This weekend in the #Cleveland community:

🐝 A spelling bee for kids in grades K-8
📚 Kindergarten kickoff with Children's Museum of Cleveland
🚲 Old Brooklyn's annual Pedal for Prizes

Learn about each of these events and more here: go.signalcleveland.org/44OPuBB.

Twenty #Cleveland families shared stories about losing a loved one to homicide in the book “Write the Vision: Life Beyond the News Snippet.”

Family members say that writing about the loved ones they've lost have helped them heal.
go.signalcleveland.org/4dMZEXQ.

Hey Cleveland, check out what’s happening in the city this weekend! Signal Cleveland signalcleveland.org/cleveland-comm…

We gave it our all, and you did too. Thank you, Cavs fans, for your incredible support and energy all season long! #LetEmKnow

Today in the Signal Cleveland news quiz, we ruminate on the Cleveland Cavaliers postseason run.🏀

Donovan Mitchell led the team with 296 points scored in the playoffs. Do you know who was the next highest shooter with 192 points?

Take a guess 👇 & find the answer here: go.signalcleveland.org/4bH58RX

This weekend, the annual Cleveland Asian Festival will celebrate Northeast Ohio’s diverse Asian communities and their rich history, art and culture.

Learn more about it and other upcoming arts & culture events here:
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Rid-All Green Partnership, an urban farm in #Cleveland 's Kinsman neighborhood, will be hosting its 4th annual Armed Forces Day Veterans & Community Resource Fair this Saturday.

Learn more at the link below or tag a veteran in your life in the replies.
go.signalcleveland.org/3QJibKn.

The Cleveland health department announced plans to expand its services this summer with a new mobile clinic and tobacco cessation program.

But what direct services can residents get from Cleveland Department of Public Health now? candice wilder looked into it ⤵️
go.signalcleveland.org/4apFobR.

Amid Cleveland State University's financial problems, President Laura Bloomberg agreed to give up her annual performance bonus, which could have been as big as $116,025.
go.signalcleveland.org/4dHNcbG.

Two big headlines emerged from Cleveland State University’s Board of Trustees meeting today (the last of this academic year!)  – and both involved President Laura Bloomberg.

Quick little update here for Signal Cleveland + Open Campus signalcleveland.org/cleveland-stat…

In 2022, a worker at the University Circle Starbucks was fired because he had allegedly failed to perform his duties. The worker says it had to do with union organizing.

This month, a NLRB judge agreed and ordered the store to reinstate the employee.
go.signalcleveland.org/3WIWsq3.

Thank you to Olivera Perkins for continuing to cover labor issues in Cleveland! Check out Ken’s story in her signal story-

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This week on @CleDocumenters' Public Meetings Report podcast:

🪴 Zoning changes to allow recreational cannabis sales
🏈 CleCityCouncil approves enforcing the ‘Art Modell law’
🚍 @gcrta looks to renew EZFare app

Listen in wherever you get podcasts.
go.signalcleveland.org/3QPHieF.

Greater Cleveland has received hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic aid in recent years. Signal Cleveland breaks down how it was spent – and how officials plan to spend the rest in the coming years. signalcleveland.org/how-hundreds-o…

“If this is a plan to cause division or turmoil in our proud Hough neighborhood, it is not going to work,” Council Member Stephanie Howse-Jones said of #racistflyers found in Hough neighborhood. More: go.signalcleveland.org/3QNyHZQ #Cleveland

Inspired by the 1989 song “Doowutchyalike” by the Digital Underground, local urban artist Bob Peck has curated a free-for-all of an art exhibit, featuring more than 75 local artists. Graffiti HeArt hosted the exhibition. Check out the event photos here: go.signalcleveland.org/4bE8nJT.

The majority of the most common jobs in Ohio pay the typical worker less than a #livingwage , and some pay so little that workers may qualify for assistance such as food stamps, according to a recent report. Learn about these jobs here: go.signalcleveland.org/4bDQxGL #MinimumWage

Legal recreational weed is coming to Ohio this summer. An Ohio legislative committee cleared the way for #dispensaries that already sell #medicalmarijuana to begin applying in June for licenses to sell to all customers 21 and older. More: go.signalcleveland.org/3yp0jys #Issue2

More than 12,600 #Cleveland children receive care at 500 childcare sites in the city. Out of that 500, 273 operate in buildings built before 1978. There is a new pilot program to help older facilities find out if there are lead hazards in their buildings. go.signalcleveland.org/4biHr2y.

A statewide organization made up of formerly incarcerated people and their families wants to educate people on the impact of mass incarceration and mobilize them to create change.

Learn more about Building Freedom Ohio from Stephanie Casanova (she/her).
go.signalcleveland.org/4dE3fXM.