Euclid Beach

Sunday, September 25, 2011, at the 7th annual "Remembering the Sights and Sound of Euclid Beach Park" held at Euclid Beach State Park. It is estimated that 2,100 individuals attended the event which ran from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The event was co-sponsored by Euclid Beach Park Now (EBPN), Ohio Department of Natural Resource (ODNR) Cleveland Lakefront State Parks, and the Euclid Beach Boys.

This year's event wa special for a number of reasons. First, for one day Euclid Beach Park was again "Open For The Season". Second, the Artizan Style "A" 46 keyless band organ that stood and played under the loading platform of The Rocket Ships was present, returning to the park after 42 years. Owned by the Euclid Beach Boys, it was recently restored. A proverbial "basket case" when found, it took two members of the Carousel Organ Association of America (COAA) three years to restore the band organ. Martin Anderson of Pennsylvania with the support of his wife Mary Jane with the assistance of Howard Kast, EBPN board member and resident of Euclid, OH, with the support of his wife Jan. Martin and Howard received advice from members of COAA. Third, a permanent informational marker commemorating the site where Euclid Beach Park's Grand Carousel stood was unveiled (see the related article by Carol G. Ward).

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Euclid Beach became part of the Cleveland Lakefront State Park, under the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, in 1982.  I started working here as the naturalist conducting programs and events in 2001.  About 8 years ago, I had an idea to highlight the history of this park area.  I went to members of the Euclid Beach Park Now (EBPN) group to see if they were interested in bringing some of their memorabilia to the park.  I envisioned a small scale event with historical information and stories shared around the picnic tables of the pavilion.  If you have attended any of our 7 annual events, you have seen that it has developed into much more (see related article by Rich Wickens for details from the 2011 event).

A one day event is great – but what if visitors any day of the year could learn about the history of this park?  What if there were permanent markers scattered throughout the area to share photos and information about some of the larger attractions and points of interest?  Through community partnerships this idea is becoming a reality.

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At ManorCare Euclid Beach the staff and patients are busy bustling around as fall quickly approaches. As Halloween quickly nears the facility is preparing for their annual “Resident Council Safe Trick-or-Treat.”  This event invites the local community out to encourage safe trick-or-treating for our youth and to encourage interaction with our patients. ManorCare Euclid Beach will offer the public free entertainment, donuts, and cider and welcomes the community with open arms.  We hope to see you on October 27th, at 6:30PM!

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Hi--my name is LUNA, and I am 4 ½ months old 

 This is the story of why I am such a lucky kitten!

July 29, 2011, was a very hot and humid night.  A mean person took me for a ride to Euclid Beach, and then threw me out of the car like I was a piece of trash!! I hit the ground violently, and realized my right back leg was broken, and my hip might be broken, too. I just cried and cried...

I didn't know that at Euclid Beach, there is a kind lady named Ginger Hannah, who helps the cats who live there. She feeds them every day and provides them with shelter, too. O’my!

Then something miraculous happened! The nice lady, Ginger, and a very kind friend, saw me lying broken in the grass. They picked me up and kissed my forehead. I was so happy, but I was afraid….

They took me to the Kitty Kottage for the night; fed me yummy food, and gave me a warm, cozy bed to sleep in. I was so exhausted!

The next morning, Ginger took me to see the gentle and kind doctors at the Cleveland APL, who fixed me up. I could feel that they really cared about me, and I started to have hope again.  

Ginger's friend who helped to save me is my new daddy.

Life now is wonderful, I'm not in pain, I always have food, and, best of all, I have a loving forever home and three cat brothers to play with. I feel like I am in heaven! I am SOOOOO grateful to the Euclid Beach Feral Cat Project for saving me.  And it makes me purr even louder to know that all the other cats are loved and cared for,  and there is an angel to save them, too.

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The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has broken ground on a large construction project that may impact some Collinwood residents. However, this project will impact all of Cleveland’s residents because the project will reduce pollution in our streams and lake, improving our city’s environment.

The Euclid Creek Storage Tunnel is part of a larger network of underground tunnels that are being constructed to considerably reduce combined sewer overflows.

Greater Cleveland’s earliest sewers (primarily within the City and its inner-ring suburbs) are combined sewers. Built around the turn of the 19th century, these sewers carry sewage, industrial waste and stormwater in a single pipe. During heavy rains, there is a dramatic increase of water flowing through the combined sewers. When this happens, control devices may allow some of the combined wastewater and stormwater to overflow into area waterways—such as Lake Erie and Euclid Creek—to prevent urban flooding. This event is called a combined sewer overflow, or CSO, and harms our clean water environment.

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The Euclid Beach Blast! was a great success! All tolled throughout the day there were close to 450 attendees having a blast watching pop up art take shape on "the wall of doors", cleaning the beach (and picking up 200 pounds of trash!), building a sandcastle and catching some rays, watching a jump rope troop hop in all the way from Africa, chalking the sidewalk, learning about watershed preservation, chowing down on a Cuban sandwich from Jibaro World Eats Food Truck, biking and planting gardens around Collinwood and most importantly jamming to some music from 106.5 The Lake, Radio Disney and live performances from Bill Meyer, Andriana Santiago and Grupo Son Gitano!  We could not have had such a great event without the help of many dedicated Euclid Beach Adopt-a-Beach volunteers who spent hours in the hot sun on Saturday keeping everything cool! Thank you again to everyone who came out to volunteer on Saturday! Thank you also to all of our participating pop up artists! You can see the "the wall of doors" or the "Blank Canvas" displayed in the Arts Collinwood Gallery.

            So how did you get to “the Beach”?

     If you were lucky enough to live here in Collinwood, that’s a no-brainer – you walked! And you did it as often as possible! You’ve shared many tales about walking to the Park, to spend as many waking hours as possible there, even if it was only to fish off the Pier, or sit on a shaded park bench for a while.

            But how did everyone else get there?

            In the earliest days of the Park, it was likely you got there by what were fondly called “the Tubs.” There was actually regular passenger service on boats that traveled from the E 9th St pier to Euclid Beach Park – which was why the Pier was originally built, and why it extended so far out into the Lake. (And how neat would that have been, to land at the end of the Pier and see the beach, Dance Pavilion etc waiting for you? Not to mention hearing people shrieking on the coasters – and knowing you’d soon be shrieking too!)

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