It’s been a really lengthy journey: Whit & Whimsey

BRUNSWICK, Ohio — Oh, the tales which have been informed!

It was March 1959 after I began my first day on the job on the Chief Put up newspapers, and right here I’m at this time, nonetheless typing away.

I actually have been fortunate to have a job I’ve beloved sufficient to spend a lot time on, and it’s a disgrace extra individuals haven’t skilled that.

Not every single day was great, however I’m actually glad I caught it out, contemplating that Emily Oravec and I weren’t in an workplace because the typists of the information — we have been within the basement of the put up workplace (the historic constructing on the southwest nook of Ohio 303 and U.S. 42). If we stopped typing, we may hear the mice (or rats) operating alongside above the tin ceiling.

Now that I’m so lively within the Brunswick Space Historic Society, I’m wondering if it’s a coincidence that Brunswick’s first settlers arrived in March — just a bit earlier, in 1815.

Fond farewell: The Metropolis of Medina bid farewell to Lt. Dave Birckbichler, who formally retired final week after spending the final 27 years with the police division.

Birckbichler was employed by Chief Tom Steyer in 1995. He labored below the path of three mayors and 4 police chiefs all through his profession. He was promoted to sergeant in 2005 and to lieutenant in 2010.

Over these years, Birckbichler crammed many roles, together with being a member of the SWAT group, the bike unit, commander of the detective bureau, dispatch supervisor and lots of extra.

Wishing him an extended, pleased and wholesome retirement.

Residence and Backyard: The thirty fifth annual Medina County Residence & Backyard Present introduced by Fixler Roofing will function enjoyable and useful data for the entire household.

Hours are 10 a.m. to six p.m. March 26 and 10 a.m. to five p.m. March 27 on the Medina County Group Heart on the Fairgrounds, 735 W. Lafayette Street in Medina.

Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors 60 and older and free for youngsters 12 and youthful.

There shall be loads of actions to entertain the children, whereas dad and mom can get some ideas and data from greater than 100 space dwelling enchancment and landscaping consultants.

On the middle of the Foremost Backyard, which is creatively designed and put in by Mike Biskup and his crew from Greenkeepers Garden & Landscaping, shall be a enjoyable children clubhouse designed and constructed by the oldsters at Habitat for Humanity.

The 2-story construction with storage under contains a wraparound deck and home windows with actual screens. Habitat is raffling off the clubhouse to lift funds to help the development of their properties for hard-working, low-income Medina households that deserve a protected, wholesome and reasonably priced place to name dwelling.

Raffle tickets might be bought now on the Habitat Restore, 233 Lafayette Street in Medina, and on the Residence and Backyard Present. Drawing for the winner shall be at 4 p.m. March 27 on the present.

The Foremost Backyard will function a Butterfly Backyard, on the middle of which shall be a whimsical butterfly bench that shall be given away as a door prize. The backyard will even function a Gnome Backyard with a 4-foot gnome hand-crafted out of a tree stump, surrounded by big toadstools.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall be promoting raffle tickets at their sales space to win the Gnome Residence to your again yard.

Youngsters can plant a sunflower seed and take it dwelling to look at it develop. Playground World will show its newest play set.

All kinds of applications from Butterfly and Pollinator Gardens to Cooking With Kelly are slated. Get all the small print of applications, hours, tickets and extra at https://www.medinahomeandgardenshow.com/.

All attendees can enter to win one of many door prizes: a 10-day rental of a 20-cubic-yard dumpster for cleanup from Sharp Container within the Medina or Summit County space, a $450 worth; a Whimsical Metallic Butterfly Bench; or a Picket Elevated Planter Mattress with Wheels.

Winners shall be introduced at 5 p.m. March 27. The winners don’t must be current.

On the shut of the present at 5 p.m. March 27, all of the plant supplies shall be bought off at under wholesale costs. The general public is invited to get in on some nice offers on lovely flowers, shrubs and timber.

Spring registration: The Brunswick Metropolis Recreation Heart is on the point of register members for the upcoming yr.

Present members can start registration at 10 a.m. March 23 and non-members beginning at 10 a.m. March 24. A lot of nice applications — together with all of the swimming classes, children’ camps, senior actions and even the annual Metropolis Supervisor’s Problem.

You’ll be able to study all in regards to the applications within the new version of The Present at https://www.brunswick.oh.us/recreation/.

Award winners: On March 5, three younger girls represented the Medina County Profession Heart on the regional culinary profession growth occasion.

Congratulations to senior Shelby Berghaus on her Silver Medal Score in Baking & Pastry Arts; senior Miranda Campbell, who earned a Gold Medal Score in Culinary Arts; and junior Sami Lai-Korosec, who earned a Gold Medal Score in Culinary Arts with an ideal rating of 100/100.

Chef Tony Stanislo says all the division anxiously awaits the announcement for who advances to the State Degree Occasions on the finish of April.

From The Coronary heart: The twenty first annual From the Coronary heart Scholarship Dinner came about Feb. 19 on the Medina County Profession Heart. Fifty present and graduate chef college students volunteered their time all through the day/night time to assist create a really memorable occasion.

A complete of 286 friends made their strategy to the Profession Heart in help of this annual custom. As they entered the constructing, they have been greeted by vigorous music and a “bigger than ever” show of donated raffle packages.

The raffle included over $3,500 value of restaurant and leisure present playing cards, handmade artworks, lottery tickets, occasion tickets, specialty adventures, Vitamix, Blackstone, Guardians tickets, expertise gadgets and a lot extra.

All totaled, donations collected exceeded $15,000 to assist put collectively the 41 raffle packages, eight specialty silent auctions and greater than 50 door prizes.

Chef Tony reviews that college students and graduates who assisted as servers for the night had the honour of being informed by numerous friends how great the meal was. Fortunately, they took the time to share these compliments with the cooks within the kitchen as they hustled via crafting the superb meals.

Additionally, notice that this week begins the annual Senior Menu Design Collection on the student-run restaurant. The menu will start to alter each week as a substitute of each two weeks to make it possible for they will slot in every of the seniors and their menu alternative.

Thus far, the category has introduced some nice concepts that I believe you’ll take pleasure in!

Busy serving to others: The Medina Breakfast Kiwanis held a board assembly and reported all method of nice information.

Members heard a report that the club-sponsored Aktion Membership made a donation to the Society for Handicapped Residents, and their sponsored Okay-Youngsters are starting to satisfy once more and are making blankets.

The board authorised an enormous variety of donations and initiatives for upcoming occasions and chosen two recipients for the proceeds from the upcoming Sports activities Corridor of Fame occasion. The profitable nonprofits are being contacted, so maintain looking forward to who it’s.

Change consists of Medinian: “Rotary Youth Change is the chance of a lifetime to make peace on the planet, one pupil at a time,” acknowledged Dustin Haffner, a junior at Medina Excessive College who shall be residing and learning in Colombia through the 2022-2023 college yr.

He’s sponsored by the Medina Dawn Rotary Membership.

Dustin participated in a weekend full of applications and workshops that developed understanding of ourselves and others, with matters equivalent to American values, gentle diplomacy, cultural sensitivity coaching, language coaching, historical past and present world occasions.

And within the course of, he mentioned he met new individuals and made new friendships. These orientations are essential for our future worldwide ambassadors and assist them put together for lots of the challenges they might encounter, together with adjustments in existence whereas overseas.

These applications not solely educate the scholars about essential ideas in preparation for his or her trade, but in addition permit the scholars to bond with each other. Rotary believes that having relationships with these experiencing an identical scenario might be useful to the scholars.

Rotary Youth Change is a premier worldwide pupil trade scholarship program for college kids in secondary college. This scholarship worth at present exceeds $35,000 per pupil.

Since 1929, Rotary Worldwide has despatched extremely certified younger individuals across the globe to expertise new cultures, instill service above self, develop management, promote worldwide understanding and world peace, and turn into youth ambassadors of their native communities.

At the moment, about 9,000 college students are sponsored by Rotary golf equipment yearly. Rotary is a completely accredited member of the Council of Requirements for Worldwide Scholar Change: http://www.csiet.org.

ORMACO, CIFF group up: Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach is happy to announce its neighborhood partnership with the Cleveland Worldwide Movie Pageant as soon as once more this yr with the Italian movie “The King of Laugher (Qui rido io).”

The movie relies on the biography of Nineteenth-century actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, who lived a lavish life-style, was accused harshly of plagiarism, however had an amazing affect on the event of Italian theater.

Screenings will happen on the KeyBank State Theater in Cleveland at 2:15 p.m. March 31 and seven:15 p.m. April 3.

Entry to 2 on-line screenings for these in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana will happen at 11 a.m. April 10 and 11:59 p.m. April 17. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 11 a.m. March 18.

Use ORMACO as a reduction code for this movie and every other CIFF movie to obtain $1 off every ticket buy. To study extra and to order your tickets, go to https://www.clevelandfilm.org/movies/the-king-of-laughter.

Fish and extra: Whereas not fairly again to pre-pandemic standing, Brunswick United Methodist Church could have a minimum of two fish fries this yr: from 5 to six:30 p.m. March 25 and April 1 (with the potential for one other on April 8).

Dine-in and carry-out can be found for $12 for ages 11 and older and $6 for ages 4-10. For data, contact the church at church@brunswickumc.org or name 330-225-3179.

And save April 9 for the church’s annual Easter egg hunt, beginning at 9:30 a.m. with a lightweight breakfast. The egg hunt, by age, will begin at 10 a.m. Youngsters ages preschool via fifth grade are invited to take part.

The occasion consists of images with the Easter Bunny, so convey your cameras, in addition to a basket for the goodies. Masks and registration are required.

Pinwheels: Save the date of April 24 for the Pinwheel Stroll, a really significant occasion sponsored by the Kids’s Heart of Medina County to extend consciousness about youngster abuse and alternatives for prevention and intervention.

Through the Pinwheel Stroll, we’ll collect collectively as a neighborhood to plant 696 pinwheels — representing every case of kid abuse opened by Medina County Job and Household Companies throughout 2021.

Pre-walk actions will embrace Huntington Financial institution’s ice cream truck, visits with superheroes from Tremendous Heroes to Youngsters in Ohio, face portray by EnchantaRoo Face and Physique Artwork, Lady Scout Silver Award challenge show of “What Had been You Carrying?” to dispel myths about sexual assault, and extra.

Opening remarks will embrace a survivor sharing her expertise of therapeutic from abuse, recognition of the group of pros that work to assist youngsters who’ve been abused on their pathway to therapeutic, and proclamations marking April as Baby Abuse Prevention Month from Mayor Dennis Hanwell and the Medina County commissioners.

The occasion will culminate with a 3/4-mile stroll from the historic Medina Sq. previous the Medina Police Division, Medina County Administration Constructing and Medina County Courthouse to the Medina Library, the place contributors will plant the backyard of pinwheels alongside Washington Road.

Study extra on-line at https://medinacountychildrenscenter.org/.

DD Consciousness Month: On March 1, the Medina County commissioners proclaimed March as Developmental Disabilities Consciousness Month in Medina County and inspired residents to acknowledge the abilities and worth every particular person in the neighborhood has to supply.

Developmental Incapacity Consciousness Month is a nationally acknowledged annual occasion that empowers individuals with developmental disabilities, their relations and different neighborhood allies to come back collectively to advocate and educate the general public about essential incapacity matters, equivalent to transportation, high quality of service suppliers and well being and issues of safety.

Individuals who have developmental disabilities use March as a possibility to teach native resolution makers on how authorities providers and insurance policies might be improved, expanded or strengthened on behalf of individuals with disabilities.

Throughout March, the Medina County Board of Developmental Disabilities encourages individuals to take time to get to know somebody with a incapacity. Reaching out to individuals with disabilities helps create a greater understanding that our neighborhood is related in some ways. It permits individuals to work collectively to encourage inclusion and make the neighborhood one that’s constructed on the talents of ALL residents.

One other significant service: The story of the extraordinary self-sacrifice of “The 4 Chaplains” from the Coastal Steamer USAT Dorchester, which was torpedoed and sunk in World Warfare II, was commemorated on the Medina Presbyterian Church final Tuesday night.

These 4 males of religion — Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, Father John P. Washington, the Rev. George L. Fox and the Rev. Clark V. Poling introduced consolation, solace, encouragement and the everlasting love of God to the hapless crew of the sinking ship in bitter chilly and gale pressure winds.

Giving up their very own life jackets — and finally, their very own lives — the chaplains linked arms collectively and, with heads bowed in prayer, sank beneath the darkish, turbulent waves.

Those that took half on this yr’s service included Phill Grassa, Legion Put up 202 commander; Ken Rambo, Legion Put up 202 assistant chaplain, Coloration Guard, Legion Put up 202; Medina Mayor Dennis Hanwell; the Rev. Dr. C. Reid Miller, Lt. Col. (Ret.) USAF army chaplain; the Rev. Arthur Ruffin, Medina Second Baptist Church senior pastor; Cathy Fafrak, Medina United Church of Christ pianist; and Marian Vogel, St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church lyric soprano.

Medina Dawn Rotary helped sponsor the occasion. They invite you to hitch them for an thrilling annual fundraiser — The Wine & Roses Charity Dinner Dance with Silent/Dwell Public sale on Saturday, March 26, at Weymouth Nation Membership. Study extra at https://www.medinasunriserotary.com/

Crimson Cross: To assist COVID-19 sufferers who’ve weakened immune methods, the American Crimson Cross has resumed testing all donations for COVID-19 antibodies for a restricted time. Plasma from donations with excessive ranges of COVID-19 antibodies could also be used as convalescent plasma.

Whereas they work to make sure that medical doctors have entry to this therapy choice for probably the most critically sick sufferers going through COVID-19, blood donations are nonetheless wanted each day to assist most cancers sufferers, trauma victims and people with blood problems.

The Crimson Cross blood provide stays susceptible. These excited about giving are urged to make a blood or platelet donation appointment within the days and weeks forward.

In thanks, all who come to donate in March will obtain a $10 e-gift card from Fanatics. They’ll even be entered to win a visit for 2 to the 2022 MLB All-Star Recreation in Los Angeles.

Particulars can be found at https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/occasions/fanatics.html.

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