SPORTS MENU TIPS No trash pick-up on Memorial Day Kid’s Corner Aetna Road closed for repairs The City of Cleveland Department of Pub- Effective today at 9:00 a.m. both lanes on lic Service will not collect trash on Monday, May Zhanesia Johnson, who is two- Aetna Road will be closed 200 feet east of E. 82nd Ohno, He’s Won Again Homework For Parents 28. There will be a delay in waste collection pick-up years old, favorite toys are baby dolls. St. to allow for the reconstruction of the railroad On The Dance Floor Begins In The Kitchen the week of May 28. Waste collection will operate With a hearty appetite, she likes chicken crossing. The detour route will be posted along one day behind all week. For further information re- and macaroni and cheese. Zhanesia is the E. 78th St., Union Ave., and E. 93rd St. This traf- garding waste collection, please contact the City of daughter of Ali Roulette and Carmeshia fic pattern will be maintained until Thursday, May See Page 6 See Page 7 Cleveland’s Division of Waste Collection at (216) Johnson. She has one sister, Neveah and 31st, at 7:00 p.m. at which time both lanes will open 664-3711. a brother, Arnell. Johnson to traffic. EVOL.ASTSID 28 No. 20 Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - Friday, May 25, 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 Bridgeport By GEORGE GOLDMAN The builder and gen- can bid on the jobs. eral contractor for the Bridgeport Other construction proj- As aresult of a protest Place project is Crowley Build- ects in the city with very few black held Wednesday at the Bridge- ers, Inc. construction workers are the Saint port Place project at East 72nd Curtis Thompson, who is Luke’s Development project at and Kinsman Avenue for the a member of the Black Contrac- the closed Saint Luke’s Hospital, lack of hiring black construction tors Group, Inc. and the chairper- which is being demolished. workers at the site, the Black son for the committee working According to Edwards, Contractors Group, Inc. was able with the Bridgeport Place project, Marous Brothers are the general to get five workers hired at the said that dialogue has been estab- contractors for the Saint Luke’s site. lished between the Black Con- project. The Bridgeport Place tractors Group, Inc. and Crowley Another project scheduled project is a $2.5 million commer- Builders. to start is the Langston Hughes ical development with 13,200 “Crowley has corporated Library to be built at E. 79th and square feet of commerical space. well and dialogue has been estab- Quincy Ave. and Marous Brothers The project will consist of the lished. Crowley understands that is the general contractor for that Garden Valley Library, the Bur- blacks need to be part of the proj- project. ten, Bell, Carr Development Inc., ect going up in their community,” The Black Contractors office, an upscale restaurant, Thompson said. Group, Inc. will also be focusing Cafe Ah-Roma, and space for a Thompson said that attention on the BioTech Center to general merchandise store. Crowley Builders, Inc. has sent be built at E. 101st St. and Cedar During a demonstration with Black Contractors Group, Inc. at the Bridgeport Project at East 72nd Members of the Black him a list of 12 other trades still Ave. as part of the Cleveland Clin- and Kinsman Avenue, Norman Edwards, who is the president of Black Contractors Group, Inc., confronts the Contractors Group, Inc., is al- out for the project to be filled. site superintendent Tom Paoli about the developer Crowley Group not hiring black contractors at the site. Paoli ic. leging that the Burton, Bell, Carr Allen Crowley, who is meet with the Black Contractors Group, Inc. and as a result of the meeting five black contractors were hired. The Development, Inc. is allowing the owner of Crowley Builders, Edwards, who is very Bridgeport Project is a project to bring new development in the Garden Valley Neighborhood with a shopping the Bridgeport Place develop- Inc., said that he has worked with adamant about inclusion of black plaza. ment project to be built without the Black Contractors Group be- construction workers, said that his group is working to have black Black Contractors, black contractors or black con- fore and will work with the group Group, Inc. recently held a pro- struction workers. on the Bridgeport Place project. contractors and black construction test at the Bridgeport Place proj- Norman Edwards, who “We have worked before workers involved in all construc- ect at East 72nd and Kinsman is the president of the Black and will continue to work with tion projects taking place in the city Avenue to protest the non - hiring Contractors Group, Inc., is say- the group,” Crowley said. of Cleveland. ing that the Burton Bell, Carr Edwards’ main com- “Don’t built it in our neigh- of black contractor and works. Development, Inc. and its direc- plaint against Burton, Bell, Carr borhood anymore,” Edwards said. As a result of the protest, the tor, Tim Tramble, is allowing the Development, Inc., and other “We are taking back the black com- Black Contractors Group, Inc. Bridgeport Place development to CDC’s in the city, pertaining to munity and we are never going to were able to have five construc- take place without black contrac- development, is that the projects be shutout in projects. There will tion workers hired at the project. tors or black construction work- are not being bidded out on a fair be black inclusion or the job will The protestors were marching in ers. basis so that black contractors not go forward,” Edwards said. front of the project on Kinsman Avenue. The Bridgeport Place project is a shopping plaza that will house the new Garden Val- ley Library, the offiice of the The Burten, Bell, Carr Develop- ment Center as well as two retail stores with one being an upscale restaurant, Cafe Ah-Roma. The developer for the project is the Crowley Group, Inc. Vigil held for fire victims By GEORGE GOLDMAN ed publicly about the fire that took nine faithful that the police find the people lives. responsible.” A vigil was held Monday Rosaland Golden, 51 years Evelyn Carter, who is the night to commemorate the second old and the grandmother of fire victim mother of Medeia Carter, was in atten- year anniversary of of nine people Miles Golden Cockfield, said that she dance at the vigil with Medeia’s only killed in a fire during a sleepover is trying to be optimistic and that the surviving son, Andrea Perkins. birthday party on May 21, 2005 at police department doesn’t want to be Judy Martin, who is the di- the home of Medeia Carter when known as not solving murders. rector of Survivors/Victims of Trag- someone poured gasoline in the liv- “The police can’t tell us edies Inc., said “the two years have ing room of her two story house at what’s going on because it might jeop- been devastating. How could nothing 1220 E. 87th St. ardize their investigation,” Golden be found. No clues and nobody on the Smoke alarms ranged out, said. “We’re just being prayerful and streets talking about the incident.” but tragically the victims were un- able to survive the smoke. Rosalind Golden, who is the grandmother of Miles Golden Cockfield, one of the nine people killed in The nine victims were: Gas prices reach record high Fakih Jones, 7; Shauntavia Mitch- the house fire in 2005 at 1220 E. 87th St., attends the Second Anniversary Memorial of the fire along with Joyce ell, 12; Maleeya Williams, 12; Miles For the second consecutive hicle, a 1.8 percent increase from the Hood. Golden collects her memories in front on the house on East 87th Street. The Memorial was attended by Golden Cockfield, 13; Earnest Tate week, Northeast Ohio has set a new gas 31.5 million who drove a year ago. area residents, family members of the deceased and friends. Since the fire, the house has remained standing so Jr, 13; Antwon Jackson Jr., 14; Mo- price high record. This week’s increase Travelers can take advan- that when a suspect is apprehended the house will be used as evidence. During the memorial, different speakers ses Williams Jr., 14; Devonte Carter, of seven cents brought the cost of a tage of many online tools to research talked about the need for the suspect to be caught to bring closure to the incident. 15; and Medeia Carter, 33. gallon of regular, unleaded, self-serve gas prices and to budget for fuel for Four of the murdered gasoline to $3.23. their road trips. children were Carter’s. Three were Nationally, the average The Fuel Price Finder of- Evelyn Carter, the mother of their cousins. One child Miles was gas price today is $3.23, also a new fers information on the cheapest gas Medeia Carter and the grandmother a friend. record. stations in any zip code in the country; of seven of the kids killed in the fire at Cuyahoga County Coro- High gas prices and increas- the Fuel Cost Calculator allows the 1220 East 87th St. on May 21, 2005, ner ruled that all nine victims died ing vacation costs won’t put a crimp travelers to estimate their fuel budget attended the Memorial Service for the due to smoke inhalation.