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Grocery store
supplier sues
over contract
by ERIK YORKE
Marking time
News-Times reporter
Residents of Amherst may soon
have one less place to buy milk and
bread if a Minnesota food supplier
has its way.
Super Food Services, Inc. filed a
lawsuit the day after Christmas
against the Amherst IGA for breach
of a five-year supply contract.
According to the lawsuit filed in
the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas, Super Food Services alleges that it entered into a contract
with the Amherst IGA on Jan. 29,
1998, which stated, among other
things, that the IGA would purchase
no less than SO percent of the products it would sell from Super Food
Services for a period of five years.
The lawsuit also alleges that the
Amherst IGA is in default of a security agreement between the two
companies. The security agreement
states that if the retailer, IGA, goes
into default of the service contract.
Super Food Services can claim
rights to all of the IGA's furniture,
fixtures, equipment, and merchandise, among other things, and then
Amherst police
downtown marking
keep track of how
patrolman Harold White spends some time
the tires of parked cars. Tires are marked to
long the vehicle has been parked. If it is still
there when White returns three hours later, the vehicle is ticketed,    fattLa_x on all of that property.
Parking tickets in downtown Amherst are $25. " that wcre to h*»PI»"*. *c Am
herst IGA would be effectively out
of business.
According to Robert Lane, president of the Amherst IGA, he had not
yet received a subpeona on the matter last Thursday, the day after the
suit was filed. He said that he had
decided to drop Super Food Services as a supplier along with some
other stores he did not name.
"The company (Super Food)
never even tried to ask me why I left
before I left," Lane said.
The issue that poses the greatest
threat to the IGA, however, is
whether or not the store breached
the contract with the Minnesota
supplier.
'We contend there is no five-year
agreement," Lane said. If that is
true, then the IGA would have been
free to stop buying products from
Super Food. The lawsuit alleges that
the IGA ceased buying the
contractually-required amount of
product as of Sept. 19, 2001.
Attached to the lawsuit are copies
of the retail sales and service agreement as well as the security agreement, both of which are signed by
both a vice president at Super Food
Services and Lane. Item D on page
one of the sales and service agreement reads, "Super Food is willing
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Sex tape
of teens
to draw
charges
by ERIK YORKE
News-Times reporter
A case involving a videotape depicting a female Firelands High School teenager
engaging in a sex act with a
yet-unidentified male is not
being investigated as a potential rape, according to Det.
Karl Yost of the Lorain
County Sheriffs Department
However, Yost said, there
are still many things wrong
with what occurred on Dec. 7
at a juvenile's home in So--\i
Amherst, when the 15-year-
old female was videotaped
having sex with the unidentified male with about 10 to
11 other people watching.
"If it wasn't for the videotape, we wouldn't be having
this conversation," Yost said
in an interview.
He said that the sexual activity taking place in the
video was consentual, thereby
making it less likely for the
matter lo be investigated as a
rape. The taping of the sex
act, Yost said, is another
matter.
"It's illegal because she's a
minor," Yost said. "It's a
production of pornographic
material in a sense."
Now, he added, he is busy
questioning all of those present at the time of the taping
in the hope of finding out
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School
project
grows
into fun
The holiday season, for
many, is largely spent emptying checking accounts and going into debt to buy countless
gifts for loved ones.
While most area high
school students are spending
their money, one Firelands
High School student decided
to use the Christmas season
to make some money.
Eric McKinney, 16, is a junior at Firelands and a member of the Future Farmers of
America (FFA). Every year,
FFA members choose one
large scale project and this
year, McKinney chose to sell
Christinas trees.
"Selling Christmas trees is
fun," McKinney said. He sold
the trees at the Tuffy Auto
Service Center in Amherst
where his father, George, is
an employee.
According to Eric McKinney, the sale of Ihe trees
went very well.
"We started out with 105
trees and we have one left,"
he said.
McKinney sold the trees
but did not grow them, he
said. Instead, he went with
his father to Canton where
they picked   the trees up.
paying for them with his own
money. He then got to keep
all of the money made from
the sale of the trees.
He said he got the idea lo
sell Christmas trees from his
dad. who also sold Ihe trees
Eric McKinney
at Tuffy's two years ago to
make some extra money.
McKinney said that the experience was such a positive one
that he plans to sell the trees
again next year.
McKinney said that he is
now looking forward to the
annual FFA Awards Banquet
this April He said that he
hopes his project has put him
in the running to receive an
award.
"You can win a proficiency
award for the best project
with plants or animals," he
said.
He said that his favorite
aspects of the project were
both the act of going to get
the trees and talking with
customers. Some customers,
he added, had positive reactions to his project
They think it's pretty food
that it's something for a
school project," McKinney
said.
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