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Who's Hiring in CLE: FreshWater, Begun Center, CLE Transformation Alliance, Keenan Company...
Welcome to the latest edition of FreshWater Cleveland's “Who’s Hiring” series, where we feature growing companies with open positions, what they’re looking for, and how to apply. This installment includes jobs from FreshWater Cleveland, Cleveland Transformation Alliance, Grog Shop, The Begun Center, The Keenan Company, and Saber Healthcare Group. Click here for the freshest job opportunities fit to print.
Could Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Campus be Cleveland's next great arts district?
What does the future for the 1976 Coventry School building look like? A new pilot program holds the key to finding out.
How 3 families live, work & play in Cleveland—and why they wouldn't have it any other way
For the Shakarian-Kvidera family, the epic Cavs championship parade in 2016 turned into an epic trek through the city of Cleveland. The family of five walked from their home in Edgewater to downtown and back, earning a few more notches on their proverbial FitBit than they’d expected.
LACHA will bring two new murals and a community art garden to La Villa Hispana
Artist Will Sanchez grew up in the La Villa Hispana neighborhood. But it wasn’t until he was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2003 for trying to rob a convenience store at 5404 Storer Ave. that he discovered his love and talent for art—and re-embraced his childhood community. In 2018, he opened La Cosecha Gallery in the exact same location he tried to rob 15 years earlier.
LGBT Community Center to triple its footprint with new home
On the heels of Pride in the CLE, good news out of Gordon Square: after 20 years of operating out of a 5,000-square-foot basement at 6600 Detroit Ave., the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland is ready to move into a prominent, custom-designed and -built, and proud new home across the street at 6705 Detroit.
 
FreshWater Cleveland is seeking a managing editor. Please help us spread the word!
Are you passionate about the future of Cleveland? Are you plugged into the people, places, and projects shaping and transforming our city? Then you might be the perfect managing editor for FreshWater! We are looking for someone to join our team starting in July.
Meet the finalists for the fifth annual Vibrant City Awards
On Friday, June 7, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress will host its fifth annual Vibrant City Awards—where more than 600 people will gather at Euclid Beach Park to recognize 16 community leaders for their devotion and contributions to Cleveland's urban neighborhoods. The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and tickets are still available for the lakefront BBQ luncheon provided by Zack Bruell Events.
 
Free Stamp: All things free in the #CLE for June 2019
Fresh Water's monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up the freshest free events in Cleveland. Check out the June lineup here!
Think pink: Ohio City's new Oh Pink! shop is ready to get the party started
These days, every day is a party for Catherine Blubaugh. After all, the owner of the new Oh Pink! Party Shop lives and breathes party supplies while she puts the final touches on her Ohio City storefront to gear up for its June 15th grand opening. But make no mistake—this is not your average strip-mall party shop.
First Edgewater Street Festival celebrates all Cudell, Edgewater have to offer
The Cudell and Edgewater neighborhoods—rich in both working-class, industrial history to the south and waterfront estates of the wealthy to the north—are coming together to celebrate all the modern-day area has to offer with Cudell Improvement, Inc.'s first Edgewater Street Fest on Sunday, June 30.
 
The next step in making CLE a bike-friendly city is getting our seniors on two wheels
They say one never forgets how to ride a bike—and if the freewheeling folks taking part in Silver Spokes are any indication, it’s 100 percent true. 
Putting Northeast Ohio workers on the map: The road to employment begins with worker mobility
If she could afford a car, Antaneshia Fletcher could drive to her job at Bloom Bakery in less than 20 minutes. Instead, she rises at 4:30 am every day so she can spend two hours taking the two bus routes necessary to travel from her home in Euclid to the store near the Cleveland State University campus by 6:30 am.
Is Lorain Avenue the new ‘heart’ of Ohio City? These urban entrepreneurs seem to think so
A decade after Ohio City leaders began trying to capitalize on the success of West 25th St. by luring new businesses to Lorain Avenue, local entrepreneurs are moving to this funky west side main street to take advantage of affordable rents and a newly emerging restaurant, retail, and nightlife scene.
An inside look at the 12 Learning Lab projects beautifying and inspiring Cleveland
Local artists and nonprofits are teaming up to create change through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture's Learning Lab.
Government A-OK checks & balances
Pier with a view: The new Euclid Beach Pier marries memories of yesteryear with modern appeal
Though the 20th-century heyday of Euclid Beach Park is long gone, vibrant remnants remain—from the carousel at the Cleveland History Center to the rocket cars roaming around Cleveland to the newly opened Humphrey’s Popcorn on E. 185th Street. Today, another ode to Euclid Beach joins their ranks with the official ribbon-cutting of the Euclid Beach Pier.
At a newly-madeover Miss Latina Image, a cultural celebration of womanhood takes the runway
It’s 20 minutes before showtime, in a small banquet room at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, and Yasin Cuevas is glowingly ecstatic. For one, her first-ever Miss Latina Image fashion show—expanded from “Miss Puerto Rican Image” of years past—has attracted a packed house, more than any other program in the past few years. It’s also a signal of much more: a newer, more diverse Clark-Fulton community, one more gung-ho on the self-education of its youth, as La Villa Hispana grows gradually into the fore.
Garden experts build sensory garden for kids at Providence House
The children who come through Providence House—a crisis nursery providing free, voluntary emergency shelter to children—have enough going on in their worlds without having a quiet, relaxing place to think, reflect, or just be alone. Last week, Valley City-based landscape tool manufacturer Troy-Bilt sent six gardening experts to Providence House on W. 32nd Street to help revive the facility’s sensory garden as a place where even the youngest clients can take a peaceful time out.
Graffiti HeArt's new gallery takes street art indoors
You’ve probably seen the mark of Graffiti HeArt all around Cleveland, whether you realized it or not. The nonprofit coordinates graffiti-style murals in the city’s private and public spaces, like the vibrant piece on the Stockyard Meats building in Detroit Shoreway and the “Welcome to Cleveland” painting that greets visitors to Ohio City. But with the opening of the Graffiti HeArt Gallery on May 31, the organization will welcome guests and artists to a permanent homebase.
Army veteran and family surprised with renovated Cleveland Heights home
“Welcome home,” the crowd cheered as retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Charlie Pepinrivera and his family saw their new home on Canterbury Road in Cleveland Heights for the first time on Saturday, May 18. The four-bedroom, 1,736-square-foot home was purchased and renovated by Citizens Bank, in partnership with Homes 4 Wounded Heroes, then donated to Pepinrivera and his family.