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  • COMMUNITY BOARD, a listing of a variety of free activities and resources for the Near West Side.

    (Plain Press, July 2014) ADULT LEADERSHIP APPLY FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS GRANT, micro-grant opportunities to support neighbors as they share their skills in small, grassroots community efforts. The next application deadline to submit a Neighborhood Connections Grant is August 8th. Anyone interested in support for submitting an application may attend a training session on Wednesday, July 23rd from 6pm to…

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  • Lincoln West Wolverines win Senate baseball championship for 3rd consecutive year

    (Plain Press, July 2014) For the third year in a row, the Lincoln West High School Wolverines won the Senate Baseball Championship thanks to a spectacular defensive performance in the seventh and final inning of the game. In a game played in May on Progressive Field in Downtown Cleveland, Lincoln West won 7-6 over Rhodes…

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  • Homeless women treated to salon services

    (Plain Press, July 2014) Forty-five homeless women received shampooing, cutting, and styling services during a daylong community service effort by the staff of the Beauty in You Salon at W. 98th and Denison. Women from the West Side Catholic Center, the Salvation Army Shelter and other local shelters came for the styling services offered for…

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  • Seeds of Literacy receives grant to support adult literacy programs

    (Plain Press, July 2014)In early June, Seeds of Literacy, headquartered at W. 25th and Clark Avenue, received a $12,000 grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to support its adult literacy program. “Funds from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation will help us to serve over 1,000 students this year,“ states Bonnie Entler, Executive Director of…

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  • Open House at 78th Street Studios

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, June 13, 2014; Open House at 78th Street Studios, 1300 W. 78th Street: Artist Susie Frazier of Earthminded Style stands by a display holding some of the natural materials she uses in her art.

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  • School District works to increase number of students meeting third grade reading guarantee

    (Plain Press, July 2014)According to the latest announcement by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District,nearly 80 percent of CMSD third-graders complied with Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee during the 2013-14 school year, roughly doubling the number who met the standard in the fall. As of October, only 40 percent of third-graders had scored well enough on…

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  • Young activists needed to help create a more just society in the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2014)Several recent articles in the Plain Dealer touted Cleveland’s recent brain gain. In a June 10, 2014 article by Robert L. Smith titled Cleveland’s unexpected brain gain garners national attention, a reference is made to an a study by Richey Piiparinen and Jim Russell of the Center for Population…

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  • MetroHealth receives recognition for financial communications with patients

    (Plain Press, July 2014)MetroHealth Medical Center, Cuyahoga County’s public hospital system headquartered on W. 25th Street in the Clark Fulton neighborhood, received recognition from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) as the first health care organization in the nation to adopt HFMA’s Patient Financial Communications Best Practices. The award, from the Healthcare Financial Management Association,…

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  • School Board passes draft of facilities plan extension

    (Plain Press, July 2014) After a series of Facilities Plan Open Houses where residents and stakeholders were asked to rank various scenarios in their school’s cluster, the Cleveland School Board met for three hours, on Monday June 23rd, to discuss various options and vote to approve a draft of a facilities plan extension at its…

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  • Max Hayes Car Show

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, May 24th, 2014; Car Show, Max Hayes Career and Technical High School, 4600 Detroit Avenue: Jim Ables of Columbia Station gives this 1928 Pontiac 2-Door a rubdown. Ables says he has owned the vehicle since 2000.

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