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I am currently working with a few people to develop a bicycle cooperative in Bay Village. Currently there are two bicycle cooperatives locally – one in Ohio City and another in Oberlin, both of which I have been working with this year to get a better understanding of how they function.

For those of you not familiar with bicycle cooperatives, they are non-profit organizations whose missions are guided by the unique needs of the communities of where they are located. As a result of this, I believe our cooperative would incorporate some of the other cooperatives' characteristics but would have a different focus based on the community it represents.

On Jan. 10, Westlake held its 11th annual Westlake Magazine reception at Westlake City Hall. The reception was the City’s opportunity to thank the magazine and the businesses that advertised in them. 

“Once a year, the city has the opportunity to showcase the community while at the same time, provide a valuable resource to residents and visitors,” said Mayor Dennis Clough. “The value of this publication is demonstrated by its publication for the past 11 years.” 

Westlake Magazine is mailed to all businesses and residents in Westlake at no charge to the residents or City by Great Lakes Publishing. The mailing is made possible by the advertisers who support the magazine, without them, the magazine wouldn’t be the resource that it is.

On a beautiful December afternoon, local Boy Scout Troop 77 from St. Ladislas Catholic Church honored the following young men as they earned the elite rank of Eagle: Brian Anstead, Chris Stone and James Wagner.   

The Boy Scout Court of Honor included recognition from local political leaders such as State Senator Tom Patton, State Representative Nan Baker and Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough. Communications from national leaders included Senator Sherrod Brown, Senator Rob Portman, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and a special letter from President Obama. 

There are over 50 farmers markets in Northeast Ohio. It’s been reported that by increasing the amount of food we eat locally from the current 2% to around 25%, we can create more than 27,000 jobs, add $4.2 billion to the economy, and contribute $125 million in taxes. Impressive, right? But how can these statistics ever translate into an even slightly meaningful reality?

You may have heard that we “vote with our wallets.” It is also true that like almost any other kind, wallet-voting is much more difficult with incomplete or misleading information. It seems the most unsettling part of the “election” comes when you commit to making an informed decision. Can you trust the picture on the front of the box? Can you identify any ingredients on the back of the box? How long has that been in a box?! It is now time to give up and risk feeling guilty later, or continue to face the consumer anxiety head-on. Unfortunately there are so many ways to vote “wisely” that trying to do them simultaneously and consistently eventually becomes unwise.

For the first time, Lake Erie Nature & Science Center has received a 2-year grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC), the community partnership and granting agency funded by revenues from a county-wide cigarette excise tax. Lake Erie Nature & Science Center is one of 67 organizations receiving a general operating grant in the 2011 funding cycle and one of only a handful of new recipients.  

“This is truly the result of a team effort involving many people on our staff and board,” said Lake Erie Nature & Science Center Executive Director Catherine Timko. “Most of all, this award is a reflection of the powerful impact of our mission on people across Northeast Ohio and beyond, and our staff members’ ability, skill and enthusiasm to educate and inspire.”

Sea Scout Ship 41's "Rolling Tide" received the Most Artistic Style (Creative) Award at the Great Lake Erie Boat Float on Sept. 11 at Edgewater Park Beach and drew many astonished stares from the spectators as it was rolled to the start line. Designed like a hamster wheel to skim over the surface of Lake Erie, the float was driven by a Sea Scout running inside "Rolling Tide."

The original goal of the scouts' design was to build the fastest boat to complete the 200-yard course out into Lake Erie. A breeze out of the southeast determined otherwise. Unfortunately "Rolling Tide," a float made from 600 recyclable Tide detergent bottles took a circuitous route out and back to the beach and crossed the finish line in the middle of the field of a dozen floats.

It's been years since Debbie Bock has served any time in jail but it looks like the authorities are closing in on her. Plans call for her to be arrested on Wednesday, April 28 at 1 p.m. The elusive Bock has managed to stay clear of the law while serving the senior citizens of Bay Village for many years.

Now she is going to be locked up, for good. While on the run, we were able to track her down at one of her hide-aways, the Dwyer Senior Center. As she darted out the door, she gave a brief statement about her future jailbird status. Said Bock, "They finally caught me! I’m going to jail…but it’s for a great cause…MDA!"

That's right, the reason for Bock's "arrest" will be a good one. She has been chosen to be locked up as a participant in the Muscular Dystrophy Association's (MDA) Lockup program. As part of the fun fundraising program community leaders are "charged" with being caring, good-natured and influential with friends and associates.

The Bay Skate & Bike Park Foundation continues to work with the city of Bay Village to make the dream of a public skate & bike park in Bay Village a reality.

After six years of patience and persistence, the foundation has acquired the official approval of the Bay Village City Council and Cahoon Will Trustees to utilize the location south of Rose Hill sledding area for the project.

The foundation now has to present to various boards within the city, starting with the Planning Commission on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, to receive approval of the design, landscaping, and overall construction details.

This is the fun part we’ve been waiting for! The kids involved in the project not only get to do fundraising, but finally get to make design recommendations that will positively affect future generations.

BSBP is making every effort to recommend a design that is sustainable, requires little maintenance, and serves the needs and desires of the local users.

When Ronald Berkman was installed as the new Cleveland State University president, he wore a presidential medallion over his ceremonial robe designed by Westlake jeweler Larry Schreibman of Lawrence Schreibman's Gems. The custom-designed piece, which was presented as a gift to Berkman during the October 16th ceremony, was the idea of CSU's marketing and public affairs departments. Made of sterling silver, the unique necklace took weeks to design and five weeks of meticulous crafting by Schreibman.

The Westlake Kiwanis installed their 2009-2010 officers on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, during their meeting at the Saucy Bistro Restaurant on Detroit Road in Westlake. Bob Clancy, a former Lt. Gov. of Kiwanis Division 14, congratulated outgoing President Bruce “Chip” Zyrkowski on his year as President. He also told him he would be a valuable asset as an advisor to the incoming President in his new role as Immediate Past President. 

Outgoing President Zrykowski spoke briefly about the accomplishments during his administrative year. He was particularly proud of the fact that the club added six new members during the year, to bring the club total to forty-one. He was also proud of the consistently good programs the club presented during their meetings. During the year, the Publisher of the Plain Dealer, the Director of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, and a Representative of the Holden Arboretum and Petitti’s Garden Center spoke to the club.

It’s been an up-and-down year for Bay Village. In the past 12 months, the city has garnered local and national accolades, faced budget challenges due to decreased revenues, completed a major infrastructure improvement and got slammed by one of the worst storms in decades to hit the region.

In her 13th annual State of the City presentation to the West Shore Chamber of Commerce on May 7, Mayor Debbie Sutherland’s focus remained on the positives – and the lessons to be learned from the negatives.

Since her last State of the City address in May 2012, Bay Village has been recognized as the No. 1 suburb in the region by Cleveland Magazine, was named to Family Circle magazine’s top ten best towns for families and received the state auditor’s award for “exemplary financial reporting” in last July’s audit for fiscal year 2011.

Katie Cirincione, a sixth-grader at Parkside Intermediate School in Westlake, just completed the Silver Award, which is the second-highest award in Girl Scouting.

Her project involved revamping three Junior Girl Scout "badge backpacks" at Lake Erie Nature & Science Center. Over the past few years, Girl Scout badges and requirements have changed. Katie saw the need to update the backpacks to meet current requirements for the detective, gardener and animal habitats badges.

Our Bay Village PTAs – Early Childhood, Normandy, Westerly, middle school and high school – are committed to all that is best for our children, including encouragement of a healthy lifestyle. Yet when Bay High graduate Marissa Stein (’98), a producer on the NBC hit television show “The Biggest Loser,” called and asked to feature our members on her program, I had many questions about how we would be portrayed.

Marissa assured me that the cooking segment would focus on preparing healthy meals for our families, so after receiving a thumbs up from local and state PTA Council officers and our Bay school administrators, I agreed. (It is not easy to turn down a Bay High graduate!)

We gathered in Mrs. Anita Bauknecht’s Family & Consumer Sciences classroom at Bay High for what turned out to be a marathon cooking and taping event. However, hours of preparation paid off. Like PTA moms and dads everywhere, Bay Village was prepared with every last detail, including the provision of food processors, pots and pans, measuring cups and spoons, all kinds of utensils and more.

Oct. 21 was the 31st annual brunch at Wagner’s Country Inn for the benefit of Fontbonne Home, a group home in Bay Village for developmentally disabled adults. We saw a new generation of benefactors in the 155 guests who attended.

What was different this year? The menu changed, but so did the people. The Women’s Committee had organized the brunch for many years and are now retired. The task fell to board members, parents and volunteers. It was an awakening for sure, and the joy of a lifetime. 

We raised $10,000 to purchase a van to transport the residents to their jobs and activities. It was the first year we asked for individual and corporate sponsors. Their kindness helped in more ways than they know. The residents, known fondly as “the gang,” lived up to their reputation by talking about their daily lives. Everyone enjoyed hearing how they have improved over the years!

Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea has received approval from the Ohio Board of Regents to offer Northeast Ohio's only baccalaureate major in software engineering, a field that is projected to experience rapid job growth. The new B-W major will help close the gap between the high demand for these specially trained graduates and the relatively small number of bachelor’s degree programs available.

B-W's math and computer science faculty developed the new major in collaboration with an advisory board representing some of Northeast Ohio’s leading technology employers including Westlake-based Hyland Software. The Bureau for Labor Statistics expects employment of computer software engineers to increase by 32 percent from 2008-2018, “which is much faster than the average for all occupations." The lack of properly trained software engineers is often cited as a root cause of outsourcing of employment to countries such as India and China.

What changes in behavior should parents look for that may point to drug and alcohol abuse in teens? An informative session was held at Bay Middle School on Oct. 6 to educate parents about the signs and risk factors of adolescent drug use.
A panel of police, school administrators and Bay Family Services were on hand to answer questions and cite examples of solutions for parents if they suspect their teen is experimenting with drugs or alcohol. Those attending received a resource booklet to keep handy with checklists for risk factors, signs of behavior changes and local resources to help parents when faced with teen drug and alcohol abuse.

Gardeners from across Westlake gathered August 4 for the tenth annual Volunteers in Bloom Appreciation Reception and Awards Ceremony at LaCentre. The event recognizes residents and businesses that participate in Westlake in Bloom contest by adopting Hilliard Boulevard flower boxes and Evergreen Cemetery fence gardens, or beautifying their properties with flowers and plants.

The city also presented several awards of distinction.

Judges from the Master Gardeners of Cuyahoga County visited each garden entry in mid-July, grading on four criteria: overall effect of garden design, overall quality of plant materials, originality and maintenance. Ninety points out of a possible 100 were required for a first-place award.

St. John Medical Center held a groundbreaking ceremony June 26 to kick off their five-year revitalization project. The cost of the $100 million modernization and expansion will be shared between the Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals. As part of the project, SJMC will update several entrances, common areas, all patient rooms and surgery units. It will also expand the spaces for cardiovascular, endoscopy and breast health services.

The objective of the medical center's strategic growth plan is to deepen its commitment to the community and improve the range of services offered on its Westlake campus.

"We’re focused on the community in which we serve,” said Cliff Coker, SJMC president. “Our investments are directed toward what we believe the needs will be now and into the foreseeable future."

The timing of the revitalization coincides with St. John Medical Center's 30th anniversary this year.

The winter 2011 class of the Westshore Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)  completed their 20 hours of basic training with a final day of simulated real-world scenarios at the Westlake service garage on March 19. Thirty trainees were split into groups of 10 and rotated between three stations: fire suppression, light search and rescue, and disaster response and victim triage.

CERTs are teams of community volunteers trained to assist local safety forces and first responders during major emergencies and disasters, operating under the direction of local fire departments. The CERT program is part of FEMA’s national Citizen Corps, a grassroots strategy to actively involve local communities in emergency response. Westshore CERT is sponsored by the Westshore Council of Governments.

The final exercises on March 19 required trainees to rely skills they learned in the course when faced with real-world situations.

After receiving a record number of grant requests, the Bay Village Education Foundation (BVEF) announced the winners of over $13,000 in grant money. The winners represented educators from Glenview, Normandy, Westerly, Bay Middle School and Bay High School. The BVEF mission is to support, promote and fund programs created by students, faculty and staff in the Bay Village Public Schools.

The programs encompass all areas of the public school curriculum and provide an opportunity to enhance enthusiasm for learning. The Bay Village Education Foundation awarded ten grants as well as three grants that partnered with the Bay Kiwanis at the Nov. 15 Bay Village Board of Education meeting.  BVEF president, Scott Best, and trustee and Bay High science instructor, Ann Mowery, presented the following grants:

The Bay Village American Legion will conduct a Flag Retirement ceremony on Friday, Nov. 12, as part of their Flag Day observance. The event will take place at 6:00 p.m. at their Post home, 695 Cahoon Road, next to White Oaks Restaurant.

Please bring your old, faded and torn flags to the post home in a grocery bag and place it on the door knob prior to Nov. 12. The legion invites all members of the community to witness the proper disposal of the flags. Each year the Legion Post retires over 400 flags.

 

At the March 18 Westlake City Council meeting, mayor Dennis Clough recognized Elizabeth “Lila” Greco for receiving the prestigious Prudential Spirit of Community Award, and proclaimed March 19, 2010, as “Elizabeth Greco our Prudential Spirit of Community Award Honoree” Day in Westlake.

Of the more than 21,000 students nationwide who applied for the 2010 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, Lila was chosen by the state-level judges as “one of the top eight runners-up” for Ohio, earning her a bronze Distinguished Finalist medallion.

As a member of the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio in Macedonia, Lila worked with Building Hope in the City, an outreach ministry of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on Cleveland’s west side. She collected 700 gently used uniform items and started a “school uniform closet,” where disadvantaged Cleveland school children can obtain their required school uniforms free of charge.

The Bay Historical Society is offering two limited-edition ornaments for the holidays.

Bay Presbyterian Church Ornament
In 1912, twenty-five villagers gathered at the “Easterly,” the little brick school house on the corner of Lake and Columbia roads, to establish services in the eastern part of Bay Village. On this Sunday, they voted to establish a Sunday school, elected officers and took up a free-will offering. This began the inception and rigorous growth of the church we view today. The cost is $13 including tax.

2010 Bicentennial 
Ornament
This ornament features the official logo for the Bicentennial of Bay Village in 2010. The price is $18 including tax.

Both limited-edition ornaments are available for purchase at the Rose Hill Museum. Museum hours are 2:00-4:30 p.m. on Sundays or call Carole Roske at 440-871-4797.

On August 1, the Herb Guild held its 28th annual Scholarship Luncheon with a theme of: "A Single Rose Can Be My Garden; a Single Friend My World." Three hundred guests were in attendance as three deserving high school graduates each received a $1,400 scholarship award toward their further academic education.

To be eligible for the Herb Guild scholarship, students must be pursuing studies in horticulture, ecology, environmental sciences or a related field. Each one of these bright students will be majoring in environmental studies.

Michael Jindra is a recent graduate of Padua Franciscan High School. He will be attending Ohio State University this fall and will be majoring in environmental engineering and minoring in entrepreneurship. This summer, one of his objectives was to introduce fair trade into local high schools. Michael said his long term goal would be “to make sustainable choices accessible to a broader population.”

Neighbors on Salem Drive and Tanglewood Lane in Bay Village joined together Thursday, July 5, to honor in a unique way, the memory of their friend Jack Hunt, who passed away on May 10, 2012.

Jack graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1960 and was an avid sailor. Besides being a well-loved neighbor, Jack was also a good friend to Bay Village’s Sea Scout Ship.

After more than 10 years of service to the Westlake City School District, Andrea Rocco informed Superintendent Dr. Daniel J. Keenan Jr. that she will step down from her Board of Education seat.

Rocco has joined the Cuyahoga County administration as special counsel to County Executive Ed FitzGerald.

Rocco was appointed to the Board in 2001 to fill a vacant seat. She won election to a four-year term in November 2001 and was named VP of the Board in 2002 and 2005. She served as president in 2008 and 2009.

After notifying the district she intended to resign, Rocco was asked by superintendent, Dr. Daniel Keenan if there was any way she could extend her time on the Board.  Keenan asked she consider working through the current phase of construction to get the building pads completed and for budget planning for the 2012-13 school year, anticipating a mid-biennial budget proposal from the governor.

The Weslake Kiwanis Aktion Club planted their Hilliard flower box in red, white and blue in keeping with this year's Westlake Bicentennial theme for Westlake in Bloom. The club used a pattern created by member Jennifer Carlson while planting their flowers donated by Lowe's in Rocky River. The club hopes you stop by to see their display on Hilliard just off of Dover Center.

Aktion Club is a community-service group for adult citizens who live with a disability. The mission of Aktion Club is: To provide adults living with disabilities an opportunity to develop initiative and leadership skills; to serve their community; to be integrated into society; and to demonstrate the dignity and value of citizens living with disabilities. 

Aktion Club members strive to return to their communities the benefits, help and caring they have received, as well as develop important skills in the process.

Johnny Willi is a Westlake resident and sixth grader at Parkside Intermediate School. His invention, the "Downspout Generator," is an eco-friendly way to harness power from rainwater runoff. A turbine is installed in your downspout which is hooked to a generator which creates electricity.

Johnny was one of ten finalists selected from an Invention Convention event in May at the Great Lakes Science Center. The winning Northeast Ohio student in Time Warner Cable's "Coolest Creations" contest will receive a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond.

To vote for Johnny, tune to Time Warner Cable's Local On Demand channel 411 and select VOTE WITH REMOTE and then COOLEST CREATIONS. From there you’ll see a listing of the ten finalists in the contest. Each viewing of Johnny's video is counted as a vote.

There is no limit to the number of times you can vote, so tune in regularly. Voting runs June 7–August 31. Tell your friends to support our Westlake student! Go, Johnny, go!

St. Ladislas of Westlake announced that this year’s “Faith in Life Award” was presented posthumously to Emily Lewis in a special ceremony during the 11:00 Mass on November 8th. John and Debbie Lewis accepted the award for their special daughter who died August 8th at age 12.

This annual “Faith in Life Award” recognizes the parishioner(s) who, not only serve the parish family, but who also practice their faith in the greater community. We could have no better example of this than Emily who lived a life of faith - sharing it and her courage with so many others.

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Emily fought it with numerous surgeries, intensive chemotherapy and various clinical trials – retaining her love of life, her smile and warmth, inspiring and endearing her to thousands

The 1989 kidnapping and murder of 10-year-old Bay Village resident Amy Mihaljevic will be featured on the local crime-solving television program, "Crime Stoppers Case Files." The special Oct. 6 episode will be dedicated solely to Amy's case.

Viewers will hear from lead detective Lt. Mark Spaetzel, who will describe the crime as it's re-enacted. Amy's father, Mark Mihaljevic, will also be featured, giving what many consider his most comprehensive interview since Amy's body was discovered 23 years ago. Mark discusses the hours after the disappearance, learning of Amy's death and the devastating effects on his family, including his divorce from wife Margaret and her subsequent death after years of despair.

Community members are invited to “Super Tax Refund Saturday” at Cuyahoga Community College, a free personal income tax filing service for those who meet eligibility requirements (described below). The events, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, and on Saturday, April 14, are sponsored by the Cuyahoga Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Coalition, Tri-C, PNC Bank, the City of Cleveland and the Internal Revenue Service

Super Saturday Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (V.I.T.A.) will be hosted at the Metropolitan Campus, at 2900 Community College Ave. in rooms TLC 153 and 154 in the Health Careers & Sciences Building. Free parking is available in lot 2 on Community College Avenue. Appointments are suggested for these dates and can be made by calling 2-1-1 or 216-436-2000 and specifying the Metro campus.

Most gardeners have an ongoing list: weed, water and dead-head. Simple enough for one garden, but imagine checking off that list for 219 gardens which do not even belong to you.

Nancy Kunkle, Westlake city gardener extraordinaire, is tasked with that job from May to September. For sixteen years, she has tended the Hilliard Boulevard gardens with the care that only a true lover of flowers would take.

Back in 1994 when she was raising two children, working at one full-time and one part-time job, she noticed that rain alone was not enough to keep the flowers on the boulevard looking their best. "I would see these boxes, some of them were taken care of, but most of them weren't," Nancy recalled.

The Village Foundation held a raffle for guest passes to the "Jordin Sparks with Kate Voegele" concert at the House of Blues, Cleveland on June 17.  The winning tickets were pulled on June 8 and the winner were notified June 9.  The first place winner was Robert Brdar, Stephanie Jordan won second place, and third place went to Sarah Dockrill, all of Bay Village.

The Village Foundation thanks Kate Voegele and her family for the generous prizes. The first and second place winners received two tickets to the show and the pleasure of meeting with Kate Voegele after the performance; the third place prize was an assortment of Kate Voegele merchandise. All three winners were very excited.

Recent sightings of white deer around Westlake had people asking if a rare albino deer was living in the area. In spite of its appearance, the deer is a white-tailed deer and not an albino according to Amy LeMonds, Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist at Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village. “The term for the coloring is ‘piebald’ and they are actually more common than you might think," said LeMonds.

Piebald coloring is an inherited genetic trait and can range from very small patches of white hair to almost entirely white coats. Unlike true albinos, piebald deer have brown eyes and black hooves. Piebald deer are rare (around 1% of the population), but widely documented. “Albinos are much rarer, genetically speaking,” LeMonds said. “Our Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation Program receives reports on piebald deer every year, including a number of piebald sightings in the Rocky River Reservation.” 

At the end of 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, electric trains ran through the Westshore area serving the residents of Bay Village, Westlake and the surrounding communities. The Lake Shore Electric interurban railway provided innovative, high-speed transportation between Cleveland and Toledo, allowing families to visit popular lake shore resorts. Residents rode their wagons down the dirt roads to stations along the railway to buy a ticket and spend a day at Avon Beach Park in Avon Lake or on to Sandusky to catch a ferry to Cedar Point beach park and picnic grounds. As private automobiles and paved roads increased, the passenger business on the electric interurban waned and after 40 years the Lake Shore Electric Railway was no more.

Is regionalization a good thing or a bad thing? Those who have been following the League of Women Voters (LWV) forums on regionalization know that the answer is, "It depends." Regionalization itself means different things to different people, and the meaning can vary depending on the context. 

In the first forum, featuring Cuyahoga County's Director of Regional Collaboration Ed Jerse and Cuyahoga County District 2 Council member Dale Miller, we learned that collaboration between county and city governments can offer unique opportunities for efficiencies and can strengthen the entire region. Yet both speakers agreed that merging political entities is not a first choice: most local communities want to preserve their identities, and mergers are so time-consuming and expensive that the costs often outweigh the benefits.

The City of Bay Village will be changing its “Refuse Collection Day” from Fridays to Tuesdays beginning in December. Residents will still have their trash and recyclables picked up on Friday, Nov. 30, with weekly collections changing to Tuesdays beginning Dec. 4.

A change in the trash collection day is always a difficult transition to make since many residents fall into a routine. We feel the change from Friday to Tuesday will allow the city to provide a more efficient collection by eliminating Saturday collections on holiday weeks, and to provide our Service Department succeeding work days to coordinate with the contractor regarding missed collections, as well as notifying residents to remove any refuse not picked up due to improper placement. Tuesday collections should also eliminate any need for residents to have trash or recyclable containers on the tree lawn over the weekend.

Evan Thomas Chmielewski, Michael Gerber and Robert Austin Bonnett, all of Bay Village, recently earned their Eagle Scout rank, and their achievement was recognized by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, who sent an official letter of congratulations to the young men.

“Evan, Michael, Robert, and their teachers and families should be proud of this noteworthy accomplishment," Sen. Brown said. "Earning the rank of Eagle Scout means they have displayed the ambition and resolve needed to earn the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank. They exemplify the skills needed to lead in the 21st century. From one Scout to another, I am proud of their leadership, and I am confident that these young men will enjoy great success in achieving their future goals.”

Sea Scout Ship 41 of Bay Village has again taken up the Interlux Waterfront Challenge. Interlux is an international yacht paint company, a division of AkzoNobel Corporation with U.S. headquarters in Strongsville. Interlux is offering grants up to $20,000 for the best waterfront environmental improvement.

Prompted by the fact that one gallon of oil can pollute over one million gallons of drinking water, the Sea Scouts have focused their Interlux Waterfront Challenge project on marina oil recycling stations. Their research has found that most local marinas are exposing themselves to costly Ohio EPA fines.

 

Bay Village celebrated its Bicentennial year and this fall and the Bay High School hockey team decided to honor their home town, too. The Bay Rockets hockey team chose “Old-Time Hockey” as a fitting theme for their team poster.

The team effort here really captures that turn-of-the-century look and feel. The sepia tone finish makes the image appear authentic, as do the band of skaters with attitude, dapper coaches, and a rough little pooch mascot.

The Bay Village City Hall was the perfect location for this fun photo-shoot. Look for the team poster around town and support Rockets Hockey by coming to see them play – Old-Time!