Iva Walker

Parking lots are my nemesis, as far as attempting “live and let live”, so to speak.  I get really cranked out by people leaving their shopping carts abandoned willy-nilly all over the place instead of putting them in the cart corrals or back in the store.  It’s also irritating...

The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met on August 26, 2019 for a smorgasbord of business topics after having enjoyed a festive steak fry on August 21.  The items under discussion included the following : Disposition and location of the picnic tables from the Euclid Y, edging for the landscaping of...

The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club enjoyed a presentation by Ashley Hineman of Growing Daisies Ministry at their meeting on August 12, 2019.  The Ministry, only recently approved as a 401(c) organization, works, solely with volunteers and donations to support children...and adults...with many basic needs, including clothing and shoes, school supplies,...

Well, there was a weekend. Did the Easter Bunny manage to hop out of town wearing galoshes on Palm Sunday? Hope that most of the Easter egg hunts/rolls/parties got off O.K. on Saturday, which was certainly fine, if occasionally chilly. Little ones were likely to be...

First meeting of the month is the business meeting for the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club and this is what they did for April Fool’s Day:  No foolin’, landscape architect Alexia Paul presented   design possibilities for the Headwaters Trail project, including concept and implementation of planting on the site featuring deliberate...

Spring has sprung Some grass has riz We wonder where the boidies is.  Well, actually, the boidies is here all right.  I’m hearing them in the mornings, and while I can’t tell a nightingale from a yellow-bellied sapsucker( The only bird that I can reliably identify is a killdeer.), there certainly are...

Garrettsville - The March 11, 2019 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram began with a presentation by Paula Baughman of Home Instead, offering Senior Care in Portage County and in other locales.  The goal, as she outlined it, is to “Change the Face of Ageing One Senior at...

Another one down! The Road Apple Roubaix was another well-organized success, filling Garrettsville with enthusiastic bikers of every skill level and parking in every open space in the downtown area. Great crowd! The wheel-rights got off pretty close to the advertised start time and apparently everyone...

Garrettsville - Wheels up! Or down, as the case may be. The Road Apple Roubaix is BACK! On Saturday, March 2, wheelers (and dealers too, no doubt) of every stripe will be back in Garrettsville for their 5th go at road challenges to be found in the area. And...

O.K…, I’m gonna describe my latest trip to the Great Big Home & Garden Show, but first there’s this snippet from ?The Week?, one of my news magazines,  (actually, there are often some neat snippets in there on all sorts of topics...but I digress...as usual) that I thought was...

The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met on February 11, 2019 in Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville to be presented with the following topics of discussion: Official Rotary thank you cards are now in and available for acknowledging supporters. Clearer minutes of official business are needed for dealing with bank transactions;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...