February 2015 photos

Emily Nemeth, 13, left, and her older brother Anthony, 20, build a snowman in their front yard in Elyria Sunday afternoon. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE

Emily Nemeth, 13, packs more snow onto the snowman she and her older brother Anthony built Sunday afternoon in Elyria. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE

Mike Soja, of Elyria, clears the sidewalk in front of his home and his neighbors on Roosevelt Avenue with his snow blower early Sunday afternoon. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE

Anthony Nemeth, 20, left, builds a snowman with his younger sister Emily, 13, right, in their front yard in Elyria Sunday afternoon. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE

Jay Randalman of Elyria sleds at Cascade Park on Feb. 2. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Lori Lisaula, with her son Dominic, of Elyria, sled at Cascade Park on Feb. 2. Dominic has a day off school at Prospect Elementary. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Zach Murphy of Elyria plows out driveways on Eastern Heights Boulevard in his ATV snow plow on Feb. 2. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Logan Townsley of Elyria does a snowboard jump at Cascade Park on Feb. 2. Logan has the day off from school at Elyria High. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Jennifer Emory of Elyria uses a snowblower at her home on Eastern Heights Boulevard on Feb. 2. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Joe McKinney, a computer specialist at LCCC, wipes off his car during snowfall at LCCC on Feb. 4. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

LCCC student Derek Vilk walks to class in the snow on Feb. 4. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Nicole Vonseggern, 11, and Callie Bradley, 11, both of Grafton Township, share a laugh as they work on decorating their cupcakes on Feb. 4 at the Grafton Public Library during a workshop held by Maggie Gross, of Sweets by Maggie, in Amherst. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Maggie Gross, from Sweets by Maggie, in Amherst, teaches a group of students the art of decorating cupcakes at the Grafton Public Library on Feb. 4. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Karley Zimmerman, of South Amherst, rehearses in Ballet IV technique class at New Union Center for the Arts in Oberlin on Feb. 5. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Kassandra Lee, an Ohio Dance Theater company member, rehearses in a Ballet IV technique class at New Union Center for the Arts in Oberlin on Feb. 5. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Ron Gorman of the Oberlin Heritage Center poses with a portrait of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescuers who saved runaway slave John Price. BRUCE BISHOP/CHRONICLE

Karena Williams of Elyria picks up her car at Premier Toyota Scion in Amherst on Feb. 6. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Karena Williams of Elyria picks up her car at Premier Toyota Scion in Amherst on Feb. 6. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Karena Williams of Elyria picks up her car at Premier Toyota Scion in Amherst on Feb. 6. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

The Pipes and Drums of the Cleveland Police played during the annual Pete Soto Chili Cook-Off at Lorain County Community College on Feb. 7. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

The annual Pete Soto Chili Cook-Off, held at Lorain County Community College, was well attended, packing in hundreds of guests and officers from all over the state, who came to eat and serve chili and desert. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Sheffield Village Police Department Sgt. Ryan Sayers and Officer Keith Pool serve up some of their homemade chili, which they named "This is it." KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Elyria Police Officer Rick Walker serves chili at the annual Pete Soto Chili Cook-Off on Feb. 7. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Kenny Barr, of Elyria, a member of the United States Boomerang Team, shows one of his boomerangs. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Kenny Barr, of Elyria, a member of the United States Boomerang Team, throws a boomerang. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Kenny Barr, of Elyria, a member of the United States Boomerang Team, throws a boomerang. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Kenny Barr, of Elyria, a member of the United States Boomerang Team, sets out his boomerangs. STEVE MANHEIM/CHRONICLE

Samantha Wyler, 14, of Amherst, carefully sets a table before the Valentine’s Day Tea Party at the Hickories Museum in Elyria on Saturday afternoon. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Linda Kraps, of Grafton, greets guests at the Valentine Tea party on Feb. 7. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Cyndy Bertovich, of Elyria, counts place settings before the Valentine Tea party on Feb. 7 at the Hickories Museum. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Odesa Patrlja-Craigo, 9, and her grandmother, Marianne Patrlja, both of Vermilion, stopped by the library to pick out chocolates Saturday. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Sisters Haylie,12, and Alexis Henderson, 11, both of Vermilion, carefully decide how they would like to spend their tickets during the chocolate sale. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Claire Rottenborn, 4, of Vermilion, hands a chocolate that she picked out to her father, Tom, as her brother, Thomas, 6, and uncle, Alex Nunn, look for more chocolates at the chocolate sale at Ritter Public Library during the Ice-A-Fair on Saturday. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Henry Price, 4, of Gahanna, stops when he sees an ice sculpture carved to look like his favorite “Frozen” character, Olaf. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Lillian Chylik, 7, and her brother, Kayden, 10, both of Norwalk, laugh at a pig-shaped ice sculpture along Main Street. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Vance Velishek, 3, of Vermilion, jumps for joy when he sees Snow Queen Elsa, from Disney’s “Frozen,” on Saturday at the Vermilion Ice-A-Fair. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Lila Molnar, 3, and her friend Josslyn Barnett, 4, both of Vermilion, give Elsa a big hug after seeing her make her way down Main Street. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Throughout the Vermilion Ice-A-Fair, spectators were able to watch artists as they created their pieces out of blocks of ice Saturday. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Alia Bailey, 4, of Elyria, plays a guessing game to see how many jelly beans are in the dinosaur container on Feb. 7. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Jason Short, 4, and his mother Julie, both of Avon, put the puzzle of a T-Rex fossile together during the Avon Public Library's Tea Rex Party on Feb. 7. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Ben Rini, 10, Brett Moyse, 8, and Cole Rini, 6, watch as Ethan Moyse, 10, jumps to put the finishing touch, a hat, on their snowman on Feb. 7 in Vermilion. The boys began constructing the snowman earlier this week, during a school snowday. KRISTIN BAUER | CHRONICLE

Lorain County JVS Culinary Academy junior William Saki works on creating art with with vegetables during the Lorain County JVS Open House Sunday afternoon in Oberlin. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE

Lorain County JVS Culinary Academy senior Danielle Castro, 18, carefully carves a tulip out of a turnip in a demonstration during the Lorain County JVS open house Sunday afternoon in Oberlin. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE

Kelly and Kurt Jones, of Avon Lake, were named the queen and king of the 19th annual Kiedrowski's Bakery Paczki Ball Sunday evening in Lorain. ANNA NORRIS/CHRONICLE