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Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Amherst, Ohio
Slider to join 28th annual Jamboree tun
Amherst's 28th Annual Old Tune
Jamboree kicks off on Friday, July
13 . Evan Nord, this year's Grand
Marshall shares the spotlight with
Cleveland Indians mascot Slider,
one of many new youth oriented
attractions.
Booths and vendors are scheduled
to open at 6 p.m. on Friday. Musical performances will take place
throughout the festival and the first
band to perform will be Crystal
Tower, taking the stage at 6 pjn. on
Friday. Crystal Tower is comprised
of Frank Allega on saxophone and
vocals. Bill Brockhoff on bass guitar and vocals, Dave Coxe on keyboard and vocals and Gerry Parisi
on drums and vocals.
Following them will be Kenny
Clark at 7:30 and then the award-
winning band. Hillbilly Idol at 9
p.m. For information on Hillbilly
Idol, visit their web-site at
wwwJiillbillyidol.com.
Saturday's festivities begin at
noon, when all booths and games
will open. Also on Saturday will be
a tractor pull contest in which contestants of all ages will pedal their
own self-propelled tractors. Contestants will register in age groups in
advance of the tractor pulL Contestants can do that either at the Am
herst Historical Society booth at the
festival, or they can call the Historical Society office at 988-7255.
Musical performances on Saturday include The Prayer Warriors at
approximately 3:15 p.m., the Amherst Community Choir directed by
Simone Gall at 5 p.m., award-
winning vocalist Anne E. DeChant
at 6:30 and the Jimiller Band closing the stage from 8:30 to 11 pjn.
Running at the same time as the
concerts on Saturday will be Golden
Shield M/C Inc.'s Annual Jamboree
Poker Run. Members of the organization will start from Penton Honda
and ride around Lorain County on
their motorcycles to various points
where they will be given a playing
card. After collecting their cards,
they will return to the festival where
the person with the best poker hand
will be declared the winner.
Events will kick off on Sunday,
the last day of the festival, at noon.
The annual parade, which starts at 1
p.m.. will begin at Marion L. Steele
High School, move up Forest Street
to Park Avenue and end downtown
on Main Street.
This year's parade will feature
approximately 40 units and will last
approximately one hour. Both
Grand Marshall Nord and Slider
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Dr. Jennifer Calabrese stands outside her home. She is the newest doctor at Tri City Family Medicine in Amherst.
There's no place like
home for aspiring doc
by ERIK YORKE
Nowa-Timas reporter
Bom in Lorain, Jennifer Calabrese has moved around a lot in her
life. Having recently returned to the
area, Calabrese hopes that she will
never have to move again.
Jennifer Calabrese, M.D. is the
latest doctor to join the team of family practitioners at Tri City Family
Medicine in Amherst At 27 years
old, Calabrese has completed medical school at the Northeastern Ohio
Universities College of Medicine
(NEOUCOM) and her residency in
family practice at Toledo Hospital.
She U happy to return to Lorain
County.
-It's home, ■ aayt Calabrese.
"I'm quite attached lo the area."
NEOUCOM is an intensive six
year medical training program in
which students begin immediately
following high school Students take
classes all year, with no summer
vacation, at ptvticipating universities. Calabrese completed her studies at Youngatown University.
As seniors in residency, students
can spend time with any physician
they choose. Calabrese choae to
split her time with a few doctors.
One of those was Dr. Bradley
Barker, one of the partners at Tri
City Family Medicine. This led to
her being hired as Tri City's newest
doctor.
This is my fint job," says Cala-
bresa. "I knew thai I wasted to
_ beck to the area."
Accompanying to back to lor
am County is her husband of nearly
two years Nephi Demercurio. Both
having been involved in their
church, the Church of Jesus Christ
Restored Gospel, they met at a
church camp.
Both of their fathers were ministers and Calabrese says that their
church, in Lorain, was an important
factor in moving back to Lorain
County.
Another important factor was
family. Calabrese has a brother, Anthony Calabrese who lives with his
wife Kelly in Amherst Her parents
live in Berlin Heights.
Calabrese's first official day of
work is August 1. She looks forward
to getting to know her new patients.
"It's like you make friends
through your patient-base, " says
Calabrese. "You don't realize the
impact you make just talking to people about their problems."
Unlike some people, Calabrese
did not always want to be a doctor.
Instead, k was a life experience.
"My mom was really tick when I
was growing up, " says Calabrese.
"That's what exposed me to the
medical profession. I don't think I
would have been very interested
otherwise."
Calabrese is happy with her chosen profession. Moreso, she is
happy that she can practice medicine in the area which she thinks of
as home.
"It's s nice career. It'i fun, believe it or not " says GsUbrass. 1
told say husband we're
will participate in the parade.
Children who wish to ride in the parade are encouraged but they must
have decorated bicycles.
There will be a reviewing stand
on the parade route. If any participant would like to be mentioned they
must provide a prepared statement.
Statements should be given to parade directors Dr. Bill Harlan and
Marilyn Jenne.
Musical performances scheduled
for Sunday include Foster Brown, a
park ranger who performs under the
name the Quarry Man. Brown
writes and sings about the history of
sandstone in the area. He will perform at 2 pjn. Then, at 3 pjn., the
Hookey Tonk Heroes will treat the
crowd to their country-western and
rock style.
The Local Girls, made up of
Brenda Catania, Gay Dalzell and
Mimi Hart will take the stage at 4
pjn. The trio hail from Athens,
Ohio and specialize in singing
ballads.
Throughout the festival there will
be a variety of games offered. New
this year are the sumo wrestling
game and the "Rock'em Sock'em"
joust game. In the sumo game, contestants don large inflatable outfits
The Honky Tonk Heros are just one of many
musical acts performing at this weekend's 28th
annual Old Time Jamboree. The band will play at
3 p.m. on Sunday. Lots of good food and plenty of
fun will be available as well. The fun begins this
Friday.
and bounce off of each other.  The
joust game features inflatable joust
sticks with which the participants
pummel each other.
The festival is set to conclude between 5:30 and 6 p.m.
School fires remain
unsolved despite
many tips to police^
Police are still investigating the suspected arson fires that took
place on the Powers Elementary school playground on the
weekend ef June 45-*3. The fires damaged playground eMca. It
will cost $3,144 to replace the damaged slides and install the new
ones.
The Amherst Board of Education has offered a $1,000 reward
for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person
or persons responsible. According to Detective Alex Molnar of
the Amherst Police Department, the reward has made the investigation more difficult
"Everybody and their brother is coming forward to do their
civic duty," said Molnar.
According to Molnar, most of the people he has interviewed
have been children and their reports have consisted mostly of
what they have heard from other children. Molnar says that these
accounts have been difficult to confirm.
"Probably what we're looking at is a minor," said Molnar of
the list of suspects that has been narrowed down to two.
Judy Alexander, director of educational services for the Amherst school district explained that vandalism has never been a
problem on public school playgrounds. Alexander also stated that
she was unaware of any instances of arson prior to these.
"Of course it's a risk for little kids. Fire's dangerous," said
Alexander.
Assistant Superintendent Robert Wiersum also expressed concern on the matter.
"What upsets me is they're going against little kids' things,"
said Wiersum. "To vandalize a building is one thing and I'm not
advocating vandalism. But there are precious few days little ldds
aren't using those slides."
If anyone has any information regarding these fires, please contact Detective Alex Molnar of the Amherst Police Department at
988-2625.
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William McDermott, director of volunteers at Amherst Hospital,
congratulates Susan Huber for her 60 years of service as an American Red Cross volunteer.
Huber's love of giving
continues for 60 years
by ERIK YORKE coming patients and visitors alik
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by ERIK YORKE
News-Timaa reporter
Don't try telling Susan Huber that
she's done anything out of the ordinary. Sure, she's just been recognized by the American Red Cross
and presented with an award for her
60 years of volunteer service at Amherst Hospital, but she still doesn't
feel like she needs to be interviewed
by a newspaper.
After some gentle prodding by a
colleague, Huber finally agreed to
take part in the interview and to
have a couple of pictures taken.
"I enjoy heaping people," says
Huber of why she has worked Cor so
long at Amherst Hospital. "You get
to know so many people."
When Huber began volunteering
at Amherst Hospital, it was not the
state of the art facility that it is
today.
"When we first started, k was before we had this part of the hospital,
" says Huber, referring to wast is
now the main building of the hospital. "Wewereinthebttokbtiilding."
During her 60 years of Santos.
Huber has anas a variety of I
Mach of that time, i
a« behind to
coming patients and visitors alike
and providing information and directions to rooms in the hospital.
In her current role as a surgical
hostess, Huber keeps a surgery
schedule at her desk that includes
any information that anyone might
need in order to find room they are
looking for. Still there are times
when the schedule is not enough.
"Many times you would have to
take people to the rooms, "says
Huber.
In all that time and through all of
those tasks, one thing remained constant according to Clarence Wills,
executive director of the Lorain
County chapter of the American
Red Croat, Huber's dedication.
"It's an invaluable service," says
Wills of Huber's work. "Anyone
who's been helping for 60 years is
dedicated to helping people."
Huber went into nursing herself,
at one time but did not i
gree. Since then she has i
her time at the hospital, i
to help people. In addition to her
work at the Amherst Hospital,
Huber has also been involved with
the Girt Scoats.
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