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  • Issue 4: What does passage mean for neighborhood schools?

    (Plain Press, November 2014) Issue 4 on the November 4th Ballot asks Cleveland voters to extend the bond issue originally passed by Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) voters in 2001. Since Issue 4 is a renewal, the district stresses it will not raise taxes. The CMSD notes that the bond issue will cost the owner…

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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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  • Standardized tests drive Cleveland Transformation Plan

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2014) Under current local, state and national educational policy, Clevelanders are being asked to measure their public and charter schools and judge their teaching staffs based on the scores on standardized tests. While the standardized tests may help to compare schools, they do little to help individual students to…

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  • July 2014 Issue of the Plain Press

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  • Homeless women treated to salon services

    (Plain Press, July 2014) Forty-five homeless women received shampooing, cutting, and styling services during a daylong community service effort by the staff of the Beauty in You Salon at W. 98th and Denison. Women from the West Side Catholic Center, the Salvation Army Shelter and other local shelters came for the styling services offered for…

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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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  • Senior Luau

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE Friday, May 9, 2014, West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Avenue: Sherwin Williams’ volunteers and Senior Center members who participated in the Best Costume Awards at the Luau de Mayo. Sherwin Williams’ volunteers served as the judges in the contest. Volunteers also helped with the games, interacted…

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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. Ignatius Food Pantry – Milk Distribution

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, September 11, 2012; Food Pantry, St. Ignatius of Antioch School Cafeteria, Lorain Ave. at West Blvd: Volunteer Mary Ellen Sullivan of St. Ladislas Church in Westlake distributes milk.

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  • St. Ignatius Food Pantry – Bread distribution

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, September 11, 2012; Food Pantry, St. Ignatius of Antioch School Cafeteria, Lorain Avenue at West Blvd: Barbara Sivak displays the bread available at the Food Pantry.

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