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OB News August FIANL.Qxd www.oldbrooklyn.com August 2010 Volume 32; Number 6 Fulton Road Bridge finally opens! Kevin Kelley kicks off wireless project by Robyn Sandys Ward to have this service. by Lori A. Peterson around animals, including a peregrine falcon [email protected] A temporary informational web site is [email protected] with one wing, a snake and an opossum. The Bridge spans the Zoo and Zoo visitors Old Brooklyn watched the construction. Aramark, Fulton Road Bridge Connected: Access Cleveland Metroparks’ caterer, provided Opening Ceremony Anywhere, Anytime was refreshments for onlookers. announced to the residents On the morning of Friday, July 9, 2010, The Fulton Road Bridge had been of Ward 13, Councilman Model A cars lined the Fulton Road Bridge, closed since October, 2006, affecting Kevin Kelley's ward, on blasting out music from the 1930s. (The approximately 23,000 motorists per day. Saturday, July 17th, at the original bridge opened in 1932) The mood Needless, to say businesses on both sides of "All Access" Home and was festive as Cleveland officials, The Ohio the Bridge are ecstatic that it is again open. Bicycle Tour sponsored by Department of Transportation (ODOT), the Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins, Old Brooklyn Community Cleveland Metroparks and the Old the emcee for the function, introduced Development Corporation Brooklyn Community Development ODOT District 12 Director Bonita G. (OBCDC) and held at Corporation held a ribbon-cutting ceremo- Teeuwen. Following her remarks, she intro- Estabrook Recreation ny at 10 a.m. to reopen the Fulton Road duced Joe Cannon, lifelong Old Brooklyn Center. Bridge. resident. Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Metroparks Zoo staff carried See Fulton Road Bridge opening page 4 was there to help with the Photo by George Shuba festivities as well as Councilman Kelley and the Ward 13 Councilman Kevin Kelley and OBCDC Executive partners in this new wireless Director Robyn Sandys announced Old Brooklyn Connected, broadband initiative, the City Ward 13's new wireless program, at the All Access tour day. of Cleveland, OBCDC and Cleveland Housing now up and running at www.oldbrooklyncon- Network. nected.com where you can sign up for training Robyn Sandys, Executive Director of Old classes on how to use the internet and comput- Brooklyn Community Development ers. The training is being provided at no charge Corporation, introduced Phil Belanger of by Cleveland Housing Network. The training Novarum and Dejuan Perrymon of Cleveland will be held in the neighborhood. If you don't Housing Network who explained how the have access to the internet you can call them at wireless connection will operate. 216-881-8443 for more information. Also sign This new pilot project in Ward 13 for the up to be on Old Brooklyn CDC's mailing list so City of Cleveland will be up and running this you can be the first in this area to know how to Photo by George Shuba fall. It will be a fast, free and secure Wi-Fi con- connect once the service is available. You can nection for anyone living, doing business or sign up by going to this web site or to The Cranksters’ six model A cars were the first vehicles to drive back and forth across visiting Old Brooklyn, the first Cleveland www.oldbrooklyn.com, or call 216-459-1000. the Fulton Road Bridge after the ceremonial ribbon was cut on Friday, July 9th. In spring round, six area organizations receive new Neighborhood Connections grants by Lynette Filips Krafft apartments – as well as any other Luther Memorial School been an eyesore and nuisance for many years lynette [email protected] neighborhood seniors who want to share their Luther Memorial School (formerly St. -- on Louisiana Ave. near W. 34th St. (south- stories — for a day of recording oral histories. Mark Lutheran School) in Old Brooklyn west of the intersection of Pearl Rd. and Twice a year, in February and in August, The grant money will be received $4953 to Denison Ave.) The grant was used to purchase Neighborhood Connections, an affiliated pro- used to purchase the help fund their neigh- fruit trees, berry bushes and fencing for the gram of the Cleveland Foundation, offers cer- materials needed to col- bor and family fun orchard. The residents are enthusiastic about tain categories of non-profit organizations in lect and publish the oral nights. They provide the space they’ve created where they can Cleveland the opportunity to apply for small histories, including spe- monthly meals and interact while growing fresh fruit for them- grants ($500 to $5000) to fund a portion of cial tape recorders with engage families in art selves neighbors who need it. Former BCCA their upcoming projects/dream projects. memory cards that can projects, board games president Darren Hamm has written a short (After they receive a grant, however, they be plugged into comput- and other community article about the orchard. It appears on page 4 must wait for a year before they can apply for ers for transcribing. A activities. of this issue of the OBN. another grant.) committee will come up Friends of Harmody Park Again this time, hopeful organizations with the questions the Point of Freedom The Friends of Harmody Park in Old applied for a piece of the pie; here are the young seniors will be Point of Brooklyn received $5000 to implement their organizations in our neighborhood who ended asking the old seniors. Freedom Community project, “Promote Our Park”. It was a follow- up smiling in spring, 2010 -- Resource Center in Old Brooklyn received up to a clean-up & cookout held the end of Spokane Model Block Initiative $3500 to create a resource center to assist 2008. The Friends will host/have hosted Benjamin Franklin Community Garden The Spokane Model Block Initiative women in substance-abuse-recovery with See Neighborhood Connections, page 5 The Benjamin Franklin Community received $3908 for a beautification project advice regarding relapse prevention and re- Garden in Old Brooklyn received $5000 for a which includes landscaping tree lawns to give entry into society. project they are calling “Operation them a visually unified look. (The hope is Inside the OBN Safeguard”. It will help them restore approxi- that the process will unify the residents, too.) Red Hat Rubies Inside the OBN mately 2.5 wooded acres around the garden to The Red Hat Rubies received $3500 to Community Spotlight; Desk of a more park-like state. W. 36th St. Block Club provide activities for long-term care residents the Executive Director; 2 The W. 36th St. Block Club received at MetroHealth’s Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Cleveland Junior Jitterbugs $2232 for an ally clean-up project. With both Skilled Nursing Care Center. News & Events; Community The Cleveland Junior Jitterbugs, a group appearance and safety in mind, residents will Meetings 3 of students in Brooklyn Centre who are inter- clean and restore a neighboring alley. ***************** ested in learning and performing swing danc- Going back a bit further in time to ***************** CBCCA Community Orchard; ing, received $4840 for an after-school pro- spring, 2009, we see that these organizations Because it’s been a few years since the APL Spaying Program 4 gram at Denison Elementary School . Old Brooklyn News (OBN) has written about in Brooklyn Centre and Old Brooklyn Neighborhood Connection grants, it seems received Neighborhood Connections grants -- Town Crier 5 The Green Space & Natural Resource only fair, while we’re on the topic, to step Committee back in time and see who else has recently Benjamin Franklin Community Garden Commercial News 6 The Green Space & Natural Resource received them, too. The Benjamin Franklin Community Committee in Old Brooklyn received $1688 We are pleased to report that in the Garden in Old Brooklyn received $3991 to Community Toolbox; All for their downtown “Old Brooklyn Tree Box autumn, 2009 “round” -- begin a sustainability project. With the Access Thank You; Spokane Project”. The money is being used to improve money the Garden Committee purchased a Model Block 7 the appearance of the tree boxes along Brooklyn Centre Naturalists storage unit and labels for tools. Their ongo- Broadview Rd. The Brooklyn Centre Naturalists (BCN) ing goal is to prevent theft and maintain the Canalway Scenic Byway 8 received $4874 to fund their Saturday morn- common areas of the garden with this equip- Family Fun; 9 Historical Society of Old Brooklyn ing children’s program, “Building ment. The Historical Society of Old Brooklyn Community through Nature”, at Brooklyn Senior & Church Notes 10 (HSOB) received $1296 to fund a “Seniors to Memorial United Methodist Church. OBN Brooklyn Centre Community Association Seniors” project. HSOB’s plan is to connect readers are probably aware of this grant The Brooklyn Centre Community Classified & Service Directory 11 the upcoming year’s graduating class (the sen- because BCN regularly submits articles to the Association (BCCA) received $4000 to devel- Riverside Cemetery Tour; iors) from James Ford Rhodes High School paper about what they’ve been doing with the op the “Brooklyn Centre Community with the seniors living in the Deaconess- children. Orchard” on five vacant lots -- which had Theater Notes 12 PAGE 2 OLD BROOKLYN NEWS AUGUST 2010 years. “The people of Old Brooklyn were From the desk of the great!”Joe exclaimed. As a councilman, Joe Cannon’s greatest executive director accomplishment was bringing $5 million in by Robyn Sandys sidewalks to the residents of Old Brooklyn. He 11 homes that the [email protected] wanted to give back to the community. CDC purchased When he was in his 70s, Joe decided to July was a very busy month and August is through the City take on a new ministry. He started putting up shaping up to have a lot going on as well.
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