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  • Race to the MAX, Max Hayes High School

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, April 6, 2014; Race to the MAX, Max Hayes High School, 4600 Detroit Avenue: Curt Bachus, age 48, finishes first in the 5k (3.1 mile race) with a time of 17 minutes and 21 seconds. Runners traversed a route from the current Max Hayes High School to the site the…

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  • Three Luis Muñoz Marin students win NBA Math Hoops State Championship

    (Plain Press, May 2014)In early April, three seventh-grade students from Luis Muñoz Marin School won the first National Basketball Association (NBA) Math Hoops State Championship in the grades 6-8 bracket. Students Antonella Vera, Hector Castro, and DaShaun Brooks were honored at halftime of the Cleveland Cavaliers game on Saturday, April 5th after winning the competition…

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  • Art Ledger named to Ohio Taxidermists Hall of Fame

    (Plain Press, May 2014)Art Ledger, owner of A & K Taxidermy on W. 48th Street in the Stockyard neighborhood is a 2014 inductee into the Ohio Taxidermists Hall of Fame. Ledger is the first African American to be inducted into the Ohio Taxidermists Hall of Fame. He is the co-founder of Ohio’s First Taxidermy Association…

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  • Be Your Own Hero 5KRace and 1 mile run

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, April 12, 2014; Be Your Own Hero 5KRace and 1 mile run, West Side Community House, W. 93rd and Lorain Avenue: Winners of the Best Costume were Karen Pavlisko as Mario and Mike Grande as Luigi of the Nintendo Video game Mario Brothers.

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  • Community Board

    ARTS AND CULTURE BELT MAGAZINE EVENTS AT HAPPY DOG at 5801 Detroit are scheduled for Second Tuesday of the month @ 7:30 PM:  May 13- Hamlet: World’s Longest Knock-Knock Joke. Third Wednesday of the month @ 7:30 PM in the Underdog: May 21- A Night with Midwestern Gothic (Ann Arbor & Chicago).  For more information,…

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  • Mitchell’s Ice Cream

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Wednesday, April 23, 2014; Mitchell’s Ice Cream, 1871 W. 25th: Mitchell’s Ice Cream opened its new ice cream shop, headquarters and production facility on Monday April 21st, after completing an extensive renovation of a building that originally housed the Rialto Theater. The facility opened in time for the Ohio City celebration…

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  • The Dyngus Day Parade

    PHOTOS BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, April 21, 2014: Dyngus Day Cleveland celebration, W. 58th and Detroit Avenue: The Dyngus Day Parade returns to W. 58th and Detroit after a march through the neighborhood. Dyngus Day has been celebrated for thousands of years on Easter Monday in Poland and other Easter European cultures. It marks the…

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  • Miss Dyngus Day

    Miss Dyngus Day, Kim Hanko-Dale, poses with Rudy, the Dyngus Dog.

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  • Accordion player

    Accordion player marches in the parade adding music to the festivities

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  • Fire Truck

    An old fire truck participating in the parade, is filled with Dyngus Day celebrants.

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