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Cleveland, Ohio (August 25, 2023) - With many young people having started or soon starting the new school year, Councilman Richard Starr (pictured)(Ward 5)  hosted the second annual Ward 5 Festival Resource Fair & Parade last weekend.

Dignitaries there included Council President Blaine Griffin, some other council persons, and Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Magistrate Jeff Johnson, a former councilman himself.

The parade kicked off on Sat. Aug 19 at 3:00 pm in the rear parking lot of Jane Addams High School on the city's east side  and will end at the Friendly Inn Settlement, the site of the Resource Fair.

The Resource Fair ran from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm and  included book-bag distributions, free haircuts and braiding for youth, free food, live entertainment, carnival rides and activities, and a DJ competition. The winner of the DJ competition won a year contract to be the official DJ for all Ward 5 events hosted by Councilman Starr.

The organizer of the Ward 5 Festival Resource Fair & Parade, Starr is an avid supporter of community and education.

"August is the time when young people get reacquainted with all their friend," said Starr. "It's a time for friendship, education, and growth. I remember the excitement I had when it was time to go back to East Tech every year. I wanted to show our youth that the community is excited for their return to learning and is here to support them."

The Resource Fair and parade were also sponsored by community partners, including Burten, Bell, Carr, Development Inc., Campus District, Care Alliance Health Center, Friendly Inn Settlement, Midtown Cleveland Inc., Next Generation Construction, Slavic Village Development, the Vernon Family Foundation, and the Word Church.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio- Though polls show he is the clear front- runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, former president Donald Trump confirmed this week that he will not participate in the first presidential debate on Wednesday in Milwaukee.

it will feature top candidates among the crowded GOP field of contenders hoping  to win Republican and other support.

More specifically, the real estate mogul, stating that the public already “knows who I am,” Trump wrote on social media Sunday that  “I will therefore not be doing the debates!”

A Trump adviser , however, has said  that the former president could still decide to participate in a later primary debate.

Wednesday’s primary debate is the first relative to the upcoming 2024 presidential election, and sources say the former president had been telling advisors and others that he will skip the debate, which comes on the heels of his latest indictment.

A grand jury in Georgia voted Aug 14 to indict  Trump and 18 affiliates in Fulton County District Attorney Fanie Willis' investigation into 2020 election interference.

The former president branded this latest indictment, a widespread 14-count indictment, another witch hunt to try to derail his candidacy for president as campaign donations continue to pile up after each indictment he faces.

Willis is Black, and this latest indictment marks the fourth time the former president has been indicted since last year announcing that he is making a third bid for the presidency, and in 2024 in a crowded field of GOP wannabees. The 18 co-defendants, charged collectively with 41 felony counts all together, include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, also the former mayor of New York City, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark. Read the full 97-page indictment here.

Giuliani, charged with 13 counts, said in a statement that the indictments are an attempt to silence free speech and are "an affront to Democracy."

The former president, still a big wig with the Republican Party and his political base, was also charged in Florida with illegally hoarding classified files at his estate there, Mar-a-Lago, and refusing to hand them back when asked, among other charges.

• Trump's third indictment was unveiled some three weeks ago in Washington DC. where he is accused of crimes relative to the Jan. 6 insurrection and his unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election that President Biden undoubtedly won.

   

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• FULTON, COUNTY, Georgia-A grand jury in Georgia  voted Monday  to indict  former President Donald Trump (pictured) and 18 others in Fulton County District Attorney Fanie Willis' investigation  into 2020 election interference.

• The former president branded this latest indictment, a widespread 14-count indictment, another witch hunt to try to derail his candidacy for president as he remains the front runner for the Republican nomination and campaign donations from fellow Republicans continue to pile up after each indictment he faces.

  Willis is Black, and this latest indictment marks the fourth time the former president has been indicted since last year announcing that he is making a third bid for the presidency, and in 2024 in a crowded field of GOP wannabees. The 18 co-defendants, charged collectively with 41 felony counts all together. include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, also the former mayor of New York City, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark. Read the full 97-page indictment here. Giuliani, charged with 13 counts, called the indictments an effort to silence free speech and "an affront to Democracy."

  Regarding  the former president’s three other criminal indictments, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to,  the first indictment came down  in March and accuses Mr Trump of false accounting to cover up payments he made to an adult film star Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence about an alleged affair. He will go on trial in New York.

  
  

  The former president, still popular with the Republican Party and his political base, was was also charged in Florida with illegally hoarding classified files at his estate there, Mar-a-Lago, and refusing to hand them back when asked, among other charges.
  Trump's third indictment was unveiled two weeks ago in Washington DC. where he is accused of crimes relative to his unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election that President Biden undoubtedly won

• Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.