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  • Cleveland Seed Bank offers valuable resources to area gardeners

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, April 2015) With the coming of spring, many area residents are beginning to think about what they will plant in their gardens this year. When looking for seeds to plant, residents may want to try checking out some seeds at The Seed Library at the Cleveland Public Library. Participating library…

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  • 2015 Plain Press Community Guide

    EMERGENCY NUMBERS Fire • Police • Medical………………………………………….911 Poison Control Center……………..…….1-800-222-1222 Mental Health Crisis Hotline …………   ………623-6888 www.adamhscc.org RTA Police………………………………………. 566-5163 Safe Schools Hotline………………………771-SAFE (7233) United Way First Call for Help …..436-2000 ……or…..211   ABUSE Adult Abuse Hotline (Cuyahoga Cty DSAS)…..420-6700 Child Abuse Hotline…………………………696-KIDS (5437) Cleveland Animal Protective League………….771-4616 Cleveland Rape Crisis Center Hotline……………619-6194                                        www.clevelandrapecrisis.org …

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  • COMMUNITY BOARD JANUARY 2015

    A listing of a variety of free activities and resources for the Near West Side. ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE COMMUNITY ANIMAL RETENTION EFFORT (PROJECT CARE)’S mission is to provide outreach support for pet owning residents with the goal of helping owners retain their pets, as well as providing spay/neuter services to reduce pet overpopulation. If you…

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  • Esperanza Threads provides Cleveland residents with job training while producing high quality products for sale

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, November 2014) The goals Esperanza Threads, a nonprofit organization in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, include training individuals to work in Cleveland’s sewing industries, and the making and selling of products to help support the organization and further its mission. Employment Training Thus far in 2014, twenty-five men and women from…

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  • July 2014 Issue of the Plain Press

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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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  • 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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  • Volunteer tutor sings praises to Seeds of Literacy

    To the editor: (Plain Press, April 2014)This letter is in response to the article in the March issue of the Plain Press “2013 Seeds of Literacy graduates make history: Largest Class Ever To Graduate From Program”. I spent a brief time with Seeds of Literacy as a volunteer tutor back in the Summer/Fall of 2009. …

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  • 2013 Seeds of Literacy graduates make history LARGEST CLASS EVER TO GRADUATE FROM PROGRAM

    (Plain Press, March 2014) On February 5th Seeds of Literacy graduates, their families, volunteer tutors and staff of the program gathered for the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 filling the US Bank building lobby at W. 25th and Clark on a cold and blistery winter night.  “The class of 2013 was 102-strong, the…

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