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Food pantries step up efforts to help meet increasing needs of hungry families
(Plain Press, January 2010, Joe Narkin) During 2008, 60,000 people per month received food assistance through a network of over 100 food pantries and hot meal programs in Cuyahoga County, according to statistics provided by the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland– enough people to fill Progressive Field to capacity while leaving 17,000 people still standing…
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Effort underway to create a plan for future of Stockyard and Clark Fulton neighborhoods
(Plain Press, January 2010, Chuck Hoven) The Stockyard Redevelopment Organization (SRO) invited community leaders to a December 10th meeting at W. 58th Street Church of God, for the first of three meetings designed to help create a plan for the future of the Stockyard and Clark Fulton neighborhoods. Those in attendance included representatives of block…
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Councilman Zachary Reed calls Council President Sweeney “a terrible leader”
(Plain Press, January 2010, Chuck Hoven) Speaking at a December 2nd political forum sponsored by the West Park Republican Club, Ward 3 Councilman Zackary Reed called Cleveland City Council President Martin Sweeney a “terrible leader.” Reed said Sweeney’s leadership was “bad for City Council and bad for the City of Cleveland.” Reed charged that under…
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Cyclist and pedestrians urge ODOT to provide access to Inner Belt Bridge
(Plain Press, January 2010, Chuck Hoven) A Sunday, December 6th rally at Lincoln Park in the Tremont neighborhood, calling for a bicycle and pedestrian pathway along the proposed Inner Belt Bridge, drew about eighty cyclists, walkers and even a few babies in strollers. Those gathered at the event wrote letters to the Ohio Department of…
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