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2021 February, News, Newsletter · February 1, 2021

Splash Pad News – February 2021

 

2021 February, Ashley Ragus, Cleveland Heights NC · January 31, 2021

Cleveland Heights Neighborhood Council Update

by Ashley Ragus This month, the CHNC Emergency Readiness Committee hosted Doug Mosher of Oakland Community Preparedness and Response for a meeting on how to get our neighborhood organized and safe! Amidst the recent storms and outages, neighbors were informed of OCP&R’s many readiness guides, including basic strategies to avoid and minimize damages due to natural […]

2021 February, Odds and Ends · January 31, 2021

Odds and Ends – February 2021

Like lots of folks all across this country, many of us were transfixed as we listened to Amanda Gorman recite her fabulous poem at the Biden inauguration. Her performance brought to mind Oakland’s annual Youth Poet Laureate contest, which we’ve been extolling for the past couple of years. The substance of the poetry and the […]

2021 February, C. J. Hirschfield · January 29, 2021

Murals of Time and Place

by C.J. Hirschfield In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, the nation is grappling with both implicit biases and overt images of white supremacy in public places. At the first of the year, Virginia Judge David Bernhard refused to try a Black man in a courtroom lined with portraits of white people.  “A […]

2021 February, Ken Katz · January 27, 2021

A Nation of Immigrants

by Ken Katz This month’s account of EG Yang’s journey to the United States is much like the account by Marcia Lam (from Lin Jia) and another by the Patel family (from Adventure Toys and, until last month, Buckingham Wine and Spirits). Thus far, it’s the story of individuals and/or families experiencing untold hardships in […]

2021 February · January 26, 2021

From China to the US – A Dream Achieved

by EG Yang In 1980, the U.S. government opened the door to allow Chinese students to come to the U.S. to learn about Western culture, democracy, economics, and technology. I was very fortunate to come arrive here as one of those students in 1982. I did not know English and had no money, but I […]

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