tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76808852024-03-27T02:36:43.533-04:00BJ AlumsDEDICATED TO BJ ALUMS FOUNDER HARRY LIGGETT 1930-2014. BJ NEWSROOM LEGEND 1965-1995.
Blog for retired and former Beacon Journal employees and other invited guests. Please send information or suggestions to John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.comHarry Liggetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00718581795280278218noreply@blogger.comBlogger5338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-39329382410567990162024-03-20T13:24:00.004-04:002024-03-20T13:24:58.323-04:00BJ MARKETING AND ADVERTISING RETIREE SUE ELLEN MURPHY PASSES AWAY IN GEORGIA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsHnin-g7hYZOYq9031THg_hCaFLEl6Ubz8qFItRKKVb645yWFp0Jf0HE0898HqSCaeR3p5ccd2CTs41rNONeBwCNgZtg9PcZF1EsnYl48Uwwd_igFAxuiK-9OyW0dHcPX_pdGltKOjxxeC40uM5zQWqNEJLibssPwUj6G3z_4xnq4snXXrzj/s440/2024%20Sue%20Ellen%20Murphy%20obit%20photo.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsHnin-g7hYZOYq9031THg_hCaFLEl6Ubz8qFItRKKVb645yWFp0Jf0HE0898HqSCaeR3p5ccd2CTs41rNONeBwCNgZtg9PcZF1EsnYl48Uwwd_igFAxuiK-9OyW0dHcPX_pdGltKOjxxeC40uM5zQWqNEJLibssPwUj6G3z_4xnq4snXXrzj/w495-h640/2024%20Sue%20Ellen%20Murphy%20obit%20photo.webp" width="495" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> SUE ELLEN MURPHY</b></span></p><p></p><p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Sue Ellen Murphy passes away in Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Sue Ellen Murphy, in BJ Marketing and Advertising for
years, passed away March 12 in Peachtree City, Georgia. Her funeral took place March
16 in Mowell Funeral Home in Peachtree City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">She also worked for Ohio Bell, the West Side Leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">In 1974 Sue and her previous husband, Ron Sattler,
saved the 1891 Copley Ohio Train Depot from being destroyed. They had it relocated
to it current Copley Road location and formed the Copley Historical Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Sue married Michael Murphy in 1988 in a Stan Hywet
Hall wedding. Sue was born to Charles and Ethel Reed. Her siblings are Charles
Gene Reed, Lawrence Russsel Reed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Sue’s children are David Sattler,Jeff Sattler, Kelly Batcho,
Michael Murphy, Jr., Laura Neal, Caroline Smith. She has 16 grandchildren and12
great-grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Sue’s obituary:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Sue Ellen Murphy, born on
October 17, 1937, in Akron, Ohio, peacefully passed away on March 12, 2024 in
Peachtree City, Georgia. She was surrounded by her loving family at the time of
her passing. Sue lived a remarkable life of kindness and dedication, leaving
behind a legacy that will forever be cherished.</span><span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Sue
graduated from Garfield High School in 1955, where she developed many lifelong
friends. Sue's professional journey began with Ohio Bell Telephone Company.
Later, she embraced an administrative role at the Akron Beacon Journal,
supporting the VP of Marketing and Advertising with unwavering professionalism.
Her contributions to the West Side Leader further showcased her newspaper
skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">In
1974, Sue, and her previous husband Ron Sattler, organized a team of community
leaders to save the 1891 Copley Ohio Train Depot from destruction. Their quick
action stopped the railroad’s demolition process and saved the depot, which
they helped relocate to it’s current location on Copley Road. In the process,
they also proudly formed the Copley Historical Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Sue
met her loving husband, Michael Murphy, on March 9, 1980, at Larry’s Main
Entrance in Akron, Ohio. The next date was at a Saint Patrick’s Dance which
started the 4-year date before marrying on April 9, 1988, at historic Stan
Hywet Hall. Sue was so proud of joining her and Mike’s adult children and their
children into one beautiful, laughing, and loving family. Later, they finished
their work careers, played lots of golf, explored many great restaurants, and
experienced plenty of the Akron area nightlife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">One
of her favorite meals was taking the family to Belgrade Gardens for the best
fried chicken dinner around. Sue was also a fabulous cook, and many thought she
could have been a professional food and book critic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">After
many vacations to their condo home on Hilton Head Island, Sue and Mike
relocated there permanently in 2006. Sue, being an adventurous person, found
the best places to enjoy their new island lifestyle. Along with entertaining
many family visitors, she also enjoyed thrift stores and antique shops. She was
still thrifting right up to the week before departing us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Sue
Ellen is preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Ethel Reed, her brothers
Charles Gene Reed and Lawrence Russel Reed, her stepson Kevin Murphy, and her
ex-husband Ronald Sattler.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">In
her personal life, Sue Ellen left behind her loving husband Michael J. Murphy,
her children David (Janet) Sattler, Jeff (Karen) Sattler, Kelly (Mark) Batcho,
and her bonus children Michael (Katherine) Murphy Jr., Laura (Mark) Neal,
Caroline (Lonnie) Smith, grandchildren Nicole (David) Palmer, Katie (Ryan)
Strine, Joe Sattler, Jenny (Stephen) Harris, Bobby (Tracy) Sattler, Tyler
Penrose, Travis Batcho, Erin (Will) Diver, Hannah Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Abby
Neal, Casey Neal, Ryan (Marella) Murphy, Kayla Murphy, Jessica Murphy, Josh
Smith, along with 12 great-grandchildren and many cherished friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Sue
always had a smile on her face and while she might not have been the life of
the party, her humor and social skills brought life to the party. She loved her
country rides, peach picking, finding the best ice cream, and there were few
roadside stands she didn’t explore. Sue’s passion for enjoying life was huge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">While
we mourn Sue’s loss, we find solace in the memories she created and the lives
she touched with her grace and compassion. Her spirit will live on in the
hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know her. Sue's legacy of hard
work, love, and kindness will continue to inspire all who were blessed to be a
part of her life. She wants us all to love one another, read a good book or a
bad book that might turn out to be good, listen to some good and bad music, and
watch a good movie. She will miss us all dearly, as we will miss her. May she
rest in peace, knowing that her legacy of love and devotion will be remembered
for generations to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">A
memorial service will be held at 3:00 PM on Saturday, March 16, 2024, at the
Chapel of Mowell Funeral Home, Peachtree City. The family will receive friends
from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM prior to the service at the funeral home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">In
lieu of flowers, Sue requested donations to the American Heart Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">We
welcome you to provide your condolences, thoughts, and memories on our Tribute
Wall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FAFAFA; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Mowell
Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Peachtree City, <a href="http://www.mowells.com/">www.mowells.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-66966501791268266742024-03-09T20:24:00.003-05:002024-03-09T20:24:39.893-05:00CATCHING UP WITH FORMER BJ GUILD PRESIDENT AND LEAD REPORTER FOR BJ GOLDSMITH SAGA PULITZER-WINNING COVERAGE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaBQmn_njKvuruHawzFJWKFl9UYKqCMFQHI0hoHcCevQQlgEFYuVrDMmJ8a2Ey7bSJ3Cl4iD4zzHih5IEBDXLw20eeaEZpbF6DJpy8b9nZdUlFNocVhVdcLkEXFV-vN77yR-oG7CaJg_LZwzYHudkfjJS0xRAwFi-y2fLsX90K70Yg4sSxZnn/s720/2024%20Roc%20Reoff%20wotj%20siot%20amd%20tie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaBQmn_njKvuruHawzFJWKFl9UYKqCMFQHI0hoHcCevQQlgEFYuVrDMmJ8a2Ey7bSJ3Cl4iD4zzHih5IEBDXLw20eeaEZpbF6DJpy8b9nZdUlFNocVhVdcLkEXFV-vN77yR-oG7CaJg_LZwzYHudkfjJS0xRAwFi-y2fLsX90K70Yg4sSxZnn/s16000/2024%20Roc%20Reoff%20wotj%20siot%20amd%20tie.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> RICK RIEFF IN SUIT AND TIE</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUegPDnASebfqll5__uTvmJAXEWiCv2Ah3DIEJPLPMPFlUzxrIjGWezSYe32Qe3M-lKdsKZ_ou72lfFdOeiOQrBev-HK_5o19w6lT09KvleBaQdJjEbyrqP5qcRxCAVKqbAb2OKaVoKrO8j0Emoa7nliz8mlQFJhMj0MQJ4_ho7THi845t2wDj/s2048/2024%20Rick%20Reiff%20in%20Chicago%20visiting%20older%20relatives.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUegPDnASebfqll5__uTvmJAXEWiCv2Ah3DIEJPLPMPFlUzxrIjGWezSYe32Qe3M-lKdsKZ_ou72lfFdOeiOQrBev-HK_5o19w6lT09KvleBaQdJjEbyrqP5qcRxCAVKqbAb2OKaVoKrO8j0Emoa7nliz8mlQFJhMj0MQJ4_ho7THi845t2wDj/s16000/2024%20Rick%20Reiff%20in%20Chicago%20visiting%20older%20relatives.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">RICK RIEFF AT GODFATHER AND UNCLE JACK SURIANO'S 100TH BIRTHDAY </b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">CATCHING
UP WITH<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Rick Rieff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Rick Rieff, business
writer and </span><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">the lead reporter on a BJ team that won a 1987 Pulitzer
Prize for its coverage of Goodyear's battle with Anglo-French corporate raider’s
Sir James Goldsmith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">It cost Goodyear $3 billion to make Goldsmith go away. $618.8
million went to Goldsmith and his partners. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">As BJ Guild president Rick had the foresight to push for a
401(k) that the Guild got from the BJ in 1989. That helped me, when I retired
in 1996, build up enough money that I’m still financially secure in 2024 after 28
years of not working at the BJ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Thanks, Rick.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">In 2008 Rick married Mary Ann Brown, senior vice
president of Pacific Life Insurance Company. Rick has a daughter, Jennie; a son-in-law, Orange
County, California Fire Authority Capt. Steve Miller; and a grandson, Elias Stephen
Miller.</span> Jennie and Steve made Rick a grandfather in 2004.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He golfs in California where he’s “two strokes off
a single-digit handicap.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">For those who
want to resume contact with Rick his new email address is <a href="mailto:rr@rickre8iff.com">rr@rickre8iff.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Rick leaves in
Laguna Beach, California where, he tells me, “I’m still enjoying the California
sunshine, the California ‘sunshine tax’ not so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Rick is
host/producer of PBS SoCal, executive director of the Orange County Business
Journal. He came from Chicago after a Northwestern University Journalism
adventure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He's a 4-time Golden Mike winners for his TV ventures,
received </span><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">three-time
Emmy nominations and in 2018 of the Orange County Press Club's Lifetime
Achievement Award. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He began his
journalism career as a sports intern with the Chicago Sun-Times and as a
stringer for the Chicago Tribune. His first full-time reporting job was at the
Norwalk (Ohio) Reflector. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He went from
Norwalk to walk into BJ at 44 E. Exchange Street. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Next came his
role as managing editor of Business First in Columbus, then editor in New York
state of the Westchester Business Journal before joining Forbes magazine as a
staff writer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Somewhere along
the line Rick worked in media and journalism professor at Chapman University in
Orange, California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">From 2004
through 2018 Rick hosted and produced "Inside OC with Rick Reiff” and
"SoCal Insider with Rick Reiff," which aired on PBS SoCal, the Los
Angeles region's PBS flagship station. The shows also aired on KDOC-TV and Cox
Cable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #156082; font-family: "Arial Black", sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">He
co-hosted "Studio SoCal" for three seasons on PBS SoCal which won the
Golden Mike for Best News Public Affairs Program in Southern California,
Division B, in 2011 and "SoCal Insider" won the same award in 2012
and 2013.</span> </p></div>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-32281271698413528992024-01-28T14:17:00.004-05:002024-01-30T22:31:20.238-05:00ESTATE SALE HELD FOR CRAIG WILSON AND WIFE ELIZABETH IN BARBERTON<p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2xZwwMSuvL_qzfVPGQLgyOWfvcc_5teln3DEc-qJU5zyCMTq6hVBUiBWLlkqUD4GaajSkz6kXrsralntn8qHNKe974QfuPk9kVsVeXXZMwTwjFJlLlpPh-wX4e5bGkU4yp-Onw-n2k6T3tWtbAHFK5zvZGtb4FECbZ7-JWR7u-PrYhW9LnZK/s1024/Craig%20Wilson%20throughout%20the%20years.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2xZwwMSuvL_qzfVPGQLgyOWfvcc_5teln3DEc-qJU5zyCMTq6hVBUiBWLlkqUD4GaajSkz6kXrsralntn8qHNKe974QfuPk9kVsVeXXZMwTwjFJlLlpPh-wX4e5bGkU4yp-Onw-n2k6T3tWtbAHFK5zvZGtb4FECbZ7-JWR7u-PrYhW9LnZK/s16000/Craig%20Wilson%20throughout%20the%20years.jpg" /></span></b></a></div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p></p><h1><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Estate sale for Craig Wilson, wife Elizabeth<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There was an estate sale in
Barberton of former BJ Action Line chief Craig Wilson’s and wife Elizabeth
Wilson’s things on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Craig’s behavior ruffled some
feathers at the BJ but the Mensa member for people with high IQs was amazing at
training reporters and finding answers to readers’ inquiries. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Betsy Lammerding went from Craig’s
Action Line to the BJ Features desk when I was Television Editor with a desk
next to the amazing Joan Rice, a fashion model in looks and my best friend for
a shoulder to complain on about management stupidity, as I saw it, from time to
time. </span></h1><h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jane Snow, Nancy Peacock, Betsy Lammerding, Charlene Nevada, Connie Bloom, Jim Dettling and Mickey Porter spent time in Action Lion under Craig's tutelage.</span></h1><div><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There’s a luminaria at Barberton’s
Lake Anna dedicated to Craig, who passed away in 2007. Craig’s first wife, Ella
Mae Leonard, who he met through a Lonely Hearts Club, passed away in 1992.
Elizabeth was Craig’s second wife. When Craig passed she wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Maybe he stepped on your toes
(at the BJ) but I can assure you Craig Wilson is the finest man I have ever
met. He had a pure heart and genuine concern for his fellow man and his
surroundings.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The late Connie Bloom, a reporter
on the Features Desk when I was TV editor, wrote Craig’s obituary. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The late assistant State Desk
editor Harry Liggett, who chose me to inherit this blog Harry created, posted
on here about Craig: <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“He was probably best known as
editor of the old Action Line, but his true craft was referencing,” with tons
of envelopes filled with information about a person.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b><h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Charlene Nevada, trained by
Craig in Action Line before becoming a Metro Desk reporter, told this tale: <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Once (publisher) Ben Maidenburg found
an Action Line item in Knight’s Detroit newspaper and told Craig to use it. It
had to do with Edgar Allan Poe getting kicked out of military school. Craig
just smiled at Maidenburg and explained that Jim Dettling (another Craig
trainee) had written that item first and the Free Press stole it from the Beacon.”<o:p></o:p></span></h1></b></span></div><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-89264575613716806702024-01-18T16:06:00.001-05:002024-01-18T16:06:22.396-05:00DAWIDZIAK UP FOR ANOTHER AWARD FOR HIS BOOK ON EDGAR ALLAN POE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjy6LElH9mWqM5BtM4xQs1F8OlcedSfYnDrJ666nyTEuDBUC7eqRQPkqjiMD1M9jpKJui2A8qW9go4-j_xwjtuDw9R62OmyuD4jM4EwoneOm8RtWb0ltbxmLwvl0C3c0n5Ifi1pVwzpyy58BnolVRe56-x5kJd6nVC97P1U6X9ynk9_gE4JkLC/s2048/2023%20Mark%20Dawidziak%20and%20Edgar%20Allen%20Poe%20projected%20portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjy6LElH9mWqM5BtM4xQs1F8OlcedSfYnDrJ666nyTEuDBUC7eqRQPkqjiMD1M9jpKJui2A8qW9go4-j_xwjtuDw9R62OmyuD4jM4EwoneOm8RtWb0ltbxmLwvl0C3c0n5Ifi1pVwzpyy58BnolVRe56-x5kJd6nVC97P1U6X9ynk9_gE4JkLC/s16000/2023%20Mark%20Dawidziak%20and%20Edgar%20Allen%20Poe%20projected%20portrait.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> MARK DAWIDZIAK WITH PHOTO OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN BACKGROUND</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Dawidziak nominated for Edgar
Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.dawidziak?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVJ39AaTEyOwc0CBbGxX25fZBKIu9W8vrh1QzjJMmjb51H7Hr27QA1p5bSn22KQvRuyRxyvDKkeLghWyJJ2pbi166lhLIk4uBIJfe3i7tyDqITcp8Z4LDjbNJfgwafNdyjd00ai2unRON3V3KKklThLq1ynLt1kbXxenDxEtdnaFw&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #0f9ed5; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-themecolor: accent4; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mark Dawidziak</span></a>, BJ entertainment critic under my “leadership”
when I was Television Editor on the BJ Features desk, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">has been nominated
for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his book, “A </span></b><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Mystery of Mysteries:
The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe." Published by Macmillan Publishing –
St. Martin’s Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Mark posted:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Honored and a bit
awed to be in the company of some terrific writers in the Best
Biographical/Critical category”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Mark did some of his
most eloquent writing in his email to me after My Mona Lisa, my wife and
Cinderella (West Virginia) treasure, passed away in 2014”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“My point is the one you
make so eloquently, and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">that's to cherish the
people you love for every second that you have <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“It's not a long ride for
any of us, really, but I do know how lucky I am to have had a Sara in my life,
just as I know how much you cherish Monia's presence in yours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“Monia is indeed one
remarkable woman. She is a mighty soul magnified <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">by the love of her husband,
children and grandchildren. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">“And I can't say I'm at all
surprised by your praise of LaQuita (my daughter, an amazing teacher in Aurora Ohio
schools till she retired). She is an Olesky, after all, part you and part Monia
-- a superior being if <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">there ever was one.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">If I were choosing the
Edgar Award winner it would be Mark – and my Mona Lisa awaiting me under a grave
marker with both our names on it – would agree wholeheartedly with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Mark by word. Whether it’s
Poe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens our Dawidziak is top of the mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Mark also authored a book
about “Columbo” with its star, Peter Falk, who phoned the BJ TV desk once when
Mark was away, seeking to talk to Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">I told Falk that Mark was
out of the office and that I would give him the message. Before Falk hung up, I
said: “One more thing,” which of course is the besheveled dressed Columbo’s
line in every episode before he nails the criminal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #0f9ed5; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Falk laughed heartily, even
though’s he heard it a zillion times. Just proved again that he’s a good actor.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-12885666871575390022024-01-16T13:06:00.003-05:002024-01-16T13:06:23.641-05:00SUSAN GIPPIN JOINS LONG LINE OF BOOK AUTHORS WITH BJ TIES<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVw43ngEN_J-OuWo8fLw1WIdC9nDhJpUFKAgI4DiyayHzJ_H_mNiUJRO4GxK8LH6trDcNinp85xZf48v7n_fW98He4Q10KtrZD-cmzaI2ZFLy7kGRMwDoj9KonDym-BKcZmaWMyOjSNQE5TEq7fUzSknk2ALKIkP6H6e2dujllC57OXpgXFVY/s938/2024%20Susan%20Smith%20Giffin%20publishes%20first%20book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyVw43ngEN_J-OuWo8fLw1WIdC9nDhJpUFKAgI4DiyayHzJ_H_mNiUJRO4GxK8LH6trDcNinp85xZf48v7n_fW98He4Q10KtrZD-cmzaI2ZFLy7kGRMwDoj9KonDym-BKcZmaWMyOjSNQE5TEq7fUzSknk2ALKIkP6H6e2dujllC57OXpgXFVY/s16000/2024%20Susan%20Smith%20Giffin%20publishes%20first%20book.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>SUSAN SMITH GIPPIN HOLDING HER BOOK, 'DYING THE WAY YOU DID'</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Susan Gippin’s
first book available Jan. 21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Former BJ
political reporter Susan Smith Gippin, who migrated from Des Moines, Iowa to
Akron, has published a book, “Dying the Way You Did.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The book
explores how her first husband’s death, even though they were divorced,
affected her writings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Susan’s book
will be launched at 6 pm Sunday, Jan. 21. Sue will read part of her essay and
will be available on Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The book is
available from its publisher, Sidekick Press, or, a everything is, at Ama
Amazon.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Sue is Susan Montgmery’s
Special Times LLC owner, an estate sales company, and roved through Cleveland
State, American University, Iowa State and Cleveland East High for her
education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Her parents were
Phyllis Jean Montgomery Smith Gippin and Carmi Gippin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Susan’s sister
Katlin Smith Kokstis lives in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vancouver,
Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Susan married
attorney Bob Gippin who in 2008 became a Summit County Court of Common Pleas
judge, a position he no longer holds, and served on the Akron Citizens’ Police
Oversight Board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Dartmouth University
and Harvard Law School graduate Bob Gippin is a partner in the Goldman and
Rosen law firm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Susan and Bob
have 4 children and 2 grandchildren. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Authors who
graced the BJ include Regina Brett, Mark Dawidziak, Lisa Abraham, Rick Amon,
Phil Trexler, romance novels author Jenna Ness once in BJ Advertising, Cinda
Chima of BJ Classified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">And others I’ve overlooked
or forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-87396063308188511962024-01-15T16:41:00.004-05:002024-01-15T22:26:52.250-05:002024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, POLLS SAY, WILL BE DETERMINED BY Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. <p><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Biden re-elected if he gets 35 of 79 tossup electoral
college votes?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>For the 2024 Presidential election, by applying the Electoral
College votes to each state that has either President Biden or ex-President
Trump in the lead, Trump would have 235 electoral votes to 226 for President
Biden.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>It takes 270 to become President. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>So President Biden needs 35 of the remaining 79
votes, less than half of those still on the fence. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The tossup states are Wisconsin, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia went for President
Trump in 2020, BUT a switch of 77,000 combined votes in those 3 states would
have meant a tie in the Electoral College which would have had the House of
Representatives decide who become President. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>154.6 million Americans voted but 77,000 people
decided who would be President. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>In the 2020 Presidential election, Biden got 51.31%
of popular vote, Trump 46.85%, which does not determine who becomes President. Electoral
votes do. Biden got 56.88% of the electoral votes, Trump 43.12% and was a
bigger winner in electoral votes than in the popular vote. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Trump lost popular vote in 2016 AND 2020 but in 2016
became the 5<sup>th</sup> President to sit in the Oval Office despite losing
the popular vote because, under our Constitution, the Electoral College vote
determines our Presidents.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Biden got 232 electoral votes, winning 25 states,
D.C. & 1 Nebraska congressional district. Biden won 26 states (but didn’t
need 9 with smaller votes he won), Trump 24.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Biden won 5 states that Trump won in 2016: Arizona,
Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the main reason Biden is President
today.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>If Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Biden’s narrowest
victories, had gone to Trump instead there would have been a 269-269 tie and would
have sent the decision to the House of Representatives, where each state got 1
vote (Rhode Island would have as much power as California, unlike the general
election itself) and there were enough Republican states that could have made
Trump re-elected. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>A switch of 77,000 votes in Wisconsin, Georgia,
Arizona would have given their delegates to Trump instead of Biden.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>2020 ELECTORAL VOTES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>For Biden<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>56 California<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>29 New York <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>20 Illinois<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>20 Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>16 Georgia<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>16 Michigan <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>14 New Jersey<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>13 Virginia <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>12 Washington<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>11 Arizona<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>11 Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>10 Wisconsin<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>10 Maryland <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>10 Minnesota <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>9 Colorado<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>7 Connecticut<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>7 Oregon<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>(271 total, enough to win election)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>6 Nevada<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>5 New Mexico<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>4 Rhode Island<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>4 Hawaii<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>4 New Hampshire<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 Vermont<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 Delaware<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 D.C.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 Maine<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>1 Nebraska<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>For Trump<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>38 Texas <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>29 Florida<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>18 Ohio<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>15 North Carolina<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>11 Indiana<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>11 Tennessee <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>10 Missouri<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>9 South Dakota<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>9 Alabama<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>8 Kentucky <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>8 Louisiana <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>7 Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>6 Utah<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>6 Mississippi<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>6 Arkansas <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>6 Iowa <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>6 Kansas <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>5 West Virginia<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>4 Idaho<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>4 Nebraska<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 North Dakota<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 Alaska<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 Montana <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>3 Wyoming<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>1 Maine<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Trump got 306 electoral votes even though he had fewer
people voting for him than Hillary Clinton, who got only 232 electoral votes despite
getting her name on more ballots.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>That’s the way our Constitution works and has elected
FIVE Presidents who lost the popular vote: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B.
Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-30259263233892342642024-01-15T02:37:00.004-05:002024-01-15T02:37:47.068-05:00CATHY STRONG WINS SEASON BOWLING AWARD IN NEW ZEALAND<p><b> </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPEYMK2_02ZNoUwQ6ZFAfxXCAuFW_JOlo2Qnb04zsYBEKUSEeAJ-Xhi30evhRs6hHHdoO6JOIIlnP7zYac8LVbQTxnwJvrtnaDg_wE5jOcSbgz-clprAGTLnMNH4CC0xQ6Xm4wm7t1ARkm5-Xpfw084_1dmz2zj-KQIZeC_WhBoonm2orX3bD6/s901/2024%20Cathy%20Strong%20with%20bowling%20award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPEYMK2_02ZNoUwQ6ZFAfxXCAuFW_JOlo2Qnb04zsYBEKUSEeAJ-Xhi30evhRs6hHHdoO6JOIIlnP7zYac8LVbQTxnwJvrtnaDg_wE5jOcSbgz-clprAGTLnMNH4CC0xQ6Xm4wm7t1ARkm5-Xpfw084_1dmz2zj-KQIZeC_WhBoonm2orX3bD6/s16000/2024%20Cathy%20Strong%20with%20bowling%20award.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> <b>CATHY STRONG, MOST PROLIFIC BOWLER</b></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 36pt;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 36pt;"><b>Cathy Strong, BJ to Kiwi,
scores a strike!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 18pt;"><b>Former BJ State Desk
reporter Cathy Strong is bowling them over in New Zealand. Well, at least in Wellington.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 18pt;"><b>She won the Seatoun Bowling
Club award for Most Prolific Player this season. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #156082; font-size: 18pt;"><b>Cathy has been on the
faculty of Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Massey University
in Wellington, oldest journalism school in Kiwi Kountry.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<h2><span face=""Trebuchet MS",sans-serif" style="color: #777777; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-37574348877248906592024-01-14T14:26:00.001-05:002024-01-14T14:26:14.234-05:00HERTZ FAMILY ENJOYS MONTH-LONG REUNION IN OHIO<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj97PM2GpfZTrjI7J-JfJwmChDHPVwTfA4sO97vEHaZSekA7cEbLDOExlDAEh1PA77kuUo7c8Nk53yjXubJ7h7xwf3vehKCk1vCBoewUf4FpH_9la-ijw3NHESijcO0HGPZyCSuxucPBCq6vxHZxrBGKkIE7sVxPnk5H1i0jKBOiX0BkALZ8qB2/s1542/David%20Hertz%20and%20Beth%20with%20their%20children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="1248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj97PM2GpfZTrjI7J-JfJwmChDHPVwTfA4sO97vEHaZSekA7cEbLDOExlDAEh1PA77kuUo7c8Nk53yjXubJ7h7xwf3vehKCk1vCBoewUf4FpH_9la-ijw3NHESijcO0HGPZyCSuxucPBCq6vxHZxrBGKkIE7sVxPnk5H1i0jKBOiX0BkALZ8qB2/s16000/David%20Hertz%20and%20Beth%20with%20their%20children.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijbmi87B9s2ItUA0IUHld6Bgd07yBERH_zsFX4J4A52UnOWHobDfWKigP3AQMTUPNOPi615qXGAYCAgt8MAtRm8NOUOrzinBAGfxK9NufOQBs99uYmCF4xp9oSWVJNGPg5FPGN7TxlMsJ9nTBFiyn-sEjAMYBOgl1BmltDkNLxLTZaAi5eGC8C/s960/David%20Hertz%20and%20Beth%20Hertz%20on%20their%20wedding%20day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="728" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijbmi87B9s2ItUA0IUHld6Bgd07yBERH_zsFX4J4A52UnOWHobDfWKigP3AQMTUPNOPi615qXGAYCAgt8MAtRm8NOUOrzinBAGfxK9NufOQBs99uYmCF4xp9oSWVJNGPg5FPGN7TxlMsJ9nTBFiyn-sEjAMYBOgl1BmltDkNLxLTZaAi5eGC8C/s16000/David%20Hertz%20and%20Beth%20Hertz%20on%20their%20wedding%20day.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> DAVE AND BETH ON WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND ON THEIR WEDDING DAY</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span class="xzpqnlu"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Month-long
reunion for Hertz family</span></span><span class="xzpqnlu"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><span aria-hidden="true"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black", sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Former
BJ page layout and design editor and Copley School Board member Beth Thomas Hertz
and husband and BJ </span><span style="background: rgb(246, 246, 246); color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black", sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">night Metro editor, deputy business editor, region editor,
business editor, metro editor, enterprise editor and then business editor again
for about two decades enjoyed a month-long visit from daughter Alyssa Hertz.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">They took Alyssa to the airport for a flight to
Tampa where she will spend</span><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> a few weeks at Norwegian headquarters
before cruising in the Caribbean and, all summer, cruising Iceland, Norway,
Belgium, Holland and England. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Beth reports: “Son Joshua
went back to college so we are empty nesters again!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">I know the feeling. I’ve
been fortunate in that only 2 of my grandchildren live outside Ohio, where I’ve
lived for nearly 70 years – Dr. Dylan in Wisconsin and MonnieLynn in the
Carolina. 3 children, 5 grandchildren, 5 of 7 great-grandchldren are within 30
miles of my Tallmadge home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Among adults with at least one living parent or adult
child, 74.8% have their nearest parent or adult child within 30 miles, and 35.5%
hav all parents and adult children living that close. </span><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"></span>Beth was
at the BJ in 1991-1995, then free-lance writer and managing editor of the
Cleveland Clinic’s Communications Department at CC’s Akron General Hospital. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">After the BJ and
another Knight newspaper in Boca Raton, Florida, Dave became </span><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">media
relations vice president for Cleveland’s Dix & Eaton and, in 2018, </span><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">became </span><span lang="EN" style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Cleveland
Jewish Publication Company board chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F6F6F6; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Cleveland Jewish News is a weekly created in 1964 that
became Cleveland Jewish Publication Company in Beachwood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F6F6F6; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Beth and Dave were involved in the 1994 BJ Pulitzer for its Question
of Color series. Beth Angela Thomas and David Ralph Hertz were married in 1993
in the Akron Civic Theater before a large BJ contingent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Beth was a “cute redhead copy editor,” Dave recalled, when they met at
the BJ and began their office romance and their marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">They have two children, </span><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Alyssa Sandra Hertz and Joshua Daniel Hertz, who
attended Copley-Fairlawn schools.</span><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-72461619837269793592024-01-07T13:54:00.002-05:002024-01-07T21:59:00.628-05:00DAN ROESE EXPECTS TO BE OUT OF HOSPITAL IN A FEW DAYS!!!<p><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsQtdNt9cnFhPe2aBr2cyvWdQSTinzhBgwSmisW_487Y6WVLqzJw9nhsz-eGvKwxsNjFGjiWJGMznxSgcd0k_v-VnWZr-ISxemsNaao5s_-VCPd8leJr6A41eNWPkWlcJuoR0GD-LW9qFZ3RxxrRNyQVfo8YMax1FKfFlieRC0N2thT4eokXl/s1124/2024%20Dan%20Roese%20in%20ICU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsQtdNt9cnFhPe2aBr2cyvWdQSTinzhBgwSmisW_487Y6WVLqzJw9nhsz-eGvKwxsNjFGjiWJGMznxSgcd0k_v-VnWZr-ISxemsNaao5s_-VCPd8leJr6A41eNWPkWlcJuoR0GD-LW9qFZ3RxxrRNyQVfo8YMax1FKfFlieRC0N2thT4eokXl/s16000/2024%20Dan%20Roese%20in%20ICU.jpg" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> DAN ROESE IN ICU, BUT NOT FOR LONG!!!</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>Dan Roese hospital stay nearing end<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>Good news about BJ clerk Dan
Roese:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>From Dan himself:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: middle;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>“Still in hospital, but feeling much better. Have a
couple more days, maybe.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: middle;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: middle;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>Dan is spending several days in ICU. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: middle;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b> </b></span></p><p>
<span style="align-items: inherit; align-self: inherit; display: inherit; flex-direction: inherit; flex: inherit; height: inherit; max-height: inherit; max-width: inherit; min-height: inherit; min-width: inherit; place-content: inherit; width: inherit;"><span style="border-radius: 10px; border-right-color: var(--popover-background); display: flex; outline: none;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: middle;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" lang="EN" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>His father Is former photographer Don Roese. Don and I
met at a New Zealand airport once when he was leaving a visit to former BJ
reporter Cathy Strong and I just arrived for a visit to Cathy. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-89171563394706391152024-01-06T12:59:00.000-05:002024-01-06T12:59:17.258-05:00JOHN DERF BACKDERF ESCAPES JURY DUTY AGAIN . . . THANKS TO ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOL WITH JEFFREY DAHMER!!!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSkOM1_5NNrKk4gBPUinihuuuDLE1Kh3zj2dmrCCQxr2b72YNwwAEXVUTvhgLfDLZ6KAJ33665LChQQJzs1zBy2Qm4KuCyW1rPRYdONNEob0PrM-xe8ENyWkfaNe9IV16MGlPgOioB1ieFoOSIe2kRXN-WGI-2SVg8EGd4WmgpVTtDtuWuQmn7/s170/Backderf%20John%202014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="96" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSkOM1_5NNrKk4gBPUinihuuuDLE1Kh3zj2dmrCCQxr2b72YNwwAEXVUTvhgLfDLZ6KAJ33665LChQQJzs1zBy2Qm4KuCyW1rPRYdONNEob0PrM-xe8ENyWkfaNe9IV16MGlPgOioB1ieFoOSIe2kRXN-WGI-2SVg8EGd4WmgpVTtDtuWuQmn7/w361-h640/Backderf%20John%202014.jpg" width="361" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> JOHN DERF BACKDERF</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Surefire way to
escape jury duty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Being Jeffrey Dahmer’s high school friend
has its benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">It gets John Derf Backderf excused when
he’s called and they find out. In 2010 and again in 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Derf authored “My Friend Dahmer,” an international
best-seller. His comic strip “The City” appeared in alternative newspapers
(1990-2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He attended
Eastview Junior High and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_High_School_(Ohio)" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Revere High School (Ohio)"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Revere High School</span></a>,
where one of his classmates was future <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Serial killer"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">serial killer</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Jeffrey Dahmer"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Jeffrey Dahmer</span></a>. He attended and dropped out of the Art
Institute of Pittsburgh. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He began as a
political cartoonist for the <i>Ohio State Lantern</i>, then
professionally at <i>The Evening Times</i>, the evening counterpart of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palm_Beach_Post" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="The Palm Beach Post"><span style="color: #4f81bd; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The Palm Beach Post</span></a></i>,
in West Palm Beach, Florida. He worked as a staff cartoonist at the <i>Cleveland
Plain Dealer</i> in the late 80s. In the mid-1990s Backderf was an
artist at the BJ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">In 2006 he won the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award for cartooning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Derf, whose cartoons gain national
attention, lives in Cleveland, grew up in Richfield, began life in 1959.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Derf once gave </span><span class="fwb1"><span lang="EN" style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: accent1;">gave
former BJ reporter Sheryl Harris a memorable Christmas present: the first issue
of Ms. Magazine!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-76671484374816120932024-01-04T12:31:00.002-05:002024-01-04T12:31:33.999-05:00TERENCE OLIVER AND GRETA OLIVER CELEBRATE 38 YEARS OF MARRIAGE<p><b> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4nBTOiVb687HOI4Eg65N7E6_P23WYKyW8qsiAC2hFOjPzozTuIx-8mKgawcOv0y2ORiQYQrdtvvsAymr1SZghBOHHylnfcZIGN5rnnwXyHIcOt6-6DTW9Hk22at3LKoQJOwmrxh5IU-z27yRg1YNHxRa18QFkiHFefofI3NmH7Y96UnyXcpq/s1136/Terrence%20Oliver%20and%20Greta%20Oliver%20with%20leis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="1136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih4nBTOiVb687HOI4Eg65N7E6_P23WYKyW8qsiAC2hFOjPzozTuIx-8mKgawcOv0y2ORiQYQrdtvvsAymr1SZghBOHHylnfcZIGN5rnnwXyHIcOt6-6DTW9Hk22at3LKoQJOwmrxh5IU-z27yRg1YNHxRa18QFkiHFefofI3NmH7Y96UnyXcpq/s16000/Terrence%20Oliver%20and%20Greta%20Oliver%20with%20leis.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">TERENCE AND GRETA OLIVER, MARRIED FOR 38 YEARS</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuOw1sPW6yItHtB0wgYfpgfKKBowqKN3pZle4aB0K6918rRP3JZR6oBkXRY0o8qdbFvseQbakAXYMZ2F8hx5rWmS0jh9jQjKyXMiaX6kISIhSSR9TpSUlX-2leUPsk8x251nGcrhYGZ2NIjamOaN7OM6IVr3clGPBAi7VoIpMgaURhQpWowNL/s1440/2024%20Terence%20Oliver,%20Greta%20Oliver%20and%20their%204%20childnen%20when%20they%20were%20young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuOw1sPW6yItHtB0wgYfpgfKKBowqKN3pZle4aB0K6918rRP3JZR6oBkXRY0o8qdbFvseQbakAXYMZ2F8hx5rWmS0jh9jQjKyXMiaX6kISIhSSR9TpSUlX-2leUPsk8x251nGcrhYGZ2NIjamOaN7OM6IVr3clGPBAi7VoIpMgaURhQpWowNL/s16000/2024%20Terence%20Oliver,%20Greta%20Oliver%20and%20their%204%20childnen%20when%20they%20were%20young.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> <b>TERENCE AND GRETA OLIVER & THEIR 4 CHILDREN DECADES AGO</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>38<sup>th</sup>
wedding anniversary for Terence Oliver<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #365f91; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>Terence Oliver, film producer and graphics genius at
the BJ, the Plain Dealer and elsewhere, and wife Dr. Greta Oliver, celebrated their
38<sup>th</sup> wedding anniversary.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>Terence posted:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4bacc6; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-themecolor: accent5; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.0pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>“Where did 38 years go? Happy Anniversary, as I would
do it all over again, Fun times and great memories together, Babe. Thank God
for His many blessings! Our scripture from day one:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;
And lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, And
he shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>They have four children.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>Greta also wrote <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>books “College Roadmaps,” tips for first-to,ecollege
students and their families, and “Career Road Map,” about reaching career
aspiratioms.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>Teremce had a hand in Pulizer Prizes at
the BJ (Question of Color) and Miami Herald (Hurricane Andrew series). <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>He’s on the North Carolina Journaiism
School faculty after forays at MIT, University of Arizona, Duke and Tufts. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>Terence has received 50 awards and
probably needs to add a room to his house to hold them all.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>He even designed a auto racing car!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: "Aptos Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent5;"><b>He graduated from Michigan’s Ferris
State, got his masters at Ohio University, was adjunct professor at Kent State (1992-94),
rose to assistant managing editor during year years at the BJ (1996-2001) and
was editorial artist at the Plain Dealer (1988-91).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-20958667216018333382023-12-28T10:20:00.001-05:002023-12-28T10:20:16.665-05:00BJ BUILDING SAVED! FIX, EXPANSION, $5.35 MILLION TAX CREDITS IN THE WORKS<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">BJ building
saved from demolition; $5.35 million for major additions & improvements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The old Akron
Beacon Journal building at 44 E. Exchange Street was awarded $5.35 million in
Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit funds to help defray the cost of
redeveloping the </span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">building,
named one of the state’s </span><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><a href="http://preserveohio.com/2019-ohios-most-endangered-historic-sites/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">most
endangered historic sites in 2019</span></a></span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Tony Troppe, the Akron
developer known for creating the arts district and the </span><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><a href="https://www.blu-tique.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">BLU-Tique Hotel</span></a></span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> in downtown Akron, was
granted the funds from the </span><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><a href="https://development.ohio.gov/community/redevelopment/ohio-historic-preservation-tax-credit-program" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Ohio
Historic Preservation Tax Credit</span></a></span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> program to help defray the cost of redeveloping
the historic property. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The entire cost of the project
is estimated at just over $54 million. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The 1930 Art Deco-influenced
structure at East Exchange and South High streets, which housed the newspaper’s
operations until the offices moved to the AES (former Goodyear) building in
2019, was sold to Birmingham, Alabama-based </span><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><a href="https://capstonerealestateinvestments.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Capstone Real Estate
Investments</span></a></span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> for
$1.1 million in 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The company </span><span style="color: #4472c4; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><a href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/06/12/alabama-developer-denied-request-to-demolish-empty-beacon-journal-building/70312659007/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">requested
permission</span></a></span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> from
Akron City Council to demolish the building but was denied. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The redevelopment will include
197 new residential units, tenant space for offices and retail and restaurant
spaces. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">A new 71,785-square-foot
building would be added to the south side of the original building, with
commercial space on the ground floor and three floors of residential
space. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Commercial tenant space will
be on the ground floor of the original building, with residential space
available on the first and second floors and lofts at the mezzanine level. New
apartments will be constructed in the areas of the building added on in 1954
and 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The work on the building and
its additions will include: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #4472c4; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: accent1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Removal
of some sections of the 1954 and 1985 additions to the building on the
south side. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #4472c4; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: accent1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Reintroduction
of large openings for windows that existed before the addition of a
since-removed parking deck on the south side of the original
building. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #4472c4; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: accent1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The
addition of new windows to parts of the building’s exterior that are
exposed as sections of the 1954 and 1985 additions are removed.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 24.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Restoration of the building’s
brick and stonework.<o:p></o:p></span></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-85916882766709789162023-12-21T19:08:00.005-05:002023-12-21T19:10:21.318-05:00SHEARER TO COLUMBUS, CHERYL POWELL TO INTERIM EDITOR<p><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtEbvz3Bn-L_ZGv_IVLq1vIT1E1dY91myrfL-NCXFhRotSOASqnWS1FF4EDTxPoPsBH0lEelecUVClohSy6L-wjF3UkLwOorrQgNxmTxHrAYw4_Q_b9W3UXaCwoM9mWGdsDnJZbmEjyY9d0Yth9-ltE964jI-wBtH19qH8pZJt7lCO4F8XCZF/s450/2023%20MIchael%20Shearer%20bj%20editor%20to%20Columbus%20Dispatch.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtEbvz3Bn-L_ZGv_IVLq1vIT1E1dY91myrfL-NCXFhRotSOASqnWS1FF4EDTxPoPsBH0lEelecUVClohSy6L-wjF3UkLwOorrQgNxmTxHrAYw4_Q_b9W3UXaCwoM9mWGdsDnJZbmEjyY9d0Yth9-ltE964jI-wBtH19qH8pZJt7lCO4F8XCZF/w427-h640/2023%20MIchael%20Shearer%20bj%20editor%20to%20Columbus%20Dispatch.webp" width="427" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> <span> <span> MICHAEL SHEARER</span></span></b></span></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 20.25pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Shearer to
Columbus Dispatch; BJ ME Cheryl Powell will be Interim Editor <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Akron Beacon
Journal Editor Michael Shearer was named executive editor of The Columbus
Dispatch. Since both are part of Gannett’s USA TODAY network, he’s working for
the same people.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Michael is from
the Columbus area and has family there so it’s sort of a homecoming for him. He
was at the BJ for almost 5 years.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>He oversaw news
at The Canton Repository, Alliance Review, Massillon Independent and
Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Shearer, who
will begin his new role Jan. 8, grew up in the Columbus area and served as top
editor of The Advocate in Newark from 2000 to 2016. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>The former
GateHouse Media hired him to lead eight Northeast Ohio newsrooms in 2017 before
it acquired the Beacon Journal in 2018 and merged with Gannett in 2019.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 20.25pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Managing Editor
Cheryl Powell, at the BJ for 26 years, will be interim editor until a new
editor is selected. Cheryl also was the Metro editor and a reporter at the BJ.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-69423959617504174282023-12-17T07:47:00.001-05:002023-12-17T07:48:01.719-05:00DAN WARNER'S WIFE, JANET WARNER, PASSES AWAY IN FLORIDA<p><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCme-IUYwfE5_t0SadEbHQYFy5wTNTCgwtk8dOaDMHDS-vkcYCmP6NIEd5t4fn_u4BwVXQ-XIOROMy6QDuoPo09mb35AIwOrESCN6was7jiU1wIznYXCOC9QZc0LCTaRekIBUgicclixpfWkhSEpPPAu36PBep6-0UWR3eMhWcH8fElegAwgI9/s471/2023%20Janet%20Warner%20obit%20photo.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="360" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCme-IUYwfE5_t0SadEbHQYFy5wTNTCgwtk8dOaDMHDS-vkcYCmP6NIEd5t4fn_u4BwVXQ-XIOROMy6QDuoPo09mb35AIwOrESCN6was7jiU1wIznYXCOC9QZc0LCTaRekIBUgicclixpfWkhSEpPPAu36PBep6-0UWR3eMhWcH8fElegAwgI9/w489-h640/2023%20Janet%20Warner%20obit%20photo.webp" width="489" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> JANET WARNER</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Dan
Warner’s wife passes away<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Former
BJ managing editor Dan Warner’s wife, Janet Warner, passed away Monday,
December 11 in Fort Myers, Florida. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Janet,
who came from Elyria into Dan’s life, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>published two small newspapers in Maine. Janet
and Dan moved to Florida in 2002.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>She
founded and ran a soup kitchen at Church of the Cross in Fort Myers.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Dan
and Janet were married for 64 years.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Dan
was at the BJ from 1959 to 1969. He was a junior reporter in the Kent bureau,
then copy editor, State editor and City editor before becoming the managing
editor who, at publisher Ben Maidenburg’s instruction, negotiated salary terms
with me that brought me to the BJ for 26 years as assistant State Desk editor
under marvelous whirling dervish Pat Englehart, then makeup editor, newsroom computer
coordinator when the BJ switched from typewriters to computer keyboards and,
finally, TV Editor who gave birth to Channels, the BJ’s weekly TV guide. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>My
time at the BJ was the happiest and most fortunate of my 42-year newspaper career,
mainly because millionaire owner John Shively Knight treated janitor to
publisher with the same respect and dignity.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Dan
left the BJ for the Philadelphia Inquirer where, not surprisingly, he became
managing editor there, too. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>As
editor of the Eagle-Tribune, a regional newspaper covering Massacusetts and New
Hampshire, he guided his troops to a Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="gntarbp" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>In “retirement,”
Dan taught writing at Boston University, wrote a column for 17 years at the
News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., and handled editorial writing and investigative
reporting assignments.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="gntarbp" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Dan once wrote:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="gntarbulli" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“Honest
day-to-day reporting wind trust and admiration from the readers. The
sensational stuff sold newspapers for a day. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="gntarbulli" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“Hard-nosed
reporting on the ill deeds, weaknesses and foibles of the establishment were
both celebrated and expected from the readers.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="gntarbulli" style="background: white;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Indeed,
Dan. Kudos to your career and my condolences on the passing of Janet. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="gntarbp" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.5pt; margin: 10.5pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Dan and Janet
have two children, Dr. Melinda Warner, a pediatric neuropsychologist in
Beverly, Massachusetts, and another Dan, assistant provost of Lehigh
University.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Janet’s
obituary:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #002060; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Janet Warner, 84, resident of Shell Point in Fort Myers,
passed away Monday, December 11, 2023. Janet was the wife of Dan Warner, former
Fort Myers News-Press columnist, and served as youth minister and volunteer
coordinator in MA. Before retiring, Janet was publisher of two small newspapers
in Maine. Janet and Dan have called Florida their home since 2002.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Janet loved
scrap-booking, sewing, cooking for others, and tending to her garden. She was a
dedicated philanthropist, giving many hours of her time to church, Marriage
Encounter, the East Fort Myers Rotary Club, and founding and running a soup
kitchen at Church of the Cross in Ft. Myers.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Janet was born to Jerry
and Josephine (Soja) Kostyo in Elyria, Ohio. She is preceded in passing by her
parents, and her only sibling, a younger sister, Joyce Jones.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Janet leaves her memory with her beloved survivors,
husband of 64 years, Daniel J. Warner; son Daniel A. Warner and his wife Tracy
Spann of Easton, PA; daughter Melinda S. Warner of Salem, MA, as well as many
nieces and nephews in her native state of Ohio.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b>Notes of condolence can
be added to the Fort Myers Memorial Gardens website.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-63369156170313959992023-12-06T23:42:00.002-05:002023-12-06T23:42:14.851-05:00FUN WAS HADE BY ALL AT BJ FAREWELL PARTY FOR DOUG LIVINGSTON<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsCEF9yv3pQ4Xh8o3i98X3wLui4CejLIa8g8XAfQBDIfT7cz5FvInEM7iipT1hfdfj0JA3vhvVqly_An4GXyzLGaaeg9hMTsx1TSPPh1XpGxwnNd7OceMlOcR6Fc6Y4S_JtEydQyOqv4DTlFXBSVFwL3d5kLUctFyHTJrvmLfL3NZAEUeKodt-/s960/2023%20guest%20of%20honor%20Doug%20Livingstone%20and%20John%20Olesky%20as%20Doug's%20farewell%20party.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsCEF9yv3pQ4Xh8o3i98X3wLui4CejLIa8g8XAfQBDIfT7cz5FvInEM7iipT1hfdfj0JA3vhvVqly_An4GXyzLGaaeg9hMTsx1TSPPh1XpGxwnNd7OceMlOcR6Fc6Y4S_JtEydQyOqv4DTlFXBSVFwL3d5kLUctFyHTJrvmLfL3NZAEUeKodt-/s16000/2023%20guest%20of%20honor%20Doug%20Livingstone%20and%20John%20Olesky%20as%20Doug's%20farewell%20party.jpg" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> <b>GUEST OF HONOR DOUG LIVINGSTON WITH "DINOSAUR" JOHN OLESKY, BJ RETIREE FOR 27 YEARS</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fDG-oDVH3UR6qYI9kz1oYff8bviKXbe9HW_mLb832h8zz2GRLnZ7B2-OnLBllYJAfGk9c1hi1ll_gqymwcto573l3TbAqFVw8D1UVIkAvNKp6aAJKA5OwNMtk39fPDAzS7xBlj1DR_CsapjhDXbE3NWYnvUSXRijwsYNKWraVYrpQfFbEmIf/s960/2023%20John%20Olesky%20and%20Bruce%20Winges%20at%20Livingstone%20farewell%20party.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fDG-oDVH3UR6qYI9kz1oYff8bviKXbe9HW_mLb832h8zz2GRLnZ7B2-OnLBllYJAfGk9c1hi1ll_gqymwcto573l3TbAqFVw8D1UVIkAvNKp6aAJKA5OwNMtk39fPDAzS7xBlj1DR_CsapjhDXbE3NWYnvUSXRijwsYNKWraVYrpQfFbEmIf/s16000/2023%20John%20Olesky%20and%20Bruce%20Winges%20at%20Livingstone%20farewell%20party.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /><b> BRUCE WINGES WITH JOHN OLESKY</b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVLOs-Om0MDIDhGv0Jl4b-4-qTKJcJVZ8k_myZgmqU44VJAi809xXd4ZD9oKTDQFpvk5aPuM333PcoLMj49gNghFurJs2-2UCbw-qQnHeXEGGmXtXJwj_K_JJrS_S9cBg2tF1a72APLn1gtMh4yJZC9WjkxTUmjbzltJcbDP3DhNDCIlHJCvp/s960/2023%20John%20meets%20WVU%20grad%20for%201st%20time%20at%20Doug%20Livingstone's%20farewell%20party.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVLOs-Om0MDIDhGv0Jl4b-4-qTKJcJVZ8k_myZgmqU44VJAi809xXd4ZD9oKTDQFpvk5aPuM333PcoLMj49gNghFurJs2-2UCbw-qQnHeXEGGmXtXJwj_K_JJrS_S9cBg2tF1a72APLn1gtMh4yJZC9WjkxTUmjbzltJcbDP3DhNDCIlHJCvp/s16000/2023%20John%20meets%20WVU%20grad%20for%201st%20time%20at%20Doug%20Livingstone's%20farewell%20party.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /><b> </b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">JOHN OLESKY WITH SURPRISE FIRST-MEETING WITH ANOTHER WVU GRAD</b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Drank in joy (with a
Pepsi) of another BJ gathering, this one honoring departing Doug Livingston<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>At least 2 dozen showed
up for reporter Doug Livingston’s farewell party from the BJ at the R.Shea
Brewery on South Main Straight in downtown Akron, which shares the same Canal
Place parking lot as the Brewery that hosts the monthly BJ Gatherings the 3<sup>rd</sup>
Thursday of every month, except for December. R.Shea much better atmosphere than BJ Gatherings brewery.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Doug is joining the
Marshall Project after being at the BJ since 2011 and covering education, 2016 Presidential
election and Akron city government. In 2014 Doug got first place in Ohio’s Best
Journalism competition for his education and children’s issues reporting.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>The nonprofit Marshall Project specializes in exposing inequities in the criminal justice system. A passion for a noble cause for Doug.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>It was the first time I
had met Doug, because I retired from the BJ 27 years ago, and Doug has been at
the new BJ and the 44 E. Exchange Street historic building where I worked for
26 years.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>But I did encounter
familiar faces like:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Betty-Lynn Fisher,
rushing off to somewhere when my lady friend Joan and I arrived. She was the BJ’s
super consumer columnist. After 28 years she became USA Today’s consumer
reporter and doesn’t have to leave her Ohio home to do it.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Yvonne Bruce, who
picketed for the Guild alongside me to fight for, and get, better wages and
other benefits which, as someone at the party said, “They tore up” after the BJ
changed hands a zillion times, or so it seemed, from Knight Newspapers to
Knight-Ridder to that Canadian outfit that stacked debt into “Beacon
Publishing,” filed bankruptcy, and left employees in the lurch.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Yuvonne was at the BJ
for 36 years, 10 more than joyous years there where I ran to work every day because it was such a treat to get paid to do good work with great people.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Yuvonne was Metro reporter, copy editor,
assistant Features editor and edited for a year the Question of Color batch of
articles that brought the BJ yet another Pulitzer (5 while I was there before the Plain Dealer got its first one).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Bruce Winges, named vice
president and Editor at the BJ in 2007, replacing Mizell Stewart when Mizell
became managing editor of the Evansville, Indiana Courier & Press.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>Reporter Marla Ridenour, honored by the Ohio Associated Press Managing Editors Awards as best sports feature writer as far back as 2020.</b></span></p><div class="date-posts" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-size: 17.29px;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7796025880045047020" itemprop="description articleBody"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div></div></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>When I headed for the
door with Joan I was greeted by a woman, like me, in WVU clothing. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>We had never seen each
other before, but it is like old home week when Mountaineers cross paths even
if it’s the first time they’ve sighted each other. In my travels to 56 countries, where I always wore my WVU clothing, other Mountaineers walked up to me to chat and we had a "yee haw!" time.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>The younger BJ people
stood at and near the bar – because they’re younger and can handle not sitting down. Joan and I chose sitting
at a booth adjacent to the drink-swallowers who chatted away like old friends –
just as I did when I was at the BJ for 26 years when John Knight was in his
corner office a few days after the Kentucky Derby every year, wintering at the
Miami Herald on warm Miami Bay and summering in Akron.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>I left before the party
ended – and it didn’t look like it would for hours – because I wanted to watch my
alma mater, WVU, play Pitt in basketball later Wednesday night.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>As it turned out,
immersing myself in a BJ gathering was much more fun than watching Pitt, our
most-hated rival in WVU history, defeat the Mountaineers on TV!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: arial; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b>It wasn't a Great Night To Be A Mountaineer, as the slogan goes, but it was a great night to be at a gathering of BJ folks again. Still classy after all these years (and I began at the BJ in 1969).</b></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-17938503105413410222023-11-20T20:29:00.003-05:002023-11-20T20:29:48.734-05:00ART "MADE IT" AFTER HEART ABLATION SURGERY <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Art Krummel has surgery; up to 3
months to recover<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Scary situation but hopeful post about
former BJ art department chief Art Krummel from his wife, former BJ reporter
Charlene Nevada:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">“Art is out of the heart ablation
surgery. Healing can take up to 3 months. But he made it."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Art and Charlene lived in Tallmadge,
as I do, but in 2010 bought a 2<sup>nd</sup> home in Garden City, South
Carolina and in 2014 and later use it as a retreat from Ohio winters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Garden City is 13 miles from Pawleys
Island, South Carolina, where retired BJ printer lived till he passed away and BJ
business department retiree Harold McElroy did before Harold also passed away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Let’s hold and breath and pray for Art’s
steady recovery. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">For who didn’t know, as I didn’t till
I looked it up, heart ablation tries to fix atrial fabulation (Afib). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Sometimes medications can help. Blood
thinners lower the risk of blood clots of strokes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">When those aren’t good enough, then
Afib becomes an option. And also involves a Pacemaker, which I’ve had for years
and it works quite well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-68526990688920343562023-11-19T14:11:00.001-05:002023-11-19T14:11:36.209-05:00JOHN SEABURN, GREAT PERSON AND EXCELLENT SPORTSWRITER, PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 88<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrBzgMNGGf6sAsoEJ0aEyYty7U88M-OdCPEHEdEFPTGtTGyAgv5IFuzgXBXbnNk5RzqE4-_-wurikSEh9GTaWD65IkqWBMyubITnsMzi1Q3nEpo3i-mYVV0mFdiBOMIHD8OQaOzJxJR_3rQ98Zvf7A3wna7IgUXqtFEqcS2t6idxrDj0sx7N6/s110/2023%20John%20Seaburn%20obituary%20photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="85" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrBzgMNGGf6sAsoEJ0aEyYty7U88M-OdCPEHEdEFPTGtTGyAgv5IFuzgXBXbnNk5RzqE4-_-wurikSEh9GTaWD65IkqWBMyubITnsMzi1Q3nEpo3i-mYVV0mFdiBOMIHD8OQaOzJxJR_3rQ98Zvf7A3wna7IgUXqtFEqcS2t6idxrDj0sx7N6/w495-h640/2023%20John%20Seaburn%20obituary%20photo.jpg" width="495" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John Seaburn,
88, passes away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Former BJ and
Canton Repository sportswriter John Seaburn, who spent 41 impressive years at
his craft, passed away November 4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John covered the
PGA, LPGA, Masters, NCAA basketball Final Four, PBA championships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John is in the
Greater Canton Amateur Sports Hall of Fame, Summit County Sports Hall of Fame. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">He is survived
by his wife of 48 years, Patricia Seaburn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John was part of
the amazing BJ Sports Department that included<span style="background: #F6F6F6;">
Stuart Warner, Tom Melody, Paul Bailey, Jim Derendal, Ken Krause, Bob Nold,
Sheldon Ocker, Larry Pantages, Jack Patterson, Dick Shippy, Dan Thom, Ray
Yanucci and Milan Zban.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The
State Desk during my time as an assistant like Harry Liggett under the
legendary Pat Englehart we were next to that department and we regaled by their
activities and fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">They
helped make it such a pleasure for me at the BJ that I ran to work every day
for 26 years of my 42-year newspaper career.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John
Seaburn was a quiet and amazing talent in that pool of crazy, talented writers
and editors who brought Northeast Ohio sports to live for the BJ readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John’s
obituary:</span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">MOGADORE</span></b><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> - John R. Seaburn, 88, passed away on November 4, 2023. Born in
Beaver Falls, PA, he was a resident of Akron. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">He graduated from Beaver Falls High School and
completed 2 years at Geneva College in PA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John served 8 years in the Air Force and was employed
as a Sports Writer for both the Canton Repository for 10 years and for the
Akron Beacon Journal, where he retired with 31 years of service. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">He enjoyed covering all sporting events: outdoors, pro
bowling, college & pro basketball, baseball, football, PGA & LPGA
Tours. He covered the Masters, NCAA basketball final four, PBA Championships
and many other major events. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">He won numerous writing awards. He researched and
discovered the first black football player from 1904 named Charles Follis in
Shelby, OH. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In 1967 he was inducted into the Greater Canton
Amateur Sports Hall of Fame after the Stark County Federation of Conservation
Clubs chose him as Conservationist of the Year for helping get the organization
started. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">He organized the Summit County Senior Golf Association
in 1983. He was inducted into the Summit County Sports Hall of Fame when
presented with the Andy Palich Award in 2002, in recognition for outstanding
contributions to the betterment of sports in Summit Co. He achieved other
accomplishments that are too numerous to mention. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Outside of sports he enjoyed reading, fishing and
writing his autobiography, “Out of Tank Alley.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John was preceded in death by his parents, John J.
Seaburn and Ruth (Anderson) Seaburn; brother, Gerald Seaburn (survived
Cathryn). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Patricia
Seaburn; children, John L. (Cindy), Jeffrey, Joni, Jim (Darlene) Seaburn;
grandchildren, John O., Todd, Stephen, Justin Seaburn, Jillian (Mike) Zucosky,
Allison (John) Pickering, Michelle (Nick) Marcellus; 8 great-grandchildren;
brother, Jim (Jane) Seaburn. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Cremation has taken place and a private ceremony will
be held at Western Reserve. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Memorials are suggested to the Myasthenia Gravis
Foundation of America, 290 Turnpike Rd, Suite 5-315, Westborough, MA 01581 or
your favorite charity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">(Hopkins Lawver, AKRON, <a href="tel:330-733-6271" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">330-733-6271</span></a>) www.hopkinslawver.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-77991617212491690762023-11-16T21:00:00.005-05:002023-11-16T21:00:46.409-05:00DECEMBER BJ GATHERING CANCELED. TOO MANY NO-SHOWS MAKE IT A NO-GO!<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYEuOL2dDsfHg-iqHWwPYbflubIF6OZab9MP9wpIwfM3G7ieEJzOgTRTAh0OMUfmjVsI5XV-MHOStEz7pJi4V_gCmoBnIJG8j30yN-6wuw8MEu5xUrM1CNdD1UU3ugBjYeN6h_EBO5e88oI-34iObNf8wctNqTS7fj3MmIWk09AAVmZPFcOwsQ/s960/BJ%20Gathering%20in%20November%20Kimberly%20Garth,%20John%20Olesky%20and%20Dave%20Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYEuOL2dDsfHg-iqHWwPYbflubIF6OZab9MP9wpIwfM3G7ieEJzOgTRTAh0OMUfmjVsI5XV-MHOStEz7pJi4V_gCmoBnIJG8j30yN-6wuw8MEu5xUrM1CNdD1UU3ugBjYeN6h_EBO5e88oI-34iObNf8wctNqTS7fj3MmIWk09AAVmZPFcOwsQ/s16000/BJ%20Gathering%20in%20November%20Kimberly%20Garth,%20John%20Olesky%20and%20Dave%20Scott.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> <b>KIMBERLY BARTH, JOHN OLESKY, DAVE SCOTT AT NOVEMBER BJ GATHERING</b></span><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">No-shows means<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">No-go in
December<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">For BJ
Gatherings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The
first revival BJ Gathering in September drew Jim Carney and wife Katie Byard,
retired reporters; Dave Scott, <span style="background: #F6F6F6;">BJ
regional issues reporter and deputy Business Editor before the April 2014 BJ
buyouts exodus</span>; 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">A
lucky seven showed up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">At the 2<sup>nd</sup>
BJ Gathering in October, former columnist/features writer Bill O’Connor and Advertising
Department page layouts expert and slave of Johnny Grimm, Mike Williams, showed
up along with me, John Olesky.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Three’s Company is
a good title for a TV sitcom, but the drift-awaying began.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">At the 3<sup>rd</sup>
BJ Gathering Nov. 16 only Kimberly Barth, who with Katie Byard, decided to
renew the monthly BJ gatherings that once brought as many as 40 into one room
at Papa Joe’s Restaurant in the Merriman Valley; Dave Scott again; and John
Olesky again, showed up.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">So we’re stuck on
3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">That won’t cut it.
Kim decided to cancel the December 3<sup>rd</sup> Thursday of the month BJ
Gathering.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">And maybe find a
venue better suited to people who just want to chat with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The first 2 BJ
Gatherings were held at a table outside the room where the Missing Falls
Brewery bar is so we could chat in comfort and hear each other.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Someone
appropriated that one long table this time, so the 4 of us <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- Kimberly Barth, Dave Scott and John Olesky (John’s
lady friend, Joan Salisbury of Maryland and Massachusetts, was there, too)
couldn’t hear each other sitting THREE FEET away across the table.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">As I see it, the
solution is to find another venue. Missing Falls Brewery is popular . . . too
popular and too loud if senior citizens want to talk to and hear each other.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">So, from my
viewpoint:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> Find a venue like
Papa Joe’s where BJ folks can hear each other talk across the table from each
other.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Black"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> If at least 8
people don’t say in advance that they WILL positively be there, cancel that
month’s BJ Gathering.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">If you have any
suggestions, contact Kimberly Barth or Katie Byard. If you contact me I’ll
relay your suggestions to Kimberly and Katie. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-2083196849516107742023-11-16T14:14:00.004-05:002023-11-16T14:21:44.875-05:00GO CHIN TO CHIN WITH KIM KIM AT BJ GATHERING!!!!<p><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhksV9OB9V7y0lAMLzQSuPB8Wr8WBUAwuRNeKKKlSjXw_CYXuK2xJ9jwDg2oHOvC6hEdEYBdYYpsyMoCoyr768RE5niSw27BsqgL2J5HkulOpIiCwg1EO4KbVwiP3Y_9JPvHHV5mvgbORFtt5TyKVHsYPqbxMn6K0pW6MyK4qnQOi7YxzwOu4Ta/s2048/Kimberly%20Barth%202021%20with%20spicy%20Allyson%20Baker-Henry%20I%20think.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>KIMBERLY BARTH WITH HER SPICY RELATIVE</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXhgTRhZYvSObgweb8Gh3aZKtBupRLqohvp35PLDSWAPUj6bIWxFlzUaKjmLyfsxCJGVg7WmR6T5mY3_npw0Te82wJLqYMNTU4pZE1YFlh8PvYqyByrcRZ4ASLOfy0DoKbmx7htU9rrzg6UQLnqBeTHuWngavy1J5dBC14LddNazptHkrTEO1/s960/Kimberly%20Barth%20at%20ocean%20with%20Tracy%20Henry%20in%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXhgTRhZYvSObgweb8Gh3aZKtBupRLqohvp35PLDSWAPUj6bIWxFlzUaKjmLyfsxCJGVg7WmR6T5mY3_npw0Te82wJLqYMNTU4pZE1YFlh8PvYqyByrcRZ4ASLOfy0DoKbmx7htU9rrzg6UQLnqBeTHuWngavy1J5dBC14LddNazptHkrTEO1/s16000/Kimberly%20Barth%20at%20ocean%20with%20Tracy%20Henry%20in%202019.jpg" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b> <span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">KIM READY FOR A SWIM WITH TRACEY HENRY</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MRicg_pdo8T_2bAR2C3oEWYzIxdOTINNFA1N9z36WeKaGCUXOm4Xs9d4GcWNxi_IQqV3JPzBef0cmoHHCt1cmSCYxW2V4X4YqoyxULHqOOZGCJjD-_uuhCedsqSsO2WKWn4XqpMlkV5VBS0ajRTKTWnd49GTus0P4dGaEfowCnsIEUe5GsxB/s1680/Kimberly%20Barth%20in%20park%20in%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MRicg_pdo8T_2bAR2C3oEWYzIxdOTINNFA1N9z36WeKaGCUXOm4Xs9d4GcWNxi_IQqV3JPzBef0cmoHHCt1cmSCYxW2V4X4YqoyxULHqOOZGCJjD-_uuhCedsqSsO2WKWn4XqpMlkV5VBS0ajRTKTWnd49GTus0P4dGaEfowCnsIEUe5GsxB/s16000/Kimberly%20Barth%20in%20park%20in%202019.jpg" /></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>KIM IN PARK IN 2019</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahOb2zYQH_jZUXO9C3iir76rAOlFwF6qYM7TGZ7oKMRBiBNwhYuGPqzhHwOTCLGKjWWyTLtR4HRAEnirsLQ3ikqv003Dvx5zaoQUC-aOCbb1qMnObNxn4aBbizYoVBWCvMpXj32pJTLqoaeQCLGjX2GI-Vv3YOB_KtNZe_Ls2lB891_NcgkR9/s1280/Kimberly%20Barth%20on%20right%20with%20Scioto%20Valley%20Chorus%20in%202020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahOb2zYQH_jZUXO9C3iir76rAOlFwF6qYM7TGZ7oKMRBiBNwhYuGPqzhHwOTCLGKjWWyTLtR4HRAEnirsLQ3ikqv003Dvx5zaoQUC-aOCbb1qMnObNxn4aBbizYoVBWCvMpXj32pJTLqoaeQCLGjX2GI-Vv3YOB_KtNZe_Ls2lB891_NcgkR9/s16000/Kimberly%20Barth%20on%20right%20with%20Scioto%20Valley%20Chorus%20in%202020.jpg" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><b> <span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">KIM WITH EXUBERANT FRIENDS, MAYBE IN SCIOTO VALLEY CHORUS, IN 2019</span></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Here’s your chance to meet the amazing
Kimberly Barth!!!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">If you attend tonight’s monthly BJ
Gathering </span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">at the Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street in downtown
Akron, you will click with Kimberly Barth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>She’s Kent State University adjunct
professor and once was Director of Photography at the BJ during her 1998-2018
time there, arrived 2 years after I retired after 26 marvelous years at 44 E.
Exchange Street. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Ohio State graduate Kim previously was
a Elyria Chronicle-Telegram photographer. She lives in Akron but spent earlier
time at Greenhills, Ohio. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>And has been known to make her singing
voice show up in musical groups, mainly choruses.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>It's the 3<sup>rd</sup> monthly Revival
BJ Gathering that inherits the role held for decades at Papa Joe’s Restaurant
in the Merriman Valley till too many participants passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6:30 p.m. See you there.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>In my day (in the age of dinosaurs)
that important role was held by great guys like Julius Greenberg, with crews
that included Bill Hunter, Ott Gangl, Ed Suba, Don Roese (Don and I had a
reunion in New Zealand when we both visited former newsroom reporter Kathy
Strong, a major Kiwi in journalism famous around the world), and supplemented
by artists like Chuck Ayres, wild and wonderful Derf Baclderf, Ted Schneider
who later became page layouts drawer and actually meet the famous Ann Hill (of the
famous “I didn’t come here to do” letter) in California. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 3.75pt 31.5pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>The late Chasm, Charles Chuck
Montague, went out to dinner with Ann Hill when Chasm was in California visiting
his son, the chef. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-72675911043323302532023-11-14T13:18:00.005-05:002023-11-14T13:29:26.271-05:00ANN SHELDON MEZGER'S FATHER PASSES AWAY AFTER A REMARKABLE LIFE.<p><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvni-dRvbXPut2uavBNlGcr65KNobM_xCClc-3758WX3JU_0HKTa2mCbx-AF5D2FEetBXRV4eUp3V48gpdnfHJdJb1Qk7E7KwKJp_MIeXW2jcIGnQoWxwBIwv7HeOwO14AZv_dWCnhAyOHHsqkwQ73SrHZwMe5uRUO6zCDxNVskYUWEtMOqxyH/s462/2023%20Ann%20Sheldon%20Mezger's%20father,%20Keith%20Malcolm%20Sheldon,%20passes%20away.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvni-dRvbXPut2uavBNlGcr65KNobM_xCClc-3758WX3JU_0HKTa2mCbx-AF5D2FEetBXRV4eUp3V48gpdnfHJdJb1Qk7E7KwKJp_MIeXW2jcIGnQoWxwBIwv7HeOwO14AZv_dWCnhAyOHHsqkwQ73SrHZwMe5uRUO6zCDxNVskYUWEtMOqxyH/s16000/2023%20Ann%20Sheldon%20Mezger's%20father,%20Keith%20Malcolm%20Sheldon,%20passes%20away.webp" /></b></a></div><b><br /></b><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> KEITH MALCOM SHELDON, WHO SURVIVED DIRECT HIT ON HIS WORLD WAR II SHIP THAT KILLED MORE THAN 100 TO PLAY JAZZ IN NEW ORLEANS CLUBS</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mEQO0gMbz7wOnDJy0t0MN_wiy7TTNA0jQTc4Kmk09Ssj2u6n3kZ3gb3DEOWdQRt7kZwN2C5V-Cv4hgmauEvxQSRgbXc_SRAUK7yPr4_N_ut4jr_BsW-Q1yoTq4FMSBzIhmZXld9nqJHdclkWo7vUrp6LPVlnH0m_tkudCY-2fTer2sMxNlXC/s2048/2023%20Ann%20Sheldon%20Mezger%20with%20father%20Keith%20at%20Christmas%202015%20father%20photo%20of%20a%20ton%20of%20people.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mEQO0gMbz7wOnDJy0t0MN_wiy7TTNA0jQTc4Kmk09Ssj2u6n3kZ3gb3DEOWdQRt7kZwN2C5V-Cv4hgmauEvxQSRgbXc_SRAUK7yPr4_N_ut4jr_BsW-Q1yoTq4FMSBzIhmZXld9nqJHdclkWo7vUrp6LPVlnH0m_tkudCY-2fTer2sMxNlXC/s16000/2023%20Ann%20Sheldon%20Mezger%20with%20father%20Keith%20at%20Christmas%202015%20father%20photo%20of%20a%20ton%20of%20people.jpg" /></b></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> ANN NEXT TO HER FATHER (RED CLOTHING) AT 2015 HUGE FAMILY GATHERING FOR CHRISTMAS<br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Ann Sheldon Mezger’s amazing father passes away<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>The father of Ann Sheldon Mezger, my Features Department chief when
I was Television Editor at the BJ, passed away. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>His life would make an enthralling, mesmerizing movie!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Minnesota native Keith Malcolm Sheldon played in his high school
band as a prelude to joining the U.S. Navy Band!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>And served on the U.S.S. Wasp in the Pacific Ocean during World War
II. And survived a Japanese boming that killed 102 of those aboard!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Keith married New Orleans lady Ruth Elaine Thomas in <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">1948 when he wasn’t playing jazz in one of my
favorite cities in the world. Their six children included Ann, Jane, Robert,
Mary, Laura and Margaret.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Keith retired in 1983 after a career with
Eastern Airlines that began in 1948. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Keith’s wife Ruth and daughter Mary Hyatt
predeceased him. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Besides Ann and husband Roger Mezger, another
brilliant BJ retirees, who live in Akron, Keith’s survivors include daughters
and sons-in-law Jane and Henri Baile of St. Ismier, France; Laura and Sandy
Olevitch of Minneapolis; and Margaret and Jack Kukura of Columbus; son Robert
of Woodstock, Ga; son-in-law Rob Hyatt of Santa Rosa, Fla.; 12 grandchildren;
four great-grandchildren; and brother Doug of Fallbrook, Calif.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Calling
hours will be 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Jenkins Funeral Chapel, 2914
Dover Center Road, Westlake, OH. His funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be
celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at St. Raphael Church, 525 Dover
Center Road, Bay Village, with burial to follow at Lakewood Park Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2f5597; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2F5597; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><b>Keith’s obituary:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Keith Malcolm Sheldon, a loving husband,
father, World War II veteran, musician, genealogist and retired sales executive
for Eastern Air Lines, died in Akron, Ohio, on Nov. 11. He was 99.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>He was born on Aug. 5, 1924, near Nelson in
rural Douglas County, Minnesota, and in 1936 he moved with his parents Robert
and Emmalyn, younger sister and two younger brothers to a farm in nearby
Alexandria Township.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>He played trombone with his high school
band, and after graduation in 1942, he enlisted in the Navy. He then auditioned
for and was accepted as a member of the U.S. Navy Band. Following months of
training at the U.S. Navy School of Music in Washington, D.C., he was assigned
to the newly launched U.S.S. Wasp (CV-18), where he was part of a gun crew and
played in the aircraft carrier’s band.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Aboard the Wasp, he served in the Pacific
Theater of Operations in 1944 and 1945 and survived a direct hit on the carrier
by a Japanese armor- piercing bomb, an attack that killed at least 102 of his
crewmates.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>After the war, he played with the Navy Band
in postings on the West Coast and finally in New Orleans, La., where he met
Ruth Elaine Thomas. The couple were married on Oct. 23, 1948, and over the next
20 years had six children — Ann, Jane, Robert, Mary, Laura and Margaret.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Also in 1948, Mr. Sheldon began work as an
Eastern Air Lines ticket agent in New Orleans. Subsequent promotions to
management positions led to transfers to Toledo, New York City, St. Louis and
finally Cleveland, in 1966. He retired from Eastern Air Lines in 1983.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>After his transfer to Cleveland, the family
moved to Bay Village, where Mr. Sheldon lived until moving to an apartment at
Ohio Living Rockynol in Akron in 2015.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Throughout most of his life, Mr. Sheldon
pursued his love of music. During his early days in New Orleans, he
occasionally played with jazz ensembles at clubs in the French Quarter. He sang
in and directed church choirs. He played trombone in community bands and
orchestras. He served as president of Bay High School’s Band Boosters.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>During the 1970s, Mr. Sheldon developed an
interest in genealogy, tracing his own roots, as well as those of his wife
Ruth. Ancestors he discovered included a Quaker who became a prisoner-of-war
during the American Revolution after the ship he captained was captured by the
British, the 17th century British poet John Dryden, and a knight who rode with
William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066. He
published two books: Sheldons at Bicentennial (in 1979) and John Sheldon of
Providence (in 1984). For a number of years, he served as national president of
the Sheldon Family Association.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Mr. Sheldon was preceded in death by his
wife Ruth and daughter Mary Hyatt. His survivors include daughters and
sons-in-law Ann and Roger Mezger of Akron; Jane and Henri Baile of St. Ismier,
France; Laura and Sandy Olevitch of Minneapolis; and Margaret and Jack Kukura
of Columbus; son Robert of Woodstock, Ga; son-in-law Rob Hyatt of Santa Rosa,
Fla.; twelve grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and brother Doug of
Fallbrook, Calif.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>Calling hours for Mr. Sheldon will be 3 to 5
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Jenkins Funeral Chapel, 2914 Dover Center Road,
Westlake, OH. His funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10:30
a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, at St. Raphael Church, 525 Dover Center Road, Bay
Village, with burial to follow at Lakewood Park Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="muitypography-root" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #303030; font-size: 18pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><b>In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to
Rockynol Employee Appreciation Fund, Ohio Living Rockynol, 1150 W. Market St.,
Akron, OH 44313. Please write “Rockynol Employee Appreciation Fund” on the
check memo line.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-54384117682743181532023-11-12T16:19:00.003-05:002023-11-14T12:50:04.130-05:00MONTHLY BJ GATHERING IS THURSDAY, NOV. 16. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE! LET US KNOW IF YOU'RE COMING SO WE CAN ADD YOU NAME TO THIS ARTICLE.<p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Will you be at
monthly BJ Gathering 6:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 16?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Will YOU be
attending the every 3<sup>rd</sup> Thursday of the month BJ Gathering at 6:30
p.m. Thursday, November 16 at the Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street,
Akron on the third Thursday of every month?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">If you plan to
attend, email John Olesky at </span><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:jo4wvu@neo.rr.com"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">jo4wvu@neo.rr.com</span></a></span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> or Kimberly Barth, Katie Byard or
John Olesky on their Facebook pages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>I will publish
the names of everyone who says they WILL attend in this article. And take
photos of everyone who shows up for the post-BJ Gathering article on Friday.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>As we were at
the BJ we are a team. If not enough show up then the monthly BJ Gathering wlll
die for lack of attendance as the ones decades ago at Papa Joe’s did. At least
the Papa Joe’s missing weren’t there because they passed away.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>If you haven’t
passed away, join the crowd Thursday!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Bill O’Connor,
Mike Williams, Jim Carney and wife Katie Byard, retired reporters; Dave Scott, </span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(246, 246, 246); font-size: 18pt;">BJ regional issues reporter and deputy Business Editor
before the April 2014 BJ buyouts exodus</span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">; 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, can
tell you how they enjoyed earlier monthly BJ Gatherings.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>As Bill O'Connor, who made my October BJ Gathering so memorable about our BJ memories, put it:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Hope there's a good turnout of the Beacon Bunch. Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end. No need to end the camaraderie we had. In the words of that famous philosopher Russ Musarra, are we having fun yet?</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Unfortunately, Bill "will </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">be in Cleveland Thursday with family for a birthday celebration (mine - although date is 17th)."</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Why be a
party-pooper? Chat with your BJ friends again as you did when you worked at 44
E. Exchange Street.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Notify John
Olesky, Kimberly Barth or Katie Byard NOW so that John can add your name to the
I’M COMING list! <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Thank you. See
you there because I’ll be there as I have been at every BJ Gatherings revival
so far.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>And Kimberly Barth said she'll be there, too.</b></span></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-89982245340649963002023-10-27T22:36:00.001-04:002023-10-27T22:36:12.121-04:00MIZELL'S STEWART LATEST JOURNALISM CAROUSEL RIDE: KSU PROFESSIONAL-IN-RESIDENCE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1aA8qI17dN_f5cs0UUj7PMJj2bNNwwtDukqo61oDGTGcIDBBesPQfLrnisMK3VJiQ_0GJcBFevYhYG8aVA8IszBqaJn80pZZc1xJDFSdQ9j-4b8PYiQw0bhBUQoEMzD4SBb8QKi39rxYOcvklUUp0tOr76RpkUWhqtNHtCBgilpGwJjKJ4gs-/s160/Stewart%20Mizell%20photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="101" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1aA8qI17dN_f5cs0UUj7PMJj2bNNwwtDukqo61oDGTGcIDBBesPQfLrnisMK3VJiQ_0GJcBFevYhYG8aVA8IszBqaJn80pZZc1xJDFSdQ9j-4b8PYiQw0bhBUQoEMzD4SBb8QKi39rxYOcvklUUp0tOr76RpkUWhqtNHtCBgilpGwJjKJ4gs-/w404-h640/Stewart%20Mizell%20photo.jpg" width="404" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> <b>MIZELL LANDS ANOTHER BIG ROLE</b></span></p><p></p><p style="background: #FEFEFE; mso-line-height-alt: 20.25pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab";">Busy Mizell’s latest: KSU
professional-in-residence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE; line-height: 20.25pt;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab";">Former BJ managing editor Mizell Stewart III has been named Kent
State’s School of Media and Journalism professional-in-residence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 20.25pt; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab";">Previously,
he was the Vice President of News Performance, Talent & Partnerships for
Gannett and the USA TODAY Network.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 20.25pt; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab";">Since
his arrival in September, Stewart has begun engaging as a “consultant” to
Student Media. </span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Beginning
in Spring 2024, Stewart will teach two classes, Media Law and Media Enterprise,
within the School of Media and Journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 20.25pt; margin: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab"; mso-themecolor: accent1;">A four-time Pulitzer Prize juror, Stewart helped lead
the team at <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Roboto Slab";">The
Sun Herald</span></em> in Biloxi, Miss. that won the 2006 Pulitzer Gold
Medal in Public Service for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Bowling Green
graduate Stewart, later on the Ohio university’s Board of Trustees, also is on
the boards of the National Trust for Local News, Public Agenda, the National
Press Club Journalism Institute and Journalism Funding Partners and is a member
of advisory boards for PBS Frontline and Report for America.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-78147256910098160322023-10-19T22:24:00.004-04:002023-10-19T22:55:11.815-04:00IF YOU WEREN'T THERE YOU MISSED A LEGENDARY GATHERING OF BJ FOLKS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKD5UlQbMzSspswqMqI2jGM5re1I9yQgJ_Yo1JFkW1-VZ8uo3m5xxfAw05vbZSdvnZTRkg7AZk_3KfqYpmIw9rGo4WvqqwKRDmsjWkMmmxTzk8IDyBrywSeHlmdJiKZ_KYyb2aowQTxs2lIAcIyiO81rGIKhPB85jCgy1DYroW8gLe0Zm8t4L/s960/2023%20BJ%20Gathering%20in%20October%20Bill%20O'Connor%20Joan%20Salisbury%20John%20Olesky.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKD5UlQbMzSspswqMqI2jGM5re1I9yQgJ_Yo1JFkW1-VZ8uo3m5xxfAw05vbZSdvnZTRkg7AZk_3KfqYpmIw9rGo4WvqqwKRDmsjWkMmmxTzk8IDyBrywSeHlmdJiKZ_KYyb2aowQTxs2lIAcIyiO81rGIKhPB85jCgy1DYroW8gLe0Zm8t4L/s16000/2023%20BJ%20Gathering%20in%20October%20Bill%20O'Connor%20Joan%20Salisbury%20John%20Olesky.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> <b>SEE HOW MUCH FUN IT IS TO BE AT THE MONTHLY BJ GATHERING? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> BILL O'CONNOR, JOAN SALISBURY, JOHN OLESKY</b></span></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgk43_Qjq1Rjt5-l02A_dDP2tDhbn9bTD1PN8x_bOim9RnG_7A2vxTFMbHiO2J6gF30Zo2hhyuShFD2upAZDjsf3CkhrdK3Lj7k328VnVq8QipfrzhF00fsXEYQmLlrmnZJsQhCPtE5qftt-PyEEycm66zr2tDid9YoCDI9bFW7ReeUGG_Kvn/s960/2023%20BJ%20gathering%20in%20October%20John%20Olesky%20Bill%20O'Connor%20Mike%20Williams.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNgk43_Qjq1Rjt5-l02A_dDP2tDhbn9bTD1PN8x_bOim9RnG_7A2vxTFMbHiO2J6gF30Zo2hhyuShFD2upAZDjsf3CkhrdK3Lj7k328VnVq8QipfrzhF00fsXEYQmLlrmnZJsQhCPtE5qftt-PyEEycm66zr2tDid9YoCDI9bFW7ReeUGG_Kvn/s16000/2023%20BJ%20gathering%20in%20October%20John%20Olesky%20Bill%20O'Connor%20Mike%20Williams.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>BJ TRIFECTA: JOHN OLESKY, BILL O'CONNOR, MIKE WILLIAMS</b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">My, oh my, what a GREAT time YOU didn't have!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">If you missed
the October BJ Gathering you blew your chance to have a rollicking good time!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The revival of
the BJ Gathering, held for decades at Papa Joe’s in the Merriman Valley, is
</span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">at </span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">the
Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street, Akron.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Even though I
sent email reminders to maybe 30 people the only ones who showed up this time were former
BJ features writer Bill O’Connor, former Advertising Department layouts guy
Mike Williams (who provides Tower Topics articles to me with the name of the
person I tell Mike I’m going to write an article about for this blog), and John Olesky, former Television
Editor/assistant State Desk editor, former Managing Editor Scott Bosley’s problem-solver
that once included reorganizing desks and seating for everyone in the newsroom,
former technology coordinator with Ken Wright in Composing and in other
departments to keep the new-fangled computers from overwhelming everyone and John’s Tallmadge condo lady friend, Joan Salisbury, formerly of Glen
Burnie, Maryland, a Baltimore suburb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">But what a
riotous, non-stop laughing time we had!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Bill, who
visits his wife’s Switzerland when they’re not in their sumptuous Summit County
home where they throw parties to rival Perle Mesta (Hostess With the Mostess
from the “Call Me Madame” movie), regaled everyone at the table with tales of
tumbling merchandise that scared nasty management types.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Mike, who the
late Johnny Grimm handed layouts with the ads marked in them for Mike to turn
over to the newsroom to plunk stories around, had memories of life with his wife and high altitude adventures where she spent years with her first husband.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John recalled
whirling dervish and newspaper master guru Pat Englehart, the overseer and
driving force and #1 reason the BJ won a Pulitizer for its coverage of the 1970
killing of 4 and wounding of 9 Kent State students by the Ohio National Guard for having the temerity to give
their opinion opposing the Vietnam War, a mistake people in power made
before vamoosing from the country in disgrace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John also told
of the late assistant State Desk editor Harry Liggett, who double-checked every
fact in a State Desk reporter's story quietly without being noticed, then loudly and with the legendary Liggett gruffiness calling out the reporter’s name and challenging the errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Harry’s tactics
were so legendary that when Harry, after finding holes in one story he was
reading, shouted “Cindy!” the woman who wrote the story began bawling as if her
family had perished in a home fire because she knew she had been caught not being accurate. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Neither Harry nor John allowed reporters to stray from the facts
because they knew Pat would be on them like a Tasmanian Devil if they were sloppy
about enforcing Pat's penchant for accuracy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black", sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 24px;">As Bill pointed out at the BJ Gathering, even though the Cleveland Plain Dealer had much larger circulation it was not a pleasant place to work while the BJ was a family ruckus every night, nose to nose disputes and laughing and drinking at the Printer’s Club once we successfully got the latest edition of the BJ rolling on the presses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black", sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 24px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">John also revealed, as Scott Bosley's problem-solver, that Scott told John, in rearranging desks and personnel locations, to "make sure you have at least 3 walls around Fran (Murphey, the columnist with the bib overalls and papers on her desk that were piled so high they touched the ceiling) and that one of the walls is placed so that visitors who get off the (third floor) elevator (to the newsroom) can't see Fran" with her calamity-inviting pile of paper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Remarkably, if you asked Fran for some information she would reach into the 6-foot mountain of papers and pull the exact information you needed from about 3.7 feet above the desktop.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">If you don’t
want to miss out on a fun time AGAIN, much like the ones we had across the street
from the 44 E. Exchange Street BJ at the Printer’s Club (OK, bar) after we had put out another
product, show up</span><span face=""Arial Black", sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt;"> at the Missing
Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street, Akron on the third Thursday of every month –
November 16 next month – or stay home where you will hear the uproarish laughter from
people who cared about and enjoyed being with such a magnificently talented group.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Bears never
enjoyed bear-hugging as much as we did at the BJ. I loved working at 44 E.
Exchange Street so much that I ran to work every night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">So, show up or
miss the fun the third Thursday of every month at the Missing Falls Brewery
where BJ folks pick a spot almost out the door and away from the rooms with
raucous bars that prevented us from hearing each other’s tales and laughing and having
a warm, warm feeling in our hearts!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-41544625346635285252023-10-17T13:52:00.011-04:002023-10-19T12:42:43.290-04:00CATCHING UP WITH MARK DAWIDZIAK, DAVID BIANCULLI, DON ROSENBERG, JANIS FROELICH, BILL O'CONNOR, BOB SPRINGER, BOB DYER & MIKE WILLIAMS<p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNwb5g4x4-qF1W_HI_6vUUiY5klZljzluYuEMKtIIjwanO6NLzjySPjs3nv1NyO1gMlT5scUks40bCpfMxsV2CxgcB2fIPHOROqwfoBuA9oyALWSbDuf2lc1USsaUS9bLyZeu5tYTgM68O_9tZT6hgk1S3_sH7Hqu8CgSwZVJSD-M-fpdgg3p/s1984/Mark%20Dawidziak,%20R.D.%20Heldenfels,%20David%20Bianculli,%20Don%20Rosenberg,%20Jane%20Snow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1488" data-original-width="1984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNwb5g4x4-qF1W_HI_6vUUiY5klZljzluYuEMKtIIjwanO6NLzjySPjs3nv1NyO1gMlT5scUks40bCpfMxsV2CxgcB2fIPHOROqwfoBuA9oyALWSbDuf2lc1USsaUS9bLyZeu5tYTgM68O_9tZT6hgk1S3_sH7Hqu8CgSwZVJSD-M-fpdgg3p/s16000/Mark%20Dawidziak,%20R.D.%20Heldenfels,%20David%20Bianculli,%20Don%20Rosenberg,%20Jane%20Snow.jpg" /></span></b></a></div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> MARK DAWIDZIAK, RICH HELDENFELS, DAVID BIANCULLI, DON ROSENBERG & JANE SNOW AT LONG-AGO BJ GATHERING AT PRIMO'S DELI ON VERNON ODOM BOULEVARD IN AKRON IN 2012</b></span></p><div style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.29px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Mark Dawidziak reunion
with David Bianculli and Don Rosenberg<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Plus news about
Janis Froelich, Mike Williams, Bob Springer & Bill O’Connor<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Former BJ
occupants at 44 E. Exchange Street are having a reunion in New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Mark Dawidziak,
my TV critic when I was Television Editor at the BJ, who has Edgar Allan Poe
talks scheduled in the Philadelphia-Baltimore area, is spending a few days with
David Bianculli, also my TV critic during my Television Editor years at Ol’
Blue Walls, and Don Rosenberg, classical music critic at the BJ.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Mark’s response
to my email inviting him to the 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 19 monthly BJ
Gathering at </span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">the
Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street, Akron:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“Writing this
from David’s home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, outside of Philadelphia. Tonight
we head for the Abingdon library north of Baltimore. Tomorrow, Baltimore. Give
everyone my best. I’ll do my best to make next month’s gathering.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Janis Froelich,
in the BJ Features Department at one time, sends her regrets from sunny
Florida:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“Since colder
weather is coming, I probably won't be in Ohio anytime soon. But I do have a
high school reunion in August 2024 (don't ask what year). And I usually come in
the spring. So I'll keep this BJ monthly event in mind.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“I now teach a
writing class at Eckerd College near my island home of Tierra Verde. I love
seeing all forms of writing so I'm keeping involved.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“Thanks for all
you do, John for BJ Alums.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Tierra Verde is
a fantastic 667-acre island near the entrance to Tampa Bay and its population
of 3,721 is connected by bridges of the Pinellas Byway to St. Petersburg and
St. Pete Beach (with its fantastic pier where I’ve seen swarms of fish come
close to the pier to get grab fish hooked and still struggling). <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Very upscale,
too. Average family income on Tierra Verde is more than $100,000.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>The 15 original
islands are now the present six areas of Tierra Verde: Monte Cristo, Entrada,
Pinellas Bayway, Sands Point, East Shore (Bayview) and West Shore (Oceanview).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Bob Dyer, Ohio Columnist of the Year more times than I can count, replied to my invitation:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>"Thanks, but I'm in Mexico. Have fun!"</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>iOle!</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Katie Byard, one of the BJers who revived the BJ Gatherings, replied:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>"Jimmy (Carney) and I won't be to make it this month. Familia birthday party. Stay safe, everyone."</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Katie and Jim are wife and husband and both were reporters at the BJ.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Betty Lin-Fisher, who attended the September BJ Gathering, posted:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>"Sorry I won't make it this month to the Gathering. A high school friend from Chicago is doing a quick and last-minute college visit to Kent State and staying at our house. Hope to see you next month!"<br /><br /></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent1;">As for Thursday’s
monthly BJ gathering at </span><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">the
Missing Falls Brewery, former Librarian Diane Lynch will be there. Diane joined David and Beth Hertz at a 2019 BJ reunion.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Mike Williams, a 1971 summer intern at the BJ, told me
he plans to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Mike responded
to my email:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>“I certainly
share the pain over the new technologies they (current BJ employees at the Main
Street relocation from 44 E. Exchange Street) had to endure.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>So do I, Mike. People
like me, Dawidziak, Bianculli, Rosenberg, Froelich had a much better
environment, with owner John S. Knight in his corner office after he flew from
his Miami Herald office to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby the first Saturday
in May treating everyone from the janitor to the BJ carriers to management like
family.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>I enjoyed the
BJ so much that I ran to work every day. Few grumpies in the newsroom. And so
much talent. And support, financial and back-patting, from JSK and upper
management.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>And I got the
extra bonus of starting out as assistant State Desk editor under the late Pat
Englehart, a whirling dervish that drove management crazy but instilled loyalty
in his underlings. With Harry Liggett at my side the State Desk editors and
reporters would push and demand excellence and respect for the BJ readers that
produced a superior product with helping hands from management.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Those, indeed,
were “the good ol’ days” of my 42-year newspaper career in West Virginia,
Florida, Montana and Ohio, particularly my 26 years at Ol’ Blue Walls (somebody
got the idea to pain EVERY wall in the multi-story building “Beacon Blue”).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>From former BJ op ed editor Bob
Springer has a prior commitment:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>“Hey,
John. Sorry, I have something else going Thursday night in Kent.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Bob and
Barbara Hipsman Spring were married September 1, 1979. I had to get my
calculator out to figure out that’s FORTY FOUR years of wedded bliss.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Bob
Springer’s father studied accounting at Chicago Loyola. His classmate was Bob
Newhart, the famous comedian!!!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Barbara
retired after 26 years teaching journalism at Kent State. Bob also spent time on
the KSU faculty. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b><span style="background-color: white;">Bob and
Barbara live in Fort Myers, Florida.</span> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b>Bill O’Connor, former
BJ super features writer who still lives not all that many miles from 44 E.
Exchange Street and throws upscale fun parties from time to time, told me “I
will try to make it (to the monthly BJ gatherings) when I can.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p><b> </b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Black",sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">The host with
the most would be sure to brighten the gathering, as he does when he throws
parties at his upscale home.</span><o:p style="font-size: 18pt;"></o:p></b></span></p><br /><p></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7680885.post-81582826026009909692023-10-17T02:20:00.003-04:002023-10-17T02:20:18.206-04:00HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE REVIVAL OF THE MONTHLY BJ GATHERING OF RETIREES AND EMPLOYEES AT 6:30 P.M. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Monthly BJ Gathering
6:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">The revival of Monthly
BJ Gatherings are in the Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street, Akron on the
third Thursday of every month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">That means you
can join BJ retirees and current employees at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 19.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">September’s BJ
Gathering not far from new BJ newsroom high up in the former Goodrich Rubber
building, also on Main Street, drew <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Jim Carney and
wife Katie Byard, retired reporters; Dave Scott, </span><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #2e75b6; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">BJ
regional issues reporter and deputy Business Editor before the April 2014 BJ
buyouts exodus</span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">;
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background: #F6F6F6; color: #2e75b6; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">Dave Scott and wife Jane Gaab Scott live in Copley. </span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Kimberly Barth
and Katie Byard revived the monthly BJ gathering for BJ retirees and current
employes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">If you plan to
attend, email John Olesky at <a href="mailto:jo4wvu@neo.rr.com">jo4wvu@neo.rr.com</a>
or Kimberly Barth, Katie Byard or John Olesky on their Facebook pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Everyone pays for their own dinner and drinks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: accent1;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>John Oleskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08533475074156525495noreply@blogger.com0