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Wednesday, August 4,  1999
Amherst, Ohio
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Linda Petkovsek plays with one of the 14 dogs orphaned by
the death of her stepfather and mother, Frank and Anoni Pavlo.
She and her children are trying to find homes for t .e dogs as
well as 11 cats and some racing pigeons.
Linda Petkovsek and some
of her children have taken on
the task of finding homes for
a menagerie of nearly 330
animals following the tragic
July 25 death of her mother
and stepfather, Anoni and
Frank Pavlo.
Depending on who stays at
the Pavlos" Walnut Valley
Road home near Wellington,
they have been waking up to
the flutter of wings, barking
and meowing since the day
after the Pavlos were killed
in a car crash at Rt. 303 and
Quarry Road.
In addition to a beautiful
home and hundreds of collectibles, the Pavlos left behind
14 dogs, 11 cats and kittens,
300 of Frank Pavlo's racing
pigeons, two cockatiels, three
pet-potbellied pigs and two
goats.
In short, the retired couple
loved animals, all kinds of
them.
The task of caring for the
small zoo might intimidate
most people, but not Petkovsek or her children. They're
animals lovers, too, and used
to having lots of cats and
dogs around their Amherst
home on Cleveland Avenue.
She has made placing stray
cats and dogs an avocation
for die last several yean. About two years ago, she
headed an Amherst Insiders
4—H project to help place
stray dogs. Some were kept
at her home until they were
adopted.
Occasionally, some of the
stray pooches Petkovsek found
were temporarily housed with
her mother and stepfather.
Three were supposed to be
temporary boarders but become permanent residents.
"Mom would keep them
until I could get them a
home, but Frank would see
them and that would be it If
he took in a stray, it would
never leave," she explained.
But all that has changed
since the accident Petkovsek
and three of her children,
Meredith, 17, Alex, 19 and
Ann, 19, have been taking,
turns staying at the Pavlos'
home caring for the animals
while trying to find homes
for them.
With the exception of the
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They're cooking up plan to light bandstand
A local group of volunteers thinks
it has the recipe for lighting up the
stone bandstand in front of city hall.
The Amherst Beautification Committee is seeking recipes that will be
placed in a cookbook. Sale of the
cookbook will help buy eight lights
to be installed around the bandstand.
The idea for the lights came from
mayor John Higgins, who said it is
part of the city's overall effort to restore city hall and its grounds to
their original appearance.
City work crews have been working to clean up the bandstand and
the public restrooms beneath it
Once the site of band concerts several decades ago, it is now mainly
used for special events, including
(lie Old Time Jamboree and Christmas and Halloween parades.
A Christian music conceit is
scheduled for Aug. 21 from 5-8
p.m., the fust concert in many years,
according to city officials.
Built in 1915, the handstand's
eight lights were removed in the late
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20s or early 30s after the sandstone
they were mounted on began to deteriorate and crack. No one knows
what happened to them.
"That was around 70 years ago.
Even if we still had them, they prob
ably wouldn't be in working condition and, with the (new) design we
have in mind, wouldn't be suitable
any more," the mayor explained.
Higgins said the lights were once
mounted on top of sandstone pedestals around which a sandstone fence
is built. The new ones will be
mounted to the base of the bandstand but will be designed in such a
way that they will appear to be on
top of the pedestals.
Committee chairperson Maryann
Kordeleski said the lights will cost
$400 each or a total of $3,200. The
construction of special mounting
brackets and repair of the damaged
sandstone will cost at least an additional $1,000, the mayor added.
The city should be able to provide
about half the cost if the cookbook
sales raise at least $2,100, the mayor
added.
Kordeleski said she thinks publi-
cation of the cookbook featuring the
recipes of local gourmets will be a
hot item, especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas. She hopes to
collect between 250 and 300 local
recipes for anything and everything
by the end of August
It will take about another two
months to edit the recipes, design
the cookbook and send it off to a
printer.
Recipe drop-off boxes have been
placed at city hall, the Amherst
Public Library and the Amhent Post
Office. Recipes also can be mailed
to 812 Tarry Lane, Amherst
She will be contacting several
local merchants in the hope they
will offer to sell the cookbook and is
not discounting word of mouth
advertising.
Kordeleski said the project is one
of three the group has taken on to
help add a little beauty to the city,
The others involve raising money
for the purchase of flowering trees
to be plaited throughout the city
and platting trees aid shrubs in the
northeast quadrant of the routes 2
aid 58 interchange.
The committee
for sprucing up the:
rent with trees and shrubs last year j
and is sedring volunteers and equip-:
ment for the quadrant work. For in- j
fonnatkm, contact Dai Brown all
984-3486.
Wanted: residents to start
civic organization for youth
by OLEN MLLER
News-Times reporter
Former city couiicilmember Joe
Husar thinks the answer to some of
Ihe problems experienced by today's young people may be the re-
easMWwi-ffU of otpnia-wioiw that
keep them busy aid get them involved ie community projects.
He's the man in Amhent who
would like to facilitate unity among
the existing orgatizations like the
Loot, the Lions dob's youth group,
the Boy and Girl Scoots and any
that are not widely
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the wayside in favor of other things,
like computers and TV.
Not that there is anything wrong
with computers, computer games
and the Internet but Husar thinks
loo many kids spend too ranch line
staring into computer screens and
not enough time with other people.
'Teople cm have jest at much
enjoyment getting together and seeing things accomplished. They leap
to work together, but that's something there's not enough of these
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payoff.
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