Sunday, August 22, 1999 Page A1 The islanders have their own word for it – in plain Pitkern BY JOSHUA BENTON BLADE STAFF WRITER “Aboot yawly gwen?” “I se gwen ah big shep.” “Humuch shep corl ya?” “I kawa.” As bizarre as it may look, it’s a pretty basic conversation: “Where are you going?” “I’m […]
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Sunday, August 22, 1999 Page 1A An expedition, a clash of wills – then mutiny BY JOSHUA BENTON BLADE STAFF WRITER More than 20,000 islands dot the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. Most are uninhabited. Many support a few hundred or thousand people, but manage to go unnoticed by the outside world. It’s an accident […]
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Sunday, August 22, 1999 Page 1A The dwindling days of ‘a heaven on Earth’ BY JOSHUA BENTON BLADE STAFF WRITER PITCAIRN ISLAND, South Pacific Ocean – Forty people is a crowded commuter plane. Forty people is a football team, or a Cub Scout pack. On two square miles of dead volcano in the South Pacific, […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Pearl Molnar remembers when the Birmingham Ethnic Festival was just a picnic at the St. Stephen’s schoolyard. “I would never have guessed it would have become all this,” the 82-year-old said while selling Hungarian cookbooks for the St. Stephen’s Catholic Church mothers club. Yesterday’s Birmingham festival may […]
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By Sam Roe and Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writers Page A1 Fifteen years ago, Ronni Chen stood on the podium in the Sylvania Northview High School gymnasium and gave her valedictory address. Across town, Nadya Swedan spoke to the graduating class of Southview High. And Karen Boezi addressed her St. Ursula Academy classmates. All graduated […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A18 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner took advantage of his recent Washington trip to work on a Toledo problem: figuring out how to clean up the Maumee River and end a federal lawsuit against the city. On Wednesday, Mr. Finkbeiner met with high-level officials of the federal Environmental Protection Agency […]
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By Joshua Benton and David Patch Blade Staff Writers Page 15 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner got Alaskan salmon with portabello mushrooms, lamb crusted with pecans and toasted caraway seeds, and barbecued peach ragout. Toledo taxpayers got the bill. The city treasury will pick up half the cost of the mayor’s Tuesday night trip to Washington to […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A17 LANSING — Driving around downtown Lansing in his mammoth sport-utility vehicle, Sam Eyde can just feel the property values rising. Tooling past the sparkling new downtown baseball stadium, through a neighborhood where yuppie cafes have replaced biker bars, he preaches the gospel of downtown revitalization. People are […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 In an unprecedented move, the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority has agreed to have all of its closed-door meetings tape-recorded, and to provide special notice to The Blade whenever it plans to meet outside the public’s view. The agreement is part of an out-of-court settlement with the newspaper, […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 Cliff “Zak” Zakrzewski, a former Toledo police officer who stayed active after his retirement, died Sunday in Toledo Hospital. He was 71. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, family members said. Mr. Zakrzewski was born and raised in Toledo and attended Woodward High School. Immediately after […]