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Local Families Hear From Tsunami Victims
Two northeast Ohio families say
their loved ones are safe and sound after the tsunami
that wiped out coastal areas of eight southeastern Asian
nations. Ted Kircher was in Thailand when the massive
wave hit. His family says Kircher had nothing left but
the clothes on his back and his passport, but the
freelance journalist was still able to file a report
despite losing his equipment. In India, the family of
Parma Heights resident Ashvin Chandra (ahsh-VIN
CHAHN-drah) all survived the tsunami. Chandra says he
has asked his family to leave the area, with warnings of
more tidal waves to follow the one that has killed more
than 22 thousand people.
Winter Storms Costly
to Cleveland
Cleveland city officials say last
week's winter storm could be one of the most expensive
in the city's history. Road crews have dumped 15
thousand tons of salt on the roads since Wednesday and
they are still trying to clear the city's secondary
roads, where a snow parking ban remains in effect.
Cleveland Service Director Mark Ricchiuto (rich-OOH-toe)
says a milder-than-normal first half of December helped
keep road salt supplies high, but the real cost will be
in repairs to snow-removal equipment, broken while
trying to move ice-packed snow this past weekend.
New Cleveland Food
Bank Opens
Cleveland's neediest families will
soon be able to do more to feed their families. Work has
begun to move the Cleveland Foodbank into a new larger
warehouse on the city's east side. The Collinwood Yards
site is triple the size of the foodbank's former
location, where officials say they had to turn away some
donations because there was not enough room for storage.
The physical plant is only part of the foodbank's plans
to help the Cleveland's poorest residents. Plans are
underway to teach area food pantries how to manage the
resources they receive during the year. More than 400
agencies, from pantries to shelters, received 18 million
pounds of food from the Cleveland Foodbank in 2003.
1930's Art to be Saved
The Valleyview housing project in
Cleveland will meet the wrecking ball next year, but the
artwork that made the complex a landmark will be saved.
Art historian Walter Leedy has convinced the Cuyahoga
Metropolitan Housing Authority to save murals painted as
part of the apartment's construction in 1939. The
Valleyview apartments were a public works project in the
post-Great Depression years, and will be replaced by a
modern housing development for low-income families
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