Literacy program

Literacy program

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More than one third of children enter kindergarten unprepared with basic language skills needed to learn to read. Akron Children’s Hospital is committed to helping youngsters establish a love for reading using an early literacy program called Reach Out and Read that starts when a child is 6 months old.

On June 29, special guests including Warren Mayor Doug Franklin read to about a dozen young children to launch the program at the Warren office of Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics (ACHP), which is a pediatric primary-care practice owned and operated by Akron Children’s.

Through this national program, pediatricians give children age 6 months to 5 years an age-appropriate book at each well visit. In addition, they offer parents suggestions on how to help their children develop a love of books and reading, thus enhancing the development of early literacy skills. The program builds on the unique and special relationship between doctors and the parents of young children and reinforces the parent’s role as the child’s first teacher.

United Way benefit

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The Western Reserve Building and Construction Trades will have its second annual Motorcycle Bike Run on July 15 to benefit the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. at the Operating Engineers Local 66, 291 McClurg Road in Boardman. Breakfast will be provided by Panera Bread.

The first bike will leave at 11 a.m. The Poker Run will start and finish at the Operating Engineers Local 66 with stops in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.

The cost is $15 per rider and $5 per passenger. The first 50 riders to register will receive a T-shirt. Donations of toiletries including shampoo, soap, toothpaste, etc., also will be accepted. All proceeds from the event will benefit feeding the needy in our community through United Way and the AFL-CIO Community Services. For pre-registration and more information, call Tara Mady at 330-746-8494.

Arthritis event

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The Arthritis Foundation Trumbull County Expo is having an event Aug. 7 at McMenamy’s Banquet Center in Niles. The Arthritis Foundation Trumbull County Expo provides a forum where patients, their family members and caregivers can come to learn more about the many different forms of arthritis and how to manage the physical and emotional pain typically associated with the disease. The free expo features speakers who are experts in the field of arthritis, including rheumatologist Dr. Arminda Lumapas, who will provide updates in rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia.

The Arthritis Foundation is committed to raising awareness and reducing the unacceptable impact of arthritis, which strikes one in every five adults and 300,000 children and is the nation’s leading cause of disability. To conquer this painful, debilitating disease, it supports education, research, advocacy and other vital programs and services.

Award recipient

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Dr. Clara Bloomfield, an international authority on leukemia and lymphoma at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, received the 2012 Richard L. Schilsky Cancer and Leukemia Group B Achievement Award at the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Group Meeting in Chicago on June 30.