🌱 What's next for Orange's planned recreation and senior center expansion?
Orange, Ohio Patch AM: a 4 min readHello Orange! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- What's next for Orange's planned recreation and senior center expansion?
- Orange parents seek staff member's firing over alleged racism and abuse
- Teen volunteer network prepares for life beyond its founders
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Peeks of sunshine, with a high of 57 and low of 46 degrees.
- Thursday: Cooler with rain at times, temps: high: 49, low: 36.
- Friday: Cloudy with showers around, with a high of 41 and low of 35 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Orange school board approves acquisition of former New Directions property (cleveland.com) — Orange school board members approved a purchase agreement for the former New Directions property, with plans to move and expand community recreation, art and senior programming. Officials say community input will shape its use, while a longtime Senior Center participant urged them to preserve the center's small, welcoming atmosphere. 
• Parents of Orange High School students ask school board to terminate staff member, rather than accept her resignation, due to alleged racism, abuse (cleveland.com) — The Orange school board postponed accepting a paraprofessional's resignation after two parents alleged she racially harassed and physically abused their sons at Orange High School. The parents want her fired instead. Superintendent Lynn Campbell said the district responded under board policy and the employee exercised her statutory right to retire.
• Cleveland-area teens turn volunteer work into a movement spanning 11 schools (cleveland.com) — A student-run volunteer network that includes Orange has grown to more than 500 volunteers across 11 Greater Cleveland schools. YouthServeCLE connects teens with nonprofits and makes service a social experience. With all three founders graduating this school year, they're documenting how it works so younger students can keep it going.
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- Area sports schedule, Nov. 9-16 (kirksvilledailyexpress.com)
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- Coventry Village gets a big shot in the arm through Critical Hit, Mac's Backs' move (cleveland.com)
- Man with warrant for smuggling drugs into jail makes return visit: Orange Police Blotter (cleveland.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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