Bay Village

It's off to the USA now and to Cleveland.

A nine-year-old Bay Village student named Paige just became a licensed amateur radio operator, passing the federal exam with a near perfect score and earning her own government-issued call sign before most kids of her age had finished long division.

She took the technician class exam, correctly answering 33 out of 35 questions.

To pass the entry-level technician class exam, candidates need at least 26 correct answers out of 35, a 74% threshold, with questions drawn from a nationwide pool maintained by volunteer examiner coordinators.

There's no super team this year un- unless Notre Dame is just that good.

They, they've been playing, um, you know, Bay Village so far.

But I, I, I don't know.

We will see.

Well, this is going toward 37 projects in 23 communities and four nonprofit organizations across the county, and it's a pretty wide range of improvements, everything from fixing roads and sidewalks to upgrading playgrounds, parks, and public facilities.

Some of the more interesting projects include a new sensory play space at Mavik Park in Euclid, an accessible walking path at Bradley Park in, in Bay Village, traffic-calming improvements in Shaker Heights.

There's a new all-season pavilion at North Royalton Memorial Park.

There's also money for home repair programs in places like Garfield Heights, Maple Heights, and University Heights, and there's a program to help seniors in South Euclid with landscaping and snow removal.

This was definitely a defining moment for me.

I lived in Bay Village, Ohio, at the time.

I was a youngster, and I was just playing a simple game of tag, and as you probably know, they tend to get rougher and rougher, uh, as they progress.

And I was running away from one of my neighbors when, uh, he tagged me from behind as I was in a full sprint, and it launched me in the air, unfortunately through our bottom b- uh, basement window.

And unfortunately for me, adversity arrived very early in my life.

When I was just five years old, I was pushed from behind, uh, by one of the neighborhood kids and went flying, uh, through our basement window in Bay Village, Ohio.

And, uh, woke up some point later, because I had blacked out, uh, with tubes coming out of my head and in a intensive care unit.

And my life from that point forward completely changed.

This is Father Dan Schlegel, pastor of St. Raphael Parish in Bay Village, with your daily prayers.

I, along with Bishop Malesic, Bishop Wust, and the other clergy here in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, invite you now to pray with us on this Saturday, October 10, 2026.

Today's Gospel reading from Luke's Gospel is just two sentences long.

I'm trying not to.

I still catch myself, like when I see Tom the mailman out there on the mean streets of Bay Village, it's a let's go Tribe.

It's just, it's visceral.

It's not that I'm trying to offend anybody or I'm trying to drag us back to the old name.

That's okay"

...

when I'm taking Mason to the hidden beach of Bay Village, I, I still call it Lake Erie.

I still do.