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Volume 10, No. 9
Friday, April 4, 2025
Kirtland Girls Track and Boys Basketball Win Big
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Coffee with Council
Read more about Girls Track on page 2 and read about Boys Basketball on page 4
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Coffee with Council is Saturday, April. 19 10-11 a.m., at Kirtland City Hall. For more information, contact Joe Smolic at 440-487-8984 or JSmolic@ kirtlandohio.com
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Maggie’s Donuts Rolls into Kirtland page 8 Kirtland Schools Finance Committee to Meet April 17
Irish Dancers Prep for Competition in Ireland SHERRY GAVANDITTI/KMG
Lil Horna, left, and Addie Miniard show off their moves.
The Kirtland Schools Finance Committee will meet April 17 at 5:15 p.m. in the Kirtland Schools Board of Education Conference Room, 9252 Chillicothe Road.
By Sherry Gavanditti editor@karlovecmedia.com
On April 14, a group of 18 local Irish dancers will pack their most glitzy and glamourous competition attire, board a plane for Dublin, Ireland, and compete for a world championship title. The group, representing Murphy Irish Arts Center in Chagrin Falls and Willoughby, have worked hard to get to this point — competing and performing when they can at various places throughout and beyond their communities. Dancers Lil Horna, 14, a Kirtland High School freshman, and her sister, Dorothy, 10, who attends Kirtland Elementary School, donned their costumes and shoes March 21 and performed at Hamlet at Chagrin Falls, a senior living campus, providing residents a sampling of their high-kicking, leg swinging, shoe-tapping Irish dances. Groups of dancers from MIAC, founded in 1978 — including those going to Dublin — performed various degrees of Irish dance to six See Dancers• Page 4
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Hamlet at Chagrin Falls resident Betty Runge asks sisters Dorothy Horna, left, and Lil Horna questions about their formal Irish dresses, which represent the more elegant dresses used for championship performances.
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