Iva Walker

The February 10, 2020 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club took place in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville at high noon; Brittany’s quick draw shot up any hunger pangs and the group covered the following topics : The local date for the 4-Way Speech competition will be March 2, with...

Thought for today : “All that glitters is not gold.” And, just for good measure, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” Thoughts to be thunk when you get a phone call purporting to give you large sums of money that you did not know you had even signed...

Well, IBM (Irresponsible Bad Momma) has just had her call letters, so to speak, changed to RFPM (Retired Front Porch Matron). Having had “the Operation” just this last week, she seems to be perfectly happy to not be putting up with the various traveling salesmen who have been showing...

The January 13, 2020 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram took place at noon in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville to deal with the following : Thoughts for the Doneley family. A report on the proceedings of the budget meeting, including a review of regular programs such as the...

Well, rest is just what I’m looking for about now, lemme tell ya. I think that we’d be planning to petition somebody for an extra day in the week or an extra hour or two in the day, if we’re ever to get all of the stuff done that...

The  November 25, 2019 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club was focused on upcoming events, the first of which was the distribution of  dictionaries to students in the James A. Garfield third grade and to third graders in the local Amish schools as well.  The Dictionary Project will have...

The Music ensembles of the Garrettsville United Methodist Church will present an evening of seasonal inspiration on Sunday, December 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary at 8223 Park Ave., Garrettsville.  Three bell choirs--Chancel I, Chancel II and Jesu Bells Youth Bell Choir--will be participating, under the direction of Mrs....

The new boarder has apparently settled in...as if there were any question about that.  She seems to have figured out the daily routine and grasps the fact that at certain times of the day, she can caterwaul as loudly as she likes, it still won’t get her whatever it...

The October 28, 2019 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary was focused on final details of the upcoming Reverse Raffle.  Accounting for tickets still out, tickets sold and specifics of steak or chicken for dinners (Thursday deadline), last-minute arrangements and supplies--all small but important items were being addressed.  The regular...

Parking lots are my nemesis, as far as attempting “live and let live”, so to speak.  I get really cranked out by people leaving their shopping carts abandoned willy-nilly all over the place instead of putting them in the cart corrals or back in the store.  It’s also irritating...

The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met on August 26, 2019 for a smorgasbord of business topics after having enjoyed a festive steak fry on August 21.  The items under discussion included the following : Disposition and location of the picnic tables from the Euclid Y, edging for the landscaping of...

The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club enjoyed a presentation by Ashley Hineman of Growing Daisies Ministry at their meeting on August 12, 2019.  The Ministry, only recently approved as a 401(c) organization, works, solely with volunteers and donations to support children...and adults...with many basic needs, including clothing and shoes, school supplies,...

Well, there was a weekend. Did the Easter Bunny manage to hop out of town wearing galoshes on Palm Sunday? Hope that most of the Easter egg hunts/rolls/parties got off O.K. on Saturday, which was certainly fine, if occasionally chilly. Little ones were likely to be...

First meeting of the month is the business meeting for the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club and this is what they did for April Fool’s Day:  No foolin’, landscape architect Alexia Paul presented   design possibilities for the Headwaters Trail project, including concept and implementation of planting on the site featuring deliberate...

Spring has sprung Some grass has riz We wonder where the boidies is.  Well, actually, the boidies is here all right.  I’m hearing them in the mornings, and while I can’t tell a nightingale from a yellow-bellied sapsucker( The only bird that I can reliably identify is a killdeer.), there certainly are...

Garrettsville - The March 11, 2019 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram began with a presentation by Paula Baughman of Home Instead, offering Senior Care in Portage County and in other locales.  The goal, as she outlined it, is to “Change the Face of Ageing One Senior at...