Cleveland City Council taps Central neighborhood activist to fill Ward 5 council seat (Source: 19 News) By Stephanie Czekalinski | May 3, 2021 at 6:03 PM EDT - Updated May 3 at 6:23 PM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A neighborhood activist in Clevelandâs Central neighborhood was appointed to fill the Ward 5 council seat left vacant by Phyllis Clevelandâs resignation announced last week.
Delores Gray will fill the seat, which represents the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods as well as part of Midtown, Downtown, and the North Broadway and Slavic Village neighborhoods until January 1, 2022, according to a media release from the city.
In November, Gray will have to run for reelection for the next full term of four years, the release said.
WCPN Cleveland City Council appointed Delores Gray to serve out Phyllis Cleveland s term representing Ward 5.
Cleveland City Council on Monday appointed Delores Gray, a community advocate in the city’s Central neighborhood, to fill Phyllis Cleveland’s seat representing Ward 5.
Cleveland recommended Gray as her replacement, following an often-invoked council tradition in which an outgoing member recommends a successor to serve out his or her term. Cleveland announced her resignation last week, citing health issues.
Gray is a community engagement coordinator for Care Alliance Health Center, a medical provider with offices in Central and Downtown Cleveland, she said. She serves on the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Progressive Action Council, a resident advocacy organization. She also has served on the board of Burten, Bell, Carr, the community development corporation for the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods.
ROAN MOUNTAIN - Joseph B. Gray, age 89, of Roan Mountain, Tennessee went home to join his beloved wife and his Lord on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from the Sycamore Shoals Hospital. Joseph was born in Roan Mountain to the late Thomas Marion Gray, Sr. and Bertha Mae Archer Gray. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Evelyn Johnson Gray; a son, Donald Gray; four brothers, Carroll Gray and wife Eloise, Tom Gray and wife Alma, Dana Gray and Paul Gray; one sister, Mary Bell Hooker and husband Jim; and a sister-in-law, Pauline Gray.
Joseph was a very independent man who stayed to himself a lot but loved his family and his dog fiercely. He was a member of Roan Mountain Baptist Church and had worked for North American Rayon Corporation for over 20 years, before working and retiring from East Tennessee State University in the maintenance division. Joseph also enjoyed cooking and baking for his church family and camping.
Women’s March Cleveland holding fifth annual rally and march
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Cleveland women will participate in a national Women’s March event on Saturday, Jan. 23, on Cleveland’s west side.
The rally will start at 1 p.m. at Market Square, across from the Westside Market, with speakers and entertainment, followed by a 2:30 p.m. march and caravan across the Carnegie Bridge.
Hundreds of Cleveland women are expected to protest racial injustice, violence against women and attacks on reproductive rights.
The Women’s March began across the country in 2017, in response to President Donald Trump, whose rhetoric offended and galvanized women during the 2016 election. When he notoriously called his then-opponent Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman,” thousands of women claimed the phrase as their own.