WORTH NOTING
Unbe-leaf-ably Beautiful
Autumn in Ohio
If you need a break from pumpkin spice-everything season, then explore Northeast Ohio’s fall beauty with a brisk hike or a leisurely tour by car. From the under-the-radar Welton’s Gorge near Burton (Geauga Park District) to Lake County’s Chapin Forest Reservation (Lake Metroparks), we’ve got plenty of overlooks, trails and roads to explore.
Now in its 55th year, Medina’s Fall Foliage Tour is Oct. 14 and 15 from noon to 5 p.m. The self-guided driving tour highlights stops in Westfield Center, Lodi, Burbank, Homerville and Seville. You’ll find details and a handy map at MedinaCountyParks.com.
Our Favorite Team,
Our Favorite Team Name
Congratulations to the Boomers, a Northeast Ohio 70-and-over senior softball team that firmly believes in “Better Living After 50,” team manager Jim Bolino tells us.
Bolino let us know that the Boomers recently wrapped up a successful season, playing three tournaments in Columbus, Barberton and Sylvania.
“Though this was our first year as a 70 group, I thought we did fairly well in our division with a second-place finish in Columbus, and fifth in the recently completed Sylvania event,” Bolino says. “We’re already looking ahead with hopes of improvement in 2024 as we bring new members to the team who are finally old enough to play ‘with the big boys.’”
Go, team! Go, Boomers!
It Ain’t Heavy…
It’s a Piece of History
An old friend has found a special place in a reader’s Streetsboro garden.
Our pop culture columnist Mike Olszewski rescued the cornerstone from his former elementary school St. Mary of Czestochowa in Cleveland when it was demolished. Olszewski realized the 750-pound block needed a new home before he and his wife Janice moved South. He reached out to Boomer readers and the cornerstone ended up with Mary Malek, who won over Olszewski because of her connection to it.
Malek told Olszewski, “I felt my heart stir when I read that the stone was from a church that my mother had attended with her family in the late 1930s to early 1940s. I was grieving my mother’s absence after her death three years ago. My husband and I were in the process of revamping our flower beds and I knew exactly where I wanted the stone to rest. It sits in a place of honor and remembrance now.”
Welcome home.
Money Guy
Bill DeMarco
We all know a lot about our money and how to manage it, right? Wrong. That’s why we’ve invited financial advisor Bill DeMarco to join us as a money columnist, starting with our September/October issue.
DeMarco is a specialist in retirement planning, investments and tax management. He works for A & M Financial Group in Westlake. He says that, while saving money for retirement is important, the most challenging part comes when we draw on our retirement savings. He counsels clients, and now our readers, on how to make retirement savings last.
Let us know if there’s a topic you’d like DeMarco to tackle. Email [email protected] and put Money in the subject line.
Hope and Healing;
A Welcome Update
The daughter of Northeast Ohio Boomer magazine columnist Chef John Selick is making slow but steady progress in her recovery from a rare and sudden syndrome that attacked the 17-year-old’s nervous system. Recovering from quadriplegia, Hannah Doty is on a long road to recovery, reports her mother, Allysun Selick.
“On difficult days it can be easy to forget how far she’s come, but Hannah no longer requires speech or respiratory therapy and is committed to her continued physical and occupational therapy,” her mom tells us. “She is determined to graduate High School on time at the end of this school year and is attending school for a few hours each day to reach that goal.”
Chef Selick is the culinary director at Metz Culinary Management and a frequent volunteer for fundraisers throughout Greater Cleveland. So it’s no surprise that Northeast Ohio’s best chefs are coming together to leverage their collective culinary creativity toward supporting one of their own.
A special culinary event benefiting the Selick family featured more than 30 chef’s stations serving small bites on September 21 at Tri-C Hospitality Management Center on Public Square, organized by Tri-C’s Chef Ky-Wai Wong and Dinner in the Dark.
All proceeds from the event were donated to the Selick family. For more information, go to acfchefs.org.
