Shaker Artists Warm up the Winter with Hot New Work Plus How to Choose a Day Camp

shaker artists warm up the winter with hot new work plus How to Choose a Day Camp

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3 City News 30 Creativity Rules The 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr., A record-breaking 600 students are enrolled in visual arts classes at Award for Human Relations. Shaker High this year. (pictured above: SHHS junior Maria Vazquez) By nancy o’connor

9 Real Estate News Local hardware stores are 36 Local Legends offering discounts on security Susan Stevens Jaros Meet the woman who is waging a successful effort to lighting for residents. keep the Cleveland Museum of Art connected to the community. By rory o'connor

12 Library News Happy 300th Birthday, Ben. 38 Photo Essay Some Notable City Artists Dancers Barbara and Sebatino Verlezza, Recreation & Leisure 54 Artist Penni Rubin, Artist Erica Weiss, Storyteller Barbara Eady Summer camps. text by linda saslow Out & About 70 44 Larchmere, the Neighborhood with a Pulse Calendar of events. Unique shopping, dining, and housing opportunities have put this lively district on the map. by jayne eiben 84 Shaker Observer A commentary on the City’s 52 Choosing a Summer Camp infrastructure and traffic signalizationizingation...whatever. If you haven’t already picked out a summer camp for your children, get started By john r. brandt as soon as possible. by jayne eiben

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Shaker Night at the Cleveland Play House MLK, Jr. Award Presentation

Mark your calendars and save the date! Join your friends and neighbors on Saturday The recipient of the 2006 Martin Luther evening, March 25, at the first Shaker Night at the Play House featuring the comedy King, Jr., Award for Human Relations Well. Specially priced tickets will include is the Youth Ending Hunger/Interact a pre-show party at the theater. Limited Club of Shaker Heights High School. transportation may be available. Watch for The award will be presented Monday, details at shakeronline.com, in the March issue January 23 at Shaker Heights City of Shaker Life or call City Program Coordinator Hall, 3400 Lee Road. The program will Kevin Crowe at 491-2595. take place at the beginning of the City Well is a comedy in which author Lisa Kron Council meeting at 7:30 p.m.; a dessert attempts to write a play about her mother, reception in of honor the club’s volun- Ann. Ann was one of Lansing, Michigan’s first teers and faculty advisors will precede community activists, who contributed to the the award presentation at 7 p.m. successful integration of her neighborhood. Accepting the award on behalf of Ann is also a chronically-ill, well-meaning YEH’s many volunteers will be the mother who continually interferes with group’s officers: President, Shaina Lisa’s effort to tell the story in her own words. Well is a contemporary tale of health, Pollard; VP, Leslie Johns; Treasurer, wellness, and community. Allison Tillman; Secretary, Luisana The New York Times called Well “something magical…one of the two best plays of the Rojas-Rodriguez and Representative, season” when it was produced Off Broadway two seasons ago. A new production will Kate O’Gorman. Faculty Advisors are open on Broadway in March—catch The Cleveland Play House production first! Bill Scanlon and Katherine Brown. The This special evening is co-sponsored by the City of Shaker Heights and community service group’s mission is to The Cleveland Playhouse. improve the lives of the people around them by giving their time (e.g. Cleveland Food Bank), raising money (e.g. Harvest for Hunger) and interacting with people First time Homebuyers: (e.g. visits to Judson Manor). The City’s Human Relations Be a savvy buyer in today’s market Commission sought nominees who made a significant contribution in 2005 Learn from the experts about: WHO: Prospective buyers through volunteerism and community • Open houses, working with real estate (adults only, please) service, helping others and building agents and agency representation; WHAT: First time Homebuyers Seminar community in Shaker Heights. The • The importance of loan pre-approval WHEN: Saturday, January 21, 2006 actions of the nominated individuals and reputable lenders; 10 a.m.-noon or groups were to exemplify Dr. King’s • Title insurance, what it costs, who pays WHERE: Shaker Community Building values through their commitment to for it and navigating “Escrow”; 3450 Lee Road compassion, humility, and service. • Why working with a certified housing Admission is free of charge. inspector is a good idea. This seminar is jointly sponsored For more info call Myra White, Tree Nominations by the Shaker office of Howard Hanna HHSC Manager, 751-8550. Smythe Cramer (HHSC) and the City of Nominate trees for the Tree Advisory Shaker Heights. Board’s 2005 Heritage Tree awards. It is the first in a series with Shaker The awards will be part of the City’s an- realty offices. Watch for more work- nual Arbor Day observance in April. shops later this spring. Forms are available until March 8 at shakeronline.com, or call Pat Neville at 491-3285.

january | february 2006 city news continued... Friends don’t let Council Considering friends make a move Gun Control Legislation without calling us first. When a federal ban on assault weapons expired in 2004, it became the respon- Shaker’S relocation expertS have: sibility of state and local governments to enact their own bans. Cleveland, Co- • Shaker information packets lumbus, and Cincinnati have all done • School & neighborhood so. Council is considering legislation that would create such a ban in Shaker contacts Heights. • Certified Shaker rental updates Gun sales of any type may be prohibited in the City as well. Existing legisla- • Details on financial incentives tion provides only for the regulation of for eligible home buyers gun dealers. There are no guns for sale in Shaker at present. The proposed change would prevent any in the future. The new Call (216) 491-1332 or visit law would prohibit gun shops and the sale of guns in any retail establishment. shakeronline.com East Cleveland and Cuyahoga Heights both have similar bans. City of Shaker Heights Council agendas and minutes are 3400 Lee Road posted on the City website, shakeronline. Shaker Heights, OH 44120 (216) 491-1400 com. To track the progress of this legisla- Affirmatively furthering fair housing for over 30 years tion, click on Inside City Hall, then Agendas & Minutes, and scroll to City Council list-

friends final 9-05.indd 1 8/16/2005 9:46:59 AM ings. The Fund For Business News The FuTure, in its ongoing commitment to Construction Update promote racial diversity Here’s the upside to inconvenience: in Shaker neighborhoods, progress! Demolition at Van Aken Center is offering a limited is underway. number of low-interest • Inside the parking lot, the lane of traffic directly in front of the Center’s shops down payment loans for will be redirected somewhat and there first-time homebuyers at will be a large gap in the façade. What Shaker’s most exciting you will see happening here is over $3 new condo and loft million in construction to accommodate a new Fresh Market grocery store sched- development, Avalon uled to open in late ’06 or early ’07. Station. All other businesses at the Center will remain open during this time, including Sand’s and Charter One, on either side of Shaker school, city and the construction. library employees need Something similar will be seen across not be first-time buyers. the tracks at Shaker Plaza. A new drive- through Walgreens also requires considerable construction – nearly $1 million For FurTher inFormATion of it. The new pharmacy, anchoring the And loAn guidelineS, east end of the Center, is scheduled to cAll 491-1370 open late summer to early fall.

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Door-to-Door Solicitation Rules Revised Project Update

While we may be able to ignore a ringing Sewer Improvement: North East Ohio Regional Sewer District telephone at dinnertime, it’s a lot harder to hide from the solicitor peering through the window in the front door. Many organizations, from political groups to scouts, rely on this face-to-face marketing opportunity. And it is permitted in Shaker Heights. Solicitors who are: selling items that they have made, raised or produced; offering services to be personally performed by them; selling newspapers; or asking for donations for any religious, charitable, civic, educational, or political organization, are permitted to go door to Construction of new sanitary relief and storm sewers. door in the City without a license. This is a S. Woodland between Green and Belvoir closed to westbound right protected by the U.S. Constitution. traffic until approximately May. This kind of door-to-door solicitation may be permitted only during the hours Green between S. woodland and Canterbury/bryden subject of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. if Council votes to to possible lane closings on Bryden when work begins in May. approve new legislation. Currently, sol- Expected completion in June. icitation is permitted until one-half hour after sunset, which would vary seasonally. Commercial solicitors who do not fall into one of the categories described above would still be limited to soliciting only until one-half hour after sunset, year-round. There is no time restriction for the distribution of fliers, circulars, etc., when no contact with the resident is involved, or to discuss political or religious matters door to door, so long as there is no Lee Road Project solicitation for donations or for the sale of a product. Still don’t want to answer the door? City ordinances permit placement of a No Solicitation (or similar) notice in a window. Solicitors must respect your wishes.

Paving from Van Aken to City limits begins in April. Expected completion in July.

installation of median strips from Van Aken to the City Hall north end parking lot, also begins in April. Expected completion in May. Sewer work from Van Aken to north of City Hall parking lot begins in January. Expected completion about 30 days later.

all dates are suBject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

january | february 2006 5 city news continued...

Top Seasonal • Kerosene heaters pose the greatest risk Shaker News Briefs of all alternative heating sources – care- Reminders fully follow manufacturer’s instructions. The Hanna Perkins Center for • Gas-fueled heating devices must be Child Development was recognized • Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it professionally installed. by The Cleveland Restoration Soci- Snow: But, don’t forget! Clearing • Plug electric space heaters directly into ety with a 2005 Preservation Award in sidewalks when the snow is less than a properly functioning wall outlet, never Institutional/Public Restoration. The 6 inches deep is the homeowner’s into an extension cord. Center renovated the former Malvern job. School children, dog walkers • Do not use large heaters in smaller School building, built in 1922, main- and seniors all rely on our miles of rooms with limited ventilation. taining much of its architectural char- sidewalks. Keep sidewalks safe for • Keep heaters at least three feet from acter and charm, in time for the school everyone’s use. The City plows side- combustibles such as furniture or drapes year of September 2003. walks only if the snowfall is deep and and place properly to prevent unit from The original palladium windows when scheduling allows. being knocked over. were restored and updated as were the Residents are asked not to park • Be sure heaters have a UL listing. sky lights in the former gymnasium. The cars in the street when snow is two • Never leave a unit unattended when in building boasts a new energy efficient or more inches deep. Do not push use. geothermal heating and cooling system snow into the street, onto sidewalks • Be sure you have smoke detectors which is planted 300 feet below nearly or onto another person’s property. on every level of the home, test them four acres of green space. The grounds The City does not plow residential monthly, and install a carbon monoxide include two fully equipped playgrounds driveways. detector (see related story). – one for the school and one for community use – as well as both a butterfly • Snow Plow Operators: garden and a vegetable garden. Are you snug at home with windows Snow plow operators must register closed and furnace working? You may • Congratulations to Carol Nursery with the Police Department and be toasty warm, but if you don’t have a School and the Early Childhood clearly display a permit. They may carbon monoxide detector, you could be Enrichment Center on earning three- elect to have their names placed in danger. star ratings from the Ohio Department on the Public List of Snow Plow Every year, elevated levels of carbon of Job & Family Services (ODJFS). Both Contractors. The City does not monoxide (CO) are reported in Shaker belong to Shaker Family Center, home endorse any contractor, but provides homes. CO is an odorless, colorless gas of quality family-friendly services and the list as a courtesy to residents. produced by fuel-burning appliances, early childhood programs. Each school See the City website, shakeronline.com. such as a furnace or fireplace. CO poi- applied separately to the pilot program, For more information, call the Police soning may cause irreversible damage to “Step Up to Quality,” which looks at Watch Office, 491-1220. your health and requires immediate med- the effectiveness of early childhood care ical attention. and education. The following measures The Fire Department recommends were used to evaluate the programs: installation of at least one detector near ratio of staff to child, staff education the sleeping areas of the home. In addi- and qualifications, professional dev- tion, make sure appliances are properly elopment, employee benefits, and and regularly maintained. curriculum. The ODJFS created the CO poisoning symptoms mimic the program in order to improve the quality flu, without the fever. If everyone in the of care and pre-school education in family has those symptoms, CO could be the state and to provide parents with a Winter Safety Tips: the cause. If your detector goes off and means of evaluating providers. you feel ill, leave home immediately and seek emergency help. If the detector goes Participation in “Step Up to Quality” Winter heating costs may have you con- is voluntary, but applications were off but you don’t feel ill, open the win- sidering whether use of a portable heat- dows and doors to ventilate the home, only accepted from programs already ing device in one room makes more licensed by the ODJFS. This means shut off all fuel-burning appliances and economic sense than warming the entire call the Fire Department to investigate. that even programs earning only one home. Maybe so, but please keep these star have exceeded minimum licensing Never ignore the alarm! safety cautions in mind: Maintain the CO detector according requirements. • Use of self-contained liquefied heat- Shaker Heights is the only community to manufacturer’s instructions and test it ers (such as Coleman-type stoves) in a monthly. in the state to have two three-star rated structure is prohibited and extremely programs. dangerous.

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And Don’t Forget... “Best painting experience I have had!” -Dan S. , Shaker Heights • Bicycle Licenses: Licenses will be sold from 9 a.m. to 3 "Crew was efficient, careful, responsive to my p.m. January 14 and February 18 in the Police Department lobby, 3355 Lee concerns and respectful toward both myself and my Road. Cost is $1.50 (re-issued licenses property...your work met the highest standards as are 50 cents); please bring the owner’s (or parent’s) Social Security number, did the integrity of your crew.” -Karen S. , Beachwood which is recorded on the application. “Very punctual, professional and friendly. We would • Citizens Award: The City appreciates nominations from definitely recommend Curb Appeal to friends.” residents for outstanding customer -Amy S. , Shaker Heights service – above and beyond expectations – provided by City employees. “I am very pleased with the work, the Nominations are accepted all year communication and status updates, and the prompt long for recognition in the spring of 2006. Instructions can be found in the return phone calls. It made working with Curb Human Resources section of the City Appeal very easy.” website, shakeronline.com. -Holly J. , Cleveland Heights

• Electric Power Outages: “I was amazed how everyone honored their Please call CEI at 888-544-4877 to scheduled committments- this usually doesn't report outages and register your report. To learn what the City knows about the happen in residential contracting!!” outage, call 491-1400. -Freda L. , Shaker Heights

• Health Services: Blood pressure screening for residents is available on Mondays from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 9 Curb Appeal to 10:30 a.m. Blood pressure clinics are free and no appointment is neces- Painting sary. Immunizations and screenings for glucose and cholesterol are available by appointment. Call 491-1480 for Interior & Exterior information or visit the City website, Call today for your free estimate. shakeronline.com. (216) 291-2422 • Sewer Backup Prevention: Do not flush paper towels or commercial wipes (baby, household, automo- tive, etc.) down toilets; do not wash grease down sinks or toilets – put into a container, allow to harden, then include with trash. Do no place trash, debris, or grass clippings in catch basins located along street curbs.

For more information on the City’s Codified Ordinances, visit shakeronline.com.

january | february 2006

real estate news

Residents Offered REAL NUMBERS Discounts on Security Housing transfers between May 16, and June 15, 2005 appear below. The list includes only those properties that have had a prior sale within the last 10 years. Lighting Products Excluded are “quit claim” transfers as well as those resulting from foreclosure, in The winter season brings long hours of which the sale price is not reflective of the property value. darkness. The Shaker Heights Police Department endorses the use of outdoor 2005 Prior Estimated security lighting systems in areas not Address sale price sale price construction cost illuminated by streetlights, increasing safety throughout the community. Now, 22150 Calverton Road $375,000 $260,500 (1998) $16,000 (1937) with the cooperation of area hardware 22275 Calverton Road $385,000 $275,000 (1998) $15,000 (1932) stores, such systems are being offered at 3197 Chadbourne Road $253,000 $193,000 (2001) $ 9,000 (1922) discounted prices to residents of Shaker 19435 Chagrin Blvd $179,900 $149,000 (1999) $61,000 (1978) Heights. The outdoor systems eligible 3256 Chalfant Road $352,500 $280,000 (1998) $19,000 (1937) for the discount are dusk-to-dawn and 3270 Daleford Road $242,500 $187,000 (1997) $12,000 (1925) motion-activated lighting. 3309 Daleford Road $249,900 $195,000 (2003) $13,000 (1925) Shaker Hardware, 17111 Chagrin 3710 Daleford Road $190,000 $150,000 (2002) $12,000 (1931) Blvd. and Van Aken Hardware, 20159 3715 Daleford Road $190,000 $156,000 (2002) $10,000 (1930) Van Aken Blvd. offer 30 percent discounts 22699 Douglas Road $450,000 $330,000 (1999) $30,000 (1954) on the lights through February 17. Both 2706 Dryden Road $650,000 $538,000 (1999) $17,000 (1939) stores provide individualized customer 3264 Enderby Road $217,000 $190,625 (2001) $10,000 (1926) service, but will also have sign-up sheets 19170 Fairmount Blvd $300,000 $260,000 (2001) $98,000 (1977) for those interested in an installation class. 3638 Glencairn Road $147,500 $124,689 (1998) $13,000 (1928) The City does not recommend 3356 Grenway Road $249,000 $155,000 (1996) $11,000 (1930) specific contractors to perform the light 3651 Gridley Road $215,000 $194,900 (2001) $ 9,500 (1941) installations, but can provide lists of 3669 Gridley Road $175,000 $163,000 (2002) $ 7,500 (1928) electrical contractors who have registered 20930 Halburton Road $153,000 $131,000 (2001) $27,500 (1950) with the City. The Sussex Neighborhood 23650 Hazelmere Road $169,100 $155,000 (1998) $22,000 (1952) Association also provides a list of resident 3135 Huntington Road $299,900 $180,000 (1998) $16,000 (1926) referrals. Both lists can be obtained at 3687 Ingleside Road $156,000 $115,000 (1998) $ 7,500 (1939) the Building Department, 3400 Lee Rd. 3692 Latimore Road $169,900 $135,600 (2002) $16,000 (1948) and at shakeronline.com. In addition, the 2750 Leighton Road $515,000 $475,000 (2002) $10,000 (1916) participating hardware stores may be 3164 Ludlow Road $210,000 $136,750 (1998) $ 6,500 (1937) able to make recommendations. 3635 Norwood Road $191,000 $165,000 (2002) $22,000 (1951) Participants will be required to show 3672 Riedham Road $154,900 $145,000 (2005) $ 8,100 (1938) proof of residency (driver’s license, utility 23980 Shelburne Road $232,000 $225,000 (2004) $38,500 (1959) bill, etc.) at the time of purchase. 3656 Sutherland Road $228,000 $201,500 (2002) $10,000 (1927) For additional information, call Crime 3670 Townley Road $230,500 $172,500 (2002) $11,000 (1930) Prevention Officer Jerry Jankowski at 3687 Traver Road $237,000 $222,500 (2001) $11,000 (1941) 491-1230 or Kevin Kelley, (Building 3690 Winchell Road $170,000 $165,000 (2002) $18,500 (1952) Department) 491-1461. 17408 Winslow Road $92,500 $120,000 (2004) $12,000 (1925) 18220 Winslow Road $239,900 $190,000 (1999) $15,000 (1927) 18412 Winslow Road $230,000 $178,500 (2000) $12,500 (1927) 2953 Winthrop Road $695,000 $402,500 (1998) $20,000 (1923)

Information source: First American Real Estate Solutions

january | february 2006 real estate news continued... INDIVIDUALITY CEU Classes Offered for Real Estate Agents Promoting & Restoring Shaker’s Gems State of Ohio approved three credit hour continuing education course for licensed agents or others interested in a guide to architectural styles, details, restoration, maintenance and related loan programs. Participants receive certificate and print materials. Space limited: register early. Register online at shakeronline.com Info: 491-1332. City Hall Council Chambers Wednesday, January 25 9 a.m. to noon $25 (non-refundable)

Realtor Canon of Ethics State of Ohio approved three credit hour required continuing educa- 2804 SOM Center Rd. • Willoughby Hills Ph: 440-944-4499 • Fax: 440-944-1335 tion course for licensed agents. Par- www.faralli.com ticipants receive certificate and print materials. Space limited: register ear- Kitchen Design Classes Now Available. Visit www.faralli.com for more information. ly. Register online at shakeronline.com Info: 491-1332.

Untitled-3 1 12/12/2005 11:14:02 AM City Hall Council Chambers Friday, February 24 9 a.m. to noon GILMOUR $25 (non-refundable) ACADEMY Educating the Mind and Heart

MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOLS (GRADES 7-12) (440) 473-8050 LOWER SCHOOL (MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL AND TRADITIONAL KINDERGARTEN-6) (440) 473-8165

ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE Program begins at 11:00 AM Sunday, February 26, 2006

Gilmour Academy is an Independent, Catholic, Coeducational, College Preparatory Day School (Preschool-Grade 12) and Boarding School (Grades 7-12)

GILMOUR ACADEMY • 34001 Cedar Road • Gates Mills, Ohio 44040-9356 www.gilmour.org • [email protected]

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Shaker Magazine 4-13/16 x 4-7/8 Jan/Feb Issue Due Date Dec. 1, 2006 real estate news continued...

Certified Shaker Properties Certified Shaker is a program that rec- ognizes rental properties that meet or exceed the City of Shaker Heights’ standards of excellence, and encourages rental property owners to make their properties the best they can be. Congratulations to the new Certified Shaker property owners, listed below. These listings represent some of the best rental properties the City has to offer. For a complete list of certified properties and to find out about vacancies, call 491-1332 or check the City’s website, shakeronline.com. To learn more about be- coming certified, call 491-1370. Rental Homes 18402 Chagrin Blvd. (Craig Williams) 3711 Latimore Rd. (Robin Grant Hughes) 3578 Palmerston Rd. (Paul Landis) 19406 Winslow Rd. (Mike McDowell)

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Happy 300th Birthday, Ben! Benjamin Franklin, Shaker Library will considerable cost savings. celebrate a year of Healthy, Wealthy In addition to the new roof currently Tuesday, January 17, 2006, Benjamin & Wise programs based on one of his being installed at the Main Library, the Franklin will become the first of our maxims, “Early to bed and early to rise, library has also been busy improving its nation’s Founding Fathers to reach that makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” computer system. During the month of extraordinary age, Join in the celebration of the many January, more than 25 public computers and Shaker Library accomplishments of a common man with in the Adult Services and the Youth will mark the day uncommon curiosity. Come to the library Services area in the Main Library will be with a birthday party. for cake and then return throughout the upgraded. Residents are invited year for programs designed for your for Cake, Coffee health, wealth and wisdom. Student Writing Contest and Open Mic Aphorisms at 7 p.m. Your Tax Dollars at Work Reception Set for January 13 Thursday, January Bertram Woods Branch has a new The Library invites the community 17 at the Main Library. to the Main Library from 4:30-5:30 Franklin was a scientist, inventor, shed to store its lawn and snow equipment. Located behind the Woods p.m. Friday, January 13 for a reception entrepreneur, philanthropist, writer, and presentation of the winners in the printer and revolutionary statesman in Branch, the shed was built by the library’s Maintenance Services staff at Library’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. search of a better world. As a salute to student writing contest. Youth in grades 3-8 were invited to write a poem or essay in 100 words or less on how they could Reader of the Month bring peace to the world. First place winners in each category paula sivanandan (grades 3 & 4; grades 5 & 6; grades 7 & 8) will receive US Savings Bonds. Second and Lives in: Malvern area third place winners will receive ribbons Uses: Bertram Woods Branch and certificates, and all entries will be All-time favorite book: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth printed on the back of bookmarks. Other favorites: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency books by Alexander McCall Smith New Trustees Sought Likes to read: Fiction by foreign authors and mysteries The Shaker Heights Board of Education Library services: Online catalog, both the children’s and adult collections and is seeking candidates for appointment to videos. “The library’s Children’s Department is fabulous with a professional, enthusias- the Shaker Heights Public Library Board tic and knowledgeable staff, whose love of books is matched only by their dedication to of Trustees. The appointments are for a children.” 7-year term of office to fill the term of other interests: Family travel, Laurel School Parents Association and the Fogana/ Edward Parsons, which expires in March; Qujerti Samaj of Greater Cleveland and for a 2-year term to complete the Family: Husband, Sanjay, and daughters Natasha, age 8 and Maya, age 5 unexpired term of David Bergholz, who volunteer work: Paula is a full-time mom and the Friends of the Shaker Library’s is retiring early from his board position. The new board members would begin Book Sale Chairperson. She is busy throughout the year helping to organize the details duties April 1, 2006. for the huge semi-annual sales that entail sorting more than 900 boxes of books. Shaker Library is a school district public Brief Bio: “We arrived in Shaker Heights three years ago and have loved it more each library serving the same geographic area year. We have the very nicest neighbors and made wonderful friends. This is a great as the schools, but is a separate political

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and approves the expenditure of funds. Current members of the Library Board are Emma Benning, David Bergolz, Mimi Karon, Kenneth McGovern, Edward Parsons, Tomas Schorgl and Donna Whyte. The Board usually meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Monday of the month September through June at the Main Library. Shaker School District residents interested in being considered for an appointment to the Library Board can pick up an application at either Shaker Library and the Board of Education Administration building or they can address their request to: Library Trustee Search, Shaker Heights Board of Education, 15600 Parkland Drive, Shaker Heights, OH 44120. Completed applications must be returned to the Board of Education by February 6.

Library Celebrates Black History Month with a Program Series on the Post- Integration Legacy of Black Americans

Shaker Library celebrates Black History Month with a provocative program series that begins with a book discussion at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, February 11 at the Main Library. Read and discuss Race Matters, Cornel West’s book that examines black leadership, Black-Jewish relations and affirmative action with candor and intel- ligence. Everyone can benefit from the critical dialogue this book encourages. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, February 18, members of Cleveland State University’s Jazz Heritage Orchestra present The Melody and the Legacy of Jazz Music: Musical Performance and Discourse at the Main Library. Musi- cians will entertain and enlighten listeners with live performances accompanied by a discussion on the heritage of jazz culture and music. The Jazz Heritage Orchestra is composed of veteran jazz performers who have worked alongside jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, George Duke and Branford Marsalis. The presentation will take place on the first floor of the Main Library.

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7 p.m. Thursday, February 23 the Li- Senior Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, You Are Invited... to a brary presents some of the area’s foremost professor of theology at Ashland Theologi- community leaders and scholars who will cal Seminary and former Shaker Heights Traditional African Baby discuss The Post-Integration Legacy of Black School Board president; Shaker Heights Naming Ceremony Americans. This program serves as the cap- City Councilman Earl Williams, an indus- stone event of the library’s month-long try arbitrator with the National Associa- Shaker Library and the Anioma Associa- series. Health, politics, education, and tion of Securities Dealers and President of tion of Greater Cleveland invite families religion will be among topics of insightful the Board of Directors of the Mt. Pleasant to A Traditional African Baby Naming dialogue and lively discussion. NOW Development Corporation; and Dr. Ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, February Channel 19 Action News reporter and Regennia N. Williams, Assistant Professor 4 at the Main Library. The African Baby 90.3 WCPN journalist Harry Boomer, a of History at CSU and the co-founder of Naming Ceremony is a continuation of 30-year, award-winning broadcasting vet- the Langston Hughes Literary Society. the program presented by the Library and eran will moderate the panel discussion. All programs are free and will be held at the Anioma Association of Greater Cleve- Panelists include Dr. Rita “B” Beckford, the Main Library. More information about land last February as part of Black History a CWRU Medical School graduate board the Black History Month program series Month programming. certified in Family Medicine; Mayor Marcia and its prestigious presenters is available Last year Ifi and Jude were “married” L. Fudge, Esq., Shaker High graduate and at both libraries. in a dramatization of a Traditional African the first elected African-American female Marriage Ceremony. Now the families re- mayor of Warrensville Heights and one of unite to welcome and celebrate the nam- the top three mayors in Northeast Ohio ing of their first child. Join in the tradi- for 2005; Cuyahoga County Commission- tional naming ceremony, which is always er Peter Lawson Jones, former Vice Mayor followed by music, food and dance. and Shaker Heights City Councilman with Celebrate Black History Month! Sign a history of public service and civic en- up for this free program or call the Main gagement; Rev. Dr. Marvin A. McMickle, Library’s Children’s Desk.

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Delectable Mountains by Earlene Fowler. Berkley Prime Crime, 2005. Crafty Novels Benni Harper is the amateur sleuth and quilter who discovers the church caretak- It’s a great time to be indoors with a cup er murdered in the sanctuary in volume of tea and a craft project – or better yet, 12 of the Benni Harper mystery series. a book about one! Try one of these books about crafty women as they knit, quilt and The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Ma- stitch their way through their stories. comber. Mira Books, 2004. “A Good Yarn” is the name of the shop Knitting by Anne Bartlett. Houghton on Blossom Street where four women Mifflin, 2005. from varied backgrounds come together Grieving widow Sandra meets Martha, to form friendships in a weekly knitting an expert knitter, and they collaborate to class. create an artistic exhibit of knitting. As they work on the project, they develop a Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards. Mira rich friendship. Books, 2004. The history of three generations of The Florabama Ladies’ Auxiliary & Sewing women is traced through an heirloom Circle by Lois Battle. Viking, 2001. wedding-ring quilt. Faced with divorce and bankruptcy, a wealthy Atlanta socialite relocates to Flo- Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton. rabama, Alabama where she takes a job Berkley Prime Crime, 2005. working with displaced homemakers and With help from the knitters at a local garment workers, encouraging them to yarn shop, Kelly Flynn learns to knit and employ their sewing skills in new ways. works to uncover the mystery behind her aunt’s untimely death. The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chia- verini. Simon & Schuster, 2005. The Healing Quilt by Lauraine Snelling. Set before the Civil War, this is the story Waterbrook Press, 2002. of Dorothea and the peculiar quilt her After a woman’s young daughter dies of uncle asks her to make. When her un- cancer, she gathers a group of diverse cle dies, her family discovers that Sugar women to make a quilt to be auctioned Camp, his maple syrup business, is actu- for the local hospital’s cancer program. ally a stop on the Underground Railroad and Dorothea’s strangely designed quilt is the teen scene a map to guide escaped slaves to the next station. MAIN LIBRARY TEEN CENTER RE-OPENS AFTER WINTER BREAK The Alpine Quilt by Mary Daheim. Ballan- 3:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, January 3 tine Books, 2005. The latest in the series of Emma Lord FREE SAT TEST & STRATEGY mysteries, this title finds plucky news- WORKSHOP SERIES paper publisher Emma investigating the 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 7 suspicious death of a local quilter. and 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, January 14 Take the SAT Test on January 7, then Embroidered Truths by Monica Fer ris. come back January 14 to get your scores Wheeler Publishing, 2005 and learn some test-taking strategy skills In this recent addition to the Needlework to help boost them. This is a FREE mysteries, a needlework shop owner be- two-part workshop. Registration for the library continued...

2-part FREE SAT Workshop began in Shaker Library and Knit Nights Continue December; please call the Main Library Shaker Family Center at Woods Branch Fiction/Teen Desk to see of there is still space available. Hold Preschool Fair at Main Stymied by a new stitch? Need the en- Library couragement of others to complete your T.A.B. TEEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETINGS knitting project? Shaker Library contin- Main Library Teen Center Shaker residents with young children are ues its popular Knit Nights from 7-8:45 7:30-8:15 p.m. Tuesday, January 17 invited to a Preschool Fair from 6:30 to p.m. Thursdays, January 12, 26 and Feb- 7:30-8:15 p.m. Tuesday, February 21 8 p.m. Thursday, January 26 at the Main ruary 9 at Woods Branch. Library. Parents and caregivers can meet Library staff member and experienced WRITING WAYS FOR TEENS AT representatives from local preschool and knitter Fern Braverman moderates the WOODS BRANCH daycare centers, who will be available to evenings that include warm cider and 4:00-5:30 p.m. Thursdays, January 26- answer questions about schedules, visita- sweets. The programs are free; how- March 2 tion days and tuition costs. ever, registration is requested by calling Susan Rzepka, Ph.D., leads a 6-week cre- The Shaker Family Center will provide 991-2421. ative writing group for teens ages 12-16. brochures detailing what to look for in a Limited to 12 teens, the workshops are preschool and Shaker Library will have a Not Your Mother’s Needlepoint designed to inspire confidence in devel- list of books to share with children from oping a unique writing voice. The only birth to age 5. For more information, Meet Adrienne Spencer, Wool & Willow requirement is the desire to write. Reg- please call Shaker Library’s Early Learn- Needlepoint Shop instructor, at 7 p.m. ister for the 6-week series in person at ing Specialist Wendy Simon at 991-2030 Tuesday, January 17 at the Bertram Woods the Woods Branch Information Desk or ext. 3184. Branch. Spencer will speak about the art by calling 991-2421. This writing series is of needlepoint, discuss new trends, and made possible through the generosity of the bring examples of projects. Participants Friends of the Shaker Library. Step Up to Summer ProgramsQ at University School

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16 www.shakeronline.com shaker mag are encouraged to bring their needlework C HAGRIN R IVER C OMPANY ,I NC . and to ask questions. Registration is requested; call Woods Branch: 991-2421. Spencer’s career path has followed both a teaching and design path. Armed with a degree in dance e d u c a t i o n , Spencer opened a dance studio and taught dance. She then worked as a lobbyist before earning a de- Spencer gree in interior design and forming Adrienne Spencer Interior Design in 1986. An award-winning designer, Spencer is a member of The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Board of Di- Fine Kitchen, Bath and Room Additions rectors. Her work has appeared in Cleve- land Magazine, Cleveland Home Décor, The 8437 Mayfield Road, Suite 101 Cleveland Plain Dealer and Akron Life and Design / Build Chesterland, Ohio 44026 Leisure. 440.729.7270 As relaxation, Spencer has stitched all of her adult life and is a member of The American Needlepoint Guild. She has taught needlework for the past ten years, and presently teaches beginning and advanced technique classes at Wool and Willow Needlepoint Shop. She also designs commercial and custom stitch guides and customizes canvases and color schemes. According to Spencer, “The creative expression possible in needlepoint is exciting and most rewarding. I am fortunate to have found an outlet for my creativity in both my vocation as an interior designer and my avocation in the field of needlepoint.”

Get the Low-down on Downloading

Beginning in January, Shaker Library cardholders will have access to even more downloadable books and audiobooks from the Library’s website. To kickoff this new service, the Library invites residents to a casual and informative Downloading Drop-in Clinic at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 11 in the Main Library Training Lab on the second floor.

january | february 2006 17 library continued... We are Proud of Shaker’s Achieving Students Residents are encouraged to bring their MP3 players and they will be able to NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS ask the experts how to download books. Ian Bardenstein Hazel Rigby Refreshments will be provided. While William Feldman Ben Schnur Morgan Grossman-McKee Allison Vitkus not required, reservations are requested Matthew Herzfeld Diana Wang Braeden Kepner-Kraus Lauren Weiss by calling 991-2030. Lavinia Pavlish

NATIONAL MERIT COMMENDED STUDENTS Movies at Main Anderson Albano Jason Immerman Avi Bakshani Celia Kaplan Halle Bauer David Kohn Thanks to the generosity of Friends of the Nicolas Bethoux Sarah Ledford Stephen Cabrera Dinah Lewis Shaker Library, which underwrites the Max Gardner Brittany Mosely Joseph Gibbons Amanda Murphy movie licensing rights, the Library con- Rebecca Glazer Julia Shatten tinues is movie series at the Main Library. Emily Grannis Katherine Sommers Brandon Hemmelgarn Shan Tie All films are free and begin promptly at Betsy Hogg Brian Weber Alexander Hoover 6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 5, NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SEMIFINALISTS watch Four Nicole Feeling Corbin Sykes Brothers. The R-rated, Paramount Pic- Brittany Mosely Malik Wiggins tures film directed by John Singleton NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT COMMENDED STUDENTS stars Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin and Kelly Jackson Christopher Whatley Fionnula Flanagan. The film is about four NATIONAL HISPANIC SCHOLARS adopted brothers, who reunite to bury Ian Bardenstein Stephen Cabrera the woman who raised them. When they learn that she may have been murdered, they vow to revenge her death. Shaker Heights Teachers’ Association Thursday, January 19, watch Red Eye. The PG-13-rated DreamWorks Pictures film is directed by Wes Craven and stars Rachel McAdams, Cilliann Murphy, Kyle Gallner and Brittany Oaks. The suspense takes off when Lisa Reisert’s airplane seatmate tells her that if she doesn’t help him kill an important government official, then he will have her father killed. Within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has to find a way to thwart this seemingly inescapable plot. Thursday, February 2, watch The Corpse Bride. The PG-rated Warner Broth- ers film directed by Tim Burton features the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bon- ham Carter and Emily Watson. Set in a 19th century European village, this animated feature follows the story of Victor who travels home to get married. When he stops to rest, he puts his wedding ring on what he thinks is a stick and rehearses his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a corpse who returns as a zombie and insists that she is now his lawfully wedded wife.

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Jeff Marvaldi and Chris Rosenthal, financial advisors with UBS Financial Services, will present Municipal Bond Investing: An Investment for Tax Conscious Investors at 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 15 at Bertram Woods Branch. With more than 25 years combined experience in the financial services industry, Marvaldi and Rosenthal work as a team to provide financial advice with a particular focus on municipal securities. Their clients range from individual investors to Fortune 500 companies. Rosenthal joined UBS Financial Services as Senior Vice President of Investments in 1999, after 12 years with Lehman Specializing in Restoring Brothers in New York City. Marvaldi Shaker Heights Properties joined UBS Financial Services as a Corporate Services Financial Advisor in 2002 after 5 years with Merrill Lynch. There is no fee for the program; how- Custom Stone & Brick Artistic Landscape Design Comprehensive Maintenance Programs ever reservations are requested by calling 991-2421.

Contemporary Cloth Artists (CoCA) Exhibit at Main Library ADHDCamp. There’s no summer camp exactly A Square Deal: Art Quilts by CoCA is on like the Children’s Hospital’s program for display on the second floor of the Main children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Library through January 15. Residents Disorder (ADHD). This nationally recognized are invited to meet the fiber artists at a seven-week program for campers aged 6-14 special reception at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, combines summer camp fun with intensive daily coaching for behavioral, emotional and January 12 at Main Library. learning issues. Contemporary Cloth Artists (CoCA) create high-quality fiber art ranging from ADHD Summer Treatment Program art quilts to wearable art. The group shares their work in exhibitions designed June 26 - August 11, 2006 John Carroll University to foster the understanding and sale of fiber art. Formed in 2005 when Sonja Program cost is $4,500 and may be Tugend, seeking a small, intimate group partially covered by some health plans. like the one she had left behind in St. Louis, advertised in the Textile Arts Al- Learn more by calling 216-444-0075. liance newsletter for others interested in making art quilts. Thirty people showed up, and the membership capped at forty.

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Book Discussions at Main Library

10 A.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler This collection of 15 stories about the unspoken legacy of the Vietnam War and the reality of contemporary American culture is told by the Vietnamese themselves

7:30 P.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale Thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchell tries to unravel the mysterious deaths of two women and finds himself in peril in this suspense set in 1958 Dewmont, Texas.

2 P.M. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 The Vulture Fund by Stephen Frey A Wall Street banker uncovers investment irregularities and intrigue in this financial thriller.

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Kids’ Corner

main library 16500 van aken boulevard 991-2030 bertram woods branch 20600 fayette road 991-2421

play and learn station at Woods Branch; 10 a.m. Tuesdays or MAKE-IT-TAKE-IT WEEK AT main library Thursdays at Main Library WOODS BRANCH Free drop-in literacy based play for Registration for the winter session January 9 - 14: parents and caregivers with children began in December; please call the Create a “bag” snowman. from birth to age 5 cosponsored with library to see if there are still avail- February 6 -11: the Shaker Family Center. able spaces. Make a special Valentine. 10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays, Thursdays Visit the library and make a craft to and Saturdays In-person registration for the spring take home. 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays session begins at 9 a.m., Saturday, February 25 for Shaker Heights City intergenerational book discus- BOOK BABIES School District residents. Please reg- sion group at woods branch Stories, songs, games and rhymes for ister at the library where your child Librarian-led discussion for parents, one-year-olds with an adult. Spring will attend. grandparents, or caregivers and chil- Session: March 13-May 11, 2006 dren in grades 4 - 6. Babies 12-18 months (must be 12 PRESCHOOL STORIES 7:30 Tuesday, January 10 months old by March 1) 9:30 a.m. Stories and fun for 3-, 4-, & 5-year- Read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and Tuesdays at Woods Branch or 9:30 olds. Winter Session: January 9- discuss it with others. Registration a.m. Wednesdays at Main Library. May 4, 2006 10 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. and book pick up began in Decem- Babies 18-24 months (must be Mondays at Main Library ber. 18 months by March 1) 10:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays or Tuesdays at Woods Branch or 10:30 10 a.m. Thursdays at Woods school-age specials for children a.m. Wednesdays at Main Library. Branch in grades 1-4 Registration for the winter session No registration is required; however, It’s Abrakadoodle! at Woods Branch (Jan. 10-Mar. 2) began in December, groups are asked to make special ar- 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, January 10 please call the library to see if there rangements. Bring your creativity and imagina- are still available spaces. In-person tion and make an art project using registration for the spring session PAJAMA STORIES AT WOODS BRANCH an assortment of materials and begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, February Stories for children ages 3 and up media at the library’s “Abrakadoodle 25 for Shaker Heights City School with or without an adult Art Class.” Registration began in District residents. Please register at 7:15 p.m. Mondays, January 23 and December; please call the Woods the library where your child will February 20 Branch Children’s Desk to register. attend. Registration is required and begins 2 weeks before each program. meet your robot at main library TODDLER STORYTIME 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, January 25 Stories, songs, movement and rhymes evening preschool storytime at Drive your own VEX Robot on a for 2-year-olds (must be 2 years betram woods branch friendly field of competition. Help old by January 1) with an adult. Stories, songs and crafts for 3-, 4-, build and then maneuver your robot Winter Session: January 9-March 2, and 5-year-olds. to get the tennis balls into the goal. 2006 Spring Session: March 13-May 7 p.m. Thursdays, January 19 and Registration begins January 11 at the 11, 2006 (must be 2 years old by February 23 Main Library Children’s Desk. March 1) Registration begins 2 weeks before 10 a.m. Mondays or Wednesdays at each program. continued on page 22

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7:30 P.M. TUESDAYS, JANUARY 24 & INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT FEBRUARY 28 10-11:30 A.M.THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 Kids’ Corner Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, JANUARY 23 continued from page 21 This masterpiece is the saga of a married 3-4:30 P.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 woman and the consequences of her af- Put some power in your presentations. creative memories at fair set against the backdrop of 19th-cen- Learn how to create a slide show with text tury Russia. woods branch and graphics, how to edit slides and how 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, February 7 to add sound and animation. Participants Experience the fun of keeping your 2:00 P.M. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 must be comfortable using the mouse. memories and sharing your stories When Love Calls, You Better Answer in a keepsake story card. Creative by Bertice Berry GRAPHICS AND TEXT IN WORD AND Memories consultant Deborah Fish After selecting several Mr. Wrongs, does POWERPOINT Gordesky offers ideas on the different Bernita Brown have a ghost of a chance of 3-4:30 P.M. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 ways to begin your memory album. picking Mr. Right? 3-4:30 P.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Bring 2 photos to “crop” for your This class will highlight the differences finished book. Registration begins 10 A.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 and similarities of using graphics in these January 24 at the Woods Branch Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama two popular programs. To register, call Children’s Desk. In pursuit of his own racial identity, Il- Walter Lesch at 991-2030 ext. 3156 linois Senator Obama explores his legacy African Dance and Drumming at from a white American mother and black INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET African father. Main Library 10-11:30 A.M. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, February 22 10-11:30 A.M TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Express yourself through the rhythms 7:30 P.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Discover how to find and use a variety of and dance traditions of West Africa Bethlehem Road Murder by Batya Gur online resources using Internet Explorer. when Debra Ike demonstrates basic In the fifth Michael Ohayon mystery Participants will learn how to “surf ” the drumming rhythms and how to move Chief Superintendent Ohayon inves- web to find sites of interest. Participants to the beat of the drum. Those with tigates a brutal murder set against the must be comfortable using the mouse. drums are welcome to bring them. backdrop of Israeli society. Registration begins February 8 at the INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL Main Library’s Children’s Desk. 7:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, JANUARY 9 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without This 2-hour session will cover the basics Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell of spreadsheet design and construction, Why do we make split second decisions? including formatting and design, printing Are there things we can do to positively options, and using basic formulas. Par- influence someone? These questions ticipants must be comfortable using the CHARTS AND graphS IN EXCEL and more are the focus of this 2005 best mouse. seller. 10-11:30 A.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 3-4:30 P.M. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Explore the ways Excel can display data Free Computer Classes in as charts and graphs and learn the basic January and February ways data can be charted. Please register by calling Walter Lesch at 991-2030 ext How to Build a Web Page 3156 3-4:30 P.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 MOUSE CLASS This 90-minute class explores HTML, 2-3 P.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 the language used to build many of the 2-3 P.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 web pages found on the Internet. Partici- The class is limited to four people so in- pants must be comfortable using a mouse dividual attention can be given. The one- and have basic keyboarding skills. hour session is designed to help the beginning mouse-user become comfortable with this important tool.

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NEWS FROM THE HEARTLAND People are People are People are People are Winter 2006 Talking Talking Talking Talking Inside this issue: “In Boston, Baltimore, “Overall, ridership has “Together Heartland “There is a great Chicago, Denver, been increasing steadily and the City of Shaker pent-up demand for THE Washington D.C., for 3.5 years. Now, we Heights are demon- new housing within an are seeing definite strating that buyers older community like Lofts at San Jose, and Dallas, increases in people are drawn to high Shaker. More and developers are dying using our rail stations quality architecture more people are looking to get control of land and Park-N-Ride lots. located close to for convenience and Avalon Station at light rail stations. This tells us that those restaurants, shopping ease of living. Sussex AVALON STATION It’s not happening in who have cars are and light rail. We Courts offers care-free HAVE ARRIVED! Cleveland with trying to drive them offer the best of neigh- living with an urban 1 the exception of less. We are pleased borhood tranquility lifestyle and great entrally located between the eastern uncompromised distinction. Open floor Shaker Heights.” C to welcome them as and cosmopolitan access to the Rapid.” suburbs and downtown Cleveland, the plans, walls of glass, 10 ft. ceilings, customers.” convenience.” Patrick Campbell, Director Suzanne Gallman Lofts at Avalon Station is a perfect private terraces, tons of storage, and heated of Economic Development, Joe Calabrese Mayor Judith Rawson Smyth Cramer Realtor living environment for urbanites craving indoor parking make the City of Shaker Heights Avalon Station RTA, CEO & General Mgr. City of Shaker Heights the pace and feel of the city but wanting only place to come home to. NEW DEVELOPMENTS the conveniences of A major component

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Free Computer Classes continued from page 22 INTERNET FOR SENIORS CREATING AND USING FORMS GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION IN 10 a.M.-noon tHURSDAYS, january 12, IN ACCESS POWERPOINT 19, 26 and FEBRUARY 2, 9 3-4:30 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 10-11:30 A.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 This series of five classes is offered in 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 3-4:30 P.M.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 partnership with the City of Shaker Forms do two things in database pro- Learn how create effective PowerPoint Heights Office for Senior Adults and is grams. They make data entry less risky to presentations using pictures and anima- designed to familiarize participants with the database and allow users to see data tion – two powerful tools in the program. accessing and exploring the Internet from from the database. This 90-minute class Register by calling Walter Lesch at 991- home and the library. Participants will will explore designing and using forms 2030 ext. 3156. explore the treasures and pitfalls of the in an Access database. Register by calling Internet and discover some of the many Walter Lesch at 991-2030 ext. 3156. All classes begin promptly at designated resources available for seniors and Ohio times. Please be courteous and arrive public library users. Participants must be WORKING WITH WINDOWS on time. Empty seats will be awarded to comfortable using the mouse. Register 3-4:30 P.M.TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 walk-ins at start time. Registration for by calling Walter Lesch at 991-2030 ext. 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, JANUARY 30 these classes begins on the Monday of the 3156. 10-11:30 A.M. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 week before the class. Unless otherwise 3-4:30 P.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 noted, call the Computer Center at 991- INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS Learn how Windows works! This class is 3020 ext. 3185. 3-4:30 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 designed for those who can navigate the 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 ’Net and work with programs, but aren’t Friends Corner 10-11:30 A.M. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 comfortable using multiple windows. Learn how to work with Microsoft’s pop- Participants must be comfortable using Friends of the Library will sponsor an Al- ular database program to build databases, the mouse. tered Books Workshop from 10 a.m. to enter information into a data table and 1 p.m. Saturday, February 11 at Bertram generate simple queries and reports from CREATING AND USING QUERIES IN Woods Branch. Artist Brenda K. Robin- the database. (Access is for those who ACCESS son will help participants recycle their have tried to use a spreadsheet to store 3-4:30 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 old books into beautiful works of art, us- data and found it to be somewhat inad- 6:30-8 P.M. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 ing their own pictures, poems, collages, equate.) Participants must be able to use Queries are questions asked of databas- decorative papers and paints. the mouse. es, the results of which can be exciting The program is free; however, reserva- or trivial. Learn how to ask the correct tions are required by calling 991-2421. WEB EMAIL questions in this class. Register by calling 10-11:30 A.M. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 Walter Lesch at 991-2030 ext 3156. End Notes 10-11:30 A.M. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 3-4:30 P.M. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 USING OFFICE PROGRAMS TOGETHER • The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at 10-11:30 A.M. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 3-4:30 P.M.TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 the Main Library from 2-7 p.m. Febru- Learn how to set-up free e-mail accounts Office is a suite of programs designed to ary 13 as well as send and receive messages. Par- work as a whole. See some of the ways • Poetry Not in the Woods will be held at ticipants must be able to use the mouse elements of one program can be used 7 p.m. at Main Library Mondays, January to click, drag and highlight and be able to within another in this hands-on class. 30 and February 20. navigate web sites and type URLs. Register by calling Walter Lesch at 991- 2030 ext. 3156. • The 7th Annual Barbara Luton Art BASIC WORD PROCESSING Competition will be held in March this 10-11:30 A.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 CREATING AND USING REPORTS year and entry forms will be available be- 10-11:30 A.M. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 25 IN ACCESS ginning January 15. Art Drop dates will Learn how to format documents using 3-4:30 P.M. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 be March 10 and 11 with the Awards and Microsoft Word software. Participants There are several styles of reports avail- Gallery Opening Reception scheduled must be comfortable using the mouse. able in Access. In addition to reviewing for Sunday, March 26. them, the class will learn to manipulate • Both libraries will be closed Monday, the design of the report, show summa- January 16 in observance of Dr. Martin ries of data, and more. Register by calling Luther King, Jr. Day. Walter Lesch at 991-2030 x 3156.

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january | february 2006 29 shaker schools creativity A record-breaking 600 students are rules enrolled in visual arts classes at Shaker High this year. Great news, because studying the arts positively impacts other academic subjects.

By Nancy O’Connor Photos by Kevin Reeves

It’s what you hear when you slip into Dan Whitely’s Advanced Drawing class that gets the heart racing – the soft scratching of pencils earnestly at work on blank sketchbook pages. Students sit bent over the drawing pads perched on their laps, furtively glancing up every few seconds at the still-life arrangements before them, their forearms in constant motion.

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Senior Jasmine Taylor.

january | february 2006 31 Visual arts faculty members (left to right) Keaf Holliday, Kathleen Fleming, Karen DeMauro, Susan Weiner, Dan Whitely, Jody Trostler. Dan Whitely (below) providing instruction to junior Emily Kent.

Just a few doors away, the atmosphere is anything but hushed, A record-breaking 600 students are enrolled in visual arts as Jewelry I students hammer and pound at pieces of copper and classes this year, roughly one-third of the entire student body. silver and solder tiny metal rings and clasps under the watchful Only a small percentage of these students are likely to pursue eye of Karen Mehling-DeMauro. careers in the arts, a fact that squares perfectly with the depart- Nearby, in Keaf Holliday’s Graphic II class, young men and ment’s philosophy that “all individuals, regardless of background women working on self portraits sit before computer screens, and abilities, are entitled to develop their artistic potentials to the rearranging the elements of their own faces into striking designs fullest extent of the capacities and wills.” that will eventually be recreated on canvas using paint or air- “The visual arts serve as a creative channel to inspire and chal- brushing techniques. lenge critical thinking in all core curriculums,” says Whitely, the These are true artists at work. Through classes offered by the department’s new chair. “The arts emphasize problem solving, Shaker Heights High School Visual Arts Depart- ment, they are exploring new ways to view the world, understand it, interpret it, and share their visions with the larger community. Upstairs, the learning may focus on facts and theories and prepping for standardized tests, but here in the basement bunker known as the Vi- sual Arts Department, the learning is as soulful as it is cerebral. Here is where individuality is king, creativity rules, expressing oneself becomes the greatest challenge, and even tongue-tied teenag- ers learn to communicate freely using paints and pencils, clay and computers. While other school districts are reducing arts programming because of budget cuts, Shaker’s educational leaders are to be applauded for their commitment to the arts as a fundamental part of a solid education, and for their financial support of the music, theater, and visual arts departments.

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Malcolm Brown Something of His Own

In carrying on the mission to provide outstanding vi- During his years as a teacher at Shaker High sual arts instruction at Shaker High, Dan Whitely and (1985-2000), Brown taught such classes as Design his team of noted artists/educators follow in some very and Drawing, Art Exploration, and Advanced Drawing large footsteps, including those of internationally ac- to hundreds of students. Many went on to advanced claimed watercolorist Malcolm Brown, who has been studies in the arts; most did not. But all, Brown be- described as “a dancer with a brush.” lieves, benefited tremendously from having studied Brown, whose gallery at Chagrin and Lomond cele- the arts. brated its 25th anniversary last year, taught in Shaker “The experience of taking art classes is valuable for schools for more than 30 years before retiring in 2000. all,” he says. “The visual arts teach you about seeing, All the while, he continued to work as a fine artist, ex- observing, looking. The kids learn to appreciate art, hibiting and selling his paintings at home and abroad, and, as they move on in their lives, they may collect it doing commission work, winning dozens of awards, even if they don’t practice it.” running a successful gallery, and raising three chil- He applauds Shaker High’s efforts to bring college dren with his wife and gallery partner, Ernestine. and design school representatives to the school to talk Brown’s artwork is in many public and private col- with students. “Reps from art schools in Chicago, New lections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and York, Rhode Island – they all come to talk to our stu- Springfield Art Museum, and is part of the Grant Hill dents and share with them the many fields in which Collection of African American Art: Something All Our an artist can use his or her talents.” Own, an exhibition touring nine museums across the With his own experience perhaps as the best proof, United States through 2006. “a good fine artist can do well,” Brown promises. – Nancy O’Connor

january | february 2006 33 Susan Weiner demonstrating the potter’s wheel to senior David Turner and sophomore Derrien Creel. Junior Karla Ortega-Revelo (below) displaying her creation.

risk taking, personal experience, and self expression.” “Visual arts classes let all students show their passions,” says Susan Weiner, who has taught all levels of Sculptural De- sign and Ceramics at Shaker High for 16 years. “They learn to share their feelings and express themselves.” Kathleen McGuan Fleming credits visual arts classes with “encouraging the development of higher order thinking skills and fostering organizational skills.” In her Art Exploration and Sculptural Design and Ceramics classes – comprised primarily of freshmen and sophomores – she purposely emphasizes the performance verbs that students will need to know to pass the Ohio Graduation Test. “Much of that vocabulary applies to art,” she says, “including terms such as ‘evaluate’, ‘design’, ‘compare and con- trast’, ‘defend’, ‘modify’, and ‘deter- mine.’”

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A growing body of research tends to con- firm the district’s faith in the value of arts education. Studying the arts positively impacts other academic subjects, attitudes, and behaviors. Virtually every assignment in nearly every art class requires the students to understand the arts in relation to history and cultures. The arts teach kids to be more tolerant and open, and to express themselves creatively. The arts promote individuality, bolster self-confidence, and improve overall academic performance.

34 www.shakeronline.com For troubled youth, the arts can also provide an alternative to delinquent behavior while fostering an improved attitude towards school. “Anyone who thinks visual arts classes are a frill should spend a day visiting our department,” challenges Keaf Holliday, who moonlights as a freelance illustrator and designer for clients such as BP Amer- ica, Essence Magazine, and Golden Book Publishers. Not only do most art projects require extensive research, analysis, and problem-solving, he points out, but the quality of the art education offered at Shaker High fully prepares the serious art student for later success. “You just have to look at the number of our students who have received college scholarships for art and those who have chosen art as a major.” Shop Shaker One fine applied arts credit is required of every student for graduation, which can be earned by taking a music or Square! theater class, or any one of the more than Now you can shop the Museum Store a dozen visual arts classes. The breadth of right in your own neighborhood. Visit options range from popular starter classes like Art Exploration and Mixed Media our new location at Shaker Square for to introductory and advanced classes in a wide array of fine jewelry, decorative Drawing, Printmaking, Sculptural Design reproductions, household accessories, and Ceramics, Painting, Illustration and Graphic Design, Jewelry, and Digital books and much more. Multimedia. In the Art Portfolio Workshop offered to seniors, students get one-on- Open Daily one assistance in building their portfolio Shaker Square for college admission. Store Hours Jewelry I and II are among the department’s newest offerings, and Monday–Friday Shaker Square 11–8 Southwest Quadrant enrollment in these classes has grown 13100 Shaker Square steadily. “Adding the jewelry class to the Saturday–Sunday 216–421–7340 curriculum has added a new option for 11–6 www.cma.org/store those students looking for a different approach to art besides drawing, painting, Convenient, free parking in rear and graphics,” says Karen Mehling- DeMauro, who also teaches Mixed Media and, like all six department instructors, Robert E. Schneider, D.D.S. & Michael B. Zabell, D.D.S. has a master’s degree in art. S // The class appeals to students – young are associated in men as well as women – who are attracted the practice of by design and craftsmanship. Producing complete preventative three-dimensional, palm-sized pins required the jewelry students to first un- and restorative dentistry. derstand symmetry, texture, and repeated NEW PATIENTS WELCOME pattern, then to draw eight designs before • Family Dentistry • Cosmetic selecting three to refine and create. • Emergency • Restorative • Preventative Weekdays 216.321.2545 20620 North Park Blvd., #220 continued on page 64 at Fairmount Circle 8am - 5pm. Closed Wednesday Shaker Hts, OH 44118

january | february 2006 35 local legends External affairs

Susan Stevens Jaros is waging a successful effort to keep the Cleveland Museum of Art connected to the community during the museum’s extraordinary renovation and expansion.

By Rory O’Connor Photos by Marc Golub

Out-of-touch old friends of Rocky Riverite turned Shakerite Susan Stevens Jaros will be glad to hear that she has lost none of her down-to- earth charm after spending her adult life residing and working on the East Side. This is good, because the woman who is in charge of raising the money for the historic renovation and expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Art will need all her native charm during the next five years or so. And not necessarily just for fund raising. As the museum’s deputy director for development and external affairs, raising money is the easier part of Susan’s task; the museum’s board would not have adjourned after five years of strategic planning sessions in 2000 without knowing how to secure the $258 million for the renovation and expansion. About 100 people, many of them Shaker Heights residents, have already committed a combined $127.3 million. The real work ahead is in the external affairs part of Jaros’s task– keeping the museum in front of the community during the renovation and expansion. For the first time in its 90-year history, the CMA will undertake a multi-year venture into venues well outside its home in University Circle, with classes, concerts, promotions, and exhibits. Plans include showing items from the museum’s cherished permanent collection in galleries around the U.S. and the world, as well as in the CMA itself. continued on page 66

Susan Stevens Jaros at the Cleveland Museum of Art, November 2005.

this local legends is the first in a series of profiles of shaker people of extraordinary accomplishment.

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arts in shaker vibrant, rich, poignant, colorful Nationally recognized artists find that Shaker Heights is the perfect place to call home.

photos by green street studio text by linda saslow

Sabatino Verlezza and Barbara Allegra Verlezza, nationally recognized modern dancers, teach City-sponsored dance workshops. The Verlezzas live in the Lomond neighborhood with their two children, Sabatino Alexander and Allegra May, who attend Shaker Schools. Sabatino, a native of Italy, teaches at the University of Akron and Kent State. Barbara is an artist in residence at Kent State. The Verlezzas strive to serve non-traditional populations such as older adults and the disabled. They worked for many years with the Cleveland wheelchair dance company, Dancing Wheels. Because of the city’s diverse population, “Shaker is a good place to take Verlezza Dance Company to the next level. We want to collaborate with many artists in Shaker and elsewhere in Ohio,” says Barbara. In the spring, Verlezza Dance will collaborate with Alessandra Belloni and her New York City-based Italian Folk Opera Company.

38 www.shakeronline.com How The City Grows The Arts The Shaker Arts Council’s mission is to make the visual B.A. Green and photographer and performing arts an integral and vibrant part of the Herb Ascherman at Visual community. Vibes last October

In 2000, Mayor Judy Rawson and city council members Brian districts apart from the boring, lifeless, auto-dependent office Parker and Jan Devereaux approached resident artists B.A. Green parks along I-271,” Campbell says. “Exciting, urbane, mixed- and Jan Thrope about forming a committee to create art events use districts always include provocative artists and art.” to attract residents to Shaker Town Center. The Shaker Arts Moreover, SHAC has partnered with Heartland Developers Council (SHAC) now has an 11-member board, 100 members, in promoting Shaker as an attractive place to live. This spring and a substantial supporter base of more than 300 people. they collaborated on an art exhibit at Sussex Courts, and in And it has moved well beyond Shaker Town Center. SHAC’s the fall on the ground-breaking festivities at Heartland’s newest mission is to make the visual and performing arts an integral housing venture, Avalon Station at Shaker Town Center. and vibrant part of the entire community. in October, SHAC hosted its third annual visual arts event, It does this by helping to turn vacant buildings into gallery Visual Vibes, which featured established and up-coming local space and spearheading events that showcase local artists. For artists in a fine arts exhibit and fine crafts show. The former example, Suzanne Cooper, a SHAC board member and events Shooz space at Van Aken Shopping Center was transformed chair, organizes several AHA! (At Home with the Arts) events, into a gallery for the shows. RMS, the property managers of the which are staged at homes and businesses each year. shopping center, and other Shaker businesses lent their support Past AHA! events at Studio J Academy of Dance on Chagrin to the event. Businesses throughout the City, Shaker Square, and Loganberry Books on Larchmere have featured music, and the Larchmere arts and antiques district displayed artists’ dancing, drum circles, and poetry readings. SHAC has found works in their shops through November. venues by making creative use of empty retail space at Shaker “These events show how the synergy among Shaker’s arts Town Center and Van Aken Shopping Center. community, businesses, and committed citizens can help bring shac supports its events with grants from businesses and vitality to the community,” says B.A. Green. individuals. SHAC contributes to the City’s economic development efforts – Linda Saslow as well. The organization has provided City government with information on best practices in the development of art districts, as well as research statistics and a SHAC survey on Shaker arts consumers and the economic benefits of arts and culture. According to Patrick Campbell, the City’s director of economic development, public art and arts-related uses are important considerations in all of Shaker’s new commercial development efforts. “We are actively seeking creative design professionals as new office tenants at Shaker Town Center, and we are eager to collaborate with developers and SHAC on high-profile public art projects, which will set our commercial heller p hotos by caydie Visual Vibes

january | february 2006 39 40 www.shakeronline.com Barbara Eady works full time as a psychiatric social worker for Kaiser Perma- nente. She also finds time to serve as president of the National Association of Black Storytellers and is a founder of the Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers. Eady first experienced public speaking as a member of Toastmasters, and was further inspired 15 years ago when a friend loaned her a book titled Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African American Storytelling, by Linda Goss and Marian Barnes. As president of the National Association of Black Storytellers, she presides over an organization of more than 400 storytellers nationwide and 11 affiliate organizations. “The storyteller is the keeper of the culture and reminds people of the reason for many of our traditions. Watch Night, for example, is the practice in African American churches of bringing in the New Year in prayer and testimony. Watch Night was originally held on the eve of Emancipation, which took effect on January 1, 1863. People gathered in churches to wait for their freedom. They wanted to be awake and in prayer when they became free. Erica Weiss owns the Juma Gallery They wanted to look freedom in the face. The practice continued every year but many in the Murray Hill Galleries in Little forgot the original significance.” She says many adults tend to think that storytelling Italy. She is a painter, and she also creates is only for children. “But it is how we make sense of our lives,” says Eady. “It is how unique jewelry. She also sells the work of we process things, death, tragedy, joy, opportunity. The telling soothes us, inspires us, more than 20 other visual artists. A native empowers us. It is how we come to understand each other. It is hard to hate people of South Korea, she and her husband when you have heard their story.” and two children live in Fernway. Weiss had her first show at the Shaker Square Farmers Market and Arts Festival in 2000, after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. She put her career in human relations on hold and put her full energy into art. A recurrence of cancer in 2000 made her drive even greater. “The first diagnosis was a wake-up call that helped me to assess my life,” she says. “The second time I felt like I really had to mean business and carry out my dreams. Ever since then my creativity has exploded with painting.” Her paintings now are bought by private collectors all over the country. Her husband, David, says, “Erica has shown incredible strength, courage, sensitivity, and compassion for others in everything she does – from donating her art work for charity, her volunteer activities, opening her gallery only a year after her treatments ended and providing tremendous support to me, our children, and her friends, especially those friends who have also been touched by cancer.” The Shaker In-Residence Gallery at the Shaker Community Building features different Shaker Heights painters and photographers every month. Local visual artist Penni Rubin, a 37- year-resident of the Lomond neighborhood, coordinates the gallery’s ever-changing roster of artists. Any local artist is welcome to submit for exhibition at the Shaker In-Residence Gallery. Rubin’s own breathtaking array of paintings is done in gouache, a watercolor-like paint. Rubin has been painting since she was six years old and she has worked as a children’s art instructor for the City for 34 years. Her courses offer children a chance to explore music, art, and science. She also works in the education department at the Cleveland Children’s Museum. “I believe we find our vocational interests early in life. I take every opportunity to introduce kids to the arts and sciences before they are eight,” she says. -

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neighborhoods Larchmere the neighborhood with a pulse

Stories By Jayne Eiben Photos by Marc Golub

With the proliferation of glitzy shopping centers designed to resemble charming main streets from years gone by, it’s easy to overlook the real thing. For Shaker residents, the Larchmere Boulevard Arts and Antiques District has retained its old-fashioned charm. And with the recent addition of one-of-a-kind restaurants and alternative housing options, the neighborhood is enjoying an infusion of contemporary vitality. The neighborhood, built in the 1920s, has long been where Shaker Heights meets Cleveland. The boundary runs down the middle of Larchmere Boulevard on both sides of North Moreland. Today, the district is a dynamic intersection of cultures and tastes offering the truly unique in art, antiques, and dining. Shoppers and diners don’t hear canned music emanating from faux antique light posts in the district, or suffer through assembly-line chow at chain restaurants. “This is not a Disney version of a shopping village; it’s the real thing with roots that go back over 80 years,” says Marc Goodman, whose antique shop has been on Larchmere for 15 years.

Fred Bentoff, long-time Larchmere antiques merchant.

january | february 2006 45 The district faced a turning point in the late 1980s when the marketed as art attracted many discerning shoppers over the anchor business, Sedlak Interiors, packed up and moved east, years. The gallery, while no longer owned by Ullman, is still the leaving 40 percent of the street’s commercial buildings vacant. grand dame of the neighborhood, setting the tone for the unique Rather than let the area slide, the Larchmere Merchants Associa- shopping Larchmere is known for. tion built upon their retail strength and branded themselves as In that tradition, The Dancing Sheep, for example, offers one- an arts and antiques shopping district. They of-a-kind crafts and clothing. Two women successfully had the street’s zoning changed visiting from San Francisco recently from general retail to local retail, which kept Larchmere’s stores brim marveled at this store’s beautiful and used car lots, strip malls, and fast food fran- with the unusual and unusual offerings and lamented the fact chises from moving in. that the Bay Area doesn’t have anything Pooling their resources, the cities of hard to find, including, like it. At the same time, a group of women Shaker Heights and Cleveland coordinated of course, antiques: from Gates Mills strolled the street with a streetscape improvement plan, which in- everything from pricey samples from Milner Wallpaper, utterly cluded benches, shade trees, and new side- thrilled with what they’d found, saying walks with attractive grates and brickwork. 18th century fine they couldn’t find wallpapers as nice Since then, Larchmere has quietly estab- furniture to thrift-store anywhere else in Northeast Ohio. lished itself as a thriving neighborhood and Larchmere’s stores brim with the popular destination for diners and shoppers bargains. unusual and hard to find, including, of from far and wide. course, antiques: everything from pricey “It was a true bottom-up effort,” says 18th century fine furniture to thrift-store Shaker’s Director of Planning Joyce Braverman. “It’s one of our bargains. Shaker Square Antiques is decidedly at the high-end of oldest neighborhoods and has a lot of character. It certainly fills a antique merchants on the street. Fred and Mary Bentoff bought niche.” their current building and moved their store from Shaker Square Sylvia Ullman was the district’s arts pioneer. She opened to Larchmere some 30 years ago. her American Crafts Gallery in the early 1960s. Ullman’s chic “We currently have furniture that costs more than what we inventory of jewelry, ceramics, wood, furniture, and clothing paid for this building,” says the affable Fred Bentoff.

heide rivchun and Carol Lyons eating healthy at superfunky Café Limbo. A stroll through the store’s bright red door into its expansive gallery is well worth it even for those shoppers on their way to the more budget-friendly thrift stores and consignment shops along the street. Unlike the indifferent welcome at the homogenized franchises at most malls, visitors to Larchmere’s shops and restaurants are warmly greeted by responsive business owners. As Marc Goodman says, “Mom and Pop are alive and well here.” Gentlemen’s Quarters is typical. Though not exactly owned by a real mom and pop, the store’s personnel certainly feel like family. Walter Thompson, the longest continuing operator on the street, has been there since 1969. He hired Susan Geller and Susan Gerdy on the same day in 1979. Today, they make shoppers feel entirely at home while offering high-end men’s and women’s clothing from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Japan. In 1985 Susan Geller opened Frog’s Legs inside Gentlemen’s Quarters, specializing in women’s accessories.

“This is not a Disney version of a shopping village, it’s the real thing with roots that go back over 80 years,” says Marc Goodman, whose antique shop has been on Larchmere for 15 years.

Susan Geller of Frog’s Legs wants to accessorize you. The fact that the district is not owned or managed by a developer works to its “There are hardly any vacancies on the Café Limbo and advantage. The Larchmere Merchant’s As- street. If anything opens up, it fills quickly Boulevard Blue sociation, affiliated with the Shaker Square and those who participate tend to stay,” Area Development Corporation (SHAD), says Rodger Daye, the Association presi- Eccentric and Hip, and keeps the neighborhood vital and thriving. dent. Fabulous Food The Association organizes a Holiday Stroll Daye’s upscale Victorian art glass and every Thanksgiving weekend, for which porcelain store, Lord and Rodgers, has Larchmere businesswoman heide rivchun the merchants decorate the street and been part of the scene for almost two (who cheerfully insists that her name offer horse-drawn carriage rides. years. The Saint Luke’s Foundation has be all lower case) began her furniture The Association also sponsors sidewalk also provided support to keeping the restoration business in the back of sales on the Saturdays of Memorial Day area vibrant with an initial planning grant Shaker Square Antiques in the early ’70s. and Labor Day weekends, and a sidewalk focused on sustaining Larchmere as a She later bought her own building on Antiques Fair every June. competitively desirable neighborhood Larchmere, the distinctive Conservation and retail district.

january | february 2006 47 Studios, where she continues to restore as Limbo, the upscale and hip Boulevard wine list, the ambience, the live blues furniture. Blue is still something of an anomaly and jazz on weekends, Tuesday’s increas- She then purchased the house next in the district, where sturdy, old-time ingly popular half-price wine nights, and door and converted it into a restaurant, establishments such as the Larchmere Thursday’s martini nights. which she and partner Carol Lyons named Tavern, the venerable Academy Tavern, Café Limbo. and Big Al’s Diner have held sway for The Rush to Live Limbo, as it’s affectionately called many years. Boulevard Blue is probably by its loyal regulars, offers creative, the first restaurant in the history of the in the District scrumptious vegetarian fare, cooked to district to offer valet parking. order by Lyons. Table service is minimal; Twenty-six-year-old Andy Himmel, Housing plays a huge part in a com- diners peruse the menu and simply tell Boulevard Blue’s owner, chose the district petitively desirable neighborhood. The the kitchen crew what they would like to for his endeavor because of Larchmere’s Larchmere Arts and Antiques District’s eat. decidedly urban feel. single-family homes and duplexes, which The restaurant’s mismatched chairs “There are so few areas on the East branch off north and south from Larch- and eclectic tables were all found and Side where the windows come right up to mere Boulevard, are famously tidy and purchased on Larchmere, a visual meta- the street and you can actually see people well-kept. phor of the district’s cultural diversity. walking by,” Himmel says. But new kinds of housing has recently “We love that this is a multi-cultural, The restaurant is doing exceedingly arrived in the neighborhood: upscale multi-racial neighborhood,” says rivchun. well with an interesting mix of older condos and townhouses. “It’s a real community.” diners, some of whom have not been to One of Shaker’s new housing projects, Another popular newcomer among the the neighborhood for years, and a local the South Park Row townhouses at South district’s restaurants is Limbo’s neighbor, younger crowd. Everyone is attracted by Park and North Moreland, is literally Boulevard Blue. Not as coolly eccentric the high quality of Himmel’s kitchen and right around the corner from the district. Empty nesters Connie and Mark Swary, neighborhood residents for 26 years, recently moved into a South Park Row unit. Connie says they wanted to downsize but just couldn’t leave the neighborhood; they wanted to stay close to friends, work, and the Shaker Lakes, as well as be able to mingle with people of all ages. Mark loves Larchmere’s small-town friendliness and Connie enjoys the convenience of being able to walk to restaurants and stores. “It feels like Europe,” she says. In the district itself, across Larchmere from Boulevard Blue, the condominium development Larchmere Lofts boldly af- firms the district’s growing popularity as a residential neighborhood. Developer Tim Perotti believed he successfully could introduce condos to the district, but he didn’t know how long success would take. To his delight, all 16 flats sold quickly to a wide variety of people, from young professionals to empty nesters. The development proved so successful in fact that Perotti is currently building townhouses, The Larchmere Court, further down the street. These also are selling briskly. Why the rush to live on Larchmere? “People like to walk to restaurants and shops,” says Perotti. “There’s a pulse to this neighborhood.” B 48 www.shakeronline.com PHOTO COURTESY OF HEARTLAND DEVELOPERS.

Shaker Square Antiques (left). South Park Row townhouses (above).

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Choosing a summer camp By Kate Moore “Parents win because their children white water rafting at Shaker Heights, grow and learn. Children win because they the opportunities are nearly limitless for Don’t be put off by the frigid temperatures; have fun and collect lifelong friends and summer adventure around the City. if you haven’t already picked out a summer memories as well as self-confidence,” says camp for your child, get started as soon as Pam Quinn. Day camp vs. possible. Most camps in Northeast Ohio Before your child’s heart is set on a residential camp are full before winter is over. certain camp, decide how much money “Start looking in January and be ready you have available in your budget. Costs Day camps are ideal for the first-time to make your final decision no later than vary depending on the type of camp you camper, for younger children, or for March. Summer camp is not a decision choose and the number of weeks your parents who want their children close to that you can put off,” says Pam Quinn, child attends. Most camps also require home. Shaker’s director of community life. that you pay in full before camp begins. Day camp programs are offered to “Choosing a summer camp program is children in kindergarten through junior nearly as important as choosing a school, Traditional camp vs. high school, although a few have programs and really all the same concerns should specialty camp for preschoolers or older teens. be present when making the decision,” Daily sessions usually run from morning says Siva Grossman, director of Hathaway Traditional camps offer a broad range to late afternoon, beginning a week or two Brown School’s Broad Horizons camp. of activities such as team and individual after the end of the school year and ending “Main concerns should be about staff sports, and arts and crafts. In addition, a week or two before the start of the next training, safety, and whether the child will campers often have the chance to spend school year. be happy. When choosing the right camp extra time participating in activities they If you work and don’t have flexible for your child, it is crucial to ask your particularly enjoy. hours, a day camp can be a good way to children what they hope to get out of their “Traditional camps are great because meet your summertime childcare needs, camp experience,” Grossman says. “It’s they often help develop an interest, because many day camps offer extended their summer – and the focus needs to be whether that be a sport or creative writing,” care if you can’t pick your child up by 3 on fun.” says Toby Lagarde, coordinator of summer or 4 p.m. Most day camps also offer bus Ask your child the following questions: programs at University School. or van transportation to and from certain • What interests do you want to Specialty camps revolve around a pickup points. explore? certain theme or goal such as tennis, Residential camps cater to children • Do you think you would prefer a smaller drama, or sailing. five and older who are ready and willing camp or a larger one? “Specialty camps are perfect for an to sleep away from home and participate • Do you want to learn new skills, or is older child who has already developed an in group activities for an extended period. meeting new friends more important? interest or talent in a particular activity Most residential camp sessions range from By researching camps properly and and is very focused and ready to take that five days to eight weeks, and campers can striving for solid communication with interest to the next level,” Lagarde says. usually stay for more than one session your child, the camp experience can be a With a space camp at University (convenient if your child loves camp or if win-win. School, a business entrepreneurs camp you need care for the entire summer). at Laurel, karate at Hathaway Brown, or

52 www.shakeronline.com Questions for a Camp Director – and Why You Should Ask (Courtesy of the American Camping Association) Camp Options in Shaker What is the camp’s philosophy and program emphasis? Each camp has Shaker Heights Community Life Department offers a wide variety of camps its own method of constructing pro- for the summer. grams based on its philosophy. Does it For children grades K-2, the traditional camp includes creative crafts, field trips, sports, swimming, and outdoor play. Children grades 3-8 are able complement your parenting philosophy? to schedule their own day. They are able to choose from soccer, floor hockey, Many camps actively promote com- volleyball, badminton, and more. Chess, arts and crafts, cartooning, drama, petition and healthy rivalry among camp hiking, and science are also offered. Each session has a talent show and teams. For many campers this is pure field trip. fun, and some parents feel that learning Shaker also offers sports camps, which include baseball, basketball, junior to be competitive at an early age teaches lifeguard training camp, fencing, football, girls field hockey, ice skating, essential survival skills. However, other lacrosse camp, soccer, softball, tennis, wrestling, and white water rafting. parents and educators are in favor of Specialty camps include writing, art, dance, nature as well as Shaker cooperative learning. Research has shown Heights Safety Town, Safety Town Counselor-in-Training Camp, Teens that noncompetitive methods encourage Learning to Connect, Shaker Summer Theatre, Shaker on Stage, and Strike young people to learn more, retain the Up the Band. knowledge longer, and develop greater self-esteem and appreciation for others. Hathaway Brown’s Broad Horizons for Beginners is for boys and girls who Knowing your child’s personality and have begun or are about to begin preschool. The focus of the camp is style of learning is valuable in selecting socialization skills, group dynamics, reading basics, vocabulary building, the right camp. motor skill development, and artistic growth. There is also a Broad Horizons camp for girls grades K-8, where campers What is the camp director’s experience learning and socialization though a variety of classes and background? The American Camping activities. Association’s minimum standards HB also offers sports camps as well as a vacation camp for families recommend directors have a bachelor’s requiring childcare during the March and August breaks. For information degree, have completed in-service call Siva Grossman at 320-8085. training within the past three years, and have at least 16 weeks of camp Laurel School has completely revamped its camp program with two new administrative experience. programs called GLEE. For grades 5 and 6, GLEE stands for Girls Learning through Experiential Education. The program focuses on many of the outdoor What training do counselors receive? opportunities available at Laurel’s 140-acre Fairmount Campus in Russell At minimum, camp staff should be Township, as well as at the Shaker Heights campus. Girls explore the Project trained in safety regulations, emergency Adventure courses, art, and the land. procedures and communication, behavior For girls in grades 7 and 8, GLEE stands for Girls Leading through management techniques, child abuse Enterprising Entrepreneurship. The focus is on learning to start one’s own prevention, appropriate staff and camper business. Laurel will also continue to offer sports camps for field hockey, behavior, and specific procedures for tennis, and volleyball as well as a fitness camp for Upper School girls. For supervision. information call 464-1441.

What is the counselor-to-camper University School offers academic, athletic, and recreational programs for ratio? ACA standards require different boys grades K-12, and girls grades 4-12. Camps are held at the US campuses ratios for different ages and needs. in Shaker Heights and Hunting Valley. Generally, the ratios at resident camps specialty camps include a Space Science Adventure camp, which transforms participants entering grades 4-8 into astronauts when they take range from one staff for every six part in a space shuttle mission aboard University School’s Shuttle Simulator. campers ages 7-8, one staff for every Participants are trained in methods used by astronauts and are taught the eight campers ages 9-14, and one staff basics of shuttle science. for every 10 campers ages 15-17. At day Comp-Unique presents technology instruction and project work to students camps the ratios range from one staff for entering grades 5-8 who are serious about computers and technology. New every eight campers ages 6-8, one staff this year is an All-American Sports Camp for boys grades 6-8. For more for every 10 campers ages 9-14, and one information call Toby Lagarde at 321-8260, ext. 8416. staff for every 12 campers ages 15-17.

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recreation & leisure

summer camps Junior Raider Sports Camps that can Enrichment and Leisure be combined with traditional summer Learning Traditional Camp camp are marked with R. See Sports & Fitness Camps. Sports Camp info: Nature Camp Registration for all camps begins 491-2599, James Garrett. (Ages 6-7, 8-11) Thursday, February 2 at Thornton Park, 20701 Farnsleigh Road. Pre-Camp Fundaze The world of nature will become a new No phone-in registrations. Grades K-8 playground for those who attend this half-day camp. Activities include wild- Woodbury School Registration hours: life identification, nature hikes, and June 9, 12-16 Thornton Park learning to respect and care for nature. 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. M 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Instructional support will be provided $32/day registration TU-F 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. by The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes. $42/day registration S 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Note: All activities will take place out- Shaker Community Building doors. Bring a snack. Traditional Camp M-F 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (Grades K-8) Horseshoe Lake Park All campers must have a completed M-F 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session I 001 ages 5-6 june 19-23 medical form at registration. In case of June 19-June 30 emergency, call 216-491-1295. 002 ages 7-9 june 26-30 9 a.m.-3 p.m. res$100 nres$115 We will contact the appropriate camp res$265 nres$315 director. 10% discount for each ad- Safety Town ditional child on the lowest camp Session II (Grade K) fee. NOTE: The 10% discount pertains July 5-14 only to the full time traditional camp. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Safety Town graduates get a head Campers must provide their own lunch. res$265 nres$315 start on Kindergarten. Safety skills taught with assistance from the Shaker Session III Woodbury School (Grades K-2) Heights Police and Fire Departments. Camp includes a wide range of activi- July 17-28 Space is limited. Note: Participants 9 a.m.-3 p.m. ties. Sports focus builds and strength- must be entering Kindergarten by res$265 nres$315 ens large and small motor body parts. September 2006. Cost includes a $10 Outdoor play, cooperative play and Session IV material fee. No camp on July 4. healthy competitive and non-com- July 31-August 11 petitive action games and swimming Grades K-2 Registration period: also included. Creative Crafts include 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (IN PERSON ONLY) paints, beadwork, and construction res$265 nres$315 Shaker School District Res: activities. Field trips included with April 3-May 5 each session. Information: 491-2583, Grades 3-8 Open Registration: May 8-June 16 Rhonda L. Miller. Hinckley Metroparks* 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. June 26-July 7 Middle School (Grades 3-8) (no before or after care) 001 9:30-11:30 a.m. Make your own schedule! Choose from, res$300 nres$350 002 1-3 p.m. soccer, floor hockey, volleyball, badminton, and more! Chess, arts & crafts, Fee includes admission and trans- July 10-21 cartooning, drama, hiking and science portation for field trips. Late fee of 003 9:30-11:30 a.m. are also offered. Each session has a $50 if registering after the Thursday 004 1-3 p.m. talent show and field trip. Trips in order before each camp session. *Daily bus continued of session are: Pioneer Waterland, transportation. Arrive and depart from 4 Dover Lake, Cedar Point/Good Times & Thornton Park. Geauga Lake. Information: 491-3144, Sue Trizzino. Before (7-9 a.m.): $40 After (3-6 p.m.): $50

54 www.shakeronline.com July 24-August 4 Fine and Performing Arts Band Camp: Strike Up the Band 005 9:30-11:30 a.m. (Grades 6-8) 006 1-3 p.m. Dance Workshop – Dance as Art Luiz Coelho (Ages 8-15) Band Director, Woodbury Shaker Family Center Verlezza Dance Asst. Band Director, High School M-F 2 weeks/ session res$70 nres$90 Sabatino Verlezza and Barbara Allegra Mr. Coelho holds a BFA degree and a Verlezza will direct this intensive Masters degree in Music. Small group Safety Town: Counselor-in-Training workshop in dance. Mr. Verlezza holds instruction, music theory and expo- (Ages 12-14) a BA from SUNY Brockport and an sure to various styles of music, includ- FMA from the University of Michigan. ing jazz. An opportunity for students Counselor trainees are needed to assist Ms. Verlezza holds a BA and MFA (who have completed at least one year instructors in daily details and tasks. from the University of Michigan. Their of instruction) to improve their abili- Gain experience with young children. choreography and restagings have ties. A concert for family and friends Counselors receive a T-shirt and certifi- been presented at cultural institu- on the last day of camp. Students cate of completion. Space is limited. tions such as Lincoln Center in NYC must provide their own instruments No camp on July 4. and the Kennedy Center in Washing- (except percussion). Campers attending both sessions will need to bring a June 26-July 7 ton, D.C. and across South America, lunch. 001 9:30-11:30 a.m. Europe and Taiwan. The workshop will 002 1-3 p.m. offer exposure to the following facets of dance: Modern Dance Technique, Middle School Band Room M-F, July 10-21 July 10-21 Composition/Improvisation, Reper- 001 9-11:30 a.m. 003 9:30-11:30 a.m. tory and a Performance Showing, 002 12:30-3 p.m. 004 1-3 p.m. to be presented the final day of the res$240 or $400 (both sessions) workshop. info or to register, call July 24-August 4 Verlezza Dance at 283-5673. nres$280 or $470 (both sessions) 005 9:30-11:30 a.m. 006 1-3 p.m. Middle School M-SA July 24-29 Shaker Family Center 10 a.m.-3 p.m. M-F 2 weeks/ session res/nres$350 res$45 nres$60 KidzArt Camp TLC (Teens Learning to Connect) (Grades 1-5) (Ages 11-15) Participate in jewelry making, The only summer camp east of the macramé, collage designs, and more! Cuyahoga River designed to intro- Info: 491-2583, Rhonda L. Miller. duce teens to volunteer opportunities. Participants earn 20 hours toward Woodbury School community service credits. We’ll assist M-F 9:00 am-Noon an assortment of agencies throughout 001 June 19-23 the Cleveland area and host a fund- 002 June 26-30 raiser for a charitable cause. Come see res$45 nres$55 what’s new and who’s new. Registra- tion fee includes a field trip to Cedar Point on July 21. A three-week commitment is required. Space is limited.

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january | february 2006 55 Theatre Camp: High School Auditorium Baseball Camp: Junior Raider Shaker Summer Theatre M-F, July 10-28 Hitting & Fielding Camp (Grades 5-11) 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (Ages 8-10) Martin Friedman, PhD res$355 nres$405 Trip to batting cages, Friday, July 21. Join Martin Friedman, along with art- Before Care (7-9 a.m.) $60 Bring lunch, water, sunscreen, glove. ists from area professional and com- After Care (3-6 p.m.) $75 May use own bat. munity theatres, for another rewarding summer experience. Dr. Friedman has Sports & Fitness Camps Mercer School been on staff at John Carroll University M-F, July 17-21 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. since 1990 and is the Artistic Direc- Aquatics: Lifeguard Training Camp tor of Lakeland Theatre. He holds a (Ages 12-14) res$95 nres$120 BS degree in Theatre Education, and an MA and PhD in Theatre. Classes in Ellis & Associates’ Jr. Lifeguard pro- R seballBa Camp: acting, directing, improvisation, music gram combines skill development, field Junior Raider Rookie and movement will culminate in a trip, teamwork and leadership skills to (Ages 8-10) provide a well-rounded training experi- non-musical production. In a series of Trip to batting cages, Friday, June 23, short plays and monologues, everyone ence. Fun and educational. Prereq- uisites: must be 12-14 years old by returning at 3 p.m. Bring water, snack, will have the opportunity to be in the sunscreen, glove. May use own bat. spotlight. Additional activities include July 1; must be able to swim 50 yards a field trip to an area professional using crawl or breaststroke without Mercer School theatre. Both Before and After Care resting; do a surface dive, retrieve a M-F, June 19-23 available at Woodbury School. 10-lb. brick from a depth of 5 feet; 9:30 a.m.-Noon swim underwater 10 feet. Information: res$50 nres$60 High School Auditorium (216) 491-2594, Pam Quinn. M-F, June 12-30 Thornton Park Pool R Baseball Camp: Junior Raider 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Rookie/Semi-Pro res$390 nres$440 M-F, July 10-28 10-11:30 a.m. (Ages 8-12) Before Care (7-9 a.m.) $60 res$120 nres$150 Trip to batting cages, Thursday, June After Care (3-6 p.m.) $75 15. Bring lunch, water, sunscreen, Aquatics: White Water Rafting glove. May use own bat. TWO CAMP REGISTRATION SPECIAL: (Grades 6-9) Register for both Shaker Summer The- Mercer School atre and Shaker on Stage at the same DELUXE MOTOR COACH. A day of guided M-F, June 12-16 time and receive $25 off each registra- white water rafting down the beauti- 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. tion fee. ful Youghiogheny River Gorge through res$50 nres$60 the heart of Ohiopyle State Park. Trip includes a stop along the river for a Theatre Camp: Shaker on Stage R Basketball Camp: Junior Raider (Grades 3-11) provided lunch. Please bring change (Grades 3-6) of clothes and money for dinner on Discover the joy of musical theatre. the way home. Life vests are provided. Bring water. May purchase NCAA Wil- The final production, unlike any other, Staff member accompanies each raft. son synthetic basketball for $15 (must will consist of musical numbers from Bus leaves Thornton Park promptly at order 2 weeks prior to camp). Broadway shows. Everyone will have 6:30 a.m. and returns by 10 p.m. (re- time in the spotlight by being featured turn time may vary depending on water Woodbury School Main Gym in solos, duets, and big production level). Deadline to register is May 19. M-F, June 12-16 number from a number of famous Info: 491-3144, Sue Trizzino. 9:30 a.m.-Noon musicals. Classes in acting, directing, res$45 nres$55 improvisation, dance and song will be Friday June 9 led by artists from local theatres as res$95 nres$115 well as theatre students from John Car- roll University. Self-confidence will be cultivated in a creative and supportive environment. Both Before and After Care available at Woodbury School. continued

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56 www.shakeronline.com R skeBa tball Camp: Cheerleading Camp 002 July 10-14 Junior Raider Gym Rat (Ages 5-12) 003 July 17-21 (Grades 3-8) Cheerleading Academy res$255 – any one session Bring water, towel, sunscreen. May A week of cheers, chants and fun $455 – any two sessions purchase NCAA Wilson synthetic bas- games! Learn proper motion and $684 – all three sessions ketball for $15 (must order 2 weeks jumping techniques for all aspects nres$310 – any one session prior to camp). of cheering. The week ends with a performance for the parents. Bring $565 – any two sessions Middle School East Gym t-shirts, shorts. Players receive pom $849 – all three sessions W-F, July 5-7 poms, t-shirt and Merit Award. 001 gr. 3-5 9 a.m.-Noon Field Hockey Camp: Junior Raider 002 Gr. 6-8 Noon-3 p.m. Mercer Gym Girls Intermediate/Advanced res$35 nres$45 July 10-14 (Grades 6-8) M-F 9 a.m.-Noon res$70 nres$85 Ideal for girls preparing for Middle R skeBa tball Camp: School field hockey in the fall. Some Junior Raider Pee Wee prior running experience helpful. (Grades K-2) Fencing Camp (Ages 6-15) Mouthguards and shin pads are Bring water. May purchase a basket- William Reith mandatory. Bring water, towel and ball for $10 (must order 2 weeks prior sunscreen. to camp). A structured and focused experience for the serious beginner or advanced Thornton Park Woodbury School Main Gym student. Campers receive a fencing M-TH, August 14-18 M-F, June 12-16 foil and compete in a tournament at 9 a.m.-Noon 001 gr. K-1 1-1:45 p.m. the end of each session. Bring clean, res$90 nres$110 002 gr. 2 2-2:45 p.m. floor-soled shoes and long pants. A res$30 nres$35 $70 non-refundable deposit is included in the camp fee. R skeBa tball Camp: Junior Raider Rising Star High School Fencing Room (Grades 6-8) M-F 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 001 June 12-16 Bring water, towel. continued

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january | february 2006 57 Ice Skating: Elite Figure Skating Camp R Football Camp: Junior Raider Flag Golf Dome Camp: Intermediate *NEW! (Ages 7+) (Grades 1-8) (Ages 10+) For the serious competitive figure Bring water, towel, sunscreen, mouth- Intermediate camp improves and skater. Includes on-ice sessions for guard. Must complete NFL registration refines fundamental skills. Focus on Freestyle and Moves in the Field, on- forms prior to camp. individual stroke corrections for each golfer. ice clinics, off-ice jump and condition- Middle School ing classes, Yoga, Pilates and Ballet. M-F, July 24-28 Golf Dome, 8198 East Washington St. Thornton Park also offers an array of 001 Gr. 3-8 9 a.m.-Noon Chagrin Falls off-ice activities such as swimming, res$50 nres$60 M-W 10:30 am-Noon TH-F 1:00-4:00 pm (at Auburn Springs) tennis, volleyball, games and more. Woodbury School 001 june 5-9 Info: 491-3461, Erin Schopf. 002 gr. 1-2 9-10 a.m. 002 june 12-16 Thornton Park Ice Arena res$25 nres$30 003 june 19-23 004 june 26-30 M-F, June 12-August 11 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.* Golf Camp: Beginning 005 july 3-7 (No class July 4) (Ages 5-9) 006 july 10-14 (*time schedule subject to change) Skyhawks Golf Academy 007 july 17-21 008 July 24-28 Lcra osse Camp: Junior Raider Shaker Golfers experience success by using 009 july 31-August 4 Top Gun a plastic golf club with an oversized 010 august 7-11 (Boys 8-15, Girls 8-15) ceramic head. Starting New At Golf All skill levels. Boys (12-15) require (SNAG) system builds confidence and res$160 nres$192 full equipment; girls require sticks teaches proper technique and eti- res$128 nres$153 only. Bring sunscreen, towel, water and quette. Bring t-shirt, shorts, sweats, lunch. socks. Players receive t-shirt and Merit Ice Hockey: Summer Weekend Award. Specialty Clinic Series Middle School Upper Field (Mites through High School) Location subject to change Boulevard School Soccer Field M-F, July 24-28 June 19-23 Top college, junior and high school 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. M-F 9 a.m.-Noon players and coaches instruct at sum- res$95 nres$120 res$118 nres$140 mer specialty clinics. Offered on weekends only, Friday through Sunday Roller Hockey Camp Golf Dome Camp: Novice *NEW! starting the week of June 19. Work (Ages 7-14) (Ages 8-12) specifically on offensive, defensive or individual skills. Pre-high schoolers Skyhawks Roller Hockey Academy Novice camp focuses on development learn what it takes to compete at a Fast-paced program teaches proper of a fundamentally sound and repeat- varsity level. Info: 491-2581, stick handling, passing, shooting, and ing golf swing, proper grip, stance and Caleb Wyse. skating techniques. Must bring roller alignment. Short game techniques hockey stick*, protective gloves*, include chipping, pitching and putting Ice Hockey: Raider Hockey Camp elbow/knee/shin pads*, helmet with fundamentals. A co-ed full-day camp for Mites and full mask*, in-line skates, mouthpiece, Golf Dome, 8198 East Washington St. Squirts, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. appropriate clothing, water bottle, run- Chagrin Falls Mighty Mites, PeeWees and Bantams ning shoes, sunscreen. *Items avail- M-TH 9-10:30 a.m. have a mini camp during the week. able for rent. To reserve a roller hockey F 9 a.m.-Noon (at Auburn Springs) Top quality national and local coaches kit call 800-804-3509 (7 days prior to 001 june 5-9 provide expert instruction. Adults and start of program) or at skyhawks.com. 002 june 12-16 high school hockey players available to Middle School 003 june 19-23 assist instructors and supervise camp- Tennis Courts 004 june 26-30 ers on and off the ice. June 12-16 005 july 3-7 (No class July 4) Info: 491-2581, Caleb Wyse. M-F 9 a.m.-Noon 006 july 10-14 $118 $130 007 july 17-21 Thornton Park Ice Arena res nres 008 July 24-28 August 14-18 009 july 31-August 4 010 august 7-11

res$130 nres$156 res$104 nres$ 124 R Indicates camp may be combined with Traditional Camp 58 www.shakeronline.com Skateboarding Camp Soccer Camp: Challenger Sports Half- 002 ages 7-12 9:00 am-Noon (Ages 7-14) Day Player Development Camps res$125 nres$150 Skyhawks Skateboarding Academy (Ages 7-14) 003 ages 3-4 11-11:45 a.m. Fun and exciting program that teaches Gain technical and tactical instruction res$55 nres$65 balance and pushing (both on ground in all areas of the game. Each partici- and on ramps), tricks, riding on flat pant receives ball, t-shirt, bag tag, and Soccer Camp: Mini Kickers rails, sliding on rails, and dropping player evaluation. Register online at (Grades K-1) onto ramps. Friday showcase for challengersports.com 45 days prior to parents. Bring own skateboard. Partici- class and receive a free British Soccer Half-day camp, led by the Great pants receive t-shirt and certificate. replica jersey and Sports Illustrated Britain-Buckeye Soccer Clinic, is an for Kids magazine. Free equipment for introduction to soccer. T-shirts pro- Middle School host families at challengersports.com. vided. Bring water, sunscreen, and Tennis Courts soccer ball. Soccer ball sizes: ages 5-6 June 12-16 Middle School Soccer field #3, ages 7 #4. Soccer balls can be M-F 9 a.m.-Noon July 17-21 purchased: size 4 $8, size 3 $6 (must res$95 nres$120 M-F 1-4 p.m. order one week prior to camp). Host res$99 nres$115 families for coaches are needed and Soccer Camp: Challenger Sports receive a discount on camp. Call (800) Soccer Camps First Kicks Soccer Camp: Great Britain-Buckeye 877-0834, Debbie Dawson. (Ages 3 & 4) (Grades 2-8) Lomond School (subject to change) Introduction to the basics through Boys and girls learn from professional M-F, June 12-16 games, stories and fun. Each partici- English soccer players. Campers are 9 a.m.-Noon pant receives ball, t-shirt, bag tag, and grouped by age and ability. T-shirts res$100 nres$115 player evaluation. Register online at provided. Bring water, sunscreen, and challengersports.com 45 days prior to soccer ball. Soccer ball sizes: ages Softball Camp: Girls Fast Pitch class and receive a free British Soccer 5-6 #3, ages 7-10 #4, ages 11+ #5. (Ages 8-12) replica jersey and Sports Illustrated Soccer balls can be purchased: sizes for Kids magazine. Free equipment for 4 and 5 $8, size 3 $6 (must order one Designed for the future female “slug- host families at challengersports.com. week prior to camp). Host families for ger” looking to improve or begin learn- coaches are needed and receive dis- ing skills in hitting, fielding, pitching Middle School count on camp. Call (800) 877-0834, and base running. This camp teaches Lower Soccer Field Debbie Dawson. the essential skills and techniques July 17-21 necessary by mixing drill and cage time M-F 9-10 a.m. Lomond School (subject to change) with fun activities and contests. res$65 nres$75 M-F, June 12-16 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Golf Dome, 8198 East Washington St. Soccer Camp: Challenger Sports res$135 nres$150 Chagrin Falls Camps Mini Soccer M-F 9:00 am-Noon (Ages 5 & 6) Soccer Camps: Major League 001 june 5-9 (Ages 5-12) 002 june 12-16 Games, competitions and challenging 003 june 19-23 skill-building activities. Each partici- The official camp of Major League Soc- 004 june 26-30 pant receives ball, t-shirt, bag tag, and cer, the nation’s premier professional 005 july 3-7 (No class July 4) player evaluation. Register online at league. Each participant receives 006 july 10-14 challengersports.com 45 days prior to Columbus Crew ticket, MLS gift and 007 july 17-21 class and receive a free British Soccer player evaluation. Bring water, towel, 008 July 24-28 replica jersey and Sports Illustrated sunscreen, and soccer ball. Soccer ball 009 july 31-August 4 for Kids magazine. Free equipment for sizes: ages 5-6 #3, ages 7-10 #4. Soc- 010 august 7-11 host families at challengersports.com. cer balls can be purchased: size 4 $8, size 3 $6 (must order one week prior res$115 nres$138 Middle School to camp). Host families are needed. res$92 nres$110 Soccer Field July 17-21 Mercer School M-F 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. M-F, July 24-28 res$80 nres$95 001 ages 5-6 9-10:30 a.m. res$65 nres$75 continued

january | february 2006 59 Softball Camp: Junior Raider Girls 003 july 10-14 High School Courts Fast Pitch & Slow Pitch 004 July 24-28 M-F, Noon-3:00 pm Sue Trizzino, SHHS Varsity Coach res$130 nres$160 008 June 12-16 (Grades 3-8) 009 june 19-23 Tennis Camp: Intermediate/Advanced 010 june 26-30 Trip to batting cages, June 15 and (Grades 5-11) 011 July 3,5,6,7 (res$84; nres$108) July 13. Bring water, towel, swimsuit, Al Slawson, SHHS Varsity tennis coach 012 july 10-14 sunscreen, glove, bat. 013 july 17-21 Daily activities include instruction 014 July 24-28 Middle School through drills and games, conditioning, res$105 nres$135 M-F, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and mental training for success. Every- 001 June 12-16 thing presented in a positive and fun Volleyball Camp: Sand Volleyball 002 July 10-14 way, but focus is on daily improvement (Ages 6-14) res$95 nres$120 in a challenging environment. Bring Skyhawks Volleyball Academy water, towel, sunscreen. Tennis Camp: Intro Serving, hitting, spiking and setting us- (Grades 4-8) High School Courts ing fun games and activities for novice Al Slawson, SHHS Varsity tennis coach M-F, 9 a.m.-Noon or experienced player. Co-ed and skill- 001 june 12-16 based. Bring knee pads, t-shirt, shorts, Daily schedule includes tennis instruc- 002 june 19-23 sweats, socks. Players receive t-shirt tion and games, use of the pool and 003 june 26-June 30 and Merit Award. lunch. Campers are closely supervised 004 July 3,5,6,7 (res$84; nres$108) by qualified instructors. Meets rain or 005 july 10-14 Thornton Park Sand Courts shine. Class size limited to 30. Bring 006 july 17-21 July 25-29 water, towel, sunscreen. 007 July 24-28 M-F 9 a.m.-Noon res$105 nres$135 res$118 nres$130 Thornton Park Courts M-F, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 001 june 12-16 002 june 26-June 30

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Creativity Rules continued from tellectual approach, students discover. Be- positive and respectful school climate. page 35 fore they delve into painting the human Not long after attending a staff meeting figure, for instance, Dan Whitely’s draw- in a barren study hall room, he arranged When Shaker Life visited the students ing students examine the human body like to have student art hung on nearly every in the fall, sophomore Tashley Ramial was a biologist would, from the inside out. blank surface. intently working on a decorative cross “Studying bone structure and how “The room had no personality before. pendant inspired by African jewelry she’d bones and muscles work below the skin’s Now it looks like a gallery and is far more spotted in one of the classroom’s resource surface helps the artist drawing the human inspiring.” books. At the same table, Dan Chessin, a figure to recognize and draw the sublimi- Whitely, an award-winning painter who junior, was crafting a chain of textured flat nal shapes of the shoulders, for example,” exhibits regularly and does commission disks, at the center of which he planned to Whitely explains. work, is eager for the visual arts depart- hang the polished Egyptian Ankh he had ment “to be a resource for every school fashioned after one he discovered in an- Art is Here, There, and club and sport team. We can do logos, other book. Everywhere posters, and banners to promote all the Like many of Shaker High’s avid art student activities.” students, Chessin’s foray into visual arts The fruits of students’ efforts flow far be- Each spring, student art takes center started as an obligation. Business classes yond the basement walls. Art calls proudly stage at the multi-media Art Fair, held in are his preferred electives, he admits. He from glass cases across from the main of- the quadrangle. Open to the public, the chose the jewelry class “because I wanted fice, whispers respectfully in study halls Art Fair is built around a theme, such as a class where the work was more hands- and library corners, and shouts loudly in the Harlem Renaissance or Mexican Art. on.” He now plans to take Jewelry II in his the bustling cafeteria and teacher’s lounge. This year’s theme will be Asian art. The senior year. Even Room 110, home to the vice princi- fair is scheduled for April 28. “Many students start the year with the pals and landing pad for disciplinary dis- “Dan Whitely has brought the Art Fair same I-need-this-credit attitude,” says cussion, has been used as a gallery. to a new level,” says Susan Weiner, whose Fleming, “Then many go on to drawing or Dan Whitely believes student art can sculpture and ceramics students will be graphics out of choice.” play a significant role in communicat- crafting Japanese tea bowls and lanterns Creating art requires a surprisingly in- ing the school’s vision and promoting a for the show while learning about Japanese

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Junior Lauren Black admires her handiwork. culture and art history in the process. Institute during a visit they made to Shaker Her advanced students will create High. He also is exploring his options haniwas, 14- to 18-inch figures that at the Art Institute of Houston. Susan adorned ancient Japanese burial mounds. Weiner and her colleagues are helping “I’m having them personalize their Vaughn and other aspiring professionals haniwa in some way – not a self-portrait, create digital portfolios of up to a dozen but somehow reflecting who they are pieces of work, which are required with – perhaps with the figure wearing their their college applications. favorite baseball cap!” For the aspiring artist as well as Senior Vaughn Robinson was diligently the ordinary teenager with interests at work on his haniwa last fall, shaping all over the board and talents yet to be chicken wire to form the frame that will defined, Shaker High’s visual arts classes eventually be covered in plaster cloth offer exciting artistic adventures and and then painted. Vaughn hopes to study the possibility for powerful personal graphic design in college and become a discoveries. professional artist. He recently met with representatives from the Kansas City Art

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“We’re looking at the Cleveland Orchestra as the model for that,” Jaros says. “We’re going on tour.” The Cleveland Museum of Art is the last great art museum in America whose permanent collection is free to the public, and it is arguably the town’s most popular cultural institution. The Cleveland Orch- estra is the city’s most famous cultural jewel outside of Cleveland, but the CMA serves a much larger local constituency. During the renovation and expansion, Jaros and her staff are aggressively seeking opportunities to remain connected, creating new partnerships and initiatives with CMA members and the community. For example, Susan and her hard- working external affairs staff have made The CMA Red Line Tour, a series of 43 posterized “masterpieces” along RTA’s Red Line route, a reality. Fund raising and community aware- ness are two sides of the same coin – a point made by the CMA’s chairman, Michael J. Horvitz, in an e-mail to Shaker Life: “Susan brings a great enthusiasm and a knowledge of Cleveland that can’t be matched. In order to raise the money for this ambitious project, we need to generate great enthusiasm in the community, and that requires the museum’s staff to be enthusiastic and understand what this Call today for a free in-home estimate. project means, not just to the museum, Special Winter Discounts Available but also for Cleveland.” You will get our best crews at our best interior prices of the year. Institutions and businesses around Our special limited time offer is designed to keep Shaker have been keenly receptive to them busy with your interior painting work. the museum’s requests to partner up. Notably, Peter Rubin of the Coral Group, ARSCO216.823.0064 Shaker Ad 8/4/05 (800.GoCerta) 12:01 PM Page www.certapro.com1 which owns Shaker Square, has donated a space on the Square’s southwest quadrant (the old Gap store) so that the museum can hold studio art classes for the public and operate a retail outlet while the museum is closed from January though RADIATORarsco ENCLOSURES July this year. aMANUFACTURINGrsco COMPANY “By the way,” Susan says, “that’s the Division of CEEMCO, Inc. only period of time that the museum will be completely dark.” Given that • Exclusive! Best enclosure prices! Call Frank Botson . . . the renovation and expansion will be a • Exclusive! Powder-coated finish 15-year project, from the first strategic • Exclusive! Design is proven 440.845.2243 to reduce heating costs or 800.543.7040 • Exclusive! 6 standard colors, Serving Cleveland Area Homeowners 3 grill styles, wood grain, too! Since 1950

66 www.shakeronline.com planning session in 1995 to the more- or-less completed project in 2010, “six months is a mere blink.” Susan emphasizes the six-month blink because of misperceptions in the community about the length of time the museum will be closed. “Actually, we will begin a series of ‘reopenings’ at the museum as early as this fall, beginning with a spectacular exhibition, Barcelona, in October. The show will feature works by Gaudí, Dali, Miró, and Picasso.” Following Barcelona, in February ’07, the museum will mount an exhibit called Popcorn Shop Factory Monet in Normandy. & Dewey’s Coffee House “And,” Jaros stresses, “we’ll begin to 13201 Shaker Square reinstall the galleries that spring.” NCleveland, OhioO P 44120E N ! O216.991.1101W The exhibition Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, also visit us at Tiffany, Lalique will open in the summer of Chagrin Falls Popcorn Shop *1875 2008. 53 North Main St. Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022 440.247.6577 The relationship between the CMA and shakerlife 12/5/05 7:52 AM Page 1 GIFTS ONLINE, WE SHIP WORLDWIDE Shaker Heights goes well beyond business www.ChagrinFallsPopcorn.com partnerships. Shaker schools and the City’s community life department have long- standing relationships with the museum. COME JOIN THE FUN AT Community Life and the schools use the museum for art classes, and the schools at GILMOUR DAY CAMPS every grade level routinely take field trips there. Moreover, the high school’s Asian JUNE 19 to JULY 24, 2006 Studies course makes productive use of GILMOUR DAY CAMP: (440) 684-4580 the museum’s substantial permanent For boys & girls entering kindergarten to sixth grade. collection of Asian art. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Activities include: swimming, baseball, tennis, basketball, An old Shaker Heights adage has it that figure skating, hockey, arts & crafts, computers and many more. Shaker school kids know more about the Four-week minimum. Weeks do not have to be consecutive. art museum than their parents do. PRESCHOOL CAMP: (440) 684-4574 “I’m pretty sure the Shaker schools use For boys & girls ages three to five. HALF DAY: 9:00 a.m. to Noon or FULL DAY: 9:00 a.m. - 2:55 p.m. the museum more than any other district,” Activities include: cooking, arts & crafts, music, storytelling and Jaros says. “It’s a terrific relationship. The drama all following weekly themes. Nature walks, field trips, science activities, ice skating, water activities and many more. new museum will allow us to provide Four-week minimum. Weeks do not have to be consecutive. an enhanced educational experience to BEFORE & AFTER CAMP CARE: (440) 473-8161 what we hope will be an ever broader Before Camp: 7:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. and/or audience.” After Camp: 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Jaros was working in the development Camp Care programs are developmentally age appropriate. office at Case Western Reserve University HOCKEY CAMPS: (440) 449-7490 in 2001 when she was approached by Athletic Center Summer Sports Camps for Boys & Girls. Choose from a variety of camps including: Hockey, Sports, the CMA’s then-director, Katharine Baseball, Golf and Outdoor Adventure Camp. Reid, about the possibility of taking the development reins for the renovation CALL TODAY TO REGISTER OR RECEIVE OUR BROCHURE AND APPLICATION FORM. continued on page 68 Gilmour Day Camps, 34001 Cedar Road, Gates Mills, Ohio 44040

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and expansion. It was an easy decision. I felt I should stay out of the recruiting of Law. Her first job was a plum, and an Jaros has been involved in the arts and decision-making process, and I did,” honor – clerking for Cleveland Federal throughout her careers as a lawyer and as Horvitz said in his e-mail. District Judge Tom Lambros. During her a development professional. She has been When he was informed that Reid had two years there she married Stanley Jaros, friends with Michael Horvitz, of counsel hired Susan, “I was truly delighted that also a lawyer. Then in 1975 she went to at Jones Day, for 30 years. CMA had been able to attract such an work as a litigation associate at Hahn “Because of my close friendship with experienced development professional Loeser & Parks, which is where she met Susan, and because I was on the board of who knew Cleveland so well.” Horvitz, who also worked for the firm at Case while Katharine was recruiting her, Jaros is a 1973 graduate of Case School the time. shakerlife 12_2_05 12/2/05 4:19 PM Page 1 Hahn Loeser has been the CMA’s law firm since the museum’s earliest days. The firm then was called Mooney, Hahn, Loeser & Keough. The Hahn was Edgar A. Hahn, one of Cleveland’s preeminent civic leaders of the 20th century. He was a patron of the arts who, in 1959, when he was in his late 60s, became “one of the museum’s greatest trustees,” says Jaros. Dream...dare...do! The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History notes that Hahn “was chiefly responsible for the museum’s acquisition of a number of Open House fine 18th century paintings.” Susan was put on CMA work at Hahn Coed Early Childhood Center Loeser. One of the highlights of her five & Girls Primary Division years at the firm was working with the museum and its then-director, Sherman January 28, 2006 • 10 a.m. – Noon Lee, on getting Isamu Noguchi’s 36- foot steel sculpture, Portal, placed on the Cuyahoga County Justice Center’s plaza. A tough sell to the public at the time, Portal is now the most prestigious piece of outdoor public art in Ohio. Susan turned her skills to fund raising when she took the development director’s job at Case law school in 1983, where she regularly taught a seminar on arts and the law. A couple of years later she moved to the development office at the university itself. She and her family moved to Shaker’s Mercer neighborhood in 1988, near University School. “Shaker Heights is the kind of community that has a vision of what it wants to be,” she says approvingly. “And it’s only a 12-minute drive from our house down to University Circle.” One doesn’t have to ask how she knows that.

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Events for January

January 24 thru June 4: Life of a 19th Century Shaker Child. SHAKER HISTORICAL MUSEUM. Art About Town Exhibit of photos, clothing, books, and furniture. Fees and info: 921-1201. THRU January 15: A Square Deal: Fiber Art by Contemporary Cloth Artists Jan. 1: New Year’s Day. (CoCA), MAIN LIBRARY. Info: 991-2030. THRU January 22: Jan. 2: New Year’s Day observed. CITY OFFICES, Winter Wonderland, SHAKER HISTORICAL MUSEUM. SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES CLOSED. Display of old skates, sleds, woolen mittens, hats, etc. Open Tuesday - Friday & Sunday. Environmental Town Hall Brown Bag Jan. 3: Fees and info: 921-1201. Lunch Series, NOON-1 P.M., NATURE CENTER. Cleveland Mu- seum of Natural History’s Dr. David Saja, will speak on the Ge- ology along the Doan Brook Gorge. Learn how to tell geologic time — dating back millions of years — through visible rock layers in the gorge. Learn about the natural and human forces Jan. 5: Movie@ Main, 6:30 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Watch that created this unique gorge and the Doan Brook. the action suspense Four Brothers. Rated R. Public performance Info: 321-5935. rights paid for by Friends of the Shaker Library. Info: 991-2030. Jan. 5 & 10: Introductory Class on Computer Use and Mousing Skills for Adults 50 and Better, 9 Jan. 5: Orchestra Concert, 7:30 P.M., SHAKER HIGH. A.M., 10:30 A.M., 1 P.M. & 2:30 P.M., FAIRHILL COMPUTER Students perform. Free. LEARNING CENTER, 12200 FAIRHILL RD. Free class limited to nine participants. Registration required: 421-1350, ext. 125 Tom Cerjak. Jan. 6: Owl Prowl, 7-9 P.M., LAKE VIEW CEMETERY. Whooo wants to learn about owls? Study the habitat of owls and search for their signs and sounds at the cemetery. The tour begins at the Lake View Cemetery Mausoleum, located just inside the Mayfield Gate. Reservations: 421-2665 ext. 3035. ($4/person or $11/family)

The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Shaker Heights High School Destinations... 2600 South Park Boulevard 15911 Aldersyde Drive Bertram Woods Branch Library Shaker Community Building Shaker Historical Museum 20600 Fayette Road Community Colonnade 16740 South Park Boulevard Main Library 3450 Lee Road Shaker Middle School 16500 Van Aken Boulevard Shaker Family Center 20600 Shaker Boulevard 19824 Sussex Road Thornton Park 20701 Farnsleigh Road

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Jan. 7 & 14: Free 2-Part SAT Test & Strategy Workshop, Phillips Exeter Academy 9:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY TEEN CENTER. Take the test, and then come Summer Session back on January 14, 9:30-11 a.m., to get the results and some tips on test taking. July 2-August 5, 2006 This great opportunity is limited to 24 teens. Free, but teens must attend both workshops. Registration began Decem- ber 12. Info: 991-2030. Five weeks of exploration

Jan. 7, 14, 21 & 28: and discovery. Nature Walk, 3:30-4:30 P.M., NATURE CENTER. Beat feet to the front door of For the summer of 2006, we invite you to become an the exhibit and join the weekend natu- Exonian. Join us as we welcome to campus some 600 ralist for a walk around the trails. Info: 321-5935. students, who come to us from nearly every state and from over three dozen foreign nations. Become part of a Jan. 9: Swearing In Cer- emony, 7 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS richly diverse community of students and faculty. CITY HALL. Newly elected City Council members will be sworn into service. We offer Residential/Day programs for motivated students. Info: 491-1421, Jeri Chaikin. You will enjoy full access to our campus with its state-of-

Jan. 10: Concert Band & the-art Phelps Science Center, the world’s largest secondary Winds Performance, 7:30 P.M., school library, and expansive athletic facilities. Our UPPER SHAKER MIDDLE SCHOOL. High school students toot their horns. SCHOOL program is for students entering grade 10, 11, 12 or PG. ACCESS EXETER, a program of accelerated study in the arts Jan. 11: The Low-Down and sciences, is open to students entering grade 8 or 9. on Downloading, 7:30 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Got a new MP3 player for the holidays? Need to know how to use it to For more detailed information and an application packet, download books? Get help at the library. please contact the Summer School Office. Steve Smith from Recorded Books will be on hand to talk about what’s new in the ebook world and librarians will serve up hands-on help and refreshments. Info: 991-2030.

Tel (603) 777-3488 Fax (603) 777-4385 email [email protected] www.exeter.edu/summer

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THE 14TH ANNUAL Nature Center Pho- BOYS & GIRLS • INDIVIDUALS • TEAMS • TRAVEL & PREMIER • GOALKEEPERS Jan. 12: tography Club Meeting, 6-8 P.M., NATURE CENTER. All are welcome in the meeting room of the Nature Center. For more information, email NCSL Volun- teer & Visitor Coordinator Sara Thorne at [email protected], or call 321- 5935 x 237. The Nature Center’s Nature Photography Club meets the second Thursday of each month. For the latest information on the Nature Photography Club, visit www.shakerlakes.org/photographyclub.htm Jan. 12, 26 & Feb. 9: Knit Nights, 7 P.M., Bertram Woods Branch, 20600 Fayette Rd. Bring a project and get or give help. Experienced knitter Fern Braverman and others will be on hand to help. Info: 991-2421.

EACH PARTICIPANT RECEIVES A DIADORA CAMP BALL AND A CAMP T-SHIRT. TEAM CAMPS AVAILABLE AT YOUR HOME FIELD! SIGN-UP FAST! ENROLLMENT LIMITED! FOR MORE INFORMATION AND BROCHURE, CONTACT CAMP DIRECTOR PAUL DRIESEN Jan. 12: Meet the Artists, AT [email protected] OR 440-740-1464. 7:30 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Meet the Con- temporary Cloth artists whose unique Our Success is Built work hangs on the library’s gallery wall. On Teamwork! Info: 991-2030. Jan. 13: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Writing Contest Awards Ceremony, 4:30 P.M., Main Library. Meet the winners in the library’s 8th annual competition and hear them read their Peaceful Expressions. Info: 991-2030.

7E3ERVEALL Jan. 14: Thornton Park Ice 9OUR&AVORITES Fest, Noon-6 P.M., THORNTON PARK. Join in the winter fun for a hot time and Let Your AND-ORE cool activities. Info: 491-1290. Success Be !ROMATIC#RISPY$UCK"REAST/NLYATTHE0EARL Built with Us! Jan. 16: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. CITY OFFICES, SCHOOLS Team Up with AND LIBRARIES CLOSED. Caple-Henderson

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Jan. 17: Mysteries of Eas- Our family welcomes yours ter Island, 10-11:30 A.M. NATURE to CENTER. Friends of the Nature Center discover host John Gardner, who will present a a program as unique slide show about Easter Island, which as your child. is home to giant statues and many curi- osities. Info: 321-5935. JDN offers an extraordinary program for children, ages 18 months to 6 years. The personal and nurturing environment Jan. 17: Ben Franklin’s encourages self-expression, confidence 300th Birthday Party & Open Mic and respect, as well as academic excellence. It embraces all the values Aphorisms, 7 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. that are central to our home,with Celebrate the accomplishments of this kosher food too. statesman responsible for the creation To find out more about our NAEYC of the first free lending library and for accredited programs, call Director revamping the postal system. Sample Sue Paley Weaver to arrange a personal birthday cake and read a maxim at the tour. Toddler, full- and half-day preschool and kindergarten classes mic. Info: 991-2030. are forming now for fall 2006. The Connors Jan. 17: Not Your Mother’s Needlepoint, 7:30 P.M., BERTRAM Sue Paley Weaver, M.S.S.A., L.I.S.W., Director (216)320-8489 • www.jdnearlychildhoodcenter.org FOUNDED IN 1922 WOODS BRANCH. Adrienne Spencer of 22201 Fairmount Blvd. • Shaker Heights, Ohio 44118 NAEYC ACCREDITED Wool and Willow Needlepoint Shop will talk about trends and bring exam- New Toddler Classes! Fun and learning for children, ages 18 to 36 months. ples of new products. Info: 991-2421.

Jan. 18 & 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15 & 22: Parenting Class, 6-8 P.M. SHAKER FAMILY CENTER. Stressed out? Kids driving you crazy? Come for a light meal, childcare and tips on how to parent successfully. Free. This series is funded by Ohio Chil- dren’s Trust Fund. Info: 921-2023

Jan. 19: Flyer & Brochure Class, 9:30-11:30 A.M., FAIRHILL CEN- TER, 12200 Fairhill Rd. Class for the 50+ set to learn how to create com- Ad from: Bellefaire JCB, Liz Ruttenberge, (216) 320-8504 puter-generated flyers and brochures. Ad to: Shaker Magazine Fees and info: 421-1350 ext. 125. Issue: none listed Size: Same size as last year’s Due Date: 11/25/05 Jan. 19: Movie@ Main, 6:30 E-Mail: [email protected] P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Watch Red Eye, a Cost: $450 PG-13 rated suspense that takes place in a jet at 30,000 feet. Public performance rights paid for by Friends of the Shaker Library. Info: 991-2030.

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Jan. 20: Professional Day. No school for Shaker students in grades 7-12.

Jan. 20: Buckeye Bob As- sembly, 1 P.M., ST. DOMINIC SCHOOL, Buckeye Bob will tell tales of the early Ohio settlers. All are invited! Info and reservations: 561-4400.

Jan. 20: Story Time, 10:30 A.M., Hanna PERKINS CENTER. Shaker Library’s Early Literacy Specialist Wendy Simon tells stories. $5 or free with drop- in pass purchase. Info: Karen Gouland- ris 929-0201. w i n t e r Jan. 21: A Night at the Races, should not ST. DOMINIC SCHOOL. Imagine yourself at the Kentucky Derby! St. Dominic be the season School is hosting its annual Run For the Roses complete with food, spirits, o f y o u r Chinese auctions and raffles! The night culminates in the ten races! Tickets and info: 561-4400. discontent.

Jan. 21: Early Childhood Dis- covery Days: Chinese New Year, 10 Most people shy away from A.M.-NOON, HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL. putting their homes up for Children ages 2 ½-5 years and a parent sale during the winter are invited to celebrate the Year of the months. But Cathy LeSueur Dog! Info: 320-8098. has many ways to encourage buyers to act and you can take advantage of her proven First Time Homebuy- system. She’ll present you with a detailed Jan. 21: ers Seminar, 10 A.M.-NOON, shaker marketing plan that outlines what it will take community building. to sell your home. She’ll aggressively seek Learn from the Volpe Millwork experts about how to be a savvy buyer in buyers through advertising, feature your 4500 Lee Rd., Cleveland, OH 44128 Info: 751-8550, Myra home on the weekly TV Open House and post today’s market. white. your property on the Howard Hanna website Designers & Manufacturers of to ensure maximum exposure. Give Cathy a Custom Cabinets, Furniture call today at 216-999-8408 and find out how Reproductions, Artistic Accents, Jan. 23: Open House, 1-3 P.M. easy selling your home can be. Wholehouse Interior ST. DOMINIC SCHOOL. Celebrate National Remodeling & Repair Catholic Schools Week with a school (216) 581-0200 tour followed by a spaghetti dinner. Fax (216) 581-7589 Info: 561-4400. • We Can Turn Your Ideas Into Reality •

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Jan. 23: MLK, Jr. Award for Human Relations, 7 P.M. CITY HALL. City’s Human Relations Committee honors winner of the MLK award for 2005. Ratner School students as individual as the programs we provide for them. Jan. 26: Preschool Fair, 6:30- OPEN HOUSE 8 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Meet reps from Sun. Jan. 8: 12:00 p.m. Tues. Feb. 7: 9:30 a.m. area preschools and daycares and find Call for information: 216.291.0033 the right program for your progeny. This event is cosponsored with Shaker Family Summer Camps Center. Info: 991-2030. Montessori Toddler Camp, Play Camp, Academic Mornings & Adventure Afternoons Jan. 28: Open House, 10 June 19-July 14 • Call for details. A.M.-NOON, LAUREL SCHOOL. Parents and children are invited to visit the Coed Early Childhood Center & Girls’ Primary Division. Info: 464-1441.

Jan. 28: The Vermeer String Quartet: The Beethoven String Montessori: Toddler, Pre-K, K • Day School: Grades 1-8 • New Campus in Pepper Pike, Aug. 28, ’06 Quartets, 7:30 P.M., PLYMOUTH 4900 Anderson Rd., Lyndhurst, OH 44124 • 216.291.0033 • www.theratnerschool.org CHURCH. Part of the Cleveland Mu- seum of Art’s VIVA! & Gala series, this Shaker Magazine, Jan/Feb. outstanding group will retire at the end of 2007. See them in Shaker before they are gone! Tickets: $29/person; $24/ CMA members.

Jan. 30: Poetry Not in the presents Woods, 7 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Friends ® of the Shaker Library funds original po- Debit MasterCard Use your debit card wherever MasterCard is accepted. etry performances by significant poets. Purchases are deducted directly from your checking account. Free. Info: 991-2030. No checks to write, more privacy, more time. Sometimes life can be so simple. You Can Join! for February Membership is open to all who Live, Work, Worship, or Attend School in Shaker Heights...and their Families

Feb. 2: Movie @ Main, 6:30 “Real People, Real Financial Solutions” P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Watch The Corpse serving our members since 1954 Bride, Tim Burton’s PG-rated animated 15808 Chagrin Boulevard feature. Public performance rights paid Shaker Heights, OH 44120 for by Friends of the Shaker Library. (216) 752-6111 Info: 991-2030. ★ WWW.SHAKERCOMMUNITY.COM ★

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Feb. 2: 8th Grade Orientation, Feb. 4, 11, 18 & 25: speaker Jim Jones offers full-court press 7 P.M., SHAKER HIGH SCHOOL. Evening Nature Walk, 3:30-4:30 P.M., NATURE inspiration along with encouragement opportunity for students and parents to CENTER. Meet at the front door for a accompanied by basketball spinning, take a peek at the high school. naturalist-led walk around the trails. dribbling and juggling. Reservations: Info: 321-5935. 561-4400. Feb. 3, 10, 17 & 24: Fri- Nature Center Photog- days in February, 1-2 P.M., HATHAWAY Feb. 7: Environmental Town Feb. 9: raphy Club Meeting, 6-8 P.M., NATURE BROWN SCHOOL. Learning activities and Hall Brown Bag Lunch Series, CENTER. Meet in the Meeting room of the crafts for pre-school children and par- NOON-1 P.M., NATURE CENTER. CSI Goes Nature Center. For more information, ents. Info and registration: 320-8098. Buggy! Joe B. Keiper, Curator of Inverte- brate Zoology at the Cleveland Museum email NCSL Volunteer & Visitor Coordi- of Natural History, discusses Forensic nator Thorne at [email protected], or Hands-On Science, Feb. 4: Entomology and takes questions from the by phone 321-5935 x237 each month. 9-11 A.M., SHAKER MIDDLE SCHOOL. audience. Info: 321-5935. For the latest information on the Nature PTO-sponsored interactive science fun Photography Club, go to www.shakerlakes. for students in grades 2-6. org/photographyclub.htm Feb. 7: Sports Boosters, 7:30 P.M., SHAKER HIGH TEACHERS’ CAFE- Feb. 4: Traditional African Feb. 11: Altered Books Work- Baby Naming Ceremony, 2 P.M., MAIN TERIA. All athletic supporters welcome! shop, 10 A.M.-1 P.M., BERTRAM WOODS LIBRARY. Join in the festivities that feature BRANCH. Friends of the Shaker Library music, dance and food! Cosponsored by Feb. 7: Jim “Basketball” Jones, presents a unique workshop with artist the Anioma Association of Greater Cleve- 1 P.M. ST. DOMINIC SCHOOL. Learn to re- Brenda K. Robinson, who teaches recy- Info: 991-2030. land. bound from life’s little fouls! Motivational cling old books into art. Info: 991-2421.

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Feb. 11: Bird Seed Sale Pick- Feb. 15: Public Forum for Feb. 15: Orchestra Concert, up, 10 A.M.-3 P.M., NATURE CENTER. Thornton Park Plan, 7 P.M., SHAKER 7:30 P.M., SHAKER MIDDLE SCHOOL. Mark your calendar now – the birds are COMMUNITY BUILDING. Make a splash High school and middle school students counting on you for the winter! Call Paul with your ideas and add your constructive perform. Anderson at the Nature Center at 321- comments about Shaker’s plan for recre- 5935 ext. 222 to pre-order seed. Dead- ation. Info: Ann Pylkas, 491-1436. Lo- Feb. 15-18: New Stages 24, line is Monday, Feb. 6. cal History Tidbit: Thornton Park was 8 P.M., shaker high. Students perform named for Charles Thornton, who be- student work. February 17 and 18 per- Book Discussion, 2:30 came the City’s first recreation director, Feb. 11: formances at 7:15 and 9 p.m. P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Read and discuss combining his part-time position with his Race Matters by Cornel West. duties as principal of Moreland School, Info: 991-2030. which is now the Main Library. Barbara Feb. 18: The Melody and Haas Rawson was chair of the Recreation the Legacy of Jazz, 2:30 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Members of the Jazz Heritage Feb. 12: Cleveland’s Black Board in the 1960s that recommended Orchestra of Cleveland State University’s Lawyers in a Changing City: 1870- the creation of Thornton Park. Black Studies Program entertain and 1930, 3 P.M., SHAKER HISTORICAL MUSE- enlighten listeners through live perfor- UM. CWRU Law Professor Bob Strassfeld Financial Literacy: Feb. 15: mances and accompanying discussion on is the featured speaker. Info: 921-1201. Municipal Bond Investing, 7 P.M., the heritage of jazz culture and music. BERTRAM WOODS BRANCH. Jeff Marvaldi Free. Info: 991-2030. Feb. 13: Red Cross Bloodmo- and Chris Rosenthal UBS Financial bile, 2-7 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Give the Services advisors will speak on municipal gift of life. bonds. Free. Info: 991-2421. Larchmere Imports Solving problems. Educating customers. BMW Specialists Free 20 Point Inspection for New Customers* • Competitive Prices • OEM BMW Parts • ASE Certified Technicians • Preferred Installers for Tire Rack • Loaner Cars Available • Family Owned Since 1986 *New BMW customers only. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Oil Service Special + Free 20 STEERING & SUSPENSION SPECIAL!* Point Inspection ($74 Value)! Reg. $ Inspection Includes: The following services are included: • Check bushings, ball joints, tires & wheels. • Engine oil and filter replacement Over a $100 Savings $54 Only 34 • Diagnose any pulls to left or right. • Rotate tires. • Check and top off additional fluids • Check and rotate tires if needed *Bulb replacement, parts/labor extra. Plus...Take 15% Off All Diagnosed Steering & Suspension Work! • Check exterior bulbs* Cannot be combined with any other offer. *Does not include alignment check. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Expires 2/28/06. • Reset oil service light Synthetic oil extra. Expires 2/28/06.

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atherine Connelly, Pam Hume, CC Ruth Hudson, Virginia Rondeau and 50 other “empty nesters” all agreed that they were fortunate to raise their families in Shaker Heights with its quaint, caring community. But when it came time to retire, they wanted to live in Chagrin Falls with the same feel of community. They all chose Hamlet “friends enjoying life by the falls” Village to start their next adventure – an active retirement. At Hamlet Village, they enjoy a full-service retirement community without the large entrance fees, giving them control of their assets and their freedom...freedom to travel and enjoy life knowing that a gardener, chauffer, chef and A New Lifestyle for Active Retirees housekeeper are all taking care of their large condo-style apartments. Call Valerie to find out how you can enjoy an active retirement CALL 440-247-4676 with more than 50 other former neighbors Hamlet Village in Chagrin Falls who have chosen to live at Hamlet Village, 200 Hamlet Hills Dr. Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 a full service continuing care retirement www.hamletretirement.com community in Chagrin Falls. out & about continued...

Ongoing Family Activities MONDAYS: Wood Working for Kids, WEDNESDAYS: Drop-in Literacy Play 4 P.M., HANNA PERKINS CENTER FOR Sessions for Home Daycare Provid- ers, 10 A.M.-NOON, PLAY AND LEARN Get the red out CHILD DEVELOPMENT-PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE CENTER 19910 MALVERN RD. STATION, MAIN LIBRARY. Free drop-in Circle the date We Raised Our Families times for home daycare providers and This Shaker Schools’ benefit Children (ages 5-9 with an adult) use their children from birth to age five. Is graded top rate! physical, logical and social knowledge in Shaker Heights, while learning to use tools safely to make Co-sponsored by Shaker Family Center and Shaker Library. INFO: 921-2023 or Red Letter Day! Get the red out a footstool and a musical instrument. 991-2030. and circle the date of March 11 for the Fee: $40/4-week session beginning Jan. Friends of the Shaker Schools Foundation 23. I nfo: 929-0201, Karen Goulandris. WEDNESDAYS: Music in the Morning, We Retired benefit A Night for the Red & White to be 10:30 A.M., HANNA PERKINS CENTER held at the Intercontinental Hotel. Shhhh! TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS: FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT-PARENT/CHILD in Chagrin Falls. Want to donate to the silent auction or Drop-In Play Sessions, 9-11:30 A.M., HANNA PERKINS CENTER FOR CHILD RESOURCE CENTER. Parents and children advertise in the catalog? Deadline is DEVELOPMENT-PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE (infants-4 years) share the joy of music January 19. Tickets and info: CENTER. through group singing, fingerplays, and 295-4325, Chris Auginas. Child’s play sessions for infants to age 8 with a parent or caregiver. Fees experimentation with instruments and Info: 929-0201, Karen Goulandris. dance. $60/8-week session beginning Jan. MONDAYS: Art, 11:30 A.M., HANNA PER- and 11. Info: 929-0201, Karen Goulandris. KINS CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT- TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS: PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE CENTER 19910 Play and Learn Station, 10 A.M.- THURSDAYS: Roller Skating, NOON. atherine Connelly, Pam Hume, MALVERN RD. Children use different art media to explore and learn about colors, NOON, MAIN LIBRARY. Free drop-in, OR 4.00 P.M., HANNA PERKINS CENTER CC Ruth Hudson, Virginia Rondeau literacy-based play for parents and FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT-PARENT/CHILD designs and textures. Each week children RESOURCE CENTER. Yes! It still exists! and 50 other “empty nesters” all ages 2-4 will create a new page to com- caregivers with children from birth to age five. Co-sponsored by Shaker Family Children ages 2 ½-4 years can have fun agreed that they were fortunate to pile their own art portfolio. $35/5-week TUESDAYS & safely learning beginning skating skills. session beginning Jan. 9. Info: 929-0201, Center and Shaker Library. raise their families in Shaker Heights THURSDAYS, 6-8 PM. INFO: 921-2023 or Music is used for movement activities Karen Goulandris. with its quaint, caring community. 991-2030. that coincide with skating skills. Skates are provided by the Resource Center. But when it came time to retire, they MONDAYS: Learning English as a Family, 7-8 P.M. SHAKER FAMILY CEN- TUESDAYS: Art, NOON, HANNA PERKINS $60/8-week session beginning Jan.12. wanted to live in Chagrin Falls with the same Info: 929-0201, Karen Goulandris. TER, 19824 SUSSEX RD. Program includes CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT- feel of community. They all chose Hamlet weekly group time for children, adult ESL PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE CENTER. Chil- FRIDAYS: Music and Fun, 4-4:45 P.M., “friends enjoying life by the falls” class and bi-weekly home visits. Regis- dren ages 2-4 years will use different art Village to start their next adventure – an HANNA PERKINS CENTER FOR CHILD tration and info: 921-2023. media to explore and learn about colors, active retirement. At Hamlet Village, they designs and textures and will create a new DEVELOPMENT- PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE CENTER. enjoy a full-service retirement community MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS: Drop-In page each week for their own art portfo- Parents and children (infants- play Sessions, 2-3:30 P.M., HANNA lios. $35/5-week session beginning Jan. 4 years) share the joy of music through without the large entrance fees, giving them PERKINS CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOP- 10. Info: 929-0201, Karen Goulandris. group singing, fingerplays and experi- control of their assets and their MENT-PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE CENTER mentation with instruments and dance. TUESDAYS: Books By Me, 4 P.M., Infants-4yrs $60/8-week session begin- freedom...freedom to travel and enjoy life 19910 Malvern Rd. Child’s play sessions for infants to age 8 with a parent or care- HANNA PERKINS CENTER FOR CHILD ning Jan. 13. Info: Karen Goulandris, knowing that a gardener, chauffer, chef and giver. Fees and Info: 929-0201, Karen DEVELOPMENT-PARENT/CHILD RESOURCE 929-0201. A New Lifestyle for Active Retirees housekeeper are all taking care of their large Goulandris. CENTER.19910 MALVERN RD. Parents help their children (ages 4-7) compose a book SATURDAYS: Drop-in Gym, 10 A.M.– condo-style apartments. Call Valerie to find MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS: Drop-in after listening to a story. Books will focus NOON, SHAKER FAMILY CENTER, 19824 out how you can enjoy an active retirement 9:30 A.M.-NOON, SHAK- SUSSEX RD. Parents/grandparents and CALL 440-247-4676 Play Sessions, on feelings and issues children may expe- with more than 50 other former neighbors ER FAMILY CENTER PATRICIA S. MEARNS rience as part of growing up. $70/8-week children from birth to age five can run Hamlet Village in Chagrin Falls FAMILY PLAYROOM, 19824 SUSSEX RD. session beginning Jan. 10. and play Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon, begin- who have chosen to live at Hamlet Village, 200 Hamlet Hills Dr. Parents and caregivers with children Info: 929-0201, Karen Goulandris. ning November 5. Discount family passes Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 a full service continuing care retirement from birth to 3 years can play and make available. 921-2023. www.hamletretirement.com community in Chagrin Falls. friends. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thurs- days & Fridays: 4-6 P.M. for parents and caregivers with children from birth to age five. Fees and info: 921-2023.

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Feb. 20: Presidents’ Day. CITY OFFICES AND SCHOOLS CLOSED. libraries open.

Feb. 20: Poetry Not in the Woods, 7 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Friends of the Shaker Library funds original poetry performances by significant poets. Free. Info: 991-2030.

Feb. 21: Building Bridges Between Home & School, 7 P.M., LAUREL SCHOOL. The Parenting Lecture Series features a presentation by child psychologist Lisa Damour. Free and open to the public. Info: 464-1441.

Feb. 23: The Post-Integration Legacy of Black Americans, 7 P.M., MAIN LIBRARY. Meet and hear Channel 19 Action News reporter and WCPN journalist Harry Boomer, Dr. Rita “B” Beckford, Warrensville Heights Mayor Marcia L. Fudge, Esq., Cuyahoga County "OB3USIE:IMMER 3AYhHIvTO3USIEAND4YWHENYOUSEE THEMONYOURSTREETx7HERES"OB Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, Rev. REALLYKNOW3HAKER (ARDATWORKSHOWINGANDSELLING Dr. Marvin A. McMickle, Shaker Heights 3HAKERSlNESTHOMES"UYINGORSELLING City Councilman Earl Williams and #ONTACT"OB:IMMER OR CSU’s Assistant Professor Dr. Regen- ONTHEWEB "OB:IMMERNET nia N. Williams share in a discussion on issues affecting African Americans in a culturally diverse society. Free. Info: 991-2030. 4Y3USIE:IMMER 'REATER#LEVELAND Feb. 23: Little Women, 7 P.M., HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL. How apro- pos! The young women of HB perform the classic story of Marmie and her four little women — Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy. FEB. 24 & 25 performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $8/adults; $6/students and seniors. Box Office: 932-4212 ext. 7186.

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Feb. 24: Annual Friends Fireside Dinner, 6:30 P.M., NATURE CENTER. Join the Friends of the Nature Center for the annual potluck dinner. Bring a side dish to share and gather ’round the fireplace with good food and friends. $8/members; $10/non-members. (Drinks and main dish provided.) Call 321-5935, to sign up and tell us what you will bring.

Feb. 24: Sankofa Celebration, 7 P.M., SHAKER HIGH SCHOOL. Students and teachers celebrate Black History Month. Recommended Outside of Shaker

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Thru January & February: Millionaires’ Row: The Legacy of Euclid Avenue. WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 10825 East Blvd. Exhibit looks at turn- of-the20th-century Euclid Avenue when it was home to Cleveland’s many millionaires. Fees and info: 721-5722.

Jan. 20-Feb. 17: Win- dow to Sculpture Artist 3: Kristen Baumlier, THE SCULPTURE CENTER, 1834 E. 123rd St. Does technology bring us closer or further away from one another? Find the answer in these multimedia installations. Info: 229-6527.

Feb. 1, 8, 15: Midday Mu- sic, 12:30 P.M., CIM, 11021 East Blvd. Free student performances. Info: 791- 5000 or www.cim.edu

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Spend Your d Feb 12: Ohio Center for Summer at the Book: An Afternoon with Rita Dove, 2 P.M., CLEVELAND PUBLIC LI- Hawken! BRARY LOUIS STOKES WING AUDITORIUM. Rita Dove received the Pulitzer Prize in Summer Opportunities Fair 1987 for her book of poetry, Thomas and Saturday, February 4, 2006, Beulah. She was the youngest poet laure- 10 am - 1:30 pm Visit more than 100 exhibitors ate of the United States and has received from the U.S. and Canada! national and international recognition Learn about possibilities for her poetry, including a National for an unforgettable summer! Book Critics Circle Award nomination Hawken School, Lyndhurst Campus for On the Bus with Rosa Parks. Free. 5000 Clubside Rd., off Richmond Rd. between Cedar and Mayfield Info: 623-2800. Hawken Day Camps Boys and Girls Day Camps Feb. 12: 15th Annual Black Boys and Girls Sports Camps Heritage Concert, 4 P.M., CIM. June 19 - July 28, 2006 Ensemble performances by Cleveland To register, call or email School of the Arts, R. Nathaniel Dett (440) 423-2940, [email protected] Concert Choir directed by William B. Summer Theater Institute Woods, Chamber Orchestra directed by A four-week theater program for Dianna Richardson, and Urban Dance students ages 11-18 Presented by the Collective directed by Terrence Green. Great Lakes Theater Festival Seating passes are distributed 30 min- and Hawken School utes before the concert. Info: 791-5000 June 19 - July 14, 2006 or www.cim.edu Hawken School, Gates Mills Campus For more information, call (440) 423-2125 Feb. 21: Pianofest, 7:30 P.M., Summer Studies CIM. Students and faculty perform at Hawken School under the direction of Paul Schenly, Enrichment and remedial courses who adds lively commentary that brings ONE YOU in reading, writing, art and math great piano literature to life. Reception ONE HAWKEN for grades 6-12 following. General admission $5 at the ONE SUCCESS AFTER ANOTHER June 19-July 28, 2006 door; students free. Info: 791-5000 or www.hawken.edu For more information, call (440) 423-2935 www.cim.edu

Feb. 22: CityMusic, 7:30 P.M., FAIRMOUNT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 2757 Fairmount Blvd. All-Beethoven Ad from: Hawken School, Lauraprogram, Lewis, (440) includes 423-2952 Symphony #7 and Subject: Summer Camps the Triple Concerto. Soloists are violinist Ad to: Shaker Life Magazine Kyung Sun Lee of the Oberlin Conser- Issue: Jan/Feb 2006 vatory; cellist Edward Arron, Artistic Size: 1/2 V, 4-13/16" w X 7-7/16"Director h of the Metropolitan Museum Color: B&W Artists in Concert; and pianist Daniel Cost: $ Shapiro, of the Cleveland Institute of Due Date: 12/4/05 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax: Rebecca Wong, (216) 491-1465 82 www.shakeronline.com Ad Rep: Rebecca Wong, (216) 752-3059, (216) 491-1465 Crow’s Nest Music. Program includes an art exhibit: Sail Camp of mixed media by Cleveland artists. FREE. Families and children welcome. Mentor Harbor Yachting Club Info: 321-8273 or email info@citymusic- cleveland.org.

d Feb. 25: The Kronos Quar- tet, 7:30 P.M. CLEVELAND MASONIC AND PERFORMANCE CENTER, 3615 EUCLID AVE. Galactic sounds and multimedia music! NASA commissioned piece by MHYC’s “Crow’s Nest Sail Terry Riley features photos of the solar Camp” provides recreational sailing skills, water safety, system from the Voyager and Galileo swim team, seamanship and space probes prepared by designer Willie competitive sailing for young Williams. Tickets $39/person; $34/CMA people up to age 18. members. Excellent preparation for 216.337.2996 service academies, collegiate athletics, and life.

The Camp runs from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, five days a week for six weeks, from the midlle of June through the end of 4(% July. !,7AIN#O ).6)4!4)/.334!4)/.%29 CLUB MEMBERSHIP IS NOT 3).#% REQUIRED FOR SAIL CAMP! editorial: Rory O’Connor (Whelan Communications) ¢ (216)574-4330, [email protected] &OR%VERY4ASTE%VERY/CCASION Major Credit Cards Accepted Advertising manager: John Moore, (216)531-4044 [email protected] 7%$$).' "!2"!4-)4:6!().6)4!4)/.3 Design: Epstein Design Partners, Inc. 3/#)!,"!"9!../5.#%-%.43 Production & design: Jennifer Dial MHYC Offers: &).%0%23/.!,"53).%3334!4)/.%29 city news: Vicki Zoldessy, (216) 491-1412 [email protected] .!0+).30!249!##%33/2)%3 • Renovated Clubhouse out and about: Margaret Simon • Easy access via new 615 Exit Photography: Marc Golub "Y!PPOINTMENT Green Street Studios !-97!).'!2.)4: • Brand new docks

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Signalizationizingation

By John R. Brandt Then, too, the (alleged) precision of like to call it, the Signalizationizing the planning – the signs say things like Process. Which will lead, inevitably, to Nothing says “Shaker” more in recent “Road Closed For 413 Days” – boggles Signalizationizingation….” months than the City’s durable new the mind. “I don’t know what’s more Tree Trimming. This work, like flower: the Orange Barrel, now blooming amazing,” Shaker Man tells his wife, most utility efforts, is difficult and slow, on a corner near you. And while the OBs “The fact that a single project will take requiring lots of workers in each location. have, at long last, provided a reason to 413 days, or the fact that they know For Shaker Man, however, the worst own that 78-ton amphibious SUV that EXACTLY how long it will take.” part of the trimming process occurs not doesn’t fit into your little Shaker garage “You have too much time on your on the roads, but in his own backyard. (i.e., it’s now easier to drive across the hands,” says Ms. Shaker Man. One fine Monday morning, as our hero Shaker Lakes than on the City’s streets), Traffic Signalization is easily yodels country music in a loosely tied these traffic-tanglers have confused the most confusing part of Shaker’s bathrobe while taking out the garbage, he residents as to just why they suddenly infrastructure renovation, with stumpy runs smack into one of the hard-hatted appeared. As a public service, then, new electrical conduits installed on tree guys surveying the Norwegian Fjord Shaker Man offers his guide: corners in the middle of the night, only Oaks, dislodging both a cigarette and a Roads: Perhaps the simplest to to be covered with orange barrels for look of abject fear. Shaker Man quickly explain, as the City labors to upgrade months until the traffic fairy, again at learns that not only is there no graceful our aging streets. Less comprehensible, midnight, deposits new traffic light poles way to explain bathrobe yodeling, but however, is why every state agency and (but, oddly enough, no traffic lights). that every attempt to do so will only local utility east of the Mississippi also Background: Federal funding was inspire a 250-pound utility worker to decided to start infrastructure work at originally requested by the City during run even faster – backwards – down your the same time; these projects include the Fillmore administration in 1852, driveway. sewers (recognizable by secret work sites but approvals from various agencies Offers Ms. Shaker Man: “Now that’s surrounded by 10-foot prison fences) and – including neighborhood associations, something you don’t see every day.” water lines (recognizable by the presence City departments, state agencies, the “A utility worker with a 4.6-second of large hoses by the side of the road and U.S Department of Transportation, the 40-yard dash?” spurting fire hydrants). U.N. Committee on Suburban Traffic “No,” she says, pointing, “A utility All these detours and confusions mean Congestion, and the International Indoor worker putting a line of orange barrels that Shaker Man now has to carry a Knitting League – resulted in a 153-year across our entire front yard.” highlighted map of the City at all times, delay, driving the project’s cost from “I’d better go explain….” trying to remember which roads are open $56.38 and three chickens to more than “No.” and in what direction at which times of $78.2 billion. “But….” the day. His task is complicated by the “You know you’re in trouble,” offers “There’s a sign, too.” fact that just when he thinks he’s got Shaker Man, “with any project that “That says?” it down, a road crew suddenly appears takes a perfectly acceptable noun like “‘Crazy Person Here for 413 Days.’” at Lee and Shaker, blocking two lanes signal, bastardizes once it into a verb while they excavate a deep hole, only to – signalize – and then re-bastardizes mysteriously abandon it later in the day it into yet another noun: signalization. after covering it with steel plates and four I can’t wait for them to actually begin OBs. hooking up traffic lights – or, as I

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