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Friday, March 31, 2017
Home Improvement Program Available Through Treasurer’s Office
Offers discount for first 5 years of home improvement loans for qualified residents.
Hiram College Chamber Orchestra - Randall Fusco, piano, Meredith Fitschen-Brown, violin, Tim Staron, conductor
Hiram College Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert
Hiram - The Hiram College Chamber Orchestra will present a free concert, Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 3:00pm in Frohring Music Hall, 11746 Dean Street, on the campus of Hiram College. The “American Sampler” program will present an overview of American composers and styles. Hiram College graduating senior, Meredith FitschenBrown, violin, accompanied by Randall Fusco, piano, will perform a Jascha Heifetz transcription of “It Ain’t Necessarily So” by George Gershwin. Randall Fusco, Professor of Music at Hiram College, will also join the orchestra in Prelude and Fuga from Ernest Bloch’s Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra and Piano Obbligato. The concert includes the iconic “Hoe Down” from “Rodeo” by Aaron Copland and the famous “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber. Student assistant conductor Taylor Boyle, Kent State, will lead the orchestra in “Presto
from String Quartet No.6” by John Christopher Moller, one of America’s first composers. Community players John Reynolds, violin, Jack Steward, bass, and Frank Vasarhely, drums, will join with Hiram students and perform the orchestra’s arrangement of three Duke Ellington tunes: “Caravan”, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”, and “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing”. The Hiram College Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tim Staron, has members drawn from the Hiram student body, faculty, community players and talented area high school students. High schools represented over the years include Garfield, Waterloo, Kent, Ravenna, Field, Stow-Monroe Falls, Aurora, and home-schooled students. Players interested in joining the orchestra can contact the Hiram Department of Music at 330-569-5294.
Chilling Station Brings Frozen Treats To Mantua Stacy Turner | Contributing Reporter
Mantua - There’s a new ice cream shop in town, just in time for warm weather to get folks hiking or biking along the Headwaters Trail in Mantua. The Chilling Station, owned by brothers John and Phil Rath, who also own Compass Packaging, decided to revert an unused building at their facility back to its former life -- at least -- sort of. You see, the name of the shop is derived from the building’s former use, when the previous tenant, Eaton Corporation, used the building on the Cuyahoga River as a ‘chilling station’ for their plastics extrusion line. When the Rath brothers decided to open an ice cream shop in that spot, the name was a natural choice. Another natural choice, it seems, is the choice to serve Ashby’s Sterling Ice Cream, which is made in Michigan. That company, which was also founded by two brothers, creates creamy, old-fashioned ice cream with high butterfat content, and no fillers that would fill the gap between grocery store brands and super premium ice cream. At the Chilling Station in Mantua, you’ll find traditional flavors like vanilla, strawberry and mint chocolate chip. But you’ll also find a variety of as uncommon favorites like Michigan Pothole, a chocolate-lovers dream, and the current flavor of the month, Anniversary Cake, which is flavored like yellow cake batter, with cake bites and colorful frosting swirls mixed in.
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We wanted to bring in quality products that aren’t available in town, explained John Rath, one of the shop’s co-owners. The Chilling Station had a soft grand opening on St. Patrick’s Day, where they relied solely on Facebook buzz and old fashioned banners to drive foot traffic. “We were pretty pleased with the turn-out,” Mr. Rath beamed. In addition to high-quality products, the shop boasts a fabulous view from from their outdoor deck overlooking the river. The Chilling Station also serves Boylan Bottling Company gourmet sodas, which are sweetened with cane sugar instead of the high fructose corn syrup used by many soda producers. They feature orange, root beer, grape, black cherry, crème soda, and birch beer. In addition, they also serve Deep River Bakery Chips, with eight flavors to choose from, including unusual options like spicy dill pickle and cheddar horseradish. As an added bonus, each flavor sold by the Connecticut-based company supports a different charity, including the American Liver Foundation and Autism Speaks. Recent guest Patrick shared, “It’s a great place to get a scoop or two of ice cream! Right on the river, the deck provides a great view of the winding Cuyahoga River through downtown Mantua. I can’t wait to get back there!” Stop by Mantua’s newest shop this weekend to get the scoop…or maybe several scoops. For now, the Chilling Station is open from 4 - 9 on weekends, but hours will increase as baseball season begins and the weather improves. For the latest hours and information, visit the Chilling Station page on Facebook.
R avenna – Portage County residents looking to make home improvements this year can do so at a discount, thanks to a partnership between the Portage County Treasurer’s Office and three local banks. The program, initiated by Treasurer Brad Cromes in 2015, makes up to $1 million dollars available for lending from Hometown Bank, Middlefield Banking Company, and Portage Community Bank. For the first five years of any loans issued under the program, borrowers receive a significant interest rate discount (up to 3%). After that time, the rate returns to market levels. Loans are available for improvements to single-family homes with an appraised value of $175,000 or less. Treasurer Cromes, in explaining the reasoning for the program, said “Many residents in the County have delayed home improvements for a long time. This program offers a way to do those things that doesn’t break the bank.” While the program requires the County to take a short-term reduction in its investment income, Cromes asserts that reduction will be recouped over time in improved and stabilized property values. “What we give up in interest income we regain in community investment. Making sure residents have the resources they need to maintain and improve their property benefits all of us.” To sign up for the program, residents must complete an application at the Hometown Bank and Portage Community Bank branches in Ravenna and Kent, or the Middlefield Banking Company branch in Mantua. Once approved, borrowers have one year to complete their projects and submit receipts to the Treasurer’s Office. For more information, please call the Treasurer’s Office at 330-297-3586, Hometown Bank at 330-6776026, Middlefield Banking Company at 330-247-0881, or Portage Community Bank at 330-296-8090.
Hiram College offers new public health degree program Hiram – Hiram College will offer a new public health degree program this fall. The program, through which students can either major or minor in public health, merges the college’s liberal arts curriculum with this emerging field of preventative medicine and health promotion. This type of undergraduate degree is rare, according to Christopher Mundorf, MPH, Ph.D., who heads the new department. Mundorf explains that most undergraduate public health programs are offered at large universities, where students are mostly limited to courses taught in crowded and impersonal lecture halls. “Among the few liberal arts colleges that have begun similar programs, few can compete with Hiram’s reputation for experiential learning, which offers study-away opportunities, internships and practical research,” Mundorf says. Hiram Public Health students will immerse themselves in learning the science of disease and health, while mastering the skills that will lead to a career in helping others through communication, research, planning and advocacy. They will also be able to build upon their classroom experiences by designing research and creating projects that seek to address the major public health issues of our time. “The need for this flexible, career-focused program is huge, as students will have the tools to give back to various communities and work in one of the additional 250,000 public health jobs needed in the U.S. by 2020,” Mundorf says. Whether students are interested in the relationship between socio-economic issues and human health, how to communicate and work with outreach programs, or enter a hard science-based career, students will find something that suits them. Concentrations within the major include: public health biology, environmental health, health communication, health systems, health research, and health and fitness. The curriculum will prepare students for graduate school or entry-level jobs within diverse sectors since the program offers specialty tracks and combines a variety of disciplines. “I love giving back and helping communities flourish by ... bringing awareness to health disparities communities face. With the new public health major, I’ll be able to do this,” says Hiram College junior Timothy Hatfield, who plans to transfer into the new program.
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