The Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District will host a 2008 poster contest for students in kindergarten through grade 12. The theme is "Water is Life." Submissions are due at the district's headquarters in Valley View by April 1.

Imagine your perfect café - your REAL NEO café. When you want to hang out, or meet your friends, it will be inclusive, open and vibrant. It will be REALNEO.US, but physical. It is evolving in The Inner Circle restaurant of old, and needs you at the table, as we reengineer the Former Hough Bakeries Complex, and redevelop the surrounding neighborhood, next to University Circle.

Please stop by the "REALNEO café" today to begin some new traditions of Mardi Gras celebration in East Cleveland,  and help plan your perfect real café. And, in REALNEO "café" style, plan to also discuss what you want to see happen with the rest of the Hough Bakeries complex, and in the surrounding neighborhood, including a charter school,  business incubator, culinary entrepreneurship program and media arts center, and whatever else you may imagine and help deliver.