HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE REVIVAL OF THE MONTHLY BJ GATHERING OF RETIREES AND EMPLOYEES AT 6:30 P.M. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

 

Monthly BJ Gathering 6:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 19

 

The revival of Monthly BJ Gatherings are in the Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street, Akron on the third Thursday of every month.

 

That means you can join BJ retirees and current employees at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 19.

 

The BJ Monthly Gatherings were revived after it died out years ago after decades of BJ retirees and current employees meeting and chatting at Papa Joe’s in the Merriman Valley.

 

September’s BJ Gathering not far from new BJ newsroom high up in the former Goodrich Rubber building, also on Main Street, drew

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 now doing the same job at USA Today while still living in Summit County; and John Olesky and his lady friend Joan Salisbury who moved into his Tallmadge condo 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.

 

Kimberly Barth and Katie Byard revived the monthly BJ gathering for BJ retirees and current employes.

 

If you plan to attend, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com or Kimberly Barth, Katie Byard or John Olesky on their Facebook pages.

 

Free admission. Everyone pays for their own dinner and drinks.

 

Everyone had fun chatting about the good ol’ days at the BJ when John Shively Knight was in his corner office at 44 E. Exchange Street after he flew from his Miami Herald office to the Kentucky Derby horse race in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May.