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Come one, come all to the “Circus Spectacular” 14th Annual Avon Heritage Duck Tape® Festival Friday, June 16, 4–11 p.m., Saturday, June 17, 11 a.m.–11 p.m. (Parade starts at 10 a.m. at Avon High School) and Sunday, June 18, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Admission is FREE for this three-day, family-friendly, circus-themed extravaganza. Spectators will be entertained with a parade, fashion show, ... Read More »

University Hospitals St. John Medical Center is one of five UH affiliated hospitals to  receive “A” grades in hospital safety in The Leapfrog Group’s survey of more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals, according to the national nonprofit organization. UH St. John Medical Center received top scores calculated using publicly available data on patient injuries, medical and medication errors, and infections. Robert ... Read More »

Nursing Week 2017 was observed in a special way at University Hospitals St. John Medical Center last week at the annual Department of Nursing Awards Ceremony held Fri., May 12. Nurses were recognized and honored in five categories. UH SJMC President and Chief Experience Officer Robert G. David, Robert Stern, MD, President Medical Staff, and Cathy Knorzer, Chief Nursing Officer, ... Read More »

The Avon Local Schools have a long history of supporting Autism Awareness Month and this year the students and staff once again stepped up. As the month came to a close on Friday, April 28, a special assembly took place at Avon Heritage Elementary School from 1 to 2 p.m. During that time, Mayor Bryan Jensen presented a special proclamation ... Read More »

The Cleveland Clinic Children’s Center for Autism within Rocky River’s Don Umerley Civic Center represents a unique partnership between civic and health resources. The Rocky River Center for Autism is a newly configured 20,000-square-foot center with several individual rooms for behavior, occupational, and speech and language therapy, plus waiting and conference areas. Families have free access to the Don Umerley ... Read More »

Westlake High School junior Kyle Yu earned a spot on the US Geography Olympiad Varsity Team for his performance at the 5th annual Varsity National Championships of the US Geography Olympiad (USGO). Kyle, last year’s Junior Varsity champion, became the second Varsity student ever to win all three portions of the competition – a map exam, a written exam and ... Read More »

Westlake residents Ken and Sue Wagner are on a mission: To get the word out about CPR. CPR saves lives. It saved Ken’s life Ken’s story was shared at the University Hospitals St. John Medical Center All About You event held at LaCentre April 11. Ken’s story told how his wife’s knowledge of CPR, the guiding voic e of Westlake ... Read More »

Bethesda-on-the-Bay Lutheran Church will formally welcome its new pastor, the Rev. Angela Jean Freeman-Riley, at a Festival Celebration and Installation at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 7. A reception will follow the Installation Service. The public is welcome to attend. Pastor Angela’s arrived at Bethesda following a 16-month search led by the church’s nine-member Call Committee. “Bethesda has been impacting ... Read More »

The Scholastic Games high school quiz, heard weekly on WEOL (AM 930), broadcast its second quarterfinal on Tuesday, April 18th, a stunning 470 to 100 victory for Avon High School over LaGrange’s Keystone High. Keystone’s academic team took an early lead but was left behind when Avon piled on the points in the latter rounds. Avon is the quiz show’s ... Read More »

Abigail Garcia, a seven-year-old from Westlake, OH won the U8 Mid Atlantic Elks Soccer Shoot on Saturday, March 4, 2017 in Frederick, Maryland. Abby earned a high score of 42, beating out girls from New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Kentucky, and the combined Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia. Miss Garcia earned the right to represent the state of Ohio by ... Read More »