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Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
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Muslim McCarthyism & Death Prayers
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Federal Judge Declares DOMA Unconstitutional
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Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
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Norma asks if Barkitecture is still at Stan Hywet.
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Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, Mar 08, 2009
Canton native Carl G. Carlozzi is an Episcopal priest who lives in Phoenix. As many priests do, he served parishes, supported charities and helped the needy.
But since he retired in 2002 he's had an equally valued, but more unusual job: as full-time chaplain of the Phoenix Fire Department. His book Fire Department Religion: A Hopeful Story about Religious Coequality and Being Nice! is Carlozzi's plea for ecumenism and adherence to the Golden Rule.
The ''story'' isn't a narrative but a common-sense reminder of the need for each religion to be ''celebrating, respecting, and validating the unique religious tradition of the others.'' Carlozzi's duties include ministering to firefighters, but he also goes on call to accident and crime scenes; he proposes that your local fire department is the model for religious coequality because they help everyone, regardless of income, religion, race or any other consideration.
In the end, it all comes down to this: Be nice. Fire Department Religion (142 pages, softcover) costs $19.99 from http://www.xlibris.com.
Railroad pictorial series
Arcadia, the New Hampshire publisher of annotated pictorials, has added two local books in its Images of Rail series: Canton Area Railroads by Craig Sanders and Railroad Depots of Northeast Ohio by Mark J. Camp. Each combines vintage black-and-white photos with captions and commentary.
Sanders is president of the Akron Railroad Club. Canton Area Railroads includes interurban electric railways and later scenic trains like those sponsored by the Orrville Railroad Heritage Society. Camp, a director of the Railroad Station Historical Society, drew from his own collection of photos for his research on depots, which vary widely in size and style: There are shacks, charming little shelters and Cleveland's Beaux Arts Terminal Tower.
Canton Area Railroads ($21.99) and Railroad Depots of Northeast Ohio ($19.99), each 127 pages, are available from http://www.arcadiapublishing.com. A set of 15 Canton Area Railroads postcards costs $7.99.
'The Giant Falafel Ball'
Tim Bugansky of Alliance's J.B. Solomon Editions is currently living in Israel, and has a short story called The Giant Falafel Ball in an anthology commemorating Tel Aviv's centennial. One review of Tel Aviv Short Stories leads with Bugansky's story about the narrator's grandfather's tall tales, among them one about a giant ball of falafel that ''saved his adopted city from imminent destruction.'' The book is available from online retailers.
Events
Cuyahoga County Public Library, Brecksville branch (9089 Brecksville Road) — Attorney and professor David Koepsell will discuss and sign Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes. 1 p.m. today.
Stewart's Caring Place (2955 W. Market St.) — Rebecca M. Shepard will sign Joy Comes in the Morning: A Mother and Daughter's Cancer Journey, which she wrote with her mother, the late Jessie M. Lockett, who died in 2005. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday.
Seton Catholic School (6923 Stow Road, Hudson) — Cuyahoga Falls resident Jennifer Hanselman will sign Return of the Party of Nine: Life with Sextuplets + One. 7 p.m. Thursday.
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Donald Pollock discusses and signs Knockemstiff, his amazing collection of dark stories named for his former Ross County home. 7 p.m. Thursday.
Visible Voice Bookstore (1023 Kenilworth Ave., Cleveland) — Cleveland resident Ted Schwarz talks about Marilyn Monroe and signs Marilyn Revealed: The Ambitious Life of an American Icon. 7 p.m. Friday.
Learned Owl Book Shop (204 N. Main St., Hudson) — Carla Snyder will sign 300 Sensational Soups (her co-author is Meredith Deeds). Samples are promised. 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
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