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Letter from THE EDITOR By Debby Zelman Rapoport L ast month I wrote about compassion and self-kindness. February is historically the month of love, so I expand last month’s topic asking everyone to spread love and kindness. The past year has been unlike at passers-by as often as the • What if we do what makes our any other, and I’m confident opportunities arise. Why? heart happy? that 2021 (and beyond) will Because I refuse to stand by • What if we spread a little more be brighter. Since I wrote this idly and exist in a world where kindness? article, there have been more unconditional love is invisible. I • What if we do our part to make “You can have everything COVID-related deaths and, invite you to join me in showing the world a more loving place? in life you want, (hopefully not) more violent love, judging less, and finding • What if we make today’s demonstrations. On the brighter your own way to swing the choices as we would if we if you will just help side, we now have a president pendulum in the direction knew our time was limited? other people get what who sheds optimism in this dark, of love. Be kind to a stranger • What if we change our mindset they want.” split, political arena. today, who just may turn into to wanting to do more of the I mention last month’s a friend you have never met. things we need to do? – Zig Ziglar article because when we treat Pay it forward for any kindness • What if we’re easier on ourselves with kindness we shown to you in the past.” ourselves? create a framework for how This post perfectly reflects • What if we realize we’re the we treat other people and my thoughts as well as Stew’s best we can be right now, and “From what we get, how we wish to be treated. My personality! Positive actions trump accept that? we can make a living; friend Stew Collins shared the negativity 100% of the time. • What if we adhere to our what we give, however, following post on Facebook; As life continues to throw us own instincts instead of unfortunately, I don’t have the curve balls, we each have the living life based on what makes a life.” attribution information. ability to make choices that others may think? – Arthur Ashe “As the World fights to figure attract daily calm and inner • What if we regularly follow things out, I'll practice letting peace, and to spread them. the words of wisdom shared people cut in front of me in Smiles (although not easily seen by Stew? traffic, saying good morning under masks) and kind words to everyone, keeping babies are contagious. The person with whom entertained in grocery lines, Through the pandemic, I’ve you’ll always have the closest stopping to talk to someone been spending more time relationship is yourself. My wish who looks lonely, tipping landscape painting and taking for you this month is to feel generously, calling people online workshops. A common comfortable where you are and by the name on their name phrase from instructors is what to spread kindness and love. tag, waving at police officers, if? What if I make it a cloudy day? Power of attraction dictates that sharing food, giving children What if I move the tree from the what we put in the universe is a thumbs up, being patient left to the right? what comes back to us. with sales clerks, and smiling Life is full of what ifs.
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Who We Are Debby Zelman Rapoport Editor/Publisher Yocheved Wylen Senior Account Executive Scott Morrison For the Love of science Staff Photographer Mother, Daughter Win Fulbright, Rhodes Scholarships by June Scharf Elaine Cicora Tybee Zuckerman Proofreaders Stephen Valentine T he chemistry in the Srinivasan household is a potent blend Art Director of intelligence and integrity, and it recently yielded national Arlene Fine recognition. Rekha, a Case Western Reserve University June Scharf senior instructor of chemistry, and her daughter Swathi, a 2017 Jen Stern BHS graduate and Harvard University senior, recently won the Shana Wallenstein competitive and coveted Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships, Contributing Writers respectively. Jerry Zelman Vice President of Operations Full story starts on page 8. Letters to the Editor Photos by Scott Morrison, Discovery Photo. Please send letters via email to beachwoodbuzz@gmail.com. Calendar Section Please send information about clubs, organizations, events and meetings to beachwoodbuzz@gmail.com. The deadline is the 10th of each month. Article Submissions If you have a story idea or photos you would like to share, email beachwoodbuzz@gmail.com. 9 10 Subscriptions Beachwood Buzz is distributed via out of the U.S. Post Office to every resident inpatients in 2020 and every business, every month. READY. If you live outside our distribution gave us the area, subscriptions are available highest rating by sending your name, address possible and a check for $36 (12 issues) to SAFE. OPEN. for overall care. - PRESS GANEY Beachwood Buzz P.O. Box 22194 Beachwood, Ohio 44122 24/7 Emergency Department Specialized Services Beachwood Buzz is published monthly. Reproduction in whole or 24 Private Patient Rooms Orthopedics in part in any manner without the Advanced Imaging Services Urology written permission of the publisher is strictly prohibited. Walk-in Lab Pain Management Physical and Hand Therapy Spine Editorial Information email beachwoodbuzz@gmail.com For a list of physicians who practice at Beachwood Medical Center, Advertising Information visit beachwoodmedicalcenter.org. call 216.315.1827 or email beachwoodbuzzsales@gmail.com P.O. Box 22194 25501 Chagrin Boulevard Beachwood, Ohio 44122 Beachwood, OH 44122 216-545-4800 February 2021 Beachwood Buzz 5
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Letters to the Community Thank You Art Lovers! Thank You Beachwood Arts Council Carolyn Frankel, Leah Gilbert, Beachwood Beachwood Buzz! thanks participating artists and Adrian Hardin, Wally Kaplan, Buzz; and the community for supporting Sylvia Malcmacher Kramer, Amara I, along with my children, its first virtual art exhibition, Vritika Krishnan, Richard Litwin, Romano, Reuven, Eliana and Chaya Dalya, Regional Artists: A Virtual View. Jean Sycle Martin, John Martin, of Romano thank you for running the article The exhibition provided an James Mayer, Elizabeth Moore Administrative Services, who about Sweet Dreams for Kids opportunity for local artists, Mercado, Jane Montgomery, created the BAC website just before the holidays. After who either live in Beachwood Joseph Polevoi, Susan Cone several years ago, designed the article ran, I was approached or are BAC members, to display Porges, Debby Zelman and formatted the show, and by Spectrum news to do a their extraordinary creativity Rapoport, Angela Schaal, Sharon created the link that led visitors follow-up story because they and sell their art. Schlesinger, Bonnie Venable, in to view the show. saw the article in Beachwood Artwork included digital Fern Weiss, and Shari Wolf. Thank you art lovers! We Buzz. A lot of people read and computer prints, drawings, BAC also extends many look forward to our future enjoy the magazine every fiber art, jewelry, mixed media, thanks to: Leah Gilbert, BAC events, and encourage month, and we thank you! paintings, photographs, Art Exhibition and Social Media everyone to keep creating and Sweet Dreams for Kids is prints, and wood carvings. chair, who passionately headed be safe out there. a grassroots nonprofit that Participating artists were Sawsan this event; her arts committee; donates new, colorful, cozy Alhaddad, Gail Baumoel, Barbara Debby Zelman Rapoport, Paula Rollins pajamas to hospitalized Breen, Hazel Brown, Mike who designed beautiful flyers BAC President children. The idea to create Cargile, Karen Mehling-DeMauro, and provided publicity in beachwoodartscouncil.org this nonprofit came from my personal experience with It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time! Chaya Dalya, whom I call my little miracle. She was born with Second-grade Girl Scouts University Hospitals and Thank you, a cancerous tumor and given from Bryden Elementary Beachwood first responders. Troop 71962 little chance of survival despite School are ready to take your In order to keep the surgery, many rounds of cookie orders! The girls look community safe, the girls chemotherapy, and radiation. forward to reaching their are selling cookies online. We are thankful every day and goals by providing Beachwood Residents can have cookies now pay it forward. residents and businesses with shipped directly to them or Since 2008, Sweet Dreams family favorites. Over the delivered to their doorsteps by for Kids has donated more past two years, in addition a Girl Scout. Residents can also than 20,000 brand new to reaching their sales purchase cookies to donate. Girl Scouts TROOP: 71962 pajamas to children in goals, Troop 71962 donated Please email troop71962@ hospitals around the world. hundreds of boxes of cookies gmail.com and request the link to Ronald McDonald House, to place your orders! Thank you again, Wendy Berezovsky Movie Recommendations? I posted this message on the movie anyone ever told me I Thank you, Beachwood Police Department’s should see! Jamey Appell Facebook page and thought the Let's have a little fun and build Beachwood Patrol Officer idea would be fun to share with a list of the first 100 movies I will the community: watch when I retire. I am looking My co-workers and friends for movies that are funny, are always talking about great positive, thought provoking, Please email movies they have seen and my and will take me on a journey. your movie To learn more, visit typical response, for 25 years Not to age myself, but Airplane, recommendations sweetdreamsforkids.org. now, is, “I haven't seen that one.” Smokey & The Bandit, Cannonball to beachwoodbuzz@ To read the article, visit When I retire, I am going to Run, and Scavenger Hunt are my gmail.com with the word MOVIES beachwoodbuzzmag.com, lock myself in my basement top favorite movies of all time. on the subject line. I will publish click on archives, October with a six-month supply of Thanks for participating, and them in next month’s issue of 2020, and scroll to page 12. popcorn and watch every let’s have some FUN! Beachwood Buzz. February 2021 Beachwood Buzz 7
For the Love Mother, Daughter Win Fulbright, Rhodes Scholarships By June Scharf T he chemistry in the Srinivasan household is a potent blend of intelligence and integrity, and it recently yielded national recognition. Rekha, a Case Western Reserve University senior instructor of chemistry, and her daughter Swathi, a 2017 BHS graduate and Harvard University senior, recently won the competitive and coveted Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships, respectively. These awards recognize those around the globe who can make a difference on an international level. The Rhodes scholarship funds its scholars’ studies at Oxford University in England for up to three years, with Swathi’s enrollment beginning in Fall 2021. The Fulbright provides grants for activity abroad, including study, research, or instruction. For six months between 2019-2020, Rekha traveled to India and Nepal to offer workshops in STEM instruction best practices for all learning styles, aiming to revolutionize their approach to teaching science. The odds of winning one of these awards are slim, and the reality that “I remember reading in Mr. Davis’s one household produced two winners is remarkable. The exceptionalism, English class work by Jamaica however, does not end there. In Swathi’s case, at the beginning of 2020, Kincaid. Then I scanned the Harvard she underwent four months of treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma without course catalog and see that she’s missing any classes or assignments at Harvard. Her chemotherapy and radiation regimen partially overlapped with the beginning of COVID-19’s teaching a class!” spread, so she could no longer take public transportation due to a – Swathi Srinivasan, Rhodes Scholar, compromised immune system. Harvard University senior and BHS Class of 2017 Instead, for the final month of radiation, she rode her bicycle daily, six miles, rain or shine, to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. That was accomplished in the cold, after losing her hair. Her dad stayed in Boston during the month of her radiation treatments and she met him half way so they could ride the remaining distance together. He waited for her outside the hospital since he wasn’t allowed entry due to virus protocols. She is clear of the illness now. Rekha, 48, is no stranger to challenge either. She is an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. 22 years ago, shortly after an arranged marriage in India, according to tradition. She excelled in chemistry, and after earning her Ph.D. in the subject here, she became a chemistry instructor. As such, she teaches organic chemistry, a subject considered by many to be one of the most difficult in any undergraduate curriculum. Their shared interests in science and the way they excel individually is no accident. Life in the family’s Beachwood home has always been about taking themselves and their work seriously. Back when Rekha was a new mom and studying for her degree, she took baby Swathi with her to the lab so she
of Science The odds of winning one of these awards are slim, and the reality that one household produced two winners is remarkable. could complete her assignments. Raising Swathi also came with tremendous support from her husband Ravi, a biomedical engineer who created an improved incubator, among other pediatric devices, and serves as the “silent strength” in the family. Later in life, Rekha and Swathi would complete their work side by side at the kitchen table, a practice designed to encourage Swathi’s engagement with her education. In just three generations, the women have come a long way, building on the progress of past generations while acknowledging their ancestors in India who were child brides with very little education and several children of their own by their early 20s, as was the custom in the early 1900s. Nonetheless, Rekha’s grandparents were an exceptionally bright, self-taught bunch. One of her grandmothers was a math genius who could do mental math at a high level, and another taught herself to read. Also, her grandfather was able to speak five different languages. The Srinivasans’ native tongue is Tamil. Rekha’s guiding wisdom surrounding childrearing was delivered by her own mother. “She told me that a baby is like a flower. If you constantly touch it, it will “We have gotten to where we are get crumpled and lose its beauty, but if you nurture it, if you put it in a vase and give it water and watch it, it will be beautiful.” That essentially describes because so many people have lifted us her approach to raising Swathi. She also modeled the behavior she wanted up. Therefore, it’s our job to lift up others. to see Swathi manifest. “Be what you want your child to be,” Rekha advises. Always have a hand going forward to learn Rekha also supported her daughter’s interests. She cites the time when from others, and always have a hand in the Swathi was captivated by sewing and clothing design, so Rekha bought her a sewing machine to test out and told her to research Coco Chanel. back trying to bring others with you.” Spring break was a regular opportunity for further exploration and – Rekha Srinivasan, Fulbright Scholar and Case Western experimentation, and Swathi has fond memories of those times. When she Reserve University senior instructor of chemistry wanted to make jewelry, her mom helped her buy gemstones online and wire from a craft store. When she wanted to do something science related, her mom brought home lemonade powder and red cabbage so they could conduct an acid base experiment in the kitchen sink. Swathi gives full credit to her mom, dad and others who have supported her over the years, information she shared during a video call while she was at her Boston apartment. “I am a product of all the people who invested in me. The extra office hours that teachers offered me were especially impactful. They helped me to think big, and they gave me the infrastructure to be where I am and to succeed.” The sum total of her experiences up to age 21 have guided her toward an interest in a career affecting public health policy. She is double majoring in social studies (social and political theory) and the history of science, focusing on past public health epidemics. She is currently working on her thesis: the impact of inequality on the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 health
Swathi in Lisbon, while on a research trip to study Portugal’s response to the opioid epidemic (photo credit: Eana Meng); Rekha at Swayambhu, an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; Rekha at Patan Durbar Square in Napal; Swathi hosting a panel at Harvard with Joe Kennedy, former U.S. Representative, Massachusetts. crises, specifically examining policies and over the years and people I had read about, other ancestors. She also examined how procedures in Brazil. She is also completing they are here! A friend told me that her government policies impact public health, a minor in chemistry, with another thesis thesis advisor is a Nobel Prize winner. I’m social mobility and equity, and how she covering the synthesis of chemotherapy still shocked by this.” would like to be part of future progress in drugs that could minimize nausea (“This Besides being impressive, she finds the those realms. keeps me in the lab a bit on weekends”). presence of eminence intimidating. She Part of her grounding stems from lessons She intends to earn a master’s degree in learned though, that “at the end of the day, her mother taught her, the same ones by international health and public policy. you can’t compare yourself to other people.” which Rekha lives. “We have gotten to where When considering how prepared she She was, however, compared to others we are because so many people have lifted was for Harvard after graduating from during the Rhodes selection process which us up. Therefore, it’s our job to lift up others. Beachwood, she says she felt ready was an extensive and extended journey. She Always have a hand going forward to learn academically, “as well as anyone could be,” needed eight letters of recommendation and from others and always have a hand in the and in one area, even better educated. “I a letter of endorsement from her university back trying to bring others with you.” entered with a strong footing in chemistry, for which around 125 students applied, and Rekha has practiced this principle during something that not all Harvard students Harvard selected about 45. There are 16 her 15-year teaching career, and more had.” Generally speaking, though, the level districts throughout the U.S. that compete, recently during her Fulbright tenure. She of rigor, competition and overall quality and each one is awarded with two winning estimates that she trained around 450 faculty of work she observes among her peers candidates, for a total cohort of 32 scholars members in India and Nepal and helped reminds her of the many bright, motivated from the U.S., among others globally, totaling them redesign their curricula. Upon her students she encountered when she about 100 Rhodes Scholarship winners. return, she says she feels motivated to do entered international science competitions Swathi’s achievement was covered by the even more within the arena of expanding throughout high school. media throughout India, which made her educational opportunities. “Some of my peers were featured in extended family there very proud. “The experience strengthened my already “Forbes 30 Under 30,” have published “I actually woke up one morning and it firm commitment to helping others. When multiple papers, were ballet dancers in showed up on my Facebook feed on US you see teachers in small rural communities national companies – just the most amazing News, Yahoo, and the AP. The most humbling in India and Nepal willing to sit on the people I’d ever met. This naturally gets in part was when a little article and picture floor because they don’t have the proper your head and requires some adjusting.” of me showed up in the newspaper my accommodations, it makes me feel small But the exemplary nature of people grandfather used to read when he was alive.” when I whine about something like my surrounding her extends to professors as well. For the personal essay that’s required internet being down here.” “I remember reading in Mr. Davis’s for Rhodes consideration, Swathi detailed Her strength also lies with her ability to English class work by Jamaica Kincaid. Then elements from her life history, including teach organic chemistry, which she describes I scanned the Harvard course catalog and a look at stark inequality and what as very logical and pattern driven. see that she’s teaching a class! What??” she poverty looked like in India, specifically, “It just makes sense to me and always squeals. “People that I had cited in my work among members of her mom’s family and has. It just clicks. Most of the reactions in 10 Beachwood Buzz February 2021
our bodies are based on organic chemistry, “Seeing the Himalayas, the people who about the social, political, and economic so we really cannot escape it. I tell all my wear such beautiful and colorful fabrics and determinants of current problems, hence the students here, you’re going to need to do jewelry, the sun, food and weather…the big interdisciplinarity.” this, so why not love it or enjoy it? It’s not cultural and environmental contrasts stayed Her thinking, however, cautions against easy, but nothing good in life is.” with me.” being the “jack of all trades and the master Maybe her thrill with this subject matter Rekha believes Swathi is fortunate to of none.” For now, she says she follows her is based in her own biology. “If you are have two parents who love their work. “We interests day to day. “I’m too impatient to passionate about something and you’re able have challenges and we talk about them, do anything other than focus on the issues to do it as a career, then that’s the greatest but every day, the message she got was, and people I care about. This became a great blessing you can have. So teaching organic whatever you do, you need to love it, so even philosophy for me – that it is easier to go the chemistry is never work.” when you’re tired, it’s a good kind of tired.” extra mile when you care.” But if that’s easy, what’s hard? What Swathi actually will pursue as her Becoming ill did require her to slow down 1998 was a tough year, when she was career is sometimes a moving target. though. Her friends tried to console her with a new bride, enrolled in the first year of a “I’m still deciding whether I will seek a statements like, “this is just a bump in the Ph.D. program, and a new parent. “Getting JD (Juris Doctorate/law degree) or a MD road.” But her thought was, “No, this is just my Ph.D. meant everything. But when I held (medical degree), but definitely a Ph.D. I the road. There is no alternate reality where my baby, I didn’t want to go back to school.” haven’t decided whether I want to be a this didn’t happen. I can’t go back in time to The eventual solution was to become super medical practitioner-turned-policymaker, or change it. But I would love to change it for efficient. Later, when she went to work for to practice in the legal/policy areas with a other people.” Thus, her interest in improving eight hours while Swathi was in daycare, knowledge of science,” she explains. the chemo experience. those eight hours needed to be productive, “Taking an interdisciplinary approach Clearly, if there is a chemical reaction so she never wasted a minute. “It taught me to problem solving is my hope and goal, that continues to spark in the Srinivasan time management and discipline.” which is why my time now is being split household, it delivers benefits to all those With limited time overseas for the between the sciences and humanities. I with whom they come into contact. And, Fulbright experience, she reveled in both the like science and I like the rigor of problem as Rekha has demonstrated, we cannot academic aspects and cultural experiences. solving,” she adds. “But I care deeply escape chemistry. Rekha believes Swathi is fortunate to have two parents who love their work. “We have challenges and we talk about them, but every day, the message she got was, whatever you do, you need to love it, so even when you’re tired, it’s a good kind of tired.” Swathi and Rekha have always involved science in their lives. Rekha began taking Swathi, as a baby, to the chemistry lab when she was working toward her Ph.D. in chemistry. Today, they glance at each other with anticipation of what may come next. February 2021 Beachwood Buzz 11
City of Beachwood Welcomes Derek Schroeder as Community Services Director H ad Derek Schroeder looked through a crystal ball at age 16 after accepting a lifeguard position in Twinsburg, it is unlikely that he’d have seen himself climbing the ladder to serve as Twinsburg’s Parks and Recreation director – and then being sworn in to serve as Beachwood’s Community Services director. A clearer vision when he was working toward his undergraduate degree in marine science and master’s in aquatic ecology would have been educating people on a whale-watch boat and giving scuba diving lessons. Derek went from part-time Community Theater; oversaw There are a lot of details that Derek’s interests are going positions as lifeguard, swim youth, adult and senior go into every aspect of this job, to concerts and the beach, instructor, and pool manager programming; oversaw summer and they’re all worth it because volleyball, running, reading, to full-time positions of day camps; and planned 10-15 details pull everything together. cycling, traveling, volunteering, activities coordinator, Senior community festivals/events per I’m truly doing what I’m meant fishing, cooking, drinking Center director, and Parks year, including the city’s holiday to be doing.” coffee, binging Netflix, and and Recreation director. “My lighting and parade, breakfast Derek competed against 38 spending time with family. love grew for working with with the Easter bunny, an arts people in an extensive interview He is married to Dan, has two the public, bringing families festival, running races, and a process and Beachwood City children, Julia and Joshua, and together, providing health and dog swim. Council unanimously approved two cats, Sammie and Covid. wellness opportunities, and Derek’s proudest his appointment on December “Karen and Pete, both of making Twinsburg a better achievement to date is Rock 23. He was sworn in on January whom recently retired from place in which to live,” he said. the Park, a summer concert 4, and began working on this department, are thought Derek comes well prepared series that takes place in the January 5. of in the highest regard and to run Beachwood’s Community amphitheater. Established in “We are confident that Derek I’m flattered and honored to be Services Department. In his 2009, Rock the Park has turned fits in well to carry on this filling this role.” former position, he managed into one of Northeast Ohio’s department’s first-class legacy, and supervised the operations best-kept secrets and a Friday said Mayor Martin Horwitz. “Parks and Recreation has of all Parks and Recreation night destination for every true We welcome him to our facilities, which included a music fan. “I was typically the Beachwood family.” been my passion for the past fitness center, community first person to arrive at each City Council member June 25 years and I look forward center, senior center, outdoor event and the last to leave,” Taylor then asked, “If you to sharing my experience, waterpark, 2,000 acres of Derek said. “During each show, could wave a magic wand, parkland (including 11 baseball I took a few minutes to stand the pandemic disappeared talents and creativity with the fields, 2 soccer fields, 14 back and observe people immediately, and money was City of Beachwood.” playgrounds, 14 miles of trails, smiling, dancing, and having no object, what would be your – Derek Schroeder 8 tennis courts, 6 pickleball fun with their families and Number One priority to serve Community Services Director courts, 1 outdoor basketball friends. I experienced their joy, families and seniors?” court, community gardens, and which became mine.” “An amphitheater,” he said. “It an amphitheater that holds up He paused, then added, “Parks provides opportunities for kids The interview committee to 1,500 people and is home and Recreation has been my and seniors alike. You can have included Mayor Horwitz, to the city’s Rock the Park passion for the past 25 years an outdoor movie set up during Assistant Adminstrative Officer Concert Series.) He was also and I look forward to sharing my the day, and flip it for an outside Tina Turick, Human Resources administrative and financial experience, talents and creativity concert in the evening. That Administrator Dana Canzone, manager of the Twinsburg with the City of Beachwood. would be the way to go.” Pete Conces and Karen Carmen. The mission of Beachwood Community Services is to improve the quality of life of all residents by providing a wide variety of cultural and leisure activities, special events, facilities and services encouraging health, fitness, relaxation, enjoyment, cultural enrichment and learning, as well as providing opportunities for community involvement. The Community Services Department is composed of both the Human Services and Recreation Departments. For more information, call 216.292.1970. 12 Beachwood Buzz February 2021
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Get to Know Police Chief Kelly Stillman L ast month, the City of Beachwood held an Online Town Hall that featured Police Chief Kelly Stillman. The program, moderated by Mayor Martin Horwitz, provided an opportunity for community members to learn about Chief Stillman's career experience, department goals, department policies and procedures, policing in a diverse city, police training and community outreach. About 36 people attended, and the questions were presented by the city and viewers. What drew you to police each with its own nuances. partnership between citizens lucky. This is a great place work and why did you choose Beachwood has a huge Jewish and the police department. to work. It starts from the to make a career out of it? population, which was a transition. Merging the two together will top with administration, City When I was in the Coast Guard, I’m Jewish myself, but was raised be a great ride and I invite you to Council, and the people who I saw a need for law enforcement in the Catholic faith. Rocky River join the wave. work here. This is an excellent and at the end of my enlistment, had boating issues because it environment and great people it was a calling. I find great borders Lake Erie. Beachwood has How do you retain see the benefits of working in satisfaction in helping people. I a mall; Rocky River doesn’t. The compassion when much of Beachwood. served in my home town, Rocky police work is pretty much the your day concerns human River, from 1984 until September of same. My biggest challenges are behavior? Tell us about recent last year. I find no greater joy than learning demographics – what the This is a calling and I get certification with the being a public servant, whole- community needs, what citizens great satisfaction going home Ohio Collaborative Law heartedly, in every sense of the would like to see, and the layout at night, knowing that I have Enforcement Agency. word. I owe everything I’ve done in of the city. I’m also doing my best done the best I can do for this This accreditation process life to the support from my wife, to get to know my co-workers. It’s community. I’m blessed for sets standards for Ohio police Trish, and three children: Nicole, like going back to kindergarten, a number of reasons: family, departments that are tied to use Carine and Jack. I thank them getting off the bus with my parents, upbringing, and love of force, pursuit policy, biased- wholeheartedly for solidifying my Superman lunch pail, and waiting for this city and our country. based policing, communications, career. I was brought up helping to see who will be my friend and sit This badge is a symbol of community policing, recruiting people, it carried over into my with me. Overall, this has been an public faith. When I wear it and hiring, and body-worn career, and I love it. easy transition. I understand what above my heart, it says it all. We cameras. I started working on law enforcement is all about, enjoy need people who love doing this when I got here and we are Why did you apply for the challenges, and am prepared to what I do. Here, everyone is now accredited. I’m proud of position in Beachwood? bring fresh ideas to the table. dedicated to help. My goal the men and women I tasked The pension program in Ohio is to do my part to make this with this project. It’s an ongoing mandated that I leave Rocky How do you view community better today than process and a feather in our cap. River, and I wanted to continue community outreach? what it was yesterday. my career in law enforcement. I Today, you have to be 199% Has Beachwood upgraded was born and raised in Northeast involved in the community. We How do you go about to the digital MARCS (Multi Ohio and wanted to stay here. can no longer expect things to recruiting a diverse police force? Agency Radio Communication I’m active in the Cuyahoga run smoothly from behind the It is challenging in this System) system? County Chiefs Association desk. We must be creative, think environment. We follow Yes, we have. The backbone and Beachwood has a long- outside the box, utilize people Civil Service rules that are of this system is run by the standing distinction as an elite skills and bring fresh ideas to mandated by the state of state of Ohio. Reception is department with an excellent the table to merge the police Ohio. Racial incidents in crystal clear, with improved reputation. When I saw that the department and community as recent years, along with capabilities to talk with other position was open, I thought it one. We’re currently working how media presented them, communities. Beachwood has a would be a great fit. I applied, on our Citizens Police Academy, has affected the number of great IT department, and this is and here I am! It’s a real honor to based on a very successful qualified people who want a great system. be here. model we created in Rocky River. to do police work. We offer We plan to offer community lateral transfers and have had Is Beachwood Place safe? How do you compare and events and have residents excellent, qualified people Yes, the mall is safe. We contrast Rocky River and meet officers on our bike and applying. We are blessed to communicate with security from Beachwood? motorcycle units. It’s important have a good cross section of Brookfield to see how we can Rocky River and Beachwood that we learn about each staff that includes women improve this message. We’ve are both upscale communities, other. It’s how you solidify a and people of color. We’re identified issues and are working 14 Beachwood Buzz February 2021
together to proactively maintain We utilize undercover detail and we are not above anyone move away from a scene. Other safety. New technology includes and partner with county and to accept biased behaviors. We times we use pepper spray license plate readers, cameras federal agencies. We are aware understand, identify and talk or may be hands on. As a last and signage to let people know of what’s going on; we can’t about biases, and discuss what resort, we use deadly force. We’re that they are being monitored. bury our heads in the sand we can do to change them. Our not mandated to go step-by- We recently partnered with a and expect it to disappear. training includes biased-based step because things escalate in federal agency in a task force Our people are trained to deal policing, which needs to be a fraction of a second. Policing capacity to address issues at with and combat these issues, engrained all the time. It’s not is an ever-changing evolution in Beachwood Place, which was and we are not afraid to tackle going to go away and if you turn today’s environment. a big win for us. We’re sending challenges. We are aware of it; a blind eye, you do a discredit. a strong message to the we’re working on it, and we’re Training is important. It’s one of Chief Kelly Stillman criminal element to let them making sure the message is sent my strengths. Moving forward, I know their behaviors will not out that it will not be tolerated. want every officer to participate answers all phone calls be tolerated. We also have a in Crisis Intervention Training. and emails. In-person SPEAR (Spontaneous Protection Tell us about anti-bias Chokeholds, also known as visits are curtailed Enabling Accelerated Response) training. vascular neck restraints, have unit here and are eager to get There are two types of biases: been eliminated from our policy. because of pandemic. it to full strength. Beachwood explicit and implicit. Implicit I don’t believe in them and I He can be reached at Place is safe, there are great bias is preprogrammed by how don’t want them here. 216.595.3731 (office) or things going on there, and we’re we were brought up and what doing everything we can to relay we learned. Explicit is based on What is use-of-force 216.606.5044 (cell). that message. preconceived notions of how continuum? we perceive someone. We are There are general rules, Chief Kelly Stillman answers What is being done, or trained to not bring bias into law although each situation is all phone calls and emails. can be done, to ensure that enforcement. We don’t tolerate different. Sometimes good In-person visits are curtailed Beachwood hotels are not it. We have policies in place people skills are all you need because of the pandemic. He involved in human trafficking and when we recognize bias, to de-escalate a situation. may be reached at 216.595.3731 or sexual exploitation? we curb it. Everyone has biases Sometimes we direct people to (office) or 216.606.5044 (cell). Let me help you Party & Coupon MOVE into 2021! – ONE DAY ONLY – to celebrate Rita’s 86th Birthday Buying and Selling Please join us to celebrate Rita’s birthday! Thursday, February 11 • 10-5 in Beachwood 20% OFF for over 1 ITEM OF YOUR CHOICE 40 years! Sweets • Raffle Donna Glazer Meadowlane Monograms will be joining us Cell: 216-402-6990 in front of our store for a Trunk Show donnaglazer@howardhanna.com A perfect day to get your Valentine’s Day gifts or a treat for yourself. New items arriving daily. Bring a friend and come have some fun! ETON • 28699 Chagrin Blvd. • 216-831-4444 www.mulhollandsachs.com Legendary Service Monday-Saturday 10 to 5 • Sunday noon to 4 February 2021 Beachwood Buzz 15
City of Beachwood Accepts Donations for Barkwood W hen Howard Fleischmann talked with Karen Carmen about creating a vehicle for Beachwood residents to make donations and volunteer their time to further elevate the Barkwood dog park experience, Karen felt that the best way to create a fund would be through the city. Council member Barbara Bellin Janovitz then introduced an ordinance to establish the “Barkwood Donation Fund,” and it was passed on December 7. Barkwood, which opened in September make donations and suggest how they write your check to City of Beachwood, 2019, currently has 508 dogs registered. would like the funds applied, although note the fund on the memo line, and drop Howard takes his grand-dog, Rico, a long- final say will be determined by Community it off at City Hall or mail it to: Beachwood haired German shepherd, to the park every Services Director Derek Schroeder, Mayor City Hall, 25325 Fairmount Blvd., afternoon. “Barkwood is a great place to Martin Horwitz and City Council. Beachwood, Ohio 44122. If you have an socialize – not only for the dogs but for “This is about much more than donating idea about how you would like the funds people too,” he said. “This award-winning money, although I think funds donated applied, please note your suggestion. dog park is the best in the state. It offers so will be put to good use,” Howard said. “We Funding ideas to date include benches, much to Beachwood citizens, so I thought would like to see ‘Friends of Barkwood’ shade, maintenance, agility equipment, there must be a way for us to give back and set up so people can fund and develop and a water-bottle dispenser. Suggestions support the City of Beachwood.” programs, police the area, and encourage are welcomed! Rico, like many dogs in our community, visitors to clean up after their dogs. We’ve goes to Barkwood two to three times a day. even talked about people being able to “We would like to see ‘Friends of “It’s terrific,” Howard added. “My daughter reserve the small side of the park, for a fee, and son-in-law, Samantha and James to host birthday parties for their pets.” Barkwood’ set up so people can Christy, take him in the morning and I take Prior to passing this ordinance, the fund and develop programs, police him in the afternoon. We’ve met a lot of City of Beachwood was not equipped to the area, and encourage visitors to nice people there who also want to do accept donations. “I may have had the idea, something to give back” but Barbara drafted the legislation and clean up after their dogs. We’ve Howard paused, then added, “Barkwood advocated to get it passed,” Howard said. even talked about people being should be named after Karen Carmen.” “That’s a big deal. She’s very supportive able to reserve the small side of Although the park’s name isn’t slated of Barkwood and I’m glad that this is a to change at this time, residents may now first step to allowing residents to actively the park, for a fee, to host birthday participate and become more involved. We parties for their pets.” have a lot of ideas that we hope will come to fruition over the next several months.” For more information, contact If you wish to make a donation to the Beachwood Community Services at Barkwood Special Revenue Fund, please 216.292.1970. Howard Fleishmann and his grand-dog, Rico, enjoy daily visits to Barkwood. 16 Beachwood Buzz February 2021
A Dangerous Start to 2021 by State Representative Kent Smith O n January 4, 2021, Governor Mike DeWine reversed course from his predecessor and signed “Stand Your Ground” legislation (Senate Bill 175) into law. This legislation makes all Ohioans less safe. Currently, under Ohio law, Governor DeWine were to veto background check system and people are justified in using SB 175, his veto would hold. increasing penalties for criminals The new law, which would deadly force in self-defense When former Governor Kasich who illegally possess, purchase, take effect in early April (90 so long as they are not the vetoed similar legislation on or sell guns. He then signed aggressor, they believe they are December 19, 2018, he wrote, “Stand Your Ground” anyway. days after the signing of SB in imminent danger, and they “I urge members of the 133rd Governor DeWine, facing 175), removes the “home or are in their home or vehicle. The General Assembly … to send far less political pressure than vehicle” requirement. This new law, which would take effect the next governor a bill that is former Governor Kasich, voted means if a shooter simply in early April (90 days after the not only consistent with the to support the pro-gun lobby signing of SB 175), removes the right to bear arms … but to also in Columbus. Although he feels endangered, he or she “home or vehicle” requirement. keep firearms out of the hands had claimed to want to do can shoot to kill. This means if a shooter simply of those individuals who would something to make Ohioans safe feels endangered, he or she can use them to harm themselves from gun violence following the State Representative Kent shoot to kill. or others.” mass shooting in Dayton that Smith represents Ohio’s 8th It is important to know that When Governor DeWine left nine dead and twenty-seven House District which includes on December 17, 2020, SB 175 signed SB 175 on January 4, wounded, following only 32 Beachwood, Euclid, South Euclid, passed in the Ohio House by a 2021, he issued a statement seconds of gunfire, he signed Richmond Heights, East Cleveland, vote of 52-31. It takes 60 votes to that reiterated his support for SB 175 and Ohioans are less safe Woodmere Village, and a little bit overturn a Governor’s veto. So, if strengthening the national because of it. of the City of Cleveland. Whatever the Reason, Whatever the Season... Beachwood Can Count On Smylie One! IT TAKES We Can Find A Plan That Fits Your Budget. With flexible financing options, it’s easy to invest in a new heating or cooling comfort system or an unexpected repair, without breaking your budget. For a limited time, take advantage SMYLIE ONE PRO-MAX TIP of our special financing for 36-72 months* on select Bryant® Did you know that you can schedule high efficiency equipment. We make it easy for your family to your HeatingTune-Up for Saturday or stay comfortable all year long. Sunday? Call now to schedule, spots are *Subject to credit approval. See Smylie One for details. limited and filling up fast! *Subject to credit approval. See Smylie One for details. Steven Smylie Pro-Max Heating Pro-Max Plumbing Navian Tankless Tune-Up & Safety Check Professional Service Water Heater COUP ON $20 OFF Now Only $99.95 $25 OFF On Your Next Service Call $250 OFF Don’t Wait Until Your Hot Water Over 30 Points of Inspection “Don’t Delay... Call Today” Heater Bursts & Floods Your Home Saving Your Wallet 440-449-HEAT(4328) from unexpected repair bills www.smylieone.com 8323 Mayfield Rd. Chesterland, OH 44026 *5108 Richmond Rd. Bedford Heights, OH 44146 *Financing Available Valid thru 3/31/21. Not valid on prior sales. Can not be OH LIC # 18265 used in conjunction with any other discounts. *Main Office February 2021 Beachwood Buzz 17
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