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Volume 9, No. 6
Friday, January 13, 2023
Kirtland Council Rings in New Year By John Karlovec john@karlovecmedia.com Kirtland City Council members held their first meeting of 2023 on Jan. 4. Prior to tackling the agenda, Mayor Kevin Potter thanked Eu- ND gene DiFranco for hisKcontinued IR TLA investment and reinvestment in the city. “I want everyone to know that Eugene has been a tremendous part of this community,” Potter said. Potter then read and presented DiFranco, owner of landscape supply and equipment company Village Outdoors, with a proclamation ….. While Fire Chief Anthony Hutton did not have a formal report, he thanked Potter and council SCREENSHOT members for their support of a Briar Hill Drive resident Barbara Nye shared with council members recent concerns and issues her family has $589,060 state grant from the Ohio experienced with police due to many officers being part time. She asked council to hire a victim advocate for the First Responder Recruitment, Redepartment. tention and Resilience Program “We did swear in three firefight“It’s been awesome, looking at Hutton if all city buildings are to hire three full-time firefighters, a decision city officials said would ers on Dec. 28,” Hutton said, add- our schedule going forward, things equipped with automatic external help with department staffing and ing two already are working for the look good, very few open shifts,” he defibrillators, or AEDs, referring to Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest in also provide cost savings over the city and the third will start at the said. next 10 years. See Council • Page 7 end of the month. Councilman Rich Lowery asked
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LCC Civic Chorus Celebrates 50 Years By Donna L. Robinson editor@karlovecmedia.com When people sing in a choir, they’re doing something they could not possibly do by themselves. At least, that’s the way Ben Richard sees it. “An excellent chorus is truly greater than the sum of its parts. There is something so satisfying about working together and accomplishing something together, as a group, and as an ensemble,” said the director of Lakeland Community College Civic Chorus. “For me, that’s the most fulfilling part about directing the chorus.” Richard has led middle school, high school and church choirs around the state since 1999, and recently rounded the corner on LCCCC’s 50th anniversary last month. “I’d say the longevity of the chorus is largely related to and influenced by a genuine love of music and a genuine love of singing instilled in the ensemble from the
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Director Ben Richard has the chorus members stand at the end of the 2022 Lakeland Christmas chorus performance.
beginning by founding director Romeo Pallante,” Richard said during a recent interview. “The Lakeland Civic Chorus is absolutely an asset to the college and to the community in general. For one thing, local choral singers have an outlet for their own musical participation and performance. Secondly, the college has, in all of the civic music
ensembles, a community liaison, of sorts, a musical representative of the college in the community. And people in the community have easy access to affordable, quality choral performances.” Richard, who has a master’s degree in music from Ohio University, took over the LCCCC last year, making it one of eight choirs he
currently directs in Lake County. “I can tell you that, from a technical standpoint, we’ve been focusing on improving blend, intonation and overall musicality, while continuing to establish and solidify good vocal technique,” he said. “I’ve led the group through three performances during the spring and fall semesters See Chorus • Page 4
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