You may be seeing pink at local high school basketball games this week.

The Northern Ohio Officials Association will be using pink whistles at select games in the area January 23- January 29 to help raise cancer awareness. The NOOA is also collecting funds though the sales of pink whistles and donation. The money earned through the initiative will be donated to cancer research. So far, the campaign has raised over $800 to help fight cancer. The NOOA’s ultimate goal is to raise $2,000 dollars this year.

If you would like to help in the fight, the NOOA asks that you make checks payable to the American Cancer Society and send them to NOOA, PO Box 676, Berea, Ohio 44017.

Join the fight and help the NOOA “Call a Foul on Cancer!”

This week Lorain County is celebrating the life of Martin Luther King with a number of celebrations and programs designed to inform the public of the great things Dr. King did for our country. On the WEOL Morning Show spokesperson Dr. LaTaunya Conley told us more about all of the events that are schedule for the week. Below you can also view the list of events scheduled through the week ahead.

Thursday, January 19 – Lorain County Urban League , Inc “State of South Elyria” the event begins at 5:30pm at the Second Baptist Church on Chapman Lane.

School Closings, Tuesday January 10, 2017

Columbia

Clearview

Elyria

Elyria Catholic

Firelands

Keystone

Lorain

Lorain County Joint Vocational School

Midview

North Ridgeville

Oberlin

Open Door

Wellington

Christmas Eve:

3pm – The Wrapping comes off with the Mannheim Steamroller’s An American Christmas: Songs and Stories of the Holiday.

6pm – Hear the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge in this 1939 radio adaptation of Dickens, “A Christmas Carol” starring Lionel Barrymore

10:30pm – Join us for the Christmas Eve Worship Service from the First United Methodist Church in Elyria

11:30pm – During the overnight  we return to Songs and Stories of the Holiday on Mannheim Steamroller’s An American Christmas.

Christmas Day:

9am – It’s the 2016 Festival of Carols. Nine area high school chiors, including Firelands and Vermilion presented by First Federal Savings of Lorain, sing your favorite Christmas carols.

11am – We enjoy more holiday music on Mannheim Steamroller’s An American Christmas

2pm – The NBA returns to Cleveland for their annual Christmas Day Games. This year the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Golden State Warriors in a NBA Finals rematch of last year.

After the Game: We return to the sounds of the holiday with Mannheim Steamroller’s An American Christmas