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As honorees, the married couple asked the foundation to donate $1,000 to Downtown Arts Theater Inc., which is restoring the Lyric Theater.

WOOSTER  Mitch Sleek expected funeral home workers to be placed in phase 1A of Ohio’s vaccine rollout. The worst-case scenario would be waiting for phase 1B. Neither happened. “Now, they kind of have us in no man’s land,” said Sleek, the funeral director for McIntire, Bradham, and Sleek Funeral Home. Ohio’s funeral directors are pleading with Gov. Mike DeWine to immediately include them and their employees in phase 1B due to their daily exposure to COVID-19 at nursing homes, hospital...