AVERY Cleveland Cavaliers and Indians game tickets, a weekend at a Port Clinton condominium and an antique quilt are also available for bid at the EHOVE Seker auction March 24. Staff members are seeking and accepting donation of items and services up to the auction date.
It is that time of year again. If your child will be turning 5 on or before Sept. 30 it is time to start thinking about kindergarten screening.
Kindergarten screening is not a judgment of your parenting skills; it is simply the first time that the school system will have to assess your child. Early screening allows the school to help you prepare your child for kindergarten before classes begin. School officials will be able to note skills your child should work on over the summer. It also helps to identify special needs, problems, or abilities early on so that the school can prepare for the coming year.
Christopher John Nadolny, 24, of Saint Anthony, Minn., counselor and Heather Lynn Helgeson, 27, of Norwalk, counselor.
Rick P. Gunselman, 58, of Elyria, disabled and Deborah L. Harris, 53, of Willard, unemployed.
Some senior citizens reading this will remember the Rev. Charles Gardner who was pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Norwalk from 1917 to 1935. One of his greatest accomplishments in that time was the building of a new one-story wooden school building facing West League, where the rectory is now located, in 1919. He also struggled to keep the parish treasury in the black, especially in the darkest years of the Great Depression.
The reason he built a new school is that there had been a brick school on West League with two classrooms on the first floor and a parish hall on the second. In the fall of 1913 it was determined that this school with wooden stairs, floors and interior walls was a fire hazard. The school was closed and razed. This caused all St. Mary children to either go to St. Paul elementary school or to the public schools. League Street School was being built at the time with four rooms, and the influx of new students caused the board of education to add two more rooms at the back and have just one grade in each room.
"I wonder if big animals started to shed their thick cold weather body hair when we had our nice warm weather not too many weeks ago," inquired McBeane. "Just like horses for example; just when do they lose their winter coats?"
The cynic quickly and joyfully pounced. "They get rid of their winter coat about the same time you do!"
A Norwalk man who had been homeless was classified as a sexually-oriented offender Monday for the 1994 rape of a 19-year-old relative.
Arthur W. Miller, 59, most recently of 10 1/2 Minard Place, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempted sexual battery, a fourth-degree felony. He had been indicted May 20, 1994 on aggravated rape, a first-degree felony, and sexual battery, a third-degree felony.
A Norwalk man convicted of two Settlement Road burglaries was sentenced Tuesday to four months in the Huron County Jail.
Larry A. Long Jr., 32, of 38 E. Washington St., will be granted work release privileges, meaning he will be released from jail for a period of time on days that he works. He also was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $1,000 for two counts of burglary, both third-degree felonies.
HIGHWAY PATROL
Jorge I. Gabriel, 28, of 30 Townsend St., Greenwich, was charged with failure to control Thursday after he went off the right side of Rome Greenwich Road, hit a ditch and overturned. He reported no injuries.
Air Force Airman Brittany Van Natta has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
During the six weeks of training, the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special training in human relations.
Lunch has gotten a bit scarcer in Norwalk. The Norwalk Berardi's closed Dec. 15.
It's not out of business. Owners Larry and Denise Waaland have merged their business with Sandusky's Lunch Box to form Catering by Design. Deb Bingham, owner of the Lunch Box, and Denise Waaland have been friends since childhood.
A small tornado touched down briefly near the Midway Mall in Elyria, ripping siding from an office supply store, flattening residential garages and forcing some schools to close today because of a power outage.
No injuries were reported from the tornado that hit across the street from the Elyria Township Fire Department about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lt. Noel Vargo said. The fire department is just west of Midway Mall.
PLYMOUTH The Plymouth Police Department assisted officers with the Drug Enforcement Agency and Richland County Sheriff's Office in serving 12 suspects with federal drug indictments this week.
Chief Charles Doan said authorities transferred 11 of the 12 suspects to Columbus to be jailed after they were arrested Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to trafficking heroin or conspiracy to possessing heroin.
ERIE, Pa. Snowboarder Greg Jacobs died from "blunt force trauma to the head" after a Monroeville High School trip to a New York ski resort, a coroner has ruled.
Erie County (Pa.) Coroner Lyell Cook said no autopsy was necessary of the 18-year-old senior who was pronounced dead at 6:19 a.m. Tuesday at Hamot Medical Center.
There have been many questions human beings have pondered throughout existence. Why are we here? Paper or plastic? Do you want fries with that?
Here's another one you can try on for size: Is satellite or cable television best for me?
I've never been one to watch many regular programs on television.
To me, "Family Ties" and "The Cosby Show" were the ones to watch when I was growing up.
We live in a mechanical world. There are machines everywhere. We rely on machines to take us from place to place, to wash our clothes, to warm up our dinner, to communicate with each other and to be entertained.
We count on our machines to work at all times. If our car breaks down, we panic: How will we get to work on time? If the television breaks down, how will we know who was on "American Idol?" I recently placed a desperate phone call to the people who fix washing machines, because mine stopped working in the middle of a busy Saturday. The clothes were sopping wet and soapy, and the machine wouldn't spin the water out. A kindly man on the other end suggested a few things I could try myself, rather than wait until the repairman could come on Tuesday. And I was able to fix it myself! I was unbelievably relieved.
On Wednesday more than 70 public officials, business owners, employees and county residents attended a cultural diversity workshop. The goal of the workshop was to promote a better, deeper understanding of Hispanic culture.
Such events are admirable, and the Huron County Hispanic Taskforce, led by Norwalk Mayor Sue Lesch, deserves credit for its efforts to bridge the cultural gap. Because, as one Hispanic speaker put it, you cannot hope to serve the Hispanic community be it in public service or private business if you don't understand why Hispanic people come to the United States in the first place.