MEDINA —There’s a new holiday tradition kicking off in Medina.
This year, The Gazette will run a Not-Forgotten Box, a toy collection drive to benefit needy children in the area. Toys collected by The Gazette will be donated to Medina County residents served by the Salvation Army of Medina.
The Gazette’s sister paper, The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria, [...]

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WADSWORTH — The Wadsworth Education Association and the Board of Education have reached a tentative agreement, averting a strike.
Details will be forthcoming after the association holds its ratification meeting, Superintendent Dale Fortner said in an e-mail.
In the meantime, he said, the association will be dismissing its strike notice.
The Wadsworth Education Association, which represents 285 teachers, [...]

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By JOHN BENSON
Special to The Gazette
Goodbye analog, hello digital.
The time is almost here for the Congress-mandated full analog-to-digital conversion of our television sets. In a nutshell, that’s what those annoying and incessant news crawls running during your favorite television show over the last year have been promoting.

(Merrill Rainey illustration)

While this news [...]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Senior Living Editor
Every year The Gazette invites professional and amateur senior artists to enter the Senior Living cover art contest. Senior Living featured the winners in the professional division in December. This month’s issue honors the amateur artists.
First place: Hallie Hetrick
Hallie Hetrick’s room at The Inn at Medina is filled with her [...]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Senior Living Editor
First place, professional: Frank Geric, 75, of Westfield Center
When did you start to paint?
“I started to paint just before I retired, about 15 years ago. My wife, Elsie, told me she didn’t want me just sitting around. I was doing stained glass, and I got tired of cutting my fingers [...]

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By ANGELA HUSTON
Special to The Gazette
SEVILLE — Pearl Ferguson, the activities director at Meadowview Care Center, has spent the last 30 years helping people. This past October, her years of service and dedication were recognized at the Resident Activity Personnel of Ohio Conference in Columbus, where she received the Activities Director of the Year Award [...]

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Medina County artists 55 and older are eligible to enter the 2008 Senior Living cover art contest. Entrants may develop the winter theme through original nature, animal or holiday paintings or sketches in any medium. Paintings should measure no more than 11 by 14 inches, unframed.
There are two divisions, professional and amateur, with one winner’s [...]

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By NANCY LIKENS
Wadsworth Center for Older Adults
The Wadsworth Older Adult Foundation has announced the inductees of the 2008 Senior Advocate Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame awards celebrate the significant accomplishments made by older adults in our community.  
The 2008 inductees will be honored at a special ceremony and gala reception Oct. 4 at [...]

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By JUDY A. TOTTS
Editorial Staff
Right off the bat, I have to say that unless you want the grandkids to get an early education about the enhancement of certain personal body parts, The Baby Boomer Retirement Game isn’t for them. While not any more offensive than the commercials on prime time TV, there is material on [...]

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By ANGELA HUSTON
Special to The Gazette
In a recent column, John Gladden put his perfect spin on cell phones, about which I, too, have strong feelings: their indiscriminant use has invaded every aspect of our lives. Safety purposes aside, for me they mostly represent a perverse need to be in touch with somebody, anybody, all the [...]

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