Heights Kids
Heights Youth Club
I'll have that hot lunch with a side of school work and a helping of self-esteem! Heights Youth Club continued its mission of providing a positive place for kids in a December packed with learning, special projects, and core attention to academic achievement.
Heights Youth Club, proud to be part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland, is grateful for community collaboration, including a hot and healthy meal served daily, provided by the Cleveland Food Bank, volunteer tutors, and corporate support. Recently, employees of the Eaton Corporation toured the facility, and the Great Lakes Science Center hosted a holiday party at the science museum so that kids could visit exhibits.
Upward Basketball comes to the Heights
What do Cleveland Heights, Kirtland, Solon, Stow, Akron and Willoughby Hills all have in common? …an Upward Basketball (Upward) league.
A league, designed for boys and girls K-6th grade, has started at the new multi-purpose building at the Church of the Saviour on Lee Road. Upward is the world’s largest Christian sports program for children.
Healthy snacks for Heights soccer
This year the soccer program through the Cleveland Heights Recreation League did something revolutionary. It asked parents to provide all snacks from the fresh fruits group and to serve water for hydration in reusable containers.
Kids ate mandarin oranges, grapes, bananas, strawberries, watermelon and lots of Ohio apples. Each week Coach Sean Sullivan reinforced the concept of choosing healthy snacks with the soccer players and their parents. As an organization promoting sports and fitness, the soccer program also encouraged appropriate food choices for optimal health.
Every girl wins with 'Girls on the Run'
Fifteen elementary students completed Girls on the Run’s second season at Canterbury Elementary in November. The girls met twice a week for 12 weeks and trained to complete a 5k race.
Parent volunteers complete training to coach the girls. Each session consists of a discussion on topics such as self-esteem, team building, physical fitness, nutrition, communication and respect.
Girls on the Run, an international organization, is committed to addressing the physical, emotional, spiritual, social and mental well-being of third to fifth-grade girls in the community.
Helen Hollis, CHHS '06, volunteers in Latin America
Helen Hollis, CHHS '06, walks home from school with fourth graders at Escuela Los Angeles in Grecia, Costa Rica. Hollis is bilingual and spent her first year out of high school volunteering in Costa Rica and Ecuador. She volunteered as an English teacher at an urban elementary school from September through December 2006. Hollis, a junior at The Ohio State University, is currently enjoying a semester abroad in Peru.
Saint Ann alumna reads her latest book
Family liaisons support CH-UH parents
Heights Parent Center has a family liaison located in each CH-UH elementary school to welcome and engage parents of new and returning students this fall. The Parent Resource Center is staffed by family liaisons and is open several hours a week. Parents can relax, have a cup of coffee, chat with one another and comb library shelves for community information and parenting resources.
The liaisons are available to help parents help each child be successful in school. Check the center's Web site, www.heightsparentcenter.org, for information on the Family-School Connection, to locate the name of the family liaison at each building and the Resource Center's hours.Heights Youth Club is a safe haven after school
What are your children doing after school? If you worry about them being home alone or hanging out with the wrong crowd, the Heights Youth Club on Lee Road can end those concerns.
The club offers a positive and safe environment for youth ages 6-18 where they can do their homework with the help of tutors, participate in daily games and contests and nurture their creative side.
Heights Youth Club offers summer fun for area kids
The Heights Youth Club is now halfway through its third annual summer program. The club kicked off the summer with its first annual "Taste of Heights" fundraiser where members of City Council and residents came out to enjoy food from over 20 area restaurants and to support the club. Special thanks to Jimmy O’Neill for his hard work and dedication to making the evening an overwhelming success.
Since the event, club members have enjoyed various activities in the gym, games room, computer lab, art room and teen floor. All of the activities are age specific and all members get a chance to be in every area of the building at some point during each day. Members also enjoy a full hot lunch every afternoon when they arrive.
FutureHeights bids farewell to high school intern
FutureHeights bids farewell to Dominique Goodwin who volunteered as an office intern during her 2009 spring semester at Cleveland Heights High School.
Dominique graduated in May and will attend Shawnee State University in Portsmith, Ohio this fall.
"It was a fun experience," she said, "I learned to write better, what it takes to put a newspaper together, and how hectic an office can be."
We wish Dominique well in her future endeavors.
Summertime at HYC
Summer vacation is just around the corner and what are your children going to do? The Heights Youth Club is here to help cure summer boredom, with three floors of constant activity as well as a daily meal.
This summer, the club will engage members aged 6 to 18 in programs such as teen sports leagues, arts and crafts, movies and game room tournaments, just to name a few.
Swoosh! is the sound of summer fun
To scores of Cleveland-area kids, “Swoosh” is more than just the sweet sound of a basketball cleanly slipping through the net. It’s a summer tradition.
For the eighth year in a row, Swoosh Co-Ed Camps are available this summer to all students entering grades one through nine. “Our philosophy is simple,” says Amy Hertz, whose company oversees the camps, “we offer programs that parents can be confident in knowing their children will learn, grow and have fun in a positive and safe environment.”
Forum on substance abuse
Have maps become obsolete?
A paper obsolete
Covered in mountains and rivers
Governments line to line
“Rip” the paper turns
Over fjords covering oceans
The paper looking out
Through its lakes
Pages of covered land
Shapes like monkeys jumping in trees
Animals frolicking in the stream
Colors of the rainbow
Never touching itself
Paper on which chess was played
Get summer off to a beautiful start Heights Summer Music Camp, June 8-12
Noble Elementary hosts "March Madness Family Fun Night" to benefit playground renovation
Is this long, cold winter making you mad?!? Then get out of the house and join us for an evening of rip-roaring games, amazing entertainment, finger-lickin’ food and mind-blowing madness!
Noble Elementary School PTA invites kids of all ages to a night of fun and games at the Cleveland Heights Community Center Gymnasium (1 Monticello Blvd.) on Saturday, March 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. We’re pulling out lots of games, including basketball, hula hoops, soccer, ping pong, scooters, horseshoes and more.
Heights Youth Club members attend minority business dinner
Be a garbage hero: pack a no waste lunch
My sister's children taught me a new phrase, “no waste lunches,” in discussing how Ruffing Montessori School is quite green –featuring lunches that are entirely consumed or composted.
Heights Youth Club holds Youth of the Year competition
Funds needed to buy therapy dog for CH girl
CISV offers opportunity to meet kids of the world
Children's International Summer Villages (CISV) hosted an information meeting on Thursday, Dec. 18, at the CH-UH Main Library in Cleveland Heights, providing an opportunity to meet local kids who were delegates in recent CISV trips to and exchange programs with Sweden, Brazil, and Mexico. CISV programs are geared toward students ages 11-18 and are supported substantially by a strong network of volunteers around the world. Applications are being accepted now for upcoming summer camp programs in the Netherlands and Sweden (11-year olds) and an exchange program with Austria (14-15 year-olds). The deadline is Jan. 5, 2009.
"Nifty Thrifty" event offers great deals on gently used toys for the holidays
Looking to be thrifty this holiday season?
Check out the Heights Parent Center's Nifty Thrifty Holiday Gently Used Toy Sale. Browse their selection of gently used toys, games, books and other kid-friendly gift items.
Heights Youth Club is a good time for kids
JCC Playmakers
Will Smith visits Open Doors
Kids find Heights Youth Club
What is the best kept secret in Cleveland Heights? Some say that the Heights Youth Club is indeed that secret.
The Heights Youth Club is located at 2065 Lee Road is across the street from Heights High School. The club was founded by people who believed that kids in the Heights community needed a safe and enjoyable place to go after school and during the summer. Extensive research and analysis revealed the need for community based programming for kids.