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There’s No Place Like (New) Home IN THIS ISSUE > CMSD High Schools: A portfolio to meet the needs of every for Near West Theatre Cleveland student...below the fold & p 4 Near West Open House 1-5 pm on Feb 28 > Financial Wellness Fair: Sat, 3/7/15, 10 am - 4 pm......p 2 > Still Not Equal: Insights republished from a Lincoln West High School reporter................p 4 > University Hospital: Environmentally conscious vaccines from UH’s Dr. Aparna Bole.........p 7 > Wayfi nding: Ecovillage begins seeing new, special neighborhood street signage -- and all for a good cause..............below Photo by The Tremonster Near West Theatre will open its doors to the community on Saturday, 2/28/15, with a community open house. Near West staff have moved in and the neighborhood has been anticipating its fi rst glimpse of the new, professional-grade theater complex. NWT Re-Opens on Detroit Avenue at W 67th Street Community Open House from 1-5 pm, February 28th by Julie Maslov Goodman being built at 6702 Detroit Avenue in the diverse ity and programming capacity unlike anything the Photo courtesy of DSCDO and dynamic Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. organization has experienced in the space it has New Ecovillage signage is being noticed on intersections Near West Theatre Announces Series of Com- Joining Cleveland Public Theatre and Capitol rented for the past 37 years. like W. 54th Street and Bridge Avenue. munity Events & Performances celebrating 2015 Theatre and as the third anchor in the Gordon “It is more than understatement to say that 2015 Opening of New Theater in Gordon Square Arts Square Arts District, the 2015 opening represents will not just be ‘Another Opening, Another Show’ New Signage for Ecovillage District the culmination of nearly a decade of dreams nad for Near West Theatre– we are preparing for the Community invited to preview new venue dur- determination to expand the impact of Near west opening of our lives!” Artistic Director Bob Na- Theatre. Dubbing the “Magical Factory of Trans- vis Jr. explains. “After three and a half decades of ing Open House, Blowout Party and Benefi t gala; by Chad Jones Shrek The Musical featured as fi st main-stage formation,” the new venue will enable Near West creating art and community, we are not newcomers Director of PR and Marketing show followed by summer production of Hair. Theatre to expand its mission to impact lives and on these blocks, but seasoned in our craft and in Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization As construction on its $7.13 million new theater communities by engaging diverse people in trans- our ideological fervor. We are placing ourselves nears completion, Near West Theatre is preparing formational theatre experiences. Specifi cally at the heart of a diverse Cleveland neighborhood This January, street signs were installed in the to throw open the doors and “Let the sun shine in” designed to support Near West Theatre’s unique that forms and informs us, and we invite the com- EcoVillage to celebrate the area’s identity and with community events and performance celebrat- creative process and production requirements, Continued on page 3 create a “sense of place.” With help from a com- ing its fi rst permanent home. The new theater is the new theater will provide audience accessibil- munity design charrette last year, and with gen- erous support from Councilman Matt Zone, de- signs were fi nalized and sent through City Hall and its departments A Portfolio of High School Choices from CMSD for permission and installation. The signs seek both new and long-standing – to the crowd of 7th and at the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s High Continued on page 6 8th grade students and their parents. School Choices Fair. What I noticed at this year’s Attracting attendees to an event – not to mention capi- evening session (and at the multiple school fairs I’ve talizing on a huge turnout – takes a great deal of plan- attended) was the growing number of discerning and ning and effort. According to CMSD District Commu- conscientious parents who are becoming more aware Detroit Shoreway Community nications Offi cer Roseann Canfora, even greater effort of Cleveland’s remarkable and tuition free opportuni- has gone into creating the educational choices CMSD ties! While some individuals were surprised that one Development Organization is now offering; events like this one are to make sure of Cleveland’s schools of choice added four more Ivy Annual Meeting: Feb 26 Cleveland residents take advantage of the new oppor- League freshmen to its accolades, others were not. Why? Because they knew it beforehand and they looked tunities. Canfora said, “The message we really want by Chad Jones to get across is our families aren’t just walking to the for that school’s presentation table. I am an ELA teacher nearest school. They’re thoughtfully looking at all the at that school and its admissions chair.” The Detroit Shoreway Community Development opportunities available to them across the city and then Krupa wrote, “What does this mean to Detoit Shore- Organization Annual Meeting will be held on way? Let me ask instead, “How does a miracle grow?” Photo by Rich Weiss picking the school that’s right for their child -- whether Thursday, February 26, at Our Lady of Mount Detroit Shoreway became the niche locale it is through a Attendees of CMSD’s High School Choice event sought that child likes the arts, likes computers, is someone who Carmel Church (6928 Detroit Avenue) in the Pope a high school match from a concourse of CMSD recruiters. wants to design cars, or wants to be a game designer, variety of avenues. It created and developed opportuni- John Hall (behind the church). there’s a school for each one of those kids.” She added, ties that were based on careful planning, investing, and The 2015 meeting will feature a presentation on by Rich Weiss “The overall message to our families is: ‘Your child can timing. Yet, more important than this was the choice to the recently completed DSCDO Strategic Plan. At fi rst glance the February 30th Cleveland Metropoli- be anything he or she wants to be, and there is a school change; it was the impulse, the discomfort, the need to Neighbors will gather at 5:30 pm for the famous tan School District (CMSD) High School Choice event that will help your student pursue that dream.’ Make seed something different that caught fi re among a group Our Lady of Mount Carmel Spaghetti Dinner. The at Cleveland State’s Wolstein Center looked like a gi- the choice thoughtfully -- don’t just settle for the closest of constituents who were internally motivated to see meal is free to all members, $10.00 for all non- gantic, frenetic game of speed dating, wrapping most of school -- because we’ll transport a student all over the something better. And just like all else, this created the members. Our Annual Meeting will begin at 6:30 the way around the long concourse of the arena. city to the school that’s right for your child.” need for a vision which led to a plan, and then a strategy pm, but only 2014-paid neighborhood resident That impression was not far from the truth, but attendees Paul Krupa, CMSD Director of Admissions, sees paral- to attract investors, and eventually to the renovation of members are eligible to vote in the DSCDO elec- were not singles seeking a romantic match…they were lels between the rebirth of Cleveland’s neighborhoods beautiful buildings.” tion. Cleveland residents seeking a high school match from and the rebirth of Cleveland’s school district. In an He concluded, “I promise you this same thing is hap- Membership is $10.00 for ages 18–55, $5.00 for a concourse full of CMSD recruiters. These recruiters email following the event, he said, “I recently had the pening in the Cleveland schools. Opportunities are be- ages 16–17 and 55 plus. RSVP to John Hausman pitched a panorama of CMSD high school options – privilege of recruiting potential eighth grade students Continued on page 6 at 216-691-4242 x226 or [email protected]. Page 2 • Volume 1 Issue 1 • e Gordon Square PRINT • March 2015 Opposing the ‘Gloom and Doom’ Toward the Cleveland Browns Near West Theatre Open House Saturday, February 28, 1-5 pm Photo by Rich Weiss A Cleveland Gloom hangs over FirstEnergy Field, as well as our mainstream sports media, but some of the negative views concerning the Cleveland Browns deserve questioning. SPORTS VIEWS “Josh Gordon is a cancer on our team; let’s just have suffered too long By Bill Weiss release him!” with “hands-off” owner- With a one year minimum suspension from the ship under Randy Lerner In analyzing the gloom and doom approach of NFL, Josh Gordon will no longer be counted on and the economically Cleveland talk shows in general it should be ob- our roster. He won’t be paid a salary, and if he stressed Art Modell. served that the negative view taken on all sub- comes back, he would still be required to fulfi ll his Haslam fi ts much more jects – sports, politics, or current events – tends to original contract that would still have two years in the mold of a George produce more immediate responses via telephone, to go, at a bargain price for an elite receiver. At Steinbrenner with the email, tweet or letters to the editor than does a that point, Gordon would become a tradable asset New York Yankees – im- positive view. It is only natural, due to the lack if we chose to rid ourselves of him.