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JudgeJudge Charles Charles Patton Patton to lead to panel lead panel at CSU at Kid’s Corner Joel Osten teams with Feed The Children SPORTS MENU TIPS Cleveland NAACP executive committeeCSU Joel Osteen is teaming up with international member and Municipal Court Judge Charles Patton Daveon Allen Brown, who hunger relief organization Feed The Children on his will lead a distinguished panel discussing the “Tal- is five years old, is the son of Dwight nationwide 2007 event schedule of “An Evening with LeCharles Bentley As A Source Of Vital ented Tenth, Education and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois on Brown and Ebony Walters. He is the Joel Osteen.” People attending are encouraged to bring Folic Acid, Rice Is Nice Saturday, February 24 at Cleveland State Univer- canned food items to the event. Feed The Children To Miss Season sity’s Urban Affairs College, 1717 Euclid Avenue. grandson of Theresa Brown. With a hearty appetite, he loves chicken and will be present on Friday, February 23 at the Quicken The event is focused at students, but is free and open Loans Arena in Cleveland to collect food and redistrib- to the public,” said Stan Miller, executive director of playing with cars. He has an older brother, Quantez, and he attends Lex- ute the collected food to needy children and families in See Page 6 See Page 7 the Cleveland NAACP. For information, call (216) the Cleveland area. To learn more information, please 687-3655. ington-Bell Day Care Center. Brown visit www.joelosteen.com. EVOL.ASTSID 28 No. 7 Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - Friday, February 23, 2007E NEWDaily S ISSUED FRIDAY FREE FREE SERVING: LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, MT. PLEASANT, LEE & AVALON, HARVARD - LEE, MILES - UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA, READ ON - WRITE ON WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL, HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND READ ON - WRITE ON “COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW” Protest held at Saint Luke’s By GEORGE GOLDMAN low-income. Another complaint that five children. Edwards has is that the larger construc- Edwards has directed his A group of about 40 black tion companies dont want to use legiti- criticism directly at Eric Hoddersen, contractors and construction work- mate black contractors. who is the president of Neighborhood ers held a protest in front of Saint Edwards also contends that Progress Inc. and New Village Devel- Luke’s Hospital to protest the lack by hiring black construction workers opment Corporation, who are the own- of hiring black workers on Tuesday and city residents this will reduce the ers of Saint Luke’s Hospital. at E. 116th St. and Shaker Boule- poverty rate in the city and at the same Hoddersen said that with the vard. time reduce the high crime rate. demolition of Saint Luke’s Hospital The Black Contractors According to Edwards, his and the removal of absestos from the Group, Inc. was in charge of the organization has been in existence for site, there is a total of 36 workers and demostraters who carried signs pro- two years and the purpose of the orga- 13 are African American and Hispan- testing the hiring of black workers. nization is two have parity in the con- ic. Norman Edwards is the struction industry in Cuyahoga County Hoddersen also said that president of the group and he has a in reference to employing black con- he is working closely with the Buck- laundry list of complaints when it struction workers. eye Area Development Corporation comes to not hiring blacks and mi- Edwards, 53 years old, has (BADC) to employ workers directly norities on construction sites in the more than 30 years of experience in the from the neighborhood. city of Cleveland. construction industry. He graduated John Hopkins, director At the Saint Luke’s Hos- from John F. Kennedy High School in of BADC, said that his organization pital site, Edwards claims that the 1971 and attended Ohio State Univer- works to include African Americans in owner of the site Neighborhood sity. He is married and the father of all aspects of construction in the area. Progress Inc. and New Village De- velopment are not hiring minorities for demolition work at the site. Edwards also listed the Winpisinger Place, at E. 125th and Shaker Boulevard as another site not hiring black construction workers. Winpisinger Place is a senior com- Members of the Black Contractors Group, Inc. held a protest demonstration in front of Saint Luke’s Hospital plex. (E.116th and Shaker Boulevard) on Tuesday morning to demonstrate against the contractor in charge of the demolition of When the new Social Se- the hospital for not hiring black construction workers or contractors. There were about 40 demonstrators at the protest curity Office was built at E. 116th carrying signs. Norman Edwards, the president of the group is adamant about employing black workers at the Saint Luke’s and Shaker Boulevard, according to site. Photo l to r: Ken Bender, Edwards and Terry Ford. Edwards there were no black con- struction workers involved with the Obama to visit Tri-C building of the site. Barack Obama, a presi- Edwards says that the city of Cleveland allows this type of be- dential candidate, will campaign in havior in the construction industry Cleveland on Monday at Cuyahoga in Cleveland to take place and that Community College’s Eastern Cam- the city can stop this behavior. Heavy snow from a storm (Tuesday, February 13) caused the pus in Highland Hills for a rally at According to Debra Linn roof of this Marathon Gas Station at the corner of Lorain and Fulton 6:00 p.m. Talley, director of Office of Equal Roads to collapse on top of vehicles. Another BP Gas Station Canopy He is the first major presi- Opportunity, her office serves as a collapsed on Monday hurting to people, according to Cleveland police dential candidate to hold a rally here. monitoring agency to monitor con- and rescue workers. Four cars were beneath the canopy at 3100 West Obama, who is an Illinois struction companies doing business 14th Street when the roof caved in. Two people were taken to Metro- senator, will start his day in Cincin- with the city compliance. Talley said that the Fan- Health Center by ambulance, one with serious injuries, according to nati at a $500-to-$2,300 breakfast, nie Lewis Law requires 20 percent emergency personnel. One woman was not seriously hurt but went to where only those forking over the top of the construction workers be city the emergency room as a precaution. (ESDN Photo by Ray Robinson) dollar will get a photo. residents and four percent must be Judith Petres-Balogh was at Loganberry Books, 13015 Larchmere Boulevard, to promote her recent book “This Old House By The Lake.” Petres- Balogh, 74 years old, came to Cleveland in 1952 as a refugee from Hungary Student shot at school and lived in the East 125th and Buckeye Rd. area prior to working for the US Department of Defense in Germany as a teacher. She returned to Hungary at By GEORGE GOLDMAN Tuesday afternoon. Center and released. On Wednesday Martin Flask held a press conference the time when the Iron Curtain came down. Petres-Balogh and her husband The teenagers were shot police did apprehend the teen respon- at the school board to tell parents in Yozo still lives in Hungary and the U.S. Petres-Balogh’s book can be purchased Two incidents involving stu- following fights that began outside sible for the shooting and he is being the community that the violent inci- at Loganberry by calling (216) 795-9800. She has published a total of seven dents at high schools in the Cleveland of South High School after the end held at a juvenile facility. dents would be investigated and that books two in Hungarian and five in English. She also served as the editor of the Hungarian Illustrated World News. Photo l to r: Petres-Balogh and Harriet Municipal School District resulted in of classes and according to the The other fight broke out at schools would be open and safe. Ac- Logan, owner of Loganberry. two teenagers being shot and a big fight Cleveland Police, the teens were East High School and it resulted in cording to records, a 15 year old fe- breaking out at another high school treated at Metro Health Medical three arrests and 21 students being male South High student was shot in sent home on “emergency removal.” the shoulder and an 18 year old man Gasoline prices move up Farrakhan to speak at Saviours’ Day No one was injured in the incident. picking up another student was shot Northeast Ohio gas pric- erratic. During the same day of the in the thigh around 2:15 p.m. after a incidents, Cleveland School Board fight started and ended on Broadway es increased again. This week While some down time By GEORGE GOLDMAN ters on the margins of society Chief Executive Eugene Sanders and when someone opened fire into the the price of a gallon of regular, is to be expected as refiners make with a message of self-improve- Louis Farrakhan, the leader ment and separation from whites, Cleveland Public Safety Director crowd. unleaded self-serve gasoline necessary adjustments to equip- of the Nation of Islam, is billed as what who he said were inherently evil jumped upward by four cents to ment, it is helpful to remember might be his final major address on because of their enslavement of $2.30. this process also can lead to Sunday in Detroit during the Saviours’ blacks.