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The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).
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AAA forecasts the national gas price average to increase in March. However, if refineries resume normal op-erations, and if crude oil prices show signs of stability, motor-ists may see some relief at the pump towards the end of the month.
At the close of Friday’s formal trading session, West Texas Intermediate decreased by $2.03 to settle at $61.50. Crude prices rose mid-week despite the EIA’s latest report revealing that total domestic crude inventories increased by 1.3 million barrels last week, bringing the supply level to 463 million barrels. For this week, crude prices could rise if the EIA’s next weekly report shows a decrease in total stocks. Gas prices continue
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The latest price jumps are a direct result of February’s winter storm that took 26 U.S. refineries offline and pushed refinery utilization from an av-erage of about 83% down to an atypical low of 68%, according to the Energy Information Ad-ministration (EIA). In its latest data, EIA also reported demand at 7.2 million barrels per day. Both utilization and demand rates have not been reported this low since last May.
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A 30-year tradition is hard to break, so Larchmere merchants will feature sales & specials on the sidewalks of the Larchmere Sidewalk Sale on Saturday, May 29, 10:00 a.m. All the merchants will participate including a Loganberry favorite: “Loganberry Lumberyard” in the driveway featur-ing cheap furniture & miscellany, and 20% off ev-erything inside the store.
Dino Stroll Tour coming to CLE in June
Dino Stroll Tour will roll through 42 U.S. cities through the end of the year, including Cleveland on June 12 and 13 at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds. Unlike the greedy capitalists of Jurassic Park who thought a di-nosaur park was a good idea, the producers of the event invite guests to bring canned or non-perishable food items as Dino Stroll will be hosting food drives in each city it visits because, thankfully, compassion hasn’t gone ex-tinct.By BRUCE CHECEFSKY Ohio’s 11th Congressio-nal District is heavily gerryman-dered to favor Democrats. The district is shaped by irregular lines as it snakes south from Cleveland and its prosperous eastern suburbs through Summit County and parts of Akron, and represents more than 700,000 Ohioans or roughly 6% of the state population.
In 2018, there were 1.39 times more Black or African Ame-rican (Non-Hispanic) residents in Congressional District 11 than any other race or ethnicity. Households in the district have a median annu-al income of $38,747, which is less than the median annual income of $61,937 across the
entire United States.
When Marcia L. Fudge resigned from her seat in the United States House of Repre-sentatives after being confirmed by the US Senate to serve as the 18th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Biden, Governor Mike DeWine set a special Con-gressional primary election on August 3 and the general election on November 2.
Former State Senator Nina Turner and Cuyahoga Coun-ty Councilwoman Shontel Brown have been raising campaign funds ever since rumors surfaced about the vacant Congressional seat. As the election nears, both candidates have been spending at a brisk pace. Turner has raised more than twice the campaign funds than Brown. The field of candidates includes 10 Democrats and two Republicans all from Cuyahoga County.
Turner made history in 2005 as the first African American woman to represent Ward 1 Cleve-land City Council, and again in
2008 as the first woman to serve as a state senator in Ohio’s 25th Di-strict. She became a national repre-sentative for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and national co-chair for Bernie 2020. She is campaigning for Congress on the strength of experience as a poli-tician and commitment as a com-munity activist, she said during a recent phone conversation.
Tuner believes poverty is a policy choice. Protecting and expanding Medicaid is a priori-ty and providing Medicaid for all is a needed policy change. Health care is a basic human right, she acknowledges, and pharmaceu-tical companies have to be more response to the economic dispa-rity that exists across the country. Bringing the price of drugs down and negotiating with pharmaceuti-cal companies will prevent compa-nies from gouging customers. She has a personal story to back up her concerns.
“My mother died when she was 42 years old. She was on and off of Medicaid for years. It’s like being on a roller coaster. It de-finitely diminishes your quality of
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life. We need to get the cost of health care under control,” Turner said.
Immigration reform needs more funding to ensure that people get a fair opportunity to immigrate to the United States. Children should not be kept in cages or taken from with their caretakers. Preventing se-paration between families requires humane immigration reform.
“It’s long overdue,” Turner said. “We have the power and resour-ces to reform the system.”
Climate change on a global level has an impact on immigration as people seek higher ground and places of safety. Industrial nations like the United States and other in-dustrialized countries should find a way to collectively solve the climate change problems. Famine and food insecurities impact everyone.
“Whether substantive or po-litical, people are being pushed and/ or pulled from their country. We have to do something about it,” Turner said.
The Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel used along the Eastern Sea-board, shut down a few weeks ago after a ransomware attack highlighting cy-ber security vulnerabilities in the nation’s aging energy infrastructure. Turner would like to see the Federal government do more to protect con-sumers and businesses from cyber threats.
“Data is the new gold. We need regulations to protect consu-mers and hold businesses accoun-table, and ensure they have the best technology available to protect that data,” Turner said.
Restoring transparency and accountability in the communities where police violence takes place requires a comprehensive investiga-tion from outside entities, according to her. Police have been reluctant to release videos. Reports are often misrepresented and inaccurate. That has to change.
“If you talk to people in the Black community, the conversation
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is, ‘but if not for camera phones’ a lot of police violence would go unchecked,” Turner said. “We need to make sure the Federal government does the investigati-on investigati-on any police shooting, alinvestigati-ong with the State Attorney General, local government and police de-partments.”
“Law enforcement per-sonnel need to have regular psy-chological reviews to make sure they’re fit for the job. We need to make it a felony if an officer lies on a police report,” Turner said.
For Tuner, jobs and he-althcare are the biggest issues fa-cing the 11th District right now. With the poverty rate among the highest in the country, she would like to see poor people and wor-king-class people get a chance to live their American dream. Increasing the minimum wage, health care as a human right, and canceling students debt are among her top priorities as a member of congress. She would also like to see the Democrats win back a majority in the state legislature.
Turner is endorsed by MoveOn, a federal politi-cal committee which primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect their values through a variety of activities aimed at influencing the outcome of the next election; Progressive De-mocrats of America, Democracy for America, Our Revolution, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, Service Employees In-ternational Union (SEIU) Local 1, as well as actors, activists and producers Susan Sarandon, Dan-ny Glover, and Mark Ruffalo.
A native of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Councilwo-man Shontel Brown began her service as a Warrensville Heights city council member in 2012. She went on to be elected to Cuyahoga County Council whe-re she curwhe-rently serves.
Her district is one of the most diverse in the county with constituents in Cleveland, inner, and outer-ring suburbs. In 2017, Brown was elected chairwoman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. She made history as the first woman and the first Black person to serve in this role.
Brown is endorsed by The United Auto Workers Region 2B--the union that covers Ohio and Indiana autoworkers. She has also received endorsements from U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Cuyahoga County Executive Ar-mond Budish, Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan, and several other major political figures in Northeast Ohio.
Brown has been critical of Turner’s stance on Israel and for her ‘lukewarm support’ for Biden in the presidential election. Tur-ner did not back Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, according to her.
Against the backdrop of a campaign contrasting the candida-te’s qualifications, Brown believes the top priorities for Congressio-nal District 11include health care, jobs, and justice. Without a healt-hy society, jobs and justice won’t matter. Free, regular and reliable COVID19 tests are needed along with equitable distribution of the vaccine.
“We have to provide low-er heath care costs and expand coverage,” said Brown by phone. “When it comes to jobs, we have a labor force here that would be-nefit from these once in a lifeti-me investlifeti-ments and opportunities around replacing our decaying infrastructure. Communities need access to broad band internet ser-vice.”
Justice is a multi-pronged effort, according to Brown. Racial, social, and environmental justice is integrally connected. A holistic approach at addressing these issu-es is needed.
“I led the initiative for the resolution to declare racism as a public health crisis for Cuyahoga County. It wasn’t just a symbolic gesture,” she said. “The legislation was designed to make meaningful change.”
If elected to congress, Brown vows to support the lowe-ring of health care costs. She wants Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to lower drug costs. The Affordable Care Act is on the right track but health care costs have to be controlled so everyone
can afford care.
“The American Recovery Act provided the biggest expansi-on to Obama Care. During Presi-dent Biden’s special enrollment period, over a million people have signed up. We’re moving in the right direction.”
Innovation is important for protecting consumers and their data. Consumer protection and data privacy reform is needed. Li-miting big tech companies that use private information for corporate gain requires investing in sophisti-cated private security.
“President Biden’s more than $2 trillion infrastructure and economic recovery package will make sure we have private securi-ty imbedded in those infrastructure investments,” Brown said.
Environmental justice, the fair treatment and meaning-ful involvement of all people re-gardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmen-tal laws, regulations and policies, is part of her campaign platform. Brown supports the principals laid out in the Green New Deal (GND), which calls for public policy to ad-dress climate change along with achieving other social aims.
“I’m committed to plans that promote aggressive action to get climate change with net zero emissions by 2050 and carbon free power sector by 2035. We can provide jobs at the same time as bringing down the cost of electri-city,” Brown said.
Brown would prioriti-ze Civil Rights laws if elected to congress along with advancing criminal justice reform, reducing gun violence, and end the use of private prisons. She supports the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 and data collection on police officers that use excessive force.
“Some of this is a cultural issue. The elimination of discrimi-natory policing practices is an im-portant process to support when considering police reform.”
Her views on Immigrati-on reform include supporting the Pathway to Citizenship proposal unveiled by the Democrats on Capitol Hill while opposing any efforts by the National Riffle Asso-ciation (NRA) over gun control.
“We have to make better common sense gun laws,” Brown said.
The candidates who filed with the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and whose petitions were declared valid are, aside from Brown and Turner: Former State Rep. John Barnes, Former Cleve-land City Councilman Jeff John-son, Former State Sen. Shirley Smith, James Jerome Bell, Will Knight, Pamela Pinkney, Isaac Powell, and Lateek Shabazz.
Two Republicans also fi-led to run for the seat in one of the most heavily Democratic leaning seats in the country: Laverne Gore and Felicia Washington Ross.
The primary for the spe-cial election will take place Aug. 3.
To address the temporary closure of the E.130th Street Post Office, the Post Office release an update:
Beginning on Monday, May 24, a mobile post office will be set up at the location which will sell stamps, issue money orders, and accept packages from Monday to Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Interim plans for E.130th Post Office
to continue to retrieve their mail from the Shaker Main Post Office, 3675 Warrensville Road which has 24 hour lobby access and a self-service kiosk.
The remodeled E.130th Post Office is sceduled to open in October.
Any questions can be directed to Tracey Peeler, manager of the Shaker Heights branch, 216-295-2543
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By BRUCE CHECEFSKYJoel Freilich, di-rector of service manage-ment, presented the final version of the NEXT GEN RTA public launch to the Greater Cleve-land RTA (GCRT) Board Committee on May 11. The redesigned public transportation system consolidates some cur-rent routes while elimi-nating others. NEXT GEN RTA is scheduled for a launch on June 13. The redesign was done with community support to determine RTA ser-vice priorities, according to Freilich. The commu-nity was key in help-ing RTA make difficult choices and tradeoffs.
“We checked back with the commu-nity repeatedly during the process to see if we were progresses along the directions the com-munity was asking us to,” Freilich said. “The community spoke loud and clear.”
Prioritize trips to work, education and heath care with more frequent service all day on weekdays, and more direct transportation be-tween downtown and the suburbs were among
leading concerns, while adding more frequent service on Saturdays and Sundays was also need-ed.
Kristie Cox, marketing manager, Greater Cleveland RTA, explained how the new service would be com-municated to the RTA employees and general public during the rollout. Internal communications include email signature, screen savers & Screen-Cloud, posters of maps and reference table, mes-sages in SelfServe, HAS-TUS, and Ultramain, along with Q&A sessions and an upgraded NEXT GEN RTA webpage.
“These are vari-ous tactics to let all em-ployees know the chang-es going into effect,” Cox said.
External com-munications include printed materials, route books, posters, interior car cards, and stickers at shelters, transit centers and train station. Cox pointed to a new web-page, social media posts, media conference and press kits, onboard audio messages, and communi-ty outreach to inform the public on the changes.
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I n t e r a c t i v emaps on the RTA web-page will provide pas-sengers with exact bus routes and compare them to previous routes. A visi-tor to the site can toggle back and forth from the maps to get a clear pic-ture of before and after the changes.
Printed materi-als will include a route book of maps and route reference chart, posters, and paladin screens at the transit centers and transit stations which contain a QR code.
“When you scan the QR code with your smart phone it will take you directly to the NEXT GEN page. We also have on board messaging and route specific GeoTar-geted communications,” she said, “in conjunction with the June 13 launch, RTA is offering free rides on bus, rail, Park-n-Ride, and paratransit from June 13 through June 19.”
Freilich re-sponded to questions by the GCRTA board mem-bers on how decisions were made on routes to keep and which to elimi-nate. RTA held three rounds of public involve-ment and community in-put hearings back in 2019 that ultimately led to the changes, he explained. Pub-lic involvement in-cluded opportunities to respond to the NEXT GEN proposals online as well as to respond in-person at community meetings. Ridership was measured and analyzed at every stop.
“We eliminat-ed bus stops recogniz-ing that the community wanted to get home from work and school faster even if it meant they had to walk four or eight minutes more to get to their neighborhood,” said Freilich. “ Frequency of service was our priority.”
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QR codes or without a smart phone and access to the Internet. Digital technology is needed to access the information, Freilich acknowledges, saying that he is “par-ticularly sensitive to the issue.”
“All of our pub-licity emphasizes a call-in answer lcall-ine. We have customers that commu-nicate with us by calling the same telephone num-ber RTA has been using for over fifty-years,” he said. “216-621-9500.”
Chris Stock-ing with Clevelanders for Public Transit (CPT) is satisfied that GCRTA is moving forward with NEXT GEN RTA. He be-lieves that taking service from the suburbs like the Park-n-Ride lines that are express service for downtown commuters and increasing frequency to jobs will benefit resi-dents that live in dense areas of the city as well.
“Overall, it’s a win and not perfect but the current plan will dou-ble the amount of peo-ple living within a half mile walk of high fre-quent transit by 100%,” said Stocking, chair of CPT. “That translates to 167,000 more people in Cuyahoga County hav-ing better access which is significant.”
Stocking sup-ports the expanded fund-ing redesign concept for public transit, which calls for frequent ser-vice seven days a week. NEXT GEN RTA fo-cuses on frequent service Monday through Friday, leaving weekend service underserved. Some es-sential workers require frequent service seven days a week.
“We like the expanded funding con-cept because it would make seven day-a-week service work,” Stocking said, “But RTA currently doesn’t have the funding to do it.”
A recent
Brook-ings report found that the Cleveland metro area experienced the larg-est drop in the number of jobs near the aver-age resident among the 96 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States, according to the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. The most accessible employment centers in the region are the Downtown, Univer-sity Circle, Ohio City cor-ridor and Clark/Ful-ton district in the City of Cleveland, followed by commercial districts in Lakewood, Indepen-dence, and Parma, all located in Cuyahoga County. Over 60% of all jobs in Cuyahoga County were not accessible with-in a 90-mwith-inute transit commute.
Employment centers with higher con-centrations of low-skill jobs tend to be less ac-cessible making low-skill and low-paying jobs the hardest to get to.
Metros that provide job access will likely have a leg up in the twenty-first century economy, the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank report concludes, with job access an important component for regional economic success.
Stocking would like to see a more diverse public outreach strategy when it comes to collect-ing information from rid-ers. Most of the outreach for NEXT GEN RTA was based on online surveys that don’t necessarily represent the demograph-ics of the average RTA rider.
“We live in the poorest large city in the country with some of the worst high speed Internet and access rates in the country,” Stocking said. “We need to be more fo-cused on talking to riders in person.”
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GEN RTA public out-reach program has come under criticism for
rely-ing heav-ily on responses from non-RTA ridership. Despite the social media blitz, 47% of responses came from frequent or semi-regular RTA rid-ers categorized as one ride per week or more, while 41% came from infrequent or non-riders. Compared to the popula-tion at large, seniors were the most underrepresent-ed in the survey popula-tion. People ages 25-34 and under 24 were the most overrepresented.
Public approv-al rating for Cleveland transportation ranked na-tionally near the bottom according to a separate report by the Brookings Institute. Share of work-ers who use public transit was below 3% and less than 65% of RTA stations are ADA-accessible.
“The expanded funding concept could add 25% more revenue into the system, with over 340,000 people within a half mile of high frequency transit ser-vice,” said Stocking. “It’s all about running buses to more places more fre-quently, and getting you to you need to go.”
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In 1987, they took the model to scale linking the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LI-HTC) with purchase op-portunities.
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CHN is the nation’s largest single-family affordable hous-ing developer ushous-ing the LIHTC. We maintain an 80% transition rate in moving families from leasing to owning and a 99% success rate among families who become homeowners.
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By DR. JAMES L. SNYDER Nobody is perfect except maybe the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage comes close.
I’ve never caught her in some imperfection, or if I had, nobody would know it from me.
There is such an ob-session today for people to be perfect. And, of course, their definition of perfect is what they are. They judge every-body by themselves, which is insane in itself.
Often my wife will catch me in something and say, “Are you acting like a knucklehead?”
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If the Gracious Mis-tress of the Parsonage sees something broken, she can fix it in the twinkling of an eye. I married her because of that twinkle in her eye. At the time I didn’t know what it re-ally meant.
On occasion, I’ve been with her when she took her van to the repair shop. It is the most delightful experi-ence I could ever have.
When the repair per-son sees my wife coming in, he thinks she is just a woman. Boy, is he in for a surprise.
She takes the repair person to her vehicle and explains, in detail, what is wrong with the vehicle and how to fix it.
She will say to him, “I can fix it; I just don’t have the time today.”
He will look at her; rubbing his chin as he looks at me. Then he will explain to my wife what needs to be
done and how he’s going to do it.
Wrong step. Again, she will tell him exactly what’s wrong and exactly what he needs to do to fix it. Then she will say, “If it’s not fixed the way I tell you, I am not going to pay for it.”
Fortunately, for him, he fixes it precisely the way she wants it. Another life saved.
Where she got all that knowledge about a ve-hicle, I do not know. I never question; I always go along. After all, she has saved me a lot of money by fixing things herself.
One time there was something wrong with our air conditioning, and the repair-man came to fix it. Again, she told him exactly what was wrong with it.
Then she walked away. In a few moments, he came back and said, “I’m go-ing to have to go to my ga-rage and get a tool I need to fix this.”
She looked at him and said, “What tool do you need?”
“Oh, you would not know what it is. It’s some-thing special for my work.”
“Tell me what it is; maybe I have it.”
He laughed a hearty chuckle and then told her the tool he needs.
“I have that tool. Let me go to my garage and get it and bring it to you, and you won’t have to leave; you can fix it right away.”
He looked at her, rubbed his chin, looked at me, and then took the tool she brought to him. He walked to where he was doing his repair work, shaking his head every step of the way.
When it comes to work like this, I am a profes-sional knucklehead for sure. I wouldn’t know one tool from another, which can get me into trouble.
We are closing in on the 50th anniversary of our
wedding. I have yet to find something she can’t fix. And believe me, I have broken a lot of things throughout our life.
One time, the front bumper on my truck was bro-ken and sagging. I told my wife that I would take it to the repair shop to get it fixed.
“No,” she said as she walked back into the house, “let me fix it for you.”
Well, in a few min-utes, she came out with sever-al very large paperclips, and in a few moments, she had the bumper clipped to the truck.
“There,” she said, “it’s fixed; you don’t have to take it to the repair shop.”
I left very heartily, knowing that the paperclips did not fix the problem, but I did not want to tell her in front of her. I thought I would play out the game until the paperclips fell off.
That was three years ago, and they’re still in place.
I still don’t know how that works. But, as a knucklehead, I’m not go-ing to pursue it and end up in a swamp of insanity. If it works, it works.
The other week I tripped and fell and thank-fully did not break any bones. My fear is if I break my arm, she will want to fix it right away. I’m not saying she can’t fix it, but I don’t want to go there.
Perhaps this is why our marriage is so good. She has fixed everything that was broken, and I think she has done most of them behind my back.
As I thought of this, I was reminded of one of my favorite Bible verses. “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3).
To “walk together in agreement” is probably the most wonderful thing about a marriage.
Call him at 352-687-4240 or e-mail james-snyder2@att.net. The church website is www.whatafellow-ship.com.
A Look At My World
A knucklehead, maybe, but I’m not insane
The Islamic Center of Cleveland, 6055 W 130th St, was
built in 1988. The center now inculdes a free clinic, a school, and
a large meeting hall.
The Islamic Center of Cleveland celebrates more than 50 years
The Islamic Centerof Cleveland, 6055 W. 130 St. in Parma, serves as both a place of worship and a socio-cultural educational center for the Muslim community.
As one of many Islamic institutions in the Greater Cleveland area, the ICC got its start in 1966 when several area Muslims began holding ritual prayers together in their respective homes and other locations in and around University Circle.
In 1967 the group consisted of 39 persons. It was then decided to establish formally the Islamic Center of Cleveland.
By July 1968 the membership bought a multi-family house at W. 94th St. and Detroit Ave. with the purpose of converting it into a mosque. Structural modifi-cations were made to include a prayer hall, a library, and classrooms. The ICC moved into its new home in the fall of 1969.
In the spring of 1975, Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid, who had met with ICC rep-resentatives during one of his stays at theCleveland Clinic, saw to it that the $26,000 bal-ance of the mortgage owed was paid off in accordance with Islamic Shari’a forbid-ding “reeba” (usury).
He had agreed that
as Muslims, the ICC mem-bership should not be paying interest of any kind.
Through the 1970s, about 100 families made up the ICC membership. These Muslim families were literally from all walks of life and from the four corners of the world: North-American converts, Latin Americans, Arabs from all part of the Middle East and North Africa, Indo-Pakistanis from the sub-continent, Af-ghanistan, Bangladesh, Indo-nesia, Europe, and Iran.
The ICC was con-sidered unique in the U.S. for its inclusion of so many nationalities worshipping together under one roof. This has continued to be the case. With further immigration, new
converts, and growing fami-lies, in March 1986 the mem-bership increased to 1,000, necessitating the rental of outside facilities.
The search began for more suitable facilities, and in 1988 the ICC acquired land in Parma, where a new mosque was built.
Over the last several weeks, people of all different faiths have found safe ways to worship and celebrate reli-gious holidays.
Some members of Cleveland’s Muslim commu-nity held socially-distanced celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan.
Leaders at the Is-lamic Center of Cleveland in Parma closed the mosque in
early March and have not held religious services since then for safety reasons.
Eid al-Fitr is a holi-day celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan in the Islamic faith, when Muslims fast from sunrise until sunset for 30 days.
Typically, the Is-lamic Center of Cleveland welcomes thousands of local families for several religious services on the holiday, but this year things were different because of COVID.
ICC staff set up sta-tions in the parking lot, hand-ing out candy, toys, balloons, and other goodies for families. President Ziad Tayeh says it’s more than just a celebration - it’s a way for members of his community to stay and feel connected.
Tayeh says ICC staff are planning a very limited reopening of the mosque for next week and will reassess the situation week by week while working towards a larger reopening in the future.
The mosque has been a center for many in the com-munity with its school, free clinic and meeting rooms.
Mosque clinic of-fers free medical care, mental health services and no-cost medication to anyone in need
Mental health ser-vices and psych medications can be costly. So much so that
it can often be out of reach for many people. The Islamic Center of Cleveland, located in Parma, is trying to make mental health services and medications more accessible to the community.
Depression, anxiety, frustration — all things that have grown as the pandemic marches on.
And at the Islamic Center of Cleveland in Parma, the area’s largest mosque, they’re trying to combat that.
Now, there are 25 physicians and specialists who volunteer their time to see patients, both in person and virtually.
It’s completely free medical and mental health services to anyone who needs it.
And that applies to those with and without insur-ance because oftentimes co-pays can still be out of reach. The clinic also has grants to get medications to people for free along with the recent expansion of telemedi-cine services.
During the pandem-ic, they’ve started taking a ho-listic approach to help, beyond medical care, realizing that if someone is in need of a free clinic, there are often behind-the-scenes factor at play.
And when asked about spreading the word about this and worries about
getting too many patients, the volunteer physicians told me, they would welcome that.
They’re here to help, they want to help, and say they’re grateful to do their part.
There are some in-person appointments avail-able, along with telehealth appointments and therapy sessions.
Al-Ihsan School (Parma Campus)is a full-time Islamic School chartered with the State of Ohio. It has campuses in Cleveland and Parma. Licensed, Certi-fied and Degreed Instructors. Grades PreK 3 through 8th grade and Hifiz Program.For more information, please visit Al-Ihsan School’s website.
Al-Iman School is a weekend school with classes
offered on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:30 and Sundays from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. For information, call (440) 799-4895.
ICC Quran School (Weekend School) holds classes on Sundays after noon from 2:15 pm to 5:15 pm. For more information please call 216-362-0786 or click here. ICC Hifz School.
For more informa-tion please call 216-362-0786
The Islamic Center of Cleveland, 6055 W 130th St, was
built in 1988, has a large area for community prayer as well as a
community center.
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The Lake Erie Assoc. of USA Boxing Jr. Olympics Qualify-ing Tournament 2021 will be held on Saturday, June 5 at 2:00 p.m at T-County Boxing Academy, 1203 Rear East High Ave., New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663. For information, contact Rasheen Ali at 216-956-1354.
Fett earns MAC Pitcher of the Week honors
Tuesday, May 18, 2021- Friday, May 21, 2021Akron Zips freshman starting pitcher Anthony Fett (Orchard Lake, Mich.) earned Mid-American Con-ference Co-Pitcher of the Week award, sharing the honor with Eastern Michigan’s Justin Meis. Fett delivered a 9-inning complete game winning performance in game one of Ohio series. Fett posted a 2.00 ERA and .778 WHIP, limiting the Bobcats to a pair of runs on six hits. Fett recorded two strikeouts and relinquished one walk in 34 batters faced – both Ohio runs were solo homeruns.
Zip swimmer qualifies for Olympic trials
University of Akron junior swimmer Andrea Fischer posted a lifetime-best 2:32.63 time in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke to qualify for WAVE I of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials set for June 4-7. The Olympic Trials will be divided into two competitions, with Wave I on June 4-7, 2021 and Wave II on June 13-20, 2021. Wave II will continue to serve as the sole qualifier for pool swimmers on the U.S. Olympic Team for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Tribe ends road woes
By KARL BRYANT The Indians went on the road after taking both games against the Cubs at Progressive Field. They impressively won their first game on the West Coast in Seattle, 4-2, before closing out the weekend with three straight losses. Then, after opening a midweek series in Anaheim with another loss to continue their woes, they scored five runs to start the next contest, only to see the Angels come back and tie it. CLE pulled
out a victory on an 8th In-ning HR to end their four-game skid, and tacked on another “W” at press time.
Things started out swimmingly, as Zach Ple-sac (3-3) came within six outs of hurling the Tribe’s first No-Hitter in 40 years. Their last one was Large Lenny Barker’s Perfect Game on May 15, 1981 – two sunsets shy of 40 years to the day. J. P. Crawford ended Plesac’s attempt with a hit leading off the Seattle 8th. Dylan Moore hit a 2-Run HR two
bat-ters later to let the rest of the air out of the bag, but Plesac finished the inning. After Emmanuel Clase walked three in the 9th, Bryan Shaw came on to earn his 1st Save.
Back-to-back very bad 7-3 losses ensued with Tribe starters getting touched up early. Aaron Civale (5-1) suffered his first defeat and the next day, Tristan McKenzie (1-2) continued his struggles. The Indians hoped that Ace Shane Bieber might be able to step up and sal-vage Sunday’s series fi-nale. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen as Seattle Slew the Tribe for the third straight day.
When Bieber (4-3) lost Sunday’s game, 3-2, his MLB record streak of striking out at least
eight batters came to an end at 20 games over two seasons. He’d struck out seven and had two outs in the 5th Inning, but with the Tribe already behind, 3-0, had just loaded the bases, having walked the last two batters (his third and fourth walks of the game), so Tribe Manager Terry Francona gave him the hook. Reliever Phil Maton came on to end the threat with a strikeout. The Tribe managed to score twice, but the rally came up short.
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim won the opener of the next se-ries, 7-4, but the Halos lost star OF Mike Trout to an injured calf. It later was reported that he will be out six to eight weeks. Cesar Hernandez, Fran-mil Reyes, and Harold Ramirez homered for the
Cavs season mercifully
ends
By KARL BRYANT
The Cavs 2020-21
season mercifully ended.
Facing three NBA
Play-offs/play-in bound teams,
they astonishingly won
their last Home game
before going on the road
where they lost their final
two.
They are tied with
Oklahoma City for the
4th-worst record in the
NBA, at 22-50, so they
and the Thunder will each
have an 11 1/2 % chance
of having their ping-pong
balls drawn in the NBA
Lottery on June 22.
The Cavs had been
on a bewildering funk of
seemingly neverending
losses, when out of
no-where, they miraculously
halted their 11-game
los-ing streak by pulllos-ing one
out in their last game of
the year at Rocket
Mort-gage Fieldhouse against
the Celtics - a play-in
team. Although they were
down eight players for a
myriad of reasons, they
cobbled together a lineup
of supposedly healthy
bodies and amazingly
won, 102-94.
Kevin Love poured in a
season high 30 points for
the Cavs. He was six of
nine from Downtown and
pulled down 14 rebounds.
Collin Sexton added 28
points. Anderson
Vera-jao, on a 10-day contract
so that he can retire from
the NBA as a Cavalier,
played three minutes,
and scored four points
in his final Home game
in CLE. Jayson Tatum
led the Celtics, who also
were missing some
start-ers, with 29 points. Old
Friend Tristan Thompson
added 10. CLE outshot
Boston from the field,
45% to 35.6% to steal the
“W.”
The Cavs then went on
the road to finish out the
year and ended up with a
120-105 loss to the
Wiz-ards - also a play-in team
– and a 123-109 loss to
the Nets – a playoff team.
The Wizards needed the
win to avoid the 9-10,
one-loss-and-you’re-out,
play-in game. The Nets
needed the win to secure
the No. 2 Seed in the NBA
Eastern Conference.
The Cavs now
hope to get some help in
the NBA Draft and will
try to lure some Free
Agents, but it’ll be an
up-hill battle.
On a positive
note, word came that
Cavs Assistant Coach
Lindsay Gottlieb, one
of a handful of women
coaches in the NBA, was
named to be Head Coach
at USC, where she will
mentor the Trojans
Wom-en’s Basketball program.
Indians in a losing effort. Sam Hentges (1-1) took the loss.
The next day, the In-dians finally ended their losing streak as they came through with a 6-5 win. They scored five runs in the 1st Inning, highlighted by Jose Ramirez 2-Run HR. Although the Angels came back to tie, Josh Nay-lor hit a HR in the 8th In-ning that proved to be the game winner. This time the Angels hit three long balls in a losing effort. Plesac (4-3) got the “W,” despite allowing the three HRs. James Karinchak notched his 4th Save.
At press time, the Indians hung on for a 3-2 win over the Angels. Jake Bauers homered off starter Shohei Ohtani, who got a No Decision when he moved to RF in the 5th.
Naylor knocked in the winning run for the second straight day with a hit liter-ally off loser Tony Walson (2-2) in the 6th that scored Jose Ramirez. Civale (6-1) got the win and Karinchak got Save No. 5.
Ohtani, who hit HRs the two prior games vs. CLE, is the first player to be leading the league in HRs (14) while also a pitcher, since Babe Ruth in 1919. As the series began, Tribe Skipper Francona remarked about Ohtani, “‘Generational,’ I think, is a good word. I mean, this guy is a pretty amazing athlete. And to be able to do what he’s doing at this level, it’s pretty amazing.”
The Tribe now will host the Defending Central Division Cham-pion Twins, who currently sit in last place, and will be coming off of Thursday’s make-up double-header against the Angels, which came about due to CO-VID-19 postponements last month. Hopefully, the Twins winning fortunes will not change in their visit to Progressive Field.
Also of note, for-mer Tribe two-time Cy Young Award Winner Co-rey Kluber threw a No-Hitter for the Yankees on Wednesday.
Browns rookie
camp
By KARL BRYANT It was a far cry from pre-vious Rookie Camps. There were only 18 in attendance. There used to be dozens of players. Last year’s Rookie Camp was canceled by the COVID-19 Pandemic. In 2021, the invitees were lim-ited and any veterans who might have wanted to join in were precluded from do-ing so by the NFL Players Association. For health and safety concerns, the Union also wants players to opt out of voluntary workouts (OTAs) and only show up for mandatory Minicamp (June 15-17 and Summer Training Camp.
Cleveland’s 2021 NFL Draft choices and a handful of signed Free Agents and invitees took to the Browns Berea Practice facility for three days last weekend. After Day 1 of practice, Browns Coach Kevin Ste-fanski, commented, “You can learn a lot just even in walkthroughs. There were times out there where guys had the wrong drop on de-fense, and they got correct-ed. We did the rep again, and they got it right. That is kind of what I talk about is really starting at the begin-ning with these guys. We can go at that pace.”
Browns No. 1 Draft pick DB Greg Newsome of Northwestern commented after his first practice at Berea, “I will never have this one-on-one coaching ever again, pretty much. The fact that I am getting it right now, and before the vets get here, is just giving
me an edge. When the vets get here, I will at least know what I am doing and will not be a Rookie who does not know anything. It is good to get coaching after I make a mistake right away and I can learn from it quickly.” Rookies will remain in camp and carry on with vet-erans joining virtually. After that, OTAs are scheduled, but as to veterans attending, expect the sound of crickets chirping.
Regarding the players Union discouraging mem-bers from participating in OTAs, Browns center J.C. Tretter, who is the NFLPA President, remarked, “In-tensity of OTAs has con-tinued to be ratcheted-up. What used to be seen as a time for teaching has turned into full-speed, non-padded practices that are injuring players unnecessarily. There is no reason a player should get injured, beat up, or have a concussion during the off-season.”
Concerning OTAs, the Collective Bargaining Agreement reads, “The in-tensity and tempo of drills should be at a level condu-cive to learning, with player safety as the highest prior-ity, and not at a level where one player is in a physical contest with another play-er.” Teams previously have been fined heavily for dis-regarding the rules. In this day and age of Pandemic concerns and the worries about concussion after-af-fects, it makes sense to keep a player in whom a team invests $millions, as safe as possible.
Bieber Ramirez Hentges
