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Diaper Drive Donations Rolling In, More Help Needed

The Lakewood Community Services Center has provided diapers to families with the help of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, but now LCSC needs your help.

When we asked Lakewood Patch readers to pitch in, and donate diapers to the Lakewood Community Services Center, they answered the call. LCSC officials said residents immediately began dropping off diapers to our community's most needy residents. Large boxes full of diapers in the LCSC warehouse on Madison Avenue tell the story. However, more help is needed. The Lakewood Community Services Center has provided diapers to families with the help of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, but with a lack of funding, the church is discontinuing the diaper assistance program. Food stamps don’t pay for them. Neither does WIC, the federally funded program for women, infants and children. Trish Rooney, the director of LCSC, said that with the high cost of…

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Diapers Needed For Your Lakewood Neighbors

Lakewood Patch hosting a Diaper Drive with Lakewood Community Services Center to get diapers for our city's neediest residents.

To buy diapers or pay the utility bill…  It’s a decision many Lakewood residents are facing. The Lakewood Community Services Center has provided diapers to families with the help of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, but with a lack of funding, the church is discontinuing the diaper assistance program. Food stamps don’t pay for them. Neither does WIC, the federally funded program for women, infants and children. Trish Rooney, the director of LCSC, said that with the high cost of disposable diapers, more than 100 of her clients rely on the extra help. “They come in for vouchers and we just didn’t have them,” she said. “Disposable diapers are expensive and food stamps don’t pay for them.” Lakewood Patch is hosting a Diaper Drive to help LCSC …

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Colin McEwen

1:31 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2012

Allison, good questions. I'd give LCSC a call at 216-226-6466. Thanks!   more ›

VIDEO: Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Lakewood

There are more 40 volunteers at the Lakewood Community Services Center who offer their free time to help others. Want to join them? There's definitely a need.

At the Lakewood Community Services Center on Madison Avenue, the need for hunger relief assistance has only gone up. And the funding’s only gone down. Fortunately, local volunteers have stepped up to help.

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Last Chance: Claim Your Patch Places Page This Month to Help a Lakewood Charity

By claiming your free Patch page, you’ll help the Lakewood Community Services Center earn free advertising on this site.

Lakewood business owners—have you claimed your free Patch Places page yet? If you haven’t, we have an extra incentive for you this month. If you claim your business listing (essentially a free web page) before the end of March, we’ll give the Lakewood Community Services Center $5 in advertising for each listing claimed. So, other than helping the services center, what’s in it for you and your business? Plenty! When you claim your Patch Places listing, you can update some of the existing information—like your phone number or hours—add extra details about what your business does, share new photos and respond to reader reviews. And it’s easy to do. Check out the video above for step-by-step directions. If you still have questions, don’t …

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Claim Your Directory Listing to Help Out Lakewood Community Services Center

For every listing claimed in the month of March, we will donate $5 in Patch advertising to LCSC.

You heard right! We're supporting the Lakewood Community Services Center this month with a claim-your-listing promotion here on North Canton Patch. For every directory listing claimed in March, Patch will donate $5 in advertising to LCSC. Our online directory is filled with businesses, government agencies, non-profit organizations and everything else you come across here in Lakewood. When you claim your listing in Patch Place you get control of your Patch directory listing. You can add photos, update business hours and interact directly with users who post reviews. Claiming these listings also increases your visibility on the Internet — another place for your business to the attention of potential customers. And now, we're giving you the …

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'Got Green?' Event a Delectable Success

Lakewood Community Services Center raises money for Lakewood's neediest residents.

Madison Park turned into one giant party as the "Got Green?" event raised thousands of dollars for Lakewood’s neediest residents on Friday night. Lakewood Community Services Center hosted the second-annual fundraiser near the park’s community garden. It was a truly a community event. Attended by hundreds, the event featured fine food provided by Greenhouse Tavern chef Jonathon Sawyer and Chris Hodgson’s Hodge Podge. Great Lakes Brewing Company and Wine Trends provided the drinks. And Kristine Jackson and KJ Blues perform throughout the event. 

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'Got Green?' to Draw Fun, Funds for Lakewood Organization

Lakewood Community Services Center will be hosting its second annual fundraiser at the community garden in Madison Park this Friday.

What better place to enjoy delicious food and raise money for a community-centered organization than a community garden? Lakewood Community Services Center is hosting its second-annual "Got Green?" fundraiser at Madison Park’s community garden on Sept. 9. Greenhouse Tavern chef Jonathon Sawyer and Chris Hodgson’s Hodge Podge truck will provide the food, Great Lakes Brewing Company and Wine Trends will donate beer and wine, and Kristine Jackson and KJ Blues will perform. The event is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. LCSC Executive Director Trish Rooney said the goal is to raise $45,000 for the organization. “2009-2010 was, as you would expect, just unbelievable,” she said. In those years, Lakewood saw unemployment rates of 7.9 and 8.1 percent, …

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Closing Out Summer With Storytelling by Foster Brown

On Sept. 10, the Madison Avenue branch of the Lakewood Public Library is hosting the Learning Garden Harvest Performance.

Folks strolling through Madison Park during the Lakewood Community Festival on Sept. 10 will find yet another way to learn something about the world around them. At 1 p.m., Cleveland Metroparks’ Foster Brown will be singing children’s folk songs about gardening and sustainability to culminate Madison Branch Library’s summer story-telling series at the Learning Garden in Madison Park. After singing and dancing, the youngsters will pick all harvestable vegetables to be donated to the Lakewood Community Service Center to go to hungry Lakewood residents. “This event is going to teach them about taking care of the earth, to be self-sustainable and give back to your community,” said Julie Strunk, supervisor in children’s and youth services at …

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Barrels of Art in a Lakewood Garden

Rain barrels painted by Lakewood High School students have been installed in Lakewood Community Services Center's community garden.

From a whimsical underwater design to a hard-edged urban spray paint motif, the newly installed rain barrels at Lakewood Community Service Center’s community garden are veritable public art. Painted by 10 art students at Lakewood High School, the five colorful 55-gallon barrels are the latest addition to the community garden located at Madison Park, a public-nonprofit partnership that is in its second year. The barrels are impressive works of art that not only look good but will make it easier to water the 10 garden plots, said Trish Rooney, executive director of Lakewood Community Service Center (LCSC), a food distribution center in Lakewood serves more than 700 households a month from Lakewood, Rocky River and Westlake. “Aren’t they …

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