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POSTINGS FROM THE PARK: The sound of music from Idabelle’s Gathering Place in Firestone Park

COLUMBIANA — Sundays will be memorable for the The Gathering Place during the months of September and October. Come 3 p.m. on six consecutive Sundays, a series of instrumental concerts will be offered as free concerts, with an emphasis on semi-classical music — the music Idabelle Firestone loved and composed. It all began this past Sunday, Sept. 10, with the first symphony performed in the park by the 47-piece Firestone Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Charles Kobb, they played to an appreciative audience gathered in the afternoon sun under a canopy, among the beautiful blossoms of ...

State redistricting to resume on Wednesday

The Ohio Redistricting Commission will meet Wednesday for the first time in more than a year to work on state legislative maps with little time to finalize. It’s the latest in a series of moves to get federal and state legislative maps in place for the 2024 election. The federal map used last year, despite being ruled unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court, will remain for the 2024 election. (More on that below.) With a Dec. 20 filing deadline for candidates running in the March 19, 2024, primary, there isn’t much time to resolve the state legislative issues. The Ohio ...

Shine your light and make a difference in a life

“Debbie” knew her mother was troubled about something. But she hadn’t spoken of it yet. She would, though. Her mother wasn’t one to sweep things under the rug. She faced problems head on and wasn’t satisfied until the problems were resolved. “I want you to take the rifle and the pistol to your house for a while,” her mother said. She spoke of her concerns for Debbie’s brother who was deeply depressed and she feared he would harm himself. That was in the days when self-harm, suicidal ideation, wasn’t something people talked about because it might plant the seed for ...

Postings from the Park: Idabelle Firestone’s legacy lives on

The Firestone Park restoration by the Restoration and Beautification Committee of Columbiana is in its final year with one project pending. We hope to have the Senior Courts completed in early 2024. In the meantime, another group, the Columbiana Athletic Boosters, is in the midst of ...

Recovery: A beautiful, possible thing

Every time I visit Fleming House, I see success stories. Women who have reclaimed their lives in a good and healthy way. In looking into their faces, there is no way to know what they had to go through to get to where they are as they prepare to leave the yellow house that love built in Columbiana County. Jefferson County has its success stories, as well. Addiction is not something anyone starts out to achieve. For whatever reasons, though, people arrive there. And they must find their way back. It’s not something that can be done for them. They must do it. It’s hard work. And ...

Victory Over Temptation Part 4

If you have been following along in our series, you have heard me say at the beginning of each one of these articles that the devil has one purpose: to get us to curse God and quit. That was his overall purpose for Job in the Bible! You might ask why curse God? The devil is trying to get us a blame God for what the devil does to us. The reason we are sick is because the devil tricked us in the garden saying, “Surely God didn’t mean you would die.” Now we get sick and die. Just like the other articles, I am not talking to you about the 10 commandments, but where the devil tries to ...