WORTH NOTING
Farm-Market Fresh: Season’s Eatings
Lettuce, berries and other fresh produce comprise standard fare at local farmers markets, but don’t forget to look for other goodies like mushrooms, flower bouquets, piquant cheeses, meat, soaps and herbs.
It can be pricy to eat well, but not always.
If you get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) assistance, you can use your EBT card to buy most food items, even at a farmers market. Check at the information table for assistance. Find a list of local farmers markets at northeastohiothrive.com.
Meet Our (Not-So) Cranky Winner
Gerry Uffman isn’t cranky, he just looks like he is.
The friendly, self-described “people person” is the winner of our Crankshaft Lookalike Contest. The Parma Heights resident gets an autographed book, “Strike Four!” by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers. Batiuk, featured in our March/April issue, created the cranky and popular “Crankshaft” comic strip character.
Crankshaft, as fans know, drives a school bus. Uffman just so happens to be a retired school bus driver.
Over-50, Curvy Fashion Debuts in “Boomer”
We’re thrilled to welcome NEO fashion writer, blogger and influencer Linda Peavy to Northeast Ohio Boomer magazine, where she will promote her body positivity message and enthusiasm for curvy, over-50 fashion through her column “Style Stop,” starting in our July/August issue. You can get a jumpstart online with her blog at northeastohiothrive.com.
A native of Cleveland, Peavy created “Cultured Curves: Sophisticated Style, Fashion, and Beauty for Curvy Women over 50,” a blog encouraging women to celebrate their vibrant, intelligent and sexy selves. Peavy is a 2023 Outstanding Blogger of the Year nominee for the Full Figured Industry Awards. Her website is culturedcurves.com.
Later this year, Peavy will publish “The Cultured Curves Guide to Style for Mature Curvy Women, Volume 1,” a roadmap to developing an effortless style for mature women, including tips and suggestions on fashion, make-up and skincare.
In addition to her work in fashion and beauty, Peavy owns LiPav Consulting, a marketing and grant-writing firm.
We’re already feeling more confident and fashionable with Peavy aboard.
Read This! Help Others to Read it, too
Remember when you learned to read, the letters magically coming together to form words and paragraphs, opening a wide, wonderful world?
Sixty-six percent of Cleveland adults are functionally illiterate, living in a far smaller world than necessary. You can do something to help. Seeds of Literacy, an adult education program, needs volunteers for their GED prep and Adult Basic Education in-person and virtual programs.
While the impact can be huge, the time commitment to volunteer is minimal. Tutoring sessions are two hours long and are offered three times a day, four days a week, with flexibility for students as well as tutors, says Seeds of Literacy president and CEO Bonnie Entler.
“You can tutor as often as you like, whatever days fit your schedule, even if it’s different each week. If you have a high school diploma, patience, and a desire to make a very real difference, you can be a tutor,” she says.
Learn more at seedsofliteracy.org.
