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Five hundred Cleveland area fathers give daughters a memorable experience By Rhonda CrowderOhio Attorney General

Seeks More Money for Drug Testing Lab in Cuyahoga County

By By Eric Sandy

Neighborhood Connections Awards $350,000 Semi-Annually

By TRACY HUDSON

You don’t have to look far in Ohio to find a need for more public funding in the fight against the opiate addiction crisis. “Resources,” money, treatment beds: All are lacking to some degree or another as the overdose death toll rises in our state.

In Cuyahoga County, law enforce-ment and medical professionals are bracing for even more deaths than last year’s record 666 fatal overdoses. With that as a new baseline, the state attor-ney general’s office is hoping to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars into its Bureau of Criminal Investigations lab in Cuyahoga County for more drug testing capabilities.

In 2010, the BCI completed 13,879

drug tests across the state. This year, the number is expected to be more than 27,000.

The BCI is responsible for testing heroin seized by police departments and sheriff’s offices; the lab in Cuyahoga County primarily processes third-party requests from those agencies. And as the public health crisis worsens, the BCI’s workload looks more like a complicated petri dish of chemical analogs — an ar-ray of drugs often cut with the powerful painkiller fentanyl.

The Columbus Dispatch first reported on this story on Friday, noting that the state is seeking additional funds for its

Neighborhood Connections is a commu-nity building program. Their mission is to fuel the power of neighbors to create an extraordinary world where they live through their small grant program that provides the residents of Cleveland and East Cleveland grants in the amount of $500 to $5,000 twice a year, May and November, to support neighborhood projects.

Since the Cleveland Foundation es-tablished Neighborhood Connections in 2003, they have funded approximately 3,000 neighborhood projects. Investing $7.5 million in resident projects.

One hundred projects were funded for May 2017. Highlights of a few of them are:

HTC Urban Outreach Committee will use their award of $2,762 to create a fun energized safe space to draw residents and stakeholders together. The Hope Community Festival will provide oppor-tunities for residents to connect with re-source agents and centers that they are unaware of.

Central Area Youth Sports organization received $2,500 towards their Helping Youth project. The project is designed to draw youth in the community to en-gage in conversations around positive behavior. Youth and parents will have an opportunity to participate in a workshop with community activist and other key

officials to discuss issues around gun activity.

Black on Black Crime Inc. was award-ed $4,125 for their neighborhood Bike Fix-a-Thon project. This project sup-ports and encourages youth to develop their quality living in terms of health, education/training, employment and safety through the conversations with mature male speakers. For a complete list of Neighborhood Connections grants awarded, visit their website www.neighborhoodgrants.org.

To apply for a grant, you must be a resident of Cleveland or East Cleveland. Grants are neighborhood specific and should be resident inspired and resi-dent led. The grant committee looks for neighbors who want to make a positive impact on their neighborhood.

“As a former grant maker for three years, it was my responsibility to thor-oughly read, review, interview and make funding decisions with the Grant Making Committee,” says Carol Malone, Communications Fellow of Neighbor-hood Connections. “The funds are to be used to fund grassroots community projects that improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods and the Neighbor Up network.”

CLEVELAND, OH – On Sun. Aug. 6, Alive on Purpose held their 5th annual Him & Me father/ daughter dance. Over five hundred, primarily African American fa-thers and daughters attended this black tie affair at Landerhaven in Lyndhurst.

News anchors Danita Harris of News-Channel 5 and Wayne Dawson from Fox 8 served as host for the event. Sponsors included Eric J. Williams Funeral Home, Kamron Khan Photography, Covesa Kelly Events, Metro PCS, Seth + Sasha Kids, The Alcohol Drug Addiction Men-tal Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County and LoKey Entertain-ment.

“The father and daughter dance is a memorable experience for fathers and their daughters of all ages,” said LaToyia Jones, founder of Alive on Purpose.

The Him & Me Dance was created to bring fathers and daughters together and strengthen their relationship by reducing negative occurrences in the lives of young women. An estimate of 24 percent of young women live absent their biological fathers. The Him & Me Dance aims to show the importance of a

father’s’ impact on their daughter’s self-esteem thus reducing suicide and other negative effects in young women.

“This dance provides the systems nec-essary for fathers to develop stronger their relationships with their daughters,” Jones continued.

Jones said this dance provides a forum for conversation, interaction and paren-tal development. Him and Me is designed to cultivate this relationship between fathers and daughters by teaching both the father and the daughter communi-cation methods, financial literacy, safety and parental involvement. Each compo-nent is geared to encourage affirmation and conflict resolution between fathers and daughters. By reinforcing com-munication and personal responsibility fathers become models for the commu-nity having long term impact on young women and reducing suicide.

“The Him & Me father and daughter dance is nothing short of amazing and my daughter had the time of her life,” said Daron DJ LoKey Henderson, founder of LoKey Entertainment.

“I wouldn’t trade this day for noth-

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Alive on Purpose’s Him & Me father/dad dance was held at Landerhaven.

ing in the world. This is awesome,” said James Rayshawn Hutchinson, of Gar-field Heights, who attended the dance with his daughter Layla.

“I’ve been to a thousand wedding, beautiful, definitely great to see people get married. But, this moment right here, I have to put this at the top my list. To see my daughter and many other

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Eat’n Park bringing its fast-casual concept Hello Bistro to BeachwoodBy Joey Morona, cleveland.com

BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- Hello Bistro is getting ready to say hello to the area with its first location in Northeast Ohio.

The fast-casual concept, from the same people behind Eat’n Park, will open a restaurant at La Place in Beach-wood sometime in the early fall.

The chain specializes in made-to-order salads and fresh, never frozen hamburgers.

“Clevelanders are going to love Hello Bistro because it’s an entirely new way of dining,” says Hello Bistro spokes-person Kevin O’Connell in a release. “Guests will have the opportunity to create a different experience every time they visit. If it’s a day to be health conscious, we have kale and avocado for that; if it’s a day to loosen the belt buckle, we have fresh-cut French fries and juicy burgers.”

Hello Bistro features the familiar Chipotle-style set-up, where customers go down

the line, building their salads from a selection of nearly 60 toppings. Diners can also choose from a variety of pre-designed salads such as Apple Almond Crunch, Sesame Soba Salmon or Caribbean Shrimp. There’s also the Quino-avocado, made with quinoa, avocado, kale, spinach and

veggies.Hello Bistro also serves 10 varieties of

beef, turkey and veggie burgers. Popular choices include the Mushroom and

Onion Jack Burger or Eat’n Park’s famous Superburger.

Grilled sandwiches, soups, fries and hand-dipped milkshakes round out the menu. They even have their parent company’s sig-nature Smiley Cookies.

Hello Bistro currently has five locations, all in the Pittsburgh area. The Beachwood store, at 26300 Cedar Road, represents the company’s first expansion outside of Pennsylvania.

Rock Hall informationThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum maintains an active schedule of events and exhibitions. The Hall of Fame Series brings inductees to small audiences for discussions about their lives and the history of their music, a period for questions from the audiences and, often, live performances. In addition, lectures, films, panel discussions and performances are scheduled throughout the year. Several times a year, the Museum mounts temporary exhibitions, including everything from block-buster shows to intimate photog-raphy displays. All events are subject to change.

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Daron DJ Lokey Henderson and his daughter

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daughters from the age of two to their fifties celebrating have that positive male figure, someone who influence them, that meant a lot. I will be here every year.”

Alive On Purpose is a non-profit move-ment that is dedicated to the promotion of life by finding help for people strug-gling with depression, trauma, and suicide. For additional information, visit their website at www.imaliveonpur-pose.org.

Hamilton County lab. In all, Attorney General Mike DeWine wants to lock in $440,000 for both counties’ labs (split evenly). Both Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties are seeing astro-nomical leaps in the sheer quantity and dangerous, hybrid quality of drugs on the street.

“We’re seeing a lot more complex mixtures,” BCI spokesman Dan Tierney tells Scene. “Instead of just there being heroin or just there be-ing cocaine, we’re seeing mixes of drugs: heroin mixed with fentanyl, heroin mixed with other synthetic opioids, co-caine mixed with synthetic opioids. ... It

takes longer to test those mixtures.”In 2010, for instance, the BCI record-

ed 34 tests of fentanyl. In 2016: 2,396.From 2010 through 2015, to really

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zero tests of carfen-tanil, an elephant sedative that’s dan-gerous enough to cause overdoses via simple skin contact. In 2016: 214.

“Our labs have had to put in pre-cautions to deal with the more dan-gerous and potent opiates that are coming in for test-ing,” Tierney adds,

“which also increases the time is takes to test them.”

The attorney general’s funding request will land in a Controlling Board hearing on Aug. 21.

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Dynamic Acoustic Bassist from Chicago leads Trio. Featuring music from their new CD “Screen Sounds.”Featuring: Joe Policastro (acoustic bass), Dave Miller (guitar), and Mikel Avery (drums).

Photographer Alvin Smith releases Black In Cleveland vol. 2

Chicago bassist, composer, and arranger Joe Policastro grew up in the fertile jazz, classical, and popular music scene of Cin-cinnati, OH. He studied Classical Double Bass Performance on full scholarship at Miami University. Joe earned his Bach-elor of Music in Jazz/Studio Music from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and his Master of Music in Jazz Studies from DePaul University in Chicago. After performing and recording in Germany, he settled in Chicago where he quickly established himself an in-demand musical voice as

both performer and composer/arranger. He has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries such as Diane Schuur, Jeff Hamilton, Howard Levy, Phil Woods, Tim Ries, Ira Sullivan, Howard Alden, Rick Margitza, Jim Snidero, David “Fat-head” Newman, and Billy Hart.

He leads the Joe Policastro Trio, and the group has two albums featuring his writing, arranging, and performing: 2013’s West Side Story Suite For Jazz Trio and 2016’s Pops! He also leads and co-leads the Gerry Mulligan-esque ensem-bles, Jeru, and the Mulligan Mosaics Big

Band and the Mulligan Mulligan Mosa-ics Nonet for which he has extensively written and arranged. As composer/ar-ranger, his work can be heard on record-ings by numerous artists including Ira Sullivan and the Rob Parton Big Band.

As an educator, he has been a Ravinia Jazz Mentor, a Lecturer of Jazz Studies at DePaul University, and he is currently on faculty at Morton College, the Chicago Academy for the Arts, and the Midwest Young Artists Conservatory.

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Cleveland - This past Sunday, Cleveland area photographer Alvin Smith launched, “Black In Cleve-land vol. 2” at the Kingdom Build-ing in Warrensville Heights Ohio.

Juvenile Court Judge Michael Ryan, WOIO’s Romona Robinson and her husband Rodney Tyler were among those in attendance. DJ Ellery provided music. All are featured in the book.

Maple Heights Mayor Annette

Blackwell, Former Browns player Josh Cribbs and his wife Maria are also among the 125 people included in the beautiful hardback, coffee-table style publication that showcases photographs of those featured with handwritten letters to the city they love so dearly. Smith released Black In Cleveland vol. 1 in 2014.

Rodney Tyler, Romona Robinson, Alvin Smith, Jacqueline Muhammad, and LaRese Purnell at the launch of Black In

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“Here they are Cleveland - your next generation of cod-ers!” reads a recent Twitter post from Lisa M. Chambers.

Chambers is the director of the nonprofit Tech Corps, and she was referring to John Marshall School of Informa-tion Technology students who had just completed Web Corps, a six-week web devel-opment and career prepara-tion program.

Seventeen John Marshall IT juniors and seniors put in about 25 hours each week in five-hour shifts this summer as they learned how to de-sign websites while getting a taste of what it’s like to work in a professional environ-ment. The students were paid an hourly wage through the Youth Opportunities Unlim-ited program.

But this wasn’t an ordinary summer job. Near the end of the program, the teens were using web development terms like “modules” and “header” like professionals. And in a way, they were pro-fessionals.

They learned the HTML, XHTML and CSS markup languages from instructors at Tech Corps, a Columbus-based organization that de-velops technology programs and deploys tech-savvy in-structors to help schools pre-pare students for college and careers.

The students also received guidance from employees in KeyBank’s information tech-nology department who served as mentors for the summer, meeting with the students every Thursday to of-

KeyBank employees worked with John Marshall School of IT students as theydesigned and developed their own websites in the Web Corps program

fer their expertise and answer questions. Tech Corps part-nered with KeyBank to bring this program to a Northeast Ohio school for the first time.

The goal was for students to code, design, build and present a professional-look-ing website for a made-up small business, organization or cause. But mastering the technology was only one as-pect of Web Corps, which also embeds career skills in its ap-proach.

For instance, each student took on the role of leader, de-signer, head developer or con-tent manager. The instructors and mentors assigned stu-dents their roles after review-ing their resumes -- which students learned how to cre-ate during the program -- and conducting interviews.

Common networking barriers that hinder job search effectivenessBy Terri Mrosko

Job seekers struggle with identifying and connecting with networking contacts during a job search, accord-ing to a survey of more than 440 job seekers by talent mobility consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison. What most frequently holds back job seekers, as reported by 31 percent of those surveyed, is difficulty in identifying net-working partners.

About a quarter of those job seekers struggle with creating a clear strategy at networking meetings and nearly as many find it uncomfortable making initial contact via phone or email. Finally, lacking confi-dence at group networking events also posed problems for those relying on network-ing for their job search.

“The reality is that most job openings are never adver-tised or posted, which means tapping your network is an essential job search resource to uncover hidden opportu-nities. In fact, 63 percent of job seekers land new jobs through networking,” stated Greg Simpson, senior vice president and career transi-tion practice leader at Lee Hecht Harrison.

Simpson acknowledged that developing a strong network and fruitful relation-ships takes real work. Indi-viduals must be proactive and devote time to building and nurturing a strong career network of contacts. A little guidance and practice is all it takes to turn even the most reluctant of networkers into a pro.

One of the biggest mistakes job seekers make is hiding behind a computer when try-

ing to find people to network with. Get out and join a pro-fessional organization and attend meetings, Simpson advised. Before you go, find out who will be attending and set a goal for the number of people you want to meet. “A networking event isn’t the forum to ask for a job. Instead, ask for referrals so that you have a nice introduction into a targeted company.”

A strong network doesn’t grow by itself. Be proactive - don’t wait until you need your network to build it. Make sure you are devoting the right amount of attention and en-ergy to your networking strat-egy. Follow these additional networking tips provided by Lee Hecht Harrison.

• Identify potential net-working partners by getting out in front of people, not sit-ting behind your computer.

• Create a clear strategy for attending networking meetings. Start your plan by researching who is attending and how you plan to approach them. Know what questions to ask and how to add value to the conversation.

• Have your elevator pitch ready and rehearsed. Don’t ask for a job. Do ask for refer-ral opportunities.

• Make initial contact by phone or email. Ask people you already know to give re-ferrals or make introductions.

• Build confidence at net-working events. Practice your self-presentation repeatedly. Start with people you know and then widen your sphere. LinkedIn offers a low-pres-sure forum for honing your performance.



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Medicare buy-in for the age 55-to-64 set:

Would it make sense?By Stephen Koff, cleveland.com

WASHINGTON -- Sherrod Brown of Ohio and sev-en fellow United States senators have revived talk of opening Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people 65 and older, for the pre-re-tiree set.

What if, these Democrats ask, you could buy into the program starting at age 55? This could solve a number of problems for that age group, and even ease some of the financial pressures in the private market that push up premiums for younger peo-ple, they say.

How would this work? Brown’s office said the bill, introduced last week,

would direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work out details. But this is not a start-from-scratch proposal, and it’s not, Brown says, an entry route to total government-run health care or “Medicare for All,” as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont wants. The idea of a Medi-care buy-in kicked around during Bill Clinton’s presidency and again when Hillary Clinton ran for president last year.

Here, based on studies, analyses and recom-mendations over a number of years, are some of the pros and cons.

Peace of mind:Before the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare,

kicked in, people in this age cohort faced the highest rejection rate from health insurers if they bought their coverage in the open market.

“One in five of those 55-59 and 29 percent of those 60-64 were denied coverage for health rea-sons in the pre-ACA individual insurance market,” Howard Gleckman, a retirement-issues expert and author at the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, wrote in Forbes recently.

They also faced an unsettling set of life circum-stances: the chance that if they lost their jobs and therefore their employer-provided insurance, their ages could make it harder to find another job.

They need health insurance. This could give them certainty and peace of mind.

“This is a simple solution for folks who are 55 and can’t get health care through work, or those who are ready to retire but aren’t yet eligible for Medicare,” Brown said.

One thing to consider, though: The ACA already makes sure they can get insurance and provides subsidies if their incomes are low enough.

Helping the ACA:Brown and colleagues don’t want to scrap the

ACA. They see a Medicare buy-in as a way to im-prove the ACA.

They say if a number of people aged 55 and above paid premiums to join Medicare, it would remove them from the ACA pool of participants. Depending on the heath of these new Medicare enrollees, this could leave the ACA with a rela-tively younger and less risky pool of partici-pants. That could mean the remain-ing participants -- those in their 20s, 30s and 40s -- could see lower premiums and in-surers would face less risk of big in-surance claims.

It’s elementary: The younger and healthier people are, the cheaper their health insur-ance should be. They don’t get sick and aren’t hospitalized as often.

Granted, if this were voluntary, as the sena-tors say it would be, some in the older group still could buy private policies through the ACA mar-ketplace, where many could still get subsidies to offset their premiums. But if there were fewer of them than before, their premiums, too, could shrink, because they wouldn’t weigh so heavily on the overall, infant-to-age-65 risk pool.

And if a Medicare buy-in program offered simi-lar subsidies to the ACA’s, that too could boost en-rollment in Medicare and reduce coverage in the ACA’s private market.

Helping Medicare:The older someone is, the more likely he or she

is to need health care.Theoretically, adding a relatively younger group

to Medicare’s membership -- the spritely 55-to-64 set -- could cushion Medicare’s finances by di-

luting the risk pool. In a 2009 paper on the pos-sibilities, the National Center for Policy Analysis said 57 percent of people ages 55 to 64 who buy their own insurance report excellent or very good health, and the same went for people in that age group who get coverage from their employers. Another 13 to 14 percent reported poor health.

Contrast that with this statistic from the Kaiser

Family Foundation: In 2011, 27 percent of all Medi-care beneficiaries were in fair or poor health.

This could matter because Medicare is under threat of running out of money to pay all of its hospital costs after the year 2029, after which it would have enough to cover 88 percent. Broad-ening enrollment with healthier people could help shore up Medicare’s finances, although that would depend upon how the expanded enroll-ment was paid for.

Medicare gets its revenue from payroll taxes, premiums for retirees, extra taxes on high earners and general government funds. Moreover, Medi-care actually consists of separate programs for hospital insurance, doctor visits and prescription drugs . Then there’s Medicare Advantage, which allows seniors to enroll in private health plans that often cover additional services such as dental and vision care.

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in cover? How would premiums be set, and what about ACA-style subsides?

That is all to be determined. But Brown says his bill would provide coverage in the doctor, hospi-tal and prescription programs.

Moving the costs around:Medicare pays less money than private insur-

ance for doctor’s visits and hospital stays. Rela-tively recent analyses have shown Medicare pays doctors 80 percent of private payment rates, and when it comes to hospital stays, private rates are about 75 percent greater than Medicare’s, accord-ing to an Urban Institute study in September on the nuances of a possible Medicare buy-in.

From a taxpayer’s perspective, this should be good news. It is not great from a medical provid-er’s viewpoint.

Hospitals already note they took Medicare cuts through the ACA, which was based on the prem-ise that health providers would see more paying patients as more people gained health insurance, and that they’d see fewer uncompensated care

visits from the uninsured.If a bigger share of the population went on Medi-

care and the payment structure didn’t change, hospitals and doctors could chafe as per-patient revenue fell.

So might private insurers, if this meant hospitals and doctors shifted their losses to make the pri-vate market pay.

“It’s like saying, ‘Let’s move this pothole over to another place where you’re not driving and some-one else will run into it,’” Tom Miller, a resident fel-low at the American Enterprise Institute, told NPR when it examined Hillary Clinton’s idea in 2016. It just moves the cost around.

A lot to work out:The Urban Institute analysis in September, by

health policy analysts Linda J. Blumberg and John Holahan, raised a lot of questions, some of them mentioned already. But one more: Medicare has no upward cap on out-of-pocket expenses. The ACA does.

Many seniors deal with this by buying Medigap policies, or insurance policies that pick up costs that Medicare doesn’t cover. Would 55-year-olds be able to buy those, too, and how would that af-fect their premiums and subsidies?

What about the ACA insurers? Would they cheer or curse the loss of pre-retirement customers? Would the loss affect their willingness to stay in the market?

Again, it’s all to be determined. AARP said last week it is still reviewing the Senate proposal, but in 2009 it found the idea intriguing -- but with a mix of advantages and concerns.

The proposal from Brown -- and his colleagues, Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Sheldon White-

house of Rhode Island, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Al Franken of Minnesota -- is a fresh starting point.

Congressional conservatives bristle already, however, at the thought of an expansive govern-ment, and given their status in the House and Sen-ate right now, there is no chance the “Medicare at 55 Act” will pass soon. Social legislation can take years, anyway.

Nevertheless, if the idea appeals to you or of-fends you, sign in and share your views in the comments.

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New Ohio Bill Would Prevent Schools from Suspending or Expelling Truant Students

By Kirby Davis

How Broadband Access is Impacting Ohio

Allied Universal holding job fairs in Cleveland area to fill 50 openingsBy Olivera Perkins, The Plain Dealer

Columbus, Ohio – Within the last two years there has been a decrease in the num-ber of broadband subscrib-ers in Ohio. In fact, 2.5 million Ohioans do not have broad-band access at home, which impacts communities, fami-lies, and business prosperity.

Connect Ohio, a state af-filiate of Connected Nation, has been working to increase broadband access, adoption, and use across the state. In order to help close the Digi-tal Divide and make home broadband service a reality for Ohioans, Connect Ohio conducted a series of resi-dential telephone surveys to measure the current impact broadband has in the region. The data gathered measured how well Ohio adults are pre-pared for a twenty-first cen-tury workforce.

The 2017 study found that even if they are connected many Ohioans do not have the digital skills necessary to compete in jobs that are technology driven, and that nearly one-in-four Ohioans have difficulty searching for a job online.

“It’s important to keep in mind that measuring broad-band adoption isn’t just about the numbers—it’s about people’s lives,” said Chris Mc-Govern, Connected Nation’s Director of Research Develop-ment. “When you don’t have broadband, your children have a harder time doing their homework, it’s harder to find a job and it’s harder to take a class or learn a new skill…it’s not about counting percent-age points, it’s about making people’s lives better.”

A Digital Divide still exists in regions across the state. The Connect Ohio study re-vealed that households in Appalachia with low income are much less likely to have adopted broadband.

“The landscape of the Digi-tal Divide has shifted from those who can’t get broad-band, to those who can’t af-ford it or don’t realize its val-ue. Conversely, as broadband becomes more and more essential in our daily lives, consumption among adopt-ers is growing exponentially,” said Connect Ohio’s Executive Director and Connected Na-

tion’s Vice President of Digital Works, Stu Johnson. “There-fore, I would argue that the new Digital Divide is actually growing and leaving vulner-able populations further and further behind every day.”

Connected Nation is a lead-ing technology organization committed to bringing af-fordable high-speed internet and broadband-enabled re-sources to all Americans so no one is left on the wrong side of the digital divide. The Con-nected Community Engage-ment Program works with local communities to identify the challenges and solutions to broadband expansion.

We believe everyone be-longs in a Connected Nation. For more information, please visit: www.connectednation.org or follow Connected Na-tion on Facebook and Twitter.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Allied Universal is holding three job fairs in the Cleveland area this week and next to fill about 50 openings.

The company is looking to hire for several positions, including professional security officer, ac-count manager, supervisor and dispatcher.

These are the Allied Universal job fairs:

East Side -- Hiring events will be at 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Cleveland Mar-riott East hotel, 26300 Harvard Road, Warrensville Heights.

West Side - The hiring event will be at 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15 at the Cleveland Airport Marriott hotel, 4277 W. 150th Street, Cleveland.

Minimum qualifications include:

• High school diploma or GED

• At least 18 years old or 21 for positions requiring driving

• Pass pre-employment back-ground check and drug/alco-hol screening

• Intermediate computer skills

Thanks to a new House bill, schools in Ohio can no longer suspend or expel students for missing too much school.

“There are many reasons students miss school, but districts often can directly impact their students’ atten-dance,” the bill says. “By using data to identify and support students who may need extra support and services, districts can target supports to get students to school every day.”

Now, rather than face crimi-nal charges for excessive ab-sences, students will work with teachers, counselors and principals over 60-day peri-ods to raise their attendance rates.

“The team is cross-sector and ideally includes the par-ticipation of the student and the parent,” the bill says. “This requirement is new and is aimed at breaking down bar-riers to attendance without filing criminal complaints against the student in juve-nile court.”

The legislation includes stipulations that will decrimi-nalize “excessive truancy,” and remove “chronic truant” from the law. The bill was passed in December 2016, and lists

counseling, mediation, par-ent education and parent-ing programs (among other methods) as ways of helping students who miss too much school.

“I believe it’s asking all edu-

cators to view truancy as a barrier as you would for any scholar who struggles to sit still or who struggles to read,” Lorri Hobson, Director of At-tendance of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, told News 5 Cleveland.

Bill 410 will be in place this school year across Ohio, and apply to online learning as well.

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Andrew Miller expected to join Cleveland Indians in Kansas City following scoreless rehab outingBy Zack Meisel, cleveland.com

Terry Francona says Andrew Miller could be back on Friday

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Indians’ relief ace is ready to return.

Tribe pitching coach Mickey Callaway indicated Thursday morning that Andrew Miller is expected to join the team in Kan-sas City on Friday. Miller hasn’t pitched since Aug. 1 because of tendinitis in his right knee.

The southpaw owns a 1.67 ERA this season and though

it admittedly requires some cherry picking to find any flaws in his stat line, he did seem a bit more mortal on the mound over the last six weeks.

In 19 appearances since June 13, Miller has logged a 3.57 ERA, with 10 walks in 22 2/3 innings. He walked only nine batters total last season.

Miller recorded a scoreless in-

ning in his rehab appearance with Triple-A Columbus on Wednesday. He struck out two and needed only 12 pitches to retire the side in order.

His return to the Tribe ‘pen gives Terry Francona a full com-plement of relievers, which the manager has previously had for only two days. The Indians ac-quired Joe Smith from Toronto on July 31. Miller landed on the

disabled list two days later.

Quick switch: The Indians moved Mike Clevinger to the bullpen for Thursday’s double header at Target Field.

They took advantage of the 26th-man rule by adding Ryan Merritt, the starter for the nightcap.

Clevinger is still expected to start against the Red Sox on Monday at Progressive Field, Callaway said. Had he and Car-los Carrasco started the two games against the Twins on Thursday, the Indians would have been forced to make a roster move on Monday or start someone on short rest.

Clevinger submitted his strongest start of the year last Saturday against the Rays, with seven scoreless innings, one walk and nine strikeouts.

Indians’ Mike Clevinger said “breather” between starts helped

Getting defensive: Francona won’t mind when the season

series against the Twins comes to an end. Or, at least, he won’t mind if his players stop hitting the ball to center field, where By-ron Buxton hauls in any fly ball.

Buxton made a leaping grab at the wall in center in Tues-day’s game to rob Edwin En-carnacion of an extra-base hit (possibly even a home run). Buxton has racked up 21 de-fensive runs saved this season, the third-highest total in base-ball.

“It doesn’t surprise you any-more,” Francona said. “We see it on highlights when we’re not here. We see it when we’re here. We’ve got to try to hit it somewhere else.”

Andrew Miller expected to return in KC

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