The 19th year of the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership program kicked off with twenty-four young people attending a daylong leadership retreat before the start of their academic school year.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Restore General Manager Dave Williams was the guest speaker at last week's Cleveland Kiwanis Club luncheon.

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FIREFIGHTERS FROM WACKER POLYSILICON Battalion 3 and other Wacker employees listen to orientation at the Heroes Build on Friday.

Banner Photo, Daniel Guy

A Habitat table sits packed with house-warming gifts for the new homeowners.

Banner Photo, Daniel Guy

The Leadership Cleveland Alumni Association celebrated the 2018-19 class graduates on June 13, which included a keynote address by Ron Harris, vice president Diversity and Inclusion with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

VECustomers Share Board Member Dana Burgner presented a grant check to Karen Cross from New Life Community Kitchen. Grant funds will provide a hot lunch five days a week and will also provide food bags that do not require refrigeration or cooking for the homeless and street people.

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Cleveland’s leaders and celebrities came out together to help build a home during Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland’s Leaders Build on Thursday, May 30.

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THE WORKERS of the Habitat Legacy Build pump their fists in the air as they prepare to get down to working on this year's home. From left in front are: Anson Christian, Terry McCoy, Hazel Spain, Kurt Schubert and Jack Hedges. From left in back are: Danny Britt, Jerry Franitza, Alan Goslen, Chuck Haney, Dave Flower, Jim Veenstra and Ed McCartney.

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“I was married in September 2008 to Michael Johnson,” Tammy Johnson, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland, noted.

“The next April, I went for my yearly checkup. I had my first ever negative results. I got a call from my doctor. She said to come in, we have a problem,” Johnson said.

A team of men help load incredibly heavy pallets of backer board and tiles onto a tractor trailer for Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland. The pallets were donated by Operation Compassion for Habitat's ReStore to sell. From left are: Trapper, a generous trucker providing his truck for transport; Dave Williams, ReStore manager; and Tommy Stovall, Habitat receiving manager.

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