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Pope promotes priest to bishop in Michigan
By BARBARA CHRISTIAN
CHAGRIN FALLS – Holy Week 2013 is one the Rev. David J. Walkowiak will not soon forget at St. Joan of Arc Church.
It was then that he learned he was about to leave life as a Catholic parish priest to become bishop of the 11-county, 200,000-member, 85-parish and 32-school Diocese of Grand Rapids, Mich., an appointment made by Pope Francis.
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Solar shade
Auburn Township residents Ava Lewandowski, 4, Ed Lewandowski, Kenston fifth-grader Chase King, 11, and Nathan Lewandowski, 12, who attends St. Helen School in Newbury, look at solar panels in front of Kenston Intermediate School on Sunday after a renewable-energy dedication of a wind turbine.
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New state law tackles concussion problem
Jack Krienen is a soccer referee after prep and college soccer action resulted in five concussions that ended his career. He officiated Saturday in Solon.
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Bids sought for resurfacing of Liberty, Richmond roads
By Sue Reid
Solon’s engineering department received authorization recently to bid Liberty and Richmond road resurfacing projects.
The Liberty Road resurfacing, which will be from Bainbridge Road to the city’s north corporation limit at Ben-tleyville, is being bid as part of the city’s annual asphalt program for this year. City engineer John J. Busch expected it to be more cost effective if the city bid the two projects together.
The Liberty project will entail resurfacing the road, with the engineer’s estimate at $500,000, which will be paid by the city. The work is expected to be done during the day over the summer, with traffic maintained in both directions in a traffic zone, Mr. Busch said.
The city’s corporation line stops before Solon Road, just north of Land-ings Drive. Bentleyville has resurfaced its portion of road, so there is a clear indication of the corporation line location.
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New state law tackles concussion problem
Katie Paul, a 17-year-old junior at Berkshire High School in Burton, is cautiously considering returning to the soccer field after suffering concussions over the past couple of years.
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Torching of weeds causes fire at greenhouses
By JOSEPH KOZIOL JR.
CHESTER – An attempt to torch weeds at a nursery Sunday set off a blaze that kept firefighters busy for about an hour and forced the closing of a main road.
Firefighters responded at about 2 p.m. to Perennials Preferred, formerly known as Mapes Greenhouse, at 7572 Mayfield Road (Route 322), where workers had been using a propane torch to scorch weeds outside a greenhouse, Chester Fire Chief John Wargelin said.
Wind was blamed for spreading the flame of the torch to an adjacent greenhouse, which then quickly spread to seven other nearby greenhouses, Chief Wargelin said. Those same winds pushed the flames toward a nearby apartment and barn. Flames began to climb along the wall of the apartment, but were extinguished before any substantial damage was caused.
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Lady Tigers roar to 6-1, set sights on title
Chagrin Falls sophomore midfielder Allie Fullmer blazes into attack as Hawken senior Annie Artz tries to cut her off during last Thursday’s lacrosse contest.
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Hawken boys win own tennis tourney
By TONY LANGE
Taking titles on three courts and finishing as runners-up on the other two, the Hawken boys tennis team won its inaugural Richard S. Caraboolad Memorial Tournament on Sunday.
The two-day round robin also included runner-up University School, third-place Kiski School of Saltsburg, Pa., Western Reserve Academy, Gilmour Academy and Lake Ridge Academy.
From the sportsmanship to the awards, it was just one of the nicest tennis gatherings to be a part of, Hawken’s head coach Todd Ferkol said.
"We had these sterling-silver-cup trophies for the kids. And we gave out bronze, silver and gold medals. We had T-shirts. We had Cosmic subs. It was just fantastic," he said with excitement in his voice. "And the guy Richard Caraboolad, he's passed, of course, he was a real avid tennis player, and he would have been really proud of it. It just went super."
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Best of Show brings family into the picture
Charles Deihl of Chagrin Falls won Best of Show for his oil painting “Séance R & L” at the Gates Mills Art Show.
Best of Show brings family into the picture
By SALI McSHERRY
GATES MILLS – Best of Show winner Charles Deihl’s ambitious oil painting “Séance R & L” is so realistic it looks like a photograph.
The painting, comprised of two canvases, features a version of a family tree. Forty-seven family members, intricate portraits painted from photographs, some dating to 1895, appear in various areas of Mr. Deihl and wife Peggy’s contemporary home in Chagrin Falls.
After repeated inquiries at the artists’ reception Sunday evening about how long it took him to complete the project, he calculated the work to be about 2,000 hours, over the span of 13 months for about six hours a day, six days a week.
There’s a portrait of his mother as a baby, his wife’s step-grandfather from the late 1800s, images of those they knew and those they never met. The idea was to take family members out of the photographs and bring them into their home, a form of remembrance; reacquainting with people, he explained.
For 35 years, he worked as a university professor and administrator after having earned two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s in fine arts and working as a graphic designer and illustrator.
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