Archive for March, 2006

Regional Eats: Sean’s Sandwich Shop in Rocky River

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Today we had a pleasant surprise when we took an excursion to Rocky River for Tim’s quarterly shearing, at The Irish Barber. The barber, Sean Gormley, hails from the same village as the Ferrises, Ballymoney, in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, and this is how Tim’s haircut tenuously fits into our philosophy of “local production [...]

Taco Night at the Ugly

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Tonight is Taco Night at the Ugly Broad Tavern on Denison Avenue.  Our Brooklyn Centre Garden Tour Committee is going to hold our meeting there and eat some of the best tacos in the city while we finalize the plans for the Garden Tour to be held on Sunday, June 11th from 1 to five.  [...]

Chili Cookoff at The UGLY

Monday, March 6th, 2006

On Saturday March 11 at 4:30 p.m Sherry Perry at The Ugly Broad Tavern will be hosting a fundraiser for Save Our Land. Save Our Land is a group of residents that have bonded together to raise funds to help four of our neighbors defend their loss of land to the Fulton Road [...]

NOTICE OF COMMUNITY MEETING

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Saturday March 11th, a community meeting to discuss the FULTON ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT will be held at the Archwood United United Christ Church at 2800 Archwood Avenue. The meeting begins at 2:30 p.m.
The meeting is being sponsored by Brooklyn Centre Community Association, Councilman Brian Cummins and the Save Our Land coalition.
This meeting will deal [...]

A Wheel is only as good as its Hub

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

A week ago, I attended the ODOT Innerbelt Project meeting held at Myers University. This meeting was held at the request of Midtown Corridor businessmen and the local CDCs situated in the designated “trench” area of the innerbelt.
THE TRENCH: As I said at the meeting, these guys have a great way to set [...]

Mr. Krebs Goes to Washington

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

We recently received a note from our friend, Valdis Krebs, telling us about a killer conference he’s attending in Washington, DC, this coming week. He’s in the Over the Horizon session.
I got so excited at the possibilities of what he’s going to participate in that I wrote him a note, and I liked the note [...]

On the Brink of the Dawn of a New Day

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Last night after I watched the 11 p.m. news on Channel three, I went to bed with hope in my heart. The Cleveland School Board has chosen three finalists that are quality people with great credentials. Two of the finalists have outstanding educational credentials, but the third, Bill Denihan has the credentials that [...]

Kirby Nielsen’s Web Site

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

This morning, one of our friends from Delaware County wrote us this note announcing his renewed assault on paraneoplastic neurological syndromes and, by extension or association, the internet. What he’s doing is important. So, he-e-e-e-re’s Kirby:
After more or less failing to keep pace with my old web log, I started a new personal web site [...]

A Day of Coincidences

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Tim and I had a full day planned of meeting people. Late last night we decided that we were going to buy an all-day ride pass on the RTA and see if it appeared practical to ride to all of our meetups with various people.
Our first meeting was Tim’s Brooklyn Circle B-to-B Connect meeting [...]