Monday, December 17, 2012
Hundred of local seniors receive gifts through the Be A Santa To A Senior program
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- Jason Lea
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Each year Home Instead Senior Care offices, including the one in Mentor, spread holiday cheer to homebound, lonely or financially-challenged seniors through the Be a Santa to a Senior program. Since introducing the program, Home Instead Senior Care has helped provide 1.2 million gifts to more than 700,000 seniors nationwide. Just in Lake County, the program has attracted more than 2,500 volunteers during the past nine years of wrapping and distributing gifts to deserving seniors. Home Instead Senior Care partners with local nonprofit and community organizations to identify seniors who might not otherwise receive gifts this holiday season. The company then works with local businesses and retail stores to help facilitate the purchase and …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
These decorations are definitely going to put you in a festive mood
The best part of Jennifer and John Schmiege's holiday display at 4967 Forest Road isn't the inflatable Winnie the Pooh or Thomas the Tank Engine. It isn't the hundreds of feet of lights, the sign counting down to Christmas or the nativity scene. (OK, depending on your perspective, it may be the nativity scene.) It isn't even the fact that lights are synced to the music on 98.7 FM. The absolute awesomest part of this holiday spectacle is that the Schmieges' use it to collect donations for Make-A-Wish and Toys for Tots. They provide their display, which they are always adding to, for free. However, if a person wants to donate to a good cause while they are there -- that's fine too. The wonderland on Forest Road is just one of the many …
What movies and specials do you and your family watch each year?
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Each week the Mentor Patch Moms Council answers a question on parenthood posed to them by readers or another member of council. This week our question is: It's the holiday season. Hanukkah begins this Friday; Christmas is three weeks away; Kwanzaa starts the 26th (or, at least, so says Google.) It may sound trite but one of my favorite parts of the season is breaking out holiday TV specials. My wife is a sucker for the 12 Days of Christmas. I'm a Muppet Family Christmas kind of guy. What holiday specials do your families love? Peanuts? For Better or for Worse? Justice League? Donna Milnes: Our family always watches the children's classics: Rudolph, Frosty, Grinch and last year we added the Elf on the Shelf (which my grandchildren have at …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!
We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that traffic is jammed on your street because of rubberneckers. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16 to deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/mentor. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Our contest is right around the corner, so now’s the…
Monday, December 3, 2012
The holiday season means silver bells, high school orchestras, acapella choirs and more music all month
Love you some Jingle Bells? Can't get enought of This Christmas? Well, you're in luck because there will be a holiday concert almost every day in Mentor for the next few weeks, so here's your primer to make sure you don't miss out on a single silver bell. Monday, Dec. 3 The Mentor Middle School Orchestra -- comprised of all the middle schools in the Mentor Public Schools district will perform 7 p.m. at the Mentor Fine Arts Center. Tuesday, Dec. 4 The Shore Middle School Choir Concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Mentor Fine Arts Center. The St. Gabriel’s School community will hold its Christmas Concert also at 7 p.m. in the Lake Catholic auditorium. The Mentor Senior Center will host its annual Hillcrest Band Holiday Concert at 7:30 p.m. …
Sunday, December 4, 2011
We rounded up some of your tweets about staying warm and Christmas shopping.
We love reading your Tweets. This week there were lots about staying warm, snow, and Christmas. Did you make the cut? Don't forget to follow us! After all, it is the giving season, and we'll Tweet you generously.
Sam
4:56 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012
There is a great set up on the corner of St. Charles Place and Lakeshore by St. Bede Church. I cannot believe no one has mentioned yet. it's huge! more ›