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Hot Dogs with a Side of Hospice


​Happy Dog is more than a popular neighborhood restaurant and bar in Cleveland’s Gordon Square Arts District. It’s also known for hosting monthly talks on topics of wide-ranging community interest.

This week, Happy Dog patrons learned more about the deeper work of hospice at a community forum called, “Healing Arts at the Happy Dog.”
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November 15 2019

Categories: News and Community Volunteers 


Natural Dye Garden's First Harvest Yields a Bumper Crop


​The natural dye garden we planted earlier this year has yielded its first harvest of indigo leaves! Staff from Praxis Fiber Workshop led Hospice of the Western Reserve staff and volunteers and campers from Waterloo Arts' summer camp in the first harvest.


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July 30 2019

Categories: News and Community Volunteers 


Volunteer Ron DeMeza Honored for Serving Fellow Veterans


​Hospice of the Western Reserve volunteer Ron DeMeza has received the 2019 Heroes for Andy Award from The Andy Nowacki Foundation. Ron is a U.S. Army Veteran who served in combat in Vietnam from 1970-1972. Over the past two years, he has dedicated his volunteer service to conducting Veterans Recognition Ceremonies to honor fellow veterans who are hospice patients as part of HWR’s Peaceful and Proud veterans’ program.


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June 04 2019

Categories: News and Community Volunteers Veterans 


Providing Patients with Moments to Remember


​Several years ago, Jim and Suzanne Plescia took the vacation of a lifetime. The couple traveled to Italy and visited Godrano, a small Sicilian village, where Jim’s father had been born. They met several of Jim’s Italian relatives for the first time and were touched to be warmly welcomed into the family fold!


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June 04 2019

Categories: News and Community Volunteers Journey 


Doggone Special: Linus Celebrates 10 Years of Comforting Hospice Patients


​They say that every dog has its day, and recently it was Linus’s turn to shine. The gentle Golden Retriever therapy dog was honored for a very special milestone: 10 years of bringing comfort, compassion and smiles to patients and their families at David Simpson Hospice House.


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March 19 2019

Categories: News and Community Volunteers 

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