Orange Community Education & Recreation

Whether you're looking to run your very first 5k, set a personal record, looking for a group to run with to help hold you accountable, or just meet new people & have fun, this is the training program for you! We have partnered with Fleet Feet in Pepper Pike to create this running club. Join us for our group runs Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings from the Pepper Pike Fleet Feet store or other locations around the community (meeting spots will be shared ahead of time) Sessions will be guided by experienced & passionate coaches who will lead you through a dynamic warm-up, provide support along the route, and lead a post-run strength or stretching routine. We've got you covered outside of group runs as well with a comprehensive 8-week training calendar that provides the recommended mileage, workouts, & recovery necessary to conquer the Happy Heights 5K + 10K or your Fall goal race.

Discover Sign Language will teach you how to sign basic phrases and complete sentences and how to put it all together, allowing you to introduce yourself and start a conversation. Along the way, you will learn signs for colors, numbers, locations, family, and the activities you like to do. Throughout the course, you will learn by watching videos that demonstrate how to make the signs and how to incorporate facial expressions to communicate in this beautiful language. This course is taught using the best practices of the industry with a minimum of audio support. Throughout it, you will be immersed in silence, which will help you gain an understanding of the perspective of Deaf people and sign language. By the end of the course, when you meet a Deaf person, you will be ready to sign! Register and pay at Ed2go.com/orangecommed. Instructor: Erin Trimble

Whether you speak some Spanish and need a refresher, or speak no Spanish, you will complete this course with the skills you will need to effectively communicate with your Spanish-speaking patients. You will also need to order an eBook for under $10, or the paperback book version of McGraw Hill’s Complete Medical Spanish, 3rd edition. OCE&R’s own Spanish instructor, Cristina, will teach.

Are you interested in dabbling in fiction writing? Think you might have a short story or a novel in you but don’t know where to start? If you answered yes, this introductory fiction writing class is for you. Designed specifically for those with little to no fiction writing experience who want to learn how to begin a fiction writing project, this class helps you find a pathway toward your fiction writing goals. You will learn the basic building blocks of story: character, plot and setting, as well as the different forms of fiction writing and some of the genres you might like to explore. You will also learn about researching avenues for marketing your work: online versus print magazines, self-publishing versus publishing with a traditional press. Whether you’ve never written a word of fiction, or haven’t written since high school or college, you will complete the course with the skills you need to get started on a new work of fiction (or to revive an old one that’s been sitting in your bottom drawer) as well as an outline for moving forward with your project, including goals for ultimately marketing. Instructor: Jacqueline Lipton Location: Online Asynchronous