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Exercise for Free

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After 42 years, Fairfax resident Jeanette Hunter finally stopped smoking, with help from staff at Cleveland Clinic Community Health and Education Center at Langston Hughes on East 79th Street. But it is the friendships she developed with staff and fellow residents that have kept her coming back to the center for years. I’m “not a number here,” Hunter said recently while at the center to exercise..
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Former NFL Star Talks with Students

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Former NFL star and native Clevelander Chris Chambers met with nearly 100 student-athletes, including several from East Tech High School, to teach them about financial fitness. Chambers gave real-life examples of how even wealthy sports stars need financial education. He and KeyBank employees taught students about managing a checking account, using ATM and debit cards and the importance of saving and using credit cards responsibly. His goal is.
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Growing Green in Central

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Green City Growers, a new commercial greenhouse in Central, officially opened Feb. 25. The greenhouse, which sits on more than three acres between East 55th Street and Kinsman Road, hired area residents and is training them to become employee-owners. The goal is to create and nurture generational wealth for residents in the area. The greenhouse's workers (now about 18 people) will be invited to become employee-owners after performance reviews at.
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Cory Church Connects to Neighborhood

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The city of Cleveland has 109,237 churches. I was given this information while in a seminary program at Ashland Theological Seminary, through the McCreary Center. We were told: “When you have a church anniversary, it should be for the community around you ... You should be able to look outside your windows, and see change going on around the building." I wanted to start looking at what.
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Freedom Schools

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The Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program provides summer enrichment through a research based and multicultural curriculum that supports children and families through five essential components: high quality academic enrichment, parent and family involvement, civic engagement and social action, intergenerational leadership develop-ment and wellness. Scholars are taught to love reading, develop a positive attitude toward learning and cultivate self-esteem through an Integrated Reading Curriculum (IRC) by.
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Neighborhood Spotlight

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Drawing inspiration from nature is a specialty of Larchmere resident and celebrated artist Nancy Weymouth Halbrooks. It starts with photos she takes in the field, which then become the basis of drawings and paintings in her studio. The subject for much of her work? Crows! “Since I was a child, I’ve been intrigued by crows,” Halbrooks said. “To me, they represent intelligence and community. For example,.
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Family Center Supports Youth

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Lajean Ray is proud of the young people in her neighborhood and is working to make sure they get the support they need to succeed. Ray is the executive director of Catholic Charities’ Fatima Family Center, 6600 Lexington Ave.  The family center offers a variety of programs for children ages 5 to 18. Programs include an afterschool teen leadership group and a summer camp. “If you give.
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Poetry Corner

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She Likes to Swallow Blood I hold her tightly While the darkness creeps in slowly. My arms can’t protect her From nightmares, her past, And the clouds approaching   Laying restless from awaiting Revelations. The ticking clock syncs Our breath and tears. Because she cries silently, Weeping pillows wet Is a haunt that makes me hold her firm   Never feeling her pain from the day before. I never see the bruise and tears through the beauty Of her smile. The.
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Film Class at Glenville Rec

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I was recently challenged to design a five-week film course. My thought process for completing the task became molded from the idea, "What if I had a budget and only five weeks to prepare writers and a film crew?" I did it. Our course says film skills are fast, easy-to-learn, marketable skills that can be acquired in five weeks. Our program is a hands-on education in.
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Resident Publishes Book

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Carol Jones grew up in a house full of trouble, but she found peace. And now, she hopes her story — documented in the new book “Letting Go of Yesterday’s Pain” — encourages others to find better days ahead. Jones’ church friend, Vivian Cox, wrote the book published in December. Jones had a book signing at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in University Circle earlier this year. She said.
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A Pot O’ Gold at Friendly Inn Settlement

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“Are leprechauns real?” a curious second-grader asked me as I strolled around the St. Patrick’s Day-themed Family Night at Friendly Inn Settlement on March 12. The holiday-themed event culminated the Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities program taught by Mallory Salvi, an AmeriCorps member at Children’s Hunger Alliance. The curriculum combines 12 hands-on nutrition education — or Food Folks — lessons, in conjunction with 20 hourlong moderate to vigorous physical.
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Where Art & Community Intersect

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Architect Mark Lakeman stood inside Trinity Cathedral last month and spoke like a preacher — bringing a message of hope and inspiration to a capacity crowd of about 160 Clevelanders who came to hear him speak. “Even though we are surrounded by so many disparaging stories, our hearts are still beating,” Lakeman said as he introduced the citizen-driven movement called City Repair that began in a Portland,.
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How to Live Abundantly

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Michele Hill used to worry about money, but not anymore. She didn't win the lottery or inherit a windfall. She read a book: "The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods" by Peter Block and John McKnight. "The book changed my entire perspective," Hill said. "It's nice to know now that there will always be enough." Block, who lives in Cincinatti, was in Cleveland in February.
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Poetry Corner: Today

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Today Today I display happiness because yesterday taught me a lot. Respectfully now I take one step at a time cautiously, I must say.   For me to get a second chance in society a question was asked, “Did I learn my lesson from the punishment I received?”   I reply, “No lesson have I learned, punished I was not.” The only ones that were punished were my friends and family who.
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