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AMHERST NEWS-TIMES • OBERLIN NEWS-TRIBUNE • WELLINGTON ENTERPRISE Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022
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After decades as a staunch Democratic territory, Lorain County is continuing to slide to the right, midterm election results show. With 111,681 ballots cast — that’s just over half of registered voters — the county helped deliver another term to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. In the eyes of Lorain County Board of Elections Chair Marilyn Jacobcik, the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican JD Vance was the biggest of the fall, revealing shifting political winds. Ryan just barely won over a majority of Lorain County voters, though he lost the statewide vote. Combined with key wins for Republicans at every level, it may not be fair anymore to consider Lorain County a “blue” county. The numbers show it has become a deep purple. “It seemed like the momentum built the closer we got to Election Day,” Jacobcik said last Wednesday, WINDS PAGE A3
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Air Force veteran Eddie Young offers a sincere thanks to older veterans, all using wheelchairs, who gathered for a ceremony Friday at Welcome Nursing Home.
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OBERLIN — Eddie Young bowed his head in respect Friday as he spoke to a half-dozen veterans who gathered in a circle of wheelchairs. “You gentlemen who are sitting here, I’m humbled,” he said in a low voice, his eyes locked on the aging men who long ago retired their Army, Air Force and Navy uniforms. “You paved the way for us.” Young himself was stationed with an Air Force fighter squadron in Guam at the end of the Vietnam War. He was among the members of American Legion Post 656 who visited Welcome Nursing Home to make sure veterans there were not forgotten. One by one, the younger Oberlin veterans stepped forward to tell their elders they remembered. John Cannon served in the Air Force in Vietnam. He spoke softly of being deployed to Da Nang and how “all hell broke loose” in the first rocket attack he endured. The Rev. Dwayne Anderson of Grace Community Church in Lorain also served in the Air Force, during
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Army veteran Burt Latran Jr. speaks about his experiences in the military and what they mean to him. Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield. “I came off the backs of those who served before me, so I want to say thank you,” he told nursing home veterans. Offering up a prayer, Anderson asked for veterans to have the
WELLINGTON — Going to the Lorain County Fair will cost a little more in August 2023. Admission prices will rise from $6 to $8, following a fair board vote last week. Memberships and season passes, which allow seven entries, will also increase to $40. “When you compare it to other venues, that’s still less than what other fairs are charging,” said Rick Ternes, who has been elected board president for the second consecutive year. Like everyone else, the fair is dealing with inflation, he said. The cost of water, electricity and gasoline have all shot upward. Fair organizers will also have to pay more next year for everything from blue ribbons to toilet paper, Ternes said. The cost of maintaining and repairing the fairgrounds’ buildings has gone up, and Ternes said hiring security and parking attendants will cut much deeper into the fair budget in 2023. “There’s a lot of hidden costs that people don’t realize is there,” he said. There was discussion about pushing gate prices up even further, but Ternes said he feels $8 is enough to cover expenses. Admission should have been increased in 2021 as fairs across Ohio reeled from COVID-19 closures the year before, he said. But Lorain County Fair directors felt attendance would already be on shaky ground, and didn’t want to risk losing more visitors. “We still want to be a venue where you can bring the family for a reasonable amount of money for the day,” he said. Hitting the fair still won’t be cheap. Admission for a family of four will be $32, and food vendors already pushed prices past the $10 mark for many entrees this summer. Toss in $25 apiece for unlimited ride stamps, and that family of four could easily blow past $150 in an evening. That’s if amusement ride prices stay the same. Ternes said the fair board has not decided yet whether to invite back Michael’s Amusements of North Carolina or go with
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No commissioner race winner yet The race for a seat on the Lorain County Board of Commissioners between incumbent Democrat Matt Lundy and Republican challenger Jeff Riddell Matt Lundy Jeff Riddell remains undecided. The Lorain County Board of Elections will meet Nov. 21 to review provisional and absentee ballots from the Nov. 8 election, but no results will be announced. Final vote tallies will not be certified until the Board of Elections meeting on Nov. 28. More than 5,300 ballots remained to be officially counted in Lorain County after the polls closed last week, election officials said.
Volume 9, Issue 46
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Nordson workers strike over new contract • A4
Veterans share their thoughts on honor of service • B1
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