Willoughby Western Lake County 2024

WESTERN LAKE COUNTY MAGAZINE 2024-25

WWLCC Member Directory • Local Businesses Making a Difference

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THE WILLOUGHBY WESTERN LAKE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SERVING: Eastlake • Kirtland • Lakeline • Timberlake • Wickliffe • Willoughby • Willoughby Hills • Willowick SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL SECTION

Rooted in Success Find out how six family-owned businesses are helping to drive the local economy.

OPENING THEIR HEARTS COVER: BRYCE LAUGHLIN / COURTESY CENTRY FINANCIAL ADVISORS

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he Willoughby Western Lake County Chamber of Commerce (WWLCC) is known for its participation in community events, but now it has a formal committee dedicated to giving back. Chamber Cares began in 2023 and picked up steam when Custom Cleaning and Maintenance of Willoughby came on board to serve as a financial sponsor for the five-person committee, which is made up of the Board of Directors, says Janice Cackowski co-founder of Centry Financial Advisors Inc., and chair of the committee.

From donating resources to volunteering time, chamber members contributed to some of the area’s biggest philanthropic events in 2024.

Here are some of the highlights: • Donations benefiting the St. Noel Church Food Pantry in Willoughby Hills and the Wickliffe Family Resource Center were among the biggest collections drives in early 2024. The food pantry gained 153 pounds of canned goods from the February collection effort, while the resource center, which is known to help anyone in need, stocked up on food and personal items.

• Area residents broke bread with chamber members who volunteered at the Agape Feast at the First Presbyterian Church of Willoughby in July. Volunteers gathered to set up and serve the community meal, which is provided the last Thursday of every month.

• In August, more than 20 volunteers from the chamber and Custom Cleaning participated as “guest” field buddies and worked the concession stand while nearly 300 athletes rounded the bases at the Miracle League field in Eastlake. The baseball diamond is designed for individuals with physical and mental disabilities.

If you are interested in learning more about Chamber Cares, please reach out to info@wwlcchamber.com.

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OCCUPATIONS FOR GENERATIONS family-owned, chamber member businesses dig deep to deliver value and virtues to the community. / by christine schaffran WICKLIFFE LANES

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hen Janaya Burke realized she could bring weight loss to the masses, she first wanted to make sure the products were legitimate in helping clients achieve a healthy lifestyle. So, she tried them herself.

The nurse practitioner lost 15 pounds, but she also began working out and paying more attention to her diet. After starting out with virtual visits, she soon realized most clients couldn’t afford the entire amount for the medication at once.

In May, Janaya and her husband, Corey, opened Care 2 U Weight Loss, Wellness and Med Spa on Euclid Avenue in Wickliffe.

Janaya points to the benefits of weight-loss drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide (better known as Ozempic and Zepbound, respectively) as her driving force for wanting to help make the medications more accessible. Those benefits include lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, as well as weight loss.

“We care about you, your whole person, and that’s your mental well-being and your physical well-being,” Corey he explains. “In a society where money drives a lot of people, our care and our love for human beings drives us a lot more.”

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here was no lightning rod that sparked the idea for Streb Electric in 1975. The concept for the full-service residential electric company ignited when cutbacks at Fisher-Fazio’s grocery chain forced Bill Streb Sr., the head meat buyer, to look elsewhere.

Streb relied on word of mouth in the early days to secure each customer at his business, Streb Electric. His son, Bill Streb Jr., occasionally served as clean-up man through high school and after college before becoming fulltime in 1989, when he realized he had fallen in love with the trade. He became owner in 2001.

Now with eight trucks and 17 employees, Streb Electric has stood the test of time.

The chamber member of 11 years says the company’s devotion to customer service makes it stand out in a trade where leaving a customer’s home cleaner than they found it matters.

Bill Jr. will soon hand the torch to his son, Ryan, to take over the company while Bill and his wife, Rolanda, fly south to Arizona for the winters. “He’s ready to take over as the third generation,” Bill Jr. says. “He’s already thinking about the future of the company and what he wants to do with it.”

ickliffe Lanes owner Jim Gierman had two bedrock principles for the bowling alley — keep it clean and maintain top-notch customer service. His sons, Randy and Jeff, who now manage the business, agree those principles are the secret sauce that keeps the magic alive at the establishment, which opened in 1975.

During its time, the 45,000-square-foot building has seen scores of bowlers pass through, mostly league players, who spend about 33 weeks a year honing their hobby sport. Jeff says his father’s knack for getting to know customers is what keeps the bowling alley thriving.

“My dad was a people person and he always got to know customers, so we kind of learned from that,” he says.

Although he retired in 2013, Jim still stops in once a week.

Meanwhile, the brothers carry on the legacy that their father began nearly 50 years ago with a catchphrase that encapsulates the spirit of their business and its ability to flourish after all these years: “We just keep setting them up and they keep knocking them down.”

IT’S GAME DAY! This year’s theme for the WWLCC Annual Awards Luncheon was Game Day. The event, held Feb. 9, 2024, was presented by Lake Erie Distillery and Ohio Living Breckenridge Village. The Annual Awards Luncheon gives the WWLCC the opportunity to provide a year in review and to highlight the local businesses and business owners that were nominated for the Chamber’s prestigious awards.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2024 BUSINESS WINNERS! THE 2024 ANNUAL AWARDS WINNERS:

✴ The Campus of Wickliffe — Showcase Award

✴ Ohio Living Breckenridge Village — Large Business of the Year

✴ Lann Insurance — Customer Service Award

✴ Fred Astaire Dance Studios — Small Business of the Year

✴ Lake Erie Distillery — WWLCC Chamber Service Award

OLYMPUS AEROSPACE

KLEMENC CONSTRUCTION CO. INC.

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lympus Aerospace began as Apollo Products in 1994 at the hands of Jesse Baden and Mike Scanlon, two men with a desire to control their own destiny.

The coworkers combined their engineering and sales backgrounds to run three separate businesses — all of which relate to the process of making parts for airplane engines.

In 2022, Katy Baden and Chris Scanlon purchased the empire from their retiring fathers. The partners waited a year before consolidating the three namesakes, Apollo Products, API Pattern Works and Trucast, under the Olympus Aerospace umbrella to create a more cohesive brand, Katy notes.

Now, with more than 180 employees, Katy and Chris pride themselves on being “working owners” who handle the day-to-day operations as CEO and COO, respectively.

Words like “trust,” “transparency” and “community” serve as the backbone of the operation that encourages workers to go to their child’s choir concert at lunch or to leave early to attend a parent’s doctor appointment.

“We want to continue to be a place that our employees and our staff want to work,” Katy says.

“Because without them, we wouldn’t be here.”

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ollision repair isn’t an industry where patrons look forward to making an appointment. So C.J. Paterniti finds other ways to make D&S Automotive’s Kirtland Collision Center stand out.

Paterniti’s father, Carmen, began building the brand in 1977. In 2023, C.J. bought his dad out after handling the day-to-day operations for more than 12 years. In that time, the business had grown to include five locations and a mobile glass repair outfit.

The Kirtland location was C.J.’s second acquisition while flying solo — although he admits his dad still comes around to lend a hand. The building on Euclid-Chardon Road formerly served as the home of Danny’s Custom Touch until the March 2024 purchase; it now specializes in collision repair and serves as the home base for 10 of the company’s more than 100 employees.

When he’s not working, C.J. never shies away from a sport or a cause that needs a sponsor or a financial hand.

“We’ve always been huge Chamber supporters,” he notes. “You always invest in the communities that support you, so that’s why we support them.”

lemenc Construction is small but mighty. The residential roofing company does a significant volume of work while utilizing eight to 10 employees year-round.

The business that began in 1994 was the brainchild of Michael and Susanne Klemenc, a husband-and-wife team who still oversee the day-to-day operations.

Beyond the charity work that the company is eternally committed to, Susanne says they are equally as committed to their dedicated workforce.

“It’s not so much that we’re a family-owned business, but all of our employees are our employees,” says the Chamber member of 10 years. “They’re not subcontractors.”

Susanne adds that her husband’s “likeability” and handling jobs efficiently makes for a winning combination. Klemenc Construction also prides itself on its high degree of customer satisfaction and enjoys an A+ rating with the BBB. “It’s a very big commitment now when it comes to roofing and any type of housing improvements,” she says. “It’s very expensive anymore, so we try as best as we can to make our customers happy.”

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Executive Board: Tim Deighan, Chair Terry Kilbourne, Vice-Chair Kristen Mignogna, Treasurer Liz Crosby, Secretary

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APARTMENT & HOME RENTALS K&D Management LLC Moskowitz & Company, DBA Western Reserve Property Management Oak Hill Village

ARCHITECTS Joseph L. Myers, Architect Inc. Michael H. Wildermuth, AIA, Architect NRC Inc. ThenDesign Architecture (TDA) +Detail ART GALLERIES/DEALERS Finestra Stella’s Art Gallery Zilla Glass ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Fine Arts Association

ASSISTED LIVING CENTERS Brookdale Wickliffe Mapleridge Senior Living Ohio Living Breckenridge Village Prosper at Wickliffe The Winfield at Richmond Heights

ATTORNEYS & LAW FIRMS Buckley King, LPA Colombo Law LLC DiCello Levitt Dworken & Bernstein Co., LPA Fortress Law Group Kurt Law Office Law Office of Terai Griffith-Spence LLC Schneider Smeltz Spieth Bell LLC The Law Firm of Patrick J. Ebner LLC Tibaldi Law Office AUCTIONEERS Dempsey Auctions

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Life Safety Enterprises Inc. Wick Willo Professional Building Willoughby Workspaces at The Charlton Abbott CATERERS/PARTY CENTER Dino’s Catering Kirtland Party Center LaVera Party Center Normandy Catering Regovich Catering The Banquet Center at St. Noel

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Northstar Tower Services LLC Powers Roofing and Exteriors PuroClean of Western Reserve Raw Roofing Solutions Reeves Plumbing and Heating Co. Rich and Sons Home Services LLC Richards Plumbing Royal Heating & Air Conditioning Service Shepp Electric Co. Inc. Streb Electric LLC Thermal Construction Inc. Toku America Inc. Trax Construction Co. Wiesler Painting & Decorating CREDIT UNIONS Cardinal Community Credit Union Eaton Family Credit Union DANCE STUDIO Fred Astaire Dance Studios

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DISTRIBUTORS American Specialty Metals Inc. Essentialware - Global Principals Holmbury Inc.

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EDUCATION/TRAINING Andrews Osborne Academy Auburn Career Center Best Version of You CEVEC Fate Into Destiny Wellness Center Kirtland Local Schools Lake Erie College Lakeland Community College Leadership Lake County Little Learners Too NK Consulting of Ohio LLC Precision Machining Institute Raphael’s School of Beauty Culture Inc. Wickliffe City School District Willoughby-Eastlake City Schools EDUCATION/TRAINING HEALTH CARE CuttingEdge Medical Solutions Val Woods CPR LLC ENGINEERS CT Consultants Inc. Digital Laboratories Inc. I-C Automation Polaris Engineering & Surveying Rockaway Civil LLC Tec Inc. Engineering & Design Technical Assurance Inc. FINANCIAL SERVICES ADP

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GOLF COURSES Manakiki Golf Course

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REAL ESTATE SERVICES Nick Slattery, Paramount Properties group with BHHS PRO REALTY 7851 Reynolds Rd LLC Century 21 Fine Homes & Estates-Lisa Blomgren Gatto Group Global Real Estate Advisors Inc. Great Lakes Realty Hallum Homes-eXp Realty LLC Hanna Commercial Hessler Holdings LLC Home Smart Real Estate Momentum Jason Horton Lake Metropolitan Housing Authority Lake Property Management Marketing Communication Resource Inc. MOTO Enterprises Natalie Antosh Realtor LLC-Keller Williams Greater Cleveland Northeast Paratto Ross Real Estate W/ Howard Hanna Quality Community Management Inc. RE/MAX RESULTS RE/MAX Results-Kristina Zeleznik Remax Results-Greg Gilson Susan Hodali, Realtor Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realty USA Management & Development Inc.

REAL ESTATE SERVICES/ BUILDER Marous Management Services

REAL ESTATE SERVICES/NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Lake & Geauga Area Association of REALTORS RECREATION/PARKS Holden Forests & Gardens Lake County Captains Lake County YMCA-C Lost Nation Sports Park Morgan Tennis The Jumpyard The National Basketball Academy Wickliffe Lanes Inc. RECREATION/PARKS/GOLF COURSES Lake Metroparks

RENTAL SUPPLIES & SERVICES Aladdin Rents RESTAURANTS/TAVERNS 1899 Pub Ballantine Restaurant Be Smoothie Biggby Coffee Wickliffe Buffalo Wild Wings Candy Cloud Co. Chagrin River Diner LLC Charleys Philly Steaks Chick-Fil-A Crowley’s

LAKE COUNTY LANDLORDS: WE NEED YOUR HELP! Lake MHA is currently seeking landlords to partner with to facilitate housing for eligible HCV (Section 8) applicants. Increasing our database of available properties will enable participants to more quickly move into a Lake County home of their choice!

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Please contact our office at 440-354-3347 for more information Currently accepting applications for multifamily only. The waiting list for Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) is currently closed.

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Research Databases Movie Nights Children’s Storytimes Passport Services Book Clubs Technology Classes Author Events Online Learning Eastlake Public Library 36706 Lakeshore Boulevard 440-942-7880 Willoughby Public Library 30 Public Square 440-942-3200 Willoughby Hills Public Library 35400 Chardon Road 440-942-3362 Willowick Public Library 263 E. 305 Street 440-943-4151

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