• Helping Hands

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, December 17, 2013; Winterfest, Cudell Recreation Center, West Boulevard and Detroit Avenue: (L-R) Linda Collins, Paet Burcham, and Joanne Newbury, members of Helping Hands, prepare to join Santa and Mrs. Claus in distributing 238 sets of hand made hats and scarfs to children from Marion C. Seltzer and Madison Community…


  • Sister Anna Maria Hayes displays scarfs and hats

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, December 7, 2013; Short and Sweet Holiday Shop at Art House, 3119 Denison Avenue: Sister Anna Maria Hayes, an artist from the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, displays the scarfs and hats she knitted. Gloria Ferris, Christine Stuckey and Sharon Martyn of Brooklyn Centre Naturalists recruited 25 artists to participate in this…


  • St. Herman’s Spaghetti Dinner, St. Malachi Parish Hall

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, December 8, 2013; : Roy McInerney, Jr. founder of Threads for Beds, sells Christmas stockings to raise funds for renting space so that homeless people might have shelter for a night when needed. McInerney says this year’s stockings were hand made and donated by students in Cleveland’s Positive Education Program.


  • Two Year Old at Gordon Square Holiday Event

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday, December 14, 2013; Wrapped in Tradition, a Gordon Square Holiday Event, Gordon Square Farmers’ Market, Gordon Square Arcade, Detroit Avenue at W. 65th Street: Delia Klein, age 2, ventures through the Farmers’ Market with a parent close behind.


  • Where is My Dee-Chee? written by Allison Motz and illustrated by Carolyn Huber

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, December 8, 2013; Community Service Alliance Benefit, Pilgrim Church, W. 14th Street: Madison Motz, age 8, Emily Motz, age 6, and Max Motz, age 3, sit on their sitter, Melanie Arehart’s lap, while helping to sell a book, Where is My Dee-Chee?, written by their mother, Allison Motz. Madison and…


  • Visit with Santa

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, December 7, 2013; Detroit Shoreway Neighbors’ Holiday Party, Gordon Square Arcade, 6516 Detroit Avenue: Alanna Brumfield, age 6, and Richie Broomfield, age 23 months, visit with Santa. The Holiday Party, which featured refreshments, music and free gifts for the children, was sponsored by Neighborhood Connections and the Detroit Shoreway Community…


  • Christmas Concert, Franklin Circle Christian Church

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, December 17, 2013; Christmas Concert, Franklin Circle Christian Church, 1688 Fulton Road: Lake Catholic High School Concert Band, the Lake Catholic Choir and the Franklin Circle Christian Church Choir joined to perform a free Christmas Concert.


  • Ice Sculpture

    Saturday, December 14, 2013; Wrapped in Tradition, a Gordon Square Holiday Event, W. 67th and Detroit Avenue: Caleb Landis of the University of Akron Culinary Artists Club works on an ice sculpture.


  • Lincoln West students shine in the city of Brotherly Love

    Lincoln West students shine in the city of Brotherly Love (Plain Press, January 2014) In November of 2013, two Lincoln-West High School students, Kamelia Premsook and Amber Douglas, made presentations at the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) in Philadelphia, PA. During the Poster Presentation segment of the three-day regional meeting, Amber Douglas, a Lincoln West…


  • January 2014 Classified

    PLAIN PRESS CLASSIFIED: $10 for 12 words and 30¢ for each additional word. To advertise count the words and mail a check or money order with your ad to the Plain Press, 2012 W. 25th #500 Cleveland, OH 44113. For more information call Tom Sheehan at (216) 621-3060 or email plainpressads@yahoo.com. FLEA MARKETS/THRIFTS ST. PAUL’S…