It’s a wonderful hometown, Hometeam life for Denise Dufala. The award-winning WOIO-TV anchor and North Olmsted native proudly counts the local Make-A-Wish Foundation and Cleveland Community Building Initiative, as well as a singing career, among her prized projects. This weekend, she’ll get her wings as guest soloist on a program featuring the internationally acclaimed Singing…
A local actor/poet/singer craving creative challenge, Bunch spotted playwright Fred Taylor, head of C-Town Performing Arts, nearby. “I was being nosy,” admitted Bunch with a sheepish, I-didn’t-mean-any-harm-by-it laugh. “He was making copies of scripts, and I noticed he was from C-Town Performing Arts. I told him I did an independent film for a friend, and…
Jenny Gable takes a cheerfully self-deprecating tone when she says teaching card tricks to birds doesn’t require a “full deck.” But, for someone only recently enamored with winged wonders, the ringleader of Bird Brains Performing Parrots has several surprises up her sleeve. And she loves dealing with a jack of all tricks, a king of…
Born as the Great Depression began, living a challenging childhood and growing up with five brothers, she was a survivor. Tenacity and determination fueled her wonderful life – one that was lived richly with compassion and a sense of service that loved ones of all generations will remember and relish always.
Raised in a hotel for the first six years of her life in a rural mid-Ohio town that attracted people from near and far, Judith Ann Endsley of Marion, Ohio, checked out of this earthly plane on Jan. 8, 2026, at home at the age of 87. Born Judith Ann Conrad on May 11, 1938,…
Leaving behind a loving legacy of dignity, humility and grace, Richard Lewis Woodard – quietly and unassuming as always – passed away peacefully and painlessly in the wee hours of a late summer morning Sept. 4, 2020, at The Residence of Chardon (Ohio). He was 91.
The tug-of-war inside my head can be ugly. When the linear, logical left brain tangles with the emotional, creative right brain, you’d think something would give. Often it’s a standoff. A draw. A tie. A dead heat. No winner, no loser. Just a lot of energy being exerted at offsetting the opposite side. Deep down,…
Good afternoon, family members and friends. On behalf of the bride and groom, we wish you a warn Southern welcome to bear witness to the blessed union of N. and A. You have traveled from 18 states to join us for this once-in-a-lifetime event.
With the spring of 2022 about to start springing in Northeastern Ohio, my symptoms were of classic allergies – burning nose, eyes and throat, sandpapery tongue, a head that pulsed and pounded – but I also felt fatigue, body aches and funky stuff going on with my equilibrium.