Iva Walker
April Fooled!
So far, April has been fairly nondescriptā¦except for the tree falling on the front porch, of course. And thereās no a whole lot going on after Easter, unless youāre into Earth Dayālike the Portage County Park District, which will hold its annual Awards event on the twenty-second in Kentāor...
Hoppinā Down the Bunny Trail
Most interesting Easter in a while. Got an invitation to brunch which I had to turn down because it landed smack in the middle of church, which ran long on account of technical difficulties to start with, then just because itās Easter, involving all sorts of āpomp & circumstanceā...
DANG!! Where Did I Put My Ruby Slippers??
Theyāre not around here, thatās for darn sure. Maybe theyāve made it to Kansas, though it would be more likely that theyād wind up in PA, the way that wind was whooping it up from the West on Saturday. All of the wind warnings in the world canāt help...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Speaker Pam Montgomery of the James A. Garfield Historical Society regaled the members of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club with fascinating facts about the areaāGarrettsville, Hiram, Freedom, Nelsonāand its people. This included Garrettsville bands ( Young Garland Randall used to ride his bike in from Nelson so he could play...
H&G Amish Style
At the Amish Home & Garden Show, which took place just last weekend, thereās one thing you can count on finding, no matter what you came for in the first place, and thatās āFOOD.
You can hit the Auction House Restaurant (which features the Farmersā Grill) or just browse around...
Grrrrrrr
I am starting (again) to get cranked-out by people being utterly unaware of the fact that what they are doingāor NOT doingāis affecting other people, and not in a good way. In short, people are starting to bug me. Imagine that!
Now, I am not, in any way, shape or...
Twentieth Century Club News
The March 2, 2023 meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville was held in the Garrettsville Family YMCA with Karen Ziarko and Joyce Fashing serving as hostesses for the evening.
The roll call response was favorite Ohio landmarks and the members proved to be well-traveled and enthusiastically appreciative of...
Easy Riders?
Well, they did it again.
They came. They saw. They caught a break in the weather and had a very successful Road Apple Roubaix on Saturday (March 4, 2023) in Garrettsvilleā¦and surrounding locales, as they took to the roads, out-and-about, returned to Slim & Jumboās and generally made a day...
Winter Wonderland?
Soā¦ Iāve been wondering a whole bunch of stuff about this so-called winter which we have been having. It seems that there are records of all sort being broken all over the placeā¦highest temperature on such-and-such a dateā¦least amount of snow for whatever monthā¦lowest temperature on some other date...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met on Presidentsā Day, February 20, 2013 to observe the day and conduct the following business ?
Solicit more baskets & donations for the Scotch Doubles Bowling night coming up (March 11). Policy review for required harassment policy. Should this be posted on club website?...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on February 20, 2023 in the historic Mott Building on Main Street, with two visitors and one donation (from one of the visitors).
The organization is still seeking an individual to serve as a paid intern during the summer, to assist with tech...
Unseasonable?
If itās Thursday, this must be Springtime.
There was a book or movie once-upon-a-time about someone taking a European tourāone of those guided rat-races through the continentāwhere nobody gets a chance to do much more than spot the Eiffel Tower on their way to the London Bridge. The name of...
A February Spring Is Not Worth A Thing!
So opines the Old Farmerās Almanac (Actually the Old Farmer says itās ānot worth a pin,ā but I took a few poetic liberties to improve {?} the rhyme). February has a number of putative highlights:
andlemas/Groundhog Day, the Full Snow moon (Doesnāt seem to have been very consequential, at...
Merrily We Roll Alongā¦
Well, sortaā¦
āMerrilyā might be overstating just a tad, but I sure did some rolling.
First off, was the trip to KentuckyāGlasgow, Kentucky, to be specific, a trip of some seven or so hours, making good time. The high-rollers on the JAG Quiz Bowl team made the trek down to the...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Roger Cram (the Ultimate Rotarian) was the featured speaker at the February 6, 2023 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club, held at Calās II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville. He outlined the content of his recently-published book, which is composed of some 25 stories about unsung, everyday heroes, ten of whom...
Twentieth Century Club News
The February 2, 2023 meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville was held at the home of Nasreen Kitko, with the hostess being assisted in her entertaining duties by Betty Clapp and being, also, the presenter of the eveningās program, which was on Ohioās Highways and By-ways. The...
I Screamā¦ You Screamā¦ We All Screamā¦
ICE !
No creamā¦just that gosh-awful ICE. On the roads, on the sidewalks, on the parking lots & drivewaysā¦By the by, I will take this opportunity to give a shout-out of appreciationāwhich I try to do at least yearlyāto those folks around town who keep their sidewalks cleared. Not everybody...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
The January 16, 2023 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society opened by greeting Dave and Polly Winchell as new members and noting a request from a Civil War researcher from Kent for assistance and information on veterans of this conflict from Nelson. Dues are due; the JAGHS...
Twentieth Century Club News
The January 19, 2023 meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville was held in the Charles Klamer Professional Development Center at Garfield Elementary School, with Bonnie Oliver and Carol Torda serving as hostesses for the evening. As the eveningās program was about blizzards, the tasty viands were distinctly...
Unlikely All-sorts
The Akron Beacon-Journal has had some beauts lately. One of my favorites was the New Funko Pop Collection āhonoringā Dolly Parton. Now Dolly has received just about every honor that a country/pop/r&r singer is likely to be nominated for. Sheās been in the movies and on TV and received...
HA HA ! Ha Ha! ha haā¦what?
I have always thought that my sense of humor was, at least, O.K. But Iām beginning to wonder about everybody else, especially in the public prints and commercially-produced correspondence, i.e., cards of various sorts. Whole bunches of TV commercials too, fail to make it to contact my funny bone....
Oddness Out There!!
Every so often something worth paying attention to pops up on my computer screen. This does NOT include the stuff in the SPAM folder from the vast number of outfits who seem to think that I am some dude named āIvanā who canāt spell his own name; those people...
Twentieth Century Club News
The Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met on December 15, 2022 at the seasonally- decorated home of Kathy Countryman for the annual Christmas Party. The roll call response was to be membersā favorite Christmas memories, and they were as varied as the membership itself. Among the featured thoughts were...
Right!!
Thatās my response to a communication from, of all people, the Porch Kitty Fan Club. In the lovely Christmas card was a quotationāyou know the one about the power of the penā and giving notice that a donation had been made to the Portage APL in memory of Barry...
Final Bow
āBowāā¦as in āleave the stage while acknowledging applause after an excellent performance.ā Everybody knew Barry, Barry Vancuraā¦and he knew everybody (If he did not, heād continue talking until something or somebody clued him in as to who furnished the other side of the conversation, and went on from there--it...
āTis The Season
Soā¦ Didja get your entry in for the Name a Snowplow contest with the Ohio Turnpike commission? Some of the winners from last year were in the paper recently and I have to say they were pretty clever. This yearās contest ended Sunday, so weāll have to wait and...
Well Thatās That
And āthatā was the 20222 Christmas Walkā¦an adventure from start to finish, just about.First off, there was the withdrawal of one of the original four houses from the list of designated residences, which necessitated a search for another home in town with easy access and adequate parking possibilities. That...
Wellā¦ That Was Fun
No, Really. I enjoyed myself immensely. Not everyone would enjoy having peopleāsome known, some unknownācoming through their home for seven hours a day, looking around, commenting on everything in sight, wondering about whatās not in sight, asking questions about stuff that had been answered back when they hadnāt been...
Folly? Did Someone Say Folly?
Oh, āFa La La La La !ā you said. My badā¦or worse, maybe.
āChristmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, Please to put a penny in the old manās hat.ā Or more like it, at my place, āChristmas is coming. The Walk is on its way. There are way,...
Look!!! Up In The Sky!!!
Remember that one?
āLook !!! Up in the sky !! Itās a bird! Itās a plane! āItās Superman !!!ā
Nah, never mind, Itās not Superman, itās a whole bunch of super peopleāThe Fraternal Order of Eagles, to be exact. And what set me off on this tack was the sign out...