Iva Walker

It being the first meeting of the month, the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram October 2, 2017 meeting was given over to the following business. A donation was received from Brett Pesicek. District 630is requesting volunteers to sell 50/50 tickets at Cleveland Browns games to make a financial contribution to...

The September 18, 2017 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society began with a favorable treasurer’s report and old business concerning exterior painting and removal of unused wires, as well as a look forward to the group’s installation at the upcoming Chamber of Commerce Business Showcase on...

The September 18, 2017 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram was held on the patio and the cellar at the Silver Cellar Winery on Brosius Road to hear from proprietors George and Cheryl Macek about their family-operated establishment. There are some fifteen varieties of wine produced; results of wine...

The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club met on Monday, August 28, 2017 at Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville for their regular last meeting of the month. Tom Collins brought with him Francisco, the current Rotary Exchange student at James A. Garfield High School, who called up some views of his...

Well, the ferns and the jack-in-the-pulpits were riotous this year and some even had to have some of their fronds evicted from the cozy jungle which they had created. There was green stuff everywhere! And moss!? The water feature/rock with a modest up-spout of gurgling liquid is burbling away...

And speaking of eclipses…. Isn’t everyone? It’s all over the place, and with pretty good reason, since it’s been quite some time—38 years isn’t it—since the last total eclipse of the sun was visible over significant portions of the United States. It’s also the first since 1918 to be visible...

It was a grand night for sipping. “Twas indeed!” The second annual Farm to Table event in support of the Nelson-Garrettsville Community Cupboard on Saturday, July 29, at the Candlelight Winery was an all ‘round success, with a good turnout of nibble &sippers, a gorgeous evening and an adventurous...

Give some thought to running for office. Somebody’s got to do it. If you have ever thought to yourself, “Heck. I could do better than that.” “Who ARE these Yahoos, anyway?” “Can’t we get something DONE here?” or words to that effect, why don’t you step up to the...

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go…. Wait! We’re not moving. So that was one part of the saga. Wait until you hear the rest of it. Our intrepid band of Quiz...

All of a sudden the avian population seems to be catching my attention.  First it was the “sitting duck” mamma down at the Rite Aid in the landscape mulch, then it was the geese and goslings, duck and ducklings down on the creek behind the house, then it was...

My Red Buckeye is showing off this year—full of blossoms and looking like it ought to be the guest star at the Home & Flower Show. Stop in some time and take a look. And if you’re walking around the estate, say “Hello” to the critter who...

It was “a little traveling music” for the members of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram, as they took their May 15, 2017 meeting to the Hiram Farm. At the facility, they learned of the connections to the Couch Trust, which was the farmland basis of the operation,...

Despite some uncertainty about dates of graduation, the James A. Garfield Schools Hall of Fame induction went off by accomplishing its intended purpose, the recognition and honoring of individuals who had made significant contributions, not just to athletics—though these figured prominently—but to the district and the world/society as a...

Gone, but not forgotten…that’s my Bob, a classic over-achiever. How he became afflicted with liver disease--he wasn’t much of a drinker—is still a mystery to me, but he did use up what were left of his nine lives trying to fight it off.  Not that he wasn’t apt to milk...

Does a computer count as a machine or a device? Matters not, they’re after me. So I’m sitting at the computer typing away at my much-anticipated column for this week, when, out of the blue—or whatever color cyberspace is nowadays—the screen went black (that color I know) and...

Spring having sprung and all that, could I comment upon the sad indication that numerous persons hereabouts in the area are taking the opportunity to come down with a bad case of illiteracy? I am referring to the piles of stuff—junk would be a more accurate description but...

Blood will tell. That’s a phrase straight out of British mystery novels. Just now, blood may be telling the regular donors at the Garrettsville Red Cross Bloodmobile site—St. Ambrose Church on Freedom St.—“Never mind.” Could be. And this would not be good. It seems that Kathleen Hammer, bless...

The third annual Road Apple Roubaix was a smashing success. That’s what you call it when you run out of almost everything but good times at an event. The bike riders began coming into town and parking everywhere there was a (not two-hour) space, with bikes on...

Don’t look now, but it seems to me that as far as weather predictions go, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has crashed and burned in its outlook for February. And in the ruins might be found the remains of a groundhog or two—Punxsutawney Phil and Buckeye Chuck, perhaps—who had...