• 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…


  • Welcome House seeks funding for home for developmentally disabled youth aging out of foster care

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, September 2014) Welcome House, which purchased the Cuyahoga County Archives buildings at W. 29th and Franklin, hopes to use the main building, the Rhodes House, to provide housing and support services for twenty-four developmentally disabled young adults who are aging out of foster care. Welcome House Executive Director Tony Thomas…


  • Quan Am Buddhist Temple celebrates 10th Anniversary

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2014) Over 200 people gathered at Quan Am Buddhist Temple at 11921 Bellaire Road on Sunday July 20th to celebrate the temple’s tenth anniversary. Many members of Cleveland Buddhist Community attending the celebration, came early to go inside the small temple for a moment of reflection before a beautiful…


  • Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Italian Festival


  • Festival Del Cafe


  • Literary Lots


  • Bob Stop


  • Near West Theatre


  • Dan Joyce Retirement Party


  • Party in Gordon Square

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday, June 14, 2014; Party in Gordon Square, Artisan Collective Cleveland show, 6706 Detroit Avenue: An untitled work by sculpture Anthony Bocchicchio. A plumber by trade, Bocchicchio, used left over pieces of copper piping to create this sculpture.