Iva Walker
Rotary 4-Way Speech Contest is fast-approaching
Members of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club met at noon on Monday, February 2019 in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville for the following business.
Henceforth the duties of treasurer will be undertaken by a troika consisting of Debra Blake, Amy Crawford and Lisa Muldowny, with two signatures required on checks. Delores...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram was pleased to have Jon Harris, new director of the Portage County District Library as their speaker on January 28, 2019. He has recently assumed the leadership position after being in children’s services in the PCDL Aurora branch (The district also has branches in...
Holy Dexterity Challenge, Batman! Garfield Hosts Cubing Competition
Well, the 2019 Garrettsville G-Men Classic is now history, but what an event. At least ninety-one participants were registered and the space at the James A. Garfield Elementary School was teeming with “cubers” and their fans.
Oh, yes, there were fans; cheering broke out at some particularly outstanding moves or...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Learns About Opioid Crisis
Speakers at the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club on January 14, 2019 were Mantua mayor Linda Clark with Start Talking Portage and Karen Kravitz of the Portage Mental Health and Recovery Board who both spoke of programs dealing with the opioid crisis facing the county and the nation. These included making...
Twentieth Century Club News
A hardy group of Eskimo emulators met in the Professional Development Center at the James A. Garfield Elementary School for the January 17, 2019 meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville. In a reference to the upcoming program for the evening, the roll call was answered by naming...
Vermiform
I’m thinkin’ that I may have worms.
Now, now, you can stop planning to boil the cushions on the sofa where I last sat at your house. I’m talking about “earworms”, you know, those tunes that get stuck in your brain and won’t go away, even if you...
Your Attention Please
This is your last warning!
The response to our request for personal recollections about Garrettsville--the village itself and, ahem, Greater Garrettsville, the surrounding area--has been, shall we say, underwhelming. John Porter, our very own senior version of the Energizer Bunny, came through with some highlight events, some including...
Here We Go Again!
We should be running some sort of a pool featuring everyone’s best guess as to what season we’re REAAaaaaaLLY in and what the weather is going to be like for the next hour-and-a-half. The prize could be a set of mukluks and/or a half-gallon of suntan lotion....
20th Century Club News
Despite inclement weather and busy schedules, a faithful core of members of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met on November 15, 2018 at the home of Mary Furillo, who was assisted in hostessing by Betty Clapp and Karen Miller.
The roll call--tied in later to the evening’s...
Season’s Greetings!
Looks like it’s well and truly winter, even though, astronomically speaking, we’ve got to wait until December 21 to be legit.
Weather adventures already! Power went out Friday morning somewhere around 3:00 a.m.--the increasing chill in the house woke me up--and stayed out until about 9:30 a.m....
Is it Spring yet?
Yeah, yeah, I know, we’re not quite there yet, but I can hardly wait. Know why? Thereby hangs a tale.
A small but intrepid group showed up for the first annual (?) Make A Difference Day work event on Saturday, October 27. Not exactly surprising, since it was plenty chilly...
Rotary Eyes “Ribbon Cutting” for Boardwalk Lighting Project
The October 22, 2018 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club opened with discussion of the Boardwalk/Lighting the Falls project and its “Grand Opening”/ Ribbon-cutting. Weather considerations, scheduling influences, other events taking place all were part of the picture. Final date looks likely to be Thursday, November 1, the same...
Biscuits and Beyond
All right! Consider yourself warned. If you missed the Chicken and Biscuits Extravaganza at the Garrettsville United Methodist Church last week, you will have another chance in the future, because it got such a good reception that there will likely be a rematch and...
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...
