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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No comments Glenville
Get Ready for Summer Basketball!
James Reid had the opportunity last summer to stand back and watch what was once just an idea in his head become reality. The last day of the eight-week double elimination Glenville Summer Basketball Tournament was coming to a close, trophies and medals were given and children softened their faces with proud smiles.
Glenview Park, 10701 Dupont Ave., was filled with laughing children, joy-filled teenagers and.
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No comments From Empty Lot to High-Tech Farm
Leonard Davis’ dream of urban farming grew from a seedling to a garden. It's located on the corner of East 130th Street and Arlington Avenue in the Glenville neighborhood.
In 2008, Davis’ godfather allowed him to plant a garden on the large plot of land. In 2011, Davis bought the plot and gave away what he grew to anyone who wanted some.
Now Davis' garden has gone.
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No comments Mural Artist Offering Workshops in May
Vibrant 40-foot-tall murals adorn the walls of public buildings in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Once drab, neglected and graffiti ridden, these buildings now beam with pride and dignity as visitors admire the stunning masterpieces. Kent Twitchell is renowned as the mural artist most responsible for Los Angeles and Philadelphia’s visual revitalization.
Sankofa, Karamu House and Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp. have collaborated to bring Kent Twitchell to Cleveland in May. The first.
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No comments Teen Student Interviews County Medical Examiner
For some time now, I’ve wanted to be a medical examiner. I guess all those crime scene investigation TV shows, like "Criminal Minds," got to me.
When I told my mother about my latest career choice, she went digging through the Web for summer programs, internships — whatever. That is when she came across the High School Shadowing Program.
The program is coordinated by the medical examiner.
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3 comments Stop Blaming, Start Changing Your Life
I was recently in an automobile accident, which in all my many years of driving has never happened to me. Thank God. After the initial shock of the impact, I thought I was fine, but the next day things begin to happen that I had not expected. It’s as if your entire body absorbs the impact, but after things begin to settle, body parts you.
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No comments Making MLK Day a Day On, Not a Day Off
Despite having the day off from work and school, M.L.K. Day will serve as “a day On, not a day off” in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
City Year, Do Something, Radio One, Hands On, and CMSD are teaming up to make MLK day an impactful day of service here in Cleveland. MLK Day, celebrated on Jan. 21 this year, serves to commemorate the.
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No comments Local Entrepreneur Opens New Business
Anthony Howell turned his idea into a pure profit business.
Howell's company Ink Cartridge Enterprise, of Glenville, collects empty ink cartridges from local businesses and sells them to companies who refill them and sell them at a discounted price.
The idea is that by recycling the cartridges and having them refilled, people can buy them at a lower cost when they need new ones.
Howell picks up ink.
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No comments Neighborhood Connections Awards More Than $300,000 in Grants to Cleveland and East Cleveland
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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No comments New Shop Coming to Garrett Square
Join Cleveland City Councilman Kevin Conwell for the groundbreaking of the new Advance Auto Parts store at noon on Nov. 17 at 11905 Superior Ave. Also learn about future projects in Ward 9, including the Lakeview Avenue street project and three new parks/green spaces. Advance Auto Parts will join Sav-A-Lot and Forman Mills at the shopping plaza, site of the former TOPS Market.
Councilman Conwell's community.
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No comments Building Generational Wealth: Innovative Housing Program Helps Workers Buy Homes Here
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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No comments Poetry Corner: Fall
Leave a[n]griculture for the dinosaurs, per-
maculture for soaring
Birds they became according to
wisdom, my friend (Paul) says
dinosaurs figured it all
out! War be
low so
Above dis...
figured it
a waste
O time, energy
lumbering around too
big to fail bodies
large as the Terminal Tower (it is
terminal, was terminal) beating
to a pulp, so...
Back they came (he says),
lighter, closer to heaven and
chirping for all (mornings)
glory as a
dove, thrush, lapwing, peacock pretty...
swifts.
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No comments This Weekend’s Must-do Event: Fall Family Festival
Ward 7 Community Service Center would like to invite you to our Fall Family Festival from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 20 at Gordon Park. This will be a fun outdoor event for the whole family. Bundle up, and let’s have a wonderful time. Vendor tables are available for free. For details, contact the Ward 7 office at 216-664-2908 or the Ward.
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No comments Upcoming Event: Bridging the Gap in the Faith Community
Neighborhood Connections is sponsoring an event this month organized by Pastor Andrew Clark, of Trinity Outreach Ministries in Glenville. The event, called "Bridging the Gap in the Faith community," will allow faith leaders to offer their plans and projects for the areas they represent and allow attendees to pledge their support in working with the presented initiatives.
It is our goal to develop a sense of "neighborhood within.
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No comments I Want my Neighborhood to Have…
In our August issue, we asked readers to tell us what they would like their neighborhoods to have. We were inspired by residents in Collinwood who used a Neighborhood Connections grant to build a community chalkboard on Waterloo Road near East 160th Street asking the same question. The group is now building another chalkboard on East 185th Street.
Folks from around the area answered our call..
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