COMMUNITY COMMUNITY ENTERTAINMENT Nan’s notes VASJ Alumni Movie reviews PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 19 FREE TO READ! FREE TO WRITE! Submit your story online by August 25th at CollinwoodObserver.com Proud Member of the Observer Media Family of Community-Owned and Written Newspapers & Websites Volume 12 • Issue 8 August 2020 Cleveland Plogs returns to East Grand Opening Event at Dedicated 185th in August! Senior Medical Center by Stephen Love hands with soap and water at least 20 sec- Hey neighbors! onds when you are done. Please consider Cleveland Plogs had another great so- wearing a mask. cially distant plogging last month along Need a plogging refresher? Plogging is a Lakeshore Blvd. A small but mighty group fitness and litter cleanup craze from Swe- by Lori Perko-Waryk • Door to door transportation, exercise, of ploggers stayed 6ft apart (which is easy den that is quickly spreading throughout Dedicated Senior Medical Center is hav- educational, and social events to do when you keep moving!) and wore the world and right here in Collinwood. ing their grand opening event the first two • Person phone number of Primary care gloves and masks but didn’t let COVID-19 Plogging involves a combination of jogging weeks of August. At Dedicated, we follow provider provided to patient get in the way of keeping or community and picking up trash along your running a unique model that has transformed the • Same day appointments and walk in ap- clean! route using a small bag to collect the litter Senior healthcare experience , specializing pointments provided to existing patients Missed out on the fun last month? No you find along your route. Plogging is great in compassionate, coordinated care, allow- Coordinated care also includes working worries because the fun continues this exercise and a great opportunity to meet ing patients to lead longer, healthier lives. closely with specialists, with whom our month when Cleveland Plogs heads to East new people and make a positive impact on Through prevention and quality care by PCP’s have long, established relationships. 185th St Wednesday August 26th! Ploggers our environment and our neighborhood! our doctors, our patients have 28% fewer We honor Seniors with affordavle VIP care will clean up and down the East 185th St Check out - City Lab - Pick Up Trash While hospital admissions, 33% fewer emergency that delivers better health by managing business district. We will be set up outside You Exercise. It’s Called Plogging https:// room visits, and 38% fewer hospital sick high-risk deseases and reducing hospital Villa Angela High School (18491 Lakeshore goo.gl/xRFVRc days. Many of the services we offer on site sick days. Services may vary by location. Blvd.) with bags, gloves and hand sanitizer. You can check out our 2020 schedule and are: Subject to change without notice. Limita- In order for everyone to keep their dis- meet up locations below or on facebook. • Primary care providers spending in- tions, co-payments, and restrictions may tance, small groups will be heading out on Cleveland Plogs 2020 Schedule: Septem- creased time with patient apply. Some services are not covered under different routes. Masks are required when ber through October the last Wednesdsay • Cardiology, podiatry, social workers, all plans. Check plan documents for de- meeting to pick up supplies. Once every- of the month nursing, and acupuncture tails. one has picked up trash on their route, September 30th - East 152nd - Meet • Labs and testing, x-rays, ultrasound we’ll meet back at the Rec Center around outside Five Points Community Center - 730pm for a socially distant but fun plog- 14002 Lakeshore Blvd. ging photo - and if the concession stand at October 28th - Waterloo - Halloween Wildwood is open, we’ll head there after- Themed Plogging! - Meet at the Waterloo Masks Donated wards for some Honey Hut ice cream! We Tower 15600 Waterloo Rd. hope to see you there! Like Cleveland Plogs on Facebook - face- Please plog responsibly. Wear protective book.com/cleplogs gloves when picking up litter and bring Happy plogging! along hand sanitizer. Please wash your Walk and Roll Carvana by Barbara Liddell e Save the Date for Walk & Roll Caravana! In this time of COVID, we’re all having to adjust our plans, and the E.185th are making changes to Walk & Roll this year, too. We weren’t able to hold our usual sidewalk event and community festival on E. 185th St - so this year, we’re bring- ing the event to the community, instead! To keep everyone safe and healthy, we’re planning a new way to celebrate with businesses and residents with our Walk & Roll Caravana event - a car parade that will tour our North Collinwood community on Sunday, August 30. We’ll be decorating our cars, playing some fun music, and head- ing out - so step out on your porch when we go by to give us a wave and enjoy the parade. We’ll also have some great free give-aways, like free masks, hand sanitizer, and even a bike raffle! Watch our Facebook page for more details - just visit us at https://www.facebook.com/WalkAndRollE185/ for updates and information. Thank you MetroHealth and Bikur Cholim of Cleveland for your generous donation of masks for Collinwood! We can’t wait to distribute these to our community! Page 2 The Collinwood Observer Volume 12 • Issue 8 The Collinwood Observer Volume 12 • Issue 8 Page 3 August 2020 August 2020 COMMUNITY ADVERTISEMENT Councilman Update Chronic joint Don’t delay. Cancer by Michael D. State-wide leaders have to put America complaints, or building & housing issues, screenings save lives. Polensek first. Big business has a responsibility to the or any other non-emergency service, just As we all start to The Collinwood Observer is a citizen-based news nation which helped to create them. This call 3-1-1. reestablish some sense of source published by Collinwood Publishing Inc., a local It is hard to believe year, 2020, is a year that many of us would Obviously, the shutdown has affected pain? There are normalcy after the past business dedicated to the development of grass roots that since June 25 like to forget. However, we can’t. We can many projects and initiatives but we are media and increased connectedness of the citizens, few months of sheltering another 20,000 bemoan what is taking place or do some- beginning to see the “light at the end of the civic groups, non profits, businesses and institutions in at home due to COVID-19, and around Cleveland Wards 10 and 11. Americans have thing about it. You have heard me say on so sewer pipe” for the East 185th Street Storm many options it’s time to think about died of COVIC-19. many occasions over the years that, “a com- Sewer project. It continues on pace. Just be scheduling any preventive THE COLLINWOOD OBSERVER It is inconceivable munity is only as good as the people in it.” careful on the street. The Historic LaSalle Vinit Makkar, MD screenings, checkups or PO BOX 17371 to me how our The same holds true for our country. Let us Theatre is back open for business and their Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital medical appointments EUCLID, OH 44117 country finds itself all recommit to looking out and caring for parking lot should be completed by Fall. for relief. that were canceled or in this condition. What has become very each other more than ever before. Our lakefront MetroParks are jammed Copyright 2014—Collinwood Publishing Inc. postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. clear to me, and should be to all, that we The weaknesses have been exposed; dis- as a result of city pools being shut down; With baby boomers now In addition, about one-third of people who All rights reserved. Any reproduction is Americans have been misled over the past parity, ignorance, racism, lack of oppor- parents and family members please watch in their 50s to 70s, the try natural remedies – like glucosamine and forbidden without written permission. “Cleveland Clinic has all the necessary measures 50 years to believe that we have the best tunity, poor healthcare and troubled and your children. We have had some near number of people with chondroitin and shark cartilage – say they in place to safely provide routine care, which PUBLISHER healthcare system and the most proactive dysfunctional educational systems. These disasters this year with unsupervised chil- chronic joint pain is feel better when taking them. Although not is critical for your long-term health,” says Vinit John Copic, [email protected] country in the world. We all know differ- have had a debilitating effect on our coun- dren playing in and around the water. If growing. The truth is that proven effective, they are not harmful. These Makkar, MD, a specialist in hematology and ently now – because the verdict is in. try, state and city. I implore all of you get you are going to the beach be responsible it’s part of the normal supplements are not FDA-controlled and the oncology who treats patients at Cleveland Clinic ADVERTISING aging process for our joints John Copic, 216.505.0185 When the greatest nation in the world more involved and pay more attention than and above all, watch your children. In ad- active ingredients vary. Hillcrest Hospital. “The virus is still a concern, Robert Nickodem, MD to wear. Cartilage grows cannot produce nasal swabs and personal ever before. dition, please clean up after yourself. The Cleveland Clinic but so are other health issues including cancer.” The views and opinions expressed in this protection equipment for our front line How do you do that in a Covid-19 world? debris and litter left behind by some folks Euclid Hospital and until about age 25, then What next? publication are those of each writer, and not health care workers, something is terribly First, register to vote and exercise your right is totally unnecessary and disrespectful.