Did you know there is a big health movement going on in Tremont? An Adult Health Challenge starts at Tremont Moves! The excitement begins June 20, 2015, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Lincoln Park (between Starkweather and W. 11th in Tremont) where initial assessments (weigh ins, blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and body mass index) will be provided. Continue reading
A special report by The TremonsterMarcia Moreno, Associate Director of Esperanza, Inc., is a woman on a mission.
On the first two Saturdays of May, she, her energetic staff, and 40 prominent volunteers in the Cleveland community rolled up their sleeves and rigorously processed and interviewed two floors worth of 2015 Esperanza college scholarship applicants. This was in preparation for Esperanza’s annual “Fiesta of Hope” event, where the scholarship recipients are celebrated.
Right now, Esperanza is working around the clock to collect an additional $40,000 to award all of the qualifying college scholarship applications before the June 19th “Fiesta of Hope” event. Continue reading
Lincoln Park, 3:10 pm on May 2, 2015, artist unknown.
Tremonsters love their Civilization coffee…but according to Civilization owner/operator Nancy Holcepl, “The past few weeks have been crazy!”
While scooping, measuring, brewing, and serving an endless stream of devoted customers, she explained, “We normally restock on Saturdays, but this past Friday we almost sold out. We restocked on Saturday but I had to restock again on Tuesday. It’s now Thursday, and look,” Holcepl gestured to the quickly depleting coffee bean levels in her fish bowl-style glass drums and mason jars behind the counter. Next to the jars was a bag of Civilization coffee beans with a receipt attached. She said, “People have been calling in their orders ahead of time.” Continue reading
4/10/2015
Tremont Montessori School’s prekindergarten has earned the top score of five stars on the state’s quality rating system.
The prekindergarten was the first in the District to go through Step Up to Quality, a voluntary preschool evaluation system that the state launched in late 2013. Five more CMSD schools will begin the process next week. Continue reading
Crust Tremont has been closed for the past two days as it installed a brand-new, custom-made pizza oven. Mike Griffin, CRUST owner/operator, was most impressed with the American company that supplied the new oven for CRUST, Marsal & Sons, Inc., located in Lindenhurst, New York.
Griffin said, “When you order it they start building it from scratch in New York — it comes from Limehurst, New York. They built this from scratch, and they’ve got stone slabs lining the oven bottom. This is what we’ve got going at our new downtown location [opening soon — keep an eye on The Tremonster for updates].”
As for why CRUST needed a new pizza oven, Griffin said, “We couldn’t keep up with our pizza orders with that little oven…it was crazy — especially on the weekends — it was too much.”
Report from the Tremont Farmers’ Market
Opening Day for the 10th Anniversary season of the Tremont Farmers’ Market from 4-7pm in Lincoln Park is Tuesday April 21st! Here is a partial list of vendors for the 2015 season. The list is not final as I am still working on 13 vendor applications. Remember some vendors start later in the season as well or may be biweekly. More info to come this week!
Trace Althoff
by Rich Weiss
Trace Althoff has one of the coolest jobs in Cleveland. He manages five of the hippest new wave of bar/restaurants popping up in neighborhoods all over the city, including the well-known ABC Tavern and XYZ the Tavern, for A to Z Taverns. Althoff is a textbook case of brain drain to Chicago boomeranging back after over 10 years to turn into a textbook case of brain gain for Cleveland.
“I went to high school at St. Ignatius, so I’m a local Cleveland guy. I lived in Chicago for just over a decade and then I came back. My mother’s from Ohio City, we ended up settling in Parma, and I went to St. Charles grade school on Ridge Road and Snow Road,” said Althoff. “My sister is now the Principal of Holy Name High School in Parma Heights; my younger sister used to teach at St. Charles, now a stay-at-home mom with two kids; and my brother is a Chicago police officer…so we kind of run the gamut with everything that we do.” Continue reading
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