Cavaliers end Cleveland`s 52-year title drought with Game 7 victory

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IT’S FINALLY
‘NEXT YEAR’
Cavaliers end
Cleveland’s
52-year title
drought
with Game 7
victory over
Golden State
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eBron James and his relentless,
never-count-them-out Cavaliers
pulled off an improbable NBA Finals comeback, and Cleveland is
title town again at long last.
James delivered on a promise from two years
ago to bring a championship to his native
northeast Ohio, and he and the Cavs became
the first team to rally from a 3-1 finals deficit
by beating the defending champion Golden
State Warriors 93-89 on Sunday night to end
a 52-year major sports championship drought
in Cleveland.
James almost single-handedly carried the
Cavs back into this series and finished with
27 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds as the
Cavs captured their first championship in franchise history and gave their city its first major
sports winner since the Browns won the NFL
title in 1964.
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Cleveland’s
leveland’s LeBron James embraces the
Larry O’Brien championship trophy as emotions show clearly on his face.
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Don Kainrad returns to Ravenna City Hall
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GOOD MORNING
A special good
morning to RecordCourier subscriber
Linda Duckworth of
Deerfield
NO. 168
n NAMED INTERIM
SERVICE DIRECTOR
By DIANE SMITH | STAFF WRITER
He’s back behind the
desk he cleared out six
years ago, with the same
simple nameplate on display.
In some ways, it’s like
Don Kainrad never left
that corner office in
Ravenna City Hall.
The man who served
Ravenna for the better
part of the past 40 years
— including 12 years as
the city’s mayor and two
non-consecutive decades
as service director — is
back in the service director post.
Although Mayor Frank
Seman named him “interim service director”
Kainrad said he wouldn’t
mind if Seman decided to
make his appointment
permanent.
“It feels good to be
back,” he said. “I’ve always enjoyed my work.
I did this for a little over
20 years.”
Kainrad served as
Ravenna’s mayor from
1984 to 1995. He was service director from 1978
until 1983, when he
stepped down to run for
mayor, and again from
1996 to 2010, when he retired shortly after former
mayor Joseph Bica took
office.
He was 58 at the time,
and didn’t want to stop
working, so he took various jobs, most recently
as a driver for Coleman
Adult Day Services. Dur-
ing his time there, he also
was asked to facilitate a
dementia support group
for caregivers.
He also volunteered
as a chaplain at University Hospitals Portage
Medical Center, where he
still volunteers two days
a week.
“It’s very rewarding,”
he said, adding that he
also has conducted several funerals because of
his position. A Catholic,
Kainrad is a parishioner
at the Newman Center
of Kent.
As service director, Kainrad oversees the water
and wastewater treatment plants as well as the
engineering and street
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departments, each of Interim service director Don Kainrad sits in his office in
Ravenna City Hall. The former mayor and service director
SEE KAINRAD, A2 was named to the interim post by Mayor Frank Seman.
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