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June 2014 Volume 36 Number 4 www.oldbrooklynconnected.com Reopened Treadway Creek Trail tops list of recent recreation rehabs by Dave Goldense continuous between Cuyahoga Valley [email protected] National Park and Lake Erie. Old Brooklyn’s quality selection of The Treadway Trail reopening is not the recreation and green space received another only piece of good news for recreation in our boost on Friday, May 23rd, when the area. Additional improvements are being Treadway Creek Trail at Harmody Park made to Estabrook Recreation Center and (1700 Mayview Ave.) officially reopened. the baseball fields at Loew Park. Ward 12 Council member Tony Brancatelli This past autumn, winter and spring hosted the ribbon-cutting ceremony; Ward saw Estabrook receive a new parking lot, 13 Council member Kevin Kelley and Old roof and boiler system; improvements are Brooklyn Community Development well underway on the swimming pool, Corporation executive director Jeffrey which needed a new heater. Verespej had scissors on the ribbon, too . Just in time for summer, baseball games The trail had been closed to repair a fissure at Loew Park this year will enjoy a new and on the path which was caused by erosion. improved field. The drainage was corrected, The Treadway Creek Trail is a neigh- wood on the bleachers was replaced, new borhood connector path, part of the Ohio & fencing was added, and the ball fields were Erie Canalway which provides direct access regraded. Also, there will be a new rubber for Old Brooklyn residents to the Towpath composite surface on Loew Park’s play- Trail. The Trail is now almost completely ground. Cyclists should be equally Ward 12 Councilman Tony Brancatelli, along with Ward 13 Councilman Kevin Kelley and excited Old Brooklyn Community Development Corportation’s executive director Jeffrey about rid- Verespej and neighborhood kids, hosted the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Harmody Park. ing in the So whether it is taking an excursion neighbor- Capital Improvements Plan, with Denison down the Treadway Creek Trail to the hood. Ave. receiving bike lanes as part of its resur- Towpath, watching your child’s tee ball Bike facing this summer and Pearl Rd. slated to game at Loew Park, or enjoying a leisurely lanes are a receive bike lanes in the near future as well. picnic and stroll through Brookside major part Other all purpose trails in place include over Reservation, there are recreational opportu- of the two miles of paved paths at Brookside nities awaiting every Old Brooklyn resident Photos by Sheila Quealy-Walter City’s Reservation. The first cyclist to head down the reopened Treadway Creek Trail was also the this summer. first cyclist to head down it when it originally opened. Old Brooklyn finally celebrating bicentennial -V Lynette Filips In case anyone was wondering, the pub- So more history-related displays and/or [email protected] lishing of the Arcadia book of vintage Old activities could follow, including the release Brooklyn photos from past decades has been of the book. I changed the headline from ‘looking to’ delayed. Although it didn’t get printed in In re-reading what I’ve already written the bicentennial to ‘celebrating’ the bicen- time for the Pop UP Pearl event on Saturday, about the original Brooklyn Township, it tennial in my Brooklyn Township history May 17th (as we had reported that it would occurred to me that the names of the earliest article this month. No longer are we looking be), the majority of the summer -- and half settlers in the vicinity of the Big Creek to the bicentennial; we are right in the mid- the bicentennial year -- are still ahead of us. Valley -- Foote, Fish, Hinckley, Brainerd, dle of it. Gates, Busch, Schaaf -- are repeatedly men- tioned, but so many other names just slip by. An easy way to come up with the names of others is to walk through our oldest ceme- teries and look at the names on the head- stones, and/or read the street name signs, See Bicentennial V, page 8 Inside The OBN Executive Director; Community Spotlight; Black Drum Barbeque 2 News & Events 3 BF Garden; City Burning 4 The Town Crier; Community The 2014-15 Business Directory and Meetings; Carol Lade Obit 5 Service Guide will begin being distributed Commercial News 6 this month to Old Brooklyn & Brooklyn Centre households and businesses and to Tool Box; Comm. Ordinances 7 drop-offs in the City of Brooklyn. Senior Day; W.C. Reed 8 For more information about where to obtain the 2014-15 Business Directory and Family Fun; Theatre Notes 9 Service Guide in your area or for addition- Church & Senior Notes 10 al copies, contact Sandy at 216-459-1000 or Service Directory & Classified 11 visit the OBCDC office, 2339 Broadview Rd., during regular business hours (8:30 Fireworks; Historical Society 12 a.m. to 5 p.m.), Monday through Friday. PAGE 2 OLD BROOKLYN NEWS JUNE 2014 were run by volunteers. So Northcoast From the desk of the Promotions was born on April 15, 2004. Lisa started with six shows a year, and this year she executive director is managing 54 shows! She developed a for- mula for all of her events, big and small, and by Jeffrey T. Verespej providers and fami- manages vendors in an organized and consis- [email protected] lies will continue to tent manner. allow Old Brooklyn Lisa Nemeth Cleveland neighborhoods face a new nor- to compete both by Jayme Lucas-Bukszar mal, and one that needs to be served by an within Northeast [email protected] evolved community development model. This Ohio and beyond. new normal relates to the economic changes in Fortunately, the 21st Century; the former geo-community If you have been to Pop UP Pearl, Wings Old Brooklyn is structure of “City-State-Country” no longer & Things Cookoff, Third Fridays at W. 78th well-positioned to represents how economies grow, populations Street Studios, the Warehouse District Festival, meet those complex migrate or communities compete. and/or local craft shows you have witnessed challenges due to historical neighborhood The new way we think and move is via Lisa Nemeth at work. Through her company, assets and community leadership. However, “Neighborhood-Region-Globe” which means Northcoast Promotions, Inc. (celebrating its the work is not simple and requires innovation that Old Brooklyn, like every other neighbor- 10th anniversary this year), she manages ven- at a time when existing resources — both hood and community, must become competi- dors for all of these events and more. Lisa has financial and human capital — are stretched tive and complementary to both the Northeast also been a homeowner in Old Brooklyn for thin. Ohio economy and the global market. While the past 22 years. To meet these needs, we must build information and the flow of goods become Lisa moved to her Old Brooklyn home in strong and comprehensive partnerships with more international every day, communities are shared initiatives and visions. In addition, the 1992; her brother lived on W. 36th St. at the Photo by: Jayme Lucas-Bukszar also transforming into hyper-local, social and time and she fell in love with the neighborhood opportunities must be met with services that Lisa Nemeth, Northcoast Promotions economic hubs. during frequent visits with him. Before mov- place equal emphasis on business and residen- This juxtaposition requires both a look ing to Old Brooklyn Lisa owned a home in the tial development and marketing and communi- back and a look forward. The demand for W. 130th St. area. She married her husband Lisa was afraid to pay herself for the first ty engagement. Innovative examples, both walkable, mixed-use districts is in great Greg Nemeth in 1993 and they raised two chil- five years, but now pays herself and has three from within Old Brooklyn and beyond our demand; a recent conversation with a real dren at their Pensacola home. Their children staff on payroll. She notes, “The support com- neighborhood, prove that a balanced approach estate agent active in Old Brooklyn explained attended St. Mary Byzantine School and Lisa panies we work with, such as our payroll com- building off existing assets can lead to future that Walk Scores are required on all of his list- and Greg continue to be members there. Lisa pany, tech support, accounting firm and other investments and a safer, healthier and better- ings now. got her start organizing events by being consultants, are all female-owned businesses. I connected community. That sense of place desired by residents involved at craft shows and fundraisers for the didn’t intend for that to happen; it just worked Over the past two months of my being and visitors recalls a time of mom-and-pop church and school — Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, out that way. It’s wonderful to have Cleveland Executive Director, every conversation in shops before refrigerated shipping and global- etc. women supporting each other.” which I’ve engaged has revolved around these ized manufacturing were in our lexicon. The Before launching Northcoast Promotions, Lisa’s goal of having the shows be self same themes — vitality, partnerships and upcoming Pearl Rd. streetscape improvements Lisa worked at NASA as a Tool Crib sufficient not only to run themselves but also to engagement. Our residents, businesses and will bring increased opportunities for pedestri- Attendant, which is a gatekeeper to tools and pay company expenses has been achieved. institutions believe in the future of Old an and cycling activities which assist in creat- supplies. She was the first woman to run a She advertises in the Plain Dealer, Scene Brooklyn as an even stronger community than ing a vibrant, mixed-use, multi-modal environ- Tool Crib in the country.