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Published on Friday, Nov 06, 2009
AKRON
Garage fire
AKRON: A car fire spread from an Akron garage early Thursday morning to the first floor of the home causing extensive damage.
Firefighters found heavy smoke and flames coming from a garage and first floor of a home in the 2000 block of Daniels Avenue when they arrived on the scene shortly after 5 a.m.
Authorities have determined the cause of the fire was electrical, and the blaze caused about $20,000 damage to the building, which was valued at $70,000.
No one was injured in the fire and an adult living in the home was displaced. The American Red Cross was called in to help the resident.
Memorial walk
AKRON: The fourth Carol A. Brodbeck Memorial Walk will be at Firestone Metro Park at 10 a.m. Saturday.
A scholarship fund has been set up at the University of Akron College of Nursing to honor Brodbeck, and three scholarships already have been awarded to students of the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, organizers said.
Brodbeck, who was a nurse for more than 35 years, died in August 2006 of a blood disorder.
Suggested donations of $25 will be used from the walk to help fund the scholarship.
Brodbeck, a 1968 graduate of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, was known affectionately as ''Peanut'' to her friends and classmates. She was a longtime volunteer for the OPEN M Free Clinic and established the Visiting Nurse Service as the first such center in the state for diabetic home care.
Those wishing to donate should make checks payable to the University of Akron Foundation.
For more information, call Nancy at 330-836-2866 or Bob at 330-620-5795.
Refreshments will be served in the Coventry Oaks Pavilion at the park, 40 Axline Ave., in Akron.
BARBERTON
Texting ban
BARBERTON: Texting while driving on city streets and highways is now banned in the city.
The city council approved the ban this week.
The only exemption is for police or emergency workers.
The fine is $150.
COVENTRY TWP.
Life-saving tips
COVENTRY TWP.: ''Crucial Steps to Protect Lives'' will be the topic of the meeting at 7:30 Monday of the Portage Lakes Community Council.
The program, led by the Coventry Township Fire Department, will focus on what can be done to save lives before emergency vehicles arrive. It will be at Township Hall, 68 Portage Lakes Drive (behind the fire department).
For more information, call 330-644-2735 or 330-644-4249.
KENT STATE
Training grant
KENT: Kent State has received a $2.7 million training grant from the National Science Foundation to prepare doctoral students in aquatic resource sensing.
The grant is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment At of 2009 and runs through 2014.
The university was one of more than 400 institutions to provide pre-proposals that were narrowed to about 100 proposals, 25 of which were funded.
The grant will train doctoral students in environmental-sensing technology to learn how to protect aquatic environments. That will help to prepare students for careers related to freshwater resources, the university said.
Currently three doctoral students from Kent State and three from Miami University, which is a subcontractor in the grant, are taking part in project. The training started this semester.
STARK COUNTY
No votes for mayor
LIMAVILLE: Election officials say poll workers made a mistake and provided the wrong ballot to all 42 people who voted Tuesday in a small town in Stark County.
As a result, nobody could vote in the race for mayor in Limaville, though it wasn't much of a race anyway, because incumbent Mayor Tami Angel ran unopposed.
Angel said she wanted her name on the ballot.
Stark County Board of Elections Director Jeanette Mullane says though Angel got zero votes, state law permits her to hold on to her seat until 2011, the earliest another election can be held in the village.
Mullane said the poll workers in Limaville mistakenly loaded touch-screen voting machines with a ballot for a neighboring precinct.
WADSWORTH
Land sale
WADSWORTH: The city council Wednesday agreed to sell land to Wadsworth schools.
The land is south of Central Intermediate School and fronts on South Lyman Street. The city will receive $27,000 for a parcel that is less than an acre.
The council also placed $14,611 in the Akron Road Tax Increment Financing Fund. Those funds will be given to the school system as its portion of the increased taxes from the commercial development at the intersection of Akron Road and Interstate 76.
State law requires the city to provide the school system with a portion of the new taxes from development of land where developers are given tax breaks.
WADSWORTH SCHOOLS
WHS grad honored
WADSWORTH: NASA astronaut Capt. Michael J. Foreman has been named to receive the Gammons Scholar Team Telescope Award by the Gammons Charitable Foundation for being an exceptional role model for students.
The telescope will be presented to Wadsworth City Schools in honor of Foreman, a 1975 graduate, at the Board of Education meeting 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in the library at the high school, 625 Broad St.
Foreman flew on the shuttle Endeavor's STS-123 mission and is assigned as a specialist on the shuttle Discovery's upcoming STS-129 mission that will deliver two experiment racks to the International Space Station.
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