Nature’s Bin Annual “Dog Days of Summer” Dog Wash
Calling all dirty dogs! Does your dog smell a little funky? We’ll give Fido or Fife a pampering bath and have your dog sparkling clean! Nature’s Bin in collaboration with CCLAS (Citizens Committee for the Lakewood Animal Shelter) will host their annual “Dog Days of Summer” Dog Wash on Saturday, August 13 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with a rain date of Sunday, August 14.
Friends of the late Joseph P. Veasey need your support to make his dream a reality. On August 13, we will gather for a unique fundraising event at Edgewater Yacht Club.
Joseph (Joe) Veasey, of South Euclid, was one of three good friends in the 2004-05 Scholars and Leaders Program at Miami of Ohio. Joe was an architecture student diagnosed with terminal Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) in August 2006. Before he died, Joe created a scholarship to be awarded annually to a sophomore architecture student with outstanding character. Unfortunately, he passed away before there was enough money to fully endow the scholarship.
Joe’s two buddies, TJ Bittel from Bay Village, and Chris Good of Munroe Falls have picked up where Joe left off. TJ’s solution is to take on the Rev3 Ironman in Sandusky, Ohio on Sept 11. The Ironman challenge requires a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a full marathon of 26.2 miles. On July 16, Chris competed in a 100-mile foot race, the Vermont 100 Endurance Run.
The winning ticket holder of North Coast Health Ministry’s Disney cruise raffle will win a four-night Bahamian cruise plus round-trip airfare for four people OR a $4,000 American Express travel voucher to use whenever, wherever.
The cruise dates will be selected by the winner in the time frame of January through February 2012. Cruise departs from Cape Canaveral, Florida. If the winner selects the $4,000 travel voucher in lieu of the cruise, any destination on any date can be chosen. Second raffle prize is an Apple iPad 2.
Tickets are $25 each, three for $50, or eight for $100 and can be purchased online athttp://www.nchealthministry.org/cruise. Ticket order forms can also be obtained by contacting NCHM Development Director Jeanine Gergel at 216-228-7878 ext. 107 or via email at jgergel@nchealthministry.org.
The StrEat Mobile Bistro restaurant truck pulled into Trinity Lutheran Church's parking lot and set up shop, July 5 at 5pm. With the 4th of July holiday just over, Trinity had made plans with SMB's co-owner, Michelle Brown, to assist on this hot July day. With the truck outdoors, the Community Room inside was not heated up by a hot kitchen. Trinity members and volunteers from Westpark Schools (coordinated by Haley McDonough) brought pulled pork sandwiches and mac 'n cheese from SMB's truck, enhanced the meal with collard greens and green salad from Trinity Lakewood Community Outreach's garden and served the 62 Community Meal guests at their tables.
On June 15, the Sunrise Rotary Club of Lakewood/Rocky River honored Ginius and Sabine Macys, and Jeff Broestl, for their generous contributions to Rotary and their community.
Mr. and Mrs. Macys opened Breadsmith bakery in 2003. For the past two years, members of the Sunrise Rotary Club have been coming to Breadsmith every Friday to pick up leftover bread. The bread is stored in freezers, and distributed at Thanksgiving and Christmas through the Lakewood Charitable Assistance Program. Sunrise Rotary also makes additional distributions to organizations like the Rocky River Assistance Program and various Lakewood churches throughout the year.
My name is Maria Keane; I am 44yrs old, married and a mother of 2 teenage daughters and a 21 year old son. I was born in the Philippines and came to the United States at the age of 2. I was raised in an ethnic neighborhood in Cleveland and have been a resident of Lakewood for the past 18 years. I currently manage a Pulmonary Medicine office in Lakewood, and actively participate in volunteer programs for the Lakewood school system. I am pretty much your average every day woman, other than one lifelong burden.
This award was open to a current student, enrolled for summer at the Virginia Marti College of Art and Design. Students were to have worked on an extracurricular project for a Lakewood non-profit or was currently working with a Lakewood non-profit on an extracurricular project these being directly related to their field of study at VMCAD, while holding a GPA of 2.8 or above within their course of study.
The Literacy Cooperative has been awarded a $259,971 continuation grant from the Ohio Community Service Council (OCSC) that, along with an additional $145,000 raised through host site contributions, will allow the Literacy Cooperative to fund a second year of the NEO Literacy Corps (2011-2012).
There is so much going on in Downtown Lakewood this year and we want everyone to know about it so they don’t miss out! LakewoodAlive will be marching with volunteers to promote the line up of 2011 events including: Front Porch Concerts; (Fridays in July & August); Lakewood Streetwalk and Lakewood Summer Meltdown 5k & Street Party (July 23, 2011); Spooky Pooch Parade (October 15, 2011); and Light Up Lakewood (December 3, 2011).
The Meal that Heals, a dining benefit for North Coast Health Ministry, the West Side’s free clinic for the low-income uninsured, will be held on Monday, July 11, 2011 at Players on Madison from 5 to 9 p.m.
The evening’s menu liberally incorporates seasonal produce and features a soup/salad course with a choice of tomato bell pepper bisque, mista salad or Caesar salad and the following entrée selections: penne al vodka with shrimp and sundried tomatoes; lemon and oregano glazed chicken breast with basmati rice, haricots verts, toasted almond-orange salad and Mandarin orange-pommery vinaigrette; potato-encrusted Norwegian salmon with roasted garlic mashed potatoes, lemon buerre blanc, leeks, haricots verts and wild mushrooms; grilled hanger steak and mashed potatoes, baby arugula, roasted tomatoes and artichokes with balsamic syrup. For dessert, diners can choose between triple chocolate tart, crème brûlée, or lemon and mascarpone tart with raspberries.
The first, second, and third place winners of the Lakewood Historical Society's Scavenger Hunt held in May are Dale Gallis, Jarod Macaluso, and Luanne and Bob Becker. Congratulations! Thank you to all the local businesses and organizations who donated over $300 in prizes, and to everyone who participated.
Nancy Huffman, Marcello Mellino, MD, and Doug Spiker were each elected to serve a three-year term on the Lakewood Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees at its recent annual board meeting.
Nancy Huffman, a Westlake resident, recently retired as a speech pathologist from Parma City Schools. She is a graduate of Cleveland State University and The College of Wooster. Huffman is active with The College of Wooster Alumni Association, North Coast Health Ministry and the Animal Protective League, and is a past president of the Westlake Junior Women’s Club.
On May 13, nearly 200 Rotarians, friends of Rotary, Interact Members and American Youth Foundation students and families packed Rocky River’s Umerley Hall for the Sunrise Rotary Club’s fifth annual fundraiser. The event, called “Sunrise at Sunset,” netted over $8,000 – a 16% increase from the previous year.
Club members solicited 20 “Top Hat” raffle and 20 Silent Auction items and packages. In addition, 13 items were sold via a live auction, highlighted by a one-week getaway at a vacation home in Lake Placid, New York. Boat rides and dinners, Indians tickets, seats in a special car on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, and valuable art objects were just some of the great items donated and sold.
It may be sunny and warm outside, but LakewoodAlive is already planning ahead for our winter festival, Light Up Lakewood. You can be a part of it, too. We are looking for submissions for a new logo for the festival. If you live, work or go to school in Lakewood, you may enter a digital submission. Virginia Marti College of Art and Design and the Light Up Lakewood Committee are generously offering a $100 prize plus lots of great publicity for the winner. For all details, go to our Facebook page: LightUp Lakewood. The contest runs from June 1 to July 31.
Members of the Lakewood Women's Club (LWC) unanimously voted in the slate of officers presented by the Nominating Committee at the Annual Meeting on April 13, 2011. Margaret Wetzler will serve as President for a second term, Elizabeth Nici will serve as Vice President, Wendy Brickman will serve as Secretary, and Mary McKelvey will serve as Treasurer. The officers make up the Executive Board of LWC, and serve a one-year term.
2011 'Hair of the Dog' brings in big names and big bucks!
The Citizens Committee for the Lakewood Animal Shelter's seventh annual 'Hair of the Dog' Happy Hour and Silent Auction proved to be their biggest and best to date! Thanks to their loyal supporters and donors, they raised over $5,000 to assist with the Lakewood Animal Shelter's spay/neuter program this year! That's up almost 50% from years past.
The Lakewood Women's Club announced that it will award scholarships to two Lakewood High School seniors to aid in their pursuit of a higher education. Ms. Amira Fattah and Ms. Erika Thomas will both be awarded $1000.00 in recognition of their stellar high school careers, and in hopes that they will continue to be leaders both in and out of the classroom.
Ms. Fattah plans on enrolling at Cleveland State University, where she is already taking classes offered through the Post Secondary Enrollment Option at Lakewood High School. She is contemplating a degree in either chemistry, biology or health sciences as a base for going on to medical school. Ms. Fattah is the epitome of well rounded: she participates in Student Council, is a member of H2O, was elected to The National Honor Society, is a member of the Dance Group, and is involved in a medical group, the American Medical Student Association. In addition to her extra-circular activities and college studies, Ms. Fattah will be graduating near the top of her class.
Nature’s Bin, a full service natural foods market in Lakewood, reports a new study that found healthy, older men and women with higher levels of folate (vitamin B9) or vitamin B12, tended to have better hearing than those with lower levels. The study measured hearing in high frequencies, the type that weakens most with age.
Sunday, May 1, was history in the making as the 10th annual Lakewood Hospital Ambulance Chase attracted a record crowd of nearly 1,300 walkers and runners. Additionally, this year also set a record for the number of teams that joined together to participate in the event- 29 teams ranging in size from 10 – 49 members, including several from Lakewood schools.
One of the area’s oldest women's service organizations is changing its name, as the former Junior Women's Club of Lakewood becomes the Lakewood Women's Club (LWC). The Club will transition to the new name over the upcoming months. According to the organization’s president Margaret Wetzler, the change for the 49-year-old Lakewood-based nonprofit speaks to a need to clarify its position in the community and to eliminate confusion with a perceived affiliation with Junior League.
Celebrate National Preservation Month with the Lakewood Historical Society's 2nd annual Preservation Month Scavenger Hunt. The free event will run between May 14 and May 24, 2011. Participants will search for twenty architectural details throughout Lakewood.
The downloadable entry form and list of Lakewood supporters will be posted on the Lakewood Historical Society website www.lakewoodhistory.org on May 14.
Beautify your lawn and garden -give HUGS. The HUGS Foundation, a local non-profit geared to helping families of chemically dependent adolescents, has teamed up with The Rock Pile in Avon, Ohio, through their "Fundraising that Rocks" program.
Just mention that you would like to make a donation to the HUGS Foundation and The Rock Pile will donate 5% of your purchase price back to HUGS to assist fmilies of chemically dependent adolescents fund ongoing treatment.
The secret is out! The best party of the year happens on Friday, May 6 from 7-9 p.m. at the historic Nicholson House. It’s the Preview Party, the kick-off event for the Lakewood Historical Society’s 23rd annual Sale on the Grounds. For $10 you get to shop early in a festive atmosphere, and without the crowds that will be storming the gates first thing Saturday morning. Bartenders Gary & Carol Rossen of Rozi’s will be bringing the liquid refreshments. There will be delectable morsels for munching, as in addition to donating many estate items to Sale on the Grounds, Al Hopf of Granny’s Attic Estate and Tag Sales is generously underwriting hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Reservations are a must! You can register on-line at www.lakewoodhistorymuseumstore.com or by calling the Historical Society at 216-221-7343.
CCLAS Celebrates its 7th Annual ‘Hair of the Dog’ Fundraiser
It’s time for an evening filled with music, comedy, food, drinks and fantastic local merchandise, all while helping our furry friends! And you can be a part of it.
The Citizens Committee for the Lakewood Animal Shelter (CCLAS) is sponsoring its seventh annual ‘Hair of the Dog’ Happy Hour and Silent Auction on Thursday, May 19th from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. at the Avenue Tap House in Lakewood. Once again, dozens of Lakewood and Cleveland-area businesses have generously donated items and services for auction, including tickets to Cleveland sporting events, live shows, restaurant and spa certificates, tons of pet-friendly products and much more!
The Westshore Regional Community Emergency Response Team (WSC) cordially invites you to their May 10th event at the popular Rocky River Brewing Company, 21290 Center Ridge Road. Festivities are from 6- 9pm. Twenty dollars in advance or $25 at the door will get you all you can eat pizza, wings, salad, desserts, two drink tickets, happy hour prices, an opportunity to win awesome gift baskets and other drawings, a Dove Chocolate table, and a chance at some great door prizes including Cavs and Monsters tickets, fine jewelry, and more.
The Second Annual Lakewood Citywide Street Sale will be held on June 23rd - June 25th this year. We have had a glimpse of warm weather which was the perfect time to throw open the windows and open the garage doors to air everything out and de-clutter! So mark your calendars and join other residents as well as businesses from the Downtown Lakewood Business Alliance, MAMA and the West End at the Lakewood Citywide Street Sale. That same weekend will also feature the Ohio Chautauqua event and Live Well Lakewood's Drug Mart to Drug Mart 5K walk - lots going on to attract visitors and residents to our Lakewood streets!
The Easter Bunny will be making a special visit to Lakewood on April 16th. H2O- Help to Others- is hosting Breakfast with the Bunny at the Woman's Pavilion in Lakewood Park. The pavilion will be transformed into a beautiful spring setting while H2O high school volunteers serve pancake breakfasts to all who attend. Pictures can be taken with the Easter Bunny for $5 or personal cameras can be used free of charge. There will also be a Chinese raffle of fun-filled themed baskets full of donated items from Lakewood businesses and supporters of H2O. Proceeds from the breakfast will benefit H2O Summer Service Camp and year-round H2O programming for middle and high school students.
Mark your calendar for April 15th and 16th because you definitely must experience Tabletops & Trifles! This new Lakewood Historical Society sale is a prelude to the annual Sale on the Grounds, which comes along the first Saturday and Sunday in May.
We’ve had so many donations this year of fine vintage china, cool barware, silver serving pieces, linens, gloves, hats, jewelry and accessories that we decided to highlight them in a special sale all their own. Tabletops & Trifles will feature tables set with everything you need for entertaining friends, or just pampering your family. There will even be themed displays such as the garden table, the picnic table, and the bride’s table. In many cases you’ll be able to buy everything right down to the tablecloth. Want to set up a bar or a buffet? You’ll find all those items at the sale, too.
Celebrate 10 years of running, walking, wellness, community spirit and support of Lakewood Hospital at the Ambulance Chase on Sunday, May 1.
“This is a fabulous event, not to be missed,” says Ken Haber, Lakewood Hospital Foundation President. “The Ambulance Chase is for all, from the youngest among us in the Children’s Chase, to participants well into their eighties. And the bonus is the difference that has been made in patient care at Lakewood Hospital due to the funds raised through the event.”
The rehabilitation program at Lakewood Hospital gave me my life back,” states Bill Forester, stroke survivor and 2011 Race Committee member. On August 17, 2009, Bill's life changed forever; he suffered a massive, debilitating stroke that affected his speech and the use of his arm and leg on his right side. “I ate healthy, didn’t smoke and was very active...it made no sense. It just goes to show that this can happen to anyone.”
Local Girl Gallery, at 16106 Detroit Avenue, will be an eclectic art lover’s mecca on Friday, April 15, from 7 to 10 p.m., for Junk2Funk, as artists and designers will be raffling off “new” chic sustainable art and fashions to benefit North Coast Health Ministry, the West Side’s free clinic for the low-income uninsured.
One of the area’s longest-serving human services organizations is changing its name – effective immediately – as the former Lakewood Christian Service Center is becoming Lakewood Community Services Center (LCSC). According to the organization’s executive director Trish Rooney, the shift for the 29-year-old Lakewood-based non-profit speaks to its mission to improve not only the lives of all of its consumers, but also the stability of the community at large.
“We have a highly diversified client base, and many of the citizens who utilize us as a community resource don’t practice the Christian faith,” said Rooney. “We have known for some time that there was a degree of discomfort with the word Christian being so predominant in our name, and we want to convey a broader sense of being inclusionary while maintaining the tenets of our faith-based legacy. It is difficult enough to come for assistance without adding this sense of exclusion for families who need our help.”
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA will once again put on its Baby Bargain Bonanza event at Emerson Elementary School (13439 Clifton Blvd.). Doors will open at 9am and the sale will continue until 1pm. Every shopper is sure to find a bargain at this season's sale! Why pay retail when you can purchase gently-used at a fraction of the price!
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the recession we are in began in December 2007. Layoffs hit levels we hadn't experienced in years. Jobs became harder to find. No one was exempt from the reality of losing their job. Unemployment ends and then there is nothing.
I am a volunteer at Lakewood Christian Service Center and North Coast Health Ministry. They need your help.
LCSC is best known for emergency food assistance to residents of Lakewood, Rocky River and Westlake and provides rental and utility assistance to prevent homelessness, on-site access to additional services: food stamp applications, free legal advice for civil matters, emergency utility payment assistance programs and referrals to other social service providers.
NCHM is a faith-based free clinic, providing healthcare services to low-income individuals in western Cuyahoga and eastern Lorain counties and a resource for referrals to services not provided on-site including, but not limited to medical tests at local hospitals and assistance with medications.
You are invited to an informational meeting on Health Care Reform co-sponsored by the Lakewood and Fairview Park Chapters of the League of Women Voters Cuyahoga Area. It is set for Thursday, February 24, 2011, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, at the Fairview Park Library, 21255 Lorain Road. The guest speaker is Gary Benjamin, Northeast Ohio Advocacy Coordinator of the Universal Health Care Action Network (uhcanohio.org). His talk is titled, "Health Care Reform: What's In It For YOU?"
People often get together with friends at a bar to celebrate their birthday, but rarely do they use the night of fun to help out others. For Andy Wasserman, making his birthday a reason to give to others is becoming a tradition.
For his birthday last year, Andy held a party at a bar in downtown Cleveland. He then gave money from the night to a friend who was participating in the 3-day breast cancer walk. "I loved that I was able to throw a fun party and help others," Wasserman said. When thinking of who Andy wanted to give to this year, he thought of the people he worked with and knew who have children with Autism. This inspired Andy to contact Milestones Autism Organization about donating the money raised, to their organization.
Lakewood loves St. Patrick’s Day, and Lakewood Catholic Academy plans to get started a bit early with its celebration. The Saints Service Organization, the parent volunteer group at LCA, is hosting its first annual “Luck of the Irish” Reverse Raffle on Friday, March 4th. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and guests will feast on a wonderful buffet of Irish favorites, including potato leek soup, mini corned beef sandwiches, Shepherd’s pie, and dessert. Irish and American beverages, including Guinness, Harp, and Magner’s Cider will be served too, along with wine and domestic beer. The $50 ticket price includes buffet, beverages, and one ticket for the “big board” for a chance to win $1,500. For more information, call Cathy Ramirez at 216-337-5775 or send email to reverseraffle@lakewoodcatholicacademy.com.
Parkview Playschool, Inc., a non-profit cooperative preschool in Lakewood, has scheduled its annual Adult Night Out Fundraiser for Saturday, February 19th at Around The Corner in Lakewood.
Matthew’s Lending Library was established by Kevin and Vicki McCarthy as a living tribute to the memory of their son, Matthew James McCarthy. Because his brain was not fully developed, their son Matthew, born September 29, 1981, experienced numerous disabilities. During his short life, Matthew lived with bravery, courage and grace and proved to be an inspiration to all who knew him. Matthew made a difference in the lives of those he touched and continues to impact lives through his namesake library, which serves children and young adults with disabilities throughout Northeast Ohio.
Some people think the word “hero” is overused, but that’s exactly the word used to describe members of the youth group at Lakewood Congregational Church.
Members of the congregation attended an informational meeting on January 9th to plan the church’s seventh annual Homeless Awareness Sleep-Out (HASO). The event is a ministry of the youth group who want to call attention to the plight of people who are homeless by spending the night in cardboard boxes in front of the church building. InterAct Cleveland, a local group working with the homeless community, brought a guest speaker named Don to the meeting to talk to the youth about his experiences on the streets of Cleveland. It was during one of the first HASO events that Don heard about what the church youth were doing. Living at a homeless shelter at the time, Don said he remembered thinking how special the kids must be to help people they didn’t even know. He called them heroes and kept using the word “unconditional” to describe the youth’s commitment to strangers while asking for nothing in return.
Due to the one-year anniversary of the Haitian disaster, there have been several newspaper stories, and TV Network visits to Haiti to check on the relief efforts over the past year. The Sunrise Rotary Club of Lakewood/Rocky River is proud of its sponsorship of the Shelter box Box USA program, which has sent over 18,000 shelter boxes to Haiti in 2010. Each year the Club raises money for one shelter box and in 2010, extra funds were contributed to provide two shelter boxes, due to the many needs during a year which also saw earthquakes in Mexico, and China, tropical storms, and flooding in Guatemala, Pakistan, and Brazil, and landslides in Uganda and Chille.
The standard shelterbox weighs 110 pounds and is about 2 feet three inches, by one foot four inches and is 11 inches wide. It contains a ten person tent; vinyl insulated floor mats, light weight thermal blankets, two 2.1 gallon collapsible water carriers, water purification tablets, a trenching tool, rope, mosquito netting, toolkit, cook stove, eating utensils, and a children’s school supply kit.
As part of the American Heart Association's "Go Red For Women" campaign, The Lakewood "Open Your Heart Committee" is sponsoring their annual fundraiser entitled "DRESS UP YOUR HEART" to help raise awareness of the #1 killer of women in the U.S. - Heart Disease. This years event will be a reception and fashion show featuring Valerie Mayen, owner and designer of YELLOWCAKE. Valerie, who may be better known as a former contestant on Lifetime's PROJECT RUNWAY, wowed a packed house during New York's Fashion Week this past September at Lincoln Center with her 10-piece collection. Her talent promises to be equally exciting for this event.
Parkview Playschool, Inc., a cooperative preschool in Lakewood, has scheduled an open house on Tuesday, January 25.
Offering educational services to three- and four-year-old children, Parkview’s preschool program is unique.
“The difference between a co-op and a traditional preschool comes down to parental involvement,” says Parkview’s Director of fifteen years, Mrs. Patti Finau. “Cooperative preschools are successful because parents can observe and better understand their child’s development, joys and frustrations. Co-ops allow parents be an integral part of their child’s first school experience.”
As it has done for over 25 years, the Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corp (LCAC) once again brightened the Thanksgiving holiday for over 300 Lakewood families and seniors.
Thanks to the efforts of many local sponsors, donors and volunteers, Lakewood residents who otherwise may not have been able to, were able to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal complete with a turkey and all the fixin’s!
Donations of canned foods at many Lakewood City schools, Lakewood Catholic Academy, St Edward High School and the YMCA along with monetary donations from individuals and organizations helped make this wonderful event happen. Once all the food was gathered, the “human chain” of over 200 volunteers sorted, filled bags and delivered the meals directly to the families in need. “It is truly a fine example of neighbors helping neighbors, stated LCAC president Jeff Worron.
Spending the first weekend in December shopping at the Nicholson House, Lakewood's oldest structure, has become a holiday tradition for many savvy shoppers. If you've never been, you must come! Beautifully displayed in a festive atmosphere, new and nearly-new gift items, tree trimmings, decorations, wrapping paper and ribbon, nativities, and anything you need for holiday entertaining share the space with antiques, collectibles, vintage linens, glassware, silver and delicate heirloom ornaments.
“Laughter Unleashed” an evening of claws-out comedy to benefit CCLAS (Citizens Committee for the Lakewood Animal Shelter)! Last Call Cleveland is an award-winning sketch comedy troupe that has performed in comedy festivals in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Las Angeles and Seattle. They were voted 2009’s best live comedy on the Fox 8 Hotlist. The group consists of comedians Mike Polk, Aaron McBride, Matt Zitelli and Mark McKenzie.
You can spread holiday cheer and help a homeless dog or cat in need! Honor your family pet by donating $5.00 to the CCLAS (Citizens Committee for the Lakewood Animal Shelter) Angel Tree. We will add an ornament with your furry angel’s name on it at one of our Angel Tree display locations.
This holiday season please donate to your local animal shelters and help out the homeless animals. In times of economic stress and financial hardship more and more animals are dumped into the streets and at the doorsteps of the shelter. So as you do your holiday bustling this season, think of the abandoned animals and donate to the Lakewood Animal Shelter. The shelter is in need of the following supplies: clay cat litter, cat and kitten food, canned dog food, dishwasher detergent (not dishwashing liquid), bleach, disinfecting floor cleaner, drain cleaner and paper towels.
A growing number of older adults are seeking ways to improve their overall health and manage chronic conditions. As part of its commitment to becoming more integrated into the home and community-based services community of providers, Eliza Jennings Senior Care Network (Eliza Jennings) recently collaborated with Fairhill Partners to offer a new series of seminars on chronic disease symptom management and health promotion. The Chronic Disease Self Management Program (CDSMP) was developed at Stanford University and licensed locally to Fairhill Partners, who provided the training to Eliza Jennings. The first series was held at the Westerly, a HUD congregate community for older adults in Lakewood and location of an Eliza Jennings at Home on-site wellness clinic. There is no charge to series participants.
The League of Women Voters invites you to its first public meeting of the new First Thursdays speaker series with the theme "Women Who Know Their Place." Featured speaker is State Senator Nina Turner, 25th District, whose talk is titled, "The Power of Every Woman." It is set for Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, at Trinity Commons at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. The public is invited to attend free of charge, with free parking behind the Cathedral off Prospect Avenue.
Burn some ghoulish calories and break in your Halloween costume on Sunday, October 31 at the 6th Annual Great Pumpkin Fun Run & 5K Race at Lakewood Park.
Fun Run perfect for little ghosts and goblins who want to show off their running skills and be congratulated with a scary amount of applause when they cross the finish line.
The 5K (3.1-mile) run/walk takes off at 9:15 a.m. and sends participants on a flat course along the city’s beautiful tree-lined streets.
The best part? You’ll be breaking a sweat to further worthy causes. Proceeds from the race benefit three local non-profits: Live Well Lakewood, Joyful Noise, and H2O (Help to Others).
For the 35th year in a row, Kiwanis will hold its annual donut sale. The sale will be held on Thursday, October 28 at the Masonic Temple, on the corner of Andrews and Detroit. Donuts can be bought there or by ordering via e-mail at: tseliot2@sbcglobal.net. The donuts will be sold for $6.50 for a box of one dozen. Locally processed cider is also sold for $5.00 a gallon.
Work for Kiwanians actually begins the night before. With the help of other community volunteers, including those from Lakewood and St. Edward Key Clubs and the Keating Center, they prepare for the sale by folding boxes and laying down rolls of paper to cover the tables in the main room. At this time also, the production line is set up under the guidance of Mike Mazella, proprietor of the Donut Scene in Strongsville.
Lakewood Catholic Academy will hold its inaugural All Saints Auction at 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 on the LCA campus. The All Saints Auction marks a new theme, look and time of year for an event that has raised over $200,000 since 2006 to support LCA’s innovative curriculum, faculty salaries, extraordinary campus, and tuition assistance for nearly one quarter of LCA students.
This year’s special theme will be “Celebrating the Saints of Italy,” and will be reflected in décor, food, and activities reminiscent of the country that blessed the world with St. Francis of Assisi, St. Angela, and many more. Tickets are $75 per person. Attendees will enjoy exciting silent and live auction items and experiences, a “spirited” Wine Pull, cocktails, a festive seated dinner inspired by autumn in Italy and much more. The silent auction will begin at 6 p.m., with the dinner and live auction set to begin at 8 p.m.
Calling all Pumpkin Fans and fall enthusiasts! We need help celebrating Lakewood’s 11th annual Pumpkin Palooza. You can join the fun by attending the event, decorating a pumpkin, or both!
Pumpkin Palooza will be held on Saturday, October 30th from 1-4pm. This fall festival overflows with fun in the E. Gym, E. Café and L-Room at Lakewood High School. Get ready to have a great time! Pumpkin Palooza features indoor carnival games, kid's crafts, a costume parade, three giant inflatable games, a “haunted hallway” and storytelling in a delightfully spooky setting. Most games can be enjoyed for just one ticket, or 25¢! Not to mention Palooza’s Great Pumpkin Patch, filled with over 100 spectacular, decorated pumpkins! Looking at all the pumpkins is free, but for 25¢, you can buy a raffle ticket for your favorite. When the tickets are drawn at 3:00pm, you could go home a winner!
“There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles." – Anonymous.
Lakewood’s 2nd Annual Downtown Lakewood Chocolate Walk is just around the corner! You won’t want to miss this decadent and delectable night all about Chocolate!
After a raved about inaugural event in 2009, Chocolate Walk returns on Thursday, October 28, 2010, presented by the Downtown Lakewood Merchants. Chocoholics will be walking Downtown Lakewood browsing the shops, sampling treats and collecting delectable bites in their Chocolate Walk goodie bag which they can take home to enjoy later. The many offerings from 30+ Downtown Lakewood Merchants will be unique and different. Last year’s treats included truffles, brownies, pastries, a hot fudge sundae, and chocolate soup (yum!). What delicious goodies will the merchants offer this year??? You’ll have to be there find out!
Lakewood Baptist Church will be having its annual Holiday Harvest Bazaar on October 16th, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The bazaar will feature handmade crafts, baked goods, books, jewelry, a cafe, the Almost New section, and, a perennial favorite, the silent auction. The bazaar is sponsored by the American Baptist Women's Ministry of the church.
If you walk straight ahead through the entrance to the weekly Kiwanis meeting in the Masonic Temple, you will find Pete’s Table on your right, offering a selection of candy bars and snacks, yard bags, and American flags for sale, with all proceeds benefiting the Club.
Pete’s Table gets its name from Pete McGrew, the Kiwanian who presided over the enterprise for longer than anyone can remember, until his death three years ago. At that time, the Table was taken over by Ron Lewis and Leo Sonenson.
A sold-out crowd of over 300 enjoyed great food, great music, and great weather – all for a great cause - at Lakewood Christian Service Center’s "got green?" event on Friday, September 10th. A celebration of the organization’s 28-year history of service to the community and of the success of the new client community garden, "got green?" raised over $34,000 to support LCSC’s programs.
As a resident of the City of Lakewood, I am pleased to announce the recent opening of Recovery Resources Adolescent Treatment Program in Lakewood. The Adolescent Treatment Program provides intensive outpatient treatment for those aged 12 to 18 who have been diagnosed substance abuse or dependent. The ribbon-cutting will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 28 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Recovery Resources’ offices, 14805 Detroit Rd., Suite 200, Lakewood, OH 44107. Light refreshments will be served compliments of Root Café and Elmwood Home Bakery.
Shop for a Cause. Shop for CCLAS.
Do you love animals? Do you love shopping? You can satisfy both these loves at the upcoming Macy’s Shop-for-a-Cause event on October 16, as Citizens Committee for a Lakewood Animal Shelter (CCLAS) is participating in this year’s event for the second time due to the success last year!
As an active retailer for community causes, Macy’s has partnered for years with non-profit organizations from around the country to raise more than $28 million for their ongoing charitable efforts.
The details are simple. For a charitable donation of $5.00, you will receive exclusive all-day savings storewide up to 25% off on a wide assortment of merchandise (as well as an extra-special offer for selected departments). Macy’s will provide CCLAS these special Shopping Passes to sell for $5 each, and CCLAS will get to keep 100 percent of the proceeds to go towards aiding in the adoption of abandoned cats and dogs, as well as advocacy on behalf of animals and responsible pet ownership in the Lakewood community. We have over 100 shopping passes to sell by October 16. If we sell all of our passes, we would raise about $500 – that would go toward the spay or neuter of 14 adopted animals from our shelter!
If you’re interested in making a $5.00 contribution to the CCLAS and receiving one of these exclusive all-day Macy’s shopping passes, please contact the CCLAS board at cclaspets@gmail.com, or attend the upcoming October Member's meeting at the Lakewood Public Library on Tuesday, October 5th at 7:00 p.m.
Recovery Resources is pleased to announce a partnership with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland. The two organizations will be working together on Project Reach Out (PRO), a discussion-based education program to assist LGBTQ individuals and their loved ones in making informed decisions regarding alcohol and other drug use.