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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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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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You’re Invited: Fairfax Church Hosts ‘Home for the Holidays’

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The Liberty Hill Baptist Church, 8206 Euclid Ave., invites the entire Cleveland community’s families and friends to join in worshiping and praising God for the third annual Home for the Holidays. Festivities include: Pre-Thanksgiving Celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 21 at 7:00 p.m., featuring violinist Obie Shelton, Liberty Hill Praise Dancers, and The Newell Family Singers; a Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 22 at 11 a.m.; and  Home for the.
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Neighborhood Connections Awards More Than $300,000 in Grants to Cleveland and East Cleveland

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Tom O'Brien, program director of Neighborhood Connections, a small grants program and publisher of Neighborhood Voice.
  Neighborhood Connections, the small-grants and grassroots community-building program affiliated with the Cleveland Foundation,  recently awarded $305,000 in grants to support 77 different projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland. In Greater University Circle, 25 projects were funded totaling $91,000. Neighborhood Connections’ mission is to ignite the power of everyday people to create, together, an extraordinary world right where they live. Recent grants include: Positive Plus Women’s Support Group in the Fairfax.
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Building Generational Wealth: Innovative Housing Program Helps Workers Buy Homes Here

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Ron Jones, CEO of the Evergreen Cooperatives based on East 105th Street, knew he had a problem and it was affecting his business. Evergreen, which includes solar energy, laundry and greenhouse businesses, hires folks from the surrounding neighborhoods and teaches them to become worker-owners. The worker-owners end up with a stake in the business and voting power about hiring new workers. But Jones said he and other.
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Community Meeting to End Mass Incarceration of People of Color

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Foreground: Latisha James with author Terrie Williams, April 9, 2012 at Case Western Reserve University. Background: Mental Health Forum committee planning meeting at CWRU, November 9, 2012.
Tuesday, November 13, 6pm Olivet Institutional Baptist Church 8712 Qunicy Ave Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216.721.3585 Book Resource: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander From Case Western Reserve University's The Daily, September 20, 2012: At the center of Alexander’s message is how the U.S. prison system is creating a population of second-class citizens. Many African-Americans are “warehoused” in prison, she says, and return to society labeled as.
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Does Your Silence Make You Guilty?

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Did it ever occur to you that NOT saying something is just as bad or worse than saying the wrong thing? A friend of mine asked me this question. She said that she had a friend, or an associate, who was engaging in what she thought was inappropriate, though not necessarily illegal, behavior. My friend said she felt compelled to say something but, out of.
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‘PNC Fairfax Connection’ Open House Saturday

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The PNC Fairfax Connection – a new community resource center in Cleveland’s historic eastside community – will be officially dedicated today by PNC Bank to the residents and businesses of Fairfax.  Representing a bold new strategy for community engagement, the PNC Fairfax Connection will feature a variety of programs designed to foster community empowerment and revitalization. Opening events include remarks by James E. Rohr, PNC chairman.
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Cleveland School District Offers Language Assistance for Parents

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The Cleveland Metropolitan School District provides free language assistance to parents and guardians who have Limited English Proficiency (LEP) regarding school programs and activities. To be eligible for assistance, a parent or guardian does not have to be of limited English proficiency in speaking, reading, writing and comprehension. It is only necessary that a person be limited in at least one of these areas to receive.
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Youth in the Kitchen

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Do you remember your first time in the kitchen? I still remember the first full meal that I ever cooked. It was Mother's Day 2001, and I was 13. I was so excited to show my mother all that I had gleaned from her and my grandmother over 13 LONG years. I went all out that day. I made T-bone steaks, roasted potatoes and veggies, biscuits, and my.
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Senior Profile: Hattie Mathews

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Mrs. Hattie Mathews was born in Crowville, Ga. She moved to Cleveland in 1956 and has resided in the Ward 6 area for more than 40 years. She is married to Willie D. Mathews, is the mother of five children and also raised one granddaughter. In 1976, Mathews received training at The Ohio Sate University in law enforcement. She worked as a security guard at the.
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Gov. Kasich Signs Mayor Jackson’s ‘Cleveland Plan’ into Law

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 Gov. John Kasich signed the “Cleveland Plan for Transforming Schools” into law Monday inside the auditorium at John F. Kennedy High School, an action that trumpets a new beginning for the 43,000 students enrolled in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. In signing the legislation, Kasich thanked members of the Cleveland Teachers Union and their leadership for being receptive to the transformation, which came at a cost.
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Not Your Usual Summer Camp

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About 30 children from Greater University Circle attended a summer camp led by the Marines last month. Lt. Colonel Ricco Player, who grew up at East 92nd Street and Superior Avenue, returned to Cleveland for the first time in about 15 years to lead the group. “We have to invest in children now,” said Player, a father of four, who now lives in Virginia. The children, ages 10-15,.
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Expressions of Success

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Everyday we have experiences we do want and experiences we do not want. This is known as deliberate creation versus miscreation. To deliberately create, we must disregard how things are and focus only on how we want them to be. Focusing only on how we want things to be must become habit until success happens. You must be before you can do. That means to accomplish anything.
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