Sunday, November 27, 2011
Caught up to speed on your North Canton news with our Week in Review update
1. Michael A. Taylor, 20, of North Canton, was sentenced to three years probation for his role in an Aug. 20 home invasion in which two people were tied up and robbed at gunpoint. Check out our coverage of Taylor's sentencing from this week. 2. We got to meet a really cool kid named Ben Weitzel, who creates some pretty hilarious YouTube videos. For his creativity and savviness in technology, we featured Ben in a "Student Shoutout" story. 3. The guys at The Karcher Group are looking pretty hairy right about now. We talked to them this week about their participation in Movember, a men's health awareness movement that prompts men to don a mustache for the month of November. 4. North Canton City Schools were rated 82nd out of all the districts…
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The 10-year-old Orchard Hill Elementary student sure knows his way around a computer and camera. He’s produced dozens of YouTube videos and even has starred in some of them.
You can’t name your YouTube channel AwesomeBenTV without being — dare we say — pretty darn awesome, can you? We got a chance to meet the awesome kid behind AwesomeBenTV recently, and we can tell you: He certainly lives up to his name. Ben Weitzel, a fifth-grader at Orchard Hill Elementary, created his YouTube channel in August and since then has gained nearly 50 subscribers and garnered about 2,300 views. The videos range anywhere from Ben talking to the camera to animated videos he’s created with the program GoAnimate, where you pick your own characters and choose their actions and what you’d like them to say to each other. “I just think of things that are interesting and random and then I put them in,” Ben said about the dialogue in his …
Thursday, October 27, 2011
About 15 kids were encouraged to be disgusting at the library's "Grossology" program Thursday afternoon
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
For kids, there's no feeling quite like the feeling of being gross and knowing you won't get in trouble for it. Kids were actually encouraged to be as gross as they could get inside the North Canton Public Library Wednesday afternoon as they took part in the library's "Grossology" workshop. The kids ate food disguised as human fingers, kitty litter and ... well, just take a look at the photo gallery to see what the third snack was. It's even too gross for us to mention. They heard stories of what disgusting food other people around the world eat, got to look at books about gross topics and make colorful slime. They even stuck their hands into boxes and tried to guess what "body part" was inside. "This just feels so ... wrong!" one …
Klaire
4:55 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
HI! My name is Klaire. Ben goes to my school. He is in my grade and goes to Galaxy with me. Ben's going to be famous one day. I know it. He's awesome! We're 'frenemies'. We tease each other ALOT, but he's still 'AWESOMEBEN'. more ›