North Coast Church

Calendar listings Aug. 4-10

TODAY

Gemini Center, 21225 Lorain Road, Fairview Park. Westshore Tea Party meeting, 7-9 p.m. $2. (440) 899-9321.

St. Colman Church, 2027 W. 65th St., Cleveland. Rummage sale, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also, 1-5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds will benefit our outreach programs.

FRIDAY

North Olmsted High School Class of 1991 20th reunion, 8 p.m.-midnight, at the Holiday Inn Westlake. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $50. Cash only. Catch up with your fellow classmates while listening to the band Tuesdaze Crush. There will be a photo booth and raffle prizes. E-mail barra4189@gmail.com.

SATURDAY

Avon Athletic Boosters Club is holding its annual Four Person Fun Scramble at Bob-O-Link Golf Course. Check in begins at 7:30 a.m. All golfers must arrive by 8:30 a.m. A team sponsorship is $ 280 ($70 per golfer) and includes four golfers, 18 holes, cart, skins, raffle ticket, hot dogs and chips at the turn, dinner and beverages. Eagle Sponsorship is $325 and includes the four-golfer package plus a Hole Sponsorship and recognition in the Shelter House. Purple Sponsorship is $50 and includes a Hole Sponsorship and recognition at the Shelter House. Gold Sponsorship is $25 and includes recognition in the Shelter House. If unable to contribute as a sponsor, please consider being a prize donor. To register or for more information, call Bob Puzak (440) 937-6151 or e-mail RPuzak@hotmail.com.

DanceFX, 28641 Lorain Road, North Olmsted. Zumbathon fundraiser, 1-3 p.m. Admission $10 or $5 with a donation of school supplies. (440) 610-3940.

Lincoln High School (Cleveland) Class of 1949, will celebrate their 62nd class reunion, 4 p.m. at Sokolowski’s University Inn. Reunions are held annually at the inn on the first Saturday of August. The class of January 1950 is welcome. For more information, call Mike Guzi (216) 524-4721.

North Olmsted Recreation Center, will be hosting a community Garage Sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot. Great bargains, farmers market and DJ. If you would like to display your wares, call (440) 734-8200.

VFW Post 1079, 500 South Abbe Road, Elyria. Saturday Night Dance, 8-11:15 p.m. with music by Al Battistelli. (440) 937-5606.

Tri-City Medical Center create healing garden for patients : San ...

By Gina Yarbrough

OCEANSIDE–A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the completion of a healing garden was held Saturday morning at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside.

Staffers from Tri-City Hospital Foundation and Tri-City Medical Center, North Coast Church members, dignitaries and community members gathered in a courtyard north side of the hospital for the unveiling of three healing gardens.

The healing garden was created to give patients, their families and hospital employees a place to sit and relax.

Planted trees, roses, tuscan and California native plants surround the quiet area, which is adjacent to the patient discharge entrance.

The six-week project was a collaborative effort by donors to the Tri-City Hospital Foundation, Tri-City Medical Center employees, and North Coast Church.

During the weekends, more than 170 volunteers from North Coast Church spent 1,104 hours designing the landscape, planting trees, flowers, adding cement to walkways, lighting and a water system.

“We have a beautiful landscape to admire,” said Tobi Ferguson, president and CEO, Tri-City Hospital Foundation. “The spirit comes in many ways through volunteering.”

The healing garden was a project selected by North Coast Church members in observance of Weekend of Service, a program which church members donate their time to several projects in the community.

Dave Enns, one of the pastors of North Coast Church, said that all church services were cancelled on May 14 and 15, so that church members could go out into the community and serve.

“We continue to come here and minister to you,” Pastor Enns told guests at the ceremony. “We are the hands and feet of Jesus in the community.”

Companies such as Lowes, Home Depot, North County Tree Service, Land Graphics, Kichler Lighting, North County Mission Tree Service, RCP Block and Brick, Westbrook Landscape, ABT Wireless, Katz and Associates, Luis Cruz Concrete, Superior Ready Mix Concrete, Southwest Bolder and Stone Rocks, Village Nurseries, Terra Bella Nursery, and North County Supplies either donated or reduced the cost of materials used to build the gardens.

Emerson Grimsby, who served as the project leader of North Coast Church, says a system will control the amount of water used to water the plants. “Water is done on a system,” he said. The hospital will maintain the garden.

About 20,000 people are admitted to Tri-City Medical Center each year, according to Larry Anderson, CEO, Tri-City Medical Center. And more than 80,000 fill the emergency rooms each year. “This is the second busiest hospital.

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