Signature Program

On behalf of the Leadership Medina County Board of Trustees, we are pleased to announce the Leadership Medina County Class of 2017. Share your congratulations now on social media using #lmc17 or comment below. Suzy Addleman, The Ruhlin Company, Marketing Manager Dave Afanador, Hyload/Martin Rubber, Business Development Manager Amy Annico, Ohio Music Education Association, Director…

By Carrie Park ’16 No, I lied. But if I titled this piece, “Reflections on a Year in Leadership”, would you have been as excited to read it? Admit it, you wouldn’t have. But now that I have your attention, give me a minute. As a non-native Ohioan, a friend suggested that I join LMC…

By Angela Huston The Weymouth Country Club Grand Ballroom was the setting May 18 for the celebration of the 2016 Leadership Medina County graduation of the Silver Jubilee Class, also marking the 25th anniversary of LMC in Medina County. The large group of guests gathered for a social hour and dinner; the invocation was delivered…

Posted by Colleen Rice Stress. Transportation. Drug Abuse. These topics and more came out of the poverty simulation led by Leadership Medina County on Friday, April 29, 2016. Thirty participants and twenty-two community volunteers came together for a realistic simulation portraying the barriers of poverty. Many left the simulation with new opinions about poverty and…

By Jocelyn Stefancin ’16 The Lodge at Allardale proved the perfect place to begin Environment/Quality of Life Day for the 2016 Signature Class. The picturesque view made it easy to understand why conservation was so important to community founders’ years ago. A group of citizens wishing to preserve open spaces and protect natural resources petitioned…

Stress. Transportation. Drug Abuse. These topics and more came out of the poverty simulation led by Leadership Medina County on Friday, April 29, 2016. Thirty participants and twenty-two community volunteers came together for a realistic simulation portraying the barriers of poverty. Many left the simulation with new opinions about poverty and a desire to serve…

By Colleen Rice “The greatest problem we have working with alcoholics and addicts is our own beliefs and expectations,” said Dr. Brad Lander. And that’s how this powerful session about addiction began. Dr. Lander defined Addiction as the physical adaptation of the reward pathways of the brain to the repeated presence of dopamine-surging chemicals. Addiction…

By Carrie Park, Class of 2016 It was a dark and stormy night… My partner, Kristine Schultze, and I are outside the abandoned school house waiting to begin the simulation set up by the Montville Police Department. “Here’s the situation,” Chief of police, Terry Grice, explains to us. “We have been told there are three…

By Tonjua McCullough Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.  And on that farm he found the Leadership Medina Class of 2016 Silver Jubilee, E-I-E-I-O.  With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there, everywhere a moo-moo; Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. Our farm adventure started bright and early at Boyert’s Greenhouse for a scrumptious omelet breakfast.  …

By Carrie Park, Class of 2016 Let your mind drift back. Back to a simpler time. The year was 1991 and the world was a vastly different place. The Soviet Union was dissolving. Pluto was still a planet. People complained that Saturday Night Live was not as good as it used to be. Somebody named…