The East Cleveland Narrator 2014 Issue 7, November

NOVEMBER 2014 No Narrator in December HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Next Issue: January FREE The East Cleveland Narrator Digital Edition Extras on ECNarrator.com One Community, Telling Our Own True Stories Master Artist Edward Parker with 12th-grade visual artist Jarod Perry-Richardson. Parker awarded the teen a $500 scholarship at the annual Collard Green Cook-oﬀ and Arts Festival, September 27, 2014. Read more on Page 2. (ECN Photos) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ he East Cleveland Narrator is a monthly platform for all community members—whose views are diverse and sometimes opposing—to provide factual information and tell our own true stories of one East Cleveland. ________________ THE PUBLISHER KEEP THE NARRATOR IN PRINT. DONATE TODAY. East Cleveland is a MyCom community. MyCom stands for “My commitment to my com‐ munity.” MyCom is a youth project of the Cleveland Foundation—an organization that gives money for projects that help people— and the Cuyahoga County Fam‐ ily and Children’s First Council. Belinda Kyle—the executive as‐ sistant to Mayor Gary Norton, By raising $1,000, I can apply for grants to keep he Narrator available for you. No donation is too small. See page 2 for in‐ structions. BIG THANKS to he Narrator’s irst sponsor, Earl Cipriani, owner of Angela Mia Pizza! –M. L. Perry, Publisher _________________________ M. LaVora Perry, Publisher he Narrator is taking a winter break while I do the holidays and get used to being unmar‐ ried. he paper returns January 7-ish, 2015. Meanwhile, I’m ending 2014 with a topic that bugs me: I be‐ lieve unless all East Cleve‐ landers unite and work with Mayor Norton, our city will be‐ come another story of blacks losing valuable property be‐ cause someone took it or we gave it away. East Cleveland is made of resi‐ dents from diﬀerent ethnic groups but most of us are black. So if blacks lose, we all lose— right when our city could earn money from University Circle’s huge growth spurt. (Cont. P. 5) Lisa Bottoms, Program Director for Human Services and Child and Youth Development at the Cleveland Foundation, and Michael Matthews, Associate Director of Neighborhood Leadership Institute and MyCom Intermediary Director, talk to youth program providers September 30, 2014 at a meeting in the East Cleveland City Schools Board of Education conference room. (ECN Photo) Jr.— gathers together organiza‐ tions that provide programs for children and teens. Each month, she organizes a MyCom meeting with representatives from school superintendent Myrna Corley’s oﬃce and sever‐ al community youth program providers. heir programs make up a web, a network, that sup- ports East Cleveland’s children and teens. In a recent interview in Kyle’s oﬃce at City Hall, she explained how the city joined the MyCom network. She said, “Because the mayor is a father, we always talk about our children.” During summer break, said Kyle, Nor‐ ton saw that young (Cont. P. 7) INSIDE 2 | ARTS | Anansi Arts Alliance Jazz , Art, Poetry @ EC Library • Collard Green & Arts Fest Belinda Kyle, Executive Assistant to East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton, Jr. “Every child improves depend‐ ing on his or her parents.” -Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Inventor of the Suzuki Method of Music Edu‐ cation *** For many years, Narrator pub‐ lisher M. LaVora Perry and I have talked about the work we do as mothers, the challenges we face and the joy we experi‐ ence. We met over 10 years ago while our children attended Chambers Elementary School. We got to know each other through our school involve‐ ment. 3 | FAMILY, EDUCATION, HEALTH I Illegal Dumping • Library Community Meet & Greet • Free Turkeys • Urban Educator • Diabetes Awareness • Shaw Students Shine at Statehouse 4 | FEATURES | Reigning Men: Art McKoy, Part 2 of 2 5 | Dads Being Dads • Girls & Women Day of Learning, Fun 6 – 7 | GOVERNMENT | Rhode Island Lawsuit • City Employee Insurance Paid • October Financial Commission Meeting Over the years, we’ve talked about our families—or in my case, my daughters and wus‐ band (was my husband). We’ve laughed at our housekeeping skills or lack of them, shared chicken recipes, and encour‐ aged each other to achieve our personal goals. ____Download Our App!____ But most oten we’ve passed along information (Cont. P. 2) _______#ecnarrator_______