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The Heights August 6 - 20, 2015Volume 5 :: No. 15
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Garfield Heights Primary Election Scheduled for September 8The September 8th Primary
Election will include voters in the following 6 municipalities:
Cleveland Ward 16, Brook Park Ward 4, Garfield Heights Ward 2, Lakewood Ward 3, Maple Heights, and Solon Ward 1.
To avoid lines on Election Day, and
to allow extra time to study the ballot, all registered voters may Vote by Mail. Vote by Mail ballot applications are available at the Board of Elections website: www.443VOTE.com, by calling the Board of Elections at 216-443-VOTE (8683), and at all public libraries.
he voter registration deadline is August 10th. Voters who have moved or changed their name since they last voted need to complete and return a new Voter Registration Card.
It is important for all voters to be prepared to cast their ballots. Sample ballots are available on the Board of
Elections website: www.443VOTE.com.
Voters who are interested in serving as poll workers may call 216-443-VOTE (8683) or apply on-line at: www.443VOTE.com.
Robber who stole $7,000 from Walmart also sought in Maple Heights gas station robbery
Maple Heights police believe the person who robbed a gas station on Warrensville Center Road also robbed a Walmart cashier of $7,000 cash on July 18.
The Sunoco gas station at the intersection of Warrensville Center and Rockside roads was robbed
about 10:15 p.m. July 17, according to police.
The robber, described by detectives as a heavy-set woman, said that she had a gun and would shoot if her demand for money was not met, police said. The woman left the gas station with an unknown amount of
money in a late model Chevy Malibu.Maple Heights detectives say they
believe the woman also committed the robbery at the Walmart Superstore in Bedford July 18 because the robber wore the same clothing and was driving a vehicle with a similar description.
Detectives encourage anyone with information about the woman to call either the Maple Heights Detective Bureau at 216-587-9644 or Crime Stoppers hotline at 216-252-7463.
Summer Fest 2015 Offers Fun for Families The Garfield Heights Summer
Fest 2015 is scheduled for 1-6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 23 at the Garfield Heights Civic Center Complex, 5407 Turney Road.
The event includes a Safety Fair in the parking lot of the Garfield Heights Regional Library featuring police and fire vehicles and safety demonstrations. The MetroHealth Life Flight helicopter is scheduled to land at approximately 1:15 p.m. in the Recreation Center parking lot. The library will be open for patrons and have activities for families.
Summer Fest also features an
ice cream social sponsored by the Garfield Heights Historical Society, food vendors and music throughout the day, children’s games, a magic show at 2 p.m., pony rides beginning at 4 p.m., Metroparks Nature Tracks, a Hole-in-One contest, 50-50 raffle and more. Community groups will be set up inside the Civic Center to share information and raise funds. There will be a mini farmer’s market sponsored by the Garfield Heights Community Gardens members. The Sight and Sound band will perform from 4-6 p.m.
Tickets for activities will be sold
throughout the event. Free shuttle service will be
available throughout the day from the St. John Lutheran Church and Granger Road Tennis
Courts parking lots. For additional information, visit www.garfieldhts.org or call Pat Salemi at 216-475-1100 Ext. 2425.
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Help for Garfield Heights families is just a phone call away. The new Family Resource Center at the Garfield Heights Civic Center, 5407 Turney Road, has information to assist families with drug treatment, counseling
and prevention services, support groups, and other needs. Office hours vary, so it is best to call and make an appointment.
Call the Help Line, 216-475-1103, or e-mail [email protected] for assistance.
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Buyers no longer will be required to put repair funds into an escrow account for violations cited during the point-of-sale inspection. Repairs still must be made by the deadline set by the city’s building
department. Buyers will receive a one-year family recreation pass, limit one per family. Members are still required to purchase an identification card at the recreation center.
Garfield Heights New Homebuyer Incentives
Attention allparents of preschool age children!
The Maple Heights School District will begin on Monday, April 20, 2015, accepting preschool applications for all regular education preschoolers for our 2015-16 ECE program. You can apply by downloading a preschool application packet (new packet from previous years) from the website at www.mapleschools.com. All applications have to be submitted to the Curriculum Department with all the necessary
d o c u m e n t a t i o n , reviewed and accepted before you can enroll your child in the program. Once accepted into the program, you will be notified of acceptance and that you need to fill out the enrollment packet to complete the process. If you have any further questions please contact the Curriculum Department at 216-587-6100 ext. 3401.
Support the Garfield Heights Family Resource Center by recycling your paper products in the River Valley Paper Company bin at the Civic Center, 5407
T u r n e y Road. The Resource
Center helps at-risk families and youth and offers referral services. Items accepted include newspaper, mail, phonebooks, office/school
paper, magazines, catalogs, paper bags, hard and soft bound books and cardboard. All proceeds generated from the yearlong paper drive will benefit the Resource Center. For information about the resource center, call Ruth Pollack, center
manager, at 216-475-1103 or e-mail [email protected]. For information about recycling, call Pat Salemi at 216-475-1100, ext. 2425 or e-mail [email protected].
Yearlong Paper Drive
August 6 - 20, 2015
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Cuyahoga CountyDepartment of Consumer Affairs Warns Residents of New Version of Grandparent Scam
The Cuyahoga County Department of Consumer Affairs is warning residents about a costly new version of the grandparent scam, which uses iTunes as the form of payment.
A 79-year-old Cuyahoga County woman is indebted $7,000 after a scammer posed as her granddaughter. The “granddaughter” called stating that she was in jail and then handed the call off to an accomplice pretending to be a public defender. The accomplice told the grandmother she needed to pay $3,500 to free her granddaughter from jail.
When the grandmother said she did not have the bail money, the scammer directed her to get a cash advance on her credit card and use the money to buy iTunes gift cards from a nearby grocery store. After purchasing the iTunes gift cards, the scammer called to ask for the card
numbers, a tactic that allowed them to strip the value from the cards. The scammer then instructed her to mail the now worthless cards to a Columbus address.
Several days later, the scammer called again to say the granddaughter needed to pay an additional $3,500 before she could be released. The grandmother bought more iTunes gift cards and followed the scammers’ instructions to mail them to an insurance agent in Cleveland.
When the scammer called a third time, the woman called the insurer, which advised her it had no such agent and no office at that address in Cleveland.
The United States Postal Inspection Service in Cleveland, the law enforcement arm of the post office, reported receiving a nearly identical scam complaint from a senior in
Huron County who lost $8,000. Last month, the Cleveland BBB reported a Slavic Village man was approached with the scam but didn’t go through with the card purchase.
Consumers should:•Be aware that grandparent scams
are common. Seniors can avoid these scams simply by calling a relative to confirm the family member’s location. Family members should make sure grandparents have cell numbers for children and grandchildren and encourage them to verify a relative is in trouble, even if the grandchild pleads for secrecy. Spread the word to seniors so they can protect themselves. Any call in which they are asked to send money and to tell no one about the request, should be treated as suspect.
•Avoid sending payments to people who call demanding money.
It’s easy for callers to pretend to be law enforcement officers, public defenders, IRS agents or even relatives (technology can even help them change the sound of their voices).
•Understand that scammers often ask for unusual payment methods (prepaid cards, gift cards, Moneypaks, wire transfers, etc.) because they are hard for law enforcement to trace. Law enforcement and government officials will never instruct you to use a gift card to pay a fine, nor will they tell you how to take out a cash advance on your credit card.
Cuyahoga County residents who encounter a scam should call the Department of Consumer Affairs at 216-443-7035.
Cuyahoga County Convention Facilities Development Corporation Announces First Executive Director
The Cuyahoga County Convention Facilities Development Corporation (CCCFDC), a non-profit organization formed to oversee successful development and growth of the Cleveland Convention Center and Global Center for Health Innovation, today announces the appointment of its first Executive Director, George Hillow, CPA.
Hillow currently serves as Lead Tax Director at McGladrey LLP, a global accounting firm. After starting his career with Ernst & Young, Hillow founded and served as managing partner of a local accounting firm. In addition to his CPA certification, Hillow is a Certified Forensic Accountant and earned an MBA in Corporate Finance from Ohio State University.
In addition to other civic pursuits, Hillow serves as a volunteer on County Executive Armond Budish’s Financial Task Force, reviewing the current county budget and making recommendations for short and long-term effective financial management.
Budish called Hillow “an expert in the field of financial management who will carefully oversee these important
county projects, monitor their performance, and work effectively with civic partners to make the most of these major civic investments. The Board of the CCCFDC has made an excellent choice for its first Executive Director.”
Cleveland Zoo offers free admission for seniors during annual senior safari
Getting the family together for a group outing can be tough. Everyone’s schedules are packed and it can be tricky to pick an activity that they all can agree on. Movies? Good luck getting everyone to settle on one of those. Amusement park? Too hard to keep the group together when half of them aren’t tall enough for the rides and the other half get motion sickness.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo wants to make it easy for family members from every generation to get together and make memories that will last a lifetime – so round up the special people in your life and visit the Zoo for Senior Safari on Wednesday, August 19 – featuring FREE admission for all guests age 55 and better from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Special programming and activities for Senior Safari are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., including live music from the Progressive Field Dixieland Band, blood pressure screenings courtesy of MetroHealth’s Senior Health and Wellness Center, and an exhibitor area in the Palava Hut pavilion with representatives from additional wellness-based organizations.
No trip to the Zoo this summer is complete without feeding the giraffes at the all new Ben Gogolick Giraffe Encounter in the Zoo’s African Savanna area. Guests can feed Romaine lettuce to the giraffes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through Labor Day. Romaine lettuce is $2 per leaf and is available at the giraffe deck site.
After visiting the Zoo’s herd of giraffes, head over to the Northern Trek area to see Sly, Sal, South, Squirt, Seatab and Missy – the six African penguins in the Penguin Shores exhibit. These penguins are visiting Cleveland for the summer only to serve as ambassadors for conservation through September 27 as part of the Zoo’s contribution to the Cleveland Water Alliance and Sustainable Cleveland’s Year of Clean Water. Penguin Shores is free with regular Zoo admission.
Complimentary transportation on the Zoo’s tram is available to bring guests from the Welcome Plaza to the Primate, Cat & Aquatics Building where guests will see a variety of animals including the Zoo’s oldest residents,
two male Aldabra tortoises, along with red pandas, gorillas and more than 30 displays of freshwater and saltwater marine life.
Northeast Ohio’s most-visited year-round attraction, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $13.25 per person, $12.25 for seniors ages 62 and older, $9.25 for kids ages 2 to 11 and free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. Parking is free. Located at 3900 Wildlife Way, the Zoo is easily accessible from Interstates 71, 90 and 480.
For more information, visit clevelandmetroparks.com/zoo or call (216) 661-6500.
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Twenty Percent of Stores Overcharged Consumers in Cuyahoga County Consumer Affairs Price Check Sweep
In preparation for the statewide sales tax holiday August 7th – 9th, the Cuyahoga County Department of Consumer Affairs performed a price-check sweep on back-to-school items to ensure that consumers are getting the prices advertised by stores. Twenty percent of the stores checked by county (8 of 36) failed the audit.
Inspectors from the Weights and Measures division recently conducted a price-check sweep on 36 stores throughout Cuyahoga County, excluding
the City of Cleveland, which has their own Office of Consumer Affairs. Inspectors checked 25 back-to-school items at each of the stores. Out of the 36 stores inspected, 28 stores passed the audit.
Kmart – 3 stores inspected (2 passed, 1 failed)
Marc’s – 13 stores inspected (13 passed, 0 failed)
Office Max – 7 stores inspected (3 passed, 4 failed)
Target – 6 stores inspected (5 passed,
1 failed) Walmart – 7 stores inspected (5
passed, 2 failed)
The stores that failed the sweep were required to correct their scanners immediately while in the presence of an inspector. A random price check will be performed again by Cuyahoga County Weights and Measures inspectors at a later date. The store list, with addresses, is on the Consumer Affairs web page, http://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us/
en-US/ConsumerAffairs.aspx “Small overcharges can add up,” said
Sheryl Harris, Interim Director, Cuyahoga County Department of Consumer Affairs. “Our findings are a reminder to shoppers to watch as their purchases are scanned and make sure their receipts reflect the advertised prices.”
Consumers who want to report an advertised price that has been rung up incorrectly or a scam, should call 216-443-7010
Global on Friday, August 7on CMA’s South TerraceCelebrate Creativity from Cultures Far
and Wide, as MIX at CMA Explores Art From Around the Globe
Enjoy August’s hot summer nights on the museum’s gorgeous south terrace as you sip a refreshing cocktail, play global games in the grass and discover art with international flair on gallery tours.
As the sun goes down, groove to the irresistible rhythms of Todo Mundo. Todo Mundo, meaning “All the World”, is one of San Diego’s hottest bands, having been voted Best World Music band (2012-2014) at the San Diego Music Awards. Their irresistible rhythms blend the musical flavors of Spanish rumba and reggae with Brazilian, Balkan and Middle Eastern styles.
TOURS
Globes and Gods: 6:00 and 7:45 p.m.The planets Mars, Venus and Jupiter
take their names from Roman deities. Check out depictions of the gods that gave these globes their names. (It’s not a planet, but we’ll sneak in some Pluto, too!)
Collecting Goes Global: 7:00 and 8:15 p.m.
The museum’s collection includes works of art from all over the world. Go behind the scenes with stories of how they came to Cleveland.
GLOBAL GAMESOn the Steps: Chess, checkers,
dominoes, go and mancala. On the Lawn: Croquet, kubb, bocce
and the local favorite, cornhole.
Members of the Cleveland Museum of Art receive discounted or free admission to the museum’s special events and exhibitions. CMA members get FREE admission to MIX events.
MIX: Global is part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s MIX at CMA series. On the first Friday of each month, MIX highlights a different aspect of the museum and its collection. Art, music, cocktails; something different every month. MIX is an 18 and over event.
Advance tickets $8; $10 day of event. CMA Members FREE. Reservations recommended. Call 216.421.7350 or visit ClevelandArt.org/MIX for additional information. Cash bar. Food is available for purchase in the museum’s restaurant
and café.
WHAT: MIX: GlobalWHEN: Friday, August, 7, 5:00 to 10:00
p.m.WHERE: The Cleveland Museum of
Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
RESERVATIONS: Advance tickets $8, CMA members free. Tickets day of event $10. Reservations strongly recommended, call (216) 421-7350 or visit ClevelandArt.org/MIX. Cash bar. Food is available for purchase in the museum’s restaurant and café.
MIX at CMA is sponsored by PNC Bank and Great Lakes Brewing Co.
Chalk Festival, September 19-20The Fine Print Fair, September 24-27
Garfield Heights Kiwanis Thank You Cook Out Garfield Heights Kiwanis had a “Thank
You Cook Out” to thank all residents that donated shoes for their Shoes for Hope
project. Over 80 pairs of shoes were collected in the two hours the event was held. Kiwanis will be collecting shoes till
the end of the month.
PHOTO: Convenient Blvd Store Owner/
Kiwanis Member Sherry Hndyznski, Hot dog cart owner Eric, Kiwanis Members Mike Nenadovich and Sally Templeman
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University Hospitals is pleased to bring our family
closer to yours. At University Hospitals Independence
Health Center, the area’s most trusted physicians
will offer expanded access to all of UH’s nationally
recognized care – in addition to internal medicine,
orthopaedics, physical therapy, radiology services
including X-ray and open MRI. To us, it’s the
neighborly thing to do.
For more information or to schedule
an appointment, call 440-743-8150.
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It’s Time to Bring Education into the 21st Century
A record number of high school students are celebrating their hard-earned diplomas this year.
The celebrations won’t last. Despite their hard work, these students will soon find that they’re far from prepared for life after graduation. Academically, they’re worse educated than most of their foreign contemporaries. Occupationally, they’re ill-equipped for the jobs our economy needs. And emotionally, they’re less healthy than any generation in recent history.
America’s K-12 educational system is to blame. Despite huge advances in classroom technology and the science of learning, our nation’s schools remain a relic of another era.
Modernizing our schools isn’t just a matter of changing funding formulas and tweaking mechanisms for accountability. Instead, we must completely reimagine the American model of schooling, drawing on the science- and technology-driven practices that have revolutionized the modern world.
U.S. students are rapidly falling behind their international peers. In a recent report, America’s schools ranked 28th in the world based on the average math and science scores of 15-year-old students.
Even worse, the report found that almost a quarter of American 15-year-olds failed to acquire “basic skills” in math and science. Of the 76 countries evaluated in the study, only Luxembourg performed worse.
This poor academic performance translates directly into inadequate workforce skills, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, industries. Because of a lack of qualified applicants, companies take more than twice as long to fill STEM positions than equivalent non-STEM ones.
What’s more, current school practices are also making students psychologically unhealthy. The incidence of anxiety and depression among American adolescents has reached alarming levels. Nearly one in five high school kids contemplated suicide in 2013, many due to stress from school.
If we’re to reverse these trends, we need to completely change the way we teach young people.
That starts by acknowledging that every student is different. As a result, students need educations customized to their evolving individual needs.
This idea is far from new. Individualized teaching has long been recognized as superior to standard one-size-fits-all
instruction. One study showed that individually tutored students performed better than 98 percent of students educated in a standard setting.
The problem is that such tutoring has long been prohibitively expensive. But with the advent of new technology, programs such as Khan Academy and Coursera are demonstrating that personalized, self-directed learning is possible on a large scale.
Once students master foundational core knowledge and skill requirements, they need resources and time to pursue their own projects, internships, and other opportunities for applied learning.
Rather than trudge through unnecessary extra science classes, for example, an aspiring writer should be encouraged to work on the novel kicking around in his head. By the same token, a science-lover should be able to spend her time in the laboratory rather than taking unwanted extra English courses. Apart from academics, schools should address students’ emotional and social growth. Those who embrace socio-emotional learning experience very real, measurable benefits -- including enhanced academic achievement.
For example, in January, Developmental Psychology published a study of grade-school students who were taught meditation and mindfulness techniques. After 12 weeks, the students showed a 24 percent decrease in aggression and a reduction in depression-like symptoms -- plus a 15 percent improvement in math scores!
Nearly every business model and academic field has been radically disrupted by new research and technology in recent decades. Yet our archaic industrial age model of K-12 schooling persists. For the sake of our future, our economy, and our children, it’s time we brought American education into the 21st century.
Alan Shusterman is the Founder and Head of School for Tomorrow (SFT).
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Maple Heights Health & Wellness Fair
Branch: Maple HeightsDate: Saturday, August 15, 2015
11:00 AM
This free community event features healthy-heart screenings; information on health, wellness and community services; refreshments and more, in partnership with Maple Hts Councilman
Richard Trojanski and UH Bedford Medical Center. Call 216-816-6863 for more information.
Stay-n-Play SaturdayBranch: Maple HeightsDate: Saturday, August 15, 2015
11:00 AMCaregivers and their little ones birth-
35 monthsFor babies and toddlers, playing
is learning! Enjoy rhymes, songs, fingerplays and books. Then stay to socialize and play with toys that foster early literacy skills.
Library Spotlight
August 6 - 20, 2015
Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Installation of Anish Kapoor Sculpture
the Cleveland Museum of Art will exhibit a monumental work by British artist Anish Kapoor, C-Curve, a stainless steel sculpture, in the Donna and Stewart Kohl Sculpture Garden. The sculpture comprises a curved wall of reflective steel in the shape of the letter C. The outer side of the piece functions as a typical mirror, reflecting the museum’s architecture. On the inner side, the
reflections are inverted: viewers, clouds, cars and bikers all pass across the silver screen in an upside-down version of real life.
Placed towards the north end of the sculpture garden, C-Curve is a one-year loan from a private collector.
“Anish Kapoor is one of today’s most important and influential contemporary sculptors,” said William M. Griswold,
director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. “I am extremely grateful for the generous loan of C-Curve, which will enliven the museum’s exterior north space and enthrall passers-by.”
“We are excited to add another sculpture by a highly-acclaimed artist to the Donna and Stewart Kohl Sculpture Garden,” stated Reto Thüring, associate curator of contemporary art. “The
installation of C-Curve shows the CMA’s ongoing efforts not only to regularly change what’s on view in the galleries, but to understand the museum as an expanded field for experimentation that extends beyond its walls.”
Garfield Heights CERT Assists in Hillcrest Hospital DrillThe Garfield Heights CERT did “moulage”
(made victims look like they were injured) for a drill at Hillcrest Hospital last Wednesday - July 22. Members Norm Wells, Diane Lapars, Shelia Roman, and Debra Sarnowski made up ten victims to look like they were injured. This mock drill included a gunshot wound to a motorcycle gang member (played by cert member Norman Wells) called the “Angry Pumpkins” who came in through the ER
and had a team take him all the way into an operating room. They hospital group even called the police department to say (first of all that it was a mock drill) that they had a gang member with gun shot wound, heavily sedated in surgery and to send someone. The victims were prepared in a room by GH CERT and every fifteen minutes walked into the ER or came in by Rescue Unit. The hospital personal acted as if it was a real emergency
and ended by taking the victim with hospital gown on, on gurney up into a hospital room . Some of the victims were exposed to a drug called “Revenge” and CERT had to put “ulcers” on their skins. Other “Patients/victims” had a broken leg with bone sticking out, lacerations on the head with oozing blood , stroke victim with sweating pale skin, a broken arm with bones plus blood and a victim that was bleeding from the mouth. According
to a CERT member, Hillcrest Hospital seems ready for everything and they handled every emergency very efficiently and professionally. During this drill there were real life and death medical emergency happening in the emergency room and still they were capable of dealing with all emergencies. Ten “not real” emergencies handled with in four hours.
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Reading Program Seeks Tutors Ohio Reading Corps is looking for tutors.
The position is part of the AmeriCorps program and participants receive a monthly stipend and Education Award. Tutors provide
support/instruction in small groups or one-on-one to elementary school students in Garfield Heights, Bedford, Maple Heights and Warrensville Heights. Participants must
commit to a minimum of 900 hours of service and primarily work during the school day from Sept. 1 through June 30. Qualifications for the program can be found at www.esc-
cc.org. For additional information about Ohio Reading Corps, contact Elyse Sanchez at [email protected].
Maple Heights 2015 Summer Food Service Program through August 14 The District is again sponsoring a Summer
Food Service Program for Children. Free meals are will be made available to all children 18 years of age and under or persons over 18 who are determined by a state or local public educational agency to be mentally or physically disabled. The meals will be provided without regard to race, color, national origin,
gender, age, or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service.
Meals will be provided at the sites below June 8 through August 14, 2015:
Maple Heights High School (1 Mustang Way)
Breakfast: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Barack Obama School (5800 Glenwood
Avenue) Breakfast: 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Free meals for children 18 years and under. Food must be consumed on site. Sites will be closed July 3rd, in observance of Independence Day.
August 6 - 20, 2015
Donate blood through the Red Cross in final weeks of summerThe American Red Cross urges blood
donors to give in the final weeks of summer to help prevent a blood shortage.
Blood donations often decline in August as final summer vacations are planned and back-to-school activities ramp up. On average, during the summer months, about two fewer donors give blood at each Red Cross blood drive than what is needed.
Donations are needed now to help ensure blood is available for patients in need. Donors with types AB, O negative, B negative and A negative blood are especially encouraged to donate. Plasma from type AB donors can be transfused to patients of any blood type, as can type O negative blood. Type B negative and A negative blood can be transfused to Rh-
positive or negative patients. These are the most in demand blood types and are in constant need.
To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
Upcoming blood donation opportunities
Chagrin Falls8/17/2015: 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.,
Cleveland Clinic Family Health Center, 551 East Washington Street
Brecksville8/20/2015: 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., Brecksville
Community Center, One Community Drive
Garfield Heights8/25/2015: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m., Marymount
Hospital, 12300 McCracken Road
Cleveland8/27/2015: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Anthony J
Celebrezze Federal Building, 1240 East 9th Street
8/27/2015: 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., Great Lakes Brewing Co, 1951 W 26TH St
8/27/2015: 1:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636 Euclid Avenue
Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to make an appointment or for more
information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental consent in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
Nothing is better than a good night’s sleep.
Think about how good you feel on those mornings when you wake up alert, jumping out of bed ready to go! That sets you up for a really great day.
Research has shown that people who chronically don’t get enough sleep are generally less healthy, less effective at work or at school, and less happy in their lives. Being sleep deprived also makes you less alert, so you’re more prone to ac-cidents of various types, including auto-mobile accidents.
But many of us don’t sleep well. Many people wake up sluggish in the morning, having to drag themselves out of bed, already thinking about when they
can get the next nap. There are many pos-sible causes of this, but two of the most
common are snoring and sleep apnea.We all know what snoring is. It’s
that annoying noise caused by your tongue or uvula (that piece of flesh that hangs down in the back of your throat) partially blocking your windpipe. As air goes past it, it vibrates, making that rattling sound.
Sleep apnea is the more severe, dangerous cousin of snoring. It occurs when the tongue or other structures in
your throat actually block the windpipe completely while you sleep, causing you to suffocate. Usually you partially wake up after a few seconds, but just enough for you to reposition yourself to get air. Then you fall back to sleep and it happens all over again … and again … and again, sometimes hundreds of times each night! All this can happen without you waking up enough to know it. Then you wake up thinking “I just slept for 7 hours, why am I still tired?”.
The most common remedy offered by medical doctors is something call CPAP (continuous positive air pressure), which involves a machine pumping air into your nose through a mask. It works for a lot of people, and in the most severe cases, it is only option (besides surgery). But some people find that the mask, the tubes which restrict movement, and noise from the machine make it uncomfortable and hard to sleep with.
About now, you’re probably say-ing “what does this have to do with my teeth?”. Well, dental researchers have de-veloped a number of small, comfortable, inexpensive devices that you can wear in your mouth at night to deal with this problem. These devices work by slightly repositioning you lower jaw so that your tongue can’t block your breathing airway. At Dodson & Associates, we can help de-termine which of these devices is best to help you.
So if you’re not sleeping as well as you’d like to, either because of your spouse snoring or your sleep apnea; if you wake up not feeling refreshed, if you feel tired all day long, if you’re not performing as well as you’d like on your job (or your teenager at school); if you want to wake up feeling great, energized, and ready to conquer the world ... Talk to your dentist!
Dr. Mychael Davis
If you’re not sleeping well ... Talk to your Dentist!
Bedford Dental AssociateMychael Davis, DDS
88 Center Rd. Bedford #330, 44146 (Next to Bedford Hospital)In the University Hospital Health Center- 3rd Floor
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