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  • Cleveland resident competes for title of Miss Ohio Teen USA

    (Plain Press, November 2014) Cleveland West Side resident, Audrianna Farris, Miss Cleveland Teen USA, will compete for the title of Miss Ohio Teen USA. The competition is slated for November 8-9th in Portsmouth, Ohio. Over 100 Ohio teens representing communities throughout Ohio will participate in the competition. The winner of the competition will hold the…

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  • 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…

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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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  • Students from local high schools win CMSD scholarships

    (Plain Press, September 2014) Two Lincoln West students and one Max Hayes student were among 13 Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students awarded scholarships at the Army of Believers luncheon on August 1st.  Students from citywide magnet schools were awarded the remainder of the scholarships. Yu “Mike” Zhang of Lincoln West High School was awarded…

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  • Lincoln West grad completes Navy basic training

    (Plain Press, September 2014) August 20,2014(FHTNC)–Navy Seaman Austin M. Howells, a 2104 graduate of Lincoln West High School recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Howells is the son of Darren L. Seastrand of Cleveland, Ohio. During the eight-week program, Howells training included classroom study and practical instruction on…

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  • Near West Theatre

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  • Hillary Clinton meets Westside Community House Teenagers

    PHOTO BY PAUL JEFFREY FOR UNITED METHODIST WOMEN April 26, 2014; United Methodist Women’s Assembly, Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky: Hillary Rodham Clinton greets 13—year old Christina Robinson and other members of the Summer of Sisterhood, a musical group from the Westside Community House in Cleveland, Ohio. Clinton, a lifelong member of United Methodist…

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  • Seymour Avenue

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, May 6, 2014; Missing Persons Awareness Day on Seymour Avenue, 1-year anniversary of escape of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight: (L-R), new Second District Commander Thomas Stacho, Captain Keith Sulzer of the Division of Community Policing, and Deputy Chief Wayne Drummond join with area residents to promote efforts…

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  • St. Patrick’s Day

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, March 17, 2014, St. Colman Church, 2027 W. 65th Street: Fife and drum players step out of the church doors after the St. Patrick’s Day Mass.

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  • MetroHealth opens Teen Health Clinic at Lincoln West High School

    On Thursday, March 20th in its third week of operation, the MetroHealth Teen Health Clinic served a steady stream of students coming in for health care services. Clinic staff said most of the students it has seen in the first few weeks of operation have come to receive physicals required to participate in school sports.…

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