COSMOPOLITAN LIVING IN NORTHEAST ohio’S PREMIER COMMUNITY shakerlife the renewal of Zack Bruell PLUS winter rec classes $3.50 november | december 2006 8 Home for the Holiday Celebrate 2007 at Shaker hot spots shakeronline.com contents features + departments on the cover: The maverick genius of the Cleveland restaurant world (and Shaker native) is back on the national map with Parallax. 8 Cover photograph The Shaker Heights office of Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer invites its neighbors Marc Golub to an evening of good food and wine, great music, auctions, prize drawings and THE RENEWAL LOCAL LEGENDS: HOME FOR gift baskets. OF ZACK BRUELL 24 BOB GINN 32 THE HOLIDAY 28 How the integration of What’s happening at Our goal is to support Rainbow Babies and Children’s and the Cleveland Clinic Shaker Heights elemen- local restaurants on tary schools changed New Year’s Eve. Children’s Hospitals so they can continue to welcome and care for all children in the community forever. Be here or be square. our community – regardless of financial status. Thursday, December 7, 2006 more departments: City News 3 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. University Hospitals comes Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer to town. And how. Shaker Heights Office Library News 12 Election month reading. 20710 Chagrin Boulevard Out & About 52 Admission: $5 Calendar of events. Free Valet Parking Available Shaker Observer 76 (B)ah Winter. Thank you in advance for your THE ACHIEVERS 34 REAL ESTATE NEWS 9 RECREATION & LEISURE generosity and support. The first in an And this year’s Stars of CLASSES 37 occasional series on our Shaker are.... From Money for Life: For questions, please call 216.751.8550. super-students. A Personal Budgeting Course to Origami, and everything in between. For real estate service that is both conscientious and creative, please contact your Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer REALTOR® at 216.751.8550. shaker shaker renters... city news ready to become a life noVembeR | DecembeR 2006 University Hospitals Accepting Volume 24 Issue 6 Nominations for Buys Former shaker homeowner? SHAKER LIFE OfficeMax Building MLK, Jr. Award 3400 Lee Road Shaker Heights, OH 44120 On September 19, University The Human Relations Commission Hospitals (UH) and the is accepting nominations for the low-interest WEbsITE shakeronline.com City of Shaker Heights Martin Luther King, Jr., Award for down payment announced plans to move Human Relations established as a EMAIL [email protected] 900+ administrative jobs to reminder of Shaker’s continuing assistance loans VOICE MAIL: (216) 491-1459 the former OfficeMax site on commitment to living the dream FAX: (216) 491-1408 Warrensville Center Road. of Dr. King. Nomination forms are are available in This exciting news has a available at City Hall, Thornton Park, EDITOR designated Rory O’Connor dynamic impact on Shaker’s Shaker libraries, and shakeronline. [email protected] future. UH projects more com and must be received by 5 p.m. neighborhoods DESIGN & pRODUCTION than 900 new jobs at the site Friday, December 1. Jennifer Dial within a year with annual Acceptable nominations include CITY NEWs EDITOR local income tax receipts individuals or groups whose actions Vicki Zoldessy call 491-1457 [email protected] of $900,000. This directly exemplify Dr. King’s values: benefits the City because its compassion, humility, and service. for more info OUT & ABOUT AND lIBRARY NEWs EDITOR Margaret Simon operating budget is funded primarily by income tax revenues. Nominees must have made a fund for the future of shaker heights [email protected] The Shaker City School System benefits from property taxes generated at the same significant contribution in 2006 SHAKER sCHOOls EDITORIAl ADVISOR rate as any other commercial structure in the City. The Schools budget is funded through volunteerism, community enhancing neighborhood diversity since 1986 Peggy Caldwell primarily by property tax revenues. service, and building community ADVERTISING MANAGER And finally, the purchase of the OfficeMax site is a real shot in the arm. It acts as in Shaker Heights. Recipients must John Moore, (216) 531-4044 a catalyst to new retail development nearby as well as additional office activity. It will be residents of the Shaker Heights [email protected] boost current economic reinvestment in the district to more than $60M with the very School District, and may be of any Friends don’t let AD sALEs REPRESENTATIVE Rebecca Wong real possibility of hundreds of millions more in the coming years. age or race. A posthumous award friends make a move As one of Northeast Ohio’s largest employers, UH is investing another $1billion in may be given. Nominees not chosen CONTRIbuTING WRITERS Greater Cleveland. Its move to Shaker reflects the efforts begun two years ago to keep are eligible for resubmission next John Brandt, Jayne Eiben, without calling us first. Rita Kueber, Nancy O’Connor, OfficeMax in Northeast Ohio. It shows what regional collaboration can achieve, and year, with updated information from Beth Friedman-Romell, Sue Starrett assures Shaker’s place as a viable business location on Cleveland’s east side. the nominator, as appropriate. The award will be presented at CONTRIbuTING pHOTOGRAPHERS Shaker’S RELOCATION EXPERTS HAVE: Marc Golub the City Council meeting on January 22 in the Shaker Community • Shaker information packets Jeanne Van Atta & Bill Meckler (Green Street Studio) Tips for Navigating Building at 7:30 p.m. That evening • School & neighborhood Kevin G. Reeves also opens an exhibit of remarkable New Traffic Signals contacts STORY subMIssIONS: photographs, jointly presented by Shaker Life does not accept unsolicited articles or Shaker’s Fair Housing Review Board other editorial material, but story suggestions from Shaker’s new traffic signals bring new and • Certified Shaker rental updates residents are welcome. Send suggestions by (with HUD funding) and the City’s email or letter. Please do not call. We cannot potentially confusing situations. Here are • Details on financial incentives respond to every suggestion or proposal Human Relations Commission. but each will be given consideration. Freelancers: some helpful tips to address frequently asked for eligible home buyers The rarely seen exhibit from Please email the editor for guidelines. questions: Atlanta includes images of Martin •There are new no left turn signs at the rapid subsCRIPTIONS: Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott Kim Golem, (216) 491-1419 crossings. They only illuminate if a train is King, Jesse Jackson, and other civil SHAKER LIFE is published six times per year by the coming (like railroad crossing signals that deploy Call (216) 491-1332 or visit City of Shaker Heights, Department of Communica- rights activists marching in support tions & Outreach, and distributed free to residents as a train approaches). When the no left turn of open housing in the 1960s. The of the Shaker Heights City School District. signs are illuminated, drivers must stop and wait shakeronline.com photographs also capture many For general City information, call (216) 491-1400 for the train to pass before crossing the tracks. of those who tried to disrupt the or EMAIL: [email protected] When the signs are not illuminated, proceed City of Shaker Heights peaceful demonstration. The views of the individuals and organizations across the tracks, with caution, as in the past. 3400 Lee Road interviewed in Shaker Life are not necessarily Shaker Heights, OH 44120 (216) 491-1400 the official views of the City of Shaker Heights. continued on page 6 Affirmatively furthering fair housing for over 30 years © City of Shaker Heights. All Rights Reserved. noVembeR | DecembeR 2006 city news COSMOPOLITAN LIVING IN NORTHEAST ohio’S Premier COMMUNITY city news shaker Schedule Changes • In order for the crosswalk signals to cycle, the button must be life To better serve our community of read- • The City of Shaker Heights Finance pressed by the pedestrian waiting to cross the street. They will ers, the publication schedule of Shaker Department was formally recognized not cycle automatically. Life magazine will shift slightly in 2007. by Auditor of State Betty Montgomery • The new crosswalk WALK signals The new schedule jibes more closely with for Excellent Financial Accountability. operate a bit differently. First, pedestrians Recreation offerings, School Calendars Montgomery recently presented will notice the white walk symbol; then the renewal and the changing seasons. Look for the the prestigious Auditor’s Award for of Zack Bruell PLUS winter rec classes a flashing red symbol; then a solid red $3.50 next issue in early February, followed by exemplary 2004 Annual Financial Report symbol. Pedestrians may cross when the november | december 2006 the April/May, June/July, August/Septem- to the Finance staff, who earned it while 8 Home for the Holiday Celebrate 2007 at Shaker hot spots shakeronline.com white symbol appears and complete their nov1.indd 1 10/18/2006 4:34:48 PM ber, October/November, and December/ under the expert guidance of former crossing during the time that the red January issues. Finance Director Frank Brichacek. flashing symbol appears. Plenty of time Montgomery noted that “fewer than is programmed to get across the street Shaker News Briefs five percent of all the agencies we audit before the solid red symbol appears. are eligible for (this) award. That says a • Lights at most side streets will not • New! on shakeronline.com: Whether it’s information about great deal about the city’s commitment automatically cycle to green any longer. booster shots or bike helmets, you can find it online. Use the to safeguarding taxpayer dollars.” They will only activate to green when a car pulls up to the light. site’s search engine by entering “Health Services.” Find sched- • The Board of the Housing Advocates, This allows traffic on the main streets to keep moving, reducing ules for seasonal flu immunization clinics or year-round blood Inc.