaints The village of Wellington has received an unusually high number of complaints about raccoons, skunks and possums in residential areas this year.

According to Lorain County Animal Control, these animals are scavengers, so do not leave food

POST OFFICE

FROM A1 and Social Security checks.

This past Thursday, the USPS sent letters to 46 states — including Ohio — and the District of Columbia warning that it cannot guarantee timely delivery of all November election ballots, which could mean millions will be disenfranchised.

The warning came as Congress called for testimony about mail delivery slowdowns across the United States, and alongside reports that community mailboxes are being taken off street corners in several western states.

Justin Glass, director of operations for the Postal Service and director of political mail, denied during a talk earlier this month with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose that any delivery slowdown exists.

The USPS warned in April that the COVID-19 pandemic would cause delays, and said in an Aug. 6 release that "due to COVID-19 and

employee availability, there may be temporary delays to some mail delivery."

Government watchdog groups and House Democrats are painting the well-documented delivery slowdown as an attempt to interfere with the election.

“Our Postal Service should not become an instrument of partisan politics, but instead must be protected as a neutral, independent entity that focuses on one thing and one thing only — delivering the mail," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, the Chairwoman of the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Reform.

She has introduced the Delivering for America Act to halt USPS cuts proposed by DeJoy during the coronavirus crisis.

It would also stop a July directive

by DeJoy to leave some mail behind at distribution centers.

"A once-in-a-century pandemic is no time to enact changes that threaten service reliability and transparency," she said. "The Delivering for America Act would reverse these changes so this fundamental American service can continue unimpeded.”

Wachholz said Trump and DeJoy can't be allowed to suppress votes by tampering with the USPS. "We want to ensure that people's voices are heard. Right now, slowing down the mail is slowing down people's voices and their right to be heard," he said.

Glass told LaRose the Postal Service is going to "make sure we take care of the election mail" and forecasted no impact on service.

He said First Class and direct marketing mail volume have fallen off during the pandemic, while package volume is at a "Christmas level" this summer.

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College vows transparency on test results JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Zero positive cases have been found since coronavirus testing started last week at Oberlin College.

Vowing to be transparent in the name of town-gown relations, college President Carmen Twillie Ambar told City Council on Monday that test results will be made public each week.

Mercy Health has been tapped to test about 25 percent of the Oberlin campus population each week, using polymerise chain reaction molecular tests that will be sent off to a lab for analysis.

There are two main types of tests being used to detect COVID-19: PCR, which detects viral RNA, has been deemed more accurate than antigen tests, especially with Lorain County Public Health Commissioner David Covell.

While PCR is the college's choice for routine tests that all students and staff must take, Ambar said rapid testing will also be used for those who show symptoms.

"We are under no illusions about the challenge of this, and we are also under no illusions about the importance to the city," she told Council.

Oberlin College plans to post on its website the number of tests done each week, how many return positive and how many people on campus are adhering to new rules for daily self-checks for symptoms.

Those daily tests aren't done by swab, said college Chief of Staff David Hertz — students and employees must complete an online survey via a new app called Full Measure that launched Monday.

Enter your daily temperature reading and answer a few health questions, and get a green check mark. The app will collect data to ensure that everyone is living up to Oberlin College's strategies for safe learning this year.

"The goal here is to try to develop and have a sense of trends," Ambar said.

If someone does test positive, the college will use the data to trace where and who was exposed to the virus.

Card swipe data from college buildings will also help with contact tracing.

Ambar said Oberlin College isn't being Big Brother. The point is to prevent an outbreak like the one that's shut down in-person classes already at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Ray English, an Oberlin councilman who holds a degree from UNC, said he sees more unity at Oberlin College than at his alma mater.

English said he is impressed "with how much thought and care has gone into the college's efforts" to start the year.

Ambar said the situation at UNC is a chance, without passing judgment, to learn from the good and bad happening at colleges elsewhere.

"It is a lesson of what can happen if we don't all decide that we're in this together," she said.

Ambar treated positive COCID tests as a near-certainty, and confirmed that The Hotel at Oberlin will be set aside as housing for students who must be quarantined.

In some cases, Covell could recommend quarantining an entire class that's been exposed to the virus, she said. And if there's an outbreak, it could close down campus "for a week or two," Ambar said.

Oberlin will have about 2,000 students on campus this fall instead of the nearly 3,000 it usually welcomes. They'll each have their own rooms, will get grab-and-go meals and have to sign a community pledge to live by a list of new rules for surviving the pandemic.

Perhaps the most visible is that students must always wear masks, inside or outside, unless they are alone in their rooms, or in academic settings when they need to play instruments, for example.

Campus life will be much different in 2Q020. The Yeomen and Yeowomen sports seasons have been suspended, most musical performances will be live-streamed instead of in front of live audiences and most student activities will be online instead of on the quad.

There will be no fall or spring breaks, and students will learn remotely after going home for Thanksgiving instead of returning to campus. The year has been split into three semesters rather than the usual two.

That means the creation of a summer semester, which drew the praise of Councilman Kelley Singleton.

"It's really going to change the summer here. Usually on Memorial Day, around 2 o'clock, you can feel the energy level of the town shrink," he said.

Having students in town year-round will be a help to local businesses, said Singleton, and he asked Ambar to consider keeping the three-semester model after the health crisis ends.

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Cadets graduate from Police Academy STAFF REPORT

ELYRIA — Twelve cadets graduated from the Lorain County Community College Police Academy on Thursday, Aug. 13.

They were honored in a sociallydistanced ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Commander Richard Thomas, who directed the graduates' training, said the class "is the embodiment of the words ‘improvise, adapt and overcome.'"

“They encountered numerous schedule changes and delays, including changes in how their classes were presented, taking classes wearing personal protective equipment and the specter of ever more changes constantly lurking on the horizon,” he said.

“Through it all, they maintained a can-do attitude, and are eager to serve and to be the change agents society is calling for with regard to law enforcement.”

Two cadets, the president and vice president of the class, were already sworn police officers.

President Joanna Rachel Catalano joined the academy as a commissioned officer with the Elyria Police Department, and rose to the top of the group, both academically and as a leader within the program. She is a graduate of Heidelberg University.

Class vice president Austin James Helmink is also commissioned by the Elyria Police Department. A veteran of the army, he demonstrated leadership served as drill master for marching and military drill training.

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Police academy graduates listen to Oberlin Police Chief Ryan Warfield during a graduation ceremony held Thursday, Aug. 13 in the Stocker Arts Center Hoke Theatre at Lorain County Community College.

Class members carried a class average of 96.83 percent on exams, quizzes and graded assignments. The group also earned a 100 percent pass rate on the state physical conditioning exam.

“They emerged ready to serve their communities with excellence, compassion and the understanding that in this profession they must be lifelong learners,” Thomas said.

LCCC President Marcia Ballinger told academy graduates they have chosen to begin their law enforcement careers during one of the profession's most trying times in recent history.

"As you navigate this current environment of transition and uncertainty, I know that each of you will

wear your badge with dignity while bringing safety and security to the communities you serve," she said.

For more than 30 years, Thomas served the city of North Ridgeville, including 10 years as the chief of police, where he worked with many LCCC police academy cadets following their graduation.

The police program at LCCC has been producing officers for 18 years.

Since 2002, two classes have graduated each year. The vast majority of those officers are working and serving communities in Northeast Ohio.

More than 600 cadets have successfully completed the program.

For more information about the LCCC Police Training Academy, visit www.lorainccc.edu/police.

Purple lights and flags pay tribute to 2019 opioid overdose victims JASON HAWK EDITOR

ELYRIA — Purple is lighting up the Old Lorain County Courthouse in downtown Elyria this week to raise awareness of the opioid overdose epidemic.

International Overdose Awareness Day will be observed around the globe on Monday, Aug. 31 as families remember loved ones who have died or suffered long-lasting injuries from drug use.

"We hope this really raises the attention about addiction and mental illness in our communities. We need to be able to get people the help they need," said Elaine Georgas, interim executive director of the Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery Services Board of Lorain County.

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Lori Kokoski said the courthouse lights pay respect to the 89 people who died of drug overdoses last year in Lorain County.

Purple and silver are important colors for International Overdose Awareness Day. Silver is the color used to drive awareness of overdoses in general, while purple is specific to opioid addiction.

Kokoski said 89 purple flags would be planted on the south lawn of the old courthouse downtown, and more will be placed at other locations around the county.

Plans were also in the works to place purple ribbons around trees through the week in a show of solidarity for grieving families.

The MHARS board is also looking for volunteers to share their stories of recovery from addiction, including what it is like

to be revived with the life-saving drug naloxone, and memories of overdose victims. Call 440-2407025 for information.

Georgas said one of her goals is to help residents "look past the stigma of addiction" and see that drug abuse "isn't something that someone else deals with, because it could happen to you or me, potentially to anyone."

The public health conversation has moved since March to the threat posed

by COVID-19. Georgas said it's important not to forget the very real danger posed by opioids.

She said that at the beginning of the pandemic, her agency saw a "blip" during which people with addiction were not going to treatment. Now telehealth options are available.

But overdoses are still happening, she said — there was a sharp uptick

from March to May, especially.

Through early June, MHARS tracked 55 fatal overdoses in Lorain County.

Numbers for July and August aren't available yet for several reasons, including delays for toxicology testing, Georgas said.

She does not expect overdoses to slow. In the aftermath of major historical eventes such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, overdoses and suicides rose in the months that followed as people tried to cope, said Georgas.

The COVID-19 pandemic is delivering its own share of hardships, from lost family members to lost jobs and the disruption of everyday life.

Georgas said there are indications that alcoholrelated issues are also on the rise, since people are staying home and drinking more.

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Murphy named in Harrisburg’s 100 Black heroes

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JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — The late Edythe Fields Murphy of Oberlin will be honored next week, with her name inscribed on the first African-American monument on the Pennsylvania capitol grounds in Harrisburg.

The Commonwealth Monument Project will dedicate a bronze pedestal on Wednesday, Aug. 26, memorializing 100 Black heroes of Harrisburg's Edith Fields Murphy Eighth Ward.

It will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which recognized the right of women to vote.

In 1920, 19-year-old Murphy was one of just 34 women in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District who were appointed to help carry out the federal census count, according to Commonwealth Monument Project organizers Brian and Kim Williams. She wanted to make sure everyone in her community was included.

"I worked to collect information from residents in the first precinct of Harrisburg’s Seventh Ward, a wellestablished African American neighborhood," said an autobiographical piece provided by the Williamses. "I later became a teacher in Harrisburg before serving the community of Cleveland, Ohio, in the metro housing authority."

Murphy retired to Oberlin, where she was a member of First Church and its sewing circle.

“I have never known a more gracious person than Edythe — just a perfect delight to be with," said the Rev. John Elder, former pastor of the First Church in Oberlin UCC. The Commonwealth Monument Project claims she was the first African-American to integrate Kendal at Oberlin, where she spent the final year and a half of her life before passing away in July 1999.

Maggie Stark, director of marketing at Kendal, said she remembers visiting with Murphy at her home before she moved into assisted living. "We sat there in her kitchen and talked about life," she said.

"She was lovely, just a lovely, lovely person, and talked a lot about her family and her love for life, her love for Oberlin," said Stark.

Movie screening

A parking lot movie night will be held Friday, Sept. 4 at Christ Temple Apostolic Church, 370 West Lincoln St., Oberlin.

School supplies and refreshments will be available from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and Disney's "The Lion King" will be shown at 9 p.m. Watch from your vehicle or take a law chair. Social distancing protocol will be established.

Adult softball league

The city of Oberlin’s Fall Adult Co-ed Softball League, usually held on Wednesday nights, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Marchers lend their support to Oberlin College unions in a farewell parade Saturdaym Aug. 15 honoring more than 100 former employees who have been laid off.

Parade salutes laid-off college staff JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Horn blasts ricocheted from Oberlin College buildings Saturday afternoon as a parade of vehicles circled Tappan Square, saying goodbye to workers who have lost their jobs.

Dozens — including professors and support staff — marched in the streets to show support for custodians, food workers and other United Auto Workers members who have been laid off this summer as the college cuts expenses.

On foot and on wheels, they carried signs that read "You will be missed" and "UAW employees deserve better, they are Oberlin."

Diane Lee, who has worked at Oberlin College for more than 40 years, said many of those who have been laid off are friends. Their names were written on a poster that hung on the side of her car.

"The college has survived their financial difficulties in the past and they will this time, too. It's just a shame they're trying to do it by ruining people's lives," Lee said.

Jamie Jacobs, a vice president of the Oberlin College Office and Professional Employees union, said she has always viewed her colleagues as members of one big team, all striving to make the world a better place.

That team is about 100 workers smaller as the college prepares to launch the fall semester in a year made uncertain and strange by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holly Handman-Lopez holds a sign thanking former Oberlin College workers for their service as her family crosses Professor Street Saturday.

Those layoffs were announced in early 2020, before the virus upended everyday life. Jacobs said administrators made decisions "and now the most vulnerable among us are paying for it."

Five more layoffs came in early August, and Jacobs said there are rumblings that more could be on the way.

Workers represented by UAW Local 2192 will receive three months' sever-

ance pay, pay for accrued sick leave and vacation time, and their health care benefits will be extended until June 30, 2021, or until coverage is available through a new job, according to a release from the college.

As part of that agreement, the UAW has withdrawn an unfair labor practices charge filed in June with the National Labor Relations Board.

OC: Benefits will be seamless after layoffs JASON HAWK EDITOR

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Scott Wargo, director of media relations, reacted to worries voiced last week by former employees. He said the college will pay full premiums for

health insurance benefits until June 30, 2021, or until they are hired elsewhere.

"The former employee will not need to pay any premiums," he wrote in an email.

Health care will continue to be available even during insurance enrollment waiting periods at the workers' new jobs, Wargo said.

He said there will be no waiting period for benefits to kick in, despite a claim to the contrary by UAW rep Erik Villar.

Wargo also disputed Villar's claim that five recent layoffs were due to the

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COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of the fall athletics season. One of those jobs, held until last week by telephone operator Bridget Maldonado, was eliminated because it "was able to be managed using technology," Wargo said.

A statement from Oberlin College said it reached an agreement with UAW Local 2192 that included the extended benefits, three months' severance pay, payment for accrued vacation or sick leave and the option to take part in a modified version of the college's tuition program for workers' children.

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Covell talks about COVID testing BROOKIE MADISON THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

ELYRIA TWP. — Probable COVID-19 cases and their relation to antigen tests were a central topic when the Lorain County Public Health board met Aug. 12.

Health Commissioner David Covell said a "probable" case is defined as a person who's had a known exposure, was quarantined and started to develop symptoms.

Antigen tests are great for certain diseases but not effective for COVID-19, and they are inaccurate, he said.

“The state has been pushing us to make those probable cases and we said no, we’re not doing it,” he said.

“This has been really hard for us because they dump this stuff in our lap and we get this antigen test of a person that’s asymptomatic just like the governor and then they go back and find out that they’re negative.”

Covell said those who have a positive antigen test are recommended to take a PCR test and find out they are

negative, just as the Gov. orange Level II health Mike DeWine did. emergency status for “We’ve been pushing several weeks. back for the last three He also said that Lorain weeks and then it hapCounty will need more pened to the governor and contact tracers to control that kinda helped our case the virus in the commua little bit,” he said. nity.

Antigen tests are not “We maintained about confirmed cases, which 10 to 12 contact tracers at then are categorized as the beginning of pandemprobable cases. ic and a lot of them were David Covell “So now all of our school nurses,” Covell contact tracers have to go figure this said. Now schools are reopening. out,” Covell said.

Parents need to help small children A full PCR test is very accurate, an get used to wearing masks, which instant PCR is pretty accurate and an will be vital to school safety this fall, antigen test is a lot less accurate, he he said. said.

Covell suggested getting middle A problem that some people are schoolers cool masks to help them having with positive antigen tests is become excited wearing them. that their employers may not allow “There’s no such thing as zero them to go back to work. risk,” he said, adding that if schools Case counts in Lorain County were closed, some students would remain high, but hospitalizations and be at home with their grandparents, intensive care admissions are "great," which would still create a risk.

Covell said.

“There’s no such thing as stopping He still predicts the county will the virus,” Covell said, “We want to bump back and forth from orange to slow it down so we don’t overwhelm red alert status. It has remained in the hospitals.”

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• SAMUEL WILSON received a bachelor of arts degree in business administration. Wilson is a 2016 graduate of Oberlin High School.

The following Oberlin students have graduated from Ashland University: • ALYSSA ROBERTS received a bachelor of science degree in education. Roberts majored in early childhood education.

MEGHAN KOHL of Oberlin has been named to the dean's list for the Spring 2020 semester at Tiffin University.

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As a dangerous building, the building constitutes a public nuisance. City of Lorain Ordinance Chapter 1523 defines these properties as Unsafe Buildings, according to Lorain Codified Ordinance 1523.01.

These properties are considered Dangerous Buildings and according to LCO 1523.03 shall be considered Nuisances to the City of Lorain. Pursuant to LCO 1523.05, the Chief Building Official (CBO) of the City of Lorain has declared the properties listed below as dangerous buildings and by virtue thereof public nuisances.

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northern ten (10) feet of PPN 02-01-001-108-026 from I-1 Light Industrial to B-2 General Business, 3 Paisano's Development LLC is the applicant, (ZCA-7-2020) The Lorain City Planning Commission met on August 5, 2020, and recommend approval to Lorain City Council.

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• Aug. 2 at 2:36 a.m.: Officers were flagged down about a domestic disturbance at a residence on Linn Road. The parties were separated for the night.

• Aug. 3 at 11:24 a.m.: Azzia Moore, 23, of Lorain, was arrested on a warrant through the Lorain Police Department for failure to appear in court. The original charge was driving under suspension.

• Aug. 3 at 2:02 p.m.: Derek Zimmerman, 38, of Amherst, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, driving under suspension and failure to control.

A police report said he was found unconscious in his vehicle, which had run off the road at the State Route 2 entrance ramp. Police had to break the vehicle window to get to Zimmerman, who was revived with naloxone, the report said.

• Aug. 3 at 5:02 p.m.: Police investigated a report that a 17-year-old ran away after talking about harming himself.

• Aug. 6 at 6:28 a.m.: A man staying at Motel 6 said his vehicle was stolen by a friend who had been staying with him. His wallet was also missing. After an investigation, the vehicle was found in Lorain.

• Aug. 6 at 8:21 p.m.: Officers were called to Drug Mart on Route 58 for a domestic dispute.

• Aug. 6 at 8:43 p.m.: A plastic lock box cover was damaged at a property used by the Murray Ridge Center for people who have developmental disabilities.

• Aug. 7 at 1:01 a.m.: A Crosse Road man said he was in his garage and saw someone looking at him through the window from outside. After police left, the suspect returned and was looking through the front window of the home.

• Aug. 7 at 1:04 a.m.: Michael Maronski, 25, of Aurora, was arrested on a warrant through the Amherst Police Department for failure to appear in court. The original charge was obstructing official business.

• Aug. 9 at 1:34 a.m.: Austin Hayes, 18, of LaGrange, was charged with underage consumption. A 17-year-old from Amherst and a 16-year-old from LaGrange were also charged with underage drinking, and a 17-year-old from Lorain was charged with speeding and curfew.

• Aug. 9 at 6:22 p.m.: Police responded to a domestic dispute at Motel 6 on Route 58.

• Aug. 9 at 9:58 p.m.: A female who appeared to be having a mental health crisis was taken to Mercy Health Lorain Hospital.

• Aug. 10, time undisclosed by police: An unresponsive man was taken from a West Street residence to Mercy Health Lorain Hospital.

• Aug. 10 at 9:49 a.m.: Robert Wilkovich, 45, of Columbia Station, was arrested on a warrant through the Amherst Police Department on a charge of theft.

• Aug. 11 at 12:34 p.m.: A 17-year-old boy was arrested at the request of a juvenile probation officer and taken to the Lorain County Detention Home.

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It was a dry-run for mass vaccinations.

Between 50 and 100 people were expected to roll through the agency's Murray Ridge Road parking lot and pick up bags with produce from Grobe's Fruit Farm via the Women, Infants and Children supplmental food program, or WIC. For health officials, it was a way to drill for fall flu shot clinics, which will look different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We know we have to adapt some of the ways we're doing distributions," said LCPH spokeswoman Erin Murphy.

The flu typically peaks between December and February, and vaccinations are recommended starting in November.

That's when county health workers launch flu clinics, hoping to stem the tide.

Like every other aspect of social life, this year's clinics will be distanced. Murphy said that's why the drive-thru model makes so much sense — it keeps residents isolated in their vehicles, rather than crowding into doctor's offices, pharmacies or public buildings.

Lynn Sheffield, a public health nurse who is an expert on immunization, said she is worried that people won't turn out at normal levels this year to get their flu shots.

Keeping the populace vaccinated is important during the pandemic, when hos-

pitals can't afford to be flooded, she said.

"We just don't want to overrun the hospital systems," said Sheffield. "That's absolutely critical as we get into the fall."

Health Commissioner David Covell said that after WIC food and flu shots, there is a third eventuality to prepare for.

Lorain County Public Health needs to have its protocols in place to get a COVID-19 vaccine out to the public if and when it becomes available.

"It's good to do things small before you do them larger," he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have yet to release a forecast for the 2020 flu season.

The "FluSight" program isn't up and running yet, as the CDC puts its focus on the coronavirus.

This year's vaccines have been updated to better match four flu strains expected to circulate across the nation, including a new high-dose vaccine that can be used for adults ages 65 and older.

Standard-dose flu shots will also be available.

Vaccination is recommended this year for everyone six months and older.

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In a news conference on COVID-19, given from his Cedarville home and not the state capitol, Gov. Mike DeWine said about 38 percent of the state's K-12 population planned to go back to school full-time.

That number has shifted since DeWine spoke, even in Lorain County, where schools have been modifying plans.

DeWine noted that where the spread of the virus is high in the community, that will be reflected in its schools.

"It's incumbent upon every single one of us to keep down the spread," DeWine said.

"It's the most important thing we can do to keep them in school."

Patty Manning, chief of staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, said the keys to reopening schools are the same steps that have been touted for months: Wear masks, socially distance and make sure hands and classroom surfaces are appropriately cleaned or sanitized.

She also said ventilation can be important, from keeping windows open to going outside, a fact echoed by Adam Mezoff, chief medical officer of Dayton Children's Hospital.

"There's no greater ventilation than being outside," Mezoff said.

John Barnard, chief of pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital, dispelled the idea that children are immune from COVID-19, saying a total of 14,000 tests were

Gov. Mike DeWine speaks last week at a news conference from his home in Cedarville. given to children demonstrating symptoms at Nationwide.

Of those, 8.6 percent tested positive, with positive tests skewing toward older children as well as Black or Latino children, which reflects a nationwide trend.

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"Children do get COVID," Manning said. "They are not immune from COVID, and if you get COVID, you can spread COVID." DeWine said the decisions on how and when to open remain with local school officials.

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100 years of women's voting rights JASON HAWK EDITOR

ELYRIA — The 19th Amendment was adopted 100 years ago this week, with help from the daughters of Lorain County.

Ohio was among the first states to ratify the amendment, which recognized the right of women to vote.

On Aug. 18, 2020, Tennessee became the 36th and last state needed to add it to the U.S. Constitution.

"If it wasn't for the perseverance and bravery of those women before us, Sharon Sweda and I would not be elected as commissioners," Lori Kokoski said

last Wednesday in a meeting of the Lorain County commissioners.

"Kamala Harris could not have been nominated

by Joe Biden to be his vice president yesterday," she said. "We certainly have come a long way in the past 100 years, thanks to the women who came before us."

On Tuesday, exactly one week ahead of the 19th Amendment centennial, Harris became the first African-American woman to run for vice president of the United States.

"It shows we've come a long way. We still have a long way to go," said Commissioner Matt Lundy.

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Democrat Shirley Chisholm, a New Yorker who became the first black woman elected to Congress, was paved the way with an historic presiden-

tial bid in 1972, he said, and in 1984, Italian-American Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman to seek the office of vice president as running

mate for Democratic candidate Walter Mondale.

"We're making progress.

We need to make more progress," said Lundy.

Kerri Broome, director of

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A federal grand jury indicted William Schaffer, 52, of Wellington, on one count of transportation of child pornography, one count of receipt and distribution of visual depictions of real minors and a final count of possession of child pornography as a result of a federal investigation started earlier this year.

The indictment, unsealed Friday, says that from January 2012 to April 30 of this year, Schaffer knowingly transported, received and distributed visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He allegedly used a Yahoo email account to upload about 350 files of images. Additionally, in June 2020, Schaffer possessed two iPhones and a laptop with child pornography, including at least one image involving a minor younger than 12, prosecutors say.

Schaffer, an Elyria firefighter since 1994, initially was charged in July after an almost two-month investigation.

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in board of education elections as early as 1894, but efforts to expand those rights were defeated many times, she said.

The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in Upstate New York was a catalyst that inspired women in other parts of the nation to speak up for their rights, Broome said.

About 500 people gathering in 1850 in Salem, Ohio, to advocate for suffragettes. The next year, there was a convention in Akron at which former slave Sojourner Truth delivered her compelling "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone," she said, "these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."

Lucy Stone, today regarded as one of the most elegant speakers of the 19th century, was an 1847 graduate of Oberlin College. She and classmate Antoinette Brown Blackwell were pivotal characters in the suffrage movement — Blackwell spoke at the Salem convention, wrote for Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, and was the first woman in America to be ordained as a mainstream protestant

• To commemorate the ratification of the 19th Amendment, yellow rose bushes will be planted this week in front of the Old Courthouse on Middle Avenue in Elyria. Lorain County Commissioner Lori Kokoski said men who supported the women's suffrage movement would wear yellow roses on their lapels to signal solidarity for the cause.

• The Lorain County Historical Society has a special exhibit right now commemorating the centennial at 284 Washington Ave., which has just reopened its doors to the public. Visitors can see posters and postcards about the struggle to recognize women's right to vote. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. minister.

Hannah Conant Tracy Cutler moved from Massachusetts to the village of Rochester in southern Lorain County in 1831. Her father would not allow her to attend Oberlin because he didn't think it was proper for a woman to have a formal education.

"But Hannah was very determined that she was going to be educated in some way," said Broome, so Cutler married theology student John Martin Tracy and taught at the first school in Rochester.

Tracy Cutler gained a reputation through her writing as a reformer and women's rights advocate, and was one of the organizers and speakers at the 1851 convention in Akron. She later toured Europe, speaking on women's rights.

Adeline Swift was elected in 1854 to the Penfield board of supervisors, even before she herself was allowed to cast a

vote. She was one of the women to earn public office in America.

Broome said these women and many others from Lorain County paved the way for their sisters over the following century, including Marguerite Bowman.

She served as an Elyria councilwoman-at-large starting in 1968, and in 1975 became the first woman in Ohio to be elected as a full-time mayor of a city with a population of more than 50,000.

She went on to be the first woman from Lorain County to serve in the Ohio General Assembly.

"I'm quite frankly blown away by all the connections that we have to the suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment," Lundy told Broome. "It always seems like when we study something in history, all roads lead back to Oberlin in some way."

He expressed sadness that, after the long fight to assure voting rights, many still do not take part in elections today.

DOWN 1. Millionaire’s turf, according to 2009 Oscar-winner 2. Bangladeshi currency 3. Wet nurse 4. Plant again 5. Swellings 6. Elvers 7. ‘re 8. Human social group

The Allen Memorial Art Museum, which has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic, will reopen next week for Oberlin College ID card holders only.

Its hours will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. The entrance will be through the rear courtyard door on Lorain Street.

LETTER Think about future generations To the editor: My 50th Oberlin High School reunion was set for early October. Like many other events, it's postponed.

Also this summer, one of my nieces had her first child, a baby girl, two months ago and everyone is doing fine. Her brother delivers groceries. He turned 21 last year. What will his 50th reunion be like, or hers?

What are we leaving for family who come after us? If it's too much to consider strangers, think about what our hometowns, our nation will need for the future to make a life for our loved ones who come after us.

I remember my old classmate Tim telling me that an environmental science building at Oberlin was too expensive. I'm sure that's true. But isn't the health of all our families expensive and worth every penny? How can we even think of sacrificing our families' health to supposedly revive the ailing economy?

Steve Schumacher

SERVICE

FROM B1 including the Lorain County Junior Fair Board, 4-H as a camp counselor, First Congregational Church UCC, and the WHS Key Club.

She plans to study early childhood education at Ashland University starting this fall.

In the future the award will be presented annually to the graduating senior with the most community service hours.

WHS Principal and Kiwanian Tina Drake said she believes Calfo is a deserving recipient of this inaugural award.

“Jenna has always put other people's needs before her own.

She is always the first to volunteer for something and does whatever is needed for the good of everyone. She truly leads by example and is a true asset to our community.”

Wellington High has been tracking students’ community service hours for several years, said the Rev. Paul Wilson, who serves as Kiwanis president and presented Calfo with the award at the club’s Aug. 6 meeting.

“Kiwanis has been serving Wellington 96 years striving to enhance the lives of the children of the community.

Teaming with the Board of Education, we thought it appropriate to jointly recognize the student with the most community service hours," he said. "Together we are honored to present Jenna Calfo with this distinguished honor.

It is our hope that future students will strive to attain this honor and there’s no doubt Jenna has certainly set the bar high.”

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28. Dry as dust 30. Echo 35. Yours and mine 37. Cold War enemies, slang 39. Common candle shape 40. Home of the Utes 41. Shinbone 43. Scotia preceder 44. Furiously angry 46. Like watching paint dry 47. Gulf War missile 48. Oozed 50. Clump 52. Yo 53. Common allergens 55. Not color but ____ 57. *The goal 61. *Primary football unit 65. Boy Scout’s ____ badge 66. Pod dweller 68. Word of mouth 69. All worked up 70. Poetic “ever” 71. Home to largest mammal 72. Threads 73. *Defensive ____ 74. Locomotes

Art museum hours

9. *Yellow and unwanted 10. Saint’s “headdress” 11. Movie spool 12. *Vegas numbers 15. Laura Ingalls’ hat 20. Make an effort 22. Organ of balance 24. Sleep disrupters 25. *Encroachment and false start, e.g.

26. Type of mandarin 27. Have a hankering 29. *2020 Super Bowl winning coach 31. VSCO girl’s favorite shoe brand 32. Geologic period 33. Variety show 34. *Patriot no more 36. Pinta or Santa Maria, e.g.

38. Perfect houseplant spot

42. *____ Bowl, college game 1982-2000 45. Indicate 49. What Dundee and Dunedin have in common 51. *Last year’s Heisman winner 54. Conical dwelling 56. Draw a conclusion 57. Do like exhaust pipe 58. Evil Roman emperor 59. What oxen do to plows 60. Acne symptoms 61. *One of ten needed for first down 62. Church echo 63. Provoke or annoy 64. European sea eagles 67. Poetic “even”

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DROUGHT CONDITIONS

The National Weather Service in Cleveland released this map last week, illustrating the moderate drought conditions that affect parts of Northeast Ohio. Southern Lorain County continues to be rated “abnormally dry,” a situation that has caused headaches for farmers the past couple of months.

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Volunteers work alongside Ohio National Guard members, loading boxes with fruit and vegetables on Wednesday, Aug. 12 in a food distribution at Wellington High School.

Nat’l Guard will help with Oberlin alumna awarded food through September for work in women's health JASON HAWK EDITOR

JASON HAWK EDITOR

"I didn't know what sociology was when I walked in the door."

That was back in the early 1980s, when Chloe Bird was just starting out as a freshman at Oberlin College.

Today, she is one of the nation's most respected experts in the field, applying her knowledge to the search for ways to improve health care for women.

In September, she will receive the American Sociological Association's William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award.

"It's very moving," Bird said in a phone interview.

"Most sociology awards are for working inside the discipline. This is for working outside, working with clients, using sociology out in the world."

As a senior sociologist at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit policy think tank, she studies how the health care industry doesn't always treat men and women equally.

Right now, her research addresses access to overthe-counter contraception, and the economic impacts of improving care for women. Bird has also studied differences in how male and female Medicare Advantage beneficiaries receive care.

Her conclusion: Women are underrepresented in many aspects of health research — and when they are included, there's rarely attention paid to how care can have drastically different outcomes for men and women.

"Most of my work is about encouraging science to address this gap," Bird said.

A Tennessee native, she was inspired by watching her grandmother and her peers,

Photo courtesy of Diane Baldwin, RAND Corporation

Chloe Bird, a 1986 graduate of Oberlin College, will be recognized with the American Sociological Association's William Foote Whyte Distinwho were school teachers.

They belonged to the first generation of American women who had their own incomes, pensions, Social Security and independence.

Bird said she was fascinated by the opportunities her grandmother had and those she was denied, especially when it came to her health.

She realized that although women live longer on average than men in the U.S., they are sick more often.

It was at Oberlin that she set out to solve the paradox.

James Leo Walsh, emeritus professor of sociology and former Oberlin city prosecutor, remembers his former student well.

"I'm just very proud of her. She's everything you want to see in a sociologist," he said, describing Bird as "incredibly bright, incredibly decent and very, very generous."

Walsh praised Bird's work for being rooted in

empathy, yet objective. His former student is "a hardnose on data," he said.

He also offered his condolences to Bird, whose husband and research partner Allen Fremont died in February after a battle with cancer.

Bird graduated from Oberlin College in 1986 and went on to earn a doctorate from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

Now based in Santa Monica, California, she is the chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Forum, associate editor of the journal Women's Health Issues and recently served as senior adviser in the National Institute of Health's Office for Research on Women's Health, according to her RAND Corporation biography.

She is also the author of "Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies" with co-author Patricia Rieker.

WELLINGTON — The National Guard will stay on through at least Sept.

30 to help Second Harvest Food Bank feed hungry families as the pandemic wears on.

"We hope some of them will be here longer with us," said Brittney Hopkins, program and education coordinator for the Lorain-based food bank.

The Guard helped load boxes of eggs, apples, oranges, canned goods, dairy products and ham into cars last Wednesday afternoon at Wellington High School.

About 140 vehicles lined up at the start of the event, and organizers had enough for 500 households to each take 50 to 60 pounds worth of food.

Wellington Schools staff were among the volunteers who carted cardboard boxes to open trunks.

"It's a partnership. We're part of the community and we're funded by the community," said Superintendent Ed Weber, explaining why teachers wanted to help.

Staff from the Educational Service Center of Lorain County also were on the job. The agency employs many of the social workers for local school districts,

who have made volunteering at food giveaways a summer priority.

They were on hand "to take stress off some of the families during the pandemic, and hopefully just help them rest a little easier, if not forever then just for a few nights," said ESC Assistant Superintendent Dave Kish.

"So many have given help to me along the way and to my family. I feel like paying it forward," he said.

Taking a breather after loading boxes, Carol Burke of Thrive Southern Lorain County said she had time and talent to donate to the Second Harvest giveaway.

"We're talking time, love, labor. That's what it's all about," she said.

Kiwanis Club members and Wellington police officers also helped.

But with demand soaring since March, Hopkins said it's the Ohio National Guard personnel that have made distributing thousands of pounds of food possible through the summer months. Fourteen were on site Wednesday.

"We certainly appreciate their muscle and their minds," she said.

The Guard's contract to provide pandemic relief to food banks had been set to expire Aug. 7 but was extended. Hopkins said Second Harvest must now periodically reapply for assistance.

Teachers report for duty Friday STAFF REPORT

OBERLIN — To prepare for school to open Sept. 8, Oberlin teachers will report to work tomorrow and start getting classrooms ready for a bizarre fall semester that's been turned on its head by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Training sessions will be held from Aug. 24 to Sept. 4 to prepare teachers.

They'll include sessions on COVID-19 safety led

by Lorain County Public Health.

There will also be training on digital assessments, and software teachers will use to help students learn remotely.

"The goal is to make the e-learning experience challenging, engaging and innovative for students,"

Superintendent David Hall said in a Friday update on reopening plans.

Parents will get some training too Virtual workshops will be held Sept. 1-4 for parents and students to get familiar with the online learning environment, though times have not yet been announced.

Hall said that even though students will learn from home through at least Nov. 6, meals will still be provided to students who are eligible for free and reduced lunches.

This year, all Eastwood Elementary students are eligible for free breakfast and lunch. Prospect Elementary did not qualify for the program for the 2020-2021 school year, however.

Meals will begin on Sept.

8 at as-yet unannounced pick-up locations throughout the city.

The Oberlin City Schools are working with the Boys & Girls Clubs to create a virtual learning center for students. It will use a few rooms at Eastwood Elementary School to provide breakfast and lunch to students, as well as a place to complete assignments.

Tentative hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting Sept. 8.

The Center will have limited space, said Hall, so applications should be completed as soon as possible..

"Oberlin City Schools are committed to making this new learning experience successful," Hall wrote in the update. "The safety, health and well-being of our students are our number one priority and we thank you for your continued support during these challenging times."

Pop-up COVID-19 testing A free pop-up COVID-19 community testing event will be held from 2-6 p.m. today at the Ellen Trivanovich Aquatic Center, 32850 Electric Blvd., Avon Lake.

It will be offered in partnership with Lorain County Public Health, the city of Avon Lake and the Ohio National Guard.

Testing is for people ages two and older.

Be sure to wear a face covering when you drive through or walk up to get tested.

You do not need to have symptoms, a doctor's order, an appointment, a medical or insurance card or an identification card to be tested.

“When more people are tested it allows us to quickly identify infected people and isolate them," said Lorain County Health Commissioner David Covell. "In that way, it helps us contain and decrease the spread of the COVID-19 so we can go on the offense against this virus. By joining with the Ohio National Guard and local partners, we can have a better understanding

of COVID-19 in Lorain County.”

“Helping our neighbors and loved ones comes in a variety of actions during the pandemic," said Avon Lake Mayor Greg Zilka. "Whether we’re delivering meals to someone sick, or wearing a mask when running errands, or getting tested if we think we might have COVID-19. Community action is vital, especially now."

It will take about three days to get COVID-19 test results from the event.

LCPH with follow up with all positive tests from people who reside in Lorain County, as they do with all local positive COVID-19 tests. Anyone who tests positive but lives outside of Lorain County will be contacted by their local health department.

This is a PCR test — not an antigen test, which Covell has criticized as inaccurate — and will tell people if they have COVID-19 at the time of the test. This is not an antibody test, so the results won’t tell you if you’ve had COVID-19 in the past.

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Practice resumes in Oberlin Third-party ballot forms Oberlin students may be learning online for the first quarter, but practice for fall sports has resumed.

Teams were allowed to begin drilling last Wednesday for the fall sports of volleyball, soccer and football, with hopes of the season starting on time.

Soccer and volleyball are set to start Friday, and football can start Aug. 28.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association released a revised schedule for high school football earlier this month, saying teams would play a six-game schedule before the playoffs start, and then could schedule additional games following their

elimination from the postseason, with the football season wrapping up by Nov. 21.

However, while non-contact sports — identified by the state as golf, cross country and volleyball — are practicing and competing, no clearance had been given as of press time Tuesday to fall contact sports, football, field hockey and soccer.

Gov. Mike DeWine was expected to reveal guidance after press time.

Many colleges and conferences are canceling fall sports altogether, including Ohio State University and Oberlin College. Locally, Lorain schools canceled their fall sports season as well.

Fans barred from games as Phoenix put COVID-19 safety plan in place JASON HAWK EDITOR

OBERLIN — Spectators have been barred from Oberlin Phoenix sports practices, workouts, scrimmages and games until further notice, according to new rules set by the school district this weekend.

With the fall sports season inching ahead during the COVID-19 pandemic, the rules were released by Oberlin City Schools Athletic Director John Carter.

They came in advance of a Tuesday announcement by Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who also said they would limit fans' access to games.

When spectators are allowed to return, they'll have to check for symptoms ahead of time and wear masks, according to Oberlin's rules.

Only game day personnel will be allowed to sit behind the players' bench, and family members will be encouraged to "bubble up" together in the stands while keeping their distance from others.

Carter's release said the rules will be in effect until guidelines are set by the Ohio High School Athletic Association or Lorain County Public Health.

Another major change: Any competition against a team from a county under a "red alert" Level 3 health emergency will be canceled. Oberlin will consider scheduling only competitions with Lorain County schools.

Other key parts of the fall athletics safety plan include: • Players, coaches, athletic trainers and officials are required to conduct daily self-assessments for symptoms — and if they show signs, they have to stay home.

• Temperature checks will be done

before workouts.

• Athletes will be encouraged to wear masks to and from practices and workouts, but aren't required to mask up while competing.

• Players, coaches and other staff must stay six feet apart except when on the field or court of play.

• They won't be allowed to touch each other except as part of game play — that means no high-fives, team huddles or celebratory hugs.

• No pre-game and post-game handshakes between teams and captains.

• Game balls will be rotated out and sanitized.

• Whenever possible, equipment and personal items won't be shared.

• There will be limits on how long student athletes spend in close proximity to each other on certain activities — for example, repeatedly practicing corner or penalty kicks in soccer.

• Locker rooms are closed. Athletes must arrive ready and dressed for practice or play.

• Water fountains won't be used.

• Hand sanitizer must be used before boarding a bus. Players will wear masks to and from events while riding the bus, and will sit one to a seat when appropriate.

• Parents will be allowed to transport their children to and from events with permission of the coach or Carter.

• No concession stands during indoor events.

• Facilities will be thoroughly cleaned before and after all events.

Decisions on how ticketing will be affected have not been announced.

The new Oberlin Phoenix safety policies make it clear that coaches will be subject to disciplinary action if proper protocols aren't being followed.

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Training goals included weapons retention, malfunctions, teamwork, multiple targets, moving and shooting, switching between weapons and operation of firearms under high-stress.

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SHEFFIELD TWP — Lorain County voters who have received a direct mailer from the "Center for Voter Information" containing an absentee ballot request form need not worry about a scam, the county's top elections official said last week.

"The Ohio Secretary of State encourages voters to use mail ballots in upcoming elections. I have sent you the enclosed absentee ballot application already filled out with your name and address," reads an official-looking letter that arrived in mailboxes and signed by Lionel Dripps of the Center for Voter Information.

"Voting by mail is easy. Just sign, date and complete the application. Drop it in the mail and you will receive a ballot from your county board of elections which you can complete and return without ever leaving your home. No waiting in line."

The mailing comes complete with portions of the request form already filled out, and the sections to be filled in highlighted.

Paul Adams, director of the Lorain County Board of Elections, said his office has since received "hundreds" of the absentee ballot request forms included in the mailing.

The form appears to be a legitimate 11-A form like those sent out by the Ohio Secretary of State to voters around Labor Day each election year.

"It appears to be the Secretary of State's prescribed form, and we don't see any issue with the prescribed form," Adams said.

There also is no requirement that voters use the Secretary of State's prescribed form to request an absentee ballot, Adams said.

Prior to the canceled March primary, The Community Guide printed an absentee ballot request form in its pages, and you'll find another one this week.

Adams said absentee ballot requests written out on a piece of paper and sent to the board offices on North Ridge Road will be honored so long as they contain the required information.

Other ways to obtain absentee ballot requests include waiting for the official mailing from the Secretary of State or going to the Lorain County Board of Elections website at www.voteloraincountyohio.gov and printing one out from there.

There's also no worry that those voters who use the Center for Voter Information absentee ballot request forms will be disqualified from voting in this election or in the future.

"As long as all the information is there: Name, birth date and required information, signature" and date at the bottom of the request, Adams said "there's no way to come back and say 'We've changed the form so the previous ones aren't valid.'"

Adams said his staff has noticed one issue from this particular mailer: "For whatever reason," he said, a number of voters

are forgetting to put their birthday on the form before sending it.

Any absentee ballot requests not containing the information will mean a follow-up call from an elections official to gather what was missed.

"We have a lot of time between now and Election Day, and that is something we've noticed voters are missing," Adams said.

A number of voters also have called complaining that the absentee ballot request form sent by the Center for Voter Information — again, not by the Board of Elections — doesn't fit in the return enveloped provided. This has resulted in some creative folding to make it fit, Adams said.

"People think that it's us (sending the form) and it's not," he said.

The Center for Voter Information has run afoul of some elections officials in the past. In February, National Public Radio did a story on the organization's drive to register "unmarried women, young people and people of color" by sending out 9 million letters "urging those groups to register."

Elections officials in some states said the official-looking documents left some voters confused as they believed the mailings came from official government offices. Some registered voters — including the chief elections official of the state of Wisconsin, who was interviewed for the NPR story — also received them, leading to confusion about whether they were still registered to vote or registered at all.

Page Gardner, president of the Voter Participation Center which is the sister organization of the Center for Voter Information, told NPR the errors represented only a tiny number of of the letters that were sent out and said her group had registered more than 4 million voters since its founding in 2003.

The group tends to target Democrats in its efforts and had liberal and Democratic ties, NPR reported.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's general election on Nov. 3 is expected to be done largely by mail, as the eventual April primary was.

As voters request absentee ballots, they can go to the Lorain County Board of Elections website and, by clicking on the "Absentee Ballot Status" button on the left-hand side of the page, check and see if the board has received their absentee ballot request form.

Once the forms are received, by law the Board of Elections may not send out absentee ballots to those who have requested them until Oct. 6, the day after the close of voter registration for the November election.

"We get a large number of requests, and people will call and say 'I sent it in July, why haven't I gotten it?' We're not allowed to send them out until Oct. 6," Adams said.

"Even if you turned them in early, and it's good to get them in as soon as you can, we can't send out the ballots until the 6th" of October.

SWC sets six-week football schedule with longer option STAFF REPORT

The Southwestern Conference has announced its schedule for a six-game football season.

Games will be held on the following Fridays: • Aug. 28 — Avon at Avon Lake, Berea-Midpark at North Olmsted, Midview at Olmsted Falls and North Ridgeville at Amherst.

• Sept. 4 — Avon Lake at Berea-Midpark, Amherst at Midview, Avon at Olmsted Falls and North Olmsted at North Ridgeville.

• Sept. 11 — Midview at Avon Lake, Amherst at Berea-Midpark, North Ridgeville at Avon and Olmsted Falls at North Olmsted.

• Sept. 18 — Avon Lake at Amherst, Berea-Midpark

Softball tryouts

at Midview, Olmsted Falls at North Ridgeville and North Olmsted at Avon.

• Sept. 25 — Berea-Midpark at Avon, Amherst at Olmsted Falls, Midview at North Ridgeville and Avon Lake at North Olmsted.

• Oct. 2 — North Ridgeville at Berea-Midpark, Olmsted Falls at Avon Lake, Avon at Midview and North Olmsted at Avon.

Westlake notified the SWC it will not compete in football this year. The Demons plan to compete in all other league sports this year, and will leave the SWC for the Great Lakes Conference next year.

The shortened season schedule mirrors what had originally been planned for weeks four to nine, but replaces Elyria, which will join the SWC next year, with North Olmsted, which

will join Westlake in moving to the GLC. Every team in the state will be part of the playoff picture this year, the Ohio High School Athletic Association announced. The playoffs are slated to begin the second week of October.

Schools that are eliminated from the OHSAA playoffs or that choose not to enter them have the option to schedule up to four more regular season games through Saturday, Nov. 14.

Teams must announce their intent to play in the playoffs by Sept. 17, and divisional regions will be announced Sept. 18.

Freshman and junior varsity games are still expected take place at the opposite site of varsity on Thursdays and Saturdays, respectively.

The Amherst Girls Softball Association will hold tryouts on Tuesday, Aug. 25 and Wednesday, Aug. 26 at Oakwood Park Field, 2047 East 36th St., Lorain.

U12 tryouts will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. on Tuesday. U14 tryouts will be from 6:458:15 p.m. Tuesday. U10 tryouts will be from 5:30-7 p.m. on Wednesday. Thursday, Aug. 27 will be used as a rain-out day. Be sure to arrive 20 minutes prior to start time to register.

If you are interested but can't attend, contact Greg Waldecki at 440-773-4225 or gwaldecki@aol.com and make arrangements for an individual tryout.

For more information, call Waldecki, or Carl Bertke at 440-225-1972.

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Voters must pay to mail in fall ballots JASON HAWK EDITOR

ELYRIA — Voters will be expected to pay the return postage for their ballots this fall, Lorain County Elections Director Paul Adams said last Wednesday.

In a wide-ranging conversation about the ins and outs of the highstakes 2020 election, he fielded questions from county commissioners.

The post office will play a big role in the fall vote because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a record number of absentee ballots expected to be cast.

"The biggest unknown for us is just the quantity of ballots we're going to have," Adams told commissioners.

At this time in the 2016 presidential election cycle, 849 Lorain County residents had already requested absentee ballots.

By comparison, this fall the Board of Elections had received 5,403 as of Wednesday morning — that's a 536 percent increase.

Local ballot language has been sent to Columbus for review in English.

A translator service is working on the Spanish version, Adams said.

Later this month, the Board of Elections will find out how large the ballot will be. The size could vary between precincts because some communities will have more races and issues to weigh in on.

Adams said a one-page ballot would likely cost in the area of 60 to 65 cents to mail and a twopage ballot could cost 80 to 85 cents.

So far, he hasn't seen the Ohio Secretary of State's office move to cover the return costs of ballots.

That means voters will have to affix stamps to their ballot envelopes.

The plan, Adams said, is to include a colored sheet of paper in absentee ballot packets explaining how much postage must be paid.

Voters are allowed to use a ballot drop box instead, no postage necessary. It's located at the Lorain County Board of Elections office, 1985 North Ridge Rd. East in Sheffield Township.

The box could help allay fears about a slowdown in post office delivery, such as those voiced by Commissioner Matt Lundy.

"The president has chosen to tinker with the Postal Service prior to the election. We know more people are going to be mailing things in," he said.

Lundy asked about having more drop boxes in Lorain County. Adams said only one ballot drop box is allowed for now under state law, and must be under video surveillance to prevent tampering.

The boxes in each of the state's 88 counties are a new requirement starting with the pandemic-interrupted spring primary.

ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUEST FORM FULL NAME: ____________________________________ DATE OF BIRTH _________________ STREET ADDRESS _______________________________________________________________ COUNTY _____________ STATE ________ ZIP _________ EITHER YOUR OHIO DRIVER’S LICENSE NUMBER _________________________________ OR THE LAST FOUR OF YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ____________________________ OR A COPY of a current and valid photo identification, military identification, or a current (within the last 12 months) utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document (other than a notice of voter registration mailed by a board of elections) that shows your name and current address.

Phone and email (to be used if there are issues): _______________ ______________________ “I am a qualified elector and I am requesting an absentee ballot for the 11/3/2020 general election. I understand that, per Ohio law, the board of elections must receive this request no later than noon on the Saturday before Election Day. To account for possible delivery delay, return the application to the board of elections at least seven days before the election. I understand that if an absentee ballot is mailed to me and I change my mind and go to my polling place to vote on Election Day, I will be required to vote a provisional ballot. I understand that if I do not provide the board with all of the required information, my application cannot be processed. I hereby declare, under penalty of election falsification, that I am a qualified elector and the statements above are true.”

YOUR SIGNATURE ____________________________________ DATE _____________________ Complete and mail to Lorain County Board of Elections, 1985 North Ridge Rd. East, Lorain, OH 44055 VOTER: BE SURE TO MAIL BY OCT. 21 TO ENSURE TIMELY DELIVERY You must be registered to vote, and are responsible for paying postage to mail this form to the Board of Elections.

According to Adams, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has asked for an opinion from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on how they might be expanded.

Registered voters can submit absentee ballot request forms already — the state plans to send them to 7.8 million Ohioans around Labor Day — but Adams cautioned that officials are not allowed to mail ballots back until Oct. 6.

In the meantime, residents can check at www. loraincountyelections.

gov to see whether their absentee ballot requests have been received. Click the "Absentee Ballot Status" link.

Poll workers needed Recruiting poll workers was also a central part of the fall election discussion.

Adams said the Lorain County Board of Elections needs about 1,200, and so far has roughly 650 signed up.

To volunteer, call (440) 326-5901 or sign up at www.loraincountyelections.gov.

About 900 people are needed to work the polls on Election Day, another 100 will help set up polling locations on Monday, Nov. 2 and Adams wants 200 more on standby.

That's because anyone who signs up in August to work could fall victim to COVID-19, or have to bow out for any other number of reasons, he said.

"We're all very concerned," said Lundy.

"Normally your staffing is a lot of seniors who come out, and I know they have reservations

because of COVID." He pointed out that while 1,200 poll workers are needed, they must be evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.

The Lorain County Urban League has pledged its office workers toward the effort on Election Day, said Adams. He's reached out to more than 50 organizations countywide seeking similar help.

Poll workers are paid a minimum of $150, with some managers receiving up to $200.

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GREAT MOMENTS IN WOMEN’S HISTORY

Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020

Read this article aloud to a family member. Then discuss your answers to the questions it asks.

ARRESTED FOR VOTING? Replace the missing words on this page: How long do you think women in the United States have had the right to vote?

300 years? 200 years? 150 years?

In the United States, women have had that _________ for only 100 years of the 244 years we have been a country. And getting the right to vote took _________ of protesting and writing to lawmakers – who were all men at the time.

Meeting for Women’s Rights

In 1848, a group of people met in Seneca Falls, NY to talk about the ____________ women faced because they didn’t have the same rights as men.

At that time, women could not own property, they could not vote and very few could go to __________.

This meeting was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. At that meeting, men and women signed a document called, “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.” By signing, these people agreed to the _________ of what was becoming the woman’s movement.

On Election Day, Nov. 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into her polling place and voted.

Two weeks later, a U.S. marshal knocked on her door.

Victory!

On May 21, 1919, the U.S. House of Representatives finally ____________ the 19th Amendment, also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote.

But that was just the first ________.

The U.S. Senate and at least three quarters of the states had to approve it before it would become the law of the land.

The United States Senate approved the amendment a week after the House.

On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the ________ state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment.

Why was she arrested for voting? Would she have been arrested in November of 1920?

One week later, on August 26, the 19th Amendment officially became part of the U.S. Constitution, forever ______________ American women’s right to vote.

Today, more than 68 million women vote in elections because of the courageous suffragists who never gave up the fight for equality.

1. Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote?

16th 19th 21st

2. How many years have American women had the right to vote?

100 250 500

While Susan did not live to see women get the right to vote, in 1979 she became the first woman to appear on U.S. money.

Look closely to see which Susan B. Anthony dollar is different.

Standards Link: Investigation: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

Women in Leadership

Not only can women vote, but they also hold elected offices. Look through the newspaper for examples of women that are in leadership positions. Research to find out if they were voted into this job or hired.

Standards Link: Use the newspaper to locate information.

In 1872, by U.S. law, a person had to be 21 years or older to vote. Susan was born in 1820. Was she old enough to vote?

Susan met two other requirements for the right to vote. She was a U.S. citizen and she had never been convicted of a felony crime.

For more than 70 years, women and men _____________, wrote letters and articles, protested and picketed to get an Amendment to the Constitution which would give women the right to _________. These people were known as suffragists.

n 1920, exactly 100 years after Susan was born, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, giving women the right to vote.

“I have a warrant for your arrest,” he told Susan. “You are charged with voting without the lawful right to vote.”

Should kids be able to vote?

Write a letter to the editor of this newspaper sharing your opinion about whether or not kids should be able to vote.

Be sure to support your argument with some facts.

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3. Where did the first women’s rights convention take place?

TENNESSEE IOWA NEW YORK

AMENDMENT PICKETED SUFFRAGE R V S Y N O H T N A APPROVED D I E U I G H T M A WARRANT E C D T F G O E E P ANTHONY T T A R I F N T T P VICTORY E O C R A D R S O R DECADES K R E V M T N A V O RATIFY RIGHT C Y D E O E I L G V WOMEN I E N E M O W F E E LAST P T N A R R A W Y D VOTE Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical MEN words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

This week’s word:

RATIFY

The verb ratify means to approve something.

Women’s right to vote was ratified in 1919.

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

Ode to the Sun

Write a poem about the sun. Read it to your family this evening.