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Legal Aid helps clients struggling with legal issues regarding money
By Tonya Sams (Plain Press August 2024) Money issues can cause an enormous amount of stress and fear. Concerns about money can determine where you live, if you will be able to have basic needs met, the quality of life you will have and more. Money stressors not only include size of your paycheck…
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Community Development Leadership Program seeks 2024 applicants
(Plain Press August 2024) If you are passionate, committed and dedicated to taking an active role in improving your community, you may be excited by, and ready for, one of two valuable leadership development programs. The Neighborhood Leadership Development Program (NLDP) and Community Development Leadership Program (CDCLP) are programs of the Jack, Joseph and…
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2024 HEAP Summer Crisis Program is accepting applications
(Plain Press August 2024) The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) Summer Crisis Program is a one-time benefit that can be used to pay electric utility bills (up to $500), purchase air conditioners or fans, or repair central air conditioning units during the summer months. Eligible Ohioans may qualify for an air conditioning unit and/or fan…
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Sharks in Lake Erie?
(Plain Press August 2024) Is this a joke? How can this be? However, there have been recent reports of shark fins being seen breaking the surface of the waters in the Great Lakes. There have also been reports of dead sharks washed up on the shores of Michigan and Lake Erie. In addition, a biologist from Penn State…
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Northwest Neighborhoods announces Executive Director Kent Márquez
(Plain Press August 2024) The Board of Directors of Northwest Neighborhoods CDC is pleased to announce its selection of Bridget Kent Márquez (she/they) as the organization’s Executive Director, following one year of her interim executive directorship. Under Kent Márquez’s leadership, a spokesperson for Northwest Neighborhoods says the nonprofit has evolved as an innovative provider of affordable housing and…
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Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality urges residents to lobby for Ohio House Bill 428
(Plain Press August 2024) In just one year, more than 1 in 4 Ohioans will be 60 and older. Of this group, 110,000 households receive less than $50 a month in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan (SNAP) benefits. We are writing to express our support for House Bill 428, which aims to leverage state funds to…
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Author speaks of impact of urban development on homelessness in Cleveland
(Plain Press July 2024) Daniel Kerr, associate professor of history at American University and author of Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio, gave the keynote address at the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) Housing Justice Summit on June 8th. He also was interviewed by Axios reporter Sam Allard the…
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Cudell Park out of peril? Residents to monitor paused Marion Seltzer Elementary rebuild as CMSD considers levy
PHOTO COURTESY OF NIKKI HUDSON AND SAVE CUDELL PARK Cudell Commons Park and the surrounding neighborhood take the name of Frank E. Cudell, a German-American architect whose locally significant designs include the Tiedemann House or “Franklin Castle” and the Perry-Payne building on West Superior Avenue. by Collin Cunningham (Plain Press July 2024) A nearly…
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A look at the history of some of St. Luke’s neighbors
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press July 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd. and Memphis Ave. which the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (OBCDC) is seeking to “revitalize” with a $31 million new construction project. It is the most historic section of Cleveland’s Old…
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