The East Cleveland Narrator 2014 Issue 5, September
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Shaw High School students and 300 young professionals volunteer to make Forest Hill Park more beautiful for the BVU | e Center for Nonprofit Excellence “Summer of
Service” event, July 25, 2014. e Cleveland Indians sponsored this year’s event. (ECN Photos/Jerry Mann | JerryMann.com)
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“MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY”
UNDERSTANDING EC'S MONEY TROUBLES
e East Cleveland Narrator is
a platform for all community
members—whose views are di‐
verse and sometimes opposing
—to provide factual informa‐
tion and tell our own true sto‐
ries of one East Cleveland.
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PUBLISHER
e O’Jay’s 1970’s funk hit “For
the Love of Money” goes:
“Some people got to have it.
Some people really need it.”
Mayor Gary Norton Jr.’s chief of
staff Michael Smedley as saying
the City’s money problems
started over 30 years ago.
It ’s n o s e c r e t t h a t E a s t
Cleveland’s got to have and re‐
ally needs—as the O’Jays sang
—“that mean, mean, mean,
mean, mean green.”
An East Cleveland Financial
Planning and Super vision
Commission meeting took
place at the Public Library
Wednesday, August 6. It was
about the City’s request that the
state of Ohio allow the City to
August 2014’s Narrator quotes
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M. LaVora Perry, Publisher
is month, Finance Director
Jack Johnson and others inform
us about East Cleveland’s mon‐
ey troubles. Also, education
pros share school and college
tips for students and parents.
BACK TO
SCHOOL
ANTHONY PRICE
Look for “BACK TO
SCHOOL” in this issue for tips
for parents, preschool–college
students and adult learners.
FROM EC
TO CHINA TO... ?
BULLYING
Speaking of school, some stu‐
dents face a problem Shaw High
School junior (Cont. p. 6)
FROM A READER
is morning, I have taken the
time to sit down and read the
East Cleveland Narrator front
to back and I am happy to say
that I truly enjoyed it.
I like the tone and the way your
writers present their (Cont. p. 7)
e Narrator caught up with
16-year-old Anthony Price
(center) while he was in China
for two weeks. He’s pictured
there above. In our email in‐
terview, learn how he got to
China and where he’s headed.
(ECN Photo/Anthony Price)
ECN: How did you get the
chance to go to China?
AP: In early July, I got a phone
call from Shaw High School so‐
cial studies teacher Lori Urogdy
Eiler. She asked “Do you want
to go to China?” I thought she
was kidding. Without
hesitation, I said yes! I would
love to go! [A chance like that]
doesn’t happen in an ordinary
day, especially for a young
African-American man. is
was something I couldn’t turn
down and had to do.
I talked to my (Cont. p. 2)
get a $7.3 million bond. at
means the City wants a great
big loan.
Trevelle Harp is executive di‐
rector of Northeast Ohio Al‐
liance of Hope. It’s a communi‐
ty development corporation in
the City. He told e Narrator
that cities usually use bonds for
large building projects.
However, the City’s finance di‐
rector Jack Johnson told us East
Cleveland will use its loan to
pay for its deficits (Cont. p. 2)
URBAN EDUCATOR
Phyllis Banks-Cook, Ed. S.
The Seminole Wars:
Fighting to Live Free
“e survival of African people
away from their ancestral home
is one of the great acts of hu‐
man endurance in the history of
the world.” –John Henrik Clark
Aer Africans were brought to
what is now the United States,
they did not get off the boats
and stay in the new land quietly.
ey continued to fight for their
freedom.
e first African (Cont. p. 3)
INSIDE
Bullying | 1
Tips From Myrna
Corley, School
District
Superintendent | 4
Tips for High School,
College & Adult
Students by College
Now & CWRU | 4
Tiffany Fisher, School
Board Member | 5
New High &
Elementary School
Principals | 5
You Go Girl: Alisha
Childers, Founder,
Time for a Change II
|6
Narrator in Fewer
Locations | 8
Artist Edward
Parker: Collard
Green Cook-off,
Teen Artist
Scholarship | 8
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