The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1999-10-13

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Amherst News-Times
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Amherst.  Ohio
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Downtown diner closed; but is it forever?
The Grape Vine Diner, of
134 Park Ave., may end up
as a parking lot if it is not
sold, according to owner David Moore, in his latest
exploit with Amherst city
officials.
As proof he's serious about
selling the closed eatery,
Moore is putting the diner's
SOs-esque decor up for auction on Saturday, Oct 16.
"We're shutting off the water, the electric, and boarding
up the window on Oct 18,"
stated Moore. "Maybe we'll
put a tombstone in the
window."
This is the latest in a series of business moves by
Moore and his companies in
reaction to problems with city
officials.
In early April, Moore sued
the city of Amherst for filing
criminal charges against his
Crystal Mortgage Co. in
Oberlin Municipal Court The
cily accused Moore's company of not fully paying their
income taxes. In late August,
the city dropped its criminal
charges against Crystal
Mortgage.
The city declined the opportunity to end the civil case
by issuing an apology last
month. Moore seeks to recover at least the reported
$100,000 in legal fees he has
accumulated in his disagreements with city officials.
"I want enough so that this
doesn't happen again," Moore
said. "I'm prepared financially
for going to full trial."
Moore has of late been
writing letters to anyone who
might be running for city offices in hope of getting "new
faces" in place of Amherst
city officials.
"I want change in city
hall," he said.
Moore also plans to auction
the antique contents of his
Hidden Treasures business, of
125 Park Ave, at his Mojo
restaurant on Oct 20.
Moore's Mojo restaurant in
Amherst will stay open, according to Moore. The Crystal
Mortgage Co. has moved to
Elyria.
Throughout all the disputes
with the city, Moore expressed he is still very fond
of the city of Amherst. He
admits he has gripe is with
city officials, not with the
city of fi
"Amhe
he said.
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iBarris, Shumyla lead
jcross country team
to conference crown
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Saturdays have been good lately
j to the Marion L. Steele High School
girls cross country team, who made
good showings the last two weeks.
On Saturday, Oct 9, Brittnee,
Barris and Christine Shumyla finished first and second to lead the
i Comets to the Southwest Conference  championship  at  Lorain
County Community College.
The Comets edged out state
ranked Olmsted Falls by two points,
35-37. Falls had been ranked third
in the state in Division 2. Coach
Teny Kemp said Gretchen Gilder,
■who finished in ninth place with a
time of 21:27, had a lot to do with
the margin of victory.
"Gretchen Gilder ran an outstanding nee. She ran her lifetime best
by over 20 seconds," Kemp said.
"She passed four kids in the last
half-mile, and that really helped."
Barris and Shumyla took the lead
early and held on to it for the entire
race. Barris said her pace was faster
than she had anticipated, but Kemp
said he told the team just to run the
way they are comfortable running.
"We talked to the kids and told
them just to run their own race,"
Kemp said. "It's the same thing
we've been telling them all year."
Barris finished in 20:10, nine seconds faster than Shumyla, a half-
minute ahead of Lindsey Dieringer
from Fairwview in third place, and
nearly a full minute in front of Megan Stoyka from Olmsted Falls in
fifth place.
With their finishes in the top se-
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Netters field strong
group to represent
school at district
First year girl's tennis coach Virginia Trigilio is quite happy with
her tennis team, and why not —
three members of her girl's varsity
team are Lorain County's only entries for District Tournament play.
:• Of the 28 girls who tried out for
ihe Marion L. Steele High School
tennis team, 22 made the squad.
Match rales specify a team can only
play seven varsity and seven junior
varsity players during a match, ao
tome of the girls held reserve status.
I Sickness and injury forced rotation, and all the giris got some playing time.
t Advancing into the District Tour-
fcments in doubles competition are
fenior Angie Trigilio and junior Janiece Reinhardt. Angie is the
Coach's daughter. Trigilio and Rein
hardt are top seeded.
In the single's department junior
Fritzi Stroeh enters district as the
second seeded player.
Amherst narrowly missed an opportunity to take a fourth player to
District Junior Jessica Moennich
defeated Westlake's Kim Howitt to
make the quarter finals. Howitt is
highly regarded as a tennis player
and according to coach Trigilio,
"Moennich's play against Howitt
was the match of a lifetime!"
Unfortunately, Magnificat's
Grace Cascarilla eliminated Jessica
in the next round.
Fritzi also suffered a loss to Cascarilla in seeding matches, which
bumped Stroeh into the second
seeded position entering District
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Above, coach Terry
Kemp congratulates
teammates Brittnee
Barris and Christine
Shumyla after they took
first and second place
In the Southwest Conference championship
run on Saturday at Lorain County Community
College. At right are
members of the girls
varsity tennis team from
the high school.
Local firefighters face fury
of another kind at contest
by STEVE tARRY
An activity which has been
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Sgfcpa Combat Challenge,
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day ftp. 25, at Upper Ar-
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Dean Feldkamp, 42, and Tim
Galea, 29. Feldkamp is also a
member of the County Hazardous Materials Requoee
Team, and Camp is a Lorain
County sheriff's deputy.
Tte .competition ia comprised of five gruelling events
done in tardffw. while
ing full turnout fear. Rill
turnout pear ia the
pear that • firefighter
malty responds to a fire in,
including a 30 minute air
tank, gloves and boots, which
weighs an extra 40 to 50
participated.
Amherat was
flmyniri Cntig Camp.
31.
hy
All the full-time "profee-
competitors ran the
event during ihe
The first event ia to cany
a 45 lb. length of fire hose
up six flights of stairs to the
top of the lower, (the tower
waa approximately four stories
tall) stow the rope in a box,
then pull up an atlittiiiTBl 45
lb. of bom «> tte lop of the
tower tend over tend with a
rppe. After completing this
stage, participants bed to ran
down die steps without missing any, and heap both tends
on dte iniWngr or lose points.
Without taking a break they
ted io ran to ihe next event
which wis dm Kaiser teem.
The Kaiser beam was a stad
I-beam cu a type of ate) that
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