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  • Local organizations awarded grants from U.S. Soccer Foundation

    (Plain Press, March 2015) The U.S. Soccer Foundation, the major charitable arm of soccer in the United States, announced over $28,500 in grants awarded to two local organizations, Ohio City Incorporated and America SCORES Cleveland, to support soccer programs for underserved youth in the Cleveland area. This comes as part of an announcement of over…

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  • Halloran Park Skating Rink

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  • Project CARE

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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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  • Santa Shuffle

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  • Plans underway to complete northern section of Towpath Trail

    (Plain Press, December 2014) On November 6th, about 150 people took the opportunity to view the proposed path for the missing links in the towpath trail as it winds its way along a five-mile stretch from Harvard Road to the proposed Canal Basin Park.  A Towpath Trail Open House held at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church…

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  • Participants in the Great Lake Erie Boat Float test seaworthiness of their crafts

    (Plain Press, October 2014) For the sixth year in a row, the Great Lake Erie Boat Float offered the opportunity for those concerned about the environment to design and test the seaworthiness of boats made from recycled materials. Participants in this year’s Great Lake Erie Boat Float, held on September 6th at Edgewater Park, had…

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  • Tremont’s Day and Night Music Festival

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  • Madison’s Pathway Garden of All Seasons brightens corner of W. 105th and Madison

    (Plain Press, September 2014) Neighborhood residents have transformed the corner of West 105 and Madison into the Madison’s Pathway Garden of All Seasons. The effort to change a vacant lot into a flower garden began in 2010 when W. 105th Street resident Clarissa Thompson approached Cudell Improvement Executive Director Anita Brindza to seek permission to…

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  • Juveniles break into bicycle shop, while owner volunteers at Taste of Tremont

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, September 2014) A dozen new and used bicycles were stolen from Shaker Cycle at W. 5th and Jefferson in the Tremont neighborhood. Shaker Cycle’s owner, Mitch Paul, says the theft occurred on July 20th while he was helping out at Taste of Tremont offering a secure location for guests to…

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