Talk about your desperate acts! Fairview Park police were called to a Lorain Road apartment on September 30 because of an intoxicated person causing a problem. Upon arrival, officers were told that a male had taken approximately $30 which the caller was saving up for his son’s birthday present. Officers approached the male who was in a drunken stupor. The ... Read More »
Seven Westlake High School students were named 2014 National Merit Semifinalists in the National Merit Program. Semifinalists Aswin Bikkani, Nicholas Craven, Wendy DeFeo, Kartik Dhinakaran, Alan Garber, Thomas Reusser and Ameesh Shah will move on to compete for about 8,300 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $34 million. They are among 1.5 million students from 22,000 high schools across the ... Read More »
The Annual Heritage Race through beautiful Bay Village to benefit The Bay Village Foundation will take place on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. The fifth annual 5K run/ 1 mile walk begins at Cahoon Memorial Park at 9:00 a.m. Preregistration is available on line at www.hermescleveland.com at $20.00; or, in person on the day of the race at $25.00. Packets will ... Read More »
New technology aims to improve brain function for Alzheimer’s patients People aged 60 to 90 who are diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease may benefit from something as simple as sitting in a chair – a state-of-the-art chair, that is. Clinical trials for the new chair therapy began last fall at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain ... Read More »
The CareSource Foundation recently awarded its third round of quarterly grants for 2014. The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in health and human services domains with a focus on children’s health, issues of senior adults, community health, special needs populations and strategies to address the medically uninsured throughout the state of Ohio. The CareSource Foundation funds nonprofits that share ... Read More »
University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center presents the 15th annual 5K “Skeleton Run for Your Bones” on Sunday, October 26 at Amherst Steele High School. All proceeds from the race will benefit the Amherst Schools Science Olympiad, Amherst Running Club, and the UH Elyria Medical Center Foundation. Runners can choose from not only the 5K race, but also a one-mile “Funny ... Read More »
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and Ohioans with disabilities now have a free, easy way to search for jobs and access information about a variety of work-related resources. Working in tandem with OhioMeansJobs.com, OhioMeansAccessibility.com will help job seekers with disabilities post resumes, search for jobs and more. “The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services is committed to ... Read More »
Bay High’s seven National Merit Commended Students scored in the top three percent, or top 50,000, of the 1.5 million students taking the Preliminary SAT exam in their junior year. The seniors are, left-to-right, front row – Melanie Kukura, Mary Woods, Jessica Mosier, Andrea Bliscik; and back row – Michael Clark, Arif Caushaj and Joseph O’Brien. Read More »
The Bay High School Fall Choral Concert, under the direction Devon Gess, will be Tuesday night, October 21 at 7:00 pm in the newly renovated High School auditorium. The concert will feature the commissioned premier of a setting by local composer, H. Leslie Adams. A native Clevelander, Adams is one of the leading (African) American composers in the world. His ... Read More »
The Avon Lake Women’s Chorus is delighted to welcome Bay Village resident Joan Knurek as one of three newcomers this season. Joan offers the flexibility of singing first or second soprano as the group begins preparing programs that will be performed for residents of assisted living/extended care facilities and other local group gatherings in western Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties in ... Read More »
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