untitledYou bet we care! That was the message as more than 500
people enjoyed the
games, food, fun and prizes at Crocker Cooks Casino Night Saturday
March 12 at Crocker Park.
Sincere thanks went out to everyone involved as this event,
sponsored by University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, benefited
a wonderful organization - The Gathering Place, a caring community
for those touched by cancer. The night was a great success and
raised over $70,000!
The event saw Urban Active at Crocker Park transformed into a
one-night-only casino that featured gourmet food stations,
Vegas-style gaming tables and fabulous prize auctions.
The mission of The Gathering Place is to support, educate and
empower individuals and families touched by cancer through programs
and services provided free of charge. Its west side location is 800
Sharon Drive in Westlake.
The Gathering Place is the realization of a dream for Eileen
Saffron. In 23 years as a clinical social worker, she
envisioned
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A Lee Burneson Middle School team of eighth graders captured the
first place team award in the regional MATHCOUNTS com- petition at
Lorain County Community College.
The team of Kartik Dhinakaran, Aswin Bikkani, Cal Craven and Ameesh
Shah will move on to state competition on March 12. Calvin Pozderac
also was selected to advance to the state competition as an
individual.
Mathcounts Champions Additional individual awards went to the
following eighth graders: Kartik Dhinakaran, First Place; Aswin
Bikkani, Second Place; Calvin Pozderac, Third Place; Cal Craven,
Fourth Place; Peter Slater, Seventh Place; Vishal Shah, Eighth
Place.
MATHCOUNTS is a national enrichment, club and competition program
that promotes middle school mathematics achievement
through grassroots involvement. The MATHCOUNTS competition program
consists of creative problems that promote critical-thinking and
problem-solv- ing skills through written and oral rounds, as well
as individual and team com- ponents. The competition problems focus
on the sixth through eighth grade standards of the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics. Participants advance through school,
chapter and state competitions until the final 224 stu- dents are
selected from 56 states and territories to advance to the national
competition held in May.
Other team members included Taeho Kim, Jack Bogart and Alex
Lathem.
The LBMS MATHCOUNTS team (l to r) advisor Judy McMasters, Aswin
Bikkani, Ameesh Shah, Kartik Dhinakaran, Vishal Shah, Calvin
Pozderac, Peter Slater, Cal Craven
March, 2011 Page 3
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Take care friends.
After years of listening to a friend talk about her medical
humanitarian trips to the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Westlake
City School District school nurse Dorothy Beyer is giving up two
weeks of her time to join the aid effort.
Beyer will join a team of Lorain County Community College (LCCC)
nursing students, Vermilion dentist Dr. Ihor N. Suszko of the Cap
Haitien Den- tal Institute (learn more at http://
chdentalinstitute.org/) and other health professionals from across
the country in providing dental care to residents in the city of
Cap Haitien. The team will work in a local hospital, Hospital
Universitae Justinien, and two nursing schools, as well as poor
communities in the Haitian countryside, during their stay to treat
patients and discuss community health and nursing.
In Haiti, where poverty and hunger are rampant, parents quell their
children’s hunger by giving them sugar cane because it’s readily
available and satisfies. But it also leads to severe den- tal
problems.
Beyer is taking a sabbatical from her Westlake nursing duties to
help her
MEDICAL MISSION Westlake School Nurse Headed to Haiti
friend, Pat Sedlak, RN, an associate pro- fessor and director of
Surgical Technol- ogy at LCCC, set up a study abroad pro- gram for
the college. Sedlak has been making the trip to the area for about
12 years.
“I always wanted to go, but the times never lined up in the past,”
Beyer said. “My husband (Dan, director of Human Subjects Research
at the Cleveland Clinic) really wanted to be involved, so we made
it happen.”
The team will leave on March 13 and return March 27. Beyer’s son,
Joe, 24, accompanied Sedlak on a similar trip seven years ago as
part of a high school project.
Each team member will bring a large suitcase filled with supplies –
including cloth diapers, diaper pins, folders, pen- cils, markers,
calculators, surgical drapes and surgical scissors – to help the
local residents.
Along with attempting to pen a blog and potentially Skype with
Westlake High School classes from Haiti, Beyer said she hopes to
put together a program to present to Westlake High School stu-
dents during a diversity week.
Benjamin Sposet, a Parkside Intermedi- ate School sixth grader, has
qualified to rep- resent Westlake at the state-level National
Geographic Bee on April 1 at the Ohio State University Mansfield
campus.
Benjamin qualified as a state finalist by taking a 70-question test
and earning one of the top scores in the state. Benjamin will com-
pete against about 100 intermediate and middle school geography
students for the chance to go to Washington, D.C., to repre- sent
Ohio in the National Bee.
The National Geographic Society de- veloped the National Geographic
Bee in 1989 in response to concerns about the lack of geographic
knowledge among young people. Benjamin is the sixth state finalist
from Parkside Intermediate School. He is preceded by Ingold Huang
(2002), Ben Aghajanian (2003), Jason Linger (2004), Ryan Milowicki
(2006) and Vinay Manayathara (2007).
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a place for people touched by cancer to find the services and
resources, integrated with their medical care, focusing on
enhancing quality of life with dignity and hope. Through a
grassroots movement, The Gathering Place has become a community of
sharing and support that promotes healing and wellness. The
Gathering
Place recognizes that the cancer experience touches all and by
pulling together as a caring community and family, we enhance
learning, comfort, and healing.
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center was the High Roller
Sponsor of the event.
Do we care? You bet!
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New Balance is pleased to announce the opening of its retail store
in Westlake, OH this past September. The store will specialize
exclusively in athletic footwear, apparel and accessories.
The New Balance store is located at 30167 Detroit Rd in the
Promenade at Crocker Park in Westlake, Ohio. Owner, Tom Luck, owns
New Balance stores in eight other locations around Ohio.
“I am thrilled about the opening of the New Balance Promenade at
Crocker Park store,” says store owner Tom Luck, “Our new store
location offers easy
access to customers and expanded services to make buying high
performance athletic footwear and apparel easier than ever.”
New Balance Promenade at Crocker Park will continue New Balance’s
commitment to Komen for the Cure® with a 3-Day for the Cure® clinic
on April 30th and a Komen for the Cure® Gear up Gathering on May
10th.
The 2,350 square foot store will offer a complete line of New
Balance performance footwear specifically designed for athletic
activities such as running, walking, tennis, training and fitness.
Styles for men, women and children are available in widths ranging
from 2A to 6E. The New Balance store will also feature a full line
of New Balance high-performance apparel and
New Balance Retail Store Opens in Cleveland athletic accessories.
In addition, the New Balance store carries a full line of Dunham
rugged casual footwear and Aravon® comfort performance
footwear.
The New Balance store specializes in hard to fit feet, featuring
the area’s largest selection of sizes and widths. The Procare
Certified Staff measures and fits both length and width, and also
performs foot scans which identify arch height, pressure points and
gait pattern. Many medical professionals refer their patients to
the New Balance stores for
properly fitted footwear! The new store is
organized by athletic activity, allowing consumers to locate
specific products easily and also incorporates New Balance’s
commitment to being environmentally responsible by utilizing
materials and finishes with a lower environmental impact whenever
possible. This includes low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) paints,
which are less harmful to environmental health; slat wall
constructed from Dakota Burl, a composite material made out of
sunflower seed husks; Durat recycled plastic
cash wrap counters; and energy efficient lighting.
The store will showcase historical images, technology displays and
other New Balance graphics to portray the unique culture and
history of New Balance. In addition, the store will display product
testing journals created by New Balance’s wear test program that
contain real stories and insight about the development of New
Balance technology and footwear.
All New Balance retail stores are
independently-owned and operated. New Balance, headquartered
in
Boston, MA has the following mission: Demonstrating responsible
leadership, we build global brands that athletes are proud to wear,
associates are proud to create and communities are proud to host.
New Balance employs more than 3900 associates around the globe, and
in 2010 reported worldwide sales of $1.78 billion. For more
information, please visit www.newbalancecleveland.com.
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Lake Shore United Methodist Church presents The Wee Wardrobe, a
Kid’s Resale Event. Individuals will be selling like new Maternity,
Baby, and Children’s Clothes, Shoes, Accessories, Toys, and More!
The Wee Wardrobe is on March 26 from 8 a.m. – 12 Noon. Admission is
only $1 or a Non-Perishable Food Donation. Event donations support
the Christian Education Department at Lake Shore United Methodist
Church. Tables are still available for $20, if interested please
call as soon as possible.
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The 1st Annual Art Show will be dis- played on April 8 at the
Westlake Healthcare Center, 4000 Crocker Road from 2 to 4
p.m.
The featured art participant will be Carol Vollan who is a free
lance photog- rapher. She will be displaying her work along with
the many magazines she has sold her work to over the years. The
resident’s at Westlake Healthcare Center will be displaying Art
Work and Clay
1st Annual Art Show at Westlake Healthcare Center
Sculptures as well to share with the com- munity. They hope that
the community will come out and support this great event.
You can reach Jamie Selbe the Ac- tivity Director for this
wonderful tribute at 440-892-2100. General admission to the public
is $1. The proceeds will go to the Activity fund to keep the Art
Therapy program running here at the facility. Art work will also be
for sale by the owner for the public.
Mark your calendar to take part in Emily’s Rainbow Run and Pancake
Breakfast on Sunday, April 10 in Westlake.
The 4 mile USA Track & Field cer- tified race, 2 mile run/walk,
kids run and more will take place at the Westlake High School Track
with an 8 a. m. start.
Held in memory of 12 year old Westlake resident, Emily Lewis, who
passed away in 2009 after a courageous three year battle with
cancer, race pro- ceeds benefit pediatric cancer research
at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Westlake Kiwanis
Spring Pancake Break-
fast at WHS cafeteria takes place from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Emily’s Rainbow Fund is a member of the Rainbow Babies &
Children’s Hospital Circle of Friends program whose mission is to
donate proceeds raised through fundraising events to support
pediatric cancer research. The fund is named in memory of 12 year
old Westlake resi- dent, Emily Lewis, who on August 8, 2009 passed
away after a courageous three year battle with a type of pediatric
cancer.
Let’s welcome the spring running and walk- ing season and make a
difference for pediatric cancer patients by participating in
Emily’s Rain- bow Run & Family Walk! To register, volun- teer,
become a sponsor or learn more please visit
www.emilysrainbowfund.org or contact Debbie Lewis at
440-892-7855.
Emily’s Rainbow Run
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