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PHOTO BY JOE NARKINSaturday, August 7, 2010; Sisterhood Program, West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Ave: Gabrielle Wilson sings at a musical performance for the Sisterhood Program at the West Side Community House. The Sisterhood Program is a character-building program for teenage girls, ages 10 to 15.

PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSaturday, August 21, 2010; Market Square Park, Northwest Corner of W. 25th & Lorain Avenue: This pillar placed at Market Square Park by artist Carl Floyd in 1985 displays colorful tiles made by Near West Side community members. Notice one tile is missing. Cleveland Public Art is collecting tiles as they fall and hopes to incorporate them into a new design for the park.

PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSaturday, August 21, 2010; Market Square Park, Northwest Corner of W. 25th & Lorain Avenue: This tile, made by a community member in 1985 shows the West Side Market surrounded by some neighborhood features including the structures of artist Carl Floyd’s Tempus Pons (Time Bridge) sculpture at Market Square Park .

PHOTO BY JOHN CARTWRIGHTSunday, August 22, 2010; St. August Church Parish Picnic, 2486 W. 14th Street: Felix Montacero prepares food for those attending the picnic. St. Augustine Church is celebrating its 150th Anniversary this year.

by Chuck HovenA planning process to redesign

Market Square Park, which began in 2005, now has secured funding to rebuild the park and is moving forward. Ohio City Near West De-velopment Corporation, Cleveland Public Art, Parkworks and the City of

Cleveland Parks and Recreation De-partment are working on the plans and hope to complete the redesign project by late 2011 in time for the 100th anniversary celebration of the West Side Market in 2012. Ohio City Near West Executive Director Eric Wobser says the City of Cleve-

land has committed $1.5 million in General Obligation Fund Bonds to the redesign and construction of Market Square Park located at the Northwest corner of W. 25th and Lorain Avenue.

Market Park is now designed with tiles, covering various structures in the park. A sculpture, called “Tempus Pons,” (Time Bridge) was dedicated on Saturday, October 26th 1985. An article announcing the dedication of the sculpture, Market sculpture dedicated, in the November 4 -18 1985 Plain Press by Paul Bartel and Debbie Webb, says. “The sculpture designed by Institute of Art professor Carl Floyd, represents the ancient joining with the future. The stones are still in the process of being covered with colorful tiles made by area residents to depict the diversity of the West Side neighborhood…” People now are concerned with the fate of the tiles now at the park as it undergoes a massive remake.

Wobser says those involved in the project to redesign the park, are well aware of the history of the community’s involvement in creat-ing the tiles and the efforts of land-scape artist Carl Floyd of Cleveland Institute of Art whose design was selected by the community and the Ohio Arts Council 25 years ago. Wobser said those planning the new park are trying to “preserve as much as possible of the concept of his (Floyd”s) work.”

Cleveland Public Art Executive Director Greg Peckham says the

Market Square Park redesign plans raise concerns over fate of historical tiles

continued on page 4County Council Candidates face off at District 3 community forumby Joe Narkin

Five of seven candidates for election to the newly created District 3 council position in Cuyahoga County offered their views, regarding how a newly reformatted county government can overcome a pattern of job and population loss in a county that has been riddled by corruption, to 21 residents attending a Candidate’s Forum on August 18, 2010 at Kirby Manor, 11500 Detroit Avenue.

Democratic candidates, Faouzi Baddour, Nelson Cintron, Jr., and Chris Ronayne, will face off with Dan Brady and Chip Joseph in the primary election on September

7, 2010 to determine who will become the District 3 nominee of the Democratic Party. The Democratic nominee will face Patty Gascoyne, the Republic Party candidate, and Chris Crossman, who will represent the Green Party, in the general election on November 2, 2010. Gascoyne and Crossman are both running unopposed for the nomination of their respective parties. Brady and Joseph did not attend the candidate’s forum.

District 3 in Cuyahoga County covers an area that includes Cleveland

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Crowded fi eld of candidates vies for District Seven County Council seatby Chuck Hoven

Candidates for County Council in District 7 participated in a forum on Tuesday, August 17 at Holy Name Church in the Slavic Vil-lage neighborhood. The forum, put together by leaders in the Slavic Village neighborhood, invited all Council candidates for the district to participate. Nine of the thirteen candidates participated in the forum for the County Council District which stretches from Glenville and Univer-sity Circle west to include the Ohio City and Tremont areas of Ward 3

and the South Hills neighborhood of Old Brooklyn,

Candidates in attendance at the forum were Phyllis Lucia Crespo, a Republican from South Hills; James D’Amico, a Democrat from Ohio City; James Levin, a Democrat from Ohio Ctiy; Timothy Russo, a Demo-crat from Tremont; Jeff Kipp, an Independent from South Hills; Clark Broida, a Democrat from South Hills; Michael Nelson, a Democrat from Downtown Cleveland; Dale Allan

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PHOTO BY JOE NARKINWednesday, August 11, 2010; West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Ave: First place winners at the Breakfast of Champions, a fi tness program for seniors at the West Side Community House. (L to R): Cath-erine McDaniels, Virginia Filip, Bernice Meyers, Elena Ward, and Mary Ross.

FOODFRESH PRODUCE GIVEAWAY AT WSEM FARMERS’ MARKET will be held on Monday, Sept.13, from 4-6 p.m. at WSEM, 5209 Detroit Ave. free for those in need on fi rst-come, fi rst-serve basis. Produce giveaway will continue on the second Monday through November. Bring your own bag. For more informa-tion, please call Anita Armstrong at 216-

651-2037, ext. 477.

EVENTSCLEVELAND CRITICAL MASS will meet Fri., Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. at Public Square downtown. Come to ride your bicycle through the city, joining cities around the world and help grow Cleveland Critical Mass bicycle advocacy. For info, visit www.ClevelandCritical Mass.com. JOYFUL NOISE OPEN HOUSE will be held on September 15 at 5:30 p.m. at Mt. Calvary Church, 12826 Lorain Avenue. Joyful Noise Music School offers free music and performing arts lessons to children. For more information call 671-5528.CLEVELAND ANNUAL PEACE SHOW 2010 on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, from noon to 6 p.m. offers music, crafts, refreshments, info booths, children’s activities, and more. It will be held at Willard Park, E.9th and Lakeside; rain location St. Paul’s Community Church, W.45th and Franklin. For info, call 216-932-8546 or visit www.clevelandnonviolence.org.JOB SEEKER TUESDAYS present 4 free workshops Tuesday mornings in September at the Lakewood Main Library, 15425 Detroit, from 9:30 am

– 12:30 pm. Topics include Sep. 7: Resumes ; Sep. 14: Developing a Job Search Plan; Sep. 21: Networking; and Sep. 28: Interviewing. Call 216-529-6868 or email lakewoodfamilycollab@gmail.com. 4TH ANNUAL CIVILWAR ENCAMP-MENT at Lincoln Park, W.14th and Starkweather, on Sept. 11 and 12 fea-tures live vintage music, camp activities, drills, and demonstrations, Abraham Lincoln and Hale Farm re-enactors, and children’s activities.For info, visit www.tremonthistory.com or call Eileen at 440-785-6315. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION at Cleveland Waste Col-lection Ridge Road Station, 3727 Ridge Road during the week of Sep. 13 – 18, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., lets residents recycle or safely dispose of residential waste such as pesticides, oven and drain cleaners, many paints, stains, and sealers, mercu-ry thermometers, etc. For info on specifi c products included, call 216-664-3717 or visit www.cleveland-oh.gov.

GRIEF SUPPORT REEL GRIEF: A GRIEF SUPPORT FILM SERIES, presented by the Visiting Nurse Association, utilizes feature fi lms, such as Ordinary People and Away From Her, to learn how to move through grief actively and make the process of mourn-ing a healing one. It will be held Tues. afternoons, Sep.14 through Oct.19, from 2:30 – 4 p.m. at the Deaconess-Kraft Center, 3100 Devonshire Rd., behind MetroHealth Senior Health Campus. All adults welcome. For information or to register, call 216-931-1327 or email dlredd@VNAOhio.org.

MEETINGSA R U P E S O U T H O F L O R A I N BLOCK CLUB has invited the Cleve-land Municipal School District to its September 7th meeting to present plans for the new Dunbar School. The meeting will be held in the Thomas

Room of St. Ignatius High Schools new Breen Center. Refreshments at 6:15 p.m. Meeting begins at 6:30 p.m.STOCKYARD NEIGHBORHOOD FORUM will be held Wed., Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. at the VFW Post 2850, 3296 W.61st. Guest speakers include Stockyard area councilpersons Brian Cummins, Matt Zone, and Jay Westbrook. For info contact Megan Meister at the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton & Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office, 216-961-9073 x210 or email mmeister@dscdo.org.A L L A B O A R D O H I O r a i l r o a d transportation interest group will meet on Sat., September 11, at the Franklin Circle Church, 1688 Fulton Road from 10 a.m. to noon. The featured speaker will be Ken Prendergast, president of All Aboard Ohio magazine. The topic of the discussion will be National Railroad Day in Cleveland, Ohio in 2011. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. For more information contact Stephen Rubin at 216-466-2284 and leave a message.

SENIORS6TH ANNUAL CLEVELAND SENIOR WALK will take place on Thurs., Sept. 30, at 10 am at Cleveland City Hall, Mall C. Registration and health screenings begin at 8:45 a.m. For info, call Cleveland Dept. of Aging, 216-664-2833.

VOLUNTEERSSEEDS OF LITERACY offers two op-portunities in September for its required tutor training session. Volunteer tutors provide free, one-to-one tutoring in basic education and GED preparation for adults in Cuyahoga County. Training sessions will be held Tues., Sept. 7, 5:30-8:30 p.m., repeated on Sat., Sept. 18, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., both at the Seeds Resource Center, 3104 West 25th St., at Clark Avenue. All tutors are required to attend only one tutor training session; no teaching experience is necessary. For more information and to register, please contact Stacie Papp at 216.661.7950 ext. 10 or staciepapp@seedsofl iteracy.org. REFUGEE MENTOR TRAINING: Satur-day, September 18, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Building Hope in the City, 2031 W. 30th Street, brown house next to Trinity Lu-theran Church.. Free training facilitated by the Cleveland Catholic Charities Of-fi ce of Migration and Refugee Services. If you know how to wash dishes, use an ATM and deposit checks, then you are well on your way to being a mentor. RSVP to Lesa by Sep.14th by emailing lesa@buildinghopeinthecity.org or call 216-281-4873.

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE will be held in September at the following neighborhood locations: Metro-Health Med. Center, 2500 MetroHealth Dr., Tues.9/14/10, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.: La Sagrada Familia, 7719 Detroit Ave., Sun. 9/26/10, 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.; and St. Ignatius Parish Hall, 10205 Lorain, Sun., 9/26/10, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. For information,

call Katie Ezell at 216-704-5933.

VOTING INFORMATIONAPPLICATION FOR VOTE BY MAIL BALLOT must be received by Cuyahoga County Board of Elections by noon on Sept. 4. Applications are available at li-braries, at www.boe.cuyahogacounty.us, or by calling the Voter Information Hotline at 216-443-3298. Vote by Mail ballots returned to the Board of Elections must be postmarked not later than Sept. 6.

YOUTHMERRICK HOUSE STORY TIME is an 8-week family reading program for parents/caregivers and their children ages 3-5. GED students and families are invited to participate to read stories, do activities, and enjoy refreshments. Story Time begins Tues., Sep.14, 9-11:30 a.m. at Merrick House, 1050 Starkweather. Families who attend the full 8-week session will receive a $40.00 gift card! To register call Molly Carreon @216-771-5077.TREMONT MONTESSORI is currently enrolling students for the 2010-2011 school year for their free, full-day Mon-tessori Kindergarten program. At the school, 2409 West 10th Street from 9:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Please bring your child’s complete immunization record, birth certifi cate and proof of address. Children must be 5 years old by Septem-ber 30, 2010, to attend Kindergarten. Ap-plications for students entering grades 1-8 can be made with an Open Enrollment Application available from the school or from http://www.cmsdnet.net/ under the ‘Parents and Families’ link., along with a copy of the student’s most recent report card and any applicable state test. There is an interview process for students en-tering grades 1-8. Tremont Montessori is a citywide, preschool to 8th grade public Montessori school in the Cleveland Met-ropolitan School District. For further information, please call the school at 216-621-2082 or visit http://net.cmsdnet.net/Tremont

MyCom engages Cudell area youth in community buildingby Frank Barnett

A ball of volunteer energy, prop-erly managed, can work wonders.

MyCom is not just a catchy ab-breviation of “My Commitment. My Community.” It demonstrates how many ways that very commitment to community can be leveraged. Young people are given valuable leader-ship experience; adult volunteers can be engaged as mentors and role models; and benefi cial community projects get accomplished.

The Cudell neighborhood is one of eight Cleveland neighborhoods that have established MyCom in the past couple years. Birgit Hilliard makes no distinction between overseeing this program and her management of Cudell Improvement’s Crime Prevention Program. “I believe that safety and community engagement is the same thing. These young

people are living in the community, so we need to include them.”

She elaborated on that when she spoke at the fi rst annual recognition dinner for Cudell’s MyCom Youth Council August 11 at Brennan’s Ban-quet Center. “I used to get phone calls, and all I would hear all day long is the gang is back, do some-thing about the gangs. You know what? This is the gang here right now. These are the kids we recruited and we gave them a chance, worked with them, and I couldn’t be prouder if they were my own kids.”

Before 18 certifi cates were award-ed to all the Youth Council members, three of them addressed the crowd, Jamie Woolfolk, T.J. Cabil and Jacob Williams. Each one had learned a lot in the past year, coming out of their respective shells, helping to plan and staff events like a cleanup along I-90 and the National Night Out Against Crime.

The Cleveland Foundation, as well as Charter One, Third Federal, Saint Luke’s Foundation, Family and Children First Council, and Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland all provide fi nancial support to the program. MyCom started a couple years ago with almost a half million dollars from the City of Cleveland and a little over 3 million from Cuyahoga County.

With public speaking one of the talents the young people can devel-op in MyCom, Ward 16 Councilman Jay Westbrook said a few words ripe with metaphor: comparing our house keys to being the key to your community; the community garden projects symbolic of growing the community; paving new roads; and even how each individual might use different words to search “MyCom” on the internet, according to what it means to them.

Pastor Max Rodas, director of the Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center, further marveled at the dynamic volunteer energy. “In our neighborhood, adults and young people get along. The old notion of one criticizing the other seems like it’s gone. Nueva Luz continues to be the lead agency of this process. I don’t call it a program; really it’s a process of community building. I’m very optimistic about the future, very energized about what the Cudell neighborhood can be.”

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PHOTO BY J. GONZALEZAugust 23,2007; Ohio Prizefi ghters Boxing Club, Cleveland, Ohio: Carlos Gonzalez, age 13, displays his world championship belt.

Local boxer Carlos Gonzalez wins World Championship TitleCarlos Gonzalez, age 13, who

trains with his father and coach An-tonio Gonzalez in a private gym in the West Boulevard neighborhood, won the 70lb intermediate world championship amateur boxing title in the 13-14 year old novice division at the Ringside World Championship amateur boxing tournament. The contest was held August 2nd thru the 7th at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Carlos, an eighth grade student at Greenbriar Middle School in Parma, has been boxing since age 8. Many nights during train-ing camp one could find Carlos Gonzalez of the Ohio Prizefi ghters Boxing Club with his trainer/father

Antonio Gonzalez Sr. jogging on West Boulevard in Cleveland.

Carlos defeated three oppo-nents in the tournament to win his championship belt. In the semi-fi nal match-up Carlos Gonzalez squared off against Eloy Ruiz of Kansas City, Kansas winning by decision and advancing to the championship title fi ght.

In the championship bout Car-los faced Kaige Lewis of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Carlos dominated the bout from the sound of the opening bell scoring big in the fi nal seconds of the final round as the referee jumped in to put a halt to the action and give Lewis a standing eight count. Winning on all the judges’

scorecards, Carlos Gonzalez won the 2010 Intermediate 70 lb Ring-side World Championship title in the 13-14 year old novice division.

Coach Gonzalez says his son loves to box plans to continue to compete in amateur boxing in the future.

Over 1400 boxers compete every year at the Ringside World Champi-onship amateur boxing tournament, the largest such tournament in the world over the past ten years. Boxers from throughout the United States competed with competitors from countries such as England, Finland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Ireland.

Cleveland Recycling: Carrot vs. StickTo the Editor:

This letter is in response to the August 20th Plain Dealer article “High-tech carts will tell on Cleveland residents who don’t recycle ... and they face $100 fi ne”, writ-ten by Mark Gillispie.

The recent discussion concerning global warming has focused primarily on alternative sources of fuel for the purpose of transportation. However, another very important pro-environment tool is recycling. The effort needs to involve more than the consumer and the government. It needs to involve those who sell (and profi t) from those products that can be recycled. The manufactures of bottles and cans, the producers of what’s sold inside them and the grocery stores that distribute them must take on

a greater economic role in the process of recycling.

Some time ago bottlers would charge a fi ve-cent “deposit” on a bottle to be “refunded” when the consumer returned the bottle. It would seem that this con-cept could be re-operationalized for a whole host of products. The consumer could clean the bottle or can, return it to the grocery story for a “refund” and the grocery store would return it to the producer, receiving a “refund” along the way. When all parties involved have an economic incentive to participate, recy-cling will make a much larger contribution towards preserving the environment. The $100 fine passed by Cleveland City Council is a clear choice of stick over carrot.Joe BialekCleveland, OH

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Smith, a Democrat from South Hills; and Timothy Trogan, an Old Brooklyn Democrat.

Candidates, who failed to show up at the forum were: Yvonne M. Conwell, a Democrat from Glenville; Victor Miller, Democrat from Glenville; John McDon-ald, Independent from Cleveland; and Olga Sarbinowska, an Independent from Glenville.

While the number of candidates in at-tendance allowed little time for in depth discussions of policy, the candidates were able to share a bit about who they are and what they have done with their lives.

Crespo, an attorney, says she has served as an assistant Law Director for the City of Euclid where she dealt with rules concerning civil service employees, planning and zoning issues and labor union negotiations. Crespo says she also dealt with Health and Human Ser-vices issues as an attorney for Juvenile

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continued from page one Court. She has served as a trustee of Big Brothers/Big Sisters and has served on the Green Spaces Committee of Old Brooklyn Community Development Cor-poration. Crespo, the only Republican in the group, has no opposition in the September 7th Primary.

James D’Amico describes his profes-sion as sales and marketing. He sells used cars at two locations on Union Avenue. He has served as a precinct committee person for the Democratic Party for eight years. D’Amico has been involved in his neighborhood’s safety committee and has attended the Citizens Police Academy. He would like to help foster better relations between police and youth and would like to see better coordination of safety services through-out the County.

James Levin, an attorney for 31 years concentrating on criminal, civil rights and labor cases, says his client base keeps him intimately involved in urban Cleveland issues. Levin was the founder of Cleveland Public Theatre and served as its director. He was also involved in

the creation of the Gordon Square Arts District and served as co-founder and artistic director of the Ingenuity Festival. Levin teaches a class on Entrepreneur-ship at Wooster College.

Tim Russo says he was baptized at St. Stans in the Slavic Village neighborhood and grew up in Old Brooklyn in Our Lady of Good Council parish. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University Law School. Russo, a Social Media Consul-tant has worked with unions to use video technology and U-tube in collective bar-gaining. Russo says he was involved in an effort to recruit and train 300 attorneys to be election-day observers in the 2004 presidential election. He has practiced law in both Little Italy and Tremont. Russo also writes positive stories online about the Tremont neighborhood.

Jeff Kipp says his life is an example of anti urban sprawl. He grew up in Solon, moved to Lakewood and now lives in the South Hills Old Brooklyn neighborhood in Cleveland. He is the Director of Live Cleveland, and organization that markets the City of Cleveland and its neighbor-hoods – urging people to move into

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PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSaturday, August 21, 2010; Market Square Park, Northwest Corner of W. 25th & Lorain Avenue: This tile on sculpture sends a message from 1985 to the future, “There’s room for you in the circle of God’s love.”

community gave the planners input at public meetings held in 2005 or 2006 and stressed the meaning and history in the tiles. He said the tiles have the “fi ngerprint of the com-munity” on them and that all of the

scenarios (proposed for the new park) are 100% committed to assur-ing the tiles are reincorporated into the facility.” Peckham said planners had discussed ways to incorporate the concept of a “Time Bridge” into the park. He said planners have considered trying to incorporate use new tiles created by neighborhood residents to add to those being pre-served from twenty-fi ve years ago.

Peckham says that Cleveland Public Art has been collecting tiles as they fall off the sculpture and is preserving them in their offi ce, which sits next to Market Square Park. The local coffee shop’s staff is also involved in the effort to preserve the tiles as well, says Peckman, often collecting them as they fall and sav-ing them for Cleveland Public Art.

Peckham says the idea to rede-sign the park came when the City of Cleveland planned to do some work to improve the drainage of the park in 2005. Discussions at the time evolved to how the use of the park

had changed and how it could be updated. Cleveland Public Art, Ohio City Near West and Parkworks were involved with the City of Cleveland from the beginning of the process says Peckham. Public meetings held in 2005-2006 gained additional input from the community and City Architecture was eventually hired with a small grant from Councilman Joe Cimperman to work with an art-ist to have a new design ready for the 100th anniversary of the West Side Market in 2012.

The redesign of the park, says Peckham, will better integrate the public transit waiting area with the park. He says, the area is the sec-ond highest used transit waiting area in the city – only surpassed by Public Square. Peckham says the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is onboard and a willing participant in working to integrate a redesigned waiting area with the park.

Another goal of the project, says Peckham, is to make the space more fl exible for public program-ming. While the Open Air at Market Square event hosted by Ohio City Near West has been very suc-

cessful, Peckham says it and other events have constraints based on the way the park is laid out. Peck-ham hopes the newly redesigned park will allow Parkworks and other organizations to host more events in the park. Peckham says when the park reopens after reconstruction, a number of events will be held at the park to celebrate the 100th anniver-sary of the West Side Market.

Another goal of the planners rede-signing the park is “a desire for the park and the business district to feel more connected – woven together,” says Peckham. Another concern, he says, “is a real or perceived” sense that the space is not safe. He says the planners hope through lighting and removal of barriers to “enhance the reality and perception of safety in the park.”

Maintenance of the park is an-other concern that Peckman says the redesign will address. He says the different levels and large sculp-tures make the park difficult to maintain. He says while the city maintenance crews do a good job of removing trash from the park the elevated planters make the task

diffi cult. The different levels in the park make it particularly hard to maintain in the winter, as a result he says for four months of the year the park in not functional as a pass through space.

While committed to preserving the tiles, there is uncertainty as to how much of the sculptures can remain and still achieve the design goals. Peckham says different scenarios treat the sculptures differently. He is not sure how much will stay. He says Cleveland Public Art has looked at the tiles and the percentage of them they can get off and recoup intact. He says they have a sense that it is possible to recoup most of them intact.

Wobser says artist Mark Mos-kovitz, a Cleveland Institute of Art faculty member, is working with City Architecture on some conceptual plans for the space. The plans are to be reviewed by the City of Cleveland Parks and Recreation Department by early September of this year. After that, Wobser says there will be at least one public meeting on the concept to gain additional public input.

MARKET SQUARE PARK TILEScontinued from page one

Is Your Street Obsolete?REPORT PROJECTS FUTURE LAND USE IN CLEVELAND

by Joe NarkinIn the City of Cleveland, “one-

third or more of the total land area” may consist of “areas that have no realistic development potential in the foreseeable future,” according to a report issued in May, 2010 by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

At a time when the City has been devastated by population loss, vacant and abandoned properties, a surplus of housing, low property values, loss of jobs, poverty, and a failure to provide adequate educa-tion and skills training, the City has become a “dystopian version” of its former self, which is “superfi cially similar in outward shape, yet hollow inside,” according to the report en-titled Ohio’s City at a Turning Point: Finding the Way Forward.

NEWS ANALYSISThe survival of the City of Cleve-

land and Ohio’s other impoverished cities requires a paradigm shift in land development practices through which “the classic model of a city as a continuous urban place is re-placed by a vision of a 21st century city as a mixture of populated and green areas around a central core,” according to report authors Alan Mallach and Lavea Brachman. “The question is not whether these cities will have different physical footprints and more green space than they do now, but how it will happen,” accord-ing to the report.

Population loss in Cleveland is an irreversible reality that will be

“continuing, and in many cases accelerating,” according to report authors. Cleveland has lost 55% of its peak population, declining from a high of 914,808 in 1950 to 408,101 in 2008. And, according to the 2008 American Community Survey, population loss accelerated between 2000 and 2008 with a loss of 70,000 residents. The total num-ber of jobs in Cleveland declined by 6.6% between 1992 and 2002, with manufacturing jobs declining by 41.5%.

The population of Cuyahoga County also declined 19% from the peak year of 1970 through 2000, with most of the population loss going to adjoining counties. The inner ring suburbs have been especially hard hit with population losses for some municipalities of up to 31% during the same time period. “Cleveland’s metro (area) is a clear example of sprawl without growth,” said the report.

Accompanying the loss of popula-tion, the quality of the housing stock and property values in the City are also in a state of clear distress. In Cleveland, 21.7% of residential units are vacant, with nearly half of vacant units also being abandoned. “In no older Ohio city would a typical house have appreciated as much as a bank CD” between 1998 and 2007, “an era of strong house price apprecia-tion in most of the nation,” according to Mallach and Brachman.

“When existing houses sell for less continued on page 6

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PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSaturday, August 21, 2010; Market Square Park, Northwest Corner of W. 25th & Lorain Avenue: This tile made in 1985 by the Cleveland Association for the Education of Young Children is titled: “Children: Bridges to the Future.”

PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSaturday, August 21, 2010; Market Square Park, Northwest Corner of W. 25th & Lorain Avenue: The arch of the portal of artist Carl Floyd’s “Tempus Pons” (Time Portal) displays tiles made by Near West Side Community members in 1985.

New development program underway in Stockyard, Clark Fulton and Brooklyn Centre neighborhoodsby Chuck Hoven

A new development program designed to serve the Stockyard, Clark-Fulton and Brooklyn Centre neighborhoods has opened an offi ce in the Lin Omni Center at 3167 Ful-ton Road, Suite 303. As described by Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins in an article in the July Plain Press, the new development offi ce will be a program of the Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization.

Megan Meister is serving as the Program Director of the new organi-zation, The Stockyard, Clark Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office. Meister for-merly served as Director of Organiz-ing and Outreach for the Stockyard Redevelopment Organization.

The Stockyard, Clark Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Development Of-

fi ce has fi ve additional staff mem-bers to help meet the needs of the area: Community Organizers Adam Gifford and Dharma Valentin; Direc-tor of Housing and Vacant Land Reutilization Brennan Crawford; Housing Specialist Greg Baron; and Real Estate and Property Acquisi-tion Consultant Matt Yourkvitch.

In addition to working on organiz-ing around neighborhood-based issues such as vacant lots and crime, Valentin says she and Gifford will be working on issue oriented organizing. She anticipates joining with Merrick House based groups working to address health care and poverty issues. Valentine says she has already testifi ed to United States Justice Department offi cials about the need for Spanish language bal-lots for area residents to allow them to vote in the privacy of a voting

booth without the aid of a translator. The Justice Department is working with Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and the Secretary of State to assure that United States citizens born in Puerto Rico and educated in Spanish have access to ballots printed in Spanish.

A statement issued by the new program says it “will offer services consistent with those identified through a neighborhood strategic planning process.” This refers to a Strategic Planning Process co-ordinated by the City of Cleveland and the Stockyard Redevelopment Organization.

The proposal, developed by the Stockyard Redevelopment Organi-zation with a consultant paid by the City of Cleveland and a series of

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Film-making is alive in Clevelandby Kristina Michelle

Have you ever dreamed of making a successful career for yourself in the fi lm business? Have you been supported in those dreams, or have you instead been told to “get your head out of the clouds” and “get a real job”? Maybe you have been told that too many people share this dream of yours, that you could never make it somewhere like Los Angeles or New York City. What you, and the people telling you this, probably never realized is that you don’t have to live in one of those big cities to work in fi lm. Film-making is alive and thriving in Cleveland, and many of its surrounding areas.

There is a wealth of opportunity – right here, right now – that so many don’t realize is right under their nose. Ivan Schwarz, Executive Director of the Cleveland Film Commission, has held his position for three years. In that time, the film business in Cleveland has grown tremendously. This year alone, there have been seven big name fi lms to choose Northeast Ohio as the primary fi lming location, including 25 Hill, Lilith and Freerunner. According to Schwarz, there are many advantages to fi lming here. He stated, “Cleveland is an

untapped goldmine,” explaining that the access to such a wide range of cinematic geographical locations is a huge asset to fi lmmakers.

Edward Douglas, a local fi lmmaker and nationally recognized musician, agrees. The types of locations so easily available here in the Cleveland area are what he believes to be one of the great-est advantages to fi lming in Northeast Ohio. In 2007, Midnight Syndicate Films, Douglas’ production company, remade The Dead Matter, a horror fi lm Edward had originally made with an ultra-low budget back in 1994. While some scenes from the fi lm were shot in Cleveland, the bulk of it was done in Crestline – where their co-producers, Precinct 13, are lo-cated – and Mansfi eld, where they were able to use the Mansfi eld Reformatory for several scenes. However, he plans to use more of Cleveland (and its talent) for any future projects, saying, “Cleveland has a wealth of talent. There are a lot of opportunities here, and that’s why I intend to stay here.” Editor’s note: Questions and com-ments regarding acting and fi lmmaking in Cleveland can be directed to Kristina Michelle at kristina@worldeonline.com.

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PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSaturday, August 21, 2010; Market Square Park, Northwest Corner of W. 25th & Lorain Avenue: WEEFISH, one of the tiles displayed on the “Tempus Pons” (Time Bridge) sculpture constructed in Market Square Park in 1985 by artist Carl Floyd. neighborhood meetings, called for the

creation of a Development Corporation to serve the Stockyard, Clark Fulton and Brooklyn Centre neighborhoods. The proposal, developed with input from a series of neighborhood meetings, called for a new development corporation that would receive funds from Wards 14, 15 and 16 ‘s ward allocation, based on the percentage of the population of that ward that fell into the new territory. Council-men Cummins, Zone and Westbrook soundly rejected this proposal to provide a stand-alone development corporation with a share of funding in proportion to its population.

Instead, this new program adminis-tered by Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization has received their blessing. The new program does plan to target issues outlined by resi-dents in the planning process as pri-orities. A statement issued by the new program identifi es some of the issues such as “code enforcement and vacant housing, safety, community engagement and block clubs, nuisance abatement (e.g. trash, burned out street lights, graf-fi ti), and reutilization of vacant land.”

As described by Ward 14 Council-man Cummins in the July Plain Press,

the new offi ce will be under the direc-tion of Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO). According to a statement released by the new program, The Stockyard, Clark Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Offi ce will be “supported by DSCDO’s housing development, commercial development, accounting and administrative staff. DSCDO will be able to provide the staff support, capacity, resources and infrastructure of a large organization. Services in por-tions of these neighborhoods will also be provided by Tremont West Develop-ment Corporation, Ohio City Near West Development Corporation and Midwest Housing.”

A series of neighborhood meetings will be held in different parts of the new service area to obtain ideas from neighborhood leaders on how best to encourage neighborhood participation in the new development model for the neighborhood. The fi rst such meeting will be held in the Stockyards neighborhood on Wednesday September 1st at 7 p.m. at the VFW Hall at 3296 W. 61st Street. Consultants Gail Long and Jim Pelikan are assisting with the development of the new program.

For more information about the Stockyard, Clark Fulton and Brooklyn Centre Community Development Of-fi ce, or to contact its staff for services, call 961-9073.

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than their replacement cost and do not appreciate over time, develop-ers have no incentive to build new houses, and home buyers do not have any incentive to fi x houses that have fallen into disrepair,” said the report. Under the historical develop-ment paradigm employed within the City of Cleveland, “investments in new housing, schools, and public facilities have been scattered and not woven into larger strategies or targeted to neighborhoods with strong assets for future revitaliza-tion,” according to Ohio’s Cities at

a Turning Point.In the most distressed neighbor-

hoods in the City, “the housing market has effectively ceased to function” and “homeowners are dis-proportionately likely to be elderly, while rental properties are often poorly maintained and deteriorating, owned by individuals with short-term speculative goals and occupied by highly transient tenants,” according to the report.

Mallach and Brachman cite Trem-ont, Ohio City, and the Warehouse District as examples of relatively stable neighborhoods in Cleveland, but even such neighborhoods are subject to decline due to the fore-closure crisis. Stable neighborhoods are “potentially at risk of decline”

since “an important aspect of the current foreclosure crisis is that it has not hit the most distressed neighborhoods, but rather those that were strong enough to gener-ate home buying activity in recent years,” said the authors.

In Cleveland, supply outstrips demand by a signifi cant margin in all areas of real estate, including land, housing units, and commercial buildings, according to the Brook-ings report.

The Brookings report suggests that, “preserving urban neighbor-hoods where market activity is still strong and ensuring that they continue to offer the amenities that will hold a diverse population, while developing new uses for land in

areas where the market has ceased to function, are at the heart of an effective strategy for Ohio’s older cities.”

Downtown development alone is not suffi cient to save Cleveland. “Even if all future metropolitan growth was directed into each metro’s central city, the rate of metropolitan growth is too slow to restore historic populations,” wrote the authors of the report. A number of small stable neighborhoods must be clustered throughout the City and should serve as sustainable economic centers.

“Strong market neighborhoods, al-though they contain only a small part of each city’s land areas, contain the bulk of the city’s middle-income population, its aggregate property value, and its real estate activity” and it is around these areas that most residential development activity should be directed, according to the Brookings report.

According to the Ohio Cities at a Turning Point report, most of the stable neighborhoods within Cleveland are anchored around strong commercial districts, major institutions, and other community assets, and the neighbor-hoods surrounding such established focal points represent a natural starting point for the revitalization of the City.

The transition to a city with clusters of residential areas surrounded by sparsely populated green areas is cur-rently occurring naturally within the free market system, but in order to thrive, a re-envisioned Cleveland requires active resident input into both a city-wide and a regional master plan for redevelopment. A top down approach would simply not work, especially due to the “accumulated residue of confl ict and distrust that are pervasive in many older cities,” said the authors, adding that, “unless the people who live in and around these cities are able to coalesce around a new vision for a smaller, stronger future, the vision cannot be realized.”

Additionally, in order to be success-ful, Cleveland “must explore how to help those who want to move (from a distressed neighborhood to a stable one)… without pressing those who want to remain,” wrote Brachman and Mallach. The report recognizes that “some people will want to remain in these (greener) areas, either because of their ties to the area or to their home, or because they prize the relatively ‘rural’ quality that the area has taken on.”

The growing support for government-controlled land banks is an encouraging

phenomenon in creating the new type of city envisioned. “The city must fi rst make a commitment to take (distressed) prop-erty, particularly tax foreclosed property, into public control” and ‘build the capac-ity to hold, manage and dispose of that inventory in ways that are consistent with the public welfare, sensitive to variations in market conditions, and address the city’s long-term goals,” according to Brachman and Mallach.

County, state, and national sup-port is also required to successfully restructure Cleveland and, in addition to housing, these entities must band together to address multiple problems that act synergistically in a distressed city. “Ohio’s cities will not recover unless state and local governments, institutions and organizations address the continu-ing and pressing problems of poverty, inadequate education and skills develop-ment, (declining public transportation), and limiting, constraining opportunity structures,” according to the Ohio Cities at a Turning Point report.

“Impoverishment threatens the viabil-ity (of Ohio) cities more than population loss as such,” said the authors. Approxi-mately 56% of households in Cleveland are living below or very near to the poverty level according to the American Community Survey for the three-year period of 2005 through 2007.

As reported by the Plain Press, Cleveland City Council has been meet-ing in retreat to discuss how community development organizations will operate in the future (see: City Council Meets to Discuss Future of Community Corpora-tions, May 2010 at www.plainpress.org). There can be no better time for Cleveland residents to remind council members to honor their commitment to solicit and include active input from citizens in their planning process.

Likewise, in accordance with the common truism that, “as goes the city, so goes the region,” it is equally impor-tant for residents to demand input into county development plans for the future of Cleveland and to challenge candidates for the newly restructured county council to articulate a vision for the city and the region as they bring their campaigns to the public for the November election. This vision must include a strategy for assuring that Cleveland receives the fi nancial support of the state and federal government necessary to assure the future of the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Metropolitan Area.

(The full report, Ohio’s Cities at a Turning Point, can be downloaded from the website of the Greater Ohio Policy Center at www.greaterohio.org)

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City Council Wards 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.Faouzi Baddour, a member local

Democratic Committee, describes himself as a “Real Democrat” with a traditional platform. “Democrats have a principle-- a principle of defending the needy, standing up for the poor, and fi ghting for social justice,” said Baddour.

Baddour readily admits, however, that Democratic Party leadership has betrayed those with the greatest need in Cuyahoga County. “Through the years, the leadership of (the Democratic Party), especially the Chairman (former party Chairman Jimmy Dimora), acted more as a dictator than a Democrat,” he said. Di-mora is currently under a federal criminal investigation for corruption as a member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Com-missioners, but he has yet to be charged.

A long-term resident of the West Boulevard area, Baddour has been a community activist for over 30-years and he calls for safe streets, regional cooperation between law enforcement agencies, enforcement of code violations on the part of absentee landlords, a re-duced sales tax, and tax credits for small businesses, but, mostly, he is running to assure honesty in government.

Yet Baddour is a reluctant candidate. “I did not intend to run; I was hoping that Chris (Ronayne) could be the one that I could support, but Chris was raising mountains of money and this scares me, “ said Baddour. “I am not scared of Chris and Dan (Brady), but I am scared of the people who donated money to him,” he said. Baddour said that he has not and will not accept any campaign contributions and he will not accept any organizational endorsements. “I ask you not to vote for money in this upcoming election,” he added.

Alan Crossman, a lifelong resident of Cleveland, a member of the Green Party, and a first-time candidate for public offi ce, believes that the time is right for a third party candidate. “People are tired of the same old back and forth between the parties; we need more than two voices and that is how a government should work.”

Crossman supports an instant runoff voting system, campaign fi nance reform, tax credits for clean energy businesses, community gardens, and a fi rm county focus on the needs of those living in poverty.

“People do not deserve to be born into poverty and they do not deserve to die in poverty, especially when they have worked all of their lives,” said Crossman. “A society is only as good as it treats the least among it,” he said.

Nelson Cintron, former Democratic Councilperson for Ward 14 in Cleve-land, a former corrections offi cer, and founder of a new Hispanic Radio station in Painesville, Ohio, would like to be considered as an independent-minded politician. “I was one of the most vocal members of City Council,” especially in areas requiring oversight of the expendi-ture of “taxpayer money,” said Cintron.

Should he become a member of County Council, Cintron intends to be a good steward of government revenues.

“If we overspend, our bond rating goes up; if we overspend, that means that we are paying more in interest on the money we borrow,” he said.

Cintron believes that governmental effi ciency is the best way to avoid rais-ing taxes. One of the effi ciencies that he believes can be realized without a loss in quality of service is to combine the police forces of the Cuyahoga Metro-politan Housing Authority and the County Sheriff’s Department. He also called for tax credits for small businesses and a “strong clean energy bill for businesses and homeowners.” Although a county council seat is designed to be a part-time position, Cintron pledged himself to “working full-time on behalf of county residents.”

Patty Gascoyne, a college student at Baldwin-Wallace College and the owner of a certifi ed adult foster home for seniors in Cleveland, described herself as “as a scary Republican and the endorsed, unopposed candidate” of the Cuyahoga County Republican Party. “I have raised a little money from people who prob-ably felt sorry for me for being the lone Republican out there,” she said. She is running because she believes that the county needs “some semblance of power between the parties.”

Gascoyne supports outsourcing of county services to private businesses and wants to open competition for social service grants and programs to a greater number of church-supported organiza-tions such as the City Mission. She would also support a reduction in county sales and property taxes. “Why should our property taxes rise when property values are dropping and we are surrounded by vacant houses,” she said.

She also supports regional coopera-tion between municipal entities, but she

doesn’t “believe that we need a county-wide, imposed regionalism agreement.” Gascoyne also believes that there are too many tax and regulatory “barriers to businesses, especially for (businesses) wanting to start up in distressed neigh-borhoods.”

Chris Ronayne, a west side resident and the former Chief of Staff for the City of Cleveland, has declared in the past that he would keep his position as the president of the University Circle De-velopment Corporation if he is elected to County Council. He believes that a dysfunctional county government has played a large role in the problems ex-perienced in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, especially in the areas of job and population loss. “We need to try to put a tourniquet on Cuyahoga County, but I am not just interested in a tourniquet, I am interested in turning the corner,” said Ronayne.

Ronayne believes that the most im-portant job of a county councilman is “to oversee the $1.4 billion county budget.” He supports an immediate review of the county charter, regularly scheduled com-munity forums, the creation of an offi ce of sustainability, regionalized sharing of services, a focus on workforce devel-opment, professionalization of county boards and commissions, restoration of funding for the county ombudsman’s of-fi ce, and domestic partner benefi ts. “We (have operated as separate) communi-ties who, for 200 years, have not been working together,” he said.

Ronayne placed great emphasis on the absence of Dan Brady at the can-didate’s forum. “You need to tell people in your community that Dan Brady was not here; I know that he is somewhere in Cleveland tonight,” he said. “He (Brady) blows past you because he has a politi-cal name; he is a person who is thinking inside the walls and not outside the box,” said Ronayne.

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the city. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Community Shares and the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation. Kipp has a Masters Degree in Social Work. Worked as a summer intern at Lutheran Metropolitan Minis-try and has worked at a mental health agency in Dayton. He is a graduate of Neighborhood Leadership Cleveland.

Clark Broido works for a Real Estate Title Company and has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning. As a 23 year resident of the Slavic Village neighborhood, he says he admires the dedication Anthony Brancatelli and Ed Rybka showed as City Council Representatives and would like to bring that same type of dedication to the County Council.

Michael Nelson, a lawyer, has served as a criminal defense attorney and has worked as a bond counselor in the pri-vate sector. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Glenville Development Corporation, served as an appointee to the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer Board under both Mayor Michael White and Mayor Jane Campbell. Served as an

trustee of Central State University (ap-pointed by both George Voinovich and Bob Taft). He says as a trustee of Central State University he helped the institution to eliminate a $20 million defi cit. Nelson grew up in the Glenville neighborhood. He says he has four successful children and 4 grandchildren. He is a member of the mentoring organization 100 Black Men. He has served on a mentoring program at Daniel Morgan School.

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Dale Alan Smith works as a guest services manager for Tower City working with area hotels and downtown industry. He has a degree in Arts Management from the University of Akron and has worked in the promotion of theatre and arts including a stint at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Bo-tanical Garden. Smith served on a com-mittee that helped to shape the mission statement for Art House in the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood. He is a member of Friends of Big Creek and Southwest Concerned Citizens Council.

Timothy Trogdon has a Masters De-gree in Public Administration and was involved in an effort to make railroad

crossings in the area safer. He worked as an organizer for 10 years and a demog-rapher for four years. He served in the Air Force, National Guard and Reserves. He worked with Councilwoman Dona Brady in promoting gun safety and lock boxes. He has volunteered at the May Dugan Center in helping homeless individuals secure birth certifi cates. He has also served as a chess coach and organized chess tournaments.Editor’s Note: The fi eld of democratic candidates in this race will be narrowed to one in the September 7th Primary Elec-tion. That person will face the Republican and the Independent candidates in the November Election.

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