“I would use it more if I lived closer.”

“I would use it more if I lived closer.”

Elaine Pekarovic, of Austintown, estimateing that she rides the Mill Creek MetroParks Bikeway between Western Reserve Road and Ohltown Road for recreation three to four times per week.

“It’s just important for me to promote the park as a place to preserve and protect. ... I try to show it in an artistic way that will get people to appreciate it more.”

Scott Lanz, who’s been shooting photographs of Mill Creek MetroParks for at least 20 years, on how he views his photographic efforts.

“There’s a feeling of desperation, not only among people with Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment, but also with their family caregivers.”

Gail Hunt, president of the National Alliance for Caregiving, on news that The Alzheimer’s Association recently estimated that cases of the neurological disease, now affecting about 5 million Americans, will more than double in the next 40 years — at enormous personal, social and economic costs.