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The Urbana Daily Citizen from Urbana, Ohio • 1

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Urbana, Ohio
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New magazine begins today Starting today the Urbana Dailv Citizen will include USA WEEKEND magazine each Saturday Each week topics of national interest includ ing everything from enter tainment to recreation nature to finance will appear In this edi tion: RECREATION: How bad could a beach vaca tion be? The authors of Worst Case Scenario con iure uo the summer of all fears and then tell you how to overcome each Shark attack? Poke him in the eye Jellyfish sting? Apply vinegar EATSMART: That tuna sandwich is a life saver Omega 3 fat in fish helps reduce heart' attacks strokes and cancer Details on how to get the good stuff including a simple recipe for Summer Salad with Cumin Crusted Salmon PETS TRAVEL: orget to pack your dog? Hotels resorts and animal shelters now lend dogs goldfish and other critters to vaca tioners separated from their pets NEWS VIEWS: When friendship hurts Psychologist Jan Yager gives us four steps to ending an unhealthy rela tionship from her new book When riendship Hurts Remember to be clear but kind In coming issues: NATURE: What will Big Disaster be? The wildfires blazing through Denver? A vol canic eruption? Maybe an invasion of deer ticks! Top scientists make fore casts MONEYSMART: At least 600000 American families have nannies today Pointers on laws and taxes from Contributing Editor Jean Sherman Chatzky plus inside tips from two ex nannies who wrote the best seller The Nanny Diaries MOVIES: summer is my coming out crows actress Rosario Dawson who shows off a silly streak opposite Will Smith in Men In Black II and Eddie Murphy in the August film The Adventures of Pluto Nash I 1 I 1 i i 1 1 I I BUsmnr t' Urbana Informing Champaign County Since 1838 CITIZEN SATURDAY JULY 6 2002 kn 1 so cents SPORTS Ted Williams dead at 83 Ted Williams the last man to bat 400 in a season died riday at the age of 83 See Page 1 NEWS Urbana festival has 'Of Pl new name The old Marketplace festival will be called Heritage Days starting this summer in Urbana See Page A 3 Boil alert issued in Urbana Special to the Citizen As of 9 am July 8 the 500 block of Scioto Street will be under a boil alert Public works personnel will be conducting repairs in that area 1 'As a precautionary mea sure residents in that area are advised to boil water before using it to drink cook or for oral hygiene Water should be boiled for one minute after it comes to a rolling boil The city expects bacterial test results to be back by July 11 and residents will be informed according to a city news release Crash victim identified as Urbana businessman Other victim is listed in fair condition By MINA RAULSTON and BREANNE PARCELS Staff Writers A West Liberty man was listed in fair condition at Grant Hospital in Columbus on riday after a crash which claimed the life of an Urbana businessman on Thursday night According to the Springfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol motorcyclist red A Suchland 59 of 7935 Catawba Mechanicsburg Road Mechanicsburg was operat ing eastbound on State Route 29 at 11:05 pm Thursday when he lost control and was ejected from his Honda Goldwing as it fell on its side Suchland had owned the Sweepers Unlimited store in down town Urbana for 12 years according to his son Tracy Suchland Suchland had reportedly swerved to avoid a Dodge Shadow pulling out from a stop sign at the intersection of State Routes 29 and 56 The car was driven by Perry Justin Shoemaker 21 2816 Kanagy Road Cable with his girlfriend Tomara Cornwell 118 12 Detroit St West Liberty as a pas senger statement said she had been driving northbound on Route 56 when she thought she hit a dog She turned around and the two exited the vehicle but could not find an animal Shoemaker and Cornwell got back in the car with Shoemaker dri ving and continued northbound When they reached the intersection he started to make a left turn bn Route 29 when they saw the motor cycle swerve and lose control Cornwell stated the two stopped got out to check on the injured cyclist and Shoemaker was going to See on Page A 5 I Trail marks her 'special spot' 'Y Citizen photo by James Mahan Nancy Lokai Baldwin leads the charge for the Champaign County multi purpose trail the first phase of which has been in use for a year now By AARON SMITH Staff Writer Every day at lunchtime Nancy Lokai Baldwin leaves her home and massage business on Urbana Moorefield Road and heads to what she refers to as her Tliis spot was made possible by her As president of the Simon Kenton Pathfinders Lokai Baldwin spearheaded the effort to bring a multi purpose trail to Champaign County The trail opened July 1 2001 The trail extends across 25 miles of the old Erie Lackawanna rail bed from Woodburn Road to State Route 55 and fea tures a scenic atmosphere that brings nature to life according to Lokai Baldwin The idea for constructing such a trail was the result of a lifetime of memories starting when I got my first job the first thing I bought was a new Nancy Lokai Baldwin Lokai Baldwin was a child The seed was planted early as she was one of 10 children in a family that had one bicycle loved riding up and down the she recalled in the rain When I got my first job the first thing I bought was a new This bicycle went straight up to Lokai bedroom because she said laughing was She was able to purchase the bicycle because of her first job at Dairy now Dairy loved that she said when I got my first car I rode that bike Lokai Baldwin married in 1970 and has two sons and two grandchildren She has passed this love of cycling on to her children but an incident involving her youngest son Eric was the first step in paving the way for the bike trail used to go on bike rides with (Eric) all the she recalled day he went out for a ride and he got hit by a car right in front of our house when it hit me that there was really no place to ride here in The bicycling enthusiast would regularly take trips to Yellow Springs to ride on a bike path but Lokai Baldwin satisfied with that situation which was another factor in her quest to bring a See on Page A 7 Ohio Hall of ame items have turned up on eBay By AARON SMITH Staff Writer As outlined in a recent Newsweek maga zine cover story the Internet auction site eBay is extremely popular boasting more than 50 million participants In a story first reported in the Urbana Daily Citizen on June 20 about the possible sale of items donated to the Ohio Baseball Hall of ame the Internet and eBay in particular played key roles Besides having the traditional color glossy catalog for telephone bidding Auctions has a Web site on which bidders can participate in real tune Via the wwwlelandscom site Urbana Daily Citizen Sports Editor Steve Stout attempted to buy a pair of items donated to the Ohio Baseball Hall of ame by the late Champaign County native Harvey Haddix Stout had been asked to buy them by widow Marcia after Leland's refused to return both items to her Based on information published in the June 20 story it is believed several items in sale originated from Tom Eakin See on Page A 7 S' Photo from wwwebaycom The autographed photo pictured above sold on eBay in June for $200 less than it sold for in the Leland's auction in May il is I.

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Pages Available:
301,318
Years Available:
1883-2005