NORTHEAST OHIO
Sign up for Girls on the Run
AKRON: Registration for the Girls on the Run Northeast Ohio (gotrNEO) fall season opens at 9:30 a.m. Monday. The gotrNEO program is offered each spring and fall in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties for girls in third through eighth grades.
Enrollment is limited to 15 girls per team, registration will be open for seven days and financial aid for registration costs is available.
Girls on the Run is an international nonprofit program that inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using an experience-based curriculum that integrates confidence building, community service and physical activity.
Teams will begin meeting the week of Sept. 12 for 10 weeks. The season will culminate in an untimed 5K run for the girls, coaches and family members on Nov. 13.
Registration is $150 per girl. Some locations may ask for an additional $15 facility fee, but the organization does not turn away a girl based on financial need. For more information and/or to register a girl, visit www.gotrNEO.org.
Police hold Trump statue
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS: A suburban Cleveland police department has given the owner of a naked Donald Trump statue 30 days to claim it along with a minor misdemeanor citation.
Cleveland.com reports the statue of the Republican presidential nominee that made a brief appearance Thursday in front of a Cleveland Heights bank is now being stored at that city’s police department.
The city’s police chief says the owner could face a fine for breaking a city code that prohibits placing items and equipment on public property.
Life-size naked Trump statues also made appearances in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.
RAVENNA TOWNSHIP
Farm hosting open house
RAVENNA TWP.: Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary will welcome human visitors at an open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 11.
Volunteers will be stationed at the barns to talk to visitors about the sanctuary’s work, and vegan food will be available. Admission is free.
Happy Trails rescues, rehabilitates and provides an adoption program for farm animals that have been abused, abandoned or neglected. It’s at 5623 New Milford Road, Ravenna Township.
More information on the sanctuary is at http://happytrailsfarm.org.
SUMMIT COUNTY
Rummage sale
FAIRLAWN: The Women’s Auxiliary Board of Summit County Children Services will hold its annual Rummage Sale from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Fairlawn Community Center, 3486 South Smith Road.
All rummage donations, such as clothing, housewares, lawn and garden items, craft supplies or accessories, should be dropped off at the center between 8:30 a.m. and noon Sept. 9. Tax deduction receipts will be available to all donors.
The Women’s Board also will offer coffee, tea, water, doughnuts and cookies for sale this year.
Proceeds from the Rummage Sale benefit children in the care of Summit County Children Services.
For more details, contact Sandy DeLuca at 330-379-1994 or sdeluca@ summitkids.org.
STATE NEWS
Akron lawyer suspended
COLUMBUS: An Akron attorney was suspended Friday from practicing law by the Ohio Supreme Court’s disciplinary counsel.
The court filed an interim remedial suspension against Mark Andrew Chuparkoff, saying he “engaged in conduct that violates the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct and poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public.”
Chuparkoff did not file a response with the court, according to the suspension motion.
The court ordered Chuparkoff to immediately stop practicing law and said he must go through the required process to resume his law practice.
Chuparkoff could not be reached for comment Friday.