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I'm liking the name of that street: Whitewoman St.

Norwalk Raceway Park to host NHRA POWERade Series event in 2007 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8/29/2006 Ohio supertrack joins NHRA member track network; National Trail Raceway to continue active schedule To optimize its current 23-race NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series season, NHRA will relocate the Pontiac Performance NHRA Nationals from National Trail Raceway in Columbus, Ohio, to Norwalk Raceway Park, just outside Toledo and Cleveland beginning in 2007. Norwalk Raceway Park is just outside the metropolitan areas of Cleveland and Toledo and not far from Detroit and Columbus. The NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, the foremost drag racing series in the country, features the biggest names in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle, including John Force, Tony Schumacher, Melanie Troxel, Brandon Bernstein, Doug Kalitta, Ron Capps, Gary Scelzi, Greg Anderson, Warren Johnson, Jason Line, Andrew Hines, Angelle Sampey, and Antron Brown. The date of the national event at Norwalk Raceway Park will be announced Wednesday, Aug. 30, as part of a press conference in downtown Indianapolis that will unveil the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series schedule, as well as preview the prestigious Mac Tools U.S. Nationals this weekend at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. “Adding Norwalk Raceway Park to the NHRA member track network and awarding this premier facility with an NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series national event optimizes our current schedule to reach our fans throughout the state of Ohio and southern Michigan,” said NHRA President Tom Compton. “We are excited to join NHRA and bring the world’s biggest names in the sport of drag racing to the fans throughout Ohio and southern Michigan,” said Bill Bader Jr., president, Norwalk Raceway Park. With the move to NHRA, Norwalk Raceway Park has extensive plans for major improvements and enhancements to accommodate the needs of the number of participants and fans synonymous with an NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event. Although the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series won’t return to National Trail Raceway, that won’t mean the stars of the NHRA POWERade Series won’t make a visit to the quarter-mile facility east of Columbus in 2007. Next year, National Trail Raceway will stage a summer extravaganza featuring some of the stars of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series. The date of the event will be announced along with the track’s 2007 racing season schedule at a later date. “National Trail Raceway will continue to be a very active drag racing facility and one that will host a full schedule of racing throughout the season,” said Compton,. “But in an effort to optimize our schedule, we feel the move to northern Ohio will expand the reach of our schedule to new metropolitan areas such as Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit.” National Trail Raceway broke ground in the fall of 1963, and the 320-acre facility has hosted drag racing events since. In 1996, NHRA purchased the track and during the last 10 years has made significant improvements to the historic facility. The track serves a very strong Sportsman racing community in the Columbus and southern Ohio area and will continue to operate with a full slate of scheduled events to accommodate the needs of the Sportsman community in the region. National Trail Raceway will continue to play host to an NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series divisional event as well as the popular Jeg's NHRA Northern SPORTSnationals designed to showcase NHRA’s Sportsman categories exclusively. In addition, the facility will run the NHRA Summit Racing Series, NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Jr. Drag Racing League, NHRA Street Legal Drags presented by AAA, and many weekly programs, including the Jeg's E.T. Super Quick Series. The link: http://www.nhra.com/content/news.asp?articleid=15442 Another link: http://www.competitionplus.com/2006_08/monumental_change.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is good news locally, as NHRA should draw more people and more money. As for National Trail Raceway.........

I can't believe you people! Where's the love for my beloved Terra State? (Where you can smell the fertilizer and look out the window and see it, too :) ) LOL

I you sure it wasnt Ironwood, Michigan? That town is closer to Duluth. Iron River, Michigan, is further to the east. Iron River, Wisconsin (not Michigan) :D Iron River, Wisconsin is some tiny little town in Bayfield County between Ashland and Duluth I looked at a map) ...............all in all, the scenery looks gorgeous!

I'd buy their clothes if they were reasonably priced! :)

OK......... Leave some road space, everyone push his egg cartons! .............uh, there's gotta be something better than that! That's all I could come up with.......

My friend has an aunt and uncle in Iron River, Wisconsin (not too far from Duluth) and tries to visit them every other year or so............if you get him on the subject of Duluth, northern Minnesota and northen Wisconsin....he won't shut up about how free-spirited, open-minded, and great that place is :) Makes me wanna visit :) seriously!!!!!

I have lived in Erie County my entire life (save, college, where I live in DeKalb, Illinois). I've lived in Sandusky for 13 years and more recently have lived in Oxford Township for 8 years (although we have a Norwalk/Huron County address). -- --------------------- For my family, they have either lived in or are currently living in: ASHLAND COUNTY Townships Montgomery ERIE COUNTY Cities Castalia Milan Sandusky Townships Huron Oxford Perkins FRANKLIN COUNTY Cities Columbus HURON COUNTY Cities Norwalk LUCAS COUNTY Cities Toledo OTTAWA COUNTY Townships Salem PREBLE COUNTY Townships Gasper/Lake Lakengren RICHLAND COUNTY Townships Weller SUMMIT COUNTY Cities Akron ------------------- Out of state: Holtville, California San Francisco, California Kailua Kona, Hawaii Chicago, Illinois Woodstock, Illinois Albion, Indiana Anderson, Indiana Carmel, Indiana Converse, Indiana Decatur, Indiana Fairmount, Indiana Fort Wayne, Indiana Gas City, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Leesburg, Indiana Marion, Indiana Muncie, Indiana South Bend, Indiana Sweetser, Indiana Upland, Indiana Biloxi, Mississippi Charlotte, North Carolina York, Pennsylvania

bah

Dayton gets shafted again!

Don't really care much about pro-sports (I like following high school sports better, oddly enough)..........but I had to vote for the Indians! Although I personally feel the Cavs have a legitimate chance at winning a national championship first out of those choices.

Oops. I guess I posted this in the wrong thread. I swear I posted these articles in the "Norwalk Commons etc." thread. But I could be wrong :-D And if I did post them in the above mentioned thread and they were moved.......... :whip: Norwalk is NOT in the Toledo metro nor is it in northwest Ohio!!!!! :wink: Will people ever learn :? :-D :-D :-D

I'm a lifelong resident of Erie County (all 21 years, God I'm old :-D ); and I wholeheartedly agree with Ewoops' assessment. You just notice the Michiganders more, because they are crazy drivers.....

Norwalk council invokes eminent domain with Aldi By MATT HUTTON - Reflector Staff Writer [email protected] Months of negotiations between the city and Aldi came to a head Tuesday, when Norwalk City Council voted 6 to 1 to invoke eminent domain to obtain a quarter acre of land from the grocer. The city has been trying to come to an agreement with Aldi, 195 Milan Ave., since February for .24 acres of land needed for the Cline Street extension. The project, considered a public safety improvement, would connect the current end of Cline Street to Westwind Drive and reroute 2,000 to 3,000 vehicles from U.S. 250 to the extension. Full story at http://www.norwalkreflector.com/fullstory.html?sku=2006071912040804459&s=reflectornews

Walgreens developer says all property owners are on board By MATT HUTTON - Reflector Staff Writer [email protected] A developer planning to build a store for Walgreens on the corner of League Street and Whittlesey Avenue said he would like to begin construction by late summer or early fall. Brad Goldberg, of Visconsi Companies, met with Norwalk City Council Tuesday to discuss two pieces of legislation, both of which were tabled so they can be reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Committee. The legislation requests the city vacate Wood Street and then rezone several residential properties to manufacturing business — the zoning required for retails stores. Full story at http://www.norwalkreflector.com/fullstory.html?sku=20060719115828941118&s=reflectornews

Other random Norwalk development threads: (not that anyone here visits Norwalk that often :-D )

Movie theater access road open By MATT HUTTON - Reflector Staff Writer [email protected] Moviegoers headed home after a night out at Norwalk's Premiere Theatres, might now have an easier route to travel. The road connecting Republic Street with Industrial Parkway, named Norwalk Commons Drive, was opened to traffic in late June. Coupled with improvements to the Stower Street access point, which included an additional turning lane, and the widening of Milan Avenue, officials say traffic congestion should be better controlled. The city has no plan to install a traffic light near the Pride One Norwalk Commons development. Norwalk Commons, a 93-acre mixed-use complex on the North side of the city being developed by Pride One of Medina, features plans for housing, industry and commercial businesses. Full story at http://www.norwalkreflector.com/fullstory.html?sku=20060718115903909264&s=reflectornews

New kingdom hall complete Toledo Blade, 6/24/06 A new kingdom hall is just about ready, and a six-week district convention will begin next month for area Jehovah's Witnesses. The new West Toledo kingdom hall - the term the Jehovah's Witnesses use for a house of worship - was built on the same property as its previous facility, 3725 West Alexis Road. The old building was bulldozed. The new one, at 5,000 square feet, is twice as big as the kingdom hall it replaces. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWS10/606240316/-1/RSS

Man, you are too conservative and this comment proves it. ;) Well, I was born in Cincinnati ;). Oh, you Cincinnatians! Seriously though, funny article :)

Sounds like my kind of store!

Holy Toledo!

I'm guessing Ohio's first Ikea store will be somewhere in southern Delaware County around that Polaris place.

Around here, I always hear that anyone south of Sandusky and Huron is a hillbilly (I guess that means me). And when you hear people from Willard say they are going home, they are going to Kentucky, West Virginia, or Mexico. :) LOL So we have: Columbus: Grove-tucky Cleveland: Bruns-tucky Toledo: Swan-tucky Dayton: ?the whole city? :) j/k Cincinnati: ?it's on the border?

I agree, 41% is not a bad number at all. I just cringe to think of the percentages if the survey was given in my area :( And the only "alternative" I know is rock music :)

Kinda makes you think!