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By Patrick Blau Most people my age can remember during their childhoods when they were told to be home ‘’by the time the streetlights come on.’’ It seemed everything was within walking distance or at most, a bike ride’s distance, and there were no businesses resembling today’s type of big-box store. Back then, there were still local butchers, offering excellent grades of meat sold with small town familiarity. There were little family owned pizzerias, ice cream parlors, bakeries, local small banks and credit unions. You could walk into these places and be called by your name and asked how your parents were doing, or where were your older sister and her husband living now. Young adults who read about these sorts of times and experiences roll their eyes and chuckle sarcastically about how it seems old people think that things were always better before. In most cases, yep, they were better; and today’s young adults and teenagers are going to claim the very same thing in about 30 years. They refuse to accept or admit it, but one day they too will use the phrase ‘’back in the day.’’ Let your kid stay out until the street lights come on in today’s world and see how many other parents complain about how negligent a parent you are, or even worse, get some governmental agency called in to look into how you are supposedly putting your child at risk. Try to find a screwdriver or pizza pan that doesn’t have ‘Made in China’ on it and you will spend a great part of your day doing so, and will probably have to go online to find it anyway. Much of the family oriented and quaint-sized feeling to small-town America is quickly being replaced by country- wide uniformity, with the predictability of generic ready made food, and locally owned businesses being supplanted Continued on Page 4 by global conglomerates and their offshoots. When I first moved into the Burton/Middlefield area it felt like an oasis to me, like I had found an area that still possessed some of the wholesomeness and small town familiarity I thought had been lost to the world years ago. Appreciate and hold onto these things now, you Burtonites and Middlefieldonians; be careful of corporate incursions into the area that have already happened. Protect your local flavor and guard it carefully, because if you don’t, it will forever be lost to future generations. Tourism creates lots of dollars for your Middlefield Post Oct. 14, 2015 Post Plus Middlefield Post local economy; but if there is nothing different, interesting, picturesque and worthy of being toured, if your town is a cookie-cutter village made to look like every other shopping-oriented place in America, those dollars will never find their way into local wallets. Where I live now, the village of Septfonds in France, is surprisingly similar in some ways to how the American city that I grew up in used to be, and similar in many ways to how Burton is today. Sure there are differences, as there should (photos above) This collage depicts Patrick Blau’s appreciation of Septfonds, France’s diverse, local economy. (MP Photos/Patrick Blau) BACK TO YOUR FUTURE 2015 Geauga County Junior Fair Livestock Buyers Laura Adams All Controls Corporation* All Ohio Motorsports Al’s Plumbing Al’s Trucking & Excavating* American Brass AMG Peterbilt Arms Trucking* Ascherman’s Photography Audi Mentor Bada Bing Chesterland* Steve Beckner Belireus & Associates* Bentronix Corporation George Blankenship* Bloomfield Livestock Auction Blossom Hill Health Care Residence Joey & Tommy Bond* Bralyn Trucking Company Inc. Tyler Briggs Rick & Lisa Briggs* Brockway Bond Insurance* Andrew Brush Brushstrokes by Kenn LLC* Burton Scot Contractors Burton Sheet Metal* C U E Excavating Joyce Campbell Jeff Campbell, Jr. Mary Canfield Ashley Carpenter Carson Farms* Carter Lumber - Middlefield* Cellar Rats Brewery Chagrin & Middlefield NAPA* Chagrin Pet & Garden Chardon Tractor Chardon Welding* Cherry Valley Slaughtering & Processing* CKM Services* Clemson Towing* Jack Collum* Collumbine Farm* Compass Packaging Cotterman Trucking* Country Jim’s Farm Fresh Meat* Creative Stone Crafters George Csatary CPA, Inc. Doug & Wendy Daugherty Katie Daugherty George E. Davis Del Davis Mechanical LLC Carol & Brian Derov Door Works & Construction East Geauga Kiwanis John Eklund, State Senator Escape Designs J. 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By Patrick Blau

Most people my age can remember during their childhoods when they were told to be home ‘’by the time the streetlights come on.’’ It seemed everything was within walking distance or at most, a bike ride’s distance, and there were no businesses resembling today’s type of big-box store. Back then, there were still local butchers, offering excellent grades of meat sold with small town familiarity. There were little family owned pizzerias, ice cream parlors, bakeries, local small banks and credit unions. You could walk into these places and be called by your name and asked how your parents were doing, or where were your older sister and her husband living now. Young adults who read about these sorts of times and experiences roll their eyes and chuckle sarcastically about how it seems old people think that things were always better before. In most cases, yep, they were better; and today’s young adults and teenagers are going to claim the very same thing in about 30 years. They refuse to accept or admit it, but one day they too will use the phrase ‘’back in the day.’’

Let your kid stay out until the street lights come on in today’s world and see how many other parents complain about how negligent a parent you are, or even worse, get some governmental agency called in to look into how you are supposedly putting your child at risk. Try to find a screwdriver or pizza pan that doesn’t have ‘Made in China’ on it and you will spend a great part of your day doing so, and will probably have to go online to find it anyway. Much of the family oriented and quaint-sized feeling to small-town America is quickly being replaced by country-wide uniformity, with the predictability of generic ready made food, and locally owned businesses being supplanted

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by global conglomerates and their offshoots. When I first moved into the Burton/Middlefield area it felt like an oasis to me, like I had found an area that still possessed some of the wholesomeness and small town familiarity I thought had been lost to the world years ago. Appreciate and hold onto these things now, you Burtonites and Middlefieldonians; be careful of corporate incursions into the area that have already happened. Protect your local flavor and guard it carefully, because if you don’t, it will forever be lost to future generations. Tourism creates lots of dollars for your

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local economy; but if there is nothing different, interesting, picturesque and worthy of being toured, if your town is a cookie-cutter village made to look like every other shopping-oriented place in America, those dollars will never find their way into local wallets.

Where I live now, the village of Septfonds in France, is surprisingly similar in some ways to how the American city that I grew up in used to be, and similar in many ways to how Burton is today. Sure there are differences, as there should

(photos above) This collage depicts Patrick Blau’s appreciation of Septfonds, France’s diverse, local economy. (MP Photos/Patrick Blau)

BACK TO YOUR FUTURE

2015 Geauga County Junior Fair Livestock BuyersLaura AdamsAll Controls Corporation*All Ohio MotorsportsAl’s PlumbingAl’s Trucking & Excavating*American BrassAMG PeterbiltArms Trucking*Ascherman’s PhotographyAudi MentorBada Bing Chesterland*Steve BecknerBelireus & Associates*Bentronix CorporationGeorge Blankenship*Bloomfield Livestock AuctionBlossom Hill Health Care

ResidenceJoey & Tommy Bond*Bralyn Trucking Company Inc.Tyler BriggsRick & Lisa Briggs*Brockway Bond Insurance*Andrew BrushBrushstrokes by Kenn LLC*Burton Scot ContractorsBurton Sheet Metal*C U E ExcavatingJoyce CampbellJeff Campbell, Jr.Mary CanfieldAshley CarpenterCarson Farms*Carter Lumber - Middlefield*Cellar Rats BreweryChagrin & Middlefield NAPA*Chagrin Pet & GardenChardon TractorChardon Welding*Cherry Valley Slaughtering

& Processing*CKM Services*Clemson Towing*Jack Collum*Collumbine Farm*Compass Packaging

Cotterman Trucking*Country Jim’s Farm Fresh Meat*Creative Stone CraftersGeorge Csatary CPA, Inc.Doug & Wendy DaughertyKatie DaughertyGeorge E. DavisDel Davis Mechanical LLCCarol & Brian DerovDoor Works & ConstructionEast Geauga KiwanisJohn Eklund, State SenatorEscape DesignsJ. EtlingEtna Products Inc.*John EversKen & Ammie EversF & M ConcreteFairmount SantrolFine Family Farm*Fowl Play Farm*Fowlers Mill Golf CourseNick FrankPatricia FredericksFreeman ConstructionDavid & Emily GardnerTim & Debbie GarlakGeauga County Farm Bureau*Geauga Farms Country Meats*Geauga Feed & Grain*Geauga Vision*Tom GierkeFrank Gliha, Geauga Co. AuditorNick & Melissa GorrisDr. Christine Graley*Maria GrbacGreat Lake Cold StorageGreat Lakes Crushing*Great Lakes Outdoor Supply*Green Family Funeral Home*David & Amy Grinstead*Laurie & Brian GronowskiH & B Storage*

Mark HamiltonHartsgrove Hardwood Lum-ber and Kiln*Headlands ContractingScott HildenbrandFrank Hinkle*Chip HofstetterHolly Hill Healthcare

Residence*Todd & Brenda HornakHoward’s Apples*Hummel Construction*Hungry Bee Catering/Home Grown Geauga*Gary and Judy HustonIndependent Meadows*Insurance DiversifiedRobert Guy & Anne IvansIvans FamilyJ. Anthony Vinecourt LLC*J.R. Goodrich ConstructionPaul & Jan Jackam*Jims III DesignJulie Howes Realtor*Junction Auto Sales*KBR Solutions*KC FarmsKeller Williams, C. SapolinKeller Williams, K. Bergansky*Keller Williams, M. O’Neill*Kellogg Insurance AgencyTJ KilbaneBrian KimmelKleve & Associates Insurance*Kochever Home ServicesAnne Kolenic*Boyd & Rachel KumherMatt & Heather Lane*Michelle Lane*Bill LanhanBrian & Christine LanstrumLaudato & CompanyLaudato ConcreteLegacy Construction

Services*Albert & Karen Lewandowski*

Linda’s RestaurantBertha LoudenLouden FarmsLove Insurance Agency*Madison ElectricWolf MaisonJohn J. Manfredi*Mangia Mangia*Mantua Vet ClinicMar-Bal Inc.Martin Painting & DecoratingMike MauslingMaxxcadd Company*Jim McCaskeyMcCaskey DevelopmentCheri Measures*Marylou MeleMiddlefield Bank*Middlefield MarketMihalic Associates

& Auctioneers*Joe & Angel Miller*Laura Miller*MJM Industries*Kim & Nancy Molnar*Morrison & Sons TruckingMSC Industries*MYGC General Contracting

LLC*Marcy NelsonNew Century Hair DesignNew Direction PhotographyNewbury Family Practice*NSL Analytical Services Inc.*Tim & Meg ObringerOhio Addressing Machine

Co.*Ohio’s Center for Oral, Facial, Implant Surgery*D. Kevin O’Reilly LPAOscar Brugman Sand & GravelJeanette Oschek*Overlook FarmTony PestakPet Stop Pet Fence SystemsPete Howes Auction*

Phil Miller Construction*Robert PhilipsPhillips Technical Sales, Inc.Jason PlantePomona GrangeBob PowellPreston Chevrolet*PuroCleanLindsey Ramsey*Colin RayMary Ray*Blake Rear, CommissionerRed Brick Farm Greenhouse ConstructionTim ¬¬ReganREMAX Traditions,

Dan O’Reilly*Reserve Energy Exploration*Ricca PropertiesChuck and Sue Rischar*Rock-n-Roll Acres*Rolling Meadows Farm*Royle InsuranceRugg’s Pest Management*Kelsey Rumburg*Russell LocksmithSale Barn AuctionsSalo Maple Products*Liz SheerSculpture by LeesMarion SevichThe Sevich Family*Linton & Patricia SharpnackSheauga GalleryShetler Printing

& Office SupplyShield Security Service*Silvercreek Veterinary ClinicThomas & Evelyn SiuSmith FarmsSmith Vein InstituteSmokin’ T’sMike SoltisSoltis Brothers*Donna SoncrantSonderry Farm

Matt SquireRobin L. Stanley, Esq.*Steven Douglas CorporationStone House Acres

Pygmy GoatsJudge Terri StupicaSunrise FarmJennifer Surace*T & T Cleaning Services*Taylor Builders LLCThe Bell Station*The Flag StoreThe Pygmy ConnectionThe Rotary Club of Chardon*Tim Frank Septic Tank Cleaning*Totally Yours FarmTownsend Machine*Ken Townsend*Trax Construction Co.*Triple J FarmUH Painesville Med Practice*Union Home Mortgage*Union Home Mortgage*Uvara Management LLC*Walker LandscapingWendy WardEd Ward*John & Jan WargoWarren Roofing, Nat ArpWarren Roofing, J. Vetrovsky*Waste ManagementCharles WaugamanJeff WebingerWeiss North America, Inc.Whitetail Solutions

Corporation*Wilks Inc.Rich & Rebecca Wiseman*Michael Wolf*X-Boom Coupler*Zenith SystemsBeth ZieglerDr. Georgette Zifko-Baliga

Thank You 2015 Livestock Buyers!* denotes a multiple buyer

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be between two countries with different histories and cultures. There are no big box stores anywhere in Septfonds; but in nearby Caussade you can find a locally-owned hardware store where the screwdrivers are stamped with ‘Fabriqué en France’ (Made in France). In Sepfonds itself you will find: a locally owned boulangerie (bakery); a boucherie (butcher shop) owned, operated and supplied by one man who lives in Septfonds; a privately-owned La Poste (post office) that also doubles as La Banque Postale (Post Office Bank); a few different coiffures (hair dresser/barber) whose corporate offices are located in small rooms in the back; a pizzeria that makes its pizza dough onsite and has all toppings bought from local sources. Isn’t that at least similiar to your own hometown, or how you always wanted your hometown to be? Isn’t that close to what most parents want to expose their children to, so that they can have good, clean memories of their formative environment? There are reasons that teenagers and young adults crave to leave small town America, and small town France; it’s too tiny for them, too cramped, too far from the cities, too secluded from the big happenings of the outside world. These same reasons are why the vast majority of them return to these same small towns, once they have realized that small towns such as these are where life really happens.

There is only one street light on our rue (street) in Septfonds. We’re home, most evenings, by the time it comes on. Patrick Blau was born and raised in northeast Ohio. For the past six years, he lived and worked in Burton/Middlefield along with his daughter, McKenzie and his son, Kevin, until he recently moved to France and married his wife, Sarah. Patrick and Sarah currently live in Septfonds, a Burton-like village in southern France.”

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Sales People Who Aren’tBy Joe Novak

Ienjoy going to the fair and looking at all the equipment

on display by the various dealers. This year I was interested in a commercial-ze ro - t u r n m owe r and though I could

possibly negotiate a good deal on a display model. What I found was “sales people,” if you could call them that, were more interested in sitting in front of the cooling fans than selling their wares. I had to plead with a “salesman” to explain the features of an $8,000 machine to me and he was barely able to answer my questions, let alone point out any special features I may have been interested in knowing. Not one person had the interest to take down my name and phone number to follow up. This is basic salesmanship 101; get the contact info. They all play with their cell phones, yet fail to use them for their most important function; getting my digits. It has been determined that Millennials also known as the Y generation (born 1962 to 2004), waste a minimum of 20 to 40 percent of their day at work playing with their phones. I also find that some generation Xers (born 1961 to 1981) are less than enthusiastic about their careers acquired more by chance than choice.

I am writing this as a public service to all those companies who display at trade

shows, fairs and other venues: train your people to sell. I find this lack of salesmanship everywhere: retail stores, car dealerships, big box stores and yes even restaurants where the waitress doesn’t know the day’s specials. It must be expensive purchasing display space, transport to and from the show a vast array of equipment and pay people to work the booth. Why would you not train them to sell this equipment?

Product knowledge was lacking as much as enthusiasm and excitement about the product line on display. Hey Jack, if you are not enthusiastic about the product you are selling, why should I be enthusiastic about purchasing it? (Jack is a name I use for anyone I am not thrilled with, but I don’t actually intend to demean anyone named Jack.)

I hope Sony Corporation perfects their robot line very soon so that companies can start employing them as knowledgeable and interesting sales people. Until then, contact me and I will train your people to sell. But it will be pricey.

To find out what Joe would do, e-mail questions to [email protected]. Joe has 20-some years experience in manufacturing and says that as a small business owner, he found that you either learn how to solve a problem yourself or pay to have it done. Joe’s articles are his opinion and are only intended as a guide. Please consult an expert when in doubt.

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“Your 2014 Huntsburg Pumpkin Festival Queen is .... Makenzie Healy!” Those are the words that

will always remind me of the best year of my life. After being crowned, it felt like I was aboard a train going full speed ahead. My reign has gone by so fast, but I would not change it for the world. I have visited festivals all over Ohio that I never had been to, let alone heard of. Some of these festivals I attended were Applebutter festival, Winterfest, Maple festival, North Ridegville Corn Festival, Johnny Appleseed Festival and Geneva Grape Jamboree. Along with festivals, I attended many county fairs and community service projects. My overall favorite thing about being queen was the young people who look at you as an inspiration and ask for pictures with you. Almost everywhere I went, you would hear, “Look, a princess.” Those three little words filled my heart with joy because I was the same way when I was younger. My reign proved to me that dreams do come true.

Along with the exposure to new festivals, so many friendships came out of my reign. The first friendship created during my reign was actually one week after I was crowned while at the Applebutter festival. The 2015 Maple Festival Queen and I, after meeting, attended many festivals and other events together. When you attend these other festivals and queens’ banquets, you meet so many new people and along with meeting new people you have to introduce yourself to them. This boosted my self-confidence in communication. A lot of introductions were included in my year as queen and that helped with public speaking skills.

So, when a queen, it is not just a crown and sash that is earned. You gain self-confidence and from my own experiences, that is a must to a successful life. There are so many people to thank for supporting me during my reign. This is a year I will never forget and I thank you all for my success throughout it. Again, my name is Makenzie Healy your 2014 Huntsburg Pumpkin Festival Queen.

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I RememberBy Nancy Huth

The comfortable middle-class neighborhood where I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio had tree-lined, red brick streets and flagstone sidewalks. Chestnuts, maples and buckeyes lined 126th Street. There were about 15 to 20 houses on each side of the street, each a bit different. Some were one family homes, some two, but all had wide front porches like smiles stretching from ear to ear. Most homes had brick foundations and wood slat siding that needed painting every five to six years. There were small postage-stamp front lawns separating the porches from the slate sidewalks, and then a small tree lawn.

Some of the old sidewalk slabs had a „W“ or „Watermark“ on them, indicating a water shut-off somewhere below. Slices of slate would break off leaving rough bumpy areas. Or the cool grey slabs would crack and buckle from buried, meandering tree roots, making it an art to walk along and not step on the cracks. We all knew and respected the warning, “Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.“

I loved all the big front porches with their faded canvass green or orange awnings giving each porch a private sphere. I remember the porch swings or gliders and metal chairs that bounced and squeaked when you sat on them and the thick rough straw rugs. Sunday was my favorite day to sit out. That’s when the people going to ur

Lady of Peace Church walked by in their Sunday best - the women in dresses or suits with matching hats and gloves.

Evenings were a favorite porch time, too. Almost everyone sat out on those balmy Ohio summer evenings. I remember the creaking of the swings and the low voices from the neighbors’ porches mingling with chirping crickets and blinking lightening bugs. On the porch next door on a soft dilapidated glider sat Hillie (Mrs. Hillenbrand) and her unmarried daughter Mary Jane. Both were plump and jolly with high hearty laughs. They read dozens of movie magazines each month, which my sister Marilyn and I received in stacks from time to time.

The Hillenbrand’s dog Mitzi, a black and white mongrel, was also fat, but not as sociable and jolly as Hillie and Mary Jane. Mitzi lived her whole life in the house or chained to the porch railing, so it was a special occasion for the whole street when Mitzi broke free of her chain on certain summer nights and bee-lined down 126th Street. It always amazed us that such a fat, lazy, short-legged dog could run so fast. Then Mary Jane rose from the glider in her thin formless duster shouting for Mitzi to stop. As she lumbered down the street after her thankless pet, the astonished neighbors leaned over their railings secretly rooting for Mitzi.

Each house on 126th Street was separated by a driveway and a 2 to 3 foot strip of lawn. This made it possible to lie in my bed on warm summer nights with the screened in windows wide open and watch and listen to our neighbors in their brightly-lit kitchen next door. It was my first TV screen with the soap opera of Hillie and Mary Jane fetching snacks from their fridge and eating at the table next to the window, all the while chatting in high-pitched voices about whatever it was they talked about. I don’t remember and it doesn’t really matter. Important was that I was a secret spy, being lulled to sleep ... as I remember.

Nancy Huth (on the steps) fondly remembers, this, her childhood home on 126th Street in Cleveland. (MP Photo/Nancy Huth)

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“Weather” We Like it or NotBy Ellie Behman

Everyone loves to talk about the w e a t h e r ; t o o

hot, too cold, too wet, too dry.  As we watch television and get the weather reports each day, we notice more and more how excited the newscasters get

when they are darting back and forth in front of the weather screen.  They sometimes go into so much detail that at the end of the report, Ron and I look at each other and say “what’s the temperature going up to today?” We tend to block out the statistics such as, “In 1890, there was a blizzard,” or “1910 brought with it torrential rains.” It absolutely was important to the people back then but I’m more interested in the present.

Of course weather information is important to all of us, but sometimes they go overboard and we tend to tune them out. Climate and weather information is vital to farmers so they know when to plow and plant their crops and the Farmers’ Almanac still works great. Mountain climbers need to know if blizzards are on the way so they can plan their trips accordingly and commercial fisherman have to be aware of impending storms and hurricanes.  

That being said, I have also heard that weather is responsible for the mental attitude of a lot of people.  Rainy, dreary days tend to make them somewhat depressed. While that fact may be clinically proven, I see a way out of that kind of thinking. Read a book, visit a home bound friend, volunteer at a hospital or nursing home. When we put others needs ahead of ours, it lifts the spirit. I personally have never felt that weather had a thing to do with

my disposition.  Weather never makes me grumpy, but sometimes people do.  Look at it this way. You can tolerate all kinds of bad weather, but can you tolerate a bad relationship or illness?  

We can put up with snow or rain just by adjusting our life style and staying indoors.  No doubt about it, Ohio is the best place to live.  The West Coast suffers earth quakes, mud slides, drought and raging fires, the Midwest has their share of tornadoes each year and the south puts up with hurricanes. Need I say more?

We have family living in Florida and, of course, we get the occasional teasing, especially during our cold spells in the winter. “Sun is always shining here and the weather is perfect.” Once in a while I reply, “Oh, it’s sunny and beautiful here too but it’s a whopping 10 degrees.  No problem, furnace is on.”  

We can easily put up with freezing temperatures just by maintaining a good attitude and hiking up the thermostat. There are cold evenings in the winter where I find Ron covered from head to toe with a fleece blanket, jacket and hat and that’s when he’s sitting in his chair watching television. He’s just happy to be indoors.

My outlook is this: it’s not where you live or what kind of weather comes your way, it’s how you live; your respect of others, good morals, kindness, forgiveness. “Weather” we like it or not, Ohio is still the best location in the nation.  

Ellie has been a freelance writer for more than 40 years and has written more than 400 articles. She and her husband spend as much time as possible at their cabin where they enjoy the beauty of the surrounding area. This is where the majority of her writing is done as it is the perfect quiet setting for a writer.

Home Delivered Meal Drivers NeededThe Geauga County Department on Aging needs Home Delivered Meal Drivers who,

once trained, can deliver meals as a substitute when the regular driver is unavailable. They may volunteer once a month or as often as they would like. Companies and civic groups can volunteer as a group and organize their members to reduce the number of times each individual drives.

Meal routes are delivered Monday through Friday and provide a nutritious lunch for 10 to15 homebound seniors. If you are 18 years or older, have a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance, the Department on Aging needs your help. Call the Geauga County Department on Aging, 440-279-2130, and start helping to get much needed meals to Geauga County seniors.

Department on Aging Adult Day ServicesThe Adult Day Service is a social, non-medical program offering a positive,

caring, structured environment to Geauga County Seniors with early to mid-stage memory loss, cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s Disease. Clients are offered complementary round-trip transportation up to five days a week through Geauga Transit to the Chardon Senior Center where they will be met by A.D.S. staff in the activity center. After a full day of physical, social and cognitive activities, and a nutritional lunch, participants will be transported safely back home. There is no, but donations are gladly accepted. The Adult Day Service is available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Chardon Senior Center, 12555 Ravenwood Dr., Chardon. Contact Vicki Krueger, 440-279-2130 or [email protected].

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Call:330-646-9349

Home Business Potential Located on Rt 528 is this 2bedroom home (could be office) and 16x13 building on 3 acres…NO Zoning rules in Middle-field Twp and under $100k.

One Floor Living! 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, liv rm, fam rm, din rm, kitchen w/appliances & laundry rm all on one floor! Added bonus of a 3+ car gar with work room on 1.64 acres….Parkman

Have Horses, Need Stalls? 6 stalls where 2 more can be added + tack room, hot and cold water & 3 fenced acres…For Lease in Troy

Refreshed! All the cosmetic upgrades throughout + new central air in this 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath condo have been completed! This includes: lighting, flooring, kitchen stainless steel appliances, fresh paint, closet organizer, granite countertops & new island added! Garrettsville

SIRACKI REALTY, LTD.16394 Kinsman Road Middlefield, OH 44062

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Commercial Space For Lease6,860 sq.ft. mostly open w/dock -Middlefield Twp645 sq.ft. 3 offices & reception area -Middlefield Village1,320 sq.ft. 3 offices, open area & more -Burton Village1,920 sq.ft. 2 offices, waiting area & big rooms -Burton3,960 sq.ft. meeting rooms, last used as a church -Claridon1,300 sq.ft. retail/office space on a corner -Claridon575 to 1200 sq.ft. retail in strip center -Chardon1,392 sq.ft. showroom on corner property -Newbury

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