THE VISION ISSUE - City of Shaker Heights

Dunford has also branched out on
her own when it comes to her career.
The speech-and-language pathologist
was at Onaway School, but this fall,
she opened her own practice, Heights
Therapy, based at the former Sussex
School, where she leases space from
the Shaker Family Center. “I love
working here. I can take my son to
pre-school and then go home and have
lunch with him,” says Dunford, who
lives just down the road in the City’s
Lomond neighborhood.
Dunford moved to Shaker from
Ann Arbor last year. Her husband is
a physician with the Cleveland Clinic.
“My business is brand spanking new,”
says Dunford, “so the Shaker Family
Center has been a perfect fit.”
Over in the Onaway neighborhood,
Andrea Landow offers therapy of another
sort: delicious home-cooked
meals. Landow launched her company,
Stress Less Gourmet, a year ago. It’s
a personal chef service. Sign up and,
every week, Landow will come to your
home, cook dinner for you, and stock
the fridge with extra meals for you to
reheat and serve.
“Cooking has always been my passion,”
she says. “For years, I posted a
menu each week for my own family.
So many friends were impressed by
that, a light bulb went off that I might
have a service to offer.”
Most of her clients are in Shaker.
Meanwhile, Landow’s husband, Walter,
also operates a business in town:
the Landow Law Firm. He sees clients
at Shaker LaunchHouse, where he’s
signed up as a Flex Member, which
for $100 a month gives him access to
workspace, a conference room, WiFi,
and plenty of coffee.
Like the Landows, Fernway resident
Emily Hellesen works partly in
her own home – and partly out. She
is the owner of Bliss Medical Massage,
which just celebrated its one-year anniversary,
and if you’re experiencing
any sort of muscular tension, aches or
pains (and aren’t we all), then Hellesen
is here to help.
“At Bliss, we offer therapeutic
Swedish-style massage,” she explains.
So far, Hellesen has more than
200 clients, about half of whom are
Shaker residents. She sees many of
them in the studio she built on the
third floor of her Elsmere Road home.
The rest she sees at Fitness Revolution
in Beachwood. “Being in Shaker has
been a major reason for my growth,”
says Hellesen. “My business is all word
of mouth. I’ve been in the community
for 12 years. People know me.
Paula Pascarella, owner of The Little Gym on Chagrin Boulevard. PHOTO BY JANET CENTURY.
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