Brandon Davis Mourned by GEORGE GOLDMAN Mourners Met Cause for Change, for Peace and for Healing That Rang out Brandon Davis Was Re in the Church
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Bradley promotes Buckeye Savers program 'Let's Get Physical' offers health screening Youth to celebrate diversity MENU TIPS A community health extravaganza "Let's Get SPORTS Ohio Treasurer of State Jennette B. Bradley con- Community members and multiple organizations tinued a statewide marketing effort to promote the Buck- Physical" will be held on Saturday, April 30, at the Martin will come together in a unique event that focuses on diver- eye Savers program, which seeks to inform Ohioans about Luther King Civic Center, 14801 Shaw Avenue in East sity, youth, and community service. "Changing the Outlook Vonda Ward To Pizza On The Grill Cleveland from I :00 to 4:00p.m. The fair will offer health ~n Diversity 2005 -- The National Service Movement," will their ability to invest in the triple-tax exempt and highly celebrate diversity while exploring the potential of youth to Fight Pamela London Is New Way To Cook rated highway, capital improvement bonds, recently at Na- screenings, fun activities and entertainment for all ages. produce social change in their communities. The event will tiona! City Corporation. Bonds are not available for sale All events are Free and open to the public. Sponsored by be held on Saturday, April 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at directly from the state of Ohio; however, interested indi- Huron Hospital, the Greater Cleveland Health Education ~leveland State University in the Atrium at the University ~nter building. In aspect of Diversity Day is a celebration viduals can contact the State Treasurer's office at 800-228- and Service Council and the Ohio Commission on Minor- See Page 9 See Page 10 l<>f the diversity found in greater Cleveland. For information, 1102 for a list of participating institutions. ity Health. Contact Jerry Sims at 216-761-7464. !£_all 216-574-2677. VOL.26 No.9 Thesday, AprilS, 2005 • Friday, AprilS, 2005 . ASTSID EW ISSUED FRIDAY FREE FREE SERVING: LARCHMERE. WOODLAND,SHAKERSQUARE,BUCKEYE, WOODLAND,MT. PLEASANT, LEE &AVALON, HARVARD- LEE, MILES- UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA, READ ON- WRITE ON WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OFNORTHRANDALL,IDGHLAND lULLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND READ ON- WRITE ON "COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FORA BETTER TOMORROW" Brandon Davis mourned By GEORGE GOLDMAN mourners met cause for change, for peace and for healing that rang out Brandon Davis was re in the church. cently mourned at a standing room "Sometimes it takes pain only service at Triedstone Baptist in our life to see something, clearly," Church, 3872 Community College Rev. Hughely said. Avenue. The church is located just According to Brandon's blocks from where Brandon died on homeroom teacher, Valerie April 4, from a gunshot wound in Bankston, he was one of the bright the back on a field across from the est children at George Washington Lonnie Burton Recreational Center. Carver Elementary School where he Dying at 11 years old may was a fifth grader. be to hard for Brandon to be ac Brandon was born on June Davis 6, 1993 to Harland Robinson and countable for any sins was how in the Central neighborhood. Rose Davis. He liked playing bas many of the people in attendance A police spokesman said ketball and was on a basketball team for his funeral mourned him. that two 18 year old men were at the Central Bath House. But for his older brother, charged in connection with Academically, Brandon Dontae, who is old enough to feel Brandon's death. was an A and B student who made the pain and guilt that Brandon's Gerald R. Williams and the Honor and Merit roll and passed death happened the way it did. Jaron T. Jackson both pleaded not all of the proficiency tests. '1 feel like I left him on the guilty and police are continuing to Brandon is survived by his street alone," Dontae wrote a poem investigate whether others were in mother and father, two sisters; read aloud at the funeral of his volved in Brandon's death. Davonna and Tamara Davis; two brother. '1left him when he needed As Rev. Ralph Hughley, brothers, Rayshon and Dontae; and me the most. The thing is, I will the church's pastor, eulogized Bran his grandmother, Jeanette Caldwell. never forgive myself." don during his sermon it sounded Funeral arrangements for According to community the familiar theme of a senseless Brandon were handled by Pernell activist, the shooting occurred in death in a community that has lost Jones and Sons Funeral Home and the course of a fight between rival its way. interment was held at Riverside gangs in near by housing projects The applauses from the Cemetery. Next Pope might be non-European Dr. King remembered with love, respect at memorial By EARL OFARI HlJI'CffiNSON They were evangelical Christians, and they are growing in numbers rial service held for him recently at the an example to strive for a quality com Hospital (now MetroHealth) and a two First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, munity. The instant Pope John and popularity, and challenging the year residency in Boston before mov 21600 Shaker Blvd., Shakers Heights. Paul II knocked at death 's door, age-old supremacy of Mexican Ca Dr. King, who was born in ing his family to Cleveland in 1953. Prior to Dr. King's death on South African Anglican Arch tholicism. Augusta, Georgia on August 19, 1920, After opening a medical of bishop Desmond T'utu screamed The situation is reversed April I, he was scheduled to be hon was the second child of Drew King, Sr., fice in 1954 on East l05th St, Dr. King loudly that the next pope should be in Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines, ored by his alma mater, Harvard Uni M.D. and Evie Walton, King. in 1963 joined eight other doctors to an African or Latin American. and dozens of other countries in versity with the Foundation Award for Dr. King and his brother, build the Medical Associates (Medics) Asia, Latin America and Africa. There are compelling, and Achievement and Humanitarian Con Abram, and sister, Jennie, grew up in Building. Two thirds of the world's tributions in his name. According to Tuskegee, Alabama where his father Dr. King help to intergrate troubling reasons, that Tutu made one billion Catholics live in devel that public demand. family members, they will travel to practiced at a veterans hospital. Shaker Heights School District and it's oping nations. There are nearly one Boston this fall to accept the award. For a better quality of life af Recently, hundreds of hundred million Catholics in Africa, board and in 1969 he was elected the worshippers gathered recently in The prestigious award is be ter the death of Jennie at the age of 16, first African-American on the Shaker and an estimated 200 black Catho- By GEORGE GOlDMAN ing presented to Dr. King 64 years af. the hills above Mexico City for a day lies worldwide. Evie King decided to move to Boston Heights School board where he serviced ter Harvard barred him, then the only with her sons to find them a good edu of prayer, baptism, spiritual renewal, That dilemma is should the for eight years. Dr. Drue King, Jr., legacy as a and soul cleansing. next pope be non-European, andre blackmemberoftheschool'sGleeClub cation. In addition to his wife, They were not Catholic. formist? life long champion of human rights and in a tour from the South. DrueJr. graduated from Bos Frances of 58 years, Dr. King is sur civil rights was remembered at a memo- After the University read a ton Latin School in 1939, then got his vived by his brother, Abram; son Drue, story in a Boston newspaper earlier undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1946 DI, daughters Crystal Lewis and Judith ESDN wins top journalism awards this year about the wrong the Univer after serving three years with the U.S. King Calnek, 15 grandchildren, three sity visited on Dr. King in 1941 lead Anny during World War II. A week great-grandchildren and a niece. The Neighborhood and journalists published in 2004. Press; and Honorable Mention, Plain the University to recant and honor him after he graduated, he married Frances Donations may be made in Community Press Association Members of the Cleveland Press. with the illustrious award. Monroe of Boston. They eventually Dr. King's memory to: Shaker Schools (NCPA) of Greater Cleveland re Chapter of the Society of Profes Best Series, 1st place, Old During the memorial service had four children. Foundation, 15600 Parkland Drive, cently celebrated the accomplish sional Journalism provided judges Brooklyn News; 2nd place, The for Dr. King, Rev. Daniel Bud who is After Dr. King received his Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120 or to Har ments of local newspapers at its for the competition. Press; 3rd place, Plain Press; and the perish minister at the church, eulo medical degree from Tufts University vard Glee Club Foundation, Golden annual conference recently at Cleve Awards were presented in Honorable Mention, Old Brooklyn gized Dr. King for a life-time of setting in 1950, he interned at Cleveland City Chapel, Cambridge, MA. 02138. land State University. 11 categories, with the Best Com News. Roldo Bartimole, who was munity Coverage award going to the Best Feature, I st place Alice Peoples elected president of Jack and Jill the featured speaker and former edi Roy laton Recorder and EAST SIDE OBN; 2nd place, Plain Press; 3rd Alice Leigh People, a resi cultural setting. This focus- has tor and publisher of "A Point of DAU.Y NEWS placing second in place, Plain Press; and Honorable Nations Capital," Peoples said.