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  • Great Lake Erie Boat Float tackles plastic pollution

    (Plain Press, October 2015) On Saturday, September 12, teams participating in the Great Lake Erie Boat Float’s 2015 competition brought their boats, made from recycled materials, to Edgewater Beach hoping to see if they would float and win a race with other similarly constructed water craft. However, the water proved too rough that morning for…

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  • Park and multipurpose trail proposed for Big Creek Valley in Stockyard neighborhood

    (Plain Press, September 2015) In hopes of creating a new park, just south of Denison in the Stockyard neighborhood, Big Creek Connects, a non profit organization dedicated to the stewardship of the Big Creek Valley, hopes to seek funding this fall from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency’s (NOACA) Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative (TLCI).…

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  • 20th Anniversary Celebration, Bigelow Garden

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  • “We Care” Expo

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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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