Off the beat: March 22, 2008
The Chronicle-Telegram Staff
Miracle of loafers and fish sticks
Those famous “Good Friday Fish Sticks” are the finger foods that just keep on giving.
So, by now must people know Victoria Landis’ fish sticks reeled in about $79 in an auction on eBay — definitely not enough to fulfill her Easter wish of a new van for her blended family of nine.
But thanks to a Columbus radio station, Landis, 38, at least will be walking around in style. It is giving her a $200 gift card to be used Friday during a shoe promotion at Columbus’ Easton Towne Center.
That stroke a good fortune unfolded something like this.
On Friday morning, listeners of Mix 97.1 were challenged by an on-air radio personality to get Landis to call the show. The first person who pulled off the task won a gift card to the upcoming Shoegasm event.
Landis said she thought it was cute when she got an e-mail through her eBay account from a Melissa from Columbus. So, she called the radio show, making her and Melissa shoe-ins for the prize.
— Lisa Roberson
Newcomer Brusky gets veteran advice
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Amherst City Councilman Nick Brusky is getting some help in developing strategy for his challenge to County Commissioner Ted Kalo from former County Commissioner David Moore.
The pair were spotted together Wednesday at Lorain County Common Pleas Court, when Moore was picking up a copy of a lawsuit filed against him by a bank.
Lorain National Bank sued Moore on Tuesday, alleging that he transferred the title of his Amherst home to his wife to avoid having it used to repay David Moore’s creditors.
His legal response “will explain everything — this is nothing but a frivolous lawsuit and a harassment lawsuit,” Moore said Wednesday.
He said he had Brusky join him on the jaunt because Brusky wanted to see the Clerk of Court’s office.
Both Moore and Brusky are Republicans, although Moore said he has no formal role in Brusky’s campaign. He’s only giving advice, he said.
“The last Republican who was a commissioner is dead,” Moore said.
He said he thinks Brusky has a good chance of defeating Kalo, saying commissioners have been spending too much money. Brusky led a petition drive last year to give voters a say on a commissioners’ approved 0.25 percentage point sales tax increase, which was soundly defeated.
As for whether Brusky should be keeping company with Moore, whose been in news of late for court judgments against him and who settled a lawsuit several years ago that alleged he tricked borrowers with little education and poor credit into signing unfair mortgages, County GOP chairman Robert Rousseau reserved judgment.
After all, Rousseau said, Moore was the first GOP commissioner in some 40 years when he served from 2000-04.
Besides, Rousseau said the real culprits in the mortgage mess are big banks and financial institutions.
“He was a miniscule player in that game,” Rousseau said.
— Cindy Leise
Krasienko puts in the long hours
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Although it’s hard to reach the frequently busy Lorain Mayor Tony Krasienko on his office phone, leave it to the day when city offices are closed to finally catch up with the mayor on his line.
So what was he doing in his office with no one else around?
He said he was using the time to do a little straightening up.
“I’m trying to find my desk under a stack of papers,” he said.
— Stephen Szucs
Avon marching band places second in parade
All of Superior Avenue was drenched in green Monday at the Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
But it was the purple and gold of the Avon Mighty Eagles Marching Band that stole the show.
Avon took second place out of nine bands, bested only by the 150-strong ensemble from Kenton Ridge High School from Springfield, Ohio. St. Ignatius placed third.
The bands were competing for the Parents of the Murphy Irish Dancers Award.
— Jason Hawk
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Filed by The Chronicle-Telegram Staff March 22nd, 2008 in Local and State. Popularity: 4% |
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