Cleveland Heights resident Scot Rourke, president and chief executive officer of OneCommunity, has been named the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year for 2008 by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) (www.intelligentcommunity.org), a New York-based think tank dedicated to studying economic growth in the broadband economy.
If you grew up anytime from the 1950’s through the 1980’s, stepping through the doors of Big Fun on Coventry Road will instantly whisk you back to your childhood. The store features a vast array of toys, board games, dolls, action figures, comic books, gag gifts, and other memorabilia from those decades. “For most people, childhood was a happy time of life,” observes Big Fun founder and owner Steve Presser. “This store gives people a chance to recapture that feeling they had when they were children.”
If soup merited inclusion in the Smithsonian Institution, Jack’s Deli & Restaurant would have the inside track on first-ballot honors. Regulars call it “Mish-Mosh” soup, and it more than lives up to that billing. Intensely flavored, hued of rich gold and laden with a girth-expanding symphony of noodles, rice, chicken, aromatics and softball-sized matzo balls, it is arguably the defining icon of its genre, not to mention an anti-viral weapon of mass destruction of such force that cold and flu strains tremble in its shadow.
What does it mean to "buy local"? Does it mean to shop within the Heights' borders? Does the size of the business matter? Or does buy local mean refusing to shop at chain retailers and limiting your spending to "mom and pop" stores?
