Signature Program

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…

By Carrie Park, Class of 2016  I come before you today to out my friend, Gelin Camp. Although she presents herself as a banker by trade, she is nothing but a bleeding-heart philanthropist. I am here to tell the tale of her hypocrisy. Let me set the stage. The event was the Polar Bear Plunge…

By Carrie Park, Class of 2016 Notes by Shannon Waller, Class of 2016 (A “Synergy” Approach Learned from the Leader in Me) Highland High School and the Medina Career Center were the hosts for the 2016 Education Day attended by the Leadership Class. Catherine Aukerman, Superintendent of Highland Schools, lead off the event with an…

By Jocelyn Stefancin, Class of 2016 Red and blue flashing lights broke through the gray morning sky as the signature class entered the parking lot at Williams on the Lake January 13, 2016. Law enforcement officers directed all drivers to a safety check/OVI check point.  Once it was determined that no driver posed a threat…