It is important to try your best to keep to the children’s regular schedules. If they are used to having a bottle or snack at 10, stop play for a little rest and rejuvenate. Lunchtime at noon? Stop and have your picnic at that time. Always leave the park before the children become exhausted-meltdowns are not pretty and especially difficult for grandparents to handle. ...

Moving Day events include a movement tent with demonstrations on physical therapy techniques, rock steady boxing and Reiki. The mission tent offers information and handouts about Parkinson’s. Children can enjoy the Kid Zone and walk around the Oval with friends and family. ...

Lake Metroparks staff have documented 225 species of birds at Lake Erie Bluffs. We offer bird walks regularly, year round. During the past two years, we have enjoyed a flight of more than 100 turkey vultures, hundreds of gulls, a morning of nearly 100 flickers and mixed blackbird flocks of nearly 1,000 birds. In May, we have watched the arrival of more than 300 blue jays, up to 50 American crows and the return of hundreds of bank swallows to their colony. ...

Euclid Beach Park Grand Carousel Birthday Bash

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Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond magazine is thrilled to have several local authors join us at Boomer Bash West May 1 at LaCentre in Westlake.

 

They include:

 

•  Boomer’s pop culture columnist Mike Olszewski and his wife Janet Olszewski, the authors of the new book “Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, and Loud: Tales of Cleveland’s Legendary Rock & Roll Landmarks.” They will also have copies of their other books for sale, including “Cleveland Radio Tales: Stories from the Local Radio Scene of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.” Mike is a veteran of Cleveland radio and teaches pop culture at local universities.

 

•  Long-time sports reporter-turned-author Dan Coughlin with his latest book, “Just One More Story…A Last Batch of Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric and Outlandish People I’ve Known in Five Decades as a Sports Journalist.”

 

• Retired WJW reporter Neil Zurcher, author of “Tales from the Road,” “Ohio Road Trips,” “Ohio Oddities,” and “Strange Tales from Ohio.” Zurcher created the popular TV segment “One Tank Trips” during his on-air tenure at Channel 8.

 

• Fiction writer Bob Adamov, author of 12 mystery adventure novels. His latest is “Flight. Put-in-Bay to Key West to Cuba.” Two of his books are in discussions for screenplays, “Tan Lines” and “The Other Side of Hell.”

 

 

• Tak Sato, founder of the Cleveland-area nonprofit Center for Aging in the World. He and his wife Mely run workshops that help people 55+ develop computer skills. He’s also Boomer’s tech talk columnist and will be available to answer tech questions.
  Tickets are still available and are only $10. Call 440-971-0595, go online at
  boomerbashwest2019.eventbrite.com or show up and pay $10 at the door. We’ll see you at the Bash.

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Akron's showcase estate, Stan Hywet, is open for the season and art is the focus both inside and outside the manor house and throughout the gardens. Catch a glimpse of the expansive gardens as they come to life throughout the early spring, and mark your calendars for special events throughout the rest of the year. ...

 

Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond is in the movie business.
Full disclosure: we don’t know any movie stars and we’ve not actually made any movies. But we like movies and to prove it, we’re media partners for the 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs March 27-April 7.
Our film is “Very Senior – Attitude is Everything.” Showtimes are Thursday, April 4 at 4:25 p.m., (Tower City), Friday, April 5 at 11:40 a.m. (Tower City) and Saturday, April 6 at 12:40 p.m. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
The film is one of 212 feature films and 237 shorts that will be screened throughout the festival at Tower City Cinemas downtown and at satellite locations.
“Very Senior – Attitude is Everything” is a documentary film about Sun City, Ariz., a 55+ community and the residents who live there. Directed by Susan Gluth, the film is described as “a bright look at the process of aging gracefully and honestly while making one’s own choices.”
See you at the movies – see you at our movie.

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Adult squirrels are the worst.

They tend to get a bit nutty in close quarters, says Colleen Bumba, a volunteer at Lake Erie Nature &  Science Center, the home of Cuyahoga County’s only wildlife rehabilitation facility.

“They’re aggressive adult squirrels, they’re fast and they bite a lot,” Bumba says. She should know. The retired veterinarian has been a volunteer at the center since 2015, treating songbirds, turtles, rabbits and other creatures brought in by tender-hearted animal lovers.

The Bay Village center offers wildlife education and programs year ’round, but it’s probably best known for its assortment of birds and other mammals on display behind the sprawling facility. The animals have recovered from their injuries but are unable to survive in the wild. Instead, they help educate the public and give visitors an up-close look at creatures usually only seen in quick glimpses.

The center handles many hundreds of animals annually, ranging from stressed-out rescued baby bunnies to turtles with cracked carapaces.

Spring is prime season for the center. Pets uncover rabbit nests, baby birds and squirrels tumble out of nests, birds run into windows, amphibians encounter cars. The intersection of wildlife and humans often ends disastrously, with the animals coming up on the short end.

The staff has swim tanks for waterfowl rehab and covered cages for flying squirrels and birds that need a quiet place to recuperate.

Bumba enjoys the work and says her experience as a veterinarian gives her a chance to serve her community and the animals that live there. Every wildlife encounter is different.

When people find baby animals they assume they’re abandoned, but that’s rarely true, Bumba says. “Mom may have been scared away. Deer and rabbits only come back periodically (to their babies) so they don’t attract predators. A lot of times, the best, the highest survival rate is to be with their mother.

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