Iva Walker

Success ! The 2025 Rotary Reverse Raffle was in the rearview mirror as having delivered a good time and a good support for ongoing Rotary projects in the community. Planning for next year will begin soon, no doubt. A gratuity for caterers will be going out soon. A shopping expedition to...

Let’s get down to brass tacks. I am, to put it politely, unreliable. Gimme a week off and, “Lo, and Behold !” I’ll take whatever the traffic will bear–one week, two weeks, whatever. The danger is, will anyone even notice and say, “Whatever happened to that non-sport columnist that...

On October 20, 2025 the James A. Garfield Historical Society hosted a trio of locally-connected historian types, Tim Smith, Dave English and Kirt Kirtland who related to the group of members and guests their Western Reserve Journey. They were searching for the four markers at the corners of the...

Having a wealth of available talent, the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville called upon two current members for programs on October 2 and. October 16. Connie Crate, assisted by Marlene Szabaga, was the hostess for the meeting on October 2, which featured a presentation on Fiber Arts by Lucy Wyme/. This...

The new boarder seems to be settling in just fine.  "Rusty" the light orange kitten , newly acquired, is eating just fine, is being prime kitten-like in behavior so far...cute, cute, cute.  He follows me, or anybody, really.  I heard that he followed the postal worker the other morning...also...

Josh Wilee of the Community Emergency Medical Services appeared at the October 13 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary to offer information on the additional funding levy which will appear on the November 4 ballot (Issue #30).  This levy is being requested to support additional staffing to deal with the remarkable...

Well, maybe. We have a new prospective Porch Kitty. Rusty (not a serious automotive epizootic but a light orange mini-kitty) has arrived. He is currently exploring the territory; the porch itself and the front steps pretty-much define it so far but the veteran Porch Kitty, SunnyBoy, has not been exactly...

The on-line spoofers are at it again. Second or third call this week letting me know that I have won fabulous sums of money, if I will just call back to this number. What the number is, I cannot really tell because the caller either speaks so fast that...

Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary entertained–and were entertained by–painter and muralist Dean Olson, who will be working on the latest iteration of the Welcome to Garrettsville mural project, which has been much-delayed but still in sight. He is the principal mover of the Wall Werks Studio doing Faux & Mural Painting Since...

Members of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met on September 18, 2025 for an informative meeting reviewing the history of the organization–one hundred and twenty-five years-worth–as well as conversation and appreciation of a new venue in town–The Gathering Place, party and event space located at 8052 State St.,...

The September 15, 2025 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society covered a broad range of topics, including : The return of the time capsule rock…Crane’s crane to be placed in the Society’s small–but lovely–garden…technical difficulties with the replacement of metalwork in the Maple Ave. cemetery–a learning opportunity…expansion of...

I cannot be the only one being urged to try the “Himalayan Salt Trick”. It’s everywhere online and in some publications too. Every digital salesperson–we’re lookin’ at you, Oprah–has a tear-jerker of a tale about how they’d slipped into avoirdupois Purgatory and would not go outside without being wrapped...

What is it with people who seem to think that everything…EVERYTHING…is theirs to do with as they please? Whatever…whenever…wherever…however they please. How does this get to be a mind-set? This is a vandalism state of mind and it does none of us any good, least of all those who...

Planning and reviews were the focus of the September 15, 2025 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary. The Reverse Raffle is coming up on November 5, 2025, so discussion touched on planning meetings, tickets and sponsors–onward and upward. Status of local businesses, especially on Main Street, was a topic of...

That was me after the football game on Friday. Driving home on Liberty St.--late–just past SkyLanes, I spotted a cat in the road…putting at least one of its nine lives on the line…and had to swerve to avoid being the deliverer of that fate. I pulled into the space...

The pot is boiling–Reverse Raffle coming up! Make your donations. Get your tickets. But first…. Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary is working to complete their project regarding the mural on the bridge abutment on Windham street. Latest direction is to have art students from J.A,G. revise and update the mural on new boards...

What a beautiful way to end a Summer that spent WAY too much time resembling the hinges of hell. Gorgeous finale. Activities of all sorts (Zach Peterson Memorial Bash, Cleveland Air Show, Great Geauga County Fair, all of the miscellaneous family gatherings–all of it!) got to soak up the...

The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary, having been displaced at Cal’s II by the Garfield retirees, met in MB Realty to consider the following items: *ongoing consideration of a lockbox program *planning for the Reverse Raffle in November…sponsors, donors and ticket-buyers are high on the list of desirable contacts, also anyone interested in being...

Members of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville gathered in the secluded Countryman estate for their annual Summer get together, preparing to launch the programs for the club year. Family dogs. Emma and Murphy, took up the duties of greeters as all arrived to enjoy the varied menu of...

How, How, How is a person supposed to manage to learn to use these devices if all of the instructions assume that you already KNOW all of the technical directions and language and are able to follow them. Here I am back in familiar surroundings -- between a rock and...

Well, one, anyway. We can skip the heavy metal, major leather, tattoo extravaganza biker-types (Not that I have anything against such displays, mind you) I just need somebody to show me how to adjust my tricycle. I purchased this beauty last summer because riding my regular two-wheeler was becoming an...

That goes to the latest iteration of theatrical presentation by the Garrettsville Curtains Up Theatre, a farce titled “The Play That Goes Wrong”...which it did in so many ways–all of  ‘em intended but, still…. The whole premise of the thing, I think, is to illustrate some of the various things...

That’s a famous line from a famous movie (Or at least one everybody thinks that they remember, whether they did or not. Casablanca?). We may have a local version with a small variation : “Play it again everyone.”...with “everyone” being our latest BIG Band, The Thrill of the ‘Ville. In...

The JAGHS meeting on July 22, 2025 was the occasion for thanks and appreciation for a welcome donation from the Garrettsville Eagles, Aerie 2705. “People Helping People” is more than a motto for this group–it’s what they do. Also on the agenda was discussion on commemorative benches for John Porter...

Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met on July 21, 2025 with the following items to consider: The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met in airconditioned comfort at Cal’s II to discuss he following topics : * Information to go to the district newsletter…poster featuring Owen Bass * Tickets for the Guardians baseball game * Samples of lockbox models and...

No. Really Then I would not be so amazed at what’s out there. Walking around in front of God and everybody. Nor is it just the people, the products are pretty far out there sometimes too. I’ve gotten used to hair–long, short, absent (by choice or by chop)color challenged or...

Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met on July 21, 2025 with the following items to consider: * The presentation by Owen Bass on his experiences as a Rotary exchange student in India. His time in a place where there were challenges regarding virtually any sort of cultural and/or language interaction was a learning...

…Or not. Local boy, Jared Sheehan, having made good  (more or less–he’s the chief innovation officer at a company called Quick MD and co-founded various technology-driven companies supporting various social impact industries) returned to his old “stomping grounds”, so-to-speak, to communicate the latest thinking in and about medicine online at...

“Wunderbar”--pronounced “VoonderBahr”-- is something that just recently popped up in my head…well, sorta. Back in the day–other ancient persons such as myself may remember–there was a pop music style around the late forties, early fifties (WAY before the Beatles, or even Elvis made the scene)featuring vocal groups, like the...

The July 7, 2025 meeting of Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary was held in the air-cooled confines of Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, at noon to install new president, Trish Danku-Carlson and induct board members Jeff Drebus, Casey Timmons and Sherri Collins. Installation was conducted by District Governor Bob Oborn, who also spoke...