Mar 9, 2021
EAST LIVERPOOL Longtime area resident Florence E. “Flo” Calhoun, of East Liverpool, passed away Saturday, March 6, 2021. She was 90.
Born in Lorain, OH on December 6, 1930. Flo was graduated from Albion High School in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to East Liverpool with her family the following year. She began work at the former Acme Pottery in Wellsville, where she remained until 1960. When Hill’s Department Store opened its doors in 1964, Flo became a faithful employee until years later when she went to work for the Dream Shoppe in Chester and then in East Liverpool.
Known throughout the area for her expertise in cookie baking, Flo taught many classes in cake decorating and candy making, and was well known for her beautiful wedding cakes and cookies. She took great joy in her creations until her Parkinson’s would not let her hold a knife to ice the cakes, but she was able to bake some of her grandchildren’s favorite sugar cookies.
228 Less than a minute Photo credit: Albion Standing Facebook page
Photo credit: Albion Standing Facebook page
Students and their supporters gathered on Feb. 27 to protest a backlash against a Black Lives Matter mural at Marshall High School in Michigan. Students had painted the mural at their school as part of a Black History Month commemoration. The art project, done by student members of the NAACP Michigan Youth Chapter, was met with a racist response from local parents. Many parents were upset by the mural and complained at the school board meeting.
The protest, organized by MHS student leaders with help from local organizers in the anti-racist community group Albion Standing, drew 50 people on a rainy winter’s day.
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