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Kelley 2011 Winter.Qxp hehe eighborhoodeighborhood ressress TT NN WW ii nnPPtt ee rr 22 00 11 11 A Message from Councilman Kelley A Message from Councilman Kelley Dear Neighbor, Logging on It's on! Old Brooklyn is now con- Any wireless device should be able nected. As I write this letter, the con- to quickly find the signal. Simply turn struction phase of Old Brooklyn on your laptop, ipad, or other wireless Connected is complete. The project is enabled device, and you should see the now completing final testing and street signal. It is simply called "Old by street performance analysis. This Brooklyn". The signal is very strong in means that you, and almost all of your most places. There are still a few ran- neighbors, now have free, high-speed dom weak spots. If you are not getting a internet access. Thus, there is no reason strong signal, please let us know. Your for any school-age child, job seeker, or feedback is essential in the success of any resident of ward 13 to not have the project. access to the information, knowledge, and opportunity that comes with this Terms of Use and Community Web Page access. When you log on, you will see the With the completion of this project, Terms of Agreement. After you read and Ward 13 becomes the first community in click "Agree" you will be directed the the Nation to deploy a municipal wireless system of this strength to over Old Brooklyn Connected web site. This page is our neighborhood web 10,000 households and hundreds of small businesses. We can use our site. It will have updates on neighborhood issues as well as local news, community's new unique benefit to attract new families and small busi- events, and neighborhood events. OldBrooklyn.com is intended to be nesses to our neighborhood. our community path where you will find access to some of the great But this project is only as great as we make it. This project can either things that are happening in our community. So please, let’s join in this transform the neighborhood or it can end up simply being equipment. great opportunity to move our community forward. We need you to make it work. We need you to try, use it, and improve it. If you are not getting a signal or are getting a slow signal, please let Sincerely, us know. Your feedback can be extremely valuable in improving the project. My goals remain the same: to ensure that every resident has high speed internet access; and to make Ward 13 the most connected commu- nity in the Nation. Tom Wenderoth: College Now Ward 13’s Outstanding Greater Cleveland Senior for 2011 By 2018, nearly 60% of jobs in Ohio will require some postsecondary education. Currently, only about 30% of residents in Cuyahoga County have a postsecondary degree. We have to make sure more of our students enroll in - and finish - college in order to ensure a successful future. College Now Greater Cleveland provides college access and success advising, finan- cial aid counseling and scholarship services to students and adults in more than 65 Greater Cleveland schools, including ALL Cleveland Metropolitan School District high schools, and in its downtown Resource Center. Our advisors provide guidance and resources to high school students and adult learners to prepare for educational opportunities after high school, including 2-year, 4-year, and certificate programs. Mr. Wenderoth is a lifelong resident of the They work one-on-one and in groups to help students complete the FAFSA (Free city of Cleveland and has lived in Ward 13 for Application for Federal Student Aid) and secure financial aid to pay for postsecondary 32 years. Tom cares about the older adults in his education. Additionally, College now awards renewable, need-based, last-dollar neighborhood. For the past three years he has scholarships to students across Greater Cleveland. served on the Deaconess-Krafft Advisory Council. He has been a volunteer in the senior center there for eight years and can often be College Now serves nearly 20,000 students and adult learners each school year. found packing and delivering meals to home- College Now students have a 91% first-year to second-year retention rate and are bound seniors in the Meals on Wheels program. nearly twice as likely to graduate from college as other low-income students. Tom is a parishioner and Eucharistic College Now awards about $2.7 million in scholarships to nearly 2,000 students Minister at St. Thomas Moore Church. He and adult learners each year. retired from the Cleveland Health Department after 28 years of service. Tom’s hobbies include For more information about College Now, visit www.collegenowgc.org, call working on his model train set, complete with (216)241-5587, visit Davona Mason at James Ford Rhodes High School, or stop in to Christmas villages and nativity scenes, walking the College Now Resource Center, located at 200 Public Square. and volunteering. Tom has two grown children. Congratulations Mr. Wenderoth! www.oldbrooklynconnected.com After a year of installation and testing, Old Brooklyn Brooklyn. For class informa- Connected, a free community development project designed to tion call Ania Siuda at bridge the digital divide in Ward 13, is complete. The network 216.459.1000. creates a community portal for residents of Old Brooklyn provid- The project, which began ing free, fast, and secure high-speed wireless Internet access for in the spring of 2010 after every home, business and institution. It is an outdoor Wi-Fi net- years of research and plan- work that delivers wireless coverage outside throughout the ward. ning, is partnership between Any Wi-Fi device can connect to the network within the coverage The City of Cleveland, area and enjoy broadband internet access. Councilman Kevin J. Kelley, All that is required is a wirelessly enabled computer. Those Old Brooklyn CDC, Cleveland with older computers will need to purchase a Wi-Fi card or anten- Public Library, Cleveland nae. Others who reside or work in buildings with walls that block Housing Network, Cleveland the signal may need to invest in a router to carry the service into Metropolitan School District their home or business. Another challenge is teaching residents and MetroHealth Hospital. how to access and use the service to their advantage. Councilman Funding for the project comes Kelley is committed to working with residents to educate them on from Cleveland City how to use the Internet and provide guidance on equipment and Councilman Kevin J. Kelley's discretionary funds (UDAG, NEF); devices to get them online. the City of Cleveland; Old Brooklyn Community Development For more information call the Old Brooklyn CDC at 216-459- Corporation is providing community outreach and technical sup- 1000 x204. For any wifi connection related issues, please call port; and training is conducted through Cleveland Housing Christopher Lohr at 459-1000. Internet and computer classes are Network's Connect your Community program with help from Old offered by Connect Your Community at locations within Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation. OOlldd BBrrooookkllyynn CCoonnnneecctteedd ByBy TheThe NNumberumbers:s: General Stats: Education Outreach by Connect Your Community: 4.5 square miles of & more Nine free courses (25 hours each) at locations in Old than 300 businesses. Brooklyn. Cost of $ 1.3 million dollars for 118 students graduated. a five-year period. An average 76 report they use the Old Brooklyn Wi-Fi as their primary cost of $1.91 per household & connection. business per month over the five 80 received a free computer and 38 purchased an upgrad- year span. ed, refurbished computer. Serves more than 700 unique Three additional courses are running this fall with 22 stu- devices each day with more than dents set to graduate by Thanksgiving. 200 gigabytes of daily internet traffic. Usage is growing at about 20 percent per month. Old Brooklyn Connected Web Stats: 220 access points installed and 250 wireless radios intercon- More than 35,000 visits. necting the access points and providing backhaul to seven 8,506 unique visitors. fiber locations in Old Brooklyn. Average of 1,000 visitors a day. Average upload speed of 2 Mbps & download speed of 5 Mbps. ConnectConnect YYourour CommunityCommunity Ward 13 Scenes: During the last week of September, OneCommunity and Cleveland Housing Network con- ducted a phone survey of greater Cleveland Connect Your Community participants who had finished train- ing and were confirmed as "sustainable broadband adopters" by CHN prior to June 30. Of the total sample of 1,810 CYC participants, completed surveys were obtained for approximately 35% (624 participants). 1. 91.3% of the survey respondents are now regularly accessing the internet. 2. 98.7% of the survey respondents say they would recommend the Connect Your Community program to others. 3. 42.6% of the respondents said their interest in CYC was related to job opportuni- ties. Of these, 67.1% believe that the skills they learned through the Connect Your Councilman Kevin Kelley and Cleveland Community program will enable them to get a job or a better job. Police 2nd District Commander Keith Sulzer at Cleveland’s Crime Night Out 2 IItt’’ss WWiinntteerrttiimmee On August 14, the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo hosted the Second Annual Bridging the Distance 1 Mile Walk and 5K run: a Celebration of Bridging two neighborhoods. The event was a great success. The race course took runners and walkers through the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and finished with a run over the Fulton Road Bridge. The run allowed runners and walkers to view the beauty of the wildlife in the middle of Old Brooklyn.
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