The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page B001

Community Monday, January 25, 2010 a I Briefs B2 Obituaries B5 Comics B8-9 TV guide BIO Wing Warehouse, Scorchers merge Two locally founded businesses join forces, hope to expand in future. B6 Fireworks tonight in downtown Akron. B2 Sugar-free delights at American Diabetes Association event. B4 Local History CARDWELL Summit to vote on sewer project Failing septic systems plague neighborhood in SpringfieldMogadore Akron Beacon Journal file photo An Akron postcard shows The Gothic about 1910 next to the Colonial Theatre at East Mill and South High streets. This downtown view is looking west on Mill Street.

Today, The Gothic is the only building pictured that is still standing. City's Gothic revival is still going strong Akron building begins hopeful new chapter after many old neighbors fall to wrecking ball Hospital staff rallies around ill ER nurse Akron General employee to benefit from proceeds of dinner and auction Akron General Medical Center's emergency department workers are banding together to bring good medicine to one of their own. Michael Teodosio, an emergency-room nurse there for 13 years, was diagnosed last year with a very rare form of bone cancer chondroblastoma osteogeni sarcoma in the hip. "So rare that the Mayo Clinic is involving him in a study because the cancer is never seen in adults," writes Jennifer Diaz, nurseco-worker. "He is facing three months of intense chemotherapy, a complete hippelvis replacement, rehab for up to three months in Minnesota, and then possibly 42 more weeks of chemotherapy.

"As an ER family, we couldn't be more devastated for Mike and his family. is one of the most caring, hardworking and humorous people I know. Mike is also the sole means of support for his wife, Shelly, and their five children -Anthony, Isabella, Dino, Nico and Gianna. Obviously, with the intensity of the chemo and the seriousness of the surgery, Mike is unable to work." Like any good family, the ER department is setting up meals for the family as well as donating money to cover bills. "Akron Children's Hospital adopted Mike's children for Christmas, which was an amazing tribute," Diaz added.

The Teodosio Family Benefit Night spaghetti dinner silent auction is planned for 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, at the Akron Fire Department Union Hall, 161 Massillon Road, Akron. Cost is $25 for adults; $5, children 10 and younger; free, children 2 and younger. Bring your own beverage.

Cash or check only for the silent auction. AGMC emergency room staff planning the benefit are Diaz, Rita Chambers, Cheryl Krueger, Amy Walker, Angie KaraEs, Lynn Garro and Please see Cardwell B3 iiSSSBl cars rumbled downtown and mules pulled boats along the canal. Akron Realty Co. General Manager William W. Mcintosh and Beacon Journal owner Russell T.

Dobson developed the corner building, which originally was bordered on two sides by the Colonial Theatre, a playhouse that opened in 1902 and closed in 1969. Akron architect Frank O. Weary (1849-1921), whose local landmarks include the Civil War Memorial Chapel at Glendale Cemetery and Buchtel Hall at the University of Akron, designed the two-toned, brick-facade Gothic. "The building will be four stories in height and will be modern in every particular, the entire cost being $15,000," the Beacon Journal noted on Dec. 28, 1901.

"There will be four store rooms on Mill Street and each of the three floors above will have two suites of apartments, making six in all." Among the architectural innovations were a skylight, an atrium and symmetrical rows of arched and rectangular windows. The building's name was spelled out in red tiles on the floor inside the South High entrance for residents. "A few more buildings like the Please see Gothic, B3 By Mark J. Price Beacon Journal staff writer The Gothic was just another building headed for demolition in downtown Akron. Most of its neighbors had given up the ghost, falling like dominoes in a city that no longer resembled the gritty industrial hub of a century before.

This 1903 landmark wasn't ready to go-Akron developer Tony Troppe and a group of private investors known as Gothic City Revival Group LLC paid the city $124,482 in 2007 for the distinctive orange-and-red building at South High and East Mill streets. The group plans to spend nearly $2 million on renovations. Last month, the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board recommended that The Gothic be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Within a few weeks, we should find out whether it made the list. According to the heavily researched application forms submitted by Chambers, Murphy Burge Restoration Architects in Akron, The Gothic is significant for its role as "an apartment building for the emerging middle class of the turn of the century." The Gothic was built when Akron was a city of more than 42,000.

Street- By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer Sewers could be arriving in a neighborhood in Springfield Township and Mogadore. Summit County Council is to vote today on a $1.5 million sewer project to serve about 170 households in the Columbine Avenue neighborhood, with the goal of ending a long-standing pollution problem. Mogadore Village Council has approved similar legislation, officials said. A few of the affected houses are in the village. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants an 8-inch sewer line to be installed by May 15, 2015, said Mike Weant of the Summit County Department of Environmental Services.

"There are high levels of pollution in the neighborhood," he said. The neighborhood is plagued with failing septic systems and perhaps a few outhouses, county officials said. The septic systems discharge to ditches that run through the neighborhood and empty into the Little Cuyahoga River near-by. Tests have shown unhealthy levels of fecal coliform bacteria and E. coli bacteria in the ditches, along with moderate to strong sewage smells.

"There's quite a bit of odor present," said Bob Hasenyager, director of environmental health for the Summit County Health District. Please see Sewer, B3 Shelburn Alk Ellet Ave. Nestor In. 91 Shelburn Ave. Ellet Ave.

Area shown 'rechtRd SPRINGFIELD TWP. Akron Beacon Journal PAUL TOPLE Akron Beacon Journal Middle School, came up with the idea for Lake Roller Rink in Lakemore. a ills Akron Beacon Journal file photo Edfred's owner Abraham Silverstein stands among records and tapes in January 1978, shortly before the downtown Akron shop closed. The store was named for original owners Ed and Fred Simmons. THE SCENE Skating party Revere Middle School sixth-grader, 11, raises funds for Haiti organizes event after seeing TV coverage of quake victims Si 1 By Jim Carney Beacon Journal staff writer The earthquake in Haiti touched Jordan Oldham's heart.

Like other people around the world, the 11-year-old sixth-grader at Revere Middle School was moved by the destruction brought on by the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 150,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. "I thought if you see all these pictures, you can't just stand there and not do anything," she said. "You have to think of something and raise money somehow." And that is what she and her classmates at Bath Township's Revere Middle School did at Springfield Lake Roller Rink in Lakemore. A Skate for Haiti "Fun Raiser" was held Sunday afternoon at the roller rink.

About 200 Revere students, siblings and friends showed up to help the victims of the earthquake. Special T-shirts, buttons and magnets were designed by the kids at the school for the event and photographs from Haiti were on display. Bunny Oldham, Jordan's mother, said her daughter started thinking about a benefit the day after the quake and on Jan. 14 said, "Let's do something." Please see Skate, B4 DAN BRUBAKERSpecial to the Beacon Journal Express giving Marlowe the Magic Clown offers a balloon to Addison (left) and Emma Hovey, who are with their grandmother, Kathleen Hovey of Silver Lake, at the Sugartown Express in Fairlawn on Friday. The event, presented by the American Diabetes Association, was held at the Hilton AkronFairlawn with raffles, entertainment and music.

For more about the event and attendees, see Page B4. For listing of upcoming events, see Page B4. Jordan Oldham, 11, a sixth-grader at Revere Sunday's Haiti relief fundraiser at Springfield.