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  • Board of Zoning Appeals approves Loren Naji Gallery’s parking variance request

    by Rich Weiss (Plain Press, July 2014) At a 9:30 a.m. hearing on Monday, June 23, on the 5th floor of Cleveland City Hall, The Board of Zoning Appeals (BOZA) approved a parking variance request for the Loren Naji Studio Gallery, located at 2138 W. 25th Street. The BOZA room was empty around 9 a.m.,…

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  • Hula-Hoop Contest

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Thursday, June 12, 2014, Edgewater LIVE, Cleveland Metroparks Edgewater Park: Lourdes Adkins, age 12, (above) came in first in a hula-hoop contest. Her brother Damien Adkins, age 8, placed second. Both Lourdes and Damien, were each awarded two tickets to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

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  • Cleveland Public Library asked to invite authors to speak as a response to violence in society

    To the editor: An Open Letter to The People’s University: (Plain Press, July 2014)Would you invite Louise Erdrich and William Least Heat Moon to please share your stage and together mine the great and much neglected wisdom in that fine passage of T. C. McLuhan’s, Touch the Earth:  “The Lakota knew the softening influence of…

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  • Party in Gordon Square

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday, June 14, 2014; Party in Gordon Square, Artisan Collective Cleveland show, 6706 Detroit Avenue: An untitled work by sculpture Anthony Bocchicchio. A plumber by trade, Bocchicchio, used left over pieces of copper piping to create this sculpture.

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  • West Park Summerfest

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, June 1st, 2014; West Park Summerfest, Jefferson Park, Lorain Avenue between W. 133 & W. 134th Streets: A young child seems thrilled to be able to hold the snake while visiting with Jungle Bob.

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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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