Full Speed Ahead!
Garrettsville - The Campus of Excellence steering committee met on May 15 (third Thursday of the month, MS Library/Media Center) for a progress report and quick look at the construction of the new elementary school addition to house the fifth and sixth grade, come August. The first question had to do with the weather and its effect on the situation. ...
Area Eighth-Grade Students Invited to Apply to MEDCAMP
Portage County - Area eighth-grade students have the opportunity to experience life as health professions students during MEDCAMP, a three-day intensive immersion experience for eighth graders who have demonstrated achievement in science and an interest in a health professions career. Applicants are currently being sought to fill 50 openings for this year’s program, which will be held at Northeast Ohio...
Special Hands Provide Store’s Unique Appeal
Middlefield - A new shop will soon open in Middlefield, notable not only for it’s distinct mix of products offered, but for the individuals who staff it. Upon entering the storefront, you may be greeted by Celeste, a friendly, hard-working store employee from the Metzenbaum Center, part of the Geauga County Board of Developmental Disabilities, who helps staff this...
Apple Tree Trike-A-Thon
Garrettsville - On Tuesday, May 6th, Apple Tree Preschool held our annual Trike-a-Thon fundraiser to help raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Students collected money and then rode their trikes or bikes in the parking lot for 30 minutes. The fundraiser is also an educational tool to help teach our students about the importance of bike safety. ...
One Book, One School Takes Students ‘On the Wings of Heroes’
Mantua - For the fourth year in a row, lively literacy takes Crestwood Intermediate students well beyond the pages of a book. At least as far as Canton, Ohio, to the Military Aviation Preservation Society (MAPS) museum. That’s where students and staff recently visited, as a part of the fourth annual One Book, One School program, and thanks to...
Cadet Program Looking For A Few Good Teens
Attention teens! Would you like to honor and serve America? Do you want to prepare for your future while making new friends? Then rise to the challenge of cadet membership in the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol. This program is also an impressive qualification for those considering college. Cadets fly, learn to lead, hike, camp, get in shape, and...
Garrettsville – Hiram Rotary Report
The new, Cal’s II meeting place for the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club is proving popular and conducive to getting things accomplished. Those things at the May 19, 2014 meeting include : Planning for the presentation of a wreath at the cemetery on Memorial Day Invitation to celebration of Dr. Lynn Newman’s steadfast 60-year participation in Rotary programs with the Andover club Invitation to...
New Location = New Services at Garrettsville Family Medicine
Garrettsville - Less than a year since taking over the medical practice of retired family physician Sang Leu and his successor, Dr. Armelle Jemmy-Nouafo, Dr. Timothy Neely has a brand-new office. With more than twice the floor space than the previous location, it gives Dr. Neely the capability to offer local patients more than twice the medical services available...
Veterans Honored at New Memorial
Mantua - Memorial Day is the time set aside to remember the men and women who died while serving in U.S Armed Forces. And from that day forward, local veterans Roy Mayfield, Jessie Crate, Jim Aldrich, Bud Foster, and a host of others will finally have a local place to honor and remember those they served with who have...
Recipes and Ramblings: Swap Parties Rock!
Ever since I first discovered the concept a few months ago, I had been intrigued to try a swap party. Just what the heck is a swap party, you ask? Basically, it’s a great way to make time to get together with friends, share some food and drinks, and swap for some cool stuff. The items for swapping are...
Windham Library Announces Contest Winners
Windham - Windham Library is pleased to announce the winners of the National Library Week contest, “Guess how many books are in Windham Library”. Zachary Clemente won the adult basket and Jacob Tucker was the winner of the kid’s basket. Congratulations to both lucky winners! For more information, call the Windham Library at 330-326-3145. The library, located at 9005 Wilverne...
Newton’s Apples Celebrates Mother’s Day
Newton Falls - In observance of Mothers Day, Newton’s Apples Childcare & Learning Center invited their Mommies to attend a special “Mommies & Muffins” reception to celebrate and honor their Mothers. This is the 6th year that Newton’s Apples has invited their Mommies to attend this special event. The children of Newton’s Apples celebrated their Mothers on Friday, May 9....
Reading Role Models
Portage County - On April 30th United Way and Portage Learning Center’s Head Start joined forces to expand United Way’s Reading Role Models program. Local volunteers from AMETEK, Kent State University and Smithers-Oasis spent time with 16 Head Start classes and more than 250 students across Portage County to help them strengthen their language and literacy skills. United Way...
Kent TimeBank hosting fundraiser at historical society museum, sunshine invited to attend.
Kent - The Kent Community TimeBank invites guests to “Let the Sun Shine In” on Friday May 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Kent Historical Society Museum, 237 E. Main St. Kent, Ohio. For $20 admission, attendees receive an advanced preview of the Museum’s new exhibit, "Fun in the Summertime.” The display features relics from Ohio amusement parks,...
70 Years of Outstanding Customer Service Defines Success for The Ryser Agency
Garrettsville - The family-owned independent insurance agency, now know as The Ryser Agency, has been serving the Garrettsville area and Northeast Ohio for over seventy years. Owned and operated by Matt Ryser since 1994, The Ryser Agency is a full-service agency that specializes in farm, auto, home, and small business insurance coverage. Formerly known as the Reynolds Agency and...
Program Highlights Choices & Consequences
Hiram - Recently, roughly 2,000 high school seniors from 16 area schools arrived on the Hiram College campus. The students weren’t there en masse for a college visit or orientation opportunity, but for a serious lesson to guide them in making good decisions during the upcoming prom and graduation season. As students arrived, they encountered a mock crash scene in...
They did it again!
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Marching Pride has been having a spring banquet since the year 2000 and this year was no exception, a great evening of awards and recognition…and some pretty fair food, prepared by Guido’s Catering and presented through the good offices of Marianne Norris and Dorothy Sheller. And it was another occasion where rank has...
Rib Burn Off in Burton
Burton - The Geauga County Historical Society Century Village Museum in Burton is sponsoring a festive Memorial Day weekend Rib Burn Off at the Museum. The event is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25 from 12:00 to 8:00, rain or shine, just off the square in Burton. So, Bring YOUR party to OUR party and you...
Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
Portage County - The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) enables low income TANF-eligible Portage County youth to gain valuable work experience, while earning a paycheck. In order to be eligible, youth must be a resident of Portage County, between the ages of 16 and 24, have a minor child in the household (if they...
Garrettsville Summerfest Car is a Chevy Equinox
Garrettsville - Garrettsville Summerfest is one of the biggest festivals in Portage County with contests, parades, races, with live music and entertainment all weekend long. The event will be held on June 27th-29th at the intersection of State Routes 88 & 82 in historic downtown Garrettsville. The year, the theme is “Rockin’ to Rebuild.” The theme was chosen to demonstrate...
Start Talking!: Building a Drug-Free Future
Portage County - The Mental Health & Recovery Board of Portage County is working to spread awareness of Ohio’s new program, Start Talking!: Building a Drug-Free Future. Found at starttalking.ohio.gov, the website is for parents and teachers. It is aimed at helping adults learn how to start the conversation with teens and children about drug abuse. “Portage County is among many...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary, at their meeting on May 12, 2014, entertained Ms Evelyn West as an applicant for attendance at this summer’s RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award)activity to be held in June at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea. She is a participant in Interact, does volunteer work at the James A. Garfield Elementary School and at Hattie Larlham. She also participates...
Fire Board News – May 2014
Windham - The WVFD Joint Fire Board met on May 8th with one board member excused from the meeting. The board approved the minutes from the April meeting, the bank reconciliation and the expenditures. Chief Mike Iwanyckyj stated that the WVFD was turned down for the Fire Marshall’s Grant, but were still in the running for the FEMA Grant. The...
Register Now for WOW 2014 Bicycle Ride
Champion - WOW 2014 – World Of Wildlife Bicycle Tour – will take place on Saturday, June 7, 2014. The tenth year for this event includes 20-, 40- and 68-mile routes. Riders will use the Trumbull and Ashtabula County portions of the Western Reserve Greenway for most of their miles, especially the 20- and 40-miles routes. The first and...
Beautify Your Home and Support GHS Cheer Program
Garrettsville - The Garfield Cheerleaders are kicking off their upcoming cheer season with a mulch fundraiser. 100% of the proceeds go to the cheer program to help support competition fees, camp costs, and spirit supplies. Purchase quality bulk mulch for your landscaping needs from your local GHS Cheerleader or call Coach Shannon Gallagher at 330-842-0015 to pre-order your mulch. Choose from...
Whooo Knows Earth Day Better than CPS?
Mantua - For the 10th consecutive year, the Crestwood Outdoor Education Committee held an Earth Day festival at the Crestwood Primary School. While Mother Nature made it difficult to hold the festivities outside, holding the event indoors didn’t hamper the success of the evening’s event. Aided by parent volunteers, as well as those from Crestwood Middle and High Schools, the...
A ground-breaking!
Garrettsville - Six shiny, brand-new TRUPER shovels. Hard hats. A pile of dirt brought in and lined up especially for the occasion. Students, educators & administrators, township trustees, construction officials dignitaries interested citizens. Photo opportunities—with or without dirt—of all sorts. A backdrop of soil on the move, big machines, flagged stakes, safety fencing, a changing façade of the elementary...
The Portage County Literacy Coalition’s 2014 Spelling Bee
Portage County - On Friday, April 25, 2014, at NEOMED’s Ralph Regula Conference Center there was a swirl of competitiveness at this year’s 23rd annual Portage County Literacy Coalition Spelling Bee. In the beginning of the Bee, the teams: Community Action Council of Ravenna, Deluxe, Inc. of Streetsboro; NEOMED of Rootstown; and the Mavericks were battling for a victory. ...
TOPS Award Winners
Ravenna - TOPS –Take Off Pounds Sensibly, Ravenna Chapter #1941, celebrated their annual awards and recognition recently. The theme of the program was “Follow the path to your dreams”. Chapter winners included Debbie Horning-1st place division 3, MaryLou Priest- 2nd place division 3, Carolyn Helmling- 1st place division 4, Patti Calvarese- 1st place female division 9, and Stephen Rohal- 1st...
Mantua Historical Society News
Mantua - Carol Denzinger, pictured, was the guest speaker at the April meeting of the Mantua Historical Society; she gave an excellent presentation of Mantua's bygone days. She is displaying Stamm Contracting calendars, where the main character is the Gay Old Philosopher. If you were looking for a good time, on a Friday night and could go back in...
