At Dorrie’s Booktique at Lake Cable, all books are half price. Find books for all ages plus a fun area for children to play and read while adults can read and enjoy coffee or tea or browse for more books. If you bring in any books, you will receive store credit which you can put toward other books.
Mary Beddell is a lifelong resident of Canton and a 2002 graduate of Canton McKinley Senior High School and 2006 graduate of Kent State University.
We’d love advice on adding more seating to our family room. We love the large windows and comfortable space to read, relax and watch TV. But when we have friends over for a dinner, there’s not enough places to sit before we move to the dining room. I’d love your advice on how to add more seating.
But I’m not here to sing praises of “A Christmas Story,” as dear to my heart as it is. My colleagues have already done that. I’m here to declare that “Home Alone” and its excellent sequel “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (do not speak to me about any subsequent films in the franchise) are the best Christmas movies.
You always can count on a decorator to tell you what’s wrong with a room—and typically, said decorator will not take a breath before telling you how to fix it. “There is just so much that is obvious to us, but not to others,” says Washington decorator Zoe Feldman.
Dec. 7: Downtown Wonderland Christmas Celebration, Minerva’s Downtown Wonderland Christmas Celebration will kick off with the Christmas parade at 3 p.m. The parade begins at Minerva Elementary School. Following the parade, Treat Trees, sponsored by area businesses and organizations, will line the sidewalks, covered with treats for kids to take. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in the Roxy Theatre, hearing wishes and posing for free photos.
With seven locations throughout the area, Grinders Above & Beyond offers dine-in, carryout and catering. Stop in for lunch or dinner, and choose from an overflowing menu sure to please any guest. Get soup and a croissant or try a salad, wrap, flatbread, burger, pizza or entree. Grinders also has a hearty menu of sides.
Looking for primitive, early American and colonial décor? Look no farther than Pine Cone Gift Shoppe in North Canton. Pine Cone is a quaint and cozy shop offering home décor, furnishings, custom-made farmhouse tables and chairs and all kinds of pantry goodies, including hearty soups, brownie mixes and more.
Erin Mingus is a mom of two handsome boys and the proud owner of The Birch Tree Furniture and Boutique. Beauty, fashion, design and all things creative and outside of the box are her thing. Learning to love and understand all things in this lifetime are her goals. She believes, “If you’re not growing or learning, you are going nowhere!”
My favorite Thanksgiving food is pumpkin streusel bars. I started making the recipe a few years ago in hopes of combining a bunch of things everyone in my family enjoys into one dessert. The crust of the bars is gingersnap cookies; the filling is cream cheese, Greek yogurt and pumpkin; and the topping is a streusel made from oats, cinnamon and brown sugar. We eat this instead of pumpkin pie now, and no one has complained.
