Iva Walker
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The October 8, 2018 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram was all about visitors.
District 6630 Assistant Governor Karen Bordenaro and Dale Thorne, president-elect of the Aurora club brought district news—a membership summit on October 21 in Wooster—and sought a president-elect for the local club. They also heard of...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
The business meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club was held on October 1, 2018 in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville and covered the following topics :Programs for upcoming meetings and scheduling for other events took up most of the period. The Roadside Clean-up will take place on October 12,...
Garrettsville Twentieth Century Club News
Sixteen members of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville gathered at the home of Jane Hill, program chairperson, on September 20, 2018 for a pot-luck supper opening the 2018-2019 club year. The menu, as usual, was outstanding and delicious. The annual Fall Get-Together launches the array of activities that...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
Garrettsville - The September 10, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club, in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville, served as the monthly business meeting and covered the following topics:
The Reverse Raffle is coming in November; a planning meeting is scheduled for Wednesday morning. Sponsors and donations are being sought....
A Pretty Fair Day
Have I got a deal for you!
IBM (Irresponsible Bad Mamma) cat had kittens on the back step, in a specially-designated box—with lining and cover, and just as the little mites were beginning to open their little eyes, she hauled them off somewhere unknown and they were not seen or...
James A. Garfield Historical Society Meets for Pot-Luck Supper
Freedom Twp. - The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on August 20 at the picnic pavilion at the Freedom Township Hall for a pot-luck supper and an interesting presentation by David Bockelman on the Freedom Congregational Church, which is this year observing one hundred ninety years since its...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Seeks Stones
The August 20, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club dealt with the following topics :
The new exchange student, Natalie, will be arriving this week, late on Tuesday, if all of the details are in place.
The Boardwalk staining project is proceeding apace, with groups of all kinds pitching in—many...
Volunteer Opportunities Abound at Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Meeting
The August 20, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club dealt with the following topics :
The new exchange student, Natalie, will be arriving this week, late on Tuesday, if all of the details are in place.
The Boardwalk staining project is proceeding apace, with groups of all kinds pitching in—many...
Party Central
There’s got to be a time limit of some sort on Spring Cleaning. I just finished mine…in time for Party Central in the neighborhood. Whoo-whoo!
Luckily, the rain held off until after the throngs had ebbed and the clean-up crew was packing up the detritus left by the crowds in...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Discuss Lighting of the Falls Project
The July 23, 2018 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met at Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville and entertained guest Christine Crane, who came to offer suggestions for landscaping the garden area that the club is attempting to establish near the Headwaters Trail at the trailhead. She pointed...
Deal Of A Lifetime
Such a deal I had for you! Could have had ‘em just like that. But no, nobody stepped up to get in on the giveaway. Ask me nice and maybe arrangements can be made. Bargains! Freebies! They’ll be going fast, lemme tell ya.
What’s that? Some timid, unadventurous soul asks...
Pathways Of Hope’s Holistic Approach to Long-term Care
Portage County - Pathways of Hope is a collaborative, holistic approach to providing strength-based, long-term case management as part of the Salvation Army’s initiative to help families with minor children break the cycle of multi-generational poverty by identifying barriers that prevent families from attaining self-sufficiency. The program elevates the...
A Little Garrettsville History Lesson…
In 1803 John Garrett of Christian Hundred, Delaware bought 300A of land in the Wild West--OHIO--for $1,313 (about $4.38 per acre). A year later, he and his family--wife, children, two slave girls--and Abraham Dyson, a blacksmith, arrived at his property in the southwest corner of Nelson township in the...
Garrettsville Farmers’ Market Open For Business
How Ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?
Well, who wants to, when they can come to the Garrettsville Farmers’ Market every Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.? Yes, indeedy, the summer is looking more tasty already, after the grand opening on June 21, for all comers—and there were...
Garrettsville Summerfest Wrap-Up
The farmer in the dell. The farmer in the dell. Hi-ho the dairy-o. The farmer in the dell!
The definition of the word “dell”—a small, secluded valley or glen (There’s another problematic word), usually a wooded one—isn’t exactly fitting here, but if we can idiosyncratically interpret it to mean “in...
Garrettsville History Book Coming! By Popular Demand!
Well, it was a request from Ellen at The Village Bookstore and you know how popular she is. It seems that she’s had people asking if there was a book about Garrettsville, its history and local culture (Might be a stretch to call what we’ve got “culture”, but we’re...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Discusses Boardwalk Lighting
The June 18, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club welcomed Portage County Auditor Janet Esposito, who presented information on the activities and responsibilities of her office and answered questions of members. Her office handles building permits in the county. She stated the Portage County ranks 2nd in Ohio...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
The June 4, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club, at Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville was a regular business meeting and covered the following topics :
Programs for June are still being sought. President Amy Crawford presented the Rotary Scholarship on May 30 to Carissa White and Simon Varner....
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The May 21, 2018 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society was prefaced by a presentation from secretary Pam Montgomery on her recent researches on local holders of U.S. patents. The devices, processes and products she discovered were quite varied and interesting, including items associated with...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club met for their last meeting of the month and dealt with a number of topics.
A check for the registration of RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) students will be going out to cover participation fees for the event. Rotary Scholarships will be presented on May 30...
Casey At The Bat
Er…actually, it was Grimmy—Grimalkin, to be more formal—who was , so to speak, “at the bat”, and I don’t mean any kind of ballgame, base or soft. No, no it was a real bat, die Fledermaus, as Richard Wagner put it, and it was in my shoe (Plenty of...
April Showers…Spring Flowers…
“The flowers that bloom in the Spring—Tra-La!”…or words to that effect.
At least some of the bulbs and roots that I have planted around here did not fall prey to the squirrels’ depredations during the rather severe—for squirrels, at least—winter we have only lately emerged from. There are blossoms that...
Favorite Son
This commonly-used political term came to mind the other day when my mom sent me a clipping from our local newspaper back in Wellington (Lorain County, west of here on St. Rtes. 58 & 18), either the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram or the Wellington Enterprise—I really didn’t check. In politics, the...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
The May 7, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club was focused on the following business, none of it funny :
Two very active, ambitious and motivated young ladies were chosen to attend the annual RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Assembly) at Baldwin-Wallace in June. Rachel Rader and Zoe Swenson are...
Quilts on the Hill Bring Quilting to Mantua
Mantua - The biennial Quilts on the Hill/Quilts in the Village in the Village of Mantua at the Hilltop Christian Church was a real stitch.
This is a lovely way to spend part of a Spring afternoon, looking over a display of nearly seventy useful and ornamental works of outstanding...
Jeff Sheehan Gives Presentation on Water Department to Garrettsville – Hiram...
The April 30, 2018 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram saw a program presented by Jeff Sheehan Superintendent of the Water and Wastewater Department of the Village of Garrettsville. Describing himself as the “Head Drip”, Supt. Sheehan gave an outstanding review of the history of the water department,...
JA Garfield Historical Society News
The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on April 16, 2018 to cover the following items of business:
Treasurer Connie Knop stated that some funds had been moved into CD’s to garner better savings interest, bills had been paid, support monies had gone out to Christmas Walk participants and the...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met on Monday, April 16, 2018 at noon in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville for their regular appreciation of the work at hand. This included a get-well card and an update on John Wolfe, a thank you to a much-missed Mike Keas, who is now in Akron/Kenmore,...
Yes Virginia, There Really Is A Spring
So.... I’m walking along early in the morning now and there are more and more bird sounds out there to be heard. During the winter there are always a few--cardinals, goldfinches, the ever-present sparrows, miscellaneous die-hards who have memorized the locations of every birdfeeder within several hundred yards. You...
It Must Be Spring!
Must be Spring, the litterbugs are out in their cars—at least I assume they’re not the type to be out walking to enjoy the benefits of nature—and they’re pitching trash out of the windows of said vehicles. I picked up, I think it was, six cans on my way...
