Amherst News-Times, 2002-05-29

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Amherst News-Time
WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2002
AMHERST, OHIO
Class of
Sunday,
The time of year is at
hand when children move on
to adulthood, when high
school students become college students or join the
workforce full-time.
Young people have decisions to make that will affect
them for the rest of their
lives.
But stronger than that fear
is the excitement of taking
that next step — the excitement of graduation.
Marion L. Steele High
School seniors will leave their
2002 graduates
June 2, at Palace
home of the last four years
for the last time this week.
The pomp and circumstance
will take place at the Palace
Theater in Lorain on Sunday,
June 2, at 2:30 p.m.
Brian Baker, Steele's first
place student, will give the
valedictory speech. This year's
salutatorian is Kristin Jacovetti, who ranked second in
her class.
The 2003 class president is
Katie Freedman, vice president is Hannah Higgins, the
secretary is Michelle Kubasak
and the treasurer is Nicki
Trent,
Also speaking at the graduation ceremony will be Anthony Reynolds. Reynolds is
the second Amherst student in
his class at JVS.
This year's class sported
three national merit finalists:
Heather Stay, Holly Sleazman
and Jacovetti. Kathryn Primm
scored perfect on her ACT in
reading and Gloria Ham
scored perfect on her ACT
and SAT in math. Swapna
Panchagnula scored perfect on
her ACT in science.
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What a deal
Motorists wait in line to get gas for 96 cents for 96 minutes at a promotion at Nate's
Marathon with Cleveland radio station 96.5 last week. Cars were backed up onto Rt.
2. Also getting in on the deals is a girl hoping to win Usher tickets by dressing up.
Cleveland radio station 96.5 was giving the concert tickets away to someone who decorated themselves with the station call letters.
Involved
students
earn top
NJH nod
Nord Junior High School recognized its outstanding students again
this year with a night of scholastic
and athletic awards.
Three students were awarded the
annual Nord Award: Bridget
Coughlin, Jordan Templeton and
Allison Trent
Twenty-six Nord students have
been awarded the Nord Award since
its inception in 1984. Only one student was chosen a year until 1997
when three students began being
named for the award.
Coughlin had a 3.9 grade point
average at Nord and recieved all A's
her seventh grade year. She was in
Power of the Pen in the eighth
grade.
She was in band, and played vol*
leyball and softbali in seventh and
eighth grades.
Trent had a 4.0 grade point average and had all A's in both seventh
and eighth grades. She was a math
aide and was involved with power
of the pen. She was oo student
council and played volleyball in
seventh and eighth grade and track
in seventh grade.
Templeton had a 3.9 grade point
avenge and earned all A's in the
seventh grade. She was also in band
in both seventh and eighth grade
ind participated in cross country
track both years.
School
honors
winners
The three winners of the 2002 Walter Q. Nord
award, which recognizes students who excel in a
variety of areas, Bridget Coughlin, Jordan Ti
leton and Allison Trent, pose outside Nord last
week.
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Students at the Nord Junior High
School were recently honored for
outstanding academic achievements
during the school's annual awards
ceremony.
To receive a scholastic award, a
student must have been named to
either the honor or merit roll each of
the first three grading periods.
Fourty-nine percent of the
school's seventh grade class received their first year award pin
along with a certificate. Students
include:
Ian Arnold, Alyssa Bennett, Jennifer Brewer, Maggie Brown, Emily
Brumenschenkel, Kyle Cadrette,
Tiffany Cambarare, Maria Campana, Caitlin Celik, Franceses
Cocco. Jonathan Cook, Benjamin
Cooksey. Lauren Cotton. Andrew
Cmobrnja. Stacey Cnizado, Tiffany
Dziak. Nicki Falbo, Magdalene Fe-
liciwo. Kimberly Finch, Brielle Hoban. Hannah Jenkins. Chelsea Kamody, Dallas Kampf. Corey Knick,
Patrick Knight. Kayley Kosik. Troy
Kotanidcs. Alexis Lindway.
Jason Loushin, Sharon Luu, Stanley Maziarz Jr.. Emily McKitrick.
Courtney McVey, Elizabeth Melick.
Corey Mendgik, Elisabeth
Metelsky, Amanda Milks. Caitlin
Misencik. Abby Morris, Laura
Myers, Erin Myosky, Stefani
Mater, Vanessa Oner. Sank Pardee, Lauren Phial, Tuwifts Tnlrow
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suspect
in chase
A man led police on a five-hour
chase last Wednesday through the
neighborhoods of Amherst and even
terrorized nurses and patients in the
Alzheimer's unit of a local nursing
facility.
Jose Ortiz, 18, of Cleveland was
arrested Wednesday after being
hunted down by officers from Amherst, Lorain, Vermilion, Oberlin
and the Sheriffs Department In
Oberlin Municipal Court on Friday,
Ortiz made an emotional plea of not
guilty.
Amherst police were called to a
home on Cooper Foster Park Road
for a resident complaining that
someone was knocking on his door.
He didn't recognize the two men or
the car they were driving. He wrote
down their plate number.
The plate was run and came back
stolen according to police
documents.
Local law enforcement officers
answered one call after another from
residents who spotted the men, allegedly Ortiz and another man. At
one point the two men split up and
Ortiz allegedly fled on foot.
News helicopters searched for the
men by air and the dozens of officers, with the help of dogs from the
Oberlin Police Department scoured
the land.
9-1-1 dispatchers received a call
that a suspicious man was milling
about at Golden Acres nursing home
on North Ridge Road and when
confronted, he began to run.
Around 3:45 the man ran in and
out of patients' rooms and frightened Alzhiemer's patients, according to Captain Dennis Seger of the
Amherst Police Department. The
suspect was chased off an embankment by nurses from the facility.
The fleeing man evidently made
his way through! the woods to the
Hidden Valley subdivision.
Ortiz was arrested by sheriffs deputies after a Trails End Drive resident called police because a man
was trying to break into her house
about 6:20 p.m.
Ortiz is suspected to be responsible for a string of daytime robberies
being committed in Amherst. At the
previous robberies a man would
bang on the door of a house to see if
anyone was home and if there was
no answer the men would break in,
according to police.
City OKs
street
repair
contract
The city has awarded contracts
totaling more than $450,000 to complete the ahnual end and joint sealing program, as well as a paving
agenda.
Cross Roads Asphalt of Columbia
Station woo the bid for the 2002
crack and joint sealing program at a
cost of $42,463. This project started
this week, aad should be completed
by June 30.
Ihs U* of roads lo be repaired
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• East Kendal Court, from Ravenglass Boulevard to (he cul-do-sac.
• West Kendal Court, from
Ravenglaas Boulevard to the cul-de-
sac.
• Charles Avenue from South
Lake Street to Alexander Avenue.
• Alexander Avenue from Soulh
Lake Street to Charles Avenue.
• Fairfield Court from Charles
Avenue to tie cul-de-sac.
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