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  • Joseph’s Home provides medical respite care and a support system for homeless men

    by Chuck Hoven Joseph’s Home, a unique facility in downtown Cleveland, offers homeless men a place to receive ongoing care for acute medical conditions. Joseph’s Home, a ministry of the Sisters of Charity’s Health System, says it is “the only homeless service provider in Northeast Ohio exclusively focused on medical respite care.” A brochure provided…

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  • Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization’s Managing Director and board members share thoughts on Strategic Alliance

    The second article of a series of articles on the Strategic Alliance by Victoria Shea In last month’s issue of the Plain Press, the Strategic Alliance between neighborhood development organization, Cudell Improvement and Detroit Shoreway was announced. The news analysis was very brief and took information from the joint-released letter by the two organizations as…

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  • Clevelanders for Public Transit rally for increased public transit funding

    One hundred members of Clevelanders for Public Transit (CPT) marched from Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority headquarters to Public Square on July 23rd to rally for transit funding. The next morning, the group presented the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Board of Trustees with over 700 letters calling on the RTA Board to place a transit…

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  • August 2018 Plain Press Community Board

    COMMUNITY BOARD August 2018 The Plain Press Community Board is a listing of a variety of free activities and resources for neighborhoods served by the Plain Press. Printing for it is sponsored by Organize! Ohio through donations from readers and supporters. ARTS/THEATRE/FILM CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE’S STUDENT THEATRE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM will perform an original play, After…

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  • August 2018 Plain Press – PDF

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  • July 2018 Issue of the Plain Press

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  • Veteran tenant organizer shares thoughts on tenant rights

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2018)           The closing of the Cleveland Tenants Organization has left a gap in services to help tenants deal with problems with their landlords. The Legal Aid Society has stepped up to fill some of the services once provided by Cleveland Tenants Organizations, but not all. Spencer Wells, a veteran…

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  • St. Colman Parish celebrates 100th Anniversary of church building with a Day of Music

    (Plain Press, July 2018)      On June 9th, St. Colman Parish celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the opening of its church building with a Day of Music. The event began with Irish Dancing in the Church Hall featuring two dancers from Murphy’s Irish Arts Center in Beachwood. The dancers, Don Jacobsen and Ellen Conkey entertained the…

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  • Community Roundtable on Transit urges the creation of better, safer and more affordable public transit

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2018)      Organizers of a Community Roundtable on Transit said they hope to create a new vision for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and stop the cycle of service cuts, fare increases and ridership loss. In an effort to bring about their vision of a better, safer and more…

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  • J. Spang Bakery building and Terminal Tower awarded Historic Preservation Tax Credits

    (Plain Press, July 2018)      The Ohio Development Services Agency announced on June 20th the awarding of over $30 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits for the rehabilitation of 31 historic buildings in the State of Ohio.    Two projects in the city of Cleveland received funding. One of those two projects, the J. Spang…

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