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City of Cleveland Curfew Updated 9:52 am, May 31, 2020
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by Bruce Checefsky
This is not the typical story I have penned about rising property taxes or real estate developers seeking variances for new apartment buildings. This is not about potholes or bicycle lanes, protests at City Hall, the Green Party or Democratic Party meetings. This is not a story about tax abatement policies. This is a story about my 89-year-old parents.
Walter and Evelyn live about 400 miles east of Cleveland along Interstate 80. To get to where they live, you have to drive past the Plaza Restaurant at the Emlenton Truck Plaza off Exit 42 of Interstate 80 in Venango County where you’ll find America’s Worst Apple Pie. The menu lists two choices; regular, with a plain crust; and Dutch, with cinnamon and brown sugar on top. The deep dish pie is thick with fresh apples and a flaky crust. I’ve tried them both but that’s another story.
With the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, Walter and Evelyn are amongst the most vulnerable age group according to every scientific and health expert in the world. The hell with what Trump thinks.
Living so many miles from them is difficult. I can’t easily drive to their house and wave at them. I can’t leave food for them. Luckily, my brother lives close enough to check in on them daily. Many families are in a similar situation.
Continue readingNew Facebook page launched to encourage artists to connect with socially distant audiences by innovating new work in isolation.
Visit the “Covid-19 Dances in Safe Spaces” on Facebook, hosted by MorrisonDance, for this full piece and upload or view works by other artists. This page has been created to encourage movers /artists to find creative ways to “Socially Connect” while we are barraged with “Social Distancing.”
For the benefit of all Tremonsters, anywhere, TheTremonster.org added a gallery page sharing artwork from The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists – Virus Isolation, including the above, “Six Eyes,” from Anne Lyon. The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists (search Facebook for Tim Herron) was formerly The Pretentious Tremont Artists of the Literary Cafe.
Continue readingThe City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH) have been notified of a confirmed test result for coronavirus (COVID-19) in a resident of the city. This is the first confirmed result for Cleveland. The confirmed individual is a male, between ages 30-40 who recently returned from international travel. CDPH is working to identify any close contacts of this resident who would require testing or monitoring for symptoms of COVID-19.
Continue readingRain gave way to sunshine on Tuesday afternoon, adding to Tremont’s spectacular view of the Cleveland skyline.
It’s Friday! Start your weekend at 4:00 pm with the Happy Hour at Fat Cats in Tremont …Check out this video of Max, Fat Cats bartender, mixing up his favorite summer Fat Cats happy hour cocktail, the “Charlie,” for The Tremonster “Summer Drink Tips from Tremont” series…and then pull up a bar stool at Fat Cats (2061 West 10th Street, Tremont, Cleveland, 216.579.0200) for one of the best happy hours in town this Friday, and every weekday from 4-7:00 pm.
Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ is a Just Peace and an Open and Affirming congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC), located at 2592 West 14th Street (216.861.7388, info@pilgrimalive.org). The church extends an invitation to all Tremonsters to come and share our gifts. Carter Eugene reports on the church’s special outreach to Tremont’s arts groups, Tremont’s faithful, and Tremont’s community organizations, inviting one and all to join the many already making use of Pilgrim Church as a vital community resource (report produced by John Eppich). Continue reading
TremonsterTV reports on Tremont’s shop for handcrafted furniture, Furniture Makers (767 Starkweather Ave, 216.298.4114), and how P.D. White and Alex Sutula custom-crafted a Lincoln Park tree (downed in super-storm Sandy, 2012) into a dining room table for a Tremont resident couple.