From the Cleveland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen League and the Lake Erie Crushers, a Japanese Night on July 22nd.
Cleveland Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
2783 Lancashire #15
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106
216-320-9468
The Cleveland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League ongoing mission is to be a charitable, benevolent, and educational organization relating to the promotion, support, development and furtherance the welfare of all Americans, particularly those of Japanese ancestry and to secure and maintain the civil rights of all who are victimized by injustice and prejudice.
Arisa and I went shopping today to get some extra things for our family bbq tonight. After shopping at Giant Eagle for our stuff, we went to Micro Center at East Gate and then to Best Buy to do some comparison shopping on laptops. Elly is going to get herself a laptop to replace her Dell netbook which she doesn’t feel is sufficient for when she starts college at American University in August. In particular, I was looking at laptop pricing and system specs so I could compare them to the employee purchase program prices.
Anyway, on our way out of the Best Buy parking lot my wife notices a sign for “Mayfield Fine Foods”. She asks me, “What’s that?”. Since I have zero idea as to what it was, I said “no clue, wanna go find out?”
So Lev Gonick has started an effort to get Google to choose Cleveland and/or Northeast Ohio for its Google Fiber for Communities. I of course followed the twitter account Lev created for this purpose — Google1Gig4CLE. Lev has been very active in bringing broadband and it’s benefits to Cleveland, with OneCommunity and the effort around University Circle and Case University.
My question for Lev is this — what’s the plan?
This last Saturday, Arisa and I headed out to St. Ignaitus High School to attend the JACL’s 40th Japanese American Holiday Fair. I had a errand to run at Micro Center and so we were running a little bit late. We got there probably about 2PM.
By the time we got there, it was packed. I’d say close to a hundred folks or so were there. The Mame Taiko Drummers were already in action. At the entrance to what I assume is the cafeteria, there were booths with a silent auction, origami, and other things like soap sales.
It was our first “Japanese-American” event, as opposed to JANO, but I’m glad we went.
Okay, I’ve been pretty much hammering the Browns this season. However, today against the Steelers while they are still bad, I have to admit I like the fact that they are trying different things. From running a lot of wildcat formations, etc. The play calling is still pretty miserable, and the catching is horrid, as are many of DA’s throws. But they are trying different things, anything to make themselves competitive.
Not having a quality receiver and Quarterback hurts. We also need to see more of Harrison and Jamal Tip-Toe-Thru-The-Tulips (T5) Lewis just doesn’t bring enough. He seems slow and doesn’t have the power I thought he had. Harrison has speed, but probably not enough size/power.
We’ll still lose this game, but I will say the team is making progress.
