May 12, 2010: News Sports Insights
 













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Published May 12, 2010
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The mother duck leads her babies through The Welsh Home. (West Life photo by Larry Bennet)
Mother duck, ducklings travel
through Welsh Home to pond
ROCKY RIVER — The pond in front of The Welsh Home is a natural body of water, home to ducks, geese and snapping turtles. On May 4, mother duck and her 14 babies who had nested in the center's courtyard moved down to the pond in front of the home.
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Rematch
Baker, Brady vie for statehouse seat in rematch of 2008 race
phootWESTSHORE — In a repeat of the 2008 state representative race, two Westlake women — Nan Baker and Jennifer Brady — will face each other again this November. Brady won the Democratic nomination by defeating primary opponents Peggy Cleary, a Fairview Park councilwoman, and Rosemary Palmer, a former educator and journalist.
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District levy headed for August ballot
NORTH OLMSTED — Superintendent Cheryl Dubsky is recommending the district place a 7.9-mill continuing operating levy on the August special election ballot. The same measure failed last week by a 10-percent margin in the May 4 voting.
St. Bernadette dedicates memorial to teacher’s late son
photoWESTLAKE — Kevin Healey never attended St. Bernadette. Nevertheless, the school now has a service club and now a memorial garden named after the Fairview Park native, who died last April at the age of 20 after a two-year battle against bone cancer.
photoRiver graduate returns
to Northeast Ohio as TV reporter
ROCKY RIVER — Following jobs in West Virginia and Indiana, Shannon Davidson began working as a general assignment reporter for 19 Action News in February. Davidson believes the Web will become critical for journalism in the years to come.
Sports
Rockets rule the roost
River run ends as Bay takes WSC tennis crown
Since the West Shore Conference was formed, the Rocky River tennis program has been the league’s flagship. The Pirates had never lost a regular season league match, and had won every WSC tournament. But River’s reign in the WSC ended last week.
Insights

Bay Village offers classes on nutrition, food and fitness
At a time when many school systems struggle to cover the bare minimum educational requirements, Bay High School offers everyday “knowledge for real life” classes, columnist Thea Steinmetz reports. Teacher Anita Bauknecht offers a sports nutrition class in which the students plant their own herbs to later use for cooking.

 


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