STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- All are invited for an evening with Panache Desai, author, speaker and visionary thought leader in the area of human development. Unity Spiritual Center Westlake will present “An Evening with Panache Desai” from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 16.
Desai is the author of “Discovering Your Soul Signature” and the soon-to-be released “You Are Enough -- Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential and Possibility.” He will talk about embracing those parts of your life experience that are most challenging. Desai’s insights will lead you to a greater awareness that your essential self is love. With this awareness, you will be able to fully integrate all aspects of yourselves to realize and liberate your greatest potential -- the return to oneness with the Divine.
People of all faiths are welcome. Ticket prices are $35 for a cocktail party at Unity Spiritual Center Westlake from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., $35 for general admission and $50 for premium seating. Tickets may be purchased online at uscwestlake.org or at the door. A book signing will follow the talk.
For more information about events, classes and other services available at Unity Spiritual Center Westlake, contact Roberta McLaughlin at unityinfo@uscwestlake.org, 440-835-0400 or visit www.uscwestlake.org. Unity Spiritual Center Westlake is located at 23855 Detroit Road, Westlake.
Thank you, reservists: As you reflect on the service of military men and women, you may not realize that there are residents right in our community who serve in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Jose Andrades, a resident of Strongsville, is a Navy master-at-arms, responsible for being a command fitness coordinator and base security petty officer. Andrades is a 1999 John Marshall High School graduate and is currently enrolled at Cuyahoga Community College, majoring in computer engineering.
Reservists support and actively aid military missions while continuing to lead their own independent lives in the civilian world, according to Navy officials. The Navy Reserve provides strategic depth to America’s Navy as it protects the American homeland and advances economic prosperity by preserving freedom of the seas.
Andrades is playing an important part in America’s focus on rebuilding military readiness, strengthening alliances and reforming business practices in support of the National Defense Strategy.
“Our priorities center on people, capabilities and processes, and will be achieved by our focus on speed, value, results and partnerships,” Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer said in a press release. “Readiness, lethality and modernization are the requirements driving these priorities.”
Serving in the Navy is a continuing tradition of military service for Andrades, who has military ties with family members who have previously served. Andrades is honored to carry on that family tradition.
“I had three uncles -- one served as a paratrooper in the Normandy invasion, and the other two as Army special forces in Vietnam -- as well as a few cousins spread across the branches,” said Andrades. “It means a lot to support and defend our country and my family’s honor in serving. It is something I will never regret, and would do over a million times."
Writing contest: High school students have the opportunity to have their prose or poetry published in Inscape, the award-winning fine arts journal published by Ursuline College.
“Writing in the Rust Belt: A High School Writing Contest” is open to all high school students, who are invited to write on the theme of community. Two winners will be published in Inscape and invited to read their work at the journal’s launch party in May 2020. Submissions are due by Dec. 1.
“Creative writing has the power to shape the way we view the world around us and to allow emerging writers to explore the power of their voice,” said Katharine G. Trostel, PhD, assistant professor of English. “The connection between storytelling and place is perfectly encapsulated by the theme, community.”
In either prose or poetry, students are invited to explore questions such as:
- What does it mean to create a just, vibrant, and inclusive community?
- What does it mean to belong to the Greater Cleveland area?
- What does it mean to belong to a Rust Belt city?
- What is our responsibility to community and to building communities?
- How do art and literature contribute to a community?
Go to ursulinecollege.edu for full contest guidelines. This contest is hosted by the Ursuline College English Department and Inscape, Ursuline College’s Fine Arts Annual. Questions should be directed to Professor Katharine Trostel, PhD at Katharine.trostel@ursuline.edu.
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