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Cleveland Heights resident Jon Holmes received a free furnace from Verne & Ellsworth Hann Inc. as part of the company's Helping Hann Free Furnace contest.
An Army veteran, Holmes was nominated by his sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Don Lash of South Euclid.
Holmes lives in the Forest Hill neighborhood, in a house that's been in the family since 1942. The old furnace was installed in 1951 and had to be oiled every day--a difficult task for Holmes, who suffers from a nerve disability.
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Though technology is everywhere, not everyone is comfortable using it. Just ask Jackie Mayse, technology librarian at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library System.
Heights Libraries has offered free computer classes and individual tutorial sessions for years, but Mayse said staff recently decided they could do even more to put tech help within reach of customers who need it most.
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Last chance to vote for Best of the Heights
Show your love to Heights businesses by nominating them for a 2017 Best of the Heights award. Complete the online ballot at
www.futureheights.org
or fill out and mail in the paper ballot on the back page of the February print issue of the Heights Observer. Voting will conclude Feb. 15 and winners will be announced in the Observer's March issue. Vote now!
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Workshop application extended until Feb. 17
There are a few spaces left in FutureHeights' Community-Building Workshop Series so we have extended the application deadline to 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17. The series begins Feb. 19 and consists of six, three-hour, sessions designed to help Cleveland Heights residents develop leadership skills and gain knowledge to help strengthen and improve their neighborhoods. Learn more and find the simple two-page application at www.futureheights.org. Questions? Contact Sruti Basu at 216-320-1423 or sbasu@futureheights.org.
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FutureHeights seeks an e-news manager
FutureHeights is hiring an E-news Manager. This part-time position will report to the Executive Director and will fill a critical role in producing our weekly e-news. See the job description
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FH Restaurant Tour continues at Gigi's Feb. 22
To help celebrate FutureHeights' 15th anniversary, each month FutureHeights members are invited to visit a unique Heights restaurant for lunch or dinner, and the restaurant will donate 15% of each check (excluding alcoholic beverages) to FutureHeights to support our community-building programs. Our first stop was Panini's on Coventry in January. On Feb. 22, Jim and Gia Patsch, owners of Best of the Heights-award-winning Gigi's on Fairmount, will welcome FutureHeights members for the tour. Stop by Gigi's, 3477 Fairmount Blvd, on Feb. 22 for lunch or dinner, mention the FutureHeights 2017 Restaurant Tour and show your server this flyer.
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"The barber school thought I was 16 years old and I started training," said Dominic Giammaria, 87, who retired this past Dec. 31 from cutting hair at his Dominic's Barbershop at 1908 Lee Road.
He has 72 years of hair cutting experience. Just after he completed ninth grade at Observation School (now the location of the Cleveland High School of the Arts), and 14 years old, he pursued a certificate in Barber Science. After graduating from the old Cleveland Barber College in 1944, he started cutting hair with Joseph Marx in the Cedar-Taylor area. Giammaria's father Joseph died at age 51, when Dominic was about 20 years old--and was six years a barber.
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On display at Gesu School's STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art and Math) Showcase and Open House on Jan. 29 was a nearly 15-foot-tall tetrahedron, made up of more than 4,000 individual 2-inch tetrahedrons
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The project began in October, when two sixth-grade reading classes taught by Josie Jones, read All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall.
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Apollo's Fire will feature J.S. Bach's music in its 25th-anniversary season as an homage to this master of the Baroque style. This winter, Apollo's Fire performances will demonstrate the widespread reach of Bach's music in two programs, "Virtuoso Bach" and "Sacred Bach."
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The Panini's restaurant franchise on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights has a new owner, Michael Mercer, who purchased the restaurant last November.
Mercer, 58, lived in Cleveland Heights for much of his life; as a child, he lived on Demington Drive for many years. His father, Robert Mercer, started the children's hospital at the Cleveland Clinic.
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