Many readers of this inaugural edition of the Heights Observer may not know about its sponsoring organization, FutureHeights. FutureHeights is an eight-year old non-profit that evolved from a gathering of residents who successfully fought an ill-advised local redevelopment project. As a result of that experience, several far-sighted founding members recognized that Cleveland Heights would benefit from an organization dedicated to promoting good development, community amenities, and opportunities for citizen involvement. The group incorporated and set to work.

Home Repair Resource Center recently benefited from the efforts of a group of University School students. Approximately forty students, grade nine through twelve, spent several hours mulching, pruning, weeding, and otherwise beautifying the landscape around HRRC’s office/teaching center on Noble Road. According to Andrew Swank, Senior Prefect for Hawley House (one of ten organizational divisions among the student body at the school), each house takes on a number of volunteer activities each year. The students of Hawley House previously assembled and distributed food baskets at Thanksgiving and worked with Habitat for Humanity.

The Eugene M. Adler Foundation has renewed its $25,000.00 annual operating support for Kulture Kids, a non-profit organization based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

FutureHeights will distribute the first print version of the Heights Observer at its annual meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 10th at the Heights Rockefeller Building.