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Creative Cuts Cut-a-thon
A battle fought together Positive outlook
helps couple cope with health woes
Thursday, April 19, 2007
By Anita M. SpacekThe Medina Sun
Bridget Wolosyn rubbed her left thigh and knee and said that she,
like most people, couldn't wait for the weather to break so that she
could get out and get some exercise. She also said that she couldn't
wait to get the heavy immoblizer off of her leg.
With the immoblizer on her leg, Bridget has been unable to bend her
leg since she had surgery to remove a tumor March 3. Doctors not
only removed a tumor from the 30-year-old Medina woman, but they
removed her hip, femur and knee and put in a titanium replacement.
"She's bionic," her husband Will joked.
The tumor in Bridget's leg was actually a recurrence of cancer that
originally appeared in her mouth two years ago.
"I was rubbing the left side of my face and felt a lump," Bridget said,
adding that the lump, which was just above her gum line, didn't hurt.
Bridget said that a few visits to the dentist were not taking care of
the lump, so she went for a second opinion. This time, the dentist
paid attention to what Bridget said: "I have a family history of
cancer."
That family history extends back to when Bridget, the middle of
three girls, was younger. Her older sister, Angela Wisor, was 12 when
she was diagnosed with leukemia. Angela died when she was 16
years old. Bridget's younger sister, Cathy Wisor, also was 12 when
she was diagnosed with cancer.
Cathy was diagnosed with brain cancer and underwent chemotherapy
treatments. She later developed leukemia and also died when she
was 16 years old.
The second dentist listened to Bridget and immediately did a biopsy
on the lump, which turned out to be cancerous. In March 2004,
Bridget had surgery that removed a portion of her upper jaw. Doctors
replaced it with a prosthetic and there is no outward change to
Bridget's face.
"The doctors said they got it all," she said, referring to the cancer.
Bridget did not undergo any chemotherapy or radiation treatments.
Bridget said that in the back of her back of her mind she thought the
cancer would probably come back, but that she went about her daily
life. And she did, until she was getting ready to go to bed one night
in December and felt a bump in her left thigh.
But Bridget and Will also had to deal with Will's health problems
before they conquered Bridget's next battle. Will, who has Familial
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, more commonly referred to as
FSGS. He worked hanging vinyl siding but has been off since October
2005 when he started undergoing kidney dialysis.
"My two kidneys are shriveled," Will, 32, said. "The doctors never
said for sure what caused them to fail."
A match for a transplant was found in Will's sister, Angela Wolosyn,
30. The transplant was done successfully in September.
"I feel good," Will said. He now has three kidneys. Since his two were
so damaged, he said that doctors just left them in and transplanted
his sister's kidney in the front of his abdomen. He said he has just
been cleared to go back to work, but now Bridget needs care.
She's anxious to have the immoblizer off her leg and start bending
her knee. She wants to start going to physical therapy.
Bridget knows she's come a long way from that night in December
when she first felt the lump in her thigh. She asked Will to feel it,
just to make sure.
And just like the first time, it took several visits to doctors before she
had a diagnosis, which was February. Her surgery was March 3. So
far, so good.
The 90 stitches that it took to sew up the 22-inch long incision have
come out, and her wound is healing well. Both Bridget and Will said
that doctors told them they are 100 percent sure they got all of the
tumor.
"The oncologist said there's a chance it could come back," Bridget
said. "But it could come back with or without chemo. I have it set in
my head that I'm not going to get sick anymore." She has decided
not to get any chemotherapy treatments.
Both Bridget and Will have a positive outlook for the future.
"It could always be worse," Will said, in a matter-of-fact way.
Bridget said that she's always been positive and that Will always tells
her that everything will be OK. She said that she also gets a lot of
strength from her dad, Bud Wisor.
"Yes, that's his name," she laughed. "We're close and I get a lot of
that strength and staying positive from him." Bridget's mom, Kathy
Wisor, died in 2004.
Dealing with two serious illnesses has put a financial strain on the
couple, who have three children, Tori, 12, William, 11, and Brittnie,
8. In addition to Will being out of work, Bridget, too, has not been
able to work at her job as manager at DSW, a shoe store in Fairlawn.
A Haircutting-a-Thon was held Sunday at Creative Cuts in Brunswick
to help out the family.
"About 250 people came through the shop," said Beth Letterly, one
of 22 women who volunteered to work for the event. "It more than
met our expectations." Haircuts, manicures, pedicures and
massages all were offered and the proceeds all were given to the
Wolosyns.
A fund for the family also has been set up at FirstMerit Bank, where
donations can be made at any branch.
Washington Times - Aug 15, 2003
Blackout equals red ink for businesses
NEW YORK (AP) — Business was anything but usual the day after the
biggest blackout in U.S. history.
Auto manufacturing plants were paralyzed, airlines canceled
hundreds of flights, some retailers resorted to cash-only transactions
in the dark and hotels served cold cuts by candlelight.
As power gradually returned, businesses and workers from
Manhattan to the Midwest were forced to improvise with whatever
they had, even as they worried about further outages.
Even the outwardly normal was misleading. The opening bell rang on
schedule, at 9:30 a.m., above the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange, but phone service remained out at many companies in
the nation's financial hub and many employers were advising workers
to stay home.
"I'd like it to be a normal day," said Boris Kozak, a New York
stockbroker who expected two or three of his 16 employees to make
it to work. "But unfortunately that's not possible."
The power went out in New York, portions of New Jersey and
Connecticut, and extended through parts of Canada and the upper
Midwest soon after 4 p.m. Thursday.
But a full day later, businesses were still feeling the effects.
More than 50 assembly and other plants operated by General Motors
Corp., Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group were
shut down by the blackout. One Honda Motor Co. plant in Canada
was also idled.
GM's towering world headquarters in downtown Detroit was dark
yesterday, and spokesman Pat Morrissey said more than a dozen
plants were closed. Only skilled trades and maintenance personnel
were reporting for the first shift, and no decision had been made on
the second.
"We'll reassess and determine our next step as the day goes on,"
said Ford spokesman Ed Lewis.
Other manufacturers were also on standby.
NOVA Chemicals, based in Pittsburgh, closed plants in Corunna,
Mooretown, Sarina and St. Clair River in Ontario, and in Painesville,
Ohio.
Including Wal-Mart stores in Canada and gas stations in Ohio, the
blackout crippled retailers. But by early yesterday, shops slowly
began to open again, providing much-needed food and other
supplies to shoppers.
The outage shuttered about 200 Wal-Mart stores in the United
States and Canada, but all but about 40 were reopened by yesterday
afternoon, with reduced lighting and slightly higher thermostats to
save power.
Most of those still dark were in Michigan, with a few others in New
York state and Ohio.
Home Depot, with 300 stores in areas that lost power, had reopened
most of them by noon.
The home-improvement retailer and its competitor, the Lowe's chain,
said they dispatched truckloads of generators to the affected stores
Thursday night. The retailers also sent out extra shipments of
batteries and flashlights to satisfy increased demand.
In parts of New York City, however, most stores remained dark.
Residents flocked to the few shops offering lukewarm soda or
cigarettes and the morning's most-prized possessions — a hot cup of
coffee and a newspaper.
"I closed early yesterday because it was too dark inside to count the
money," said Arsad Vaizifdar, whose tiny cigarette and newspaper
shop had reopened as an island of commerce on Manhattan's Upper
East Side yesterday morning.
"It's all right. What can you do?"
Airlines struggled to resume service, but passengers were finding
canceled flights and long delays at some airports.
Hotels were also set back by the blackout. Marriott International saw
175 of its hotels in the Northeast lose power at the height of the
blackout, and about 60 still had no power at midday yesterday,
spokeswoman Kess Connelly said.
Some hotels had their own generators, Ms. Connelly said, so guests
could stay in their rooms.
At others, where lights and air conditioning didn't work, cots were set
up in ballrooms and sandwiches served in the dark.
Business owners had to be similarly resourceful in Cleveland, where
the outage shut down the pumps that supply water to the city and
suburbs.
The power was restored early yesterday, but a lack of water pressure
kept the supply to a trickle.
Stylists at Creative Cuts in suburban Brunswick kept business going
by boiling water in pans to avoid frosty shampoos for customers.
"We figured this would help them feel better," nail technician Becki
Hovan said.
Brunswick enjoys transformation
Well-placed city's star rising
Monday, May 14, 2007
Rena A. KoontzPlain Dealer Reporter
Brunswick -- Been to Brunswick lately?
In a handful of years, a town derided as Brunstucky -- known for
chronic flooding and denigrated as a magnet for mobile homes and
shotgun-toting natives -- has morphed into a go-to retail hub for the
fastest-growing section of Northeast Ohio.
Credit location, location, location.
As people pour into rural Medina County, the city sits a half-hour
from Cleveland and no more than 20 minutes from Akron, the
turnpike and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
And new retailers are attracted by Brunswick's collection of niche
businesses, like a scrapbook headquarters, a custom Harley-
Davidson shop and a petting farm.
Such businesses draw an eclectic mix of shoppers from as far as 150
miles away, according to research from the Brunswick Chamber of
Commerce.
"If you could pick up a city and put it someplace, the ideal location
would be Brunswick," said Murray McDade, executive director of the
Brunswick Area Chamber of Commerce.
Brunswick has all kinds of unique attributes.
McDade said the chamber fields calls from other states when events
are held by Mapleside Farms, a rustic country restaurant, bakery, gift
shop and old-fashioned ice cream parlor operating on an apple farm.
Winking Lizard Tavern, known for its World Tour of Beer, will open on
Brunswick's busy Ohio 303 because its research says the town's Giant
Eagle is the area's top beer seller.
There's also "no restaurant or any place to go from Strongsville
south until you get to Route 18," said Winking Lizard spokesman
John Lane.
In the same plaza, a newly opened Buehler's Market took over a
shuttered Tops Supermarket. At the grand opening this month,
shoppers from Parma, North Royalton and Strongsville showed up,
said Buehler's spokeswoman Mary McMillen.
On 143 acres of former nothing now stands the Brunswick Town
Center, a shopping Mecca of big-box anchor stores and quaint
specialty shops. Behind that will be an education quad where
Cleveland State, Kent State, Baldwin-Wallace and the University of
Akron are among the schools looking to locate a campus.
A $250,000 nature center, paid for by the city's first-ever federal
grant, is proposed in the area as well.
The Cleveland Clinic and Southwest General Hospital are putting up
new medical buildings, and talks are under way with Medina General
Hospital for a free-standing emergency room.
Not the Brunswick that used to be
This isn't the Brunswick of old, where hard rains would overflow
blocked sewer lines and flood streets, private basements and the city
manager's office.
Four years of construction that cost $9 million plugged the leaks.
And it's not the Brunswick of old, where a builder would tack on an
extra $10,000 in anticipation of difficulties working with city officials.
When Rob Rapp was planning a new building for his Homestead
Insurance company in 1987, he noticed a $10,000 charge listed as
"Brunswick factor."
The builder told him that was the cost for dealing with a city.
But things have changed. Rapp said that when a contractor recently
was assessed a permit fee twice - once in December and again in
January - because of the new year, it took one phone call to get a
refund.
"The bureaucracy is gone," Rapp said.
Managing the city's growth, development
Much of the credit is handed to Bob Zienkowski, Brunswick's city
manager for the last four years. He made changes, including
customer service training for the staff, to cement the city's new focus.
Building inspectors now carry cell phones and respond immediately,
as opposed to waiting a day or longer.
Need a weed trimmer? The city will lend one to you. Short on chairs
for the graduation party? Those are available, too, free to city
residents.
Lori Thuener served on a committee of business owners Zienkowski
assembled to assess the city's business attitude. Old rules dictated
that all buildings be red brick, like Thuener's Creative Cuts hair salon.
That restricted chains and franchises from building their signature
models, and the committee suspected it caused some businesses to
bypass Brunswick. Zienkowski said he heard the same rumor.
The committee suggested nixing the restriction, and familiar
franchises like Steak & Shake sprung up.
"They listened to us," Thuener said.
Many small towns are looking to preserve their wide-open-space
appeal and avoid the congestion that commercial development often
brings.
Zienkowski came to town with a plan for economic development in
the commercial and industrial sectors. Residential, commercial and
industrial property revenue has increased from about $250,000 in
2004 to $2.27 million last year.
The bulk of that is the commercial and industrial growth.
Zienkowski also hopes to create an improved traffic-signal system to
manage Ohio 303 congestion.
Service director Sam Scaffide said Zienkowski recognized and
capitalized on the city's assets.
"With the help of City Council he took a sleepy community living in
the past, dusted it off and made it stand up to be counted. Now the
city has a bright future."
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
rkoontz@plaind.com, 800-683-7348
Creative Cuts Cut-a-thon
A battle fought together Positive outlook
helps couple cope with health woes
Thursday, April 19, 2007
By Anita M. SpacekThe Medina Sun
Bridget Wolosyn rubbed her left thigh and knee and said that she,
like most people, couldn't wait for the weather to break so that she
could get out and get some exercise. She also said that she couldn't
wait to get the heavy immoblizer off of her leg.
With the immoblizer on her leg, Bridget has been unable to bend her
leg since she had surgery to remove a tumor March 3. Doctors not
only removed a tumor from the 30-year-old Medina woman, but they
removed her hip, femur and knee and put in a titanium replacement.
"She's bionic," her husband Will joked.
The tumor in Bridget's leg was actually a recurrence of cancer that
originally appeared in her mouth two years ago.
"I was rubbing the left side of my face and felt a lump," Bridget said,
adding that the lump, which was just above her gum line, didn't hurt.
Bridget said that a few visits to the dentist were not taking care of
the lump, so she went for a second opinion. This time, the dentist
paid attention to what Bridget said: "I have a family history of
cancer."
That family history extends back to when Bridget, the middle of
three girls, was younger. Her older sister, Angela Wisor, was 12 when
she was diagnosed with leukemia. Angela died when she was 16
years old. Bridget's younger sister, Cathy Wisor, also was 12 when
she was diagnosed with cancer.
Cathy was diagnosed with brain cancer and underwent chemotherapy
treatments. She later developed leukemia and also died when she
was 16 years old.
The second dentist listened to Bridget and immediately did a biopsy
on the lump, which turned out to be cancerous. In March 2004,
Bridget had surgery that removed a portion of her upper jaw. Doctors
replaced it with a prosthetic and there is no outward change to
Bridget's face.
"The doctors said they got it all," she said, referring to the cancer.
Bridget did not undergo any chemotherapy or radiation treatments.
Bridget said that in the back of her back of her mind she thought the
cancer would probably come back, but that she went about her daily
life. And she did, until she was getting ready to go to bed one night
in December and felt a bump in her left thigh.
But Bridget and Will also had to deal with Will's health problems
before they conquered Bridget's next battle. Will, who has Familial
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, more commonly referred to as
FSGS. He worked hanging vinyl siding but has been off since October
2005 when he started undergoing kidney dialysis.
"My two kidneys are shriveled," Will, 32, said. "The doctors never
said for sure what caused them to fail."
A match for a transplant was found in Will's sister, Angela Wolosyn,
30. The transplant was done successfully in September.
"I feel good," Will said. He now has three kidneys. Since his two were
so damaged, he said that doctors just left them in and transplanted
his sister's kidney in the front of his abdomen. He said he has just
been cleared to go back to work, but now Bridget needs care.
She's anxious to have the immoblizer off her leg and start bending
her knee. She wants to start going to physical therapy.
Bridget knows she's come a long way from that night in December
when she first felt the lump in her thigh. She asked Will to feel it,
just to make sure.
And just like the first time, it took several visits to doctors before she
had a diagnosis, which was February. Her surgery was March 3. So
far, so good.
The 90 stitches that it took to sew up the 22-inch long incision have
come out, and her wound is healing well. Both Bridget and Will said
that doctors told them they are 100 percent sure they got all of the
tumor.
"The oncologist said there's a chance it could come back," Bridget
said. "But it could come back with or without chemo. I have it set in
my head that I'm not going to get sick anymore." She has decided
not to get any chemotherapy treatments.
Both Bridget and Will have a positive outlook for the future.
"It could always be worse," Will said, in a matter-of-fact way.
Bridget said that she's always been positive and that Will always tells
her that everything will be OK. She said that she also gets a lot of
strength from her dad, Bud Wisor.
"Yes, that's his name," she laughed. "We're close and I get a lot of
that strength and staying positive from him." Bridget's mom, Kathy
Wisor, died in 2004.
Dealing with two serious illnesses has put a financial strain on the
couple, who have three children, Tori, 12, William, 11, and Brittnie,
8. In addition to Will being out of work, Bridget, too, has not been
able to work at her job as manager at DSW, a shoe store in Fairlawn.
A Haircutting-a-Thon was held Sunday at Creative Cuts in Brunswick
to help out the family.
"About 250 people came through the shop," said Beth Letterly, one
of 22 women who volunteered to work for the event. "It more than
met our expectations." Haircuts, manicures, pedicures and
massages all were offered and the proceeds all were given to the
Wolosyns.
A fund for the family also has been set up at FirstMerit Bank, where
donations can be made at any branch.
Washington Times - Aug 15, 2003
Blackout equals red ink for businesses
NEW YORK (AP) — Business was anything but usual the day after the
biggest blackout in U.S. history.
Auto manufacturing plants were paralyzed, airlines canceled
hundreds of flights, some retailers resorted to cash-only transactions
in the dark and hotels served cold cuts by candlelight.
As power gradually returned, businesses and workers from
Manhattan to the Midwest were forced to improvise with whatever
they had, even as they worried about further outages.
Even the outwardly normal was misleading. The opening bell rang on
schedule, at 9:30 a.m., above the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange, but phone service remained out at many companies in
the nation's financial hub and many employers were advising workers
to stay home.
"I'd like it to be a normal day," said Boris Kozak, a New York
stockbroker who expected two or three of his 16 employees to make
it to work. "But unfortunately that's not possible."
The power went out in New York, portions of New Jersey and
Connecticut, and extended through parts of Canada and the upper
Midwest soon after 4 p.m. Thursday.
But a full day later, businesses were still feeling the effects.
More than 50 assembly and other plants operated by General Motors
Corp., Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group were
shut down by the blackout. One Honda Motor Co. plant in Canada
was also idled.
GM's towering world headquarters in downtown Detroit was dark
yesterday, and spokesman Pat Morrissey said more than a dozen
plants were closed. Only skilled trades and maintenance personnel
were reporting for the first shift, and no decision had been made on
the second.
"We'll reassess and determine our next step as the day goes on,"
said Ford spokesman Ed Lewis.
Other manufacturers were also on standby.
NOVA Chemicals, based in Pittsburgh, closed plants in Corunna,
Mooretown, Sarina and St. Clair River in Ontario, and in Painesville,
Ohio.
Including Wal-Mart stores in Canada and gas stations in Ohio, the
blackout crippled retailers. But by early yesterday, shops slowly
began to open again, providing much-needed food and other
supplies to shoppers.
The outage shuttered about 200 Wal-Mart stores in the United
States and Canada, but all but about 40 were reopened by yesterday
afternoon, with reduced lighting and slightly higher thermostats to
save power.
Most of those still dark were in Michigan, with a few others in New
York state and Ohio.
Home Depot, with 300 stores in areas that lost power, had reopened
most of them by noon.
The home-improvement retailer and its competitor, the Lowe's chain,
said they dispatched truckloads of generators to the affected stores
Thursday night. The retailers also sent out extra shipments of
batteries and flashlights to satisfy increased demand.
In parts of New York City, however, most stores remained dark.
Residents flocked to the few shops offering lukewarm soda or
cigarettes and the morning's most-prized possessions — a hot cup of
coffee and a newspaper.
"I closed early yesterday because it was too dark inside to count the
money," said Arsad Vaizifdar, whose tiny cigarette and newspaper
shop had reopened as an island of commerce on Manhattan's Upper
East Side yesterday morning.
"It's all right. What can you do?"
Airlines struggled to resume service, but passengers were finding
canceled flights and long delays at some airports.
Hotels were also set back by the blackout. Marriott International saw
175 of its hotels in the Northeast lose power at the height of the
blackout, and about 60 still had no power at midday yesterday,
spokeswoman Kess Connelly said.
Some hotels had their own generators, Ms. Connelly said, so guests
could stay in their rooms.
At others, where lights and air conditioning didn't work, cots were set
up in ballrooms and sandwiches served in the dark.
Business owners had to be similarly resourceful in Cleveland, where
the outage shut down the pumps that supply water to the city and
suburbs.
The power was restored early yesterday, but a lack of water pressure
kept the supply to a trickle.
Stylists at Creative Cuts in suburban Brunswick kept business going
by boiling water in pans to avoid frosty shampoos for customers.
"We figured this would help them feel better," nail technician Becki
Hovan said.
Brunswick enjoys transformation
Well-placed city's star rising
Monday, May 14, 2007
Rena A. KoontzPlain Dealer Reporter
Brunswick -- Been to Brunswick lately?
In a handful of years, a town derided as Brunstucky -- known for
chronic flooding and denigrated as a magnet for mobile homes and
shotgun-toting natives -- has morphed into a go-to retail hub for the
fastest-growing section of Northeast Ohio.
Credit location, location, location.
As people pour into rural Medina County, the city sits a half-hour
from Cleveland and no more than 20 minutes from Akron, the
turnpike and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
And new retailers are attracted by Brunswick's collection of niche
businesses, like a scrapbook headquarters, a custom Harley-
Davidson shop and a petting farm.
Such businesses draw an eclectic mix of shoppers from as far as 150
miles away, according to research from the Brunswick Chamber of
Commerce.
"If you could pick up a city and put it someplace, the ideal location
would be Brunswick," said Murray McDade, executive director of the
Brunswick Area Chamber of Commerce.
Brunswick has all kinds of unique attributes.
McDade said the chamber fields calls from other states when events
are held by Mapleside Farms, a rustic country restaurant, bakery, gift
shop and old-fashioned ice cream parlor operating on an apple farm.
Winking Lizard Tavern, known for its World Tour of Beer, will open on
Brunswick's busy Ohio 303 because its research says the town's Giant
Eagle is the area's top beer seller.
There's also "no restaurant or any place to go from Strongsville
south until you get to Route 18," said Winking Lizard spokesman
John Lane.
In the same plaza, a newly opened Buehler's Market took over a
shuttered Tops Supermarket. At the grand opening this month,
shoppers from Parma, North Royalton and Strongsville showed up,
said Buehler's spokeswoman Mary McMillen.
On 143 acres of former nothing now stands the Brunswick Town
Center, a shopping Mecca of big-box anchor stores and quaint
specialty shops. Behind that will be an education quad where
Cleveland State, Kent State, Baldwin-Wallace and the University of
Akron are among the schools looking to locate a campus.
A $250,000 nature center, paid for by the city's first-ever federal
grant, is proposed in the area as well.
The Cleveland Clinic and Southwest General Hospital are putting up
new medical buildings, and talks are under way with Medina General
Hospital for a free-standing emergency room.
Not the Brunswick that used to be
This isn't the Brunswick of old, where hard rains would overflow
blocked sewer lines and flood streets, private basements and the city
manager's office.
Four years of construction that cost $9 million plugged the leaks.
And it's not the Brunswick of old, where a builder would tack on an
extra $10,000 in anticipation of difficulties working with city officials.
When Rob Rapp was planning a new building for his Homestead
Insurance company in 1987, he noticed a $10,000 charge listed as
"Brunswick factor."
The builder told him that was the cost for dealing with a city.
But things have changed. Rapp said that when a contractor recently
was assessed a permit fee twice - once in December and again in
January - because of the new year, it took one phone call to get a
refund.
"The bureaucracy is gone," Rapp said.
Managing the city's growth, development
Much of the credit is handed to Bob Zienkowski, Brunswick's city
manager for the last four years. He made changes, including
customer service training for the staff, to cement the city's new focus.
Building inspectors now carry cell phones and respond immediately,
as opposed to waiting a day or longer.
Need a weed trimmer? The city will lend one to you. Short on chairs
for the graduation party? Those are available, too, free to city
residents.
Lori Thuener served on a committee of business owners Zienkowski
assembled to assess the city's business attitude. Old rules dictated
that all buildings be red brick, like Thuener's Creative Cuts hair salon.
That restricted chains and franchises from building their signature
models, and the committee suspected it caused some businesses to
bypass Brunswick. Zienkowski said he heard the same rumor.
The committee suggested nixing the restriction, and familiar
franchises like Steak & Shake sprung up.
"They listened to us," Thuener said.
Many small towns are looking to preserve their wide-open-space
appeal and avoid the congestion that commercial development often
brings.
Zienkowski came to town with a plan for economic development in
the commercial and industrial sectors. Residential, commercial and
industrial property revenue has increased from about $250,000 in
2004 to $2.27 million last year.
The bulk of that is the commercial and industrial growth.
Zienkowski also hopes to create an improved traffic-signal system to
manage Ohio 303 congestion.
Service director Sam Scaffide said Zienkowski recognized and
capitalized on the city's assets.
"With the help of City Council he took a sleepy community living in
the past, dusted it off and made it stand up to be counted. Now the
city has a bright future."
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
rkoontz@plaind.com, 800-683-7348
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