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FREE Volume 7 Number 12 TAKE ONDecemberE 1, 2014 HEIGHTS OBSERVER READ LOCAL. SHOP LOCAL. Published by Written by volunteers for Cleveland Heights and University Heights • Read more at www.heightsobserver.org INSIDE Shop Small and meet Coventry’s independent business owners 9 Angela Hetrick Heights High students intro- The independent business owners of duce themselves to UH voters Coventry Village say that shopping small is how they built a neighbor- hood. In a single quarter-mile stretch, Coventry Village hosts more than 40 independently owned businesses. 10 This holiday season, Coventry Rev. Joseph Village Special Improvement District Cherry joins (CVSID) invites everyone to meet UUSC in the independent business owners of ETRICK Coventry Coventry through a special spotlight H Village feature on its website and Facebook GELA page. AN The Coventry business owners COURTESY COURTESY gathered recently for a group photo, Coventry Village business owners gathered for a group photo in November. 20 in which they appear in the following Howson order: Hardware), Bob Yanega (Gateway Coventry), Rob Love (Record Revolu- Gallery exhibits Top row (from left): Iline MacLel- Heights Church), Doug Hayslip (Sun- tion), Laurie Klopper (Blush Boutique), Martha Young’s lan (Grums), Christina Attenson (At- shine Headquarters Too), Vince Man- Jessica Morris (Houde School of Act- fabric dolls tenson Antiques), Larry Collins (City zano (Heart & Sole). ing), Cosmin Bota (Piccadilly Artisan Buddha), Leanne van Beers (Spynga- Front row (from left):Kathy Black- Yogurt), Adrian Bota (Piccadilly Arti- Flows), Steve Presser (Big Fun), Tommy man (Grog Shop/B Side Liquor Lounge san Yogurt), Bill Gresham (La Cave Du Fello (Tommy’s), Tom Gathy (Heights & Arcade), Suzanne DeGaetano (Mac’s Vin), Eddy Maddox (Eddy’s on Coven- Hardware), Andy Gathy (Heights Backs Books), Debbie Duirk (Inn on continued on page 7 24 -25 Three Heights business CH council member Janine Boyd wins bid to CH offers free- districts host replace her mother as Ohio state representative holiday events parking weekends Dec. 13 Deanna Bremer Fisher over 25 years of public service, building relationships on both sides of the aisle in December On Nov. 4, Cleve- and crafting effective policy, and have land Heights City the opportunity to continue that work, Council member E BOYD as well as my own, as an advocate for our N I Janine R. Boyd N district and the most vulnerable of our overwhelming citizens. I’m sincerely grateful.” won her bid to COURTESY JA COURTESY Boyd was appointed to CH City Janine Boyd become the next Council on Oct. 3, 2012, to fill the seat state representative for Ohio House vacated by the late Phyllis Evans, who District 9. Boyd defeated Republican resigned in June 2012. When Barbara Deanna Bremer Fisher Charles T. Hopson, garnering 84.7 Boyd resigned from CH City Council in percent of the 33,388 votes cast. She 1993 to become a state representative, it Starting Nov. 29, parking at meters replaces her mother, Rep. Barbara was Evans who was appointed by council in all Cleveland Heights parking lots, Boyd, who did not seek re-election due to fill Barbara Boyd’s council seat. garages and on the street will be free to term limits. In 2013, Janine Boyd subsequently Deliver to addressee or currentDeliver resident on the weekends—Friday, Saturday Ohio House District 9 comprises ran unopposed for the unexpired and Sunday—from Thanksgiving Cleveland Heights, University Heights, two-year term on city council, and weekend to the last weekend in Shaker Heights, and two wards on was sworn in on Jan. 6, 2014. Boyd’s December. Cleveland’s East Side. council term expires on Dec. 31, 2015. “Business owners and residents “It is, undoubtedly, one of the great- Cleveland Heights City Council is re- have been very supportive of this est and most humbling experiences, to quired by charter to appoint someone idea. It reinforces the city’s commit- have the support of my family, volun- to fill her vacated seat. Council has ment to our commercial districts and teers, friends, mentors and neighbors,” not yet announced how it will select also has been an incentive to bring- said Boyd. “It’s also an honor to look at a replacement. FutureHeights FutureHeights Blvd. #105 Washington 2843 Heights, OH 44118 Cleveland the path my mother forged, including continued on page 4 ing more people to our excellent restaurants and one-of-a-kind stores throughout the city,” said Mayor Thrive wants to make people happy Dennis Wilcox. The city announced on Oct. 21 James Henke psychologist.” “Psychology as a whole that it would offer free parking at looked at what’s wrong,” Margolis said. meters on Nov. 29, for Small Business Thrive, a relatively new Cleveland orga- “Then Martin Seligman, a psycholo- Saturday. The city later expanded D nization, has one goal: to make people gist at the University of Pennsylvania, N ELA the free-parking days to the entire V LE happier. Called a happiness incubator, flipped that. He thought it made more C E post-Thanksgiving weekend, and all Thrive was formed in January of 2012 V sense to see what’s working well and HRI T weekends in the month of December. by Jen Margolis, a Cleveland Heights build from there.” Signs will be posted on the city’s resident, and Scott Simon, who lives in OURTESY Another noted psychologist, Tal C parking garages and throughout the Pepper Pike. Ben-Shahur, also focused on happi- Jen Margolis and Scott Simon, the founders of city to remind visitors and residents “We wanted to design experiences, ness. While a professor at Harvard, Thrive, at the organization’s Lunch Beat event at they may park at no charge on those the House of Blues in October. habits and spaces that increase happiness, Ben-Shahur taught classes about posi- weekends. both at work and at home,” said Margolis, tive psychology and the psychology Wholebeing Institute. Wholebeing is who is 37 and lives on Wilton Road. of leadership. Those two classes are a synthesis of two words: whole person Deanna Bremer Fisher is executive direc- Thrive came about after Simon among the most popular courses ever at and well-being. The institute believes tor of FutureHeights and publisher of the spent time with what’s called a “positive the university. He went on to form the continued on page 8 Heights Observer. Heights Observer December 1, 2014 1 www.heightsobserver.org OpiNiON/LeTTeRS Letters Policy The Heights Observer welcomes letters to the editor. They must be submitted What about all that negative coverage electronically, along with the writer’s name, phone number and e-mail address, to: The Heights Observer is much smaller ingredient that makes us different. www.heightsobserver.org/members or e- OPENING than the PD/NEOMG. We operate different- The PD/NEOMG pays a couple mail: [email protected] THe OBServeR ly with a different mission and we serve only mercenaries to speed through town each two municipalities. Yet we are undeniably in week, grabbing crime reports and inter- HEIGHTS OBSERVER the same industry, competing for revenue preting events they haven’t taken time to The Heights Observer is a citizen-based news source from some of the same sources. Anything understand. published monthly by FutureHeights, a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to civic engage- Bob Rosenbaum we might say or do would likely be viewed in You, on the other hand, are wholly ment and quality of life. that competitive context and dismissed. invested, taking the trouble to submit 2843 Washington Blvd. #105, articles simply because you care. Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 Like so many others, those of us who For local businesses we provide an af- 216-320-1423 spend the most time working on the fordable advertising alternative, and we’ve The Observer is an empty vessel, and Copyright 2012 FutureHeights, All rights reserved. Heights Observer are weary of the superfi- been rewarded for the effort with more each month this community decides to fill Reproduction is forbidden without written permission. cial and negative coverage our community than 100 local advertisers in this issue alone. it with stories about people and organiza- PUBLISHER Deanna Bremer Fisher seems to get from Sun News, Cleveland.com We’re also part of a fledgling network of tions doing things that make Cleveland [email protected] and the Plain Dealer. similar projects, so we can offer hyperlocal Heights and University Heights better. Editor-IN-CHIEF We’re tired of their police blotter advertising opportunities in a few other Our biggest critics complain the Ob- Kim Sergio Inglis [email protected] obsession and the habit of putting every communities too. But we can’t provide server is too positive and not adversarial E-NEWS EDITOR news item into the context of decline. blanket access to readers across Northeast enough. It may be true, but if so, it’s not Andrea Turner In October, a few local businesses Ohio that many businesses need. by design or policy. It’s because that’s the [email protected] declared they were done doing business If we can’t reason with them, and we product this community has chosen to ADVERTISING Bob Rosenbaum with the Plain Dealer and Northeast Ohio can’t replace them, what can we do? create—the portrait of what this com- 216-401-9342 Media Group (which controls Sun News We can take control of our own nar- munity really is. [email protected] and Cleveland.com). But there’s a sense of rative. We can provide a record of the That alone is a pretty remarkable advisorY coMMITTEE hopelessness in the gesture. “I don’t sub- community we know this to be.