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  • Practical Money Matters:   Take a Close Look at Social Security in 2016

    by Nathaniel Sillin (Plain Press, February 2016) If you’re not close to retirement age, it’s easy to ignore what Social Security is doing. However, some significant announcements late last year make now a very good time to pay attention. What follows is a summary of notable changes to Social Security at the start of 2016…

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  • Self Defense Corner

    by D. L. White (Plain Press, February 2016) Open up a newspaper, or your search engine, and the news is laced with violence and destruction. Walking into a restaurant, school, or waking up can make anyone apprehensive about the days’ events. What can be done about your day to day safety? Guns, stun guns, mace,…

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  • Finding Effective Treatment for America’s Pain Crisis

    by Bob Twillman (Plain Press, February 2016) The last thing the world needs right now is more suffering. More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, at an annual cost of $635 billion. That’s more than we spend treating cancer, diabetes, and heart disease combined. Worse, our efforts to treat this pain have led to…

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  • Men Who Wish to Change reach out to Cleveland families of street violence victims

    Plain Press, December 2015 Men Who Wish to Change, a group of prisoners in the Trumbull Correctional Camp, a state prison in Trumbull County, used their resources and contacts in Cleveland and Akron to host a condolence dinner for families of street violence victims. Men Who Wish to Change founder Rawn Nash recruited his Godmother,…

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  • Glass Bubble Project

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  • Cleveland Leadership Development Program seeks 2015 applicants

    (Plain Press, August 2015) In 2006, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, along with former Cleveland Mayor Michael White, established a leadership-training program for neighborhood leaders. The Neighborhood Leadership Development Program is a free, 15 session community engagement training program for residents of Cleveland, and its inner ring suburbs, who are working on projects…

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  • Safety Tip of the Month: PERSONAL SAFETY: While walking, jogging, or biking

    Safety Tip of the Month PERSONAL SAFETY: While walking, jogging, or biking (Plain Press, August 2015) Send the message while you are out and about that you are calm, and confident. Avoid isolated areas. Use familiar routes in well-lit, populated areas, and avoid alleys, deserted or wooded areas and parking lots. Especially at night, bike…

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  • Tri-C Launches New Adult Diploma Program

    Participants earn diploma and career credential; enrollment opens July 6 (Plain Press, July 2015) A new program launching at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) will link earning a high school diploma with free job training for adults, age 22 or older, who left school before graduating. Enrollment in the Adult Diploma Program at Tri-C opens Monday,…

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  • Cleveland Metropolitan School District secures school to apprenticeship agreement with Cleveland Construction and Building Trades Council

    PROGRM WILL START IN THE FALL AT THE NEW MAX HAYES (Plain Press, April 2015) (CMSD NEWS BUREAU) A new landmark agreement, years in the making, will help move students from the classrooms at CMSD’s Max S. Hayes High School to apprenticeships in the construction trades industry. Mayor Frank G. Jackson and District CEO Eric…

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  • Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice honors two women for their commitment to human rights

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, April 2015) On March 14th Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at Kan Zaman Restaurant at W. 25th and Franklin Blvd. The celebration honored two women, Norma Freeman and Bea Silverberg, with the…

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