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Wednesday. July 26, 2000
Amherst, Ohio
"he cat is a hat...
Sometimes the cat in the hat Just isn't enough
for Natalie, as she performs a song during vaca
tion bible school last Friday at St. Peter's
Church. She prefers to make her cat a hat. Stu
dents learned a lot about animals during the
weak of "Ark Adventure" and were invited to
bring their stuffed pets to school for the finale
event.
Man goes from rock music to a stone career
by VICKIE HAUFF
News-Times correspondent
Nearly three decades ago. Bill
Logos happened upon a revolutionary idea that has changed the face of
many homes.
Logos Stone Company, located at
46025 Middle Ridge Road, has been
in the stone veneering business
since the mid 1970s when Bill
stoned his neighbor's house, just for
the fun of it Word got around and
soon other residents started asking
him to stone their homes as well.
Stone veneering is still relatively
rare but Logos gets work all over
northeastern Ohio from builders and
homeowners who want an alternative approach to siding.
Logos, a Lakewood native, was a
singer in the rock group Rapid
Transit back in the late 1960s, but
when the band broke up in the early
1970s, he went to Georgia and went
to work in another rock business.
Logos took work with a stone
mason who was experimenting with
stone veneering.
"With the veneering, you can
stone your house without a holding
ledge so the stone doesn't tall, it just
stays where you put it," Logos explained. "Ordinary stone is usually
about four inches thick and must be
layered in traditional ledgework, but
the veneering can be laid flatly
against mortar."
Bill Logos is at Logos Stone Company, located at 46025 Middle front.
Ridge Road, the house with all the stone ornaments for sale out
Working with natural stone is the   stone only comes in certain color well, but sold his molds because he
preferred method for Logos but he   shades and shapes, lie said. "No no longer had time for it Landscap-
will use a manufactured stone when   two jobs look exactly alike with the ing stone lias become a popular item
requested.                                      natural stone." as well.
"Natural stone comes in an un-       Logos also used to mold his own Stone veneering can be used on
limited variety while manufactured   lawn ornaments, which he sells as interior as well as exterior walls,
fireplaces or just about anything the
buyer desires. Builders have been
using Logos Stone Company for
years on new homes and customers
can also re-side their home with
stone veneering.
Logos originally got work from
happy customers and hadn't planned
on starling a business, but demand
of the service, coupled with Bill's
talent warranted a full-fledged business to be bom. Soon he had a staff
of six working for him and about 30
builders hiring him in the Cleveland
area.
Ninety percent of his business
comes from builders building new
homes but do-it-yourselfers can
purchase the material and do the
work themselves.
Limestone, fieldstone and quartz,
among other natural stone, are the
normal raw materials used for the
veneering, which Logos purchases
from Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
He then cuts the stone into two-
inch veneering on his eight-acre
property, which he shares with his
wife, Phyllis. Landscaping stone has
also become a large part of the business with everything from sidewalk
stone to water falls.
Recently, the Logoses' opened
Wrap City, a fast food restaurant at
the Landings in Avon Lake specializing in Tortilla wrapped foods.The
couple must now split their time between the businesses and hope to
open another chain soon in
AmhersL
For more information on Logos
Stone Company, look for the house
of stone with a yard full of decorative garden statues next to Dairy
Queen on Middle Ridge Road.
CC member In Washington
to testify before Congress
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Amherst city council member David Williams was in
Washington, D.C., to testify
before Congrats last week.
Williams, who is director
of government relations for
Invacare Corporation of
Elyria, was with Congressman
Sherrod Brown, as they testified at a hearing highlighting
the financial struggle imposed
on home health care providers
by the 1997 Balanced Budget
Act Medicare cuts.
Williams testified on behalf
of Invacare Corporation, te
world's largest manufacturer
and distributor of medical
equipment and supplies for
pott acute care, and the board
of directors of the American
Association for Homecare
(AAH).
He asked Congress to repeal the BBA's proposed IS
percent reduction ia payments
to home health ly^^t Ha
alto called tor a restoration
of the annual cost of living
adjustments for home medical
equipment services and congressional oversight of efforts
to reduce the Medicare fee
schedules for durable medical
equipment
Williams told Congress that
studies show that home health
care it cost effective, clinically appropriate and patient
preferred,
"Things such as the use of
irjacf-agf materials to make
wheelchairs and mobility aids
lighter, and the application of
micro-chip computer technology in implantable devices
used to dispone critical medication, make It possible for
the care received in the home
to equal or exceed that received in a hospital, at a
fraction of the cost," Williams
said, "Today it it common
tea Motet— b—eflytaty to
undergo clteweOteitpy in te
comfortable ttBTogndingt of
his or her own home, a feat
that was inconceivable just a
few years ago."
Walters pointed out that the
Balanced Budget Act included
a freeze on the Medicare fee
schedules for durable medical
equipment for the years 1998
through 2002.
This cut was in addition to
a 30 percent reduction in the
feet paid for home oxygen
therapy.
Williams said te impact of
te cuts hat been devastating
oo many small businesses.
Since 1997, he said, there has
been a dramatic increase ia
unrecoverable debt with many
customers filing bankruptcy.
Williams said Invacare hat
done itt beat to assist its customers by avoiding price in-
but the cost of raw
fuel and labor have
it ttapofslble te te
CONTMUEDen page 2
Local pastor and sons enjoy
active roles in church life
Reverend Peter Kerlin was ordained an Elder of the United
Methodist Church (UMC) during an
annual conference in June.
Pastor Pete, as he is better known,
is pastor of te Old Stone United
Methodist Church in Amherst
A 1994 graduate of Ohio University, Kerlin received a bachelor of
spfXM.li.red studies in human relationships degree before attending
Seminary School at te Pittsburgh
Theological Institute where he received tut master's of divinity.
He was ordained a deacon ih
1998.
Pastor Pete also hat two toot following in hit footsteps.
Peter, 17 and a senior at Marion
L. Steele High School, wit recently
elected to the position of president
of te East Ohio Youth Annual
Conference for the UMC for
2000-2001.
"This hat been a dream of Peter'e
since he wit about eight yean old,"
says Rebecca Kerlin, Pnaor IWi
wife and meter of Peter and younger brother PtsUMp.
OONTMUfp on page 2
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