Westlake

Lee Burneson Middle School was represented by 12 outstanding musicians at the Ohio Music Education Association’s District Middle School Honors Festival in Lakewood on March 2. LBMS was one of 22 schools and 300 students participating in the all-day rehearsal, which ended with a concert for more than 1,000 audience members in the Lakewood Civic Auditorium. Representing Westlake in the ... Read More »

Westlake High School Student Council collected $1,660 for charity in its second annual Valentine Hunks contest. Each year Student Council asks four junior boys and four senior boys to volunteer to collect money for a designated charity during the week of Valentine’s Day. This year’s collections went to Emily’s Rainbow Fund benefiting pediatric cancer research. This year’s Valentine Hunks were ... Read More »

An Allen Dr. resident was awakened at 4:31AM on March 4 by a white male trying to force entry through her patio door. He is described as approx 5″7, in his 20s, balding, wearing a dark green jacket and dark jeans. He ran when confronted; footprints showed that the suspect headed north to a parking lot on Detroit Rd. and apparently got ... Read More »

Friends of Porter Public Library Board Member Nancy Shaw has received the Myrna Chelko Volunteer Award from Westlake Porter Public Library. The Myrna Chelko Award, established in 1994, is given annually to the library volunteer who has made a significant contribution to the library in volunteer time and whose volunteer efforts have made an impact on library services. The award ... Read More »

Below are the links to the agenda from the March 7 Council meeting with actions as well as the approved minutes from the February 21 Council meeting. Council meeting agenda with actions:  http://www.cityofwestlake.org/pdfs/CnlAgendas/CnlAgenda.pdf Approved Council meeting minutes:  http://www.cityofwestlake.org/pdfs/CouncilMinutes/2013/20130221CnlMin.pdf The following committee meetings were scheduled: Planning/Zoning/Legislative committee, March 26 at 7:00 p.m. Service, Streets, Sidewalks, Road Drains committee, April 2 at ... Read More »

Bassett Elementary School’s Honor Choir performed at the Oberlin Choristers Children’s Honor Choir on March 2 at The Stocker Arts Center at Lorain County Community College. The Honor Choir consisted of more than 200 voices from 16 different schools in Lorain, Cuyahoga and Huron counties. Each year area music teachers in grades four through six are invited to train a select ... Read More »

The Lee Burneson Middle School Math Demons and a team from Parkside Intermediate School took home some of the top awards in their division at the 2013 Equations competition at the Cuyahoga County Educational Service Center. Westlake took three teams to competition against eight other school districts and 144 students. The LBMS eighth-grade team – Anna Craven, Sneha Ramachandran, Alex ... Read More »

      Six Westlake High School Honors English students were selected for special recognition through the Cleveland Clinic eXpressions writing program. Blue ribbons and $100 went to juniors Haley Lyle for “I’m Too Early” and Kailey Mau for “Geremy’s Travels.” Red ribbons and $75 went to juniors Krystina Horvath for “Trapped” and Natalija Tyler for “Temporalnova in the Doctor’s ... Read More »

Lee Burneson Middle School won the Gardens That Teach Challenge in Cuyahoga County.  Tunnel Vision Hoops will work with Technology teacher Kurt Thonnings to install a $2,246 hoop house at the new middle school this spring. The Hummingbird Project also is donating a Healthy Soil Workshop valued at $600 to LBMS, teaching students about the complex soil food web. The ... Read More »

Westlake High School, under the guidance of World Language teacher Anne-Frances Zaborniak Budz, recently established its own Socieded Honoraria Hispanica, an honor society for high school students enrolled in Spanish and Portuguese. Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, there are about 2,000 active chapters nationally. The group recognizes high achievement of high school students in ... Read More »