By JUDY A. TOTTS
Religion Editor
Visit a Catholic church on All Saints Day, and part of the observance will include a litany of saints. It’s a beautiful chant inviting the saints to pray with those asking for help.
The litany opens with a petition to Mary and Joseph to “pray for us” and ranges to Wenceslaus, [...]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Religion Editor
Throughout Medina County, many churches, both Catholic and Protestant, have taken a saint’s name. Each saint is associated with a certain area of blessing expertise. Here are a few you’ll probably recognize, with information provided by the Catholic Online Web site at www.catholic.org:
St. Colette — Born Jan. 13, 1381 in Picardy, [...]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Religion Editor
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” (Ephesians 6:18)
While most people associate Halloween as a day of kids decked out in costumes begging for candy, on the church calendar it is better known as All Hallows [...]

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“Collective Creativity: Medina County Art League,” featuring 57 works by 20 members of the art league, will open with an artists reception from 4 to 6 p.m. today at the Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster.
The exhibit is presented in the center’s Gault Gallery and runs through Dec. 12. Works in the exhibition include [...]

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By ANGELA HUSTON
Special to The Gazette
The Lions Club is an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 202 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world.
The organization originally was started by a group of businessmen in Chicago in 1917 and for many years [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
SHARON TWP. — Art mirroring reality.
That’s the idea behind the Medina County Park District’s seventh annual free Nature Art Fest taking place Nov. 8 and 9 at Wolf Creek Environmental Center in Sharon Township.
“It’s an art show, and we have art vendors who come in and sell different things over [...]

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Richard Ralph Heysek, 63, of Seville, departed this life on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2008, in an auto accident after braving a two-year battle with cancer.
He was born July 10, 1945, in Cleveland to Ralph N. and Mildred (nee Marik) Heysek. He was a graduate of Parma High School and a longtime resident of Medina [...]

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Ishmald F. McCourt, 77, of Medina, passed away Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008, in Medina.
He was born March 24, 1931, in Webster Springs, W.Va., to Oscar and Blanche McCourt. Pastor McCourt was a minister for 55 years. He was one of the founders of Medina Union Mission Church, where he served as pastor for 35 [...]

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Hazel Regina Scott, 91, formerly of Creston, passed away peacefully and in the presence of family on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008, at the Franciscan Care Center in Toledo.
Regina (she never liked Hazel) was born Oct. 7, 1917, in Ceredo, W.Va., to Henry F. and Roma (Paine) Pelfry. During her childhood, the family moved across the [...]

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By CASSANDRA SHOFAR
Staff Writer
MEDINA — An armed man walked into Check Into Cash Friday afternoon, tied up a clerk and robbed the store, police said.
The man — described as black, in his early to mid-30s, medium build, around 5-foot-7 or 5-foot-8, bald and wearing all black and a black lightweight jacket — entered the store [...]

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