Amherst News-Times, 1997-10-22

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Amherst News-Time
Wednesday, October 22, 1997
Amherst, Ohio
Hamilton Street
to be rezoned
as residential
for renovations
by GLEN MILLER
News-Times reporter
People living on Hamilton Street
on the city's west side may soon
I find themselves in a residentially
zoned neighborhood for first time in
more than a decade.
The street has been zoned industrial for at least 20 years even though
it has homes built on it with the exception of two lots abutting Milan
Avenue.
By early November, city council
intends to hold a third reading on an
ordinance that will rezone the street
residential. The first reading was
unanimously approved Oct 13.
The current zoning has proven to
be a hassle for people who want to
build an addition or make major renovations. In order to comply wilh
building regulations, mayor John
Higgins said they have had to seek a
variance to build in the industrial
zone.
"We just thought this was ridiculous, time consuming and expensive
given the fact it (Hamilton Street) is
nearly all houses anyway," he
added. "This should have been done
years ago because it really is not
practical.*'
There has been little concern about the zoning until recently because
most of Hamilton used lo be nothing
more than vacant lots. That has been
changed within the last five or six
years by the city's building boom,
he added.
Higgins said the decision to re-
zone the street was prompted by an
inquiry to the planning commission
from a man who thought it odd to
seek a variance to build a new home
there.
"It's illogical. Besides, we don't
feel there's enough land left on it
that's suitable to build an industry
on anyway," he explained.
The only questions about the re-
zoning came from Tcrese Meyer,
who recently purchased a home at
138 Hamilton St. because the area
was zoned industrial.
Councilman John Dietrich, plan-
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Top alumni
Members of the 1997 Marion L. Steele Gallery of Success
gather during a luncheon held in their honor last Friday. From left
they are Bradley Hawes, Class of 1972; John Luccio, Class of
1951; Gerald Prittie, Class of 1949; Phyllis Moser, widow of James
H. Ehrman, Class of 1935; and Daniel Mihuta, Class of 1941. The
five were chosen for their dedication to their professions and community service accomplishments.
Tribe fever: it's fit for man, beast and cookies
Louie lives a life of luxury
in his Forde Avenue home
by APRIL MILLER
News-Tirrcfs reporter
Tribe fever — it's
everywhere.
From loddlcrs dressed in
Chief Wahoo clothing lo chest-
painted men at Jacobs Field, one
thing is certain: the Indians are
in the World Scries and everyone's a fan, even Louie the dog.
At two years old and 95
pounds, Louie, an American
bulldog, may look intimidating
lo some.
But when Louie's owner,
Sharon Cosianiino, 722 Forde
Ave., places a pair of Indians
sunglasses on his nose, Louie
becomes a laid-back, easy-going
canine, who has a personality all
his own and is fast becoming a
Cleveland celebrity.
"It's important to say Louie is
not Lassie or Benji, but he is a
character," Cosianiino said. "He
thinks he's a human."
Cosianiino has owned Louie
for a year. She said he had always been used for breeding and
had been kept in a cage. The
first thing she did was get him
out of lhe cage and give him
some freedom. That freedom included traveling everywhere
with his owner.
While driving in lhe car one
sunny day, Cosianiino decided
lo put a pair of sunglasses on
Louie to protect his eyes. Louie
was unphascd and left lhe sunglasses on. Cosianiino said people driving by would look and
smile as they saw a dog wearing
glasses.
A friend of Costantino's gave
her a pair of Tribe sunglasses after seeing Louie was actually
wearing shades.
Il may have been the Indians
sunglasses or Louie's personality which attracted attention in
August when Cosianiino look
Louie to the Cleveland Comedy
Club lo try and sec Drew Carey.
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Louie relaxes in his finest Tribe gear next to his Chief Wahoo pumpkin.
Bakery cooks up some hot
3 stuff for Indians fanatics
Baker Tim Kiedrowski pulls another pan of Tribe cookies from the oven.
Win or lose, the Cleveland Indians' re-entry into the World
Series is making a lot of sweet
looths happy and keeping Tim
Kiedrowski a busy man.
Since early last week, the
ovens at Kiedrowski's Simply
Delicious Bakery on Cooper
Fooler Park Road have been
turning oul dozens upon dozens
of Indians cookies.
The cookies have Kiedrowski's own version of Chief
Wahoo, the same design he has
used since he started baking the
special yummies in 1994. He
can't use the Indians logo. Instead, his looks a lot like the
Chief Wahoo that was worn by
players during the 1948 World
Series.
At least 30,000 cookies have
been baked within the last two
years, including 21,000 when
the Tribe weni to the World Series in 1995. t
Even through they cost $1 a
piece, he said ihe cookies are
selling like hot cakes and are be
ing shipped by local fans to relocated Indians followers as far
away as California and Texas.
Some even have been sent to
Flordia — Tampa Bay but not
Miami, and can be found in the
Indians' executive offices at Jacobs Field.
That's not surprising, though.
"We have a little bit of an 'in'
because we do the baking at the
(corporate) suites at Jacobs Field
and the Terrace Club," Kiedrowski explained. "It definitely
helps."
The Amherst bakery also got
another feather in its cap'when it
baked a special cake for the All-.
Slar game played in July at the
stadium.
It got favorable reaction from
Tribe owner Dick Jacobs.
This year's run on the bakery's cookies began within minutes after the Tribe knocked off
the Baltimore Orioles and is
continuing.
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