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By Jewell Cardwell
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 09:04 p.m. EDT, Oct 20, 2009
JoAnn's Professional Touch is celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month by providing a year of free cleaning to a recently diagnosed breast cancer patient who is still receiving treatment.
This is how it works. Please submit a short paragraph with your reasons to Joannsprotouch@gmail.com or fax 330-245-1472 no later than Monday.
''Winners will be chosen randomly on Oct. 29 and will be notified prior to our making the official presentation on Nov. 2 at the JoAnn's Professional Touch Akron location,'' a company spokeswoman said.
''Please do not nominate anyone unless she is willing to appear by name or likeness in our newsletter, or public media, and can provide proof of medical condition in the form of a letter from his or her doctor. Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters and include nominee's name, address, e-mail and phone numbers.''
Seminar on abuse
Cornerstone Church at 578 Killian Road, Coventry Township, is marking National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a Pain into Power Inc. seminar from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the church's Heritage Hall.
Speaker will be Pain into Power founder Sharon Goodrich.
The workshop is for anyone interested in helping victims of domestic violence by learning how to empower them and understand the daily roller coaster they live on.
Bring a brown bag lunch; hot and cold drinks provided. Child care is available. RSVP to sharon@paintopower.com or call 330-258-8111.
Benefit dinner, auction
Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC), a nonprofit that helps those in need, is holding a benefit dinner/auction at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Annunciation Greek Community Center, 129 S. Union St., Akron.
The event features dinner, entertainment and silent and live auction items. Rob Sims, offensive line guard for the Seattle Seahawks, has donated an autographed jersey and an Ohio State Buckeyes photo, local Honda dealership owner and former Cleveland Browns running back Mike Pruitt donated two autographed footballs, and LeBron James is donating autographed items.
Love INC — a partnership with local churches, businesses and agencies — serves the community in the following ways: clothing/food pantry; rent assistance; annual coat giveaway; diaper ministry; back-to-school giveaway; furniture ministry; minor home, plumbing and carpentry repairs; services for the elderly and disabled; mentoring; budgeting classes; transportation and more.
Cost (tax deductible) for this fun evening is $40. For more information, please call 330-762-7401 or e-mail frhall@annunciationakron.org.
Bake sale for a mom
A huge round of applause for the students at North Akron Catholic School who are falling in line in a mighty way to support someone in the community who has always been front and center in helping others in need.
Christy Bell is a two-time breast cancer survivor who has championed several Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraisers over the years, even putting together her own Step Into the Ring walk team.
''This year one of the students [where her daughter Gia Ingarra attends school] suggested that they raise money to give directly to Christy to help with the cost of chemotherapy,'' said Mary Ann Traina of Tallmadge. ''Christy had done so much with volunteer projects at the school when she was able.''
The students are sponsoring a bake sale Friday and a walk Saturday.
Infant CPR kits
The American Heart Association, Great Rivers affiliate, is Wednesday presenting 100 infant CPR kits to Dr. John Clark, pediatric cardiologist and Arrhythmia Center director at Akron Children's Hospital.
''The idea is to teach families and give these kits to the families who have infants who are high risk,'' said an AHA spokeswoman. ''There are some families who are required to learn CPR before the hospital will release the infant to them.''
Students' good deed
Akron's Forest Hill Community Learning Center is doing its part in growing good citizens for the future.
To prove it, students did something good for the community.
That good deed involved raising $710.54 to donate to Making Strides for Cancer Research.
To celebrate, teachers Marianne Pramuka and Carol Friedman volunteered to let the top fundraisers throw pink whipped-cream pies at them. All in the name of fun, of course.
Self-help for kids
The Akron chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc. is partnering with the Saturday Club of the Boys and Girls Club to present an important three-day self-help series for children and teens called Soul Searching.
These specially funded sessions will be from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday mornings at the Boys and Girls Club, 889 Jonathan Ave., Akron, with a free breakfast and lunch served to participants. This week, What's Your Image? Having a Vision; Oct. 31, Making It to the Goal Line: Goal Setting; and Nov. 7, Discipline Equals Rewards.
One of the featured speakers, Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author and a member of Jack and Jill.
Seating is limited. For more information, please contact Audrey Jones at ams7712@yahoo.com.
Saddle up
The Falls Cancer Club is sponsoring a BYOB benefit Nite at the Races from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Quirk Cultural Center, 1201 Grant Ave., Cuyahoga Falls. Your $20 ticket includes one horse; deli items and sides.
For more information, please call 330-945-9839 or 330-929-2796. All proceeds go to assist the club in its effort to provide for residents of that city who are battling cancer.
Friends of daffodils
Major thanks to the second-graders from Cub Scout Pack 3170 from Richardson Elementary School in Cuyahoga Falls who went full speed ahead on a conservation project for Metro Parks, Serving Summit County.
''The project involved spreading over 400 pounds of bone meal over the 30,000 daffodil bulbs along the .6 mile trail at Furnace Run Metro Park on Brush Road in Richfield,'' writes pack leader Matthew Day.
''Park manager Craig Lane worked with the Cub Scout group to arrange the project. The boys who participated were Mickey Selinsky, Evan Mazalic, Tyler Johnson, Zachary Day and Brett Erhard.''
Help in hard times
Akron's Second Baptist Church, 690 S. Main St., is hoping for a large crowd of folks who have fallen on hard times for its second annual Second Closet Charity event, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
New and nearly new items — clothing for men, women and children; household goods, toys and more — will be given away.
The event is sponsored by the church's Women of Purpose Ministry.
A team effort
A tip of the hat to Our Lady of the Elms and Garfield High schools' volleyball players who recently teamed up to raise $425 for the Making Strides (Against Breast Cancer) Foundation.
Both teams walked together at the downtown Akron walk before the big game.
Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.
JoAnn's Professional Touch is celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month by providing a year of free cleaning to a recently diagnosed breast cancer patient who is still receiving treatment.
This is how it works. Please submit a short paragraph with your reasons to Joannsprotouch@gmail.com or fax 330-245-1472 no later than Monday.
''Winners will be chosen randomly on Oct. 29 and will be notified prior to our making the official presentation on Nov. 2 at the JoAnn's Professional Touch Akron location,'' a company spokeswoman said.
''Please do not nominate anyone unless she is willing to appear by name or likeness in our newsletter, or public media, and can provide proof of medical condition in the form of a letter from his or her doctor. Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters and include nominee's name, address, e-mail and phone numbers.''
Seminar on abuse
Cornerstone Church at 578 Killian Road, Coventry Township, is marking National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a Pain into Power Inc. seminar from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the church's Heritage Hall.
Speaker will be Pain into Power founder Sharon Goodrich.
The workshop is for anyone interested in helping victims of domestic violence by learning how to empower them and understand the daily roller coaster they live on.
Bring a brown bag lunch; hot and cold drinks provided. Child care is available. RSVP to sharon@paintopower.com or call 330-258-8111.
Benefit dinner, auction
Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC), a nonprofit that helps those in need, is holding a benefit dinner/auction at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Annunciation Greek Community Center, 129 S. Union St., Akron.
The event features dinner, entertainment and silent and live auction items. Rob Sims, offensive line guard for the Seattle Seahawks, has donated an autographed jersey and an Ohio State Buckeyes photo, local Honda dealership owner and former Cleveland Browns running back Mike Pruitt donated two autographed footballs, and LeBron James is donating autographed items.
Love INC — a partnership with local churches, businesses and agencies — serves the community in the following ways: clothing/food pantry; rent assistance; annual coat giveaway; diaper ministry; back-to-school giveaway; furniture ministry; minor home, plumbing and carpentry repairs; services for the elderly and disabled; mentoring; budgeting classes; transportation and more.
Cost (tax deductible) for this fun evening is $40. For more information, please call 330-762-7401 or e-mail frhall@annunciationakron.org.
Bake sale for a mom
A huge round of applause for the students at North Akron Catholic School who are falling in line in a mighty way to support someone in the community who has always been front and center in helping others in need.
Christy Bell is a two-time breast cancer survivor who has championed several Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraisers over the years, even putting together her own Step Into the Ring walk team.
''This year one of the students [where her daughter Gia Ingarra attends school] suggested that they raise money to give directly to Christy to help with the cost of chemotherapy,'' said Mary Ann Traina of Tallmadge. ''Christy had done so much with volunteer projects at the school when she was able.''
The students are sponsoring a bake sale Friday and a walk Saturday.
Infant CPR kits
The American Heart Association, Great Rivers affiliate, is Wednesday presenting 100 infant CPR kits to Dr. John Clark, pediatric cardiologist and Arrhythmia Center director at Akron Children's Hospital.
''The idea is to teach families and give these kits to the families who have infants who are high risk,'' said an AHA spokeswoman. ''There are some families who are required to learn CPR before the hospital will release the infant to them.''
Students' good deed
Akron's Forest Hill Community Learning Center is doing its part in growing good citizens for the future.
To prove it, students did something good for the community.
That good deed involved raising $710.54 to donate to Making Strides for Cancer Research.
To celebrate, teachers Marianne Pramuka and Carol Friedman volunteered to let the top fundraisers throw pink whipped-cream pies at them. All in the name of fun, of course.
Self-help for kids
The Akron chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc. is partnering with the Saturday Club of the Boys and Girls Club to present an important three-day self-help series for children and teens called Soul Searching.
These specially funded sessions will be from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday mornings at the Boys and Girls Club, 889 Jonathan Ave., Akron, with a free breakfast and lunch served to participants. This week, What's Your Image? Having a Vision; Oct. 31, Making It to the Goal Line: Goal Setting; and Nov. 7, Discipline Equals Rewards.
One of the featured speakers, Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, author and a member of Jack and Jill.
Seating is limited. For more information, please contact Audrey Jones at ams7712@yahoo.com.
Saddle up
The Falls Cancer Club is sponsoring a BYOB benefit Nite at the Races from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Quirk Cultural Center, 1201 Grant Ave., Cuyahoga Falls. Your $20 ticket includes one horse; deli items and sides.
For more information, please call 330-945-9839 or 330-929-2796. All proceeds go to assist the club in its effort to provide for residents of that city who are battling cancer.
Friends of daffodils
Major thanks to the second-graders from Cub Scout Pack 3170 from Richardson Elementary School in Cuyahoga Falls who went full speed ahead on a conservation project for Metro Parks, Serving Summit County.
''The project involved spreading over 400 pounds of bone meal over the 30,000 daffodil bulbs along the .6 mile trail at Furnace Run Metro Park on Brush Road in Richfield,'' writes pack leader Matthew Day.
''Park manager Craig Lane worked with the Cub Scout group to arrange the project. The boys who participated were Mickey Selinsky, Evan Mazalic, Tyler Johnson, Zachary Day and Brett Erhard.''
Help in hard times
Akron's Second Baptist Church, 690 S. Main St., is hoping for a large crowd of folks who have fallen on hard times for its second annual Second Closet Charity event, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
New and nearly new items — clothing for men, women and children; household goods, toys and more — will be given away.
The event is sponsored by the church's Women of Purpose Ministry.
A team effort
A tip of the hat to Our Lady of the Elms and Garfield High schools' volleyball players who recently teamed up to raise $425 for the Making Strides (Against Breast Cancer) Foundation.
Both teams walked together at the downtown Akron walk before the big game.
Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.
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