LORAIN — A Lorain woman told police a man forced her 6-year-old daughter into his apartment and tried to take her clothes off yesterday afternoon.

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Eliseo Arce, 56, of Lorain, is in the Lorain City Jail without bond facing an abduction charge, according to a police report.

The woman, 35, told police she was in front of her apartment building at 1906 Lexington Ave. with her daughter and told her daughter to run inside and get her cell phone.

After her daughter was gone for about five minutes, the woman thought she was taking too long, so she opened the apartment building door and saw her daughter running up the stairs.

Her daughter then told her the following happened:

As she was making her way to her apartment, she was grabbed from behind by a man, later determined to be Arce. He put his hand over her mouth and carried her into his apartment. Once in the apartment he took her through the living room to a back bedroom.

The girl said the man then attempted to pull her shorts down but stopped when she waved her hands back and forth signaling him to stop. She said said he stopped pulling on her shorts and then tried to lift up her T-shirt.

She said someone then knocked on the bedroom window, and Arce told her “Run, get out of here.”

That is when the girl ran from the apartment and told her mother what had happened.

As police were speaking with the girl’s mother, Arce rode up on a bicycle and asked “You guys looking for me?”

When police responded, “No, why?” he replied “Oh, heard you were, something about me grabbing a little girl.”

Police then searched the Arce’s apartment, and it matched up with the girl’s description that he had two cats and that the TV was on in the back bedroom she had been taken too.

The man who had knocked on the window told police he is a friend of Arce and was there to give him a ride to the store.

According to Lorain police Sgt. Mark Carpentiere, the incident remains under investigation, and it’s possible more charges could be filed.

SHEFFIELD — About 900 people who sacrificed sleep overnight to be the first to see the latest “Twilight” move, “Eclipse,” left the theater disappointed when they didn’t get to see the end due to projector problems.

According to Ryan Yates, manager at Regal Cinemas’ Cobblestone theater, several inches of film misfed through a single projector that was piping the movie into five different theaters.

Moviegoers were given passes to come back and see the move at another time, he said.

That solution doesn’t cut it for Chris St. Peter of Elyria.

She was at the movie with six children — her own, her nieces and a child she baby-sits — ranging in age from 6 to 15.

“The kids waited and waited to see this,” she said. “It’s a big deal for them to stay up that late, and to stay up late to watch it and be disappointed was just awful.”

St. Peter said there were signs of impending technical issues near the beginning of the movie when the color went out for about five seconds.

She said the movie went out about 2:10 a.m. She said showtime was 12:10 a.m., but there were several minutes of previews, so she assumes she missed 15 minutes to a half-hour of the movie.

“It was right before the big fight at end,” she said. “The wolf jumped out and ‘poof.’

Beside being mad she missed out on the movie, St. Peter is upset about how it was handled. She said even though the movie went out at 2:10, she and the kids had to wait until after 3 a.m. to receive their passes.

Commenters on The Chronicle’s Facebook page said theater employees were being rude and screaming at people. Kellie Kinas of North Ridgeville, who said she was in Theater 1 with her daughter, said that wasn’t the case in her theater.

“Employees were not rude at all,” she said. “The movie went out at 2:11, and they came in about 2:45 and said it was going to be five minutes (for the passes) and they were doing the best they can.”

She said employees explained they wouldn’t be able to get the film fixed in a timely fashion, which is why they were giving people the passes to come back.

But St. Peter said she and others plan to call Regal. They want something done, she said, even if they have to take it all the way to the corporate headquarters.

St. Peter estimates she spent about $70 on movie tickets and another $40 on concessions. If she goes again, she explained, she’ll be out another $40 because she’ll have to buy the children all new food from the snack bar.

St. Peter said all 20 theaters at Cobblestone had sold out about 6 p.m. yesterday. She said there were people in her theater who drove from Westlake because that theater was sold out.

Her niece got to the theater about 6:30 p.m. because she was watching “Twilight” and “New Moon” prior to the midnight showing of “Eclipse,” and she called her at 9 p.m. to tell her that the line for the 12:10 showing was already starting to form. By the time she got there, it was wrapped around the building, she said.

“It was a very good movie, but that ruined it,” St. Peter said of missing the ending.

Gates directed all questions about further compensation for moviegoers to his general manager, who will not be in until tomorrow.

So is St. Peter planning to go back?

“Of course,” she said. “Although I am mad at the situation, I really want to see the rest of the movie!”

LORAIN — A little over 60,000 people attended the Lorain International Festival bazaar this weekend, according to bazaar coordinator Ralph Bruening.

The number was far below what he’d hoped — 85,000 to 90,000 — and he blamed that on the weather, particularly on Sunday, when he said attendance was only 9,000 to 10,000.

“Normally after the parade, the crowd just moves over here,” he said. This year, likely due to the stifling heat, that didn’t happen.

The heat was only broken up by brief rain showers and eventually a big thunderstorm about 5 p.m.

But rain, thunder and lightning couldn’t deter many of the festival-goers, who crowded into the beer tent or huddled under awnings until the worst had passed.

More photos below.

One of those hardy festival-goers was Honey Walorz, 90, from the Boston area. Walorz, who moved from Lorain more than 50 years ago, has come back for the festival each year for the past 28.

For each trip, she’s accompanied by a different assortment of family members. Eleven children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren accompanied her this year. Besides International Festival, she makes it a point to visit her parents’ graves.

When asked what they’d had to eat, family members responded in unison: “Everything!”

“Between yesterday and today, we have tried just about every booth out,” said Sue MacAllister, 57, of Plymouth, Mass., Walorz’s daughter.

“We definitely make it a point to go to the Hungarian booth because we are Hungarian,” added Sara MacAllister, 29, of Weymouth, Mass., Walorz’s granddaughter. “We make it a point to have the stuffed cabbage and the dumplings. It’s a treat because we don’t make it at home as much.”

For all those years Walorz has been coming to International Festival, Dave Zanoni, who moved to Florida, had been missing out. He made his first time back to the festival in nearly three decades count, though. He started a “Back to Lorain” effort in hopes of making this year’s festival a massive community reunion, and he estimates he convinced several thousand people to make the trip.

“Since a lot of people left Lorain, unfortunately, it’s a good chance to get everybody together, come on back to the great city, bring your family, meet up with old friends and just have a good time,” he said. “It seemed like a lot of people turned out, and I think they had a good time, because, I tell you what, I had a really good time, and my wife had a really good time.”

Zanoni said his week back in Lorain also included several impromptu reunion gatherings and his first tour of the Lorain lighthouse.

Lorain police Sgt. Mark Carpentiere said the festival went smoothly from his perspective.

“It’s gone really well,” he said. “We’ve had no major incidents. We’ve got a lot of officers working out here along with our patrol division and traffic division.”

He said there was one arrest for a “very minor” domestic violence incident and a couple alcohol-related problems that didn’t lead to any arrests.

A first-time effort to wrist-band everyone over 21 who wants to consume alcohol went well, according to Cathy Gabe of Communities that Care of Lorain County.

People embraced the concept, Gabe said, and at least 5,000 wristbands were handed out over the festival’s three days.

“What we’re hoping is this becomes the wave of the future for festivals in Lorain County that serve alcohol,” Gabe said. “If you go, this is just something you expect.”

Food sales reports varied depending on who you asked among the festival’s vendors.

At the Midway Oh-Boy booth, owner Dave Disbrow said this year’s festival was a big disappointment. He said he went through 21 boxes of 40 hamburger patties to make his famous Oh-Boy burgers, but he’d hoped to sell twice that. He blamed the economy and the weather.

The popular Hungarian booth reported running out of dinners by 8 p.m. Friday and by 3 p.m. Sunday had only stuffed cabbage left. They cut the cost of those from $2 to $1 for a cabbage roll or a dozen for $10, and moved the rest quickly.

At the Polish booth run by Kiedrowski’s Bakery, the top-sellers, as always were the snoogles, which are foot-long pastries. Booth workers didn’t have hard numbers, but estimated they gone through at least 200 or 300 dozen.

Christian Tabernacle Church sold 4,000 pastellilos at their Puerto Rican booth and went through 262 pounds of rice and 220 pounds of beans.

This year’s festival saw an expanded kids area, featuring nine inflatable “bouncy” attractions and “happy meals” for $3.

Nina Woolridge, Lorain International treasurer, said the idea is to get more families with kids to come to the festival and to stay longer once they’re there.

“Sometimes it’s hard to give a kid chicken paprikas or chicken on a stick or a gyro,” Woolridge explained. The “happy meals” consisted of a hot dog or chicken nuggets, potato chips, fruit snacks and a drink.

“Last year everyone was really happy about all the rides, and this year the cafe has really made people say, ‘Wow, this is really good,’ ” Woolridge said. “We had a guy come up here yesterday with four kids, and he was like ‘Wow, I can feed all four of my kids for $12? How good is that?’ ”

Woolridge said the kids cafe served 200 meals over the weekend, and 1,600 kids rode the rides.

Parade chairwoman Andrea Miceli called this year’s parade “one of the best we’ve hosted in years.”

Roy Church, president of spotlight industry Lorain County Community College, was grand marshal, and John Peters and Magda Koos, two pillars of the Lorain Hungarian community, were honorary grand marshals.

More than 1,000 people participated in the parade, which was about an hour and a half long. The Hungarian float took first place for nationality float, Key Bank won for business float, and Lorain County Community College was first for organization float.

The parade was also the first chance for the community to see the new Lorain High Titan marching band. The band practiced together for the first time Wednesday and is coming together nicely so far, according to band director Tim Sivik.

Bret Schuster, Lorain’s Ward 4 councilman and booth chairman for the festival bazaar, called this year’s festival “excellent.”

“Couldn’t say anything better,” he said. “This is one of the better years that we’ve had, and it has been absolutely marvelous.”

How was this year’s festival from the perspective of Zanoni, who hadn’t been to it in about 27 years?

“The food’s still the same, and it’s still hot and a great atmosphere and really nice people,” he said.

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OBERLIN — A Medina family of five injured in an accident over the weekend is doing OK.

Their westbound vehicle went off Parsons Road and struck a drain pipe in a ditch, according to Trooper Allen Marcum of the Elyria post of the Ohio Highway Patrol.

They were happy this afternoon to locate their dog, which jumped out of their car as they were being rescued. A woman who lives on Parsons Road said she found a dog that matched the description of Bella over the weekend, and she turned her in to the county dog warden.

According to a message from the sister of the woman hurt in the crash, they checked with the dog warden this afternoon and confirmed it was Bella that had been turned in and that Bella, a “puggle” — a cross between a pug and a beagle — is going home.

The family released the following statement via e-mail: “Our greatest thanks goes out to all of those who helped find our baby puppy, Bella. Thanks to the newspapers, family, friends and those who were strangers but now a friend. God was looking over us all and we are grateful. Pray for us now in our time of recovery.”