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Changes To 'It's Better In Mentor' & Shrinking Revenues For Public Schools: A Week In Review

See the big stories from in and around Mentor this week

1. Big changes are coming to the It's Better In Mentor Festival next year.

How big?

How about more local businesses participating?

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Neighborhoods competing for bragging rights in obstacle courses and tug-of wars? (Tugs-of-war?)

How about no carnival rides?

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2. Police officers and firefighters from all around the region joined students Tuesday morning at the high school for a prayer ceremony commemorating the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11.

The students thanked the men and women of the myriad departments (as well as one canine) for their service, as well as those from across the country.

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3. -- an 8-year-old girl who died from cancer this summer.

4. "We don't have a spending problem. We have a revenue problem."

That is what Mentor Schools CFO Dan Wilson told the district's Citizens Financial Advisory Committee earlier this month when discussing the 2012-2013 annual appropriations.

This year, Mentor Schools is anticipating $89 million in revenue, Wilson said. That's down from $101 million in revenue during the 2006-2007 school year.

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5. A Mentor man is .

Robert Sajovic, 46, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with abduction and domestic violence.

Sajovic was previously convicted of shooting his then wife in the leg -- ostensibly on accident.


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