A longtime Akron General Medical Center emergency medicine doctor has earned statewide recognition.

FAIRLAWN: The Fairlawn Parks and Recreation Department will host a grand reopening of its Learning Resource Center, according to Fairlawn-Bath Patch.

FAIRLAWN: The Fairlawn Toastmasters will host a Lemonade Daze open house at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Fairlawn Community Center, 3486 S. Smith Road.

While Americans willingly cut their spending on upscale restaurants during the Great Recession, their pets continued to dine on gourmet meals.

We recently asked readers to tell us how they knew that they turned into their fathers. The responses were both humorous and melancholy. A woman wrote saying she would rather wear a tool belt than an apron — thanks to Dad. Another wrote to us about his father while sitting at his dad’s grave.

FAIRLAWN: Patrons can stock up on summer reading materials at a mini book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Fairlawn-Bath Library, 3103 Smith Road (across from Summit Mall).

A Strawberry Festival will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. today at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, 6462 Ridge Road in Sharon Center.

I can’t tell you how excited I was the first time I saw a butter butt. Laugh if you will, but after 30 years of bird watching, it was the first time I had spied the yellow-rumped warbler that, along with a flock of his friends, stopped for several days by a nearby stream on their annual migration to their Canada breeding range.

Sweet Pea Cafe - Dale Galgozy plays at 7 Friday; Ed Amann at 7 Saturday at 117 Merz Blvd., Fairlawn.

COPLEY: Roger Joseph could have done without the chill and gray overcast.

BATH: Certified henna artist Luna Hart is presenting a henna workshop from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Fairlawn-Bath branch library.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Summit County awarded its Community Recognition Award in May to the city of Barberton and its leaders for establishing a Mental Health Court and because the school district sponsored a suicide prevention workshop.

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