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Santa Claus and the John Hay High School jazz band will be there, too.
Participants will hang hand-made ornaments on the tree, donated by Cleveland resident Maureen Wolohan, and cookies and milk will be served.
The festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
A variety of events are planned to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II.
• The Greater Cleveland Veterans Council will hold a ceremony Sunday at the USS Cod submarine on North Marginal Drive, near East Ninth Street, starting at 11:55 a.m. Several Pearl Harbor veterans are expected to attend, and one among them traditionally casts a memorial wreath from the sub to honor the 2,402 killed in the attack.
The ceremony will be followed by a 12:30 p.m. luncheon at the Holiday Inn Select-City Centre Lakeshore, 1111 Lakeside Ave. The featured speaker is Army Staff Sgt. Thomas Washington, a veteran of four tours in Iraq. The luncheon is $30. For details, call 216-403-4934.
The 18-year-old tiger became ill Nov. 29. Tests revealed he had cancer.
Binjai was born March 28, 1990, at the Phoenix Zoo. He came to Akron Jan. 12, 2004, from Tampa, Fla. He was one of 69 Sumatran tigers in accredited U.S. zoos.
The zoo's female Sumatran tiger, Aneh, 17, died last month of renal failure.
Another male tiger, Rojo, remains on display at the zoo.
In a basement room cluttered with the guts of a giant theater organ, Don Frerichs, handling a hot soldering iron, connects tiny electrical wires inside the instrument's marimba mechanism.
He is one of 10 volunteers restoring and installing a 1924 Wurlitzer at the Masonic Auditorium theater on Euclid Avenue and East 36th Street.
Over the last 15 months, the volunteers -- members of the Western Reserve Theatre Organ Society -- have been working two nights a week on the $100,000 project. They hope to be playing fugues by June.
The memorial in Huntington Park at Lakeside Avenue and West Third Street opened on May 14, 1993, and is being improved by Milano Monuments and Schill Landscape Design.
The local companies will redesign the landscaping around the memorial and clean and restore the memorial itself. Crews will install an underground water irrigation system, flagpoles, lighting and walkways.
The memorial honors the 173 officers killed while on duty in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina and northern Summit counties.
Work began Dec. 2 and will be finished in time for the 24th Annual Police Memorial Commemoration May 14-17. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 11:15 a.m. May 15.
Anyone wishing to contribute should contact the Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial Society; e-mail gcpoms1985@yahoo.com.
CLEVELAND - A feeble economy will cut a break for those ordered to pay on court judgments in 2009.
The statutory interest rate on judgements awarded next year will be 5 percent -- down from 8 percent in 2008. The lower interest rate will effect thousands of people involved in liability, contract actions, personal injury actions and legal and medical malpractice cases in Ohio.
Even in cases involving credit card debt -- in which interest rates upwards of 20 percent are built into a cardholder's contract -- the defendant might still fare better this year than last if they end up in court.
Ohio's 7-week wild turkey season ended Nov. 30 with 1,692 killed.
Ashtabula County led the state with 130 birds killed, according to the Division of Wildlife.
Hunters used shotguns, muzzle-loading shotguns, bows and crossbows in 46 Ohio counties.
Hunters killed 33,034 white-tailed deer Monday, 70 percent more than opening day of the deer-gun season last year, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Another round of hunting will happen Dec. 20 and 21.
The Ohio agency says the deer-kill was up because of weather. Monday, it was breezy with intermittent rain or snow across the state. Opening day last year, hunters were hampered by heavy rain.
To confirm it's a "polar bear day" at the zoo, go to clemetzoo.com, call 216-661-6500 or listen to WNWV FM/107.3 from 6 to 10 a.m.
There are free heated shuttle rides and "hot spots" like the Rainforest, the Primate, Cat & Aquatics Building, Wolf Wilderness, the GumLeaf Hideout and the Center for Zoological Medicine.
FAIRVIEW PARK -- Police rescued a male deer who was tangled in a resident's golf-ball-catching net in a back yard.
The Rivercliff Drive resident noticed the deer about 10 a.m. Saturday and called police. The deer was thrashing about in the net, but couldn't free his antlers.
A patrol officer temporarily paralyzed the deer with a stun gun while another pulled the net off his antlers. The deer, a little dazed, trotted away unharmed.
Mason, 44, is ill and bipolar. Her family hasn't heard from her since Oct. 8. They fear she is being held against her will, or worse, community activist Judy Martin said.
The family reported her missing on Oct. 12, Lt. Thomas Stacho said. Detectives are investigating.
Family, friends and activists will pass out fliers (pdf) at 7:15 p.m. at East 116th Street and Buckeye Road.
Mason vanished after meeting a sexual predator who had served 18 years in prison for rape and stalking, her family said. Her two sons, mother and sister have been searching for her.
Nurse Donna Kelly takes the socks to the homeless people she cares for living on the streets, in campsites and in shelters.
"We are seeing more elderly people on the street and in shelters due to the economic and housing crisis."
Last winter, Kelly treated a half dozen cases of frostbite.
Drop off men's white socks at the Care Alliance Clinic, 1530 St. Clair Ave., or e-mail Kelly to make other arrangements.
Chris Vogt chose to help some of the "most misunderstood, deserving beings in our community; feral cats," said APL director Sharon Harvey. "There are tens of thousands of wild cats in the Cleveland area, and as the winter weather arrives many of these animals will be desperate for shelter."
Chris built the shelters with assistance from five other scouts from Troop 411 of Sharon Center in Medina County, and his father, veterinarian James Vogt.
Harvey said, "Lending a helping hand to cats who can't be socialized and will never know the pleasure of a lap or the stroke of a human hand is surely a selfless and model act of citizenship for all of us."
George T. Nichols was last seen at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Londonderry, Ohio. Nichols is 5 feet 4 and 120 pounds. He was wearing blue jeans and a black coat.
He may be driving a red 1991 GMC with license plate EEL 1859.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Vinton County Sheriff's Office at 740-596-5242 or call 9-1-1.
A national nonprofit group, Canine Companions for Independence, matched Wil with Winton, who has about $45,000 worth of training that will help Wil become more mobile and social and maybe even verbal, Wil's mom Connie Searby said.
With an office in Delaware, Ohio, Canine Companions has placed more than 3,000 dogs with children and adults with autism, Down syndrome and other physical and developmental difficulties. The dogs help their human companions speak and cope with change, over-stimulation, fear of being alone and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Canine Companions, founded in 1975, is funded by donations and grants. Puppies, born at a center in Santa Rosa, Ca., are placed with volunteer raisers who teach them 28 basic commands up to age 16 months, when professional trainers take over for six months.
Fur Free Friday: Mercy for Animals and other activists will protest fur on Nov. 28. They'll gather with banners, signs and pamphlets at 11 a.m. at Beachwood Place Mall, 26300 Cedar Road, and at 2 p.m. at Sabau Furs, 11310 Detroit Ave. They are opposed to millions of fur-bearing animals each year being trapped, drowned, beaten, electrocuted, suffocated and skinned so humans can wear their furs. For details, e-mail info@MercyForAnimals.org or call 216-338-7397.
Puppy mills: Learn how puppies are churned out in Ohio puppy mills to supply pet stores at a forum at Lakeland Community College. Kristina Lange, founder of Marilyn's Voice, will speak at noon Dec. 4 at 7700 Clocktower Dr. in Kirtland, room A1044f. The event is free and includes refreshments. Bring a lunch. For details, call 440-525-7323 or e-mail dtimms@lakelandcc.edu.
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