May 9, 2007: News Sports Insights
 













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Published May 9, 2007
News
BREAKING NEWS
Brendan O'Neill's to close Monday
photoWESTLAKE — Brendan O'Neill's Traditional Irish Pub and Restaurant will bid its regular customers farewell with a closing party Monday from 5 to 11 p.m. The establishment's location at West Bay Plaza on Detroit and Crocker roads will be turned over to a Japanese hibachi steakhouse restaurant. (MORE)
WEB EXCLUSIVE
NASA Glenn to test tornado siren Saturday at noon
WESTSHORE — NASA's Glenn Research Center has informed Fairview Park officials that the facility will test a tornado warning siren Saturday at noon. The siren will sound for one minute or less but will be very load, Glenn officials said.
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Westlake High School student and SADD member Danny Lammers looks over the body of Ashley Pease, one of two ‘fatalities’ at Tuesday’s mock car crash. (West Life photo by Larry Bennet)
Mock car crash drives message home
WESTLAKE — On a clear, sun-soaked Tuesday at Westlake High School’s football stadium, two vehicles sat utterly mangled, apparently by a high-speed collision.  A bloodied female passenger lay sprawled across the hood of a pickup truck, while two more people were slumped inside unconscious.  It was the high school’s bi-annual mock car crash.  The accident “victims” were actors, most of them members of the school's chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions.

Welcome House plans big expansion
NORTH OLMSTED — The nonprofit organization serving people with mental retardation and developmental disability issues will break ground for a $2.5 million facility Friday. In addition to building a new 7,000 square-foot single level building, the project will also renovate two existing homes.

City makes decision on quiet zone
ROCKY RIVER — A close straw poll vote revelaed that a majority of City Council members support the pursuit of a 24-hour railroad quiet zone. Mayor Pamela Bobst had advocated for a more limited quiet zone that would be effective only between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Sports
Demons put on a show at the Jake
Over the weekend, the Westlake High School baseball team got a chance to live a dream as they took on Avon Lake in the fourth annual Hardball Classic at Jacobs Field, and played like the home team Cleveland Indians in pummeling the Shoremen 7-1.
Insights

photoRaimi weaves tangled web in ‘Spider-Man 3’
Three villains, two women and hepcat strutting all compete for attention in “Spider-Man 3,” a jumbled hodgepodge of action and soap opera, says film scritic Ben Saylor.
 
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