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Pay attention to family
With the holidays here, we look forward to gathering with family and friends we might not often see during the year. I hope people use this as a time to detect signs of hearing loss from those who might be around their table, especially older folks. Since losing your hearing can be a very gradual process, many people might not realize...
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Preserve your night vision
Recently, I was driving home from an evening event when I noticed my eyes were taking far longer to adjust to the darkness, especially after passing a car that had the new, brighter, LED headlights. As I found myself squinting back to normal, I had my ‘aha’ moment—it’s time to take better care of my eyes. While there are several...
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The Gathering Place provides free services to those touched by cancer throughout the community
The hospital cured my cancer, but The Gathering Place saved my soul.” This quote from a cancer survivor gets to the heart of this local grassroots charity. With the mission of providing free programs and services that support, educate and empower those diagnosed with cancer and their families, The Gathering Place is a refuge for people who...
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Managing holiday expectations
Along with all the joy of the season, there is an equal amount of negative emotion in the air. From my experience, all the expectations heaped upon us are the main reason we get stressed out over the holidays. We also have expectations of others, and when they don’t meet those expectations, we assign meaning to it. Juli...
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Curated boutique frames, in-house lens making, and a customer experience rivaled by no other at Eyes on Chagrin
When Kevin Kretch opened Eyes on Chagrin 10 years ago, he had a vision. Pardon that very obvious pun, but Kevin has a true passion for the business fueled by his career as an optician and a deep family history in optometry and other areas of medicine and healthcare. When he first opened, Kevin carried 99% designer-named frames hoping to offer...
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