More than 4,000 kids kick off Enshrinement Week at First Play
CANTON – The 201st National Football League season and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Week got off to their ceremonial start just past 10 a.m. Wednesday with a gentle, lofting pass over the intersection of Cleveland Avenue SW and Second Street SW.
Quarterbacking was Grady Crosby, an executive at Johnson Controls, which sponsors Enshrinement Week, and receiving was Jack, a local student.
Starting at the NFL s birthplace at the Frank Bow Federal Building in downtown Canton, the First Play event that followed involved more than 4,000 local children, the most ever. It took just under an hour and snaked about two miles to the end zone at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
OH weather: School closings and delays in Northeast Ohio for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
CLEVELAND, Ohio A winter storm that has a potential to dump 8 to 12 inches on the Cleveland and Akron areas has resulted in dozens of Northeast Ohio school districts canceling or delaying classes for Tuesday.
Several major school districts made the decision to cancel Tuesday’s classes by Monday evening, including Akron City Schools, Avon and Avon Lake schools, Canton City Schools, East Cleveland City Schools, Elyria City Schools, Eulclid City Schools, Mentor Exempted Village School District, and Shaker Heights Schools, to name just a few. Some districts in the area are closing buildings but will have remote classes on Tuesday, including Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools.