Country Music Showcase set for Saturday in Norwalk A Country Music Showcase is set for 7 p.m. Saturday at the Norwalk Theatre uptown. Eleven contestants from areas such as Fremont, Willard, Monroeville, Lexington and Ashland are slated to perform.

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.

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.

Dear Jane, I am finally going to paint my living room. Do I really need to prime first? The existing walls are white.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.