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5, WKSU (89.7-FM) will make major changes in its schedule, including the move of classical- music programs from daytime into the evening and abbreviated broadcasts of folk music. In a statement, WKSU executive director Dan Skinner said, combination of news and music is the sound of Northeast The new lineup reflects efforts by National Public Radio to reinvigorate its news programming notably by the cancellation of Talk of the Nation and the expansion of Here and Now. It also give WKSU a weekday schedule closer in style to that of Cleveland- based public-radio station WCPN (90.3-FM). After Morning Edition from 5 to 9 a.m., the new weekday lineup will include The Takeaway, hosted by John Hockenberry, at 9 a.m., followed by call-in show On Point with Tom Ashbrook at 10 a.m., both making their Northeast Ohio debuts. The expanded Here and Now will air at noon, then Fresh Air With Terry Gross in a new time period, 2 p.m.

The World takes over the 3 p.m. hour, followed by All Things Considered from 4 to 6 p.m., Marketplace at 6, more All Things Considered at 6:30 and With Jian Ghomeshi at 7 p.m. Mark classical music program, currently in daytime, will move to 8 weeknights, followed at 11:30 p.m. by Nightaire, David overnight show. Sylvia classical program shifts from its two-hour weekday slot to Saturday and Sunday evenings and overnight.

Other weekend changes include time-slot juggling on Saturdays, more talk on Sundays and the reduction in folk programming from about eight weekend hours to two, a Folk Alley Radio Show at 6 p.m. Sunday. Classical music to move to evening; folk programs cut back Fair returns to Summit By Paula Schleis Beacon Journal staff writer pward of 40,000 folks are expected at this Summit County Fair, running Tuesday through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Tallmadge. The traditional lineup of activities includes 4-H competitions and livestock auction, carnival-style rides and midway games, lots of food vendors, and a schedule of car and truck demonstrations and entertainment at the grandstand. But there are a handful of new things this year as well, said Theresa Call, vice president of the Summit County Agricultural Society.

On Thursday, the fair will attempt what it had to cancel because of rain last year: an open-class truck pull. Any registrant can compete to see how much weight (and to what distance) their street vehicles can pull. Also for the first time, the fair is hosting a competition a timed obstacle course for cars and trucks of every variety. Because that event had to be scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, the popular Demolition Derby has been moved to Wednesday this year, Call said.

Children might also enjoy a new hands-on exhibit featuring an artificial cow that can be milked, Call said. part of an educational display on where milk comes from and how dairy products are made. This musical headliner is country music singer Joe Diffie, who will perform Friday during designated Back by popular demand competition and open-class pull are new activities added this year Marathon runner has heart of hope Sara (Natoli) Duda is an Akron native and former athlete at St. Vincent-St. Mary and Ellet high schools, but she was never a runner.

Now training for the Akron Marathon and she hopes to garner the support of those who knew her back then classmates, neighbors and others. Sara, now of Grand Blanc, is hoping to raise awareness and research dollars for congenital heart defects through Hearts of Hope of Southeast Michigan (contribute at www.heartsofhopemi. org). a cause very personal to her: June 1, 2012, my son Tony was born with undiagnosed multiple congenital heart defects, and we almost lost him. During the first year of his life he spent close to three months in the hospital at the University of Michigan Mott Hospital.

He has had one open-heart surgery at 11 days, spent a month on life support in January with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and pneumonia, has a paralyzed vocal cord from the surgery and has been diagnosed with complex (multiple left side of the heart defects). He still has one more surgery when he is around 3 years old am also a survivor of CHD and had heart surgery at 19 years old. I have been on a mission, one mile at a The Southeast Michigan chapter of Hearts of Hope with care packages at the hospital, moral support, as well as group events for our Heart Honoring nurses time again to honor area nurses, was the reminder I received from nurse extraor- dinaire and super volunteer Mary DiDonato: honor this most noble of professions through a Eucharistic Service of Thanksgiving and Blessing for those serving in the nursing profession 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, at St.

Paul (Catholic) Church, 1580 Brown the invitation reads. welcome all nurses, their families and the entire community to join in this celebration to seek blessing on all nurses and for their healing work. Father Neil Kookoothe, who is also a registered nurse, will be the celebrant. The Peace Together Choir will be singing during the Peace Together is a group of musicians dedicated to performing and recording inspirational music, started by a hospice nurse. For more information, please contact the Rev.

Ralph Thomas at 330-724-1263 or or Mary DiDonato at 330-6203568. Benefit concert Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist, arranger and educator Bill Dobbins will be Akron native to raise funds to help battle conditions like JEWELL CARDWELL City to add walkways for safety, wetlands By Kathy Antoniotti Beacon Journal staff writer GREEN: The city has embarked on more than $2 million in projects that continue its attempt to focus on safe walkways in the city center with the added features of sophisticated stormwater control that provides an educational touch. The improvements also signal that Green is ahead of the curve in a recent study that indicates love affair with driving could be a thing of the past. A planned $1.79 million construction project to rebuild portions of Shriver and Steese roads and add curbs, storm sewers and street lighting for the primary routes to intermediate and middle schools is in accord with a report released in May by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) that shows the six-decades long driving boom in the United States is over.

The millennial generation (people born between 1983 and 2000), the largest generation group in the history of the United States, will demand better walkways, bicycling paths and nondriving forms of transportation, according to the report that suggests transportation policies stuck in the new generation the mil- lennials is demanding a new American Dream less dependent on the report summarizes. This Week Saturday Falls Cancer Club Benefit Noon at the Bailey Road Tavern, 2920 Bailey Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Live bands all day long: Zak Hamlin, A Song for Her, Average Joe, Clyde Hensley, Hair Trigger Johnson, Jim Dotson, Mr. Mitch Ury, the Just Wait Band and the Delta Dogs. A donation of $5 or a new or gently used bra is suggested.

Proceeds help pay cancer-related doctor, hospital and pharmacy bills for patients registered with the Falls Cancer Club. Golf Outings Kaderly Classic Friday at Raintree Country Club, 4350 Mayfair Road, Uniontown. 10 a.m. shotgun start for 4-person scramble. $85, includes soda, beer and water throughout the day, lunch at the turn, barbecue buffet dinner, and gift.

Prizes, hole contests, Projects will create better paths for students, boost quality of water in Green THE SCENE PAUL Beacon Journal photos At top, fair workers Dan Hale and Le Chrites install new lights Saturday after replacing the roof and facade on a picnic pavilion at the Summit County Fairgrounds in Tallmadge. Above, Ellen Sorm of Green and her daughter Kennedy, 13, decorate a horse stall Saturday in preparation for the Summit County Fair to open this week at the fairgrounds. Please see WKSU, B3 Please see Cardwell, B4 Please see Scene, B4 Please see Green, B10 Head to Tallmadge this week for food, entertainment and more Please see Fair, B10 Weekend Italian fest in Falls celebrates heritage. B3 Jamaican-flavored benefit aids building of greenhouse. B4.