Oliver H. Perry Wins Weather Station from WKYC
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FREE TAKE ONE! Please patronize our advertisers. Proud Member of the Observer Media Family of Community-Owned and Written Newspapers & Websites Volume 8 • Issue 4 April 2016 Viking Cagers Settle For Runner-up Trophy Ballot Box Project Winners Announced Congratulations to the Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School boys basketball team for making it to the state tournament for the fourth consecutive year — the only school in OHSAA history to accomplish this feat. Along by Julia DiBaggio Benjamin Smith: Splice-Cream Truck with this honor, the team brought the state runner-up trophy back to East 185th and Lakeshore. Residents of North Collinwood spent the Margaret Craig: Neighborhood Arts by John Sheridan Certainly, they’d hoped to end their high past six months thinking about what type Ambassadors In sports, it often doesn’t pay to put much school careers on a final victory note. But of projects they want implemented in the Cindy Barber: Bicycle Rickshaws on stock in so-called “omens.“ During the it wasn’t to be. And, understandably, they neighborhood. After a week of public vot- Waterloo Ohio high school regional basketball and their teammates seemed less than ju- ing, the voices have been heard. Kevin Scheuring: Eat Local and Learn playoffs, one Villa Angela-St. Joseph fan bilant in settling for the runner-up trophy From April through November, be on Linda Zolten Wood: Operation: Vegetables noticed that the state Division III champi- on Ohio State’s Schottenstein Center court. the lookout for these projects from the win- Lori Kella: Farm to Table Cook Book onship game was slated for March 19-the Nonetheless, the 2016 VASJ squad far ning artists: Michael Hudecek: Craft Up Collinwood Feast of St. Joseph. ¢couldn’t it be neat if the exceeded anyone’s expectations-especially Bridget Caswell: The Collinwood Camera Stephen Bivens: This is Collinwood: History St. Joe team won a state title on St. Joseph’s considering that all five starters on the 2015 Club in Everyday People Day?”the fan thought. “Perhaps it’s a good championship team had graduated. Start- omen. “ well, that turned out to be wishful ing from scratch, Coach Kwasniak’s cagers thinking. Coach Babe Kwasniak’s Vikings fashioned a very memorable tournament KeyBank Gives Ginn Academy $250,000 did make it to the final game in Columbus, run. And watch out for them again next but their rather remarkable season came to year. The leading scorer for the Vikings in an end with a 66-44 loss to Lima Central the state title game was sophomore guard Catholic-the same team they had beaten a Jerry Higgins, whose shot at the halftime year earlier to claim VASJ’s sixth state bas- buzzer narrowed Lima Central’s lead to ketball crown. In fact, it was the third year 27-26. Higgins finished the game with 15 in row that these two squads met in the points. Among the others expected to re- championship finals. Almost incredibly, it turn next season are 6-7 freshman Alonzo marked the fourth straight appearance in Gafney, 6-2 junior Noah Newton, and a state championship game for this year’s 6-3 junior Dan McGarry who made a sig- Vikings seniors-first-team All-Ohio guard nificant contribution under the basket this Sherman Dean III, Kevin Roberts, Jacob season. Stauffer, Anthony Turk and Phillip Bessick. Oliver H. Perry Wins Weather by CMSD NEWS • summer internships with local companies Station from WKYC KeyBank will give Ginn Academy $250,000 and development of skills such as resume Weather Warriors.” To view the videos, go for college test preparation, summer intern- writing; to http://bit.ly/1Zs6sxb ships, scholarships and an investment club. • $1,000 scholarships for up to 10 seniors a At Oliver H. Perry, homerooms will take Students at the all-male high school year to help fill in gaps in their education turns each week collecting and analyzing cheered enthusiastically when the an- funding; weather data and presenting findings to the nouncement was made Monday at a regular • and operation of an investment club and rest of the student body during the school’s school assembly, better known as the morn- instruction in money management for Friday morning meetings. The benefits will ing meeting. It is the largest single donation ninth- and 10th-graders. extend beyond science, Principal Anne the school has ever received. Ted Ginn Sr., the school’s executive di- by Thomas Ott Priemer said. “It creates opportunities for each of you rector and founder, said the grant “helps us Oliver H. Perry School has won equipment “Students in math class frequently ask, to thrive on your own terms,” said Chris- in the areas we need help in.” He thanked that will allow students to collect weather ‘Why do we have to learn how to do this?’ ” topher M. Gorman, president of Key Cor- KeyBank for “believing in our students.” data and learn about forces at work in the she said. “The station will give students, as porate Bank, which focuses mostly on cor- Ginn Academy, which has received na- atmosphere. part of their math curriculum, a real-world porations and services that include capital tional attention, (read about Ginn Academy Perry was one of 10 CMSD K-8 schools authentic way to collect, chart and analyze market investments, mergers and acquisi- in The New York Times and The Washing- to win 6250 Davis Vantage Vue wireless data.” tions. “We can’t wait to see where this in- ton Post) has a four-year graduation rate of weather stations in WKYC-TV’s Weather Besides trying their hands at weather vestment takes us all.” 84.1 percent and five-year graduation rate Warriors contest. The other schools were forecasts, students will get to work one on The grant was made through the Key- of 94.4 percent, according to its most re- Almira, Campus International, Charles one with members of the WKYC weather Bank Foundation, which Gorman serves as cent state report card. Both are well above Dickens, Clara E. Westropp, Denison, team, including chief meteorologist Betsy president. The award, spanning five years, the District’s record 66.1 percent. David Iowa-Maple, Luis Muñoz Marin, Riverside Kling and meteorologist Gregg Dee. They will fund: Reynolds, senior sales leader for Key Private and Willson. will visit the WKYC studio and receive • tutoring for juniors and seniors to im- Bank, is a member of the Ginn Academy The schools were picked after submit- visits from the station’s Weather Advance prove scores on the ACT and SAT college- board of trustees and will continue to serve ting videos based on the theme: “We are the Mobile Unit. admissions tests; as a liaison with the school. Page 2 The Collinwood Observer Volume 8 • Issue 4 April 2016 April 2016 The Collinwood Observer Volume 8 • Issue 4 Page 3 Community Community Councilman’s Corner Packy Malley’s Food Rocks - Just Like the Bar COMMUNITY MEETINGS by Michael D. in demographically changing communities If you are enjoying the music and art scene with pierogi’s was my favorite. The Que- on Waterloo and are in the mood for some sadilla is a really large portion and can be The Collinwood Observer is a citizen-based news Polensek with growing numbers of moderate to low COLLINWOOD HOMEOWNERS MEETING source published by Collinwood Publishing Inc., a local income residents and quite frankly, racially 1st Wednesday of the month fantastic, reasonably priced bar food, stop in made vegetarian or vegan. They cook food business dedicated to the development of grass roots SPRING IS HERE, and ethnically diverse communities. The 7:00 PM to Packy Malley’s. Everything on the Menu late every night. Stop in, say Hi to Jim and media and increased connectedness of the citizens, St Mary Church is delicious. The homemade sausage served tell him the Observer sent you! civic groups, non profits, businesses and institutions in FINALLY!!! With proof is in the pudding. However, Euclid 15519 Holmes Avenue and around Cleveland Wards 10 and 11. Spring comes a Hospital is not only critical to the City of number of variet- Euclid but also the greater Collinwood and EAST 185th STREET NEIGHBORHOOD THE COLLINWOOD OBSERVER ASSOCIATION ies of Ohio flowers Glenville communities for we have many 2nd Tuesday of the Month 650 E. 185TH STREET most of them of residents who are employed there not to 6:00 PM CLEVELAND, OH 44119 the “orange barrel speak of the medical services that impact a Lithuanian Hall 877 East 185th Street – next to Post Office Copyright 2014—Collinwood Publishing Inc. variety”. On that note - construction will large number of our residents. All rights reserved. Any reproduction is begin shortly on the Veteran’s Park at East I have officially called upon our Con- DEMOCRATIC WARD CLUB forbidden without written permission. 174th Street and Lakeshore Boulevard in gresswoman, Marcia Fudge, to convene 2nd Wednesday of the Month 6:30 PM PUBLISHER preparation of the dedication of the park a meeting of community stakeholders, to Collinwood Slovenian Home John Copic, [email protected] for June 12, 2016. Construction is also well discuss this critical issue and the future of 15810 Holmes Avenue underway on the new multimillion dollar Euclid Hospital. I am hoping that Euclid PRESIDENT: Councilman Polensek ADVERTISING John Copic, 216.505.0185 community center at the Salvation Army City Officials also take a hard line and drill EAST 156th STREET NEIGHBROHOOD at 17625 Grovewood Avenue. The con- down into this proposal; for, the Clinic ASSOCIATION WRITERS: Bob Payne, Pat Brady, Matthew Jim is THE MAN struction on a new I-90 Pedestrian Bridge, dropped this upon them out of the clear 3rd Wednesday of the month Orgovan, Gina M.