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.. r-- 11th Congressional Caucus I 28th Annual Picnic - Labor Day I SPORTS ~ooday,SepL 7,1998 MENU TIPS I I Parade at 12:00 Noon EAST SIDEIY NEWS I For info on parade call ISSUED FRIDAY I Rockers Post An (216) 932-2933 Fair Foods To SERVING LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, Outstanding Season MT. PLEASANT, LEE & AVALON, HARVARD· LEE, MILES· UNION, UNIVERSITY Picnic -11:00 A.~. Prepare At Home at Luke Easter Park CIRCLE AREA, WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGE OF See Page 9 See Salute To Louis Stokes FREE HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND On Pages 4 And 5. See Page 10 READ ON • WRITE ON Thesday, September 2, 1998- Friday, September 4, 1998 O'Bannon aspires to be Common Pleas Judge Vol. 19, No. 11 "COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW" By CLAUDE STARKS that she has been endorsed by the Call and Post. E.S.D.N. the Pamela O'Bannon,38, is Black Women's Political Action attempting to win the November 3 Committee, the Cuyahoga County Defendants sentenced in FBI drug sting election for the general division of . ByCLAUDESTARKS sentenced to seven years and Dehil, 26, who reported the ille nature of the fe lony conviction judge for the Common Pleas Court Democratic Party, the Suburban three months in prison. gal activities to police after par precluded patrolman Freddie for the full term commencing Janu Black Caucus, and B.E.D.C.O. U.S. District Judge Stephen Salerno, 30, a ticipating in two drug transac Cody from returning to the po ary7,1999. Additionally, O'Bannon Donald C. Nugent recently sen Cleveland Heights police officer tions. lice force after his prison term. O'Bannon·s opponent for said that if elected to the office of tenced the 5 I defendants in an was sentenced to six years and Dehil received a sen Dixon said that he in the November 3 general election is judge. she would be "firm, fair, im · FBI drug sting during an eight three months in prison. tence from the judge of five structed the lieutenants to tell Republican Chris Boyko, who had partial" and delegate sentences • hour courtroom session before Nancy Brown, 34 and months in a halfway house and the East Cleveland officers to no opponent in the May 5 Primary "creatively"in order to rehabilitate approximately 300 relatives, FBI Angienette Suggs, 24, were the five months house detention. stay away from the illegal ac Election and received 32,55 I O'Bannon the prisoner and make the sen agents and attorneys at the only women who participated in East Cleveland Police tivities in which Cody was in votes. division preside over all fe lony tence correlate to the crime. Howard Metzenbaum Federal the illegal activities involving Chief Joseph Dixon said that the volved. Judges within the general cases in Cuyahoga County and Courthouse, 201 Superior Ave. cocaine which surrounded their all civil cases which are in excess O'Bannon also said that The sentencing culmi arrest. of$10,000. she would expedite her cases natedan investigation which was Brown, who was an O'Bannon, who has a quickly in order to save the tax initiated in October of I 996 by an county corrections officer and bachelor's degree in social work payers of Cuyahoga County unnamed FBI agent who repre Suggs, who was an East Cleve from Ohio State University and money. sented himself as a drug dealer in land patrolwoman, was sentenced a juris doctorate degree from the O'Bannon said that her need of individuals to transport, to prison terms of two years and Case Western Reserve Univer qualifications for judge of the hide and guard cocaine in the six months and three years and sity School of Law, had no op Court of Common Pleas include Greater Cleveland area. five months respectively. ponent in the May 5 Democratic All defendants pleaded The majority of the de Primary Election and received being a former assistant law di guilty and the maximum sentence fendantsreceived prison terms of 91,139votes. rector and prosecutor with the city directed to the defendants by two years and six months. O' Bannon said that she of Cleveland. Nugent was given to Michael Nugent instructed the derived the idea of becoming a Additionally, O"Bannon Joye. defendants that they have until judge as a ten year old fourth has been employed as an assis Joye, 30, was employed October 19 to start their prison grade student when then judge tant prosecutor with the county. as an county corrections officer. sentences. Sarah Harper visited her class O'Bannon says that her Joye organized the drug Two defendants were room and emphasized to her and qualifications should assist her activity and recruited the police instructed to report directly to her classmates the importance of man and guards to transport and prison because they had an ille acquiring an education. when the voters compare her work PTQtect the cocaine. gal drug in their urine samples. O'Bannon said that be experiences with the other judi Joye also told the FBI Former Cleveland Police cause she was the youngest of cial candidates. agent that he could supply offic Chief Jason Collins' son Jason, ~ 11 children, she was inspired to O'Bannon said that af ers to protect the cocaine. 26, who was a patrolman with the Mayor Mike White addresses the media at a press conference on the purchase of the Cleve- leave the Garden Valley Housing ter winning the May 5 Democratic Joye was sentenced to Cleveland Heights Police Depart land Browns as former Browns' member Bernie Kosar listens. (ESDN Photo by R.K.) Projects where her family lived. Primary Election, hername should 'nine years and four months in fed ment, was sentenced to three O'Bannon also said be recognized within the county eral prison. years and eight months in prison. After being informed of Assistant U.S Attorney electorate. the length of his sentence, Joye James R. Wooley told Judge Small Business Association holds seminar O'Bannon has been told Nugent that he deserved his Nugent that the FBI agent was married for ten years to Michael The Cleveland District entrepreneurs interested in floor conference room in Cleveland technical and management assis O'Bannon, who is employed as pr.ison term. instructed to request large quan Office of the U.S. Small Business starting or expanding their own from 10:00 to noon. tance to help Americans start, John Evan ish ill, 25, was an institutional guard with the tities of drugs to ensure the le Administration (SBA) will con small business by providing as Please call the SBA recep run, and grow their businesses. sentenced to nine years and two gitimacy of the need to protect duct an SBA loan seminar for sistance in obtaining loans. tionist at (216) 522-4180 to make a The SBA is a federal Cleveland Police Department and months in prison. the shipments. small business owners on The seminar will be reservation as soon as possible. agency, guaranteeing 30-40% of has two children Milton, 3 and Freddie L.Cody, 30,an Judge Nugent com W~~sday, September 9. held at the Eaton Center, llll The U.S. Small Business all long-term loans to small busi Michael, 9, in addition to a step East Cleveland police officer, was mended the actions of Daniel Two hour seminar is for Superior Avenue in the 11th Administration provides financial, nesses nation-wide. son Kenneth Himons, I 0. Tavis Smiley speaks at A Cultural Exchange Stokes retires after 30 years in Congress By CLAUDE STARKS By CLAUDE STARKS written articles pertaining to the Smiley answered ques show. tions which were written by the Rep. Louis Stokes, who Author, radio and tele Smiley suggested that audience prior to the speech. is retiring after serving 15 con vision personality Tavis Smiley the novelists ask black publish Smiley answered a ques secutive terms in Congress was recently addressed an audience ers for a larger percentage of the tion by saying that President born in Cleveland February 23, of approximately 100 at A Cul money which will be derived from Clinton will not recover politically 1925. tural Exchange, 12621 Larchmere the sales of their books because and morally in the minds of He was educated in the Cleveland public school system Blvd. the publishers cannot afford to Americans because of his sexual and attended Western Reserve A. C. E. is a nonprofit pay an advance as large as white Jaison with Monica Lewinsky. University. He received a juris cultural organization which was publishers. Smiley did say he be doctorate degree from Cleveland designed to enlist African-Ameri Smiley discussed an is lieves that Clinton will not resign State University, John Marshall can males in the Greater Cleve sue during his speech which he or be impeached. School of Law. He served three of Ohio. l~nd area to donate books and also talks about on his radio Smiley said that Clinton years in the military. During his tenure in Con v.olunteer their time to read to Tavis Smiley, television and radio personality was recently By virtue of his elec show which is that the auction has been a good President for gress, Stokes was a member of the in Cleveland at A CultLtre Exchange bookstore to sign his recent tion to Congress in 1968, Stokes students in day care centers and ing of memorabilia which belong African-Americans because committees which investigated book, A Hard Left. Smiley is with Deborah McHamm, owner ofthe became the first African-Ameri sChools.