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MondayMay 9, 2016

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Together AgainEleanor E. Fosnight,

92, of Ravenna passed away Friday May 6, 2016 at the Alpine House in Ravenna.

She was born in Ravenna, Ohio on June 16, 1923 to the late Wal-ter and Anita (Theiss) Davis. Mrs. Fosnight lived most of her life in Ravenna and had worked as a secretary for Sam-uel Moore and Company. She attended the Univer-sity of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and Kent State University.

She was a life-long member of the First United Methodist Church of Ravenna, where she was on the Altar Guild for the church. She was a member of Beta Soro-sis, the Iva Austin Gar-den Club, and sewing and bridge clubs. She also volunteered her time with many organizations, including the Portage County Board of Elec-tions, Meals on Wheels, Portage County Clothing Center and Habitat for Humanity.

Survivors include her children Pamela (Thomas) Nichols of Ravenna, David (Janet) Fosnight of Ravenna, Steven (Sue) Fosnight of Brimfield, William (Val-erie) Fosnight of Mantua, Alan (Jennifer) Fosnight of Ravenna, 11 grand-children and one great grandchild. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Dale Fosnight on May 15, 2006 and her brother Philip Davis.

Graveside services will be held at 11:00 AM Wednesday with burial to follow at Maple Grove Cemetery Ravenna, Ohio with Rev. Stephen Spar-ling officiating. Funeral services entrusted to Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Homes Ravenna Chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Portage County APL which Dale and Eleanor supported.

Eleanor’s family would like to thank the staff of Alpine House, as well as UH Robinson Hospice, for her care and support. Condolences and memo-ries of Eleanor may be shared with the family at www.sscfuneralhomes.com.

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Deborah S. Craft, 62, of Ravenna, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family Friday, May 6th, 2016.

She was born October 30th, 1953 in Akron, to David and Vivian (Leffel) Steele.

She is survived by her husband Fred Craft; son Erick (Kristin) Craft of Rootstown; daugh-ter Tatum (Larry) Spano of Cuyahoga Falls; son Frederick (Marci) Craft of Baltimore, MD; daugh-ter, Cammy (Bob) Baker of Windham; Brothers: David Steele of Root-

stown, OH, Mike (Karen) Steele of New Concord, OH, Dear Friend, Sandy Steele, many Grandchil-dren and her beloved lab, Sonnyboy.

She loved playing and spending time with her grandchildren Erick, Kylie and Nikola. She had a great love for ani-mals. She enjoyed gar-dening, being outside, spending time with fam-ily and laughter. Her pas-sion was spreading the word of god to others.

Calling hours will be held 6-8 PM Wednesday, May 11th at Bissler & Sons Funeral Home 628 West Main Street Kent, where a Memorial Ser-vice will be held 11:00 AM Thursday, May 12th with Kevin O’Brien offi-ciating. Interment will be at Standing Rock Cem-etery.

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Deborah S. Craft

George Edward Kel-lums, 67, of Streetsboro, passed away Wednes-day May 4, 2016 at UH Portage Medical Cen-ter in Ravenna, Ohio. He was born in Cleve-land, Ohio on February 9, 1949 to the late Carl Edward Joseph and Shir-ley (Hovey) Kellums.

George has lived in Streetsboro most of his life and was the sales manager for Ganley Dodge in Bedford. In his younger days he enjoyed hunting and fishing with

his dad and loved to drink his beer.

Survivors include his wife Madeena Lynn (Goodman) Kellums whom he married in 1969, his children Patri-cia (George) Toshok of Stow-Kent, Carl (Rashia) Kellums of Bruns-wick, his grandchildren Adria, Daniel, Romani-ana, Gabriella, Dylan, Mackenzie, Penelope and his siblings Chris-tine Mezanec, Margaret King, James, Patrick and Michael Kellums.

Calling hours will be 5-8 PM Tuesday May 10, 2016 at the Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Homes Streetsboro Chapel. At his request cremation will follow. Condolences and memories of George may be shared with the family at http://www.sscfuneral-homes.com./

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Ohio EPA director says quick water alerts are feasible

COLUMBUS — A state regulator told law-makers Tuesday that lo-cal systems should be able to inform residents quickly when lead con-tamination is found in drinking water.

Craig Butler, direc-tor of the Ohio Envi-ronmental Protection Agency, said the public wants quicker notice of lead in water.

“I think it is well with-in the capabilities tech-nically of water systems, whether it’s a one-man shop with a village ad-ministrator or frankly somebody the size of Cincinnati or Colum-bus, to use the tools that we have available to be able to report that without a significant burden to individuals to their communities within this two busi-ness day timeframe,” Butler told members of the Ohio House’s En-ergy and Natural Re-sources Committee. “… I think we have to look at what is available to us in terms of technologies and tools.”

He added, “This bill is as much about pro-viding information to the public and protect-ing public health as it is anything.”

Butler offered the comments during the second hearing on leg-islation that would re-quire quickened public notice of lead contami-nation in public drink-ing water.

HB 512 would in-crease requirements for testing for and no-tification of lead in wa-ter from public systems.

Under the legislation, residents and other us-ers would have to be in-formed within two days if lead and copper levels topped allowed thresh-olds. A larger, more in-depth public education program would have to be launched within 30 days.

Under current law, notice has to be made within 30 days, with a public education cam-

paign within 60 days.Absent local action

within the new time-lines, the state would step in and provide no-tice, with potential ad-ministrative penalties for the noncompliant systems.

Additionally, the leg-islation would set the definition of “lead free” in new construction plumbing to 0.25 per-cent, down from the current 8 percent. And existing grant and loan programs would be lev-eraged to assist schools and communities want-ing to replace contami-nated water systems.

The legislation was offered after lead is-sues surfaced in water systems in Sebring in northeastern Ohio.

Of the 11 people who submitted testimony on HB 512 Tuesday, nine were supporters of the legislation.

Thomas Holloway, chief engineer at the Ma-honing Valley Sanitary District in Youngstown, was the lone opponent who submitted written testimony.

Among other con-cerns, he questioned the two-day notice require-ment, which he wrote was “too short, especial-ly for larger water sys-tems.”

He also noted that other parts of the leg-islation were not clear, including requirements that water systems “im-mediately remove from service all fixtures iden-tified as contributing to elevated lead levels.”

Jeff Swertfeger, a member of the Ohio Wa-ter Utility Council and superintendent of water quality and treatment at the Greater Cincinna-ti Water Works, offered interested party testi-mony, voicing support for parts of the legisla-tion and urging chang-es to other sections, including setting the re-porting requirements of lead contamination at 15 days instead of two.Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at mkovac@dixcom.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.

By Marc Kovac | R-C CapiTal BuREau

The u.S. Coast Guard auxil-iary will hold its vessel safety checks on May 21 and 22, and all three days of the Memorial Day weekend this month. in-correct dates were given the Record-Courier.

correction

Tuesday, a road crew from the portage County Engineer will replace a crossover pipe at 3760 McClintocksburg Road in palmyra.

The road will be closed for the day between Scotts Cor-ners and Tallmadge Road.

Mcclintocksburg rd. closed tuesday

DaYTON — The director of the Ohio Epa says the agen-cy is working to ensure that a southwest Ohio mobile home park plagued by water system breakdowns has safe drink-ing water.

The Dayton Daily News re-ports the agency is assessing and repairing the pineview Es-tates system. a contractor was expected to be at the Miami Township site Friday to ana-lyze the problem.

The agency says water service has been restored, but residents remain on a boil advisory.

ohio ePa repairing mobile home park water system

CiNCiNNaTi — a newspaper analysis has uncovered fund-ing, staffing and operational difficulties at the independent agency created to help settle citizen complaints against Cin-cinnati police.

The Cincinnati Enquirer re-ports the Cincinnati Citizen Complaint authority no lon-ger complies with a collab-orative agreement between the community and the po-lice that was struck after the city’s 2001 riots.

among the paper’s find-ings were that the authori-ty’s inflation-adjusted budget is less than half what it was in 2003; it employs only two of five required investigators; and it’s running a case back-log as complaints against po-lice rise.

al Gerhardstein, an attorney who helped write the collab-orative agreement, says the agency needs to be “ready at all times.”

newspaper: cincinnati police relations board having troubles

Chamberlain Road culvert replacement contract approved

Portage County com-missioners recent-ly awarded a contract for $180,198 for replace-ment of a large culvert on Chamberlain Road in Mantua Township.

The culvert, just south of S.R. 82, will be re-placed by Unite Earth-works LLC of Deerfield.

Work is expected to

start in early July. The project includes com-plete replacement with a new concrete box cul-vert, cast-in-place con-crete wing walls and min-imal approach work.

Anthony Zumbo, plan-ning and design engineer for the Portage County Engineer’s Office, said motorists should expect traffic delays. The road will be closed and traffic

detoured for a portion of the construction.

County Engineer Mi-chael Marozzi said his office was successful in getting Ohio Public Works Commission funds amounting to 60 percent of the project’s cost. The local share of the cost will be funded out of the en-gineer’s regular budget of motor vehicle license fees and gas taxes.

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Pinwheels for Kids Ohio EPA offering mosquito grants

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COLUMBUS — The state is offering grants to community health departments and related public en-tities to help control mosquitoes and the viruses they carry.

The Ohio Envi-ronmental Protec-tion Agency says the funds will be made available on a first-come, first-served ba-sis.

The agency wants to see local-govern-ment grants help re-duce the spread of vi-ruses such as Zika, West Nile and La Cross Encephalitis.

The first round of applications is due May 15, the second May 31.

Grants will be awarded based on available funds.

COluMBuS— police in Ohio’s capital are searching for a man who’s been pilfering plumbing from stores, hospi-tals and restaurants.

Dubbed the Bathroom Ban-dit, Columbus police say he enters various local establish-ments, visits the men’s rest-room, disconnects the plumb-ing and leaves with the stolen parts in his backpack.

a police department spokes-woman says the businesses won’t only have to replace the parts but hire a plumber to repair the man’s toilet tin-kering. She said his crimes may be unusual, but they’re still felonies.

‘Bathroom bandit’ pilfers plumbing

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Staff at the Children’s Services office of Portage County Job & Family Services are shown with a display of pinwheels to call attention to child abuse. During Child Abuse Prevention

month, masses of colorful pinwheels have a sobering message. The pinwheels represent reports of alleged child abuse or neglect. Last year 1,340 reports were received and screened for investigation by Portage County Job & Family Services’ CARES Line.

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