🌱 Lakewood Ranger Bands Festival + Available Jobs + Monkeypox Vaccine

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Here are the top three stories today in Lakewood:

1. Mark your calendars for the Lakewood Ranger Bands Festival. The event is your chance to see 10 local area marching bands, including bands from Berkshire, Eastlake North, Fairview, Hudson, Oberlin, Rocky River, Strongsville, and Westlake, along with the Malone College marching band. The Lakewood Ranger Marching Bands will be performing with members from the alumni marching band and LHS Concert Bands. Tickets for the festival, which will take place at the First Federal Lakewood Stadium on Sep. 17 at 6:00 p.m., are available here. (PaySchoolEvents)
2. Are you on the hunt for a new job? There are a lot of companies looking to hire in and around Lakewood. Labor Services Company is looking for OTR Class A CDL Tanker Truck Drivers and Kinetic Marketing Solutions is looking for a Junior Account Manager. Learn about these jobs, plus other available opportunities, at the link. (Lakewood Patch)
3. A monkeypox vaccine clinic will be open this Friday at Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) Community Health Center. The clinic, located at 11906 Madison Ave in Lakewood, will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Registration is required for the clinic, which is open to anybody over the age of 18 in the priority groups. Click here to register. (NFP)

Today in Lakewood:

• Drop In & Play Mornings, At Cove Park (10:00 AM)
• Trivia & Tequila, At Western Reserve Distillers (7:00 PM)
• Trivia, At Immigrant Son Brewing (7:00 PM)
• Frozen - The Musical, At KeyBank State Theatre (7:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• NOPEC is temporarily transitioning all its electric aggregation customers currently enrolled in the Standard Program Price electric program back to the utility default service, also known as the Price to Compare (PTC). This change will allow customers to take advantage of the utility's currently lower monthly rate. For more information about this change, go to NOPEC.org/return. (City of Lakewood, Ohio - Municipal Government via Facebook)
• Check out the Lakewood Family Room's Fall Schedule, which begins on Tuesday, Sep. 6. If you have children eight years old or younger, stop by Cove Community Center for one of their many programs this fall. (City of Lakewood, Ohio - Municipal Government via Facebook)
• Stop by the Main Library on Mondays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for help from an OhioMeansJobs Cleveland - Cuyahoga County representative. (Lakewood Public Library via Facebook)

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About me: Sean Peek is a writer and entrepreneur with a degree in English Literature from Weber State University. Over the years, he has worked as a copywriter, editor, SEO specialist, and marketing director for various digital media companies. He currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.