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Uninsured children rate rising in Ohio Kiddie Trick or Treat... event to be held Kid’s Corner Toys For Tots event to be held SPORTS Kid’s Corner The FriendsHarvard of ZackCommunity Reed will Service sponsor itsCenter 22nd MENU TIPS Even during a time when the economy Ricky Williams, four years Jude is almost in preschool. He Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity was notably strong, Ohio lost ground in en- turns 3 in a few weeks. He likes dinosaurs, will hold a Kiddie Trick or Treat event on Saturday, old, is the son of Shequila and Dan Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the Tampa Wins Pumpin Flan Is A dragons and trucks. He can count to 30 and October 31 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the par- ‘King of Ameri- suring children have access to health covera- knowsWilliams. the ABC’s, He attends shapes andprechool. colors. HisHe needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro- Stanley Cup favorite TV show is Paw Patrol. Vegetables, king lot of Archbishop Lyke School, 18230 Harvard Healthy Holiday Dessert ge.An annual report released today by the Ge- vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec can Seafood’ noodleshas a hearty and strawberries appetite and are hishis favoritefavorite Road. Goodie bags will be presented to all youth foods. He loves reading Eric Carle books Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa orgetown University Center for Children and food is pizza. Being an active kid, grills i and he is very excited to see his teachers Whiting,under 18. Esq. Costumes Doors open are atoptional. 6pm. Admission Extra prizes is $10 for at t up Families reveals there were 27,000 more un- againRicky soon. likes Jude to isride also his very bike talkative which and is those dressed as Black Panthers. Everyone must See Page 4 See Page 5 enjoys chasing his big sister, Emmy, all over the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 insured Ohio children in 2019 than in 2016. McHale Williams his favorite toy. withoutwear a mask.a toy). VOL. 41 No.37 Tuesday,October 6, 2020- Friday, October 9, 2020 Daily FREEEASTSIDE NEWSFREE ISSUED FRIDAY READ ON - WRITE ON SERVING: LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, MT. PLEASANT, READ ON - WRITE ON LEE & AVALON, HARVARD - LEE, MILES - UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA, WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL, HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND “COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW” Cleveland on target for highest homicide rate in 25 years Cleveland matched its 25. ing happened at about 6:41 p.m.. Sa- homicide total from 2019 with two According to records from rontay’s parents, Robert and Kenya daytime killings on Tuesday. the Cleveland Division of Police Williams asked the public’s help in According to homicide and the Cuyahoga County Medical bring his killer to justice. SaRontay reports, Cleveland is on track to a Examiner’s Office, 16 homicides left behind two children, Keontaee, record of homicides not recorded have been reported in Cleveland 4, and Sa’yonna, 2. According to his since the crack epidemic of the the last 17 days, pushing the total father, SaRontay, was a wonderful, 1990s. number of homicides in 2020 to 62. loving son and father. He had set- The 133 slaying this year In 2019, there were 40 ho- up a recording studio in the houseDon’t Forgetto To Turn in Cleveland is tied for the third- micides recorded between January pursue his music. He was belovedYour Clockby Forward highest number of homicides in a 1 and June 8, according to police his siblings and friends. single year since 1994. records. Despite numerous witness- The number of young The Cleveland Police es and forensic evidence, no one has people killed is on the rise. Ten Department has records which re- been arrested for the crime. children under age 18 have died in flect much lower numbers. The family of Williams, homicides this year, matching last The record of Cleveland along with the families of so many year’s total, and 47 victims were Police solving a homicide is sta- young Clevelanders whose lives under age 25, already seven more tisitically nil. were cut short by gun violence, de- than 2019. Saronty Williams, 21, was serve answers. They deserve justice. The Ohio Department of Health is studying gun violence as a public health issue. Homicides is the leading According to a report died after being shot in the head In 2018, then Deputy Chief cause of death among Cleveland youth. from the Ohio Department of outside Zelma George Recreation Harold Pretel said the department’s Health, between 2008 -2017, ho- Center, 3155 Martin Luther King, hope was to hire more full time ho- micide was the leading cause of Jr. Blvd. on September 19, 2019. micide detectives. The homicide rate Renown local artist Malcolm Brown dies is rising while families grieve with- death in children under the age of According to the police, the shoot- A Celebration of Life Ser- out answers. vice for Malcolm McLeod Brown will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Octo- Women’s March Cleveland to be held ber 10 at Calhoun Funeral Home, 23000 Rockside Road, Bedford. Women’s March Cleve- nation’s capital. Republican controlled Senate by the Brown, a confident, state- land will host a rally and march on Face masks are required presidential election. ly, and beloved educator, museum Saturday, October 17 as part of a per city ordinance. The lives of women, Black collected painter and art-dealer, died national march this day for justice Women in Cleveland and women in particular, will be at the on October 1 at the age of 89. and equality for women and Black at marches across the country on forefront too of Cleveland’ Oct 17 Born in Charlottesville, lives, the event of which will be Oct 17, led by Women’s March, march, from the shooting death by Virginia August 19, 1931, in a his- held in Ward 1 outside at the Har- will also remember the late U.S. Louisville Metro police of Breon- toric region on the south side of vard Community Services Center Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader na Taylor, to disparities across the Freetown, with his parents Franklin at 18240 Harvard Avenue on the Ginsburg, and take on the rush by board of Black women in compari- and Dorothy Brown, and maternal city’s largely Black east side. the White House and Senate Re- son to their White male and female grandparents, Jesse and Lucy Jack- The Harvard Commnity publicans in scheduling confirma- counterparts. son. Freetown was settled by ex- Services Center is led by Elaine tion hearings to replace Ginsburg Typically held at Public slaves after 1863. They owned the land and thoughtfully and methodi- Gohlstin, its president and CEO, before the inauguration in 2021 Square or elsewhere in downtown cally created a community with Gohlstin also the leader of the of a president, either President Cleveland, Women’s March Cleve- businesses, schools and churches. Black Women’s Political Ac- Trump, or his rival, Democratic land will be taken to Ward 1 in the Grandpa Jesse purchased the land tion Committee of greater Cleve- nominee Joe Biden. heart of the Black community, Cleve- and co-founded Piedmont Baptist land. The president, who now land a largely Black major American Church—which is still a vibrant part For more information has the coronavirus, has nominated city of some 385,000 people that is of the community. Family names Renown artist and teacher Malcolm Brown died recently. Brown was a call Women’s March Cleveland at Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his led by four-term mayor Frank Jack- of those who made Freetown were member of the esteemed American Watercolor Society, created a celebrated Jazz (216) 659-0473. Supreme Court nominee and is son, the city’s third Black mayor. Winston, Washington, Mills, Jack- and Sisters series—shown in feature films, The event will commence adamant, alongside of Senate Ma- A largely Black ward, Ward son, Brown, Wood and Tucker. This with a 1pm rally with speakers and jority Leader Mitch McConnell of 1 is the largest voting bloc of Black robust community and its history in Hopewell, Virginia. During sum- ing were his passion, he and his wife, entertainment, followed by a 2:15 Kentucky, about holding early con- voters in the city and the second bore the legacy of Malcolm Brown. mer study at Boston University he met had a vision—that was to expand the Brown graduated from his intended, Ernestine T. Turner of pm march, one of several wom- firmation hearings, which are set to largest voting bloc of all of the city’s conversation and active support for Albemarle Training School and then Youngstown, Ohio. They married in African American and Diasporan art- en’s marches in respective cities initiate on Oct. 12. wards earned his bachelor’s degree at Vir- November 1964 and moved to Cleve- throughout the country on Oct. 17, He has promised that Bar- Speakers include local ac- ists by mid-west collectors. In 1980, ginia State University in Petersburg, land where he earned his master’s de- they opened Malcolm Brown Gallery, including in Washington D.C, the rett will likely be confirmed by the tivists, Black clergy and elected offi- Virginia as a ROTC scholarship gree in arts education from Case West- the first Black-owned fine art gallery cials, including Ward 1 Councilman student. There he joined the distin- ern Reserve University.