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Around the Patch: Judgment Day and '80s Power Ballads

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  1. In case you haven't heard, today is Judgment Day. At least that's what Harold Camping, an 89-year-old radio evangelist, has declared. According to Camping, the Rapture starts at 6 p.m. (Camping has not clarified to which time zone he is referring.) Twinsburg Patch has conveniently with what you need to know about Camping the upcoming apocalypse.
  2. If we survive today, then the city of Westlake has a lot to look forward to. American Greetings announced it will move its headquarters to Crocker Park in the city, bringing million of dollars and thousands of jobs in spinoff developments along with it. To learn more about the big business move, check out .
  3. Natalie Wester, a Cleveland Height teacher, got to meet President Barack Obama after she was named 2011 Ohio Teacher of the Year. Even though she wasn't supposed to bring anything, she made sure the president got the gift her students made him. To find out what that gift was, .
  4. And now for something completely different ... North Canton blogger Timothy Moore takes a moment to romanticize the Scorpions' Winds of Change and the decade from which it came. "The technology of the '80s was even romantic; a girl respected a mix tape of love songs. A mix tape was nothing like burning a CD. There were no downloads, just simply sitting by the radio pining away for your love waiting for the perfect song," he wrote. To see the rest of Moore's ode to a bygone era, .
  5. Finally, State Sen. Timothy Grendell introduced Senate Resolution 71, commending those responsible for the operation that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on May 1. 


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