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Posted on 07/28/2007, 10:39
By Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)

Jul. 28--REBUILDING TOGETHER SUMMIT COUNTY -- the all-volunteer housing fix-up program for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners -- needs our help.
Rebuilding Together's executive director, Paul Holm, is seeking volunteers with flexible schedules to install grab bars and hand rails and make other minor modifications with the noble goal of keeping seniors independent in their homes for as long as possible.
A Haircut-Athon and rummage sale is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at Shear TLC styling salon, 341 West Ave., Tallmadge, with proceeds going to the Linda Griffith Breast Cancer Fund.

By Jewell Cardwell, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio

Jul. 28--REBUILDING TOGETHER SUMMIT COUNTY -- the all-volunteer housing fix-up program for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners -- needs our help.

Rebuilding Together's executive director, Paul Holm, is seeking volunteers with flexible schedules to install grab bars and hand rails and make other minor modifications with the noble goal of keeping seniors independent in their homes for as long as possible.

"We don't need professionals -- just people with a heart to serve and some basic experience in light carpentry and plumbing," said Holm.

RT's Senior Home Modifications Program is funded through the support of Summit County's Department of Job & Family Services, the Sisler McFawn Foundation and the Corbin Foundation.

Interested in helping out? Please call 330-773-4100.

Cancer fund benefit

A Haircut-Athon and rummage sale is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at Shear TLC styling salon, 341 West Ave., Tallmadge, with proceeds going to the Linda Griffith Breast Cancer Fund. Cost is $8.

Also, clients having more than 10 inches cut will have their locks donated to Wigs for Kids to be made into wigs for children who have suffered medical hair loss.

Barbara Machtrab -- salon owner and the event organizer -- said proceeds will go to help Griffith, 47, of Akron, an occupational therapist assistant and East High School band booster, with medical costs.

Griffith's husband, Gary, lost his job and health insurance when Reiter Dairy closed.

Aultman neonatal unit

Canton's Scott and Julie Rennecker continue to turn their grief into positive energy to assist fragile newborns.

The Renneckers are memorializing their firstborn child -- Thomas A. Rennecker, who died Jan. 14, 2005, when he was 8 days old -- with a third annual benefit golf outing Sept. 1 at Skyland Pines. The shotgun start of the four-person scramble gets under way at 9 a.m. Cost is $90 a player.

The Renneckers -- who are pregnant with a third baby -- are donating all proceeds to Aultman Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit to purchase items to make the emotional experience easier for families.

For more information, please call Scott at 330-284-3841 by Aug. 29 to register.

Challenger baseball

Canton Challenger Little League Baseball is hosting a rigatoni dinner fundraiser and sports-themed silent auction from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at Westbrook Park United Methodist Church, 2521 12th St. N.W., Canton.

Up for bid? Ohio State vs. Michigan State tickets (donated by James and Faye Hedrick); a baseball glove autographed by Mike Hershberger (a former outfielder with the Chicago White Sox, Kansas City/Oakland Athletics and Milwaukee Brewers with a career batting average of .252); two Hershberger-autographed official MLB baseballs; and two autographed original Topps baseball cards of Hershberger circa 1970.

Cost is $6, adults; $3, children 12 or younger.

For reservations, please call Cinde Martin at 330-966-6950.

Buddy Walk

The seventh annual Northeast Ohio Buddy Walk celebrating the "Up Side of Down" (syndrome) of Greater Cleveland is Saturday, Sept. 8, at Jacobs Field, 2401 Ontario St., Cleveland. Registration is at 9 a.m. and the walk at 10.

The one-mile walk is designed to celebrate the accomplishments of people with Down syndrome and to promote acceptance and inclusion.

Jewell Cardwell can be reached at 330-996-3567 or jcardwell@thebeaconjournal.com.

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