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  • Workshops demonstrate healthy meal preparation

    (Plain Press, December 2016) Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) Wellness Coordinator Cheryl Sara, RN, shared tips and recipes at two classes held at the Neighborhood Family Practice Ridge Road Community Health Center on November 17th. Those in attendance, fifteen people in the first class and about eight in the second, watched as Sara prepared a number…

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  • 3116 W. 54 (W. 54 & Winimac) vacant

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  • West Side Market tenants petition for rent reduction

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, December 2016) In a November 17th letter to Cleveland City Council, West Side Market Tenants Association President Vince Bertonaschi requested a 25% rent reduction for tenants at the West Side Market and a two-year moratorium on any additional rent increases. In the letter, Bertonaschi notes the considerable loss of business…

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  • Free fresh produce from the Greater Cleveland Food Bank

    Free fresh produce from the Greater Cleveland Food Bank Free fresh produce from the Greater Cleveland Food Bank

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  • Emerald Development and Economic Network (EDEN Inc.)

     

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  • Creative Fusion Fall 2016 Edition

      PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, November 19, 2016; 2501 to 2799 Washington Avenue,, a community engagement artist residency, linked international artists with local artists to create a series of public scale visual art pieces in Hinge Town and along the Detroit Avenue corridor from W. 25th to W. 32nd. Brazilian artist Ananda Nahú collaborated…

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  • COMMUNITY BOARD DECEMBER 2016

      A listing of a variety of free activities and resources for the Near West Side. ADULT BASIC EDUCATION SEEDS OF LITERACY is a non-profit organization that provides FREE basic education and GED® preparation to adults in the Cleveland area. Together with students, volunteers, and donors, they are working to break a root cause of poverty: illiteracy. To…

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  • Mayor Frank Jackson forgets where he came from

    by Roldo Bartimole (Plain Press, December 2016)            Mayor Frank Jackson is soft putty in the hands of the corporate downtown plutocracy. The mayor, from the most deprived area of the city, has allowed and perpetuated for a decade Cleveland’s downtown to become a city within the city—pampered and showered with freebies. What downtown wants,…

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  • Effort underway to keep Fifth Third Bank from closing Ohio City branch

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, December 2016)            A petition drive is under way to collect signatures of people who would like to keep the Fifth Third Bank branch at 3500 Lorain Avenue in the neighborhood. Fifth Third bank recently announced it would be closing the branch by the beginning of next year. Working out…

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  • Residents urged to help maintain the historic nature of residential housing in Ohio City

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, December 2016) Ohio City resident Tim Barrett, an architectural historian and historic preservation advocate, made a presentation to the Fulton/Lorain/Bailey Block Club on Saturday, November 19th urging opposition to the zoning changes proposed by the City of Cleveland Planning Department for the Ohio City neighborhood.  If implemented, Barrett argued the…

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