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Brecksville VA Hospital
Will Remain Open until 2009
The
Brecksville VA Hospital will remain open until at least
2009. The Veterans Affairs Department says they need to
build an addition to the Wade Park Facility in
University Circle before they can close the Brecksville
building. The proposed $99-million, eight-story addition
will take a year to plan and three years to build. The
VA Department says they want to close the Brecksville
center and others around the country in an effort to
overhaul their healthcare system.
East
Cleveland Announces More Layoffs
Financial woes continue to plague the city of
East Cleveland.
The mayor of that city says 16 police and firefighters
will have to be cut in an effort to meet the payroll.
The city needs $600 thousand to avoid a deficit by the
end of the year. The layoffs are a first step in a
short-range plan.
Lorain Ford Plant Loses 1200 Jobs
The
closing of the Ford Assembly Plant in
Lorain,
and a transfer of certain operations at the
Avon
Lake
plant, will mean a loss of 12 hundred local jobs. The
Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner are made at Avon Lake,
but will be transferred to Kansas City next summer. The
van assembly at Lorain will go to Avon Lake in January
2006. Ford also expects many
Lorain workers to take advantage of retirement packages.
Scholarships for Hispanic Students at Tri-C
Cuyahoga Community College will hold a fundraiser next
month in an effort to raise cash for scholarships for
Hispanic students. The event will feature the Flamenco
troupe Los Lunares, called "Spanish Rhythms for
Scholarships." The event will be held in Tri-C's
Metropolitan Campus Auditorium in downtown
Cleveland.
Some 70 percent of the Hispanic students enrolled at
Tri-C applied for some form of financial aid this past
year. To help meet the growing need for scholarship
funds for Hispanics, the Cuyahoga Community College
Foundation has established a Hispanic Endowment which
will help provide more money to Hispanic students who
need financial assistance to further their education at
Tri-C.
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