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Community Photos
PHOTO BY ERIK AULT Sunday, Aug 6; Cleveland Puerto Rican festival, Quad Park, 2500 MetroHealth Drive; A young girl at the Puerto Rican festival waves a Puerto Rican flag in support and celebration of her culture. Puerto Rico has been a Territory of the United States since 1898. PHOTO BY ERIK AULT Sunday, Aug 6;…
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A call for society to provide for basic needs of its citizens
To the editor: With all the debate recently for amending the United States Constitution in favor of certain issues and/or constituencies, perhaps a more appropriate amendment should guarantee each citizen of the United States the right to food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. Poverty is defined as the condition of being poor or lacking…
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Area development corporations announce executive departures
Executive directors at Northwest Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation (NWN), Tremont West Development Corporation (TWDC) and Ohio City Incorporation (OCI) are departing to other jobs in the Cleveland area. Northwest Neighborhoods Executive Director Adam Stalder resigned from NWN on June 14th to take a new position at the Cuyahoga Land Bank as Director of Community…
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Master Plan for West Side Market unveiled at public meeting
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Wednesday, August 16, 2023; West Side Market at W. 25th and Lorain Avenue as viewed from the United Building. A committee has been set up to raise funds to implement plans for the future of the West Side Market. A standing room only crowd filled the Truss event space on the…
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Protesters urge Board of Education to save trees at Cudell Commons Park
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, August 22, 2023; Cleveland Metropolitan School Board Meeting; East Professional Center, 1349 E. 79th; Faouzi Baddou, Nikki Hudson and James Pieknik, Friends of Cudell Commons Park, protesting the planned demolition of a historic cypress tree in the Cudell neighborhood. by Chuck Hoven The Friends of Cudell Commons Park came…
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Cleveland Clinic’s Lutheran Hospital employees are prepared to strike
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Wednesday, August 16, 2023; Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199 Solidarity Picket, Lutheran Hospital, 1730 W. 25th Street: Two hundred SEIU members and friends and supporters from throughout the Greater Cleveland area came to show their support for SEIU 1199 members who are unsatisfied with the working conditions, benefits and compensation…
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Public Debate on Participatory Budgeting
by Bruce Checefsky City Council member Kris Harsh, who represents Old Brooklyn and part of the Stockyard neighborhoods, published an Op-Ed piece in the Plain Dealer and cleveland.com calling for a public debate with PB CLE (Participatory Budgeting) coalition. The event is for September 26 at 6 pm in the Little Theatre inside Public Auditorium.…
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August Community Board
ARTS ARTS IN AUGUST in Tremont’s Lincoln Park from August 5 to 25th. All performances are free and family friendly. Bring a chair or blanket. The events are: Cleveland Public Theatre’s Student Theatre Enrichment Program, Saturday, August 5 at 7 p.m.: Cleveland Shakesphere Festival presents Measure for Measure, Sunday, August 6th at 4 p.m.; Reflections…
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Why You Should Vote NO on Issue 1
by Bruce Checefsky In a special election on August 8, Ohio voters will decide on Issue 1 to determine whether the threshold to pass citizen-proposed constitutional amendments should be raised from 50% plus one to 60%. That would basically end the 111-year-old right of Ohio voters to petition lawmakers at the ballot box. NEWS…
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