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Patrick McManamon:
Browns vs. Lions live …
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Akron trounces Howard to reach .500
Tribe Matters:
Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
Cleveland Browns:
Robiskie, Harrison inactive
Kent State Sports:
Kent State blown out in second half, loses to Temple 47-13
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Buckeye Blogging:
OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
Varsity Letters:
Four area football teams play tonight
All Da King's Men:
The Sunday Sanity Challenge
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies
See Jane Style:
Vintage Chic
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
George is looking for a Thanksgiving buffet in Akron.
Sound Check:
Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
HRLite House:
A Random Rant on Testing
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Eastgate Pre-School sponsors fundraiser
By Jewell Cardwell
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
How's this for a real day-brightener?
''We just wanted to share the news with you that Marie received a liver transplant early morning Sept. 23,'' write Mark and Lisa Pasuit of Stow about their 21-year-old daughter.
''It was a long, difficult and complicated surgery due to Marie's poor health. Marie is now slowly recuperating at Cincinnati Children's [Hospital]. We wanted to thank everyone for their continued support through our ordeal. We are humbled by God's blessings through this gift of life and the tragedy that another family endured for this miracle to happen.''
Marie, who was a popular member of Stow-Munroe Falls High School's cross country and track teams, was diagnosed during her junior year with autoimmune hepatitis with macronodular cirrhosis and had been waiting for a liver transplant ever since.
On July 28, her 21st birthday, Marie was flown from Akron Children's Hospital to Cincinnati with a perforated bowel. Doctors removed a portion of her small intestine and performed a colostomy. There have been lots of emotional valleys for Marie and her family. Finally, the mountaintop is in view.
Cancer awareness
Akron's Lee and Kathy Giller deserve applause for all they're doing to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research, especially male breast cancer.
Lee Giller, a male breast cancer survivor, has been walking for the cause all over the country with his wife.
''We will be participating in [Washington] D.C. [Oct. 9-11] — our 10th walk — where both Lee and I, as well as our daughter Pamela, will be honored to be part of the opening and closing ceremonies,'' Kathy Giller writes.
''It should be an exceptionally emotional experience given that the closing is to be held on the mall at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial with literally tens of thousands of walkers and spectators. We are extremely grateful to Susan G. Komen for the Cure and to the Breast Cancer 3-Day for being so sensitive to our personal mission about male breast cancer, and for being so generous in providing us opportunities to educate others.''
Akron's Sandwich Board restaurant at 1947 W. Market St. has dressed a mannequin in pink, including her hair, and posted signs all around to help get the word out as well. Food for thought is the mantra there.
Kathy Giller was honored as the top fundraiser of the year at the Cleveland walk, having raised nearly $17,000. With contributions from Lee and the couple's daughter, the Giller family has raised almost $30,000 this year to help bring an end to breast cancer.
AARP gives back
Beautiful bouquets to the Hampton/Falls AARP 5038 for the busload of help it's providing through fundraisers
to Falls Cancer Club, Battered Women's Shelter, Alzheimer's research, Medical Missions, Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society and more.
''At the last board meeting, they decided to donate funds to Operation Gratitude to send 200 care packages to our troops overseas for the holidays,'' writes Dick Casto, president of the group.
Those wishing to submit a soldier's name or to donate, can send e-mail to Casto at cdickmarion@aol.com or write: Hampton/Falls AARP, 3455 Brook Point Lane, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223.
Class of '59 helps out
Kudos to Coventry High School's Class of 1959, which recently presented the Coventry Board of Education with $1,000 for the Mae Packan Scholarship Fund. The fund is more than 20 years old and was established by the Portage Lakes Kiwanis Club.
The money, raised at the 1959 graduates' 50th reunion, honors the memory of Packan, who taught at Coventry for 43 years before retiring in 1979.
Awards of $200 are made annually to graduating seniors planning to pursue degrees in social studies.
Health fair at church
Wesley Temple AME Zion Church, 104 N. Prospect St., Akron, is hosting a health fair from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. Saturday, with physicians and a dentist on hand to answer your questions. The event is geared to African-Americans and their health problems, but is open to all. For more information, please call 330-434-5800. Lunch is $10 and reservations are a must.
Hike raises $27,000
Beautiful bouquets to all those who helped raise $27,000 at the fifth annual Alyssa's Hike for the Hearts at the Goodyear Heights Metro Park in Akron. Since the event's inception, more than $125,000 has been raised for medical research into myocarditis and to send children to Camp Carl in Portage County.
The event was named for Alyssa Ann Calaway, who died of myocarditis, a heart muscle inflammation that is usually caused by a virus, a few months before her ninth birthday in 2002. Alyssa's family lives in Rootstown Township. For more information, go to http://www.alyssashike.org.
All aboard Smile Train
Bouquets to students at Eastgate Pre-School in Ellet who are learning a lesson in good citizenship that their parents and teachers hope will follow them the rest of their lives.
''During the month of October, the Smile Train organization has a triple challenge grant to raise money for cleft lip/palate repair,'' writes Dr. Cynthia J. Koelker, an Akron family practice physician. ''For only $250, a child can receive this life-changing surgery. Eastgate Pre-School is sponsoring a fundraiser — now through December — with a goal of raising $5,000 for this organization ($15,000 with the matching grant) to help 60 children.''
The school is selling Koelker's soon-to-be released book 101 Ways to Save Money on Healthcare for $20, $10 of which will go to the Smile Train. Call the school at 330-784-3181.
Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.
How's this for a real day-brightener?
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Posted 11:56 AM, 10/07/2009
god bless marie and thank god for miracles.
