Mary Ostendorf and Leslye Huff moved to East Cleveland from Beachwood about seven years ago and settled in a colonial home on Page Avenue. Both worked late — Huff as a lawyer and Ostendorf as a nurse. When they drove home in the evenings, often they saw people hanging out near the corner of Page at Euclid Avenue in an empty lot littered with garbage.
The lot was "an.
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No comments East Cleveland
Calling All Leaders to the Table
There ain't nothing like your own now that you're grown. The question is: Do you know it’s yours? Do you know the unlimited possibilities of success you can achieve? It’s time to sit at the table and handle this business!
People of East Cleveland, we are a diverse group. Let's build our city. Show your face in the place and have fun designing the future of our city..
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No comments Fundraiser for Glenville Boxer Headed to the Olympics
A fundraiser for Olympic boxer Terrell Gausha is scheduled for 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. tonight at Barley House, 1265 W.6th St. A $20 donation includes draft beer and appetizer buffet. SportsTime Ohio will be doing a live broadcast and a taped segment of this event. Money raised aids Terrell's mother's travel to London so that she can be there to support him during the Olympics.
On hand will.
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No comments Keeping Money in the Neighborhood
Martha King, better known as Missionary Mac or just Mrs. Mac, has been using her energy to bless this community for years, people say.
She retired from General Motors seven years ago and says she “is heading into her 60s.”
“I could go somewhere and sit down, but that’s not Ms. Mac,” she said. “I do a lot of mettling.”
She’s a street club president. She organizes an.
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No comments East Cleveland MLK Rec Center Sports Boxing Champs
Head coach Renard Safo, right, and coach Carlos Burwell at East Cleveland's Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center with boxers, from left to right, Dillon Burwell, Ronnie Burnett, Dontae Benjamin, Antwonik Marks, and Ashley Hampton. The team brought home three first-place and two second-place awards from the Title National Boxing Tournament, held from June 13 - 16 in Memphis, Tenn..
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No comments Navigating the Healthcare System
Jacqueline Adams is the Community Outreach Coordinator in the Cleveland Clinic’s Stephanie Tubbs Jones Health Center Navigation Center. Recently she told NV how she and her colleagues help patients overcome barriers to navigating the healthcare system.
NV: What do you do in the Navigation Center?
The Navigation Center is a pilot project… We assist patients who may have barriers. So a lot of our patients in this.
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No comments Help Local Business with Money Bomb Today
Today until 6 p.m. join Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope and spend money with a locally-owned business in East Cleveland that employs local residents and highlights art and culture . The goal of this event is to show residents that they can be a catalyst for growth of the local economy by supporting businesses that reinvest in the community. Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope is a non-profit,.
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No comments Coit Road Farmers’ Market celebrates its 80th anniversary
The Coit Road Farmers’ Market celebrates its 80th anniversary during market hours 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 2. The celebration will include activities for all ages such as entertainment, games, information tables, health screenings and food.
Founded in 1932, the market is located at the intersection of Coit and Woodworth roads near East 152nd and provides access to affordable, locally sourced food to the residents of Greater.
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No comments Social Justice Institute Ignites Youth Movement
About 80 students, community activists, and leaders joined together to POWER UP! Saturday April, 21.
They participated in the inaugural Social Justice Student Leadership Conference sponsored by CWRU's Social Justice Institute. The university’s offices of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity; Multicultural Affairs; Planning and Institutional Research; as well as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio and the Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio co-sponsored the.
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No comments Free Summer Camps
East Cleveland Neighborhood Center presents free summer camps. There are several camp programs.
The Freedom Schools Program offers literacy enrichment that will enhance the scholar’s love of reading.
ECNC Freedom School scholars will also take weekly field trips to local museums and other local attractions that highlight the programs purpose.
Scholars will complete daily art projects, experience drama instruction and organize, plan and implement a social action project.
Weekly Family.
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No comments Student Docs and Nurses on the Case
The Free Medical Clinic of Cleveland is closed weekends — and Saturday medical treatment is available there.
Confused? Listen up.
Since fall 2011, the original Free Clinic has housed a tenant every second and fourth Saturday: Case Western Reserve University’s Student Run Free Clinic (SRFC). It’s open to walk-ins from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The SRFC typically treats anywhere from 16 to 24 patients said Erin Stein, former.
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No comments Mail Carrier Trains Boxers to Deliver Victories
So far, eight young boxers have turned pro thanks to Renard Saffo. The 59-year-old is a graduate of Shaw High School in East Cleveland. He began boxing in 1973 and went on to win three Golden Gloves amateur boxing competitions.
Saffo trained his first boxers in 1994 when he became assistant coach at the Glenville Recreation Center. He told NV he discovered he had a knack for “training champions.”
Since 1986, Saffo has.
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No comments Have A Great Idea for Your Neighborhood?
Apply for a grant from Neighborhood Connections.
Proposals are due at 5 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 10.
Neighborhood Connections provides financial assistance to groups led by community members in the city of Cleveland and East Cleveland and funds projects that improve the quality of life in local neighborhoods. Groups do not need to be an official nonprofit organization to apply. Any community-led group in the city of Cleveland and.
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No comments Twon Billings: Former Gang Leader Serves Others
Anton "Twon" Billings spoke fast, like a running faucet. That day last summer — the day I first met him — we stood outside East Cleveland's city hall. Forty-two years old at the time, he told me this short version of his life:
At 13, he started the Crips gang in Cleveland. Giving motivational speeches to women victimized by violence reconnected him to the pain of his repeated.
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2 comments NEON Health Centers: Full-Service, Affordable Care
People fall off health insurance plans for all sorts of reasons. But, fortunately, in our community, Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services can catch them.
There is no shortage of people to catch either. The 2010 census found that almost 50 million Americans and 1.5 million Ohioans had no health insurance that year. By now, those numbers may be even be higher.
So it's a good thing NEON's.
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