Cleveland Lee Harvard-Miles Heights community to host annual family unity day event on Saturday, September 1, 2018 at the Arthur Johnson Park in Ward 1, Councilman Joe Jones saying he will attend in support of the key organizer, "Ms. Dionne 'Lady D' Buchanan, who has been active and dedicated to the community for over 40 years."....."Ms Buchanan is wonderful to the community and strong in her conviction to what she believes to be helpful to those in need," sad Elaine Gohlstin, president and CEO of the Harvard Community Services Center, who is also president of the Black Women's PAC of greater Cleveland....Others associated with the annual unity day event that began in 1988 are Arvin Pratt, Marie Foster, Vernon and Wendy Henderson, and Gloria Little....Buchanan spearheaded the Lady D Drill Team and Drum Corp for decades to give Black children and teens a venue to express their talents and to stay out of trouble...Ward 1 has Cleveland's largest Black voting bloc....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.
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| Dionne "Lady D" Buchanan (far right) poses with some members of the Lady D Drill Team and Drum Corp of Cleveland |
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| Dionne "Lady D" Buchanan (far left) at a community event with her youngest daughter, April Buchanan (fourth from feft) |
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- The community will host its annual Miles Heights Community Family Day on Saturday, Sept 1, 2018 from 11a.m.-6.p.m. in the Lee-Harvard neighborhood in Cleveland Ward 1 at Arthur Johnson Park at East 147th and Ohio Avenue off of Seville Avenue. (Call 216-581-6941 for more information).
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| Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones |
Led by Councilman Joe Jones, the largely Black east side Ward 1 is Cleveland's largest Black voting bloc with its staunch middle class segment of voters.
"I will be at the event on Saturday," said Jones. "I am coming to support the organizer, Ms. Dionne "Lady D" Buchanan, who has been active and dedicated to our community for over 40 years."
Lady D spearheaded the Lady D Drill Team and Drum Corps for decades, often spending her own money to give Black children and teens a vehicle to express their talents and to stay out of trouble.
Others associated with the annual community day event that began in 1988 are Arvin Pratt, Marie Foster, Vernon and Wendy Henderson, and Gloria Little.
"Everyone is invited to our annual family unity day at the park," said Buchanan.
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| Elaine Gohlstin |
Elaine Gohlstin, president and CEO of the Harvard Community Services Center, said Buc
hanan, who can sometimes help make or break a political candidate seeking support of Ward 1 voters in a close election, is a community jewel.
"Ms Buchanan is wonderful to the community and strong in her conviction to what she believes to be helpful to those in need," sad Gohlstin, also president of the Black Women's PAC of greater Cleveland.
And though the drill team has dissolved, many of its former members continue to remain active in the community and will be at Saturday's gathering.
The event is free and open-to-the-pubic with free food, line dancing and give away prizes,
Organizers said they also will "get together to discuss politicians."
Children are welcome.
The Lee-Harvard neighborhood was the Miles Heights Village and the Lee-Seville neighborhood many years ago before it became an integrated community.
Ohio’s first African-American mayor, Arthur Johnston, for whom the Arthur Johnson Park is named, was elected mayor of the Miles Heights Village in 1929 when the neighborhood was mostly White and is Ohio's first African-American mayor, technically. (Editor's note: The late Carl B. Stokes, a former Cleveland judge and the brother and only sibling of the late former congressman Louis Stokes, was the first mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city).
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