Westerly Fair Teaches Environmental Science
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FREE FREE TO READ! FREE TO WRITE! Submit your story online by May 23 at wbvobserver.com VOLUME 6 • ISSUE 10 | The Community Newspaper Powered by the Citizens of Westlake and Bay Village | MAY 13, 2014 Westerly fair teaches environmental science weSTLAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Evergreen Cemetery Walk on May 17 ELL D ELL D PHOTO BY DENNY WEN BY PHOTO Tour guides recount Westlake’s history ARA WEN ARA during a previous cemetery walk. T by LYSA STANTON PHOTO BY BY PHOTO he Westlake Historical Society is Bay Village children’s librarian Anne Lynch leads a trio of Westerly students in a hands-on experiment excited to present the very popular demonstrating a principle of air pressure. TEvergreen Cemetery Walk. The event by MARTHA FISHER games, puzzles and interactive events. The students had relay will be held this year on Saturday, May 17, races with bees gathering pollen and nectar and another race 1-3 p.m. n May 9, the “Plant New Ideas” environmental fair cel- acting out the different stages of a butterfly’s metamorphosis. Join longtime residents portrayed by ebrated the 20th birthday of Westerly School’s Outdoor The Bee Master Challenge focused on fact and fiction about historical society members and volunteers OScience Lab, a natural habitat in the center of the school bees. Large scale posters of the Outdoor Science Lab were cut as they help the cemetery, located on Center and a certified National Wildlife Site. The students in my third- into smaller shapes to be reassembled. A scavenger hunt in the Ridge Road between Porter and Crocker, to grade class received a grant from Bay Education Foundation and Outdoor Science Lab had participants matching photos of the come alive. Those wishing to attend, please support from Westerly’s PTA to create, organize and implement plants with the growing plants in the Lab. The students planted meet under the Evergreen arch at 1 p.m. the birthday party for the Outdoor Science Lab. terrariums to sell. A display with melting ice demonstrated Tours will begin with the laying of a wreath The students stayed after school once a week since the the plight of the polar bears’ shrinking habitat. The students at the entrance to the cemetery. It will end beginning of January to prepare their activities: stations with manned the different stations. » See WESTERLY page 2 at the 200-year-old Moses Cleaveland Tree in the back of the cemetery, with refresh- ments. There is no cost for this community event, but your donations to continue the work of the Westlake Historical Society are WWAC Festa spawns fun, connections, scholarship funds appreciated. Join us as we re-enact early Dover Town- by LOUISE SEEHOLZER Conversation, laughter ship citizens during the living history tour. and good food were seasoned Along the way, you will meet Leverett John- xpectations of sharing with raffles and auctions of son, considered the first settler of Westlake, an Italian feast in the unique and artistic items that as he cleared this land in south Dover. He ELL Ecompany of friends and drew interest and friendly D built a log cabin at Porter and Center Ridge others, who value the commit- competition. But the primary roads for himself and wife, Abigail, in 1814. ment of the Westlake-Westshore benefactor was the WWAC arts He is buried at Evergreen, which consists of ARA WEN ARA Arts Council to promote art for scholarship fund. The proceeds T his donated land. the future, drew enough people from the group’s 30th Anniver- Also on the tour is Leonard Porter (1806- to fill Daddona’s Fine Ital- sary Year fundraiser benefit the 1884), who donated his personal collection PHOTO BY BY PHOTO ian Restaurant for the second Council’s Student Arts Scholar- WWAC officers Patt Long and Betty Lou Curatolo of books and funds to establish what we annual “Festa di Primavera” on ship Endowment Fund. listen as State Rep. Nan Baker praises the work of know today as Westlake Porter Public Library. April 27. » See ARTS COUNCIL page 4 the arts council at the April 27 fundraising event. The tour also features Walter Clague, whose family homestead was deeded to the community in 1926, as well as many other MEMORIAL DAY A change came in 1971 when the Uniform Monday Holi- prominent past citizens. The cemetery tour day Act took effect. Memorial Day was among several federal is a wonderful way to honor those who have holidays assigned to specific Mondays instead of traditional gone before us and who played a part in our How great a sacrifice? dates. The longer weekends benefitted government employees. rich history. by KATHY LUENGO On May 26, the last Monday of May, area residents will visit Please wear comfortable shoes. Parking cemeteries to remember their own. is available in the soccer field parking lot just he first official observance of Memorial Day, also known Proponents of the traditional May 30 date felt the three- east of the cemetery. as “Decoration Day” occurred May 30, 1868, at Arlington day “holiday weekend” diminished the solemnity of the single For more information TNational Cemetery where graves of fallen Union and day set aside for remembering soldiers who made the ultimate please contact the West- Confederate soldiers were decorated with flowers. Memorial sacrifice; legislation to restore the original Memorial Day went lake Historical Society Day was observed on May 30 for more than a century. nowhere. » See MEMORIAL DAY page 2 at 440-808-1961. 2 WESTLAKE | BAY VILLAGE OBSERVER • 13 MAY 2014 MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATING from front page 5 YEARS Community Powered News of CITIZEN JOURNALISM Volunteers have Their argument makes sense. The 646 joined the Observer long May weekend is touted as the first Ohio School Boards Association weekend of summer fun and popular- MEDIA HONOR RoLL 2013 ized by major retail events. The Westlake | Bay Village Observer Understandably, weary American is a hyperlocal community newspaper workers benefit from combined time off and website written by, for and about to have fun, relax, and maybe catch up the residents of Westlake and Bay Village, providing perspectives and information with yard work. Whatever their pleasure, about topics and events in our community. the freedom of choice is theirs. The mission of the Westlake | Bay Those who marked Memorial Day Village Observer is to inform, involve GO and energize the community through before 1971 lived in simpler times. This n citizen participation of 600+ community UE was a time when there was generally volunteers. n L more respect for people and property. GO The views and opinions expressed in this On warm summer nights windows were E publication do not necessarily reflect the by generally left open. It was glorious to views and opinions of the Westlake | Bay oto Village Observer staff. fall asleep to the lullaby of nature’s noc- Ph Observer Guidelines turnal chorus and moonlight peering These sousaphones at rest in Clague Park will sound again with stirring Want to submit an article to the Observer? through the window. At times just screen patriotic tunes by the composer whose name they bear paying tribute to our We’d love to hear from you! 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