RICH HELDENFELS, JIM CARNEY, DAVE SCOTT, BETTY LIN-FISHER
JOHN OLESKY, JOAN SUTHERLAND
Monthly BJ
gatherings are back! See you next time!
Decades after
the monthly BJ gatherings at Papa Joe’s in the Merriman Valley ended the custom
was revived Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street
in downtown Akron not far from the new BJ newsroom high up in the former
Goodrich Rubber building, also on Main Street.
Chatting at the
BJ gathering revival were Jim Carney and wife Katie Byard, retired reporters;
Dave Scott, BJ regional issues reporter and deputy
Business Editor before the April 2014 BJ buyouts exodus; Rich
Heldenfels, TV critic when John Olesky was TV Editor at the 44 E. Exchange Street
site of the BJ; Betty Lin-Fisher, BJ consumer reporter leaving for the same job
at USA Today; and John’s lady friend Joan Salisbury who moved into his
Tallmadge apartment from Glen Burnie, Maryland.
Dave Scott and wife Jane Gaab Scott live in Copley.
Rich still
lives in Mogadore. Mark Dawidziak was my first TV critic, then David Bianculli,
finally Rich during my 12 years in that position of my 26 years with the BJ,
starting as assistant State Desk editor under Nobil cigar-smoking dynamo the
late Pat Englehart, best editor I ever worked under in my 42-year newspaper
career, and alongside the late Harry Liggett, also assistant State Desk editor
who created this blog which I inherited when Harry turned it over to me before
he passed away.
The BJ
gatherings revival will be on the third Thursday of every month in the Missing
Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street in Akron.
Kimberly Barth
and Katie set up the BJ gathering revival but couldn’t make it because she had out-of-town
family members visiting her.
Join the next
BJ gathering at the Missing Falls Brewery on Thursday, Oct. 19. Let’s make it a
must-do thing the way that the Papa Joe’s BJ gatherings were for decades when
Tom Moore, Dave Boerner, Don Roese and I were regulars!
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