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Neighborhood Leadership Development Program Seeks 2018 Applicants

Letitia Lopez, Director, Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

In 2006, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, along with former Cleveland Mayor Michael White, established a leadership training program for engaged neighborhood leaders.  The Neighborhood Leadership Development Program is a free, 16 session community engagement training program for residents of Cleveland, and its inner ring suburbs, who are working on projects within the City of Cleveland and who are determined to make a positive impact on their communities.

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Volume 3, Issue 1, Posted 8:45 AM, 05.31.2018

Bent Touches on Timely Themes at Beck Center

Landmark drama opens June 1 in the Studio Theater

Beck Center for the Arts proudly presents Bent June 1 through July 1, 2018 in the intimate Studio Theater. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays. A Talk-Beck in conjunction with the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland will be announced soon.  Tickets are now on sale. Buy early and save with promo code: TRIANGLE to receive $5 off each adult/senior ticket purchased by May 31. Bent contains strong adult content.

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Volume 3, Issue 1, Posted 8:45 AM, 05.31.2018

Seeking Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) for Youth

CASA of Cuyahoga County, a program of Child and Family Advocates of Cuyahoga County, recruits, screens, trains, and supports volunteers who act as independent fact-finders for the court in cases involving child abuse and neglect. 

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Volume 3, Issue 1, Posted 9:39 PM, 05.06.2018

Sexual Harrassment

This letter is in response to the articles covering the sexual harassment allegations made against men in the media and government throughout the United States

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Volume 2, Issue 5, Posted 10:39 AM, 01.07.2018

Connecting the Homeless

There is much to be said on the topic of Cleveland's homeless. Whether they are martyrs to America's freedom, a draconian warning example, something to swept under the rug, useful objects for the practice of religion and other more secular business, or the monsters of the post-modern collective unconscious--something must be done.

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Volume 2, Issue 5, Posted 10:53 AM, 11.25.2017

Seeking Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) for Youth

CASA of Cuyahoga County, a program of Child and Family Advocates of Cuyahoga County, recruits, screens, trains, and supports volunteers who act as independent fact-finders for the court in cases involving child abuse and neglect. 

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Volume 2, Issue 5, Posted 10:20 AM, 11.25.2017

Googling the Illuminati, or Fear and Loathing in Ohio City

Here in Cleveland we have a couple of popular expressions which best describe community change and the planning process here-- "It is what it is", and "They do what they do".  Sometimes this takes a rather paranoid aspect in a belief in an invisible, nefarious and all powerful Illuminati. But such fatalism is just ignorance, laziness, and narcissism. Really the key to the Inner Sanctum is just a few keystrokes away.  To learn what the future of Ohio City will look like, google 'The City of Cleveland Planning Commission' and the site will lead your way.

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Volume 2, Issue 4, Posted 9:03 PM, 08.31.2017

Cleveland Leadership Program Seeks 2017 Applicants

Hilda Abreu is working on a program for locally selected youth in conjunction with Youth Opportunities Unlimited “Mayor’s Neighborhood Corps” program.  The project will run out of Metro West Community Development Office. Hilda is the Neighborhood Partner Manager for the project.

In 2006, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, along with former Cleveland Mayor Michael White, established a leadership training program for engaged community leaders. The Neighborhood Leadership Development Program is a free, 16-session community engagement training program for residents of Cleveland, and its inner ring suburbs, who are working on projects within the City of Cleveland and who are determined to make a positive impact on their communities.

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Volume 2, Issue 3, Posted 10:28 PM, 06.19.2017

They Put a New Highway Entrance on My Street

Since ejecting myself from the Ohio City Crime Watch page on Facebook, my life has become much calmer, simpler, more enjoyable. However, I do miss the occasional oddball story that’s worth knowing a little bit about, such as the debate over the speed limit on Franklin Ave. and the “vigilante” who took it upon himself to dress up as a city worker and change all the speed limit signs from “35 mph” to “25 mph.” I’ve been living in either Lakewood or Cleveland for the last 9 years and have been using the stretch of Franklin between West 85th and West 25th in varying degrees of regularity, either on foot, my bike, or in my car. I lived on West 52nd for a time, just off of Franklin. I had a number of thoughts about the street and its speed limit over the years, that amount to something like this:

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Volume 2, Issue 2, Posted 10:22 PM, 06.19.2017

Fun with Frames

By Cleveland artist James Quarles

Recently, I attended opening art shows at Spaces in Hingetown and the Canopy on Lorain, both in Ohio City. And come to think of it, I don't think any of the art at either gallery was actually framed, at least in the sense of the craft of framing pictures. Actually, the craft of picture framing is an art in itself, because the frame chosen always changes the meaning of the picture displayed within the frame. For example, a red frame will pick up and emphasize the reds in picture; a big ornate gold frame will make a statement of the picture's importance. The size of the matting matters, too. Really, the frame cannot but help but become part of the picture.

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Volume 2, Issue 1, Posted 10:16 PM, 06.19.2017

Family fun at the Ohio City Games

Photo by Al Fuchs

When Theresa Gorski sets her sights on something, it happens. The energetic, enthusiastic and community-driven Gorski is the owner of Vision Yoga & Wellness on West 25th St. in Ohio City.  Four years ago she had an idea to bring family-friendly, healthy fun to the community. And that is how the Ohio City Games came to be.

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Volume 2, Issue 1, Posted 9:37 PM, 06.11.2017

3D printing and other tech services you didn't know the library offers

Cleveland Public Library has been at the cutting edge of library services since the late 1800’s when it became the first large, urban public library to "open the stacks" to the public. What are "open stacks," you ask?  It is the once radical idea of allowing library patrons to browse the stacks, look at books, and select for themselves what they wanted. Previously—and in many public libraries for years afterwards—patrons had to tell a librarian what book they wanted, or what subject piqued their interest, and a library employee would retrieve books for the patron. Only librarians had direct access to the books. Can you imagine if libraries still worked like this?

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Volume 2, Issue 1, Posted 9:26 PM, 06.11.2017

Sewer Project to Impact Superior Avenue

Superior Ave. traffic restricted to one lane in each direction beginning May 19. 

Ohio City motorists commuting  to downtown Cleveland will be impacted by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Superior Stones Canal CSO Improvements Project. Beginning May 19, 2017, construction will reduce Superior Avenue to one eastbound lane and one westbound lane between W. 6th Street and W. 9th Street.

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Volume 2, Issue 1, Posted 10:37 PM, 06.03.2017

'Thank you!' from Pride in the CLE

Co-chairs Christie Campanile, Daniel Hamilton, and Jacob Nash with Mayor Frank Jackson. 

1,000 Marchers

64 community groups

60 volunteers

18 sponsors

13 days

3 co-chairs

1 goal: Showcase the strength and visibility of the diverse LGBT community of Greater Cleveland.

In the wake of an unexpectedly cancelled pride event, a collection of community organizations and individuals worked tirelessly to plan and execute “Pride in the CLE”— a festival and community-run event open to the public. The event was a first-time endeavor led by the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland.

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Volume 1, Issue 5, Posted 5:41 PM, 09.01.2017

Spring Cleaning for Your Whole Being

Spring is here! Everything’s popping up, sprouting out, and coming to life in all of its brilliance and fecundity, and while I’m certainly excited, there’s still a sluggish part of me that wants to resist leaving my quiet winter cave. In the past, to help me shift my internal landscape, I’ve tried cleanses, and I’ve felt starved, and I’ve panicked, and they didn’t last and didn’t help. But I wanted to do something to ease the discomfort of the seasonal transition and refresh my system, and when I found the simple, nourishing Ayurvedic kitchari cleanse, I knew I was home.

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Volume 1, Issue 1, Posted 4:57 PM, 03.30.2016