October ’15

The Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular featuring 5,000 carved pumpkins includes a vast number of intricately detailed carvings of scenes and faces along a trail in Iroquois Park, Louisville, Kentucky.

TomTod Ideas held its second annual Feast of Ideas gala at the Joseph Saxton Gallery in April. The evening celebrated the ideas of middle-schoolers, including BikeSmart: Stark County’s Bike Share program. The new initiative was inspired by middle-schoolers from TomTod’s summer camp. It was a dynamic evening of stories and giving.

The headlines of a man-made drug gaining popularity in Florida have been bizarre: Fort Lauderdale police arrested a man after he ran down a major thoroughfare wearing only socks and sneakers.

The event Under the Lights kick-started the Stark County Hunger Task Force’s first campaign—The Hunger at Home Campaign—in June at Hoover Park, to respond to the increasing need for its pantry.

There’s nothing like stripping down to your skivvies so a stranger—with the help of a high-tech machine—can tell you how much fat you have. Welcome to the BOD POD room at Malone University, where a less-than-five-minute test in an egg-shaped chamber will calculate your body composition.

Among many other credentials, Toni Jacobsen’s Dishes By Design catered a private dinner for past Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinees and their families in August at downtown Canton’s Onesto Lofts.

Nowadays, fitness is all about “smart,” from the water people drink to the high-tech material they wear to the devices that keep track of their workout progress. Add to that Crossfit, yoga, Warrior Weekends, elliptical machines, cycle houses and marathons, all of which have created specialty markets amounting to billions in retail sales.

Too busy to join a health club? Too undisciplined to stick to a home workout program? Just too bored to walk on the treadmill or ride the stationary bike? Well, we have good news.

Big beefy burgers. Greasy fries. Milkshakes that you need a spoon to drink. And pie … make it a la mode. These are foods we love to eat.

“It’s so popular it never comes off the menu,” executive chef Jerry Risner said about the Peanut Butter Mousse Torta at The Bistro at Gervasi Vineyard.