'Senior Living'
What’s next after retirement?
Getting out with friends or former coworkers can help banish boredom associated with retirement.
Scores of people spend their working days dreaming of the moment they are eligible for retirement. They may have retirement counted down to the minutes and seconds, particularly if they’ve been in a job that hasn’t been the most enjoyable. But …Read More
Nationally, Locally, and Individually, Social Security makes a Difference
Robert Fenn
Social Security Public Affairs Specialist
Social Security reaches almost every family in the United States, and at some point touches the
lives of nearly all Americans. It not only helps older Americans, but also workers who become
disabled and families in which a spouse or parent dies. Today, about 159 million people work
and pay Social Security taxes. …Read More
Give the kids a happy holiday
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, …Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Wadsworth strike averted
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, …Read More
Goodbye analog TV, welcome to the digital world
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 …Read More
Local artists display winning ways in cover contest
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 …Read More
And the cover art contest winners are …
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 …Read More
A ‘Pearl’ of a director wins award
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 …Read More
Senior Living cover art contest
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 …Read More
Senior inductees shine at Advocate Hall of Fame gala
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. Â
The 2008 inductees will be honored at a special ceremony and gala reception Oct. 4 at …Read More