The July Plain Press releases some of the information on Neighborhood Development Allocations made by Councilman Cummins and others with regards to Ward 14.  Please pick up a copy of the Plain Press at your local library--the pdf will also be available soon.

Meanwhile, of the $450,000 available to Ward 14--Councilman Cummins has alloted $365,000 to these organizations:

Here's a story for the PD-I can hook you up with a follow-up. 

Two college students from Russia are staying in Cleveland this summer.  One is from Siberia and one from Moscow.  They flew into Cleveland, booked a hotel and went straight to the Cleveland Public Library Main Branch where, lo and behold, they found someone to take them in for the summer.

How many American college students would take on that kind of adventure? 

A great Friday night in the City of Cleveland. 

Second District Commander Sulzer played a lead role in organizing this event.  Last year's program was outstanding and featured voices from the Mega Church on Scranton Rd. 

This handy dandy card was mailed out to residents in Tremont.

It was so wonderful today see a young boy at Lincoln Park Pool--slip out of his street bravado to enjoy the water as a child.

He rode up to the pool in his oversized shirt and street clothes and I feared the worse, but he slowly shed the "urban" street look to reveal his wild and colorful swim trunks.  

This past week on WCPN--Brooklyn Centre residents Lois Moss and Tim Donovan spoke on the need to change our transportation focus.

Bike advocates like Jim Sheehan and others continue to protest ODOT's blindside to taxpayer pleas for bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares with every new construction project--including the Innerbelt bridge.

A happy NEO project to encourage water conservation from the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District!

I have my eyes on this one by local artist Beth Bryan--To see more, click on link above and SCROLL down.

Photo credit-see link

Today's Plain Dealer describes the Kensington Market in Toronto and includes an image of the shop show above. 

I am going to expand this post, but for now, consider the suburban model of schooling children and the "urban" model of schooling children.

If you live in the suburbs--your school facility is modelled after a prison.  You drive your kids to school or they drive themselves.  The school is set back far from the street so the noise and spill out of noisy kids can not offend.

When I first came back to Cleveland in 1992--I met up and had the good fortune to work with many amazing people who have made an enormous difference in changing the environment here.

I just want to say thank you today--especially to Tim Donovan.  For twenty plus years, Tim has toiled to make folks appreciate the Cuyahoga River Valley.  I don't take this for granted.

This is an open letter of thanks to Norm Roulet.

Norm, you have endured a nightmare experience while trying to bring accountability and open networking to NEO. 

You have been treated inhumanely and your ideas have been stolen and misused.  Yet, gradually, everyday--we see your tools being put to use. 

Here is a thought--from one of the founding fathers of NEO--John G. White:

Can you find this sculptural element in Cleveland?  It commemorates a landmark scientific achievement.

For Montel--I hope you have found your field of dreams. 

Another day on a bike in the City of Cleveland, Ohio....

No real issue to discuss here--just putting out some flowers--peace offering.

Photo credit: Steven Litt

Please revisit the post from Lee Batdorff regarding the shell game of monies along Euclid Ave. 

Lovesick—we all know the feeling--wishing that an object idolized from afar shared in an emotional attachment.  It’s a heady feelin

Male social clubs dictate our political structure here in NEO. 

Yesterday, before falling into a fever-induced sleep--some 24-hour flu bug--I meant to look up the words to this song.  We've had some awfully beautiful days here in NEO. It's worth remembering:

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!