East Cleveland, Fairfax, Glenville,
Hough, Little Italy
and University Circle, written by citizen journalists
Famicos Foundation hosted students from Glenville High School last month for a Sustainability Awareness Day. The students, who are part of the “Table, Set, Go” program, set up displays and educated visitors about sustainability. D.J. Morris talked about portable gardens called Garden Soxx. Avil Wells talked about hydroponics, a method of growing plants in water without [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 15 May 2012
De'Angelo Knuckles' plot at the new community garden here is just a pile of dirt right now, but Knuckles sees something growing already — and it's better than any fruit or vegetable. It's the sense of community and safety that have sprouted in the area since the Buckeye Learning Farm first took root. This year [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 08 May 2012
When you wander into Diana Cooks’ Second Home Salon, 12910 Larchmere, you'll find yourself surrounded by one-of-a-kind home accents and fine furnishings that are looking for their “second home.” You'll also find yourself playing a role in Diana's personal campaign to reuse, repurpose, and refurbish the world's goods and help decrease our collective carbon footprint. [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 23 April 2012
In March, seven grassroots groups received grants up to $3,000 each for their resident-led projects. The Sisters of Charity Foundation’s Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood initiative and Neighborhood Connections partnered to create this new funding opportunity in Central to encourage involvement and leadership by neighbors in the Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood Initiative. All projects focus on [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 02 April 2012
A Courtyard by Marriott hotel is coming to University Circle. It is being built just behind the Starbucks at Cornell Drive and Euclid Avenue. About 40 local officials and business members, including County Executive Ed FitzGerald, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and County Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell, attended the groundbreaking ceremony Jan. 19 in the former Uptowne [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 01 February 2012
Green consciousness has a new attitude. It is being packaged and delivered to local young adults in the form of a comic book series and now a play called “Rid-All: A Green Movement,” directed by Marvin Wright-Bey. The play is based on the first three issues of the comic series called “Brink City: Green in [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 21 December 2011
East 93rd residents beautify community despite trash dumping For people like David Dotson, trash dump- ing is not just a nuisance. It is a counter- force to the restoration of his community. Dotson is the owner of two vacant houses on East 93rd Street. Annie Key, a former state representative for the 11th district, lives [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 25 February 2011
Stacks of discarded rubber tires, weather-beaten mattresses and bags, boxes and cartons line the streets of Greater Cleveland. Elected officials and city residents say they’re fed up with watching the once- vibrant neighborhoods that surround University Circle become cluttered with trash, as abandoned homes and boarded up businesses become dumping grounds for garbage and debris. [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 25 February 2011
Joyce Mariani is good at turning visions into realities. She’s the executive director of the Italian Cultural Garden, a board member for the Cultural Gardens Federation and – as if she’s not busy enough – the executive director of the Cleveland Italian Film Festival. Though her passions obviously revolve around Italy, her latest garden vision [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 25 February 2011
By M. LaVora Perry A bulldozer punches into a rickety house on East Cleveland’s Brightwood Avenue, producing a thick cloud of smoke. As dust settles over the pile of debris, I inhale a rank odor that – in the words of Bob Deskin - comes from “rotted [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 02 February 2011
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