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  • Hispanic UMADAOP and Clark-Fulton MyCom Coalition to host “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT”

    (Plain Press, March 2015) Looks can be deceiving. That’s the message behind a unique traveling exhibit created by the Bath and Copley Township Police Departments.  The display is called “Hidden in Plain Sight.”  The departments constructed what appears to be at first glance the bedroom of an average teenager.  However, amidst the clutter of clothing…

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  • Fiesta de Reyes (Feast of the Three Kings)

     

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  • Hispanic UMADAOP Youth Center celebrates grand reopening

    (Plain Press, January 2015) The Hispanic UMADAOP Youth Center (Gruss Hall) at 3115 Scranton Road, celebrated its grand re-opening on December 8th. Jonathan Rivera, the Hispanic UMADAOP Youth Center’s new director, who grew up just down the street from Gruss Hall, says he used friends and contacts from the community to help with the renovation…

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  • Cleveland Clerk of Courts employees’ donation brightens Thanksgiving for La Sagrada Familia Church

    (Plain Press, December 2014) In October, employees of the Cleveland Clerk of Courts office donated $500, plus 10 boxes of canned goods to La Sagrada Familia Church on Detroit Ave. The employees have been raising money for the donation since hearing that someone robbed the church of money, equipment, and food for the poor this…

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  • Dia De Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration

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  • Luis Muñoz Marin mentoring program receives an assist from Wal-Mart

    (Plain Press, November 2014) CMSD NEWS BUREAU— Walmart came this September with a $1,000 check for Luis Muñoz Marin School, but school leaders are convinced that there’s a much bigger payoff to come for their students. That’s because the cash donation is really just secondary support for “Mi Futuro” (Spanish for “My Future”) a yearlong…

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  • Hispanic UMADAOP teaches Cleveland youths’ skills to help prevent drug and alcohol abuse

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, October 2014) Hispanic Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (Hispanic UMADAOP) provides an excellent example of how a community organization can have a positive influence on students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). Hispanic UMADAOP has been offering an alcoholism and drug abuse prevention program in Cleveland…

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  • Festival Del Cafe

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  • Deportations destroy families

        PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, May 3, 2014; The Immigrant Justice Solidarity Rally and March organized by the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network: Supporters of immigrant rights begin a march from Market Square Park on W. 25th and Lorain Avenue. The demonstrators called for an end to deportations that are breaking up families.

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