YMCA Honors Its Eldest Members: Pic of the Day

Would you have guessed the oldest member of the North Canton YMCA is 96 years old?

It didn't take much to get Jane Wong into the North Canton YMCA. And once she was there, she had no trouble staying. Wong, the eldest member of the North Canton YMCA at the age of 96, said a YMCA member approached her in a supermarket in 1987 and suggested she join the Y. And that is all it took for the Hong Kong native to try it out. What's kept her coming back all these years? The swimming programs and the walking track, she said. Plus, "I like it!" she told North Canton Patch Wednesday during the weekly Senior Social group. That day's event honored the YMCA's eldest members, who were treated to a showing of Channel 11's YMCA documentary. The documentary highlights the Y's changes through the past 90 years. Check here to see a blog post …

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Kathy Yaros

8:49 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013

Getting to know our seniors has been a joy. These amazing people are active, fun (and funny!), wise and so caring. They show the real benefits of taking care of one's health and well-being. It's more than looking great in a certain size, its all about feeling great at whatever age (or size) you are!   more ›

Blog: Hoover Students Produce Documentary on North Canton YMCA History

Producing a documentary worth making starts with a great story, and the YMCA in North Canton has one.

BLOG: Hoover High's Channel 11 Announces New Shows

Students in the Video-Journalism programs at Hoover High are excited to announce several new shows that promote the three A's of our district: Academics, Arts and Athletics.

WATCH: Hoover High Students Weigh in on New TV Set, Equipment

Students got to see, for the first time Friday, their new Channel 11 studio set, donated to them by News Channel 5 in Cleveland

Hoover High's video production students finally got a chance to see their new TV set when it was unveiled during an open house Friday. The set, donated to them by News Channel 5 in Cleveland, costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, said Tom Wilson, the school's video production teacher, who also assembled the set himself. The monitors were a donation from Best Buy, which agreed to be Channel 11's corporate sponsor for the next two years. North Canton Patch talked to Wilson in 2012 about the gift from News Channel 5 and what it means to Hoover High School. You can find that story here. And now, with the set assembled inside Hoover High, there's no denying just how professional — and cool — it is. "It makes me want to go back to school," …

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Pic of the Day: Hoover High Reveals New TV Set for Broadcast Students

The students hadn't seen the new set, donated to them from News Channel 5 in Cleveland, until the open house Friday

Come Wednesday, video production students at Hoover High School will be working with a new-to-them set, donated by News Channel 5 in Cleveland. Although they've known about the set for several months, it was just revealed to them Friday at the Channel 11 open house. In today's "pic of the day" you can see Hoover seniors Harrison Blackledge and Yanni Tsangeos enjoying their new set for the first time.  Check back with North Canton Patch Monday to see more photos and a video of Blackledge and junior Maddie Zoldan sharing their thoughts on the new studio.

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Veterans Day Video Airs Today on Channel 11

The documentary created by Hoover High students will air today on Time Warner Cable Channel 11 in the City of North Canton at 8 a.m., noon, 5 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

With Veteran’s Day celebrations being planned throughout the country, North Canton City Schools is producing a documentary, “A Thousand Words: For Those Who Served” to honor veterans this year.  Students and staff were invited to write letters expressing their thanks to veterans who have served or who are currently serving the country. Some chose to write a letter addressed to soldiers in general, while others wrote to specific veterans they know, including fathers, grandfathers, uncles, cousins and friends. Six letters were chosen to create the script for the documentary. Each letter is read by the author and helps express many of the sentiments that all of the letters held.       As the letters are read, pictures of veterans are …

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TV11 Plans to Air Veterans Day Video Starting Nov. 13

North Canton City School District's TV11 is now putting together the video, which includes dozens of photos of your favorite veterans

TV production students at Hoover High are hard at work putting together a Veterans Day video that will air on TV11 — a video that will showcase dozens of veterans and active military personnel from the North Canton area. Students wrote letters to veterans — some past, some present, and some veterans the students knew, and some they didn't. And about five of those letters will be read as a part of the 10-12 minute Veterans Day video. "All the ones we've selected tend to have a personal story to it, which is really neat," video productions instructor Tom Wilson said. The reading of those letters will play over top of the photos sent in by community members. Wilson said the school received a great number of photos. In fact, they kept pouring …

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