Roast & Toast

Toast all of the hometown hero banners that started going up this week. What a great way to honor our local members of the military. Toast the Monroeville Lady Eagles, who are making a third straight trip to the regional tournament. Coach Kendra Snook and her No. 6-ranked Lady Eagles take a perfect 25-0 record into Thursday's regional against Wellsville (20-5) at Uniontown Lake High School. Good luck and bring back the gold. Toast JDB Home Improvement in Norwalk for hosting a hunted house on Halloween for the third straight year, while also building a new house for Santa in uptown Norwalk. What a great service to the community. Toast the five area runners who will compete at this weekend's state cross country meet in Columbus — Ian Deeter of St. Paul, Tyler Twining and Cole Kropka of New London, Levi Anderson of Plymouth and Abby Lesniak of Edison. Good luck to all of the runners. Roast the continued rise in COVID-19 numbers around the area, state, country and the world. Everybody talked about a second spike and this looks like it. All we can do is keep wearing our masks and be smart. Toast Weekends without Hunger, now in its eighth year helping feel needy students on the weekends. The group just began its food distribution and is starting a fundraising campaign to "feed a child" for $100 per year. Toast Artists' Open Studio in uptown Norwalk, which is hosting Visions Revealed — the 16th annual art exhibit — through Nov. 20. The group is looking to raise $20,000 before Dec. 1 and to donate log onto ArtistsOpenStudioInc.org. Toast all of the winners in this year's Norwalk Reflector Readers' Choice Awards. And toast all of you out there who participated and voted.