Gloria Ferris

I know, I know. The Ugly Broad is where you go for a shot and a beer.  It’s also where friends gather to have Tacos on Wednesdays and Steaks on Thursday.Tim Ferris says it is the best steak dinner deal around, and he should know he is a meat and potatoes man that doesn’t order [...]

Trees to be Honored in Brooklyn Centre Historic District

On Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. Brooklyn Centre residents and the Northeast Ohio Buckeye Forest Council will gather to honor and recognize a grove of trees on the southeast corner of Fulton Rd. and Denison Ave.  The largest tree, an American Elm, forms the core [...]

We hear that Ladder 42.1 will make an appearance at the regular Cleveland City Council meeting this coming Monday, which will be held off-site (outside City Hall) for a change, at Estabrook Recreation Center, 4125 Fulton Road, Cleveland 44144, at 7:00 PM.
Everything is just so incremental lately, as evidenced by the recent need to create [...]

I have a new page, available also through the sidebar to the right. There are a number of ways we become members of a community, and one of them is by joining organizations and participating in events, or just by hanging out and talking. Some community-building opportunities we have available here in Ward 15, or near it, [...]

My friend George Nemeth told me about www.folkalley.com sponsored by WKSU a couple of days ago.  It is folk music all the time, but with a new twist.
Check it out here.  You will be glad you did.

Tim and I just got back from the “AIM HIGH:2006 First Robotics Competion”.  WOW!  What an amazing experience.  This competition is combination Soap Box Derby, NASCAR, basketball, computer technology, and engineering wrapped in team spirit with elements of Woodstock.
The teams all start with the same basic starter kit but that is where the resemblance ends.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday was just a “very busy day” for the Ferris family with lots of business appointments starting at 7 a.m. and the day didn’t end for any of us until well after 6 p.m. So it was a “Let’s Eat Out!” night. Welcome words to a woman who had tumbled into bed the [...]