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  • A look at Lorain Avenue while traveling down memory lane

    A look at Lorain Avenue while traveling down memory lane by Kevin Coleman (Plain Press, September 2019)       Lorain Avenue is a Cleveland thoroughfare spanning approximately 12 miles from its beginning at the Hope Memorial Bridge to the Rocky River. As soon as motorists traverse the 256-foot-long Lorain Viaduct, the street becomes Lorain Road and runs…

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  • Main street WHAT IS HAPPENING TO LORAIN AVENUE

      PHOTO BY CLARENCE MADISON (Plain Press Archives) July 1985; Lorain Avenue: Tina Gayer, co-chair of the Lorain Avenue Business Association, sees crime prevention as the highest priority. In this photo from the Plain Pressarchives, Gayer is standing in front of a car lot on W 47thand Lorain Avenue. In the background behind her you…

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  • West Side Catholic Center’s Ohio City Pizzeria offers second chances

    West Side Catholic Center’s Ohio City Pizzeria offers second chances by Colin Murnan (Plain Press, September 2019)       The West Side Catholic Center has partnered with EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute to take over and run Ohio City Pizzeria. The Catholic Center had been in talks about buying the restaurant for eight to ten years, but…

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  • Cleveland Native Serves at Naval Hospital Jacksonville

        Cleveland Native Serves at Naval Hospital Jacksonville by Dusty Good, Navy Office of Community Outreach (Plain Press, September 2019)       (Jacksonville, Fla.) – A 2009 James Ford Rhodes High School graduate and Cleveland, Ohio native is serving at Naval Hospital Jacksonville and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Jacksonville. Petty Officer 3rd Class LaSean…

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  • Want to Recreate the Latest Runway Fashions for Less? Shop Thrift!

    Want to Recreate the Latest Runway Fashions for Less? Shop Thrift! by Silk Allen (Plain Press, September 2019)       Nothing excites me more than seeing the latest fashion trends hit the stores in September. The problem is, if you are anything like me and the new season’s fashions spark joy (Marie Kondo be damned lol) fall…

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  • United Latino Film Festival

        PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, August 9, 2019; United Latino Film Festival, Holiday Inn, Mentor, Ohio: Tony Mata, executive producer and director of the documentary film Theatre of Rice and Beans, a retrospective look at New York Latino Theatre which features the founders of three Latino Theaters — Miriam Colon, Rene Buch and Max…

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  • Puerto Rican Festival at Roberto Clemente Park

      PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, August 4, 2019; Puerto Rican Festival, Roberto Clemente Park, Seymour Avenue & W. 38th, Home Depot Booth: Aleyshka Feliciano, age 6, builds a picture frame with the help of her Grandmother Maria Roman, her mom Keyshla Perez, and Home Depot staff member Samone Starling.  

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  • Puerto Rican Parade

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, August 4, 2019; Puerto Rican Parade, 2955 W. 38thStreet: The Arroyo Family celebrates while watching the parade go past their house.

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  • Wigs for Kids donation

    PHOTO COURTESY OF WAVERLY WILLIS/URBAN KUTZ BARBERSHOP Monday, August 12, 2019; Urban Kutz Barber Shop, 11106 Detroit Avenue: Logan Cavins, age 17, gets his hair cut by Waverly Willis. The hair was donated to Wigs for Kids on Center Ridge Road in Westlake.  “He (Logan Cavins) grew his hair for years with the sole purpose…

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  • New Waverly Elementary School opens

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