Cleveland Connection
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Hospice/Palliative Care Partners of the Visiting Nurse Association provides end-of-life care to many residents of Northeast Ohio. Patricia Covell is Special Services Manager, and Bill Lewis is Neighborhood Services Coordinator.
www.hospiceohio.org 216-931-1400

The Benjamin Rose Institute is sponsoring a conference on Caregivers, those who help care for the elderly. Polly Clemo is Vice President of Institutional Advancement for the Institute. Regina Brett, columnist for the Plain Dealer, will speak at the conference.
www.benrose.org 216-791-8000

The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland is holding its eighth annual Festival of Books and Authors, with 10 noted authors scheduled to appear over a two week period.
Deedra Dolin and Jill Katz are chairing this year's festival.
http://www.clevejcc.org/BookFestival.asp 216-593-6216

Frankenstein, the classic book written more than a century ago by Mary Shelley, has been republished as a Penguin Classic. It features a graphic novel cover. Editor John Siciliano explains.
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780786514779,00.html

Cleveland Connection
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Dr. Holly Smedira of the Cleveland Clinic is a medical breast specialist, and has a lot of useful information about the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.
http://cms.clevelandclinic.org/cancer/

The License to Live campaign is designed to raise money for the Breast Cancer Fund of Ohio. Retired Cleveland judgeC. Ellen Connally discusses the pink ribbon license plates in Ohio.
www.breastcancerfundohio.org

The Free Medical Clinic is almost 40 years old. Tracy Kipstuul is a member of the Free Clinic associate board, and previews an upcoming fundraiser, the Microbrew Extravaganza.
www.thefreeclinic.org Tickets: 216-707-3405 Volunteering: 216-707-3467

Dr. Cathi Lehn runs the Biodiversity Alliance, a joint venture between several Cleveland institutions, all with conservation missions. She discusses one of the issues that most threatens the ecology of our region, and names the winners of the first Biodiversity awards.
http://www.cmnh.org/site/Conservation_BiodiversityAlliance.aspx

The Minister of Culture is out with a new book. Hear Michael Heaton of the Plain Dealer discuss “Truth and Justice for Fun and Profit,” comprised of some of the magazine stories he has written in his long, colorful career.
http://www.grayco.com/cleveland/books/10398/index.shtml

Cleveland Connection

Sunday, October 7, 2007

William Christ has been Head of School for Hathaway Brown School for 20 years. He must be doing a good job; Hathaway Brown is one of the top private schools in the country.

http://www.hb.edu/

Mind Body Spirit Connected brings practictioners of multiple disciplines together. Donna Nowak and Dr. Tanya Edwards explain how.

http://www.mbsconline.org/

Like many of us, Sonny Brewer once lost his dog. Unlike many of us, Sonny is an outstanding writer who has put the challenges of losing and then finding his dog into a book, called "Cormac; The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing."