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100 years before Kamala, there was Victoria The Community Guide
LORAIN — More than 100 years ago, the first woman ran for president and her story is finally coming to the big screen. “Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings” will premiere Sept. 15 at the Lorain Historical Society. Woodhull, born in Homer, Ohio, in 1838 was not only the first woman to run for president, she was
also the first female stock broker on Wall Street, according to womenshistory.org. “Considering we missed the 2020 women’s suffrage act anniversary, which we were aiming for, to have this announcement hit the same day as the news about Vice President Kamala Harris is pretty amazing,” said Bette Lou Higgins, producer and researcher for the project.
“We’re excited to have it here and to be able to show it to everyone.” Woodhull eventually joined the suffragist movement and in 1872 was nominated to run for president for the Equal Rights Party. “With everything going on with the presidential race now, I can’t help but wonder ‘what would Victoria Woodhull think,’” Higgins said. “I think she’d be thrilled.”
The documentary, “Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings,” includes interviews with historians and reenactments by Kate Luke of Oberlin, portraying Victoria; 9-year-old Aspen Bott, portraying a young Victoria; and Debra Rose IMAGE PROVIDED of Oberlin, narrating.
Pot goes on sale in county
IMPLOSION LIGHTS UP THE SKY
Owen MacMillan The Community Guide
KRISTIN BAUER / COMMUNITY GUIDE
Just before 6 a.m. last Wednesday, a series of loud bangs reverberated across the Beach Park Station shopping plaza on Lake Road in Avon Lake as a portion of the former power plant across the street was imploded. A dust cloud then began spreading out from the site, heading northeast across the shore and over Lake Erie. The cloud appeared to dissipate within 20 minutes. A crowd of about 30 onlookers — many wearing masks — watched along with the Avon Lake police and fire departments and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Although residents has expressed concern, the implosion went off safely and successfully, officials said.
Ten months after Ohioans voted in favor of full marijuana legalization, sales of non-medical cannabis hav begun in Lorain County. FRX Elyria Craft Cannabis Medical Dispensary, 709 Sugar Lane, Elyria, one of three dispensaries in Lorain County, was open for business Tuesday. The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Cannabis Control will issue the first set of dual-use certificates of operation to 98 eligible dispensaries in the state, including three in Lorain County. Dual-use permits are
On A2: Elyria dispensary to open despite city’s moratorium.
being distributed only to dispensaries that already are licensed to sell medical marijuana. Though 133 dispensaries have received provisional licenses, they may not begin the sale of marijuana to residents until they receive the certificate. In addition to FRX, The Citizen by Klutch, 5152 Grove Ave., Sheffield Township; and RISE Medical Dispensary, 1920 Cooper Foster Park Road, Lorain will get certificates of operation. Klutch intends to begin See CANNABIS, A2
Hot, dry summer worries farmers Richard Perrins The Community Guide
Almost all of Lorain County has been abnormally dry this summer, which could threaten crops. The vast majority — 99.71 percent — of the county falls under the U.S. Drought Monitor’s D-0 category, meaning it’s classified as abnormally dry. Ralene Campbell, a meteorologist for the Cleveland branch of the National Weather Service, said one of the biggest factors that set abnormally dry conditions into motion were stretches of heat in June. While there were intermittent thunderstorms, the heat
rapidly evaporated any brief increases in soil moisture. Rainfall that’s localized, rather than providing relief to the whole area, has also compounded the issue, she said. While localized rainfall is typical, convection currents haven’t been able to sustain the rain. “All of our convection this summer has been very spotty,” Campbell said. “Every now and again, we’ll get a heavy rainfall with a line that progresses through the Midwest. But this year, a lot of them have just dissipated before they’ve made it to us.” Brad Lacko, who owns a small farm in LaGrange
Township and is a board member of the Lorain County division of the Ohio Farm Bureau, said farmers who planted corn and soybeans are most susceptible to dry weather. Lacko said many bigger farms planted corn in the first week of May. While he said those farmers might still depend on wetter conditions moving into August, he said farmers who planted past that window missed out on a lot of rain. “I planted my corn on May 26 and it looks awful,” Lacko said. “It came up out of the ground pictureperfect, and I was pretty proud of that, my corn was
off to a great start. And then we went into that dry spell in June, and it carried into July.” Lacko said it’s still too early to tell whether the dry weather would be significantly detrimental to farmers’ crops. Many farmers buy crop insurance to cover for potential losses — he did not. “This would have been a good year for me to have
bought crop insurance, because I’m not looking at a failure but I’m definitely looking at losing money or breaking even, or not getting a good crop,” Lacko said. “But if (other farmers) didn’t have crop insurance, it could be a total loss.” Lacko’s family has been farming in Lorain County for more than a century. He said the county has ups and downs with dry weather,
and while this year isn’t the driest he’s experienced he said many farmers’ crops would be dependent on more rain in August. Campbell said future rainfall should be just as scattered as it has been throughout the summer. The Climate Prediction Center said below average precipitation and above average temperatures are expected to continue.
INSIDE THIS WEEK Wellington
First Congregational UCC is 200. A5
Amherst
Police blotter. A3
Oberlin
New Democratic HQ opens. A4
SPORTS A6 • CROSSWORD A7 • SUDOKU A7 • KID SCOOP A8