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Layla Holmes starts making her unique waffle batter at 2 a.m., while her customers are still sleeping. Her career changed from nursing to cooking when she filled in as a cook at a nursing home when the chef stopped showing up. After taste-testing waffles as far away as Europe, the Medina resident developed her own European-style Liege waffles. Holmes serves approximately 15 waffle flavors to customers in her small Medina restaurant, Waffle-O-Waffle, at 799 N. Court Street, #17. photo by Allison Waltz-Boebel

Roger Biada, center, and Zach and Caitlyn McCorel helped distribute items to those in need in January. From 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., on the first Saturday of each month, volunteers distribute personal-care and home-cleaning items at the Personal Care Pantry at Living Hope Church, 6288 Wooster Pike Road, Medina. Cost currently is $2 per family. photo by Amy Barnes

Profits from sales of building materials at the Habitat for Humanity Restore, 233 Lafayette Road, Medina, are used to build affordable housing for qualified families. Partner families must complete 250 hours of volunteer work or “sweat equity” for Habitat for Humanity, with many of those hours worked at Restore. Homes built through the program are sold at a reduced price with an interestfree 30-year mortgage to partner families.

Restore employee John King and volunteer and college student Margaret Kriebel, both of Medina, lift a chair into a customer’s vehicle. photo by Allison Waltz-Boebel

Valerie Biro, Strongsville, and Jordan Pavlak, Parma, shop for paint and various other items at Restore. They are planning to paint and redecorate Biro’s bedroom. photo by Allison Waltz-Boebel continued, Page 14

While wife Jennifer looks on, Jim Schweitzer points out a sewing machine to their daughter, Claire, and explains that her grandmother had the same model. photo by Allison Waltz-Boebel

Restore sales representative Dianne Wenslow, Lafayette Township, chats with Restore volunteer Megan McKenzie, Wadsworth. photo by Allison Waltz-Boebel

Megan McKenzie, Wadsworth, writes up a ticket for customer Roger Young, Medina, who is buying furniture at Restore. McKenzie and her two children are a Habitat partner family. photo by Allison Waltz-Boebel

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