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The Fellowship of Christian Athletes Steel Valley recognized the March “Coach of the Month” with co-award winners John Grandy and Rob Gelonese, who have helped power Struthers FCA for decades.
Retired Coach John Grandy has done it all, coaching from intramurals to multiple league and district championship in girls basketball, mentoring and caring for his players in football, girls and boys basketball, baseball, and cross country.
He has served as a certified basketball official for eight years.
Grandy said “there’s a difference between being a coach who is a Christian vs. a Christian coach. The difference is a Christian coach lives it in everything one says and does. They walk the walk, spread the word of the Bible, are Christlike, and make disciples. It’s not about you or your glory through wins and losses. You are to transform others through Jesus. You must decrease,
Kilo
Charles J. Kilo, MD, a former professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, died of pneumonia March 15, 2021, in Naples, Fla. He was 94.
Kilo and collaborators at the School of Medicine were among the first to demonstrate that diabetes complications are linked to the duration of the disease and the degree of blood sugar control. An early advocate for aggressive monitoring and control of blood glucose, Kilo challenged past treatment methods and the safety of blood glucose lowering agents. He pushed for regular measurement of glycated hemoglobin to track glucose levels in the blood. In subsequent years, measurement of so-called hemoglobin A1c became the standard in diabetes care.
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Mt. Pleasant NOW, the area s community development corporation located off Kinsman Road in Cleveland, has been the site of violent crimes in the past. Mt. Pleasant NOW and other organizers in the city say they haven t given up on launching the Ten Point Coalition crime reduction program.
Back in 2018, former Cleveland mayoral candidate Robert Kilo and pastors from the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood were joined by Indiana-based representatives of a violence reduction initiative to announce its launch in Cleveland.
The program never took hold in Cleveland, beyond some initial media exposure.
“I think anytime something new is introduced to a city like Cleveland that s been doing things a certain way, it can create potential challenges,” Kilo said. “But I would suggest it just hasn t been the right timing previously.”