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SAFE-16 Winter Safety Conference offers forum to examine trends in community organizing
by Joe Narkin (Plain Press, March 2011) Gathered under a theme of “Good Neighbors Make Good Neighborhoods,” 80 residents of the Cudell, Edgewater, and West Boulevard neighborhoods in Ward 16 attended the Safe-16 Winter Safety Conference at the West Side Community House on February 8 to engage in a discussion of trends in community organizing.…
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Riverview Tower residents celebrate African American history & culture
by Jerleen Justus (Plain Press, March 2011) West 25th Street Riverview Tower residents observed Black History Month by attending a Black History Celebration on Sunday, February 20, 2011. The commemorative festivities were sponsored and presented by the Riverview Tower Local Advisory Council (LAC). The Ward 3 Ohio City CMHA complex is home to approximately 500…
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Hope is first step toward change at the adult education programs of May Dugan Center
by Joe Narkin (Plain Press, March 2011) Education has been a matter of class and circumstance for far too long and for far too many people in the City of Cleveland. A partnership between the Education and Resource Center of the May Dugan Center and the Lakewood City Schools ABLE Program offers adult learners the…
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Franklin/Clinton Block Club listens to plans for their neighborhood
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, March 2011) At the February 24th Franklin/Clinton Block Club meeting, residents listened to a full array of presentations on projects and plans for their neighborhood and the surrounding community. Block Club leader Bill Merriman introduced the various speakers beginning with David Hovis a parent enthused about the new Intergenerational School,…
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Councilman Zone participates in United Nations Climate Change Conference
(Plain Press, January 2010) Councilman Matt Zone was one of only two municipal level elected officials invited to represent the National League of Cities (NLC) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference –in Copenhagen, Denmark December 12th through the 18th. Councilman Zone serves as Vice Chair of the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee of…
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February 2010 photos
PHOTO BY DEBORAH ROSE SADLON Saturday, January 23, 2010; Lincoln West Neighborhood: Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Eugene Sanders hand delivers a study packet for the 10th Grade Ohio Graduation Test to 10th grade Lincoln West High School student Anjanec Garcia.
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Harvey Pekar – working class hero – shares his story at Eastman Branch Library
by Frank Barnett (Plain Press, January 2010) When Harvey Pekar spoke Saturday afternoon, December 5, at the Eastman branch of the Cleveland Public Library near Lorain and W.117, you realized that his appeal is more than simply a local guy who has achieved some national recognition. He is, what you might call, a working class…
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Congress designates National Day for Human Trafficking Awareness to draw attention to modern day slavery in U.S. & around the world
(Plain Press, January 2010, Holly K. Gigante and Karen Walsh) When we hear the word “slavery,” many of us think of history—Abraham Lincoln, the Civil Rights struggles, maybe the use of prisoners of war forced into slavery in Vietnam, Russia, Japan or elsewhere. Slavery is a ruthless treatment of human beings — degradation, a holocaust…
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Food pantries step up efforts to help meet increasing needs of hungry families
(Plain Press, January 2010, Joe Narkin) During 2008, 60,000 people per month received food assistance through a network of over 100 food pantries and hot meal programs in Cuyahoga County, according to statistics provided by the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland– enough people to fill Progressive Field to capacity while leaving 17,000 people still standing…
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